amy: from venice, italy, this is democracy now! >> approved. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> that's it, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] the motion passes. amy: in a historic move, the american psychological association has voted to bar psychologists from participating in national security interrogations after the apa was exposed for colluding with the cia and military's torture program. >> this represents american psychologist rejoining the 17th century and repudiating torture as a means of state power. yeah, i think there is an element of, about time, but i think it is great. amy: then to here in venice, italy, where artists from around the world are gathering for the the creative time summit here at the venice biennale, the oldest and most prestigious international art exhibition. >> bring activists and artists together to discuss the intersection of art and politics in the 21st century. with annell speak pasternak, the new director of the brooklyn museum, and nato thompson of creative time. all that and more, coming

potential big winner is italy. group. 30% of the gas europe could benefit thanks to less dependentbe on russia. but is it a surprise and how big is 850 billion cubic meters of gas? really.ise not it is not the first time gas deposits have been found in the mediterranean. largest pale with the 51 trillion shared by qatar and iran. this group plans to fast track the project and could begin next year. >> here in france the prime thoroughly mised to revise labor laws. he said it is so complex it is inefficient. >> with curved activity don't know their rights feel that they are not protected. they have given up on themselves. therefore we must go back and reevaluate regulations. we should give more room to employees and representatives to decide for hemselves the way to set up regulations, work organization and how to include young workers. do there through negotiation that deal more directly with their needs. that was a very passionate speech. he was sweating. >> i don't think i have ever politician. sweaty beaujolais

beyond italy there's a nonprofit investigative reporting organization based in germany.the blog available in italian and german reports on call groups with an approach global and local. in cooperation with other groups. they published mafia in africa, an investigation into the mafia's involvement across that continent. continent. >> the lifeline of the american w >>> finally, you know the feeling - you have just checked in for your flight and watch as your precious peace of luggage heads down the conveyor belt, fearing that you'll never see it again. ever wondered what your luggage goes through. if you fly out of amsterdam international airport it's in for a ride. the team attached a camera to a piece of luggage. it has an advanced system. the resulting clip looks like a cross between a video game and roller-coaster. a commenter suggested a theme park should build a ride calling it airport ride. it's approaching a million hits on youtube. turns out being a bag is more fun than flying. see you next time on "listening post". >> and overcome hard times in the big easy. >> w

i'm interested that you like italy a lot. we've seen a strong rally year to date in italy. what makes you think it can continue throughout the rest of the year? >> so, the key problem is that we had a strong rally. and if you look at last year, italy also started very well. it was up 20%-plus in the first half, and then it all went pear-shaped. italy basically lost all of the gains and ended up down on the year. and people remember that. and the question is, will that be repeated? our view is not to look for the repeat of this pattern. we actually think that the big difference this time around is the credit cycle. and the credit cycle in italy's clearly turning up. you have the demand for credit. every single sub category of debt in italy's showing a positive demand for credit. and then if you look at the italian banks, which are more than 30% of the index, they have a huge correlation between their roe and the credit demand. if the credit demand in italy's turning up, then the market will be supported. >> i'm surprised you're not mentioning spain, though. that's been seen

they transferred it to the hills of wisconsin from italy. they were going to have a new life in japan because he got the contract for a new hotel and she was looking forward to living in japan and he'd made a good comeback and everything was destroyed in 1914. what happened was, on the afternoon of 1914, the two children were seated for lunch on a porch that was right in the vicinity off that window and another group of people were seated at the other end of the house, in a room, there were some draftsman and a laborers, and one of the sons, they were seated there. the cook served them all lunch. they were unawares and seated and separated and then he attacked. he suddenly attacked. first her and her children and clobbered them. split their heads open and then ran to the other end of the house, threw gasoline in the door and ignited it. when they ran out, he whacked them again. by the end of it, there were nine adults in this place and he was able -- only two of them survived his assault and the rest died either that day or afterwards from i

amy: from venice, italy, this is democracy now! >> i am an artist, activist, and archivist and interested in using our to recover forgotten victories and a space to imaginal -- imagine possible new features. amy: as we are at the venice biennale, will speak with afghan american artist mariam ghani about her life and work. she is also the daughter of the president of afghanistan, ashraf ghani. we will look at what happened when an artist attempted to send a group of pigeons from havana to florida caring cuban cigars in violation of the u.s. embargo. the first, we speak to the celebrated palestinian artists emily jacir. for years she has greater groundbreaking art to capture the palestinian experience. among her projects is one that was banned by the city of venice years ago, which translated the italian names into arabic. all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a new opinion poll shows vermont senator bernie sanders is the leading democratic presidential

