havein the hague, we traveled down from amsterdam. e results are in and it is a very clear win for the liberals which is mark rutte, the governing party. he said this was a vote for europe, a vote against extremists. you will have 13 hardee's handling out to form a government here in the hague. when it comes down to the numbers, you saw a near 80% turnout in the polls and that is very high relative to 2012, relative to 2006. the liberals are the victors here. him to start the formation of a government but it could take up to 200 days. the liberals, the vote was up but they have barely 12% of the vote. theirearly quadrupled seats in this parliament up to 15. thatuld we that -- be a rainmaker.is we will look at the spread's this morning. the question for markets from my perspective is have the dutch built this firewall, is rutte right in terms of the people of the netherlands have drawn a wall against the populist wave? guest: this dutch election was always going to be a good test to see which way the populist wins were blowing. it was t

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this isbrent: earlier, i spoke r correspondent in the hague. ked about the polls. >> it looks like it is going to be a very close call for sure. there is an important aspect of emerging here. a pool emerge earlier today. it appears that geert wilders's party coming out in fifth place. number one being the liberal party. if that is true, it will be a huge surprise here. the margins are very slim. a very volatile situation. nearly half of the dutch voter is undecided. there could be another outcome and surprises. the polls suggests any other of the parties could come out first place. it does appear that mark rutte has gained support of his voters. he appealed continuously to them to go out and vote. he warned of rising populism. it also aims that the route between turkey and the netherlands was beneficial for him and his popularity. brent: the dutch election kicks off a series of important elections here in europe this year. will this be a test of strength for right-wing populism, do you think? >> well, of course, there are several other key elect

we will go live to the hague any moment. the accusations just won't stop. turkey's president erdogan accused dutch troops of allowing srebrenica the srebrenica massacre to take place in the bosnian war in 1995. and, it is off to prison for members of a neo-nazi group in germany. they had planned to attack a home a for asylum-seekers. ♪ anchor: i am brent, it is good to have you with us. polling stations across the netherlands have now closed. voter turnout in the country's national election has been high in an election that could signal a change in the course of the entire continent of europe. the election is seen as a test of a right-wing populism in europe, i head of national votes in france and germany later this year. the latest opinion polls ahead of today's vote have given the edge to the dutch prime minister, mark rutte, and his center-right party. it is ain't neck and neck race. of the man who might beat rutte is a populist, geert wilders, and his freedom party. it is a far right party, anti-immigrant and eurosceptic. it has been leading in opinion

host: we are covering the dutch election and we are joined now live from the hague. were out and about at the polls today. what did the voters you talk to have to say? howt: it's good to realize well attended these elections are. reporter: you can see the lines snaking up behind me. there's also the debate last night that was viewed by 3.3 million viewers. that's almost twice as much as back as 2012 during the last election. i've been visiting polling stations around the city. what struck me is how people i've been able to find who opted for the party of the prime minister, who is projected to end of the top spot. there are some people saying i'm not going to go for them, but i'm going to go for another right wing party that actually has a chance to enter government and govern. the exclusion by wilders by other parties in the government will not leave him to the government. were toen if wilders get an incredible, successful win, he would still have a hard time putting together some sort of effective government. how do analysts see the future of the netherlands playing

back to you. >> steve sedgwick with us from the hague in holland. e other added takeaway, it's not a total victory for traditional politics, but jerome d diselboom -- >> the head of euro finance. >> he was part of the labour party, his party did very, very poorly. overall there were lots of little small new parties that did well and took share from traditional parties. >> 28 parties, can you imagine? we only have two here, and it's complicated enough. >> a few more than two. >> two major. >>> moving on, in corporate news, wells fargo ceo tim sloan was awarded $13 million in compensation last year. sloan who took over as ceo in the fall received 2.3 million in base pay with a bonus which included shares worth 10$10.5 million. he and serve other executive members did not receive a cash bonus, which follows the fake account scandal which caused the bank to pay a 1$185 million penalty. no indication from the board when they weren't getting the cash bonus because of the improper activity, but three weeks ago the board saying no cash doe mubonuses for thes

hereer the prime minister in the netherlands was campaigning in the hague. managed to get some words with him to get reaction. what is your message to president erdogan and turks watching this interview? is completely unacceptable and a rewriting of history. the president of turkey is behaving increasingly more hysterical. i want him to calm down. this is not helping. it is unacceptable. theaid that people in netherlands will fail to vote in the interest of turkey. the people of the netherlands will float in the interest of the netherlands, not turkey. proud country. the netherlands is a proud nation, too. ross: do you have doubts about president erdogan's approach to democracy? pm rutte: we stopped the rally because in the middle of negotiations to have a logistical way out of the problems facing us on saturday, the turkish prime minister threatened us with sanctions. we will never ever negotiate under threat. the moment he did this we decided to cancel. later today, the minister from turkey will travel to the netherlands. we told her we don't want you to be

manus cranny joining us from the hague. by bloomberg's amsterdam chief, and the president of the dutch banking association. chris,alk a little bit, about -- good morning to you. what do you think of the implications of last night's results? >> i think it is really a great vote. first of all, a great turnout. people came out to vote. was a mistake in the u.k. with brexit or the united states -- millennials turned out in force. they gave us a vote for a society for europe and against populism. what do we look out for in the netherlands, now that geert wilders has been defeated? what of the most important developments to watch for in dutch politics, as they relate to the broader europe? chris: geert wilders made gains, but much less than expected. pro-european center parties made bigger gains. that is also a significant thing. as your correspondent said in the hague, we go for a coalition of persimmon with central parties. my guess would be it will be a center-right coalition. that is well for sound economic policy with a pro-

them from the hague next week.ver — has been called the "dutch trudeau". he's from the green left alliance and has been enjoying a rise in support in the polls ahead of next week's election in the netherlands. he's just held a huge rally in amsterdam. 5500 people have packed this music hall and they are here to see one man. jesse klaver! his supporters say he is young, fresh and optimistic and he is receiving a rock star reception in amsterdam tonight. i think the interesting thing is that while the foreign media has been focusing on the wave of populism across europe, lots of people in the netherlands are watching this man because he is on course to quadruple the number of seeds the green left have in parliament. donald trump is not very popular here in the netherlands because he represents instability for many dutch people. donald tusk has borrowed a lot of barack 0bama's campaign slogans. many people refer to him as the dutchjustin trudeau. we should put this in context. geert wilders is leading in the polls. th

our nina dose santos was given rare access to europe's cybercrime center at the hague. >> deep insidef europe's most secure buildings behind a bomb-proof facade and unbreakable doors, alths a agen tracking digital footprints of the most dangerous hackers. cnn is given a rare insight. there are limits as to what and who we can film. as the head of the agency's cybercrime center explains. >> this is where we have staff from 15 different countries all working together in relation to the cyberplan investigations. unfortunately, because of the need, the investigations are on going, i can't take you in. >> reporter: secrecy is paramount. cutting edge technology, just as crucial from forensic labs for mining data to hardware to signal blocking used to extract computer viruses. >> many of them have the ability to actually do something with them. >> reporter: with key elections in some of those states, online espionage and extortion has increased thanks to the availability of hackers for hire. >> they will be using advanced p things, that have never seen before, unknown to the security compani

let's go live to the hague and atika shubert. dn't make the head way that everyone was expecting. >> reporter: no, he didn't. he still managed to gain, though, about five seats. so as far as wilders is concerned, he didn't lose. but on the other hand, it's clear that he was stopped, really, by a combination of, you know, smaller parties getting ahead and mark rita gaining much more than what the polls said he would. even though rita's party lost eight seats in parliament, they still sort of maintained their lead, and rita was very much a victorious candidate last night. take a listen to what he had to say. >> translator: i've had lots of european leaders on the phone already. this night is a night for the netherlands. after brexit, after the american elections, where we said stop it, stop it to the wrong type of populism. >> what's clear here, rita wasn't just campaigning to dutch voters, but he was speaking to a global audience as well. in fact, in just two days before the vote, he held a press conference in english where he spec

at the hague the deputy foreign minister accused russia of violating a u.n. convention against financing terrorsm by supplying weapons, money, and other help to pro russian separatists in eastern ukraine. iraqi forces used helicopter gun ships and heavy artillery to make strikes against so-called islamic state in west mosul including the capture of a key bridge over the tigris river. but the fighting has led to an exodus of more than 50,000 people according to at least one charity. a retired philippine police officer has testified that president daurta and his men were tied to nearly 200 killings that the officer helped carry out when duarte was mayor of a southern city. at a senate inquiry the officer outlined some the killings he said were staged with the prior knowledge direct orders, or the consent of dutarte. world powers have condemned north korea's firing of four ballistic missiles into the sea off japan. south korea calling the launches an immediate and real threat to its security. now, the u.k. is calling them provocative. russia has urged all sides

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most other parties say they won'tjoin him in a coalition. 0ur correspondent anna holligan is in the haguecampaign played out? less than 2a hours to go before what is being seen as a decisive moment in european politics. last night we saw a huge debate between the two

we can go to the hague. i spoke about the exit poll results a short time ago. does it look as though this way for populism, which began with brexit, swept over the atlantic here with donald trump, has stalled in the netherlands? reporter: certainly we can describe wilders as a populist, and if this is at a disastrous result for him it is not the , significant shift in voting he would have been hoping for. there were times he was pulling well ahead of mark rutte's party. it has not materialized on voting day. it has been interesting talking to politicians. some are resistant to the idea that what is happening in the netherlands is connected to what happened in the u.s. and u.k., but mark rutte pushed that point heavily. he said there could be a domino effect from brexit to trump to the netherlands and then to france and germany. for some people that was a , persuasive message. he will be delighted in tonight's results of the exit polls. we should emphasize it is not a result yet. it looks like he will form a coalition. laura: did prime minister rutte have to tac

yes, and the 0pcw, the organisation for the old is sure and off chemical weapons in the hague, the implementorly in a report in october last yeardid actually in a report in october last year did say that they pointed fingers at islamic state for a mustard attack in syria. as i understand there's also a report, a forthcoming report, that the 0pcw will state that isis also is responsible for a mustard agent attack in iraq as well, specifically against kurdish forces. so basically it is spreading. the use of chemical weapons is spreading from syria in the iraq. 0bviously weapons is spreading from syria in the iraq. obviously this is very problematic. i suppose the main difficulty is that nobody knows quite what they have. there is no way of checking. how do civilians keep safe in a situation like this? u nfortu nately keep safe in a situation like this? unfortunately that's very difficult. the literary forces usually have protective clothing that would be needed, at the thing with chemical agents, depending on if it is powder 01’ agents, depending on if it is powder or gasp, it can settle on skin

sentenced for bribing witnesses during his war crimes trial at the international criminal court in the hague. he got one year in jail and a $300,000 -- euro fine. he is serving an 18 year sentence after being convicted of war crimes. give us the details of the verdict from today. the sentencing very quite a lot. the main character was the person who orchestrated the witness tampering. he basically steered it from his cell. using phones and coded language to coach witnesses ahead of the war crimes trial. most of those sentences were suspended. any additionalnd time in jail because of the prearrest time. the most interesting one is his lead counsel. he was handed down a sentence of 2.5 years in jail and 30,000 euro fine. interesting one is his lead counsel. that was the most serious sentence handed down to a lawyer. he will actually have to serve his time and he will pay the huge fine of 300,000 euros which is supposed to act as a serve to and he will 12 months on top of that 18 year sentence that was handed down last july. are truly the first of their kind in the history of the icc. tell us a

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brent: let's go to our correspoent, oliver, at the dutch parliament in the hague. evening to you. no big game overall. what happens next. -- next? oliver: prime minister rutte will have to look for a new coalition. he lost his coalition partner. the labour party was one of the biggest losers yesterday. one commentator said last night this was a massacre for them, so they almost disappeared from the political landscape year. it will become obligated because instead of two parties, there will be four parties in the new coalition, and we will see which party will be there. it is a likely scenario, several parties from the center-right, maybe another from outside the political spectrum. that is what makes it complicated. there will have to be a lot of compromise in the negotiation talks. a party that would be a partial talk would be the greens, a big winner of last night. they had the man announced he was interested in bringing ideas into the new government. last time there was a coalition, for coalition party government was in the 70's, and it took half a year before

he is going to the hague tomorrow for fantastic coverage. our way towards the federal reserve decision. that will be a little later on. then we get what happens in two tomorrow with the smb and the bank of england. bloomberg television up next, it is "bloomberg surveillance." francine lacqua and tom keene byl be joined by the ceo allianz global investors. more implications for the equity markets and what is happening with the dollar. 0.2% to the is positive. surveillance of next. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: ahead of the fed, the dollar dips and the pound rebounds. today's main event is at 2:00 p.m. eastern. test for litmus european populism this year takes place in the netherlands. and staying the course -- francois fillon says he will stay in the race despite being charged with misuse of public funds. good morning. this is "bloomberg surveillance." tom, it is about the fed today and a little bit of politics. in the states and in europe. wilders casting his vote just a little while ago. intoa huge amount to cram surveillance. the fed is fr

nhk world, the hague, net hands. >>> business and labor leaders close to a final agreement on limiting workers overtime hours. gene otani has more on that and other headlines. >> the japan business federation keidanren and largest labor organization still negotiating the wording of an agreement. their discussions are in response to government plan to strengthen rules on overtime work and penalize companies who violate them. they reported to prime minister shinzo abe on monday. abe made it clear he wants to limit overtime to less than 100 hours per month during peak periods. that was originally proposed by labor unions. the two sides have broadly agreed to limit total annnnual overtime to 720 hours. the limit o of 100 hours is in line for determining working hours as a cause of death. death from overwork is a continuing problem in japan. the recent suicide of a young woman from overwowork has broug it to the forefront. but keidanren has not agreed to a limimit of less than 10000 ho citing the effect on company management. prime minister abe has asked keidanreren to reconsider its positi

>>>tracy: more exciting in the hague. that's where the politicians are is in the hague. lands, the vote tests the appetite for populism at the center of europe. again, we're six weeks away from the first round of the presidential votes in france. everything is linked. tom k.: the experts will weigh in tonight. allan ruskin from deutsche bank and tom nichols working with the united states navy. the death of expertise is way out front is my book of the summer for a couple reasons. one, everybody cares about this. it's how surveillance was invented, talking to experts like allan ruskin. bonus round. it's the perfect size. what did annapolis think when you came up with this book or newport or the war college at newport. do admirals and commanders want to read this stuff or do they tell you to get out of the room? tom n.: it's important to point out i don't speak for the navy and i wrote this out of -- i didn't write it for the navy or anyone else but wrote it out of my own frustration with how many people, particularly national security affairs and business affairs and medica

parties will form a government here in the hague. the liberals, they are the victors .it could take up to 200 days. was up, but boat still barely 12% of the vote here. the greens did well, nearly quadrupling their seats up to the rainmakerd be here. the question for markets is half the dutch built this firewall? right?e this dutch election was always going to be a good test to see which way the populist wind was blowing. in thehe first test region, and it looks like those strong as we as thought they would be. the euro has rebounded aggressively. clears andtical mist people realize they were too worried about the risk of populism in europe, the euro is likely to grind higher this year and we may see ecb tightening in the second half of the year once those political clouds clear, giving an outlet to the single currency. >> what do you think as far as the reaction we have seen in the bond market? is this a sigh of relief? >> certainly we are seeing a bit of relief on the results and think when you try to extrapolate this and transfer it to rance, then the two are very dif

it is opposing its self at the moment. hagueis haguesa may is a woman famed for her caution and i think she will not wa nt to caution and i think she will not want to get trapped in the gordon brown thing where you get hair is running about an early election and it kills you. i would personally have an early election because wipe—out when you have jeremy corbyn as leader of the opposition? the difference is if the lords or someone difference is if the lords or someone like something that matters, if she has a pretext, she will go for it, but she doesn't want is to have left the door open to it and people are just speculating about when it will be. once the speculative starts it is uncontrollable. finally, the daily star, 1.2 billion pound snatch of the day. bt paid £1.2 billion the screen the champions league games. terrestrial tv viewers cannot get it. it is a shame. what beauty are doing is they are copying sky. this quy: doing is they are copying sky. this guy, nobody knew how they would work but the exhibited. it was live foot ball

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he is being convicted and is serving a 40-year sentence in the hague. g on now decades after those crimes. i hope we won't have to wait that long. we shouldn't have to wait that long. the system is supposed to have evolved so that you can have prosecutions when the crimes happen. you know, if we have to be patient, then we will. i think we're not going to give up until we see progress. >> nadia, is there something that you want to say finally to the world? >> i ask a lot of them, the iraqi government and the u.n. to establish an investigation and give all the victims of isis the justice they deserve because really we want to bring isis to justice. >> do you wonder why it's taking so long? >> translator: it is taking a long time because the process of genocide cases is usually lengthy, but even though it is taking a long time, we have hope that they will bring isis to justice. sometimes i feel maybe if i can speak english, maybe the u.n., they can understand what i -- we want. i can't. >> we can hear you no matter what language you speak. thank you, nadia

joining me now is rob wainwright, who is the director of europol, joining us from the hague, thank younews this morning. tell me about europol‘s involvement in the police investigation into what happened into what happened on wednesday. well, we are actively supporting that investigation, reeta, the details of which i cannot share today, but to give you some context, it is one of about 80 counterterrorism cases across europe that europol has supported this year, sharing thousands of intelligence messages across the counterterrorist community in europe, using our means to monitor, report on the close of terrorist financing, terrorist use of firearms, and also to monitor the way in which the internet, of course, is being used to spread this ugly course, is being used to spread this da. course, is being used to spread this ugly propaganda. 80 cases across europe? i mean, that is a lot of cases, isn't it? what are the difficulties facing police forces as they struggle to deal with this threat? well, i think the scale is a real challenge for us, we have thousands of radicalised individuals

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a vote for europe, a vote for extremism. 30 parties were here to haggle in the hague. a near 80% turn in the polls, and that is very very high relative to 2012, , relative to 2006. so the liberals, they are the victors here. ,rom margaret to -- mark rutte we expect them to start the formation of a government. it could take up to 200 days. that's the longest that it took at one stage. liberals, their vote was up to this, but they still barely half 12% of the vote. the greens did well and nearly quadrupled their seats in their parliament, up to 15. it could be that man is the rainmaker. the question for markets from my perspective is have the dutch , built a firewall? is the prime minister right in terms of the people of the netherlands have drawn a wall up against this populist wave? >> sure, well this dutch , election was always going to be a good test to see which way the populists winds were blowing in europe. and it was the real test we've first had in 2017 in the region. those populist winds are not quite as strong as we thought they would be. that has filtered int

got 75 countries to sign the hague hijacking convention. tional agreement for how to prevent and punish hijackers worldwide. but it would take three years until there was a real decline in the practice. that's when cuba and the u.s. worked out a deal that would let the hijackers stand trial in the states. while extortion hijackings for political reasons continued around the world, the u.s. hijacking numbers dropped dramatically after the mid-'80s. but what seems like an improbability today was really quite normal back in 1969. that'll do it for us today. i'm bill kurtis. as we leave, one last look back at kidnappings and hijackings, "through the decades." at kidnappings and hijackings, "through the decades." >> some already feeling the effect. i'm meteorologist lauren casey and i'll have the cool and i'm meteorologist lauren casey and i'll have the cool and drea dear fellow citizen, i know what it's like to worry about student loan debt. i graduated into it. it was keeping me from doing the things i love, like traveling to see my nephews. bu

steve sedgwick joins us from the hague with more. >> yet another complicated european election. the story here is that the firebrand right-winger, geert wilders had been ahead in the polls until the last couple of weeks or so where the mainstream parties picked up a bit of steam. it seems as if this is a litmus test for how far the european el elect wants right wingers in charge of their government. it's coincided with a large spat between the netherlands, germany and a couple other european members with the turkish state as well. the turn irk president is sending out his ministers across europe to win a big referendum, the problem is the dutch and other european nations don't want these ministers speaking to their populations in their own countries. they sent them away at the weekend, there was a big scene here in rotterdam with riot police, and that benefited mark rutte. his numbers have gone up as well. it's not a shoe-in that mr. rutte can form a government. it is fragmented. you have 28 parties on the electoral roll here. any one

he spoke with supporters in the hague. >> translator: i've had lots of european leaders on the phonedy. this night is a night for the netherlands. after brexit, after the american elections, where we said stop it. stop it to the wrong type of populism. >> wilders wanted to ban immigrants from muslim countries and wanted to close down mosques. he says he'd hoped his party would have won for seats. he's not giving up. >> translator: if they need me or if they need the pvv for talks, then i am happy to take part. if not, they haven't gotten rid of me yet. with more people, with 19 to 20 people in parliament, we'll have a strong opposition against the cabinet and we'll make their lives difficult every day. >> let's go live with atika shubert and the chair of the department of french studies at ucla. dominic, let me start with you. the president of the european commission called the result in the netherlands a vote for europe, a vote against extremists. how are you reading these results? >> reporter: i would agree with him. i think what happened yesterday and this was very much in respons

nina dose santos, cnn, in the hague. >> to italy, now, police and protesters have clashed in naples. the visit by the leader of the northern league. the party is known for its anti-immigrant rhetoric and for criticizing the southern region. now, the northern league is trying to win the support of the south by tapping into populist ideas. >>> the marine corps has created a special task force after nude photos of female service members were posted on the internet without their permission. now, one of the victims is speaking out. our ryan gallagher reports now. >> in august, 2016, i learned a photo of me was posted on marines united facebook page without my consent. >> 23-year-old erika buckner speaking out saying she is one of the victims of the marines photo scandal on facebook. >> as mayor reason corvette ran, i am disheartened an disgusted with this scandal. >> it is called marines united, a private facebook group that posts hundreds of photos of active and retired female service members. some of them show the group naked. the photos were posted without the women's consent, sometimes

few had tipped to only value and soon it was the heavier, david hague, packing a punch. ed injuring his ankle, suddenly he could barely move and bellew sensed his chance. somehow he could. come the 11th, his fading hopes went through the ropes. the cameras snapped around him, he tried desperately to scramble back to his feet. his team decided enough was enough. bellew had done it after a build—up dominated by threats and insults the warmest of embraces. the fight had taken its toll. he left for treatment on his achilles and bellew revealed he had broken his hand, but the toxic trash talking had turned to respect. hand, but the toxic trash talking had turned to respectlj hand, but the toxic trash talking had turned to respect. i told him thank you. he has helped me secure my kids future. he said thank you for such a great fight. they fight with no title at stake, but no shortage of pride. that is the sport. they look at the papers is coming up on the news channel, on bbc one it is time for the news where you are. this is bbc news with me, nicholas owen. the centre—right fr

the former conservative leader lord hague has urged the prime minister to seek an early general election, he said this would strengthen the government's hand, and help the uk secure a better deal in brexit negotiations. theresa may has repeatedly ruled out going to the country before the next one in 2020. new figures show police forces in england and wales received one call every 90 seconds about a missing person last year. that is an increase of 15% on the previous year. police chiefs believe the ageing population could be one reason for the rise. david rhodes reports. steve was a lovely, quiet lad. margaret cooper is still searching for her son, steven, nine years on, after he disappeared from his home in huddersfield. he was last seen in scotland, but despite police searches, he has never been found. that's the worst thing, is not knowing. if you've got a body, because he's died, you can have a grave or whatever, and you can put flowers there, and you can grieve. when you've no idea what's happened to them, there's just nothing. you're in limbo. on average last year, 370 people went m

last night, the first time the prime minister, based here in the hague, went head—to—head with his populistthe moment it was competent but there were no real fireworks. we were watching the debate in rotterdam. the biggest applause came when the prime minister said there is a difference between sitting on your sofa and tweeting and actually the country. populist here responded by saying that the prime minister cared more for asylum seekers than he did own country. he also said that mark rutte had been using brexit to try to scaremonger the dutch voters. thank you very much. the north—eastern united states is hunkering down for the worst snowstorm of the season. 50 million people along the eastern seaboard are under blizzard warnings. schools are closed and thousands of flights and trains are cancelled. it's even forced the postponement of a visit by the german chancellor, who was due to meet president trump. neda tawfik reports. satellite images showing the scale of the nor‘easter hitting the eastern seaboard. as the snow falls, it's promised to worsen dramatically quickly. it's proven alre

and we come back, we had to the hague. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!mocracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. the first time, a united nations agency has directly accused israel of imposing an apartheid regime on the palestinian people. the report was commissioned and published by the u.n. economic and social commission for western asia. the findings, and a new report published by the human economic and social commission for western asia, which is comprised of 18 arab states. this is the head of the u.n. agency. >> the importance of the support is that only because it is the first of its kind, one that is published by one of the united nations bodies the clearly and frankly concludes that israel is a racist state, that it is an established apartheid system that persecutes that ousted him people, but also sheds light on the essence of the palestinian cause and the conditions needed for a coalition -- amy: report met with immediate condemnation from israel and the united states. the u.n. spokesperson stephane dujarric

plus, stories of the hague and tokyo. how concerned is the bank of england about inflation? rate steady. what is the path going forward, especially with the triggering of article 50 looming? sendingthe fed is signals while the the energy essays the course cash meeting with the premiere of ireland. let's listen in. ready? >> thank you very much, everybody. ireland. i really love ireland. it.k you for a ball of shamrock to the president of the united states. let's get to the markets. julie has the latest. julie: we have seen some of the averages turned low. the dow off about 13. about two points. you see financials are still in the green along with technology. health care is the biggest lag or. for health care, we have analyst calls affecting thanks for it biogen being downgraded. littering -- stanley is lowering the rating. is a time call. then you have a thermo fisher scientific. analysts say expectations were for a $1 billion to $2 billion .ncrease in the budget instead, almost a $60 billion cut -- $6 billion cut. -- mark: the stoxx 600 is up by 6/10 of 1%. investors also r

international court of justice the possibility of going to the international court ofjustice in the hagueuk were a walk—out paying nothing with the eu waving a bill as we disappeared from the room, that would feel like the mother of full legal disputes. in theory, yes, this could go to international arbitration. but both sides will try very, very hard to avoid it. we have heard all of these numbers. the idea of 60 billion euros from the eu as a settlement, they want a financial settle m e nt settlement, they want a financial settlement when we leave. some people in the brexit can say we shouldn't pay anything at all. it is a negotiation, they will probably meet somewhere in the bill. white just two more to go, chris, you are doing very well! david mcguigan asks, can the triggering of article 50 be revoked by the uk at any stage? now mike this is the subject ofa stage? now mike this is the subject of a genuine legal dispute. the government is operating on the assumption that it cannot be revoked. but you cannot find a government minister to say that explicitly. the justice government minis

so the prime minister was accuse of war crimes, went to the hague, spent many, many weeks and months there, was acquitted. and then was recharged again and had to go back to the hague to have another trial, on which he was again acquitted. now serbia has manipulated interpol to try to get a third trial on the same, on essentially the same matter for the prime minister again. this to me is unconscionable and shows tremendous bad faith on the part of the serbian government. serbia also fought kosovo's membership in unesco. ultimately a self-defeating act because among kosovo's most cherished historical institutions are its 13th century serbian orthodox churches. kosovo did not get into unesco, it failed by three votes, and again the serbian interruption played a major role in preventing them from getting into unesco. the united states fought to have kosovo into unesco but ultimately again lost by three votes. kosovo and serbia have sat down across the fwoshting table in talks facilitated by the european union. those talks showed some progress, they resulted in an agreement calling for

david 0rnstein there from the british cycling centre in manchester. well that's all from me tim hagueates throughout the evening, but now, it's time to join katherine downes live from the principality stadium in cardiff for this week's inside six nations. has it really been two weeks since eve ryo ne has it really been two weeks since everyone was talking about the italian confusing tactics against england. since scotland got that big win over wales and ireland kept alive their title hunt with the dominant performance over france. the drama kicks off again here the

we have said for a long time the right way to handle that is through international law, the hague ruling last year that specifically related to one of the contested territories in the south china sea. i think what secretary mattis was saying was that these territories which are contested that needs to be addressed politically through a legal framework consistent with international law. when secretary tillerson said something needed to be done with it, i didn't immediately jump to a military solution. i think completely separate from the south china sea, we have to talk broadly about the purpose of u.s. military posture in the pacific and at the strategic level it's not more, nothing less than a posture sufficient to advance our interests in the region. one of our interests is meeting our alliance commitments in the region, deterring conflict in the region and setting the conditions for us to have, which we always talk about with the pacific nations, we have very strong economic interests in the region, very strong social and cultural interests in the region. so the conditions we set with

manus cranny from the hague. we will continue with peter hooper. ll continue this discussion on the political economics on the continent of ofope in the 7:00 hour bloomberg television and bloomberg radio. in berlin.el mckee here is a beautiful london this morning. ♪ >> looking at gorgeous pictures of brandenburg gate. we are waiting on the treasury secretary of the united states meeting shortly in downing street where he met with philip hammond to make his way to berlin. and then on to the g-20. we will get a full briefing shortly. first, let's get to first word news with emma chandra. >> in the u.s. president trump claims thates president obama wire trap -- wiretap trump tower on media reports. >> the video are talked about the fact that it was". that wiretap covers a lot of different things. i think you could find some very differencing findings coming into the forefront over the next two weeks. >> the republican chairman of the committee has not found any evidence to back up president trump's claims. republican leaders in congress are looking at