Im guy johnson. Francine lacqua is off today. We begin with the mega oil deal. Shell has agreed to buy bg group for around 47 billion pounds around 70 billion in cash and stocks. That makes it the biggest deal in the oil and gas industry for at least a decade. Caroline hyde joins us at the touchscreen. Caroline a cool 47 billion pounds. A cool 50 premium on bgs share price. This is record data in terms of size of move, but if you go back, it is only since july 2014 when we last saw this price on bg group. That was the amount that the oil prices plummeted dragging down the price of oil stocks. Suddenly, everything looks a little bit fairer valued. That is what has capitalized this deal to spark the Biggest Energy deal in a decade. Suddenly, assets look well priced. Creating the secondBiggest Energy company in the world this would be the biggest player in the ftse 100. It will have sheer size and scale. Interestingly, shell saying, we will build a company with three pillars. They are goi
Go green in the aloha state. You can call it the big chill part two on the heels of a major cold front that socked large parts of the nation last week, another one has arrived and it may be worse, packing some of the coldest temperatures this country has felt in more than 20 years. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy. A widespread arctic blast known as the polar vortex will bring freezing winds impacting 140 Million People across 45 states and exposure to this dangerous weather could result in lifethreatening frost bite and hypothermia and some people could be 40 degrees below normaler and the plains and upper midwest are bracing for cold that could dip down to minus 60 degrees and bringing chicago to a stand still and the city is expecting temperatures of minus 20 degrees but the wind chill will feel like minus 50 a temperatures in the windy city is colder than the south pole where it was minus 9 degrees sunday night and joining us from icy cold chicago is
Of state john kerry says the u. S. Will not send american soldiers back to iraq even in this country reels from Al Qaedalinked violence. Militants have taken over two key cities, fallujah and ramadi in anbar province. Government forces are fighting for control. More from imran khan. After a standoff lasting day, the iraqi army is ready to go into the fallujah city and fight the i. S. I. L. The agreement to do so was hard fought. Local sunni tribes insisted they be part of any attack. Others disagreed. The standoff is an indication of the tension between sunni tribes in anbar and the shialed government. The Prime Minister Nouri Almaliki has his agreement and is poised to act. Translation theres increased coordination with the army and tribesman. The army provides the tribes with weapons and everything they need in the battle against the terrorists. I think the issue will be resolved within one for two days. That may be optimistic. The iraqi army sent out a video of surgical airtricks, b
Washington proposed new legislation that would punish african countries cooperating with very welcome to 6 and 7 pm here in the russian capital. And youre wanting all T International with me. Nicky eric. Now, one person has been killed and 2 others wounded in ukrainian shilling of a village in russias belgrade we did not according to local authorities. Early on saturday, another deadly ukrainian shilling attack was reported by all parties. In dont, yes. A warning you may find the following image is upsetting. Ah. This footage from it done yes. Show some of the victims on the devastation caused by at least 6 rounds of selling in 4 hours. Local authorities have reported 4 people were killed and 8 others injured in fragments of french how its the artillery shells were found at the scene. A central administrative building was targeted in the attacks. Oh correspondent, what was that . And was a, excuse me, our correspondent, it was caught and the shelling i reported lunacy with Ukrainian Fo