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a new u.n. report has cataloged what it describes as a multitude of horrendous violation in 2013 and targeting civilians for killing, rape and pilaging and fighters bore the greatest responsibility for crimes last year and report quotes credible sources and say groups on the government side are allowed to rape women in lieu of wages and opposition fighters and criminal gangs have targeted women and girls. there is evidence that children have born the brunt of violent and maimed and recruited for fighting and killed. a unity government promised under a peace accord signed last year is yet to be established and warring factions led on one side by the president and on the other by his rival the former vice president. here is charles stratford. reporter: the suffering of people in the world s newest country defies belief and the report put together by the u.n. human rights office goes into details of atrocities committed in south sudan since the conflict began in decemb ....
coordinated attacks there, these are pictures from the airport. plus an explosion on the metro, at maelbeek station after two blasts at zaventem airport. belgium, of course on maximum security alert, surveillance also stepped up controls europe. questions being raised about what these attacks could mean for airport security around the world. in brussels, three explosions have hit the belgian capital. the attacks have heightened security levels across europe. at least 26 people have been killed and almost 100 people have been wounded in the blasts. two explosions went off at the zaventem airport at 8:00 a.m. local time. it s believed they were a suicide attack. now an hour later, there was another explosion at maelbeek station at the metro underground network. want capital is on lockdown and belgium has its threat level to four, that s the highest. we ve got neve barker at the airport. he s been there all morning. there is an investigation underway. the last you were t ....
power struggle with the president. the market is about to open in istanbul. things willyou how set up. half an hour from european equity trading. let s take you to the calculations. the ftse 100, a bunch of stocks. ep the main one to keep an eye on. we need to show you the aussie dollar. clearly, the change at the rba is one of the talking points. rates are at a record low. keep an eye on the lira. that is what is happening. a massive move yesterday. we have a press conference at 11:00. trading up 2%. the hang seng down. his market, just opening. ahead of the press conference. we will be covering the story throughout the morning. we will come back to that. let s get you your news. juliette: optimism still outranks pessimists. earlier, the china council meeting said more needed to be done to prevent promote private investment growth. investorsys have been piling into futures, pushing up prices and volumes. the tightening of rules and in some cases, the cutting of tra ....
175% in the third quarter. investors looking at this positively so far. alibaba up about 5% in the premarket. it is down about one third, more than one third since the high it reached shortly after its ipo in 2014. the stock has not done well. jon: up 3.5% premarket on alibaba. even if you re not interested in the company, to get a gauge of what is happening in china. your scorecard, futures firmer in the u.s., up 61 points. points.d 7, 8 in london, pretty much flat. switch up the board, the dollar on the front foot against some of the majors including the euro . on the back s first against the commodity currencies with wti up $45 and $.19, 3.2%. a rally on treasuries, yields got a little bit higher by one basis point to 1.79%, over 24 hours away from payroll friday. here are stocks to watch with matt. matt: in europe, gains. i want to highlight two of the biggest gainers. refining is what is helping them and chemicals. you see a rally. bt group rising. the former monop ....
langone. and a lot more. in the meantime take a look at shares after tesla right now. dropping about 4% ahead of the afternoon s earnings release. there was news elsewhere that the company has lost two key executives. not great timing as they get ready to ramp up that new model 3. we have details on all of that coming up over the next calm of couple of here s. joining us today the brian jacobson from wells fargo. jonathan from is sitting next to me and rick santelli from chicago as well. look at the numbers the weakness in the jobs number, earnings. a whole litany. but why now. those are the same things we discussed as the market going higher and we re going to continue talk about those a little more. the seems like the market is always a little bit behind and it takes a while to see the effect. seems like today we have a lot of things coming together. economic data, europe, china. we had a m&a deal cancel this week. so different factors out there pressuring the m ....