200 people around. And stocks open higher as u. S. Futures point to the green with the weaker than expected jobs reports boosts bets that the fed could cut Interest Rates soon. Atos shares receive restructuring offers. It will decide among the three offers. And xi jinping touches down in paris on the first leg of his European Tour with Emmanuel Macron set to get support for ukraine. Welcome to street signs. We open with breaking news on eurozone pmi. It was coming in at 51. 7. The flash read at 51. 4. We get the services pmi coming in at 53. 3. That was another upside surprise. The flash of 52. 9. It shows expansion in both areas with the eurozone. This follows the surprise when it comes to french pmi. Swinging from the forecast of 49. 9 which is in contraction and moving into expansion at 50. 5. Getting Italian Services pmi. Three surprises with pmi. Eurozone pmi surprising to the upside with composite and services. Moving on to the big story over the weekend. Warren buffett has used
Enemy attempts to break through our positions in areas of the villages of verbovoy and rabotina in the zaporozhye direction, as well as in the solidar district, nine brigade regiments distinguished themselves in battles, our military personnel demonstrated mass heroism, since june 1, 57 military units, 20 formations and organizations of the armed forces received guards titles, and were awarded orders. Sergei shaigu spoke about the beginning of the autumn conscription campaign. Please note that all are conscripts. Including from new regions , they will not be sent to the combat zone. The general staff plans for additional mobilization no. The armed forces have the necessary number of military personnel to conduct a special military operation. This is largely facilitated by the strong patriotic position of our citizens, who are actively joining the ranks of defenders of the fatherland. Year to date. More than 335 people entered military service under contract and volunteer formations; in
Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian
The quantum computer the principal rival ms. China that the quantum spy is a novel that the characters to be involved to see who can steal the other secret over changing technology but simply it is the story of my hero. Of a cia officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in process learn things about himself and the cia that she came up to his foundation. Not so familiar to readers of Science Fiction like the russian spy world but but it takes us into the world of security. That is the principal antagonist in the book. Host how much is real . I always say the preface exist in the imagined world if you take any book that i write the menu and up with the mud pie. E. But that said i try to do a lot of research i research that for many months going to the computer laboratories and i travel to every place mentioned in the book study the Chinese Intelligence Service. Would be those characters o dont exist in real life but it is as real as i could make it be and st
Welcome to bbc news. One of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the atlantic has been battering the caribbean islands of antigua, barbuda and anguilla causing major damage. The category 5 storm with sustained winds of 185mph and gusts of up to 225mph is now heading towards the British Virgin islands, puerto rico and then may hit florida by the end of the week. Airports have closed on several islands and people have flocked to shops for food, water, and emergency supplies before taking shelter. Officials have been warning of potentially catastrohpic effects. A french cabinet minister says its already caused major damage and flooding while communications have been lost with a number of islands. Richard galpin reports. The Leeward Islands of the caribbean are now being battered by this huge storm. This unverified video apparently showing winds of more than 180mph hitting the tiny island of saint martin. In the sky above, this special us Research Plane also takes a battering as it fl