buy new homes in hong kong but that more of the meal and inspiring about purchasing homes in southern europe where it's still so much cheaper. in fact when a track down ordered principal chris them i found him on business in barcelona. he's attending to mainland clients buying homes to the spanish city due to difference in these markets in europe is that. you will get about a player thousand to three thousand two hundred thousandthree hundred square foot four three hundred and forty thousand euro which is equivalent to three to four million often poets three to four million hong kong dollars can only buy about three hundred square feet of space in a decent area that's four times smaller and pricier than what clients are buying in spain portugal and grace. i'm probably like these that he used to cost a lot more. so much more than an expat housing budget that some of them have decided to live somewhere else in the city. but the government austerity measures introduced four years ago changed all that a collapse in demand last year saw overall property sales plunged to lead twenty three year wel

you see that ad is also the pound sounds came as well though i don't often and take asset to southern europe that is in planning out the mayan a number of studies at europe's largest natural gas supply now. hamilton is keen to keep it that way but still will not halt the forecast of ninety at travels through ukraine. suddenly it is indeed the rocks is knowing your tent astronaut against concrete. you rocked one small ukraine were nailed to be privy to the texts and gas discount that was the day she says nelson and ninety two countries. khan on sentencing ask the year of weekly train as each has a country full and to supply does not want a conch is accused of many had been lost by a call about imposing sanctions on russia despite your desire to diversify away from the reliance on russian gas logs to a gas pump supplant the eu reap a record amount what team is a course of the developments in ukraine including shocking revelation of this life is in kiev. one whole advisors metal running the country has confirmed by ukraine's former security chief. always a sign you're not into national title as

japan, theng in both , and in southern europe. people are gradually living longer and yet fully otherwise is population would be in track. a veryse that is significant problem. >> good morning. we focused on the adoption of behaviors that have long-term impact. a simple question with an obvious answer but no practical solution. the u.s. is accumulating something like were trillion dollars in infrastructure that is obligations to repair roads. they might invest in housing stock. it is a natural role for governments to invest in infrastructure because they have long-term benefit and cost a lot. what would be the practical way of getting the u.s. to invest when we have low interest rates and the opportunity to employ repair thel to infrastructure that we will need over the next decade? there are in fact a number of bills in congress to create a national infrastructure bank of nature, to provide to use the bond market in particular to leverage up private capital to be able to provide loan guarantees and other systems to state or local

southern europe is different. the sentiment is very positive., people are concerned about growth. it varies. the european emerging markets are quite -- it is more the dollar emerging markets which are suffering. >> what is your best tip that you give to ceo's? do you have a motto? is a private company, the first thing you need to sake is, are you ready for a public life? the current equity markets are buoyant enough that you have to evaluate the window. be driven by a desire to create capital for growth. it has to come from the fundamentals of the business. if you have an ambition, this is the right time to evaluate. >> thank you. despite a better than estimated third-quarter, nike is signaling that momentum may slow. for details, i bring in hans nichols. what is the story? >> it is a currency story. we are talking about shoes, advertising. nike said they expect to see slower revenues in in part because of a strong dollar. little bitng down a because both of these companies rely on markets outside of their home market. for nike, 45% of their rev

he's on to southern europe now. first thing he has a meeting with pope francis. >> what is the latest on the secret service agents who were sent home? >> reporter: oh, there were three, actually, tony, and this happened--this happened right off the bat. it happened before the president arrived in the netherlands on the outset of this trip to europe. we have confirmed through sources with the secret service, they have been sent home for disciplinary reasons. they're called the counter assault team. we often see them on the white house ground. they're heavily armed and in motorcade, they're the president's last line of defense if the unthinkable were to happen. one was found drunk and passed out in a hotel hallway in amsterdam, before the president arrived in a night of partying. this hearkens back to a previous scandal, do you remember another foreign service trip in cart hane colombia. they were send home for disciplinary reasons. >> mike viqueira for news brussels. good to see you. thank you. as russia and the west

