work of the sculpture in the gateway to the country of new york the statue of liberty given to us by france by a french sculptor. countless rivers and towns and universities and colleges all over the country with french names. we don't pronounce them the way they do but the influence of france on this country is greater than most americans appreciate. >> the president and first lady michele obama toured the national september 11 memorial and museum. the president along with new york governor andrew cuomo former new york mayor michael bloomberg and new jersey governor chris christie spoke at this one-hour event. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ thro' the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched ♪ ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ and the rocket's red glare ♪ ♪ the bombs bursting in air

france. so by using the influence in particular those countries who broke bread with nigeria, it is helping theationship that went back between nigeria, especially because of the nigerians and boko haram. >> ok, uwais idris, we have to leave it there. thank you for joining us from abuja. italy's prime minister has admitted his resignation following the defeat of his party in the general election. thousands gathered to celebrate the man who will succeed him, narendra modi. won an absolute majority of parliament and will be able to govern without coalition partners. colombian rebel groups have announced a cease-fire during the country's presidential elections scheduled for may 25. a joint declaration by farc and the mla said there will be no operations in the days before and after the vote. the colombian president santos is under opposition rusher because of his peace talks with guerrillas. he is trying to end a decades long civil war. it associations have praised help about a partial settlement, but opposition parties strictly reject any talks with the rebels. in turkey, a fire is complicating r

by "washington post" report ed o'keefe. ed, thanks for being with us. >> great to see you, frances. >> let's start off with a lot of anticipation for president obama's speech at west point later today. he is expected to address the end of the war in afghanistan and american foreign policy going forward. what is at stake for the president, especially with the v.a. scandal? does it have potential to overshadow the president's

using local intelligence. this has been complemented now by france, uk, u.s., and other countries. >> the summit ended with a declarationf war on the islamist kidnappers boko haram, now seen as al qaeda affiliates and not just by nigeria, but also its neighboring countries, with all their porous borders. >> when they cross the borders into our communities, and run back to cameroon, internationally, nigerian military cannot move into cameroon except you take special permissi permission. there's no room for you to take permission to enter. >> there was an acknowledgement too that the boko haram poses a threat to the west. this week a key figure arrested in sudan was educated in wales. he's suspected of organizing bomb attacks in nigeria and had been monitored at times by british security services. but it's the face of the schoolgirls that matters the most. and nigeria will be judged -- >>> turkish rescue workers today retrieved the bodies of the last two men killed in the mine fire earlier this week. the death toll is 301. 485 people survived the country's worst industrial disaster. the incident has sparked demonstrations

we're scanning the areas with surveillance aircrafts and also using local intelligence, as has been complemented now by france u.s. and other countries. >> reporter: now, fred, here's why the president's comments were significant. this is the first time we've heard from the commander in chief of nigeria about some kind of operational plan to try and rescue these girls. 20,000 troops, he says, in northeastern nigeria looking for these girls but admitted in past statements by the press he doesn't know where they are, fred. >> very unsettling, still. especially for those family members. thank you so much, vladimmir gottier, thank you very much. >>> lolo jones says something is still missing. a gold medal. my face-to-face interview with her, next. ...for the year. hi. sorry. just want to say, i bundled home and auto with state farm, saved 760 bucks. love this guy. so sorry. okay, does it bother anybody else that the mime is talking? frrreeeeaky! [ male announcer ] savings worth talking about. state farm. one of our favorite things to do is going to the dog park together. sometimes my copd makes it hard to breathe

used as political capital by eurosceptics. has become a political football in the european election campaign, this video from france's left frontparty claims the free trade deal between the ae you and the u.s. they could be buying chicken that has been washed in chlorine, a practice common in the united states, but not in europe. agriculture is one of the toughest sectors involved in the talks. it has led to claims that the european market will be flooded with products that don't meet stringent eu safety standards. >> when they say there won't be any form own treated beef imported, you must trust him. to allow investors to sue private government if they feel local laws threaten their investment. it is a mechanism that could allow big oil companies to challenge france's ban on fracking. >> this could be a deal with global indications. the european union and united states trade good and services -- goods and services of 2 billion euros. negotiators say a successful deal could bring an economic boost worth 120 billion to the european union and 95 billion to the united states. critics say the figures are exaggerated and unlikely to

