political turbulence is in italy scared off investors on the country many on the markets think that mcewen and see his command to help it really use the economy to recover like doing something for the labor market data and for the investment climate in this important fuel economy conrad was and they are and russia has once again accused foreign powers of meddling in ukraine's political crisis on friday russian foreign minister sergei laptop pointed the finger at the european union claiming the eu is intent on expanding its missile and sixty s they did not make the job easier for germany's foreign minister who was visiting the froth in moscow germany's foreign minister is a familiar face and longtime partner in moscow in front of my mind wants to expand germany's dialogue with russia while promoting democratic freedoms and stressing new coupons bottle of coke that ukraine would go to the need to go to time then we cannot let ukraine be about securing spheres of influence. this is an eel what's going on in ukraine is no geopolitical chess match we must instead give ukrainian people free choi

. >> dawn mcewen is the lead from team canada. 33 years old. they call her super gee on the ice.hing special behind it. they thought she was a super addition to the team and for some reason super d stuck around. super d puts her stone in the house. >> defensive start for great britain putting their first rock in the rings. canada hitting sticks there. now one more for claire hamilton. she joins horses with eve muirhead in the summer of 2011. great britain women went 5-4 in the round robin, and they lost their last game on monday to denmark. 8-7. there you see jennifer jones curling at 85% in sochi. that's tops among all skips. one final stone for mcewen. >> neither team wants to give this game away early so the defensive start is not a surprise. >> we are underway. great britain and canada in the semi-finals. markets. can treasury brices and equities go up hand in hand? >> well, i think over the longer term, it's a bit difficult to sustain that type of price action. but again, i think the fact that fixed income price ves held in as well as they have as the equity markets are have

you see dawn mcewen deliver. july of last year she married mike mcewen, also a top-level curler.e is in attendance, and so are dawn's parents. in order to raise money for the families of the canadian curlers to come over to russia to watch the games, this team from canada autographed their game jerseys from when they won at trials in the fall and sold them on e bay to raise money so their families could come to the games. dawn's jersey went for 830 canadian to which dawn said, i can't believe somebody would spend that much money for my jersey, but it was obviously a nice gesture so that their families could be here in russia. >> well, it's a statement of how popular the sport is in canada. it really is a whole nother world of curling when you go north of the border in the united states. >> i think that's one of the things that you don't hear enough about, just how expensive it is to travel around when you're curling. anybody can go down to their local club down the road and curl, but when you get to that next step and you've got to go to tournaments every weekend, you have to go

ross mcewen spoke recently. >> can i just tell you my aspiration is not to run the world's largest bank. that is not my aspiration. my aspiration is to run the best bank in the u k. >> that the not sound like a man that's going to go on a hiring spree. the latest are not bank to scale back their investment business. >> they are not the first in the u.k. to do it either. they have spent time going back to the core business, wealth management, moving away from pure investment. for rbs, it's probably more socially palatable for wider society being that it is set to become a bank that is more focused on consumer lending. >> what does that mean for the stakeholder? >> that's the most fascinating part of the story. you have the biggest bank bailout in this country's history am a 40 5 billion pounds, and you look at where we are at right now, 400 seven pence breakeven and we are just above three pounds 60 -- 407 pence breakeven. you think george osborne and david cameron want a stake in this bank? the returns for shareholders? what happens to the share price? will they be able to sell any stak

. >>> now rbs ceo ross mcewen said to set out his plan for the bank, this announcement is taking place after rbs posted a loss of more than $13.5 billion for the last year. the head of global banking at pimco joins us now and also joined by helia even hibrahimi. >> we heard it's a buying opportunity but for most in the market you've seen shares side this morning. it's a real massacre. you've got a high loss number, 8.2 billion pounds, a massive bonus number higher than we expected but importantly you've got a whole load of costs associated with it and you haven't seen the cost reduction so if you look at the markets business, you can see that actually income has come down about 26%, profits down 58%. that's with the costs only coming down 11% and if you come back and have a look at the wider group you can see that in the last year, even though income has fallen 2.3 billion pounds the actual cost reduction they've managed to do is just half a billion so you've got this massive cost income ratio of 67% which is a long way off from where the bank was hoping to be. >> felipe, come in here.

brian mcewen, now me to serve as the principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy but most of you know ryan as you worked with him at the white house, on capitol hill. mike mccord are you all know, nominated to serve as dod's next comptroller. all of these very experienced, highly regarded and capable individuals will bring tremendous expertise and leadership to these positions. like bob, their exceptional professionals. these individuals are four of the most experienced national security professionals that dod has had in these positions at any one time. they bring a depth of experience and knowledge and expertise that is as impressive as we've seen here at dod. and i'm grateful that they've agreed to serve in these positions. i'm proud to serve with them. in times of great change and challenge, our country must have the right kind of people interested positions of leadership. i appreciate the senate armed services committee proud action to schedule hearings for these nominees, all this month. if these nominees are confirmed, and if the senate acts on other senior department n