any reason sentient person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, they'reve. otherwise, there's something deeply wrong with you. spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway. but in the very best possible way. this is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. also anarchy. this is where devout catholicism mixes with surrealism, modernist cuisine. with traditional tapas. christianity and islam spared space. the effects of influences of all those things are right here to see. you can almost look back through time and through the mists of history and see the venetians marching up across the vega. or are those feral hippies? many of them made things interesting. >> when you ask what do you do? and you say we are staging the moon landing. wherever you are on the ideological spectrum, some things are constant, it seems. some stereotypical expectations. it's true, there are free tapas everywhere. flamenco, yes, they do that also. it's a civilized thing to do, i think. but in granada, they do it old school. and oh yeah, bullfighting. t

any reason sentient person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, they'reve. otherwise, there's something deeply wrong with you. spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway. but in the very best possible way. this is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. also anarchy. this is where devout catholicism mixes with surrealism, modernist cuisine. with traditional tapas. christianity and islam spared space. the effects of influences of all those things are right here to see. you can almost look back through time and through the mists of history and see the venetians marching up across the vega. or are those feral hippies? many of them made things interesting. >> when you ask what do you do? and you say we are staging the moon landing. wherever you are on the ideological spectrum, some things are constant, it seems. some stereotypical expectations. it's true, there are free tapas everywhere. flamenco, yes, they do that also. it's a civilized thing to do, i think. but in granada, they do it old school. and oh yeah, bullfighting. t

to us from singapore we'll see how he's getting on with his trades still to come but it starts with spain. spain's economy is officially out of recession after more than two years growth in the euro zone's fourth biggest economy grew nor point one percent driven by exports and with the country's main stock index having gained over a fifth this year with foreign investors becoming attracted once again to the nation's market's associates but when it comes to the real economy the story is quite different domestic demand for maine's flats and even though unemployment has fallen slightly thanks to a busy tourist season over a quarter of spanish people are still unemployed and one in two young people are still unable to get a job so to get a better idea as to what's happening to the spanish economy i'm joined right now by steen jacobsen from sachs a bank so stephen as we know the spanish economy managed to drag itself out of recession. we've got a growth of no point one percent now can i just get your view what do you take from that no point one percent growth. absolutely nothing you have to re

you have to remember it is very easy for a country like spain to create a little bit of growth because the base i.e. the number you compare with was already very low so everything being equal it's good that spain is seeing positive growth but point one can be revised into a recessionary number next time we have the first fruition so you know everything being equal this is just another story of how hard it is to get any traction insurance of growth when you don't we're gone real reforms and when you don't we're going to resupply side of the economy so would you say that the excitement that maybe politicians about. focusing in on is all an illusion would you say. oh say the politicians easily excitable people who have very little knowledge of economics and how it is constructed they continue to celebrate as zero point one percent growth number where we know a true recovery would have a train grove of about two percent and two percent is very unlikely i think it's more likely that i'll be selected to play for the danish national football team that any of the country's interest for europe

, 60 million phone calls in spain, that was metadata. it was not the contents of phone calls. they're beginning to exchange information about the true extent of this surveilance. >> one of the arguments i've heard and i'm sure u.s. officials are making this privately to their counterparts from the european delegations coming here, the u.s. has so much more of a sophisticated capability. the u.s. can find things out that their intelligence agencies can't find out in the end this will help prevent terrorist operations whether in spain or germany or france or other friendly countries. >> that's exactly the argument that people like mike rogers are making to the europeans. i spoke to a member of the delegation from london and he

pel be filling spain with various cargo areas. stay with us. >> stephane, thank you so much for that. let's continue our check of the markets across europe. the dax in germany is up by 0.3%. still above that 9,000 level. it is seeing record high after record high. one of the companies we're looking at this morning is vw. the company says it still predicts higher revenues this year than 2012. this is in part because operating profits beat expectations. and i guess there is some relief out there, the company did back its 2013 guidance. >>> let's head towards the austrian market. the atx is one of the best performers this morning, up by 1% at 2,591. atx bank has confirmed 2013 guidance for lower operating profit around 5%. it sees risk costs falling as central and eastern economies improve, particularly in romania. >>> and stay tuned. closing bell will have an exclusive interview with the ceo of axa bank coming up appear 7:30 cet. >>> omb is up by 1.85%. jeff is standing by to talk to the firm's ceo. take it away. >> absolutely, caro

