it has rocked the political landscape here in sweden. i can talk more about it in more depth with my guest karen ericksen a political journalist and common cate kate commentator. how unusual is this? >> this is sensational. we've not had elections of this kind since 1958. that's quite awhile. >> of course, it was a budget vote, but it didn't have a lot to do with the economy. it was actually will immigration. something that this country has held up as a national ideology, now seriously challenged by this far right party. how difficult is it for sweden to accept that immigration is now part of the debate? >> i think this is very difficult. i don't think you would see it really adjusting to this situation. that's why we would have the results that we had. the swedish ideas about immigration without proposals of what to do. >> they'll have to face it up to now. with an election to come it will be part that have debate. new realities here in sweden. back to you. >> live for news stockholm. thank you. >>> australia has paid an emotional tribu

is that a bigger story right now in sweden? the government,-right government septemberction in because about 7% move from the conservatives to the far right sweden democrats, and the one big issue is immigration. sweden takes about 1% of the population in political refugees each year, and many people think that is too much. we cannot assimilate that many people. your. anders aslund, thank so much from the peterson institute, the one person to talk to about a wide swath of the world from the balkans to the baltic. >> you do not expect the swedish currency to weaken against the euro. it has not been a good year for sweden, am i right? >> economically it is a completely different story. right now the story for me is the possibility of a military buildup, tom. witht's do a data check the equity markets up as we look at out 18,000. good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." i am tom keene. with me, leslie picker in for scarlet fu comment here as well brendan greeley. this matters now to our guest host, neil dutta, it also mat

sweden famously takes in more immigrants than any other country.ve blocked the budget proposal as a result. and that puts this new government in a tremendously awkward situation. we can talk more about that, and more in-depth with my guest who is a prominent political comment taitor here. what are the prime minister's options now? >> well, since he has lost the majority for his budget proposal, he obviously cannot govern without his own budget. so he will probably resign. he could either resign now or wait another three weeks and then call for new elections according to the constitution. >> reporter: this is substantially difficult to say the least, but unusual for a country like sweden to find itself in. essentially the government being held at ransom here by the right-wing party. what do people think of that? >> i think people are terrified because sweden is a very open and generous country, and the attitude has been very positive towards immigrants. and with 13% in the parliament, swedish democrats are actually a minority, and fear for immigrati

the americans mix sweden with switzerland. >> jon: i'm sorry.'re not the first one. >> jon: did i even offer you the traditional swedish fish tacos. >> it's kind but not swedish, unfortunately not. >> jon: i wasn't here for a debit on swede-mex cuisine, our country needed help on dealing with the gridlock on anger (ranting) >> jon: we're having trouble with the two-party system. it's almost impossible to pass bills. how do you expect to pull your two parties together? >> in the parliament we have eight parties. >> jon: eight parties? right. >> jon: i is that a metric number? >> metric number, i don't understand that. we have eight parties and it did works. >> jon: how do you deal with eight parties. >> it takes negotiations to keep contact with your constituentsy and meeting with trade unions. >> jon: when do you find time to campaign? >> i just got into govern, i just started work. >> jon: plenty of time to govern after reelection. >> i choose another strategy and we need to act now better future for children. >> jon: can children vote in your

but people are a bit shocked because this is a shift in the political balance of sweden.e have become more of a normal european country. >> all right. we're going to take a break now, but when we come back, it's the 30th anniversary of india's disaster. >>> plus chile's stolen children, how newborn babies were kidnapped from inside hospitals up until the early '90s. the full stories when we come back. ♪ ♪ >>> hello again, a recap of our top stories. ministers from the 60 strong coalition of countries against isil fighters. u.s. secretary of state john kerry says the fight will go on for as long as it takes. >>> a bomb blast in yemen targeted the residence of the newly appointed iranian ambassador. at least one person was killed and 17 others injured by the explosion in the capitol. >>> and voters in israel are to go to the polls on march 17th next year, that's two years ahead of schedule. israeli mp's voted to dissolve the parliament as benjamin netenyahu sacked to ministers. >>> people died in their sleep when gas leaked from a pesticide factory in central india. the gov

and it was actually really great to hear what our counter parts in new york city and sweden have been doing to implement the vision zero in their country, or their city. and i also, we got a chance to learn a lot about the advocacy groups that exist in new york city as well. and i know that some of the colleagues that were already very familiar with the transportation alternatives and families for safe streets but it was my first opportunity to actually see what the advocates do on the ground to really push, new york city's policies moving forward. and also the incredible network and those who have lost the members of the family to vehicle collision and how powerful their testimony was both this vision, forward. and just want to recognize that we had a large con ent and we had commaederer from sfpd and we had several including john knox white, and megan wier, also presented and we had members of the pedestrian, safety, advisory committee, and bike coalition and walk sf and china town, and senior disability, action and central city, sro collaborativive. and just a couple of take aways

