she is joining us from london. thanks for joining us.so as you heard in the report when these age-old traditions take precedence over the law in countries like senigal, how difficult is it to change people's perceptions. it must make your job much harder >> thank you very much. i think female gen tam mutilation really is an entrenched social social practice with complex practices. we heard the iman talking about it. we see that a lot of religious leaders still believe that it is a requirement for muslims. so we want religious leaders to come out. yes, there has been a law there since 1999. it there has been a national anxious plan working to end f g.m., but the reality has been that there hasn't been much efforts to actually join up efforts. you find that in senegal in particular ngos are working in different areas but there's limited funding for local ngos in terms of how to work strategically and get the capacity to make that difference >>> there's a proposal in the journal of medical ethics that is saying perhaps less invasive version

if you could hold on one second, we're going to kelly cobiella who is on the phone with us en route from london to brussels. kelly, what you can tell us is going on now. >> what are you hearing now? >> reporter: well, we're now hearing sand it's been reported, dara, that there have been explosions or smoke at the very least at possibly as many as three metro stations in brussels. those metros have now been closed down. they're seeing tapes across escalators. injured -- at least one injured person out by the metro station in brussels close to the eu headquarters. so is this now looking like a coordinated attack of some sort, airport, potentially two explosions at the airport is what we're hearing and now possibly explosions in this place. pictures on social media of passengers getting off of trains -- but we have no confirmation yesterday on exactly what's happened inside. but we do know that there are reports of some sort of exhibition there and possibly people injured there. >> kelly cobiella, thank you so much for that, i know you're in transit. it's difficult to stay on the phone. we're just

joining us from london is steve sedgwick. talk us through what you're hearing in london. >> we've been digesting this in both the hour before the european equity markets opened and the hour since as well. just after 7:00 gmt here in london, 8:00 local time in brussels. we had got the first reports of these explosions. it's on the land side of the airport rather than the airside. initially people were talking about one, possibly two explosions in the check-in area. now various reports are saying up to four explosions at the airport. we saw, as you were mentioning, a lot of social media, people actually on or near the runways as they were evacuated from the key airport regions. and then within the last hour, the events have taken on another angle as we began to hear about milbeck station, which is a key station for brussels, and that there were explosions at this station, which services the eu institutions. it connects the brussels network with the eu institutions. as you would expect, a hearing which was taking place, an ecb ce

tina krause joins us from london with more. >> the foreign minister is warning that they fear more terrorists they be on the run in the city. >> survivors ran for safety as smoke and chaos filled the airport in brussels. powerful explosions -- one blessed caved in a ceiling and blew out the terminal windows. we learned police found an unexploded device possibly a suicide vest andy assault rifle. this woman was with her daughter who is now missing. >> my husband called the american embassy in they are looking for her. >> three missionaries from utah were injured in the airport last three >> less than one half hour later and explosion ripped the morning rush hour. >> when than one dozen were killed and hundred injured. >> some passengers had to find their way out through a dark tunnel. >> belgians prime minister said what we have feared has happened. >> president. obama called him this morning. >> the thoughts and prayers of the people of belgium and we stand in solidarity. >> the attacks come days after the arrest of salah abdeslam, the prime suspect in the paris terrorist attacks. >> the repu

nbc's alistair jameson joins us from london. what can you tell us? >> good morning, dara. this was a routine flight, a short trip from alexandria to cairo. the flight takes around 30 minutes. some point in that flight one of the passengers on board told the flight clue crue he had explosives on, a suicide vest and the flight was diverted across the mediterranean and landed at larnaca. once on the ground, negotiations began to release almost all of the passengers. it's still not clear what motives lay behind this hijacking. the cyprus president said it's nothing to do with terrorism and a high-level source told nbc news that the hijacker's motives seem to be a personal matter involving a woman and the hijacker asked to speak to someone, possibly his ex-wife. what we know is there are still around eight people on board that plane. most of the passengers are off. but around eight people are still on board. that consists of the crew and three passengers who are believed to be nonegyptians. they are foreigners, we don't know their nationality, but they're still on board the plan

let's brings in after ex-an after areas analyst joining us from london. just watching these pictures, alex. this plane is operated by egyptian and at the moment is in a very remote area of the airport it's not a very big airport so it's remote as it can get at this airport. the procedure at larnaca the aircraft in the event of a highjack will be placed at the end of the run day nearer to the beach, mackenzie beach by the perimeter fence so it further is "america tonight" away from the main termal building as possible to minimize impact should anything go wrong. we know this was a deem tick slight between alexandria and cairo, it's unclear yet whether the highjacker made his way in to the flight deck or alerted the crew that he had explosives on him and ordered the flight deck door to be opened. the latter being more likely. saying that the flight crew were then instructed by the highjacker to divert to larnaca which they did. interestingly, they didn't send out the squawking signal that we would have expected in the event of a highjack. so this signal is

