. >> speaking of out of control, this comes to us from london. this guy is on his bicycle. he was going home from work, it was a rainy night in the london streets, and he said he was following what london transportation suggests, they suggest rideing in the middle o the road if there are potholes. this is in london, so you're riding on the opposite side of the road. as you can hear, some guy on a moped doesn't like it. >> [ bleep ]. >> he's asking him why he's riding in the middle of the road. the guy can pass on the right. watch what he does instead. >> there's potholes on the side. why don't you overtake me one of these spots? >> kicked him. >> he was able to keep hole of it really hat rattled him. watch what he's doing here. >> that's him, taking down the guy's license number. >> on a motor bike, this guy's on a pedal bike. zip past him. >> why don't you overtake me, why don't you be smart? you tried to kick me off. >> his name mustang, and he's internet famous for just hanging out. >> his intestinal fortitude, incredible. >> that's nuts. >> hold on and see what he can do

. >> thank you very much, joining us from london. 20 minutes past 1:00 here in paris. time now for a look at the very latest sports headlines. we begin with the latest in football and the french cup. >> he survived a major scare against the third division, forcing their spot in the last 32 of the french cup. the lead was restored. rodriguez in monaco into the break on level terms. --y were left open hearted left broken hearted. 3-2, monaco. marseille reached the last 32 of the cup and they needed extra time. the post nearly went ahead after 3 minutes. the record 10 time winners were ahead 4 minutes ahead of time. marseille fielded it with five minutes left. bordeaux survived the battle. portuguese football legend use if you has died at the age of 71 after suffering a heart attack. the mozambique-born later, european footballer of the year in 1965, scored 41 goals in 64 games for his country and was widely regarded as one of the great players and the game finished portugal third. the portuguese president led the tributes. "the country is and morning. it is with great sa

. >> thank you for joining us from london. >> thank you. >> well three al jazeera journalists have been detained in egypt without charge for 12 days. mohamed fadel fahmy, together with baher mohamed and peter greste are likely to be interrogated later today. they are accused of spreading lies harmful to state security and joining a terrorist group. al jazeera says they are fabricated. they are being held in prison outside cairo. seen here in the last report was an award-winning correspondent. mohamed fadel fahmy is an experienced journalist, who worked for several international companies and the red cross, and baher mohamed has been working with al jazeera as a producer for most of the last year. >> north korea has rejected a proposal by south korea to resume the reunion of families separated by the korean war. it claimharry faucet joins us f south korea. how many of a below is this to north-south relations. >> it comes a few days after the president in south korea had made this offer in her new year's press conference, saying that january the 31st, the lunar new year day was the perfec

phil ittner joining us from london. >>> another round of bone-chilling cold and snow set to arrive todaymillions of people are said to be effected by the severe weather. thomas drayton reports. >> reporter: two weeks after dangerously cold temperatures gripped the entire nation a new wave of arctic air is making a come back. temperatures will plummet to below zero in at least 11 states starting today through friday. and with that cold scenes like this will surely play out again. that includes airline delays and cancellations like the ones that left thousands stranded for days the first time around. the effects of the cold blast are already being felt. this train in wisconsin hauling coal derailed. the frigid temperatures blamed for cracks in the crook. in this pileup, ice blamed for the wrecks that sent four to the hospital. forecasters say this cold snap won't be as brutal as the one earlier this month, but in chicago are counting down the days to spring. >> it has been something else this year. >> the snow in my face has been a little too much. >> reporter: but for now it's all about p

whether you're watching us from london hong kong or washington and this is a large international you with me to say it's good to have your company with us. a delegation from moscow is trying to secure the release of a russian citizen who's been held without charge or to guantanamo bay for more than a decade the russian officials are also looking into the young going hunger strike and the force feeding of detainees at the u.s. military facility are dishonest to see a child cannot report. for the first time in twelve years a russian delegation spearheaded by the foreign ministry special representative for human rights got access to visit the guantanamo detention camp the goal meeting with the sole russian prisoner in gaza of held there without charge for a decade and taking steps to push for the detainees returned to his homeland we spoke to the top diplomat of the visiting delegation to get the details if you will remove it looks pretty significant churches they gave their lives at the revolutionary because. you. basically. don't get legal very cute you know. you prove you know the ret

pardon without any preconditions live now to examine the curious he's a political blogger joining us from london now what you expect the response to be from the protestors not just in throughout the country will they see this as a compromise now. well they've already said that they don't see it as a compromise and that they want to they want their people completely released immediately and unconditionally and then they said that only then will they consider leaving the buildings that they are currently occupying so they don't accept this law they made it very clear that they won't accept this law and i'm sure that will be the position for the time being the one thing i would say is that i suspect that there is actually quite a lot of pressure within the protest movement to get some of these people released and if the government sticks to its position we might start seeing a modification of the opposition's position over time they've got fifteen days in which to decide. of course but one thing that has not happened is. has not stepped down and surely that is the main demand from the protesters un

