tocredit is preparing a bid take control of commerzbank, according to the financial times. manus: welcome to "daybreak: europe." the bond market is begin to settle itself. we've done a lot of work this week. andif there is a trade deal a timeline for compliance between united states and china, the question is simple, do you need to rerate the fed? the numbers were disappointing. tomorrow is job numbers. we are up 11 basis points. ,e have a new bloomberg survey nearly 25 basis points lower than we saw at christmas time. the bond market is repricing. can a trade deal hurt the bond market? that is the question. goldman sachs said you have had a good brine, 12% return over the past five weeks in iron ore -- you've had a good run. goldman says they are closing their bullish bet in the market could face some selling pressure and they went long earlier in the month of february. we have imbued so much market,ess across the now you need a bit of delivery. we put on 5.5% of wti over the past three days. on the floor side of the trade, you got nigeria and iran, suggesting support for

the financial times assess china is delaying the launch of a controversial measure that would restrict foreign companies from theng certain data out of country. they planned to announce certain plans on data transfer by the end of last year but regulators ald back to avoid sparking confrontation with u.s. companies. global news 24 hours a day, on air and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. powered by 2700 -- i am tom mackenzie. this is bloomberg. shery: top stories today, one of asia's deadliest terrorist attacks in years has shattered calmelatively -- relative of sri lanka. people were targeted at luxury hotels and christian churches. our chief south asia correspondent has this developing story. what a devastation, a series of coordinated explosions on easter sunday, luxury hotels

just unhook lisa please in the front of the financial times. —— just time to quickly squeeze in.corbyn will bear fruit? is that somewhat optimistic? i find it hard to imagine they're going to come to anything. and purely for the fact that despite the fact they need to work together on this, they are still attacking each other. and physically the conservatives are attacking labour quite strongly in the commons —— and particularly. people of repeated legaljeremy corbyn a marxist. that is unhelpful if you want labour to get on board with you. they are talking and we hear every day, talks might reserve this evening. no one is getting ended at 8am in the morning for breakfast meetings. i don't think it is going anywhere. it is good for both sites to be seeing to talk. it is not good for both sides to agree anything. there's too much at risk for both the conservatives and labour. in agreement would be almost impossible in my opinion. on that somewhat down assessment, i do have to apologise, we leave it there. that's it for the papers this hour. thank you, jason and kate. we look forwar

that's according to the financial times. first-quarter rewards may decline by double digits and will be closely tied to performance. the times says the move is part of efforts to oppose activist investor edward bramson, head of the banks upcoming annual meeting. that is your bloomberg business flash. manus: thank you very much. global equities may be flirting with multi-month highs, but under the surface, wall street's -- are in crisis mode. investing styles which should fare best in a steady to bullish market are suffering more. it is our very own resident reporter dani burger. what is the story? , twolue and momentum widely followed factors, are in freefall. it has been suffering now, trading at its lowest level since 2011. we tend to see value struggle in later stages of the full market. -- of bull market. its worstck for performance in about two years. we have seen little bit of rotation. investors seeking a more profitable shares. that's causing momentum to struggle. this is bad news for managers. these two usually offs

this was compiled by a us think tank and the financial times.etary plans to revise the growth numbers later this week. for a lot of new mums sleep — both their own and their babies — becomes a top priority. well, when cara sayer struggled to get her child to snooze she decided to do something about it. though she warns that trying to take on too much can be are real problem. take a look. the one thing i've learned, i do pass onto other quite regularly, it's baby steps. in no way does taking baby steps to achieve something bigger when you don't have a bigger picture. i think it's absolutely vital that you do have a bigger picture and you do have an ambitious plan ahead of you. so i invented this product. it was a runaway success to start with and that was a blessing and a curse. that's the inventor of the snoozeshade. up next is a news briefing, we will take you through the stories making headlines in the global news media. goodbye for now. a campaign is being launched to raise awareness of a system for people to alert police if they are in dange

moving on now to the financial times. the headline reads saudibond financial times.eads saudi bond an answer as investors draw a line under the khashoggi killing. an international bond sale that managed to raise an awful lot of money, $12 billion. i'm not even sure that it will be close at 12 billion, it may be more than that. when it began the conversation with investors send that they were targeting $10 billion and they have increased that now to 12 billion because they had more than 30 billion in demand even before they began the meetings. it is definitely surplus demand and they can raise as much as they want stop they didn't even need to raise anything from foreign investors because they did not need it for the company. they wa nt to not need it for the company. they want to open up to foreign investment. if a company does issue an international bond sale, what does that mean about that how the company is viewed ? does that mean about that how the company is viewed? it is seen as a rare and unique opportunity for these investors to get involved with an asset tha

