two countries are in the crunch of the debt crisis that's going on in southern europe. do you see your company being impact bid that through this year into next year? >> i consider that there is no sign of improvement in those two countries, spain, i would also add portugal. but fortunately what we can see is that the situation is improving in northern europe, for insans the u. k., the spirit market is growing. so germany is also very well, not to forget about eastern europe, which is absolutely booming. >> tom: have you been growing the company through acquisitions, certainly over the last decade, back in 2001 you bought a good chunk of seagrams wine and spirits in 2005 a partnership and then got the absolute vodka brand in 2008. there's been salk r talk of a big competitor interested in cuervo. are you interested in cuervo? >> well, our position today is not to make any further acquisition for the time being. you mentioned the three acquisitions, i should mention that altogether it represented 20 billion euros of investment. so now the focus is really to continue to d

with waves of illegal immigration resembling a human tsunami situated between north africa and southern europe the island is the easiest destination for the spread tunisians and libyans trying to skate unrest in their homeland to cope with the influx of migrants in italy handed out residents visas allowing them to travel in the european union after france noticed more and more akin g.'s headed in its direction and walked on train services from eton and at the european parliament could not agree on how to control immigration and each member state put in its interests first and blaming each other for the problem and while migrants have been getting passed from one state to one other the whole situation eventually led to the leaders of france and italy i only joined a proposal to the european commission in which they urged him organization of the schengen agreement denmark decided not to wait for the reform and reintroduce border controls for other new members somali european countries have similar sentiments to to this. travel and the question. well. eventually these restrictions you may you may

with waves of little immigration resembling a human tsunami situated between north africa and southern europe the island this is is this the nation for the sprint to lesions and libyans trying to skate on rest in their homeland to cope with the influx of migrants eataly handed out residents visas and i won them to travel in the european union after france noticed more and more refugees headed in its direction in blocked on train services from italy and these at the european parliament of knowledge agree on how to control immigration through each member state put in its interests first and when a charter for the problem in while migrants have been getting passed from one state to another the whole situation eventually led to the leaders of france and italy finally joined. proposal to the european commission in which the urged and modernization of the shenyang agreement denmark decided not to wait and we introduced border controls for i think you members some other european countries have sentiments contained in these if the regime travel and question. well. eventually these restrictions you ma

it's been a long awaited because it's going to be of rummy fly two streams one to the southern europe other bits of the central europe two or three of them but definitely it will add substantially to the capacity of the. western europe new york the west european countries and until recently it was not pure understanding who all the projects the balls all there were but that we stood for shares of each party until the visible from russian prime minister putin to brussels and speak with mr burroughs up in terms of who's going up all the pipelines who's going to hold the generating capacity while the building layer will be asleep is to the russian to russian government to companies and western european system that the pipelines the distribution network has to be somehow be owned by the western countries right now i think this is no longer a major be sure. both bodies with the help in the cute feeling that the project needs to go ahead and therefore and i think because this is the main feature right now that everybody needs to go ahead. absolutely look i think we all agree with that what

these decisions again and grow euro looks like a mess right now we know the problems europe in southern europe you know all those budgets. and the results so far you know you see these rising rates and you really are. investors are buying assets and you are is and so for risk. it's the key when you raise rates and we know that if you were is raising tensions over the . dispersants and for any russian store imposing some sort of this for russian stops we can expect. from from council treason and finally russia's mobile operator vimpel com plans to refinance its dollar debt ruble bonds worth around two point two billion dollars and is seeking to convert its debt from dollars to ruble following a six point five billion dollars acquisition of the italian telecom company. that's the only because qantas higher oil prices are boosting the rw goal and boring investors to the world's top expert. that's the latest from the business desk we'll have more for you in less than an hour stay with archie for the latest headlines. all. twenty years ago the largest country in the disappearance of. what had been

need worldwide these days is english you don't get far with english in latin america or even in southern europe or in most of asia so that when for instance danish companies are asked why they have failed to achieve a business deal in japan or in italy they tend to say always because they don't speak english well enough there whereas what companies ought to be doing in order to trade with japan and italy is to have enough people in their country who can actually function well and understand the culture as well as the language of japan or korea or or italy so that so far as education is concerned it's a totally different ball game and i agree really with the mystical bell here that the that the idea that you can do complex negotiations with a simplified greatest is misleading. jump ball you're shaking your head you disagree go ahead. and story and i think. illustration because i'm not a native english speaker as you might have already i blow so wonderful artist and you have the british wrong country. because we go ahead you know so i could but there are many people who do that as far as contract

