belarus accuses the u.s. of escalating tensions over a decision to withdraw its ambassaors. >> a heavyweight clash in soccer as germany prepares to face off against france in an international friendly later tonight. ♪ >> the ecb has been showering europe's banks with money again, and they're taking all the cheap loans they can get. >> 529.5 billion euros is the number. that brings the total pumped out of the european central bank to over one trillion euros in the past couple of months. >> part of a special operation to prevent another credit crunch in europe's banking system. the hope is banks will use some of the money to keep telling governments afloat as well. >> we will be asking our markets reporter what this means. first, this report on the ecb's latest crisis-fighting move. >> is this bank in trouble? or this one? maybe this one? some 800 financial institutions have taken up the european central banks second offer of cheap money. but the ecb is not releasing many details. the banks are likewise keeping

kremlin says once in a while that they are concerned with the human rights situation for example in belarus right and the foreign minister has said right on the on one occasion yeah it does a lot of the absence of. the sort of country in our first report doesn't mean you are happy does not mean that we do not know good morning that a situation was going to of course and there larry we do not. or that we underestimate the problems which exist now but are we. as i said i would what is not be warmly channel through which we can come to me are with us so there are other channels including in the russian foreign minister. the russian policy of russian foreign policy is becoming more and more problematic which is good the reason why i've started talking about a bill the rooster countries like syria which are more dependent russia is there i think that that the criticism coming from moscow towards countries like belarus and syria would be more effective than criticising that states don't you don't you agree why do you think we're not criticizing them. we are definitely we do express our views incl

the country belarus made the move in retaliation to sanctions imposed by the e.u. over the country's rights record the sanctions date back to the december two thousand and ten presidential elections in which more than seven hundred people were arrested after a massive protest against alleged vote fraud president alexander lukashenko dubbed by nations as europe's last dictator was declared the winner. now to egypt where all three judges involved in the case targeting local ngo workers have resigned the defendants sixteen of them americans are accused of cooperating with foreign n.g.o.s in funding the unrest that's shaken the nation for over a year the judges haven't indicated the exact reasons for pulling out only saying they felt on these in this in tackling process the announcement comes just two days into the trial. u.s. presidential hopeful mitt romney narrowly beat rival rick santorum to win the michigan primary election romney was also victorious in the state of arizona and moves closer to the republican nomination to challenge barack obama in november as elec

i empathize with a lot of the folks in the audience, many of whom came from belarus and those areas that were affected by chernobyl. a lot of the scars from that time have remained. i feel a little bit concerned that i can't consider the health impacts when i am evaluating the appeal. i hope that at some point we are able to have a hearing at land use to look at the possibilities of having a public hearing at the health commission level. and maybe looking at schools and some of the best practices in other areas. i am willing to support supervisor mar if you take that up. it is long overdue, and it feel slike a -- feels like a ping- pong game. the burden is on the public but we can't take into consideration the greatest concern that the public raises. we have the opportunity to reevaluate some of these things. people have concerns around schools and other types of institutions. maybe we can start to reevaluate it all. supervisor mar: i wanted to thank supervisors wiener and olague for being so thoughtful, for supervisor coheolague goingo the planning commission. i know you have been in co

on say send another more suicide to nominate start their best of seven series against mates from belarus in the russian capital it's a pair that begin their campaign initially no but i gazed in amerigo while moscow region side of plant are up against. now it may not be the contest that the world of boxing is desperate to see but and specialty is growing as floyd mayweather jr prepares to put his unbeaten record on the line against me in may and the pair will trade blows at the m.g.m. grand in las vegas on the faith of may with w b a super well to a crown on the line but at a press conference to promote the fight all the talk was on a possible bout between mayweather and our negotiations continue to stumble with pretty boy insisting the filipino is refusing to accept the brand drugs test track mind says simply want a face to face the spirit of the purse it seems that negotiations have a long way to go. like i said before. if you really want to fight floyd mayweather mediocre it will be right here today face of law and they would. shut off. if you do want to you don't want it so it's obvio

scar in st petersburg another moscow side dinara start their best of seven series against means from belarus in the russian capital eight seats had taken their playoff campaign in the nation of good against it in our moscow region are up against sevastopol. now it may not be the contest that the world of boxing is desperate to say participation is growing as floyd mayweather jr prepares to put his on boats and record on the line against me in may the pair will trade blows at the m.g.m. grand in las vegas on the faith of may with w.b. a super welterweight crown on the line but i take press conference to promote the fight over the talk was on a possible buyout between mayweather and many parkour negotiations continue to stumble with bitter boy insisting the filipino is refusing to accept drugs tests back man says i simply want a fifty fiftieth's split of the prize it seems that negotiations have a long way to go. like i said before. if you really want to fight floyd mayweather mediocre it will be right here today face employment world. shut off. if you do want to you don't want it so it's obvi