there's also the planned sound stream as well that will run along the bottom and take gas to southern europe that is in planning at the moment now russia is in europe's largest natural gas supplier. came to keep it that way but still more than half of all gas supplied to europe travels through ukraine so it is neither russia nor europe's interests for another gas conflict to robt what's more ukraine will no longer be privy to the thirty percent discount that was negotiated last november due to the country's current uncertainty as for europe with ukraine as the transit country for energy supplies it's no wonder countries such as germany have been less vocal about imposing sanctions on russia despite europe's desire to diversify away from the reliance on russian gas last year gas problem supplied the e.u. with a record amount. team has a cost average of elements in ukraine including a shocking revelation about the snipers and one hide by those now running the country are still sung by ukraine's former security which are. all wildly used to cry when i see international for you were pulled from

putin has his equivalent of a monroe doctrine in eastern and southern europe and he's determined to pursue it. the question is, what happens to the rest of ukraine when he manages to get his hands on crimea? it's a kpcomplicated country wi a complicated history. there's going to be more secessionist votes and i don't believe no matter what secretary kerry and mr. lavrov, the foreign minister of russia, tries to do, it's going to unwind essentially what mr. putin's accomplished. >> we have this longstanding list of connections crimea has with russia, part of russia until 1954, home to the black sea naval base, 60% of crimean citizens identify themselves as russian, so this declaration yesterday has been reported as extremely popular among ethnic russians on the crimean peninsula, ambassador, so how difficult is it to convince putin to leave after being given what some people see as a very big opening? >> well, he's not going to leave. let's understand that our policy here has got to be far more effective across what to do about the future of what is essentially the remainder of ukraine, bec

. >> southern europe has been a problem, particularly italy. didn't see anything positive about that part, about italy. >> well, i think what we're seeing are european business overall, we're seeing has stabilized. >> okay. >> and as we're looking out, our tommy hilfiger business which is the much bigger part of our european business, our order book will be up about 5% for holiday, fall and holiday as we go into 2014. so that's a significant turn. our spring book was up about 1%. >> right. >> so we're feeling pretty positive about how that is shaping up. >> okay. i liked what you had to say about asia and brazil. how big are they really? >> well, our calvin asia business is up $500 million business. operating margins in that business are in the high teens. >> that's pretty good. >> it is a very strong business. it's been strong in 2013. and we don't see any reason why it would slow down in 2014. so that business is comping right now in the low single digits. but i think as we get into a little warmer weather, we should even see some better resu

southern europe was a drag on the european business. and guess shares down about 7% in 2014 before this release. they're up only about 7% over the course of the past year. back to you. >> thanks, dom chu. we heard this from so many different retailers in terms of heavy promotional activity. guy, what are you watching here? >> i'm watching the price action. the 27-low was in september. it traded there in mid-january, early february. now, looks like it wants to take it out. now, you have to look out for the stock to gap to 24 1/2, 25, before it gets interesting. to me, there's no such thing as a triple-bottom. we're probably not going to hold 27 tomorrow. >>> it's been two years since apple announced its dividend. but the stock is down 11% since march of 2012. the apple growth story is just plain over. joining us is colin gillis. colin, great to see you. >> great to be here. >> the iphone 6 is going to trigger an upgrade or more people to upgrade when there wasn't a compelling reason. and now, a bigger screen will be the reason. that's fa

basically cutting off the flow of immigration from ireland and especially from eastern central and southern europe and that legislation passed. immigration slowed. republicans were seen as the anti-immigrant party. it can allow you to win elections in the short term but in the long-term it's a long-term disaster for the party and it took them a long time basically to make inroads among immigrants. they were able to do that in the 1940s to some extent particularly in the 1950s where the republicans were able to take lithuanians for example, others and say okay we have a message. we have a strong foreign-policy message or or an anti-communist party. that worked very well especially among immigrants that came from behind the iron curtain. for example who still had relatives there and that was by the way a big reason why john kennedy was nominated by the democrats in 1960 was to win back some of those ethnic immigrant second-generation voters. post company what is the role of religion in today's politics? >> guest: is a huge revolution. i looked at race family religion and big stories by themselves. w

