nicholas sarkozy is sticking to fillon, supporting him.the other hand, fillon has said he will not step down and the alternative candidate has said if i am the candidate for the party, fillon needs to anoint me. >> what does this mean for the liberal independent candidate? >> he has been rising in the polls and he seems to be somehow the alternative to these candidates that are embroiled in scandals. it is not clear if that will stay like that until the end because he is a candidate with the most shaky voters. one out of two voters are saying we haven't really made up our mind. this election is conveying promises to stay exciting and extraordinary and surprising. >> all right, lisa, we will be checking back with you soon for more developments. for now, thanks for the latest. strong hints there might be a hike in u.s. interest rates around the corner. >> thank you very much. the federal reserve chief janet yellen says a hike would be appropriate. the next meeting is in two weeks and if jobs data and inflation remain on track, the hike is li

he's about 50, a cce pta ble fillon or sarkozy.a compromise candidate with fillon saying, look, i recognise i can't win, i therefore pass the baton to this man. who knows, we'll find out at least in the next day or two, certainly. thank you very much. straight to the house of commons, karen bradley is making a statement on the proposed merger between sky and 20th century fox. this statement gives an opportunity to debate this important issue, but at the same time i hope that honourable and right honourable members will respect the limits of what i can say given my ongoing decision—making role. i commend this statement to the house. i thank the secretary of state for advanced notice of this statement and for writing to me on friday setting out her intentions and i'm also extremely grate thafl she's come to the house at the earliest possible opportunity following notification of the bid. i also understand that she's in quasi judicial mode and what that means. i hope however she'll listen carefully to concerns about this merger which

you elect sarkozy at your peril, don't you? yes and he's certainly manoeuvering now. he got roundly beaten in the primary and he got roundly beaten at the last presidential election. he's not going to make a come back as a leader but he's very much someone who loves power. we know that. he is still very much involved in the running of his party which he feels strongly attached to. he still has a loyal group of senior figures in the party who're close to him. there are so many people who regard him as being the king that was briefly there and then got unfairly treated and lost his power. so there is a power base there and he's manoeuvering right now. as i say, the one possibility that may come out of this, which means francois fillon not being candidate is if he and nicolas sarkozy can say, ok why don't we try this other person, one man is someone who has been very, very careful, for example, about not losing contact with either sarkozy or fillon. he's a young man of about 50, acceptable to large parts of the party, maybe he could emerge as a compromise candidate with

and the key figure is emerging, someone we all know, nicolas sarkozy, who also fancied himself as something in the primaries but is still very much there and we understand he is reading his web as we speak. and meeting —— a meeting is planned of the political committee of the party this evening and then a meeting with nicolas sarkozy is going to happen tomorrow. he is looking for a three may —— the three way meeting to try to get some semblance of unity either behind francois fillon or maybe another candidate whose name we just maybe another candidate whose name wejust do not maybe another candidate whose name we just do not know. an extraordinary position to be in for france so close to the elections. absolutely unprecedented. bizarre. and for republicans, the most depressing thing they could have imagined, that this selection was there is on a plate after five years of very popular socialist candidates. but everything that could go wrong has gone wrong and the two people rubbing their hands with glee are of course marine le pen on the far right and emmanuel macron who has, from the centre

that would be nicolas sarkozy. i do not think he is coming back either.e been a lesser—known figure who could have offered a clean break. but a0 days to the election, they had a primary election and bringing in someone else who did not even stand in someone else who did not even standard that would just be too little and too does not help the republicans that the man that they are now backing, though they will give come and dance to him, made it clear if he became the subject of a formal investigation he would stand down and anyone who became the subject of a formal investigation should stand down, the hypocrisy and some would say the arrogance shines through. it is also evident in the initial allegations because he is preaching a policy platform of austerity whilst at the same time living a very cushy lifestyle allegedly funded by the taxpayers. so hypocrisy there as well. his argument is that is what he calls a political assassination which is to say that he thinks being set up, that the timing of the indictment two days before the close of nominations

this is what i will say to nicolas sarkozy and francois fillon if they wish to meet me.himself out of the running. this leaves francois fillon as the kind that for the republican party. what has he been saying? years given a statement the night, saying the party needs to get behind him and pull his socks up and start supporting him. a lot of people will point to, dare i say, the arrogance of francois fillon, because he is facing prosecution and will face magistrates again on the 15th of march. he goes into the running, and there are seven weeks until the first round in the two are —— on the 23rd of april, in pretty poor shape. he has lost another poll to night, rooted at 19%, compared to 25.5% for emmanuel macron. nicolas sarkozy, and a former prime minister, have both say that you have to put the party first, think about whether you can win this. the polls suggest that at this moment in time he cannot. here is a question: in a normal election somewhere else, i would imagine that if a candidate was in this much trouble this close to polling day, there would be a queue of