the kremlin says worth while that they are concerned with the human rights situation for example in belarus right. before a minister has said write one on one occasion yeah it does not the absence of. the sort of country our first report does mean that he does not mean it we do not know good morning that his injuries were going to have cost him dearly and we do not. underestimate the problems which exists now but are we. as i said i would report is not the one only channel through which we can print we are with us so there are other channels including in the russian foreign minister. russian policy russian foreign policy is becoming more and more problematic which is good the reason why i've started talking about the bill the ruth countries like syria which are more difficult and russia is there i think that that the criticism coming from moscow towards countries like poland and syria would be more effective in criticizing their states. when you think we're not criticizing them. we are a veteran of the we do express our views including. those congressmen to mention not only but i want to ge

their word out and communicate and that keeps evolving, but you also see governments like governor belarus try to clamp down on that at which i've also been very concerned about. that's just a statement. it's just an evolving -- it's like a competitive market. when people want to get information but the bad guys want to get around and it moves too fast and we can really regulate. i've always said that about this subcommittee and the tech community. there's going to be a lot of self interests that gets you people to move before they get caught. let me talk -- segue real quickly. i serve on the energy committee and go to power plants all the time. big proponent of nuclear power. and mr. terry's opening statement talked about, well, you could be secure if you just had a desktop alone and were no longer connected. now, with wi-fi and stuff, who knows what folks could end up doing. but the power utility system relies so much on data going to rtos, really what they're proposing is excitable electrons to get on the grid. if that's all we had to worry about and had a close system we would be fairl

international news embry for this hour the european union has recalled all of its twenty seven ambassadors to belarus minsk all of the polish and e.u. envoy out of the country. by the move. in retaliation to sanctions imposed by the e.u. over the country's rights record the sanctions date back to the december the ten december two thousand and ten presidential elections in which more than seven hundred people were arrested after a massive protest against alleged vote fraud president president alexander lukashenko dubbed it by some e.u. nations as europe's last dictator was declared the winner. now to egypt where all three judges involved in the case targeting local ngo workers have resigned the defendants sixteen of them americans are accused of cooperating with foreign n.g.o.s in funding the unrest that's shaken the nation for over a year the judges haven't indicated the exact reasons for pulling out only saying they felt quote uneasiness in tackling the process denouncement comes just two days into the trial. now returning to our top story here on r.t. the crisis ongoing in syria now the world's med

that's what we've been seeing there in russia, belarus, western ukraine. that hasn't happened in southern ukraine. there we have had not as much snow. we've had the exposure to the very frigid temperatures. the other problem i'm going to foresee heading into the next couple of months as we get into spring, as i believe you with an unbelievable picture in romania, this is snow. this is the way we're getting around in romania, we're tunnelling through. that snow has to go somewhere. it is going to eventually melt and what we want is a gradual warmup into spring. if we get a significant bump in the temperatures, we'll see the crops impacted not by the freeze but then by what is going to unfreeze here in that we could have significant flooding. we'll watch that very closely over the next couple of months. nina? >> okay, ivan cabrera, many thanks at the cnn weather center. >>> coming up next on "world business today," after reuniting with old friends in iowa, chinese vice president hits the road again. we're talking, of course, about xi jinping here. the next s

in places like romaine ukraine, belarus and russia, it's brutal. 22 countries stretching from portugal finland and down to northern italy and greece have posted warnings for cold and snow. that is pretty amazing. >>> and it's a safe bet that football fans in at least two cities now will be rooting against the new england patriots in the sunday's super bowl. what are we talking about? of course we're talking about the fans of the patriots' opponents, the new york giants. but in addition now we're talking about buffalo hotel owners. they're in a huff because patriots quarterback tom brady called this city's hotels "not the nicest places in the world." he did apologize afterward, but it probably won't help. this all came about, john, apparently because brady was just trying to praise his own father for being dedicated and following him around the country to watch games. and then there was, as we like to call it, a bit of a gaffe. >> oh, well. i'll have wolf blitzer talk to tom brady about repairing relations between my new england and his buffalo. we'll work all this out. we'll see you in

macedonia, georgia, the country, not my home state, rwanda belarus, saudi arabia, armenia. these are the countries based on a static list of economic models of rules and regulations and opportunity on economic success, places it is easier to succeed in today than in america. that's outrageous, mr. speaker. the president knows. if we're going to create jobs in this country you got to start where most jobs do, that's with small businesses. that's what he says but what he does is preside over a decline of opportunity in this country that puts us now below macedonia, saudi arabia, rwanda and belarus on the world economic stage. mr. speaker, from the department of labor, we see entrepreneurship in america has reached a 17-year low. entrepreneurship in america is at a 16-year low. business startups are at the lowest level since data was first collected in 1994. business startups at the lowest level since the data began to be collected at the department of labor in 1994. mr. speaker, this isn't a chart about business success. we all know that business is hard. you probably are mor