these countries have massive trade flows with russia and also of course there are countries in southern europe there are hugely reliant on oil imports in absolute terrible economic difficulty to greece italy spain portugal and so on and they really don't need anything to do very sensitive to the economic recovery of the moment really some sort of destruction to trade the last thing they need particularly if it starts in part on energy prices we have a much more of the situation in ukraine a bit later in the program on r.t. international including a look at some of those now rising to power in kiev and their unconventional methods of doing politics. a lot international is coming to you live from moscow thank you for joining us today welcome to a sunday first now to spain what started off as a peaceful rally seeing thousands marched in madrid from literally all across the country it turned into violence on the streets of the capital protesters angry at staggering unemployment rates and ongoing austerity cuts attacked the police it ended in dozens of injuries and arrests our correspondent you go

passed legislation cutting off the flow of immigration from ireland and especially eastern/central/southern europe. that legislation passed, immigration slowed and republicans were seen as the anti-immigrant party. it can allow you to win in the short-term but it is long-term disaster for the party. it took a long time to make inroads against immigrants. they were able to do it in the 1940's and particularly the 1950's where the republicans were able to take low americans, lithunians and say we have a message. we are an anti-communist party. that worked very well especially among immigrants that came from behind the iron curtain, for example, and still had relatives there. that is a big reason why kennedy was nominated in the 1960's to win back those voters. >> host: what the role of religion today in politics? >> guest: it is a revelation. what happened in the united states is important. on the religious side, i would say we are moving away from an institutional attachment to religion. that is that we define ourselves as religious people by attending mass or synagogue or the church of your choice

>> well, not only would ukraine suffer, but central europe and southern europe would be denied the energywing the pipe lines that run through ukraine that move into europe. >> absolutely. you know, so it's a mutually dependent. gas prong shares have been plummeting precisely because people are worried that europe will be diverting its purchases and seeking lng and other sources. russian oil, 50% of russian oil is bought by the european union. that is an easily substitutable process. business men in russia today are talking about russia heading into a deep recession. the market is down. the currency is down 15%. the market is down 15%. some stocks are trading way down. of course, people make money on shorting as well, but -- you know, but the point is in the real world mr. putin is stirring up a hornet's nest that will bite ukraine and the stability of russia. >> i think one of the most interesting things that happened, i think this is the real canary in the coal mine, the chairman of gas prong sold all of his shares in gas prong. gas prong used to be -- >> right before the crimean invasio

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what i'm looking at, i'm looking at countries like germany and other countries in southern europe thatgraphic cliffs and spending just as bad or worse than japan's -- >> hold on. i want to explain what a demographic cliff is. you're saying that the working population, the size of it peaks, and then after that you have an economy that's dominated by people who are elderly and, therefore, living on social security, not actually producing hand productive members of society, right? >> it's actually earlier than that. people enter the workforce age 20, spend more until age 46 when their kids start to leave the nest and then they start saving for retirement and then they retire. so the peak in spending -- the boom from '83 to twuv2007, was 46-year lag. it's that simple, generations spend and then they don't. governments are fighting that with massive stimulus and it shows why the economy is so weak with so much stimulus. demographics is the only way you can explain that. the fundamentals are not good. i agree with ron, they're better than in a lot of other countries but they're not good. >>

have a cascading effect across that area which will have a cascading effect across north africa, southern europe and the eventually thee united states. >> and you speak in open session about how we address those threats? >> i cannot, i'm sorry, ma'am. >> thank you. general rodriguez last week described eastern libya as the fastest growing area of extremism and also stated that his biggest intelligence gaffe was from northern -- gap was from northern mali to eastern libya. can you describe the extremist threat we're seeing now in eastern libya, either of you? and how does that compare to other regions, where does it fall on a scale there? >> i think that's kind of the important part is where does it fall on the scale. my sense is that libya isn't where syria is today but again, without theed, left proper engagement in building the partnership capacity with the nascent libyan forces we could end up in a situation where it's not too dissimilar if no attention is paid to it. >> i would agree with the secretary. >> and where do you see, i guess, our gaps in this region? can you speak about that in op

