david tweed joins us from frankfurt. talk us through the disruption. destruction taking place on two levels. one is the level of the operations. 3800 flights are going to be canceled over the next three days. that includes cargo as well. wings,so includes german a subsidiary here in germany. as you mentioned, 425,000 passengers have seen that their travel has been disrupted. that is the operational side. the other side is what it is going to do to the bottom line of lufthansa. lufthansa earlier today confirmed that the cost is going to be somewhere between 40 million euros and 50 million euros. they can't come up with a precise idea until the strike has ended but that is going to make it difficult for them to achieve their operating profit euros for2.65 billion 2015. it is going to be difficult. there are some lufthansa subsidiaries still flying. swiss air, austria, the brussels airlines, lufthansa's city line also not affected. 425,000 fairly angry passengers around. pilots exactly are the striking about? >> there are three issues being discussed at t

stuttgart on course for a company went over frankfurt -- comfy win over frankfurt. more masked men are targeting ukraine's eastern industrial heartland. pro-russian government have been holding government buildings and now they have seized a police station in the small town of slaviansk, close to the russian border. for theirare calling own peoples republic and want moscow to send in troops. officials in p.m. call them terrorists and are threatening a tough response. >> arm demonstrators took control of the police station in slaviansk, the latest incident involving pro-russian separatist taking over government buildings in eastern ukraine. the regions share a border with russia. they donstrators say not want anything to do with the .uthorities in p.m. -- kiev >> we want to be independent from kiev. the government has seized power through violence and is trying to force its will on us. we will not support them. >> pro-russian demonstrators were given a deadline to clear the buildings and that has passed. they are still here. i want a referendum to decide when the reg

let's go out to frankfurt for more on this. annetta, what has this approach from siemens meant for the future? >> this is a good sign that they are quite old when it comes to act weations. so some people would have or already said it might be the case that he's more reluctant and that would be very bad for siemens, so he's not trying to miss out on an outstanding opportunity. siemens is calling that a good sign for the future. so what is on the table, siemens according to the letter that was sent to the ceo yesterday and circulated and leaked to various media is bidding up to $15.3 billion u.s. dollars for those energy assets. that's a lot more than ge is putting on the table. and they are also proposing an asset spark, which would actually mean that siemens is planning to create two big champions, one energy champion which is siemens and one trained champion, who is alstom. so it sounds like they are offering an european alternative to what ge is trying to do without them. so the german media is actually even talking about eur

we are live at their main hub in frankfurt. northern chile is shaken by an earthquake, triggering a sioux nominee warning and killing -- triggering a tsunami warning and killing five people. italian fashion invaded london last night to talk luxury. valentino tells us that is where the money is. good morning, everybody. this 6:00 in london wednesday morning. bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. david tweed is at the frankfurt international airport following the private -- the pilot strikes. caroline hyde is looking at the headwinds for the fashion retailer. let's tell you what is coming up on bloomberg with the big interview. numbers break next hour, we will get more from the officer.cutive lufthansa is bracing for a three-day pilot strike kicking off today. the airline is calling it the most severe strike in its history. live fromd joins us frankfurt international airport. what kind of disruption is the walkout causing? >> one is the disruption to the flight

on friday, schalk is strolled to a 2-0 win over frankfurt. it keeps them on track for a vital goal. >> schalke is pretty much assured of the champion's league slot next season after securing three vital points. that said, both sides got off to a lackluster start. schalk only had one serious chance for a goal in the first half. from two meters out. the frankfurt keeper with a save. schalk a put on all kinds of pressure and it paid off. eight minutes later, the home side could have doubled its lead. the penalty kick, but trapped nicely. schalke finally puts the game away for good in added time. a free kick was converted from 20 meters out to seal the victory. that, it upshot of all is a bonus legal that looks like this -- a bundesliga table that looks like this. dortmund continue to protect their second place. schalke behind them. wolfsburg made a late surge. leverkusen has a chance to make them -- take that away from them when they play herthe on sunday. nuremberg remains automatiche relegation spot. grueling ultramarathon pack six normal mara

here is more from our markets correspondent in frankfurt. >> the u.s. labor report went down well for investors in the german equity market. it shows again the biggest economy in the world is recovering. that is very important also for german incorporates who are depending on exports. daimler had the best month in the history of the country, as sales are picking up again. in euro zone countries, but also elsewhere in the world. the new models are fitting to the taste of its customers. bmw reported a surge in sales in china, which also went down pretty well with investors. today was a positive day. the dax could add 4.7%. >> let us check out those market numbers. closing here in germany, the dax up in positive territory, up by almost a third of a percent. the euro stoxx 50 closing by a similar job. let us keep the camera on me. the dow jones fell a little on the day. the euro down at this hour. you are back in the picture. >> schumacher has been in a, for almost three months after a skiing accident in france. >> there have been encouraging response of mo

