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Hello there im Julie Macdonald this is sounds easier live from london also coming up Sebastian Court says projected to become the worlds youngest leader after victory in australias general election. Kenyas opposition made to stages a mass rally urging his supporters to boycott the president ial election. On a surprise first prime victory encourage astounds president ial contests. A very warm welcome to the program a massive bomb attack in the center of somalias capital on saturday is now reported to have killed more than two hundred people hundreds of people have been protesting on the streets of mogadishu voicing their anger at what happened it was the most powerful bomb blast to ever hit the city which suffers regular attacks a Residential District was also hit by a smaller car bomb somali as it declares three days of National Mourning. Well its still not clear who carried out the bombing a senior al shabaab members denied responsibility Catherine Sawyer reports from i will be in nei
Streak in a year. The euro is gaining. The danish krone is gaining and the Swedish Krona and the norwegian krone are declining. The yields are falling in the third column. Today. F data gdp, germany, powering ahead in the Third Quarter, underpinning the recovery and the wider eurozone with gdp up. 8 in the estimate was. 6 . That equates to 2. 8 year on year. That is the blue bar confirming the but despite prediction the German Economy carried its strong growth performance in the second half putting it on course for its best year since 2011. Said, theng, as i european economies performance with gdp in the eurozone up. 6 in the quarter, in line with the earlier estimate. 2. 5 year in year, chugging along, the german and the euro zone economy. Gdp data out of italygdp accelerating in the Third Quarter. Grew,ual basis, economy the most since the First Quarter of 2011. And that underpinning the attractiveness of italian debt. This is the difference between germany and italy, the 10 year dow
Low humidity but creeping back in and crisp air while you can. So got the nice low humidity today plus ongoing sunshine and see wall to wall blue sky in boston. 74 and i told you norwood would be caught up this hour. Now, 73 . Goodbye, 50s there and, in fact, in fitchburg, lawrence, portsmouth, New Hampshire and plymouth down to chatham. Look good feel good kind of morning here. Metrowest at 11 00 this morning at 80 . , 1 00 p. M. 85, upper 80s to even lower 90s coming into town today, although this is metrowest away from the coastline a little bit so the coast and boston probably hits 86 . Inland towns and cities with the shot at 90. Cool spot today is the cape at about 82 this afternoon. We will take town by town look at temperatures coming up. Julie back to you for live drive time traffic. Julie things looking did at four or 5 00 a. M. Route 1 wide open. 93 south a a little bit sluggish as you approach somerville. Expressway slow in the usual spot around morrissey boulevard and seei