lyon are used to celebrating in berlin. they were crowned champions in the german capital four years ago after beating here said. they won't repeat that can set a record for winning the title earlier than any other team in bundesliga history. i'm making a habit of breaking records. they already are unbeaten in fifty one league games and was free again. and they've won their last eighteen euro counseling striker has boosted the sunlight since returning from injury. he's a good goalscoring form and that's helped give him the chance to become the first team ever to win the week in march. with the title race all the over one on will be on next week's champions league clash with man united. please get someone who is just about written will win the league at some point when the knockout games come. we have to be up but her top levels were doing well now we can still improve. puppets and pointed to one such site on this blog. first of may want to celebrate. orginally is leaving nothing to chance he's taking his strongest team to b

in berlin.with bloomberg. guy johnson and i are back with "the pulse." twitter.ollow us on a reminder of our top stories. european stocks are down after the federal reserve chair janet yellen signals benchmark interest rates could rise six months after the central bank ends bond purchases. then we will talk about luxury stocks. hermes reporting an 8.9% increase in earnings. next doing pretty well. ♪ crimea is the ukrainians territory. no one will recognize this so-called referendum and annexation. 's prime minister talks toss in an exclusive interview. we're live in russell says eu leaders meet to discuss punishing russia for seizing crimea. >> australia may have found something. these satellite images could be the wreckage of some of the missing malaysian jet. we will bring you the latest briefing on flight 370. >> and yellen moves markets. she signals rates could rise in the u.s. after the fed stops its bond buying program. >> good morning to our viewers in europe and a warm welcome to those w

fleeing a ban on unislamic music, africa's festival du desert comes to berlin, and not enough to kill the pain, how indonesia's top anti-drug laws affect patients. it could've been so easy to see -- save a key chunk of ecuador's national park. before the oil drillers moved in, the ecuadorian president offered the world a deal to save this precious region, but the lure of liquid gold was there. it is clear this unique region and its people are under threat. >> it is usually a learning experience when sergio alvarado takes his children to the turtle ponds. the family have lived here for generations. the park was also home to the hungry river turtles, and it will be getting crowded for humans and animals alike. the ecuador government plans to drill for oil here. >> progress means having a good life. we should maintain the resources at our disposal and protect nature over the long term so that our community will also have a good life in the future. >> but the good life for the quichuas is under threat. at the same time every day, in the afternoon, when it is hottest, the whole family take

tonight, from west berlin. >> good evening.lin wall on the most historic night in this wall's history. what you see behind me -- >> i remember being in the control room watching this, saying can i believe what i'm seeing? there was tom, saying this is happening. he was saying this is stunning, this is just a stunning phenomenon. >> what we were seeing was the destruction of what we had all grown up with in the 20th century. we'd all grown up with the soviet threat. we'd all grown up with democracy versus communism. >> on the other side of the wall young east germans have rushed through the brandenburg gate undeterred by water cannon -- >> we were on the air for five straight hours. >> for almost 30 years now these people have been confined living in a prison-like state governed at every step of their life by the east german government. >> tom did not have a prompter. tom did not have a script. he just had the entire history of the 20th century in his head. and it all came out that night. >> sometime after midnight at the berlin

berlin remains beijing's most important trading partner in the eu. deal was signed between the banks. for germany's financial capital to become europe's trading center for china's you juan currency. and the two countries plan to cooperate in other areas, too, in the future. such as environmental and security policy. the relationship between the two countries has never been closer, the leaders say. today we talk about the fact that political trust also develops through having things in common and by breaking new ground. we are also able to share ifferent opinions. for example, on human rights. a topic addressed by the german president earlier on friday. and she was able to experience freedom of express as demonstrators asked for freedom for tibet. in china such a protest would be illegal. he sticks with noninterference of the internal affairs in other states. it's a principle which also applies to the crimen crisis. >> we support the efforts by the international community to diffuse the situation and take an open attitude to all concepts which serve t