let us turn our attention to the financial times and an interesting story on the front page.big oil company, under pressure from shareholders to lobby for gay rights in brunei. the outrage over this new law is pretty uncomfortable for shell. it has been recognised as one of the best lgbt employers and has won all sorts of plaudits from human rights campaigns and workplace trips as well. where do they sit on this? it will be interesting. shell arguably in a vulnerable position. brunei is quite a small population. the population is about 500,000. the joint plan, thejoint is about 500,000. the joint plan, the joint allegiance between shell and the brunei government produces a huge amount of energy and the economy is very reliant on energy. so shell, arguably, is really quite powerful. this is where the shareholders, think, coming in. they say shell is a company recognised for its lg bt say shell is a company recognised for its lgbt rights as an employer, how can you invest in a company and produce so much wealth for a country that has introduced stoning as adultery in addition t

the financial times says the prime minister has infuriated conservative eurosceptics after paving the for britain to take part in next month's european parliamentary elections. the guardian looks ahead to theresa may's visit to brussels where she will be expected to ask france and germany to sanction another extension to brexit much to the reported ire of tony brexiteers. same story on the front of the independent online which there is a brexit delay is likely to come with strict conditions to ensure the uk does not wilfully disrupt you business as some hardly brexiteers have recommended. the i goes with divorce laws, scrapping the requirement for one partner to find fault with the other. divorce on demand, declares the daily mail which clears the shake—up is to remove the bitterness of marital break—ups. police are probing five men who are suspected of committing atrocities during the rwandan genocide. the daily express slams with council fat cats that town hall employees are being given salaries of more than £100,000 a year. the prime minister has been told she is the problem. she i

the financial times leads on an imf forecast that suggests the iranian economy has collapsed under thehite house. the daily telegraph's headline: ‘why must we pay to report a crime?‘ — as baroness newlove warns that victims of anti—social behaviour are being forced to pay to report offences to the police. and the university of cambridge has announced a two—year inquiry into its historical links to the slave trade,

about making sure that this economy was healthy and strong to mitigate financial panic and to minimize damage to the economy at that timet bank ceo to go in front of the house financial services committee under democratic control was tim sloan, the former ceo of wells fargo. how much is that a blueprint of what bank ceos should and should not do and what they should and should not expect? there was some contentious exchanges between, for instance, sloan and ocasio-cortez. so how much has that been a postmortem ahead of these hearings today >> my view is that you have 60 members of this committee. all have different views, different priorities, and this is an appropriate time for them to bring those views forward, to ask questions of these industry leaders about the way that they run their institutions and it's very typical. this is a very typical environment. it's really business as usual. i think all of these industry leaders, even though many of them have not testified before, have prepared carefully and have important things to tell these members about the way that they run their institutions and the system, the stre

time. yes and no. room to improve. and what's interesting is that your financial officer was saying that he is hoping by decreasing deliveryto stimulant my sales but does the world need more stuff? that's a point of view. wall street would love us to buy and buy until the end of time. environmentalists would like to provide a little less. and amazonas trading both aspects of that and making money on both ends of it. let's turn to the trade war between the us and china now — because president trump has raised hopes there could be a deal soon to end the $400 billion stand—off. his top economic officials are heading to beijing for more talks next week. but in a speech to the families of white house staff on "bring your child to work day" president trump announced he would soon be hosting china's president xi. that's led to optimism a deal—signing ceremony is on the cards. they're making they‘ re making sure they're making sure the white house puts its best foot forward when we welcome foreign leaders on american soil. we have the japanese prime minister coming tomorrow, it will be a very important eating. it will soon be havi

