he was humming his nose at holland smith. -- filmingthumbing his nose at holland smith. they said they frozen their foxholes and so forth. all of this would have died down after the war. you had the reunification fights, cold war heating up. in 1947, holland smith published his biography. how many people have red that book? -- if you have read that book? the only thing that is true or the birthdates. the commandant at the time begged him not to publish this book. let's keep our heads down on it and not antagonize the other services. when he asked sherrod to goes writer, he said he did not want to get into that. he took aim at everybody. according to holland smith, he was the only one with clear eyed vision. nobody listen to him. he was underappreciated. i was able to reach some letters , and they were asking each other if holland smith had lost his mind. of course, people questioned his stability. this is something that would have died down after the war. if poisoned army-marine relations. joint training was the first time they glanced at each other without mumbling unde

francois hollande slams the claims as acceptable. nato defense ministers deployed heavy arms and eastern europe. and the european union demands a nation as hungary stops accepting asylum-seekers. also coming up for you this hour, is greece's debt deal on the rocks? prime minister alexis tsipras lashes out at the imf as european markets tumble. that is coming up in business at 15 past the hour, but first, our top stories. ♪ france has lashed out at the united states after new reports from wiki leaks said the nsa has spied on the last three french president. the whistleblowing website said the u.s. eavesdropped on current president francois hollande as well as in a car sarkozy -- nicolas sarkozy and jacques chirac. a top official is writing a trip to the u.s. to get to the bottom of the claim. nicholas rushworth has more. nicholas: wikileaks reveals off ration espionage police say -- espionage elysÉe, thing they listen to the phone calls of top french officials and the last three french president. q a major diplomatic embarrassment for

he met his match in holland smith. one of the people turner worked for called him the meanest man with the most -- but the most competent naval officer. turner was a heavy drinker. but it never seems to affect his performance. he was throwing back every night. nimitz decided and spruance decided if he was going to continue to perform, they would not make a big deal about it. general holland smith claimed he had no idea how he could've gotten a nickname because he thought he was the gentlest man as long as you were a marine. he was the father of amphibious warfare had a monumental ego and hated everyone. he was the personification -- paranoid does not mean you don't have any enemies. he was convinced the army and navy were constantly plotting to do away with his marines. he saw behind every rock, he saw comecon he was on staff during world war i so he was not in combat. he saw himself as the marine equivalent of patton. marshall was the army historian and met him. his marines were getting slaughtered and he was stuck on

we were allowed to live in holland but he was not allowed to work in holland.o we rented out rooms and my mother, she was, she worked all her life until the end. was a tough life. interviewer: you mentioned before that you came to holland because your father had a sister. did sh survivee the war? jerry: she did survive the war. her husband died during the war. her daughter died during the war. but she survived. and interesting story. however, she was extremely sick. she was, she had cancer. and she had to go to the hospital back and forth for treatment. but there are no ambulances there are no cars, nothing. but i had a bicycle. so i put her on the back of my basketball -- my bicycle and i drove her back and forth to the hospital on the back of my bicycle. that is where the bicycle came in. very, very important. and then she died shortly after the war. interviewer: in the years since the end of the war you kept in touch with the children of the man u stayed with her to an half years? -- man you stayed with for two and a half years? jerry: yes. the son dick, he

hollande claimed merkel had given up on greece and was unwilling to budge. wikileaks in 2013 alleged merkel herself had no u.s. confirmation of that. there was a similar on france with the white house insisting it is not targeting hollande's communications and will not do

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the white house said that barack obama reassureed hollande that u.s.was not spying on his phone calls and other communications. how angry is the french government neave? >> well, the french on the whole are outraged by these recent revelations as shown by how swiftly they called for that defense couple meeting council meeting. actions were put in force. first, you can see her arrive pretty much for an addressing down. also the defense council decided that the best thing to do would be to try and verify these allegations by sending their own senior intelligence team over to washington some time in the coming days. but of course, these revelations come at a very awkward time in relations between france and the united states. back in late 2013 early 2014 president hollande and obama sat down in washington, and president obama categorically promised that the u.s. would not be spying on france. all of this came at a time in which edward snowden, the former nsa whistle blower, former worker turned whistle blower revealed that the nsa had been involved in tap

and will not target the communications of president hollande. as for the white house it refuses to comment on specific intelligence allegations. genie: francois hollande is now hosting crisis talks on the alleged spying claim. the group is meeting at the elysÉe presidential palace, and that is where douglas herbert is as well. talk us through the developments since the story first broke. douglas: yeah, you used the exact right words -- anger, a day indignation, also a sense of, "are you kidding me?"