cnbc's geoff cutmore joins us from london where he's tracking the market moves ahead of the policy meeting. what's the latest? >> good morning to you, jonathan. well, the expectation here is that the european central bank will deliver more stimulus. right now, the pundits think that probably means we go even further into negative territory on the deposit rate. possibly a ten basis point cut. we are already negative 30 basis points on the rate here. so hard to see what difference it is going to make, but it will be another reason for traders to keep the euro button on the sell position. so keep your eye on the currencies because that could be the main fallout area we see from this rate decision. but it's a big issue for the markets today. one other thing worth bearing in mind, the oil price and the correlation to stocks. very tight correlation of late here. no sign of that breaking down. even though the analysts are telling us they don't think the current rebound we have seen in the price will last as long as we see oversupply data. one last story to finish on here t president and ceo of th

cnbc's louisa bojeson joins us from london. what is behind this sudden surge? >> it's the fed, the fed now scaling back expectations on how many times we think we'll see the fed rate hikes. previously they were indicating four times, now they have scaled back the expectations. here the past week to two times and that's given a whole bunch of new life to the equity markets and some of the risk assets. so in asia overnight, we saw quite a bit of positivity as well. the index, japan, positive for the first time this year. here in europe this morning were flattish. we're mixed markets now, but again, also kind of ending out the week that's been very, very interesting on what all the central banks have been doing and setting ourselves up for next week, alex. >> okay. louisa bojeson, thank you. >>> still ahead, march madness. the tournament's first upsets. plus, bill karins is tracking severe weather including the possible nor'easter. he'll bring us the worst case scenario and the best for that matter, when "way too early" comes right back. every day you read headlin

nbc's chatman bell joins us from london with more. they must be pretty sad there, eh? >> it is, danielle. and the man who guided the fab four to fame, tributes flooding in for him. paul mccartney just releasing a statement saying if anyone earned the title of the fifth beatle, it was george. he was the most generous, intelligent musical person i've ever had the pleasure to know, adding he was like a second father to me. sir george handed the beatles their first recording contract, known as an english gentleman, he seemed an unlikely fit at first with the young lads from liverpool in one of their first recording sessions, asking them if there was anything about the studio they did not like. george harrison replying, "for starters, i don't like your tie." but together they went on to make music history. but it wasn't just the beatles he influenced, producing more than 20 number one hits in the united states alone, a career that included five grammys and even an oscar nod. he was involved in the music for three james bond films, produced elton john's tribute to diana prin

stay with us. ♪ mark b.: live from new york and london, i am mark barton.g the european close. dominated by three explosions in brussels, that rocked the city, killed at least 31, injured over 230, and deepened the sense of crisis across the continent, but investors proved resilient. we saw most of the losses earlier in the session. the stock 600 was down as much as 1.6%, led by travel and leisure stocks, but look at the cutback on others as well. .hree indices rising it proves that an national selloff after terrorist attacks have always been arrayed days or weeks later. flightto finish with the to safety, bonds are rising, heel sup been falling, sterling has fallen against all of its today, as has the euro. bloomberg markets continues after the break. ♪ . . >>ks as well as in -- belgium is on the highest terror explosions.after the u.s. announcing it will add security personnel to we bring you live reports from brussels while keep on financial markets, which remain resilient. stocks are mostly flat, in the aftermath of a treasuries and gold advance. david:

he joins us on the phone from london. a failure ofk europe containing terrorists. >> it is a failure. it is a failure in belgium and more broadly for the rest of europe and i don't think that tell your is lost on public opinion. there is a growing sense and perception among european public opinion that its leaders are not dealing with the terrorists, and that is resulting in a greater push towards an increase in the popularity of populist parties to hisrmany to france far east as poland and hungary. >> one thing i want to get from distinctiveum is because it is a tiny country, but it has provided the highest .er capita number of fighters its intelligence and law-enforcement agencies don't seem to work with one another. is belgian the exception or the norm in europe? a set ofare definitely contextual and specific facts that make belgium honorable come vulnerable, but it has captured a lot of the european institute tuition -- institution. there are a set of internal challenges. i think more broadly this is a consensus of eu

scarlet: michael pettis is joining us from london will stick with us. we have some breaking news.olkswagen, it's group of america unit says it's ceo will be leaving by mutual agreement. they have named an interim ceo. we will be back with more after this. ♪ joe: "what'd you miss?" pettis,ack with michael senior associate with carnegie endowment for international peace. -- i asked onion twitter what people wanted to ask you a question that came up his i can't china just monetize all its debt? why can't the people's bank of china print a bunch of money and deal with the debt load? michael: effectively, that is what they did 15 years ago when they did solve the last debt crisis. printing money doesn't create wealth, but it transfers wealth to the central bank. the question is where to the wealth transfer come from? the answer is straightforward. basically monetizing the debt means transferring that from household as savior -- as savers to the government in the form of debt repayment. if you want consumption to drive growth, you can't take wealth away from household sector. that is ex

