i know it's a nice to be at the again well boris johnson is very nervous because the u.k. has become the most unequal country in the world the spread between the top and the bottom is wider than anywhere else in the world because of the click to crash see that in power including boris johnson the mayor and he's going to go out there and buy three water cannons because he predicts there to be social unrest this summer so we're going to crowd fund on my crowdfunding platform start join a project that was created by a blogger named script and i were going to buy our own water cannon except it's going to be the people's water cannon and we're going to go and we're gonna show up wherever boris johnson is he's not hard to find all you have to do is look for something like this and there's boris johnson and whenever he uses his water cannon we're going to use the people's water cannon to hit boris johnson so it's a water war coming this summer so it's crowd funded the people's water cannon anyone can participate in this put up a pound five pounds ten pounds it just launched today

pistols and we want an army of volunteers to follow to shadow boris johnson and it's easy to spot he looks like this shadow boris johnson and whenever he uses his water cannon then scorn him in the face with a water pistol and of course the people's water cannon which you can help finance or fund and start join dot com the people's water cannon we've already got one thousand two thousand three thousand pounds raised that we can buy water cannon for thirty thousand pounds he's paying like a hundred thousand pounds immediately he's over paying for the water cannons we can source water cannons a lot cheaper for everyone or can anybody will buy five water cannons this is a water wars well they're water cannon remember it's the wasser word for nine thousand and it's thirty seven leaders a second and a maximum pressure of two hundred pounds per square inch so being hit by a water cannon at maximum pressure should feel like several people colliding with you at once but of course we just need this because they're witches right so they melt their wicked witches and they just melt under a litt

an exclusive conversation between boris johnson and michael bloomberg.is up next. ♪ >> good morning. welcome back. study commissioned by bloomberg shows the uk's south east region has more tech jobs than california. ans was the topic of exclusive conversation when michael bloomberg and mayor of london, boris johnson johnson sat down with the bloomberg businessweek editor. so, we are here at the bloomberg technology summit. why are cities so focus on be doingy? wiggle manufacturing or higher technology. why technology? >> the owner of the tv chain. thate you crave the jobs people can start businesses in and get to work when they are young. we all have the problem of creating jobs. it does not require a big space which big cities do not have. if you want heavy steel mill, you do not do it in the city. if you want people to work together, you go to london or new york. those are the two major cities. these are the two that are predominant at the moment. >> exactly right. the other day, you may have a nose angela merkel said something about a broadband connec

all of the cultural diversity. >> boris johnson was talking about it.ery excited about that. >> i had not heard about that he. >> i had heard of the tech old. -- hub. chris is not just a u.k. thing. there are hotspots. >> there are. it has been discussed at every big web summit i have gone to. berlin on the agenda. new york, of course. founder of bloomberg, michael bloomberg talking about the emergence of new york. what london needs to do to foster the growth is making sure we have the infrastructure. they are doing that with the crossrail. .e need broadband broadband is not quite fast enough. and also mobile. we have dead spots. how can you not have signals in parts of london? we needed to catch up. already timeout visas. the lack of talent that gets in. >> if you go to a company, go to google. portuguese are here, americans are here. we are managing to entice because of the growth. are not the problem. it is bringing in asians. >> america is talk about a huge problem. mark zuckerberg lobbying. siemens may be prepared. against ge bid. we will discuss t

boris johnson david cameron george osborne have managed to create the most unequal society of the past fifty to sixty years in the post world war two era people are understanding they're waking up to the fact that austerity is nonsense it's just a way to confiscate wealth quantitative easing as a way to confiscate wealth negative interest rates a way to confiscate wealth now the people have their own water cannons their own water weaponry and we need a we need a vigilantes now water vigilantes to surround boris where every goes in public he's in the office he's at home he's over on one of his boris bikes make sure he gets doused with water let the people there if you're all wet because the water cannons will not stand they will not abide we not about this go down this would award for the summer twenty fourteen. now of course you were talking about all the confiscation of wealth that's been happening and one of the things that i've noticed that's been happening as we keep on hitting all new time highs we've hit nine or ten all time new highs on the dow day after day and one of the thing

pistols and we want an army of volunteers to follow to shadow boris johnson and it's easy to spot he looks like this shadow boris johnson and whenever he uses his water cannon then scorn him in the face with a water pistol and of course the people's water cannon which you can help finance or fund on star join dot com the people's water cannon we've already got one thousand two thousand three thousand pounds raised that we can buy water cannon for thirty thousand pounds he's paying like a hundred thousand pounds immediately he's over paying for the water cannons we can source water cannons a lot cheaper for everyone or can anybody will buy five water cannons this is a water wars well they're water cannon remember it's the wasser word for nine thousand and it's thirty seven leaders a second and a maximum pressure of two hundred pounds per square inch so being hit by a water cannon at maximum pressure should feel like several people colliding with you at once but of course we just need this because they're witches right so they melt their wicked witches and they just melt under a little

like this shadow boris johnson and whenever he uses his water cannon then scorn him in the face with.

