France relaunch. President macron unveiled his stimulus plan. The focus shifted beyond covid into longerterm problems. Russian tensions rise. Angela merkel says there is proof that an opponent was poisoned as he was tested in germany. And mercedes considers an electric version of its luxury maibach to defend its luxury anna welcome back to bloomberg position. Markets european open. Are just an hour away from 53 minutes into a positive the start of cash equity trading European Equity session. U. S. Futures have pared some in europe. Lets take a look at futures losses as well. That is worth keeping in mind. Right now. They are higher in europe. Lets talk to laura cooper from markets live team, where she is we are looking at gains across the board. Macro strategist. One of the things we will be watching for his initial jobless claims. I am drawn to a piece you have futures are higher. Written about the importance of data or the way that data that we usually see driving markets we see drop
Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and Around The World. We start this hour with Breaking News and a Military Coup appears to be under way in myanmar. The countrys de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, president win myint and other Senior Party Leaders have all been detained in a series of Early Morning raids. Lets speak to our South East Asia correspondentjonathan head. What more can you tell us about what has been happening . It is what has been happening . It is not that clear what has been happening . It is not that clear from what has been happening . It 3 not that clear from here and bangkok. We are getting a lot of reports from contacts inside Myanmar Committee does appear numerous reports that the key leadership of the country including unsung suki have been detained by the military early this morning before dawn. Aung san sui kyi. In the capital which is not the main city but that has been more or less cut off and people are finding it very hard to get through on the phone o
Summit in a few days on thursday and it is a believe that of course this issue syria turkey will be one of the top talking points on the agenda so we might see something come out of that ok well leave it there for now natasha thank you for that update from paris well very highly for a senior syria syria analysts of the International Crisis group and she believes the violence could lead to a resurgence of ice or cells in the region. We have been conducting a lot of field where field trips in Eastern Syria where the situation has been deteriorating read it quickly because of the u. S. Flip flopping policies that has it back to the y. P. G. s ability and willingness to conduct counter isis campaigns in Eastern Syria of course the a lot of the field work was done during a time where it was unclear how long the us would be there but the us was present now given that free for all the race to take control over the area it is expected that well see a number of things including potential prison
That offset the departure of ceo. Demonstrations continue after an 18yearold is shot by police after 17 weeks of antigovernment protests the risk off tone was set by wall street overnight. A heavy close after a very disappointing ism manufacturing print coming out of the United States showing it deeply in contracting territory. That set the tone for equity trading. You can see the stoxx 600 today, almost all of the heat map is trading in negative territory. We are only about an hour into the trading session or so. So very heavy losses lets talk about the indices the ftse 100 today with Boris Johnson expected to deliver his keynote speech the ftse 100 is down 1. 2 well get more about hard deal or no deal luxury hit there well talk about that in a second ftse, mib in italy down as well about. 8 travel and leisure the only spot in green basic resources down 1. 8 . Chemicals in decline down almost 4 there anything that has international expose youre or exposure to this trade war speaking o
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, but three in athens. This is the building where the new greek cabinet made and is also the office of the Prime Minister. My guest in this exclusive interview is the new Prime Minister of greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He has promised to set the country on a new path of prosperity after years of austerity. But has he promised more than he can deliver . It was more of a protest vote against the former government led by syriza . I am not too sure. 4096 of the popular vote, we are in a position to form a government on our own and we have an absolute majority. We have a strong mandate and ata majority. We have a strong mandate and at a time when european politics tends to get constantly more fragmented, we have managed to consolidate our base, increase our share of the vote by 12 from 28 to 40 and you will not find many centre right parties in europe these days reaching those numbers. That if you look at the composition of the parliament