. >> joining us now from london is anthony davis, an aviation journalist. good to have you with us. brussels has been on a high level of alert and yet these attacks still managed to take place at the airport. what more could they have done to stop them? >> well, there are being questions being asked at the moment of the procedures for security at european airports. now, let's be clear. america does it slightly differently. they care about who enters the airport car park, for example. who pumps up outside. they have police, they have wardens, and they really do check. i feel that european airports do need to step you are their security. we're talking about just entering the terminal building and brussels airport has one large terminal believe where everything takes place, the train station on the lower ground floor, people are welcome to and a half in and out of that terminal building. before going through security, they have 23 million people a year using that airport, so the chance of something like that happening, in this case has been allowed to slip through. >> when do the first

from cyprus and lives there now. rehema ellis joins us live from london. we' we know they are saying this is domestic related. there questions about security, did this man have a bomb and how was he able to take over the aircraft? >> those are big questions, tamron. in fact, everyone is looking for the answers to those. none the least, the egyptian authorities because they now say they believe this device was a fake, but they did not know that at the time. that's why they say they had to proceed with the utmost caution. the questions of what he had strapped to him, how did he get it past security authorities? how did it get onto the plane? the authorities are now saying that this man who has been identified as seif eldin mustafa is a man in his 50s and authorities say he seems to have an unstable personality. he had been asking at one point to speak with his estranged wife. you point out she lives in cyprus. at one point, he asked for asylum. another indication perhaps of his instability. authorities are telling us they spent some early three hours talking to this man, and negotiating with him while he was as

security officers and heitened security alerts at terminals here in london -- >> thank you for joining us and giving us t latest from london. we want to bring in global affairs correspondent martha raddatz who is joining us right now on the telephone. martha. can you hear us. >> reporter: good morning. i just remind you that when the attacks in paris happened we quickly dispatched to brussels so i spent a great deal of time there during the highest terror alert when they expected and attack. that city was in complete lockdown. i'm sure youill see ha in the coming days. because of thesese apparent attacks in the brusselss airport at a metro station, as well also goes to the fact that terrorists security is out there. no matter how high the alert and around there because of abdeslam, the city, of course, was on alert as well and still the terrorists apparently managed to attack very high-profile places. >> these are soft targets, not only high-profile, they're fairly soft targets, martha. >> reporter: they certainly are soft targets, i know when we all woke up this morning and saw the airport has been hit, a place whe

mike with deutsche bank joining us from london.ck garland on capitol hill right now meeting with senators as the republican leadership refuses to consider his nomination. harry reid says republican leaders are responsible for the rise of donald trump. we will hear from the air b&b ceo in a bloomberg exclusive. company maywhy the offer other travel services like guided tours, restaurant reservations as it looks to expand its business. the s&p 500 joining the dow in positive territory. more "bloomberg markets" after the break. ♪ david: welcome back to "bloomberg markets." president obama's supreme court pick merrick garland is set to met -- meet with patrick leahy and harry reid. john heilemann is in phoenix today. let's start with this nomination. despite thet did it fact that republicans say there will not be a vote on him. what is your sense of the democratic thinking here? that this will lead to a vote in that lame-duck couple of months down the line or do democrats look to wear down the republican colleagues? john: they don't ca

cnn contributor tim lister joining us from london. i know you've been look nothing this man. tell us about him. a young man in his 20s and apparently came across as a refugee. >> yeah, he did, according to the bulletin that we obtained in subsequent contacts with source as cross europe, al hamed came through lyros, the greek island where two of the paris attackers also entered and then traveled through europe. and also at about the same time as the ringleader of the paris attacks abdelhamid abaaoud and that's where his links with salah abdeslam become much more firm, if you like, because abdeslam was there in hom and was arrested at least fingerprinted by german police not so much arrested, stopped and fingerprinted along with the same man with whom he was a court on that friday in brussels just over a week ago. so you see the sort of web coming together. it is known that a man went missing from that refugee center at the same time, so al hamed very much on their radar at the moment. that particular bulletin went out just about five or six hours after the brussels attack. he'

he joins us from london. fawaz always good to have you with us. one point you make arab spring following decades of failure in the arab world and the economic popularization of arab societies played a role in the rise of i.s.i.l. >> absolutely antonio. the derailment of the arab spring the hijacking of the arab spring by the old god by the old regimes by counter-revolutionary forces was one of the most important really significant factors in the rise or actually in the resurgence of i.s.i.s. or the so-called islamic state. i.s.i.s. is an extension of al qaeda in iraq. al qaeda in iraq was born as a result of the american-led invasion and occupation of iraq. al qaeda in iraq was defeated in 2010, 2011 when the americans left iraq in 2011, al qaeda in iraq was a spent force and what has happened is that al qaeda affiliated groups basically have hijacked the arab spring. what you have now is that i.s.i.s. is trying to say, trying the to take ownership of the arab spring, the millions of young and old arabs who basically risen against the failed polit

