Accommodation remains warranted. Hello. Welcome to countdown. Justin on 6 00 a. M. Here in london just gone 6 00. Manus cranny looking ahead to the strategy update. Alking us through decision day zeb eckert is in hong kong with the story on alibaba on one of the savviest investors. From metro,nings hans nichols is in berlin today. What could be the effect on turmoil on germanys biggest retailer . Theark bristow will be on show. 7 00earnings breakdown a. M. , the finance director from bt coming up after 7 00. Getting earnings from deutsche telekom, a narrow miss. 4. 21 billion euros. 4. 15 were estimating fo billion euros. They have confirmed the fullyear forecast and they are scaling back ambitions in content in media and focusing instead on Network Investments to internet and phone customers in europe. The tmobile u. S. Unit adding more subscribers than both at t and Verizon Communications combined in the first quarter. Sprint, the big Japanese Company controlled by softbank division
They are close to as big a problem as not having people. You have doctors there but you dont have examination rooms. Do you have a construction plan moving forward . I know its unfair. You have been in the job six weeks. Im not trying to be critical. Its five, actually. All right. Obviously, you are right. Facilities are very important. The action you took with the bill gives us the ability to have 27 more facilities. Not surprisingly, one of the facilities will go in phoenix where, obviously, we have a need. We have an issue right now that were working. Its around leasing. We have been following an appropriate, i think, strategy of leasing facilities rather than building them. Because the population is moving. You have talked about the increase in veterans in montana. Were currently working through the gsa on this process. Because the to get down to it, i appreciate you telling me what you are doing. All i want to know is, do you have a construction plan moving forward for the next ye
Americans will have air strikes insurgents in ni iraq. Up to 35 when the Islamic State in june. Ame apparent that question also asked if were ameanable to expanding strikes to insurgents syria. 65 said they were. Army ked about the u. S. Urdish military oh against the insurgents, 68 said they would be in favor of that. To does the president need say to the American Public. Guest they need to make the case. War is bad. War is bad in the moral sense. Nations tely civilized have to resort to it to protect innocent people and protect their own citizens. Convince ent needs to the American People that this is the right thing to do to realistic threat, not the hype, but the real poses and lay s out at least the outline of the action s actions he feels we should take. A big fan of the president stridently delineating what were not going to do. A military standpoint, its nice to keep the enemy off balance. Elling him right up front what were not going to do, x, y, and z, gives an advantage to t
Cranny. Ukraine, prorussian separatists continue to battle Government Troops in donetsk. At the same time, a convoy of almost 300 russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid travel from moscow towards ukraine. Here with the details, where it is should we call it convoygate . The convoy, according to russian the importanton, thing to know about the city where it is, it is quite a ways from the ukrainian border. Its a good couple hundred miles. The geopolitical meltdown we may or may not have is at least several hours away. It would appear it will not happen at all because the ukrainians have said that they trucks fromhose 280 the Russian Emergency ministry into the ukraine. There are two caveats. One is they get to inspect it first. We have yet to hear with the russians have to say to that. The ukrainians have said they think there might be weapons in there in addition to the humanitarian aid. The russians have said it is laughable. In addition, they say when the aid gets to the city, if h
Lenovos smartphone strategy is paying off. They deliver a jump in profit as its new hand set business offsets personal computer sales. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Good morning, everyone. You are watching worldwide exchange. We are just modestly lower, around 0. 2 . It is gdp day and the data we got out specifically this morning for germany and france, that was definitely disappointing. The recovery is losing steam. Lets have a look at the markets one by one and see how theyre responding to the data. The xetra dax is down by 0. 1 . Rew blaming its Renewable Energy subsidies for that big decline. The cac 40 is off by 0. 5 . The ftse 100 outperforming this morning by roughly six points or 0. 1 . Lets get to some of the top spots were watching for you this morning. Balfour beatty up 1. 9 . Carillion says it is confident on the new approach which would pay shareholders an additional Cash Dividend of 8. 5 pence a share. Rwes