mary-kate's married 17 years older olivier sarkozy in 2015.nterview she said she balances hard work and home saying quote i have a husband, two step kids and i'm a wife. dinner. i ide horses on the weekend. you find the thing that helps you relax. heading up their own fashion empire, the twins say they don't dive into social media. no facebook or instagram for them saying quote we stay quite sheltered. the twins since they became household names on the sitcom "full house." >> my favorite thing is playing on tv. >> my favorite thing is eating a cake. >> at just six years old they signed a recording contract and at 12 were promoting education. >> we think school is very important. and education and everything. >> launching their first clothing line as teenagers they had creative control. >> we don't like it, then it's not going to be out there. >> their hard work paid off. today they are estimated to be worth $400 million. >> that is what you call a full house. >>> we remember when lisa kudrow was pregnant during her time on twins. they wrote it

there was one quote i liked from a sarkozy supporter. he is really upset by this election.says none of the candidates stick out. i refuse to get rid of one bozo to replace them with a super b o ozo. genieozo. health-care bill was withdrawn without a vote in congress last week. >> lots of hand rubbing going on with left-wing papers who were very much in favor of keeping the affordable care act. this is the editorial of the guardian. saying this is a welcome failure for a damaging plan. very critical of donald trump and of the gop. the new york times also focusing on the gop and says it is essentially going through a major existential crisis. this has really exploded onto the national scene. everyone is seeing it happening. there's a major blame game happening. people are wondering if the republican party going to be able to do what it has on its agenda? could this be the republican party's waterloo moment? that's what you see in a cartoon in the columbia daily tribune. elephantee this representing the republican party. health reform would be obama's waterloo. we should have

in the background, not so happy looking nicolas sarkozy and alain juppe who have floating devices.e does still have some support from some french papers. >> the catholic paper says francois fillon did not give in. really haley i guess what they called his courage on sunday. the right-leaning paper says sunday's demonstration was a success despite the fact that it was a risky for fillon and his -- bet for fillon and his team. that it's somewhat redrew the battle lines between those who have abandoned him and those who continue to stick by him. genie: james comey is asking for answers from the president after trump alleged that his predecessor tapped his phone. >> these comments from the u.s. president came addictively via a tweet on saturday. for the washington post it is wasof that trump steaming mad. his presidency has existed in a perpetual state of chaos and at the center of this turmoil is the fact that he can't seem to shake off the shadow of russia that loomed over his campaign and presidency. his comments have taken the presidency into uncharted territory. i rode with no cen

presidents, francois hollande and nicholas sarkozy as they are watching the first debate. is popping up eight bee -- popping out a beer, think who wants a corona? molly: donald trump welcoming angela merkel to the white house. who doesrtoonist cartoons for the new york times imagines what might happen during the meeting. you can see donald trump telling angela merkel that you have a terrific wall. i doubt that will happen, but you never know. there's another cartoon in the states focusing on donald trump's budget for 2018. i pulled out a cartoon from the washington post. this blueprint for federal spending has drawn criticism from democrats, namely, but also some republicans. it will boost military spending. he depicted the budget as a drone and you can see potential targets. a lot of other budgets will be cut. health, the environment, arts, education, science. you can see the person saying they have new rules for drone strikes. election in the netherlands. i pulled out cartoons. it depicts the aftermath of the election. china daily focusing that this was a defeat for righ

among nicolast sarkozy in 2012, that should vote today for for the field, between 15-20% of them, this why she is at a high , but we the first term also have 20% of the former voters of nicolas sarkozy. thank you very much. a point well made. joining us there from paris. up next, more about the fed and all eyes on janet yellen in chicago. odds of a hike this month near 90%. this is bloomberg. . . manus: investors receive clues from yellen's speech today. odds for a march hike around 90 pebble beach. anna: more than 60 french politicians say they can no longer support the presidential account as the embezzingment scandal engulfs her campaign. manus: it is day break, europe. it is our flagship morning show. i'm manus cranny. anna: i'm anna edwards. manus, you have some numbers out of germany? manus: i do. retail sales declined .8 pblet. the market was looking for a rise of .3%. that is a month-on-month figure on the retail side in germany. could it be the little bit of confidence with ve seen? -- we have seen? shaky in the u.s. etail sales come the at a drop of .3%. a little bit of a sha

