Tion . Function,s your another leg lower on the tobacco news, driving down b. A. T. And imperial brands. Look at the currencies, all rising against the dollar in the wake of the gdp data out of the United States with bonds, commodities, and stocks on track for their second weekly decline. The earnings season continues in earnest with shares in adidas jumping as much as 9 , the biggest gain since 2008, passing through three standard deviations. That is what this chart shows. Record high for the shares of adidas, increasing revenue and profit forecasts helped by strong sportswear sales and the brand streamlining that includes the disposal of its ccm hockey business and benefiting from booming demand for retro shoes and a steady stream of new models. The major bread a hot commodity in the United States, helping to regain ground, it had earlier loss to nike and capitalizing on a growing middle class in china which is adopting a more active lifestyle and Strong Demand for more fashionable s
East. Beefing up checks on migrants coming into europe. Is it a change of tone on syria . Basharmerkel says alassad should be included in peace talks. To bring the four year conflict to an end. Plenty more coming up in this hour of live from paris. The latest Business News. It will take the wheel and volkswagen with the latest on the environmental scandal that has forced the chief executive of the company to quit. Vw cheated on emissions tests in europe. X for joining us on france 24. Im catherine norstrom. We start off with i am catherine norstrom and. At least 310 people have been killed in a stampede at the annual hajj pilgrimage. Hundreds of other people have also been injured in that crush. You are seeing features of the chaos near mecca. Our correspondent has the latest. Tragedy and grief on this holiest of days. Hundreds of pilgrims were killed in a stampede in mina on thursday, and more injured. The site is the last stage of the hajj pilgrimage to mecca and was particularly cro
The third suicide bomber from the attack at the bataclan concert hall in paris has been identified. He had gone to the syria two years ago. State of in a emergency in the wake of the attacks that left 130 dead. We will report from the own that from lyonne. Whois the mystery of created bit coin closer to being solved . Of ae have raided the home man in australia who might be behind it. We will tell you more in business. First, our top stories. Genie war in syria has been going on for close to five years. Potential talks between Bashar Alassad and the opposition are due to begin next month, but first the opposition itself needs to be united. Different Opposition Groups are trying to do just that today by holding unprecedented talks in saudi arabia. The biggest gathering of its kind since the war began. But as oliver farry explains now, not all Opposition Groups are present. it is the biggest gathering of opponents to Bashar Alassads regime in 4. 5 years of war. Is inf the opposition duba
See for the most part here behind me i have to point out are here for new york citys iconic Tree Lighting ceremony. It takes place around this time every year. Of course, and that is mainly what you are looking at. But cameraman can take a step forward and pan off to the left a little. You see some of the protesters there. That group that passed us just a few minutes ago numbered around 100. We have another live camera following a larger group. We are told by our producer with that group that that Group Numbers around 500. I should also point out that at this point, greta, this has been an entirely peaceful protest police would be here in large numbers anyway. They are out in greater number tonight because of these protests but they are keeping the protesters moving. They are not allowing them to stop for any length of time at all. They are preventing them crossing behind me here. Sixth avenue as they walk up and taking them very much on a designated path across sixth avenue passed the