here, just north of wellington, whitakers is here, just north of wellington, whita kers is proving hereis proving otherwise. it's me making chocolate for more than 120 years and has become one of the country's success stories. we have shown that we are growing. big multinationals often have strategic views in certain areas and i think we arejust views in certain areas and i think we are just solely focused on quality of product. the family run business has been growing using innovative flavours and slick marketing. now, it is taking a careful approach into the middle east, canada and asia. we don't try to spread ourselves too thinly. we just need to focus on particular areas. when you look at china, in particular, the change in demographic is the biggest opportunity on our horizon. with its main competitors production now leaving new zealand, the prospect of the southern chocolate here are mouthwatering. —— chocolatier. asian stocks are currently under pressure in early monday trading as rising tensions in the korean peninsula. tokyo stocks are down by about 68%. it is tending four days

intermittent was up dramatically but it was a large sector the sectors in wellington were participating in technology, healthcare, and the tech sector one consumers those did not lead after the november presidential election you saw materials and infrastructure not generally, the areas of large allocation with the managers because you're not seeing the large prop line perspective and marginal expectation do you have confidence in wellington yes has the playing field been fair observing over the last four or five year no, because the relationships are changing and the fourth quarter is a perfect example if i looked at through the first two months of that quarter they taken back every single ounce of under performance in the second quarter plus some and bill said we're reviewing the managers and seeing whether or not they fit where we want them to finger focus. >> most of strategies in will under review list we have most of them not all go not but we have convictions in the longer term but most of strategies we have concerns about the redo need to take into account one is the process of h

wellington last night actually avoid the worst of the storm. —— he is. —— avoided.ing on in christchurch. the lower south island will be the last to be affected by the storm today and into this afternoon local time. before the storm finally exits to the south of the country and into the pacific. the authorities have been given time to trigger emergency plans. and these had been successful? i would say so. there was a storm brewing to the north of the country for several days. it gave us if you dare to track it and then understand who would see those greatest impact. i think leading into the easter weekend, that was important, because a lot of people wa nted important, because a lot of people wanted to get away early, but because of the storm, there were restrictions in place on travel and people were urged to play it safe. as you would with a storm of this magnitude. you touched upon the easter weekend. we expecting to diminish at some point? yes. so the rest of the weekend here in new zealand, a few showers, but plenty of dry time to those places hit ha rd est of d

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one company claims it is not profitable fruit to produce chocolate in new zealand, just north of wellingtonit has been making chocolate for more than 120 years, and has become one of the country's success stories. we have shown that we are growing. big multinationals often have strategic views in certain areas, and i think we are just solely focused on quality of product. the family—run business has been growing, using innovative flavours and slick marketing. now, it is taking a careful approach into the middle east, canada and asia. we don't try to spread ourselves too thinly. we just need to focus on particular areas. when you look at china, in particular, the change in demographic is the biggest opportunity on our horizon. and, with its main competitor's production now leaving new zealand, the prospects for the southern chocolatier are mouthwatering. let's look at market is really quickly. an unusual day to day, a bank holiday in many countries around the world because of the easter long weekend. japan is open and trading, down 0.5% khazova very strong yen against the dollar. that figure

two on and two out for wellington castillo. get him out. and orioles go on to win 7-4.o a fun play there. i don't know what to tell you about the capitals last night other than the sun did come up today, right? and now the caps are in pittsburgh and historically this team does play better on the road. there is unity there. they're down two games. today they did confirm in a conference call they're starting braden holtby. he is the league's best goaltender. he hasn't played to the standards he sets. his three goals last night on nine in the second period was enough to put him on the bench for that final frame. they're going back to him. the look of steel in his eyes last night. he told me he'll be ready for what is ahead. >> the wicker we put this out of our mind and focus on game three is our only goal. we're not giving up hope. it really doesn't matter how you do. that i'm not worrying about the statistics or the standings in the series. that's not about that. it's about game three. it's about focusing on that first play. and we're going to go from there. >> not giving