leading countries not only on the aft cockpit but also in comparison to many states in southern and western europe at a higher standard of living of any other country in africa. on hand for use of natural reserves of the largest known oil reserves on the topic on the natural gas. it was well positioned to provide to the upper braces so awful griddle pan african unity throughout the continent which had been doing over the last several decades but go with the chaos that has developed over the last two years though one must not think this one to represent the third anniversary of the beginning of the pentagon and nato bombing operation that lasted for eight months although the majority of twenty eleven and go with the breakup of the country in regard to the of discord between the militia groups the demand on the plot of people in the use of the country that they're not getting enough. i love the old oil industry. in the economy of teen depression levels they were producing one point six million barrels per day of the high school and today of its estimated that they are producing less than two hundred

especially talking about youth unemployment in the southern part of europe. it is up to 60%.cceptable, lost generation. there is a solution. the digital agenda could solve part of the problem. what is at stake? appcially talking about development possibilities. thinking.ungsters are the last two years, more than 800,000 jobs are created in that sector. it is expected to be millions in the coming years. then we are talking. that is one. another part i'm talking about in general of unemployment, also about female employment, what is at stake? jobs in therelated year are notoming to be fulfilled if we are not taking action. is talking about 2015, which around the corner. 140,000 jobs that are vacant and not to be filled. therefore, we need to give more opportunities, and just finding gap is in the curriculum when you are interested in those types of jobs. worke skills to make this is a massive part of this. we have a youth unemployment situation right now. we have educated these people already, they are now potentially and should be entering the workforce. yet, we are struggling

these countries have massive trade flows with russia and also of course there are countries in southern europeere are hugely reliant on oil imports in absolute terrible economic difficulties greece italy spain portugal and so on and they really don't need anything to disrobe very sensitive to the economic recovery at the moment really some sort of destruction to trade the last thing they need particular if it starts impacting on energy prices. coming up later in the progress that is a vote for independence from a selling off he speaks with a prominent local campaigner he says the historic move drew inspiration from the referendum in crimea. meanwhile in ukraine and so the interim prime minister has strong support from the west has been backtracking on most of his promises made before the coup merino course aruba has the details for. the self-proclaimed governments in kiev came to power banking on people's frustration over the collapsed deal. yet if the e.u. agreement is not signs then according to article one one one of the criminal code the prison will get ten to fifteen years behind bars. ho

these countries have massive trade flows with russia and also of course there are countries in southern europehat are hugely reliant on oil imports in absolute terrible economic difficulty to greece italy spain portugal and so on and they really don't need anything to disrobe very much if the economic recovery of the moment really some sort of destruction to trade the last thing they need particular if it starts impacting on energy prices. now a top ukrainian navy admiral saying the russian military has built up an offensive strike group on ukraine's eastern border and the claims being echoed by nato's top military commander in europe the allegations were dismissed by moscow and russia's deputy defense minister saying that western observers of actually seen things on the ground with their own eyes a visa did russian or ukrainian border reasonably and members of these inspection teams consists of. kenedy m. they were already presented to from baltic states and switzerland. there was no express any council on it he got on so-called declared military activities of russian troops on the russian uk

these countries have massive trade flows with russia and also of course there are countries in southern europe that are hugely reliant on oil imports in absolute terrible economic difficulty to greece italy spain portugal and so on and they really don't need anything to disrupt was very sensitive to the economic recovery of the moment really some sort of disruption to trade with the last thing many particularly on energy prices russia's decision to integrate crimea has a cause things to get heated at the u.n. security council the u.s. envoy lashing out at the russian ambassador calling moscow a thief and accusation though that sparked a tough response from the other side let's take a look at the reporter. russia is known for its literary greatness and what you just heard from the russian ambassador showed more imagination than tolstoy or chekhov a thief can steal property but that does not confer the right of ownership on the thief. during our discussions today some of my colleagues used excessive language particularly the u.s. ambassador ms howard who started by mentioning tolstoy in check of