according to the financial times, relations between the companies have hit a new low.ause of the arrest of carlos ghosn. warren buffett is making a bet on to buy for -- on dubai's real estate brokerage is opening an office there. sinceextending a slump hitting a peak more than four years ago. the british medical marijuana company backed by snoop dogg's venture firm once big pharma money. seeking $50is million in its latest fund-raising round. the company says truck makers getting involved in cannabis would validate the industry. firm has been one of the more active investors in the pot boom. that is your business flash. lisa: time for follow the lead. a deep dive into stories making are takingith -- we a look at how the u.s. economy is truly doing. we are talking to ceos of companies who need to navigate through it. today we are looking at the real economy with snap-on ceo. bloombergs michael mckee has a look at how snap-on performance is matching up with what we are seeing in u.s. data. michael: everyone is talking about whether the u.s. economy is slowing were not. a

the game italy's uni cricket said it would be interested in buying well sports sources told the financial times the italian bank has apparently ready to make a multi billion euro offer in case the talks between the two german banks fail according to the if seems to me credit would then merge come out spunk with unit based people foreign spawn which the italians board fifteen years ago by steve klein to comment on the recalls. maybe we'll get some more information out of standing by at the frankfurt stock exchange you know that's an interesting turn of events did anyone see that coming. well unicredit has a history of wanting to take over come out as early as twenty seventeen they went to the german government to say so bearing in mind that the german government is the largest shareholder for camille its bank advances that plan made its own restructuring but it clearly appears to be resurfacing now now what's interesting about the report is this bit where it explains to us that uni credit is actually prepared to wait for the collapse of merger talks between deutsche bank and come out spank befor

on the front of the financial times, congressional democrats ramp up their investigations for donaldet to abandon tradition and serve up an online ballot for tickets. the warm weather is also splashed across the sun — it's a "bunny boiler", as the paper reports on the hottest easter weather in 70 years. the times reports on a cia warning over chinese telecoms giant huawei that wants to supply technology for britain's 56 mobile network. american intelligence suggests the company is funded by chinese state security. and on the guardian, a warning that political violence must not be allowed to take hold in northern ireland again as derry mourns the death of irish journalist lyra mckee. those other front pages. let's start oui’ those other front pages. let's start our chat. we will start with the front of the guardian, yasmin, why don't you kick us off. so terribly sad. there are two things i think what that beyond what we have said already. 0ne what that beyond what we have said already. one is that this is a terrible time forjournalists everywhere, president trump, all across europe, t

which takes us neatly onto the financial times the public opinion.nion. where do you think that is on a scale from ten to one? -55,000 that is on a scale from ten to one? —55,000 million? that is on a scale from ten to one? -55,000 million? this is not a split vote. this is not 52-48 stop this is 52 -- vote. this is not 52-48 stop this is 52--72% vote. this is not 52-48 stop this is 52 —— 72% people needing a change. it's worse entering the expenses scandal. this sums up where the uk is that right now. it should be putting the fear of god into anyone standing in either local elections or thinking about throwing their name and to be in an mep. just supposing there are european elections, one does wonder who are all these candidates who are going to rush to stand? a lot of nigel farage! presumably. yes. should be a big thing for you. it might be a big... and might be a big group for the independent group to make an impact. if you were either of the major political parties, you would be very concerned. you have to field candidates and have people take p

the financial times reports that the u.s. china have not agreed on a mechanism for the trade deal. the global economy is in a precarious position. the imf manager christine lagarde says there is deceleration around the world, though in recession is not in the near term. trade growthlobal forecast, echoing the sentiment. >> those uncertainties are holding back investments and investments of course, dampen the numbers for trade. to a large extent, i think the u.s.-china tensions are the main source of it. a line air sensor on 737 max has been linked to the october.ash last bloomberg learned that it was repaired in a florida aircraft maintenance facility after the tragedy -- before the tragedy. a gauge of mexican avocado prices is surging in almost a decade, as buyers weigh the latest rhetoric from president trump, furniture close the border with mexico, the fruits biggest supplier. avocado is now seen as a superfood. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and at tic-toc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analyst

with me are laura hughes, political correspondent for the financial times, and deputy political editors front pages are already in.(stack front pages)the metro leads on more climate change protests in london with dramatic images on its front page. the independent says activists are planning to bring more disruption to the capital. it also gives over space to labour backbenchers who are demanding that jeremy corbyn backs a fresh eu referendum. the daily telegraph reports that the met police have accused the london mayor, sadiq khan, of aggravating the situation by supporting the demonstrators. the mail says that the environment secretary, michael gove, blames the disruption on the police for not clearing the streets. there are more pictures of climate change activists on the front of the times, but the paper leads on two opinion polls, which suggest that nigel farage's new brexit party is on course to win may's european elections. the guardian claims that data it's seen shows that half of england is owned by just 1% of the population. scientists are hailing the news that a pig's brains

