. >> our trials on olive trees near seville in southern spain have shown that it is possible to cut water by over 40%. without adverse effects on at the harvest. >> far data are evaluated in real-time on the internet. the temperature near adelaide in australia is 30 degrees celsius. the spikes sure that these grapevines need water again. 150 agricultural enterprises worldwide are already using the technique developed by this technology group in brandenburg. >> we are the first with this technology. we take the plant blood pressure and a sense as a text message when it is thursday. >> every probe is checked in the laboratory. the next batch is destined for south america. water is becoming scarce there as well. in the face of increasing drought, farmers are rethinking their methods. >> and now, chile has problems with its water supply. the last two winters saw very little rain and very little snow. they have problems keeping all of groves and vineyards water. and then at the end of april, we're off to south africa to install our first assistance there. -- first systems there. >> but they ha

this is the alhambra, a combined mosque, palace, and fortress built in southern spain in the 13th century. in many ways, it stands as a monument to the ways in which geometry and algebra were combined by islamic artists as a means of spiritual expression. the ancient religious commandment, "thou shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth" was an injunction against figurative art taken seriously by both arabs and hebrews. as a result, they developed a purely abstract and geometric art like that exemplified in the alhambra. much of the mathematics we study today owes at least as much to the early islamic mathematicians as it does to the ancient greeks. in fact, many of the ideas developed by european renaissance mathematicians were first developed by islamic mathematicians four centuries earlier. beginning in the late 8th century, at the house of wisdom in baghdad, islamic mathematicians translated the greek texts -- like euclid's elements -- into arabic. islamic mathematicians were interested in bo

and athens is not the only problem on the southern tier. spain is battling to grow its economy, and portugal may soon need another bailout. italy's labor reforms could set an example, but there's still years of hardship ahead. >> spain's economic crisis began when the country's real estate bubble burst. that had a big impact not only on construction companies, but on a lot of home buyers who were suddenly sitting on mortgages that were worth less than their homes. >> but those still have to be paid, and people still have to eat. a lot of people are being forced to take extreme measures to make ends meet. >> it is not immediately obvious, but there is a gold rush aeon madrid's most famous plaza. dozens of men wearing bright yellow vests are out hunting for customers, calling to passers- by, cassette and i buy gold." the target spaniards who have to sell off the label jury and family heirlooms as the economic crisis drags on. -- "i buy gold." de target spain is to have a sell-off heirloom jewelry. >> a lot of people need the money urgently just to

europe then, mostly dry across the continent, but the exceptions are going to be southern france as well as eastern spain, this low pressure system will continue to bring gusty winds and heavy snow as well as rain here. up towards the north, windy conditions in norway will ntinue throughout wednesday. lots of double digits across the continent looking at 16 degrees in berlin, and 18 degrees in vienna, and getting up to 9 degrees in kiev. all right, that's it from me now and here is your extended forecast. >>> our lead story this hour, the u.s. government has exempted japan and ten other countries from its financial sanctions against iran. the u.s. says these nations have significantly reduced their imports of iranian crude oil. u.s. secretary of state hillary clant announced the decision in a statement tuesday. the statement says japan and ten european countries, including france and germany, will be exempted from the measure. the u.s. enacted a law last year that effectively bars financial institutions from its domestic market if they do business with the iranian central bank. the move is aimed at block

survive as one whole empathy i think there's a good chance that some of the southern countries greece maybe actually maybe maybe spain portugal may withdraw from the euro. the euro benefits the german nation more than anybody else because if we didn't have the euro we would have a george mark and we would have the lira italian lira george moore it would be here the lira would be here so it would be one say disbands for three four hour is what do you think you take probably for so if the euro goes germany will have unemployment at twenty percent so they need to keep the euro going you have to remember that the european community as a collective is solvent. it is solvent but the money is all in germany not in the other places so whether they can keep it as a whole is going to be tough and it's particularly tough for the germans because the germans understand that they need the euro otherwise they're going to get unemployment of the man in the street in germany sees his taxpayers' money going to these guys in greece who he thinks are very spoiled they don't pay tax they'll get up in the morning or whatever they do actua

the southern part of europe, portugal, spain, italy, are very challenged from a tech spending perspective. but the northern part of europe, u.k., france, the nordics, germany, continue to be strong. when you blend all of that together, we're able to deliver the kind of results that you saw. and we continue to be relatively bullish about the health of i.t. spending in europe. >> now, i would think that a lot of the i.t. spending would be bank, financial. but we keep hearing about how the financials are all hobbled over there. >> they are. our strength was snb. europe is much of an snb economy than the americas are. and, so, the snb market continues to be strong. and the consumer market was weaker. when you average it together, we did pretty well. >> manufacturing, great in germany. >> it is, yeah. >> so you definitely have a lot of demand. germany is really strong, right? we always forget that here. >> it is. and to give you another data point, we've been in business over in europe now for over 20 years. we had the best quarter in the u.k., the best fourth quarter in 11 years. so there are