spain doesn't have. spain the legal system in spain says that the maximum amount of time anybody convicted of anything in it to force inspire a crime in spain can spend in prison is thirty years and that applies to everybody what about them that omission challenging and very the european court then you could could spain of challenge the european court of human rights over this one. this is a decision of the grand chamber of the european court of human rights so it can't be challenged and in fact the grand chamber of the european court of human rights today has actually a very unusual. that she must be released and she will be released i don't have any doubt about that and other people who were. experienced the same problem are going to be released as well of that there's no doubt at all and she gets thirty thousand euros as well so she's richer and she's three thousand euros as well but what do you make an interest free why should she get that money. well the reason she's got that money is because the eu

.\ and spain -- why farmers cannot stop working. the united nations says more than 2 million europeans have fled the country since the war there began. many of them are trying to get into the european union. it's a dangerous journey, but even if they do make it into the eu, they are often into -- and for more trouble. an increasing number of families are separated during the journey. many refugees are not sure whether they will ever see their loved ones again. >> she's three months old and she has never met her father. she was born in athens along her family's journey from syria to germany. they were not safe at home anymore. >> my husband organized demonstrations against the assad regime. assad's people were always coming by looking for him, and it got too dangerous, so my husband decided that we all had to leave. >> the entire family crossed over into turkey, and they did not stop there. at the greek border, they used a rubber dinghy to cross the river really believe. an eight-year-old fell overboard and nearly drowned. their dang

and spain is known to have a very robust underground economy amounting to about twenty nine percent of its g.d.p. the chief has taken money out of the economy she's day to the voicing of taxis and the constant uptick expenditure there's an increasingly number of people who are having to work in the black market is the cost of living goes up and living standards go down as a result. i was so related the rise of this phenomenon to crises and it's like calls that governments in turn are trying to play catch up some of tried to limit the circulation of five hundred two hundred the euro notes or encourage the use of electronic payments but unless the official economy significantly rises from the doldrums the effects may view limited as more and more europeans get dissolution then all becoming distrusting of their governments believe or an appeal of the shadow economy may just be too appealing to turn down. reporting from paris i'm tests are cilia. taxes and cuts to benefits are believed to be the predominant causes for the growth of the shadow economy and the problem is getting dressed exce

for eight years facing another crisis from its own shadow economy in spain alone up to thirty percent of business is now hidden from government and tax and specters as artist has are selling it finds out across the blog it's getting worse. for millions of europeans who find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place in times of the spirit staying in the shadow is increasingly seen as a viable option to making ends meet far from the tax man and the grip of government the shadow economy is a blurry area of cash only economic activity deliberately hidden from will forty's such as undeclared work in a way just or under reported business transactions it's like the international organization the only cd predicts that by two thousand and twenty the shadow economy will employ up to two thirds of the world's workers that sounds rather pocalypse just look at the use data for twenty two well there's about one trillion a year rose in potential tax revenues lost the total budget deficit for the entire block amounts to about five hundred fourteen billion euros and this shadow economy makes up

: these lake willing reforms poke at two of spain's raw nerves, one old, and one new.sing around with regional languages here always rewake ens memories of the dictatorship of general franco. but secondly, there is embarrassment that most spaniards don't speak good enough english to compete in the modern world. the ruling popular party didn't have anyone available for us to interview. but the justification it gives for all of its education reforms is spanish students aren't employable enough, they muff get better at languages. >> i agree with this goal, but i don't agree in the way they are doing that. there are not enough too much teachers that's the first question so if this language reform is being applied with not enough english level. i don't think it will help improving our students english levels. >> reporter: spain's children clearly face a tougher job market than those who graduated before the crisis. youthful skills will be crucial for their success and that's true whatever language you say it in. rory, al jazerra, mallorca, spain. >> and here is a reminder t

spain a possible sunshine texas isn't the only thing getting people in spain hot and now police near buffalo now have failed to break the gates are hundreds of workers that a large bakery truck has blocked the access to the facility with protecting protesting at the layer of almost two thousand workers and wages blockade started on sunday after unions announced the company. the governor of afghanistan to logar province has been killed while giving a speech at a mosque to mark. a bomb are thought to have been hidden in a microphone was detonated injuring at least fifteen other people some critically it's not immediately clear who carried out the attack but the taliban has increasingly targeted afghan officials and nato personnel ahead of next year's pullout of international troops. i'll be back with a news team in iran thirty minutes until then maybe mountains breaking this. thing if you leave the brigade's economic ups and downs in the find out on monday the london deal sang i and the rest but life is going be taking to be everything on a. drama as the chance to be ignored. stories o

spain, portugal, france, the netherlandss, other countries were still going to pick up the slack. they were going to begin to pick up the slaves from africa and transporting them to the new world. so it quickly became apparent that in order to eradicate this practice there would have to be international cooperation, and so abolitionists put pressure on government, and the british government was receptive to the pressure, and they again lobbying other governments to enter into treaties that would prohibit the slave trade and at first those treaties, like many treaties, were what we might call in international relations cheap talk. that is, they said slavery is wrong, we want to ban the slave trade, but they included no enforcement mechanisms. but pretty quickly the tide turned and they said this isn't going to be enough. so the british government began pushing for enforcement measures, and they actually created treat idea starting in 1817, that not only banned the slave trade, but created international courts to enforce the ban. more than a century before the nuremberg tribunals. w

spain and a possible sunshine tax isn't the only thing getting people in spain hot under the collar police near barcelona failed to break a picket of hundreds of workers at a large bakery strikers block the access to the facility who were protesting the layoff of almost two thousand workers and deep cuts to wages the blog started on sunday after unions denounced the company's moves. to bomb hidden in a microphone is killed the governor of ghana stanislaw gar province it went off as are so large amal gave a speech at a mosque to mark he had been targeted several times before including by suicide bombers in recent months the taliban is increasingly attacked afghan officials and nato personnel ahead of next year's military pullout. the number of people killed by the seven point two magnitude earthquake in the southern philippines has risen to eighty five according to local officials dozens of others were also injured as victims became buried in debris from collapsed buildings some of the major roads were ripped open and blog by landslides the epicenter was around sixty kilometers off the whol

spain, negative 1.6%. but hoping for some recovery 2014 which as i say i don't see, i'm not sure i see the basis for that. the second reason why i'm very skeptical about european out of the woods, if i just look at the debt to gdp ratios of the sovereigns, forget about greece, which is a special case which they were fixed by turning out the official debt, i look at italy island in portugal, all of these countries are above 25% of gdp. very large budget deficits that are driving it. another problem that one starts is if you look at the price data, europe is this inflating at a very rapid rate that european inflation, overall inflation that is about 1%. if you look at places like greece, prices are falling but if you look at places like ireland, practically flat but you don't get a recovery you will go into deflation, and we know that if you've got deflation and no growth, very difficult to get out of those high debt levels. so as soon as the liquidity dries up, i think that we could see something that has o

if you're a citizen of spain or anyone else or everything they've been doing in terms of. the god in the had its hands are full trying to sift through leaks and has teamed up with others to make sense of the documents and at least one partnership with online and to secrecy website time is a bearing fruit right now this map they've put together shows you the outstanding extent of americans a surveillance every country in the world has a cause intercepted ranging from thousands to billions all central asia as well as the middle east appear to have been the chief targets but all fall from the only ones in euro america's a close allies found themselves under intense surveillance with three hundred sixty one million calls intercepted in germany in total in the united states monitored one hundred twenty four billion calls around the world now in just one month this year it says hans of christophe a. former u.n. assistant secretary general believes the u.s. should try its best to win back trust. well european problem in our. government do with the german government no doubt we're

fire, destruction, violence, death-- this was spain between 1808 and 1814. the only source of illumination is the soldiers' huge lantern. we are far from the beam of the enlightenment. soon after the napoleonic wars and inspired by the french enlightenment, the greeks began their struggle for independence against the turks. the french romantic painter delacroix was passionately committed to the greek cause. he lent his support to the greeks in greece on the ruins of mesolongion of 1826. greece is portrayed as an idealized, impassioned woman dressed in white reminiscent of david's central figure in the sabine women. she rises heroically above the rubble arms extended appealing for help in the cause of liberty. and so, the electrifying effects of the napoleonic era, creative and destructive left their mark on artists and everybody else. the neoclassical style would continue into the 19th century, but arid and academic, incapable of imparting true feeling. true feeling is at the core of the sensibility which followed the revolution-- the period we know as the a

government's counter terrorism policy. >> reporter: there are around 600 etta members in prison in spainhad early release cancelled and the government said it was from a court ruling but it's a controversial issue and there is significant pressure to keep convicted members behind bars and so far it seems unlikely it will change its mind on sentences any time soon, al jazeera. >> that will bring in news which is reaching us in sinai in egypt and close to the border with israel. we understand that one army officer has been killed, that is one officer killed, four have been hurt. this is with an ied which is the general terminology for a homemade bomb exploded as a military apc armored carrier drove through the south rafa road so apparently an explosion as a convey was passing and one egyptian officer killed and a number of them hurt. this believed to be in northern sinai. we will get you more on that as soon as we get it ourselves. smog caused havoc in china forcing roads to close and it is at a near stand still and we have more from beijing. >> reporter: and people who are switching heati

between yarn and august, exports grew by 6.6% in spain. the consumer spending has been declining for three years in a row. with the unemployment rate at 26%, the consumer spending is unlikely to improve significantly in the full term. and that remains the weakest part of the forecast for the spanish economy. regarding the unemployment rate, the imf believes it will remain below 0.25% for the next four years. will the spanish economic recovery be strong enough to create jobs? probably not enough. also, ross, the nature of your recovery is not creating as many jobs as used to be and that's also another negative point for the spanish outlook. but for the time being, it's out of recession. and the ibex is doing quite well today. >> you have to start somewhere. stephane, thanks for that. >> kevin, have we already reached this cycle's peak? from probably not. i think the spanish gdp numbers are quite interesting. there's some cpi numbers in spain that came through, which were quite a lot below expectations. on the standard measure, slightly lowe

coming up a convicted terrorist free in spain following a european court ruling apparently it's all in the name of human rights. protests sparked by that controversial decision in bringing you some of the latest analysis right after this break. down on the final. day. and the rest. is really. good lumber tour. to build. anything. to teach me why you should care about. why you should care only. in madrid thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest against a court ruling in favor of the separatist movement the european court of human rights has ordered spain's release of the tories member of the group. who've been in jail since the late eighty's and rolling twenty three killings the spanish government accepted the call. decision but warned that it sets a dangerous president john laughlin from the institute of democracy in cooperation told us the stroudsburg court is doing the opposite of what it was created to do. it's incredible isn't it that a european court of human rights should intervene in this way to alleviate the sentence of a woman who has been convicted after due p

putting a price on sunshine desperate for cash as spain's planning to attack solar energy jobs of the break we'll report on the how that caused the cloud over europe's renewable energy target stay with us. old. son technology innovation all the news developments from the around russia we've got this huge earth covered. there's a media lead us so we leave the media. by the seat cushions to the other your party there's a. question is that no one is asking with a guess that you deserve answers from. politics. right. first street. and i would think that you're. an army but. you're watching r t for more international news the nobel peace prize winning group in charge of destroying syria's chemical arsenal says damascus officials cooperate and giving them access to what ever they want to see that the same can be said about being allowed into some rebel held territories though the head of the organization for the pro prohibition of chemical weapons says the inspectors are being held back by ongoing fighting and has renewed coals for all sides to cooperate now meanwhile the a bill called valm

the number of people living in extreme poverty in spain has doubled in just five years according to a new report from charity groups there are around three million spaniards now have to survive or under three hundred seventy euros per month while the cost of living continues to climb at the same time that says the number of families were not one person has employed gone up five fold since the start of the crisis but most times and one point eight million households i know the spanish government set to become the first in europe to tax something that's been free and available to everyone since the dawn of time a tax on sunlight madrid wants to impose a levy on solar power to help plug and yawning energy debt as sarah first reports. there's an argument hotting up in spain right now the country still mired in financial difficulty the government's come up with a rather unusual proposal calling for attacks on solar energy it's like. this is one of the sun. the sun is also. with some spanish cities enjoying an average of three thousand hours of sun each year the nation's been one of the lea

al, ma your ca spain. >> many workers across the u.s. are did h demanding an increase. fast food company is offering a higher wage. >> reporter: chicken, burgers and fries the standard american menu. at detroit's newest fast food place, me cluck me, the fair is fresh, locally sourced and custom made. and the motto here is better food fast. >> it's a great burger. we think the quality of food is excellent here, it's not like greasy fast food, it's good, quality ingredients i don't mind feed paying five-year-old daughter herring loves it too. we love it. >> reporter: and in in a city whose jobless late ate is 16% in a state where the minimum wage is $740 an hour. the starting here here is $12 an hour. >> they may us quality. our wage of living is higher than most other fast food restaurant and it makes us want to come in and work harder for them. and you know, kind of succeed with them. >> reporter: while service industry workers at weapons i's and mcdonald's are walking off the job to demand better page, me cluck me believes a living wage is sound practice. >> we don't h

plus putting out a prize on sunshine desperate for cash spain's planning to attack solar energy after the break a report on a house after it cast a cloud over europe's renewable energy targets. well. its technology innovation all believes developments from around russia we've got the future covered. this immediately though so we leave the baby. by the sea oceans to the play you call the vision. for shoes that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from it's all politics. are today. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. during operation to rule the day. welcome back this is r.t. now the nobel peace prize winning group in charge of destroying syria's chemical arsenal says damascus officials are cooperating and giving them access to whatever they want to see all the same can be said about being allowed into some rebel held territories though the hand of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says the inspectors are being held bad by ongoing fighting and as renewed calls

if you're a citizen of spain or anyone else or everything they've been doing in terms of they've been here. to talk more about the n.s.a. revelations and the u.k. government's attempts to curb them i'm joined live now from brazil by investigative journalist autonomy. it's always good to have you with us what do british journalists think about the cameras warning all that legal action. well i think we've got something rotten in the state of england david cameron is threatening journalists at the same time as he's calling for press freedom and of course what that really means is it's press freedom for his story he doesn't see really i don't think he really wants independent journalism in this country i think if he could close down the guardian he would he really hates these revelations many people may have noticed that his former communications man andy corson is in court in britain today facing the same sorts of phone hacking charges as actually being accused of the g.c. h.q. in the n.s.a. all of these mass data trawls are extremely dangerous and criminal acts we've seen the security s

and spain and many other countries over the past two or three hundred years or now let's look back a few years to two thousand and eight final global financial crisis and some analysts were saying back then when america sneezes the whole world has a cold so i mean is this a similar situation now what happens to the countries that have their assets and dollars how are they affected. maria this is all a temporary little game that they're playing and why should people have got dollars and not affected oh i would hope they would be i wish that some might think what this something real would come out of this but at the moment. you should not be paying attention i know many of your journalists you've got to ask people what you're in you've got to report it but i mean people who are real investors are not paying too much attention to this because nothing's going to come up well you know president obama short while there was talk about america's exceptionalism and it looks like the exceptionalism expands the financial fear is well i mean is this ride or is it time now to move away from the d

to loving spain. weather you're looking at the growth figure that came through yesterday, it still was earlier than anticipated that we're seeing this figure. we've seen the bond upticks being healthy out of spain, as well. do you feel things are start to go turn procedurally for the periphery? >> i think they are. wa we've seen some some of the gdp numbers. so there is some signs the periphery is starting to show some strength. what we need to remember is these are coming from extended and deep decline. we're not seeing these coming back to where they were post the crisis. >> this is a pleasing surprise, a seven 46 month high since october. do you feel that we are seeing a bottoming out in the chinese slowdown? >> i think we are. we're not going to see those massive growth double digit gdp growth that we're seeing a few years back. but, again, the chinese government doesn't want that. it wants to focus on solid growth while restructuring. these numbers are suggesting growth should pick up in the four

