why has sarkozy waited so long to declare his candidacy? >> he has a weighted very long, and he -- initially, we expected him to announce candidacy even later. the reason being is the nicolas sarkozy wants to maintain a presidential or write until the last minute. he is eager to portray himself as a statesman negotiating with other leaders of the eurozone to solve the crisis hitting the eurozone today, and he has always insisted right until today that he is too busy saving the french economy to campaign, and indeed, he has introduced the last minute reforms to convince people he is the person capable of taking on yet another mandate. so far, that does not seem to be working, and i think that is why he is hitting the campaign trail now. >> i was going to pick up on that and ask you -- how popular is he really? what are his chances? >> opinion polls show that sarkozy is lagging far behind the socialist candidates, and that gap has remained stable over the last month. his main disadvantage is that he has little results to show what really matt

he has achieved great things for his country. >> president sarkozy was in a generous mood. >> i speak from the heart when i say that i wish to pay tribute to the courage of the british prime minister. >> the prime minister, who was joined by members of the cabinet, said that britain and france enjoyed the closest relationship since world war ii with a new deals on nuclear power and military projects. the two leaders had been close allies over libya and david cameron gave president sarkozy a shell from that operation. the leaders expressed their frustration that they could not do more over syria. >> i am not satisfied that we're taking all of the action that we need to. >> the message to the syrian opposition is that if a united, it would be easier to help them. >> tell us how we can help you and that is what we will do. >> a meeting at the palace made clear that the conditions were not right for foreign intervention. the issue of course that complicates this relationship and occasionally turns to test the is europe. president sarkozy has said that he understood that the british have r

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nicklaus at sarkozy -- merkel answer's -- and sarkozy say this is not up to greece to decide right now those talks coming up tomorrow, very important. thank you very much. >> how or the market's reacting to those developments? let's check out with our correspondent at the frankfurt stock exchange. he told us about the mood on the floor there. >> people here on the floor were incredulous, looking at the continued back and forth around greece. one trader here said, for example, i am speechless. it has been going on for weeks, yet they're still no results. but it is still relatively optimistic that there will still be a result, that sovereignty fault can be avoided. the high level of the dax that you see, not for the day, that is not a terribly good result, but since the beginning of the year + 15% is a testament to that expectation. still, one says once greece's been stabilized, it is time to prepare its exit from the euro, because it cannot sustainably continue with the hard euro as its currency. >> now let's take a look at the latest market figures for you. markets did open stronger he

david -- nicolas sarkozy said the differences had never been personal. >> it was not so long ago that the french president advised david cameron to shut up and called him obstinate. today's meeting was a time for smiles and compliments. david cameron began by wishing the man he called his friend all the best with his reelection campaign. >> i admire his leadership and courage. >> not quite an endorsement but president sarkozy was in a generous mood. >> i speak from the heart when i say i wish to pay tribute to the prime minister. >> the prime minister, who was joined by members of the cabinet, said that britain and france have enjoyed the closest relationship since world war ii. the two leaders had been close allies over libya and david camera does david cameron gave a warship shell from that operation. they expressed their frustration they cannot do more over syria. >> i am not satisfied that we're taking all of the action that we need to. >> the message was that if the united, it would be easier to help them. >> tell us how we can help you and that is what we will do. >> a meeting m

>> for all of his bravado, nicolas sarkozy knows that he faces a monumental task. the socialist is simply so far ahead in the polls. once written off as a genial not entity, he has gotten off to an impressive start. a successful campaign launched fixed him as a man that the french imagine one day as the president. the financial markets might not like his program, that is not an argument that will deter many voters. in the multi candidate first round of elections, there will be other players, notably the national front leader riding high on economic gloom and the euro skepticism. if he is to have any hope, nicolas sarkozy needs to take a big bite out of her electorate which well might mean that we see his campaign and the way veering towards the right. -- underway verring towards the right. >> taking a turn behind the camera. we sit down with angelina jolie to discuss her directorial debut. a quarter of the world's children are undernourished and hundreds are dying of hunger every hour. those are the figures from the 8 agency, save the children. they say that things