. >> we have technology with michael bloomberg and london mayor boris johnson. but exclusive conversation coming up later today. >> hello, welcome. >> it has just come 7:00 here in london. warm welcome to the second hour. the deadline just expired. it was 10 a.m. moscow time this morning. we are watching this developing story. >> we're waiting to see if we get any announcement anytime. in any event they effectively tapatened to turn off the to ukraine if they haven't paid the 1.9 5 billion to partially cover their debt and agreed to a gas price for future deliveries. ukraine gets half its gas from russia. the e.u. gets a third of its gas from russia, half of which rebels through ukraine. -- travels through ukraine. a sixth of the e.u. gas travels through ukraine. we have seen this before in 2006 and in 2009. in both cases they have disrupted gas supplies to western europe. definitely something to watch. thing is the two sides do have a little time to get through the summer. it's warm now so gas demand is lower. they have been stowing away gas. ande is a lot of g

we sit down with boris johnson for an exclusive conversation, next. ♪ >> i am emily chang.loomberg west," streaming on your phone, tablet, and bloomberg.com. today bloomberg kicks off london technology week with a bloomberg technology summit. michael bloomberg and the mayor of london, boris johnson, sought down with joss for a conversation on the state of the technology sector in the capital of the u.k. bloomberg and johnson discussed london's draw for the top tech talent in europe. take a listen. >> i think that local government can provide lots of the conditions that make it attractive for technology entrepreneurs to live here. the crime rates are very low in london. mass transportation, lots of things that you can do to make it attractive. and then things that you cannot really do, politicians tried to have the vibe, that is what people come for. people like you and i, we have to be careful that we don't interfere with the vibe. >> creative people want to have diversity of interests. the fact that london and new york are cultural centers is attractive to them. if you go

preneurs.re you had forced johnson on the -- yo uhu had boris johnson on the program. ecosystem we are behind the u.s., but the reason i work in london is because i think that has real opportunities. >> you said to me before you have not been accompanied in your portfolio that is analyzing begin yet. yet.alyzing big data y is there one company you're interested in? >> that is a really good question. i will try not to give too much away. existingof our companies are in the software and consumer internet space. personally i'm excited around technology and financial services, because london is clearly a world-class ecosystem for financial services. i am pretty excited about education. education will change beyond recognition over the next 10 years. >> it has been wonderful speaking to. thank you for coming up. rory stirling. back to you. >> think you very much. -- thankm hy you very much. shire's stock is trading higher. they released a statement that the abbvie bid undervalued the company. shire said it rejected it because it undervalued the company. the stock is up by 4

grilli that -- brendan greeley talks about the bromance between bloomberg and boris johnson. turning america of the european -- the place where people want to go, bring stations together -- brings nations together. -- ife to develop an idea you then use it for these isposes, i'm sure that that right around the corner for us. >> one of the things i think about -- when companies make choices about where to locate, they are very focused on quality of life and that is the thing that boris has right, you have to have a good place where people want to live ther. >> tax incentives certainly help. we will continue this discussion after the break. coming up, we have our agenda to discuss. team usa making its debut tonight against ghana. what are the odds of a u.s. victory ac? >> this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am the scarlet fu, here with jonathan ferro and brendan greeley. that's what you company news from the files of "bloomberg west." blackberry is expected to report more revenue losses on wednesday. since taking over in november, ceo john chen has cut operating expenses by 30%

topic of an exclusion confrontation when bloomberg founder michael bloomberg and london mayor boris johnson down with "bloomberg businessweek's" editor. mr. bloomberg said the diversity of cities like london and new york is exactly why tech companies are drawn to do business there. >> this is where tech wants to go. one of the reasons is the diversity of the two cities. if you're going to build products you are going to sell to the world, you have to know about the world to do have to show it to the world and ask -- about the world. you have to show it to the world and ask what do they want. >> the bloomberg technology summit was the opening of nearly 300 events around the city of london this week. now the latest on ukraine. the ukrainian president says he will propose a detailed peace plan including a cease-fire with separatist rebels in the country's east. that plan could come as early as this week. he spoke as he opened the meeting of the country's national security council. the developments in ukraine continue to have an impact on energy futures. we turn to su keenan for the latest on t