back to you. >> greg pell reporting to us from london. as always we appreciate your reporting and bringing us up to date. walid phares also on the line with me at this hour. this is kelly wright and in case you just tuned in we're looking at what's unfolded in brussels at the airport, where this morning about 8:00 a.m., brussels time, which would be the height of their morning rush hour at the brussels airport, many people in the departure terminal, there are reports as greg indicated that this could have been an american airlines check-in but we don't know that to be sure so that's still an unconfirmed report but we do know two bomb blasts erupted and there have been casualties, and you're looking at pictures and images right now of people being evacuated. you're looking at some of the debris and the devastation of those two bomb blasts. walid, i've asked you this so many times before and it bears to be asked again, what do these terrorists want and how can we prevent them from getting it? >> the terrorists do not have, we're assuming th

a lecturer on political theory at harvard, born and bred in germany and giddeon rockman joins us from london today, the chief columnist for the financial times. what is going on in europe, in general? certainly, when they look at trump they're thinking about what's happening in europe. >> one of the things that's happening is you've seen a mountain of right wing national parties. now running the extreme right party, actively endorsed donald trump, marine le pen. she said she would vote for trump if she were an american. i think it suggested they see and it's not limited to the extreme right, trump as primarily a nationalist. i think it's terribly important that we see trump in that conte context, as a nationalist. it's a very different thing from a populist or conservative. >> giddeon, you wrote a column called in defense of donald trump. explain what you mean. >> well, i started with a lot of the same horror that you said was being felt in the united states and so on. but i guess it was the death of nancy reagan over the weekend that reminded me that much of the same horror had been express

he joins us from london. riyal is 8% the overvalued. how did you come up with that?one of the things in brazil is that there has been a significant decline investment and productivity as the policies of the admonition has taken over the years. this is really the main reason the cost is so overvalued. and inflation is very high. they still have inflation over 100%. alix: to talk about the rally in the riyal. what about you seeing? >> the underlying factor, if you have a change in regime, then clearly you are going to see a very significant improvement in investment spending going forward. all models do not detect those changes in regime. the market you are seeing here is a higher probability to keep falling within the next few weeks. scarlet: but you don't see that happening. you say the only way for brazil to get out of this mess is by higher inflation to lower real yield, and that means a weaker riyal. >> correct. you think that even if there was to be a change in the regime, to fallriyal were tomorrow, you still have a debt struggle you need to solve, which keeps i

benjamin joins us from london. you have been on the story since the beginning and spent time investigating this story. big development today. >> this has been the largest man hunt in modern european history and today salah abdeslam has been found. they went in the apartment and knew he was in there and shouted out to him come out with your hands up. he refused and they carried out with gun fire. the situation is continuing and on going. there's helicopters over the country and city as two others are still held up. fluent situation there today. this all started last tuesday when another raid was carried out in another district. they went in not expecting to try anyone. a fire came back at them. he escaped across the roof top that day and ever since there's been a massive man hunt to find him. his dna was found in that apartment. that set him up saying he was still in belgiubelgium. they suspected he fled but he was still in his hometown. >> don't go anywhere. just listen to the scene we're seeing now. this is a life

joining us from london, the managing director and vice chairman of asia pacific at jp morgan chase.s. >> thank you for having me. >> so about the health of the chinese economy, it was interesting to me real estate was also down in the most recent trade and i believe we have had a prominent mayor warning about increased leverage, about reduced down payments. is the overall economy even at the consumer market shaky? is that reflected in some of what we're seeing even in real estate. >> there's the property market as an example. they're booming in beijing, shanghai, shenzen but in lower tier cities there's a lot of oversupply so there's a lot of leverage in the system. gdp has been growing but debt has been rising at a faster pace. you also mentioned the trade picture. today the export numbers were quite disappointing. however we'll have to remember there are some seasonal factors. the month of february was very short because of chinese new year. the market was shut for the entire week during chinese new year so if you smooth out the seasonal factors i think going into marchand april t

michael moore joining us from london.t actually happened yesterday? certainly raising some questions and you have the ceo talking about previously cutting since october and now saying he did not have the full picture in october, so this is maybe one reason why he decided to scale back more on the trading side. they are cutting assets even more and trying to get out of these distressed positions and out of these riskier businesses. note the fact that they did have a complete handle on them is driving that decision. jonathan: i want to get the scale of this across. when we throughout those numbers , and i don't think how people understand how -- i don't think people understand how big those numbers are. tim: that is the point when you say cutting to the bone. billionsalking about and billions, so does not like you are going from 200 billion down to 50 million or something. those that run that firm all over, they risk every day. my group is all over risk, every day. the one thing you do in this business is make sure you unde