she stopped by berlin's east side gallery with this what's left of the berlin wall the morning one hundred artists from around the world painted murals to commemorate the nineteen eighty nine fall of the berlin wall that led to german unification the president also met with a group of five foreign current officials were at the center of the story german unification to seek their advice on how best to prepare for unified korea later thursday pot is expected to travel to the former east german economic center of preston and leigh mp tells of her unification policies during a speech there. ending or summit talks with her german counterpart the day before president unsecured full support from germany and charting a course too wordy unified korea present odd and german chancellor angela merkel agreed to set up a cool operative system to repair the korean peninsula for social and economic unity he pleaded who needed them to come along. let's see don't let it go to his home and they suck that much money did you feel yourself open to the haka. i was in fact it'll do until my hand out without me ba

first time we played in berlin, after the war. 1971. and germans were really with tears in their eyes, especially at the end of the concert, when we played the israeli anthem. >> and what was that like for you and for members of the orchestra? >> well, i'm neither jewish nor israeli nor german. i was proud and honored to be part of this. daniel baroboyne was our soloist in that concert and it was an occasion that nobody will forget. another occasion was in 1982, we went across the border into lebanon. in those days, there was this war between the southern lebanese army and the north, and fatah et cetera, and the israelis erected a good fence where doctors were treating wounded lebanese. right -- they are doing that now with syrians also. israeli doctors are helping out on the border. and we went across this border into southern lebanon into a tobacco field with the help of an israeli border police. we erected a stage and a sun stage for the orchestra and are only southern lebanese came to this concert. after the concert which lasted abo

air force, and armstrong was on a mission in berlin, looking for nazi doctors. he called them german physicians. and for many years the idea, the fiction, was that they were german physicians. really i and others before me have put together the very clear picture of what most of these men were doing during the war. and you'd see them here, this photograph has never been printed before. this is 34 of the top leading physicians who worked in a classified program, one of the very first programs that was part of operation paperclip, inside germany in heidelberg, starting days after the war ended, because the army air force new that to bring these men to the united states so quickly would never fly, and so they had them working there in heidelberg. later, 34 of them would join harry armstrong at a facility in texas. the hugo -- we'll get to him in a moment. in the meanwhile, as all the doctors i just showed you the photograph of, were working at heidelberg, another area of military intelligence came knocking and they had information that six of these doctors were wan

it also helps berlin is very inexpensive. when you start a business, you don't expect to make that much money. there's something about the affordability. i think it has gone to the point where he have this critical mass, which at some point start to jumpstart. it is not quite there yet, but it is close. >> why haven't we seen a big exit or ipo? >> the "why" questions are harder to answer than "what." it is probably one of the critical things that has to happen. my best answer is that people have sold the company's to early and been too eager to quickly transact and sell their businesses, and have not had the commitment or vision to build one up over decades. >> he also caught up with the founder and ceo of research gate, an international social network for scientists in which bill gates recently invested $35 million of his own money. >> we had several funding rounds before. very famous u.s. investors. my dream was to have bill gates as an investor. his goal to eradicate diseases and all his interests in science are fitting pe

hans nichols joins us from berlin. a cautionary tale of what not to do if you are a company and you have some fans who are passionate about you. it begins innocently enough with a 15-year-old creating a facebook age for ferrari. he gets over 500,000 users. ferrari steps in and says, we want to control this, we want to curate it, and we should probably do it for legal reasons. father initially agreed to it. they spent 5500 hours working on it, they say. then ferrari takes away their administrator rights. lawsuithas filed a asking for $11 million for lost compensation for all of the work they put into it. you have this nasty situation where a company is suing their fan. i threw it back to you guys. if someone created a page for the pulse and you got to 500,000 lights and then you stepped in and tried to take it over, what would be your next move? would you nurture that fan would you try to control them? what would the guy johnson, francine lacqua move be? more course, we would be than happy for that to happen because we

