both the bombardier and alstom l.r.v.s are significantly better in design. neither have bench seating. both have individual seating, which is a combination of both transfers and longitudinal seats. like the bredalifes, most seats are transverse. in terms of materials, i would urge the board to review the specks. san diego has two generations of siemens l.r.v.s in service. both have better quality materials than the l.r.v. 4. in terms of workmanship, i would urge the board to recommend that siemens form a consortium. siemens and alstom were proposing to merge, but the european union denied the merger, due to concerns about anticompetitiveness. bombardier and alstom have formed a consortium to produce the montreal l.r.v.s. thank you. >> chair: thank you, ms. crop. >> thank you, everyone. robbin crop with save muni. i want to address plans for the seeking the design for the next l.r.v.s, being that we're here and you want to speed up the procurement. first thing i want to say is weed like to see a diagram of all seating arrangements for any rail cars. second th

they know have about 15% stake in alstom. anna: annemarie, thank you so much.icials are expected to cut interest rate when they meet later today. expect drama as mario draghi's penultimate i as president, he is likely to go big. but there have been protests from amongst his ranks that purchases are not needed. the german and dutch side, they have expressed skepticism over the need of bond purchases. they say would be disproportionate to market conditions. maria tadeo is in frankfurt to preview what could be a tense ecb meeting. well mario draghi deliver, maria? maria: that is the big question. is mario draghi going to be of deliver on the expectation, or are we headed for disappointment? there is a lot of hype in the market when it comes to this meeting. this is the first time the governing council meets since july, when they sent a very clear signal that they would take measures to prop up inflation and prop up the european economy. when you look at what has been priced in already, is a rate cut, no question, the only debate is whether it will be 10 basis poin

theater strains of all the consequences of this would be longer just not a libya harm see image i know alstom intrigues you all to tune in for the clearly this is not mission critical 16 people have already died identify the source of this because like contamination has become ever more urgent some have even suggested that the super super resistant strain recall i could have been engineered in a lab. the world health organization calls the deliberate contamination of our food one of the major biological threats of the 21st century. in the modern globalized economy where food gets transported all over the world there are a lot of opportunities for somebody to contaminate food with with biological agents . and i don't want to go into much detail but there was a an article that was published in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences about. some touching dairy products milk using bunch of talks and you can cause horrible damage with death many thousands of coffee. cold jackson is a senior scientist at one of the united states most important biological laboratories. that is kind of fr

mugabe has been returned to the country president emerson magog well mr mugabe's closest ally before alstom him last year met the airplane at the airports in the capital harare the mugabe family invited zimbabweans to welcome the remains home and a few 100 did gather to pay their respects to former president died in a singapore hospital on friday at the age of 95 its body will lie in state for 3 days before being buried at and as yet unannounced location probably in. d.w. correspondent privilege was on hearing was at the airport as robert mugabe's body arrived and we asked him how the complex legacy of mugabe will be remembered by zimbabweans in me that complex one they are. one that cut across generations only that you not only did they believe erikson. if i look at the con. wherever you look at. young people they talk is it because they want it done and yes but then ultimately people are taking is the fact that it would remain is a huge prequel going back we are going to get better it's a place you know you did you better can. and that was g.w.'s correspondent privilege one here reporting

tomorrow he will be meeting president trump and we can expect an outpouring of alstom is of the prospectorwe have this supreme court ruling tomorrow morning which will determine whether the suspension of parliament was unlawful. if boris johnson loses that case you can expect a chorus of demands from his critics, for his resignation, and another battle in prospect hostile mps in westminster. if he wins, he can only expected because possible breathing space before the pressure is on again to get that brexit deal on, which is political hopes and the country does make future, still hangs. the duke and duchess of sussex have arrived in south africa with their four—month—old son for their first official tour as a family. they spent the day at a township outside cape town. here's nicholas witchell. they both know this trip needs to be a success after recent missteps and negative headlines. so harry and meghan dispensed with a red—carpet welcome and came straight to a township. the exuberance of the welcome masks the fact that nyanga township has the highest murder rate in south africa. the coupl

theater strains of all the consequences of this would be longer just not a libya harm see image i know alstom intrigues you all to tune in for the clearly this is not mission critical 16 people have already died identify the source of this because like contamination has become ever more urgent some have even suggested that the super super resistant strain recall i could have been engineered in a lab. the world health organization calls the deliberate contamination of our food one of the major biological threats of the 21st century. in the modern globalized economy where food gets transported all over the world there are a lot of opportunities for somebody to contaminate food with with biological agents . and i don't want to go into much detail but there was a an article that was published in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences about. some touching dairy products milk using bunch of talks and you can cause horrible damage with death many thousands of coffee. kolchak's and is a senior scientist at one of the united states most important biological laboratories. that is kind of f

bouygues currently owns about 15% anin alstom.23%.rtainment francine: annmarie hordern with your main stock movers. the london stock exchange looks set to reject a takeover offer ong kong exchange. the former head of the london stock exchange says a consolidation of global exchanges is inevitable. >> the emergence, which we have been talking about for years, of a very small number, probably exchanges,e global global financial infrastructure companies is inevitable. francine: joining us now is bloomberg's finance reporter. how much do we actually know about what the london stock exchange wants and does not want? unsolicited. they're continuing to push forward with their own purchase. that is all we know so far. the lse board has not met yet. we are hearing from sources that there are a number of issues that stand in the way. francine: do we know why? >> there are security issues. the government said yesterday there are security issues on a foreign company taking over international exchange. are an iconhanges of the city and a treas