any reasonably sentient person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, they'rerwise, there's something deeply wrong with you. spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway, and 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 and traded places. 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 phoenicians marching up across the vegas, 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. yes, they do take siestas. it's a civilized thing to do, i think. but in granada, they do it old school. and oh yeah, bullfighti

they mentioned britain spain and ireland.he swedish government's recognition of a palestinian state. they hope this puts pressure on benjamin netanyahu. the ump obviously expressing regret at this resolution, which the ump senators effectively lost. it would not do anything to kickstart these talks. if anything it will compromise france's position. france is hoping to host an international peace conference in paris to bring together israelis and palestinians. it is still a wish rather than a concrete plan. the ump's worry is this kind of resolution will make france seem one-sided and therefore not an honest wrote in the conflict. you do have to see this vote as part of international to put pressure on israel, which goes hand in hand with palestinian moves to accelerate a timetable toward full statehood, which they are making those moves and circulating a new draft resolution in the security council later this month. >> reporting from the french senate. the deadline has come and gone for the protesters in hong kong to leave th

trying to protect its publishers is spain - is google going too far? >>> from the strained relationship with russia to the bitter divide between israel and palestinian, u.s. secretary of state john kerry has a lot on his agenda, he met with sergey lavrov, who is raising seriousness about the prospects of u.n. sanctions. >> i'm appreciative of foreign minister sergey lavrov changing his schedule and travelling on short notice to be here. i look forward to our conversations. >> we have more from rome. >> u.s. secretary of state john kerry are and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov met here in roman sunday, a time when u.s. and russian relations reached a low, particularly after last thurks the u.s. senate -- thursday, the u.s. senate passed a ukraine freedom account bill, proposing to impose sanctions against moscow, and relieves $300 million in hardware to help fight back the parties in the southern regions of crimea. the russians didn't appreciate the bill, and put out strong words calling it an overtly confrontational message, saying they are ant

al jazeera. >> a member of spain's royal family is to stand trial for the first time in 40 years. princess christina will be tried in march, accused of tax fraud. this brings a long-running investigation into her husband's affairs. >> reporter: she wished the camera crews a good morning, but for spain's princess christina on monday it was quite the opposite. the king's sister has been indicted by a judge to face trial. she could be jailed if convicted of tax fraud. this is her co-defendant seen in happier days. her husband, a former olympic medallalist. he's accused of embezzling $8 million of public money through a not-for-profit organization and family business. he was already due to go on trial. his wife expecting just a fine. now they'll face charges together, and she will become the first member of the royal family to appear in court since the monarchy was restored 40 years ago. >> we have to remember that one is innocent until proven guilty. justice will resolve this. what we ask for is she get a fair trial and that the law is respected. >> the presiding judge seen here earl

. >>> and spain's princess is to face charges on tax fraud. >>> hello. south korea is testing the ability of its nuclear power plants to fight a cyber attack. the move comes after threats by a hacker to damage nuclear power stations if they with respect shut down by christmas. diagrams of some of the country's nuclear reactors have been published online in the last few days. steve evans is in the capital seoul with the latest. >> reporter: the hackers call themselves the opponents of nuclear power from hawaii. though nobody believes that hawaii is necessarily any connection to them. they've been posting documents, internal documents from the nuclear industry here in south korea on the web over the past few days. now, though, they're also putting warnings up on the web. they say that if three reactors aren't closed by christmas day, then a "round of destruction" will occur. and also they're threatening to put about 100,000 new documents on the web and asking the question, is this really what you want, this kind of information about nuclear power to be out

>>> well there are probably lots of crossed fingers in spain right now.the the drawing for the annual christmas lottery, elgordo should start at any moment. this is the world's biggest lottery. the prizes this year, total $3 billion. yeah, i said billion. let's go to cnn correspondent, al goodman, joining is live from madrid, spain. al, a big day for spain. this is the hour it all happens. right. how is this organized? how will the nearly $3 billion or so be divided up? >> well, let's start right there, rosemary. this is a 20 euro ticket. this is worth $400,000 euros if i win the fat one. this happens to be my ticket. the one that is going to win. in a bar next to the opera house here in central madrid. where the nationally televised drawing is about to start. what happens is, the situation, like you have right here in the bar. with the -- the bartender, simona, she has act of the tickets with her co-workers. so if it hits to any one of the eight. they share it. that's what you have got across the country. which is why there is so much interest in this. f