i was able to go to okinawa and japan, italy, ecuador, kuan, and the commonwealth of the mariana islands. i want to thank all the people i met during my travels for helping make the book possible. i think think members of the u.s. military, family members of military personnel, i want to thank locals who live in communities around her bases overseas and i want to think so many here in the united states, experts of various kinds who help speak with me and make the book possible. i would actually like to start at the back of the book if you don't mind and read a short excerpt from the acknowledgments. i am profoundly grateful to everyone who help me complete this book. given the breath of the book's subject, and geographic scope i could not have written it without the assistance and generosity of the hundreds of people. thank you especially to everyone who spoke with me about my research, who who hosted me during my travels, and who helped arrange visits, face face tours, meetings, interviews, interpretations and translations, yield, lodging, lodging, transportation and other critical piec

amy: from venice, italy, this is democracy now! to speak about the presence. art and artists cannot be dispossessed of the capacity to reflect the social condition under which art is made, traded, and position. amy: all the world's futures. that's the theme to this year's venice biennale, the oldest and most prestigious international art biennial in the world. we will speak to the exhibit's curator, okwui enwezor, the biennale's first african-born curator. than a state of emergency is declared in ferguson missouri. pray with our feet in our hands. when they look at our children, they give them the same consideration that they give their children. so we came today to make a proclamation. and so we reclaim this ground. god's ground. amy: as protests continue in ferguson, we'll speak to the writer sharifa rhodes-pitts and artist charles gaines here in venice, italy about the black , lives matter movement in the united states, activism as well as history, including the connections between police killings and slavery. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democr

some close to the shores of greece and italy. who would you say is was constable for this -- is responsible for this tragic milestone? guest: unfortunately there is proof that over 2000 have died. the smugglers are reckless overloading the boats. secondly europe has to do more. it is already doing more with aches ended operations -- with expanded operations, which is become a search and rescue operation also, but i think more resources are needed to cope with the situation we see in the mediterranean sea. terry: tell us more about what europe has become one of the main destinations for people fleeing poverty and conflict? guest: europe is not the main destination. the syrians that stay, less than 5% of the syrian refugees. we have sub-saharan refugees, korean refugees. many of them try to, and reach europe. they are not economic migrants. they are refugees and they need a safe place for protection. terry: thank you very much for those insights. our guest from the u.n. refugee agency. it is a vital sea route and a just got an upgr

some close to the shores of greece and italy. who would you say is was constable for this -- is responsible for this tragic milestone? guest: unfortunately, there is proof that over 2000 have died. the smugglers are reckless, overloading the boats. secondly, europe has to do more. it is already doing more with aches ended operations -- with expanded operations, which is become a search and rescue operation also, but i think more resources are needed to cope with the situation we see in the mediterranean sea. terry: tell us more about what europe has become one of the main destinations for people fleeing poverty and conflict? guest: europe is not the main destination. the syrians that stay, less than 5% of the syrian refugees. we have sub-saharan refugees, korean refugees. many of them try to, and reach europe. they are not economic migrants. they are refugees and they need a safe place for protection. terry: thank you very much for those insights. our guest from the u.n. refugee agency. it is a vital sea route and a just got an u

italy invaded ethiopia. and italy helped overthrow the republican government in spain. nations posted the consummation of an and -- infamous alliance, the axis military pact of 1940. germany and italy would plunge europe into war and became entirely united with japan in the strategy of terror. all, thegh it pillaging of china continues. billions of her people were made homeless, with pathetically inadequate weapons. alone they kept the resistance to japanese imperialism alive. japanese envoys to the united states describe themselves as missionaries of friendship and peace. while they were still negotiating, their countrymen struck a savage blow unparalleled. pearl harbor, december 7, 1941. in spite of crippling damage, the united states fleet, augmented by british, australian, and french units, set off to find the enemy. the japanese advanced. fast forhe enemy made hong kong, marriott, singapore, the alliance began the long journey back at aquatic now -- guadalcanal. in the philippines, under japanese role, prisoners had been subjected to indescribable suffering. the fi

