Im wilfred frost. Were following a deadly situation in jakarta at this hour. Police arrested four suspected militants believed to have been involved in a gun and bomb assault in the center of the capital. Three suicide bombers exploded devices in a starbucks cafe. In total as many as six explosions and a gun fight leaving at least 7 dead. No one immediately claiming responsibility for the attacks. Well have a live report in a few minutes time. But first, lets bring you up to speed on the big market stories of the morning. Another brutal session on wall street yesterday. A mixed session in asia overnight. The nikkei in japan closing down about 2. 7 . That was off the session lows. Stock there dropped more than 4 at one point catching up to what we saw on wall street yesterday. Also locally some new data there showing japanese core machinery orders fell for the first time in three months. Check out what happened in china. Bucking the trend, stocks turning higher in the afternoon with the
Policies theyre the wrong priorities. The president was confident. I have no more campaign to say run. I know because i won both of them. The u. S. Is holding its highest level talk with cuba in 35 years. Americans immigration policy vowing to allow cubans who reach the shores to remain in the country. If it falls what is safe on our planet that can be protected . The number of women murdered are rising fast. They are stunned to little or nothing is done to bring the killers to justice. There are times when the freedom of speech is under assault. For the pen to be mightier than the sword you need more. President obama is taking his economic proposals to the heart land. Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well or commit our receivers to an economy that generates rising in comes and chance for everyone who makes the effort . The president s trip to red states idaho and kansas only underscored the irony for a skeptical Republicanled Congress which has repeate
I have no more campaign to say run. I know because i won both of them. The u. S. Is holding its highest level talk with cuba in 35 years. Americans immigration policy vowing to allow cubans who reach the shores to remain in the country. If it falls, what is safe on our planet that can be protected . The number of women murdered are rising fast. They are stunned to little or nothing is done to bring the killers to justice. There are times when the freedom of speech is under assault. For the pen to be mightier than the sword you need more. President obama is taking his economic proposals to the heart land. Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well or commit our receivers to an economy that generates rising in comes and chance for everyone who makes the effort . The president s trip to red states idaho and kansas only underscored the irony for a skeptical republicanled congress, which has repeatedly said tax increases on the wealthy are a nonstarter. But he ow
Hello, and welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. And i am anna edwards. A general election in greece. The markets already seeming to have cast their vote, sending the euro to a fresh low. The euro weakens to its weakest levels since 2006 in asian trading. That follows and Magazine Article that says german chancellor Angela Merkel is willing to accept a greek exit from the eurozone. And this makes it the European Central bank in favor of largescale sovereign bond purchases. Ecb president mario draghi said the risk of deflation in the eurozone could not be entirely excluded. Within that statement, of course, and other events, the greek election now has less than three weeks to run, and europe is facing a turbulent start to the new year. So parties in greece are campaigning, and Elliott Gotkine just got back from athens, where he was covering the election and he joins us now. Good morning. Exaggerating the risk of an exit . Good morning, and happy new year. Look it is not a bad politica
Countdown hello welcome to hello. Welcome to countdown. At 11 00 a. M. London time, eu ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting in brussels. The deteriorating relationship with russia and the threat posed by islamist militants and iraq. International correspondent hans nichols is in brussels. They have a lot to discuss and just the first day. They have very little hard intelligence about what is happening on the ground in both of the situation. Iraq appears to be improving but on ukraine, theres a great deal of conclusion confusion so there will be an attempt to see clarity. Its unlikely there will be another round of sanctions according to an eu official. They will assess the impact of and thenimport ban they will try and figure out what is actually happening right now in the city of donetsk. Vladimir putin in crimea talking about a worsening crisis. There are reports from local of armored incursions into rebel held territory. We still do not know what will be happening with this