we discuss. ♪ >> google news is closing its virtual doors in spain.he shutdown comes ahead of a new spanish law requiring spanish publishers to charge aggregator services for every snippet of articles they see in display online. after the newspaper publishers association spent months advocating for the law, the organization is now opposed to the shutdown, fearing it could hurt the bottom line of the publisher. joining me now to discuss it over skype, and electronic media law expert and from philadelphia, the vice president of search engine optimization and social media. i will start with you. what went wrong here? why were the newspapers first advocating for this and then change their minds? think that nothing has really changed. what the newspapers have always look for is a fair deal from google and google services. the publishers thought they were not getting a fair deal for the journalism services they were providing. a lot of journalists go through a huge amount of work to prepare their articles and they felt that google benefited from the use of

google news is closing its virtual door in spain today.n comes ahead of the spanish law requiring spanish publishers to charge for every snippet of article that it sees and displays online. activist spanish newspapers and publicist organization spent months advocating the law and are now opposed to the shutdown fearing it could hurt publishers bottom line. more on the closing of google news in spain, joining from brussels is been walking -- ben joaquin and adam shirk. i will start with you. it is kind of a mess. what went wrong here. why were the newspapers advocating for this and change their mind? >> nothing has really changed. with the newspapers have always looked for is a fair deal from google and google services. said the publishers said that they did not get a fair for what they are providing. all the journalists did a huge .mount of work it google is benefiting from the use of their service. and appropriate copyright law. and the google taxes a total misnomer. what is happening here is the same way that i hope one day something the

in spain, battle with google, newspapers in spain suffer from a new law demanding google pay for content. >>> the state department is urging turkey to respect media freedom in the wake of the arrest of 24 people, many journalists. turkish police conducted raise in a dozen city. those arrested relating to a u.s. cleric, critical of the turkish president. in addition, several police officers were detained. it has been 351 days since three al jazeera journalists were detained in egypt. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed were sentence said in june to seven years into a prison. baher mohamed was given a 10 years sentence. they've been accused of having ties to the muslim brotherhood. al jazeera rejects the charges and demands their release. >> several foreign embassies closed in cairo due to security concerns. the u.s. embassy is open, the workers have been warned not to stray far from their homes. the embassy closure caused years that tourists would be driven away >>> on tuesday google will turn off google news services in spain, after a law requiring news ag re gators to pa

neve barker, al jazeera, belgrade. >> spain's princess cristina will be tried in march. >> spain's princess cristina, the king's sister has been indicted by a judge to face trial. she could be convict -- could be jailed if she is convicted of tax fraud. her husband a former olympic medalist. he is accused of embezzling $8 billion in public money. he was already due to go on trial. his wife expecting just a fine. now they will face charges together and she will become the first member of the royal family to appear in court since the monarchy was restored 40 years ago. >> translator: we have to remember that one is innocent until proven guilty. justice will resolve this. what we ask is that she gets a fair trial and that the law is respected. >> the presiding judge seen here earlier this year adamant that the royal family is seen to be fully accountable before the people of spain. and these are people who are increasingly unhappy with the royals. the image of former king juan los was already suffering. spaniards, struggling, when pictures emerged of hu him on an elephant safari. more than 60%

right now in spain they're drawing numbers in the world's biggest lottery at a time when people in spain really suffering. we'll have a live report. >>> cuba's leader raul castro welcomed the news of a proposal to normalize diplomatic relations with the u.s., but who stands to gain or lose if the long-time trade embargo is lifted? as cnn's rosa flores reports, cubans hope their future will improve. >> reporter: everybody loves cuba, says jesus ramos liova, an independent contractor renting this cab from the cuban government for about 10 u.s. dollars a day. he's not allowed to drive tourists. most of his time is spent donating services to the state, which means driving less fortunate cubans for free. on a good day he takes home about 10 u.s. dollars in profit. he hopes that if americans suddenly flock to havana more cabbies like him will be cleared to drive tourists, who pay more to get around. it would be important for that to happen in order for him to make a better living. he's not the only person here expecting to see the american dream come into focus. laser hernandez says americans

