and started a conversation, and they offered me the opportunity to move to luxembourg to lead out thentent acquisition for taking the kindle internationally. and i, you know, went home and proposed this to my husband, and the first thing we both had to do was truly go look at a map to figure out where luxembourg was and what it was, was it a city? turns out it is a city in the country of the same name. so now you know. [laughter] one of the things i really have benefited from was having a extremely supportive husband who was -- also had the fortune of he'd been an editor, but was really interested in going freelance and experiencing, starting to experiment with writing, so he was flexible. he'd only ever lived in new york, and he said, sure, let's do this. this seems kind of crazy but all right. so we took our then-4-year-old twin sons and moved to europe, and it was a particular experience because i was, i was there in luxembourg, i was really -- i was only person in that office who was working on the kindle, and there were only a couple of people in europe at that point who were wor

and started a conversation, and they offered me the opportunity to move to luxembourg to lead out thecontent acquisition for taking the kindle internationally. and i, you know, went home and proposed this to my husband, and the first thing we both had to do was truly go look at a map to figure out where luxembourg was and what it was, was it a city? turns out it is a city in the country of the same name. so now you know. [laughter] one of the things i really have benefited from was having a extremely supportive husband who was -- also had the fortune of he'd been an editor, but was really interested in going freelance and experiencing, starting to experiment with writing, so he was flexible. he'd only ever lived in new york, and he said, sure, let's do this. this seems kind of crazy but all right. so we took our then-4-year-old twin sons and moved to europe, and it was a particular experience because i was, i was there in luxembourg, i was really -- i was only person in that office who was working on the kindle, and there were only a couple of people in europe at that point who were w

until recently they were channeling revenues through a holding company in luxembourg where it receivedavorable tax rates. under european law, amazon warehouse is across the continent were not considered permanent establishments, allowing them to claim operations were run from luxenberg. >> an incredible admission. it is great to have a company say they're going to pay their taxes. josh: the tax agreement is under investigation by the european commission who are looking into similar arrangements between apple and starbucks and fiat in luxenberg. >> there are concerns the tax ruling is providing a company -- we will consider the tax structure. josh: officials continue to deny any wrongdoing. markus: stocks in the united states are falling back this session. shares in time warner cable are plucking that trend as time warner cable has agreed to be bought by charter communications including its debt. it is valued at 17.9 billion dollars and this comes after comcast abandoned the takeover bid. there were concerns comcast would become too powerful and competition officials have to sign off on

brian: it is not often that luxembourg is in the headlines. anchor: you see him there on the right. the first wedding took place in january. we will come back after a short rake. brian: we are picking it up in the u.s. city of seattle where environmental groups have been out in force. protesting as shell continues to drill for oil in the arctic. anchor: the white house granted shall approval but the company is facing big challenges. it plans for seattle to be a base for the equipment but doesn't have permission to dock there. brian: activists have vowed to make life impossible. this rig is called the polar pioneer. they planned to take it to the arctic. it is a symbol of an environmental disaster to come. >> it makes me sick in my stomach. >> to have this monstrosity parked on our waterfront for eight months a year, it is completely inconsistent with the values that we work to protect in seattle. reporter: many recall that shell has failed at arctic drilling before. it has high-level backing. they expressed confidence in shell's newest effort. obama: shell had to go back to the draw

for years, amazon, like other tech companies, have funneled most of it sales through luxembourg to takee of the nations lower tax rate. but today, amazon confirms the loophole is closed. they will go through the national branches in britain and italy, meaning a higher tax bill across the board in europe. eu competition break leaders say this change --competition regulators say they will investigate into amazon's tax practices. think wearable, durable, portable cameras. go pro consolidated share to 67% in 2014. can anyone compete with go pro? we sit down with two entrepreneurs who think that they can. counntour and ion cameras merged just precisely so they have a better chance of taking a bite out of go pro. gentlemen, thank you both so much for joining us. one of our analysts say that you guys don't have a chance. why is he wrong? >> he is definitely wrong. contour has a very proud history in this market. we were the first wi-fi camera the first waterproof camera. the combination with ion gives us an enormous comfort committee. -- in enormous opportunity. when you put the two together w

