poland is the largest economy in central europe. they were first into the euro. so they've gone through a lot of those teething pains. they kept their own currency which gives them some mormon tear flexibility. it's a very good, established market with a lot of domestic pension activity. it's a great place to invest. >> let's go to cyprus now and a country that is near to it, and that is turkey. that is a country that you like going into the future. >> yeah, we saw s&p upgraded their sovereign debt today, improving environment there. we think people are starting to recognize what solutions turkey provides for european corporates, a very skilled, large, young work force. that has the ability to manufacture cars and white goods and all kinds of other things for those european countries. it's almost like greece without being part of the euro. they've got a lot of great advantages including their demographics. and it would be a place we'd definitely have on our radar gre screen. >> you said the way to play china is through hong kong. why? >> the shanghai exchange is

but it's not so much poland is going to below blow up. but it's just the opportunity. 4% is not great. the second half of last year, we had an epic infloud flow to the polish bond market. yet the polish currency has been unable to strengthen. it's been range bound. so it's difficult to imagine that this inflow to the bound market repeats itself. >> good to see you. strong pnp paribas. still more to come on today's "worldwide exchange." >> we'll head back out to the ypo leadership summit. what do ceos of customer's bank have to say about the sequester? stay tuned. >>> welcome back to "worldwide exchange." i'm kelly evans. >> and i'm ross westgate. >> washington and wall street bracing as the deadline to ae void the sequester passes. president obama holds budget talks at the white house today, but odds are low for a deal. >>> uk manufacturing activity unexpectedly falls into negative territory for february. the pound going sharply lower. >>> chinese factory activities calls to a five-po low, calling into question the strength of the rebound

poland denies it. aaaannnd here's france, coming up strong with their own horse meat scandal, selling meat to england and sweden, but france falls behind and lays the blame on cyprus. cyprus now in the lead with the blame, but what's this? what's this? out of nowhere on the last leg, cyprus says they got their meat from a dutch company, who said they got it from-- who's that? who's that? it's romania! romania takes the blame!!! [laughter] [cheers and applause] but the romanians did not act alone. >> i've got a horrible feeling we're looking at a major international criminal conspiracy. >> claims that organized crime gangs are behind the contamination are threatening to errode consumer confidence. >> stephen: organized crime! [laughter] i'm not surprised the mob is involved. i mean, if you're gonna leave a horse head in a bed, why waste all that good body meat? [laughter] frankly, i don't understand why everyone is so upset over eating horse? we don't feel guilty when we happily consume the rest of noah

actually going to be seeing because we should be arriving in moments right in the middle of that poland night that is fourteen days almost total darkness. but up here even when it's pitch black it can still be beautiful. i was heading to a famous observatory and my polar express was well on its way. i j a welcome to the observatory yes but again we'll be looking at the full pages come in and make yourself at home and later we'll put you in the picture. they've been studying up here for more than fifty years so i'm never going to have a better chance in russia to see it's them right now i just have to wait. let me show you where our engineers view the information from. this camera takes pictures of what's going on in the sky. we also get information about. high frequency variations in the magnetic field on the field all these phenomena of what's connected to the aurora. area the. north magnetic poles. that serves as the source for particles. are a gift of nature we see what's going on in. space if you. trees can be seen here in the north if you study the northern lights closely. summariz

it's the creative work we see today that helps those people to survive jury in those long and cold poland nights. usually much. but just about managed to shake off my polar stress and i've seen how the local people deal with theirs it was time to head back to the observer train my dad a call from jaroslav and the aurora was coming i round two am we drove out and i checked the prognosis with the labs chief astronomer. ok so you know what we have what's been going so this is spitzbergen the cola peninsula it's got all the way from the north to the color peninsular we should be able to see it at the horizon which is good and this is the color peninsula this is the southern boundary of the oval for polar lights we can see everything on the map our forecast works everything's great. i set my camera and waited and just under an hour later the most spectacular light show on earth began. wow. this is incredible i can see why so many people say this is one of the few things they want to see before they die i'm at the top of the world and i feel on top of the world right now. i know people see unus

this year in hanover, the focus is on shared economy, and poland is the partner country. thousands of visitors are expected over the next few days. >> today, there was one high- profile visitor -- german chancellor angela merkel. she worked as a scientist before getting into politics. at this year's fair, she also expressed an interest in high- tech fashion. >> if someone ever claims polish i.t. products are out of this world, they could be talking about this -- german chancellor angela merkel learns that the mars rover probe is outfitted with infrared sensors made in poland. without the technology, the red planet would remain more of a mystery. green computingin this hall, abw companies are showing their latest ideas. like a portable solar panel, which allows smartphones or other mobile devices to be charged with sunlight. that gives chancellor merkel a fashion brainstorm. >> so, could we now make handbags with a solar panel on the flap out of this? that would be practical. you would always walk facing the sun. >> merkel also visited software giant s.a.p., which asks stu