time comes . you know the financial reports in frankfurt thank you very much. the other business news making headlines around the world investors are keeping a close eye on the u.s. china trade top. level negotiations between the world's leading economies resumed wednesday in the u.s. capital reports say washington edging towards an agreement. on going. south korea as well the rights too long. five g. mobile networking the country turned on its super high speed ultra reactive network on wednesday ahead of schedule five g. is the communications technology that will be the basis of major developments in the so-called internet of things. a huge trove of data from facebook users been exposed online in a public database it includes details like people's names the comments they've left and when they've hit the like facebook stored on amazon cloud service apparently without any protection. first quarterly figures show a record decline in deliveries stoking fears that demand for its latest electric the is faltering. reduction in tax incentives for its mobile three seda

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quickly with the financial times, berkeley ‘s cracking down on bonuses.tivist investor who has been getting more and more of a stake in berkeley is and he is now the third biggest shareholder in berkeley ‘s. through morning investment vehicle but he is basically trying to not time on the investment bankers but kurt aylett again. berkeley ‘s is going through a phase where it is linked to investment banking and thenit linked to investment banking and then it scales it back and those through a crisis of confidence. where are we now? this investor would like to see bonuses link to performances which sounds logical but unfortunately logic does not a lwa ys but unfortunately logic does not always play in these things and ba rclay‘s has always play in these things and barclay's has continued to pay bonuses even though its investment banking unit had been underperforming. this is a case of him, the activist, wanting better return on investment. bonuses only in return for performance. the current boss is very much into investment banking as well. we had an interim

on to the financial times.s collapsing under us sanctions. the guardian has a story on the uk economy, which it reports could be in for its worst decade since the second world war. and finally, fox news. it reports on a tech company apologising after putting out an ad seeking "caucasian" candidates only. with me is fiona cincotta, senior market analyst at city index. britain could be dealing with highway? it says here that theresa may is reportedly ready to give them the go—ahead for the chinese technology firm to supply non—core elements, it says of the uk's new mobile system. now, there have been a lot of concerns over this. chinese laws suggest that firms must co—operate with beijing. so we seeing that there could be a conflict of interest here, and that is something that has been brought up is something that has been brought up by is something that has been brought up by senior as well. there is a huge debate and discussion about huawei, what it provides, what it doesn't provide, whether it's

make a multi billion euro off in case talks between the two german banks failed it will be the financial times all three banks have declined to comment on the poles. germany's largest drug maker said it was hit by a cyber attack lasting for more than a year it believes the infectious software was planted by the chinese. by a says it has identified the affected systems and cleared them of the malware and doesn't think any data was lost. a huge trove of data from facebook users though has been exposed online in a public database includes details like people's names the comments they've left and when they hit the like facebook stalk on alison cloud service apparently without any protection. families of the victims of the recent ethiopian airlines crash plan to sue u.s. plane maker boeing preliminary reports show a faulty design may be to blame for the crash victims' families lawyers say they will file the suit in the united states also faces possible lawsuits from airlines as well. god is government is harboring duties for general imports and reducing them by thirty percent for cause reductions t

the financial times has an interesting story about how the uranian economy is described as "collapsinghite house sanctions. " the impact that they are already having on the run. —— iran. " the impact that they are already having on the run. -- iran. what's happening tomorrow is that there had been some waivers on the eight biggest — eight largest buyers of uranian oil, waivers to continue to buy a part —— despite the sanctions -- iranian buy a part —— despite the sanctions —— iranian oil. they want to get exports the, they want to get fiona cincotta's crude exports to zero —— iran's crude exports. this could actually get a lot worse before it that's, you know, when the full force co m es that's, you know, when the full force comes in tomorrow. we are seeing a lot of problems with — on — sort of the public, obviously. they are suffering here. there are populist demonstrations. it's going to be very difficult for iran to turn this around, they are saying that they do not want to give into the us so this could actually get a lot worse still. for president mahoney, his government, he took

