in the uk, bskyb has better than expected operating quarters.he outlook for the firm is still pretty positive. >> you may be a case in point, after 25 years of trying to sell you a box and a dish, many more customers continue to want that, as you see in today's numbers. but there's a whole big market of people in addition to that who might just want a sports pass for the day or the weekend coming in and rent a movie from time to time. that's a market of 13 million households in the uk, but we at sky haven't been able to access before but going forward, we as well as other competitors will go after that market. >> uk earnings from shell, what, they had the profit warning a few weeks ago, but they reported a -- asset disposal profit warning that came out at the beginning of the market. half your sales jump 1.8% in the latter half of last year driven by its north american business and another first on cnbc interview, the ceo says the company was weathering the emerging markets. >> western europe is turning the corner. it declined 1 1% which i'm hap