tech companies funneled much of its european sales through luxembourg to take advantage of the nation'ser tax rates. today amazon confirms that loophole is closed. that means a higher tax bill across the board in europe. so this changes nothing -- they are pressing on with an investigation into amazon's tax practices. now think wearable, durable waterproof camera. think go pro. go pro has taken the action camera market by storm. it has 38 present global market share by 2013 and consolidated that in 2014. can anyone beat go pro? this year the action camera pioneers contour and i on cameras -- ion cameras joined to take a bite out of go pro's market share. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. so, i was speaking with alex who covers go pro and he says that you guys do not stand a chance. why is he wrong? guest: he is wrong. contour has a very proud history in this market. we have first waterproof camera. the combination with ion gives us an enormous opportunity. we cover the entire price range. we are going to be in 10,000 companies -- 10,000 countries. walmart, best buy, all the major sto

the issue will top the agenda at next month's meeting of eu interior ministers in luxembourg. >> all right, in africa, ethiopia's ruling party appears to have one last weekend cost elections by a landslide. >> early returns give me -- the eprdf of 23 seats from the capital. the u.s. and eu say the elections were orderly but unfair. with a crackdown on dissent. it appears the opposition has not won a single seat so far. >> gerany's defense minister says india may be ready to buy euro fighter jets. >> the defense minister met with the indian prime minister to talk arms deals. it appears they have gotten some results. >> a show of harmony as the indian prime minister welcomed germany's defense minister to delhi. it was a sign how warm german-india ties have become. the two quickly got down to business of some potentially lucrative defense contracts. germany hopes to ink a multibillion euro deal to build six submarines in india. for years, berlin has urged delhi to buy euro fighter combat jets to no avail, but there are now signs -- germany wants to sell at least 90 of the pan-european s

until now, it funneled all european sales through luxembourg. the country made the change on the first of may. amazon is currently under investigation over its tax arrangements in the e.u. so an interesting development there. >> let's turn to technology. and a familiar event in an unfamiliar place. >> yes, this is the consumer electronics show which we know from the annual gathering in las vegas a huge event for the technology industry, but the first asian version of ces opens in shanghai on monday, this as the chinese government is trying to encourage startups with measures like tax breaks. >> every morning, this woman starts the day by checking her mobile device to find out how many people have joined her app. four months ago the young chinese girl quit her job as a financial analyst to start an app. >> they can reach our app to connect with customers to sell product, so young people get more work in big companies, so they really want to do business on their own. >> in only threements, she was able to get an investor to back her initiative in

[applause] >> representing the country of luxembourg, his excellency. and world war ii veteran mr.[applause] >> representing the country of malta is deputy chief of mission and holocaust survivor mr. manny mindel. [applause] >> representing the republic of moldova, his excellency, and world war ii veteran and tuskegee airmen, colonel charles mcgee. [applause] >> representing the country of the netherlands, as deputy chief of mission and holocaust survivor, miss luis israel who is originally from the netherlands. [applause] >> representing the country of new zealand is defense attache and world war ii veteran mr. harry miller. [applause] >> representing norway, major general finn christian and world war ii veteran, mr. james taylor. [applause] >> representing the country of poland, its defense. military, and air attache and holocaust survivor, miss helena peabody. [applause] >> representing the country of russia, mr. maxim, acting military atache and accompanying him is world war ii veteran -- [applause] >> representing slovakia acccompanied by mrs. lawrence shelby reynolds. [applau