presidenthe french nicholas sarkozy, and the list continues.ns you have anything yet as he prepares to give the order to start hacking and influencing the french election. followsle-page spread outlines how many scandals, intrigues, and innovations have marked the last few months. the likes of which has never been seen before under the republic. the paper puts together and a-c glossary of all of these. it contains everything from h for hologram, a reference to the candidate turning himself into a holick graham on the campaign english, emergency in the first time a presidential election in france has been held under a state of emergency. molly: yes, indeed, and finally we moved to ukraine, piece out of the key of post. >> the brazen assassination of a former russian lawmaker in central kyiv has raised concerns for other kremlin critics taking refuge in ukraine. the ukrainian president is calling the murder an act of russian state terrorism come an accusation that the kremlin is dismissing as absurd. there is also another less bloody story in the

a big portion of sarkozy's base has gone to ma home or le pen. you're seeing all of thisexodus of lawmakers, republican lawmakers who used to support fillon who have now decided to resign. now you have the campaign treasurer. everybody is calling for -- to come back. anything could happen. matt: he said he doesn't want to be the runner-up here. do you think he will step in, if needed? >> he would probably -- only on one condition. if francois hollande agrees. basically he doesn't want to put the party, the process of francois fillon's nomination, the republican primaries that were held in november and he came in second. he has repeatedly said he doesn't want to be a backup plan. but that could change of course to rancois fillon asked him replace him. guy: thank you very much indeed. the beautiful paris. up next, key economic targets. what can we expects from the national people's congress. beijing.e from he company reports earnings. and snapchat. will the game disappear just like it photos? ♪ matt: welcome back to european market open. we want to

this is what i will say to nicolas sarkozy, and francois fillon if they wish to meet me.he analysis and paris. this is the definitive one, that francois fillon has won the battle. the internal battle, and he is going to be the candidate for the republicans in the selection. and no other option, francois fillon has made it clear that he thought he had a legitimacy, a base of support and he feels he is legally innocent. the partyjust did not have means, options, ideas, to counter. they have just had a meeting at the top level, and president of the senate said that we are with francois fillon, the chapter is over and we move. but the real battle is what lies ahead. and he has lost the republican party, it has been such a disastrous month for the republican party since the affair broke out. nlc francois fillon has shot down, maybe too far but he has gone down found as we know, whoever gets second, is most likely to win. unless you get some sort of major turnaround, a gaffe, u nless sort of major turnaround, a gaffe, unless somehow the republican party can find it within thems

the 62—year—old beat rivals nicolas sarkozy and alainjuppe to be his party's nominee, but in the lastning with reports that his wife was paid for parliamentary work that she didn't do. a french magistrate is going to investigate payments made to fillon‘s family. despite this the centre—right candidate is refusing to stand down. he is currently third in the opinion polls. emmanuel macron is the youngest candidate in the race. he's 38—year—old — and in second place in the polls. mr macron was president francois hollande's protege, rising through the ranks to economic minister. last april macron set up his own political party — en marche — meaning 0nwards — which he describes as "neither left nor right". he is an economic liberal and pro—business, who has backed ending france's 35—hour week for younger workers. and currently ahead in the polls is marine le pen, the leader of the far—right front national. she's been the party leader since taking over from her father in 2011. her proposals included slashing legal immigration from 200,000 to 10,000 entries per year, deporting illegal immigr

you underestimate nicolas sarkozy at your peril, don't you?r, but he's very much someone who loves power, we know that. and he's still very much involved in the running of his party, which he feels very, very strongly attached to. he has still got a loyal group of seniorfigures in the party has still got a loyal group of senior figures in the party who are close to him. they regard him as the king who unfairly lost his power and so on. and so there is a power base there, and he is manoeuvring right now. the one possibility which might come out of this which would mean francois fillon not being candidate is if francois fillon and nicola socceroos he can say, why don't we try this other person? there are people, for example someone who has been very, very careful about not losing contact with either side. he isa losing contact with either side. he is a young man of about 50, a cce pta ble is a young man of about 50, acceptable to large parts of the party, maybe he could emerge as a compromise candidate, with francois fillon saying, i recognise i

