Tehran has been threatening to retaliate for a deadly air strike on an iranian diplomatic compound in syria. Daniel hagari the Israeli Military spokesman said dozens of israeli planes were patrolling the sky and israel was prepared very strongly in case of an attack from iran. Translation of the Home Front Command is publishing an update and adjustment in the Defence Policy in these minutes, as of tomorrow morning and during the next few days the educational systems, camps and planned trips will not take place. At six oclock in the morning we will update the directive again, starting tonight and in the coming days no educational activities including overnight stays in parking lots and excursions are allowed. In the last few minutes the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said his country is prepared for a direct attack from iran. In an an address to the nation, he said Defence Systems were deployed and the armed forces were ready to respond in kind. Hes advised israelis to
A good monday morning to you. Youre watching countdown. Im anna edwards. Coming to you from london. Were getting numbers from heineken. Manus cranny, good morning. Manus heineken revenue comes in. First half revenue was estimated to be hundred 7 million. Of course think africa, middle east asia. 25 of the revenue comes from lets get you more net numbers. A dividend of . 44. You are seeing a bid on the numbers there. In terms of breaking it down, it is taking a little bit of time to get that you are free geography broken down here. These are solid results. It demonstrates further progress. It is very much ranking on the emerging markets. The pressure for heineken is the price of oil. It is impacting demand levels in nigeria. You also have issues about trying to get control in the emerging markets. 1. 5 billion. Anna we will be speaking later on. What are the challenges you need to be asking . We have gone through some of the headlines. Manus a couple of different things. The value of th
Pete, its the least volatile september ever you guys are going to dive into that in a bit over at the telestrator to show us exactly how. But man, the stocks have been steady. Yeah. And i think part of the story, scott, is just the fact that you mentioned steady we talked about rotation those all feed into this i heard bob pisani talking about lack of volumes. But its not a lack of volumes in the derivatives world or options world where we are consistently trading close to just under 17 million contracts a day. This used to be a number in 2011 that was closer to 14 million a day. It started to grow we peaked out at 18 million and here we are trading just under 17 million a day so there is volume and there is volume in the derivatives markets and other parts of the market unfortunatelwere not seeing h of it at the new york buthink the healthiness of this rally oat least this sustained area of near these highs, establishing new highs almost daily has been because it has been a healthy ro
O the spirit of that agreement the briefing is 40 minutes. We have some very special guests and joining us from iraq. Ladies and gentlemen, sitting in the back of the room they work for the Iraqi Government and been visiting the United States learning more about journalism andthe work of spokesperson that is what they do. 12 of you arent here. We like to thank you for coming to the United States and made a long trip after a very difficult time and a very hard fought battle in mosul. As part of their trip here, i want to mention they were at the meeting that took place at the state Department Meeting last week. Ur iraqi friends towered the Activity Center at forth meade and did some press along the way and pepper them with questions. But i ask you to be nice to our guests. And the Coalition Spokesperson and our iraqi friends after that mosul victory. Second thing, i know a lot of you have asked questions about middle east peace and the coordination with the white house specifically the
I have lived in the city for years, but hong kong still makes me fall in love with it time and again. And now, bbc world news america. Anchor this is bbc world news america. A truce has just come into effect in syria. The partial halt in the fighting is being closely watched. Another twist in the race for the republican president ial nomination. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie throws his support behind donald trump. Fifa elects a new leader. End the corruption allegations and restore will world soccers reputation . Anchor welcome to our viewers on how television in america and around the globe. After five years of war in syria, a partial ceasefire has come into force tonight. It is the most determined International Effort yet to bring a pause to the fighting. Hasions loyal to assad signed up but they dont include islamic state. Here is our diplomatic correspondent. The Syrian Government keeps up its bombing just hours before all of this is supposed to stop. After almost five years o