it is no longer going to be available in spain.ead of google news putting that out on the blog. >> so what is the future story here? google are reacting, saying they've got to do this, saying they will probably review it area but what happens next? >> i think they are trying to put out fires. they put out -- there is an interesting blog that the head of google news has written. he pulls on the heartstrings here, trying to make out, we are the good guys. a reminder that google news was born after september 11. to put news at our fingertips. big, international newspapers, but the local news, the bloggers. they are trying to say, we bring money to publishers. the internet has created great challenges, but not google. by having the google news service, we will highlight your work and bring you more advertising, more money, more revenue. they point out that google news brings in no money for google. there is no advertising. they are trying to put down the fire already. they can see the smoke billowing in spain. once again, this is europ

we're cut off from spain.m 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, some corn bre

now, the princess of spain, princess cristina, is the sister of king phillipe. she will be in court for tax fraud, the first member of spain's royal family to ever appear in the dock. our lawyers are vowing to appeal. >> it is a first -- a member of the spanish royal family in the dock. the court in new york -- in ma llorca said she must stand trial. her husband is accused of embezzling money from contracts he awarded to a charitable organization. the sister of the current tang -- king sat on the board with her husband, the chairman. the case has sparked anger from the public at a time of financial hardship in spain. it contributed to king juan carlos abdicating his throne to clean up the monarchy's image. experts say it is now essential for the royal family to be treated like everyone else. >> what is the solution? that at the end of this case, a fair trial is carried out, and spaniards see the facts presented in court lead to a just legal decision, so they do not have the impression they are treated to friendly. -- treated differently. >> investigations began

could this in space and spain and other countries gain more traction? >> it looks like greece acts and behavior emptily now from the whole european story. and it doesn't seem to have any major effect on the other countries. while greece had a major issue in the global system years ago, i think now we are fatesing more volatility coming from unpredictable prices of oil, the situation in china, russia, and some other part of the world. so i don't think greek in its own right can cause any major consageon. >> thank you for joining us this morning. much appreciated. >>> let's have a look at futures in the u.s. expecting a slightly negative open. the s&p down three points the nasdaq down almost 1 point. we'll be back in a couple of minutes. >>> a very warm welcome from "worldwide exchange." understand near ya's navy has confirmed debris found in the java sea is that from the missing flight airasia 8501. >>> one investor is looking for many happy returns in 2015. david tepper tells cnbc he sees the index rising 8% to 10%. >>> the president of venezuela lays t

>> [indiscernible] >> ok, it is closer to spain, but even more important than being closer to spain -- ok, new mexico, florida -- >> there was no threat of another european influence? >> yes. at times, they will actually be worried about it. one of the original justifications was, hey, the english have this colony on roanoke. they have no idea how big the united states is. they don't get the whole longitude thing yet. when they reestablish the colony, they will be concerned about the french. so there are concerns about that, but more importantly -- what about saint augustine? it is on the coast. not only is it on the coast, but what runs right by it? the whole reason they were there in the first place? >> the current. >> the current. boats are going by there all the time. resupplying saint augustine is a piece of cake. and nobody wants to do this. it is once every three years. plenty of times during the 1620's, it was every four years. boy, those are going to be long years in new mexico, waiting for something to buy. even if you wanted -- even if the viceroyalty hears about the proble

the most famous example was when a prosecutor in spain sought to bring a case against augusto pinochet, the former dictator of chile, and he was actually arrested in london. and that case was proceeding against him on the grounds that he had tortured spanish citizens in she lay. he was actually held pending trial, but he died before that case ever was resolved. that concept that there are some crimes that are so universal in their application, they can be tried anywhere, that's the idea behind those sorts of prosecutions. but it does seem like a remote possibility here. >> jeffrey toobin also points out that a u.s. law passed in 2005 effectively gives immunity to anyone involved in the cia interrogation program. and if you would like to read the summary yourself, we have posted it to cnn.com. and you'll also find several opinion columns on both sides of the debate. >> i was not trying to interrupt