to fall out altogether to go back into their own countries and in southern europe the euro dream is fast becoming a nightmare in spain there been huge protests against austerity cuts new labor laws which opponents say will make it easier for workers to be fired but this in a country where unemployment rates are among europe's highest but the financial crisis isn't stopping new regulations from brussels as our correspondents are our city of reports. there's much ado about these feathered creatures. on january first of this year the european commission's welfare of laying hands directive that the use of battery cages like this and now requires that the sudden hundred fifty square centimeters of cage per head. because. they look at the amount of investment to make they will say no thank you i will not work this to my life to create a bank so some and it's the medium and small but still completely completely was a. they're going to be taken over by the bigger ones among welcome scenario and already crisis hit e.u. countries but michelle is one of the lucky ones he shelled out more than three million euros to build the ne

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southern madrid, they cheered. inside, freed food handouts. mainly immigrants came here, but with spain's rising unemployment, more spanish now turn up. the politicians creating new jobs -- the politicians say creating new jobs is top priority. these rivals are fighting and over a mega casino project known as euro vegas. it is not just the prospect of more corner spending money there. the authorities say it could create up to 200,000 jobs. the man behind the project is sheldon adelson. he is one of the richest men in the world. now he has his sights set on spain. his big spanish gamble carries conditions. he wants tax breaks, and his employees not to have the same collective bargaining rights as other workers in spain. it is a game of poker with spain's national government. they will have the final say. they are coming under pressure from the opposition. >> workers' conditions would be unacceptable. but businesses here are struggling to make money. the country needs all the revenues it can get, and politicians seem willing to take a gamble to get the mega casino in spain. >> from gambling

southern madrid, they cheered. inside, freed food handouts. mainly immigrants came here, but with spain's rising unemployment, more spanish now turn up. the politicians creating new jobs -- the politicians say creating new jobs is top priority. these rivals are fighting and over a mega casino project known as euro vegas. it is not just the prospect of more corner spending money there. the authorities say it could create up to 200,000 jobs. the man behind the project is sheldon adelson. he is one of the richest men in the world. now he has his sights set on spain. his big spanish gamble carries conditions. he wants tax breaks, and his employees not to have the same collective bargaining rights as other workers in spain. it is a game of poker with spain's national government. they will have the final say. they are coming under pressure from the opposition. >> workers' conditions would be unacceptable. but businesses here are struggling to make money. the country needs all the revenues it can get, and politicians seem willing to take a gamble to get the mega casino in spain. >> from gambling

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might have a number of years back, south florida or southern california, now it's costa rica, jamaica, the dominican republic, and farther afield, spain, and other parts of the world. now, in part because we have seen and assistant attorney general brewer's remarks highlighted this as well, as we have seen the globalization of crime in general, we've seen the globalization of fraud including the globalization of techniques. when we first started to compare notes with our law enforcement colleagues going back four, five years ago in australia, canada, the united kingdom, and even nigeria, we started to find that we were talking about the same kinds of scams with the same kinds of techniques targeted against the same kinds, in many instances of senior populations often as well by the same groups of people. so part of what we sought to do, and i think it's fair to say that mike's office, fraud section, multiple u.s. attorneys have focused on this particularly. what we're trying to do is take our ability to respond to these types of frauds directed at older americans to the next level where we share information with each other about who f

we have a mess in the united states, agrees, a crisis in spain, greece, and some of the other countries of southern europe, ireland. but even with europe there is no crisis in germany. unemployment is at very low levels though crisis in denmark, finland, sweden, no rway, northern europe is doing rather well. budget deficits, rather high employment and high prosperity. by e*trade imbalance imbalance -- balance our surplus. looking beyond western europe then it is even less of a case of a global crisis. and asia, developing asia india, a china, southeast asia, a kaman growth rates are act of unprecedented levels by historical comparison. china has been growing at a rate of 10% per year for more than three decades. doubling every seven years. even 36 years china's economic growth is around 8 percent per year. india is a bit less but other countries are run 6% or higher. the world economic growth is around four or 4.5% which means so whole world economy doubles roughly every 18 to 20 years which is astounding for a world of 7 billion people and the average income of $10,000. $70 quadrillion doubling ev

