our international correspondent hans nichols joins us from berlin with this story.lian, are you, hans? >> i'm not well-dressed enough to be italian, nor do i have good shoes. we could go on and do an entire bit just on that. i want to talk about a story of what happens when companies try to control and curate their online presence. so many companies are facing this. the story begins with a 15-year-old, his love for friars, and a facebook page. it ends in litigation. wasem started a fan page. then for ari comes in and asks for legal reasons to take it over. the kit agrees, and then for four years he did work on it, but without getting paid. then they lose administrator rights. they said look, we want to control this, and we were not getting compensated. forever 5500 sued hours of what they say is unpaid work. they're saying that they deserve 10 million swiss francs. now they have taken it to twitter. as a for ourte -- great fan, i cannot let them disrespect any of us. i will fight its never a good idea when you sue your fans. >> yes, if you are a business and you fol

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hence the goals joins us from berlin. s from berlin. >> the question i have is whether zuckerberg knew going in that he would leak it afterwards. leak it, he did. it was a clear rebuke to the president from mark zuckerberg. they had a conversation and here is what he posted a berkeley on facebook after the conversation. called president obama to express my frustration over the damage that is being done. it will take a very long time for true reform. that is an indication that the call did not go well. saidme ways, zuckerberg something that echoed snowden's comments at south but -- sxsw. engineers have to fix this. legislating will take too long. anytime you leak a conversation you had with the president of the united states, it may impede your ability to get your phone call returned next time. but for a deterioration between the relationship between obama and the tech community. >> what does this mean? he invited tech executives to the white house in december. the phone call to not go so well. >> it did not go well. they d

hans nichols joins us from berlin. a cautionary tale of what not to do if you are a company and you have some fans who are passionate about you. it begins innocently enough with a 15-year-old creating a facebook age for ferrari. he gets over 500,000 users. ferrari steps in and says, we want to control this, we want to curate it, and we should probably do it for legal reasons. father initially agreed to it. they spent 5500 hours working on it, they say. then ferrari takes away their administrator rights. lawsuithas filed a asking for $11 million for lost compensation for all of the work they put into it. you have this nasty situation where a company is suing their fan. i threw it back to you guys. if someone created a page for the pulse and you got to 500,000 lights and then you stepped in and tried to take it over, what would be your next move? would you nurture that fan would you try to control them? what would the guy johnson, francine lacqua move be? more course, we would be than happy for that to happen because we

our europe editor david tweed joining us from berlin. let's shift gears. the world is still turning, businesses are being -- business is being done and people are shopping. the owner of -- and looking to -- could be looking to buy the iconic brand j.crew. bloomberge, our european correspondent, caroline hyde. with a hefty bisected >> $5 billion. that is what people are speculating what j. crew could be worth. we know it is looking to be offloaded by two private equity holders, currently held by tbg capital. are options, other people sniffing around j. crew. abbott international, or they could sell shares. what they are reporting is of the owner of the biggest producer of clothing in asia could be fighting it to get more into the united states. because theyting are a cheaper outfit. this is more aspirational. once again, the aspirational younger shopper. hey would continue to operate as to separate unique brands. >> supper businesses. it does not seem to be very clear but they have taken over slightly higher and names. upmarket jeans. about the richest man

he joins us from berlin. and david road, a contributor, he it is good to have you all with us. david, ukraine says 30,000 troops are now in crimea. 43 international observers were turned away not allowed to get into crimea. we saw the truck at a went into the air base that controls the air space in that area and we saw earlier this week how a un envoy was sent away. is putin escalating rather than deescalating? >> i think the issue here is putin is escalating but in his mind he is not escalating. the two minds seem to be talking past each other. putin believes the uprising in kiev was a western backed situation and not the will of the people and it is his opinion it's to block the warm water are port. so far, the steps of the white house are not resolving the crisis and it's unclear what comes next. >> i know you quote katherine stoner as saying much of what putin says is happening in ukraine as propaganda. katherine, former u.s. ambassador michael fall says chances are slim that diplomacy will work. supporting crimea's vote to join the russian federation on twitter, if russian