. >>> and in spain, a 37-year-old businessman has crashed a car into the headquarters of spain's rulingrvative party. the man claims there are explosives in the car. police say there are gas canisters visible in the vehicle, but they do not think they are explosive. cnn's al goodman is live from madrid. al, what are you learning? what do they think this threat is? >> reporter: hi, deborah. it does not appear to be terrorism. spain has been hit by islamic terrorism. this does not appear that case. they have cordoned off a huge area of central madrid close to our bureau. that means a lot of people can't get to work. traffic is snarled. they arrested this man around that age of late 30s. disgruntled businessman blaming the government for his economic problems. that would be a desperate cry in the spain economic crisis. 23% unemployment overall. it does not appear to be terrorism. they have not lifted the threat level. they activiated because of the latest experiences here. >> any concerns by the head of the conservative party? >> reporter: why because reports have been interrogating this m

for spain's princess kristina it was the opposite. sister has been indicted by a judge to face trial. she could be gaoled if facted of tax fraud. this is her codefendant, sheen in happier days, the princess and her husband, a former olympic medallist. he's accused of embezzling $8 million of public money for a not for profit and family business. he was due to go on trial. his wife specting a fine. now they face charges and she'll be the first member of the royal family to appear in court since the monarchy was restored 40 years ago. >> we have to remember that one is incident until proven guilty. justice will resolve this. what we ask for is that she gets a fair trial and the law is respected. >> the presiding judge seen here this year adamant that the royal family is seen to be fully accountable before the people of spain. these are people unhappy with the royals. the image of the king was suffering. span yards suffering with a bleak economy and high unemployment were outraged when he appeared on a luxury safari. coupled with an inve

a man crashed his vehicle into the headquarters of spain's ruling party.squad still there because he claims there are explosives in his vehicle. police there say there may be flammable material inside the car, but at this hour, they've not seen explosives yet. you're now looking at lye pictures from the scene. the driver has been arrested, and he apparently acted out of frustration and anger over spain's economic problems. we'll have updates on this for you throughout the morning. >> thank you for watching cnn live coverage. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm errol barnett. "early start" is next for those of you in the u.s. for everyone else, stay tuned for cnn newsroom. have a great weekend. >> see you soon. >>> cyber attack. officials believe they know how hackers got access to sony's computer system as north korea warns of a dangerous cyber war office. >>> president obama now saying he will go it alone flexing muscles against cuba. what this means for the people of cuba and in the united states. >>> u.s. government says three taken out in air strikes after d

i should also mention another point with regard to this rivalry between spain and britain which helps to lead to the foundation of the united states of america. and that is that as you probably know the country known as ireland was a british possession. it could fairly be called one of the earliest colonial conquests. but of the -- many of the irish were not politically reliable because they had a bone the to pick with london as well. and some of the leaders in fact, of the spanish military were irish because they had defected to the other side because they would rather fight the english than to fight the spanish. you may have heard about the referendum in scotland just a few weeks ago where the scottish were threatening to bolt from the united kingdom. scotland only became part of the united kingdom in a formal basis in 1797, and the scottish, too, were perceived as politically unreliable by london. all of this is helping to put more pressure on london to arm africans not only because of the perceived political unreliability of the irish and the scottish, but also because spain is pu

. >>> judicial authorities in spain have indicted a member of the royal family. they ordered princess christina to stand trial on charges of tax fraud. authorities on monday announced the indictment of christina and 16 other people. they suspect the princess of tax evasion involving a company she jointly operated with her husband. they charged the husband with embezzling public funds and suspect the family followed money. the princess says she is innocent. members of the royal family say they respect the independence of the courts. many people in spain are unhappy with the monarchy as they struggle with government-imposed austerity measures. >>> u.s.-led combat troops will end their mission in afghanistan. security duties in the country will pass to the afghan military and police. but with the -- hostilities on the increase there is concern. >> reporter: in the southern province fighting between government troops and the taliban has been intensifying. since the pullout of troops there has been an uphill battle. many of the new recruits joined up to escape poverty