cnbc jeff is here with us from london. jeff, good morning. >> good morning to you. some perplexing pieces of information on the economy which is why we will be looking out for more news on jobs. we have the beige book, a survey of 12 districts that they cover and what it told us was that there are some firming unexpectations of job growth in industries like construction and manufacturing. there are pockets of strength it seems in the u.s. economy at the moment based on that survey. but maybe it's not into the retailing space because we also have some news from jcpenney they are letting 2,000 staff going and they are shutting 33 stores. they hope this helps them save $65 million going forward. jcpenney not doing so well it seems in the retailing segment right now, tom. >> let's talk about about the apple refund. this is interesting. jeff, a lot of parents out there have given their kids their iphones or ipads to play angry birds or other games and get the upgrades and allow permission for the kids to get in there but left a window of opportunity for kids to buy other

speaking to us from london. >> now african migrants in israel are see, thousands have d as part of protest to demand work rights and better treatment. >> reporter: for a second day the migrants turned out in force on the streets of tel aviv. they directed their appeal for refugee status to foreign refugees. the agency accused israel of sowing fear and chaos among asylum seekers. >> i do think it is time to really revisit some of the policies in the past. because in the end what we would like to see is that israel lives up to the spirit of the 1951 convention. >> reporter: he brought his israeli-born daughter maya to the demonstration. he has been unemployed for the last month because the government will not renew his temporary visa. and this man's visa expires in two days. the immigration office has refused to upgrade his visa. >> i did not come here for work or for money. i'm asking for asylum. i was forced to be a soldier for 20 years. if i go back, i'll have a problem. >> reporter: but on his facebook page prime minister benjamin netanyahu said protests won't help nor will strikers. net

and also joining us from london is anton shekhovtsov, a ukrainian citizen who just got back earlier thisth from observing the protest in kiev. he recently wrote a piece titled, "what the west should know about the euromaidan's far right element." welcome. let's begin with anton shekhovtsov. what should people understand? >> well, first of all, thank you for th the invitation to democracy now! highlight apiece to very dangerous trend, in my opinion, that many people in the west buy into russian propaganda which is saying euromaidan is if a traitor by the neo-nazis and anti-semites. this is completely untrue. there is a far right element in it isidan protest, but basically a multicultural democratic movement which is trying to build a new ukraine, a democratic ukraine. by the name far right there goes ukrainian nationalism, which has its main thrust is building of a truly independent ukraine. a ukraine which would be a national democratic state and not a colony of russia come as ukrainian nationalists think. the move toward europe is a move toward democracy and away from the authoritariani

he joins us from london here.eing videos of people dancing and having a great time all week. now you've got rescuers now stuck, right? they're just stuck. are they as happy and optimistic they're going to get out of this thing? >> i can't imagine they are. in fact, one of the crew members on board the ship where those 52 passengers were supposed to be being taken back to dry land has told us that you know, everyone feels really sorry for the chinese crew because they only came to lend what they thought would be a helping hand. they've ended up getting stuck themselves. and they're going to be there though for apparently just for a couple more days. the pack ice around their ice breaker, the snow dragon has frozen solid, making it impossible for them to get out of it themselves. they've got plenty of food looking on the sup side. they're not in any immediate danger. but everyone's getting a much longer white christmas, suzanne, than they bargained for. >> social media has played a role huge role in the story. peopl

: thank you very much indeed for that, interesting to get your thoughts there and speaking to us from londonbrahimi is mediating talks between the syrian opposition and the government this friday and the national coalition agreed to participate after international pressure and the decision that divided them even further and we report on how the movement has evolved since the start of the conflict. opposition to syrian president bashir started in 2011 and people paid with their lives with demand and change for reform. four months later it was though longer a nonviolent struggle, the people fought back. then came the first attempt not just to form a political leadership but a political body to represent the grass roots movement, the syrian national council was born in august of 2011 but it did not take long for internal risks to emerge and wasn't just that the council failed to connect with protesters on the streets. the west grew impatient and asked for leadership that could speak to every segment and every geographic part of syria. >> we have made it clear that the snc can no longer be viewe

global tolerance founder simon cohen joins us now from london. thank you for joining us. you did this. you said suddenly the relentless pursuit of revenue, profit, impact at expense of personal health, well-being and relationships seemed to be a crazy approach. people think essentially closing your business for a year is crazy too. why not? >> well, thank you for having me first of all and while i just heard this news about the amazing growth prospects, the way i see it is important to think about growth in different ways, not just in economic terms. after 10 years of working so hard, not just me, but all of my colleagues in the company, we just realized it wasn't really a sustainable approach. our health and well-being weren't growing. and so i think reason thinking about growth in such a limiting and limited way, which is just in terms of revenue and profit, how could we think about it differently? so it did seem after a while that just, having extra decimal point here or extra bit of percentage point there in profits did seem a crazy approach when those at home were su