. >> thank you for speaking to us from london. >> israeli soldiers saying they shot and killed two palestinianswho tried to stab them. the incident happened at a check point in the city of hebron in the occupied west bank. 206 palestinians and 26 israelis have been killed during a cease of shootings and stabbings since last october. >>> the u.n. is setting up a commission to investigate human rights abuses in south sudan after a u.n. report found atrocities had been committed since the conflict began in late 2013. the three person panel will look at weather multiple rapes and attacks on civilians conditions substitute war crimes. thousands have died in a civil war. more than 2 million people have been displaced. >> trying to repatriate refugees in somali. 50,000 are expected to return this year. more than 300 those remaining camps in eastern kenya. we have this report. >> under the blistering mid morning sun, 249 somalis collect what may be their last aid packages. here they receive money to start them off. today, they getting to home. taking the six children back, they've lived here the last e

david: as michael moore joining us from london.central banks right now and it's not unrelated to what we were talking about . mohamed el-erian said that when the referee start playing in the game, you got a problem. ofn it comes to buying sovereign debt, you saw the ecb yesterday, but they are not the first elastic into this. they made the life of a bond trader a lot more tricky than it used to be. >> trickier because there is less volatility. this is why traders are losing bonuses and losing their jobs because in the debt market, there is a lot less volatility. you can see that in the janet yellen federal reserve. it is still a debt market that is much less volatile than it was under ben bernanke and much less volatile under alan greenspan. the other thing that you can look at is with respect to the ofo, the implied volatility the euro is declining lately, not going up. matt: i just want to hop in because i know what david is thinking. volatility lately has been picking up, but if you look at the average over the last fans, matt w

cnn producer tim lister joins us from london.lay into the sensitivities, not just in belgium, tim, but across europe and the world. >> absolutely, max, it does. and i think in paurs last year, after the first attack, "charlie hebdo," there was a mood of defiance. this would not be allowed to stand. the second attack, felt it was almost a sense of resignation. this was the new reality about living in europe that these attacks would continue. so i think the belgians, the british, the germans, the french, it's played into a brittle political mood in europe that is showing greater support for, against immigration, more xenofhobic attitudes, it's a fractious time in europe max, yes. >> this latest attack in brussels. one of the attackers got away from an area which is littered with cctv cameras, and it busy at the best of times, and they have to get on to this within minutes if they're going to keep up with the threat. >> that's true, but then, there's a way a question here, are you going turn europe into a police state where there is

he's with us from london, and duncan, what's the first thing you wanted to know when you heard the news today? what's the first thing you would look for and at? >> well, the first thing that sprung to mind when i heard about this was, you know, who are these guys? and how have they struggled to track them down, even though they obviously have a handle on some of the members of this cell? they're having made arrests on friday, and an appeal yesterday for further members of the cell. so the real questions were, you know, what kind of explosives. what kind of communications, what kind of cell are we talking about here? and just how large is it that they have been able to slip under the radar even with so much concentration on trying to track them down since the paris attacks last november. and we know now that these guys have perfected the making of quite a potent form of explosives called tatp that they have developed detonators to set off the devices and they have been able to communicate through encrypted devices and burner phones that make them incredibly difficult to track down. but a

. >> joining us from london know is joanne a senior response crisis advisor at amnesty interinitial andain question is how was it this abuse and horrible abuse could go on for so long by u.n. missions? >> well sadly this kind of abuse has been reported even since the 1990s and bosnia and cosovo there was sexual abuse by u.n. troops and the real question is what has taken the u.n. and why has it taken the u.n. so long to address this problem in a meaningful way, when is the u.n. finally going to put a stop to it because in the central african republic clearly the problem is chronic. >> it seems to be if you say that the abuse has been happening since cosovo missions and what does this say about the u.n. missions if they are not able to instill order and discipline among their own troops in areas where they are being entrusted to instill law an order? >> well, i mean one of the core problems is the fact that although these troops are under u.n. command the real responsibility and power lies with the contributing countries and most importantly the u.n. has no power to prosecute these troop

joining us from london, the senior european economist at jeffries international.od morning to you. thank you for joining us. lots of different tools, i suppose, at mario draghi's disposal. rate cuts, qe timelines and qe size. what are you expecting from him today? >> well, we're looking for a 20 point basis cut and qe of about 15 billion. at the same time, i don't think it would be surprising to anyone if the package is quite different from what even we're going for. eng it's all about a combination of measures. certainly what we had in december is draghi supposedly disappointed the markets with a smaller than expected rate cut, but at the same time, he delivered quite a few different measures, extending qe. actually, we think this could be a template for what happens today. it's what's in the q&a that is what draghi will be driving at. >> does the decision, the announcement, the moves, and importantly the market reaction to today's ecb meeting matter for the federal reserve next week in its two-day meeting? >> well, certainly that was an interesting story, going

