in norway, ships had sneaked inside norway's neutral water way and tied up.oked like merchant ships. if the norwegians had x-ray eyes, this is what they would have seen: the trojan horse of ancient greece brought up to date with new and dangerous weapons. these quiet looking ships sprang to life. at the same time nazi warships starting steaming up the norwegian fjords. they all flung themselves simultaneously upon a defenseless country. airborne infantry seized every norwegian airport. the whole job was made easier by [indiscernible] led-- who seized power and issued orders. nazi warships steamed past gun that is could have blasted them out of the water. it brought major quizling into national fame making his very name synonomous with the word "traitor." the germans were in complete control of all 7 ports where they had landed in the morning. for the first time in more than 200 years, the people of norway saw an invading army parading through their city. many of these nazi soldiers strutting as conquers in 1940 had last seen norway some 20 years earlier when

that is half of norway. norway, orin modern in greenland, or the north atlantic is also extremely important for the arctic. having said all of this, i would like to highlight the following. , we havewe used to say tensions in the high north. i still believe it is important to try to keep tensions down there. , probablyy is that because this is a very vulnerable area for environmental reasons, we are also working together with russia at addressing some of the challenges in the high north. there's something called the arctic council. russia is a member. we work together with them on search and rescue and environment of cooperation, managing fish stocks up there. that there is not a contradiction between being strong but also seeing the potential for cooperation in the high north. up to thewill open audience. i will ask you to raise your hand. we have people with microphones. wait to get the microphone. identify yourself briefly. keep the questions brief. we appreciate that. we only have so much time here. let'

i was responsible for cutting defense spending in norway i know exactly how to do that. and that was the way, the natural thing to do because when tensions went down, then it's right to reduce spending as long as we are able to increase defense spending when tensions are going up and therefore later on prime minister responsible to increase defense spending and therefore i also call on all allies to invest more and, you know, during the cold war most allies spent 3% of gdp on defense, now we calling them to spend 2. the good news is that they are really started to move, when we made the decision back in 2014 it was only 3 allies that spent 3% on gdp on defense, this year we expect 8 allies to spend 3% of gdp on defense. and -- and also those who spend less have really started to increase and as i said last year we had 5.2% real increase in defense spending, canada biggest increase since end of cold war and since trump became president, nato allies, european allies and canada have increased defense spending by 41 billion u.s. dollars. we are going in the right direction,

in march of two thousand and eleven norway committed to the military intervention in libya leading to the ousting of gaddafi and the ruine country we see today but a shock norwegian state commission report now admits the country knew next to nothing about what they were doing and actually went to war relying on media reports norway had very limited knowledge of libya when the uprising started in february twenty eleven in such situations decision makers often rely on information from media and other countries colonel gadhafi continues to slaughter his own civilians and he viciously targeted americans the international community offered the final chance to stop this campaign of killing or face the consequences for attacks by regime forces on the libyan citizens when they turned to us and asked us for help stopping a massacre how do you say no so awful jumped on the bandwagon playing an alarmingly significant role and why shouldn't they it was by the book there was even a un security council resolution on the situation to cover them if you ignore all the commentators warning the resoluti

perhaps unsurprisingly some politicians in norway are now distancing themselves from the decision given what we know today this was a war for a regime change norway should not have participated in the libyan war when you look at what happened next with libya becoming a terrorism hotspot this is not a decision to be proud of of course they're not the first to come to that sorry conclusion the u.k. parliament got there two years ago this report determines the u.k. policy in libya before and since the intervention of march two thousand and eleven was founded on a road use assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the country and the situation. and barack obama infamously admitted the aftermath was the biggest mistake of his presidency but that's likely to bring little comfort to the civilians still reeling in the shattered nation. the u.s. envoy to the united nations has accused russia of violating sanctions against north korea nikki haley made that claim at the security council session in new york the united states has evidence of consistent and wide ranging russian violations one ru

norway should try to do this. and it has to be direct lee linked with p.l.o. to notice leadership on the minutes of their secret meeting in all slow reveal that bassam abu sharif told the norwegians that if there were peace the p.l.o. would influence the arab world to stop the boycott of israel. it takes two to tango we did not have the israeli side i had met. bin before he was elected on one of my missions two to his friend april one thousand nine hundred two in april one thousand two we met be in. the he came for breakfast and then wage an embassy and. we asked him what is your approach to the palace here he said i am keen to see some kind of a negotiated settlement in one thousand nine hundred ninety two the israeli labor party led by yitzhak rabin won the general election rabin continued israel's policy of settlement building in public he spoke optimistically of progress in the peace negotiations did will be possible to reach an agreement was the palestinian delegation about to stop the sh'ma and me be the first and most important task for a government. pr

the father of the prime minister of norway today. on mission to arafat's in tunis in one thousand eight hundred nine. i thought a thing that a hard. part. no one knew about the norwegians worked with arafat on creating a channel of communication between the p.l.o. and the israel. from public scrutiny. it's the first time in a big splendid of he saw. facts. being established and the idea of using out of each little search institution was the idea of mystery of our offer which. during that. they had plowed or decided which research institute in no way up they they i agree it would be a good cover and they also agreed that. no it should minister of foreign affairs should pay for it all that was also i read in the document. fofo was a think tank in all slue founded by the trade unions and connected to noise labor party it was chosen by the norwegian foreign minister as the perfect host for secret talks between israelis and palestinians it's direct. he would go on to become a key figure in the negotiations that led to the oslo accords. wi

unlike its neighbors norway and denmark. nothing has been able to stop the danish saboteurs were continually blowing up factor buildings starting fires directing trains and so. those called resisting the nazi occupation had been removed to concentration camps in germany. in the resisting ideology of national socialism they were a rian as long as they were not jewish people who had been put to germany into concentration camps out of political reasons because they resisted in norway or in denmark they were a reaction in the eyes of the s.s. and they were ok many of them were able to understand and to talk german. which made them more human to the s.s. because they could talk to them they could give them order they were understood. exploiting this special status but not taught and the swedish red cross had already managed to get more than seventy thousand households and food and clothing to scandinavian inmates in nazi camps. the danish government had lists of the prisoners that had been brought to german concentration camps th

norway was more supportive. than many of the others and i think. any of the other european states under there are several reasons one of the most important. and the mention the labor party and the rich and trade union there is for this state for all our socialist experiment. almost social democratic state like the one we have in no way. in the late one nine hundred seventy s. there was a common bond of socialist ideology between noise labor party and its namesake in israel. one of the key players in this special relationship was a prominent labor party member of norway's parliament johann you're going holst mr holst most of. the political level to me out of. the. ministry of the feds. he came to be a roots. in july i think it was seventy nine he made it. and they offer a lot of hot then why did the whole group. very pleasant did that mr holst's had very close contact. and that it's that aspect of mr whole spade even more interesting to me sort of. interested in order it was it is really already called things he said. that in the us a little prick j

over the years norway had discreetly been talking to the p.l.o. . with arafat's renouncing violence norway was now ready to pay him an official visit at the p.l.o. headquarters in tunis so this will make long. distance to call to kill. all disco. for. the first time and the reason for minister was that the p.l.o. it was definitely a success for this is because it was a breakthrough who faces. the same power in this part of. the father of the prime minister on the way today. on mission to arafat's into new in eighty nine. i thought that a hard. part. about the norwegians worked with arafat on creating a channel of communication between the p.l.o. and the israel. from public scrutiny. it's the first time explained of he's. being established and the idea of using an. institution. which. they have plowed or decided which research institute in no way but they agreed that that would be a good cover they also agreed that. ministry of foreign affairs should pay for it all that was also in the document. was a think tank in all slow founded by the trade union

in the north atlantic like norway. but i'm calling from a country and so you have to remember that the arctic north of the arctic circle which does include norway. or with the north atlantic. having said all of this to highlight the following to have high intentions in the high north it is important to keep the tensions down in the high north. we worked together and at the daimlerchrysler in. and then there is no contradiction at the same time. >> now we will open it up to the audience. people with microphones. identify yourself very briefly. keep the questions brief we appreciate that. we only have so much time. >> i'm director foreign policy center here at the heritage foundation. thank you secretary mr. stoltenberg for your importance of nato to the alliance. ms. parliamentarian and chairman of four affairs committee recently proposes to name the new nato headquarters after senator john mccain. and to have bipartisan support on this side of the atlantic or on other sides. so tell us what you thought about this propo

norway had very limited knowledge of libya when the uprising started in february twenty eleven in such situations decision makers off to malone information from media and other countries colonel gadhafi continues to slaughter his own civilians and he viciously targeted americans the international community offered khadafi a final chance to stop this campaign of killing or face the consequences for attacks by regime forces on the libyan citizens when they turned to us and asked us for help stopping a massacre how do you say no so also jumped on the bandwagon playing an alarmingly significant role and why shouldn't they it was by the book there was even a un security council resolution on the situation to cover them if you ignore all the commentators warning the resolution did not green flag the mass bombing of libya norway's report also reveals there was particularly no one else this before jumped in. the room oh written sources indicating that before deciding to send war planes to libya the government assist the type of conflict norway was taking part in now that failure could hardly h

norway should try to do this. and it has to be direct lee linked with p.l.o. tunis leadership on the minutes of their secret meeting in all those low reveal that bassam abu sharif told the norwegians that if there were peace the p.l.o. would influence the arab world to stop the boycott of israel. it takes two to tango we did not have the israeli side i had met. bin before he was elected on one of my missions to to his friend april one thousand nine hundred two in april nineteenth two we met be in. the he came for breakfast and then wage an embassy and we asked him what is your approach to the palace here he said i am keen to see some kind of a negotiated settlement in one thousand nine hundred ninety two the israeli labor party led by yitzhak rabin won the general election rabin continued israel's policy of settlement building in public he spoke optimistically of progress in the peace negotiation this will be possible to reach an agreement was the palestinian delegation to stop the shm and before me be the first and most important task for our government. shim

in march of two thousand and eleven norway committed to the military intervention in libya leading to the ousting of gaddafi and the ruin country we see today but a shock norwegian state commission report now admits the country knew next to nothing about what they were doing and actually went to war relying on media reports norway had very limited knowledge of libya when the uprising started in february twenty eleven in such situations decision makers or information from media and other countries colonel gadhafi continues to slaughter his own civilians and he viciously targeted americans the international community offered gadhafi the final chance to stop his campaign of killing or face the consequences for attacks by regime forces on the libyan citizens when they turned to us and asked us for help stopping a massacre how do you say no so awful jumped on the bandwagon playing an alarmingly significant role and why shouldn't they it was by the book there was even a un security council resolution on the situation to cover them if you ignore all the commentators warning the resolution di

in march of two thousand and eleven norway committed to the military intervention in libya leading to the ousting of gaddafi and the ruin country we see today but a shock norwegian state commission report now admits the country knew next to nothing about what they were doing and actually went to war relying on media reports norway had very limited knowledge of libya when the uprising started in february twenty eleven in such situations decision makers often malone information from media and other countries colonel gadhafi continues to slaughter his own civilians and he viciously targeted americans the international community offered the final chance to stop his campaign of killing or face the consequences for attacks by regime forces on the libyan citizens when they turned to us and asked us for help stopping a massacre how do you say no so also jumped on the bandwagon playing an alarmingly significant role and why shouldn't they it was by the book there was even a un security council resolution on the situation to cover them if you ignore all the commentators warning the resolution d

norway had very limited knowledge of libya when the uprising started in february twenty eleven in such situations decision makers off to malone information from media and other countries colonel gadhafi continues to slaughter his own civilians and he viciously targeted americans the international community offered the final chance to stop this campaign of killing or face the consequences for attacks by regime forces on the libyan citizens when they turned to us and asked us for help stopping a massacre how do you say no so also jumped on the bandwagon playing an alarmingly significant role and why shouldn't they it was by the book there was even a un security council resolution on the situation to cover them if you ignore all the commentators warning the resolution did not green flag the mass bombing of libya norway's report also reveals there was practically no one else this before jumped in and there are no written sources indicating that before deciding to send warplanes to libya the government assist the type of conflict norway was taking part in now that failure could hardly have

the one that gets most attention is norway.single market. where canada is more distant, norway is hugging the eu economically. but there would be this issue of paying in large amounts of money to the eu budget. norway wouldn't solve the hard border —— the irish border problem because there would still be customs and checks. chequers was an attempt to ta ke and checks. chequers was an attempt to take bits of canada, bits of norway, bits of everything, solve the irish border problem, and make everybody happy. what it has done is make almost nobody happy. that means, as a result, right now, this issue of the irish border, the most immediate issue in the negotiations, still needs to be sorted out. thanks very much. a dramatic rescue operation has taken place after a passenger plane came down in a lagoon in a remote island in the pacific ocean. it's believed the plane tried to land at the airport on the micronesian island of weno, butjust missed the runway, but all 47 people on board were rescued, as phil mercer reports. bad weather

a more club in norway was more supportive over israel than many of the others and i think. any of the other european states under there are several reasons one of the most important. and the mention the labor party and the rich and trade union therefore please pay for all our socialist experiment. almost social democratic. like the one we have in no way. in the late one nine hundred seventy s. there was a common bond of socialist ideology between noise labor party and its namesake in israel. one of the key players in this special relationship was a prominent labor party member of norway's parliament johann you're going holst mr holst. person at the political level to me. the minister. or the minister of defense. he came to be a roots. in july i think it was in seventy nine he made it. and they offer a lot of hot then why did the whole group. very pleasant did that mr holst's had very close contact. and that it's that aspect of mr hall smith even more interesting to me that out of. interest in order it was that he already called things he said. that in no rush i hear little

near to the town where he was staying the police in norway are now searching that area of sea wherethe rescue vessel and they've released a statement as well take a listen to what they had to say the police nordland was notified by a local recreational fisher that he had found some belongings floating in the seat near the shoreline the belongings are confirmed by the police to belong to the missing person are you an accomplice. so the location of these items appears to be fairly close to the town where i encountered first was staying where he was last seen on the twentieth of august when he checked out of the hotel there in the town of bodo he was a dutch citizen and he was in norway on holiday as i said and he was meant to leave the hotel and take a train to another town ten hours south of the town where he was staying in order to get a flight from there but he never got on that flight and that's when friends and family started getting worried and started expressing their concerns about his whereabouts there are now dutch investigators in norway helping with the investigation and i

and started expressing their concerns about his whereabouts there are now dutch investigators in norway helping with the investigation and i think his disappearance is getting more media attention because of his close association to julian sun campus worked closely with wiki leaks in the past his online accounts said he was a free software advocate he was an i.t. security advisor and he'd also written a book about investigative journalism as well he did media appearances as an i.t. expert i think you'd see pictures of him talking to r.t. on your screens as well but still a total mystery really what happened to him police say they're still trying to work out if there was an element of criminality involved they're not sure about that yet but of course the internet being the internet there's already wild speculation especially from the wiki leaks supporters about what may have happened to some at the moment pretty baseless and wild theories that perhaps that he knew too much that he may have been taken out by some secret service for his links to julian a son. others say maybe this is all a

the trouble with norway, norway isn't in the customs union, so even norway doesn't resolve the problem it tried to take bits of canada, bits of norway, try and please everyone, try and solve the irish border issue and say to the eu, we have a united plan. unfortunately, it is ended up losing almost no one. one of the questions now is how to find a solution to resolve the problem of avoiding a hard border as well as saying, in the future, this roughly is the destination we're heading to, is closer to canada or norway? that is what will be debated over the next few weeks. and the next few days at the conservative party conference. thank you for that. back to our main story — the coroner at the inquest into the death of a teenager who died from an allergic reaction after eating a pret a manger baguette has criticised the company's food labelling. 15—year—old natasha ednan—laperouse had a fatal reaction to sesame contained in the baguette that wasn't listed on the packaging. lets cross over to west london coroner's court where the parents of natasha ednan—laperouse are giving their reactio

over the years norway had discreetly been talking to the p.l.o. . with arafat's renouncing violence norway was now ready to pay him an official visit at the p.l.o. headquarters in tunis so this will make long. for you the our brothers to talk to very little. of this crew on the journey. to school. for the first time and the reason for them in the p.l.o. it was definitely a successful visit because it was a breakthrough who faces. the same foreign minister told involves. the father of the prime minister on the way today. on a mission to arafat's in tunis in one nine hundred eighty nine. i thought a thing that a hard. part. no one knew about the norwegians worked with arafat on creating a channel of communication between the p.l.o. and israel. from public scrutiny. the first time in a big splendid whole he saw. facts. being established and the idea of using out of each little search institution was the idea of mystery of the awful which. during the they had plowed or decided which research institute in no way up they they i agree it would be a good co

norway had very limited knowledge of libya when the uprising started in february twenty eleven in such situations decision makers often rely on information from media and other countries colonel gadhafi continues to slaughter his own civilians and he viciously targeted americans the international community offered the final chance to stop his campaign of killing or face the consequences for attacks by regime forces on the libyan citizens when they turned to us and asked us for help stopping a massacre how do you say no so also jumped on the bandwagon playing an alarmingly significant role and why shouldn't they it was by the book there was even a un security council resolution on the situation to cover them if you ignore all the commentators warning the resolution did not green flag the mass bombing of libya norway's report also reveals there was practically no one else this before jumped in and there are no written sources indicating that before deciding to send warplanes to libya the government assist the type of conflict norway was taking part in now that failure could hardly have h

unlike its neighbors norway and denmark. nothing has been able to stop the danish saboteurs were continually blowing up factor buildings starting fires directing trains and so. those called resisting the nazi occupation had been removed to concentration camps in germany. in the resisting ideology of national socialism they were a rian as long as they were not jewish people who had been put to germany into concentration camps out of political reasons because they resisted in norway or in denmark they were a reaction in the eyes of the s.s. and they were ok many of them were able to understand and to talk german. which made them more human to the s.s. because they could talk to them they could give them order they were understood. exploiting this special status but not taught and the swedish red cross had already managed to get more than seventy thousand households through the closing to scandinavian inmates in nazi camps. the danish government had lists of the prisoners that had been brought to german concentration camps the

unlike its neighbors norway and denmark. nothing has been able to stop the danish saboteurs were continually blowing up factor buildings starting fires directing trains and so. those called resisting the nazi occupation had been removed to concentration camps in germany. in the resisting ideology of national socialism they were a rian as long as they were not jewish people who had been put to germany into concentration camps out of political reasons because they resisted in norway or in denmark they were a reaction in the eyes of the s.s. and they were ok many of them were able to understand and to talk german. which made them more human to the s.s. because they could talk to them they could give them order they were understood. exploiting this special status but not taught and the swedish red cross had already managed to get more than seventy thousand households of food and clothing to scandinavian inmates in nazi camps. the danish government had lists of the prisoners that had been brought to german concentration camps the

norway should try to do this. and it has to be direct lee linked with p.l.o. tunis leadership on the minutes of their secret meeting in all those low reveal that bassam abu sharif told the norwegians that if there were peace the p.l.o. would influence the arab world to stop the boycott of israel. it takes two to tango we did not have the israeli side i had met. bin before he was elected on one of my missions two to his friend april one thousand nine hundred two in april nineteenth two we met be in. the he came for breakfast and then which an embassy and we asked him what is your approach to the palace here he said i am keen to see some kind of a negotiated settlement in one thousand nine hundred ninety two the israeli labor party led by yitzhak rabin won the general election rabin continued israel's policy of settlement building in public he spoke optimistically of progress in the peace negotiation this will be possible to reach an agreement was the palestinian delegation to stop this went on for me to be the first and most important task for a government. pro