decision again the euro looks like a mess right now with all the problems in europe in southern europe you know all those budgets but nobody's also for the seabees raising rates and you really are seeing investors are buying some you are ism you're itself. it's the key when you raise your eyes and we know that you are is raising decent dollars rescript it's a sports it's a for the russian story reacts imposes the wished for russian stocks and we can expect. from from currency world trade. russia's novel operator vento confidence to refinance and stellar debt with ruble gongs worth around two point two billion dollars little call me is seeking for a converted step from dollars to move both long distance the six and a half billion dollar acquisition of the time in telecom company when telecommute cut sony this comes as high oil prices are posting the ruble and lowering investors to the world's top energy exporter. that's the latest we have for you this hour but don't forget you can always find most always does log on to our web site. wealthy british scientists are told sarah is not on tr

extremely unlikely i'm going to medical last tuesday was in fact complaining that countries from southern europe such as greece such as portugal for instance too many holidays and didn't work enough because the germans are extremely afraid of reliving the relation of nine hundred eighty nine where there were tension between west germany and east germany and consumers and households in west germany were saying well we're bailing out the east we don't want to do that again we don't want to do that again so it looks like argue america will you very tough job ahead of her of convincing her electors in effect that we need to bail out countries such as greece to be able to keep the single currency that general wants to do that i don't believe so unfortunately we'll have to leave it there because we're running out of time thanks very much indeed for sharing your views thank you is well there's economist alexander ally talking to us from paris. and now let's take a look at what else is happening elsewhere in the world of on blast in turkey has one of the at least seven people explosion happened at a bus

decision again and while you're a looks like a mess right now we'd all be problems in europe and southern europe you know all those budgets. in the results so far and you're. raising rates and you really are. investors are simply risen. for risk. it's the key when you are is raising we know that if you were is raising. rescript it's positive for the russians react and cause a suit so there's. a russian stop so we can expect. from from currency world trade and that's the latest from now we'll have more for you in less than an hour stay with us. millions died. and millions looked forward to be held and say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of the racial. spring of nineteen forty five on our cheap. news today violence is once again flared up the phone these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of can attach. chinese corporations are on today. a moment when the world has changed forever. thousands passed to nothingness. thousands wounded. nurse her hand doomed to suffer accidental. it was the first but probably not the last image or uses of this

the fact is that most of the cuisine that exists in southern europe, the mediterranean regions in central europe central europe comes from this mix of worlds that contributed to the very food we eat. and there was no dark ages in the world. what happened was the trade routes shifted from north of town. when trade routes shifted, wealth wealth went south in one well fled south so too did learning and development in sciences and art and architecture because that is where wealth was. so what happened was it wasn't like plato and aristotle got lost for the books got very don't need to be discovered for 500 years later. they have been translated into arabic and civilization, and of the worst the development and advancement of learning stuff is that droughts move north and power move north, they moved with them as well. so what we call the renaissance is actually the movement of knowledge that had been north, moved south and north again. with all with the of the advances that had accrued. so we were in school and we were studying about -- his name was really abu rouged and when we were studying

now donovan tried to plant his own people in the sub a particularly as they moved into southern europe and even as he was trying to set up a liaison relationship with the nkgb. he had made arrangements with oil executives that were going under a lease to help the russians with oil exploration to report to him on anything they saw over their too. >> to donovan and the oss have any relationship with the effort with the atom bomb? >> say that again. >> to donovan and the oss have any relationships with the effort to -- the nazi atom bomb? >> yeah. they had a project. moe berg moberg who is a former catcher, major league catcher, was involved in that. leslie grove who was the general in charge of the manhattan project had gone to donovan, never told him in detail or never told them anything about the manhattan project itself but he asked donovan to have his officers go out and scour anything they could find on german and italian scientific efforts and to develop a nuclear device. and they collected a lot of information for leslie grove and i think they'll suspected the reason they were col

he had to consider a patent and bradley who wanted to run into the southern part of europe into germany to win the war their way or keep themselves on the same basic line of advance as the british. in the end eisenhower strongly supported by patton and bradley decided all the allies -- of the broad front approach that ulysses grant used against the confederates in 1864. all the armies would move side-by-side and steamroll the germans in their path and might not get to berlin as quickly but they would get their with fewer casualties. the dispute over allocation of supply came to a head in december of 1944 when hitler launched his quarter million man offensive out of -- a surprise attack the americans came to call the battle of the bulge. the bulge was a term for what it looked like on the map. here we have a map of the 12 u.s. army group's situation in late december. it was actually a salient in the american lines. it was a smash hit by the nazis into the middle of bradley's line. knocked the teeth out of his eighth score that was dead in the center and pushed the americans back almost t