. >> representing the country of luxembourg, his excellency, john louis rolfsfeld and mr.ran. representing the country of malta, deputy keef of mission dr. patricia borg and holocaust survivor, mr. manny man dell. [ applause ] representing the republic of maldova is his excellency igor montague and world war ii veteran and tuskegee airman, colonel charles mcgee. representing the country of the netherlands is deputy chief of mission miss jo anne balfour and ms. louise holocaust survivor, who is originally from the netherlands. representing the country of new zealand, defense attache, and world war ii veteran, mr. perry miller. representing the country of norway is major general fin christian homstod and mr. jake jarvis taylor. representing the country of poland is defense, military, naval and air attache, brigadier general yaraslav and miss selena peabody, holocaust survivor from poland. representing the country of russia is mr. max, acting military attache. accompanying him is world war ii veteran mr. dale butinsky. representing the country of slovakia is deputy chief of m

through normandy, not too much after d-day, and went through the various campaigns and also in luxembourg and later on in germany and first in the north and the rural area, and then another time in the south but at one time, we were called. i belonged to patent's -- patton's third army, and we ended up in czechoslovakia. this was toward the end of the war. we were in a town of -- we were in a town, and these were in the final stages of the war. it was becoming quite the is that it would soon be over but there were reports that the town a few miles away was ready to surrender because they were flying white flags from their houses, so it became my job along with a very small medical detachment and the military government detachment to go to that town and take the surrender. it was my job to see if they were still any germans -- german soldiers, prisoners there, and we went to that town on the evening of may 6 and the military government colonel took care of the civilian surrender of the mayor of the town whereas i went about my business looking for procurements, and i only found a few and e

americans to fall almost on the americans raised in the belgian ardennes that extend down into luxembourg almost entirely by surprise. it was an enormous intelligence failure. if intelligence failure ranking up there with pearl harbor and 9/11. because there was great surprise and because the germans had attacked a part of the ardennes where ? we were particularly lightly defended, there was great confusion. in fact, courtney hodges lieutenant general who is the commander of the u.s. first army had what appears to be a nervous break down of sort at a very inopportune moment. he closed the door of his office spot and put his head down on the desk and basically for 24 hours his chief of staff ran first army at a time when it appeared as though the germans might overrun first army. there was concern hodges was not up to it. field marshal montgomery was given the responsibility of taking over hodges first army and a big portion of the american forces. and montgomery went and looked hodges directly in the eye and came to the solution that in fact he had righted the ship somehow, that whatever

. >> history in luxembourg after the prime minister visited his gay partner on friday.ow he is the first e.u. leader in a same-sex marriage. the union less than ape year after a new law allowed same-sex marriage s in the country. the newlywed couple greeted and congratulated by well wishers before bethel spoke to the crowd expressing his gratitude. >> translator: i wish for everyone to be as happy as i am. thank you to luxluxembourg's people. thank you to everybody. i make no distinctions, thank you, everyone. thank you. >> fellow e.u. prime ministers from belgium and estonia, attended the ceremony. no one can say they dent look happy. celebrities lending its voice to a new campaign. why they are trying to get schools to sing a different tune when it comes to food. ♪ this stomach of mine ♪ ♪ revolution ♪ >> veggies are the better. ♪ the revolution >>> an historic performance, the minnesota orchestra became the first major u.s. orchestra to play in cuba since the two countries announced in december they would pursue closer relations. it is their first visit to the island

capital of the european union is, in a sense, split with major administrative centers in brussels and luxembourg, as well as strasbourg. murphy: there's a little bit of a struggle about where the future of this will go. there's an enormous expense right now associated with running back and forth between brussels and strasbourg. indeed, many of the parliamentary committees meet in brussels. then they have to get on a train with their tons of documents and get on over to strasbourg for their formal parliamentary meetings. so it's an issue before europe of how much this is worth. but, of course there are political and cultural interests vested in this. ( speaking french ) translator: strasbourg is on the border between germany and france and for centuries, the city has been caught in the middle of conflicts between the two nations, and reconciliation between them has passed by strasbourg. since we have so few symbols in europe, strasbourg is surely an appropriate symbol of unification and peace. and the parliament would be crazy not to take advantage of the possibilities of this town as its seat. e