researchers in berlin are studying their patients' sleep patterns.during their night shifts, the doctors use themselves as guinea pigs subjected to special lighting situations. after the light exposure, they study their own sleep patterns. >> given small amounts of light, which we are exposed to everywhere in daily life, can lead to changes in physiology including the structure of the brain. >> the list of diseases caused by artificial light ranges from depression to diabetes and even cancer. >> there's a high probability that for people who are already predisposed to developing these illnesses, artificial light is the thing that tips the balance. >> that's why hamburg's city lighting advisor is calling for intelligent concepts for preserving the darkness of night . >> the fact that lights are not turned down in the evening, the eyes much more sensitive, and the light draws a lot of insects -- that creates a level of light pollution which is not acceptable. >> the fighters from guerrilla lighting are looking for their next target. if light and precio

home of the berlin wall. it was the foreign minister from germany who said today that this is the most serious crisis since the berlin wall came down. foreign ministers of all the european union countries, including germany, met today in emergency session in brussels to try to figure out how the rest of the world is going to respond to what russia has just done in ukraine. when the berlin wall did fall in 1989, it started this chaotic centrifugal process by which the soviet union spun off into russia and all these new countries, all these new countries that had previously been soviet socialist republics. one of the most immediate crises to arise from that break in history was about all of the nuclear weapons of the ussr. at the time when the berlin wall came down, the united states had about 22,000 deployed nuclear weapons. for context we still have about 5,000 of them now, but then we had 22,000 of them and we think that the soviets had about the same number. and, yes, a lot of the soviets' 22,000 or so nucl

>> live from the dw studios here in berlin, welcome to the journal. >> great to have you with us. coming up in the show, the heat is on for the french president. his socialist government resigned after sunday's elections. >> most of the flights will be cancelled later this week. >> and dire warnings from the united nations on climate change saying the world needs to take urgent action to combat global warming. the french president is calling on the european union to do more to help the country's economy after an unprecedented setback at the polls at the hands of the national front. >> the former interior minister has been named the country's new prime minister, part of a cabinet reshuffle after heavy losses in polls. in a televised speech he said he took personal responsibility for the election route and promised tax cuts and other promises for workers. french unemployment remains stubbornly high. more than 10%. growth was just .3% last year. >> a humiliating result for the french president. what does it mean for france? let's bring our correspondent now in paris. will the cabinet

it in berlin like the last month. 600 people watch the movie. diego was explaining why my uncle worked and why he did all of this. the people in berlin embraced the movie and the movie which will be showing on the 26th and it's going to be opening on the 28th. a lot of our cousins are going all over the country speaking and going to the screening. it is a lot of work but we want people to know what kind of man he was and why he fought so hard for the farm worker strike and boycott and all of the rights and a lot of people don't really know him. this movie will educate them on what he really did and who he was. >> a lot of growers today don't like the name cesar chavez, do you think that might change that perspective once they see why he did it and everything behind it? >> well, that would be idea, but -- >> pretty engrained and here you have this mexicano american trying to change the whole system. they didn't like it because it cut into their profits, but the cutting into the profits gave the working families a semidecent living. some of them i

will meet the chancellor angela merkel to talk about relations between china and berlin.t is talked about -- it is referred to as a special one because they have so many intertwining's. tdp in germany is very linked to how china is doing. know, it is special economically. not as politically. one reason for that is, angela merkel has been around longer than any other european leader. she has managed to make -- he has good relations with the top brass. she's going into beijing in the summer. then at the end of the year there's going to be a full cabinet meeting of chinese members and german cabinet members that will take place here in berlin at the end of the year. that is some thing that happened last year. after which, in whole slew of trade contracts was announced. that leads me to the second thing which is the ethnic -- economic relationships. germany's absolute powerhouse with a comes to trade with china. 140 billion euros last year. that is more than france, u.k. and italy combined. yes, very important relationship there, francine. much, david.so before you go, there