president hollande: these acts are acceptable. they are he led to a discussion between the united states and france in 2013 at a time of the first revelations. reporter: back then, it was revealed that the nsa had tapped the german chancellor's phone, sparking outrage among europe. allegedly eavesdropping on three french president, jacques chirac, nicolas sarkozy and francois hollande from 2006 22012. the french government demands an explanation. >> the french foreign affairs minister has summoned an abbasid or to the united states this afternoon. a senior intelligence if you -- official will also travel to the u.s. to discuss the commitments that have been agreed to between the u.s. and france. reporter: across the political spectrum, politicians slammed the allegations, saying allies should not spy on each other. >> barack obama should apologize

hollande claimed merkel had given up on greece and was unwilling to budge. wikileaks in 2013 alleged merkel himself was found cap. there was note u.s. confirmation of that. there is a similar denial with france, with the white house insisting it is not targeting Åland' -- hollande's communication, but does not say what might have been done in the past. the french parliament is due to pass a controversial security and surveillance bill this wednesday. laura: and just hours after that story broke, french lawmakers voted in favor of boosting powers of their own security services. the so-called french patriot act has been passed into law. critics say it is an affront to french values. while spying revelations is straining relations with the united states, migrants are straining relations with the pain -- with the u.k. they have been trying to board lorries heading to the u.k. david cameron says his government is looking at boosting border controls around the city. several thousand people are said to be sleeping rough in the area trying desperately to make it acr

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genie: french president francois hollande met with michel platini today. he was set to discuss 2016. the tickets go on sale today and michel platini gave the first vote to president francois hollande. chris moore was at the press conference earlier today. here is his report. chris: michel platini delivering a symbolic first ticket to francois hollande. an initial batch of one million tickets for this event gets underway going on sale today. the message is get on the internet early if you want to be involved in that particular lottery. it is an opportunity for france peroration -- preparation, which is going swimmingly well. a fourth one is due at the start of next year. many of the journalists are much more interested in the chaos that is going on in foot wall. -- in football. many think that michel platini is in place to take over for sepp blatter. he is batting away all questions. in terms of what is going on in french -- in france, different prime minister took a government jet to a flight from his party conference to watch the champions league final in

spied on hollande and two of his predecessor predecessors.uring an emergency meeting hollande said france would not tolerate acts that threaten its security. the white house says it won't comment on specific intelligence allegations. france's foreign minister gave this reaction. >> reporter: these sorts of practices are a serious violation of the spirit of trust we must have. the united states must not only admit the danger that such acts have on our freedoms but also they must do everything quickly to repair the damage in the relaw shunship between our countries and between the united states and france. >> neave barker joins live from paris. how cross and upset is the french government? >> well as you probably gleaned there, the french government are being careful, but they are certainly outraged by the claims made in wikileaks and repeated in the daily newspaper here. a sign of how annoyed they are was probably given away by the fact that they quickly convened that emergency defense council meeting early on in the day. out of that several d

and francois hollande continues to say there is no leak of that and would be wrong to have that.s say the authorities are currently working on the basis this man was working alone. although there have been reports that there was an islamic state flag he was carrying those are unconfirmed reports at this point in time and the idea that this was some kind of wave of terrorism is not substantiated at this point in time. it looks more and more like it's the work of one person who has now been taken into custody and authorities are at pains to try and calm the sense of worry in the local vicinity at the moment. >> paul, thank you for that. paul brennan updating us from the scene where that attack on that factory took place. now eu leaders agreed on a plan to deal with a record number of migrants crossing the mediterranean and the voluntary scheme is aimed at speeding relocation of migrants in italy and greece, at a tent meeting in brussels on friday agreed to relocate 40,000 migrants to other countries and others and mostly syrians in camps outside of the eu will be resettled within i