now the two day meeting that began on tuesday as being attended by experts from iran the us russia china britain france and germany are there ways to respond in the lean ten in new york. she taught us about the end of the meeting and the western attitude towards this issue the aim is to you. i announced to me is using elements and that that was the final accord at tehran's allegedly their weapons program and the parties' helps you reach a final agreement by july to twenty and then easily essentially to find out technical issues ahead of the big enemy to these higher level minister a level meetings to take place in the austrian capital next week. to what the deal that that would essentially iam see him on delivering its all about affording it to rename enrichment program in exchange for the easing of sanctions and at these meetings in the end as expected the parties will will draft the tax that would go into a final agreement and washington tuesday the u s secretary of state john kerry met with catherine ashton the eu high representative me that he can run negotiations and that he talked about global is

use the equipment. the expert team sent by the u.s., france, china and also canada and australia are interested in supporting this effort. the point of this is that thisrs particular event. these abductions, not necessarily about the wider boko haram cries, which has been involving over a long period of time. >> do you think it will open the doors for more international involvement as a whole? >> it might do, however, i think all of nigeria's international partners are aware that this crisis has been growing over a long period. this is not simply a narrow security threat, it is political and economic in terms of how this organization has developed. any attempt to address the crisis is not going to be simple or short. i think nigeria's international partners will be very cautious in how they approach this. furthermore, the federal government of nigeria has not actively south assistance in the past to respond to the crisis. nigeria does have professionally armed forces and should be able to respond to this organization effectively. >> ok. elizabeth, thank you very much for joining us. >> accept are a activitie

france. he's also with us at this hour by phone. mr. paul thanks so much for joining us right now.e flight 370 story is a tragedy and it's a tragedy that's by no means resolved. the families of the people on board that flight still have no sense of what happened to that plane. have you considered at all what this film -- how it might affect them? >> okay. basically, we are considering this very seriously because it came to me as an investigative report which was supposed to be published as a book not as a movie. people may think we don't take it seriously but it came to me as a book to publish and another friend who was a publisher forwarded this report to me saying it's more than the book. basically the content is basically off the book which was very serious. so many don't think -- i have come to know there's a lot on social media about the movie but we are taking this very seriously and this -- >> but, sir is while i understand you say you take this very seriously and you're basing this on what you say is hard data et cetera why not wait then? if you don't have the intention to

by "washington post" report ed o'keefe. ed, thanks for being with us. >> great to see you, frances. >> let's start off with a lot of anticipationresident obama's speech at west point later today. he is expected to address the end of the war in afghanistan and american foreign policy going forward. what is at stake for the president, especially with the v.a. scandal? does it have potential to overshadow the president's message? >> certainly, because it continues to be a big topic of concern on capitol hill where it's going to be hearing later tonight. we don't often have hearings tonight. there will be with v.a. officials later. you know, the president trying to reset his foreign policy after months, especially the criticism in the past year with the way he's handled relations with syria, russia, whatnot. you're right, that v.a. scandal continues to be a big concern with the administration continually trying to adjust the problem and get ahead of it for what might be coming down the pike. >> the president addressed it three days in a row. afghanistan at the arlington memorial cemetery, and then memorial day and his weekly radio

by a tornado. millions of dollars are needed to fix the town, but there is no federal help. good to have you with us. we begin tonight in france where world leaders gather to discuss the expanding threat posed by islamic extremists boko haram. diplomats from africa, the u.s. and across europe arriving in paris vowing to work together to find and rescue more than 200 kidnapped nigerian school girls heads of state express concern about suggestions al-qaeda is linked to boko haram. for more, we head to paris and al jazeera's tim friend. >> a tastyly -- hastily called sum mer grappling with an insurmountable problem. the leaders gathered in paris to declare what they call total war on boko haram, there was news of anothertac across the border in cameroon. >> military preparation, especially in lake chad. >> lots of talk of solidarity. these leaders have a long way to go in combatting boko haram. the president admitted they were a surprisingly efficient fighting force. almost nothing in the from the summit about the abducted group of school girls in nigeria that parked the latest crisis. leaders have no idea where they are exchange