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mine some brain and three nil on friday shot then strolled to a two nil win over frankfurt. it was important victory and keeps them on track for a very vital goal. it's pretty much assured of the champions league spot next season after securing three vital points that said both sides got off to a lackluster start. sean kelly had one serious chance for a goal in the first half tickets must not going to lie with a header from two meters out frankfurt keeper kevin trap with the city. a rare highlight in an otherwise forgettable first half. after the brakes on all kinds of pressure and it paid off at the fifty nine minute mark. meyer with the royal blues ahead one nail. eight minutes later the home side could have doubled its lead to plant a lot with a penalty kick but again that carried nicely. so it finally quit the game away for good in added time. devastated to find converted a free kick from twenty meters out to seal the victory. the upshot of all that is was like a stable but looks like this with just four rounds of games but the plot. dortmund continue to protect their se

and it'll mean a big topic with us for the weekend i suspect that was the box in frankfurt let's look at the market numbers in raw form. index was down by more than one half percent to close at ninety four one. he was asked if he also had been a bad day took a tumble down to close at thirty one forty seven over in new york city dow jones industrial average which is still trading is down close to a percent right now. the sixteen three five. tg slightly up against the dollar to one thirty eight thirty six. aren't these short break the twenty comeback with quotes from barack obama and south korea china to pressure on north korea. there was a red bow eye you can do. unimpeded access to education and knowledge. the same opportunities for everyone the central goal of the global community. what's the reality on the ground education for all. w's multimedia special remix personal stories and highlights extraordinary projects the world over. one dealt more on the internet dw don t need education for all. the match united nations is calling for greater action to combat sexual violence as a weapo

was there in front of us look at the market numbers now starting in frankfurt with an axe which was just slightly over the end of training ninety five to forty eight euro stocks fifty up. what's more strongly to thirty one eighty nine. over in new york the dow jones industrial average trading slightly up to sixty five oh four and you also up against the dollar. a recent poll showed seventy percent of europeans the vicar russian exists in the eu institutions. turns out they're probably right anti corruption think tank transparency international's new report argues that the european union's massive collection of institutions in brussels is quite vulnerable to corruption among the key proposals transparency made were to strengthen rules protecting whistleblowers and those defining conflict of interest among policy makers brussels is home to the european commission. that makes the lobbyists paradise in two and two representatives of powerful industries work in the city the europeans smoking tobacco association has its offices here. some of the organizations are headquartered just a stone's t

above all forest in frankfurt we can stay for a closer look at monday's numbers and let's take a look at the banks to finish up by nearly half walks and ninety four forty six years that's fifty finishing even higher at thirty one sixty five cross atlantic on wall street this hour. the dow trading up by nearly six in swamps and sixteen thousandfour hundred and fifty two in the year slightly higher against the greenback trading in a valley when you install a thirty eight fifty one united states has signed a controversial new military agreement with the philippines that comes as us president brought obama visits the country is part of this to work through asia pacific nations obama sold the philippines has a new aquino that he hopes that this will promote stability in the region but many fear is part of an effort to contain china. the agreement also has plenty of opponents in the philippines the lady demonstrated in the philippines capital manila. he will eat it remained to the directive states that last bit of acting. this is a big deal undermines the country's independence. the us minu

see their religion beat brown tried to nail growth spurt and fry for two to two of the time and frankfurt played out in cholesterol and in the late kick off for labor was in june to two with dortmund on sunday out or take on hammer and saw the faces off against mention glove box. and let the other tables shaping up as we approach the end of the season. the drawing leave a cousin means they remain in the final champions league place the balls are still just a point behind the two games to go in the bottom after guard inch closer to safety after that trauma can ever remember to run for higher in real trouble after both sides suffered defeat well that's all for now in the journal thing to watch him do it. the air. you rule you decide you want to watch all the images all the programs. the whole package. dw on the future the media center. late last week remaining wilderness the serengeti for decades frankfurt zoological society has been working to protect its nature reserve. the tree with many pipilots to fly over the serengeti so if you know i've been working here for around sixty years. i th

well to find out how all that the european economic news went over to traders in frankfurt he is with dots progress in the eurozone a good thing was the reaction from the frankfurt floor hear the still of course the tempo in which the progress is coming could be higher. when you listen to many of the traders talking here. he also see that the focus now our big countries like italy and france. they also have a lot of reform of work still to be done. they say. and they also say that the ecb with its guarantees implicit guarantees of stepping in case there's any trouble has also greatly responsible for the positive development at the moment. still that was not the reason why the share prices so went down a little bit that this wednesday the previous day on tuesday the share prices went up a lot to play over two percent so that now was time for the market to some local and of course one eye is always on developments in the ukraine. that was bullied by us and frank was a last look of a market numbers now the next as elizabeth off by about six tenths of a percent and ninety five to forty fo

