30 more are in serious condition after all being treated by the same doctor. Hes a superstar in his home country, but what now for malaysias badminton hero . Hes been provisionally suspended for a possible doping violation. Also, 100 years of sacrifice remembered across the world on armistice day. It is a shopping frenzy. Already chinese consumers have splashed out nearly 7 billion and theres still several hours to go. Its more than double what americans spend online during their three big shopping days, thanksgiving, black friday, and cyber monday. And these chinese purchases, almost half, half were made from a mobile device. Its midday here in london. 7 00 a. M. In washington. 9 00 p. M. In south korea, where the captain of a ferry that sank in april, killing more than 300 people, has been sentenced to 36 years in prison. Lee junseok escaped the Death Penalty. He was found guilty of gross negligence but was acquitted of murder. The overloaded ferry capsized in treacherous waters near
[ trumpet playing ] some of the images there from around the uk as people in many parts of the country commemorate Armistice Day, at the 11th minute on the 11th hour on the 11th day. 100 years, the start of the great war. Lets have a look at some other commemorations which have been held around the world today. In australia, almost 4,000 people have attended the largest ceremony held at the australian war memorial. The former Prime Minister paid tribute to more than 100,000 australians who died defending the values of the country. In the Afghan Capital kabul, a Memorial Service is taking place for British Servicemen killed there on the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. In paris, president hollande has laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier there in the capital. He hosted british and german officials also at the ceremony, remembering all of those who have fallen, not only in the First World War, but all conflicts since. And in belgium, a ceremony took place under the men in gate
Hello and welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. And im anna edwards. Bloomberg report is a standing by around the world ready to deliver the stories to drive your day. Manus cranny is ready to steer latest dealings with dongfang. Covering clashes in the ukraine and Jonathan Ferro is focusing on the u. K. Ahead of the latest unemployment data and minutes from the bank of england. Givefore all that, lets you a few more reasons to stay with bloomberg this morning. We have some big interviews coming to you. We will be speaking to the ceo of the fourthlargest brewer, Joergen Rasmussen. The peugeot executive joins bloomberg, his first interview of the day. Lets look servo into lets look further into the numbers from peugeot. Theyre beating analyst estimates manus cranny joins us now with more. This is quite a bit better. The loss, 177 million euro and the market estimate was for 247 Million Euros. It looks like they have beaten on the selfmade target. Target was to reduce the cash burn by
Capitalist today in principle. It should be combined with steep , social responsibility. Hello, welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. I am anna edwards. Bloomberg reporters are standing. Y ready to deliver the stories in a berlin, david tweed covers sap. Their earnings are breaking it now. Unilevers numbers. And hong kong to the lenovo ibm story. Its a possible to make a new profits in music streaming . A new company is trying it. Getting earnings from sap, the german company, the biggest maker of software. They all felt fourthquarter results. It is announcing its output for 2014. And 2015. It sees its operating profit this year between 5 billion euros and 6 billion euros. Just slightly below analyst e stimates. It delayed its margin operating target to 2017. It delayed its profitability target and that seems to be the biggest news pushing back profitability target of by two years. It is chipping stemcells from licensing business to program delivered over the internet. They said oper
And the suicide bombing are reportedly carried out by a briton in syria the first such attack by a uk citizen in the country sparked fresh fears of western volunteers could pose a threat when they returned home from the war the home life from now. Well was a busy day in olympic sports a lets head straight to saatchi parties kevin allen is standing by in her studio there. Hes got a look at the First Official day of competition at the winter games i do. Yellow then lindsay and so they just want to end the use of the bawdy and so she was still going strong on anyone but the cost of those athletes the stache is dressed in full the next day of the full competition begins at eight sets of medals will be up for grabs later today. Right now lets recap the results from day one chili which was a key to successful the norwegian take the risk of top goes on a pole skull has been fully mohammed clips. Although nine medals for russia on day one of the sochi twenty fourteen when turning tricks for th