of course they will then be distributed across the reception centers across italy. of course, these are people who are seriously traumatized. they went through a serious life-threatening situation. we don't even know how many died for real. we know that 25 people who drowned have been pulled from the sea and have been taken on the same ship, which -- let me step aside you can see anything now. there are more coffins coming out, but there are wooden coffins being used to take away the bodies. we have seen also pretty tragic scenes of their relatives who were traveling with them who had to go and pay their last respects. we heard from doctors without boarders and save the children that among those 25 who died, there were three children. doctors without borders told us their mother who is also pregnant survived. so you can only imagine the situation and feelings she is going through right now. this is just the latest of a series of horrific stories we heard since the start of the year. >> the ordeal isn't over, is it claudio? they will either go to a reception center o

they come from lick i can't and land in italy. but we have reports that the reception they often receive is not what they expect. >> a cry for help from a refugee center that looks more like a prison. these are some of the 64 nigerian women rescued in july from the mediterranean sea. like thousands before and after them they were hoping for a better life in europe. but their askers became their jailers. they're being held in one of italy's identification and expulse centers. an one-stop shop before deportation. >> this is not officially a prison, but it certainly looks like one. refugees are locked behind bars and their freedom of movement is limited. >> well, we've been told that we cannot film inside the rooms, but the girls have told me that their room is overcrowded, and they sleep on hospital beds. it is over heated. there are too many mosquitoes. there is a flood and the stench keeps them awake at night. >> human rights organizations are help the women asly for asylum, but if they're freed they say they risk going from priso

-- rome, italy.. and like a fool i believe all this. last night from a shell hole i saw your sky and figured then they had told me a lie. had i taken time to see things you make, i'd have known they weren't calling a spade a spade. i wonder, god, if you take my hand, somehow i feel you will understand. funny i had to come to see your face, well, i guess there isn't too much time to say, but i'm sure glad, god, i met you today. i guess a zero hour will soon be here, but i'm not afraid since i know you are near. there's a signal i've got to go. i like you lots i want you to know. look now this will be a horrible fight. who knows, i may come to your house tonight. though i wasn't friendly to you before, i wonder, god, if you wait at the door. look, i'm crying, me, shedding tears. i wish i had known you this many years. well, i have to go now, god. good-bye. it's strange since i met you i'm not afraid to die. this prayer was found on the body of an american soldier killed in action on the beachhe beachhe

before i was in italy, but now it is france. i speak a little bit of french so that helps. >> he is one of 250 men, women and children that took over this disused school building in paris. most may go grants from africa syria and afghanistan say they had no choice to open the building, because police kept forcibly removing them from makeshift camps. local people bring food and volunteers are helping them with asylum applications. >> if you have no pity for asylum seekers, next time no pity for poor people, next time, no pity for handicapped people no pity for handicapped people next time, no pity for women, et cetera, et cetera. the way we treat asylum seekers is a measure which our democracy. >> the mayor's office is willing to enter into dialogue with respect to eventually finding the migrants somewhere to say. the situation at the former school not only highlights the migrant crisis in france, but in widening europe, also. >> nationalists and anti e.u. parties have seized on the issue across europe. french national front part

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goes -- stucco, like in central italy.his was an early example of the tuscan architecture in the u.s. north carolina by the 1830's had winkle state, van it had fallen into a slumber. it was one of the first of the colonies that was losing population as people moved to places like illinois and indiana, especially quakers and other folks moving to the southwest, alabama and mississippi and louisiana. they were going there to expand their fortunes. people were leaving the state, so the governor was challenged at how to provide an opportunity to keep people in north carolina. one way to do that was to provide manufacturing facilities and armors with a larger market. with a larger market. so while he was running for office, he was challenged because a farmer would raise a great crop, but unless they could sell it at a very high price, they could not be fully crop.ed for the this solution was to extend the railroad from the coast into the heart of the state. the north carolina railroad was something that he was not able to accom