ist i think hans nichols joining us from berlin. where we take us in the papers? >> the front page. of german jobs are occupied by females was up a brazen attempt to create a favor with you. 15 awful wonder 50. ambassadors are female. one of the lowest rates. 50 ambassadors 1 are female. it is still a male-dominated. more calls for it to change. anna, am i in your current graces? >> well done. i will pick up on your men versus women theme and take a more animal.. direction. wrong about the birds and the bees according to new research. charles darwin, female birds sing, too. not all about the boys. it is not all about mating. females think they are likely to great complex melodies. this is new research. about mating but defensive nest sites and resources and something that female birds do, too. >> who would've thunk it? of rugbywas a game yesterday. i previewed it. as an englishman, i was happy. which beat -- england beat wales. it was yes -- it was last year that wales thrashed england. the triple crown trophy. team away youles been to scotland and ireland and wells, you win the tri

us from there tonight. she is an author and expert on the domestic and international politics. we are joined by yorg forbreg. he joins us from berlin. here in new york, we have david roe, an investigative reporter, contributor to the atlantic. his latest piece: crain is the greatest challenge to geo politics since the cold war. david, ukraine says 30,000 troops are now in crimean, 43 international observers were not allowed to get into crimean. we saw today the truck that witness into this air base that controls the air space in that area and we saw earlier this week how a u.n. envoy was sent away. is putin escalating rather than deescalating? >> i think the issue here is putin is escalating, but in his mind, he's not escalating. the danger here is that the two sides seem to talk past each other. i don't know for sure, but it seems like vladimir putin beliefs it was some western sponsored intelligence operation not a legitimate expression of the will of the crainian people. he feels like it's a plot to deny him to the warm-water port to the russian navy. he is not backing down. the steps taken so far by the white house are not reso

our international correspondent, hans nichols, ryan chilcote joins us from moscow, and our europe editor, david tweed, joins us from berlinght to obama touching down. part, comes the difficult some sort of economic sanctions or response that manages to move russia towards the position of the eu without splintering the eu. it is a difficult diplomatic path. challenge in the next 48 hours. >> thank you, hans. ryan, you are watching the other side of the story. several banks in russia say that the limited western sanctions we have seen thus far are already pushing russia in the direction of a recession. the russian president's response ? well, he is chairing a meeting today on sports. vladimir putin continues to turn a deaf ear to western pressure. watching the fallout from the sanctions thus far. >> what they want to achieve with this

david tweed joins us from berlin. let's just run through those numbers. at the top end of their own expectations for the operating profit. operating profit is an important number they look at. they have increased their target from015 to 2.5's billion 2.3 billion. they have done that because of the new way they have depreciating aircraft. what is driving this tripling of profit? it is the whole move to the low-cost carrier german wings. that is going to be one of the main drivers of profit. they are upgrading their business class, they are upgrading first class and they are introducing premium economy. they have got a new business line. streamingoing to be their in-flight entertainment on mobile devices. phones like this, tablets, those sorts of computers. they have a whole new in-flight system which they are going to try to sell to other airlines. >> thank you very much, david tweed. >> the bundesbank will release its annual report later this morning. hans nichols will speak to bundesbank president jens weidmann. do not miss that. >> stay with us to see g

david tweed joins us from berlin. this is not a particularly new story that they are facing this issue. >> it looks as if they are looking through it. we saw the share price dropped by about 3.5% on the open. now it has even been a bit positive read it is virtually unchanged at the moment. let's have a look at where adidas makes its money and which markets are going to be affected by the currency. inope gets most of its cash europe, 40%. one of the fastest-growing markets is latin america. they reported 19% sales growth in latin america. when you translate that sales growth back into euros, it came to six percent. that is what the market was initially concerned about. now we are looking at what adidas is saying. fun a mentally, it is managing to increase sales and it is 2015 targetts route to have sales of 17 billion euros in 2015. >> the ceos contract has been extended two years. >> that is right. his contract is going to last until 2017. interesting to see that because he has been there since 2001. he is 59 years ol

from google to paypal are in berlin for the high summit. the focus is the transformation of europe's economy. hans nichols joins usre on this meeting. you spoke to some of the biggest names in that meeting, including the cofounder of paypal and a venture capitalist. what secrets did he tell you? no real secrets, but a lot of insights from peter. there are two questions hanging over this conference. to what extent is the berlin tech scene ready to take off? why has there not been an ipo. the other question -- what would the edward snowden revelations due to internet commerce? he's have a listen to what had to say about the incompetence of the nsa. >> we are not dealing with a big brother type stake. it was not like the nsa really knew everything. -- it was massively intrusive, it was probably massively incompetent. this, weher point on are here in front of an old pump station. it seems like a party. on this question of whether or not there has not been a big berlin tech exit, one of his points was that perhaps startups should stay startups of little bit longer. the why questions are much harder to answer than what.