it came ashore with gusts of wind, 90—100 mph, easing down as it went towards wellington, christchurchng in from the west. the rain is the big problem of the next few days. 50—100 millimetres of rain for many. some prisons will get more, up to 300 millilitres is possible for some, and flooding is likely. in the bay of bengal, a cluster of thunderstorms which is possibly developing into a tropical cyclone. it may take a few days. some rain in association with that. heavy showers in sri lanka. forthe association with that. heavy showers in sri lanka. for the bulk of india it is fine, dry and hot. upper 305 or low 405 in the west. temperatures in the 405. to the east of the philippines, this cluster of thunderstorms also shows potential to develop into a tropical law, a tropical depression, that is tripping to the south of the philippines, winds have been picking up, rains could be quite heavy. japan, should be bright and breezy. low 205 in hong kong where it should be fine and dry. s, heavy showers. particularly wet in some parts of ecuador, colombia, peru. back in europe it looks pretty

the -- a number of independent members, including pete wellington, billy korn, and another gentleman by the name of time retained seats. this approach alone, we reserved our right to underwrite this with a code of conduct. this code of conduct, we have now brought aboard. this code of conduct will be going on to the executive council, no doubt, over the next couple weeks. it is important. we have this confusion within the labour party. in the labour party queensland voted against trying to get these farmers a fairer deal. have the senator chairing a committee in canberra, suggesting they do need a code of conduct. mr. speaker, we believe we will the sure that we will get proper market principles in place. we will make sure these farmers are built -- are dealt with fairly. we stand beside these farmers. we are still wondering what exactly is the labour party position on this code of conduct. whether they believe this is being traded fairly or they have a foot in both camps. thank you for the latest rap of parliament here in canberra. we'll see you next time. georgia representative dre

the weather on sunday is looking overall pretty good for christ church, wellington and also auckland.eas. shanghai, we have the grand prix here. lots of heavy rain pushing through, it looks as though most of the wettest weather will be south of shanghai but there will be wet weather heading towards the city. let's have a look at the forecast. probably try but then it will cool off a little bit and we will see some rain on race day. early in the day. by the time the race is on, the weather conditions should be drying out. finally, look at europe. the weather is looking pretty good along western and southern parts. lots of sunshine the uk. on sunday, peaking at 23. eastern and central mad, lots of sun around. warmer in london than in athens. past north west africa, all the way into calorific, here temperatures are in the mid—20 jeez, not far off what we will be getting a london. the weatherfor the not far off what we will be getting a london. the weather for the week ahead coming up just a london. the weather for the week ahead coming upjust before ten o'clock so don't forget to tune in

heavy rain in wellington and christchurch. all of that eventually moves to this —— the south.hose will be easing down. the rain will be causing trouble. up to 100 millimetres quite widely. some places could see more than that. up to 300 millimetres in places, there will be some fairly major impacts from this. tv new zealand's reporter told me about the preparations. it is relatively calm, although we've been here about half an hour and the wind is steadily picking up. it is coming from the north, where the cyclonic system is coming from. we think if you bus coming through, light rain. a few heavy showers. but we are expecting the heaviest whether to set in in about another 5-6 whether to set in in about another 5—6 hours or so, at about 3pm local time. we are expecting the rain to start coming down and that's when these waterlogged soils across the north island, including here, that's when they will be put to the test. as you said, before, there have been two really significant storm systems which have come through in the past couple of months. auckland had its wettest march o

there are warnings that gusts of up to 140 kilometres an hour could hit the capital, wellington.he passenger who was forcibly removed from a overbooked united airlines flight earlier this week has said that he is likely to sue the us caria. david dao's daughter said that what had happened to her father had left the whole family distress. what happened to my dad should never happen to any human being, regardless of the circumstance. we were horrified, and shocked and sickened, to learn what had happened to him, and to see what had happened to him. we hope that, in the future, nothing like this happens again. yahoo! is facing a lawsuit alleging that the firm mismanaged funds set aside to help jailed chinese dissidents. the $17 million fund was set up after yahoo! provided information about political dissidents to the chinese government. the lawsuit filed on behalf of eight activists in china claims that the money was used to fight other legal cases, and also to buy properties in washington. the italian football club ac milan has been sold to a chinese led consortium. this of course