payment services was a rising star of germany's finance sector but has been shaken by a series of financial times articles that made allegations about the asia operations soft bank which has a robot its division will gain a state of more than five percent below. its brand called booze in frankfurt that can't have left investors unimpressed absolutely. caught up more than ten percent this wednesday obviously the markets believe that you know this large investment by soft bank will make it more difficult for short sellers to bet against why a card remember up until the easter holiday the german finance or authorities had put a ban in place against short selling why a card shares which is a strategy to bet on a falling share price now after this battle was over of course many people on the markets have believed that the short sellers might come back but this large investment by soft bank now is a big statement it means basically there's a strong anchor investor at the side of why a cut and that makes of course betting on the lower share price of why it caught much more risky and much more improbable

moving onto the front page of financial times, mark zuckerberg's mea copper on regulation fails to checkh against big tech. —— mea culpa. he is even talking about perhaps other countries following the guide of the european union with the introduction of gdp are rules, new regulations introduced last year which regulate toa introduced last year which regulate to a great degree how data is used within europe. what do you make of what he had to say? on one level you can be quite sceptical about it, it is sort of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. you think of the problems which happened with cambridge analytica, the outrage that people's data is being used and mind. so mark zuckerberg has come up with a few suggestions as to how regulators might start to look at ways of managing online stuff, political advertising, privacy, data portability. what he means is people flocking your data. on the other angle, this is a new technology. this is relatively new, it has grown exponentially from somebody at university setting up a webpage. it is unsurprising regulators are playing cat

this is the front page of the financial times.ething that came to light yesterday, the former boss of vw, martin winterkorn, and four others charged with fraud and criminal offences because of their alleged role in the diesel emissions scandal. this is a decade—long scandal. this was shocking when it came to light. up until 2017, it costs vw about 30 billion euros, a substantial amount of money. it is still one of the main players in the global car market. very much so. if they are found guilty they face up to ten yea rs found guilty they face up to ten years in prison. all they can say is this could not have happened at a worse time. the german car market is ina worse time. the german car market is in a serious state of disrepair. germany's economy almost went into recession last quarter, not quite. i understand much is looking a bit adult. but knowing that the trade—off with china, which has been so trade—off with china, which has been so important to people like vw, has literally fallen off the precipice for the time being, the

the us version of the financial times now.nds, despite, as they say, last year's outrage over the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi and the boycott by several business leaders of last october's conference in riyadh dubbed ‘davos in the desert‘. the new york times is next with a report about a fungus which, it says, preys on people with weakened immune systems, and is quietly spreading across the globe. it is impervious to anti—fungal medications and is another example, they say, of the rise of drug—resista nt infections. and finally, the uk sun newspaper. and a report that the lottery jackpot curse ha struck again with a couple married for 38 years who scooped a lottery win of £161 million pounds, only to find that the money made them drift apart. with me is eileen burbidge, partner at passion capital. let's talk the lottery win in a moment and whether it is coastal not but first, brexit. interesting that we get the french viewpoint today because that french newspaper says, literally, it asks why? a new report to do what?

payment this is it was a rising star of germany's thin tech sector but has been shaken a series of financial times articles that made allegations about its operations soft bad which has a robotics division will gain a stake of more than five percent in wire cards. it's also worth talking about a little bit more in detail now with our financial market correspondent canards first of all what is a soft banks is trying to do strategy there why are they interested in wild card you know want to. is really big in handling financial transactions on the world wide web and soft bank this is not only a fixed line photo operator in japan this company and its owner mr masayoshi some of this is a huge investor in everything tech in the idea that tech will rule in the future soft banks invested over for example alibaba yahoo japan slack and many many other companies and obviously soft bank or its owner is to some were convinced that the wild card was a bit of a bargain after the heavy losses the share had seen you know following those allegations of falsifying revenues in asia so you're telling us basically that

let's look at the financial times. as it curbs its bankers bonuses. and finally, bbc news online are among many with these snaps. it's prince louis who is celebrating his first birthday with photographs taken by his mum. he is looking extremely gorgeous, thereat1—year—old. back with me is independent analyst stephanie hare. we start with this very dramatic front page but it does do the job, doesn't it? the daily mirror which is one of the few papers in sri la nka is one of the few papers in sri lanka in english and itjust says in remembrance of all those who lost their life. the number is going up. it is going up. the casualties are around 319 and over 500 wounded and in hospital so we can expect that number to rise over the next few days. there is also the political

