iceland will have to settle its disputes with other eu companies. >>island's landscapes could be one day part of the european union, after the eu commission's stefan fewland had talks. >> iceland with the long democratic traditions clearly fails the criteria and therefore cannot open negotiations with the european union. >> iceland has a functioning market economy, but it's applied for eu membership last year after being hit by the global financial crisis. the country's banking system collapsed despite efforts to stave off the meltdown. there's also an ongoing dispute with britain and the netherlands who say iceland does the almost 4 billion euros in savsavings. the government remains largely opposed. >> that report from deutschewell. that takes us to britain, where the royal bank of scotland announced more big losses this week. yet, it still found room to reward its employees almost $2.5 billion in bonuses. that has sparked a good deal of outrage just as it has in this country. the bank's rationale for the bonuses is also similar to what the banks

forget iceland. >> pat, iceland or cancun? which do you prefer? what do crow think? >> i prefer a little cancun. right now. i would love to be on a plane to cancun right now, vance. can you make that happen? can you? what about just like myrtle beach? anyway, we're here. it's hard to tell whether or not it stopped snowing and the wind has picked up and it's just blowing the snow around or it's still snowing and it's snowing sideways again. i'm here with jonathan and elizabeth. they're coming out. how was your -- what did you do today, jonathan? >> i snt the first half of the day trying to be productive and working, but cabin fever got the best of us. we had to come out and grab dinner and a beer. >> now what are you going to do? >> go have another beer. and then in a couple hours? >> call it a night and try not to freeze. >> what about you, elizabeth? >> i'm with with him. >> what has this been like for you? >> it's really boring. i'm ready for a florida vacation. >> are you ready for it to stop? >> yes. please stop snowing. please! please! this is too much. i'm movi

we just heard with iceland how the media can have the effect of broadcasting a message so quickly. discuss in more detail what your industry can do to be more proactive? how to communicate, given that the cycle has become so assured that questions have become more closely linked to questions about communication. >> it is not an issue of having one key message, but it is talking through different channels, through different audiences, and to make your voice heard. it is not enough to leave the forums to one group only but do have a magnitude of voices and to make sure you bring across key voices. we talk about somebody has to pay a price, and it is very difficult to make people understand we are all linked together, and going from one extreme to the other, every month but gave -- everybody will be hurt. rather than saying, let's withdrawn, i think more communication is better than less. >> can you talk about what has been affective? there's been talk that the effective communication has been helpful. a lot of people have talked about what they want to highlight. would any of you lik

i was on the next icelandic flight to paris. did indeed have her unpublished grandfather's memoir, which allowed me to show a different side of joseph, to show the civil rivalry from a different side, to show the early temperament. the reason she had hidden secret from all this is that when she came to paris in the 1950s to become a religious sculptors, she worked in a small church, what is the da vinci code movie, you know what church i'm referring to. our workshop was on the top. because when she started doing her work and she is the name billeted pulitzer, they all say you must be related to the famous pulitzer. and if you want to make it on your own if you don't want it. so she took her mother's maiden name and basically disappeared. she passed away last year, but she provided me with that and some of the photographs that are in the book that no one else had seen. so that was probably the most exciting kind of detective story. i felt a little like, what's that good looking guy, harrison ford. i was the indiana jones, a momen

the whale was captured in the wilds off the coast of iceland. the u.s. no longer allows the importation of captured orcas. the grandson of famed oceanographer jacques cousteau says this now reopens the debate on whether it's correct to hold whales. >> in some cases, there is educational value, and in some cases, you know, facilities make a lot of money off these animals. >> reporter: seaworld has extensive video security systems, but it's unclear from the officials of whether they captured on those cameras this attack or whether a tourist got it on their home video. that would be important to investigators who will try to determine whether this was something that could have been prevented or whether it was just the erratic behavior of a wild animal in captivity. amy? >> all right, kerry sanders in orlando, thank you. >>> president obama wants to push stalled health care reform closer to the finish line with today's nationally televised summit meeting. he's hoping to make his case during a six-hour give-and-take session with three dozen key democrats and

. >> mike lyon, how serious are these threats in europe as a result of greece and iceland and the worries through tout euro zone? >> i think the reaction is understandable because we've seen this game play out before. we had in the banking sector. in the banking sector it started with individual banks and then became systemic. the concern is it starts in greece and broadens across the euro zone, most importantly in the pigs, in spain, portugal and ireland as well. is it overblown? i won't take one day's worth of price action and declare that now? i think it does mark, however, the importance that getting fiscal house in order, it's no longer about credit risk, it's about sovereign risk. >> sri, what do i want to do if i'm actually facing exposure to these countries in my own portfolio? >> i think maria, first of all, you want to look at the extent of damage, i would call it on the gorilla scale. you the problem today, greece, a 100-pound gorilla and then portugal might be 200, spain is 300. but then you're waiting for the 600 and 800-pound gorillas which in my opinion is the uk debt which

