. >> jim kim said every country is worried about competitive innocence, and it will be a major issue. >> i asked and you submitted questions for the president of the world bank. his views on global inequality and the conflict in russia. >> what excites me about detroit is the feeling of possibility... >> the re-birth of an america city >> we're looking at what every city can learn from detroit, >> the industrial revival entrepreneurs driving growth communities fighting back... >> we're fighting for you and we're taking these neighborhoods back, for you. >> a special look at the moves adding fuel to the motor city five days in detroit only >> the death toll could be much higher than anyone known. >> posing as a buyer... >> ...people ready then... >> mr. president >> who should answer for those people % >> well, i asked you to submit questions for the world bank president. thank you for the response. here are questions he answered, starting with a question about the conflict in ukraine, russia. >> we did a re-assessment of our prospects for growth for russia. and if the situation in the

. >> jim kim said every country is worried about competitive innocence, and it will be a major issue. >> i asked and you submitted questions for the president of the world bank. his views on global inequality and the conflict in russia. that and more coming up on "real money". >> well, i asked you to submit questions for the world bank president. thank you for the response. here are questions he answered, starting with a question about the conflict in ukraine, russia. >> we did a re-assessment of our prospects for growth for russia. and if the situation in the ukraine has a limited and short-term effect, we think that growth this year will be around is.1%, half of what we have predicted some -- 1.1%, half of what is predicted. we think russia economy may contract, but they'll go to growth in 2015. it's a serious situation. we work with russia and the ukraine. we are working now to prepare a very large package with the ukrainian government right now. >> you mentioned climate change. marco asks - how is climate change going to affect the world bank's goal of ending extreme poverty by 20

and i realize that i stay in district 6, and jim kim said that we're the largest black residents in san francisco as of tuesday. if i am not in bayview or western edition, i feel disconnected from our (inaudible). of blacks in san francisco, they found out two years ago in the library that we are facing (inaudible). i hope that people come out in tndc where i stay at, and i know that (inaudible) and (inaudible), but tndc allows many criminals. you know i stay in a crack infested hotel where people can smoke crack and attack you. there is things that this city needs to be looking at, that crack in tndc and many don't know us down here. we are treated as part of the homeless. i hope this resident can do what lincoln did as emancipation and eisenhower did (inaudible), our president has been here 19 times. he needs to come here and find out what is going on. this housing thing is transferring across the nation. whatever san francisco do, it will affect our nation. he needs to bring back housing for humanity. something that jimmy carter started. he's in the paper with the five presidents. it

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jim yong kim. but before i do that let's go to something else that is happening in washington.xecutives got grilled on capitol hill over their proposed mega merger. lawmakers demanded assurances that the mega size comcast would not drive up prices. at stake is what is good for big business good for consumers? in february comcast announced its intention to gobble up time warner cable, which holds the number two spot. the deal is valued at $45 billion and would give comcast a whooping 30% share of the paid tv market and 40% of the broadband market. but first it has got to get approval from the justice department but that won't happen until they are convince that had a mass media merger would not harm competition. anyone who plays monopoly know when fewer dominate the board, players pay more. comcast executive vp david cohen found himself defending his company's pricing policy before lawmakers. >> there is nothing in this transaction that will cause cable bills to go up. i have a nasty habit of telling the truth. when asked if cable bills will go down, i said i can't make that com

then you'll hear at 2:00 p.m., yongnversation with jim kim.he made some changes coming from dartmouth college down to washington. a wonderful day of international bloomberghere on television. our twitter question of the day -- we need your controversial and emotional answers on that issue. let's go to scarlet fu. >> anytime people are asked to pony up money for something like that, there's going to be a lot of controversy. another day, another computer security issue called heartbleed that affects the internet, giving hackers which infiltrate up to two thirds of all active websites. by the way, it went undetected for two years. dr. vincent burke is ceo of flow truck which provides network analysis for security, inference it's and joins us by skype from new hampshire. dr. burke, welcome to "bloomberg surveillance." the sad thing in all of this, we are so numb to reports of websites or data being infiltrated that people tend to just think, all right, let's get the fix going and move on. i will have to change my password five times. what is diffe

jim yong kim tells him that the cold economies will continue to grow but only if the interest rates don't suddenly take off, and the only way to depend on that is the way it backs off it's stimulus program. >> the growth in the first world economy is going to offset the rising interest rates in a reasonable way. what we're all hoping for is not some sort of spike, if there is, we could be in trouble. >> you can watch more of that interview tonight at 7:00 poole eastern. that's 4:00 pacific. >>> more on the interrogation sites. it shows the agency lied to congress about who was held in the prisons and what happened to them. >> the wedge between the c.i.a. and it's senate overseers is growing wider. al jazeera investigation found the controversial senate intelligence committee report accuses the senate of lying. the report that makes the claim is still classified but the committee voted to reveal parts of it to the public. investigative reporter jason leopold joins us. jason, good to have you back on the program. look, you had been doing more digging on this story. if you would take a momen