i'm joined by a political commentator in sweden.tunning, really. >> yes, it's very dramatic. normally our politics is very calm. this is the most dramatic event we have had for many many years, except the assassinations of the foreign minister and prime minister, this is the most dramatic thing we have had. >> let's talk about the nub of what has gone on here. the introduction into swedish politics of this far-right party, and their anti-immigration policies. immigration is something held up as a sort of national ideal here. how difficult is it for the country to deal with the fact that this is firmly at the heart of the debate? >> it is very difficult. it is the only party -- out of the eight parties we have in parliament who are talking about cutting down immigration at all. >> reporter: this is now a huge force in politics, the third biggest party. it may even get bigger in weeks to come. >> yes, we don't know what will happen after the elections on the 22nd of march. but we have a very positive view of immigrants in this country

it is purposely normal that both sweden and germany ask other european countries to express the same solidarity to the syrian refugees. >> the u.n. ultimately aims to resettle 10% of syrian refugees and wealthy western nations. that means the current recommendations on offer. it is a drop in the ocean in helping resolve this major humanitarian crisis. >> france's last hostage held overseas has returned home after spending three years in captivity. >> crowds cheered as he returned. francois hollande, the french president, was the first person to welcome him home. he was abducted from a hotel in mali in 2011. the terms of his release are still unknown. we are about to take a short break, but when we come back, some of the biggest names in tech are dragged into an international tax scandal. >> stay with us. >> welcome back to the show. the movement opposed to the islamization of europe has seen more movement and has officials calling for action. >> it has been said -- been consistently getting bigger nubbers on the streets, demanding changes to immigration laws. so far, the political re

shifts will impact the ability to achieve vision zero and we got to hear from one of the chiefs in sweden and he talked about how they were able to cut the number of deaths in half by 50 percent and actually have the speed limit has been key to that and what they have been able to do to enforce the speed limit is what they, and what they don't call them speed cameras they call them safety cameras. and they have been able to implement that throughout the country and it is effective in lowering the speeds and therefore, reducing the we have a lot of work to do, but we are far behind and unfortunately the countris in asia and europe but we are doing well in the u.s. but we have a lot more work to do and we are able to learn and share the best practices. if we can go to the public comment on this item. >> commissioner mar and yee? >> there were a lot of take aways for myself, and i mean, that it was nice and comforting that we had really the largest con tining ent and i felt like we were in san francisco, even though we are in brooklyn and it is one of the boroughs that are larger than san fr

well earlier this month, bill mckibben was in stockholm sweden, where he received the right livelihoodd, known as the alternative nobel prize. this is an excerpt of his address. >> as we meet here today, the world is almost done with what will be the hottest calendar year in all the years that we have measured temperatures. 14 so the warmest temperatures by four ever recorded in the northern pacific. it was also the year when we learned, tragically, the melt of the west antarctic sheet is now irreversible. 25 years ago when i wrote the first book length account of this crisis, none of these wounds could have been predicted, but that is because scientists are conservative. the damage is outpaced the forecast. every ocean, including the one outside these doors, is now 30% more acidic than a generation ago. every continent now sees drought and flood on an unprecedented scale. every scientific audie now urges upon us with ever more desperate rhetoric than need for action. you will find in your packet as one concise reminder of the relevant points, recent publication of the american associa

of the refugees who manage to make it to europe, most attempt to apply for asylum in germany, swedenor france. sweden is particularly popular because it allows refugees to apply for working visas -- something which germany does not permit. instead, refugees in germany find themselves trapped in an agonising limbo, sometimes waiting up to twenty months before their asylum application is processed. we visited a refugee hostel in berlin to find out how its residents are coping. >> they're playing a waiting game at this hostel for asylum seekers in berlin. the refugees who've made it here are sheltered and safe. but they don't know if they'll be allowed to stay in germany. shaikh tajuddin from pakistan has been waiting for 15 months to see if his request for asylum will be granted. everyone gathers in the kitchen. the one thing they have in common is they've all left their homelands, but for very different reasons. tajuddin comes from karachi where 2500 contract killings are carried out each year. one took place on his doorstep. >> and that's why i had to leave the country unfortunately.

