kirsty brimlow speaking to us live from london. >>> the remains of 40 of the victims of the malaysian plane shot over ukraine last week have arrived back in the netherlands. two military planes flew the plane from kharkiv to the netherlands. >> reporter: returning to the netherlands where the tragic journey began, the fes of the victims of flight mh17. 40 bodies, all of them yet to be identified. carried out of the cargo planes with the dignity and report they deserve. scenes this mark contrast to the treatment on the battle feeds of eastern ukraine where the flight was shot out of the sky. [ "last post" plays ] >>> the dutch royal family and prime minister were in attendance at the ceremony at the military base at eindhoven airport. the anger and grief sharpened by the fact that none of them knew whether their loved ones were in the coffins before them. it could take the forensic teams weeks or months to identify the victims. it will be a gruelling time for the relatives standing watching the bodies taken to the hearse, and then to a military base where the forensic teams will be at

for people and the cheapest. >> reporter: andrew we will leave it there andrew brooks joining us from london to cross over to china now and we are going to speak to our correspondent joining us from there and more on the breaking news story that we were talking about a little while ago and that is china party saying it's launching investigation into a former domestic security chief, what is the significance of this? >> reporter: this is highly significant, big news that just broke in the last few minutes. but basically joe who was once one of the most powerful men in the country, if not the most powerful man is going to be formally investigated. now, the reason he was so powerful is that he was in charge of the country's vast domestic security apparatus and this meant he basically had files on everyone. but last year he and family members were detained and investigated by communist party officials. they have been held in secret ever since but now the news agency has confirmed, in their words, he is being investigated for serious violations of party discipline. now, the important thing is thi

. >> coris ward is joining us from london. he just described these gentlemethese jihadiesas a swar. >> following them once they return home is actually a lot tougher than it may sound, particularly in europe because, of course, europeans can move easily and freely through many of the countries in the european union and it's worth pointing out as well, scott, that most european citizens do not need a visa to travel to the u.s. so this certainly is not limited to europe. >> terrific interview, clarissa. thanks very much. today, the centers for disease control announced a startling discovery. long forgotten vile -- vials of smallpox. one of the most deadliest and feared diseases in history. it was taught thought to be wiped out but there it was in a cardboard box in a storage room just outside washington, d.c. dr. john lapux's been looking into this today. john? >> reporter: the cdc and the fbi are investigating why the samples of smallpox were lying around for so many years unaccounted for. here's what happened. on july 1st, an

us this, from "the jerusalem post." >>> now eva, a journalist and hupan right activist who worked in gaza, jobbing us from london. i know -- joining us from london. i know you were listening to gill. it's an ongoing blame game. israel blaming hamas, hamas saying israel never had a ceasefire in place. how do you see the situation? >> what gill did was deconceptualized the situation. we have an ongoing crime against humanity, the blockade of gaza, wrong for eight years, and the continuing occupation of the west bank, and an aerial and sea occupation and blockade. we are talking about war crimes and violations of human rights that have happened every day for decades. we need to take that noob, and the talk of respecting democracy, israel has no respect for palestinian democracy. there are dozens of law-makers. hamas and other factions in israeli prisons. it's a tactic to make sure there can never be a palestinian equality. for me much in from gill was pure israeli propaganda. quite disturbing for a journalist or editor to come out with that. at the same time not surprising given the state of the political spectrum. >

joining us from london is british airlines pilot. we know that flight 17 wasn't traveling on its normal approved flight pattern because it was diverted due to weather. help me understand, when a flight is diverted due to weather, does it still fly along a flight path that is approved? >> well, yes. it wouldn't fly a flight path which is not approved. in fact, i'm not aware they altered their route because of the weather. but, they were flying along, i believe airway 980 that flies over eastern ukraine. this is a conflict zone, a war zone. back six weeks ago, on the 6th of june, a military transport aircraft was shot down. one should ask why aircraft was still flying over that area, why it remained on open route for airlines to fly. as you rightly pointed out, a number of western airlines were not flying over that route because they, themselves decided it was a risk too far. >> as a pilot, when you are taking off from amsterdam or when you look at the route you have to take or plan to take, do you know that hey, look, this is taking m