. >> olivia gustez, thank you for joining us from london. we appreciate it very much. >> my pleasure. >> we'll take a break. the coverage of the brussels attack continues. we hear from presidential candidate hillary clinton just ahead. unity. unity. and i'd like to... cut. so i'm gonna take this opportunity to direct. thank you, we'll call you. evening, film noir, smoke, atmosphere... bob... you're a young farmhand and e*trade is your cow. milk it. e*trade is all about seizing opportunity. being hacked and intellectual property being stolen. that is cyber-crime and it affects each and every one of us. microsoft created the digital crimes unit to fight cyber-crime. we use the microsoft cloud to visualize information so we can track down the criminals. when it comes to the cloud, trust and security are paramount. we're building what we learn back into the cloud to make people and organizations safer. we're always looking for ways to speed up your car insurance search. here's the latest. problem is, we haven't figured out how to reverse it. for

he is joining us live from london. this drawing is described as a multiuse unmanned aircraft.what does that mean? what is it for? >> essentially, the idea is that it will be an aircraft that will be able to penetrate to carry out reconnaissance, get target information for other aircraft, or to potentially conduct --rikes against what is the: interest for france and the u.k. in joining together on this project? haveance and britain both historically very strong aircraft manufacturing and design capabilities. there is a move towards stealth aircraft, u.s. manufactured stealth aircraft. both the u.k. and france fear [indiscernible] so, this project is partly to be able to maintain that capability within your -- europe. catherine n.: we are told that this is going to be 2 billion euros, but it will only be operational 14 years from now. that's an awful lot of money to spend on one weapon that won't be in use until 2030. isn't there some scope for this to be shot down, if you will excuse the pun? >> it is certainly a lot of money up front. on the other hand, i would caution that an

cnbc's julia chatterley joins us live from london for more. julia, it's a mixed bag.aring from investors? >> good morning, jonathan. you're right it's a mixed bag. some of the slight bounce-back that we saw in february for u.s. stocks fizzled yesterday. the dow and the nasdaq posting three straight months of losses but the dow managing to rise and i think a lot of investors now wondering whether or not february represents some kind of change in sentiment and actually it's time perhaps to go bargain hunting in u.s. stocks here. what's critical of course is the oil market and what we saw in february again was a price rise in oil overall. that's the first time since october of last year. so that could be critical. but overall, look to gold. the safest asset. that rallied 10% last month. so investors still very uncertain. now, a little less uncertainty for apple. they defeated the u.s. government in a ruling in -- over unlocking the iphone in an existing case. this could be pivotal for apple in other cases where the u.s. government is trying to get them to unlock iphones.

let's speak now to barnaby phillips, our correspondent live for us from london. barnaby, first of all, just tell us what you're hearing from authorities in reaction to these attacks that. >> the british government is holding an emergency security meeting, the group is called cobra. at the moment, that's the prime minister, the heads of intelligence, defense and so on. we understand that david cameron will speak afterwards and his message will probably be one of course of sympathy and solidarity with belgium and brussels, but also naturally reassurance for people in this country. britain is on a state of heightened alert, there is added security at railway stations, at airports around london this morning, trains are not running on the euro star from london to brussels, they're not running in northwest france, but britain is not on the highest level, which means that the authorities do not feel at the moment that an attack is imminent. i would expect some calming, reassuring words from the prime minister when he speaks later. >> of course we heard from the french pr

cnbc's julia chatterley is joining us live from london. how are the markets looking this morning? good morning, jonathan. well, just as investors were starting to look more confident, china's trade data pops up to remind us all there are all reasons to be concerned. china's exports plunging at the fastest race for seven years. now, why do we care? well, china consumes half of the world's resources, so when they have a growth problem, everybody else panics. to go to your point we saw asia stock markets under pressure, europe struggling today. we have all sorts of commodities in the red today as well. you made the point, everything was trading around two-month highs so i think seeing a bit of a pull back probably makes sense. but what this choppiness means, for banks is that it's tough to make money. when they can't make money they pay less bonuses and bonuses were down for the second straight running in 2015 and 2016 is a tough year as well. even if they were down in new york city, still paid out the industry $25 billion. wow. jonathan, back to you. >> wow indeed. julia chatterley,

