agency, is the itu. richard, that is the leading candidate to take control and guess who exerts major control over the ipu? it's the chinese and the russians, two authoritarian nations that suppress freedom. >> i hear that, gregg. but at the end of the day, it's just wind of the candidates -- >> what if the itu gets it, richard? >> i hear that. i think it's -- the president and department of commerce is pretty clear on evaluating all the options. but here is the problem, when you tack about you want the government to control the internet, but then you say you don't want big government, it's a walking hypocrisy. that's a problem that folks will have. what the president is trying to say is let's allow the internet to be controlled by a nongovernmental agency -- >> it could then later be given to the itu which the chinese and the russians largely control and boy, you start doing that and who know what is will happen to the internet? >> it's working just fine. >> what if some future controlling body, itu or

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the chinese president said the goal of the itu they should be strengthened and that there should be will assist as the feds to help developing countries improve the security capability. in his third proposal season can correlate the international community to ours with anything god include security what developing nuclear energy. the chinese president noted that all countries should be able to benefit from the peaceful use of nuclear energy. the lies sustainable development. she seemed to offer trust the threat of nuclear terrorism. he noted all the countries concerned. she walked together to prevent a court that nuclear terrorism in all forms the cctv. china has maintained a clean new tobacco for pos five decades and continues to take necessary steps to ensure nuclear security. the country has a long history of securing of minimizing the preparation of dangerous materials in line with objectives such as nuclear security summit in to take johnny new reports the concerted efforts for new year's security of the many steps taken to the sharon uk security china has made technological advance

today i love the idea of a following of nice in this shooting and shooting where one member of the itu creed military and one member self defense squad had died. we are obviously there's been plenty of conflicting reports we've been hearing alot about issues we saw a tweet come out of the us state department from the sport's first person saying basically backed up it's clear that russia fire the first ride and what we did is headed to the state department for press briefing and asked where on what kind of fact this information and the stewie is based on and this is what happens actually you're saying that it's clear that it actually fired a shot first and that's a pretty serious allegation so gorgeous. curio don't feel the need to say we don't see how it is possibly true that the russian claim that i and dave were up there and they were not at that someone else was the aggressor that the ukrainians for the aggressor can possibly be true given they entered the ukrainian bates they're not saying that they're saying it's a provocation last year saying that it's very clear and have said th

you are in the flow. ,, itu are outside of that is not that big of a focus.ll the burden on you. it is just in the air. all that is different. .ame way in hollywood everyone knows everyone. it is like a different kind of a thing. horowitzas ben speaking with cory johnson. bloomberg lp, the parent company is an investor in andreessen horowitz. a quick programming note, emily chang will speak with eric schmidt and google ideas lateror jared cohen today. live stream it at bloomberg.com 7:00 eastern or catch the full conversation this thursday at 1:00 and 6:00 eastern time. coming up, google investment arm aches a big investment. we will tell you why and you can watch a streaming on your tablet phone and at bloomberg.com/ . ♪ >> welcome back. i am jon erlichman. this is bloomberg "west." online marketplaces is not new. ebay got the ball rolling in that department a few years back, but there have been a lot more specific markets that have developed. intion.com is an example the area property and real estate. google just invested $50 million in the business. jake s

you wake up and you are in your -- and itu determine determines which minute to wake you up. the coffeemaker working and so forth. you look at the wall and you say, do i need to get up? the wall looks back at you and says, no. it calculates that you needed the sleep and you get 19 more minutes subject to the rem cycle. will you use that service? you bet. you want that 19 minutes more. how do i feel about that? people will use that. >> google is buying a lot of robot companies. what are you doing with them ? >> we are experiencing with what automation can lead to. will becomerobots much more presence in our lives. it in a good way. they will help us with this and that. they will replace a lot of repetitive activities that people are tired of doing. much of manufacturing has been icized.f si est?ow about nast ♪ >> you are watching bloomberg west where we focus on technology in the future of business. i am emily chang. has the man behind the coin finally been found? a magazine has concluded that 64-year-old wrote the initial bitcoin paperback in 2009 under a pseudonym. he then r