out we're seeing evidence of this in spain in portugal i mean come on we saw an arab spring last year was absolutely no reason why similar things carol happen in southern europe it is difficult enough to stomach tough austerity measures tough government if it's your own elected government but to be dictated to by angela merkel. mr barroso is for millions of people just totally unacceptable for before we get to casey with the market update for the hour let's do the r.t. world update now and we'll start with iran now electing members of the country's a two hundred ninety see parliament is the first nationwide vote since the disputed reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad in june of two thousand and nine thawing allegations of vote rigging and that poll a mass protest organize a largely through social media this election is widely viewed as a contest between two conservative groups namely the supporters of the current president and supporters of the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei. and the flooding continues to affect large parts of southeastern australia with fifteen hundred people now forced to leave their homes in the state of victoria the a

we're seeing evidence of this in spain in portugal i mean come on we saw an arab spring last year there's no absolutely no reason why similar things celt happen in southern europe it is difficult to stomach tough austerity measures tough government if it's your own elected government but to be dictated to by angela merkel herman van rompuy oil and mr barroso is for millions of people just totally unacceptable. now or to some other stories making headlines around the world this are not updated on this electing members of the country's two hundred ninety six parliament it's a first nationwide vote since the disputed reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad in june two thousand and nine putting allegations of vote rigging in nepal mass protests were organized largely through social media this election is what i'd leave huge as a contest between two conservative groups supporters of the current president and supporters of the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei. flooding continues to affect large parts of southeastern australia with fifteen hundred people now forced to leave their homes in the state of victoria the army has been called in to help ferry

we're seeing evidence of this in spain in portugal i mean come on we saw an arab spring last year there's no absolutely no reason why similar things can't happen in southern europe it is difficult enough to stomach tough austerity measures tough government if it's your own elected government but to be dictated to by angela merkel herman bammer employed mr barroso is for millions of people just totally unacceptable it's good to have you with us you're watching our city now a little more than a decade since nato bombs fell on its cities or serbia has now been given the symbolic title of e.u. member candidate now the largely ceremonial affair is seen as a reward for belgrade's normalizing of relations with the breakaway region of kosovo which the country sees as its own but sure an expert on serbian history says only the e.u. actually benefits from the entire accession process. it will not get any sort of. tricky to advantages and even if it did it doesn't have much of an economy to take advantage of them anymore because over the past four years under a militant the prove you government assuming economy has pretty much been dismantled completely its last has

we're seeing evidence of this in spain in portugal i mean come on we saw an arab spring last year there's no absolutely no reason why similar things cowled happen in southern europe it is difficult enough to stomach tough austerity measures tough government keep your own elected government but to be dictated to by angela merkel herman van rompuy oil and mr barroso is for millions of people just totally unacceptable. now to some other stories making headlines around the world this world updated to us protests over the burning of the qur'an of an american air base in afghanistan last month have now spread to southern pakistan members of a right wing is known as party who organize a demonstration one ties with america cut it's a creation of the muslim holy book thirty people have been killed so far in weeks of demonstrations in afghanistan and despite an apology from president obama clerics want someone held responsible and put on trial. iran is electing members of the country's two hundred ninety six parliament it's the first nationwide vote since the disputed reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad in june two thousand and nine calling allegations of vo

we're seeing evidence of this in spain in portugal i mean come on we saw an arab spring last year there's no absolutely no reason why similar things callup happen in southern europe it is difficult enough to stomach tough austerity measures tough government your road elected government but to be dictated to by angela merkel herman back room boy mr brace for millions of people just totally unacceptable turned out some other stories making headlines across the globe a head on collision between two express trains in southern poland has left fifteen dead and more than fifty injured some three hundred three hundred fifty passengers were aboard the trains that were traveling on the same track or to each other merchant see workers and helicopters were deployed to help those trapped in the wreckage of the collision already described as one of the country's worst ever train crashes. the muslim brotherhood in libya has created its own political party islamised group is to be led by a man who spent eight years in jail addicted aki regime the movement harshly suppressed for decades and accused of extremism by opponents expects to be a leading political force in electi

expected crisis hit spain has been allowed a bigger budget deficit for this year but it's expected to push through thirty billion euros in cuts your m.p. paula tal believes southern european countries should exit the currency union. this is in serious trouble i mean you just want to look at the amount of people who are out from the streets demonstrating at the moment suicide rates are up but minimum wage can cause there's much homelessness in our country at the moment and all the european union is doing. is it's encouraging the cradle of civilization to head towards revolution because that's what will happen if we continue with these austerity measures there's only one answer nothing comes out of the all together for the drachma value such as own exchange rates or the comparisons of level get its exports moving the idea that greece spain portugal and all these meds draining countries could exist within the same eurozone as a country like germany was completely farcical from the. reset it really predicted this it was impossible article where the only way that this thing can move on is for probably the nordic countries to form their own eurozone and for this little