>> for all of his bravado, nicolas sarkozy knows that he faces a monumental task. the socialist is simply so far ahead in the polls. once written off as a genial not entity, he has gotten off to an impressive start. a successful campaign launched fixed him as a man that the french imagine one day as the president. the financial markets might not like his program, that is not an argument that will deter many voters. in the multi candidate first round of elections, there will be other players, notably the national front leader riding high on economic gloom and the euro skepticism. if he is to have any hope, nicolas sarkozy needs to take a big bite out of her electorate which well might mean that we see his campaign and the way veering towards the right. -- underway verring towards the right. >> taking a turn behind the camera. we sit down with angelina jolie to discuss her directorial debut. a quarter of the world's children are undernourished and hundreds are dying of hunger every hour. those are the figures from the 8 agency, save the children. they say that things

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. >> you are watching news day on the bbc in london president sarkozy's hits the campaign trail.ridging the north-south divide in the united kingdom. >> let's have a look at some of the stories that are making headlines around the world. the financial times is looking at the strict assets that they will have to observe if raese receives a bailout. the international tribune wrote that -- young people say that the situation has become harder after the london riots because they say that employers do not trust them. the french president and the british prime minister say they are behind them. the leaders will agree on plans for a new generation of fighter planes and cooperation on nuclear power. the irish times says that anti- privacy policies, twitter is the latest company to reduce its methods after admitting to uploading an entire address book without permission. >> these are the headlines. the u.s. general assembly has condemned a government of violence in syria and has asked president assad to stand down. >> a senior member of jordan's royal family has refused to give any assura

this report does contain flash photography. >> nicolas sarkozy, impulsive, hyperactive. a president bubbly with ambition. facing an immense challenge if he is to win a second term. tonight, he chose a tv program to announce his bid for reelection. his pitch to the french people was that he was a tough realists in a time of unprecedented crisis. >> can you imagine a captain leave and his boat in the heart of the storm saying i am tired, i am quitting? >> no candidate has been so far behind in the polls so close to election and won and many of those who voted for him last time are disillusioned. >> it is shot him to see him in a luxury boat. -- thit is shocking to see him in a luxury boat. >> i am ok with his view of the economy. regarding the society, he is trading division. >> the president has called himself an outsider, a leader that would modernize the french economy, make it more like that of britain and the united states. the reforms have turned out to be modest. yes, pensions reform, but the economy stalled, businesses close, and employment rose, and france lost it

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in france president nicolas sarkozy makes a campaign stop at a cheese factory in the french alps. in scotland a man is arrested outside the hotel where british prime minister david cameron gave a speech opposing scottish independence. and in germany, men known as bell shakers ring in the carnival season. hot shots, pictures coming in from around the world. >>> now we all have our favorite to die for foods but one restaurant is giving new meaning for that concept. here's our jeanne moos. >> reporter: irony at an eatery in las vegas. apparent heart attack at a place called the heart attack grill. >> one of the nurses came back to me and said, you know, dr. john, we've got a patient who's in trouble. >> reporter: but dr. john isn't really a doctor. he's just the owner wielding a stethoscope. and the nurses are just pate rests dressed up like nurses. so all they could do was call

french president nicolas sarkozy was ridiculed in turkish newspapers.he turkish ambassador in paris was recalled, and military cooperation between the two countries was suspended. the turkish government sees the french court decision as a vindication and a way to normalise political and economic ties again. >> as far as i can judge at this time, the problems between france and turkey are settled. >> but the french government says it will try again with another draft of the law, which will likely make for more trouble between the two countries. >> and the u.s. republican front runner mitt romney won both of last night's primaries in michigan and arizona, holding up a strong challenge from his right-wing rival rick santorum. >> romney scored a big victory in arizona, but his home state of michigan was seen as the critical test. and there, he only scraped away. >> with 10 more states voting next week and a super tuesday, romney still has much work to do try to persuade republicans that he is the man to win the white house in november. >> mitt romney's vict