you know, probably the one exception is southern europe. with the exception of that and particularly in emerging economies business is doing well. >> carl, are you going to be all things to all men depending on how this develops or are you clear about what the vision is? because on the one hand along with the move to cloud-based products is also, of course, the move towards subscriptions which i know is you're hot on, the same as we had adobe in the last hour in a similar way. when you were in texas recently you were talking actually about how it could be just one that people might purchase the software for to print one single item they might have seen, for example. what is the future moving forward? >> yeah, i think if you just look at software in general, you know, like many technologies, they take a long time to come to market. you know, the first software is a service companies were really created about 15 years ago and now it's becoming mainstream. i think we will go to a subscription-based model. right now we have about 2 million subs

these countries have massive trade flows with russia and also of course there are countries in southern europe there are hugely reliant on oil imports in absolute terrible economic difficulties greece italy spain portugal and so on and they really don't need anything to disrupt very to the economic recovery at the moment really some sort of destruction to trade with the last thing they need particularly if it starts impacting on energy prices now despite limited sanctions and widespread condemnation of russia's actions in crimea or rather on crimea the ruble has edged up as the russian stocks so evidently the markets don't see things the same way as the politicians. yeah i think they probably see the current crop of sanctions as mostly just politics and given the the huge flow of tragically between countries like germany and russia probably see the probability of it escalating being relatively low and we have now had a period of relative stability following a regime change in ukraine so hopefully things will stabilize now let's not forget that the ruble is in quite fortunate situation given th

southern china. while the warm weather in europe is coming to an abrupt end. dependable. >> what an introduction. the equinox is around the corner, of course. the spring equinox across the northern hemisphere. the atumal equinox in the southern hemisphere. daylight rein also nighttime length going to be nearly identical around the world. but as this happens, the conditions kind of going backwards in southern asia and southern china in particular. a front beginning to push through that's going to really cool the temperatures off, especially towards the latter portion of the week, the first full day of the spring season. we drop back down to below seasonal temperatures. you take a look at the orange indicating temps about 20 or so degrees celsius. the upper 60s, around 70 degrees. below average temperatures indicate in the green. look where the green goes, all the way south towards hong kong, hanoi, even taipei, temps drop to below average. upper teens returning in this region. the temperature trend takes you above average, 26 degrees celsius, roughly 80 degrees

we grew. 7.7%.it grew there is some momentum in the southern part of europe, as well as in germany.e encouraging signs. it started in the second half of last year. beopean countries need to competitive and create more jobs. i think some european countries are on the right track. >> can i ask you about your business in emerging markets? some have concerns. some economists have concerns. we are covering the crisis in ukraine, of course. some people are worried about the investment or the story coming out of emerging markets at the moment. are you concerned about that? downs.e are ups and when you operate a business around the world, you have r isks. when you look at our results, revenue is coming from emerging countries. we have good growth in latin america where we finished the installation of 1000 clocks with digital displays. company in a large latin america and created growth. combined latin america, russia, and the middle is clear most of our growth is coming from outgoing markets. some markets are down, like ukraine. jcdecaux clearly benefits from the past growing markets. >> i

across europe, quite messy picture for the southern areas, severe weather is likely to happen. that will be affecting the southern parts of the balkan peninsula and turkey on friday. nasty weather for the western areas but quiet in other areas. temperatures are in the mid teens in many places. it will stay almost the same into the weekend. enjoy the warm weather. over asia looking quite settled over most of japan, some drizzle is falling over the tokyo area, but by tomorrow clear skies will come back. clear weather across the korean peninsula and rain for the beijing area that is good in terms of air pollution. however, winds will be picking up. that will carry yellow sun from the gav i have desert. temperatures looking gorgeous in beijing, 20 for tokyo on friday. here is the extended forecast. >>> that's all for this hour of "newsline." i'm shery ahn. thank you for watching. óÑóa7guc >> egypt's abdel fattah al-sisi finally confirms speculation that he will indeed run for president. sisi is the widely popular general who ousted mohamed morsi from power. almost my month later, s