all right laura thank you so much for bringing us the details from london on this laura smith reporting there for us. and elsewhere in the e.u. this soaring unemployment means fear is competition for work places. that's the prettiest faces who are winning out job seekers in france say they're being discriminated against on the basis of their looks and we hear from one of them after the break. their real sharon has died and been given a state funeral is called controversial and even a peacemaker by mainstream media and political clubs and so many others strongly reject these descriptions on this edition of crossfire with a simple question who was ariel sharon. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of p.r.p. interviews intriguing stories for you. in troy arabic to find out more visit our big don't go t.v. dog called. i think. i'm. welcome back you're watching r.t. international at a time of economic unease and the deep welfare cuts british politicians haven't been holding back when it comes to immortalizing the

the author of from revelation to independence is here joining us live from london.thew this was considered to be all about ethnicity, the conflict, but is it reallying a power struggle l in the world's newest country? >> it is very much a political power struggle rather than an ethic confrontation. >> well, surely the rebels and the government forces are divided ethnically, aren't they? >> there are ethnic elements to what is going on, but certainly the government makeup is quite heterogene us. and on the other side, if you will, it is certainly more complicated than just two sides actually. you also have quite a mixture of individuals who hail from different communities. >> different communities, just tell us a bit more what you mean by that. >> well, i mean, it's -- if the situation isn't a clear-cut two ethnic groups organized with leaders as leaders of those ethnic groups opposing each other. certainly the situation is more of the kind where you have political leaders who have affiliations with tribal groups, and in certain cases, some of those associations, tho

duncan golestani joins us live from london with more. duncan, good morning. how credible are the threats? >> reporter: good morning, veronica. well, we haven't been able to verify the video, but it does appear on to be credible. posted on a website known to be used by islamic militants. the video shows the two men strapping on their suicide vests filled with explosives. wirz running down their arm to a trigger button. they claim responsibility for two bombings in volgograd last month, on a railway station and on a bus. they promise there is more to come during the olympics. they talk about tourists receiving a present. they say it will be revenge for all the muslim blood being spilled around the world. over the weekend, president putin was once again trying to reassure visitors the games in sochi will be safe. security is incredibly tight around the city, with airport style checks and more than 30,000 police and military push nell. but the fear is militant groups will try to hit targets elsewhere in russia, soft targets like transportation hubs, just like the

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as weg us from london consider the cypruses to come.say all clear for europe to quote a financial crisis that began in 2007? >> no, not quite. the issue is going to stay around. but it will take longer to play out. the issues in europe now? the lack of credit growth and the fact that that levels are extremely high across europe. much later on that subject. back andoing to come bite us, but not this year. >> when you look at europe and europe, whendp in do they get out of recession? are they out now with the stock market way ahead? are they recession-clear? clear inre recession that the numbers are allowed to be positive. let's call it something like one percent this year. it is not going to feel like growth in any recognizable form. it is stagnation for all intents and purposes with consumer price inflation. we will call it non-recession but we will not call it growth. t, to thet matter, ki euro-dollar, or the overall pace of growth in the euro area or the performance of individual countries like germany or france? >> well, the performa

us. stuart: don't know if you heard from. as two days before the big game and you can gamble on some really crazy things. joining us from londonthe shot. we just lost the shot. coming from london -- listen to this. you can stroll up the front, you can bet on whether the seahawks quarterback richard sherman, you can bet on whether or not he causes, he is there, are you there? >> i most certainly am. how are you guys? stuart: i want you to describe this bet on whether or not mr. chairman passes in a post-game interview. what are the odds that he will? >> the big thing is an absolutely massive deal over here so even bigger over there. sherman is notorious for being outspoken, we have all seen his interviews, once he finished football he has a future in the w.w. 8. we invite him to curse during the post-game interview. would be very glad to hear we expect him to be a himself. he will hold his tongue and not curse. stuart: tell me the odds. i know you are taking bets on the color of the gatorade that will be dumped on the winning coach. >> this thing i suppose for it to be clear and orange, we can't separate those two but one thing

. >> thank you for your insight, joining us live from london. thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> across europe anti-thai immigrant levels is running high. nowhere is it as great than in europe. the roma population has faced it for centuries. in the first of al jazeera's three part series, we ask "can t the roma integrate?" >> it is a great town in northern slovakia. plenty to see for the tourists, who don't look at the roma wondering around looking for food in the bin. locals try not to notice either. >> all of them are peace and i don't know if they are not working. >> enough sloef abbings -- slovaks had enough of the rome ae scourge, that they voted that man in. he bought a big block of land in order to kick the roma off it. the roma people look at them like monkeys in a zoo. "we are okay until the whites get drunk and come here", on every level these people are under attack. this sort of thing happens over and over again. roma communities are forced beyond a down and then accused of not wanting to assimilate. people who are moderate vote