. >> boris johnson for those don't know talked about as a potential future conservative party leader. we're going to leave you with really cute pictures. the son of the duke and duchess of cambridge have taken first steps in public. prince george with his mother toddling around in western england yesterday. he's not quite 11 months old yet. the newspaper as you expect had lots of fun with the headlines tagging it the first royal walk about. safely in her arm, he looks happy. and looking at his skill dribbling, he might be worth calling out for the england world cup football squad in brazil. certainly looked like he needed help over the weekend. >>> a reminder of our top story. 48 have been killed by gunmen. no group has admitted being behind the violence. i'm geeta guru-murthy. thanks for watching bbc world news. vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. are the largest targets in the world, for every hacker, crook and nuisance in the world. but systems policed by hp's cyber security team are constantly monitored for threats. outside and in. that's why hp reports and helps neutraliz

blair's comments drew widespread criticism, including from london mayor boris johnson. >> i can understand that he feels shattered and lt by the whole thing, -- guilty by the whole thing, but my general message would be to put a sock in it, really. >> juan cole, your response to tony blair? >> well, mr. tony blair, it would take hours and hours to refute everything that he said, all of which was false, but you have to remember he was perfectly willing to leave dictators in's -- in power. he took reddish patrol -- british petroleum leaders to meet with gaddafi. he helped to invade iraq. there, i think the outcomes are less of an indictment of him than the methods. mr. tony blair repeatedly lied to the public about this enterprise. he was advised by his attorney general that the whole thing was illegal in international law initially and he did not share that memo with his own cabinet. he hated it from the british public hearing he said it was not about oil, but we now know he was quite grating with bp officials to make sure they got it after the war was over. -- got bids after the war was ov

that prompted boris johnson, conservative mayor of london who actually voted for war to respond in way that should truly be a model for politicians. here in the u.s. >> i can understand that he feels very, very shattered and guilty about the whole thing, but i think my general message would be just to put a sock in it really and paper bag on head time. >> paper bag on head time. it should be paper bag on head time for everyone who got it wrong on the iraq war, especially the ones who think we can do the same thing all over again and expect different results. tonight we're going to talk to someone who got it right on iraq, someone who told the truth and stood by it. joining me now, congressman gregory meeks, democrat from new york, member of the house foreign affairs committee and voted against going to war in 2002. congressman meeks, good to see you. >> good being with you, chris. >> my first question to you, your reaction from the white house tonight about 270 military personnel moving into iraq to provide security. >> as long as it's for security of the personnel so if we have to mov

we had boris johnson on. is this a challenge?something that mayors are able to promote more than governments? >> this is not a zero-sum game. we are connecting to other tech hubs. having the two mayors here yesterday to tech -- kick this off, there is a lot in common between london and new york. we may be competing that we are swapping ideas across the atlantic. i was in stockholm a few months ago. the corridors between london and stockholm are very important. there are other places like tel aviv. the connection between london and hong kong is important. >> every tech guy i talked to says they are not competing with each other when it comes to dealing with the customer. the fighters for talent. industries you would not think would be near each other in terms of meeting engineer's and they are all code, competing for the same pool of talent. how do we get our arms around this problem? it seems there is a different world of a tech landscape that we don't talk about. we don't talk about how competition it really works raab early sai

in the telegraph, boris johnson calls that argument, quote, bonkers and writes that blair should, quoteof the disaster he helped engineer. i spoke with former prime minister tony blair today. >> mr. prime minister, you have come under enormous criticism just in the past day for a comment laying blame for the current crisis here in iraq on the war in syria and the west response to it or failure to respond to it, and also by the failure of the maliki government in iraq to overcomsectarian impulses. does the occupation of iraq, however, by the united states and the united kingdom under your leadership not also bear some responsibility? after all, al qaeda wasn't here in iraq until that occupation. >> sure. just so that i'm absolutely clear about this, my purpose is not to lay blame on anybody. my purpose is to draw attention to the nature of the challenge that we face in this region. and the need to do something about it. and so, of course, having removed the saddam government back in 2003, that's got implications and consequences for iraq today. but it's also important to realize two very

this is osborne and london mayor boris johnson reportedly set to unveil new measures to ease housing pressure in london including addressing supply. now joining us to tell us the details. whoever said carney was a dove, the ultimate pragmatist, isn't he? >> yeah, he's a good politician. and in the middle of a very, very long speech came this bullet about interest rates for the last year, he's been telling us, actually, the markets are getting it wrong. we're going to keep interest rates low. the bank's own forecast, suggestions from the inflation report was that interest rates wouldn't begin to rise from these historically low levels until april of next year. now, people are talking about november. now, why is this? we have had data for the last six to eight months, increasingly good. we know that gdp is now at levels that surpass the pre-crisis peak. so we've recovered much of the momentum in the economy in the british economy. employment has picked up massively. we don't have things like wage inflation. which is a very strange thing to have on the one hand, you have huge employment