joining me now from wellington is migration expert, professor paul spoonley.and donald trump that's making a lot of people migrate to new zealand? that's one of the reasons. when we saw the figures last year, we would normally get about 3000 enquiries per month from the us. in the 48 hours after donald trump was confirmed as president we got 10,000. the same happened with brexit. there has been a spike in the numbers arriving. and particular from the uk and the usa. it is one of the factors. there has really been a surge over the past few months. what type of people, professor spoonley, are migrating to new zealand? well, we have a skilled migration policy, so 60% of those who arrive as permanent settlers come under the skilled migration category and therefore they need to have skills that new zealand requires. so they are essentially what we would call economic migrants. 35% come under the family reunification. they come from all parts of the world, so you've mentioned the usa. there are also large groups of arrivals from china and from india. what about the

i will say with the number independent members including peter wellington, billy gordon and another gentleman this approach alone we still reserve the right to underwrite this with the code of conduct. and this code of conduct we have now brought forward at this code of conduct, this code of conduct will be going to the executive council no doubt over the next couple of weeks four important -- we have this confusion within the labour party. the labour party in queensland voting against ready get these farmers a more fair deal and we have the senator cheering -- chairing a committee suggesting that they do need a code of conduct, saying they do need a code of conduct. so mr. speaker, we believe that we will make sure that we will get the proper market principles in place. .. >> when democrats sit down at the negotiating table with republicans, with the public outcry over broadband policy be appointed as leverage to use? >> guest: well, this is all part of it because the reclassification effect did both. and i think obviously that if this is the come to pass and again republicans will have some

all sorts of records were broken including the fastest race in wellington boots — and quickest in a threeame the fastest man to run the race dressed as a swimmer. he completed the race in an impressive two hours and 42 minutes. well done to everyone. let's have a look at the travel situation now. a good service on all lines. in south—east london, the a2 is getting busy as you head into town from eltham. over in east london, in mile end, bow common lane is closed between devons road and thomas road. that's because of a police incident. we understand there's been a stabbing there. and in barking, upney lane is blocked because of a crash near to the drive. let's have a check on the weather now with kate. good morning. a bright start for many of us this morning with sunny spells but this guy will turn a little more like this as we head through the day and showers arrive this chance of the sunshine is further south and gradually the cloud take several parts. showers come through the afternoon we will still have a couple of sunny spells an attempt to hold on. a maximum today of 14 or 15 degrees

so he made composite characters and change the name of the city, so it is not wilmington, it is wellington. william dean howell reviewed the book he said it is a book that has more justice and mercy in it. in addition to the marrow of tradition, he had two short stories made into films by the madet filmmaker and 1926 into the spider, and the house behind the theater was made into the millionaires in 1927. because of his legal training, chestnut did a lot of work with the naacp. he succeeded in getting prohibitions against a public screening of birth of a nation in the state of ohio or it chestnut died on november 15, 1932 at the age of 74. so wilmington as also the burial place of several famous authors, thomas gottfried and one of my favorite writers. in the 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, she was hot stuff on the new york times bestseller list. born after the civil war and the midwest and have the life of an aristocrat's daughter. she never cooked a meal or did any laundry into the day she married her then she married a man named john fletcher, who was a mining engineer. he moved her to a mining

i know you are there and wellington. how has this happened?industry in new zealand realized it cannot compete with large volume producers like australia. it has deliberately targeted a higher quality wine and americans are quite liking it at the moment. exportse of australian -- to the united states fell and new zealand rose. we overtook australia for the first time. >> at the south this trillion, i'm a little -- as i south australian, i'm a little perturbed by the story. is this the case of millennial's drinking more expensive wine than their parents? >> absolutely. increasing premiumization. forle are paying more good-quality wine. the baby boomers started drinking wine. y, andids, generation x, millennials are setting to drink wine earlier. >> what is a challenge for australia to regain the top spot? now that new zealand has turned out to be a formidable competitor? >> we do not want to forget australia sells twice as much more wine by volume in united states. new zealand has been able to develop varieties. identified asbeen a cheaper, bulk

