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as the plan comes into focus. is there some cause for optimism at last? with the names of those being swapped tomorrow now known to israel and hamas, the stage is set for a four day truce, we ll find out how it might work. also tonight, violence on the streets of dublin following a knife attack in the city centre earlier today. we ll have the latest. as a right wing populist party wins the most seats in the dutch parliament, nick is in the netherlands finding out how they did it and what lies ahead. this really is a huge moment. here we are in amsterdam in the heart of the netherlands, which is one of the originalfounding members of the netherlands, which is one of the original founding members of the european union. this country has given first place in the general election to a far right leader. with the uk recording 670,000 immigrants in the year up tojune, we ll unpick government plans to get the numbers under control. and we meet two people who were child refugees, ....
christiano ronaldo has been named the world s best player. he pips messi and neymar to the ballon d or. and the winner is. coventry! a night of celebration for the city, after it s awarded the next uk city of culture. and snow has been falling overnight. warnings of disruption later in the day. carol has the full forecast. snow has been falling in the north and west of the uk and in the midlands. that will continue through today. some snow showers getting into eastern areas and there is ice to watch out for first thing. a cold day as well and windy, but not as windy as yesterday. a full forecast in15 windy as yesterday. a full forecast in 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story. theresa may has just arrived in brussels after intense negotiations which continued throughout the night to try to break the deadlock over the irish border in brexit negotiations. we can talk now to our political correspondent chris mason who s in westminster. you are really where the st ....
gas dime was profits of 64% daimler s profits of 64%. live from europe s headquarters in london. i am manus cranny. smash estimates reporting it welcomed the news for the bank which saw a lot of 700 million francs. francine lacqua is on location today. she is out and about, catching up with the new ceo tidjane thiam. what is the news? francine: we try to quiz him. we have to remember these are not his results. he is only been on the job for 20 days. once it these figures will lay out the strategy on which he will overhaul the bank. that strategy will be revealed by the end of the year. the key to this is the new strategy should be release some of pressures from second-quarter results. tidjane: performance of private bank is a strong. driven by asia-pacific which we have a strong interest in. they were very pleased with the way things were developing. profits were up 150% in the second quarter. [indiscernible] 54 billion. 4.2% of asset management. very strong quarter ....
plus. i m in kuala lumpur where an ancient river is getting a new leash on life. fears of a slow down in the world s second biggest economy china are continuing to spook markets across the globe and shares plunged across asia and europe and currency is also falling. china s shanghai complex went down 8% wiping out the entire gains for the year and it s the biggest one-day fall in years and beijing deployed the billion dollar fund to pump up the market with $400 billion of assets to buy stocks failed to stop the decline, from malaysia to brazil oil and commonty exporting nations have seen their currencies hit multi-year lows and as china s economy slows it s not importing the raw materials to power its factories and sent the bloomberg commodity index to its lowest level since 1998 and neglect in crude sent oil prices tumbling to $44.55 a barrel, the lowest since march of 2009 and more from adrian brown in beijing. reporter: the share shell off began within minutes ....
fight corruption. hello, stock markets around the world are sliding following a big sell off across asia and european markets are all now trading in the red, london has fallen below the 6,000 mark wiping more than $46 billion off the value and began in china, the world s second largest economy and stocks plunging to an eight-year low and adrian brown has more from beijing. reporter: sell off began in minutes of the stock exchange opening and at one point it fell 9% and recovering only slightly. some of china s biggest companies and the world s biggest are listed here. on monday the government announced a new and risky intervention to try and prop up the market by using billions of dollars from the state pension fund but it failed to stop the slide. translator: how can the markets drop everyday like this? one, two, three, four, five. the market dropped for five days and it never rose back. reporter: many borrowed to buy shares and are now being forced to sell tho ....