by the present day. but because the aberrant it's not being used to find any sensible france has given up hope of finding anyone alive funded the study of march ines were also hoping to pass on the added plus most of these three hundred but it was kind of untold number of people with kids. the door at the night. officials say a simple solution. my mom three hundred houses. full so that the dpp is real and perceived versus them. this is the state is un western afghan government that often lead to helping thousands of displaced people. it fell to the facade that it is the safest an address the focus now is to publish motivation of some help and supplies is dyslexic and sides. afghanistan's government thousand two hundred thousand dollars and eight. a cup just didn't want to use medicine and tents what a patient seats and recruiting class has been difficult to play. but it's a of a separate identities how stupid he was on safe ground in the light. meaning there were tons of internet hiatus in the back. catherine sounding a rise means. south africa against the polls on wednesday but the african national cong

there were concentration champs in france, run by the french, naasies. >> absolutely, many of us know some of the names, but we should learn the names of others. lemille was built by the french, the government, with no prodding from the german government, and when the final solution was put in effect in tumor, the french were too happy to ship the concentration camps. >> we should say that there was one hearing in this story, there was a captain of a ship . >> from the beginning, gustaf was 5 feet 4 inches tall, short in stature, but as you say, enormous in integrity, saw to it that the passengers were afforded rites and privileges of people taking the liner from hamburg to the west. on the way back he devised a plan that the idea was that he would run the ship aground off the coast of england and ferry everyone to safety. that heroics - those were not necessary because of a deal breakered by the american committee. after the death he was named rubbishous among the nations. >> the subtitle refers to a voi im of betrayal, not only by the family? >> yes. the people on board the st. loui

using these people. in 1854 there is a strange request. you must is this young man translate a famous work into english. this book was written by a man named arthur and france. employes host hand to touch translate this book they read a racial account the talks about how races are inherently unequal and can never be equaled. why that is important, and the south people will love the idea to take hold. only 20 years old. translates the book the basically hijacks the book. he writes an introduction of his own that is over 100 pages in all its this and man puts his own ideas about racial issues and put his own spin on racial issues. on for a young man like this, but that kind of introduces odes to more people in mobile. he starts to move and is more influential circles, if you will. this translation, the more intellectual diversity, comes to mobile in 1856. after the translation comes out to make such reviews he then goes into a local politics. for a while

the president of the ifo joins us with his first interview of the day. >> and france asks ge to extend bystmom weeks. welcome to "the pulse," live from bloomberg's european headquarters i

uses a vibration system inspired by the technology that submarines used to communicate. thanks to a bluetooth connection , you can control it with your smart phone. already soldas about 50,000 of them, mostly in francet it wants to start exporting as soon as this year. >> we really want to go to the united states and canada. >> the french company is developing accessories, like this tag that lets you where the speaker on your head. have sound around your head. is you better about this can hear what is happening outside. >> there are more entries on the way. the sound will just depend on how creative you are. >> the helmet thing is really cool. london is shut today. let's find out what is going on elsewhere. >> a little volume in the market and actually developing into a lower day. cac down by .5%. the dax down by about .4%. comes in at 48.1. contraction territory for the hsbc. it is a number that has been trending lower. concerns about signs of growth or lack thereof in china carry on. was mostlydollar lower. a bit of risk aversion for the japanese yen. those moves will start to be erased as trading gets underway in europe. that move most of higher that we saw earlier this morning. we will show you

the fourth time the two countries use their veto power to prevent action against the syrian president bashar al-assad. the resolution was first put or words by france. the human ambassador joy to me a short time ago to talk about it. human ambassador jointly a short time ago to talk about it. ambassador, thank you for being here. why did you feel you should push ahead? >> i think you have to consider all of the situation in syria. the political track is gone. a special envoy of the secretary-general just resigned and says there is no prospect of negotiation because the regime does not want to negotiate, because the regime believes it is winning on the ground. there is no political solution in the short term. youhe ground, meanwhile, have atrocities, horrific atrocities committed by both sides. mainly by the regime, but by both sides. so, there is a sort of hope that presenting this text, which is a very balanced text, saying simply the criminals of both sides will be brought to oncece, we believed -- for french diplomacy was naÏve. we believed it would be possible to convince the russians to accept this text. obviously, we were wrong. they did not