protest on tuesday stock market action correspondent current these incentives this crap from the frankfurt stock exchange markets remain concerned about the situation in eastern ukraine and is for example further sanctions should be imposed on russia benjamin businesses would get a few bits as well. this is what people here at the exchange are concerned about the pope's address this now while putting in at the ending support season which is about to stop in the united states it the company's managed to talk. market expectations with the ending was quite least keep a couple of positive outlooks better than that there is potential again that stock prices can climb people here are convinced. i was reporting from frankfurt well as get a closer look at the market numbers now chile's to close slightly lower at ninety four ninety the euro stocks fifty finish the day down the choir for the centers across the atlantic the dow jones industrial is still trading and is pretty flat and on currency markets the euro is trading at one us dollar and thirty seven ninety seven. an athlete i had just mentione

of course other than that of my spots is the summary from frankfurt the foundation is rare among the biggest thing that despite the looming strike analysts are expecting that the three day strike might cost the allied up to seventeen eighteen year old son investors and trade as i'm hoping that both parties might come back to the negotiation table sooner than expected at least that was the tasting the last time it strikes on his ago. in general the move was pretty friendly here on the gem enact the team opted and that was also good to go to the fact that we got a good economic data coming out of the year is owed and the purchasing manager index for the manufacturing industries is showing that the economic recovery in the eurozone is intact and that is not only the case in germany but also in spain trying to get chilly. and as a little ok that's all that belief to take the closing numbers with events leading up the benign enough thousand not the euro sto fifty thirty one eighty six the team deal with the dow was trading at sixteen thousand five hundred twenty four pointed this out the

financial pressures are set to be behind the shake up the middle that was the last to get readers in frankfurt i was more of it down. let's find out from the pots the traders here in frankfurt and elsewhere love the news from the pharmaceutical industry. novartis in the glaxo getting together and perhaps wiser. taking no for astrazeneca to the tune of some one hundred billion dollars. people just not that that would be advantageous for them. shareholders of companies perhaps saving costs and pooling resources making more profits in the end. the shares leading the market indices like the docks and the stock's fifty for the top. shares in germany and in europe and all this enthusiasm over takeovers over switching of the divisions in units helped overcome the fear of an escalation of events in ukraine. so the whole market also profited from that development. steam for two to remove the football news now where english premier league side manchester united has fired david moyes as coach after last season on the job veteran player ryan giggs will take charge of the team until a permanent placement c

market with the ipo, amazon shares on the back foot and frankfurt sliding just under 0.1%. >>> let'sring in michael pervis, a chief global strategist. he joins us out of new york. a lot of after hours action there. weigh in on some of the numbers, amazon first up. we know the threat will be coming from alibaba. did you think the numbers suggest there is a tail wind behind amazon at this stage? >> well, i've invented the details of the note just yet. broadly, a lot of companies have come in thus far. you know, with pretty strong numbers. 75% of the companies that have reported this season have beat on earnings there. and the average beat is 4%, sort of at the top end of the average beat range over the last two years. you've seen a lot of strong reports. halliburton, for example, came very strong. earlier this week. i think for all of the macro issues discussed a few minutes ago, one thing the table is getting set for is a resilient strong market here. unless the conditions in the ukraine and russia take a big step function forward in terms of risk off sentiment, i would be surprised i

this is how facebook shares are faring in frankfurt, 4 plus percent. let's discuss both of these numbers a little bit further. pedro, let's talk about some of the numbers. apple in particular. blowup number. no one expected the china numbers to start to show through on the iphone sales just yet. what a surprise. we got it. >> good morning, karen. yes. i mean, i don't think a quarter makes a growth company back. i think the numbers were a positive surprise but i think expectations were quite low. i think it's quite interesting. when i look at apple as an investor nowadays, what dow i see? i see a company that for the past four years hasn't come out with a new product range. i mean, the ipad was the last product they came out with. i see a company whose lost its charismatic and creative leader three years ago and who doesn't seem to have gotten itself back on the track of innovation that it was. i see a company whose products are coming with an incredible number of glitches as compared to when steve jobs was with us. i mean, i'm not terribly excited abou

on thursday, frankfurt box did home to hanover. still to come, more on this shortly. should they take this on? look at this table were there is still of plenty of jostling for position? they are not guaranteed a place in next season's champions league. you will find the team most likely to join the big three in europe. at the bottom, it was known to get a whiff of a hope of survival. this is just off the relegation playoff spot now. all eyes are on the relegation battle. they are fighting to stay in the top flight here it they face the championship hopefuls on sunday. >> they are on the brink of being relegated. they have lost seven out of their past games. after losing so much the good thing it does not that great. i hope he will be able to gain back three points over the weekend. almost all they've got. it is what they will be banking on when they beat them on sunday. that seems confidence is also a little fragile. they may be in fourth place but recently they have only had two wins out of 11. their prospects are looking. if we get into situations of we really have

