italian authorities arrested several in the trial organization of the call abria organization of southern italymerican and italian law enforcement determined that the andraga aimed to move across international boundaries, intending to build a bridge of criminality and corruption to stretch to north america, and italy and back to new york. >> five of the u.s. suspects live in brooklyn, new york, including a bakery owner, that they call the linchpin of the plot. franco's father-in-law is a member of andragada, he sold a kilogram of heroin to an undercover agent and planned to ship 500 kilos of cocaine from south america to italy, concealed in frozen food. it was the first time that andraga attempted to get a toehold in the u.s. >> it has to be considered one of the most powerful organizations in the world for handling of international drug trafficking. >> officials say that -- >> former new york times investigative reporter joins us tonight. the author of "five families" and it focuses on the mafia's most powerful empire. and good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> this in the u.s.? >> it i

officials were on hand in southern italy. >> earlier today just after midnight in brooklyn new york and there during the italian raids. and we are joined this morning by allen. who are those men exactly and why was the fbi involved in the case. >> reporter: well, the men that were arrested here are kind of middle to senior managers if you will, and those are the guys that make things work. where the rubber meets the road as the fbi agent put it the fbi was here because it was a cooperative effort and italian agents were in new york and they want to share information and techniques and just hold themselves together as a single unit, because it's a two-edged sword, and they are fighting crime on both sides of the atlantic. >> what was the goal in terms of what they wanted to do? >> reporter: they wanted to break the chain of the cocaine smuggling and they thought if they broke the chain at the level today, and these are the guys that make things move through the chain, and they saw facilitate the movement and they weaken the mafia, and they don't expect to kill them but if they can weaken

bad but what are you going to do for the people in greece for example or cyprus or spain and southern italy and going on and on i mean i i'm not i'm not i'm an american and i don't have to care of the european union collapses or not it's none of my business here but i do know that there is a zero issue there is growth there is growing poverty in the european union and people da ta it to corruption as well. well the motto of european integration is unity in diversity if you would too much centralized competent system we have all the reasons to call it a socialist project and then we have all the reasons to criticize the commission for being ignorant about differences the idea of the problem of the report is to present developments that need to be addressed by each and every member state the what the commission does is to send letters to each and every member. not just something that you can improve that has importance seventeen years for example in germany the financing of parties and this is part of our discourse at the moment where we can improve a particular problem not make sure enough s

there were seven arrests in new york, 17 in southern italy, where allen pizzey went on the raids. >>ter: fast-moving convoys of police cars swept into the night in a coordinated series of raids. >> follow the cars, follow the cars. >> reporter: f.b.i. agents joined italian police in an operation two years in the making. it foiled a plan to smuggle drugs and weapons into the port of goia tauro. the operation is being conducted in the dead of night under strict rules of secrecy because this entire area is infested with the local version of the mafia, which means they literally have eyes and ears everywhere. the raids went off without a hitch, or violence. at this modest house, only a couple of guns were drawn, as a precautionary measure. the suspect, whose face is blurred on italian police orders, wasn't even handcuffed when he was taken away, as his wife watched impassively from the front porch. the f.b.i. agent, who cannot be identified for security reasons, said he wasn't surprised. >> this is the cost of doing business for them, and they understand it's generally easier to just get

southern italy's leading city, naples offers a fascinating collection of museums, churches, and eclecticscene as anything you'll find in western europe, still somehow manages to breathe, laugh, and sing with a captivating italian accent. rather than seeing naples as a long list of sites, see its great archaeological museum, and then capture the spirit of the city by walking through its historic core. spaccanapoli, literally "split naples," is a perfectly straight street that dates from ancient greek times. it leads to the colorful heart of the old city. echoes of ancient neapolis survive. the original greek street plan is remarkably intact, and back then, like today, small businesses by day became private homes after hours, and life tumbled out of the homes and into the lanes. today this scene is just one more page in the 2,000-year-old story of naples. and to understand that story, i'm joined by my neapolitan friend, and fellow tour guide, roberta mazzarella. you name it, it occurs right on the streets today as it has for centuries. kids turn a wide spot in the sidewalk into a soccer fi