in the financial times, jeff bezos and his divorce deal with his wife mackenzie which makes her one oftaying with the ft saga, the personal finance and travel specialist for the over—50s, shares have plummeted despite the rise in the number of people over 50. the company has warned it could be vulnerable to a takeover. and finally the independent. danny rose, who plays for england and tottenham, says racism and politics in football is making him look forward to retirement at the age of 28. that is pretty depressing, isn't it? welcome back, senior vice president for strategy and communication at atos, the it services corporation. let's start with brexit in this story in the guardian about northern ireland facing this prospect of a milk lake, again trying to square the circle of the irish border. 30% of milk, apparently, from northern ireland, then crosses over for butter products and all sorts

we look at the daily mail front page. 0n the front page of the financial times.esterday which show that more and more people are in the workplace, more people are in the workplace, morejobs added. but more people are in the workplace, more jobs added. but both these articles highlight the fact that more women, especially over the age of 50, are in the workplace and they are asking the reasons why. of 50, are in the workplace and they are asking the reasons whym of 50, are in the workplace and they are asking the reasons why. it is interesting. such a confluence of factors. as a millennial it is not appealing to me that... you will work until you are 90. appealing to me that... you will work until you are 901i appealing to me that... you will work until you are 90. i will work until i'm dead, essentially. childcare is more expensive, there is more quality at home, women aren't expected to necessarily stay at home and be a housewife. they are respected to help in terms of finances as well. have they are single parents —— expected. things have changed socially that

on to the financial times, where mark zuckerberg is calling for more regulations for media companiess have failed to win over privacy advocates and politicans in the us, who say it appears to be a public relations effort. heading to slovakia, in the slovak spectator, where voters have brought a rare liberal win in central europe. the broadsheet asks if the presidential win might set a trend in the region. finally, in business insider, are scooter wars coming to europe for the summer? the website says this will be the first summer well—funded scooter start—ups will be active in europe. companies argue they are better for the environment, and they get people outside. but do they cause more problems than they solve? we asked you for your views on that, and as ever you have not held back. with me is 0liver cornock, editor—in—chief at the oxford business group. beginning with the guardian's front page, ministers try to force theresa may's hand as cabinet rift widens. that is on the

to the financial times now.interkorn and four others have been charged with fraud over their alleged involvement in the die5el—emi55ion5 5candal. next to the guardian, where scientists have expressed their grave concern5 about micropla5tic5 and the ability of strong winds to blow them everywhere and anywhere — including pri5tine mountain ranges. and finally in the times — more pregnant at a0. the costs of parenthood is forcing women to delay pregnancy until their 405, according to the latest research by the uk office for national statistics. with me is david buik — a market commentatorfrom core spreads. he will talk u5 he will talk us through the stories. david, i don't know about you, but everybody 5ay5 david, i don't know about you, but everybody says we were just watching a5 everybody says we were just watching as this all unfolded, the shock, but the deep 5adne55. as this all unfolded, the shock, but the deep sadness. well, everybody has been to paris. they do not have 5ky5craper5. it is the most beautiful c

on the front of the financial times, congressional democrats ramp up their investigations for donaldump's conduct and wimbledon set to abandon tradition and serve up an online ballot for tickets. the warm weather is also splashed across the sun. it's a bunny boiler as the paper reports on the hottest easter weather in 70 years. the times reports on a cia warning over chinese telecoms giant huawei that wants to supply technology for britain's 56 mobile network, american intelligence suggests the company is funded by chinese state security. and the guardian headlines with a warning that political violenc must not be allowed to take hold in northern ireland again as derry mourns the death of irish journalist lyra mckee. those of the front pages, let's start off our chat and will start with the guardian and the warning, will start with that warning against the return to violence and dairy. would you like to kick us off? yes, a part of the fallout in reaction to the tragic death of lyra who was on the tragic death of lyra who was on the scene in dairy near police land rover during the rio

reporter: george parkerfrom the financial times. a very quick question.e of october 31 be extended again? i think donald tusk said it could be. and you said there is only a single tear of eu mentorship. what were the kind of conditions at the other member states wanted to attach our continued membership? as you will have seen from the decision that is come out of the council tonight it is very clear that we will continue to abide by our obligations and as i wrote to my letter to donald tusk la st wrote to my letter to donald tusk last week, we will continue to abide by our duty is sincere cooperation as members of the european union. the council and the agreement that we have come to tonight is for that extension to the 31st of october as i say, i am clear that we should all be working now in the uk to make sure we can find a way forward in parliaments, get a majority in parliament, ratified the withdrawal agreement, and make sure we leave as soon as possible. paul. reporter: . first relieving on the 21st of march, the 22nd of may, are your party back i'm

