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disagreements and rival governments. they agree to hold parliamentary elections in dececember. and italy'y's new prime ministe, a former imf official,l, is buildingng his cabinet, almost certain to be rejected by populists whose own bid was collapsed, setting up the stage for new elections in the fall. out of belgium, earlier today, a man shot dead two police officers in the center of the city o of liege. a civilian was killed as well before the attacker was shot dead himself. he is being treated -- it iss being treateted as a suspected terror attack.

peter: gun shots reverberated in the center of liege, belgium. it appears police officers were trying to perform a routine check on an individual when the man got hold of one of their weapons, and shot them both dead. the man then killed someone in a vehicle before taking a woman hostage. elgin special police quickly intervened and killed the shooter after he had taken the hostage ininto a building. folollowing the situatioion carefully y and judiciously with the crisis center. i want to express the support of the government for the victims and the families of the victims. peter: two other police officers were injured during the assault. the belgian federal prosecutor's department, in charge affairs related to terrorism, has taken up the investigation. bring in davidd keating in brussels. what can you tell us o oyour end?d? now, we are waiting

for confirmation from the government, from the authorities, on whether this was indeed a terrorist attack. the teterrorism crisis responsee team has been activated, and witness accounts on the ground seemed to indicate that is indeed what happened here. at 10:0:00 a.m. in the center of liege outside a cafe. there wawas a routine check of e attacker by the police officers. the attacker grabbed the police officer's gun and attacked them and other people around, killing passerby driving by in a vehicle. he fled to a nearby high school, , a cleaner at the high school. the cleaner escaped unharmed. in the process, two other police officers were injnjured at the school.rants or at the we are awawaiting a press conference with the authorities. the key thing we want to know is , was this planned or r random?

the key information is that this was a r routine stop, and he grabbed the e police officer''sn and used it inin the attack. but there are some belglgian mea reports that he had his own firearms in a disk -- in addition, which may or may not have been used in the attack. we do not know at this point. it is also been reported in the belgian media that he shouted akbar," god is the greatest. not confirmed by authorities, but that is what we are getting from media reports. liege is a significant city for terrorism in belgium. obviously, brussels has become the focus of international facttism because of the that the fellows who carrieded t the paris attacks were based hehere, and the brussels attttan 2016. brussels is knknown as a h hotbd issterrorism,m, but but liege

the second city y in belgigium associated with these terrorist cells. raids in a series of liege, about 40 minutes east of brussels, close to the e rman border. it is s a francophone city in te wallonia part of belgium, the french-speakaking part. it was the site of a prerevious shooooting in 2011, whwhere a gn killed four people and injured 100 people. the city is not a stranger to these type of attacks. belgium iseason why having a problem w with these terror cells is, belgium hass te highest proportionon of returnig foreign fighters from syria of any country in europe, as a proportion. .his is a big focus right now, we are waiting for this press conference with the

authorities, to confirm whether or not this was indeed terrorism. genie: thank you for the report from brussels. we will bring in a professor based in belgium. you were in liege when this attack happened earlier today. tell us what you heard and saw. david: that is correct. i am from the royal academy in liege, the city where i was born. i was there. .e heard a big noise it was 11:00, something like that. some of the wives or husbands who are in this college, which is the most t important collegen liege, just in the center of the city -- the principal boulevard of the city is the boulevard between the cathedral and the ,ost important train station the train. so it is very important.

lot, are a lot -- a thousands, hundreds -- of policemen. everything is closed. guns,man, policemen, with and it is very -- it is not dangerous anymore. we are expecting all the belgian -- they told liege me the king of belgium is coming to liege. [indiscernible] important thing to say is that liege is a city of , 2000 kilometers from a little city which is the most important city for terrorism in belgium. most of the terrorists who made the attacks in brussels and in paris are from that time.

vervier is the most important unfortunately, for terrorism in belgium. genie: thank you for that, daniel, speaking to us from liege, where he heard the shots from that attack earlier today. we moved to another major story we are covering this hour. france is hosting an international conference in libya today, the biggest effort so far to try to bring a negotiated end to the chaos that has rocked libya since the fall of mama gaddafi nearly seven years ago. it is split between rival governments in the east and west, each backed by an array of militia. france's role in spearheading the initiative has already crated a bad feeling among some participants, who reject what they see as france getting too involved. catherine norrison trent is at the elise a presidential palace, where the conference is taking place at the moment.