right now, facebook shares just below $44 in frankfurt trading down just slightly today, ross.ll, facebook up big in 2013. executives just taking a little bit of a smaller piece of the pie. >> yeah. now, kayla, take a listen to this, as well. is it time for cheryl sandburg to lean out of facebook? there is a common piece of rob cook by reuters. it says facebook should move on because mark zuckerberg is now doing his own thing. zuckerberg spent a lot of money in recent weeks and this makes it more of a liability for sandburg. honing in on this piece, kayla, that effectively zuckerberg is serving his interests of die verging with those of sort of the core shareholders. what do you make of that? >> it also says mark zuckerberg is the boss, he has grownup and he doesn't need the adult supervisor he once did. but sandburg was under larry summers, she went to google and then facebook. there has been speculation, albeit what unfounded, that she could be in the running for the ceo role of disney when bob iger does step down several quarters. unclear if that's something we would be in t

frankfurt won their local derby. nuremberg also lost. the friday night kickoffs all hamburg beat their opponent to-one. disaster for one coach, who was fired by the clubhouse board. what see what happened. the terrible rondo form has caught up with the coach. the finish coach was sacked after the defeat against hamburg on friday. his team fell behind after just three minutes. they fired into the bottom corner to continue his excellent season. but they equalized after halftime, thanks to a goalkeeping howler. renee misjudged the effort and the teams were on course for a draw. hamburg hit back, securing three vital points three powerful volley. the win moves them up to 16th. they now take over as the coach until the end of the season. the players know him well. he worked alongside the players just last year. >> and we see how the results affect the bundesliga table. they missed their chance to go forth, it means they currently have their hands on the final championships league spot. in the bottom half, stuttgart's victory takes them out of

frankfurt won. rt won.kfu coach lost his job. in tennis, german have crashed out of the quarterfinals in the davis cup losing to france. the french team took the day. they will next face off against the czech republic. the german team were weakened by a series of injuries in the run-up to the tournament. was ecstatic,team winning the quarterfinal against germany in nancy. tsonga powered ahead. he beat the german in straight sets. tsonga dominated. in the decisive singles game, monfils demonstrated superiority over his less experienced opponent who appeared to be feeling the pressure and never got into his stride. he went down and straight sets, too. quad moves on to the semi final. the young german team showed promise, raising hopes for the future. thethiopia's -- has won paris marathon. it was his first time competing -- kil columnar rac ometer race. record the paris race set by a kenyan runner two years ago. nasa hasspace agency released a spectacular pictures of a solar flare. the images were captured last wednesday by an obse

in frankfurt it's up 11%.lped by the news as well that alibaba could be filing its ipo as early as next week. scott kessler is deputy director of s&p capital iq. thanks for joining us. he joins us from new york. how much of yahoo!'s stock price is still down to alibaba? >> you said a lot of it which is basically that alibaba is the primary driver, we think, of yahoo! shares at this point. you know, in going through the results, yahoo! definitely committed some time to addressing alibaba, but if you frankly went through the press release and you listened to the conference call, it was clearly about yahoo!'s primary operations and not its investments in asia. nonetheless, however, we think alibaba has been and will continue to be, the primary driver when it comes to perceptions and reality associated with yahoo! stock. >> what should yahoo! do, if alibaba floats, yahoo! will get a chunk of that. what should they do with the money? >> that question was posed on the conference call yesterday. and not surprisingly,

and the bank of new york mellon stock is down 2.7% in frankfurt. >>> and with google ventures partnerose this weekend, tensions mounted in the rapid growth area sparking demonstrations including the video of a protest against a google bus in february. this reports that while he agrees with their concerns, noticed the participants recorded this on a phone and post it to youtube. >>> twitter is rolling out pinned tweets to a select group of high-profile users. the free features limit a group of celebrities and news anchors to pip them at the top of their news feed. it will be labeled but won't have a time limit. paying customers also have access to pinned tweets which have been available for about a year through twitter's ship program. and jack dorsey is also in the news today for his tech adventure. hampton pearson is joining us with the details. good morning, hampton. >> how are you doing, ross? i almost feel like this is the perfect follow onto your discussion in the last section about bitcoin. we're going to be talking about square. the mobile payment company that makes credit card

