"der spiegel" takes a closer look at the man pulling the strings. he likes to keep a low profile. you can see it almost seems like he is holding back a smile in this photo. germany's performance has been stellar in the world cup. all the papers agree on that. they beat the host, brazil, 7-1 in that semifinal. he is very modest about it. i understand what the brazilians feel. we lost at the same stage when we were hosting. i understand what the coach and fans feel. i know how hard and painful it is to digest something like that. you can see he is not that big of a show off. wonders, maybe that is what the team owes its success to. maybe the team are competent, grounded, and 0-- thelso having a look at world cup in a special issue dedicated to conspiracy theorists. >> fifa has already fixed the world cup matches -- that's what some people believe. this paper says these conspiracy .heorists are everywhere it takes a look at historic conspiracy theories about the 11,assassination, september etc., as well as some modern conspiracy theories, such as "the simpsons," is behind the arab sp

and it's starting to have an effect on public opinion now a survey published by german magazine der spiegel should pass that more than half of the public has had enough of washington and if we take a look here according to that report fifty seven percent of want to their country to be less dependent on the u.s. . now germans are not the only ones being mourned it's or the recent report based on the leaks of edward snowden claims the n.s.a. has been keeping an eye on five politically active muslim americans they include a prominent human rights activist lawyer and scholar and so far there is zero evidence any of them are connected to terrorism ok so the n.s.a. has been spying on its own people on its friends and even on entire nations according. to cordon and find a phone call made in the bahamas and a little later in the program we'll take you to the saudi islands to find out what people and the governments think about being watched by washington and what they plan to do about it. also on the way for you valsin some leaves in moscow and information blackout over the arrest of a russian citi

conditions and this will cause chaos and expanding war in the region according to german magazine der spiegel americans were still in jordan in march of last year training up to twelve hundred members of the free syrian army to use anti-tank weapon mary we have spent a lot of time trying to work with a moderate opposition in syria now the white house is ready to spend a lot of money the obama administration has requested half a billion dollars to arm and train syrian rebels fighting to topple president bashar al assad u.s. officials claim only appropriate that members of the moderate syrian opposition will receive american weapons and ammo problem is it's not always easy to differentiate between the moderates and. arist here's u.s. senator john mccain posing with members of isis the photo is now reportedly being circulated by the group as proof of their legitimacy not to be disputed the legitimacy of isis is gruesome behavior violence oher effect some report osama bin laden looks like a gentle soul in comparison as the newest group of terrorists is growing stronger and gaining more ground thr

whistleblower thomas drake told german magazine der spiegel that after nine eleven germany became quote the most important surveillance platform for the n.s.a. abroad and now u.s. mistrusts has also led to german mistrust just last week the german government announced that it was pulling its contract with horizon due to fears that the internet provider was allowing u.s. agencies to spy on the government's communications and just this weekend we learned that despite president obama's assurances that mrs merkel's communications were safe the u.s. was still spying the germans caught a double agent working for the u.s. who was spying on the german government's investigation of the n.s.a. spying that's the that's the u.s. spying on you for investigating the u.s. spying on you oh oh and by the way in case you forgot germany in the u.s. their allies remember the crazies so at the very least spying is bad for. american businesses as we can see it arises and at the very worst it could lead to the german government not trusting you you i'm talking to you the u.s. federal reserve with any of its g

. >> that's a story we broke at "der spiegel." the general reaction why quite calm.in may and met obama and thought we could get over it. it's a huge setback in the relations. >> how much, i mean germany and the u.s. cooperate on so many things. how much could this actually endanger the u.s., germany economically relationship or military relationship? >> it probably won't affect the big crisis, the tensions in the middle east, potential war. but everything beyond that point take the transatlantic trade agreement, take swift safe harbor, the agreements between europe and the united states which are essentially for the economy and also politics, they are all endangered. it's a huge dwis appointment not only with the conservatives in berlin but the whole population. it will be very hard to regain trust. >> a german official was supposed to visit next week and cancelled. >> right, it's the german foreign chancellor who was supposed to come to d.c. next week. he postponed his visit. >> the official reason was because of unrest in the middle east. >> he mentioned the middl

what we learned in december in a great expose in "der spiegel" which some of us are starting to wonderr it came there a source other than snowden, we learned of nsa's massive catalog of vulnerabilities in a wide variety of widely-used products, ha!ssu(áq and software. and, basically, they can pick and choose and go, oh, the target has that? here's a vulnerability for that. bruce, can you help us out with, like, where did those come from, and what the heck is a zero day anyway, and where can i pie one? -- buy one? >> let's talk about softed ware for a second. software is incredibly complicated, everywhere, and we as scientists, we as a community, we as technologists do not know how to write secure code. we do our best, but all software contains bugs, contains vulnerability, right? you know every month you get a dozen or so updated to your microsoft operating system. those are all closing, fixing bugs, closing vulnerabilities. those vulnerabilities can be used to attack systems. remember earlier i talked about the nsa's dual protection -- amie started with that. dual missions, protection

>> der spiegel has a story, a guy says there are seven bad apples on this team. he predicted the exact score and the exact red card that happened. >>> this is a red, white examine blue body suit. it's called a morph suit. andrew, i think you should wear that today. >> on the commercial break, try that on. >> i'm going to put it on right now. can i ask a serious question? >> these are all privilege husband questions we've been asking? >> why in the world cup is it not knockouts from day one? >> wow, you're going deep on this. i thought it was going to be joe's arguing penalty kicks. you don't like the group stage of the world cup? >> no, i don't. >> i want it to be like every other -- >> i'll tell you what, did you hear what dennis miller said, ending these games in this round the way they're winning, it's like taking a winner of the masters with a windmill hole, a putt putt hole -- arguably, the defining moment of the sochi olympics was what? hockey purists hated it, but the rest of the world loved it. same thing goes with soccer. the penalty shoot-out res fantas