it relates that hollande has ordered or approved a secret meeting with members of germany oppositionwithout the knowledge of germany chancellor angela merkel to talk about the eurozone crisis. that's was three years ago. another earlier won from 2010, that the ambassador to the united states had a discussion with the diplomatic adviser in which they revealed topics of a meeting between sarkozy and obama and sarkozy's frustration of washington stepping back on a bilateral intelligence agreement and the united states' insistence to continue to spy on france. as of now we've heard no further discussion, at least no public discussion whether those kinds of discussions with the french havefrench have gone anywhere. >> and have we had any reaction to these leaks yet? >> there's been no reaction from the united states. first, there has been no reaction from the french government as of yet. but remember just about a year and a half ago french hollande publicly reprimanded or would describe his upset with previous disclosures of u.s. spying on the french. in this case it was 70 million phone

tsipras's meeting with hollande and merkel in doubt. balancing the books. the british chancellor will announce later that he will legally commit the u.k. to a budget surplus when times are good. good morning everybody. you are watching "countdown." let's talk about what was going on overnight. it is a passive index. the fact that they decided not to include china doesn't sound a big deal but it is a massive deal. if china was included, it would have dominated this index. this is an index that is tracked by billions of dollars of money around the world. shanghai went down on the news. this has been an epic rally. the fact that we have not seen foreign money chasing domestic money into this market, i think is highly significant that the moment. . the twitter question for the day. would you put new money into china? if msci says they are comfortable, would you put new money into china? would you change the rally that we have seen. the five-year charts that i will show you. they are absolutely amazing in terms of the rally. that is the shanghai stock exchange o

spied on on president franÇois hollande and two of his predecessors.neave barker reports from paris. >> the u.s. ambassador to france summoned to explain on the spying on three french presidents. >> i said this is, one this is unacceptable. two, we want to know if these practices have ceased, and three, to ask if this was only used in relation to the president or more generally. while we understand that there might be surveillance concerning terrorists this has nothing to do with listening in on the heads of allied states and friends by asking the ambassador by giving answers rapidly. >> earlier in the day president franÇois hollande would discuss the revelations. hollande said that the country would not tolerate actions that threatened it's national security. the claims reported in the french daily and on the wikileaks website said that the eavesdropping happened between 2006 and 2012. paris said that it will now send a special intelligence team to the u.s. to investigate matters further. the country's prime minister promised to do everything in proba

francois hollande slams the claims as acceptable.o defense ministers deployed heavy arms and eastern europe. and the european union demands a nation as hungary stops accepting asylum-seekers. also coming up for you this hour, is greece's debt deal on the rocks? prime minister alexis tsipras lashes out

the passengers hobb a cruise the holland america ship.ir bnb could push the company's valuation to $24 billion. financing has been driven by investment firms in both the u.s. and china. the company expects to bring in $1.5 billion. if it succeeds, that would match facebook as the biggest investor round for a private tech company. the popularity of the home rental service is increasing quick until china. in california, a controversial plan to require nearly all public schoolchildren be vaccinated has pass aid major hurdle. protesters demonstrated outside as the state assembly approved the plan. it struck down the state's personal belief exemption. the state senate has passed a similar bill. supporters say california needs a boost to vaccination rates after an outbreak of measles. we're following the news out of france. paris cac is down about half a percent, where it had been as we know one person has been found decapitated outside air products a facility close to grenoble in the southeast. brendan: yesterday the supreme court hospitalers

francois hollande has called for calm as emotions are running high. he will be returning to france from brussels to meet with cabinet member -- ministers. the suspect that has been taken into custody was in his mid-30's, known by authorities. the identification has not been made public, the identity of the at least one suspect, francois hollande says they cannot confirm if there is another suspect along with the first one who has indeed been arrested and identified. he was known to authorities. an anti-terror investigators have been sent to the scene and the interior minister is on the scene as well. security measures step up around sensitive sites around the country as the french prime minister calling for that measure, he is overseas, but calling for that measure. we have got the french government going to be in full affect, trying to first take in all the facts about this terror attack. then to seek what measures need to be taken moving forward. i would like to bring in our political editor who joins me in the studio. mark, we heard from the presid

listened into holland and the leaders before him. it contains a transcript of the french authorities talking about the future of the eu and relations with germany. angela merkel had given up on greece and the solution to the debt crisis. they carefully avoided the past tense. in the intelligence game, there are no friends and enemies, just national interests. brent: the boston bomber has apologized to his victims for the first time. he made the apology shortly before being sentenced to death. >> paying ransoms to hostage takers. the american government needs to be more sensitive to captives families. brent:brent: the w news live from berlin. your top stories right now. finance ministers have postponed talks on the greek debt crisis until thursday. the talks are meant to finalize greases new reform opposable's. they bolster the military presence in the east. the secretary-general says there will be no new arms race. large crowds have turned out to welcome britain's queen elizabeth. this is the start of a german tour and is also the re

