Consecutive day. They say the country is still far from ending its lockdown. U. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo is in israel for a three day visit. It comes as the countrys Prime Minister in bahrains foreign minister held talks, the first since normalizing relations earlier this year. The talks supported by the Trump Administration has angered palestinians. A visit to an israeli settlement, the first ever by a u. S. Sectary of state. Reporter stepping off a plane in israel in what is his last International Tour as u. S. Secretary of state, mike pompeo reasserting changes to many of the longstanding policies under Donald Trumps fouryear term, including the recognition of jerusalem as israels capital. It is great to be back in jerusalem. Reporter standing alongside the Prime Minister of israel and the foreign minister of bahrain, he held a series of accords between israel and a number of nations. This agreement tells malign actors like iran that their influence in the region is waning.
Lets start in the eu, where Three Tech Giants the social media platform x, Tiktok Owner Bytedance and the travel website booking. Com, are waiting to find out whether they could face an Antitrust Crackdown under the eus new digital antitrust rulebook. The Eu Commission has until the end of today to decide whether those three companies would qualify as so called gatekeepers under the new Digital Markets act. The aim of the act is to help competition in the Technology Sector and to try to break down the stronghold of Big Tech Companies. Well, someone who knows a lot about this, because she co negotiated the eu ai act in her previous role in the German Federal chancellery, is kirsten rulf who now is partner and associate director at boston consulting group. A warm welcome to bbc news. Good to see you again. Good to see you again. Greg manning good to see you again. Greg manning 50 good to see you again. Greg manning. So lets good to see you again. Greg manning. So letsjust good to see you
David it is shaping up to be a very interesting friday. The stories of north korea. Dollaryen giving at the moment. The moment. T this activity story of cutting ratings in china. Already know. T we basics, the core of the issue is the amount of debt on the chinese economy has outpaced the size of the economy. It might not be the same as back in 2009. To othercompare china developing economies, that should not be at these levels. Downgrade. S haidi are the ratings agencies behind the curve . People who have been watching china has been saying this is a ticking time bomb. At one point we are going to have to deal with this. Just kicking the can down the road instead of the leveraging deleveraging. They getting from the amount of credit being used to drive growth. Not really a happy friday for asian markets. More riskturned a bit off. Trading higher from the session low. Of northr a report korea saying countermeasures may mean an hbomb test. When you look at what is happening with the eur
Obama wraps up a historic visit to cuba. Today he will address the cuban people. Analysts speculate he will discuss human rights and to drive that home, the president is set to meet with distants on the island people on the island. The fbi believes they may not need apples help. It shows the fbi is getting help from an outside party to unlock Syed Rizwan Farooks encrypted phone. And we are waking up to a frost advisory. Temperatures could dip down into the 30s. Lets go to leigh to find out more about this. Leigh, 30s. Yeah, its march, remember . We should be dealing with were getting a quick cool down. The frost advisory is east of 19 in citrus and hernando county. But it goes until 9 00 a. M. Look at this, 39 in inverness and brooksville. 38 in zephyrhills. Theres a good chance you will see frost on the windshield. Not so much farther south but its still chilly. 45 in lakeland. 52 in tampa. These temperatures are colder than yesterday. Anywhere from five to 15 degrees colder. But its
Reporter well there, are are a lot of videos and pictures well, there are a lot of videos and pictures on social media showing the aftermath there. Are reports of at least one explosion and injuries at a metro station. This is an area close to a lot of European Union institution. And this picture shows people being evacuated in the tunnel. They are having to go through tracks to get out. And i want you to look at this video. At least one person is dead. And we are hearing reports of more. And right now, we are trying to get confirmation and theres a lot of people injured. We have video from the airport. Take a look at this, passengers being evacuated. All flights are canceled and people are being urged to stay away. And now this video posted to twitter reportedly shows what it looks like on the inside. Checkin zone at an International Terminal used by different airlines, including american airlines. And im trying to find out right now whether american was actually targeted. And now the