previously expected prices hit spain has been a lot of big budget deficit for this year but it's expected to push through thirty billion euros in cuts your m.p. parliament we've southern european countries should accept the currency union. serious problem you just got to look at the amount of people who are from the streets demonstrating that the moment suicide rates are up the minimum wage a thing cause there's not homelessness in the country at the moment all the european union is doing. is it's encouraging the cradle of civilization to head towards revolution because that's what will happen if we continue with these austerity measures there's only one sort of mass that piece comes out of the all together of the drachma values or its own exchange rate of combatants of level get this exports moving the idea that greece spain portugal and all these mediterranean countries can exist within the same euro zone used a country like germany was completely possible from the start. we said it really predicted this it was impossible it's a way the only way that this thing can move on is for probably the north a country form their own eurozone and for this little country to fal

we're seeing evidence of this in spain in portugal i mean come on we saw an arab spring last year this is the absolute no reason why similar things carol happen in southern europe it is difficult enough to stomach tough austerity measures tough government if it's your own elected government but to be dictated to by angela merkel herman van rompuy oil mr burroughs so is for millions of people just totally unacceptable you say growth is needed and clearly austerity measures don't enhance growth but how do you stimulate a broken economy what is the option i think what the option is for greece to begin with you leave the euro you go back to the drachma you devalue by about sixty percent within a fortnight your holy book is will have doubled i will start to get some growth coming back into the economy no one doubts that tough decisions need to be taken in greece it's obvious that you've got to have some stimulus as well and the only way that will happen is by leaving the bank can you create that drachma literally out of thin air or from what i understand there are no exit procedures for any country to leave the euro zone are dead major barriers to that. what

spain and greece and ambled backstab about the euro. well look now at some other news making headlines around the world head on a collision between two express trains in southern poland has left a fifteen people dead more than fifty injured some three hundred fifty passengers were on all the trains which were traveling on the same track committee that measures the workers and helicopters which for its structure and function didn't describe as the country's worst ever trained. muslim brotherhood in libya has created its own political party is the list ruthlessly led by a man who spent eight years in jail for the dark energy. russia suppressed for decades and whose extrusion i wouldn't expect to be illegal but didn't force action its children for whom its lists have won ballots in the wake of the arab spring of tunisia and egypt. north korea's leader has urged troops on the heavily on board of the south to stay on high alert from the frontline visit kim jong un's trip comes as the country priest threats against south korea for its ongoing military exercises the u.s. going says their persons for invasion. and also sunday for the super rally in the city. debate ov

except the crisis hit spain has been allowed a bigger budget deficit for this year but is expected to push through thirty billion euros in cuts here on p. palma top believe southern european countries should exhibit currency union. peace and serious trouble i mean you just got to look at the amount of people who are out on the streets demonstrating at the moment suicide rates are up the minimum wage is being called there's much homelessness in the country at the moment and all the european union is doing. is it's encouraging the cradle of civilization to head towards revolution because that's what will happen if we continue with these are the three measures there's only one ounce of response out of the all together for the drachma the values are to some exchange rate a comparison for the level get this exports moving the idea that greece spain portugal nobody's mediterranean countries can exist within the same eurozone as a country like germany was completely facile from the start. we said it will be we predicted this it was impossible article so the only way that this thing can move on is for probably the north or country form their own euro zone for this will i

spain. we have a crisis in some of the other countries of southern europe. we have crisis in ireland. but even within europe, there is no crisis in germany now. unemployment is at very low levels compared to the last couple of decades. there's no crisis in the netherlands, in denmark in finland, sweden, norway, northern europe is doing rather well. low budget deficits. rather high employment. very high prosperity. trade balance, surplus. if we look farther beyond the north atlantic, at the united states and western europe, then it's even less the case that there's a global crisis. after all, in asia, developing asia, meaning india, china, southeast asia -- economic growth rates are at unprecedentedly high levels by historical comparison. china has been growing, as you know, at a rate of about 10% per year for more than three decades. that means a doubling every seven years, and even through recent years, china's economic growth is right now around 8% per year. india, a bit less. other countries in asia, varying around 6% and in some cases higher. the world economic growth is about 4 t