europe but this is a slow process i think the the bigger story is. how aggressive countries like brazil are going to be brazil and china southern countries working together recruiting others and trying to leave because europe in the us and has led in the past not just because of their voting shares but you cuz of their determination and conventionally what other countries in the global south really didn't fight inside of us institutional care contender for western europe and us to go there certainly is certainly aggressive rhetoric and we're going to be seen whether the action will follow but it's an interesting development and as always great to have your analysis that is robert naiman policy director at just foreign policy now with the discovery of osama bin laden right on your pakistan's knows the country's value as an ally to the us has come under scrutiny and pakistan has gotten more than twenty billion u.s. dollars since nine eleven making the third largest recipient of american foreign aid forced outrage lawmakers on capitol hill as the hill seem to have just now discovered this whole issue just now learning that they've been sending a money to a

>>reporter: yet talk in brussels is increasingly of a two tier europe split between its northern powerhouses and its southern economic laggards. >>strong growth at the core could be bad news for the periphery, meaning more divergence not less. >>langrish: so it needs to be calmed, and it needs stability and it needs certainty, that is the thing that europe needs to focus on now. and they need to nip this thing in the bud, allowing it to continue on and on and on. the longer this thing goes on the more uncertainty it sort of creates in terms of global markets. >>reporter: certainly the world is watching, not just the pigs, but the whole european union. >>get the formula right and the whole region will bounce back. get it wrong and it could be fractured forever. >>reporter: as the economies of developing countries strengthen and living standards rise, so too docarbon emissions and pollution and the great challenge is in balancing the two. however there is an increasing feeling among many in emerging markets, that green arguments are being used as a form of eco imperialism by a stagnating western world to maint

this time when the volgograd region in southern russia lies along the banks of the volga river the longest in europe that also gave the area its name their first played an important role in the life of the russian people and in the country's folklore it's known as the mother of all the parties tom barton explains why the giant waterway is so precious to the russian heart and its wallet. the mighty valda that runs deep through the russian soul it has provided inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south entourage and decades ago schumann ingenuity connected it to the dawn river to the west. straits the first centuries people dreamt of connecting the two rivers now this canal essentially joins distance east to get. the vote the dawn canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen blocks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe it powers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow hydroelectric plant behind me

europe. at least two airports are close and all are set to shut down 45 minutes from all. denmark, southernweden and norway are also closely watching the movements. this is what the volcanic movement looks like from above. they've canceled some 500 flights from scotland and over northern england. >>> cnn has correspondents right across europe covering this latest volcanic eruption. fred has more. they will be relieved to wake up this morning to the news that the skies will be largely clear. the ash clouds or what's left of it will be leaving the british airspace. after flights were canceled and airports were closed, we're told the services should be returning to normal. the airports of glasgow and others are expected to open. british airways, easyjet, they hope to be offering regular services as well. so tremendous relief there, particularly given the fact that the heavy concentration of ash did not move to the southeast corner of england. we are told that some of the british airlines have cancelled flights to other parts of europe that may now be impacted by the ash cloud, in particular fl

. >> we should use europe's economic magnetism to encourage and support real and economic reform. that means a new partnership with the southern neighborhood, with a simple proposal at its heart. the european union will share its prosperity and open up markets in return for real progress on political and economic reform. the european union should offer broad and deep economic integration leading to a free trade area and eventually a customs union, progressively covering goods, agriculture and services as well as the improvement of conditions for investment. >> the british funded aid ship finally docked in the libyan port city of misrata after a three-day delay. they delivered much needed aid and rescue some 800 refugees, but many others were left behind. the gaddafi regime is facing increased condemnation over its treatment of civilians. and the chief prosecutor for the international criminal court will indict three libyans for crimes against humanity. >> in the dark they watched and waited. supplies were just out of reach. it was unable to dock until the all clear by nato. gaddafi's forces continued to shell the port even whi