alix: bloomberg's exit door order international government joins us now from london. r international government joins us now from london. >> in the short term, there is not that much good news out there for the brazilian economy. we saw some bad data in the beginning of the week. despite the fact there is renewed optimism in the market that the paralysis we've seen over the last few months, we're closer to the end of that. there's not much sign of good news that things will turn around soon. time, evene a long that for now, the not much hope for the brazilian economy. scarlet: investors are perhaps jumping the gun a little bit here. when you look at corruption investigations, those often take on lives of their own. is that what is happening here or is it still fairly focused? >> it will be interesting to see what the former president has to say for himself. he is due to give a press conference in sao paulo this afternoon. it's unlikely we will see him come out and say he is cooperating with the investigation. he has been taken in for questioning. it goes to show you ho

and pilots to be screened when they are on antidepressant medication and paul brennan joins us now from londonresting developments there paul, what will the impact be? >> indeed. well the impact will be far reaching jane. we knew about the mechanics of this crash very early on, the black box recorders were recovered from that hill side in the french alps and the preliminary report issued two months after the crash in may of 2015 so we knew exactly how the copilot locked his captain out of the cockpit and calmly steered the auto pilot of the german wings plane into the hill side killing 149 people aboard the plane, what the final report from french air accident investigators have gone in wide and systemic issues that allowed it to happen and ways they recommend can be changed to prevent it from happening again, there are 11 recommends they have issued. they have said that lubitz was consulting doctors for some period of time, for years before the fatal crash but there was an issue because the doctors were not obliged to tell the regulators or indeed his employer that he was having mental proble

joining us live from london is rehema ellis. and what more do we know about the situation?porter: jonathan, what we know is just moments ago, in a news conference conducted by the egypt aviation authority, as you point out this is a fluid situation. and they said that there were 55 passengers on board this plane and five crew members. again, that number is much lower than what we had heard earlier of some 80 passengers, but again according to the egypt aviation authority, 55 passengers on board. they also say what you have just mentioned. that the hijacker was wearing an explosive belt and forced the pilot to divert its course from the intended route of alexandria to cairo and to land in cyprus instead. we have been getting reports that once on the ground, the majority of the passengers were allowed to leave with the exception as you point out there are four foreigners remaining on board and seven crew members. from the egypt civil aviation

cnbc's hadley campbell joins us live from london. hadley, what can we expect in today's unveiling. >> good morning, sam. >> good morning. >> a lot of excitement and speculation surrounding apple's announcement later today and many industry insiders now expect of course that the company is going to unveil a smaller and even cheaper iphone. and that iphone, the iphone se could have features very similar to the iphone 6. now of course all of this coming just one day ahead of the company's encryption battle. they're due in court over that big encryption battle with the fbi. so a lot of conversation happening now amongst industry experts. wondering if apple's going to address that later today, as well. >> hadley gamble live from london. thank you very much. >>> now still ahead the sweet 16 is all set. we'll have full highlights from a weekend of march madness. plus bill karins is tracking snow. snow in new england. and a super coker on the west coast. the forecast when "way too early" comes right back. when your type 2 diabetes numbers ar

we're going to switch gears and bring in our colleague, caddie kay joining us live from london. >> good morning. surprised and behind the curve is how it feels in london this morning. i'm in for joe, mika and william. i'm reporting live from london and we're following that major breaking news out of europe. in belgium there have been at least two explosions at the brussels airport. at least 13 people are dead, many others have been injured. a senior european counterterrorism official says that isis is suspected in the attacks. all airport operations have been suspended. the interjior minister has raisd the security to the highest level. and there's a posted on social showing smoke coming from that station. all public transportation in the city, including the buses, the trams, and the metro subway system, have been shut down. the euro star train line is also closed there. the european union is asking their personnel to stay home or inside buildings. the u.s. embassy in brussels ordered staff to shelter in place and avoid public transport. the nypd tells nbc news that they're in the proce

for more of the reaction from the still breaking story, let's go to cnn kelly morgan joining us live from london with how europeans are reacting to what we're seeing. kelly. >> reporter: errol, we are seeing a heightened security across europe since last week since the brussels attacks unfolded. there is a heightened security in place. in fact, even before the attacks, we have seen more vigilance across europe. the vigilance has been improved because since january last year, there have been 14 terror attacks on european soul. it is a legitimate concern. the british government has improved its security measures. the home secretary teresa may last week outlining some of the increased measures the day after the brussels attacks. she said there are a number of measures. including security checks on some flights. also a greater cooperation between european counterintelligence services and also importantly working with countries, third countries is the way they term them to increase security at airports. there has been a greater vigilance and heightened security at airports in general. not specificall