what more can you tell us at the moment? catherine: this international is wrappingn libya up. some of the many delegations in attendance are starting to leave. wewe are expecting to get an official communique very soon with details on what has been agreed, as well as a photo of major libyan players sitting side-by-side. what we are hearing from sources in the meaning is that they have they have agreed to hold parliamentary and presidential meetings in libya. it is a short deadline, by the end of the year, given the security situation inside libya, and the fact that major players have been at loggerheads for several years now, since elections seven years ago. previous u.n. broker fan --

plans have failed to come to fruition. according to sources in the awaiting this official confirmation, apparently there are plans to get a new constitution down by september, ahead of the election. a very ambitious timescale. here have been looking for stability in libya. the questions about whether it would be incremented on the ground. you were there for the fall of moammar gadhafi. what is your feeling from having spoken to people who live in libya? what do they think about this ongoing rival governments set up in their country? that libyans have had enough of the conflict which has

been wrecking their country since 2011. there was a nato intervention and a war broke out, leading to the war of mama gadaddafi, who d been in power 42 years. there was originally euphoria, but as time has gone on, there is a sense of fatigue. there are armed militias roaming the country. the islamic state managed to grab a foothold. over suicide bombings. the state of the economy has gotten worse and worse. inflation is very high. daily life for libyans is increasingly difficult. people are tired of the situation, and want to see some agreement. people find it difficult to know who to trust. there are rival governments in tripoli in the west and the east of libya. many complicated slender groups and armed factions. there is a fatigue in politics. we will have to wait and see whether this new push can inspire people enough to get on vote, andsign up to

whether they would trust the results of those elections. there is a lot riding on this, but it is a huge challenge. be checking in with you through the day at the elise a presidential palace. with me on the set is robert parsons. talk to us a bit more about the role of france in all of this. why hasn't stepped to the forefront in this particular conflict in libya? what does it need to make happen for things to change there? robert: it is a good question. many said there was no need for france to get involved at this stage. weretalians in particular concerned last year when france intoed the rival leaders this meeting in paris today, to come to paris to go head-to-head to talk about where things should move forward. plus, there was an already existing u.n. roadmap.

france would argue that something needs to be done to push things forward to be not just unity in the country, but also solidarity from the regional power. what the conference in paris today has done is bring all those elements together. the big powers like turkey, russia, the european union, italy, african states, the north -- they haveypt all been brought together. from the many factions area of western libya who are not represented. whether or not an agreement is reached -- catherine just told us they are not in accord. they will still exist. is it so important for the international community to figure out what is happening in libya at the moment?

what looks to be a terror attack in belgium -- is the concern the play here?rorism at robert: it is a big factor, i think. we just heard about the role the fleming state has been playing in libya over the last year or so. at one stage, there was a big fear that libya would become the center of the islamic state, once it pushed out to syria and iraq. many were gravitating toward libya. we have seen they have by and large been defeated inside libya. but the fear that the islamic state or other organizations, al greba in the monograph -- ma could present a terrorist threat not just in north africa, but also to europe. ofre is a question immigration. it is the major conduit for from western africa

through libya, to the european union. that is a major factor in trying to assure stability. if you talked to neighboring countries -- algeria, tunisia, egypt -- for them, stability in libya is an absolute essential. robert parsons on the ongoing conflict in france today, trying to solve the political crisis in libya. next, italy's new interim prime minister is building his cabinet, but the team put together by carlo cottarelli is almost certain to be rejected by the big populist parties in italy, the five star movement and the far right leg. their own bid for power collapsed two days ago, setting italy up for new elections in the fall. get-go, theym the have been strange bedfellows. while they both lead populist

parties, o one generally appeals to the right, the other to the left. now that the league and the five star movement's bid to govern italy together has gone up in smoke, they may keep up their fragile coalition, or they could soon be at each other's throats or new elections are looming. but first, there is sergio mattarella to tackle. both parties condemn the president's move to create a technocratic government, calling it undemocratic. they are both unlikely to back the new government, each means new elections could be slated for the fall. > everyone needs to be together, to say that we are worth something, and it is our vote which counts. reporter: at once a call to get out the vote, but also a condemnation. luigi di maio's rhetoric was mirrored by the league. salvini lashed out on social media. >> nexext election will be a plebiscite, a referendum between the old and the new, between

people's rights and strong powers. common enemies, but also a relationship that is showing crocs. the five star movement may feel their chances of governing were spoiled by the league's refusal of other finance ministry cabinet -- cabinet members. polls show the league could stand to gain from the new vote, but with all sorts of possible coalitions in the air and a fickle voter base, lots of conclusions remain possible. belgium, go back to where the police are giving a press conference on the attack earlier today, where a man killed three people, including two police officers. let's listen. >> buildings. the register will be open tomorrow from 10:00 a.m. in the city, and we will hold a minute's silence, and people will be able to register their condolences from tomorrow morning.