the berlin wall. whether it was the physical structure of the iron curtain that winston churchill described. that iron curtain was drawn by i believe the finger of winston churchill, franklin roosevelt and joseph stalin at yalta on february 11, 1945, when we didn't know how world war ii was going to turn out. but the allies got together and they drew a line across the map and that line on the map was on the east side of that line, they were going to live under the soviet union. e iron fifth of communism -- fist and it was determined at yalta and curious that putin has invaded crimea that inclauds yal tmp a and i hope to stand on that real estate where ma decision was made and it is a momentous time in history and countrye effect of free after free country and spilled over to southeast asian korea and southeast asia. i have longed believed that held we had a different position, if we had insisted with stalin we weren't going to hand over the countries over to him we would end up with a map we see today

but i found in berlin were documents that dr. benzinger was on the original list of criminals tried at the doctor's trial at nuremberg but he was mysteriously released a few weeks before the trial and turned over to the custody of the u.s. army air force and brought to america. that is the not see dr. trial and was acquitted. >> i write about him and ellington the book one of the only surviving witnesses to what went on into a concentration camp amazing story it is amazing how these little buckets are lost. when i was reading the try transcript i discovered when he was put on the witness stand because the doctor removed a piece of his liver without anesthesia attitude dissect how long someone could survive in the ocean and how much seawater you could drink so they would simulate the test written by the other doctors who would come to texas. but he was so angry he headed dagger handed in his pocket and he jumped off the witness stand and tried to stab the doctor. this incredible moment i could not believe i had never heard of this

get it returned to its rightful owners, with the action of the soviet union coming from the east to berlin and they were intent on doing just the opposite, stripping germany, stripping its museums of everything that they could that was movable, taking it back to russia as war compensation for their enormous losses. so here we are doing exactly the opposite, trying to preserve it, trying to get it back to its original owners while the soviets are trying to compensate themselves for their losses. with respect to the reports, we had lawsuits that were being brought against the swiss banks, and we began to realize that there was a broader story than the amounts put in swiss banks by victims. and that broader story was, how did the germans finance a war effort for 12 years when their currency, the reichsmark, was not accepted as international currency? and to his enormous credit, william sweeney, may he rest in peace, who was then the historian of the state department, came to me and said, we are to look into this. they had an agency study, more than a dozen agencies involved including the cia

hans nichols joins us from berlin with more on this meeting.f the biggest names in that meeting, including the cofounder of paypal and a venture capitalist. what secrets did he tell you? no real secrets, but a lot of insights from peter. there are two questions hanging over this conference. to what extent is the berlin tech scene ready to take off? why has there not been an ipo. the other question -- what would the edward snowden revelations due to internet commerce? he's have a listen to what had to say about the incompetence of the nsa. >> we are not dealing with a big brother type stake. it was not like the nsa really knew everything. -- it was massively intrusive, it was probably massively incompetent. this, weher point on are here in front of an old pump station. it seems like a party. on this question of whether or not there has not been a big berlin tech exit, one of his points was that perhaps startups should stay startups of little bit longer. the why questions are much harder to answer than what. we have not seen a big exit or big ipo

our europe editor david tweed is in berlin following the latest. let's talk first of all about where you walk, the reaction from germany. were talking about how angela merkel had the conversation with putin last night. not a lot came out of that conversation, it seems, apart from the fact that putin accepted a proposal from chancellor merkel that observers can go into premiering -- crimea and actually see if there is any that someo the fact of the russian speakers are being discriminated against. that is one thing that came out of the conversation. there's something else that i think is even more disturbing, and this is a little snippet, it came from a new york times guy. briefed on the conversation angela merkel actually had with obama. when she was asked about what her impression of speaking with putin was like she responded that two was "in another world." she said she was not sure if putin was to -- in touch with reality, according to people briefed on the call. that is a little bit concerning. in terms of the meetings that have been taking pla