europe and asia. the johannesburg based development bank of southern africa specializes in financing africa's information communications technology sector. memphis old as the ict sector the cables and does dishes and devices that connect people to the internet and tv that the us we are about to experience the mission in africa next six. if one looks at the underwater sea cables and seek on wanting to use the cable and east coasts of africa. and the envisaged the continental cable the opportunities that exist for that occasional of ict products the bed as it is all off he said i'm going to see cables and the andean set to rights. makes me afraid. we think that's in the next two years the african continent will change. change is already underway in kenya where it tries to establish the government is moving whole sectors of national administration online the cost of his old mobile home or investment in the new government but that was going on in prospect. we have up a video box in front of them well. we didn't ever do without what you would not comment on the one which is not a total confusion. it's a muscl

europe and asia. but based development bank of southern africa specializes in financing africa's information communications technology sector. memphis old as the ict sector the cables and does dishes and devices that connect people to the internet means that he thinks the us we are out of box experience that admission that the next six if one looks at the underwater sea cables and seek all money too easy cable and east coasts of africa and the envisaged the continental cable. she makes is that exists for that occasional of ict products the bed as it is all off the set of gorgeous the cables and the auntie and sensor lights. makes me afraid. everything that's in the next two years the african continent will change. change is already underway in kenya where it tries to establish the government is moving whole sectors of national administration online the fuss is all snowball opal investment in the new government but that was going on in prescott. we are well a video box in front of a mile we didn't ever do without what you would not comment on the one with his stuff was moved to philly. i was told that in th

but this is a problem that we also have in eastern europe and in eastern and southern ukraine. because you had some eight million ukrainians also perish during stalin's rule and ethnic russians came into that area as a consequence. now, the thing we need to remember is that it is in fact the russian-speaking population in the east, as well as the ukrainian-speaking in the west, that voted for independence for ukraine. that voted strongly to have a separate state. and if the -- this issue is allowed to stand without the world responding, the question is, is that argument then made in latvia and estonia? is that argument made in all of the former russian states? i do not think in any way this is comparable to kosovo. in kosovo nato responded to a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing by former ugeslaskian forces. in crimea, russia attempted to justify its actions by fabricating the myth of widespread violence against the ethnic russian population. even going as far as to equate it to the bloodshed occurring in syria. clearly this is not true. we know it's not true. in terms of the

southern region of ukraine. this is being looked upon as the worst crisis in europe since the turn of the century. ssian troops have lock lost dn the entire southern ukraine region called crimea. their prestige and military forces in their barracks. we are hearing there may be a case where russians have boarded some ukrainian ship's down there in the black sea. we are trying to confirm things but the market reacts first and confirms later. here are the expectations affecting oil, the u.s. dollar because traders are fleeing stocks received as risky seeking the safety of more secure assets. we begin with a stock index dropping more than 11% wiping out $60 billion of shareholder value. the stock exchange that is denominated in u.s. dollars. %, that is bringing down things like this. it has hit a 52 week intraday low of $22.16 moving just a bit higher now 2308. getting hit very hard. falling to an all-time low against the u.s. dollar about a 2% fall, but even as russian central banks clearly in panic mode moves to hike interest rates to 7% didn't help at all. great job. only affecting their shareholder

the europeans with our support should press ahead very aggressively with this southern pipeline that would get gas to europede of russian and ukrainian territorial space. what we need to do is to show russia that there are long-term consequences to this aggressive behavior on our part. our tactical options are limited. >> i want to focus on this possible annexation of crimea. earlier this week you said you did not think that putin wanted to take part of ukraine with all of its economic problems, as you said today, you thought he wanted a ukraine that looks toward russia given the possible annexation. have you underestimated putin's ambitions here and is crimea already gone? >> first of all, i don't think i've underestimated his ambitions. i think the strategy is as i've described. i don't think he wants to recreate the soviet union precisely because he doesn't want to have responsibility for economic basket cases like ukraine is at the present time. what he wants is for those governments to look to moscow and basically subject to whatever moscow wants without having responsibility for them. so i think a pro