on behalf of the city, i would like to present our condolences to the families of the victims, including two police officers, a young man. we will be supporting the families, the members of the police, who had been under great pressure recently, and are directly affected by these events. thahat all ensure people involved in this incident of our support and the support of all our teams. king, and thehe have announced they will be arriving in the city of liege very soon. and if you wish to take pictures . you will be able to do so

in 30 minutes, you will be admitted into the room where his majesty's present, and you will be able to take some photographs of the king and the prime minister. at around 5:30 p.m., there will be another press conference. thank you. genie: you have just been listening to the police from liege, where the prosecutor has said they are investigating the attack earlier this morning in liege as a terrorist incident. what happened earlier today was, there was a man who grabbed a gun from police officers, went on to shoot two officers, and a civilian in a car before the attacker was killed himself. that is being treated as a suspected terror incident. we will be going back to belgium and liege throughout the day to give you the latest on that story. in the meantime, take a look at what is happening in the

business world. i am joined by yuka royer. italy, where in the head of the central bank has issued a severe warning. yuka: the bank governor said italy was a few steps away from losing international trust. he never specifically mention five star or the leak in his speech, but it was clear his criticism was directed at the populist party's spending plans, which could add to public debt. georgina robertson has more. georgina: the governor of italy's central bank issued a sharp warning. the nation is facing a crisis of confidence. thelso highlighted unreasonable gdp national debt -- national debt ratio. public borrowing stands at 132% of gross domestic product, as natural -- national debt stands at 2 trillion euros.

cost ofl raise the borrowing. this, coupled with the bond sale triggered by political uncertainty, will create more difficulties. looming elections are being alked about as if they were referendum on europe. populist politicians in europe have been promising tax cuts. it is clear this could put italy into more debt. the markets are responding with volatility. too big to fail and too big to bail, commentators are saying. it is the biggest economy in the eurozone, behind france and germany. greece is only the 17th largest economy, and yet it's crisis was a flashpoint in the block. a crisis in italy is a greater threat for the eurozone. potential stalemate and prospect of fresh elections are putting pressure on italian bonds and stocks. dealhort-term to your bond spiked to 2.5%, while the bond

which ise around 3%, the highest level in four years. european markets are rattled by fiscal uncertainty in the eurozone, dropping around 3% on top of a .% drop on monday you can see red across the board, a significant drop on the continent. the european continent has also been under pressure. it has also weakened against the japanese yen. genie: here in paris, a meeting of the organization for economic cooperation and of element is taking place, and trade is high on people's minds. top trade officials from the u.s. and the you are set to discuss trade disputes on the sidelines of the oecd meeting. the e.u. commissioner will meet ross, andrpart wilbur robert lighthizer, to negotiate

an end to steel and alumiminum tariffs. germany's foreign minister hit out at dononald trump's plan to impose new t tariffs on imported cars. washington is looking at using the same legal provisions to impose unitive duties on national security grounds. ,> i want to tell mike p pompeo mike, you cannot seriously think german cars endanger u.s. national security. quite the opposite. german cars make american roads safer. i don't think the trade imbalance between two countries should be the yardstick for their political relationship. at moret's take a look business headlines at this hour. a weeklong strike by brazilian lorry drivers is having an impact on the country's financial markets, as well as exports.

tons of potential exports of chicken and pork. shares of petrobras plunged as much as 15% after the brazilian government offered feel subsidies to placate the strikers. notzuela has warned as mrs. to slow 's monetary overhaul. the government is set to remove three zeros from prices. the new denominations could create chaos, but because they are being and limited to quickly. british sandwich chain partum on manger is being sold. the current owner, bridge point, but the chain in 2008 for about a third of the pririce. it is run by a billionaire family which has built up the --ond-largest copy business coffee business over the last five years.

starbucksround 8000 stores in the united states will be closed for four hours this tuesday as the coffee chain carries out racial bias training for its employees. this comes after the arrest of black men in philadelphia who were sitting down without buying protests.rked employees will watch a film about bias. it is a step for the global coffee giant but that criticize as a public relations stunt. genie: i think we need to get you some coffee, between pret a manger and starbucks. we are going to take a quick break, but when we get back, we'll have more details on today's developing stories. first of all, in belgium, a man killed two police women and a woman passerby in the city of liege. was shot deadally himself, and exchange of fire which sent people scattering throughout the city of liege in belgium.

there will be continuing coverage of the conference to try to solve the political conference -- crisis in libya.

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