no man flu i know of. >> you are in berlin.-- surely you are due a day off. >> i'm going to take the next month off. it is my man flu. >> good luck with that. i'm sure you will handle it well. >i mentioned, we may need to tak about the pressure he is under. >> he might have to take a few days off. >> this is a for this story from the front page of the guardian sports section. they will have a flypast during the game tomorrow. will be destructive to the players and everybody else. once you lose the fans, it is the beginning of the end. >> thank you, ben. i will deliver the news to mark. moat --a testing of the rover. -- of the it is being tested just off the a1 to the north of london. industrialists say they have the right consistency of sand. the lighting is even on the martian spectrum. countdown continues in the next hour. storyl have more on that when we return. ♪ wax strategy shift. a new offer for ipad. first twitter. now you too. turkey clamps down on the video-sharing website. secondise for italy's biggest bank. resource

matches still to play the corneal this team wrapped up the title with a three one win over kent to berlin. tony calls open the scoring after just six minutes making it one nail. just minutes away their money it gets ahead in the second goal. chances are waiting more fully in charge and there was little hectic to do in the second half and almost pulled one back for berlin from the penalty spot weinstein was never under threat. with eleven minutes to go talk to me that he'd made it three one. it's long it's nice to go with undefeated this season. it was the cost is tucked away in this league is history they did great the courts. i think we can be proud to win a pot of this team. and it doesn't foam from the start it's the twenty fourth league title for the variance in stretches there on the league in runs of fifty two games. the washington state. rescue teams continued to mount the week besides debris following the devastation mudslide on march the twenty second the small museum said was completely buried oftentimes hillside gave way as the week progressed. three years of finding anyone els

why are you in berlin and what do you hope to learn? is the fastest-growing city for our users right now. i am here to learn about the market and meet local entrepreneurs. >> transfer wise, tell us what they do. >> it is an online money transfer platform. we help people make international payments. anks are known for offing really poor service at a high cost. >> so let's say i want to send a lot of euros back home to my cousin. how do i do it? >> you open your smartphone, load up the application. cousin's details, your debit card details and off the money goes. >> you were the first employee at skype. what growing pains have you had at your new company? what did you learn from your experience at skype? >> we learned about how to go through the growth of the company. how do you set up the teams, the structure, how do you manage when everything is changing constantly? 30%re growing about 20%, and everything is changing all the time. changeser thing that all the time is currency rates. euro/dollar right now is about 1.38. if i transfer wit

now the celebrations were held in berlin the academic orchestra folk instruments name the three team in the piece to be a concert of the berlin university of arts has a traditional and well classic music was included in the concert programme about one thousand people came to the concert. representatives of the federal government german going to start in berlin to spill authorities were among the audience notice of emissions a symbol of the traditions that need to be demonstrated to the world support this initiative ten diplomatic mission to protect countries organized a great holiday guests to entertain and treated the calender delights as a thematic exhibition featured information into the main achievements of cows accent. the latest news is that three w dot cardstock that kate said does extends property developer market has become more structured with more delineated market segments companies have also settled in their respective segments revenue generation of real estate companies has become more transparent. but you can help ease some of us from these rumors. a large institution

home of the berlin wall. it was the foreign minister from germany who said today that this is the most serious crisis since the berlin wall came down. foreign ministers of all the european union countries, including germany, met today in emergency session in brussels to try to figure out how the rest of the world is going to respond to what russia has just done in ukraine. when the berlin wall did fall in

we begin this evening in berlin where present in a is on her state visit. turner forty stations expected to lay out her unification policies with hopes of learning from the german re unification experience for that latest on her trip because that line for presidential office correspondence he has time to cool it is traveling with the president is and what's the latest. i can't i have a mac economy having a mind conductor. i knew i mean who really had it when they hit the heat to warm up in a database of money at the presidential palace. i gave them that well but at the brandenburg gate and many like him or ranch in bali can imaging agent and he didn't have to read and hear an apple. the leader. when the economic height than the current record low the german cooperation on her being the case in college. i can hang in there maybe you can be that being a stand in the name. i think angela me with a western official. a leading role in turning indication of what their body the following day the president if he had a good read read read and what to keep wiping rac