by the socialists at a distant third. newspaper headlines like earthquake and the big bank have she cannot -- shook enough people in france. >> they are usingto their benefit. i read their program. i could not find any substance economic or political. >> people say they feel misunderstood. protests are continuing on despite common sense. >> the french economy is stagnating. unemployment remains high. many people blame francois hollande. he held crisis talks with his cabinet on monday. later, speaking with french media, the prime minister and knowledge that many voters are concerned about their countries lays in the you. -- country cost lays in the eu. >> europe can be reoriented to support growth. it has not done that for years. >> a recent survey shows that only one third of the french now believe their country is benefiting from it you membership. >> our correspondent joins us now from paris. francois hollande, what has he been saying? >> it was a very short reaction to a dramatic decision. when he says that he hears this is a protest vote. the people of france are angry with the government. he said things like europe needs france and the

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france. failed. >> us potentially. bon jovi. >> like him. i know he's been beaten up by critics. his songs are fun.you want one word, fun. he puts on a fun show. >> i could see you rocking some leopard skin pants maybe, growing the hair out. >> i like the new bon jovi. >> tequila. >> shots. >> and finally, mr. hannity," the new york rangers. >> love them. they're my team. last night, 2-1 against pittsburgh. crosby, take that. henrik lundqvist. my assistant loves henrik lundqvist. is he single? >> no, he's married. but smoking hot, i agree. let's go rangers. >> do you want to see my move? i'll show you. >> i don't want you to touch me. >> i got to break. ouch. you got your embarrassment. >>> ann coulter takes on the hag tag diplomacy in her own manner. she's here to weigh in on the social media effort about bringing back the nigerian schoolgirls. there's an allegation of robbery by justin beiber. are you kidding me? straight ahead. caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's why i take my warfarin every day. but it looks like maybe we

number three, theoretically, the french, who did help us, by the way in lebanon back in the 1980s, when we went to get permission to overfly franceorist sites with qaddafi, refused it. we had to fly all the way around from england and when they, of course, exhausted we lost an f 111 and the entire crew, two men. look, what we have learned from all of, this greta, is, one, russia's industrial capacity is on the rocks. this contract was left two years ago. the french built a halfway. putin can't build something like this himself. this is not that sophisticate add ship. >> 400 russian sailors will be in france very shortly in june which is 70th anniversary of d-day to train to be on these ships. i mean, look, let's face it we sell weapons to people that, you know, we got a little bad history there. we have got germany getting a lot of oil and natural gas from russia. have you got the russian money in the banks in london. i mean everyone has fingerprints. >> sticking a finger in obama's eye just to show they can do it it of course that's the kind ofance has. we have learned, one, putin is leading a hollow country it is losing populat

the president of the ifo joins us with his first interview of the day. >> and france asks ge to extend by threer alstmom weeks. welcome to "the pulse," live from bloomberg's european headquarters in london. >> coming up, the coding revolution. the ceo of a company teaching the world to code. >> and we are live in ukraine's capital to see why voting next week and could be a dangerous endeavor. >> let's start with the recovery in europe. standard & poor's raising spain's credit rating. fitch also boosting greece's rating. david tweed joins us with more. what is the update behind the numbers? >> i want to start with greece. i am going to read a couple of lines from the fitch upgrade. they are still below investment grade, but moving in the right direction. "remarkable progress on the fiscal front. the most challenging adjustment for greece is behind it," says fitch. there are problems still, but they have managed to have a primary surplus and start interest payments in 2013. there is a funding shortfall also say theyy will fill the gap. just hold that thought. spain, standard & poor's, i wil

dominated by absolutist and catholic monarchies-- spain, france, austria-- the republic was an island of relative freedom. the town hall of the dutch city of amsterdam, built in the 17th century, tells us something about the ideals of the dutch republic. it has none of the qualities of absolutist architecture. here no grand colonnade leads the world into a central focus as at saint peter's, rome. no succession of rooms and corridors and staircases takes us to the monarch's bedroom as at louis xiv's palace at versailles. here you have seven simple, unpretentious doorways. the architecture of the new town hall, then, is an embodiment of the netherlands' independent political aspirations, an expression of amsterdam as a free city at the center of the world. in the 17th century, the dutch city of amsterdam was the greatest economic power in the world, a vast marketplace where every kind of goods could be had-- pepper, whale oil, japanese lacquer, cloth, wine. the dutch became rich. they were the most urban society in europe-- literate, stable, well-fed, and decently housed. they knew themselves to be fortunate. they strongly identified with the chosen people of the old testament, with all