the things that would be interesting is what he thinks is happening in southern europe and how we will be affected by that. italy, spainsystem looks like it's going to be surviving a little while longer. >> well, europe is going to have a tough two or three years as far as growth and recovery is concerned. the basis of it is right. it goes back to the point i made about what the united states did in late 2008 and 2009. we had the fed injected $13 trillion of support through the credit markets, flu the mere yawed facilities. the first version of them and we followed a textbook approach which in a financial crisis, you respond with overwhelming force and you respond fast. . europe did not do that. not a fully developed central bank. obviously not the capacity for stimulus. they didn't choose to recapitalize their banks, then, and so forth. it's quite a contrast. and you're seeing that in the extonality to which the united states is recovering, steadily if not rapidly and europe is dementing into session. >> roger, i want to thank you for getting up early with us. >> my plrn. pleasure. >> up next, influential financial an

southern california. now it's costa rica, jamaica, the dominican republic and four fairfield, spain and other parts of the world. in part because we have seen and the assistant attorney general's remarks highlighted this as well. as we have seen the globalization of crime in general, the globalization of fraud, including the globalization of techniques, when we first started to compare notes with our law enforcement colleagues going back probably four or five years ago in australia, canada, the united kingdom, and even nigeria, we started to find that we were talking about the same kinds of scams with the same kinds of techniques targeted against the same kinds in many instances of senior populations often as well by the same groups of people. so part of what we sought to do, and i think it's fair to say that mike's office fraud section and the u.s. attorneys have focused on this particularly what we are trying to do is take our ability to respond to these types of fraud directed of older americans to the next level where we share information with each other about who for our respective investigations and

now with jet talks about fraud he didn't say southern california, is to reconnect, jamaica, the dominican republic and further afield, spain and other parts of the world. in part because we have seen an assistant attorney general brewster marks highlighted this as well. as we've seen the globalization of crime in general and the globalization of fraud, including the globalization of techniques. when we first started to compare notes with our law enforcement colleagues going back probably four or five years ago in australia, canada, the united kingdom and even nigeria, we started to find we were talking about the same kinds of scams at the same kinds of techniques targeted against the same kind for many of the senior population often as well by the same groups of people. so part of what we decide to do and i think it is fair to say that mike's office, front section multiple u.s. attorneys have focused on this particularly. what we are trying to do is take our ability to respond to these frauds directed at older americans to the next level, where he share information with each other about who from our respective investigatio

southern california. now it's costa rica, jamaica, the dominican republic and farther afield, spain and other parts of the world. now, in part because we have seen and assistant attorney general breuer's marks highlight as well as we've seen the globalization of fraud including the globalization of techniques. when we first started to compare notes with our law enforcement colleagues going back probably four or five years ago in australia, canada, the united kingdom and even nigeria, we started to find that we were talking about the same kinds of scams with the same kinds of techniques targeted against the same kinds of -- in many instances of senior populations often as well by the same groups of people. so part of what we've sought to do, and i think it's fair to say, mike's office, fraud section and the multiple u.s. attorneys have focused on this particularly. what we're trying to do is take our ability to respond at these types of frauds directed at older americans at the next level to share information from who from our respective investigations are the main players behind these scams, where are the

quite good out of spain and, in fact, out of portugal as well as we've seen some recovery in greece exports here. but you really need, i think, to supercharge the export sectors in southern europe to enable them. the kind of fiscal consolidation you are talking about in these countries is still extreme and intense. for example, in italy 3% gdp fiscal consolidation is what the government plans just for this year. in spain not exactly clear after friday's announcement what it plans. probably something still of the order of 4% gdp, fiscal c consolidation. these are very, very large numbers. portugal about 5% of gdp. to help the countries get through this when their unemployment rates are surging, they really need, i think, to have a weaker euro. they can cut rates more. as well the ecb has to be ready to react to the program. really it isn't doing -- of course, at the moment, there's still the impact of the ltros really to be fact touring in here. clearly if you look it at the impact of the ltros, spanish banks bought 23 billion euros of debt in december and negating january. now the total financing needs of the spanish software for this year about 90 billion euros. so alre

southern california. now, it is costa rica. jamaica. the dominican republic. for their -- furterh places like spain.e have seen the globalization of crime in general and faud including the globalization of techniques. when we first aired a to compare notes with our law enforcement colleagues going back for five years ago, in australia, canada, the united kingdom, and even nigeria, we started to find that we were talking about the same kinds of scams with the same techniques targeted against the same kinds of senior populations often by the same groups of people. part of what we saw to do, and i think it is fair to say that has focused on this particularly. what we are trying to do is take our ability to respond to these fraud to the next level. where we share information with each other about who are the main players behind these scams. where they wanting them from? where they getting their lead the list? how are the recruiting? how do they organized? where they moving their money? war and more -- more and more we are focusing on sharing information better, faster, according more effectively, as i t