berlin the cities of us and i speculate that happy with us your headlines at this hour bloodshed in crimea ukraine says one of its soldiers has been killed and a military base but mr advani at kenya says the competition teams of military gauge local buy something terrible and shia days after russia at the bottom and with no time in signing a treaty to make ready a part of project due to the west that blocking the entrance. in germany and the united states had to dance. calling it unacceptable and frightening get another round of sanctions the guy. ukraine had. what's more the country's defence minister has authorized ukrainian troops to use their weapons if they come under fire. this comes after the death of a soldier in cranial kiev says unidentified gunmen killed a member of the ukrainian army when they stormed a base near the crimean regional capital since our whole block from russian sources claimed the dead man belonged to the local defence force as the death is the first since russian troops took control of the peninsula almost three weeks ago. we'll look at the reaction from ukraine

here in berlin. human rights has been appealing to germany to press china on human rights tibet is one issue that's perennial what is the chancellor going to do shoot balls. she put a lot of pressure on china she found a rather elegant formulation in her press conference. she reminded to china at that creative and innovative nations need to have freedom of expression freedom of expression must still risk if the nation wants to stay in a bit but we know that the chairman president and a mystic how he put it much more significant pressure on china. i think that if that china needs to be real rule of law and needs to develop its judicial system further texas and stronger words there from the german president monique rain forest in linda's ever thanks. the thing it's another unexpected turn of the now almost three weeks that's for missing the nation and as might be seminal australian authorities are saying the new readers the latest data suggests the plane was traveling faster than thought. probably cras

outside the ukrainian embassy in berlin flowers commemorate the victims of the mind on people come here in fiji today and likely two or even me she and many are worried about the crisis in crimea ben goes on with the russians take the crimean still take ukraine next then kazakhstan and just keep going. but the word torture nearby eu leaders were also in berlin for a conference on increasing civil society in europe but it's a crisis in crimea that has people's attention. the president of the european parliament told reporters that peace must be reached for diplomacy despite pressures violations of international law. this post should we keep negotiating with russia to prevent the use of military force. the author is unequivocally yes. let's be clear this was the fact finding mission doesn't guarantee a successful outcome. but surely it's a five step towards establishing a dialogue the basic principle must be that people who talk to each other. don't shoot each other what the women on the screen she's become a non speaking with depression and us president on the phone on sunday german chan

still on the deed of the city as here in berlin this is a journal and brian thompson said well coming up in the show. president obama urges western unity over crimea and tells a rush of the brute force winds. bought by bishop applying pope francis accept the resignation of a senior german church leader accused of lavish spending. and by new celebrates after winning the german league title in record breaking stuff. i know the transatlantic relationship received some new life in brussels with us present brock obama and european leaders promising to push forward on a controversial trade deal and to prevent russia from gaining more territory new crack. the korean crisis top not only the eu agenda but talks with officials from nato as well. obama and nato secretary general anders told us this and discuss additional steps the military alliance could take including enhanced exercises and appointments will be going live to our correspondent in brussels and just the bit where president obama has just delivered a keynote speech. first we have this report. this is president obama his first offic

i am terry martin in berlin. our top stories, russian forces storm and airbase to assert military control over crimea. of support for the ukrainian government in kiev. and they will have to wait another week to celebrate their 24th league title. russian forces in crimea have stormed one of the last military facilities on the peninsula still in ukrainian hands. soldiers smashed through the front gates of the bill back where vehicles, gunshots and explosions could be heard complex.om inside the one ukrainian soldier was injured. officials said russia had given him an ultimatum to surrender. russian forces have also been seizing ukrainian military assets elsewhere in crimea. took control of ukraine's only submarine. is nowsays the vessel officially part of the black sea feet. for more now, we go to our correspondent on the ground. plenty of dramatic new developments. tell us more about the airbase. how important is the facility? important for ukrainian forces and now for russians. from 2002 it was it wasian -- until