that looks unlikely after president obama called francois hollande to assure him they would not spy on him anymore. >> we are not targeting president hollande and we do not conduct any foreign intelligence surveillance activities unless there is some specific and validated national security purpose. reporter: that is not enough for assange who says, what does it matter if they say they are not produced by on hollande personally? authorities are currently investigating whether a previously unknown leaker provided the latest intelligence documents to wikileaks. eve: france has increased its own surveillance powers. parliament passed a bill which gives intelligence services the authority to monitor internet use and phone calls without judicial warrants. the bill will not take effect until a high court rules on whether or not it is constitutional. a second car bomb placed by the islamic state group has detonated in the town of kobani near the turkish border with syria. there are reports that 20 kurds in a nearby village were killed by the jihadist. kurdish forces helped by the u.s. coaliti

michael holland will speak about his recent visit.e level of some sorts in china. good morning. ♪ tom: good monday morning. after jobs day on friday, what a jobs day that was. thanks to all of our team for great coverage. we move on. let us get to our top headlines. vonnie: police using tear gas dispersed a crowd outside of a concert in new jersey. people got angry after they cannot get into a sold-out show at metlife stadium. authorities not said if there were injuries or arrests. u.s. media company is reportedly in works to export marketing firms linked to the national soccer scandal. directv and 20th century fox have been top sponsors of the firm. directv pimm fox aren't accused of wrongdoing. and today productions took top honors in broadway's biggest night, the tony awards for the best new play went to "the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime." the best new musical was "fun home" adopted from a graphic novel. they had a record setting season boasting $1.3 million. i haven't seen either, but i will be rushing to see both.

francois hollande and previous presidents were targeted. the leak coincides with a vote on a french bill allowing new government surveillance powers. >> there is a big debate inside the opposition as with the opinion that we don't want in france to do like the n.s.a. does in the world. >> despite the uproar among french politicians, there seems to be little surprise. france's defense council writing: >> we need the u.s. partnership especially in some operation outside the country like in africa or in iraq and so you cannot destroy such a strong partnership. >> the u.s. national security council spokesman said the u.s. is not targeting and will not target the communications of president hollande. the statement made no mention of previously spying on him or his predecessors. a wick leak spokesman is confident the documents are authentic and promises more publications to come, giving further evidence of the u.s. true goals in mass espionage of france. >> president hollande didn't comment beyond the meeting held today. an aid to his predecessor

what are we expecting from angela merkel and francois hollande today? >> we do not know what to expect. we are not sure that this meeting is going to take place. there is a chance it may not. the e.u. leaders will be in brussels for a summit with latin american heads of state. and the greek, german, and french leaders are planning they have said they will meet on the sidelines of this. but at the same time, there was not any progress in the talks on the greek program yesterday. that is one of the things the creditors have said they need to see before the talks can move forward. an interesting point -- the european commission has not said they are going to the dissipates in the talks. they said -- they are going to participate in the talks. they said they need a concrete plan. they have not got that. what is supposed to happen after the summit of the latin american leaders today, sometime tonight we will keep you posted. francine: thank you. hans, we are here pessimism that progress is being made this week. hans: according to international officials, the

francois hollande is expected to meet ministers tomorrow to discuss areva's future. the chief of takata says the airbags will be redesigned. the biggest recall of vehicles has occurred in u.s. history with 53 million cars thought to be affected globally. "the wall street journal" says an announcement will be made at apple's development conference next week for a streaming service. genie: to wrap up, a muslim woman in the united states has won her case against the american clothing company abercrombie & fitch. stephen: abercrombie & fitch refuse to hire her back in 2008 when she was 17 years old because she wears a headscarf. they say it violated the look policy they have for their staff. she took her case to the supreme court and won. the court ruled that abercrombie's decision violates her rights. there were two women in 2013 who won compensation, more than $75,000 each from abercrombie & fitch for what they say was targeting them for wearing headscarves. this case of course is a fairly major windbag in that particular -- a major win in that particular issue. genie:

joining me from studio city california, is brian holland.r of the climate programme from local and environmental issues, and associations of cities and counties, and they are in washington d.c., brenda, senior science siften tist focused on building a better safer world. are we willing to spend the money it may take to build communities able to withstand some of what mather nature is dishing out. >> yes. it's a good question. you know, it's willingness and necessity. these events are happening now. they are happening at home, and every region of the country, it's a question of do we want to spend money to prepare, to reduce the risks up front and invest in the communities at the same time. or do we want to spend it on the back end, reacting and responding in the aftermath of disasters. researchers show it's cost effective to invest upfront. a lot of cities and counties are doing around the countries. >> it's taking a lot to convince people that it's happening, which may help to make them want to spend money. >> absolutely. there are three th

and will not, monitor the communication of president hollande.atement doesn't say, and we didn't do it in the past. so, how recently did we do it if we did? well, according to one cable, which intercepted french communication, it was recently as recent talks with greece. there you see it, the french president, it says, seems worry if word got out paris is considering the possibility of a greek exit, it would deepen the crisis. that's one of the spy cables. the greek crisis has been going on for years but this could have come recently as well. are these allegations real? where did wikileaks get them? it hasn't said. last time when we spied on merkel the documents came from edward snowden. this time we don't know, and snowden hasn't said. >> talking about our staunchest allies, germany, france, brazil. it problemic. >> sounds we, if it's true, not only spied on the french president but told the english as well. >> sorry but not sorry for now. >>> new this morning, a ground breaking climate case out of the netherlands that could have an impact world

hollande said the country would not tolerate such activities. eves dropped happened between 2006 and 2012 . paris says it will now send a special intelligence team to the u.s. to investigate matters further. in the french parliament, news of the leak prompted uproar among lawmakers from across the political divide. the country's prime minister promised to do anything possible to limit the diplomatic fallout. >> the united states must not only admit the danger that such acts have on our freedoms but also they must do everything and quickly in the damage it creates between allied countries and between the united states and france. many people feel that the new spying revelations are disibility be designed to coincide with frens citizens from the kind of home grown violence witnessed here in paris five months ago. but there's also a concern that there's a blind spot in this law raising questions as to whether france needs more security to protect itself from its friends as well as its enemies. u.s. president barack obama and president hollande have

it is a setback for the hollande government and to to get companies hiring once again.t is up again by 0.7%, which translates to an additional 230,000 people in search of work, making the total over 3.5 million. it's the new all-time high. moving on, the clock is ticking for greece to pay the imf one million euros this friday. in june alone it owes the agency 1.6 alien. -- 1.6 billion. francois hollande and the european commission president had reportedly convened a meeting with christine lagarde and the ecb president mario draghi. the greek debt saga has now taken to a new level. there is no resolution in sight. let's move on to news coming out of malaysia airlines. in the first press conference at the company's chief executive, christoph mueller said the company was technically bankrupt. the southeast asian carrier is being kept afloat thanks to an injunction of funds from the sovereign wealth fund from the company, but they will be changes. -- there will be changes. here is more. >> a major airline is in dire straits. the chief executive christophe miller announced -

eavesdropped on current president francois hollande as well as in a car sarkozy -- nicolas sarkozy andacques chirac. a top official is writing a trip to the u.s. to get to the bottom of the claim. nicholas rushworth has more. nicholas: wikileaks reveals off ration espionage police say -- espionage elysÉe, thing they listen to the phone calls of top french officials and the last three french president. q a major diplomatic embarrassment for the u.s. administration, that embarrassment is only beginning with wikileaks dropping more

hollande gathered his defense council to discuss the allegations. and they summoned jane hartley to explain the report. but the french are still miffed over these revelations. >> translator: it is out of the question that we accept that the president of the republic the three successive presidents of the republic be wiretapped including their private conversations and anyone can understand that. that's the watch word and that's how it should be between allies. there should be a certain degree of trust. >> france's parliament gave approval to a surveillance law. it gives the government the right to collect data from phones without a warrant. critics say it gives the government far too much power. france's highest court still has to okay it before it officially becomes law. >>> eurozone finance ministers will pick up negotiations on greece's debt crisis in the coming hours. wednesday's talks ended with no sign of a deal. the clock is ticking, of course for greece. it has just a few days to work out an agreement to secure more money before its next deb

time and again brock obama standing alongside -- barack obama standing alongside france wallois hollande, it does make you scratch your chin a little bit and say can you really be someone's ally and behave like this. as angela merkel revealed last year after it was revealed that