. >>> on that point we can join marine from the group building a syrian state joining us life from londons mentioning those talks and you are representing a group which was like to see major change in syrian society, and you have not even been invited to those talks, what do you make of that? >> well, it really doesn't matter a lot now, because we see geneva as mainly an international meeting, so the consensus among the international parties is far more important at this stage before talking about any syrian contribution, and yet we don't see strong signs of international consensus, which is why we're a bit worried about geneva. of course once you have got strong international consensus around the solution in syria, then indeed it's extremely crucial that you have the parties who are interested in ending the conflict to be on the table. >> but the headline groups, such as the syrian national council, the islamic front, as well, they are the ones that get the headlines. groups such as yours on the periphery, it seems, are you being listened to? >> no. they listen -- but it just goes from o

broadcasters, radio europe and radio liberty and joins us from london. you wrote a powerful article in "the wall street journal" today among other thing, david, writing, "the russian decision to declare me persona non grata is more than an action against the single journalist. it is an an admission that the system under president vladimir putin cannot tolerate free speech even in the kis of foreign correspondents." you say this is an ominous sign, even though you're the first american journalist expelled from russia in a long, long time. >> reporter: that's absolutely true. as far as i know the first since the cold war but it's an ominous sign because even the em pullinpul expulsion of one journalist is a warning to all journalists. it's encouraged to create a psychology in which people feel there are some subjects which they can't raise. and russia is a country that has a lot of secrets. >> the russians claim that you're to blame for your expulsion because you waited five days to renew your visa, get a multiple entry visa. they say that you didn't follo

christiane amanpour reporting for us from london. >> thank you, wolf. >>> before we go, some other stories situation room" right now. much of the northeast is attempting to dig out from under record amounts of snow after that monster storm, almost 1,500 flights have been canceled, states of emergency are in effect up and down the coast. >>> at least four people are dead and hundreds injured amid escalating demonstrations over new laws limiting the right to protest in the ukraine. a medical source says the u.s. state department is condemning the violence which has grown out of weeks of largely peaceful anti-government demonstrations. >>> firefighters were on the scene of a massive fire at a mississippi plant after what our affiliates report were multiple explosions. the blaze was apparently so hot, crews weren't able to get close enough to fight it. no injuries are reported. >>> the new york governor andrew cuomo is under fire from some conservatives for saying in an interview what he called right to life, pro assault weapon, extreme conservatives. new york has a long history of electing de

. >> dubois: holly williams joins us now from our london bureau. holly, what can you tell us about how security will be handled for u.s. athletes? >> reporter: maurice, russian authorities say they'll bring in unprecedented security measures, including identity checks for spectators and aerial surveillance carried out by drones. >> dubois: holly williams in london. thank you. syria's civil war has reached another grim milestone. today, a human rights group said the death toll now tops 130,000, about 12,000 of them, women and children. the conflict began nearly three years ago as a popular uprising against the assad regime. now, it's become a bloody stalemate. now to the rescue mission going on at the bottom of the earth. for a week now, a passenger ship with 74 people on board has been trapped in ice in antarctica. they are hoping for help from above. bill whitaker has the latest. >> reporter: passengers and crew spent new year's eve stomping on the ice around their ill-fated ship. the goal: to create a landing pad for a helicopter waiting to come t

will be able to keep one hundred percent of business rates they collect from the site while his her first joins us live now from london for more on this story. so what do you think i mean do you think councils will welcome the offer. well this is part of what the prime minister has called his long term economic plan and as you rightly said that's going to mean that local authorities that allow drilling to take place will receive one hundred percent of the business rates from the scheme that's double the fifty percent the kids currently receive no government estimates say that that could be worth one point seven million extra a year each site that a council agrees and there are other estimates as well that say that the industry could attract three point seven billion a year in investment and support an extra seventy four thousand jobs so it all sounds like great news the financial incentives that have been laid on the table for the local authorities but campaigners and environmental groups have expressed their anger at the plan saying that it amounts to nothing more than a bribe. and details so what exactly makes peopl

with us from london, ceo of rolls-royce, torsten muller-otvos. good morning.tory is history, let's look forward. the wraith is a hot car, you are so off until june, our orders coming in? talk about the backlog. >> we are optimistic about 2014. we see again a good year for rolls-royce. that is not only in one region but all over the world. >> when you say another good year, how do you qualify a good year? from what i saw, sales were up about 1.5%, it is a new record, but that is not exactly setting the world on fire. you have some competition at the high end, bentley, bentley was at 19% in 2013. can you put up numbers like that? >> yes, but i need to put that in context. family is operating in a different price segment -- bentley is operating in a different price segment. we are selling beyond $250,000 u.s. dollars, family is -- bentl ey is math lecture he. our business model is different, we are not chasing volumes. always producing one car less than we can sell. >> the you have a different customer than bentley? >> definitely. ustomersur c are entrepreneurs,