talk to us about being a night in the order that was established by napoleon bonaparte. a legion of honor. a legion of honor. are you from france a photographer? youmust be, and it says were a friend of pablo because so, so do you have an exhibit currently underway in new york? >> indeed, yes. >> and do the photographs, are they black-and-white photographs? >> yes, 95%. >> 95% are black-and-white photographs. oh, boy. your name, you look very familiar. you have had shows all over the world. >> yes, it in new york. >> in new york. and you are le clequerqe. welcome to "taking stock." you are a world famous photographer. lucien clergue. >> i was trained to be a violinist, and we had no money at school, so i took a camera, and that was more easy. >> and that was easier than being a violinist and less expensive. >> yes. >> when did you realize photography was going to be the thing that consumed you? >> when i came in 1961 for my , and there wasa the room a photographer he -- to see the most famous photographer in the world, and i saw that photography was important. >> the age of digital photography is upon us, yes? >> yes. >> do you

france. we have 8,000 cars being used by about 80,000 people across the country. it's doing well.o move into the u.s., i'm still eyeing it. insurance is a serious issue and i take it seriously. >> i was going to ask you about the liability and how that changes everything when the car is owned by someone other than the company itself. >> it does change everything. that's actually the reason i launched in france, because i could get the kind of insurance i wanted. here in the u.s., particularly new york state, they're very stringent, appropriately so. we've been working hard to get the right kind of insurance here. the issues -- the issues are not only the person driving the car, the liability for them, but for the car -- the car itself, and will that person lose their underlying insurance if there's an accident. and right now, with your own personal insurance, it's illegal to accept money driving your -- with someone on your own car. if we think about the past economy versus the future economy, in the past, we've separated clearly personal things from private things and commercial

use of rebounding the party if he is going to be on the sidelines? -- let'smove france leave france and moved to pakistan, with this heart breaking story of a woman who was stoned to death by her family for marrying against their wishes. >> getting a lot of attention in the pakistani press. you can read all of the details. she was 25 years old and pregnant, and she was involved in this honor killing in front of the high court. basically the family wanted to say that she was kidnapped but she came to say that she had married somebody that she loved, and this was just unforgivable for her family. she was attacked by her father and to brothers and former fiancÉe. a lot of outrage yesterday. the editorials say that the barbarism once again triumphs overridden law and in other cases settled outside court. what is sad about this is that this is a very common thing in pakistan according to the nation, thousands of women suffering the same fate each year. the main problem is social behavior and mindsets. women are not considered human beings entitled to equal treatment, and the father is in custody -- they expect them to pay the price for what he did. u.s. withove to the that dead

actress frances fisher who is leading the protest joins us live >>> virtual revolution. the cosmos, for the first time, mapped by a computer. science and technology correspondent jacob ward shows us the inter-galactic tour. >>> an act of terrorism, that's is what hillary clinton called the abduct of the 276 school girls in nigeria. they were taken from their rooms nearly a month ago, seized by boko haram, a group that has waged a brutal war against the government, killing christians and muslims. this week boko haram surfaced again. their fighters are blamed for a massacre that left hundreds dead. the attack unfolded under 12 hours at a village in the state of borno. ynonne ndedge is in a village with the story. >> reporter: this is the carnage caused by the nige ear jan group boko haram from attacks in the north-east. reports that they killed hundreds in gamboru, and borno on monday will worry many. residents say that masked men raided the village and started firing. >> anyone sighted in that area were shot and killed. later they moved to the city, and they went down the shops. 500 vehicles were burnt. according