." >> the most wanted man in europe appears in court in serbia after more than 15 years on the run. he could face trial for genocide. despite tensions, southern sudan's president says there will not be a war with the north. welcome to bbc news broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. coming up later for you sliding towards civil war. yemen, foreign governments warn their citizens to get out. claims and counterclaims. corruption allegations take a new twist. welcome once again. most wanted man in europe who has been on the run for 16 years, the former bosnia military commander appeared at a and hearing following his arrest on charges of genocide. the court judged him to be in poor health. doctors will decide on friday whether or not to resume the hearing. he is accused of orchestrating the killing of thousands. our special correspondent has the story. >> he was fanatical and mersless. for three and a half years in the early 1990's his mens watched down the barrels of their guns. targets, easy to select. 12,000 died in the bombing and the sniping. he commanded the men who did it. once serb leaders protected him. today th

economic and potentially political split within europe of the mostly northern countries that seem to be coming back and getting stronger and mostly southernountrys that are not. do you see that happening? >> well i think gillian tett framed it very well saying there's just enormous uncertainty. i think the most likely outcomes if they manage to hold europe together but they take a more realistic attitude towards having to deal and confront with the debt problem which right now they're really wishing away. they just say suck it up, greece, suck it up, irish, just run surpluses forever and everything will be fine. it won't be. they can probably afford to deal with this problem. ill thrill it's a manageable problem but politically they don't seem prepared to manage it. it's absolutely true. they probably in the end if they want to stick together need more unity in ways they can't imagine at the moment. we'll see if it happens. >> brown: ken rogoff, the inevitable sort of "why we care" question for americans. what are the implications now for the financial and economic troubles in europe? >> i can only tell you that i was at a meeting of euro

europe. from ireland he will travel to england, france, and poland. >>> people in southern louisiana are getting to prepare for flood waters from the mississippi river. a mandatory evacuation order was lifted over the weekend. it goes back into effect tomorrow afternoon. yesterday prison crews were put to work filling sandbags. forecast shows flooding may not be as bad as originally feared. giving some people some hope. >> since they lowered the river stage to 24.5 i feel i have a better shot of protecting my property than when it was 27 or 29. >> now the army corp of engineers opened two spillways in louisiana to avoid major flooding in heavy populated new orleans and baton rouge. >>> time now 5:46 this morning. pakistani troops regain control of a naval base that was taken over by taliban militants that occupied that facility for 18 hours. at least 12 hours of the pakistan security forces were killed in the battle. two u.s. surveillance aircraft were also destroyed. the attack was revenge for the raid that killed osama bin laden. >>> an academy award winning song writer that was awaiting trial

europe, even america, by the way. >> and africa? >> africa, full-fledged fund over there that africa, and is very activity. and our partner is the southern wealth fund in singapore. >> oil prices. dropping in recent weeks, but still of course 40% higher than a year ago. is there a point where saudi arabia will need to increase production? is your take on where oil is right now? >> saudi arabia came publicly after the latest jump around 85 to go above 100. and that happened when libya -- libya's production went out of the market. saudi arabia i within immediately, 24 hours that we'll be able to 1.5 million barrels. it's really more supply needed. there is still having the price around $100. >> $100. now you have said that between 70 and $80 is where you would expect or where the country would expect to see oil. but just to be clear, it costs saudi arabia what, $4 to $8 to produce? >> saudi arabia's production cost is built in dollars for sure, but they have to make money because they have projects in saudi arabia and we have to take care of our people also. any excess of $10 gets plugged back into the system and any excess we have for our

europe by france by britain and the rest of the country. the sound security forces of reporting the central city of homs in the southern town. along the way well this comes at day six. syrian troops swept through a coastal. blame terrorist schools for the rest to say they wanted to decades of oppression could walk said one human rights group claims eight hundred people have been killed. almost two months ago on the back of the u.s. sanctions. the freeze on. the top syrian officials correspondent eric might get. the funding behind the protests. there's great excitement in washington prospect of overthrowing the syrian government that's been on the front burner in washington ever since the bush administration the wiki leaks papers have shown that the u.s. has been funding. the bush administration been funding our militant groups in syria along with saudi arabia and israel. overthrowing the regime. this will intensify and we're seeing new broadcasts coming from washington purporting to be syrian liberation front row gets e-mails and now this new machine this liberation machine you might want to call it is being turned against s

europe. ratko mladic appears in court in serbia after more than 15 years on the run. thousands -- after being extradited to the hague, he will be on trial for genocide. a southern president says there will not war with the north. welcome to "bbc news." sliding toward civil war as battles intensify in yemen. foreign governments warned their citizens to get out. the corruption allegations within world football's governing body take a new twist. >> welcome once again. the most wanted man in europe, on the run for 16 years. the former but unseen -- bosnian serb military commander has appeared at a special hearing in belgrade following his arrest on charges of genocide. the court judge to be in -- judged him to be in good health. mladic is accused of orchestrating the killing of thousands of people. our world affairs editor looks at the man and his reputation. >> short, stocky, and immensely powerful. he was the kind of soldier who would not ball at anything, a man perhaps without a conscience. he rose rapidly in the old yugoslav army because he was ruthlessly efficient. when lukas columbia -- when yugoslavia broke up, he was given the job of creating the bosnian se