from the duke of wellington who said, as lord chesterfield said of the generals of his day, i only hope when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as i do. the syria airstrike delivering a clear, decisive message to the assad regime. >> the objective was to send a clear message to al-assad. this is the first time the united states 245s has acted against the assad regime. ann coulter joins me next. no dog left behind. we'll show you this remarkable heroic reseseseses lou: the maximum number of pinnochios for susan rice. she claims president trump got assad regime to verifiably give up its chemical weapons. >> we were able to find a solution that actually removed the chemical what he phones from syria in a way that use of force would never have accomplished. politifact also forced to retract their mostly true rating for secretary kerry's claim that almost 100% of chemical what he once had been removed. joining me on the latest. justice gorsuch, best selling author, ann coulter, great to see you again. welcome to the broadcast. let's start with syria. your thoughts on the st

win and his inauguration in january, but look at how equity markets are faring so far, shares and wellingtonaining 1%. 5900, stocks back above rising for a fourth day as i.t. and banking stocks advance. aussie bond yields higher ahead of inflation data this morning. 2% expected coming into the to 3% trading range expected for the first time in nine quarters, yields ticking higher. the hong kong dollar trading near a 14 month low as bears have it in their sites. we are seeing an explosion of volume when it comes to fx options around the hong kong dollar. chinese bond he hills, we have seen them pick up, helping chinese financial shares, insurers and banks. this amid speculation they will benefit from that pickup in bond rates. the 10 year yield for china bonds the highest in nearly two years, so the msci china financials index rising the most since march 16, the line and blue. rishaad: thank you very much indeed, a quick check on first word headlines. a san francisco judge blocking president trump's plan to withhold money from so-called sanctuary cities that protect undocumented migrants. the

one of the only bright spots in asia along with shared in wellington.quities resuming their slide, set to erase the 2017 games. indonesia on a downturn. we are seeing the canadian loonie and the mexican peso gain after trump said nafta will not be terminated. that is certainly a big move. take a look at equity movers in asia saying the earnings this thursday, a china telecom posting its results at $775 million. following the most in three years after forecast below estimates. it is sliding in the prospects of australia, exports unchanged so far. tokyo resuming trade. it is not reached an agreement on a restructuring scheme just yet. rewards are to be had that carry trade and we have high interest rates from russia to brazil beckoning here, emerging equities are set for the best annual start in nearly a decade. trading at the highest level in almost two years and outperforming the space. the valuation of emerging equities at a discount at 10 percentage points over the ten-year average. : we are getting breaking live. we are hearing from paul elliott, abo

widening current account surplus, but stocks in wellington are down by .1% and a mixed picture in southeastsia. malaysian markets are coming back online a little weaker. we are looking at what is going on in the commodity spaces. copper is falling 1.6%. recently, gains although we might see some response given what a company has to say regarding the assessment of the chilly -- ch ile coppermine. oil is sticking around $51. that is adding to tuesday's advance. it is adding to the performance of energy stocks by .4%. minors leading gains in asia. banks falling by .2%. ono following what we saw drops in international stocks on wall street. let's look at what is going on with the open in hong kong. we are expecting a weaker start for the index. china unicom has suspended training -- trading in hong kong. it is not clear why that is the case. we will be waiting for more data about that. mentioning, some of the geopolitical risks coming into play today. we're just hearing from the japanese prime minister saying we could see another provocation from north korea, that is according to a news agency.