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after the us the uk china and france all offering help in rescuing went into nigerian high school girls abducted three weeks ago by the radical islamists of poker on britain sending a small team of government ministry experts nigeria's government often a three hundred thousand dollars reward for help. as momentum builds news of a fresh attack this one in north eastern town of gumbo that's according to police its left at least two hundred and twenty five today greenback dollar bills. try to help the region eighteen ninety area. echoing around the world. the kidnapping of eva two hundred school goes by quicker her m terrorists sparking global outrage the us great britain in front of three military intelligence and counter teams to help them hunt. not just a nigerian issue it is a global issue. there are extreme islam is a round of local art gets education the game progressed to get the quality i win this fight them and take them all wear a veil. it keeps the cities. i think the specialized team drawn from our results is in the region and help is available from ontario. if you love this town that sits to the surge on

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by the same technology that submarines used to communicate, and thanks to a bluetooth connection, you can control it with your smart phone. euros, theice at 35 company has artie sold 50,000 them, mostly in franceant to start exporting as soon as this year. >> now we want to go to the united states and canada. are selling accessories, as well. this band lets you wear it on your head. >> what is really better about this is that you can actually hear what is happening outside. >> there are more accessories on the way. the sound will just depend on how creative you are. >> let's move from speakers to elections. i'm not sure how i will make that segue. let's talk about south africa. they're going to go to the polls this week. the anc is expected to maintain its grip on power. we wait and watch to see how big the majority is. first of all, we have some weaker pmi data coming out. we have seen that. you can see this bike tire and the dollar versus the rant heard we have seen some unemployment data coming out. the unemployment rate has climbed to 25.2%. that is obviously a big factor in this upcoming election. we have fairly negative news coming up from the platinum strike as well. the rant has been d

using local intelligence sources. this has been complemented now by france, u.k., u.s., and countries -- >> reporter: one of the thingsle is all the countries in the region have given overflight permission to outside military agencies like france and the united states to fly intelligence aircraft and drones over the areas. and that will give them a little bit better picture, hopefully, of where to find the girls, although at one point, francois hollande and goodluck jonathan made the point they don't know whether the girls are still together as a group or have been broken up and are in different hiding places around the country. fredricka? >> jim, we heard the nigerian president say there were 20,000 nigerian troops fanned out looking for these young girls. but then, as you know, in our cnn reporting, our correspondent who was in the chibuk area where boarding school is located, it's been reported there are no signs of any kind of military presence, no police presence, no investigation whatsoever. was the president pressed on that? or was he asked to respond about the whereabouts of these troops? >> reporter: well, on

by the federal government is greater than in france, germany and the u.k.. this growth occurs in good times and in bad. it is and linked instead of drifting from the keynesian cyclical use of government and it doesn't depend on whether republicans or democrats control what goes on in washington. the debt to gdp ratio of the federal government exceeds that in most e.u. countries and also exceeds the plan american average. this growth of the federal government is obscured by a number of factors except to those who study these matters very carefully. one is the immense growth in private contracts thing by the government, the immense participation in the implementation of government programs by nonprofits and state and local governments and the myth that the united states has the small public sector, welfare state lagger or perhaps true in some comparative terms is as a myth utterly false elate james q. wilson and john dulio distinguish between the two systems. when someone proposed adding a new agenda a major debate rose whether it was legitimate for the government take action at all in the metal but the government can take bold action under the system the nation you had t

using -- losing french jobs. g already employs more than 10,000 people in france. he came to defend his proposal last night. besaid alstom would not absorbed by ge. have a listen. >> we come to build. we do not leave when times are tough. that we canonfident compete and win with our french businesses. >> to reassure the french government and the lawmakers last night, he also said that ge could sell its rail business to alstom and that the nuclear operations of alstom would remain based in france, something that was a big concern of the government because they want to preserve france's nuclear energy independence. french government has explicitly voiced their preference for siemens to make a bid. they also had a word at the hearing. what did they have to say? >> that is right. important because the french finance ministry has been very impatient about the siemens bid. he said last night that the bid from siemens would become -- would come by june 16. that would include a swap where siemens would get the real unit in exchange for energy assets. that would create some combination between the german high-speed trains. that offer has the favor of