leading countries not only on the afternoon but also in comparison to many states of the southern and western europe had the highest standard of living of any other country in africa had huge national reserves the largest known oil reserves on the after it has natural gas it was well positioned to provide the basis for greater pan-african. which it had been doing over the last several decades but with the chaos that has developed over the last three years on march nineteenth is going to represent the third anniversary of the beginning of the pentagon and nato bombing operation lasted for eight months over twenty eleven and with the breakup of the country and regard to the discord between the militia groups the demand on the part of people in the east of the country that they're not getting enough of the industry. in the economy to depression levels they were producing one point six million barrels per day of. crude oil and today it's estimated that they are producing less than two hundred thousand barrels per day so the economy as a critical stage during this period sadly i mean the west back to the

officials with china southern say the men had consecutive ticket numbers and were booked on the same onward flight to europe. the families of the passengers are waiting for any news they can get. philip wood was one of three americans who boarded the plane. >> i've been reminded recently to not give up hope, and not that i had, but, you never know. you know. i'm not going to close that door until we need to close it completely. >> the passengers came from 15 countries and regions. >>> now a majority of the people who boarded the flight were chinese. and their families are frantic. nhk world's kyoko fujita reports from beijing. >> reporter: malaysia airlines set up a help desk at a beijing hotel for the families of missing passengers. they came in a steady stream throughout the day. the missing malaysian airlines plane is also making head lines here in china. >> translator: there is risk involved with any form of transport. including airplanes. there isn't really anything passengers can do to avoid danger. >> translator: of course i'm worried about flying. my family even asked me to give up the idea. but i b

substitution for or in place of things that europe has to do in at degrees to ex-pet is indict diversification away from russian gas. part to have is so the so-called southern corridor which bob gates mentioned last sun dine one of the talk shows. europe has been kind of lacksidasical about getting that done and they should continue and really intensify their antitrust competition investigation and charges against gazprom. you know, when i was there, there were common references to the red army and what they meant was not the military, but gazprom. so, that really ought to be taken into greater account than it has been. >> bob hormats, money is leaving russia. now, the russians are trying to take their money out of the western banks in the u.s. but on the other hand, their stock market, as you know, is plunging. their currency, the ruble, as you know, is plunging. and the general altitude is foreign investors to get out. russia doesn't have much of an economy outside of energy. so my question to you is will tough sanctions work, if we put sanctions on the banks if we put sanctions on the oligarchs, if we put sanctions on travel visas will that stuff really

picked up more than two thousand migrants trying to get to europe by both from north africa and is that the migrants were found off the southern coast of sicily as they tried to reach the tiny island of lamb produce an end to the european union the numbers of migrants trying to make the journey are expected to rise as sailing conditions improve in the spring. six weeks before elections in south african president jacob tillman has been slammed by the country's corruption watchdog the prosecutor said the zoo map had benefited on deleting using state funds to upgrade his home. she says he should repay part of the costs presidents in the sense of sixty million euro zone taxpayers' money on upgrades to its home include a swimming pool justified as a firefighting measure. india has launched a series of airstrikes against syrian military sites the masses as one soldier has been killed and seven wounded the israeli warplanes targeted several army installations on the syrian health side of the golan heights including a military headquarters the training facility and artillery batteries. the attack comes after forty israeli soldiers wer

but this is a problem that we also have in eastern europe and in eastern and southern ukraine. because you had some eight million ukrainians also perish during stalin's rule and ethnic russians came into that area as a

let's get right to the sage of southern california who has been following president obama's challenge to putin in europes us now from santa barbara. all right, miller, go. >> i think it's a win-win, billy. i think both men get what they want. i think putin is in the old world. he wants power. i think barack obama feels a little sheepish about our power. he wants to get off the medal stand with stuff like this is he not -- god know ifs iran gets a weapon they will move up into the top spot because they are nuts enough. obama gotten what he wants and putin has gotten what he wants here. >> so you believe that barack obama wants to diminish the power of america? >> well, billy you say every night i hear you almost saying he is too smart. he must have a play. he doesn't have a play, billy. he doesn't have a play, man. this isn't jujitsu thing. this is the way he sees the thing. our only hope in the future is russia and china both go after the same pieces of meat like crimea. wipe each other out and maybe we come into the number one position. at this point like i said i think he wanted to get off -- and it's