. >> they one in frankfurt on thursday. he put them ahead in just two minutes on the clock.he host hit that 10 minutes later on the 20 minute mark. he found the net for the second consecutive week. they held on for three boasting eight points clear of the relegation place. they have high expectations of an 11th belgian title this year. they have an wobbly in the playoffs with just one win in their last four muchatches. things went from bad to worse in the six to 50 minute. they got the ball past the japanese goalkeeper. three minutes later, they were back in it. defending gave him a bit of space for his 19th goal of the campaign. standard continued to press and got their reward. he sent the ball across the goal. he also found the net. 2-2 on finish. they can open up a six-point lead when they host on friday evening. they are chasing a first league title in almost two decades. the argentine does not want his players looking too far ahead. >> we are trying to isolate ourselves from everything else and trying to focus on how to succeed in a difficult match against a team that i

frankfurt airport has turned unusually quiet. a lot quieter than lufthansa would like.undreds of thousands of passengers have had to make alternative travel plans. many are staying home or lying with other airlines -- flying with other airlines. >> fortunately, i am not affected by the strike. if i were, i would not be a muse. this happens too often. >> i cannot say whether pilots should earn more, but they are paid well, so it's a bit over the top for them to cause all these cancellations. >> pilots see it differently. they have walked out over lufthansa's decision to scrap their early retirement plan. >> pilots need to have the option of being able to retire early. not every pilot is physically capable of working in this job until the age of 65, and they must have the opportunity of stopping work with a reasonable pension package. >> but lufthansa says it can no longer afford to pay such pension packages, especially in light of tough competition. the strike could cost the airline as much as 50 million euros and require from passengers a lot of patience. >> lufthansa s

american express stock off 1% in frankfurt. >>> and weibo has cut the size of its u.s. ipo selling 16.8 million, versus the originally planned 20 million. the firm priced shares at $17 each, raising $286 million and valuing china's twitter-like service. they will trade under wbc. alibaba will own a third of woib after the ipo so they can get exposure via alibaba. >>> fed chair janet yellen has warned markets over the possibility of consistently low inflation. yellen said even a recovering u.s. economy may not pull inflation back towards the federal reserve's 2% target. >> with inflation running at around 1%, at this point, as i mentioned, i think the risk is greater that we should be worrying about inflation undershooting our goal and getting inflation back up to 2%. >> so do her comments increase the probability of fed keeping rates lower for longer? we have chief strategist at ubs. should we change the expectations over the last three or four weeks? after the fed meeting and two bouts of yellen comments? >> it's definitely created more problems for the dollar. investo

. >> our correspondence sent us this summary from frankfurt. >> lufthansa shares were among the biggest winners despite the strike. analysts expect a three-day strike might cost the airline up to 70 million euros, but also investors and traders hope the parties might come back to the negotiation table sooner than expected -- at least that was the case during the last pilot strike some years ago. in general, the mood was pretty friendly on the german equity market, and that was also due to the fact that we got good economic data coming out of the eurozone, and the purchasing manager index for the manufacturing industries is showing that the economic recovery in the euro zone is intact. that's not only the case in germany, but also in spain, france, and italy. >> let's look at how that lift effective closing numbers with the dax closing up above the 9500 mark. over to new york where the tao is trading at -- the dow is trading at 16,974. unemployment dropped to a nationwide 7.1% last month, just over 3 million people without work in march. that's 43,000 less than this time a year ago. >> i

ahead of the earnings, this is how the stock is trading in frankfurt.erhaps a sign of confidence mcneil currie is staying with us. joining us from new york. mcneil, a huge amount of tension around some of the tech numbers today. what do you think facebook and apple will be doing for sentiment? >> i think generally speaking, if we step beyond those individual names and look at the sector in general, frankly if you look at the u.s. equity mark net general, we're seeing a rotation out of the likes of tech and relatively small cap names and into more defensive type sectors and into larger caps. we have seen a fair amount of consolidation and pullback within tech in general. in the near term, things should do all right. we've seen pretty decent momentum transpire to the topside which has in the near term, we think equities should do well. not just tech but u.s. equities in general. the big question is could the index sustain or gain its larger uptrend? we think the s&p can make new highs. we're not sure the tech stocks and tech index, nasdaq composite or 100

make it low key interest rate unchanged at zero point two five percent the ecb board members met in frankfurt on thursday to drop monetary policies for the single currency bloc is an economy remained trying to help the jobless rate but that the rates still high close to twelve percent and inflation concerns and growing. the kingdom of christ and then last month when only half a percent the lowest level in forty years and four months policymakers the conclusion that one should stand off with the us and european nations of the ukraine could disrupt financial markets analyst david left the kiwi can change as they need to watch trends before deciding their next move. i eye. i might go as seen in japan will soon encounter a true story of reconciliation between one daughter and niece during world war two that kind of burma railway was constructed by the imperial japanese army using forced labor including many prisoners of war. still many people die from college that death railway. one of those who stood by the thumb tip of the film opening this month in tokyo. nhk with new teacher calling for point