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result coming out on -- in the news on sunday night that would make for a lively open to trading in wellingtonay night. that's why i'll be in the office and you'll be here, our options trader also be trading the market because there is that -- there's that potential risk. that's probably the most extreme scenario for the market. clearly neither will be particularly or deemed to be particularly market friendly, and it will be a fairly inindividual uinvi invideous choice for the voter. >> you made some choices on twitter mentions. >> to look at the mentions of individual candidates or policies within the twittersp e twitterspere. if you look at the twitter votes or the twitter mentions that macron and fillon are certainly leading the pack. le pen is lagging. now, you can argue that perhaps is a demographic issue. in view of her voter base being rather less metropolitan, perhaps a little older, but it's interesting that macron continues to be ahead in that metric as well as opinion poll assumptions. >> what's your secret for staying up throughout the night? how many espressos? >> i have to pace y

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we have our photographer robert wellington out there right now at that federal building from where i was getting the picture and all the people standing outside. do you understand it's been evacuated because of the outage. what do you see on the ground there? >> several hundred people are standing outside and they are not letting anybody in. and i spoke with a gentleman trying to travel back to jordan who can't get a passport this morning. >> that's unfortunate for him, but he's just one of 100 or so people standing out on the street, robert? >> reporter: yes, actually maybe a couple hundred. maybe a handful on the other side. >> okay. thank you very much, robert. we do want to tell you we mentioned that there are no schools impacted by this outage at this point. good news here, too. no of the hospitals are impact the by the power outage and caltrain said that they are not having a problem. >> unless you need an emergency, don't call 911 right now. all the city agencies and services are out right now trying to deal with this problem exactly, and the when we saw kari hall's map of the

westerlies now, wellington, 16 miles per hour.delphia, 14 mile-per-hour wind speeds for you. and satellite and radar image picking up on the clouds that we just saw in that live shot. really important. those two pair up. notice we're seeing those whites moving from the northwest toward the southeast. thin, high clouds. returns not making it here now. i think the lehigh valley will see scattered showers. but i don't think that we're going to see anything here. so the phillies home opener forecast, we're going to pretty much be windy and gusty this afternoon. windy, sustained wind speeds, 15 to 25 miles per hour. mid game first pitch, seeing westerlies, 15 to 25 miles per hour. wind gusts topping out at 40 miles per hour at times. keep that in mind. the ninth inning, 46 degrees. the winds have a little about of a northerly influence. the feels-like temperatures will be cold er than the actual temperature. bundle up. at 12:30, a mix to the northwest of us. and then we start to see some showers kind of just skirting by us. and it look

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somebody trying to run the fastest marathon dressed as a love heart, someone in wellington boots andk, danny. sally from hastings is running her 12th marathon on. the weather looks good for the runners we think, ben. perfect for running, i suspect. a bit chilly at the start line. quite a lot of cloud around that it should break up as we go on through the day. temperatures should eventually get up into the mid teens. good luck if you are running, the weather should play all. for the rest of us, not a bad day. early sunshine with our weather watcher in norfolk. sunny spells through the day but a chilly start out there. that is nothing compared with what is heading our way as we get through the next three days because up here, lurking to the north is some pretty cold air. that will eventually be heading in our direction but as i said, a chilly enough start this morning but some spells of sunshine. a bit of extra cloud across east anglia and the south—east and a fair amount of cloud in wales. northern england starting with spells of sunshine but on the chilly side at atm. five or six deg

[laughter] >> the duke of wellington was incredibly clever. one of the last things he wanted in the battle of 1840 was to invade france. he really doesn't want the french has a view to write up against his neighbor the way the spanish conducted the guerrilla war against the french. the french had stolen food, killed animals. they treated the population incredibly bad. they turned them into enemies. duke was determined this was not happening in france. he knew the one thing you had to do was you had to buy food. if you went to a village you bought the food that you got from the villager. [indiscernible] duke said in an order out to the army and he said i want every convicted forger in the ranks. [laughter] >> 40 men turned up. and he gave them a whole lot of english and spanish and portuguese money and said turn it into french money, which they did and it worked like a charm. [laughter] >> and the french peasantry did not fight against the british forces and he did not suffer guerrilla war. but again this is very different compared to the probl