prop 67, poland early 80s, soviet collapse the 89, 91.nd thanks to josh erik sprague, what we're able to do here through representatives in the field of amnesty and transnational biscuit reports. a real single thing i asked. go into a bookstore and see if they are reading him now. tunisia, to nice. a crest and the national police force. after the revolt was filled with books. and this goes on and so forth. they are certainly not in syria now. but even arab spring are still getting that cycle. finally in the last point in terms of legacy, said she was part of the generation of the mid-20th century that is, cries massive casualties of world war ii. in his story that yellow, richard snyder estimates 80 million. wow, this generation said enough. countries are problems. countries kill. we've got to get beyond nationstates and create what einstein called world government. oneworld. this is a movement that einstein, roosevelt, henry wallace are involved in in fromm is, too. although fromm can shovel lines of dollars to support the movement. so t

will this program announced today have an effect for plans for a site in poland's?> it will have no impact on that. we will go forward as planned with the first three phases of the european phased approach, employing about 23 interceptors, sm3 interceptors, same time on, same footprint, with u.s. forces to support that, and as the secretary said, the same coverage. >> to that same point, did not the secretary say that you were saving some money on that? >> that is correct. the prior plan had four phases. the third was about interceptors in poland, and we will continue with the phases one at route 3. additional, other types of interceptors would have been added. we no longer intend to add them to the mix, but we plan to have the same number of deployed interceptors with the coverage for all of nato europe. >> the upshot is that the europeans will see no difference in their ballistic missile defense. the phase four was about continuing defense of europe but also being able to extend that defense to part of the united states. it turns out that by doing what we are anno

defense system new secretary of defense chuck hagel has announced plans to place interceptors in polandand maybe hungary have been scrapped because of a lack of funding instead the pentagon will divert one billion dollars to add another fourteen missile interceptors along the west coast of the u.s. washington will also deploy a radar tracking station in japan the defense reshuffle is said to be in direct response to pyongyang the recent threats and rising tensions on the korean peninsula despite the changes the pentagon said it's still standing true to its commitment to the european shield with missile batteries said to be stablished in poland and romania by twenty eighteen moscow views the u.s. missile defense system as a threat to its security after washington refused to provide legal guarantees that it's not aimed at russia. israel's prime minister has finally managed to form a coalition ahead of saturday's deadline but at the cost of some uneasy compromise for the first time in a decade ultra-orthodox groups longtime allies of benjamin netanyahu were left out or he's paul asli or as

i have two additional cards, shannon levinson and chris poland. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. hi. [speaker not understood], san francisco apartment association. thank you all for your hearing last week and this week and to the mayor's office and the task force this is' been going on and on for months and months and years and years. we would like to speak in support of this legislation, the amendments that were well negotiated with all of us. ~ that's and thank you. >> thank you, [speaker not understood]. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm chris poland, structural engineer, chairman and senior principal of dag an corporation engineers, spur [speaker not understood]. i'm here to speak on behalf of spur in support of this legislation and we urge you to move it forward. in 2009 spur published a framework of what san francisco needs to be prepared for the next great earthquake. the plan calls for a wide variety of seismic mitigation activities that will greatly improve san francisco's ability to respond and recover many of those things you have included in the san f

like that with poland was late solution promotional skills that is this group you're absolutely right except for one thing when you say that it will never happen. so you remember . historically we came up with a treaty that saw the creation of the union state of bellary said russia now if you actually look it up you'll see that it lays down a clear plan of action to build this union state listing all the key elements needed like the single currency and common institutions although it's a very detailed blueprint we were also supposed to draft a new constitution and hold a referendum on it however we never did this last bit there was no constitution or referendum overall we have made significant headway over the past years although we have not been able to deliver on what was spelt out in the treaty we have come to realize that perhaps we are not ready for yet that is not the time or but there is still one great upside our joint efforts towards a union state led to the creation of a new organization the customs union which in its turn both about a common economic space and we are now wo