has made itus which very clear that they are against sanctions. countries like hungary and romania are on the fence. we did hear from angela merkel and david cameron yesterday speaking on the telephone, saying they believe it is time to ratchet up sanctions. >> ryan, the annex nation of crimea, it is not exactly a done deal yet, is it? >> it isn't a done deal. , russianotesters militia, russian forces, moving on to ukrainian installations in crimea yesterday. including one naval base. keep in mind, there were several hundred ukrainian troopshole -- on their bases as russian forces took control of crimea. they have woken up in a region that is calling itself independent and about to the annexed by russia. ukraine wants to get them out. two nights ago, we had violence as some ukrainian servicemen refused to leave. generally, ukraine would like to move into the east of the country. they are not concerned that it is over just yet. i talked to the ukrainian prime minister and he said, they think that what they saw an crimea could be repeated elsewhere.

tim cook ramping up pressure on record labels to offer new releases exclusively on ituness. will apple revamped the music landscape again? walker neil young tries to walking with his triangular and p 3 player and will investors have a more liquid be? the music begins on "countdown to the closing bell" right now. cheryl: we are three points from session lows, good afternoon, i am liz claman, the last hour of trading. the s&p 500 finishing lower today, it will be the first day of back-to-back losses since february 3rd. what is falling? we are looking at commodity, utilities, energy stocks on the screen, exxon mobile, consolidated edison and anadarko petroleum and the small-business optimism index we need to tell you about it fell in february to 91.4 from 94.1 in january, happens to be the lowest reading since a year ago. this is the national independent business's number that is historically associated with recession. maybe that is that were pulling the market down. also associated with below average growth, small businesses are crucial when it comes to job growth. investors p

itu, based in switzerland, 48 seats, guess who has the seats?a, china, venezuela, saudi arabia, guess who they'll have the conversation in june? bahrain, bahrain that went after and killed protesters. >> richard, i'm sure you own your domain name and website, on if china or north korea takes that over and someone steals your domain name, who are you going to sue? in america we have the ability to fight in our court system. in china, i promise you you won't be able to. >> last word, should we be worried? >> we shouldn't be worried. intellectual property rites will still exist in the united states, and the icann, the person that sort of manages the dough may has oversight right now is the department of commerce. all we are doing is shifting the oversight, not shifting kropf the the internet, but figure out who will manage what icann does. >> if i was bill clinton and i can have a government contract with the department of contract, when that expires, is going to be up for free bidding. >> i guess you want icann, and angela wants i can't. >> those

the multilateral instincts would move them in the direction ceding control to the itu or other u.n.at is what we have got to stop. stuart: it looks to me like putin won, he will not retreat, he will stand fast and firm, what do you say about that? >> he still wants to play for the whole enchilada. still wants the government in kiev, don't think he will be satisfied with just crimea. the sanctions united states and european union announced today will convince him he holds the high cards. they are laughable. showing how weak the obama administration response is. what we need to do is go back to a democratic ukraine on a clear path to nato membership. this is about strategic space. we ought to want ukraine and nato not tipping back. stuart: do you see any other former soviet states being tipped back into the russian orbit? >> i think that is what the grand strategy is. he said six years ago the breakup of the soviet union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy in the 20th century. he aims to reverse it. the biggest of th republics of e former soviet union apart from russia itself, all t

december, two years ago in 2012 there was major conference called the wicked that was organized by the itu, the u.n. agency, and at that wicked conference in dubai it was a very difficult moment, by the way, because there were many countries that did not know how to address issues that were left unaddressed on the table. and when they pressed many of us to say where do i take this issue, i have an issue, i don't know, in cyberbullying, i want to discuss best practices for that issue, where do i take them? we did not have a mechanism to lead hem to that is -- them to that is truly multistakeholder to address this issue. now we can no longer simply say we don't know. it's been over a year, and people need some answers. so that's what we're hoping to achieve and e preserve. disms and, unfortunately, we are out of time. fadi chehade is president and ceo of icann, the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers, and erin merchon is a technology reporter with politico. thank you. >> guest: thank you. >> thank you. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought t