distances that took messner and folks several weeks on foot now take only a few hours by air. private jets and luxury camps tourism here does not come cheap a week's holiday costs over $80000.00 euros per person day trips including champagne picnics are also on offer. this is neat i don't like it when the antarctic is just seen as a form of entertainment. just to say they've been there. isn't the to should appreciate this unique consonant with its magnificent nature. these emperor penguins are tourist magnets more and more people visit their breeding grounds in the eternal winter. though travel to the white continent is comparatively cheap for a few $1000.00 tourists can admire the animal kingdom as they travel to the poll. about $52000.00 tourists visited the antarctic last year these numbers are predicted to rise. stuff and. there has to be a cap on the number of people visiting the antarctic mass tourism cannot be allowed there must. just when messner and folks entered the record books by crossing the antarctic 30 years ago they travelled for 3 months without seeing another

we'll be back with mike for an interview with cleveland fed president loretta messner. now to jamie rush joining us from london. let's talk about the german numbers. those are not encouraging. jaime: they were not encouraging at all. the german economy failed to expand whatsoever in the fourth quarter. that follows a bad year overall for germany, especially in the manufacturing sector. what is interesting is the weakness is concentrated within the manufacturing sector and in a particular month, in december. we saw a huge fall in industrial production, the biggest since the financial crisis. the interesting thing it was it was spread across countries and the your area. it is not just a germany story. it is not just an idiosyncratic. is theng to take away risks are clearly still to the downside of the area and for germany and growth is likely to be quite slow and the forced quarter -- quite slow in the first quarter as well. david: we have a risk turning to the certainty of supply disruptions that may be affecting germany and other places in europe and the manufacturing s

messner, the situation in south wells was described as critical and that it's not been downgraded were, they have shored up the weather defence and engineers have been broadened and there's still some weather warnings or wind which cover much of the uk and so also a yellow warning for snow in scotland but it is hoped that there will be some reprieve from the weather. 0ne that there will be some reprieve from the weather. one of the licence like this is it always amazes me that the community response that comes at times this, just round the corner from your there is a church thatis corner from your there is a church that is full of donations the people of in and as a team of volunteers that are cooking hot meals and trying to help people get through this horrible situation. the united states and the taliban have signed an agreement which it's hoped can bring peace in afghanistan, after eighteen years of war. the deal follows more than a year of intensive negotiations. it's based around a phased and conditional us troop withdrawal in exchange for security guarantees for the taliban. 0u

people visiting the antarctic of mass tourism cannot be allowed there doctors who supposed so when messner and folks entered the record books by crossing the antarctic 30 years ago they travelled for 3 months without seeing another cell. this is due to the news live from the land up next we're taking a look at germany's role in nato for now though i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being us being with us here today. that. whatever it. is running. up to fringe good. job you mean for mines. german and czech soldiers are carrying out a military exercise in lithuania the potential enemy russia their mission deterrence and a show of strength the nato eastern flank. if it will deter the enemy with all the means at our disposal the world is growing less secure and more confusing a renewed arms race with nuclear and conventional weapons is imminent existing alliances are crumbling you need to be for many to be strong to deter any potential aggressor from attacking us to preserve the peace germany and its neighbors could again be caught in the middle between 2 superpowers. russia is laying claim t

we will speak to cleveland fed president loretta messner in an extrusive interview at 12:30 new yorke, 5:30 london. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ guy: from london, i'm guy johnson. vonnie: from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. this is "bloomberg markets." president trump's recent budget proposal includes a $150 million line item to create a you are a near miss irv stockpile -- create a uranium reserve stockpile. here is more is bloomberg intelligence's etf analyst. reporter: this is something they have been talking about for quite some time. uranium and nuclear power is critical to the u.s. the problem is that the u.s. generates less than 10% of the uranium it uses. the rest is imported from places canada,sia, kazakhstan, and australia. all of those things are spelling out to be an issue for our national security. the last few decades, we have seen that americans and politicians both believe that energy independence is critical to national security, and that is what trump is doing here. basically, the u.s. is going to step in as a buyer of uranium, which is a demand-side catalyst. we saw uranium