david tweed joining us with the latest on lufthansa out of berlin.ing of germany, the bundesbank will release its annual report later this morning. hans nichols will be speaking to the bonus bank president coming up on bloomberg a little later on. 634 a.m. the zombie thriller the last of us won best game at the bathtub video boardgames. joining us now, chief executive of the trade organization representing the u.k. gaming industry, richard wilson from tiger is here to tell us all about what is happening in the industry right now. thank you very much for joining us today. a big night for the gaming industry. one of the us winners but good times also for the u.k. game development and digital publishing sector. what is behind the good times? >> i think the first thing is that the advent of smart phone technology has created a brand-new significant market for the gaming industry. a billion smart phones were shipped. creating games for mobile and tablet devices is very exciting creating new opportunities for revenue. >> what is the talent like within the

researchers at berlin's some tactic hospital are studying their patients sleep patterns. during a night shift. the doctors use themselves as guinea pigs subjected to special lighting situations moon. after the light exposure. the study their own sleep patterns. aye aye aye aye. the new small amounts of light which were exposed to every corner and daily life can lead to measurable changes in physiology. including the structure of the brain when this becomes. the list of diseases caused by artificial light ranges from depression to diabetes and even cancer. the high probabilities of four people who are already predisposed to developing these illnesses artificial light is the thing that tips the balance one another. that's why he turned his hand or to see the lighting adviser is calling for intelligent concepts for preserving the darkest night. aye aye aye. so to speak to me the lights are not turn down an evening in the eye is much much more sensitive to light draws a lot of insects. that creates a level of light pollution which is not acceptable. i miss my tears from korea

and west berlin. kennedy saw it with relief. he said better a wall than a war because it was better the soviets did that on behalf of their clients in east berlin and east germany than to go to war and close down west berlin all together. in this case, i'm trying to see what a reasonable decision by putin would be. was the decision to put these ununiformed troops into crimea a more modest step, a less aggressive step, than something more dramatic like seizing all of eastern your crane? is there a hope here? i would like to have a hope that he is retrained and he will be more restrained in the future rather than this notion this is just an escalating effort to somehow grab real political control of ukraine. >> i think it could have been worse. i think in the case of crimea, there were a lot of russian troops there already. don't forget, that's the home of the black sea fleet. it's very ethnically russian. it was a clinical thing to do, and quite an easy thing to do in many respects, and does it peer to

czechs who waved the revolution without firing a shot, and east berliners who marched past the guards and finally tore down that wall. today, what would have seemed impossible in the frenches of flanders, the rubble in berlin, a prison cell, that create is taken for granted. a germany unified. the nation's of central and eastern europe welcomed int into democracy. here once the battleground of europe we meet at a hub in union in peace and cooperation. the people of europe, hundreds of millions of citizens east, west, north, south, are more secure and more prosperous because we stood together for the ideals we share. this story of human progress was by no means limited to europe. indeed, the ideals that came to define our alliance also inspired movements across the globe. among those very people ironically who too often had been denied their full rights by western powers. after the second world war people from africa to india threw off colonialism to secure their independence. in the united states citizens took freedom rallies and endured beatings to secure their civil rights. as the i

berlin, of course. jonathan has the market reaction. jonathan, plenty of market reaction. >> you look at the russian equity market, headed to the biggest drop. the ruble holding up a little bit for one reason. the russian central bank has come out of high rates from 5% to 7%. they cite the rates are intended to prevent inflation risks. what it doesn't do is take away that political risk. you saw what happened in turkey when they hiked rates. a complete turn-around again. in the broader markets, you are seeing general risk aversion. the swiss franc into gold. >> it feeds a matter of time before they were going to raise rates, wasn't it, john? inflation has been above the central bank's target for 17 months. the target is 5%. they are well above the targets. investors waiting for a long time for this to happen, haven't they? >> they have a measure. it is a vanishing act, isn't it? their revenue is from gas and oil, so the so it is not the end of the world. but when you have a inflation, you have to step in and do something about it. >> me