so let's up have an update on the system and it's on the mediterranean and it was part of eastern spaine saw the worst of the flooding and eastern spain is somewhere you associate with plenty of sunshine and warm weather even this time of year but unfortunately these are the kind of pictures we have been seeing from the northeastern spain instead and you can see plenty of water around, plenty of flood water and the reason we have seen all the flooding is just due to the amount of rain we have seen in a short amount of time. just over the border in france they saw 210 mill might milli m and that is almost four times that just in four days so a staggering amount of wet weather in a short amount of time and didn't have any where to go except flooding and the rain will continue the journey up to the northeast, turning to the snow at the outset as you might expect and fizzling out on tuesday and wednesday and veronica. >> thanks stef. we will take a break but still to come it's world aid day and they are worried about the five--year-old drugs that patients use. and turkey welcomes the presid

police confiscated assets worth millions of euros from his properties in spain. but he avoided extradition to egypt. >> what's your relation to former mossad officer yossi maiman? was he your business partner? >> i don't answer any questions. >> lets be respectful about this. >> we call the police, i don't want interview. >> i want to be respectful about this mr. salem. >> no...no. >> do you feel you are above the law that you don't owe the egyptian people an explanation? >> i don't answer i don't answer >> why don't you want to answer? >> i don't answer >> you don't answer to journalists or you don't answer to the courts? >> i don't answer to you. >> you don't think that you have a moral obligation to speak to your people? >> havier...por favor >> do the egyptian people have a right to know what you did with the country's natural gas? >> laughs >> you think that's funny? the egyptian people are without power mr. salem and you live quite well here in madrid. you don't feel that you owe an explanation to the egyptian people about what happened? >> i will not answe

three of spain's biggest papers had new editors.have that story >>> we explore a noisy place in the world of journalism the online comments sections known as the home of the trolls. and we examine the output of the news media in japan, since the disaster of the fukushima nant nuclear plant >>> and starting with nick muirhead from tunis with a look at tunisia's most revolutionary news media. expectations were eye. tunisia was where the arab spring got its start. the question is have the expectations been met since the fall of president ben ali. >>> ask tunisians what are the biggest changes since the fall of president ben ali, and they'll tell you it's media freedom. you can see it on the news stands on the airwaves online. tunisia is talking. >> translation: the public realm erupted with people who once didn't have the right to express themselves freely and who finally came to bring a different rhetoric to whether or not existed in the past. >> translation: we can see all political opinions portrayed on tv. ideologies ranging from t

. >> there are plenty of restaurants around the world like in spain or the nordic countries where theulinary culture is rather poor, yet they seek inspiration from their local food culture. we seek local, regional products. something that was not done by more traditional restaurants in these countries. but something that has been done in france for a long time. >> there is very little reason to fear for the future of french cuisine. although he does not embody all the latest trends, according to him, it will always remain on top. >> it is hard to break the barriers because we need time. our foundation for any dish is the sauce gravy, and time. we are leaving it for seven hours to cook while we work on the broth. >> spain, denmark, and poland are not the only nations to acknowledge the importance of culinary diplomacy. in peru, the festival was launched to put the country's national cuisine on the map. the man behind the event. trained in france 22 years ago he's now the spokesman for peruvian cooking. on november 20, he was invited to the plaza where the chef took the opportunity to s

borrowing costs remain low even among weaker economies like spain and italy. >> the situation has improved in that sense but also there are fresh measures in place by the ecb to help stem the crisis. >> the eurozone may avoid contagion as private investors have scaled down there great that holding aptitude bailouts most of it is in the hands of the eurozone government. another reason is the banking union, and that can isn't set up by the eurozone to share banking risks across the consonant -- the continent. the political crisis in greece highlights once again the political uncertainty of the area. >> what is happening in greece questions the durability of this lifelong union. >> and greece's eurozone is at stake. >> as i said before, concerns over greece wade and european shares this tuesday. let's take a closer look at the figures. as i said before, we have been watching the asd in athens the main stock market index in greece. it extended losses from monday this tuesday. however, it was a shortened trading day as well in germany where the frankfurt dax credit for the last trading day of 2