. >>> it might never have occurred to you, but a single round-trip flight between chicago and frankfurt, germany, burned about 3.5 tons of carbon dioxide. that's about what a medium sized car in the united states burns for an entire year. this week, a couple of swiss aviators announced another step to reduce the carbon footprint of flying. they may have read the myth abouticerous dying after flying too close to the sun, but that hardly has deterred these two men. this is a huge solar powered plane that has a wing span wider than a 747's, as big as it is, the big aircraft is no heavier than a large car, and it carries just the pilot. it's covered in more than 17,000 solar cells. the designers and pilots have made several long trips on a previous version of the plane, including a flight across the mediterranean from switzerland to morocco. they say the new plane is even better. >> we have the best electrical motors, the lightest possible structure, the lightest -- the most efficient consuming electricity product in the airplanes. >> all this, he predicts, will mean the plane's thousands o

the record low key interest rate unchanged at zero point two five percent pcb board members met in frankfurt on thursday to drop monetary policies for the single currency bloc the eurozone economy remains fragile. the jobless rate if ever he is still high close to twelve percent and inflation concerns are growing. the consumer price index last month when out only half a percent the lowest level in four years in four months. policy makers are concerned that russia standoff with the us and european nations over ukraine could disrupt financial markets analysts say they left the key rate unchanged as they need to watch trends before deciding their next move. drivers in japan are facing their highest gas prices in more than five years that's due to hide in the consumption tax and new green tax that took effect this month. the oil information center says the average retail price for a leader of regular gasoline on april first. what's one hundred sixty four yen or about one dollars and sixty cents that's an increase of about five cents from the previous week. it's the fourth straight week that pric

strike mention lot of mention dark blue line some framing three nailed qualified a child of one frankfurt. and now let's look at the standings with just four rounds love to play this bundesliga season dortmund remains second after their shock win against champions by iron in munich the three points clear of salt. labour was in for claim the final champions league place. christians around the world have been celebrating palm sunday the beginning of the holy period leading up to easter apprentice mark a huge hit with around one hundred thousand worshippers in st peter's square. p plus homes in olive branches to commemorate the biblical account of jesus is a vital in jerusalem. in jerusalem itself thousands of christians took part in precise and services acer watching the journal i hope that she began to talk me out up to just a few no clutch is a woman that he should give up and quit women as he cannot drive. jessica produces high quality seeds fall from the big and small you heard it all. some might be heading out to be tha the tops so i think we have proof to that vow that i will and can

the market and graceful during the seventies report season around this error reporting from the frankfurt stock exchange one hour to get to the latest on the search for the missing malaysia airlines flight three seventy australian teams are searching for that plane have detected more signals that could be from its black box flight recorders a month ago the aircraft lost all contact with air traffic controllers on its way from kuala lumpur to beijing and vanished without trace tubes are resting on the australian marine vessel the ocean shield. the second time in the past few days rescue teams on board had picked up clear signals from the depths of the indian ocean the latest sounds are similar to those recorded at the weekend. experts believe they could be from the missing aircraft flight recorders. but the signals are coming from an area where the cia score an a half kilometers deep. which makes pinpointing the exact location extremely difficult i believe with searching in the ryde area. we need to visually identify aircraft wreckage. we can confirm with certainty that this is the final r

prompted investors to buy into the markets are coarse punish the fumbles and is the summary from the frankfurt stock exchange the takeover bid from film may lead to an article that you nikki for the men's that also hides many risks analysts fear that there might be a bidding war between siemens and general electric and pissed off cause would be very expensive and get the mojo would become true then what are the tough problems to have said because the mit some synergy of that unit east but also many risks and the european market investors seem all the opportunities and the risks he meant it when it's like to be out in a very frantic general market the dax has been driven by a very good quarterly results sure viable force in trade for we can stay for a closer look at the numbers and that dax it was up by nearly one half percent closing ballad ninety five eighty four the year starts fifty thinking of selling games as well finishing at three thousand two hundred and eight cross atlantic on wall street is the sound also well deposit era torture the sixteen thousand five hundred and fifty one in the

berlin with prom spite of all scared and frightened were tied to two nobles between often time and frankfurt later kristen and dortmund also split the points that finished qq and way back on friday hanover and stuttgart played out a goalless draw. let's see how the cable is shaping up at the end of the season draws ever closer. the draw and leah because it means that they remain in the final champions league place but will spark is still just a point behind with only two games to go. now in the bottom half of the table stuttgart inches closer to safety after that trial with hanover it does look as though member norm kirk and his five will make up the bottom three. that wraps up this edition of the journal been to watching nbc with that use. do. she is the eye. almost a week after the south korean ferry disaster in the search for victims continued families refuse to give up hope even though there's little chance of finding survivors the rescue effort. use every means at your disposal and find our children. please understand how distraught we are as parents. divers recovered more bodies from t

