at this hour also, a ruling on a pivotal abortion rights case could come at any time. we ll talk to the president of planned parenthood about the new wave of restrictions plus, four americans recently kidnapped in mexico were found, but hundreds more are still missing in mexico. we ll talk to one mother who s desperately trying to find her son. in florida, ron desantis is going of a miami hotel after a drag show. we ll explain what s behind it and we begin this hour with china s new show of support for russia overnight, we re learning that next week, china s xi is expected to make his first visit to russia since putin s invasion of ukraine in the past month, china has attempted to portray itself as a peacemaker after releasing a 12 part peace plan, but concerns are growing china could provide weapons to russia. this morning, slovakia joined poland in announcing they, too, will provide ukraine with soviet era fighter jets the kremlin warning that planes sent to ukraine w
Welcome to the pulse live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Im manus cranny. Lets bring you the eurozone manufacturing data. The comp is it for manufacturing comes in at 52. 4. Are also as numbers beat, 54. 3, giving us a composite number ahead of estimates at 54. 1. We are amid easing cycle in europe, so that is important to note. The euro has been trading that little bit higher. 1. 1249 is where we are. That is better than the market had estimated. The composite number 54. 1 beat estimates. It is a big week for markets. Weve had the weakest chinese manufacturing data since the Global Financial crisis. Emergingmarket stocks fell towards the worst week in two years. The latest from beijing in just a moment. Lets get all the market moves wrapped up with Caroline Hyde. Caroline a torrid week on the markets. 2 trillion worth has been erased in terms of market valuation across global equities. We are having the worst week in nine months. This is where one of the clouds that
To be causing cancer. Were live in new york city. Im del walters. The death toll is climbing in afghanistan at this point. A 7. 5 magnitude earthquake struck that country right after lunch 2 00 p. M. Local time. 227 people across the region are now dead. The tremor was felt hundreds of miles away in pakistan, india as well as in afghanistans capital kabul. Jennifer, what is the latest on the damage and the deaths . Well, del, the death toll here does continue to climb at 64 now confirmed dead here in afghanistan with 348 wounded. The dead and wounded in 11 of the countries 34 provinces almost a third of the country really a testament to the strength as well as the breadth of this earthquake. Which, you know, could be felt across here. In pakistan the death toll is even higher. 189 dead. 1,000 wounded. Those numbers expected to climb. The epicenter was in a remote area. I think were going to still see how things move forward as people get to those remote areas. We think then well get a
Bailout talks broke down. Both sides refuse to blink greece is rushing toward the cash crunch that threatens to drive it out of the eurozone. We are joined by hans nichols. And without the bureau chief in joins us from greece. Hans, lets start with you. Lets talk about the greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis. And his reasoning about what he is doing. According to him, it is simple and illogical for Yanis Varoufakis to excel at a deal, a program his party was elected to repeal, it is simply a nonstarter. He said they went backwards last night and not forwards. He said. The last weeks meeting, they had a few setbacks and then they made progress. He held out the prospect for additional talks is that he is willing to negotiate. We have been saying steadfastly for the beginning we want an honorable settlement. We want to wedge together these principles, the principles of the program have to be respected and the government that challenges the logical problem and find Common Ground betwe
Also coming up, we will get reports that the drink maker could soon be a target of a takeover bid. Lets talk about the big story of the day. It is the United States read it is the first friday of the month. The markets and the fed are watching for signs that the economy is recovering. We will hear from Nouriel Roubini and what he has to say on u. S. Jobs shortly. He has been speaking to us from in anores of lake cuomo exclusive interview. But first manus cranny joins us to look ahead to the data. The weather has been a big factor. Over here, we have been blaming easter. Over there, we have been blaming the weather. A strong number is priced in. The 10 most accurate forecasters that we survey at bloomberg say 215,00. The adp number yesterday, services above the level. People are buying cars. How much of this good news is already priced in to the markets . It depends what evidence you want to look at. Bmw, toys r us a bit slow to hire people. Financial services under pressure. It is reco