hans nichols, thanks for joining us from berlin.n the alibaba ipo off with an estimated $18 billion valuation, john dawson has more. good morning, john. >> sources telling bloomberg the interesting story, some sources without being named, this goes back to the bid for softbank. $21.6 billion. backed thetually person who lost the bid. upset,t a little bit felt betrayed. alibaba, do not use barclays. top bank has a stake in alibaba. the last time this happened was june of last year. guess what, they used 13 banks, but did not use barclays. the next is the ipo, which could be worth $18 billion on the come to market. haver come using thanks we mentioned already, which includes credit suisse, morgan stanley, goldman sachs, citigroup, morgan stanley, but not barclays. >> when one door shuts, another window opens. let's look at the positives for barclays. >> the positive perhaps is it is not involved in alibaba, and therefore other options are available. in jd.com, the stake my name, obviously, and when the company goes to market in july o

the up our eyes and thank you for that that was our presidential office corresponding to use on reporting from berlin. and shortly after the trilateral meeting between leaders of south korea the us and japan north korea fired two more missiles into the ec south korea's defence ministry says the launch is in clear violation of un resolutions or uv on as the details two men range ballistic rocket than six hundred and fifty km from an area north of county down. japan forced busing into the ec early wednesday morning. north korea has been firing missiles into its eastern waters with some regularity over the past two months. and this one was identified by south korea's defense ministry has a new little miss l which represents a change. they have an awesome range of thirteen hundred km which means they can reach him not to south korea japan as well given a more dangerous nature of the missiles and the defence ministry held in the news the early press briefing wednesday morning it has strongly condemned the move. north korea's ballistic missile launches an outright violation of un resolutions and it's an ac

hans nichols, bloomberg's international correspondent, joins us from berlin.is a vote that germany and the rest of the western world make clear will not be honored by international law. the russian response was that kosovo was on it by international law. the referendum will pass and crimea will no longer for all purposes be part of ukraine. it is very clear, regardless of what john kerry tells us counterpart in london. >> i am absolutely fascinated by next move. i am thunderstruck by the lack of immediacy in the press. granted, we are all distracted by the horrific malaysian air crash. but over the weekend, what would you presume mr. putin and his soldiers will do? want to look at soldiers in eastern ukraine or still in russia, but you also want to look at civilians and whether or not they are russian agitators. if i were reporting the story, i would go up and down the east part of ukraine and check in every hotel and small inn and ask their occupancy rates. if they have a lot of russians -- and i would also look for license plates and see where people are com

us. i know. live from berlin and cj. we offer our thanks for joining us here's what's coming up in the next thirty minutes. a warm welcome in the last of her crying its leaders one to break away from ukraine and become part of russia. guilty of war from the international criminal court's verdict for congo militia leader. that is just as the mastermind behind the white house cat and he'll say no

us. i know. live from berlin and cj. we offer our thanks for joining us here's what's coming up in the next thirty minutes. a warm welcome in the last of her crying its leaders one to break away from ukraine and become part of russia. guilty of war from the international criminal court's verdict for congo militia leader. that is just as the mastermind behind the white house cat and he'll say no. we start with a volatile situation in ukraine where a tense standoff continues in crimea. i did the authorities didn't go with the authorities said they will hold a referendum to officially become part of russia ukraine interim prime minister says he's ready to talk with moscow. to me it's a milk says he is open to negotiations but only after russia withdraws its troops from crimea. ukrainian officials say thousands of russian troops have been deployed to the crimean peninsula and are showing no sign of leaving while meanwhile the speaker of russia's parliament said he would welcome any decision by crimea to join the russian feder