we've seen all the scandals of his predecessor, the republican sarkozy. so that is obviously his opinion. on the other side, this is just the same. almost a million euros from public money going into the pocket of francois fillon that they don't really want anymore and they have really punished him for it. the next weeks will show whether he can ride this out or will take his party down with him into the abyss. brent: barbara, as always, thank you very much. here are some of the other stories making headlines around the world. ukraine has urged the united nations' highest court to ache action against what the country calls russia's terrorist acts in eastern ukraine and crimea. at the hague the deputy foreign minister accused russia of violating a u.n. convention against financing terrorsm by supplying weapons, money, and other help to pro russian separatists in eastern ukraine. iraqi forces used helicopter gun ships and heavy artillery to make strikes against so-called islamic state in west mosul including the capture of a key bridge over the tigris river

he lost heavily in the primaries, nicolas sarkozy, but he is still someone who carries a lot of weightously, the fa ct of the party, and obviously, the fact that he is a former president gives an extra weight. at the moment, there is a key role for him in trying to keep the unity of the party. there are three radically different factions in the party, and the unity of the right is really in danger. you could hear this morning how deep the bitterness and resentment is within the republican party. thank you for talking to us today. a little glitch on the sound, for which we apologise, but we certainly got the full message that pl was giving us on the state of the election campaign in france. 13 potential uk terror attacks have been prevented in almost four years, according to counter—terrorism police, as the public is urged to be vigilant. the uk's most senior counter—terrorism police officer has also revealed that more than 500 investigations are being carried out at any one time. he disclosed the figures as he launched an appeal that aims to get members of the public to report any susp

they have got rid of two presidents in hollande and sa rkozy. of two presidents in hollande and sarkozyministers. whoever wins it looks like it could be an outsider. as far as the allegations against marine le pen will not have any against marine le pen will not have a ny affect against marine le pen will not have any affect on her base. her base will see it as an establishment rouse to undermine her. the interesting thing is what happens in the second round of this vote. what marine le pen has been effective at doing is harnessing the dissatisfaction among blue collar worksers and rural areas. she has had good work there and won towns because of the disaffected youth. it's quite a strange thing, in this country, in britain, you have older people who are eurosceptic and are voting against the euro, the european union. in france, it's the young people conversely who have a problem. she is doing pretty well among blue collar workers. it will be interesting to see what they do in the second round of the vote. which is of course what donald trump did in some of those states in wisconsin, pe

we are getting unconfirmed reports via the reuters agency that allies of former president nicolas sarkozy election. alain juppe said saying he will participate in the election. alainjuppe said he would not stand as a replacement were fillon to step down, but it seems allies of nicolas sarkozy are telling francois fillon he needs to choose a replacement. psa is playing down the fears ofjob cuts after the announcement that it has arranged a £2 billion deal to buy vauxhall‘s parent company. president trump is expected to sign a second executive order after his last one was blocked by the courts. alan juppe has said last one was blocked by the courts. alanjuppe has said he will not stand were francois fillon to step down. now all the sport. arsene wenger has this afternoon denied that alexis sanchez had a training ground bust up with his team—mates. he was dropped to the bench for the first defeat to liverpool. sanchez took place in full training ahead of the match against bayern munich tomorrow. ian wright says he would leave the club in sanchez‘s permission. when you are united as a team it

he is a former political advisor to nicolas sarkozy amongst many other things. mark, back to you. we're coming back later to paris. we are talking a little bit ceo and we the suez have jamie dimon as well. mark: up next, chancellor hammond says britain is open for business. a french communications firm. why he's chosen the country for his european headquarters. this is bloomberg. ♪ ways wins. especially in my business. with slow internet from the phone company, you can't keep up. you're stuck, watching spinning wheels and progress bars until someone else scoops your story. switch to comcast business. with high-speed internet up to 10 gigabits per second. you wouldn't pick a slow race car. then why settle for slow internet? comcast business. built for speed. built for business. mark: let's get the bloomberg first word news. here's nejra cehic. nejra: ecb president mario draghi delivers the latest policy decision in a few hours as well as an assessment of the european economy. he will probably reiterate his assessment that underlying price growth remains subdued. we will bring you s

he also spoke with nicolas sarkozy on the phone.n a castle on the river, i believe. it's like "beauty and the beast." what does this mean for ms. le pen and what does this mean for ist to vote in france? is this good for madame le pen? >> it's a very good question, tom. the political analysts we have been speaking with this morning on bloomberg are all saying that this could benefit a vote in .avor of marine le pen more than 80% of the people who want to vote for marine le pen are pretty sure of their choice, which is different case for fillon. francine: i need to interrupt you. we are just getting that breaking news. saying once again that he will stay in the french presidential race. we heard from him denying any wrongdoing. he believes this is political assassination. we have heard that before. i wonder if you actually think of his reasoning, he says i am being treated unfairly, but he could be seen and it depends on the various polls that will come out in the next couple of days, but he could be seen once again as the elite who