>> it is one of the many things that sarkozy administration has done over five years to sort of change the way people work in this country. a lot of things he's against like a 35-hour workweek which he's pretty much abolished now and the idea to have a minimum service law for trains and subways. that's something that came into existence as well as part of the government's effort to stop the recurring cycle of strikes and labor actions that have paralyzed the country over the years. as a consequence, the unions are -- they fight these things one at a time, the reforms, the pension packages, for instance, there were a number of demonstrations. gradually in fact, some changes are being made. it's one of the arguments sarkozy is making coming up to the elections in april and may, that he is in fact, changed the way and reformed the way the economy is working here to the benefit of all the french. of course, on the left they don't see it that way. they see it as a loss of workers' rights and in this particular instance, that's exactly what the unions are saying. nina? >> many thanks for tha

announcement comes on the heels of french president nick lahr sarkozy saying tout a french troops fromafghanistan, the fourth largest con tinge only of trooby 2013, a year ahead of the u.s. >> for france the pursuit of the transition and the gradual transfer of combat responsibilities will allow us to plan the return of totality of our forces by the end of the year 2013. >> france a is calling on all 28 countries of nato to remove their forces by the end of 2013, all 125,000 members of the nato forces. >> the road of our troops will gradually change from to support. in that there's nothing new. >> question, will sarkozy's decision to pull french troops out of afghanistan help him get reelected? >> it clearly is designed to, and he's running a poor second now to the socialist candidate. but i think this and what panetta is saying suggests that what we're looking for is we're going to walk, not run to the exit, and i think what we're going to wind up with i hate to say is coming, is a decent interval between the time we leave and the time this thing reverts to the taliban, with a lot of

also coming up -- a landmark deal set to be signed by sarkozy and cameron which may see new power stations on the mainland. libyans mark the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled colonel gaddafi. >> hello. thanks for joining us. there is mounting pressure on germany's president. that's christian wulff. mr. wulff has become embroiled in a scandal over favors that he allegedly received before becoming head of state. we can show you the scene. that's the podium where we expect mr. wulff to come out any minute now to deliver his statement, which we do expect to be one of resignation. he's doing any wrongdoing, but he is under pressure, not least because the public prosecutor in germany has been calling for a lifting of his immunity to face certain charges and allegations against him. chancellor merkel herself has delayed her plans to go to move. she's due to meet mario monti there. she will also be making a statement after the president. with me here in the studio is our berlin correspondent, stephen evans. you know better than anyone, this has been, in some respects, a long time comi

sarkozy said that we avoided catastrophe. france has not been swept away by the price of confidence. with portugal, spain and greece. in the past with germany but obviously germany is doing better with the crisis so if you want to play you have to compare france with greece and portugal as sar kokozy in the last couplf days tried to seduce the extreme right voters promising them a hard line on immigration and more recent deals tried to tease the catholic voters promising them a hard line on gay marriage. sarkozy knows if he wants to win the election he will have to seduce not only the core voters of the unp political group but look at the end of this political group. >> stephane, thanks for that. christine? >>> thank you very much. coming up next on "worldwide exchange," numbers out of japan show record hitting deficit in exports to china in january, stung by the strong yen. will japan exports market recover? >>> this is "worldwide exchange." the headlines today from around the globe, the day, has it come? eurozone finance mi

america believes and president sarkozy made a major fan stay with you when you were i mean i can say with you in new york of any but when countries joined the european union i'm sorry the eurozone they didn't sign up to this kind of economic policy at all did they i mean this is turning into a straight jacket i mean people didn't vote for this they voted to have a common currency there and we're talking about oh you're right it was incorrect because they do your oh but you know as a euro project as an incomplete project you cannot have a monetary union without the fiscal union and along the same lines in the united states and you can have a political union or you know the powers that is created the euro zone was germany germany and france in the names of francois mitterrand. and also john chancellor kohl knew the project was incomplete and they expected that those who would follow them will complete the project but what do instead is the development of tremendous imbalances between the into the eurozone countries you does not possible to expect the german you will always have a surpl