documents published this week show the national security agency spied on president franÇois hollandend his two predecessors from 2006 to 2012 including listening to and recording cellphone conversations. at the white house, press secretary josh earnest said president obama has assured french counterpart francois hollande the spying is no more. >> the president was very clear about the fact that the united states does not target and will not target the communications of the president of france. and this is consistent with the conversation that president obama had with president hollande during his visit to washington, d.c. last year, a little over a year ago. we have been very clear that foreign intelligence activities are only conducted when there is a specific and validated national security interest involved. amy: france has denouncing the -- denounced the spying, calling it unacceptable. hollande held an emergency meeting with his ministers on wednesday as his government summoned the u.s. ambassador. at a news conference, secretary of state john kerry said the spying revelation is

hollande's conversations, but not saying that we didn't do it.t: now, something very very serious indeed. isis. they've released a new seven minute video, it's too graphic disgusting and gruesome we're not going to show it to you. it's about the execution of almost 20 prisoners some of them blown up in a drone style attack and others being drown in cages. all of this for religious purity. lt. colonel ralph peters is with us. frankly ralph, i'm beyond outrage. i don't think we in america just let this go with no response whatsoever, but i think that's exactly what we're going to do. what say you? >> that's exactly what we're going to do. it's astonishing to me at a time when you have the islamic state destroying beginning to destroy one of the oldest ancient sites, palmyra where rome met the east. what is the american elite concerned about, they don't want a guy to put a confederate flag on his pickup truck. what the islamic state is doing to human beings and ruins and when you add that's their culture stuart this morning something sdruktruck me,

thailand, switzerland, spain, holland, cameroon.ports or for a young girl it's a chance to dream outside simple local in the community. i think it just uplifts everybody to think that sport is a vehicle for change. it's a wonderful opportunity to see people's strength and fortitude and resiliency. there's lot more going on. >> so you know a little something about beating china. what do you think they need to do and are you nervous for them? >> i'm excited for them. i'm not nervous for them. everybody's talking they need to do this, they need to do this. >> everybody has an opinion. >> it's good. it brings about thoughtful perspective. you know what this team needs is to be themselves. they should be department in who they are. they wouldn't be in this position if they weren't good and that really is the mentality the coach should be bringing to the locker room and reminding these players you have what it takes to win go out and do it. >> there's some controversy. one is astroturf. >> yeah. >> what do you think about that? >> i don't

i assume the president calling francois hollande is the first effort. david: the deeper issue for the french as they would like to have the kind of status with the united states on intelligence issues that britain and the ot her so-called five eyes english speaking countries, close allies to the united states, like the relationship they have. the french have talked in one of the cables that was released there is discussion about french concerns about u.s. intelligence policy. germany has expressed the same desire for a no-spy pact. i think that is the subtext here. the discussions continue. even president obama in his desire to make friends with a key ally has not been willing to go as far as either the french or the germans want in that formal pledge not to undertake espionage. charlie: and what was done here how is it different from what was alleged to have been done against chancellor chancellor merkel of germany? david: the only difference i can see from the documents is that in this case, we are talking about intelligence report that are top secret

that's the immediate response from president francois hollande. we know that a special emergency defense council meeting was called this morning. according to president hollande, some further stiff questions, as well. we know also that the u.s. ambassador to france has been summoned for a dressing down, no doubt, too. it's most certainly not lost on the french government about the timing of all of this. wednesday is the day when a new surveillance law was expected to come into force. that law was originally devised to counter the threat of homegrown violence. we are talking about the return of fighters who may have taken part in conflicts in the middle east and their potential threat they pose when they return to france. it does beg the question as to how deep the surveillance law should go. it is believe that had these latest revelations expose a blind spot in france's surveillance activities and perhaps the government need to go further. of course it does beg the question also as to however of course the french government should go when it comes

the french government led by francois hollande has call the revelations unacceptable and will send a senior intelligence official to the united states for an explanation. in paris, james hartley has been summoned to offer an explanation. hollande will meet in an emergency session today to discuss his government's next steps. >> major talk about what real effect this will have on the u.s./french relationship. >> hard to know but the two governments are work og a range of very difficult foreign policy issues. the ongoing battle against isis. the efforts to negotiate an end to iran's nuclear weapons. and economic sanctions against russia for military incursions in ukraine. the french government, like the germans before it, once it learns of this has to do something about it for domestic political outrage will demand it. at the white house, the national security council says we do not conduct any foreign intelligence surveillance activities unless there is a specific and validated national security purpose. this applies to oord citizens and world leaders alike. we work closely with franc