annabel roberts is following developments for us from london. annabel, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lester. well, it was friday night, the restaurant was busy when a suicide bomber burst in and detonated explosives. eyewitnesses say two gunmen followed, firing indiscriminately. at least 21 people were killed, 13 of them foreigners. among them, two u.s. citizens from the american university of afghanistan. that organization has issued a statement, saying they are devastated by the news. also killed, the imf's top representative in the country and four u.n. personnel, making this the deadliest attack against foreign civilians in afghanistan since the war began nearly 13 years ago. the restaurant was considered relatively secure. it's situated in a district that's home to several embassies and is popular with diplomats and aide workers and journalists. of course, most foreign forces are planning to withdraw later this year, so an attack like this in an area thought to be fairly safe raises, yet again, concerns about the afghan-led secur

and we have a senior lecturer on the study of islam at the world at kings college in london and joins us fromand the government claiming 55% turn out, 90% approval for the constitution, can we trust those figures? >> whether we can trust them or not we will have to wait for the official announcements. what i would argue is that things started to look increasingly favorable for the interim government and military backers and initial projections yesterday was turn out would be low and close to the turn out of last year's referendum and with very high approval rates attached to that, based on that the anti-coup alliance until yesterday they claimed that their call for a boycott was successful in the sense that people had apparently stayed away while approval rates way above 90 are usually only seen in countries like north korea. today i think if these turn out figures keep rising and even if say the approval rate drops a bit to more modest levels i would argue that is to the advantage of the interim government and gives them a degree of legitimacy in view of the very questionable way in which th

steele who's a columnist on international affairs for britain's guardian newspaper he joins us now live from londononathan steele welcome to see how do you are says the yuan decision to withdraw its invitation to iran do agree it was necessary to guarantee the preservation of the syrian opposition in the talks. here so i think it was a very good move for a bank community to do to invite iran to take part because all the countries that are involved closely in the syrian situation. are providing arms or giving support to one of the political sides need to be there if there's going to be a gradual demilitarization you position of local ceasefires from some genuine political compromise all the surrounding countries need to be very and it's absurd to cut one of them. but to what extent is iran's exclusion like its own demise in the talks. well the talks will now go ahead but unlikely to achieve anything very much without iran being there but everybody is saying that this should be a process. if these talks just ended after twenty four hours or forty eight hours and that was the end then it would be a di

jon: greg palkot, keep an eye on it for us from london, thanks. >> an innocent steepover takes a frightening turn. two young girls are reported missing. we'll have details on the growing search for them. >>> a stomach bug sinks vacation plans for thousands of people aboard a royal caribbean cruise ship. the latest on the outbreak and what the company is doing about it. jon: right now some new developments on some crime stories we're following. we're getting a more detailed suspect description in the triple homicide in california. two people were found shot dead outside of a mall on christmas eve. a third body found weeks later. the revised description adds new details about the suspect's clothing. >>> the search is on for two girls in southern california who vanished during a sleepover. 12-year-old raylynn bolt and 14-year-old diana tourdot have not been seen since saturday night. >>> florida congressman trey radel is set to resign after he was caught buying cocaine from a federal agent. he was sentenced to a year in probation. since then republican leaders have urged the congressman to step

david is joining us from london, england. we are live on the bbc parliament channel. good morning. it is a great topic. ourselves having to defend our legislative branch of the united states, regardless of political leanings. we could talk about the perception issue, how the image of the legislative branch of america has been damaged by this congress. they have an obsession with repealing the affordable care act. the court issue that folks on the republican side of the aisle site is the individual mandate. that came out of the heritage foundation. it is a conservative idea. it seems all other business of .overnment has been stopped a friend of mine is the member of the reddish parliament and he referred to it as a fetish that the republicans have with repealing the affordable care act. many people ask me what is wrong with your congress. i'm wondering if you could speak about that perception issue and how the reputation of our system of government, the three branches, have been damaged by the lack of productivity in this congress. at polling onlook approval of congress, it is not j

matthew thank you so much for joining us from our london studio. >>> lebanese investigators are combingough the wreckage of the blast site in southern beirut. six people were killed in the explosion. the blast happened in an area which is the strong hold of the shiite armed group hezbollah. it is the fourth attack in lebanon in two months. in november 23rd people were killed after two bombs went off outside of the iranian embassy in beirut. now dna tests have identified the man responsible for that explosion. the families he should not be sent back to saudi arabia. so really who is this man? >> he's a saudi national. he is wanted by saudi arabia. his group which he leads have been put -- and designated by the united states as a terrorist group in may 2012, and this group is responsible for a number of attacks not only here in lebanon but different areas in the region, including rocket attacks on israel, attacking japanese oil tankers in the persian gulf, and other targets here in lebanon as the bombing of the iranian embassy in november. so he is a very significant catch, if we may use