french president nicolas sarkozy has officially declared he will run for a second term in the forthcoming presidential election april it is the public with his reluctance to declare his reelection bid for months sarkozy's announcement has come as france struggles with a deepening debt crisis and he's already announced a plan for the future to give the french people a voice through a referendum on further economic reforms. up next on talks to middle east expert tariq ali on the turbulent situation in syria and the implications it could have for the entire region. i'm talking to tariq ali who's a historian and author and writes mainly on subjects to do with the middle east of course we're talking about events in syria tariq ali thanks very much for talking to us now president assad seems to be clinging on to power in syria do you think there's any chance of him stepping down in the near future well it looks unlikely is if he'll step. of its own accord i think he has to be pushed out the syrian people are of course doing their best in the country. what is more dangerous is the pressure of be

to do is forcing on the symptom and not the underlying cause of the crisis but finally president sarkozy urged greece's political leaders to agree to reform saying the crisis must be solved quote once and for all but do you think this is a realistic proposition to find such a once and for all solution to this the fundamental problem is that they introduce monetary union without having a fiscal union and a common wage policy that with ten years of euro massive imbalances built up in europe germany built up a massive trade surplus of two hundred billion euro the countries of southern europe greece spain italy and portugal built up deficits of between one hundred fifty to two hundred billion euro that failing to deal with those imbalances is that the root of the problem and that's the european union and mrs merkel and president sarkozy address this problem they will not get to grips with the crisis all right trevor evans professor at the berlin school of economics a law thanks for your time you're welcome. the name private bradley manning a u.s. soldier accused of passing classified materia

of america believes in president sarkozy we do need to change stay with you when you are dying and i can say with you in new york a very but when countries join the european union i'm sorry the eurozone he didn't sign up to this kind of economic policy at all did they i mean this is turning into a straitjacket i mean people didn't vote for this they voted to have a common currency the end these were talking about if you're rationally correct because the euro goes a euro project is an incomplete project you cannot have a monetary union without a fiscal union and along the same lies in the united states and you can have a political union where you know if the powers that is created the euro zone was germany germany and france in the names of francois mitterrand and also john chancellor kohl knew that the project was incomplete and they expected that those who would fall of them will complete the project but what we instead we saw is the development of tremendous imbalances between the interest of eurozone countries huge is not possible to expect the german who will always have a surplu

german chancellor angel merkel and french president nicolas sarkozy insist cuts must be made by february 15th, before allowing another loan. >>> overseas this morning, toyota reported a stronger than expected quarterly profit and raised its annual forecast. mining company xstrata and glencore agreed on an equal valued $90 billion. >>> yesterday, boeing fell 7%. netflix was surprisingly hire despite news red box and coin star will launch a rival video streaming service. >>> humana dropped 5% after weaker than expected earnings. yum brands positive sales at pizza hut chains but taco bell had another struggling quarter. disney weighs in with earnings later today as speculation swirls about a positive deal with univision to create an english speaking cable news channel for latinos. mcdonald's has apologized and pulled a radio ad that said eating its new chicken mcbites was less risky than petting a stray pit bull. finally, after eight rent-free months in a texas home, kevin robinson's luck has ran out. his website bragged about playing 1 fee. but bank of america was the new owner yesterday.

sarkozy may try to make good his pledge to the french to work more, earn more. whoever wins over voters here will need a decisive plan for the economy. it's the same economic story playing out across europe to varying extremes from cash-strapped greece to italy to spain. it's infectious. in france, the presidential elections will be crucial. if the people vote for what suits their pockets now, rather than what many economists believe is the grater long-term good, the french economy could sink lower and lower. and bring the rest of europe down with it. juliet mann, cnn, paris. >>> still to come here on "wbt" hollywood rolls out the red carpet to china's probable next leader. no wonder xi jinping is about to announce a $2 billion tie-up with a u.s. movie company. we've got all details, next. >>> this is "world business today," live on cnn. welcome back. >> after politicking in washington and visiting old friends in the midwestern state of iowa, china's vice president, xi jinping, is now heading up hollywood as he wraps up his visit to the united states. later this