reporting from the king four in frankfurt but let's take a look now at the numbers in detail on disappointing numbers from france and italy draft the dax down closing at nine thousand and four and fifty four points in your socks fifty also lost territory ending nearly eight percent lower across the land the dow jones industrial is treated almost one and a half percent lower than on currency markets the euro is treating it when the us dollar and thirty eight cents germany's economy will continue to perform well that's the conclusion of a new report by the country's leading economic think tank the institute raised their forecasts for europe's biggest economy pointing to increasing domestic demand and predicting growth of one point nine percent in twenty fourteen in a full two per cent next year. that's welcome news after uconn nice clothes. and she was only ten the growth last year but experts warned that new policies like gangsters and production of a national minimum wage could put the brakes on the german economy. western europe must help the year. ukraine has settled its enormous gas debt t

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friend that lives in town and had over dispel any fears about relegation the team piled pressure on frankfurt from the very first minute and didn't let up until the end of the game the top an event as typhoon co coach away when subpoenas ran as hen's teeth the season. they got off to a dream start with just two minutes on the hawk eye on the os is glancing at a cape and early. ten minutes late to frank that struck back martina h was knocked to the bank risks and to the lines. i never went ahead against relapsed into another set piece in the mood to go with that within the first twenty minutes. the visitors extended their lead when dda get going on for a true friend to its defense and not make stupid cop . the in this second substitute pics of them on a good home sites in the end of the hung on to win streak to ten o eight points clear of the relegation zone the formula one fans are relishing the search competition this season the next race is the chinese grand prix in shanghai this weekend will miss a decent taking advantage of rule changes this season to achieve several dominant performances

the broad market in frankfurt well it was the end of trading the back is from ukraine were waiting for them to all the talk about it supports coming in to this trading week before nice to add to the passover holidays reason and science as well one ea also community service as the punishment is he's full of primus is still to post any ever of the day was convicted for tax fraud last year. what drove the seventy seven year old billionaire is too old for jail and that he will spend time working at the center for the elderly in northern italy. he's been given a curfew and travel restrictions can only go to run from tuesday to thursday each week. and enjoy now quite content in her standing by for a syndrome. tommy is this really punishment for balcony. while not really a four hours a week of visiting an old people's home is is hardly a tough jail time. he will be called upon to post to entertain the old people and the compound that with his stream of off color jokes and anecdotes and had to get this is a man who started life as a recruiter and cruise ships or maybe he can get a few numbers

of course wanted me to my spot since the summary from the trading floor in frankfurt. it was the last day of march analysts of the last day of the quartet the backs had a weak trading session as investors out war though came when bought the cd is planning on doing next thursday because recent inflation data suggesting that they're smart pressure on money trying to actually act on the weekend to be taking place in tp places that this getting because that say and some economists are thinking that the ecb might actually cut rates are even michael told that by doing something which is called quantitative easing something the fed is done which means actually buying bonds on the market in order to spur inflation. because the weather is clearing numbers for you with germany's dax in the mid nine thousand sqm of the euro sto fifty sliding as well but the thought of a cent to one sixty one. thus the atlantic to the dallas this hour is up over sixteen thousand wonderful is the new one you whistle with adhesive and seventy eight. russia says its started withdrawing some of the on

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the dax opening in frankfurt almost 0.1%. let me show you a little bit of dollar/yen. coming down by 0.2%. you see that again gaining by 0.2, the dollar falling by 0.2. on the forecast, they trimmed their forecast for growth this year. the forecast for inflation completely unchanged. the central bank really isn't giving anything away. elsewhere, this will be the talk of the town. euro/dollar coming back around 1.38. the ecb has done everything necessary. the euro pushing a bit higher. yesterday german inflation came back a bit weaker than expected. today is the big one. it is the headline number. we are expecting it to go to 0.8%. some people think it may undercut that. does that pile on the pressure at the ecb? he doesn't look like a man who is going to have any action in an eminent fashion. comings are that qe is but that really is a big bet against mario draghi. back to you. >> thanks. one company that we mentioned during the opening was alstom. shares had been suspended since last friday after bloomberg broke the story that ge would pursue a takeover of the french

netflix today in frankfurt up nearly 4%. >>> still to come, the future of one major u.s.rts franchise could be up in the air today after a tape of l.a. clippers owner donald sterling allegedly making racist comments emerged this weekend. are sponsors going to support or abandon the team? we'll have the latest, next. >>> you're watching "worldwide exchange." >>> bp's business remains strong, despite sanctions by the u.s. >>> deutsche bank shares jump, beating profit targets. no word on the rumored hike. >>> and more tapering should be on the way. the fed kicks off its two-day meeting today. >>> more on the fed meeting to come. first, a path of tornadoes ripped through the u.s. state of arkansas carving an 80-mile path of destruction through the capital little rock. winds reached some 136 miles per hour as many lost their homes and businesses. the national weather service is warning of further storms across the midwest and the south. joining us for more is jennifer delgado from the weather channel. good morning to you, jennifer. what's going to happen with those storms now?