so churchill literally left and got a trade to victoria down to southern italy to get the votes so that was reading above his province. the journey took about three weeks you get a wonderful sense of urgency with his lessons do diaries stopping along different ports along the route expecting to hear a reply and there is nothing. then he gets back to southern india. by this time he is very agitated and rights to his mother, this fellow is a tad. how dare he not reply to me? eventually of campaigning and it was hard but when he got back from the first phase he did send a cable to churchill saying why don't you come up with a newspaper correspondent? oh churchill with charging to the northern india five days by trade. looking through the diaries his sense that faith was against him with this horrible train journey the action would be over there is nothing to do. in fact, we got there early september 1897 the british already suffered heavy casualties. there were looking for young officers to replace those that have been killed. in those days they simply had an option that the comrades in ar

the italian police carried out raids in southern italy and ka l slab ria.icknamed new bridge has been ongoing for two years. authorities tell exactly what they uncovered during their investigation. . using techniques like undercover officers and court authorized wire taps american and italian law enforcement determined that they aimed to move deadly narcotics across boundaries attempting to build a bridge of criminality and destruction to stretch fromi south america to italy and back to new york. what the ndrangheta didn't know a much stronger bridge existed between italy and new york, a bridge of cooperation between american and italian law enforcement and has been built over decades and has stood the test of time. >> investigators describe the ndrangheta and so fist tight indicated and insidious organization coming from loretta lynch. they believe this recent bust really dealt a major, major blow to the syndicate's effort to try and gain a foothold here in new york. brooke. >> you mentioned the fishy cocaine, jason carroll. what does canned fruit have to

southern states at this hour. a tran atlantic drug bust. in the u.s. and italy. president obama signed ask emergency declaration for georgia today. bears down on the south for the second time in a matter of weeks, rain and snow is now falling in georgia and other states. dozens of counties are preparing for what could be a repeat of last month, when atlanta experienced massive grid lock. tri-others were stuck in their cars for hours and children ended up sleeping at their schools. that's about ten miles from downtown atlanta. and robert, it's pretty dry where you are right now? >> good afternoon, we had flurries earlier today. you can see this is a heavily traveled commercial area. a suburb, a lot of restaurants here. the streets are all good, not etch ice. temperatures are pretty high, but half the street is closed. half the street is open. as atlanta seems to have learned their lesson from about two weeks ago. not taking any chances. the governor put in a new extreme weather task force, 32 members let all over it, and here is what he has had to say a little bit

up, and at the same time the italian authorities nabbed associates of a crime organization in southern italy>> american and italian law enforcement terms that the androggatta aimed to move deadly narcotics across international boundaries intent to building criminality and corruption to stretch from south america, italy, and back to new york. >> five of the seven u.s. suspects live in brooklyn, new york, including a bakery owner, the linchpin of the plot. the member of androggotta, italy's version of the mafia. they sold more than a kilogram of heroin and plotted to ship 500 kill lows of cocaine from south america to italy concealed in frozen food. it was the first time an doing aandrogottaaimed at obtaining an the u.s. >> authorities say they maintained a money laundering met work that handled proceeds from narcotics and illegal weapons trafficking. >> all seven u.s. defendants were arraigned on charges of narcotics trafficking, money laundering and firearms possession. five are being held without bail. conviction on the most serious charges could result in life sentences. >> thank you. pres

wonderland in parts of the year at the bus the straight into a picture of that white stuff in southern austria italy and parts of southern austrian were busy clearing out snow on sunday after receiving a month's worth of snowfall in just three days in high desert area near the border with italy. i mean is for deployed to remove snow from roads. the situation was worsened by ann coulter is at that time so the snow making it much heavier and more difficult to clear. looks like in this snow is going to be melting rapidly due to the milder temperatures suddenly be here on monday which means that the sale of the rapidly melting the aching i see bruce and the ladies from stove and others is in place in parts of the southern austria with that video came out from more snow to the alps on your mind games but this is stan is going to be on the stationary and executed be bringing a lot of heavy rain which they did beat leading to flooding and landslides don't have them in making a clear and fine conditions with only lead to four degrees. this can be and very windy event across the british isles with up to five