berlin has not had a big ipo.dea that people are trying to do it for the wrong reasons. they're trying to build a company to get bought out. you build a company that is not that valuable. whatsapptimes did turned down or rebuffed facebook's offers? it was good 18 months. >> what is going to be the next hot item? >> the one i think i am going to use is transfer wide. allows you to transfer euros into dollars at very low fees. i am going to get a berlin makeover. >> i want to see it. >> what do you call those dresses? >> what i am going to wear, it is probably not safe for bloomberg television. it is a family program. aboutare really excited seeing whatever that outfit is going to be. thank you for joining us. >> i hope it involves long, blond braids. i want to see hans nichols, long legs, short skirt, it would look great. to pay more for margaritas. those are fighting words. alix steel will have that story when we come back. if you miss any of our interviews, you can watch them on apple tv. tv -- it is everywhere.

it's go to berlin and hans nichols. hans?ues, overall sales numbers, now it is nike's turn. 45% of their sales are abroad. the overall numbers in terms of their revenue and sales was quite strong. millioname in at $680 on the quarter, overall revenue almost $7 billion. nike has spent a lot of money on advertising. or as they call it, demand creation. 2.7 billion dollars is what they have slotted for the year on demand creation. next quarter they will do another 20% increase. they have the world cup coming up. that is not inexpensive to advertise. and, mark, something near and dear to your heart, they may be sponsoring manchester united for a billion-dollar deal over 10 years. 100 million per year. at 79l motors is already million per year. the question is, is it worth it? worth ations, is manu billion dollars for a 10 year deal? do you wear, fashionable sports footwear on the weekends when you are doing earnings? that is where nike is seeing growth. guys question mark >? >> i do wear sports footwear. i will allow mark to answ

home of the berlin wall.ister from germany who said today that this is the most serious crisis since the berlin wall came down. foreign ministers of all the european union countries, including germany, met today in emergency session in brussels to try to fur

america will criticize the unusually harsh on thursday for the rapid alienation between moscow and berlin that's dumb. one book will of course cooking the wounded. he was wounded in his childhood though and even now at the pinnacle of his collar with only the sky above he has to hear hurtful words. and that from people we don't even have atomic weapons a huge part in the one who has germany think it is. he didn't lose the war you know who. meanwhile fourteen years of almost unlimited power have shaped who is closest to him are not wife and children but military men and secret agents who have become fabulously wealthy. as his male societies fixation on violent obscured his view of reality. then his powerful friends control the media and us opinion in russian. to two months of massive tv propaganda have transformed the image of ukraine for my brother nation into a port a fascist despicable sleeves the west corrected by its interests. any bit of nonsense can be turned into social reality. woohoo with the russian people can be manipulated at whale opposition demonstrators are no longer a dang

let's go to hover knuckles in a berlin. you are watching -- and let's go over to hans nichols in a berlin. >> we hadtching stuff opening remarks from david cameron and angela merkel. aboutre talking abolishing roaming season. you canrk where download a movie in a second. throughout more in 30 minutes. >> u.k. growth may exceed its prerecession peak earlier than expected.- that's according to our next guest. ♪ >> time for company news. germany's biggest builder is $1 billion to increase its holdings. ownership tose his 74%. it signals a may consider a full take over. a vodafone and said to have increase its takeover of the spanish cable company. people familiar with the matter said they raised their bid after meeting with key shareholders. wall street journal said analyst meet today to move ahead with the plans for an ipo. meets withpresident investors and policymakers tomorrow for a bit in consolidation and the mobile phone market in the u.s. he is said to be considering a bid in t-mobile after a sprint yesterday. he will r