iberia is the biggest thing to talk about.y just announced they were going to expand routes traveling to africa, asia, and the americas. their operating profit grew 220% from previous years. jonathan: a turnaround for them. going into winter, what is the outlook for iag? ben: it is one thing that willie walsh refuses to give an indication. we have that from ryanair and lufthansa. they are expecting fares to be tougher. we also know that virgin and a couple airlines are dropping capacity. iag has told us they were going to drop from 5.5% to 5.2% across the airlines. jonathan: you say you've heard from willie walsh. how is he performing against the two big rivals? performing walsh is well against his competitors. 11.5%. risen about his competitors, lufthansa and air france, have both dropped over the period since the beginning of the year. willie walsh is reaping the rewards from his tough negotiations and treatment of the unions when he first joined. now, we are seeing air france and lufthansa still struggling to get into those

more severe weather over iberia, south of france. there's a possibility of thunderstorms, large hail and even tornadoes as we go into the weekend. we saw clear skies for many parts of japan and temperatures were very high across many places. shim anto kochi, 38.2, this holds japan's highest temperatures on record. taj imi the hottest place in japan. high temperatures for the weekend. 35 in tokyo with partly sunny skies and thundershowers expected on sunday because cool air is coming in in the upper atmosphere and staying quite hot into monday. 34 degrees for the high. according to japan meteorological agency temperatures will remain much higher into the middle of august. watch out for heat stroke. heat affecting northern korea, especially south, north korea and spotty showers expected in the seoul area as we head into the weekend. heavy rain across north vietnam and southern end of china. across the right side of the stream a tropical storm is moving over the water. this is number 13 named storm for the western pacific. this will lik

stake in aer lingus to the international airlines group, a parent company of british airways and iberia. it must now be approved by eu regulators, and there are signs they will be given the green light. >> european union regulators are set to give the green light to international airlines group acquisition of aer lingus. ryanair agreed to sell its 29.8% stake in the irish carrier to iag as part of a 1.3 billion euro did for the airlines. ryanair ceo michael o'leary says the company would make a small profit on investments, generating 400 million euros. >> we believe the id -- the iag offer is a reasonable one and we plan to accept it in the best interest of ryanair shareholders. >> ryanair had also attempted to buy aer lingus three times in the past. its takeover quest began in 2006. the irish government, which sold its 25% stake in aer lingus to iag in may, recommended ryanair accept the offer. in order to get the deal past regulators, iag had to agree to give up some airport slots in london, and offered special prorate agreements with rifles -- with rivals. iag's plans include buildin

some breaking news we're just getting numbers iag, it operates in iberia and british airways.fit is come in at 530 million pounds. as always, keeping and i and how this is done is the key focus for this company how was the earnings revival going? a business that is cut thousands of jobs trying to revive the iberian operation. just how clsoe are they to sealing the deal? on the forecast for the coming year, how bullish are they? they see 2015 operating profit above 2.2 billion. back in february, we heard from the company and they expected profit to come in at 2.2 billion. talking about that operating profit coming in. revenues just a touch above estimates. the operating profit at 530 million pounds. it looks to be an upbeat set of numbers. they have the government of ireland on board. they have the eu onboard because they won antitrust approvals. she has some breaking news for us. >> i am looking at lloyd britain's biggest mortgage lender. it arises 15% to 4.4 billion pounds. up 30% to 1.2 billion pounds. i had to take a provision as well. lloyds does say it expects other incom

cassidy in recognizing and thanking the heroic actions of those two teachers from a high school in iberia parish. according to several reports ally jumped in front of gina to shield her from the shooting. very very likely saving her life. it caused the bullet to hit gina's leg instead of ally's head and ally was shot in the leg in the process. despite their injuries gina pulled the fire alarm alerting the whole movie theater and certainly saving lives. so we pay tribute and remember them as well. and we also pause and remember and continue praying for the recovery of nine other individuals who were wounded in this horrible incident: matthew rodriguez, the boyfriend of macy breau. morgan egandal dwight bo ramsey and his wife jerry. these are cousins of congressman busthane, good friends of senator cassidy. ally martin, an english teacher at a high school and gina mo, who i mentioned as true heroes in this incident. on saturday evening lafayette residents gathered downtown to honor particularly the two victims who lost their lives. during the vigil one lafayette resident stated and she cert