still ahead on kron 4 news weekend fighting moment in poland when a bus driver passes out at the wheellook at heavenly valley currently 39 degrees there. this video shows the terrifying moments of the passengers on the bus in poland after the driver passed out behind the wheel the striver funds suddenly fainted and fell out of his seat. two women rushed to grab the wheel with the bus rolled out of control to traffic. they could reach the pedals because beyond it conjures driver was in the way. the boss can neared into several cars and signs that after about half a mile buster came and brought the vehicle to a stop the bus driver and the driver of the car hit by the city must fossilize of both expected to be a tape. from egypt secretary of state john kerry wrapping up a visit to the deeply divided country of egypt and the first four pro. carey warned the country's bickering politicians that they must overcome the differences to get egypt's failing economy back on track. the u.s. expressed concern that the continued instability needed lebraun consequence in the region and is already had

you guys probably are not aware is that the magnetic earth's scepter is somewhere in poland. >> that slides off a very slippery right hander into a ditch. here comes another car right behind that one, a white mitsubishi, gets out of shape and into the time ditch. this video goes on for another six mens and seemingly every single car that comes through -- >> every one? in the exact same spot? >> here comes another one rjsz right into the ditch and out the other side. >> you think there's a thip layer of mud right around the bend. >> thigh come in pretty hard -- and that one rolls over. >> another one, krumpl. wait, maybe this is part of the show, maybe they're supposed to cause some damage in this turn to get extra points. >> no ch. >> you guys are probably familiar with the hit trk lc show "little people, big world" the roll-off family now has a brand-new one-hour special that begins this week. she decided she wanted to climb mt. st. helens. the chime is a five-mile route and they're going up 45000 investigatorable feet. vie can type we have matt and amy roll-off. this is a pretty in

but i think admiral stavridis, you had talked about how critical a relationship with poland is.i'm wondering if you could elaborate on that given our military relationship. >> i would be glad to. the senator is one of the pillars in the alliance there. one of the most capable military individuals in eastern europe. they are full participants in all of the nato mission. the troops fight very bravely and take significant casualties. they are maintaining a full brigade. they are continuing to improve the military and one of the few nations that are increasing defense spending they are leading intellectual capital of the lines as well. they will be part of the european missile defense, and i think in every context, they are a very strong ally. the united states should remain a bilateral focus on ice. >> thank you. my time is up. i want to close with general jacoby. talking about the positive partnerships that the new hampshire national guard guard has with el salvador. it has been positive for us and for el salvador. i would like to commend back to you. because i know that it is one

. >> defense shield in poland. >> bill: the defense shield in poland? >> which is a joke. >> bill: what is it? >> it was a joke. what it is is supposed to intercept missiles. it doesn't work. >> bill: what did she have to do with that. >> she worked at the diplomatic side of it. >> bill: to do what? >> to get rid of it. >> bill: to get rid of it. >> yeah. >> bill: so take that out of there. those are the three accomplishments. >> more than that. >> bill: i asked for the top ones and i don't know. i don't know -- i don't know. i don't know. >> you don't know, there you go. >> bill: let's throw this cartoon up on the screen here to take a look at. this is a very controversial thing by the -- by the bloomberg administration here in new york city. it's trying to discourage unmarried teenagers from having babies. i'm twice as likely not to graduate high school because you -- i can't read it all right, so basically the babies are saying that they are going to be at a disadvantage as adults if they are born to teenage unwed mothers. now, planned parenthood and

a man in poland was gardening and fell, and he kind of passed out. when he came to, he was like there is something in my eye, and he goes and looks in the mirror and sees a screwdriver in there. >> unbelievable. >> looking at this x-ray, how does somebody survive this? how do you walk away from this? >> not only did he survive. doing well. that's the screwdriver, not sterile by any stretch of the emergency nation. three hours to get that thing out. but he's expected to make a full recovery. >> is that your lucky screwdriver or unlucky screwdriver at that point. >> i got an update on a story i brought you last week. this biker, john paul, in las vegas, riding through heavy traffic, stop and go. trying to let a car pull into his lane and got rear ended. by a cop. >> you always hit your brakes like that? >> here is a small part of the snore. he is being investigated of failure to report an accident, and improper behavior to the public. also, abc 13 action news in las vegas is also reporting that holmes is on paid administrative leave. now, when we calle

but i think admiral stavridis, you had talked about how critical a relationship with poland is.i'm wondering if you could elaborate on that given our military relationship. >> i would be glad to. the senator is one of the pillars in the alliance there. one of the most capable military individuals in eastern europe. they are full participants in all of the nato mission. the troops fight very bravely and take significant casualties. they are maintaining a full brigade. they are continuing to improve the military and one of the few nations that are increasing defense spending they are leading intellectual capital of the lines as well. they will be part of the european missile defense, and i think in every context, they are a very strong ally. the united states should remain a bilateral focus on ice. >> thank you. my time is up. i want to close with general jacoby. talking about the positive partnerships that the new hampshire national guard guard has with el salvador. it has been positive for us and for el salvador. i would like to commend back to you. because i know that it is one