killed assistant trainer it was then a deal to release the animal back into the wild of the waters off icelandhe absolute repulings, revulsion of the animal rights people in canada. so the sea world intervened. they got the whale before it was released. they brought it to their facilities and have had it ever since. so you now have the -- this same whale tilikum involved in the death in 1991. then you have 1999 the homeless person falls into the tank and this very same killer whale is one of two -- three of them in total who kill another man, a second man. now, you have the third person who dies. there is a law -- a theory, a philosophy in law called the first bite. the one bite rule. if you have an animal and you have no reason to believe the animal is violent and it bites somebody, you are probably okay. but the second time around, if the animal bites a second person, you are on notice because of the first incident that the animal is not going to be safe. here you have two human deaths. you are in the tank again with this trainer, you know, the victim, the 40-year-old victim in this case. th

the two leaders met again a year later in writing that iceland which was the most famous summit of all. and it was there that they came within a hairs breath of agreeing to abolish all nuclear weapons. so the deal fell apart when reagan refused to limit the development of strategic defense initiative, the star wars missile defense program. at that time, much of the outside world saw the philly to reach agreement in reykjavÍk as a huge setback that cause disarmament. george shultz in fact a liberal managers when he discussed the summit with reporters. but again, both reagan and gorbachev saw things differently. their insight, their political instinct allow them to recognize that the superpower relationship was turning a corner that even if others did not. when reagan spoke to the nation from the oval office after return of and he said we're closer than ever before to agreements that could lead to a world safer without nuclear weapons. gorbachev had a similar feeling when he spoke to reporters after the summit and said right if it is not a failure. it is a failure. a positive. then estab

the whale was captured in the wild off the coast of iceland. the u.s.o longer allows the importation of captured orcas. the grandson of famed oceanographer jacques cousteau says this now reopens the debate on whether it's correct to hold whales. >> in some cases, there is educational value, and in some cases, you know, facilities make a lot of money off these animals. >> reporter: seaworld has an extensive security video system here, but they won't comment on whether this attack was captured on camera or whether any tourists there with home video cameras captured this attack. all of that would be important to investigators as they try to piece together what went wrong so it never happens again. matt? >> all right, kerry sanders in florida for us this morning. kerry, thank you very much. victoria biniak witnessed the attack. victoria, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> i had heard reports that this killer whale actually grabbed dawn by her ponytail and dragged her into the pool. what exactly did you see? >> i did not witness that. i just witnessed

tried to release him in icelandic water where he came from, ultimately he never returned to the wild. around where they released him. that doesn't seem to be an answer either. it is kind of difficult to figure out what they ought to do about this whale. jane: when you look at this story, what happened here? people have also said he is just too big to be in captivity and in those tanks. he is too stressed out. that's what happened. he just snapped. what in your opinion happened? >> it is like a breaking news story here because when i first learned about this, i had assumed that the whale reached up and grabbed her and pulled her into the water. i now learned, one there is a video of this event and what happened is she was in the water to start with. then she got out of the water. so it is conceivable that this whole attack is an attempt on the whale to bring her back so she would continue to play with her, not attack her and kill her. jane: we're looking at home video taken just moments before the actual ultimate attack happened. so, in his, the mind of this whale maybe, it was actuall

iceland defaulted recently. i'm wondering what is going on with them.does that mean and how has that affected them? guest: when you look globally, the good news is that the entire world is not mired into this situation to the extent that the u.s. is. in particular, developing countries have been growing quickly, china, india, brazil. a lot of big emerging market countries have been growing quickly. that is good news. it provides somewhat expanded markets for our exports. china, incidentally, is a prime example of a country that has flooded the country with government spending to try to get out of the recession, and it has worked. unfortunately, though, europe is very weak. japan is very weak. those are two of our debt major export markets. -- of our major export markets. there is good news and bad news in the global economy right now. host: jerome on our line for democrats from pennsylvania. caller: i would like to say thank you to the cable companies for c-span. host: i'm sure they appreciate your gratitude. what is your question? caller: i have a coup

so he was captured from iceland and taken away from his family group which is a lot different than justeing born in captivity. >> obviously, the authorities are going to be investigating it. looking into it, to try to determine what might have happened. maybe it was like you said, a freak accident. >> yes. >> nancy black, marine biologist, thanks for joining us. >>> we'll take a quick break. hey! increase in 6 months. pete, back it up! ( marker squeaking ) when business travel leaves you drained, re-charge with comfort suites. spacious rooms, free hi-speed internet, and free hot breakfast. comfort suites. power up. now stay two separate times with comfort suites... or any choice hotel and earn a free night. book at choicehotels.com. >>> 21 minutes past the hour right now. that means it time for "minding your business." we have christine romans this morning talking about toyota, and toyota's troubles but from the social media perspective. >> that's right, this is a big topic on social media. people talk be the preparations they should make for their own cars. it's interesting, when you l

iceland defaulted recently. i'm wondering what is going on with them.as that affected them? guest: when you look globally, the good news is that the entire world is not mired into this situation to the extent that the u.s. is. in particular, developing countries have been growing quickly, china, india, brazil. a lot of big emerging market countries have been growing quickly. that is good news. it provides somewhat expanded markets for our exports. china, incidentally, is a prime example of a country that has flooded the country with government spending to try to get out of the recession, and it has worked. unfortunately, though, europe is very weak. japan is very weak. those are two of our debt major export markets. -- of our major export markets. there is good news and bad news in the global economy right now. host: jerome on our line for democrats from pennsylvania. caller: i would like to say thank you to the cable companies for c-span. host: i'm sure they appreciate your gratitude. what is your question? caller: i have a couple of comments and maybe