it is important that sweden recognize the palestinian state. >> thank you, kristof.et's turn our attention to russia, where president barack obama is said to have slept new economic sanctions. he credits the sanctions with the credit crisis where the ruble is in freefall. the white house says there are no guarantees that russia's current economic worries and an economy that could worsen will force vladimir putin to pull back on ukraine. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov struck a defiant note saying that russia will be able to weather the current crisis. >> it is geopolitics. some people think that sanctions are a sign of weakness, a sign of irritation, which is not the best for the politician. but i can assure you that russia will not only survived, but come out stronger out of this. we have been in what -- much worse situations in our history and every time we are getting out of the six much stronger. >> sergei lavrov interviewed by our mark perlman. it is an important special day for pope francis today. he is turning 78. thousands of tango dancers have tur

. >>> when we come back, fire engulfs a mosque attacked in sweden, smoke billowing out as people made their escape. >>> and a christmas miracle delivering a little christmas miracle on the train. ♪ ♪ ♪ abe! get in! punch it! let quicken loans help you save your money. with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze! thanks, g. dave, i'm sorry to interrupt... i gotta take a sick day tomorrow. dads don't take sick days, dads take nyquil. the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep with a cold, medicine. >>> well, snow doesn't faze some people as a winter storm dropped four inches in the denver area and as much as a foot in the colorado rockies. those stores that were open on christmas did a brisk business in shovels and other supplies. >>> and that's the region where driving will be the most difficult today. slippery roads extending into some of the midwest. they'll be somewhat wet in the northwest and eastern oklahoma and texas. >>> if you're flying, airport delays are likely in denver and salt lake city. >>> let's turn our focus to sweden where police in stockho

russian military intelligence plane nearly collided with a commercial passenger jet according to sweden's air force chief who tells cnn this happened friday in international air space over the sea, the passenger jet had taken off from denmark bound for sweden. swedish fighter jets were deployed and identified the russian aircraft. >> he said the transponders were turned off to avoid radar detection. russia is denying one of its war planes were involved. >>> protesters are hoping congress will hear their pleas for justice and change against police violence. thousands of demonstrators turned out in cities across the country, from ft. lauderdale and boston to san francisco and chicago yesterday. >> washington is the city where four moms took their voices, the families of trayvon martin, michael brown, tamir rice, eric garner, all unarmed black men and boys killed either by bullets or police. they joined tens of thousands of demonstrators in the nation's capital. >> we need to point out most of yesterday's nationwide protests were quite peaceful. however in new york, two police officers are r

. >> i'm going to sweden a number of times sponsored by the swedish government. these aren't junketts. >> senator hill says many trips were paidor by nonprofit groups funded that p.u.c regulates absent was any mention or response to his critics. >> now, stepping down is the executive director, he has been with the agency 30 years, past seven as a top staff member. and he, too, has been accused of being too cozy with pg and e. he told his staff he is quitting to study music. >> in the south bay a civil rights group is handing over a pet wrigs to the police chief calling for white to be fired. abc7 news reporter chris nguyen is live with the latest. >> demonstrators just wrapped up here at police headquarters. many wore this tee shirt, read protect your people. they collected a signature with 15, a petition, rather with 15,000 signatures delivering it to police just moments ago. 100 people gathered, bringing attention to what they say is a pattern of racial inequality. >> when people of color come into contact with law enforcement is there treatment? >> they're dem

. >> i'm going to sweden a number of times sponsored by the swedish government. these aren't junketts. >> senator hill says many trips were paid for by nonprofit groups funded that p.u.c regulates absent was any mention or response to his critics. >> now, stepping down is the executive director, he has been with the agency 30 years, past seven as a top staff member. and he, too, has been accused of being too cozy with pg and e. he told his staff he is quitting to study music. >> in the south bay a civil rights group is handing over a pet wrigs to the police chief calling for white to be fired. abc7 news reporter chris nguyen is live with the latest. >> demonstrators just wrapped up here at police headquarters. many wore this tee shirt, read protect your people. they collected a signature with 15, a petition, rather with 15,000 signatures delivering it to police just moments ago. 100 people gathered, bringing attention to what they say is a pattern of racial inequality. >> when people of color come into contact with law enforcement is there treatment? >> they're d

the fortress was sweden's military pride and joy.th five miles of walls and hundreds of cannon, it was the second-mightiest fort of its kind in europe after gibraltar. built by more than 10,000 workers, the fort was a huge investment and stimulated lots of innovation. in the 1760s, this was the world's biggest and most modern dry dock. after the construction of this fort, the village of helsinki became a boom town supporting this grand "gibraltar of the north." today, suomenlinna is most appreciated by locals for its scenic strolls. explore the park. there are ramparts to ramble and cannon to ponder. cafes nestle in the shade of the walls. you'll find finns on the rocks and families enjoying their humble beach. >>> this week on "moyers & company" -- >> john roberts gets it so deeply wrong in his understanding of history and he gets it so deeply wrong in a way that has really hurt us, because he keeps striking down campaign finance laws. >> this corruption is an american issue and we can find a way to unite us against a fight that nob

sweden, when the ice caps retreated over sweden, it rose up out of the sea, literally, the spit of landactually -- it's been rising the last 800 years, and that's enabled swede ton sort of be settled. and sweden for a time was a great pow. now we're looking at denmark that makes amazing wind turbines actually staking a claim. >> denmark, iceland used to be part of denmark. i think the surge in denmark might be what to watch. >> are you looking at space in copenhagen right now? >> not quite there yet. scandinavian countries, there's good retail, but it's not to scale. >> it was looking at the floor of the north sea, or the floor of the ocean. how far does the continental shelf extend? is it greenland or russia's continental shelf? these are up for grabs in the international arena. >> of course, because it's how you find your treasure. think about going back, i always bring it back to iceland. think about it, their big wars were over cod with the british. it was basically what was funding their budget, basically fish. this is not something new in battling over the waters. >> bloomberg vis

sweden's prime minister says he may resign after he failed to win backing for his budget. coalition. may call newister elections. the funeral has taken place of the australian critic or philip cricketer philip hughes, who died while being hit by a ball during a match. he was 25 and has played for his country since 2009. the company just raised its bid for a takeover of club med. nri joins us live from paris. great to have you with us. i'm curious. why, on television right during one of the largest and most attractive deals in french stock exchange history. it for aing to squeeze little bit more? >>. fosun has a long-term view. >> what do they bring to the table? you talk about long-term objectives. what are you telling investors they are going to do versus rejecting the private equity side? un breaks withos its partners to become truly global. we intend to have china as our second market, after france, which is our original market. we are so intent to grow faster in latin america with a partner of fosun. today the tourism business in europe and especially france is down be

and sweden, we deploy in africa and india as well.the same technology and then we get scale. scale is the game here. that is where we can have people of about six years old having a mobile phone by 2020. to bringffort connectivity to more remote parts of the world, how much do you take internet. work will drive the numbers, realistically? ,> the whole scale of operators that carries the majority of mobile traffic, but when you come to the more cumbersome new innovations, and for them, the core istnership like the internet important, we, the technology and they come with innovation apps and companies like samsung think about devices coming down in price. the station will be very important. from a is erickson doing network perspective to make it easier to get this on dumber phones in developing countries? >> one of the things we're doing here, we have a lot of test heads, because you need to do apps that are working on two g or three g, not only on 4g. that is where apt developers aren't you norm is important. and not only that, we are

the anti-immigrant sweden democrat party rebelled against leadership by voting down the budget. without a budget the prime minister said the government faced a crisis. >>> the highest rate of asylum application of any country. in the european union there is a policy that the far right party wants to see reversed. >> reporter: sweden has not seen political drama like in in many years. first in the afternoon in the parliament building behind me, the minority governments budget for 2015 was defeated essentially because of opposition by a far-right anti-immigration party that rose to become the country's third biggers in elections in september. then the prime minister held a press conference declining to resign, as many people thought he might, but he said at the end of the month he'll call for a snap election to be held next year. he called it a serious crisis that would redefine the deedish landscape. he said he would not go silently. and this is why he's calling for the immigration. anti-immigration talk until recent, the government spokesman said this, we go to new elections bec

>> well you know they did a lot of structural reform in sweden.with a huge government and they had the advantage of a lot of inefficiencies they could pull out of the system. canada which didn't have a financial crisis they did the same thing. we weren't in a position to do that. our government was already small. sweden allowed a bank to go under in a smoother way than we did. but a lot of things people have done things worse. >> people point to swedens health care system as -- and it's like if we only knew how to take care of rhode island then we could be sweden. it's not comparable is it? >> i think that there are ways it could have been better but people who are back seat drivers, monday morning quarterbacks forget that there were risks all along the way. we didn't know if the european union was going to blow up. >> do we know now? >> well we didn't know along the way what other leg might drop. and so some of the policies that were criticized afterwards were being cautious. there were people who wanted to take bigger risk. it's a hard call. >>