if you're a citizen of spain or anyone else or never doing in terms of. the flood of global indignation over n.s.a. spying has prompted washington to promise a review of the agency's controversial practices is even expected that president obama might order a ban on spying on videos of allied states but not everyone is happy about the idea of limiting intelligence gathering and as a director general keith alexander he says has challenged the pending review saying he believes a mess of spying has been entirely justified by the security gains that starts is shared by several washington hawks with former vice president dick cheney saying that actual knowledge is always an advantage when it comes to security now for now washington has been getting an easy ride over the scandal at least that the view of ecuador's president rafael correa the socialism leader who's an outspoken critic of the u.s. is on an official visit to moscow artist. following the talks. korea is now in moscow the very same city where edward snowden they whistleblower now resides on his polit

now spain. which is demanding answers about u.s. spying tactics. the latest concern steps from a spanish newspaper record that claims the national security agency monitored tens of millions of phone calls there. once again the white house is on the defensive about perhaps which have caused a rift with its alleys. this starts our coverage. >> another day, another embarrassment, another american ambassador simmondsed to see angry european -- sum oned to see angry utep officials. >> the newspaper on monday revealed large scale american intelligence gathering in spain. as many as 60 million phone alls scooped up in one month alone. they met congressional leaders in washington to discuss the surveillance. >> many of my colleagues are angry and disturbed that friends are spying are friend. you have to register the anger of my german colleagues and others who don't feel that should be the case. >> the revelations keep coming, and they are acutely embarrassing for washington. there is already a review of the way in which intelligence my be gathered. but th

the only thing in spain -- police have failed to break this ticket of 100 workers.strikers got access to the factory in protest of laying off 2000 workers. the cubbies action was denounced. the regional government meant of is afghanistan -- a bomb in a microphone after giving a speech. at least 18 bystanders were wounded there, among them civilians and officials. the taliban and has recently escalated attacks ahead of next year posses nato pullout. rebel fighters have fired rockets into mask its in spite of a cease-fire plea. government forces retaliated with air strikes on military strongholds. 11 attacks. earlier in the civil war that has been raging for 2.5 years, both sides attended to reserve holiday cease-fires. that is the news. as usual, for us now and again, tonight, a scheduled ethical break. we will be off the air until oh 600 tomorrow. join us as our programs continue as usual. after the break, max and stacy look at china posses push for economic the maritime station. tonight. -- good night. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org

ofer more than two years shrinking wealth, official figures show that spain has done it -- it is out of recession. the national statistics agency in spain confirmed the spanish 0.1% in the by three months ending in september. we know that spanish firms are making more stuff and selling more goods overseas and money is starting to flow back into the country. very few ordinary people in the country are feeling the benefits. rate ofunemployment 26%, one in four spaniards remain out of work and many families remain strapped for cash which is not good for domestic consumption. to get that to grow, you need spent -- you need more spaniards to spend my. america's central bank, the federal reserve, is holding its second to last meeting of the year. last month, most people thought the u.s. central bank was about to reduce its emergency funding for the world's biggest economy but after the damaging government shutdown and some disappointing jobs numbers recently, the economy looks substantially weaker than it did before. the fed is expected to maintain its policy of record low interest rates a

spain is negative on .6%. in hoping for some recovery 2014, which, as i say come i don't see -- i'm not sure that i see the basis for that. the second reason why i am very outtical about europe being of the woods is, if i just look at the debt to gdp ratios of the sovereigns, forget about greece, which is a special case, which they will ask by turning out the ireland,that, italy, portugal, all of these countries are above 125% of gdp. they are running very large budget deficits that are driving it. that oneot one that has is that, if you look at the price data, europe is disappointing at a very rapid rate. european inflation come over inflation is now 1%. but places like greece, prices are falling. faces in ireland, prices are basically flat. if you don't to recovery, you will get into deflation. you know, if you have deflation and no growth, it is very difficult to get out of those high debt levels. as soon as the liquidity dries up, i think that we could see something that has occurred with many of the emerg