. >> joining us live from london to gaze into her crystal ball, dr carol cooper, a gp and medical journalistgood to have you was. >> good morning. >> of the techniques, drugs, technologies coming to the fore now, what ex-sites you the most. >> what ex-sites me is new ways of treating cancer using biologic drugs, which are genetically engineered proteins, made to fight the immune system of cancer itself. we'll have more people living with cancer, rather than dying from it with this incredibly new way of treating it. we are using it for leukaemias, breast cancers and lung cancers, that will develop hugely. i think on the vaccine front, i'm excited about a very real possibility of a vaccine for malaria, which killed hundreds and thousands of people, especially children in sub-saharan africa. they are close in the united states to developing a vaccine that definitely works for adults. i'm looking forward for this being developed for use in more and more people. also a vaccine with dengue fever, which it 100,000 people a year, and i think that will be a hum, huge improvement, because there's no t

joining us now from london is a senior electra in the study of islam, welcome once again.keep hearing about how important a high voter turnout is in this referendum, is this a mandate for the military for the government for their political future? >> indeed, the interim government has a great interest in securing a very good turnout for this referendum. it gives legitimacy for its own authority because it was put into place after a military intersense, which of course is a very doubtful means of gaining power after the introduction of democracy, at the same time it also helps giving a degree of support to the political am beneficiaries of general al-sisi. if the outcome would be that there is a low turn out, and those opposed to the new constitution choose to express that by staying away, then even a yes vote would still undermine the credibility of the constitution. >> now if the constitution is passed and there is a resounding yes vote would this pave the way for fresh elections in egypt? >> that is part of the road map anyway, if you have a big turnout and an overwhelmi

greg joins us from london with more. >> according to analysts we've been speaking to, possible break missing madeline mc cann. interesting lead, for sure. we spoke to detectives at scotland yard and they put an international letter to request to authorities in portugal asking officials there to pick up for questioning, maybe arrest three burglars who were active in the area when the then 3-year-old girl was taken from that resort bedroom while they are parents were nearby with friends. now, according to our sister network here, sky news, the mobile phones of the three were red hot, meaning very hot in the minutes and hours after madeline went missing. it was a burglary that went bad and then the child was taken. some of the individuals reportedly also were involved in a burglary a little while before and also a child was disturbed. again, though, this is just a lead. even the content of those mobile phone calls are not known. so the investigation continues on several fronts. after closing their probe in 2008, portugese officials are now looking at the crime and they say there's new i

matthew chance is live for us from london. what's the hold up? why does it take so long?unny, isn't it? the weather conditions so bad across the united states, but in antarctica it's cleared up a bit to the extent that a helicopter from a chinese vessel was able to get to that stranded vessel and air lift 52 passengers, scientists and tourists as well to the safety of a close-by australian ice breaker ship. there will be a delay to where they're going to get back. they're in a remote area of antarctica. it's making its way through the open water of pack ice. it will get orders to where it will go next. capital of the australian state of tasmania in the next few days, possibly a week or so. mid january, they'll be off that pack ice on to dry land finally. >> oh, my goodness, all right. good news to them. they've had, indeed, quite the adventure. matthew chance, thank you. >>> today, two major newspapers published editorials, urging the obama administration to have mercy on nsa leaker edward snowden. "the new york times" and "the guardian" of britain are praising edward sno

nbc's martin fletcher has worked and lived in the middle east for three decades now and he joins us from london you have covered ariel sharon for years. you've met him, talked with him. how do you think he will be remembered? >> reporter: well, i think you said it, controversially, as you said. he was an army general who was notorious throughout his military career as a man who disobeyed orders or twisted them. yet he was known as israel's greatest soldier. and he went on to be an early champion of jewish settlers. then he became the man who threw out the last settlers in gaza. love him or hate him, sharon was larger than life. i think in israel, he's going to be remembered as one of the greatest or the founding fathers of the country but never an easy man. >> how different might the map of israel look today if he had been able to stay in office before becoming ill? >> reporter: i couldn't hear you. >> how do you think the map of israel would be different today somehow if ariel sharon had been able to continue in office rather than becoming so ill? >> reporter: well, that's a great question. it

the kind that we would use to fly from london to paris or rome. the other side is the commercial aviation. combines space and defense unit. this was put together last year. the --a restructure restructuring that's shaved more than 5000 jobs. we have learn more about that from an interview. he said he is open to merge the space business. he has contemplated taking full control of the missile business. putting news coming out of the sector. >> thank you very much. >> later we will hear from burberry on the third quarter performance. what is the big news for burberry? >> you will not get any answers. it is technology. takeover. transition. you have 300 attendants that can put up your profile at any time. that is before they can make a match, technologically speaking. they win. pick in the order of the most adept brands. it is year 34 burberry in terms of winning. there is apple. they have already worn -- it will be a tough one for them. margins will be hard to sustain. in terms of a reference point, at 7:00 or 8:00, retail sales. is rising. -- it is

