for more on russia's business interests in africa i'm joined by alex vine head africa program at chatham house in london good to have you with us so we already hear that china is a big investor compared to china or the united states for example how does russia compare when it comes to investment in africa. russia's time compared with china or even the united states all the european union it's very very small it's been very very focused on some of the. concessions that you've talked about to be boots. books site in guinea and defense sales but you've also mentioned what the russians want to get playing catch up and so in twenty nineteen they're planning their first half of russia africa summit for example which will probably be held later this year so what do you think is russia's the strategy for africa is it about getting a piece of the action there is it about controlling vital infrastructure. well it's a mixture of things it is about the content is a it's about strategic minerals it's about. science it's about rare earths it is about mining but it's also about that a significant propo

who is with the chatham house in london sir always great to have you on the show. all right and next up we're going to shift our attention to the catholic church which has been hit by yet another abuse scandal for the first time pope francis has acknowledged that high ranking members of the clergy have sexually abused and raped nuns francis admits suspending priests and bishops for abusing women and promise to do more to eradicate the problem in a moment we'll hear from a german nun who was abused herself but first this report on the vatican's culture of secrecy. nuns throughout the world abused and even held as sexual slaves by priests and bishops faced with a growing international outcry about the latest scandal to rock the catholic church the pope could no longer remain silent. on the mistreatment of women is a problem. i would dare to say that humanity has not yet matured one quarter. women are second class citizens that's where it starts. that is a cultural problem. problem of. a cultural problem that the holy see itself isn't immune to the vatican has reporte

joining me now i is far as on a shake she's an associate fellow at the asia pacific program at chatham house thank you for being with us on front twenty four tonight. at visible how worried should we be about this latest escalation between india and pakistan. well the tension a a this iss a very serious situauation because asas you well know a and down ps song -- b both -- new kipip bosnia on to pause and any confrontation involviving nuclear pileses must be taken seriously so we all facing - -- facing quite a serious crisisis. how do you expect pakistan to respond as i it has about? two sh well -- we're going to have to wait and see i thinknk at ththe moment -- old sign suggests the pockets song is not interested in escalatingng this cririsis -- any further than that neeeed toe i mean itt h hasn the whole tendeded to downplay the impact all the indiann strike for examplple i it hasas claimed the strike was - -- mainly of a ceasefifire violatin or violations an incursion across the line off controlled in kashmir a contradicting of course what's the indians claim which is that they atta

robin niblett is with chatham house. the international relations of the course of the president in hanoi. there is also other business being done. can a major german company keep up with the creative destruction of america? is out today with the real talk of significant job cuts to their 118,000 employees. this is what you do when you have single-digit total returns for the last 10 years. to our answers baumann. with werner stay with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg surveillance in westminster. is tom.in new york tb to his main challenger 56% to 41. the election was africa's biggest ever vote. we also want to talk about the developments in venezuela and some of the fighting and some of the death that the border we saw in the last couple of days. still with us is robin niblett of chatham house. you were one of the first voices we had on to talk about how this would end in the complications with hindsight , so it is basically six weeks since it started and it seems like it is more difficult to see a way out there

anne thompson, chatham, virginia. >>> the idea giving unemployment people basic income without conditions to help them get back on their feet. in finland, they just finished an experiment to see how it works. n nbc's sarah harmon has more. >> reporter: cindy has been out of work for over open her coffe. >> i think the biggest effect was psychological. >> reporter: the past two years, she and 2,000 other unemployed finns received $635 a month. the money continued even after they found jobs. the goal to give unemployed people a safety net to find work or even start a business. the trial has ended and now researchers say there was almost no effect on unemployment, though people who got the money reported higher levels of well-being. >> those receive felt better and they have less stress and had more confidence in their future. >> reporter: aztec and automation eliminate more jobs worldwide, the idea of paying everyone a guarantee income is gaining support. >> what's the advantage of universal basic income verses traditional welfare program? >> reporter: for one thing it is comprehensive and

in the americas program from chatham house to help make sense of where we stand now. we thank you for joining us. jacob, now we have heard no agreement has been reached president trump has gotten on his flight out of hanoi. where do things stand now in terms of north korea-u.s. relations? >> international relations were extremely personalized lens. didn't seem to think that kim would trade him or had changed fundamentally. he still had very -- the north korean dictator, so i think -- the relationship getting precipitously worse as it was in the first few months of the trump administration are fairly low for the time being of course, you know, trump is mercurial and changes his mind i think the initial find is that, well, this wasn't a victory and certainly doesn't substantially increase the near-term risk in the relationship either. >> the way this was handled would argue that part of the reason no agreement was reached is that there wasn't enough time, enough preparations, enough working level talks in the lead-up to this. do you think that the outcome would have bee