. >> malta luxembourg, greece, france, denmark, czech republic, canada brazil, belgium belarus, and australia. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the master of ceremonies for today's commemoration is mr. alex kershaw. he studied politics, philosophy, and economics at oxford. he taught history before working as a journalist for several british newspapers. he is the author of several popular books on world war ii, including the bedford boys: the story of bedford and the longest winter. he tells the story of texas born felix sparks, an officer who participated in four amphibious invasions in europe. ladies and gentlemen, it is our honor to have with us mr. alex kershaw. alex kershaw: thank you. good morning. what a beautiful day it is today. on behalf of the friends of the national world war ii memorial board of directors and the national park service, welcome to the national world war ii memorial. it is my great honor to be your master of ceremonies this morning as we commemorate and remember the 70th anniversary of ve day. we are here today to salute those of the world war ii generation who help

that's fine as a strategy for an aspiring safe haven, but britain is not luxembourg. it is even now a great global power with the talent history, and capacity to shape the international order, which is why the inward turn of the united kingdom is a tragedy not just for them but for all of us. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. and let's get started. >>> we have a lot to talk about with a terrific panel, so let's get right to it. ian bremer is the president of the ewe ray sha group, a political risk consultant. the author of "super power: three choices for america's role in the world." danielle plet ka is from the american enterprise institute. david miliband was britain's last labor foreign minister. he's now the president and ceo of the international rescue committee. and yes, i diddon rose is the editor of foreign affairs and once worked in the clinton national security council. david, you have been to iraq and to lebanon recently, in the last few months. when you hear these stories about isis now being able to take over an

[applause] representing the country of luxembourg and world war ii veteran mr. sammy thompkins. [applause] representing the country of malta, deputy chief of mission and holocaust survivor mr. manny mindel. [applause] representing the republic of malta -- it's his excellency and world war ii veteran and tuskegee airmen, colonel charles mcgee. [applause] representing the country of the netherlands, as deputy chief of mission and holocaust survivor miss luis israel who is originally from the netherlands. [applause] representing the country of new zealand, is defense attache and world war ii veteran mr. harry miller. [applause] representing norway, major general and world war ii veteran, mr. james taylor. [applause] representing the country of holland, military ash and take -- as you take and holocaust survivor, miss helena peabody. [applause] representing the country of russia, acting military atache and accompanying him is world war ii veteran -- [applause] representing slovakia, peter's almanac the company by mrs. lawrence shelby reynolds. [applause] representing the country of

in the meantime we could learn more about patrick drahi, a french moyer operating out of luxembourg,part of the u.s. cable asset of southern link here in the united states. it's said according to david faber that he's approached time warner cable at further consolidating the industry in this country this is altice, the vehicle he's using, that he controls. that's the dutch quote. it's dutch and french. so there you go. the other side of it is john malone has given an interview from this country in which he's suggesting that the assets of advocate phovodafone would be a fit. he's not saying they're in discussions with vodafone. but vodafone is a top gainer up 5%. liberty global in this country up about 4. the big settlement coming through from the new attorney general on the foreign exchange investigations, is interesting to see that many of the banks have risen today, rbs, ubs is a top gainer. despite the fact that the fines there across those four or five banks total $6 billion. and of course, an admission of criminal liability. i put burberry in here within the uk. the luxury goods