. >> reporter: in total seven people were detained both here in morocco and across the border in spaincording to a statement issued by the minister of interior, the two leaders were arrested in one town, and more people were arrested in other cities. most of the people detained were females and apparently, according to the statement their role was to recruit women that would go to join isil in syria and/or iraq either to marry fighters or carry out suicide attacks on the front line this. now this is not the first time that such cells are dismantled. and that has to do a lot with the special status of two towns. they are spanish enclaves on moroccan territories. some people refer to them as europe land border with africa. the people that live there have spanish pass ports it's very easy for them to go into syria. there is an estimated 5,200 moroccan fighters who have joined the battlefield, and the majority of them are thought to be from those two towns. >> that's the news from morocco and spain. >>> french special forces say they have arrested ten people they believe were on their way

people across spain hoping for a holiday windfall. el christmas lottery, has just been held. these are live pictures you are seeing from spain. the estimated 2.3 billion euros jackpot makes el gordo, or the fat one, the largest lottery in the world. still ahead, the investment outlook for 2015. 's uncertaintya impact investor psychology as we begin the new year? we discussed that come in next. ♪ >> welcome back. you are watching "the pulse." we are live from london. lots to talk about with our next guest. oil prices, russia, greece, the fed, the ecb. joining us from g plus economics. let's start with russia. market extent has the priced in the collapse of the russian economy? >> the economic costs are starting to become apparent. we were seeing a superficial stabilization in the ruble and in oil prices. the price of achieving that has been astronomical. russian import prices have interest rates have tripled. we are getting to the perfect storm. russia's foreign exchange concerns are dwindling. -- reserves are dwindling. russia cannot

severe drought in spain and fruit fly infestation in italy.ountries cut for 70 percent of olive oil output and production could drop next year by 27 percent. >>> serious business on the roads this morning. a couple sig-alerts and a fatal accident. >> the grinch stole our the crews are trying to clean up a mudslide with water-logged hillsides that came down into the roads. we have two lanes shut down and we have heavy backups. if you are coming in from mill valley you are going to be on the brakes. this is thedly that is seen away from tiburon boulevard you will find 13 miles per hour speeds and you get to the golden gate bridge it is foggy so use the low beams. be careful when you head out, we have a major sig-alert but more on that in a few minutes. >>> we will start with live doppler 7 hd, you do not need the umbrella today or tomorrow but we will look at what is going on. as far as high pressure it took complete control of our forecast last night and you can see what it is doing to the storm tram to the north and it dives down into the rock

from the top of the rock, spain's costa del sol arcs eastward, and 15 miles across the hazy strait ofgibraltar, the shores of morocco beckon. these cliffs and those over in africa created what ancient societies in the mediterranean world called the pillars of hercules. for centuries, they were the foreboding gateway to the unknown. descending the rock, whether you like it or not, you'll meet the famous apes of gibraltar. 200 of these mischief-makers entertain tourists. and with all the visitors, they're bold, and they get their way. yeah? you can ha you can -- you can -- you can -- here on the rock of gibraltar, the locals are very friendly, but give them your apples. legend has it that as long as these apes are here, the british will stay in gibraltar. ♪ >> memphis, tennessee. it has been written, if music were religion, then memphis would be jerusalem, and sun studios, its most sacred shrine. and you are here with the bokeys. ♪ >> resorts casino and hotel in tunica, mississippi, proud to sponsor sun studio sessions on public television. >> sun studio sessions and its performers are

the spain holiday lottery with the world's largest jackpot.is in madrid with the monster details. al. >> reporter: christine, this is what a ticket looks like in the world's richest lottery. spain's christmas lottery known as el gordo. this ticket costs $25. if you have the winning combination, it gets you $400,000. this was not my case. i won nothing. nada. however, other people were luckier like a madrid restaurant, 40 workers from latin america and eastern europe and africa, in a single day, they won 100 times their day's wages. it is not winner takes all. it is spread around as workers and friends and families buy and share tickets and you see winners all across the country. it has been going on for 200 years. spain's bloody civil war in the 1930s did not stop it. both sides held their own drawings. now there is a lot of fanfare as kids sing out on the holiday stage in madrid. now the cash is most welcome in a country still recovering from a deep economic crisis. christine. >> al goodman, thanks. >>> after all the bad news about auto recal