david is joining us from london, england. we are live on the bbc parliament channel. good morning. a great topic. ourselves having to defend our legislative branch of the united states, regardless of political leanings. we could talk about the perception issue, how the image of the legislative branch of america has been damaged by this congress. they have an obsession with repealing the affordable care act. the court issue that folks on the republican side of the aisle site is the individual mandate. that came out of the heritage foundation. it is a conservative idea. it seems all other business of .overnment has been stopped a friend of mine is the member of the reddish parliament and he referred to it as a fetish that the republicans have with repealing the affordable care act. many people ask me what is wrong with your congress. i'm wondering if you could speak about that perception issue and how the reputation of our system of government, the three branches, have been damaged by the lack of productivity in this congress. at polling onlook approval of congress, it is not just th

middle east correspondent martin fletcher joins us live from london. these are lengthy meetings. word of progress? >> it's a little bit early for progress and no sign of it yet. we'll hear more probably by sunday. it sounds on the surface that a modest aim that put together the framework agreement as you just mentioned, a declaration of intentions and both sides, israel and palestinians will sign. in kerry visited the palestinians in ramallah, hundreds were chanting anti-american slogans and kerry, you coward, there's no place for you in palestine. in israel, more concrete objections, a plan to build 1300 more homes for jewish settlers in the west bank. despite 20 meeting last year and ten visits to the area by kerry, israel and palestinians are still far apart. he wants to agree on a document that repeats what is already known, that a peace agreement will include a palestinian state within the borders ever 1967 with agreed land swaps and mutual recognition and palestinian capital in east jerusalem. if there was any real will to proceed, it should be easy. there isn't so it isn't

from ancient rome to the age of enlightenment. think twitter in pa pie rus form. the theory is laid out in a thought-provoking new book "writing on the wall." the author joins us now from london. how are you? >> doing great. i was flipping through your book. i thought a lot of the comparisons were really striking. the core of your argument being that while we often talk about, say, how 15 years ago is different to today with new digital technology, you are argue we have to go back hundreds of years from before the mass media age to find the real antecedents to the way social media works today. you compare tablets in ancient rome that were used as social media because letters were shared around and meant to be shared. and say that social dynamic actually is very similar to what we do today, and it's really a misnomer to make all these comparisons in the short run. >> yeah, essentially what i'm saying is that we're used to thinking of social media as something that goes hand in hand with the internet. but in fact, you can do a social media environment and you can exchange stuff with your friends and pass and copy and recommend things and move them around within your social netw

radicalized was fighting in syria and the flood of leaks from edward snowden wrong the main discussion points r.t. texas it is with us now live from our london studios. well david cameron asking questions answering questions that is today he was talking about the a changing risk that the u.k. has to face and how where security is headed he wasn't so much his challenge when he was basically asked on how operations worked and where exactly the security strategy is heading now he didn't deviate from any of the past made on several of the points in a couple of things did stand out on the middle east he said that the arab spring is a quote good thing in the long term for security but acknowledges that there will be some bumps on the road and he may face some challenges on that in light of the ongoing instability in the region and whether these can be classified merely on the road now in terms of syria he did it confirms that it is still a major concern for national security especially the potential for radicalization of british citizens as well as the just ongoing regional instability over there now of course one of the things that he was questio

. >> arwa damon is joining us live from london.very powerful, arwa, your reporting there, and the fact you went behind the scenes with many brave men who were literally following the poachers. at did you learn? were they discouraged when they saw all of the elephant meat and tusks and everything? is this an ending battle, a losing one? >> reporter: you know, we were talking to them about that. because their successes are so limited. it's only about 1% of the time they're able to make a significant bust. but for them on that particular day, just the fact that they were able to get those four guns, and that's what was important to them, at least four guns out of the hands of poachers. for them, that was something of a fairly significant victory. but one doesn't really appreciate just how similar this is to guerilla warfare until one is actually on the ground with them, seeing how dangerous the situation actually is. and, of course, you were hearing from them there, the fact they have all been threatened, even the head of the division

international reaction to president obama's speech, we have joining us now niko pines joining us from london. a research fellow at the japan institute of international affairs joins us from tokyo and a senior correspondent from reuters joins us from brazil. >> let's jump right in, the asia pacific was specifically mentioned a couple of times in president obama's speech. china in particular mentioned as a country, the u.s. needs to compete with, i wonder how japanese are reacting to that. >> oh, yes, president obama mentioned asia pacific twice. actually, their policies -- even before the u.s. gets starches made in u.s.a., even say that go china are no longer the number one place to invest. i was surprised a little bit with strong comment on it, but the economics, i think japanese economy is now back from their long term differentiation and japan can contribute to this aspect. >> sum is trying to promote their natural gas that i think they match each other very well. >> let me move on to mr. israel here. mr. obama did not mention much about latin america, other than to talk about cultural exc