from adidas. they are in the midst of a five-year plan to increase sales. european editor david tweed joins us now from berlinare the targets in the five -year plan? collects they are being hit by currencies and they're being hit hardest in the markets where they are trying to grow the fastest, russia but also latin america. it's going to be a huge focus with the world cup coming up. it's worth pulling up the pie chart where you can see where the main markets are. this represents about 10% of adidas sales. growth was 19% latin america altogether. they had particularly strong growth in colombia, mexico, argentina. these markets have all declined by currency. in terms of euro sales, it was only 6% and this is why they have warned that the moment that looking ahead, they expect reallyy weakness to impact the process going into 2014. what we are looking out is a net millionf about 830-930 euro versus analyst estimates around one billion euros. 2015, thek for the five-year target program, 17 inlion euros to achieve that 2015. they have cap that for the time being. >> yesterday, we learned that the chief executive

berlin today. it brings together top industry executives in startups and investors to advancing the digital future of europe. hans nichols will be there when it kicks off. he joins us now fromin with more. what are you keeping your eyes on? >> last night, i caught up with peter thiel. cofounder of paypal, a german speaker. i caught up with him. i asked why would someone invest in berlin? >> berlin is probably the place where it is most acceptable to try to do something new. if you say you are an entrepreneur, people don't immediately say, why did you fail at your last job? the is a question that is background in many other parts of europe. >> another question dominating the tech scene, the political scene as well, the nsa revelations. here of a concern vulcanizing -- all can i think the internet. -- balkanizing the internet. disturbed people are about the intrusiveness across-the-board. ithink the crazy thing about -- my sense is that we are not dealing with a big brother type state. it was not like the nsa really knew everything. it probably was massively incompetent. it was this bureaucracy on autopilot that simply collected all the data in the world because it could. cru

thank you very much, david, joining us live from berlin. betty, san francisco, she is with someone who has an interesting view into our global issues. >> that is right. you have seen this time and time again. tweets, hundreds of thousands of ukrainians coming into the street. we saw that with the arab uprising. if silicon valley entrepreneur who pioneered the business of online reputation management, michael fertik, joining us this morning. michael, great to see you bright and early this morning. understandportant to that we are in california. i had to go through something to be here. and here i am. [laughter] we were just mentioning about how social media plays this role. we saw that in the arab spring. but we have seen that in lighter moments. think the sochi olympics. all the tweets that went out. problems with the twitter handles i was following, the toilets installed backwards, feet in the air. >> exactly. in this instance you see russia very conscious of social media. they blocked several websites and social media accounts because the

us. you move your firm from boston to berlin three years ago. tell us why. ments three years ago from benchmark. benchmark in san francisco. we discussed, should we move the company to san francisco or berlin? matt said boston is not the right place. the start up seeing and berlin is starting to be very important. there is a lot of talent here which we are using. >> tell me about that product. what is research gate? >> it is a social network for scientists. it is a place where scientists for the first time ever can change or exchange knowledge or changing or uploading negative data sets which is a huge part of science experiments which are failing. >> you have raw data. you are bringing it all together. then scientists go to your database and extract from there and do their own research? >> yes, for example. or you can review published articles in a very open, transparent way. it just recently happened where a hong kong scientist debunks a very famous story, research story from nato about stem cells. he did that on research gate. it is a place where scientist

from berlin. thanks for joining us. coming up, a dramatic development in crimea, russia is seppeding in thousands of troops. we'll go both to crime 83 and russia. martin plans to run in the european eleckses. and munich have their sites set on more records. >> the crisis in crmea is deepening by the hour. ukraine's interim government is accusing russia of sending in thousands of troops. this as their pro russian leader and the russian parliament in moscow have both appealed publicly to president putin to intervene. these calls come despite a warning from washington saying any immigrantry moves by russia will have costs. ore after this report. >> these heavily armed units have surrounded the main airport. they decide who gets in and who does not. the soldiers wear no insignature in as and refuse to say who is giving them orders. but the ukrainian government has no doubt. it says russia has sent in thousands of troops. the interim president in kiev calls it an invasion. and he directed his remarks to the man he holds resp