the king ofting spain. the european central bank governor refrained from quantitative easing in the eurozone but pledged to reassess the situation early in the new year. with inflation at a five-year , will action come too late? here is what he had to say. >> maybe they will start doing qe, but it will be too little, too late. , i think this would be over two years. they also have the right fiscal policy because qe works in the u.s. and u.k. because we have monetary stimulus and you have backloaded fiscal consolidation. , they call the slowdown, started doing fiscal tax increase. you need to have fiscal stimulus in the eurozone. this will not be enough, you have to have demand. this will come too little too late. today is at dartmouth professor of economics. thank you very much for joining us. too little too late says nouriel roubini. >> the way alike to characterize this, the bank of england started to cut rates in october, 2008 and it took us into march, 2009 to work out quantitative easing. this is six y

what that means is that the interest rate in france and spain and germany and ireland must be the samethere cannot be diffent interest rates because there is only a single currency. why is that a problem? well, if, for example, spain has an economic downturn a recession, when they had their own currency when they had their own central bank they could cut interest rates and try to make their economy grow more rapidly and the spanish currency the peseta, would fall relative to others and that would increase their exports. the european central bank may say, well, europe's doing all right. we're worried about inflation, we have to raise interest rates. while one or more of the individual countries may sa "but we're slipping into recession -- we want to lower interest rates." so, i thk there is a potentl for economic conflict between some of the countries and others. so far, i would judge that the euro has been a considerable success in terms of its positive impact on economic performance in the euro area. feldstein: germany has been a low-inflation country throughout the post-world war ii

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france and spain make a series of arrests. >>> plus moves towards statehood, palestinian leaders createir time line for the creation of palestine to john kerry. >>> and the football world cup winners announces his retirement. we have all of the [ technical difficulties ] >> and the biggest companies for whom a special independent rate is set, but in general if this rate persists then the investment process will stop. >> reporter: the pain that this hike is likely to inflect on russia's economy may well be in vain. before tuesday morning was even over, it has continued his tumble. there's not much that individual russians can do about this. so this website advocates a little calm. watch the ruble fall against the dollar and real time while listening to a relaxing soundtrack. this shows a ship hitting an iceberg before the ruble and a barrel of oil sink below the waves. but despite the black humor, this is clearly no laughing matter. the mortgages these people have on their homes are in dollars, and this is a rare display of public anger on moscow's streets. this kremlin will be watching

bringsish vote, well, that's not a binding one like in france, and spain will only give it's support when the solution is found. mas.sive majority in favor in france in the last hour or so, recognizing palestine as a state, but germany a key ally says it will not be following suit let's go to james because our diplomatic editor. two areas to talk about here, james, one concerning the people in the building where you are, one about the bigger picture, tell us about moves within the u.n.? what is happening there? >> well, let's just remember the context of this all the with regard to israeli palestinian negotiations. the so called peace process is not proceeding it is competely stalls. because those u.s. back talked ended in the summer, then a new approach coming from the palestinian side, palestinian president came here to the united nations and said i am going to force this through the u.n. discusser council, i want a resolution that sets the end date for occupation. since that there have been some discussions but not real movement. in the last couple of days we had the air rag leagu

cases were also confirmed in spain and senegal.ia, spain and senegal are now free of ebola and the number of indications in liberia is going down. the disease is still spreading in western sierra leone. the ebola outbreak has been the worst ever killing 7,500 people worldwide. carla malone has the story of some of those left behind. >> reporter: over the past year as the ebola outbreak continued to spread in three west african nations, it's left three,000 without parents. at this new or fannage in the capital, they perform drills to protect themselves against ebola. >> these children have become orphans. you can see how poor they are. what i can do now is to help to the best of my ability. >> reporter: part of the problem is a stigma attached to ebola. some children have relatives who could look after them but fear the disease even though the kids are healthy. this outbreak has been traced to a two-year-old in the village of miliandru. the began in fruit bats which some people eat here. >> what i found in this village was a people

. >>> protesters in madrid voiced anger about proposed new laws aimed to toughen spain immigration.ists marched to the senate building where politicians are set to vote on the so called citizen security law and it would allow instant deportation for migrants trying to enter spain by the north african enclave souter and malia. you can find much more on the website and the address is al jazeera.com and al jazeera.com the place to get the latest news and sport from across the world and do check it out. ♪ stoping the slaughter and putting the country back together, paul kagame is also accused of brutally suppressing dissent. so is kagame a savior or a dictator? we sent journalist sorious samura to find out. >> for centuries the tribes of this country lived together without tribal atrocities, and nothing like the rwandan genocide ever took place.