the breaking news in the past 20 minutes or so. prosecutors in germany have opened an investigation into the alleged monitoring of chancellor angela merkel's mobile phone by the u.s. national security agency, the nsa. those revelations came to light last year. you may remember by edward snowden but it damaged relations seriously between washington and berlin and the investigation will be seen as diplomatically sensitive. it's the first formal act taken by a german government agency in response to those allegations made public as i say by the former u.s. intelligence analyst edward snowden. >>> you're watching gmt.