the telecom company based in luxembourg is expanding into view askew markets. often these has -- altice. at the same time, bloomberg is reporting that alteice has made a takeover approach to time warner cable. talks are said to be an early stage. it is the end of an era in late-night television. david letterman closed out his career after 33 years hosting. that is more than 6000 episodes. no word on who will be letterman's final guest. all that cbs says is that tonight's show will be full of surprises. i'm thinking brad pitt and jennifer aniston? brendan: i am thinking he might make up with john mccain. at 8:00 we get results from target. at 2:00 p.m., we get the fed's latest minutes. at 4:00 p.m. eastern, l brands reports earnings. tom: here is a quick data check. i will make it very quick this morning. the euro 1.1117. crude off .60. there is the dow record i s&p surging forward. this is the cleveland fed series. 4% long-ago than we had years, a good 10 years plus of 2.7% roughly of inflation. this is a concern, brendan. taking out their core definition, not

amazon will not channel all sales through low tax luxembourg. let's look at markets. germany and u.k. closed for the holiday. france down 0.7. portugal down over 1%. political developments over the week in greece and spain has hurt markets a little bit but just because of low volumes is why we're seeing these red reads across european markets. quick look at forex as well. it's 10974 at the moment. we will be back here in a few minutes time. we'll be talking about grease after this short break. >>> a very warm welcome. this is "worldwide exchange." i'm wilfred frost and here are your headlines from around the world. another day, another warning from greece. the country's interior minister warns athens doesn't have the cash to repay the imf next month unless a deal is made with creditors. putting the breaks on a deal. fiat drops to the bottom of the italian market on the report gm's boss mary br br barra turns down an offer for a merger. >>> the battle for time warner cable continues. u.s. media mogul john malone charter communications is reporting francis altice for a

he alluded to a luxembourg agreement.s not a veto but the ability to restate control and power in the houses of westminster. the ability to challenge legislature. is that what he needs to achieve rather than a new treaty? david: that is probably what he will look at in an ideal situation. i don't think cameron wants to leave. he knows that his party generally most of the people, do want to leave. he is wary of playing too much to his own party because as he looks across to the other side of the house of commons, he sees what happens when you do that. mark: will he give his party freedom to vote as they wish? could the referendum happen before two years? david: i think he probably will. he will not stop anyone anyway. the safer option. if you are not going to convince right wing eurosceptic mps, to vote in favor of remaining and u.k., there is no point in saying that you should. manus: will he want to just get it out of the way? david: it depends on the progress he is made in the conversations with europe. for the british

let's hear from peter in luxembourg, new york. -- plattsburgh, new york.aller: [indiscernible] i think the democrats will win. host: thank you. rand paul and ted cruz were the only ones to vote against the gop budget passed this afternoon. the senate passes its first bicameral gop budget in a decade. claudette, thanks for waiting. caller: i don't want jeb bush, ok? mike huckabee brought me to tears tonight with his announcement. i just feel that the really, truly loves this country. he is a working man for me has worked for his family, the american people. we need someone like that he will work and rock about us. i cried. i am 68. i have 100% disabled veteran husband and i feel what he is going through right now. i hope to hell he didn't fight for nothing because what obama has done for this country and what the democrats and what the rino republicans -- loretta lynch openly said she would not protect our borders. they still put her in and i am so scared. i am so scared we have lost our country. i hope it is not too late. mike huckabee seems to be such a g

have not acquired basic skills, making it the second worst high income country in the world after luxembourgnd of interesting. >> you spent a lot of time in asia. what do they do right? >> i lived over a decade in asia. you ask what are asian schools doing right? let's less focus on the individual. there's less focus on be creative, it's more like this is what you need to learn. the schools are strict, the parents tend to reinforce that educational strictness as well. also they invest in their toecherstoech teachers. teachers get a lot of respect in asian culture. >> this is not the first time we've seen that kind of number out of the united states. and it is a real thing that we need to invest in because the future belongs to people who do well in the s.t.e.m. disciplines. >>> here are this hour's power points. we lenders weekly jobless rates have reached a 15-year low. next, we learned that gold prices hit three-month highs today, up 3% so far this year. the dollar on the other hand is around three hef month lows against the euro. finally, we learned that over $2 billion worth of art has b