if you cut those off from the city of london and frankfurt, it's all over. putin needs to fear if he thinks about annexing more chunks of ukraine,-- >> the question is will he? you those are professional russian forces on the corp operating this. operations have been very impressive. and the western response has been the reason why so much is happening. >> you think he'll take over. >> i'm not a liar, i'm not clairvoyant, no one in moscow right now knows. putin is not speaking to the inner circle around him. you have former chiefs of staff, former kremlin officials who don't know. putin, former kgb agent, many punispundits say they know whatl happen next because they know how he operates. >> thank you. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including. [ explosion ] >> that syrian boy survives this blast only to be killed in a mortar attack a few months later. we speak to his parents about the agony of war. >>> and keeping mt. everest for climbing. and in sport, the sacking of david moyes. that is still to come. >> an asian government said it's going to a t

they were kept in his frankfurt argument for decades. >> unveiling a new verbs of the unique aircraftremaining in the air indefinitely. that includes nighttime with battery that is soak up energy with 7,000 solar cells on the ring. it's set to take off on an epic trip lasting for several months. >> thanks very much, indeed. the coast line of the united u.e of louisiana is vanishing. the southeastern portion of the louisiana is home to 80% of all coastal wetland loss in the u.s. new orleans is nearly lost 3900 square kilometers of wetland since the 1930s because of the encroaching salty waters of the gulf of mexico. >>> the climate change kimberly halkett reports on how the land loss continues every minute of every day. >> for more than two decades they have been fishing what is known as the louisiana bayou, as a boy he remembers searching these coastal west lands in search of crab, shrimp and fish. it's a way of life that he's not sure will last. >> within five years i've seen places that i used to fish completely gone. it's crazy. >> the city of new orleans along with the rest of the

, was in oslo in frankfurt, kind of be done, had been an accident. and i got put right through. i would like to talk to my father. he put me right on through. i said, remember this farewell, my purse go out to you. and i you have a tough ride ahead of you. take care, and i'm saying a prayer for you. to this day i find it strange that i said the. he thanked me. she has heard me tell the story he called me a week before he went to an armored and said, i've got a couple of days off. can you give away? i said, as a matter of fact to my can't stop. a very important mission. i was a spy officer. now, you go ahead and laugh, but the importance. i was entrusted with this mammoth task. well, i got there. i went to lunch with that contract is with them and had dinner with them. after dinner i escorted him back to his hotel and one out. and i was there a couple of days we just finished going through the room. i said to that, after arrest. i just have to sit down and rest their recess, come on. we have limited time and we have to see these things. i said, but i'm tired. come on. let's go, s

ecb officials gather in frankfurt.ario draghi must judge whether the factors weighing on prices are temporary or warning signs of japan style deflation. weigh-in on what mario draghi will do and should do. they may not hit the same thing in your mind. >> the situation isn't that far removed from where we were a month ago. the ecb having a new said of staff forecast going out -- >> would have been a good time to move them. >> but they chose not to do it. this time along, the catchy number we have had is the fact that inflation has come down. markets are not taking the ecb might be more worried about continuing disinflation longer than they thought. think the ecb will act today. even with that number on was worse than economists had forecasted and is getting closer to zero, it is getting further from the target your it even with that, the event hasn't been a dental not to prompt action? >> that is right. we are getting a slow but steady recovery. it has been suggested the situation is so mature month ago. in terms of the

people are making the most of the brightness and further south into frankfurt. they've been roughing up, enjoying the sunshine. that contrasts with conditions to the south-east, where we had an active weather system towards albania, giving significant rain fall, more than 50mm in 24 hours. there's suggestions that there'll be a continuation of east-west split. rain across the balkans, extending across the aidry attic. gusty winds. textures better. we were looking at temperatures there, we are looking at 18. fine weather continues across the uk. >> about 100 million people are voting for the first time in indian elections. most are adults that have been able to regs ste. the youth makes uppal powerful block. >> stephanie is about to graduate from university. she's 19, passionate and eager to make a difference. >> i have the potential to influence people and so do my peers and youth in the country. >> according to the election commission 13 million young people like steph academy are expected to vote for the first time. they could play a major role in deciding who