Father. The crowds are at royal palace in madrid. Amazon is moving into the smart phone world. Going head to head with apple and samsung in an attempt to light up the world market. With features like 3d, heres the question. Will this device trap the Retail Industry . Its midday here in london. 7 00 a. M. Washington, 2 00 p. M. Baghdad. With the iraqi capital under growing threat of advancing militants. The government is now calling on the u. S. To support its fight against the insurgents. President obama has told congress he doesnt need their approval to take military action in iraq. Rebels are tightening their grip on northern and eastern areas this. Comes after isis overran mosul last week. Many have fled the area. We take you live there now with yalda. Reporter ive been on the outskirts of the autonomous region the last few days. I dont know if you can see the traffic behind me. This is cars going back to mosul surprisingly where the militants are. There are also cars coming to look
The channel tunnel. On the program, aaron is here. Its a change for some of cocacolas key recipes. Absolutely. How did a teenage girl in mississippi force the worlds biggest drink make tore change the formula of its drinks . Ill tell you. Social media. Were going to take a look at how]sm kicw a3nr consumers arou have found their voice. It is midday in london, 3 00 moscow, 2 00 p. M. In sloviansk where ukraine claims 30 pro russian fighters have been killed in a government led assault. Its a clear sign the tension between the two sides is erupting into all out come bat. The government says four troops died in clashes with what it described as 800 well trained rebels. Aim is full control of the east ahead of plans by the antikiev movement to hold a referendum sunday. Russias foreign minister arrives in vienna where hell no doubt be questioned about knowledge on the latest events. Reporter the makeshift barricades today in sloviansk, the base of the pro Russian Forces base that went on to
An oil giant is caught up in the sanctions against russia. It may be british. Bp owns a 20 stake many the giant rosneft. Now the u. S. Has added this man the boss of rosneft to its sanction list saying hes in Vladimir Putins inner circle. We asked what impact this could have on bp. Hello. It is midday in london, 7 00 washington, 3 00 in moscow. Theres been a twist . The tug of war over ukraine. Russia described the unprecedented increase in u. S. And nato activity near borders. The defense minister told his u. S. Counter part to tone down the rhetoric promising russia had no plans to invade ukraine. Meanwhile eu followed washington and announced new sanctions targeting top political players in russia. On the ground the situation remains unchanged and unstable. Nick childs has this. Sloviansk today looking very much like a pro russian strong hold in the ukraines unsettled east. This local resident absolutely supports the separatists here and possible recession. This man says hes for a u
Loudest clap of thunder ive heard in my life. I thought it was like a bomb almos almost. Hello and welcome. The Israeli Military says its carried out three air strikes on gaza targeting hamas rocket launch hers and infrastructure. The air strikes were response to rockets fired into israel earlier in the morning. Both sides have rejected the immediate and unconstitutional humanitarian cease fire. Lets go live to bbc in jerusalem for us. Bethany, bring us up to date on whats happened there. As you say, theres been three air strikes by the israeli army, also a rocket fired from gaza into israel this morning. Theres been a lull in fighting overnight. Its been the quietest night in some time with no air strikes. Ho hopes the lull can be sustained over the muslim festival beginning today. These strikes showing thousand fragile that situation is, how very delicate it is. Its easy for the fighting to start up again. Obviously the u. N. Security council, heard people speaking calling for humani
Off in brazil. Also coming up in the program, alice has the Business News and all eyes on the british chancellor. We are expecting to hear a major announcement from George Osborn, uk finance minister. Hes announcing a crack down on abuses in the Foreign Exchange market for which the city of london is the main stage. Those trios found guilty of manipulation could now be facing jail time. Its midday in london, 7 00 a. M. In washington, 2 00 p. M. In tikrit, once the strong hold of Saddam Hussein in iraq, now the latest target of islamic militants of isis who say they control it already. They have seized the city of mosul and they have baghdad in their sights as they pursue their ambition of an Islamic State spreading across the eastern mediterranean. The government of noal mala needs help. First lets get the update for you on the situation. Reporter some of the huge numbers of ordinary iraqis who have fled the fighting in whats feared is a fracturing country. They were jamming the crossi