familiar face hoping to replace maryland congressman chris van holland. former abc7 anchor, kathleen matthews entered the race today seeking the democratic domination for the eighth district seat. van holland is not seeking re-election since he is running for the senate seat of the retiring senator barbara mccolskey. matthew is the wife of chris matthews is the fifth candidate seeking the party nomination. new at 2:00. within the past hour, former roy island governor lincoln chafee announced his candidacy for president. >> if we as leaders show good judgment, and make good decisions we can fix much of what is ailing us. maureen: chafee made the announcement at germ mason in arlington. he is the fourth democrat to enter the race. he was a republican in the eight years in the senate but has changed to the democratic party. local college students play a memorable part in pope francis upcoming visit to washington. they decided the altar he will use for the outdoor mass. the altar and the accompanying chair selected in a contest held by the catholic university

president barack obama and hollande have reportedly spoken to each other by telephone.but with wikileaks promising more revelations to come, france made decide at a more cautious approach. neave barker, al jazeera, paris. >> much more to come on the full al jazeera news hour. [ cheering ] pakistan's government under fire as a heatwave kills more than 150 people. isil blows up two historic cities branding them unislamic. and in sport how about this for multi tasking. how to feed a baby and catch a baseball at the same time. >> at least 12 people have been killed in the somali capital of mogadishu on the convoy of cars by al-shabab. one car was reportedly carrying officials from the united arab emirates. they have condemned the attack and will work to continue to support somalia. >> witnesses say there was a large explosion completely destroying a pickup truck carrying somali security forces. it was part of a convoy carrying diplomats from the united arab emirates. a suicide-bomber rammed his car into the convoy. members of al-shabab are claiming responsibility for the at

halla: the french papers today dominated by an official visit by francois hollande to algeria. what is the significance of this get-together? emma: libercion is looking at algeria as a whole. they think this is a country on the verge of some catastrophic movement. they say hollande is meeting the president at a time when he is weakened because of the country's economy, which relies entirely on oil, and that has staggered, as they put it. inside the newspaper there is a negative tone about this one. the headline says that the algerian system of power is both repressive and robin. there is no successor, they say and he is rapidly changing his image from the status of an ironman two, they say, a strawman. of course, his failing health is something that a lot of people are talking about. many are saying that the french president is making a compassionate visit to a metaphorically sick government. he is 78 years old. you might remember he had a stroke when he was here in paris in 2013. he was reelected in april 2014, but almost in absentia, he just was not seen on the campaign trail

. -- angela merkel and francois hollande. with the clock ticking, athens is trying to find agreement on how best to reform. there has been one glimmer of hope for the greek people in the face of austerity, the greek public broadcaster ert is now officially back on the year. two years ago that station was shut down as part of cost cuts put in place by the previous government. reporter: the rebirth of greek public television ert rose from the ashes all -- on thursday. citizens were calling for ert to be spared. some of the 2600 stash -- staff staged a sit in. parliament weighed in saying the station became synonymous with saving greek society. the plug was pulled anyway. the relaunch is a victory over austerity, even with a reduced budget. translator: we will start with small steps, financially measured steps. that is how it has to be. we will not have huge productions. reporter: there are no new recruitments. 5000 employees will be -- the new station will pay for itself. the party denying this is a snub to austerity or a vanit

long -- hollande later today. tonight, george osborne and the other mark carney. those of you who remember the speech last year, get ready for a rate hike that never came. more news tonight. futures lower. dax futures up 16 points. the stoxx 600 on a six-day losing streak. come over to the touch screen and i will give you an idea of what is driving trading. it's not in the equity market area it's right here in the bond market. yields on german bonds keep going higher after the worst week for the german market since 1998. yields are three basis points higher. we had to one percentage point. if you look at the spread we have gone from 150 basis points all the way back to 190 basis points. the euro has gotten stronger. another quarter of 1% stronger. the big headline generating currency is right here with the dollar yen. governor kuroda says the yen weakens much more. the yen surges. that is a stronger yen against the dollar. here is what it looks like a cross europe. the dax off by a quarter of 1%. losses on the periphery set for a seventh day of losses. that is eur