party elders that by sarkozy met last night in paris to discuss the situation.he move comes after his campaign was hit by accusations he misused public funds, a calls for him to step aside before the first round of voting. with the onset the fomc raising rates at next weeks policy meeting, in your 100% -- in your 100%. bloomberg, he said janet yellen and her team should just get on with it. >> they have been pretty creative the last couple of years, coming up with reasons why they can't raise rates. i think they have just about run the gamut of those and i think at this point, given the signals they have already sent, they would do their credibility a lot of damage if they didn't do it now. juliette: global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. guy? much,hank you very indeed, juliette. but stuck a little bit about what is happening in geneva. just next to the airport you have the motor show this week. it is certainly something we need to pay attention to. the car story has been fron

the primary contest on the right saw the defeat of nicolas sarkozy, and juppe. from that. the antiestablishment mood reminds us of somebody, marine le pen. what kind of contest would we have do you think if it was those two on the final ballot? i think it would be fascinating, i think that emmanuel macron would win easily because he would not have any difficulty rallying support from the centre and even from the moderate right. the difficulty with marine le pen is that one can see very easily she gets 28, 30% of the boat, but then, she doesn't really have that much in terms of she doesn't really have that much in terms of reserves she doesn't really have that much in terms of reserves to rely on getting up terms of reserves to rely on getting up to 50%. one might imagine that the socially conservative part of fillon electorate might vote for her but that won't give her anything like what she might need in order to reach the magic 50% number.‘ like what she might need in order to reach the magic 5096 number. a final thought, if you are right in saying that emmanu

finances, so the idea is not to play with all the taxes as francois hollande did or even nicolas sarkozyit is to put the emphasis on that and to believe the companies in france can show how competitive they are and that we regain flows of money. at the end of the five years, we will see what we can do for the household. but the priority should be clear. francine: thank you so much, sylvie goulard, number of european parliament supporting emmanuel macron. au will have to come back in couple of weeks time. as the u.k. prepares to file its european union divorce papers, what will two years of brexit talks mean for investors? we speak to the founder of hedge fund amber capital. what does brexit talk mean for that? i'm going to ask what it means in greece but also elsewhere. the dollar falling to a four-month low. u.s. equity futures accelerating friday's decline. investors seem to be shunning riskier assets. what they are worried about is donald trump's ability to implement his economic agenda after that health care flop. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: this is "bloomberg surveillance." let's

we also understand from nicolas sarkozy that he believes francois fillon and alain juppe need to meeto find a solution to a situation he says cannot last. --geot pays psa group creating europe's second-largest carmaker. we will look under the hood of that deal next. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: this morning we had confirmation that psa group creates europe's second-largest carmaker. it is a bid to compete better in the saturated market. it will pay 1.3 billion euros. we spoke to gm president. >> our perspective has been that europe has been from a customer preference perspective has and we need toat find a different way to get more scale locally here in order to be more successful in the business going forward. it has been 1999 since you turned a profit. team has not tremendous job over the last four or five years. we would have been profitable last year absent brexit. we have a great product portfolio. significantly improved the bottom line. we need to get much more scale here. it take to get you to execute those warrants? >> the reason we wanted the warrants is to participate in w

talking to alain juppe, one of to his hq, he has been talking to alainjuppe, one of his rivals, nicolas sarkozyll have to see in the next few minutes what he is going to say. thank you very much. you can see there the scene live in paris, still no sign of francois fillon. as soon as he arrives, we will bring you coverage of that and hear what he has to say. the government's facing its first defeat over the brexit bill, in the lords today. opposition peers want an amendment to protect the rights of eu citizens living in britain. the home secretary amber rudd had sought to reassure members that eu nationals‘ status would be a priority once brexit talks begin. but a cross—party amendment calling for a firm guarantee is expected to secure the backing of most peers. our assistant political editor norman smith is in westminster. how tricky would that be? how tricky would that be ?m how tricky would that be? it would certainly be symbolic. it would be her first defeat on brexit and on one of the most contentious issues, namely the position of eu migrants living in the uk. she has repeatedly stressed t

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