and finally, the financial times reports on london's new pollution rules and how businesses such as taxi companies and logistics firms have been adapting to the new standards, which come into effect today. jonathan charles is back, director of communications at the european bank for reconstruction and development. good to have you back. good to see you. let's start with brexit, as we start every single day. this is a bit like dante's circles of hell, isn't it? cabinet theory are theresa may long as brexit delay looms, we could be facing another year perhaps of discussing all of this. what the papers do not say of course, of course this is really crucial week, evenif course this is really crucial week, even if we get to this without leaving, without a deal on that friday deadline this coming friday, if there is no deal, and britain technically leaves the eu. i'm sure it will not happen but that is a technical thing, we have years and yea rs of technical thing, we have years and years of this discussion during trade talks. this is not going away but this is a kiwi, today there probably wil

financial times, and talking about new leaders, and mrjohnson.of them taking over. “— obviously in favour of them taking over. —— boris. when theresa may saidi over. —— boris. when theresa may said i will gladly get a deal through, that's get a lot of labour mps. that was actually a mistake. so ha rd mps. that was actually a mistake. so hard brexiteer? i think but there is all of that going on, and the wider issue that boris may be the favourite, but he has a hard challenge going on in front of him. ido challenge going on in front of him. i do not think but that the party, he is the favourite person. smash it with that membership like jeremy corbyn, very difficult, giving how factual he is. he will be seen as someone factual he is. he will be seen as someone who has no problem going for it with a hard brexit, but given the ball in the comments on a hard brexit, or at least leaving without a deal anyway in the last 2a hours orso, a deal anyway in the last 2a hours or so, wouldn't he be bound by that? isa or so, wouldn't he be bound by that? is a n

the financial times says that "could shape the rest of donald trump's presidency".on a health story alleging that poor diets kill up to 90,000 people per year. they claim that one in six deaths are linked to unhealthy eating. let us take a closer look in detail. jack, why don't you start us off with the telegraph story frontpage? like most of the papers tomorrow morning, the telegraph is going to be leaving on these talks with jeremy corbyn and theresa may. unprecedented, really, to see the two main party leaders at least try to co—operate like this. it shows you some sort of flavour of the sense of the crisis and once mr dash in westminster at the moment. the telegraph thinks... the sense in westminster is just how angry this has made so many tory mps. they feel betrayed, frankly, by the prime minister for trying betrayed, frankly, by the prime ministerfor trying to betrayed, frankly, by the prime minister for trying to work across party lines... she did say he was unfit to govern. she says it every week at prime ministers questions. if you talk to members of the c

the financial times reported they were at a collapse, and now we are hearing from sources that it isoo complex and expensive. anna: indeed. our own reporting confirming what we have an hearing overnight. ,alks on the brink of collapse according to a person with knowledge of the matter. so right our colleagues in germany -- so write our colleagues in germany. about the banking sector earlier, you are scathing about big bank m&a, saying it does not glitter for shareholders. with the government -- saying it does not work for shareholders. logic,e is no commerzbank does not need this deal. i think the politician you had on earlier was right, there are a lot of open questions. this is a deutsche bank concern. you were reporting last week that they need a plan b if this is not happen. there are planning on raising value as a way to allow deutsche's to access the capital it may wire to satisfy regulators. this is more about deutsche's then it is big banks in general. matt: we heard about the plan b for deutsche bank, owned what you think about the plan b for commerzbank -- i wonder what you

the financial times is also focusing on the blaze — calling the cathedral one of france's best knownplaces in the world. the i dedicates its front page to a picture of notre dame's tower in flames — before it later collapsed. the telegraph shows a picture of the beloved cathedral in flames over the river seine. it talks about the impact this has had on the people of paris. the metro, too, leads on the fire, with a picture of smoke billowing into the sky and crowds watching from a bridge over the river seine. the daily mail's front page is covered by a picture of the cathedral in flames. it talks of the history that has been lost. the sun writes "notre doom" — with a shot of the tower falling apart amongst the fire. the daily express looks at statins — saying three people aren't reaping the rewards of the drug. let's have a look at some of the papers. the guardian. a very powerful headline, and the image. papers. the guardian. a very powerful headline, and the imagem is expert energy cd details in that photo committee flames going up that -- it is photo committee flames going up that