on top of that, the last time people of poland descended upon this place. they slept bit thousands in the streeted. it was inspiring, the reverence, the calm the respect. this has been a completely different scene building towards something that -- no one had ever experienced. >> it was very unexpected that the pope would resign. i don't think people had in mind a conclave coming up so soon but people are coming into the city and it's going to be interesting. when we find out how it is, then we'll see a lot of pilgrims will try to get here for the first inaugural mass -- the inaugural mass. if it's an italian, this nation will be very happy. >> shepard: it's our understanding that this will happen on sunday. but it's possible that it could be the tuesday after. they'll let us know. >> tuesday is st. joseph day the patron of italy and revered saint? the italian church. >> shepard: father, stay with us waiting for the big moment, we have a new pope. , it's exciting. >> megyn: on the fifth vote they managed to come up with the 77 votes required to find the new

where you're seeing the snow here is poland through ukraine. that will bring five to ten centimeters across areas. meanwhile, back towards the west into the iberian peninsula, you are seeing some thunderstorm activity. it looks like that will have a break here on saturday and sunday. going into monday, you can just start to see it there off towards the west. another storm comes in and that will be another shot of heavy rain showers. madrid at 17, lisbon at 19 here. take a look towards the north, this is what it's feeling like here. the overnight lows are going to be diving well below zero. here is a look at your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour, i'm gene otani in tokyo. for all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us.

people have been mining coal for a long time here. 150 years ago, - came here from poland, bohemia, and germany. the mines reached their heyday under the communist dictatorship when more than 200,000 miners work here and even the dictator feared them. miners were the only people who dared to protest against him. today, nothing is left of that pride and confidence. when romania joined the european union six years ago, the miners hoped they could continue to work. back then, we talked with this shift supervisor. >> these mines should not be shut down. we need this worke, even though there are many accidents. i knowhat the eu is not waiting for us with open arms, but i'm sure things will get better. >> mining is now being gradually phased out. pedro is bitterly disappointed. >> our politicians in the e you showed no interest in rescuing this region -- our politicians in the eu. now there is no future here for our children. i spent 20 years of my life in the mind, a today i have nothg. >> pedro keeps his head above water with occasional jobs and a 200-euro pension. what little money flows i

the cutoff line there, anywhere east of poland is still going to be dealing with some subzero highs.cow, minus 6. minus 3 in kiev. here is your extended forecast. >>> elementary school students in central japan took part in an event to promote one of their city's main industries. musical instruments. and in doing so, they managed to make it into a world famous reference book. ♪ >> after rehearsing for weeks, 712 pup pills brought their keyboard harmonicas to a park to interpret "twinkle twinkle >>> once again, our lead story. the company operating the hot air balloon involved in a fatal crash in egypt last month says pilot error or part defects may to be blame. 19 foreign tourists died in the accident at ancient ruins in the city of luxor. the firm's president spoke publicly about the accident for the first time in cairo. >> there is no third scenario for the accident except either a pilot mistake which is throwing the drop line without making sure it's not entangled with the hose. the other is a manufacturing fault. >> the president expressed deep apologies for causing many casualti

he is on a trip to poland that is funded.re is a governmental purpose but some raise questions about outside influence. >>> new tonight at 6:00 p.m., caltrans announced the new tunnels will be closed days after their debut. traffic was allowed through tuesday. now they say crews will create traffic control as they conduct lane striping friday. 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., drivers should expect delays. >>> a new all electric car from mercedes and tesla is set to hit the market next year. the mercedes has a drive train and battery back co-developed by tesla. 60 miles after a two hour charge with a 7 hour charge, 115 miles. >>> pair of inventors came to the research center to announce their plans to fly across the united states in a solar powered plane that you are looking at here. the solar impulse has the wingspan of a jumbo jet and carries 12,000 solar panels. it will start in san francisco in may and it will take several months to across the country. it crews at -- cruises at 40 miles per hour. >>> researchers said they created a

german demands were in demand in britain the, sweden, and poland. that positive data failing to lift stocks in europe. stefan has all the details from frankfurt. >> the german export business is in better shape than expected. this has been very good news. there have been no fireworks here on the frankfurt floor because many problems are remaining. the euro area remains weak. industrial production in france is going down and the downgrade of italy because refinancing costs will be moving higher which may cause big problems. also, the world economy seeming to lose steam. chinese retail sales did not rise as fast as people expected. this weighed on shares. the market started off lori -- started off very slow compared to last week. >> the dax close little changed, but keep in mind it is after last week's stellar rally. it is still hovering near a four and half year high. eurostoxx lower. the dow eking out modest gains, about 0.25%. the euro-dollar trending higher. >> there's been a lot of backlash in the banking industry, but now the co-ceo of deutsche