us, this latest number? it's a slight slowdown in activity. obviously we're still on the gdp front concerned by italy and france. >> yes. so pretty much unchanged on the situation at the headline level, once again, we're seeing big divergences in the region. germany's index, there was a wobbling in manufacturing maybe a bit due to easter and some ukraine effects. the german service sector is starting to boom. germany, looks like he's on for another quarter of strong growth. 0.7% gdp growth. good performance. france ornt, tn the other hand, moving in the other direction. perhaps another flat gdp reading in the second quarter. the rest of the region, we don't break down every other country for this pmi. not to say those countries aren't included in the rest of the number. it's signaling the fastest growth since 2007. employment up for the second month running in the rest of the region. that's seeing better growth since early 2008. so the periphery, where the big concern has been is showing real signs of improvement. from what we saw, that's being led by countries like spain, an island where reforms have really helped boos

the us is france's second-largest bank, saying this will bethat they seeking to increase their return on equity, the measure of their profitability, more than 10% by 2016. that is helped by lending in russia and africa. this is a business that has already told us how they were performing and how their business was exposed to the geopolitical events in russia a week or so ago. forwarden is coming with the new target, returning equity, 10% by 2016. just ahead, calling for unity as exit polls indicate he will become the next prime minister of india. we will see how indian markets are reacting. ♪ >> first. bloomberg. >> time for today's company news. the ceo of italy's largest bank told bloomberg a diplomatic solution to the crisis in ukraine is urgently needed to protect their business in europe. >> i hope at the end of the day common sense will prevail on .oth sides in ukraine we need to find a solution. , ite don't find a solution will affect all european business including in europe and russia. unicredit is the second-biggest bank in russia and one of the biggest in ukraine. at&t is looking at purchasing directv, giving them a national satellite t

by the federal government today is greater than in france, germany and the u.k. this growth occurs in good times and in bad. this unlinked, senators and the keynesian cyclical uses of government and it doesn't depend whether republicans or democrats control what goes on in washington. the debt to gdp ratio of the federal government exceeds that in most e.u. countries and also exceeds the latin american average just to provide some context. this growth of the federal government isn't scared by a number of factors except to those who study these matters very carefully. one is the immense growth in private contract in by the government. the immense participation in the implementation of government programs by nonprofits in state and local governments. the myth that the united states has a small public sector and is the welfare state lacquered although perhaps true in some comparative terms is that it is false and one way of understanding the top and is summarized in a summarized in the book by james q. wilson, delete james q. wilson who distinguished between the old system in the new system. the old system they rate had a small agenda. when someone proposed adding

us a glimpse into the byzantine relationship between , unions, and companies in france. theme set the theme with wireless operation world in france. the biggest operator is orange, 27% owned byment. the second-biggest operator is sfr. then you have bouygues telecom. then you have a discount called ilia. you have a lot of competition. so much so that some of the unions are concerned that gues might like bouy thet cutting costs and unions wrote a letter to the governor saying they would like to see a merger of orange and bouygues telecom. the industry minister, who has been compared to genre keycorp baptisteto jean colbert. and orange are in talkes. , they wouldtogether have half the market in france and that could cause problems with european competition authorities. >> see you later, david tweed. back in a couple minutes. ♪ back to "the pulse," live from bloomberg's european headquarters in london. i am mark barton. >> i and caroline hyde. ukrainian forces have dislodged separatists from two rebel bases in the east. the president says the government is working to expand constitutional powers to >> allow for local self-government. to> credit suisse close reaching a 2.5 billio

us. >> well, i think it's clear there is a difference -- whether or not there's a difference is open to debate. and what i mean by that is the u.s. does not steal secrets, for example, from france's give to boeing so boeing can sell more aircraft. and that is what china is doing here. as you said, the chinese officials both deny that they're doing any of this, and second, they say the u.s., you're doing the same thing. and from my perspective there really is a difference. but if you're china and you have all state-owned enterprises, the government owns these economic levers, then that distinction is lost. what i think is key is china is an outlier in this activity. this isn't just a u.s. versus china. this is largely -- not entirely but largely the world versus china. and it is only china that is doing this sort of activity at this scale really on a global perspective. >> and why do you think the obama administration decided to go so hard on this now? >> this has been going on for really many years. the indictment itself notes that some of this activity goes back to 2006, 2007. so this has been slowly escalating. it started to peak a little bit last year when the national securit