ann thompson, nbc news, chatham, virginia. sunshine and the 50s return to our forecast this week. lauryn will let us know when. >> plus, meghan markle's em >>> we are learning new details about the british royal family, cluding the development that 97-year-old prince philip has voluntarily stopped driving after a recent crash. >> voluntarily. word there.ey at the same time, meghan mark markle's father released a personal letter that theuchess reportedly wrote to him. nbc's lucy calf on and off reports on these royal headlines. >> reporter: a lot of royal news from this weekend. prince philip, the 97-year-old duke of he had enborrow voluntarily surrenderingdr his iver's license in the aftermath of a carrash he was involved in. i want to get to the news of meghan markle and her continuing dad.with thomas markle speaking out again, sharing an intimate five page letter meghan wrote to him after the wedding. in this emotional letter meghan wrote she never heard from her father that he would be coming. nor did she receive messages from him about his heart attack. meghan wrote, daddy it

. >> let's bring jim o'neill in again, chairman of chatham house.at do you make of those comments so far we are on the page the central banks are exiting, but to talk about rate cuts, and it's not just the u.s. australia, new zealand also a potential move lower what do you make of the uncertainty for investors around monetary policy this year? >> well, unless something has changed in the six years since i stopped doing this every minute of every day of my life, i mean, that's life. you know the uncertainty is part of what makes somebody that's trying to advise or invest better than somebody else if you can anticipate it better than somebody else. that's why you are getting page. >> that makes it slightly different, but i'm also reminded just listening to that on the way you ask in the early days of the asian crisis, back in the late -- towards the he wanted of the 1990s, you know, the mood in the u.s. was, oh, yeah, we're resilient and robust and all the rest of it surprise, surprise, after some knock-on effect through financial conditions, the fed

from the head of the middle east in north africa program at chatham house as always thank you. now several members of the european parliament have urged the e.u. to suspend contact with venezuela's government after they were blocked from entering the country the group was invited to meet venezuela's national assembly by the opposition leader one when i was also trying to enlist volunteers to confront the government blockade of u.s. aid at the border hundreds of thousands of civilians are expected to try to the fi the blockade by carrying supplies across the border on saturday but restorable parliament audio. of parliamentary group demands that the e.u. foreign ministers meeting in brussels decide to withdraw from the international context group we had our passports taken and we were sent back to our plane without reason we did not go there is tourists to create any problem we were responding as members of the european parliament to an institutional invitation from the famous well in parliament to have a working meeting with its president who is also the interim president this i

associate fellow on the asia pacific programme at chatham house.ternative plan was defeated for a second time in the commons. but mr corbyn also suggested he will continue pushing for other available options including a general election. that announcement came after mps voted last night to endorse the prime minister's brexit strategy, but only after a series of concessions. 0ur assisted political editor, norman smith, is at westminster. how are mp3 gripping today after the business last night as they look forward to the 12th of march, the meaningful as many as are of the opinion say "aye", to the contrary "no".. to be honest, a mixed bag of results last night, . "no".. to be honest, a mixed bag of results last night,. —— the meaningful vote two. there were around 100 or so tory mps who refused to support her on the key vote, which was due back the proposal that mps should be allowed to extend article 50 if a deal gets voted down next month. but when you look at that rebellion, if you want to call it that, there were about 20 tory brexiteer to voted

and we asked clinton peel associate fellow of the year program of the think tank chatham house what options to recently as. the trouble is everything is possible the nightmare for two reason may and she's gone on and on and on trying to deliver a deal that is except to bolt to her right wing hard line breaks it says and also to the democratic unionist party from northern ireland and it really doesn't look as if there's any deal that's acceptable to them that is also acceptable to the twenty seven other members of the european union they're saying look get across party deal where is softer form of brecht's that you would have a majority in parliament then and come back to us but that would split the conservative party so they don't want an election because they'd be going into it totally split the labor party says it wants an election but it's also split i do think that the possibility of another referendum is still there but even that doesn't have a majority in parliament at the moment we're really in deadlock which is why there's growing fear in brussels i think that no deal might be the a

he's an associate fellow at the europe program at the think tank chatham house.nd from brussels, our very own barbara wesel is standing by. to both of you, good evening. barbara, let me start with you. you were present at that press conference today. what was the reaction when mr. tusk said that, and who was he actually talking about? who does he think deserves that place in hell? barbara: there was of course a sort of audible gasp in the press room when this remark about a special place in hell for hardcore brexiteers came, and then furious tweeting started because everybody knew this was sort of like a little smoke grenade that donald tusk had been lobbing across the channel. and also we know that this was not an off-the-cuff remark because we immediately received the verbal notes of tusk's remarks, and it was written there word by word. so this was very carefully thought out. this was something he was doing deliberately, because he obviously wanted to make quite clear to the other side of the negotiating table tomorrow that the insults flying back-and-forth, a