no spain, no italy. no germany, no portugal.i think everybody is ready. >> while chelsea the the late kick off on saturday, manchester united plays in the first game of the new season all three of the newly provided teams are in action that's norwich in 2009, they were within a gale of being relegated out of the football league. now, after winning the champion last season, they are ready for their first ever premier league game. >> to get going i think we have done a lot of talking since as you say since those fantastic days for the club. but now we have been working hard towards this moment. so it's been very intense work, for the teams are ready, so now we have to go out and prove that we are good enough. >> three time european champions have been drawn in the final plan for the european champions league. looking to get into the group stage for the first time in a decade. united failed to make it into any european competitions and are now one of 20 teams lookenning to negotiate the qualifier into a rout of the stages. let's ha

italy and greece will receive the most aid, followed by french and british authorities. the aid package won't make the continent-white crisis disappear . in a bid to determine defense, politicians from across the eu had been ramping up their immigrant -- anti-immigration rhetoric. >> we will not offer a home to everyone in africa who is seeking a better economic situation. that is not sustainable possible. we have got to distinguish genuine asylum seekers fleeing persecution from economic migrants seeking a better standard of living. reporter: hundreds of thousands of people, many of them playing all that can't -- fleeing all-out conflict, have been flocking to shortest since the beginning of the year. the eu is struggling to respond to the growing crisis that has resulted in thousands perish or missing in the mediterranean. in recent weeks there has been a focus on the border between the u.k. and france, where there has been widespread disruption at the tunnel link and the dover ferry terminal. take a look now at how that situation is affecting lorry drivers and local b

updating us with the very latest from southern italy. >>> now from italy to other parts of europe, becausewho do safely make it to europe still have many hurdles to overcome before they can start a new life and one of the biggest is learning a new language. charles stratford reports from a school that has been set up in the port city of calais in france. >> reporter: this tiny shelter may be the beginning of a brighter future for some of the desperate people who come here. the school was set up last month in the so-called jungle camp near calais. the majority of people here have given up risking their lives trying to get to the u.k. many have applied for asylum in france. this man arrived in the camp four months ago. he has a five and four children in sudan. >> all of the teachers here are volunteers. they say around 100 people at tend their classes each day. >> translator: in general, they come with no french at all, and some with only basic english. we have also have some who can't even speak english at all, and that's very difficult for us. >> reporter: but most aren't interested in lea

and italy -- are the knives out for the swordfish? when you're in the u.s., the war of sanctions between russia and the west because of the ukraine conflict, all seems quite abstract. but here in europe you just need to take a look at what's on supermarket shelves, to see that sanctions are having an affect on the lives of ordinary people. the other day i noticed that sparkling wine from crimea appears to have vanished from my local supermarket in berlin, not that i miss it. bit sweet for my taste. but of course that's rather a frivolous example compared to the economic hit whole industries have taken, from polish apples to german heavy machinery. but as trade ties start shifting, there are others who are turning the sanctions to their advantage, including salmon farmers on the faroe islands. reporter: hedin is happy with his lot. although he's not much of a talker -- like many fishermen, or rather ex-fishermen. these days he works on a salmon farm. >> normally, we start at 8:00 in the morning. it's a steady job. you know what you're

was attacked next to her salon in little italy. >> i think this is the first time. yeah, this neighborhood is very good. >> it was just before 5:00 tuesday morning when police say a woman in her 40s was sitting outside a closed produce store on mott off grand street. investigators say the victim was talking on the phone with her husband when an unknown man approached her, hit her on the back with a sharp metal object cutting her and then ran off. the weapon has not been recovered. >> locals were surprised to arrive at work this morning to police and a command center camped outside their doors. >> does that make you nervous? >> a little bit nervous, yes. >> white mott street is a bustling marketplace after 8:00 a.m. it's a ghost town before businesses open. so said because of this morning's assault she won't be working to or from work alone for now. >> we are very nervous right now. it's not safe right now. >> police are looking through surveillance video from shops in this neighborhood hoping they will find some footage of the suspect. as for the victim, we're told

wants to see a unified system for right to asylum and the set up of reception centers in greece and italy summit of balkin leaders on thursday which merkel will be attending. seeing chaotic scenes at the borders with some 7,000 refugees crossing into serbia as they continue their journey north and we report from southern serbia. >> reporter: in just two days nearly 10,000 people entered serbia through here, this is a village near the border with macedonia. just weeks ago it was another tranquil village in serbia and now it's an important entry for refugees trying to get to the european union and everyday thousands of hungry, thirsty and exhausted people arrive here. >> i'm expect iing that i just want to cross, to continue my journey, just want to cross. >> the woman here is allergic from the sun, to go outside from here. >> reporter: many say they want to go to germany. europe's strongest economy and ready to endure all their hardships on their way to a better life. and this is just another step for refugees and migrants in the serbia town just five kilometers north from the border of ma