didn't, uh-- when i was a little girl in poland, we all had ponies.n had pony. so what's wrong with that? nothing. nothing at all. he was a beautiful pony, and i loved him. i'm sure you did. who wouldn't love a pony? who wouldn't love a person that had a pony? you. you said so. that's my father's cabin! i just realized, you never gave me back the change from the tolls. you heard i was in a car accident and then decided to stop off for some jujy fruits? well... the counter was right there. i didn't know she had a pony. who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? in all the pictures i saw of immigrants on boats coming into new york harbor, i never saw one sitting on a pony. why would anyone come here if they had a pony? who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? it doesn't make sense. now we'll open the peritoneal cavity, exposing the body's internal organs. what are you eating? junior mints. you want one? no. i can't see. psst! psst! could you-- get-- where did you get those? the machine. you want one? no. take one. the

germany is not poland said my father. there are no contacts in berlin. >> he's a crazy man when i hear him on the radio. i can barely understand the german he's speaking he's an austrian, no, but his accent is fake. the geshel speaks perfectly. he must be the envy of singers every where. my father reached across his dinner plate and laid a hand on hers. she snatched it away. you know nothing. now you have butter on your sleeve. we neither mentioned our absent guest nor the chair awaiting her except on one occasion. father reported [inaudible] called a certain gog an a good deal. princess never spoke of money and bought paintings without inquiring about the price she left those details to her lawyer. snobby old cow is hamy father called her. i felt sorry for rose with father it was easy to make a mistake and not know it. you could sense it but not identify the crime much the second week of rose's apprenticeship the empty fourth chair disappeared. thank god you stop wearing that wretch ed clone. all my food tasted like must

he said that to the elder cardinal of poland and he said, oh, no, i'm too old. and said, actually, i wasn't talking about you. i was talking about the cardinal who went onto become pope john paul ii. the huge surprise because the first nonitalian pope in 500 years. we could be looking at something like that now, but of course the truth is this is all speculation. we don't know what's going on inside the sistine chapel. somebody could be on the precipice of election or gridlock. all we know for now is as of this moment we don't have a pope. >> well, we're going to have to listen to you again. about 45 minutes we'll be watching here. see what smoke comes out black or white, back to you. >> we'll check back with you. chris, anderson and john thank you so much. >>> back in this country. police in upstate new york are searching for a man who shot and killed four people and wounded two others. the shootings happened this morning in two communities in herkimer county. one of the towns -- one rather in the town of herkimer. the other in mohawk about 70 miles west of alb

on top of that, the last time people of poland descended upon this place. they slept bit thousands in the streeted. it was inspiring, the reverence, the calm, the respect. this has been a completely different scene building towards something that -- no one had ever experienced. >> it was very unexpected that the pope would resign. i don't think people had in mind a conclave coming up so soon, but people are coming into the city and it's going to be interesting. when we find out how it is, then we'll see a lot of pilgrims will try to get here for the first inaugural mass -- the inaugural mass. if it's an italian, this nation will be very happy. >> shepard: it's our understanding that this will happen on sunday. but it's possible that it could be the tuesday after. they'll let us know. >> tuesday is st. joseph day, the patron of italy and revered saint? the italian church. >> shepard: father, stay with us, waiting for the big moment, we have a new pope. , it's exciting. >> megyn: on the fifth vote they managed to come up with the 77 votes required to find the

advisors to the bush administration he was also involved in the earlier i think tanks in brussels and poland and the u.k. . all the single of these wise men was in favor of strict regulation now the single one of them was really independence and the effect of these eight wise men on overcoming the financial crisis was zero the main thing that happened was that a lot of public money was flowing to the banks. is the. ah distorter has a horrible sense of deserve all the same financial institutions that were bailed out with taxpayers' money i know making a fortune from greece's misfortune well those same taxpayers are paying the price in deep cuts to their salaries and social services. after twenty years of deregulation and liberalisation suddenly the european union herself was at the edge of being blown up. what is at stake is not only the european union but also democracy and the future of the values that we hold dear. was that this what we europeans had wanted. wasn't really naive to have a european dream. in the human nature and yet not only could you always have a but site somewhere. and we

in poland five people have died from hypothermia.in britain, thousands of homes have been left without power. farmers are also battling with conditions.