arwa damon is joining us live from london.fascinating seri series you have been doing all week here. and it seems frustrating for these folks trying desperately to convict or prosecute somebody who is responsible for poaching these elephants. and every step of the way, they seem to come against these barriers. ultimately, do they end up finding people, do they prosecute people? it just looks like it's a very frustrating experience. >> reporter: it most certainly is, suzanne. and people are actually very rarely prosecuted. we have been in touch with the african parks team, and they told us that all of the chinese who were in jail were released with no court date. their passports weren't confiscated and the african parks team suspects they must have paid a hefty bribe to be released from jail without any sort of prosecution whatsoever. and that's another big problem, of course, is this widespread, rampant corruption. >> and what is behind this? why is this so important? why is it so valuable, these elephant ivory tusks that they

what are you watching us from our new york london the old beijing and this is r t international you with me to be on with say it's good to have you company with us. the international chemical weapons watchdog is meeting to bolster the drive to eliminate syria's toxic arsenal but only evil of the gathering the us national intelligence chief kick started a new wave of scaremongering saying the us government remains capable of producing biological arms arches bring up what may or has the details. the u.s. director of national intelligence claims that syria has not successfully weaponized biological agents in an affective delivery system but he says the government possesses conventional weapon systems that could be used to launch biological weapons now speaking to the senate intelligence committee james clapper said that america's spy agencies believe that some elements of syria's biological warfare program might have advanced beyond the research and development stage and might be capable of limited production now the timing of these comments are quite interesting you have to understand them

and we are joined by the editor of the the uk telegraph and author of the edge of war and joins us from londoning. sir, thank you very being with us and tell us how you knew prime minister sharon. >> well, i knew sharon before he became prime minister and after he became prime minister and as a general he was not very disciplined and decide of the leadership in 1956 he walked into an ambush by the egyptians because of the discipline and did it a few times in different wars and crossing the suez canal against orders and this was shaky start. as then later on it was a big mistake he made in beirut in 1982 when he hit the palestinian camps and ended his career because of the commission found him responsible for the death of hundreds. but when he actually made a come back then, he was genuine about actually making peace and although he was disliked by his enemies and once he shook hands he stood by his word. so i'm not quite sure why that would happen if he did not have a stroke, but it was definitely genuine without reaching peace. >> reporter: you knew him personally. so how will you, yourself,

jim o'neill is the former chairman of goldman sachs asset management and he joins us from london.ppy new year to you all. >> same to you. it's not so new anymore, some of the old wall street maxims about the first few trading days of the year are confusing to you? you say you are in the bullish camp with the technical indicators that convinced you. >> i am learning to pay some respect to it certainly over the years. it all suggests a minimum to me that this year's not going to be as straightforward as many paths of last were, so it adds to my mind as i try to study this year, trying to explore different views from ones that aren't the core of your own belief. when i look at things generally, it looks to me the u.s. is making quite a decent effort at a private sector-driven recovery and there's a few things going on or better things going on elsewhere in the world, but that does concern me a little bit along with a couple of other issues. >> dive down on that a little bit. you do say that world gdp growth could exceed 4% for the year. what clouds that view? >> well, i think certain

us in. and from london. he's the author of the arabs. eugene broken either in arts commission said. director of the middle east center at oxford university thank you for being with us the frustrated today we can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. our pastor asked to court today. this beginning cairo and go to correspondent catherine stately catherine and yesterday it was sad since i'm new at the midway point today vote on this front revenue described enthusiasm at the polling stations geffen said i tweet been sucky saying the same kind of npc us and i mean people here in the spreading station where i am in an upscale neighborhood of cairo called me up and it's been very keen to talk to us very keen to tell us why they wanted to come up but i'm dead. pretty much everybody least i can see his sad that that the team gets all these referendum on this constitution and it's not about the constitution price i e that site it's about moving the country fall what it's about bringing stability and security and an end to three years of political turmoil in protest and that it was the

christopher wheeler joining us on the phone from london. >> let's look at ukraine.n the brink. the country's parliament is set to meet in over an hour for what may be its most important meeting. >> the emergency meeting happens after the president met with the opposition for several hours yesterday. what are we expecting in today's chapter? quest one of the opposition leaders met -- left the meeting with the government officials yesterday it says it looks like they have the makings of a deal. it is threefold. the government would agree to for the protesters, to annul the so-called anti-protest law that was enacted last week that sparked the protests, and finally they're supposed to be ofe sort of discussion government responsibility which many analysts say could set the stage for a reshuffling of the government. it is important to note that the tally clinch co. -- vitali part --o says he has no integer to be part of the government. not on the table is that the -- is the president stepping down. as one of the demands the oppositions has asked for for some time or ear