the financial times leads on an imf forecast that suggests the iranian economy has collapsed under theght of sactions imposed by the white house. the daily telegraph's headline: ‘why must we pay to report a crime?‘ — as baroness newlove warns that victims of anti—social behaviour are being forced to pay to report offences to the police. and the university of cambridge has announced a two—year inquiry into its historical links to the slave trade, according to the times. let's have a look. john, this whole incident over the united states threat to sever links of british intelligence, do you think this is a real threat from the us with donald trump arriving injune? real threat from the us with donald trump arriving in june? whenever we talked about politicians or politicians talked about the relationship, most of it was just a bunch of hype to keep the british people happy for quite some time, the americans have looked to germany and other countries in asia as their pivot. a little bit of nostalgia, exceptin pivot. a little bit of nostalgia, except in the area of security intelligence whe

he is the paris bureau chief for the financial times. thank you so much for your time this evening.n the liftjust now set i feel like i have been murdered because of the loss of this cathedral. the scene down there was pretty awful. the fire spread very quickly from the back of the cathedral and engulfed pretty much the whole roof of that famous spire, collapsed in a sort of blazing explosion. and i very much doubt whether anything inside that's made of wood would have survived. i am not an architectural expert but i find it very hard to believe anything apart from the stonework will survive displays. it's so enormous. we have been watching the pictures and of course, we can see its scale in front of us, but i wonder what it was like being there. can you describe the size of it?|j was standing in front of the cathedral, and the fire started at the back. but even from the front where you've got those two famous towers in front of you, we could see the flames kind of surging out of the flames kind of surging out of the roof right behind those two towers, as it came forward. we were ba

this is for "the financial times -- financial times." if no agreement is reached in the next few weeks with the chinese, should the tariffs be increased to 25% immediately to put more pressure on them? or should they be kept where they are to encourage more negotiations and have a less damaging impact on the u.s. economy? mr. kudlow: i don't want to speculate on that. too many what ifs. reporter: i have a question. on u.s. japan trade negotiations coming up this month, do you think it is necessary to negotiate increasing auto tariffs on japan imports? do you think that's a necessary part of the negotiation? mr. kudlow: the president, many months ago at the u.n. bilat -- i was there with prime minister abe -- indicated that as long as talks were occurring , no tariff actions would be taken. he has said that publicly. as you know, the japanese car makers are picking up their direct investment in a huge way. i had a message one night -- this is a funny anecdote -- the japanese ambassador to the united states calls me late in the office one

political and financial times. they discussed the prospects originate in agreement, the potential economic impact and other trade issues that remain unresolved. 1.5 hours.ut >> good morning everyone. take your joining us today. my name is kevin levinson. i'm the executive director of wita. we're excited to have you here today. it continues to be an interesting time in trade. we've noticed that since president trump came to office, our membership has gone up by a third. it's been good for wita's business. i know a lot of american companies are curious about what's going to happen with the trade agenda with china, with usmca. hopefully we'll be able to shed light on that with the focus today on china. thanks, again, to all of you for being here. for those of you new to wita, we're the association for the trade community with members of the u.s. government, congress, administration from the private sector, from embassies, academics and of course the press. thise very pleased to have fantastic panel here today to talk

the financial times has the same story and takes more of a political angle saying ‘mckee‘s funeral bringsfor ireland accord'. leaders including theresa may and leo varadkar were criticised during the service for not coming together sooner to resolve northern irelands political tensions. in agreement is the guardian, which has a photo of the funeral with the headline "plea to politicians at mckee funeral" but leads on a story which claims half a million of uk children aged under 10, are at risk of measles because they are not vaccinated the telegraph headlines the story about chinese tech—giant — huawei — where the uk has agreed to let the company help build its 56 mobile phone network. a move which was highly criticised by the united states. the paper says a us security agent compared the the deal to "giving beijing a loaded gun". "ban your toddler from tv and ipads" is the headline of the daily mail. it reports that children aged under two should not be allowed to watch screens, as un experts advise it could be dangerous. and from one generation to another — the i talks about a report wh