churchill literally left the races, drove a train to victoria, got a train from the tory down to southern italy to get back to india, pausing merely to send blood a cable money him of his promise. of course, in those days the journey took about three weeks, and you get this wonderful sense of urgency which -- with churchill in his letters and diaries as he stops off at all the different ports along the route and goes to the telegram office, expecting to hear a reply from general blood. and there's nothing. he gets all the way back to southern india and still he hears nothing. by this time he is the agitated. he writes to his mother, his fellow, blood, is a bit of a cat. how dare he not reply to me? churchill, at that. eventually blood of courses off campaigning and quite hard campaign it was, too. when he did get back from the first phase of the campaign, against the tribes, he did send a cable to churchill saying, well, we don't have any room on the military step a why didn't you come up as a newspaper correspondent? so churchill went charging off to northern india, took in five days by train.

italy, 17 arrests. in new york, there were seven. they are charged with drug trafficking and organized crime. this all ties into a family down in the southerntaly. it's an old-time mafia family. and according to the fbi and according to the italian police, they're involved in everything from shipping drugs from south america to italy and the united states and into canada. but lately they have also gotten into the heroin >>> so, as dramatic as this raid may be, does it really put much of a dent into the mafia's operations here in the united states? >> you know, we don't have as many big headlines on the mafia as we did in the 1980s. but according to the fbi and italian police, this is still a huge problem. they say this operation shows that the mob in italy is very much still tied in to the mob families in new york and along the east coast of the united states. recently there was an arrest in an old case, the good fellas heist from 1978. a 78-year-old member of the lou chassis family was arrested. they're still on the move. >> this is a serious subject. thanks very much. coming up fight over photos of osama bin laden. did the pentagon break

into the northern european communities and actually private equity has been quite active in southern europe and italy the asian money here is looking abroad for the hot properties. and picking up in u.s. and europe. what are the cities of brought that people are so interested in? if you work through the united states, we have seen more asian development capital active in the western united states in san francisco, los angeles, new york. certainly look in at london, paris and other gateway global cities. >> what is driving that interest? is it trying to look for yields from asian dollars abroad? really pursueo growth. or is it both? >> it is a combination of both. is that ite learned is typically looking for hedging against their exposure in the asian markets. it also see the emerging economies in the right part of the growth curve. >> which are the nations top on the buying less? which you have been covering this morning, has been extraordinary active. a lot of domestic trade in japan. it is probably the hottest market in asia. it continues to be strong. trading has slowed a bit. china andy markets i

southern europe. the big exposure to italy, spain, or competition has been rising in italy in particular.y. all parts of europe have a bit of a concern, but they're still splashing cash in that area, spending phenomenal amounts. 16 billion pounds over the next two years, including in project spring, trying to get investors onto 4g, very fast for broadband. they are hoping that if you don't buy your phone and southern europe, you will go to vodafone because you with best service. they certainly have the money to be throwing at this, $130 billion they are said to get this quarter, due to their stake in verizon wireless. he can outspend their rivals. will they, though, turn that into revenue? >> or will somebody come in and snatch them up. >> caroline, thank you. before yesterday, nobody knew this man was a billionaire. he is patrick druggie. in his first broadcast into view, he spoke with our middle east editor. elliott joins us. was this your super sleuthing that revealed his worth? >> i wish it was, but it was more prosaic. the company he listed on the netherlands stock market last week w