italy's cord guard rescued 5,000 people on the mediterranean. and criticizing greece for not doing more to register people who land on its shores. the government there is ferrying thousands of refugees from the island of lesbos to the greek mainland where they head to macedonia and on to serk i can't. this is the scene i serbia{^l" ^}. 7,000 people have crossed the board from macedonia on saturday. that's after macedonia gave up trying to stop them. we start our coverage in serbia. >> according t u.n. hcr and doctors out borders, roughly a thousand migrants came across the border of serbia over the last few days. i'm at a registration point where roughly 5,000 to 6,000 people have gone through over the last three days. unofficial estimates of doctors without borders there are another 4,000 people who came through this town without being registered. the procedure is that when migrants and refugees come here to this point, they've been registered and allowed to freely continue their journey north towards hungary. it is roughly 600 kilometers from

is it spain or italy? >> italy should outperform expeck t expectatio expectations. it's recovering from an incredibly low base so it has more prospect to bounce. credit conditions there have eased substantially from the crisis period so i'm actually thinking that italian gdp has more surprise in the upside and also recovering the euro zone through it's trade exposure and if the euro goes down italy will benefit from that but at the moment it still disappoints and spain is the one that continues -- i would say surprising on the upside -- but people are bullish on spain anyway. >> but to your point italy is starting to slowly change. >> david stick with us. he will be sticking us with to break down the u.k. gdp number and stay tune for a full coverage of the jackson hole gathering. our u.s. colleagues will be speaking first to minneapolis fed president at 13:30 ceo and also with the reserve bank of india governor coming up at 21:10 cet. and some social media news. mark szuckerberg says facebook received a new milestone this week. he quail to 1 in 7 people worldwide. f

more than 110,000 have been rescued and brought to southern italy. well, migrants hoping to escape war and prompt in africa and the middle east have a choice when it comes to reaching europe. they can travel via the mediterranean sea or via the balkan states. how migrant routes have evolved in the last few years. reporter: europe has been seeing record migration this year, thousands are currently making the journey at first by sea over the mediterranean and then by foot through the continent. over the past five years the routes have evolved. around 2010 greece was the main point of entry whereas libya was more of a stopping point to find work. however, with the fall of former libyan dictator gaddafi in 2011, along with the revolution, italy overtook greece as the main-point port of entry into europe with over 64,000 arrivals. after four years of increasing chaos in libya, around three times that number now head for the italian coast. around 170,000 people, a record in the european union. however, this is the most dangerous journey with the most polic

in 2010, the shooting of two refugees triggered one of the worst race related riots in italy. since then, relations between the fruit pickers and locals have improved, but their football team still had to tackle rampant racism. in this video shot by the players, supporters of opposite teams called them dirty africans. others shout the they wish they'd drowned in the sea. >> while these players are still looking for a sponsor that pace the $6,000 needed by the team to enroll in the next season, they will continue to train and dream on the same shore they landed on after a long and perilous journey. al jazeera. >> we'll have more drop the word athletic championships in beijing a little later. that is it for now. >> thank you very much indeed. lots more to come here at al jazeera. i'll have another full news bulletin coming in in just another minute or so, so don't go away. al jazeera america gives you the total news experience anytime, anywhere. more on every screen. digital, mobile, social. visit aljazeera.com. follow @ajam on twitter. and like aljazeera america on facebook for

the only african-americans are the tuskegee airmen flying out of italy.rnold insisted it was impossible to maintain crew discipline if you have blacks and whites together. especially southern whites with blacks in the same cabin in close proximity. it is one of the great marks against the eighth air force that they remained segregated. although 10% of the air force personnel in england are black. even though that country had thanthan 1% of -- less half of 1% of people of color 1954. they are building airbases. evenings,ernoons and other guys are on tracking detail and they take the bombs to the air base. the tragic thing is that they would show up to deliver the bombs and ask to have a meal there and they were not even allowed in the mess hall. they would have to go eat a rations and sleep in their trucks. there were a number of racial riots in england during the war because english women would date black eyes. racialere a number of incidents. eisenhower suggested that there would be a colored night and a white night. the white kids like that until they w