banker from norway after norway raised rates for the first time in seven years, nor just bank -- norges we are getting breaking news on takeover,se of the some of the mergers concerns we had their. u.k. takeover panel announces the auction for sky 2 begins on september 21. this has been delayed and we should find out in the next couple days what happened with this company. "bloomberg: surveillance continues in the next hour and tom keene will join me. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: treasuries take flight, 10 year yields surge above the watch 3%. two year yields hit a decade high. the brexit blame game, u.k. leaders warn their is no sign the deadlock will be broken. norway's central bank raises rates for the first time in seven years. we will speak to the norges bank governor this hour. this is "bloomberg: surveillance ," i am francine lacqua and tom keene is in new york. amazon with a possible 3000 u.s. stores with years. that will give us a glimpse into the retail sector, and we look at china, set to plan broad import tax cuts in october. tom: china many putting trade numbers as well.

you know, do you want norway, do you want canadam get on to but you know, do you want norway, do yous fairly easy, if there is a no deal, because you simply vote on staying in the eu on present terms of pulling out completely with no deal. so that would be a straightforward question. and effectively a rerun of the referendum campaign in 2016. and if people haven't really changed their lot —— changed their minds, it doesn't seem much of a democracy to overturn a previous decision people didn't like. presumably at that stage there would be a vote of no—confidence in theresa may. we are more likely to have a general election before a second referendum. i think you right, a general election is per leon the cards there. autumn or spring? i think soofi. there. autumn or spring? i think soon. i think if she loses her chequers plan... made for the election. may for the election, indeed. no deal means she is gone anyway. the shadow foreign secretary yesterday was saying labour wouldn't support anything. anything? wouldn't support anything. anything? wouldn't support anything. anything? wouldn

i the belongings of a missing the wiki leaks associate have been found out in norway the details afterthis. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. that you're going to be close it's like the full story in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters of our. city. welcome back to the program but there has been a significant breakthrough in the case of missing internet privacy activists comforts a close associate of wiki leaks julian assange police have announced that the man's belongings have been fallen in the sea off their no we joined coast. the police nordland was notified by a local recreational fisher that he had found some belongings floating in the sea near the shoreline the belongings are confirmed by the police to belong to the missing person or you can push so the location of these items appears to be fairly close to the town where i encountered first was staying and where he was last seen on the twentieth of august when he checked out of the hotel there in the to

plus model, would be a cce pta ble of norway plus model, would be acceptable and is the best way offeguarding our economy. now where do use it without? i completely disagree with that, i think that would be a betrayal of the referendum vote, and the norway deal would, would not put an end to free movement of people. and, and i think it was made absolutely clear during the referendum campaign that leaving the referendum campaign that leaving the european union meant leaving the single market and leaving the customs union, and i think that we have to on the verdict of the people. it was a clear verdict, it was a huge turnouts, and it was something that has to be honoured and observed. in that case then, you are the advocates of a no deal brexit, unsure? not necessarily, because i think there is quite a lot of merit in what has come to be called the canada plus solution. —— aren't you. and we saw it fleshed out this week in the paper that was produced by the institution of economic affairs, in some respects it is quite close to an offer that has already been made by the european union.

fair enough, but equally, scandinavia is full of societies, one could point to norway, where they'vet, for example, with a quota of 40% of women on corporate boards, or a quota for women to be in parliament. they've specifically engaged in social engineering, and it seems to be working and it seems to be... it doesn't seem to be working particularly. ..forgive me, but norway is top of every contentment index we see across the world. 0k, well, first of all, norway has plenty of oil money, which is definitely contributing to that. and second, it depends on what you mean by working. there's no evidence, for example, that the legislation designed to increase the number of women on boards has produced any movement whatsover in the number of women who hold managerial and administrative positions in norway. the theory was that as societies became more egalitarian, that men and women would become more the same, but that isn't what's happened. what's happened is the biggest differences between men and women now temperamentally, and in terms of their own interest, have manifested themselves in