europe? >> the market altogether starts to recover. even southernanies are showing some sign of life. this is not a steep recovery but a slow recovery. growing in the depressed markets. with this environment, it is .ven better >> you mention in a prior interview you're seeing a lot of demand and your capacity is not able to fill some of the demand you are seeing in other parts of the world. are you looking to expand your production? are you looking at building more factories? if you are, where would they be? are expanding our capacity in china right now. we're adding production for the c class, another expansion. going to shift basically in all plans we are operating. then, midterm, we are planning for entirely new plans. it is likely one of them will be in north america. >> ok. we were just speaking about driverless technology and how various carmakers love to talk about automated cars and how that is the future. where does mercedes want to be on that front? >> we're coming from the safety side. we have the vision. once we are capable of assisting

like with europe is going to do what's in the southern army. of course not the two economic sanctions. i does not mean i think the rear of the nimitz with what obama announced on these few christmas the sanctions. so why wouldn't the guy who i was into doing what he has in mind. it is a tense situation will you do have nato countries including. baltic states which are very worried um how could this escalate a lot for the u s canadian and friday is not just might succeed since you know it's been on the state's ambulance analysis states and not by the u then not need today cuz next time you are trying now has ninety thousand guineas and boy go with the tragedy and this has implications you know we've been focusing because events happening so rapidly and what's happening in washington and in classes but here the entire beach and this changes the dynamic of what's happening what's going to do do any nineteen americans said yesterday that you know that good option. i knew because the eu has this guy good response i knew in the strongest response wou

but this is a problem that we also have in eastern europe and in eastern and southern ukraine. because you had some eight million ukrainians also perish during stalin's rule and ethnic russians came into that area as a consequence. now, the thing we need to remember is that it is in fact the russian-speaking population in the east, as well as the ukrainian-speaking in the west, that voted for independence for ukraine. that voted strongly to have a separate state. and if the -- this issue is allowed to stand without the world responding, the question is, is that argument then made in latvia and estonia? is that argument made in all of the former russian states? i do not think in any way this is comparable to kosovo. in kosovo nato responded to a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing by former ugeslaskian forces. in crimea, russia attempted to justify its actions by fabricating the myth of widespread violence against the ethnic russian population. even going as far as to equate it to the bloodshed occurring in syria. clearly this is not true. we know it's not true. in terms of the

let's get right to the sage of southern california who has been following president obama's challenge to putin in europew from santa barbara. all right, miller, go. >> i think it's a win-win, billy. i think both men get what they want. i think putin is in the old world. he wants power. i think barack obama feels a little sheepish about our power. he wants to get off the medal stand with stuff like this is he not -- god know ifs iran gets a weapon they will move up into the top spot because they are nuts enough. obama gotten what he wants and putin has gotten what he wants here. >> so you believe that barack obama wants to diminish the power of america? >> well, billy you say every night i hear you almost saying he is too smart. he must have a play. he doesn't have a play, billy. he doesn't have a play, man. this isn't jujitsu thing. this is the way he sees the thing. our only hope in the future is russia and china both go after the same pieces of meat like crimea. wipe each other out and maybe we come into the number one position. at this point like i said i think he wanted to get off -- and it's time f

the straits of malacca, they went to the andaman islands and up to europe now the juxtaposition between the indian ocean and the southernndreds of thousands of square miles already. they've considered millions of square miles and here they are coming from perth off australia here some 1400 miles depending on which location you're looking at over here to these various search areas where they had satellite images, they found some debris, now they're up in that red area which they've refined and moved a couple of times. yet the planes keep flying and the ships keep rolling across the ocean. they're doing this for one important reason, because everything that's led the search so far has been conjecture. ideas about where the plane might have gone. and they need to find clues, hard evidence before they go beneath the water. and this is why. let's fly down underneath the water here and talk about the difference in circumstances. by the time you get to the bottom of the indian ocean anywhere out here you'll be so deep that there's really no light whatsoever. it's going to be flat-out dark down there. and in those environments,