In memory of those who have lost their lives while serving in the armed forces. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. A british woman charged with drug smuggling in egypt has been ordered to stand trial in a criminal court. Laura plummer, who is 33 and from hull, was detained in the red sea resort of hughada last month. Police claim she was carrying nearly 300 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol. The drug is illegal in egypt but available on prescription in the uk. Earlier i spoke to our correspondent, orla guerin, whos following the case. This is certainly a setback for laura, family and her legal team. This is certainly a setback for laura, family and her legalteam. M is not the outcome they would have been open court today. Just hours ago we were in court here in hughada we re ago we were in court here in hughada were expecting a hearing. Her legal tea m were expecting a hearing. Her legal team before that was guardedly optimistic, hoping she might be granted bail because they sai
Assertion that no deal is better than a bad deal. I am nejra cehic in london. Good morning. Lets get your markets first. We are looking at the stoxx 600. We saw a close lower after initial games, fairly steady now. See the carmakers really underperforming, down 1. 3 . The asiant happen in session. It is feeding through from the u. S. Car data we got from the u. S. Yesterday. The car sales coming in, disappointing that data. We are seeing it read through to the European Equity session. In terms of dollar and yen, we are seeing a weaker dollar. Ae yen strengthening for third day. I wanted to show you the 10 year yield on the german bund. Went down one basis point, 0. 26 . We saw a lot of demand go into u. K. And german debt yesterday. The 10 year treasury yield is fairly steady. We saw it hit its lowest since february yesterday. The 10year gilts yield reached its lowest since october. A lot of demand for the safest assets among safe havens that are bonds. If get to the bloomberg first wo
There was a train stuck on the track but you can see here it was towed out from under the overpasses and it was taken over near the passenger pickup area near the Childrens Discovery Museum. The train is out of the way but repairs continue. The good news is that we have not seen any passengers in the area that have been impacted whether they found it from us or have seen the alert on twitter. There is a bus bridge set up. Alexis smith will talk about how you get around this if you take v. T. A. And a last note we expect the v. T. A. Spokesman to meet us momentarily on scene the when they arrive we bring you the update. This obviously is going to be a big deal throughout the only commute. Possibly into the commute. You can still take the v. T. A. S but it is a bus bridge. 90 is 1 is shortened and you will be dropped off at the station but 9 902 is the same. That is the latest from v. T. A. Just superintendent out that update in the last 10 minutes. Drew tuma . Good morning, the forecast
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Emergent treat, and i think in the more cochran strategy, first of all, we have all this state in this region, militias, revenge groups, sectarian groups, terroristic groups, criminal groups and so of course, libya talked about some groups we can say only in libya we have merely 300 militias. And when you go a little bit to this all this separatist groups dealing with all the terrorists, link it to all these terrorist groups and national organized crime. Pick in this time, on one hand, as the major role of terrorism and the terrorist groups, we have certainly daesh, as you see it, and is active in a lot of off can countries, in mali, bar ke barkina faso and others. We have a big bed of as my friend said, boko haram. We talk less about boko haram, but its one of the bad, very bad groups. And al shabab. The second point, when we focus on the terrorist groups in the moroccan approach, we never put transnational organized crime. We have in this region very important activity and what we le