he has consistently led in the polls over the current french president sarkozy. >>> prince william ise falkland islands today as part of the royal air force helicopter crew. his presence is stirring up controversy as argentina claims to be the owners of the island. majority of residents wish to remain british. prince william will spend six weeks from his wife. >>> we know too much sugar is not good for our health is it so dangerous that the government should get involved and tax it? researchers say yes. katie marzullo takes a look at the issue. >> reporter: the study published in nature claims people eat and drink too much sugar and it is toxic and addictive, like alcohol and for your own good the government should tax and regulate it like alcohol. >> there have been other public health campaigns which seem to be very radical. today they seem extremely mainstream. >> reporter: for example, having a designated driver or banning smoking indoors. the researchers say social change is needed in part because the healthier the population the less money everyone has to spend on health care. >

. >> and for sarkozy. he has enthusiastically get is news because it is good for france and his election chances. new delhi has entered into exclusive negotiations with france dessault aviation to build fighter jets. fesieeompetition from the year a fighter consortium, but now it is set to land a deal valued at over 7.5 billion eus. >> the fighter jet came out on top and landed the deal. the media is speculating that they won the contract because th oerheowt ic the news was warmly received in french capital paris. presidensaoz hailed the first international deal. >> wha been waiting for this for 30 years. 126 in the last days iia it goes well beyond the company that produces them at well beyond aeronautical industry. it is a sign of confidence for e olfrchcomy >> in december, france said it would start producing -st producing it in a decade if it did not win any export orders, but the deal means the company is stepping up the competition withheds -- with rival eads. lost outn the multibillion- dollar deal,

he has consistently led in the polls over the current french president sarkozy. >>> prince william is the falkland islands today as part of the royal air force helicopter crew. his presence is stirring up controversy as argentina claims to be the owners of the island. majority of residents wish to remain british. prince william will spend six weeks from his wife. >>> we know too much sugar is not good for our health is it so dangerous that the government should get involved and tax it? researchers say yes. katie marzullo takes a look at the issue. >> reporter: the study published in nature claims people eat and drink too much sugar and it is toxic and addictive, like alcohol and for your own good the government should tax and regulate it like alcohol. >> there have been other public health campaigns which seem to be very radical. today they seem extremely mainstream. >> reporter: for example, having a designated driver or banning smoking indoors. the researchers say social change is needed in part because the healthier the population the less money everyone has to spend on health care

meanwhile, french president nicolas sarkozy and the german chancellor stressed urgency of the situation. >> translator: time is running out. it is just a matterdays. we need a conclusion. >>> romania's prime minister is stepping down. emil boc made the announcement today. he announced he was stepping down to ease political and social tension. romania imposed spending cuts as part of a deal for 20 billion euros in fiscal aid from the european union and other organizations. the government slashed public workers' wages and raised the sales tax from 19% to 24. public anger at the austerity measures triggered street protests. the row man yan president emil boc asked the former foreign minister to try to form a new government. >>> now let's check the markets. the nikkei is down to 8,920. the strong yen over the credit problems are cooling market sentiment. many invest ors are waiting to see if greece will accept the austerity measures. the u.s. dollar currently trading at 76.56. the euro against the yen is 100. 100.42. the look at the latest interest rates. this is the ten-year japanese gover

the french president nicolas sarkozy has ordered his military to adopt a new law about the armenian genocide. for more -- from wall street to london where the occupied movement has made its mark. but as of today, the campers outside the cathedral are no more. british police cleared the demonstrators to set up tents in the shadow of the icon landmark. >> st. paul's cathedral, a world-renowned place of worship, of four months' home to the occupied encampment, on high alert, expecting trouble. they stayed in overwhelming numbers. here they are to clear it out. scuffles, yes, but little real violence. after months of occupation and a long protracted legal battle, the tents are finally being cleared away. they are being loaded up in the dump trucks. the protesters insist they will remain. the message went out for all supporters to come and join the cause. the police cordons blocked the way. the court order was for the removal of tents and other structures, and the old bailey regretted sending in the bayless, but it had no choice. ultimately, the result was never in doubt. >> i think it is an oppo

