Following the soma mine collapse, the countrys worst ever industrial disaster. Death toll now sitting at 282. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. A warm welcome to todays edition of Worldwide Exchange. We focus on the gdp numbers. Were getting the latest data out of italy. Were trying to bring that to you. Gdp contracting down 1 on the quarter. It was forecast to up up 0. 2 . The drop driven by the industry secretarier. The italy Service Sector growth flat in the First Quarter. The Agriculture Sector grew into q1. Nevertheless, the italian number disappointing. Its in contraction. First quarter gdp down 0. 1 . Thats taking euro dollar around sixweek lows. 1. 3675 is where we stand at the moment. It is worth pointing out on tuesday we got down to 1. 3685. We are a bit below that as well. Sixweek lows for euro dollar. This follows news around gdp elsewhere. Germany beat forecasts First Quarter growth in the period, it doubled the pace reco
Are caught in a democratic divide, and some activists are promising not to back down in the fight for free elections. Nato leaders have descended on a resort in wales to discuss some threats far away. Theyre talking about afghanistan and the militant Group Islamic state. Much of the focus is on ukraine so they were eager to hear from the countrys president , petro poroshenko. Nhk world reports. Reporter more than 60 heads of state and government attended events at what officials describe as one of the most important nato summits in history. The overarching topic of the twoday summit is the crisis in ukraine. The leaders held discussions on the issue for more than two hours on thursday. Nato military alliance stressed that it stands with ukraine in the face of russias destabilizing influence. The leaders called on russia to step back from confrontation and take the path to peace. Natos secretarygeneral rasmussen and poroshenko held a press conference side by side. While talking about pe
Nato leaders have descended on a resort in wales to discuss some lets the far away. Theyre talking about afghanistan and about the mill tanlt Group Islamic state. Much of the focus is on ukraine so they were eager to hear from the countrys president , petro poroshenko. Reporter more than 60 heads of state and government attended what officials describe as one of the most important nato summits in history. The overarching topic of the twoday summit is the crisis in ukraine. The leaders held discussions on the issue for more than two hours on thursday. Nato military alliance stressed that it stands with ukraine in the face of russias destabilizing influence. The leaders called on russia to step back from confrontation and take it. Natos secretary general rasmussen and poroshenko held a press conference side by side. While talking about peace, russia has not made one single step to make peace possible. Instead of deescalating the crisis, russia has only deepened it. Every single head of s