monitoring the european situation from berlin for us is david tweed. what else -- what else is on our radar this morning? 12 years a slave is the winner this year for the academy awards. it did very well, to say the least. it also one best adapted the best oscar for best supporting actress as well. pointed toadings slow down in the chinese economy. fell tofacturing gauge a seven-month low of 48.5. the government reading fell to 50.2. the premier is meeting with the government this week to map out the economic strategy. president obama and israel he prime minister benjamin netanyahu are seizing the moment to make peace. he believes the palestinian authority president is sincere about recognizing israel. president obama made these comments in an interview. the world is watching russia. will president putin take crimea and leave ukraine alone? or is this the start of the cold -- of a cold war power grab? don't miss that conversation. it is coming up next. later in the hour, don't miss our all-star panel on european tech startups and women in leadership. t

and we're back with dr john houseman political analyst joining us live from berlin so what do you think about the potential of full membership for ukraine i mean those who stood on my down square surely thought it's a possibility. they did and i think they thought wrong if you'd asked me the week before this all blew up if you looked at the great powers in europe actually would have voted on such a thing almost all of them would have voted against it remember that europe is in the midst of an existential crisis it doesn't have a lot of spare cash it isn't one thousand nine hundred sixty seven when german productivity is leading the world germany is having to bail out the entire southern tier of the european union and sort of take on another monumental project as we've laid out that and certainly ukraine would be that is not something that the germans wanted to do i mean working slowly bringing them along in some sort of agreement but not offering fully to even membership suited the french and to the germans to the ground there the two who still by and large make the decisions within eur

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>> live from the dw studios here in berlin, welcome to the journal. >> great to have you with us. coming up in the show, the heat is on for the french president. his socialist government resigned after sunday's elections. >> most of the flights will be cancelled later this week. >> and dire warnings from the united nations on climate change saying the world needs to take urgent action to combat global warming. the french president is calling on the european union to do more to help the country's economy after an unprecedented setback at the polls at the hands of the national front. >> the former interior minister has been named the country's new prime minister, part of a cabinet reshuffle after heavy losses in polls. in a televised speech he said he took personal responsibility for the election route and promised tax cuts and other promises for workers. french unemployment remains stubbornly high. more than 10%. growth was just .3% last year. >> a humiliating result for the french president. what does it mean for france? let's bring our correspondent now in paris. will the cabinet

used encryption technology. >> live in berlin. >> just ahead we will get more on the news briefing from malaysia on the missing flight.we will take you to kuala lumpur after a short rate. -- break. >> welcome back to "countdown." >> it is 7:20 here in london. let's get to wallow lump or where malaysia is giving a news briefing as we speak -- to kuala is givingre malaysia a news briefing as we speak. in wallow lump who are. what is the latest? kuala allow lump or -- lumpur. the latest? >> one has been identified as a 19-year-old. he is the one using the stolen austrian passport. it was said his profile shows he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist groups. instead, an asylum seeker trying an investigation is still being done on the other man with a stolen passport. the suspects we have been told were queried on their visit, and they were given a visa when they came in. what they also did was clear passengers that five may not have boarded the plane after checking in. authorities say all those the checked in boarded the plane and no baggage was taken out of the indicated towas the press. i want to talk about the

asked if the us is weaker or stronger than when the candidate obama back in two thousand ate visited berlin. today in the halls and get to day routine yet obama is your favourite with us from washington. bruce stokes he's the director of global economic attitudes at the q research center welcome back to the shows there. as mikhail gorbachev spokesman andre crouch and writes for a no fire does that time. thank you for being with us. former state department official laurie johnson was nice to see as well. i can't get the two of the party of the lack of tea to cool. ends up from the real economy german born boss of the era of co founders efficiency of paris based in at the data solutions company tiny clues well welcome back soon because i get to the region a conversation on facebook and on twitter are stacked and two for debates. tom. before the speech happened. all star review chris stokes of former aide to obama quoted the financial times warned did he know brandenburg gate moments and a nod to two thousand a speech in berlin today in brussels it was really all about russia. yes allies and that's because obviously this is what's on everyone's mind is focused our attention i