jim yong kim. he's going to speak, some opening remarks. i'll chat with him a little bit and then we'll have about a half an hour of q&a. thanks so much for coming. dr. kim. >> good morning, everybody. thank you, michelle, and also thanks to our host, the council on foreign relations. i'm very honored to be here giving the david a. morris lecture. i want to talk today about some fundamental issues in global development and the world bank groups' role in helping countries and the private sector meet the greatest challenges in development. you know, for a very long time the rich have known to some extent and certainly to a much greater extent in recent years the rich have known how the poor around the world live. but what's new in today's world is that the best kept secret from the poor, namely how the rich live, is now out. to village television, to the internet, hand held instruments which are rapidly increasing the number the poor possess, lifestyle of the rich and middle class about which the earlier had foggy ideas are transmitted in ful

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i'll speak with world bank president jim young kim and christine la garde.limate change, the challenges as iing the global middle class and slowing global growth. i'll cover all these topics with kim and la garde. 7 p.m. eastern time, 4:00 pacific. on "real money." i'm ali velshi. >> hello, you're at the listening . this week, presidential elections are less than two months away in egypt. are the media equipped or in the mood to cover the story? journalists shot at in pakistan, released by kidnapper is syria and warned by the prime minister in

i'll speak with world bank president jim young kim and christine la garde. climate change, the challenges as iing the global middle class and slowing global growth. i'll cover all these topics with kim and la garde. 7 p.m. eastern time, 4:00 pacific. on "real money." i'm ali velshi. havthanks for joining us. have a graik weekend. -- great weekend. >> welcome to the news hour in dohh the world's top news stories. riots at jordan's biggest refugee camp, police fire tear gas and one person is killed. >> large parts of ben gassy have come to a standstill because of a

i'll speak with world bank president jim young kim and christine la garde. climate change, the challenges as iing the global middle class and slowing global growth. i'll cover all these topics with kim and la garde. 7 p.m. eastern time, 4:00 pacific. on "real money." i'm ali velshi. ... an american tonight special edition, >> explain how you were able to get access to the taliban. >> fault lines: this is taliban country then, an american tonight special edition only on al jazeera america >>> sounds from the ocean floor. what could be the most credible lead so far in the month-long search for the missing malaidsian airlines plane. t >>> the defense in at a time trial known as "blade runner"? >> i do firmly feel very strongly, that, yes, that was crazy. >> family members speak out after a california couple gets stranded on sea with a baby

. >> also in attendance, world bank president jim yong kim. criticized for being not as aggressive and not controlling the perception of the institution. i came into the institution and we realize the world was changing tremendously. , 100 25 billion dollars, that may sound like a lot, but africa needs $100 billion a year. official development assistance is small. the key for development in the future is to bring all the public moneys, money that we have, together with the private sector, to really develop economies. it is a completely different game. the reason we are going through these changes, we now have to be fit for the future. we think we are getting there. behindng up, the ceo kering. they are behind fashion companies like gucci. mcdonald's is pulling out of crimea. burger king is moving in. the beef monarch has been making a big push in russia. as for mcdonald's, they are siding manufacturing reasons. ♪ >> when it comes to the good life, it is hard to top francois henri-pinault. in addition to being married to salma hayek, he is the

my name is john donnelly, i'm communications adviser to world bank president jim yong kim. the, as you know, this will be an on-the-record briefing. we'll start with dr. kim's statement, and then we'll take questions from you, thank you. >> good morning, everybody. i'd like to -- can you hear? yeah. i'd like to welcome you to the 2014 spring meetings of the world bank group and the international monetary fund. we're very happy to have all of you here. we live in a time of great contrasts when fewer than 100 people control as much of the world's wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion combined. but we also live in a time when many developing countries have the strongest growth rates in the world which each year helps millions of people lift themselves out of extreme poverty. our economists estimate that roughly one billion people around the world live in extreme poverty today in 2014. this is down from an estimated 1.2 billion people in 2010. this difficult-to-grasp number is falling steadily and surely, but reaching our twin goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting sh

jim yong kim. he's going to speak, some opening remarks. i'll chat with him a little bit and then we'll have about a half an hour of q&a. thanks so much for coming. dr. kim. >> good morning, everybody. thank you, michelle, and also thanks to our host, the council on foreign relations. i'm very honored to be here giving the david a. morris lecture. i want to talk today about some fundamental issues in global development and the world bank groups' role in helping countries and the private sector meet the greatest challenges in development. you know, for a very long time the rich have known to some extent and certainly to a much greater extent in recent years the rich have known how the poor around the world live. but what's new in today's world is that the best kept secret from the poor, namely how the rich live, is now out. to village television, to the internet, hand held instruments which are rapidly increasing the number the poor possess, lifestyle of the rich and middle class about which the earlier had foggy ideas are transmitted in ful

