nasdaq ceo bob griese sold was in israel -- bob griese felt was in israel. >> i think we have more israelicome to nasdaq last year than we had chinese ipos. it is more important to look at one. the quality and consistency of companies that are generating the entrepreneurship of innovation out of this country is amazing. >> is the consolidation going on among the intercontinentalexchange e there are 13 exchanges and 15 venues. surely we are going to see more see moreion -- consolidation. >> i think with respect to equity markets, you will see less of that than you are probably predicting there. nasdaq is obviously always optimistic -- always opportunistic. it is about leveraging the strengths we have. we are going to focus on continuing with that effort. >> the biggest tech ipo of the -- is it a sign of things to come that perhaps nasdaq is the natural name for the big tech companies? >> we are. certainly we had a very good 2013. twitter is a great company. we wish them well. we are proud of the success we have had. it is important to recognize that nasdaq has diversified influencing franch

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eurozone member griese whose economy has been struggling more than most is taking over the rotating e.u. presidency for the year politicians say their role is chance to prove greece is a normal country despite all its economic woes let's now take a quick look at how some measures have been affecting athens and some of the european economies and in the four years of austerity measures the nations shown here have seen their debt increase by as much as forty percent for greece and spain their best despite a requirement for all euro zone countries to limit their national debt to sixty percent of g.d.p. at the same time the average personal income has fallen in all of these states except germany greece has been worst affected here assuming the e.u. presidency gives athens powers to regulate policies in the blog however one greek journalist we spoke to doesn't expect much on that front. i believe that greece can give some lessons of how. grace is and when a country has a huge problem this is a very big lead only to disaster in that sense we can feed some lessons to other european countries an

griese seems to be fed up with. purging but despite ongoing economic woes the country which almost with almost a quarter of its population at risk of poverty is beginning its term at rotation as are tasting the e.u. president starting in january the first let's not take a quick look at how the blocks policies affected us and us and some of the european economies and in the four years of a series of measures all the nations shown here have seen their debt increase in greece and spain by forty percent and that's despite the fact all countries adopting the euro must not allow their national public debt to exceed sixty percent of gross domestic product at the same time average income of the people living in these countries has fallen except in germany and the worst of all is greece as you can see here meanwhile the country's leaders are giving assurances that athens will leave its bailout program within the year without a big need for a third aid package one greek journalist who talks to says the e.u. did to his country

and this bold new grad griese for those killed in the terror of the last r.t. talks the man who saved a nine year old girl who remains gravely ill. hello there thanks for watching you with r.t. international now al qaeda affiliated assassins have reportedly gunned down a senior yemeni intelligence officer in a broad daylight drive by shooting the terror network has been increasingly cornered in recent years by both government forces and u.s. drone strikes. reports on how it's forced al qaeda to adapt and evolve its strategy . it's a bone chilling video the man driving this s.u.v. is on a mission to kill as a truck barrels into an army base in yemen's shabab province a sickening act of terror was captured on film a small one zero zero zero zero. god more than fifty two soldiers died that day but al qaida went beyond simply claiming responsibility it released this video showing computer generated map was in preparation for the attack in an interview with the bomber it even included english subtitles and al qaeda leader is then shown chiding a group of captured so

grad griese for those killed in the terrible start to the talks the man who saved a nine year old girl who remains rightfully.