. >> they say the plot was to smuggle cocaine from guyana to italy's southern region inside frozen fished debt ceiling. >> that means the government can borrow money to pay their bills but conservative says washington is out of step with the rest of the country. abc's jeff zellany was there as the vote went down. >> reporter: the house voting to pass a clean debt limit bill. this really ends some three years of major dysfunction that has held washington hostage. we've had government shutdowns, almost to the brink of default here. but this vote by the house, at loois for the next year, sends things on the right direction in terms of keeping the government open and keeping the government, more importantly, away from default. this effectively raises the nation's borrowing power for the next year. but this is not only a huge reversal by republicans. speaker boehner once vowed he would not let a so-called clean debt ceiling bill through but he changed course because he told republicans he believed they needed to pick smart battles. >> well, i think it was a mistake. you know, if you get outsid

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permian and southern europe and balkans extending outward, i think there would be a lot more concern and nervousness if the u.s. were to suddenly pull out in new members, germany, you know, italy and poland had to foot their own military expenses. the united states is the least distrusted actor. many have argued that the u.s. is in some ways the linchpin for stability in the region. it is not -- again, there are different views about whether the u.s. military presence as a source of stability for instability and further militarization. at the moment even to democracies who are members, japan and south korea, even they can't really trust one another. so of course the united states were to remove all of the troops the first thing that japan would want to do is raise their self-defense. let's not kid ourselves. the military. it would give them the right to expand and become a normal nation. so japan begins to build its military, how would that make the chinese feel, how would that make the koreans feel. so it would not make others nervous. the same with southeast asian countries, the philippines, vietnam, indonesia. they have concerns about china's rice and china's maritime ambit

southern portions of the uk. take a look at your temperatures, though. london just a high of 8. paris, 9. rain showers for you. same in madrid, and even lisbon. much of italy you've been dealing with flooding rains as of late. this is the big topic definitely into much of japan today. it is the snowfall, not on sea of japan coastline but in to the conto plain. this is just north of tokyo. what you see here is about 9 centimeters of snowfall. really, this whole system, this whole band of snow started in northern canto, worked its way south across to the tokyo metro now down towards kanagawa and chiba. the good news it's not lasting very long. so if you're expecting the snow to linger going in to your wednesday, especially for the morning commute, it's not going to be there. it's going to move off towards the northeast. the sea of japan coastline, though, you're not sharing on the same space. this one's going to move east. the sea effect snow continuing to linger up to 60 centimeters. expected there for you going through the next 24 hours. let's stay on this topic of severe winter weather, though. another storm system developing in the central plains. this i

interpol's wanted list and was briefly detained in italy in twenty twelve accused of stealing half a million dollars worth of state land well in crimea southern ukraine local self-defense groups who refuse to recognize the new authorities in kiev have taken control of two or ports people in the mostly russian speaking region say they fear an influx of ultranationalist squads fresh from their role in the country's recent coup the airports however are continuing to operate normally what is you got reports now from crimea these people don't have any identification signs on them but they have now became known here as the self defense brigade teams themselves see that they're protecting the local population from any possible extremist threats which may come from the new authorities in kiev they have security at the local palm and building they are allowing deputies in and out and they are able to work in an orderly fashion now also the patrolling the local airport here in the capital of ukraine near are saying that the main purpose of of their stay there is to. protect the locals and prevent any conflicts from happening let's listen to what one of

to the south of spain, southern france, you have design centers which are full of new engineers from all over the world. if i was italyuld try to , it isown that and say great that you have all these people on the u.s. west coast, but wouldn't they be happier in a nice villa in tuscany where they can go and -- >> what is stopping them from doing that? doing business in italy is difficult. getting the phone lines, all of those things are tough. >> that is another thing for renzi as well. high-speed italy. aside from the trains, you're absolutely right. that is one of the things that is blocking them. if i was going back to being in any number of italian diplomats around the world, i would be saying to rome, we should be talking to people about maybe not investment in huge factories, but the starting point is to get some great design centers. let's get 50 or 60 people in here. what are the incentives we can build into attract those people? what can we do to enable lowe's companies when they get to the country? >> you look at europe at the desire toere is a have a startup culture. do you think italy has the same desire?