german chancellor angela merkle and french president nicolas sarkozy insist cuts must be made before allowing another loan. >>> overseas this morning, toyota reported a stronger than expected quarterly profit and raised its annual forecast. >>> xstrata and glencore have agreed on a merger of equals at $90 million. >>> boeing fell after one report with a problem on its 787 dreamliner. >>> netflix was surprisingly higher despite news that red box will launch a rival video streaming service. >>> humana dropped 5% after weaker than expected earnings. >>> taco bell had another sluggish quarter. >>> toy maker hasbro said rough holiday sales hurt its quarterly revenue. >>> diz me that weighs in with earnings later today. >>> mcdonald's has apologized and pulled a radio ad that said eating its new chicken mcbites was less risky than petting a stray pit bull. >>> and finally, after eight rent-free months in a foreclosed texas home, kenneth robinson's luck has run out. yesterday a judge ruled bank of america the legal owner. that was just a matter of time. >>> coming up, the clippers win in ov

the italian public opinion including the labor unions which accepted a major -- i mean president sarkozy couldn't believe we had without people in the streets for weeks done that structure reform. and then we proceeded in the month of january to a package again by decree law in order -- and this would be the politically perhaps most difficult but we will see in the next few weeks. i think we will bring home the conversion into law by the parliament with many more changes to the package. to really introduce much more competition and opening up in the -- in areas ranging from the liberal professions to the -- to a topic that one gentleman at one of these tables has been following very closely with a high degree of responsible awareness mixed with concern about the unbundling between the gas generation and the gas distribution systems. so all things going in the direction of more and more competition and openness which i believe could only be done through a very strange government like the present one which as many of you will know does not enjoy a structured majority of a coalition of part

the britain's david cameron and the french president nicolas sarkozy have agreed to work more closely on military operations and civil nuclear power. their partnership had come under scrutiny after the u.k. refused to join a european fiscal tax. mr. cameron said they had strong relationships based on strong interests. armed robbers stole up to 60 ancient artifacts from the greek museums. the greek culture minister has submitted his resignation over the raid. from a highest to an amazing counterfeit, italian police say seized fake u.s. treasury bonds worth six trillion dollars which equals half the entire u.s. national debt. they were hidden in false compartments in three safety boxes in the swiss city of zurich. >> they are calling this the largest ever seizure of its kind. fake u.s. treasury bonds worth a staggering six trillion dollars. and enough to endanger the stability of the international credit system. it has emerged that the bonds were found in the strongest in a warehouse in zurich back in january using information, the police helped their colleagues make this. this was a so

president sarkozy of france showed that the syrian regime should go. this is a terrible reminder of the suffering of the syrian people as a whole. the bombardment is relentless. the international committee of the red cross has called for a humanitarian cease-fire. there is growing international support for this demand. there are two fighters in homs, they have only kalashnikov spinto western powers say they will not arm the rebels though that may change. syria's border with lebanon, at a few refugees have made it out. many more can be expected as the violence escalates. the international community has seen paralyzed over syria. the demand for cease-fire might attract support from those which backed the regime. with bombs continuing to fall, the question is whether the syrian government is listening. >> marie colvin was something of a legend among war correspondents. described as one of the most talented reporters of her generation, today, a tribute poured in from colleagues who remembered her bravery and her humor and her style. >> marie colvin was a r

meanwhile, french president nicolas sarkozy and the german chancellor stressed urgency of the situation. >> it is a matter of days. we need a conclusion. >> romania is getting caught in the storm. the prime minister has resigned after weeks of protests against austerity measures. he announced he was stepping down to ease political and social tension. romania imposed spending cuts as part of a deal for 20 billion euros in fiscal aid from the european union and other organizations. the government slashed public workers' wages and raised the sales tax from 19% to 24. public anger at the austerity measures triggered street protests. the romanian president asked the former foreign minister to try to form a new government. >>> now let's check the markets. overnight the dow eed lower, weighed down by conrns of greece's on-going debt deal. to see how stocks are opening in tokyo, let's go to ramin mellegard at the tokyo stock exchange. ramin, looks like profit taking after last friday's gains from strong u.s. jobs numbers. how are stocks kicking off this tuesday morning? >> good morning to you,