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Hello and welcome to politics europe, your regular guide to the top stories in brussels and strasbourg. On todays programme as the eu signs what leaders have called an historic agreement on defence co operation, are we edging closer to the much wanted eu army . The European Parliament has been debating tax avoidance after the release of the Paradise Papers. Will the eu take action where Member States have struggled . Whats going on in poland . The European Parliament says the polish government has committed serious violations of the rule of law and could impose sanctions. Well have the latest. And as new figures on the numbers on eu nationals coming to the uk to work are released, has talk of brexitists of eu citizens leaving the uk been exaggerated . So all that to come and more in the next half an hour. And joining me for all of that is Rachel Sylvester from the times and toby young from the spectator. First, here is our guide to the latest from europe in just 60 seconds. As the grea
This is bbc news. The headlines. President mugabe has been dismissed as the leader of the ruling zanu pf party, a day after tens of thousands marched on the streets calling for him to resign. His wife, grace, has also been expelled from the party. Police say theyre confident that a body found near swanage is that of the missing teenager, gaia pope. Gaias sister described her as beautiful, emotionally wise and intelligent. The chancellor, philip hammond, has said britain needs to build an extra 300,000 homes a year to make an impact on the housing crisis. Tests of Driverless Cars on uk roads are set to be given the go ahead in this weeks budget. Now on bbc news, politics europe. Hello and welcome to politics europe, your regular guide to the top stories in brussels and strasbourg. 0n todays programme. As the eu signs what leaders have called a historic agreement on defence co operation, are we edging closer to the much vaunted eu army . The European Parliament has been debating tax avoi
We have somebody here who can give us icnsight into all of tha dow futures look to be down 35 points part of what happened in the market was because of tenyear yields topping 2. 96 right now the tenyear is at 2. 926 the 2year at 2. 2 26 . In asia, the nikkei off by 1 . Shanghai is up about 2 . In europe, the early trading there, the stock markets there are mostly in the red. Dax is off by 0. 8 ftse is down by almost 1 . Barclays shares are up sharply despite the uk Bank Reporting a big drop in 2017 profits. Barclays says it lost 2 2. 7 billion once again why would that happen . Yep. They its accounting for the u. S. Tax overhaul. But also a weaker dollar there were some bright spots Barclays Says its pretax profits rose 10 customer deposits were up and its doubling its didividend. Jeff staley says he is optimistic about the future. There are a number of tailwinds. During the next year and half we will be retiring a lot of debt Interest Rates are in a much better position than they were
Last night. A blackout. I think it was alex holley when we put the fly eagles fly song, that is the good luck charm. That is still the the good luck charm for now. It is true. Keep it going. Ill try. I will do my best. We will start off with traffic this morning, because of this big problem that you can see there on the new jersey turnpike, this is around the the swedesboro area down there, south jersey, right around 322, it is a major accident. The trailer is on it side there. So, traffic is being diverted, at route 73, southbound 295 and that is your alternate. Take 295. Dont get near the new jersey turnpike right around that 322 area. So that is what is going an, the road is still closed, and a we will keep an eye on that situation, now that it is getting lighter out, we can better see is what going on. We can get to bensalem street road near knights road a building fire and to avoid that the best alternate is byberry road. Now we will go back to new jersey, and medford, jackson roa