us today. >> thank you. >>> the fastest marathon time ever recorded was clocked last year in berlin at 2 hours, 3 minutes and 23 seconds. the runner was from kenya, a country that for decades has produced some of the best distance runners in the entire world. as katherine sawyer reports there's pressure on children in the area to tap into this natural talent as a way to outpace poverty. >> reporter: children at this rural school in western kenya start their routine evening training session. they're the school's best runners. this region in the valley is famous for producing top world athletes. so the children from the primary school, most from poor backgrounds, hope to soon join that list of the running elite. amy is 14 years old and the best female runner so far. >> translator: i started running when i was in class four. i work very hard. i want to be like my favorite athlete and assist my family and village. >> reporter: but gone are the days of running for fun. it's still a passion of many children, but now it's loaded with pressure to perform and bringing the big money. winning international races is lucrative. those who made it and mi

berlin for our team and use it for now. coming up after the break and our teams nationally had to climb the nt him from the region's people. but if you're watching in london. it's going to the ground with paced action photography. to noon. i am. small protests over on a few hundred erupted after sensing eight protesters were convicted of instigating riots and russia's famous below by a square around the year ago this incident like basically any engine russia is being blown completely out of proportion. oh how people should be so intolerant although thing that people realize is that any sane government doesn't tolerate rights. in fact according to the guardian two young men in chester england were cents to four years in prison. that's equal to or less than a sense from the russian writers got for just attempting to start a riot. the priests were actually monitoring the facebook group when they were planning their chaos and arrested them before they can even throw one brick. if the british government let these guys are just a one goal on a rampage in the cuts would fall apart and is the job of governments above all else to c

from him. i am here with the cofounder of transfer wise. thank you very much for joining us. why are you in berlindo you hope to learn? >> berlin is the fastest-growing city for our users right now. i am here to learn about the market and meet local entrepreneurs. >> transfer wise, tell us what they do. >> it is an online money transfer platform. we help people make international payments. anks are known for offing really poor service at a high cost. >> so let's say i want to send a lot of euros back home to my cousin. how do i do it? >> you open your smartphone, load up the application. cousin's details, your debit card details and off the money goes. >> you were the first employee at skype. what growing pains have you had at your new company? what did you learn from your experience at skype? >> we learned about how to go through the growth of the company. how do you set up the teams, the structure, how do you manage when everything is changing constantly? 30%re growing about 20%, and everything is changing all the time. changeser thing that all the time is currency rates. euro/dollar right now i

berlin. those words, catastrophic consequence, a threat, this is a bleak warning from the chancellor. >> it is. what was significant they didn't use the word sanctions. she did talk about insurance somewhere down the road if russia doesn't de-escalate the situation. she didn't bluntly say we will impose sanctions if nothing is done. the address the was very somber. she wore black. it was full parliament. it had authority, if you like. it was a major address to the nation. but in the end of it all she refrained from using that word. she did say there would be a cessation of negotiations over visas. >> steve evans, thank you. >>> now, is it time to declare an end to the so-called war on drugs? that's one proposition considered by ministers gathered in vienna. they hope to come up with a joint statement on the narcotic program. nations regard drugs primarily as a health issue and those who enforce strict penalties for users, dealers. >> reporter: pot, weed, cannabis comes in many names and forms. until recently it's been illegal around the world. in december uruguay became the first country to legalize it. and so did the u.s. state o

from around the world its thirst a march twenty seven here in seoul. i need to hear some live bait is so much for joining us. we begin this evening in berlin where present bach and it has picked up the third day the first state visit to germany. the korean leader who has said unification as the main theme of the trip started off today by looking around art and photo exhibits that represent unification and freedom. she stopped by berlin's east side gallery with this what's left of the berlin wall the morning one hundred artists from around the world painted murals to commemorate the nineteen eighty nine fall of the berlin wall that led to german unification the president also met with a group of five foreign current officials were at the center of the story german unification to seek their advice on how best to prepare for unified korea later thursday pot is expected to travel to the former east german economic center of preston and leigh mp tells of her unification policies during a speech there. ending or summit talks with her german counterpart the day before president unsecured full support from germany and charting a course too wordy u