we suffered a lot. >> they cross the mediterranean from libya and land in italy. but the reception they receive is not what they expect. >> a cry for help from a refugee center that looks more like a prison. these are some of the 64 nigerian women rescued in july from the mediterranean sea. like thousands before and after them, they were hoping for a better life in europe. but the rescuers became their jailers. they are being held in one of italy's identification and expulse centers, an one-stop shop before deportation. >> i left libya, it seemed i was in hell. because in libya i isn't have peace of mind. there was fighting and war every day. at times they would just come and rape the girls. they would always burst into our house and begin to rape us. when the italians rescued us we thought our problems were over. we were tree happy and they were taking us to the main camp, and we were surprised to find ourselves here. we didn't commit any crimes. >> this is not officially a prison, but it certainly looks like one. refugees are locked mind bars and their freedom o

the 800 or so, including women and children, were taken to a port in southern italy.escued in several operations on thursday. 24 hours after 200 migrants were feared to have drowned in the same area. most of these latest arrivals are from africa and syria. >>> meanwhile, the greek prime minister has asked europe for more help to help handle the 10s of thousands of migrants who have arrived in his country. an estimated 124,000 people have fled to greece from countries such as syria and afghanistan this year alone. prime minister alexi tsipras says that's causing a humanitarian crisis within an economic crisis. and he calls on europe to show hey more united front saying now is the time to see if the e.u. is the e.u. of solidarity or an e.u. harassed everyone trying to protect their borders. >>> the mayor of paris meanwhile says migrants illegally occupying an unused school there can stay at least for now. the refugees from eritrea ethiopia and sudan took over the building after weeks of living on the streets. charles stratford went to meet them. >> reporter: he says he

renzi is doing a lot in italy. come out with a lot of activity improvements. -- productivity improvements. france is slowly doing things. it is not all bad news. i think we can be more confident. francine: thank you very much. manus: ok. coming up, five banks settled with u.s. investors over fx rigging scandals. we will break down the charges coming up next on "the pulse." ♪ francine: welcome back to "the pulse" live on bloomberg tv. manus: let's talk about banks. five big banks have reached a settlement with u.s. investors over claims they conspired to rig the global foreign exchange market. elliott gotkine has been following the story. before this, there was an $808 million settlement. the banks involved in yesterday's agreement are hsbc, barclays, goldman sachs, bnp paribas, royal bank of scotland. it is worth remembering that there are seven others still outstanding. the banks that made the settlement yesterday have agreed dirtlp the lawyers to find against the other banks. banks are on the screen. they are all

a unique invitation to the foo fighters to play in italy is getting a video response from dave himself>> he is saying, hello, this is david. more importantly, he says we're coming. >> nbc 7 news reporter matt keller shows us how all of this started. >> you've never heard or seen the song "learn to fly" by the foo fighters like this. ♪ organizers say it took one year to coordinate to bring together 1,000 musicians from all over italy to the field in the city. their mission, an invitation that would be hard to refuse. >> to ask you, the foo fighters to come and play for us. come and play in here and give a concert to all of us. >> reporter: about the size of vavaville with 90,000 residents. the foo fighters have 42 tour stops with two in italy in november and the closest is about 60 miles away. with this video getting millions of views on youtube, the message got to the band. the foo fighters tweeted out two messages in italian. the first reads that's nice. the second see you soon if 1,000 musicians make noise in a field it could be heard around the world. >> foo fighters! >> if you'd li

that includes 200,000 people lending in greece and 110,000 in italy. this represents a large increase from last year when about 219,000 people across the mediterranean during the whole of 2014. amy: we'll have more on the migrant crisis after headlines. we will go to geneva and to sicily. president obama arrives in alaska today for a three-day trip, becoming the first sitting u.s. president to visit the arctic. obama is expected to emphasize the impact of climate change on the heels of his administration's decision to allow shell to resume oil drilling in the arctic, a move environmentalists warn will fuel climate change. we'll have more on the visit later in the broadcast. on the you of his trip obama , will also change the name of north america's tallest mountain peak from mount mckinley to denali -- its traditional alaska native name. ohio's congressional delegation had found to defend the name, which honors former president william mckinley, who was from ohio. but alaska natives have long viewed the name mount mckinley as imperialist. obama's trip