. >> let's head to western sweden. you are do to see something beautiful, wonderful and perfect for winter time. this guy is about to go ice skating on transparent ice. you can see through the ice. is that possible? yes, it's possible. when you go from mild temperatures to cool temperatures very quickly, this can happen. the person who got this video is out there with the girlfriend and their dogs. in some places you could see them on thin ice and the cracks forming under their ice skates. crazy. >> it would be cool if you walk across it and pretend you're walking on frozen time. >> you're walking on frozen water. >> a cool way to locate where the fish will be in the spring. there's the fish home. he's under that log. right? scout out your spring fishing. >> not a bad idea. >> you know that trick you do with the mirror to style the back of your head. hard to do, right? imagine trying to use that same maneuver to aim and fire a rifle. today she is going to try to hit a small target backwards. >> i never attempted this s

followed by new zealand, finland and sweden, which has an 87. what stops a country from being at 100? >> well, clearly no country is clean, and we hear from outraged citizens even in the top performers every year that there are scandals in their countries. but countries like denmark tend to have the most open system in terms of government spending, government budgeting, in terms of politicians declaring their assets, which helps us understand what kinds of conflicts of interest come in to political life. there is just more information about what is coming in to the budget, and what is being spent. >> let's talk about the most--the countries perceived to have the most public sectors. the bottom of the list that we're showing you is somalia, then north korea and sudan and afghanistan. most of those countries are countries of governor nan problems across the board. in the case of north korea, zero transparency. i'm surprised it's not at the absolute bottom of your list. is it the obvious stuff that people can't get information about what is going o

>> filling in for george and close call between the russian military jet and passenger plane near swedenith a preview. >> good morning, eva, needia. russia sending a spy plane dangerously close toe passenger jet and how will west respond and torture report released this week. we'll ask tough questions with former cia director michael haden about the gruesome details and the 26 men would were wrongly detained. then a government shutdown avoided jeff bush gives hipts on 20 16 and is family feud brewing for democrats. our power house round table takes on that and all the week's politics many all coming up this week, eva, nydia, back to you. >> thank you, martha. >> "action news" continues at noon. here are the stories we're working on for i a philadelphia man says home was fire bombed this morning sending five people including baby kneeing from the home. we'll have the latest on the investigation. >> and area school is taking a fresh lola approach to school lunches. hear what the restaurant have to say about the healthy food. >> for chris sowers, eva pilgrim, i'm nydia han have a pilgrim, i

and in sweden, they have allowed the cia to float five people out under inhumane conditions. the truth can make us free. we have to find the truth. there has to be an end to impunity. the perpetrators have to be judged. and accountability has to be demanded. thank you. >> thank you very much. do you accept a blue card from mr. arnold? >> yes. >> i know you agree with me that torture is immoral, illegal, and must always be condemned. do you also accept military expediency requires the possibility of proper interrogation? i refer in the u.k. to the words of tim collins, "since i was serving, interrogations have been tightened up because of lawyers. we are no longer able to carry out tactical questioning. the effect of ambulance chasers is that we have gotten the point where we have lost operational capacity." >> you have 30 seconds. it does not help if you speak so quickly because the translators cannot translate your text. please, colleagues, can i remind all of you to please speak at a speed -- because this is the third time already -- that makes what you are saying intelligi

. >>> over to sweden where a police raid brought down infamous web site, the pirate bay.t is a file-sharing site used by millions often to exchange movies and tv shows. sweden says the raid was part of an operation to protect intellectual property. >>> landing in france where the government wants stores open on weekends. doesn't sound crazy to us in the states but the french always kept their weekends work-free with strict regulations in place to protect them. the french economy slowed so much that officials are open to new ways to create jobs and growth. hmmm. >>> why get one when you could settle for two? one lehman trader was so unhappy with his $84 million bonus that he is suing for double the amount. >>> plus, getting ready for the storm. california stocking up on sandbags and supplies as it braces for some of the worst weather in years. more "money" coming up. ♪ she's still the one for you. and cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently.

he defended his travels. >> i've gone to sweden a number of times sponsored by the swedish government. it's -- these aren't junkets. >> reporter: senator hill said many of the trips were paid for by nonprofit groups widely believed to be funded by industries cpcu regulates. >> the representatives are along for the ride, drinking and partying and having a great time. >> reporter: now, senator hill today introduced legislation that would dilute the power of the next cpuc president, and make the commission more accountable to consumers. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> vic, thank you. >>> still ahead, sony's international hacking investigation, how the u.s. government is responding after the studio canceled its movie release. >>> a car slammed into a crowd after a church service, killing several people. new information from police about the driver. >>> shoplifters caught on video. the creative scheme that these thieves came up with, and why it failed. >>> at 4:10, taking a live look at the golden gate bridge traffic, moving freely in both directions. stay with us. we are back after a quick break.