anne thompson, nbc news, chat m chatham, virginia. >>> now to wt some are calling money for nothing. the idea of giving unemployed people a basic income without conditionso help them get bac on their feet and move ahead. it's a controversial idea, getting a second look s ine american cities, but in finland, they just finished a experiment to see how it works. nbc sarah harmon has more. >> reporter: sydney martin had been out of work for almost a year w dn sheided to open her own coffee shop. she was willing to takefihe ncial risk, because she was part of the finnish governmen basic income experiment. >> i think the biggest effect was psychological. >> reporter: for the past two years, she a0 2, other unemployed finns received $635 a month. no strings attached. and the money continued even after they found jobs. the goal? to give unemployed people a safety net to find work or even start a bu. but the trial has ended, and now researchers say there w almost no effect on unemployment, though people who got the money reported higher levels of well-being. >> those who received basic income

to pull in quick he is in london he's an associate fellow at the europe program at the think tank chatham house and from brussels our very own barbara basler standing by to both of you good evening barbara let me start with you you were present at that press conference today what was the reaction when mr towser said that and who was he actually talking about who does he think deserves that place in hell. now there was of course a sort of audible gasp in the press room when this remark about a special place in hell for hardcore bricks and tears came and then furious tweeting started because everybody knew this was sort of like a little smoke grenade that donald had been lobbing across the channel and also we know that this was not an off the cuff remark because we immediately sort of received a verbal sort of. remarks and it was written there just word by word so this first very carefully thought out this was something he was doing deliberately because he obviously wanted to make quite clear to the other side of the negotiating table tomorrow that these sort of insults flying back and fort

leslie with us as well from chatham house this morning. , let'se of mr. now as well. we have to move on to the next diplomatic ballet with north korea. options orited our is there a path to further dialogue in the past to a third summit? this is certainly not what anybody expected. people are very worried that donald trump would give too much too soon. now, it is very clear what the plan is. having walked out of a summit, which is really unprecedented, to come back into talks without there being something on the table, i think would be very difficult for this administration. i think this demonstrates is that there wasn't coordination internally, that there wasn't a plan for what to do if north korea didn't quickly come to the table with a set of offerings that trump was willing to accept. the alternative becomes coordination internally within the administration on the ground and sort of giving up very quickly. at a lot when you look of the geopolitical risk that we , what does itina mean for currencies? there is a little bit of a bid for haven this mornin

quentin peel in london he is a journalist and he works with the european program at the think tank chatham house he's a familiar face here on the w. when it's good to see you i have to ask you we heard these three impedes talking about of voiding the cliff edge aren't they or rather late to make that decision well i think that there's a very strong tradition of loyalty in the conservative party in britain and it's taken a long time really for them to pluck up courage and actually lead the party that's a dramatic thing for them to work done under three very busy little articulate members who to reason may will miss a great deal she doesn't have that many with it members of parliament and she certainly doesn't have that many really bryson outspoken women so i think you will be a blue. even if it has taken its use a rather long telling for them to get to the phones well we understand that tonight with these new defectors that the independent group now has more seats in parliament than the d u p which is helping to prop up the reserve may's government so does this political realignment is it g

democratic party of north carolina now the publisher of shadow county line this fine newspaper that chatham county in county long graduations on this randi great to be here max this is our twentieth year i've worked with julian serrano who's been the publisher for the last one thousand years to keep this publication going in its a way for local people to have their voices heard right and at the logline is where all voices are heard this is a radical idea in today's america where not all voices can be heard there's a drastic increase in deep platforming in the rise and echo chambers your thoughts you know it's very hard obviously to make money or make a living putting out print media but i think in micra media like this where we're not in it to make money we're just trying to break even so that we can actually put out a publication and let the community be heard is important and you know maybe in the future you know we might make a few dollars but the bottom line is to provide a platform for folks across the spectrum to put out their opinions and report on local news right now in north carol

dr yu jay is china research fellow at chatham house and shejoins us now.ou and welcome to the programme. the clock is ticking, 17 days left come off of progress? it will be kind of a partial deed if they reach some kind of agreement because washington is asking for structural change of the chinese economy within 17 days. i think it's unlikely to achieve that but what we can hope for us both sides looking for a deal because washington is getting extremely worried about, the chinese economy slowing down, all sides want to achieve something and judging by the composition of the delegation its senior enough to make decisions. the big sticking points as sally outlined is structural reform, explain why that is and why it is fundamental. the united states is asking china to change its state led and planned economy, the party and the government should stop interfering in economic activities but that's unlikely for china because that's the model of the chinese economy and what they have been running the last 40 years. the olive branch the chinese government is offe