you have companies like germany, italy deciding not to return to nuclear power because of italy takingrly phaseout program. on the other hand, the united states and the u.k., i'm not sure that fukushima made all that much difference. the big challenge to nuclear power is the front end costs. they are extreme expensive to build. rriva'swas saying, a records over new reactors in france, the only two being built at the moment, has been externally bad. that is always the issue -- financing expensive things within a competitive market. i'm not sure that actually an accident caused by a 50 feet in 1970's was relevant to plants being built today. francine: but it is perception and there are safety concerns. even if you get financing, there has been a huge backlash because people are afraid of them. the u.k., the opinion polls took a dip after the accident but with any year, public opinion was back to be pro-nuclear. countries,any central and eastern europe, where fukushima had no effect on public opinion. whereas clearly in germany, france, it did have an effect there. we should bear in mind

he followed forces invading sicily and followed forces in the invasion of italy. he spent a good amount of time in italy. a lot of his asked writing came out of there. when the allies invaded the french coast at normandy in june 1944, he went along. his influence just grew and grew. understand, this is happening over two years. when he said in the column that he thought soldiers serving in combat ought to get extra pay, congress passed a law that said the combat forces should get extra pay. when he said combat forces should get an extra stripe on their sleeve, congress followed through and did so. so, this fellow had enormous reach. he was the one filtering the war for the american public, more than any other reporter. many reporters started to imitate pyle. his style started to spread. he was the one forming the popular impression of what the war was like. here was the question. what was he telling them? what was the image of world war ii the american public got through ernie's odds? -- eyes. i want to read a few passages. ernie's writing went through phases in t

in other countries, many women served in france, italy, and poland. in france, 15% to 20% of the french resistance fighters were women. 5000 women were captured and end -- sent to a concentration camp. the soviet union mobilized women in the early stages of the war integrating them into demand army units and not using the exhilaration that two's -- the auxiliary status. some 800,000 women served, most of whom were on the frontline duty units. about 300,000 served. many were snipers. a small number were combat flyers in the air force. also women, called consort women, were forced into sexual slavery by the interior japanese army before and during world war ii. approximately 2 million jewish women were killed. in the united kingdom workplace, when britain went to war in world war i, previously for bid in job opportunities opened up for women -- previously for bid and -- previously forbidden job opportunities. women created the weapons used in the battlefield. women took on the responsibility of leading the home. the rules of the women shifted from domes

money going into italy, money going into spanish debt as well. let's have a look at some of the stocks hardest hit by china. weekend,inese yen has has so has the consumer spending power. turnaround, owner of hit,des, diamond felt they they rebound so. -- though. burberry is on the rise. company beat analysts expectations. we will see freight companies feeling the pain. , the ceo sayson is a good thing. more experts -- exports will be going from china to the rest of the world. nestle is up. europe is starting to drive demand. thyssenkrupp is also up. up by 1.6%, itax is in rebound from november 2011. all of this sparked by the news in china. let's get to zeb. zeb: a bit of a relief rally across targets in the asia-pacific today as investors take a moment to interpret comments out of the people's bank. let's take a look at the , fixing was 1.1%. 6.4155 right now. you are seeing currencies rebounding. the singapore dollar is coming off of the biggest drop since 2011. we had the bank of korea out with its decision to the china risk as they held rates

in 10 minutes we speak to the ceo of italy second-largest bank. paolo.n francine: then we are joined by continentale chief executive offers. manus: first, commodities are trading at their lowest in 13 years with oil, metals and crops being effective. francine: supply gluts and the slowdown in china and prospects of the yard -- the rise in u.s. interest rates extending the rout. us is the bloomberg managing editor for commodities. been oversold are we are expecting bad news? >> that depends a lot on what happens in china, about how the story develops. we see data that shows a slowdown in the real economy. if you start to feel that, the bearish mood can continue. links one of the biggest is between china and the producers. we have had everybody through the door. if we look at what the miners are doing and the china story, how does that balance? will: even at these prices, miners will still be making money. there is little incentive for them to reduce production. we might see them start to reduce capex spending that they will keep mining. longer-term