[laughing] the duke of wellington was incredibly clever mentor one of the last things he wanted in the battle of 1840 was to invade france. he really doesn't want the french has a view to write up against his neighbor the way the spanish conducted the guerrilla war against the french. what the president is the french had treated -- stolen food, killed animals. they treated the population incredibly bad. they turned them into enemies. the duke was determined this is not happening in france. he knew the one thing you had to do was you had to buy food. if you went to a village you bought the food that you got from the villager. sharp was a french hasn't -- [inaudible] the duke, quite true, he said in an order out to the army and he said i want every convicted forger in the ranks. [laughing] forty man turned up. and he gave them a whole lot of english and spanish and portuguese money and said turn it into french money, which they did and it worked like a charm. [laughing] and the french peasantry did not fight against the british forces and he did not suffer guerrilla war. but again this i

wellington are falling for an eighth straight day.ta out of new day, a larger than forecasted forecast. taking a look at other the yuans, we do have falling. aussie holding just above averages. taking a look at commodities, if we could. we did have the commodity index rising. for a newund optimism economic zone. rating around 54 bucks there. offset concerns for rising u.s.. i want to take a look at a chart here that shows you the dollar-yen move so far. something to latch onto. this is according to a strategist. something to keep an eye on. it posted a record on wednesday. here in red. it is the highest over three years. striking a cautious tone, saying is also ons growth the agenda this wednesday. yvonne: thank you so much. sophie kamaruddin on the markets. now let's get to first would news with paul allen. the minutes of last month's fed meeting show most fed officials will begin to shrink the balance sheet this year. hikes in the rate months to come. overed shows a split inflation. president trump has shaken off his national securi

i would just suggest only about domestic after we've asked tough questions about companies like wellington and a few others >> well,-fair enough, i understand. >> thank you. >> just one last thing. >> yes, mr. casciato go ahead. >> you said that we've had really good quarter, correct? >> yes. let's see, for the quarter to date, we were up 4.37%. that's a fantastic corbett i would love to annualize that. >> okay. so on the where we are at right now, if we continue, what can we tell our members? what can we tell our plan sponsor, right now, where we are going for this year? is our plan sponsor going to be able to reduce his contributions to the city? >> if we make over 7.5% you can tell our retirees and the posts 1996 folks [inaudible] to the extent we can pay that out of the excess return. we smoothed all of our investment experience in an over five years. so if we earn 20%, knock on wood, if we may 20 percent we only recognize 20% of that every year for the next five years. right now, we have five [inaudible] two very strong ones and we have one in 1.3 and a 3.9. so all of that is phased i

prince william parkway left lanes block at wellington road with crash scenes out in manassas and then in alexandria and on the manassas line. so it was causing some significant delays. things should start to get back to normal. metro is on time except for safetrack. back to you allison and holly. >> great to see people coming out here saying their last goodbyes before we take off. >> i've got a wedding to plan. >> she says she's scared she's got we had to go plan. family members loved ones bid farewell to the sailors over the weekend. ship is heading out for a seven-month deployment with a crew of 350 sailors. this is the first deployment for this uss bella gulf since 2014. >>> well little girl in arkansas recovering after a horrible accident. hard to watch i'm sure here. four-year-old somehow managed to unlatch the back door avenue moving bus and then she fell out there she is. the bus driver didn't realize what had happened. licensed firefighter happened to be driving behind that bus. he carried her to a parking lot as she began to cry for her mom. she has broken jaw but she's expec

gw parkway this is outside the beltway down past alexandria closer to wellington, it's closed betweenorning side lane and wayne wood boulevard so try to keep it to route one to get around that as you head towards groveton this morning. just seeing a wide view of slow traffic on 395 inbound bottom of the beltway. metro is on time except for safe track. back to you. >> 7:08 right now. this morning a tense battle continues to brew ov absentee policy. metro says it's bracing for a sickout tomorrow. >> this after nearly 500 rail and bus employees filed advance absence requests. fox5's annie yu is following the story for us this morning. she's live at friendship heights metro with the latest now. annie. >> reporter: hey, good morning, allison and steve. well, this is all happening during an interesting time. right now metro is going -- it's doing -- negotiation times with its largest union and so it's very tense, it's getting ugly but this recent possibility of a sickout stems from a new policy that was issued by metro's management. and it aims to crack down on the excessive absence of its