jim yong kim. you. >> you have a great handle on the emerging markets with your mission on poverty at the world bank. i want to ask you about china. overnight, disappointing data on exports, on imports. are you concerned about that slowdown not being manageable? >> you know, if you listen to what premier chong said, he said on the one hand, they'll implement policies that will try to purr growth. but they won't go back to stimulus measures, which is really important. what the chinese have said in terms of reform is they'll move away a focus on investment and imports and more toward consumption -- >> so you're expecting the slowdown along with the rebalancing, but the import slide was unexpected. >> it was. what we're now watching for -- because, you know, china is going through reform. there will be the ups and downs. the question is what is their resolve in continuing with the reforms? everything i see suggests to me from the highest level that they're going to continue with the reforms, which is

tuesday, world bank president jim yong kim discusses bank policy. this is at 8:30 am eastern on c-span2. an examination of caterpillars tax strategies. the senate homeland security subcommittee on investigations is investigating offshore shelters. you can see this on tuesday live at 9:30 a.m. on c-span3. >> c-span, for 35 years bringing public affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings and conferences. offering complete gavel-to-gavel overage of the u.s. house, all at the service of private industry. we are created by the cable tv industry 35 years ago and brought to as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. >> monday, defense secretary chuck hagel had a briefing with reporters at the pentagon. his 20 minute remarks also included issues about ukraine. >> afternoon. happy spring. you are laughing. it is here. many of you know that i'm going to leave tomorrow morning for a 10-day trip to the asia-pacific. some of you will be accompanying me on a

world bank president jim yong kim. the federal government provides more than $150 billion in grants and loans to help students pay for college each year. in a moment student aid administrators testify before a federal loan program. the education labor and pensions community -- committee hearing is two hours. the senator was tom harkin of iowa. >> good morning. the senate committee on labor and pensions will come to order. this morning is another in our series of airings preparing to reauthorize the higher education act and this hearing will take a look at the whole student loan program. as i said this is the eighth in our series of hearings on this. today our primary focus is strengthening our federal loan process to make sure they're working well for students families. since the passage of the national -- under which i borrowed money to go to college the federal government has played a role in helping students fund their college education through loans. and grants. we certainly have much to celebrate over the last hal

meanwhile as the world's top climate scientists are meeting in berlin the president of the world bank jim yong kim is worrying outloud about the effects that climate change is having on worldwide access to food and water in an interview ahead of next week's meeting of the world bank kim argued that battles over food and water will erupt across the globe within the next five to ten years because of climate change kim said the water issue is critically related to climate change people say the carbon is the currency of climate change water is the teeth fights over water and food are going to be the most significant direct impacts of climate change in the next five to ten years there's just no question about it and arguably as we saw with the events of the arab spring they've already started as the severe drought and rising food prices particularly wheat prices in that region played a large part in fueling the uprisings in tunisia egypt and syria. kim said that he has urged climate change activists government officials and scientists across the globe to learn lessons from the way protesters and scient

we have the second half of a one from tom keene, he -kim, thee to jim yong president of the imf and nowspace to christine lagarde, the managing director. >> thank you so much. i was speaking to the finance minister of canada this afternoon. madame lagarde is the international monitor. happy birthday, 70. lovely, the 70th anniversary of the imf. mandate?our >> i would hope that before the end of this calendar year, we complete the reform of the imf, we make it more credible, and capable of jumping on urgent issues like the ukraine, for instance, without financing. >> within that, i guess the solution is the support of your partner, the united states of america. mes," andinancial ti there was a panel with mr. truman, someone argue, from the g-20, they are scathing about congress being responsible. what do you need from republicans and democrats? >> i need the united states of america, my main shareholder, to exercise their leadership in the institution. the imf is in a situation like the ukraine, where we can send a team right away, they are experts who have been doing crisis management f

jim acosta live in seoul. >>> we meanwhile have been seeing a series of bizarre photos by the north korean government this week. let me show you this one. this is kimg un, the leader, surrounded by adoring, crying female soldiers. sort of like the images you used to see of the beatles surrounded by their fans. i mean, they're all bawling. and then photos of a very young kim jong un broadcast by north korea's state media as well. already in military garb as a toddler. gordon chang is the author of nuclear showdown. gordon, nuclear tests, all these photos released. is this all related? and what do you make -- i mean, we'll keep showing the pictures in the video, but what do you make of all these women crying over him? >> the north korean regime is founded on the myth that the kim family has the love and devotion of everybody in. this is important for them especially to keep up appearances now when kim jong un's hold on power is tenuous. we've had so many purges and counter purges and executions since 2010. so they really need to bolster the regime. and what better way to do it than to have women crying over kim jong un. >> we have seen those reports