from moscow. germany's latest business confidence survey at the top of the hour. us fromeed joins berlin. gives an indication of expectations, which means we get indications of how german businesses are worried about the situation in russia and ukraine. ts the blame on the andation in crimea emerging economies. wey cite the decline that did see in the expectations -- the current situation rose from last month. but the expectations fell further than economists had been estimating. those expectations are still well above the long-term average, sitting in with what we are hearing about the german economy. the economy will do pretty well in the first quarter as we see some slowdown in the second half year. that slowdown could be exacerbated depending on what does happen in russia and with regard to sanctions and whether they ratchet it up or not. and a lot of it is wait and see, it is the uncertainty that german businesses do not like. one of the things is -- the situation in russia is already impacting german businesses. i will give you one example, one of the biggest retailers has been want

from google and paypal are in berlin. so is hans nichols. names -- youbig spoke to big names in the business. give us the highlights. is that berlin is not the tech scene that it wants to be. namely, it does not have the funders to spread enough money around and to spread it deeply. on top of that, you have companies where their founders leave too soon. all of that said, peter thiel said the city has a lot going for it. >> it is probably the place where it is most acceptable to try to do something new. if you say that you are an entrepreneur and you are starting a company, people will not say, why did you fail at your last job, why are you so incompetent or something like that. you cannot talk tech in berlin without talking edward snowden and the nsa revelations. is a bit of a libertarian. he said it would not have a lasting effect, but the main take away on the snowden revelations, incompetence. >> people are disturbed about the intrusiveness across the board. it is thething about sense that we are not dealing with a big brother type state with the nsa knowing everything. it was intrusive, but it was massively comp

from its alliances with other carriers. we are talking air berlin, lingus.ustralia and aer i want to start with setting the scene. for those of uso not fly to abu dhabi oh regularly, what is the main distinction between your airline and the emirates? both of you are premium carriers. >> [no audio] global carriers and are building a strong network over the last 10 years. with greaterentiated service on board the aircraft but we have also invested in other airlines for it we invest in six other carriers to stretch our network. we are equity investors in australia and india, throughout the indian ocean and europe. part of that is generating topline traffic. we have come to negotiate on our costs and achieve greater skill in reducing our unit costs. >> you mentioned equity alliances, you have seven of them, but nothing in the americas. might we see you buy a stake in american carrier? frankly, it's not a shopping list. we have 47 coaches and two of them are with american airlines and jetblue and they work well for us. where we see unique opportunities in certain markets where we are being constrained, we have invested in carriers. w

from berlin to russia's borders. it is on russia's borders in the baltic, it's at poland. so stop and think for a minute what we have now. we have moved. we, all of us have moved the old cold war divide which was in berlin, which we survived for 45 years, right to russia's borders. imagine what that means. and based on what your military people said in the previous segment, we are one step away for something much worse. and what this means to me is that american policy toward post-soviet russia has collapsed. we need a new policy. now, putin represents the opportunity for a new policy. but he demands two things. he demands that he be treated as an equal. that means that russia has a legitimate national security interest at least on its borders. and that nato expansion stop. once we say and do that, everybody will sit down and sort this out. >> professor cohen, right now this is going to be debated ad inf ininfinitum,right now he's standing up for his rights but damaging the relationship with the united states and to a certain extent with europe. so how does he realistically protect his interests, which he said tonight are very important to have a go

from celebrities that we follow. we mentioned warren buffett. he was way later than us. about a year ago. >> he is a lot older than us too. >> she wrote "just got into berlin- she has millions of followers. justin bieber, also popular. mohamed el-erian just joined twitter last week. he says my first tweet, the patient with me. please excuse typos, thanks. he has the language down, though. >> he just popped up this morning. as suggested follows. i just followed him five minutes ago. it is funny that i am not following him, but it is because he just got on their. >> everybody is just catching up. off to asia.eaded i'm going to leave "in the loop" in your hands. thank you for joining me. >> have a wonderful flight and a good week over there. we look forward to seeing your reporting forms singapore. it has been a pleasure this week. >> thank you. >> one stock we are keeping an eye on is tiffany. fourth-quarter profit trailed estimates. seejewelry designer and did an increase in sales during the holiday season. that is something we have not heard from a lot of retailers. joining me with more is the vice president and analyst at kelsey advisory, where he covers