. >> i am in spain, people here are accusing the government of sabotaging years of progress in renewable energies and putting a tax on the sun. ♪ but first the world's second and third largest economies warned the united states sort out your debt crisis and do it fast and china and japan predict problems if they do not resolve the deadlock or borrowing capacity soon and this was the cooperation summit in bali and the president should have been there but he stayed home to try to sort out his problems and this is a report from bali. >> reporter: the apex summit has officially been wrapped up, the leaders are all going home and we are left with the question how is this apex summit going to be remembered if at all. it was interesting to hear from the indonesia president when he opened and he said what we normally remember and what leaders usually remember are the food and they have at the dinner and it was a joke and symbolizes the wine and dine content of this summit. but of course there is a lot more to it. of course it's not a summit won't constant decision and it's about commitment and m

poke at two of spain's raw nerves, one old and one new. firstly, messing around with regional languages here reawakens memories of the dictator ship of general franco. secondly, there's embarrassment that most spaniards don't speak good enough english to compete in the modern world. >> the ruling party didn't have nibble available for interview but suggest spanish students must get better at languages. >> i agree with this goal, but i don't agree in the way they're doing that. there's not enough teachers. that's the first question. if this language reform has been applied with not enough english level, i don't think it will help improving our stands' english levels. >> spain's children clearly face a tougher job market than those that graduated before the crisis. useful skills will be crucial for their success. that is true no matter what language you say it in. >> there is a historic across the board strike taking place today across spain. all teachers and students walking out. where i am in may york da, there was a protest earlier and is

we're cut off from spain.ple from spain and they kept cutting up and snickering at me. what they told me was okay, you can knock it off with the don quixote phraseology. the equivalent of me today, talking saying "top of the morning to you, sir." >> really? >> and they were like, stop making fun of us. and i said you know what? i'm not making fun of you. that's the way we speak. we go see grandpa, that's all he knows, is 500 year ago spanish. >> maybe if we're lucky enough, we'll have grandpa play his harmonica the way he used to on the cattle drives. ♪ >> but i have a plan here on this meat. >> all right, the meat is yours. >> all right, good. ♪ >> just call me cookie. some local beef, glowing hot coals, cast iron can. >> pureed green chilies here? >> yes. >> beautiful. i'm going to throw those chilies in in a little bit, stew it for a few minutes, and we'll be good. i just need a few splashes of like an open beer. beautiful. check it off the chuck wagon greatest hits, we've got some beans, some potatoes, som

collected data on telephone calls from spain. this is based on documents provided by edward snowden. >> arriving for an uncomfortable meeting, the u.s. ambassador in major it has questions to answer after a spanish newspaper published elite documents showing u.s. intelligence services tracked more than 60 million phone calls made in spain between december and january of this year. a massive 3.5 million calls in one day. they say the monitoring appears to track where the calls were made and how long they lasted, but not their content. the spanish government has demanded full details about what information was collected from their citizens. >> as always, we learn about what is going on after it has happened. that is how it is with american intelligence. they are always ahead of us. >> it is a disgrace they are spying on governments and ministers. we will see what happens, but to me, this is a very serious violation. >> it comes after the prime rejected calls for an eu wide no-spying agreement. they wanted more information before su

if you're a citizen of spain or anywhere else for everything they do in terms of. the plot of global indignation over n.s.a. spying has a prompted washington to promise a review of the agency's controversial practices but not everyone is happy about the idea of limiting intelligence gathering and as a director general keith alexander has challenge of the pending review say he believes a mass spying has been entirely justified by the security gains some senators seem to share his view dianne feinstein a california democrat said she's confident that there was nothing unlawful in that the n.s.a.'s actions that stands as shared by several washington hopes without formal vice president dick cheney saying that extra knowledge is always an adventure when it comes to national security for now although washington has been getting an easy ride over the scandal at least that's the view of ecuador as a president to rafael correa the socialist leader who's an outspoken critic of the u.s. is on them official visit to moscow. he is following the talks. africa is now in moscow the

there's an argument hotting up in spain right now the country still mired in financial difficulty the government's come up with a rather unusual proposal calling for attacks on solar energy with some spanish cities enjoying an average of three thousand hours of sun each year the nation's been one of the leading providers of solar energy the trouble is they're pretty thing so much that production capacity now exceeds the market by sixty percent and that's when the government found itself in that produces to the cina twenty six billion euro so in a bit the scale back the use of solar panels the government decided to attack those who use the you know their way of taxing the very behavior it's been the last decade trying to encourage critics of the proposal say this will damage things progress towards meeting european renewable energy goals and kid set a dangerous precedent for other struggling e.u. countries like greece who are reamers to be contemplating a similar tax planes energy regulator agrees and has called the proposed toll economically viable and discriminatory they've been most