used. the explosions left thousands of dead in syria's war. nigeria's president is in paris for a security summit on a threat posed by reb et group. jonathan is meeting with the president of francethey are all trying to come up with a strategy for containing boko haram. a security meeting coming as 3,000 french troops are september across africa to fight al qaeda. >> reporter: lush, french countryside... lush, french countryside is about as far from the sahara as you can get. those french troops are gooring up for the new -- gearing up for the new mission. black hawk helicopters simulate dropping small taxes in remote -- teams in remote locations in is it a french artillery regiment. they'll be taking the mortars as well. on display the tiger helicopter, french made, packed with the latest weaponry. as in mali last year the french troops will be seeking out an elusive enemy across thousands of kilometres. according to the french, the threat is agreeing. >> terrorism in africa is a global threat. we intervened in mali to ensure not just marley or regional, but our open. security in mali means security in west africa, france and europe. >> the french military say the new deploymen

france accusing assad of the same thing. his regime has used chemical weapons 14 times since last october, including a few weeks ago. assad is supposed to dismantle his chemical weapon stockpiles by the end of june. >> the man in charge of trying to end that bloody civil war in syria now stepping down. u.n. envoy is going to leave his post at the end of the month. his two year term ends much as the same way as for his predecessor, with no syrian peace plan in place. >> apologies once more that we haven't been able to help them as much as they deserve, as much as we should have, and also to tell them that the tragedy in their country shall be solved. they have shown incredible resilience and dignity. >> he and other world leaders tried to bring syria's government and rebels to the negotiating table several times with little success. u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon saying he has not found a replacement yet for the foreign minister. >> 30 million people around the world classified as internally displaced, forced to flee their homes because of war but are still inside the country. the highest numbers are found in syria, columbia and nigeria. >> the numbers are staggering and what

france has evidence of at least 14 chemical attacks carried out by syrian forces since 2013. adding -- and i quote -- "the regime is still capable of producing chemical weapons and is determined to use them. around the same time a senior israeli defense minister stated that -- quote -- "from the day that he signed the deal, assad has sued chemical weapons over 30 times, and in every case citizens were killed." the state department has further verified these reports, stating they were indications of the use of chlorine. though it was quick to point out that this is not one of the chemicals syria was obliged to surrender. i note the presence of the chairman of the foreign relations committee, and i yield to him at this time. mr. menendez: i thank -- madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey. mr. menendez: i thank the distinguished senator from arizona and a distinguished member of the senate foreign relations committee, for his courtesy. i know he's in the midst of comments in which i share his concerns and for which he has been very outspoken, so i'll try to condense our effort here. madam president, i have three unanimous consent requests for committees to

pending pledge of more sanctions by germany and france and that's if you crane's upcoming presidential election doesn't go as planned live now to our tease peter all of a joining ushere on the program to give us the very latest on this up peter good to see you the voices of discontent over angle of merkel's handling of the sanctions rhetoric growing ever louder than. well yes we heard from mr stein who said well what we just saw on the screen right there that we shouldn't be looking for further sanctions we should be looking for cooperation with russia in order to find a solution to what's going on in ukraine that's been echoed by well the elder statesman of german politics former chancellor helmut schmidt the ninety five year old famed back in the day for his his chain smoking on t.v. he said that as well backed up those statements saying that we should be not looking to persecute russia but looking to work with russia and allow russia to look after its own security interests without any pressure being put on there now also accuse the european union was very harsh on the european union accusing them of a megalomania when it came to the situation in ukraine and h

twenty two francs is about one thousand euros in about twenty four to twenty five u.s. dollars but in us now now this proposal is made by the specific aeration of trade unions and supported by the socialist and green parties a recent opinion poll found that sixty four percent of voters are against the proposal put referendums can have surprising outcomes now cue the arguments about the minimum wage this government argues that it would have it would threaten jobs and make it harder for young people to find a job in the first place now supporters they argue that the wage would help people who work full time live decently and switzerland is of course notoriously an expensive place to live however can you tell me a little bit more about our social and economic position right now and basically what is the unemployment rate in that country if there are positions pretty good in fact it's there have been unemployment in the three to four percent range we have a graph here that shows their unemployment been coming down recently. you know they've been doing so well the fact that their current has been appreciating to the point wh