us. from the policy community and the friends of the syrian people . fromhave been the friends since the beginning of the revolution. [applause] yes. thank you. i first met dr. heideman in berlin. he was involved in the day after project. he served as the vice president and is a political scientist. onhas a particular focus syria. we also have mr. jim cooper. -- hooper. he is a former u.s. diplomat. he is a former director of the washington office of the international crisis group. engaged on extremely syria and has done work advising the coalition. of the table is mr. andrew table or -- tabler. he says it like it is. at the senior fellow washington institute, where he focuses on syria. is the cofounder and editor-in-chief of ". today -- "syria today." he has prerevolution experience with syria. he has leveraged his contacts with the syrian opposition to offer a unique vision. thiseason i like engaging panel of experts is because sometimes i feel but assyrian americans we have conversations amongst ourselves and it is hard to see it from the outside. this is a well-informed group and they will share with us how they see it from the inside. we are going to begin with mr. hooper

berlin for our team and lucy coffee. up next on our team tells us why he thinks ukrainian needs she wake up from. cession dream. ukrainian fascists have come to our land it's a threat to russia and its. crimea is a small republic and russia is a huge country and defend us. but the law came to an end when the first small bit of cocktail was thrown at our guys who stood there defending the law and order we believe de. broglie has never surrendered to anyone and it never will. this comes from the heart you know i've never even seen him in person for me this is the image of a hero the world's first cosmonaut everyone knows his name but few people ever came to america was yuri gagarin's iconic first spaceflights the product of good fortune or destiny. was constantly fail to learn structurally he could see the ground in school they started throwing punches at it what if that was a turning point. go to. the nazi. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser lived by the fraud by the fraud stacey is on a larger government today you know you give me some good lines to say in the beginning and now that's it i'm going cut

us here on our t.v. international cash strapped to europeans looking eastward hoping for an economic lifeline from china president xi jinping is visiting germany as berlin ranks china's number one trading pandey in asia archies pete all of our reports. the delegation coming from china includes two hundred of the country's top business executives they coming here to try and make an impression economically as well as diplomatically now this comes after germany had backed strong sanctions against russia now those sanctions could impact on the thirty six billion euros that would be done in business between germany and russia last year alone also three hundred thousand jobs in germany are dependent on trade with russia so to talk a little bit more about this chinese visit i'm joined by the financial writer michael michael thanks very much now we're looking to the visit from the chinese leadership business men that are included in the delegation how much depends on germany being able to make a good impression not just diplomatically but also in the business sense from this meeting is it very important considering that they're talking about imposing these type

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today in london berlin and in new york and thanks to our viewers for watching us here as you see you next time and remember. the people of afghanistan head to the polls for the first time from the fall of the columbine. both the blame for the crimes of our democratic friends for our. mother apparently especially money. for for. her. her. move. your friend posts a photo from a vacation you can't afford. it different from. the boss repeats the same old joke of course. girlfriend still in poetry keep. ignoring. the post only what really matters. to your facebook news feed. economic ups and downs in the final. day the deal sank i and the rest if they meet a few will be if we. do we speak your language or not a day in. the music programs these documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little tune to angles stories. you hear. the spanish find out more visit. the morning. during that time. now i am glad. the top stories here on the international. royal treatment for china cash strapped europe indulges its asian trade partner as political wrangling over russia and ukraine is pushed aside shortly here on r.t. international we will tell you why. that is the world's larg

berlin. we have a commitment to west germany, and we would not under any circumstances, allow the russians to prevent us from making good on our promises. he even used the word force. didn't want to use force, but if it was required, it would be used. khrushchev had already taken the measure of the man and knew he could push him further and the berlin wall began being built. and the united states did nothing. and reafffirmed in khrushchev's mind that what he had assessed in vienna that kennedy was immature, was weak, was even more true than he had thought before, he knew he could push this man and as a result, he was willing to risk thermal nuclear war to put missiles with nuclear missiles into cuba. he would have never have been so brazen as to put nuclear weapons on missiles within 90 miles of florida had it not been for his repeated assessment in the first year of john contendy's presidency that he was weak -- john kennedy's presidency that he was walk. he was mistaken. at least three times, he did have courage, just took him a while to get up to it. but as a result of the weakness that was assessed by kh