from london. >>> meantime, flights to and from brussels airport have been canceled. security officers are on high alert throughout airports like dulles international and virginia. mikea turner joins us live from dulles with more on how the attacks are affecting travel plans and security. >> reporter: well, andrea, as you mentioned, all flights going to and from brussels have been canceled. i'm near the brussels airline counter here, we have not seen a line all morning long. and that's because they are co- chaired with unite airlines just at the other end of the airport. united sharing this morning that two flights arrived to brussels, one landed safely, and deplaned normally. the other was re-routed. as far as security here, it is tight. >> it is terrible, what happened in belgium. >> when travelers learned about the deadly explosions at brussels airport and a metro station overseas, they were shocked. >> horrible. i feel very sad about what happened to everybody overseas. >> reporter: despite the news, some passengers still felt comfortable enough to travel. >> we have to trust the security. >> i would probably think about it a second time before i made >> i am very uncomfortable t

debora is joining us from london. >> reporter: the hijacker managed to divert the plane for 90 harrowing minutes. his demands were a little confusing, though. he apparently wanted to make contact with his ex-wife, but it's also reported that he demanded the release of unspecified prisoners in egypt. shortly after the airbus a320 made an emergency landing, passengers, who appeared calm and unhurried, began filing out of the aircraft and down steps onto awaiting buses. a member of the crew could be seen exiting from one of the plane's exits. several other people, possibly flight crew, emerged from the aircraft, with one climbing out the cockpit window. egyptian air released this photo. it claims to show the suspect, who has been identified by crip officials as seif eldin mustafa. the hijacker claimed to have a suicide vest but officials didn't know if this was true. >> we don't know how he got, how you call it, the equipment he has. we don't know if it's real or not. and this will come as an outcome of the investigation thereafter. >> reporter: the hijacker did not have access to the cockp

us here. live from london. let's take a look at some of the stories we are covering there the next 60 minutes. the three men suspected of being behind two separate attacks in the belgium capitol killing 34 people. the picture is shown the man on the right still at large. isil says it was behind the tacks two explosions here. at the

joining us from our london office is jane.you look at euro-dollar, it was tracking mario draghi's every word. is the bigger story what happened on the back of the week dollar? >> i do think this is all about the euro right now, and the foreign exchange market -- the fact that he said there would be no more interest rate cuts -- does that mean that the euro cannot go down any further? the bigger picture, maybe the ecb was trying to come away from currency wars and instead look at the real economy. if that is the case, then this should be perhaps a positive for the global economy. francine: so what happens from now on? does europe continue rallying? >> i'm not sure if it will continue rallying, but the downside potential is more limited. of course, we need to see whether this can be successful and you they can be quite skeptical. but there are central bank that will be quite relieved it didn't go down further; those are the ones being embroiled in the currency wars. tom: the hills are alive with the sound of music. tell me how t

fox news foreign affairs correspondent joins us live from london with more. benjamin? >> good morning. three days of mourning announced by the belgium government for those 34 people killed and 200 wounded as a massive manhunt gets underway for the suspect who is still at large. the photos you are seeing on your screen are of the three suspects. we are just hearing that two of them appear to be brother. they were known to the pice for criminal acts previously. such was the case for the salam brothers in paris. the man in the white however is suspected of being the third attacker and he is still at large. one of the bombs blew up near the american airlines check in desk. after the horrific scene cleared and people scrambled to escape another suicide vest was found undetonated at the airport beginning the search for the third person in brussels. a taxi dropped off the three men at the airport and he picked them up from an area of brussels where the search is now underway. so far one apartment has been the main focus for police, and according to sources chemicals were foun

director and executive board member of the killian foundation, a counter terrorism think tank joins us from london, harris, thank you for your time. jacki said isil offers people job that don't have job prospect and hope, it offers them something. what in isil's message offers people hope? >> i think the number of things, i think that certainly if you look at the pathways of radicalization, every person's journey is unique, but there are some common factors. one of the things you have to have is personal grievances that are actual grievances, partial grievances, which are based on partial truths or perceived grievances. what charismatic recruiters within isil, al-qaeda or other islamist organizations do is feed into some of these people and offer solutions. one of the key things that they offer is a since of identity. they offer a sense of belonging to a group, almost like a gang, that many people who are not integrated within the society, within places like brussels actually can aspire to, can want to belong to, because ultimately at the end of the day as human beings, we do want to belong to som

we want to cross over to the english channel and talk to lama hasan joining us from london and lama, i do believe david cameron shortly just moments ago made news over there, as well in london. >> reporter: yeah, good morning to you. yes, prime minister cameron did tweet saying how shocked he was at the attacks that have happened this morning in brussels. we also got through to heathrow close proximity to brussels and knock-on effect that happens, we spoke to heathrow airport that told us that there is a heightened security alert. visible heightened security officers that are on patrol at heathrow airport now. now, as you have been talking all morning this is breaking news and the details are only just coming in. we are hearing that there has been at least one explosion at a metro station in belgium, possibly three and this, of course, comes -- after several people have been killed. we're hearing possibly ten in total and many more injured after that suspected terror attack at brussels airport this morning. two explosive devices reportedly detonated at american airlines check-in desk

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