western europe will produce some scattered showers for areas like france and the low countries, parts of western germany as well. another unsettled area, the black sea region as well as the southern end of the balgen peninsula, southern italy, too, scattered showers. heavy downpours and thunderstorms are going to be possible in parts of italy. as for highs, warming up in berlin, 26 high on tuesday. looking warm in vienna as well. iberian peninsula, too. 26 in madrid. 26 in lisbon. hot here for this time of year. here is your three-day outlook. >>> our lead story this hour, elevated radiation levels are again hampering the work to bring the troubled fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant under control. tokyo electric power company says it may need to slow down work at the number 1 reactor raising concerns that the overall plans to repair the plant will be reviewed. the company measured radiation levels at several spots in the reactor building on monday as part of its preparation to fill the containment vessel with water and restore a circulating cooling system. the company's concerned that the reactor's pipes are leaking radioactive water contaminating the area. the test yielded a

europe. and now there are fears the epidemic could spread to its neighbors. special correspondent kira kay has the story. >> reporter: in a clinic tucked away in a southern neighborhood of kyiv, vadim completes what has been his daily habit for three years. he's called into the doctor's office and given a dose of methadone. after a check to make sure vadim has swallowed it all, he's dismissed. vadim says this program has saved his life, not just by keeping him off illegal drugs but by keeping him from contracting h.i.v./aids. the logic of this substitution therapy is simple: the more drug users on methadone, the less sharing of needles, and thus fewer transmissions of h.i.v. kostiantyn pertsovskyi is an h.i.v. prevention worker. >> it is not just about getting pill once a day, but here people get consultations from social workers and they advised them, so that it really changed their behavior to less risky one not only to themselves but to the community as a whole. >> reporter: ukraine has the highest h.i.v./aids rate in all of europe. half a million people may be infected-- more than france, germany and the united kingdom combined. diagnoses here have doubled in the

southern california. >>> just in the last hour -- we just found out that an e. coli break in europe connected to vegetables claimed its first victim outside of germany. a hospital in sweden says a woman in her 50s died after eating tainted vegetables that may have been cucumbers. it's believed she ate the vegetables while on aville to germany. 14 people already died from the e. coli outbreak in that country. hundreds have been sickened in european nations. >>> back here at home the shape of healthy eating is changing. on thursday the obama administration's expected to toss out the old food pyramid and unveil a new plate design. you're looking at it there. officials say the current pyramid just is too confusing. the new plate that you're looking at is broken up into four parts, grains, protein, fruits and vegetables. >>> time is 5:16. afghan president says he will no longer allow nato air strikes on houses. the president's statement comes after recent air strike that is mistakenly kill add group of children and women. nato says it never carries out air strikes without afghan coordina

europe and he's heading for joplin, missouri. he will deliver brief marks during a memorial service at missouri's southern state university.in joplin. more than 90 are still missing. >>> atlanta police say one woman died and another is in critical condition after falling from a tenth floor hotel window. police say the women were play fighting when they accidentally crashed through the window. >>> the remains of seven u.s. military personnel killed overseas returned saturday to dover air force base in delaware. the fallen troops include sergeant christopher soldby and chief warrant officer christopher thibadeau, both killed on thursday. >>> now let me tell you what's going on in washington, d.c. today. potential gop candidate sarah palin is kicking off her bus tour there coinciding with the annual rolling thunder bike rally. but is she exploiting what's supposed to be a non-political event? cnn's sandra is live at the pentagon. she's not exactly crashing the party but then again, show's not exactly invited. >> reporter: well, exactly, joe. we are waiting for the potential presidential candidate to arrive here at the pentago

they made their nut here, and they went back to their villages and towns in europe, and they left. southern california is the characteristic landscape of mid westerners and southerners certainly in the great suburbs like the one i live in, and many of them have left. we talked about people who arrive for fame or rejuvenation, perhaps for those two persons coming for fame or rejuvenation, one of us is left in the past 15 years back home to missouri or kansas or southern illinois. in part because their connection to the place allowed them to do that, and also in part because back home is home. >> does that change the myth then that they -- >> indeed it does. it also shouldn't disstress us there's this shift of demographics in southern california as if people voting with their feet were fleeing because what's the matter with that place? immigrants move around a great deal. i'm not surprised that many of my neighbors who were from the border south moved back to the border south. that's where their families are in fact. >> i think when we think about the history of the los angeles, all the image