. >>> let's talk more about thnow with leslie at chatham house think tank from our london bureau.a pleasure to have you on the show. >> thank you, george. >> as a texan myself, land ownership is a big deal. so it will be interesting to see how the process of eminent domain might play out if it doesn't get caught up in the courts first. but first americans who wanted to do this toor, declare a national emergency. show as resounding no. 66% of respondent said no they not want him to declare a national emergency to build the wall. it really comes down to the president's base here, leslie and the question if this doesn't happen. if it gets held up in the courts, is it a win simply because he tried and went this far? >> if we're talking about his base, that segment of the population that trump thinks is essential to his approval and his future presidential campaign, then the idea that america, liberal america is pushing back against a segment that's not been protected, that will probably serve to sdhur support of the base for the president. but whether or not that will be enough to tak

she is now an associate fellow, at the us and the americas programme at chatham house. maybe i could ask you sebastien first, is this genuinely a national emergency? back in 2017, that was the lowest number of apprehensions on the us mexico border since 1971, so how is it worse now and back then? i'm not sure where you are getting your statistics from. the us customs and border protection is the source. for the last calendar year, we had 390,000 illegal aliens apprehended at the border. that is almost have a million. that is a national crisis. we had 72,000 americans die from drugs over dices from drugs that were smuggled across—the—board. that from drugs that were smuggled across—the—boa rd. that is from drugs that were smuggled across—the—board. that is a multiple how many americans were killed in the vietnam war. just that alone provides more than adequate justification for the president to do this. if it is half a million now, as you say, in the year 2000, and this is according to the us customs and border protection agency, so presumably, they should know. it was 1

myoor that ami was trying to get them to be an investor, and also we have a board here made up of chathamwhich owned i think at one point 80% of the company. are they doing well financially? do they lose money, and what do you think their investors are thinking or doing right now? >> traditionally the company has lived from hand to mouth it's never had much -- much of a cash flow. david pecker isn't a journalist. he doesn't have ink in his veins. he's about acquisitions, you know, and buying the next -- the next big deal, so last spring he put out a special issue on saudi arabia and tightling it the new magic kingdom. shortly after that, say three months later, suddenly there was a windfall of money and american media was able to buy up its main competitor, bauer magazines. the timing is incredible it seems suspicious to many people >> jerry, we still don't know how the paper obtained the private pictures of bezos. in your experience do they ever do this illegally, this sort of thing, illegally obtained pictures or documents in these investigations >> in my experience not, but there are a

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and americas program at chatham house, a london-based think tank. it's always good to have you, leslie. >> thank you, george. >> leslie, let's start with the president's upcoming summit with kim jong un. mr. trump has insisted that that nation is no longer a nuclear threat. but cnn's "state of the union" seemed to get a different answer from secretary of state mike pompeo, who seemed to do some sidestepping with my colleague jake tapper. watch this. >> do you think north korea remains a nuclear threat? >> yes. >> but the president said he doesn't. >> that's not what he said. i know precisely -- >> he tweeted there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. >> what he said is what -- what he said was that the efforts that had been made in singapore, this commitment that chairman kim made, had substantially taken down the risk to the american people. it's the mission of secretary of state and the president of the united states to keep the american people secure. we're aiming to achieve that. >> so leslie, you know, jake tapper pointed out the twe

. >>> and let's talk about his speech coming up with leslie ben murray from chatham house think tank. thanks for coming on. >> thank you, natalie. >> i want to talk about what we just heard there, the president's theme for his speech, choosing greatness. do you think somewhere in there he's going to choose to go and build that wall somehow without democrats and make that announcement? >> it would be quite something if -- and remember, this is a state of the union address that was originally designed to take place a week earlier than it will. it was delayed because of that shutdown. so the idea that the president would actually declare a national emergency in order to fund the wall that has been so deeply controversial and had such negative economic consequences and led to the longest shutdown that we have seen in the history of the united states would be rather dramatic. and i guess i'm skeptical that he would do this, but then, of course, we have seen a lot of things come out of this president that we haven't anticipated. >> right. and we're not sure who is advising him on what these

with me now is dr leslie vinjamuri, the head of the us and the americas programme at chatham house.will be talking about because they don't, do they? no, it has been hard to decipher what the strategy is. there isa decipher what the strategy is. there is a strong sense that there was no coordination, the thing we have seen is that there is not a strong internal coordination and the administration is not working very carefully with its allies in the region. to be very fair, this is a very difficult problem and previous administrations have not succeeded in cracking the knot of denuclearisation when it comes to north korea so one has to keep it in perspective. —— cracking the nut. it isa perspective. —— cracking the nut. it is a very significant issue for president trump, he wants to wind a diplomatic success and expectations are high. he said last time that north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. he was just plain wrong. north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. he wasjust plain wrong. one wonders when trump says things like that that clearly are not true, we are looking at 65 nu