from the first day, and securing food, medical supplies, fuel. this is a must for us. >>> ben white is an author and journalist specialising in the israeli-palestinian conflict and joins us from london. good to have you with us. that statement from the u.n. security council, calling for a ceasefire. the problem seems to be whenever there's a call for a ceasefire, that neither hamas or israel wants to be the one who agrees to a ceasefire from the other side. there's a one-up-manship going on. do you think we'll see a more prolonged ceasefire this time? >> today so far there seems to be a de facto lull. there's no additional casualties reported this morning. from the israeli side they reported a single rocket fired out of gaza into israel. there seems to be a lull that has been taken upon them by the both sides this morning, so car. no doubt in part related to eid as wall as it's been noted. as significant or more significant compared to the u.n. security council statement was what happened over the weekend and yesterday with regard to israeli-u.s. relations. you had the phone conversation between obama and binyamin netanyahu. at the same time you had anonymous state department offici

joining us from london - when we look at public perceptions about what is happening in gaza. there's two narratives - israelis and hamas. how have perceptions changed? >> i think social media, of course, an important reflection of the challenge in public opinion towards israel. as you mentioned the popularity of the hash tags shows that public opinion globally is turning against israel. another example of that is in germany at the moment 86% of germans in a poll, the respondents said that they do not want their government to be associated israel or openly support israel. it reflects a change of political opinion. but we should be careful not to overstate the importance of social media. there's other structural factors. social media allows people to express themselves or feelings about israel and palestine. the structural factor, i think, is the growing movement and solidarity with palestine. a growing movement seen on the streets of london and in many other parts of the world where people went on the streets and we have seen the campaign, which is increasingly successful. it'

christiane amanpour joining us from london. a dangerous ground operation by israeli defense forces, very tricky in the close quarters you find in gaza city. >> reporter: anderson, this had is potentially just incredible to behold. this is the third time in six years, maybe are month, there have been these incursions by air or by ground no gaza. and each and etch we have one a hostilities that never ends the crisis and keeps leading to further crisis. and now with the world's attention focused on this plane this is the time when everybody has to be paying attention also to that conflict and trying their best to mediate some kind of cessation. we have heard that they have all sorts of plans possibly they may implement now as' ground offensive. including if the government says it has to do this, the military has said if they want to really root out what we call terrorists, this is not a week's or one-month operation. this is a many, many, many month operation. so everybody has to understand what this in fact does mean. >> i want t

. >> thank you for joining us from london. >> thank you. >> let's return to the news that the israeli military saying that rockets misfired by hamas were responsible for the strikes at a playground and hospital. nick schifrin is live for us in gaza. what are you seeing there as to what sort of an attack this was? >> reporter: yes, laura, we just came back from the site of the strike, and it was really a scene of chaos. so many families. so many people pouring on to the street. anyone who witnessed this attack, there were a lot of crying people. we saw two bodies being brought back from the hospital. and you saw families and people chanting in the streets as those bodies arrived back. now the site of the impact itself residents actually brought us to that site. it was very shallow. it was only three or four inches deep at its deepest, and the buildings next to that strike site were intact. what we saw were shrapnel marks on those buildings 20 to 50 feet away from that impact site and 40 feet high as well as shrapnel that ripped through some of the cars next to the impact. >> nick, this

tracking the international developments for us from london, phil, tell us about what president putin had to say. >> well, vladimir putin did say that there needs to be a ceasefire. and he agreed that there needs to be a full investigation, an impartial investigation, and that's what world leaders around the globe, but certainly here in europe, where many of those who were killed come from. those leaders, european leaders, calling for a full, impartial investigation and a ceasefire. we heard it from david cameron, and angela merkel, who said that it's the russians who need to take initiative, and in particular, vladimir putin. let's take a look. [ speaking german ] >> events have once again shown that we need to work toward a political solution, and this is above all about russia's responsibility and what's happening in ukraine. and that's why i'm making another clear appeal to the russian president and the government to make a contribution toward political solutions. >> for his part, vladimir putin said that actually it's the west who is at fault in ukraine. the russians have said th

. >> pelley: clarissa ward is joining us from london. mr. bertoli described the jihadists as "swarms." how difficult is it to track them these days? >> following them after they return home is tougher than it sounds, particularly in europe because europeans can move easily and freely through many of the countries in the european union. and it's worth pointing out most european citizens do not need a visa to travel to the u.s., so this is certainly not limited to europe. >> pelley: clarissa, thanks very much. today, the centers for disease control announced a startling discovery-- long forgotten vials of smallpox, one of the deadliest and most feared diseases in history, thought to be wiped out. but there it was in a cardboard box in a storage room just outside washington, d.c. dr. jon lapook has been looking into this today. jon? >> scott, the c.d.c. and the fbi are investigating why the samples of smallpox have been lying around for so many years unaccounted for. on july 1, an fda researcher cleaning out a cold storage close it in a lab on

let's now speak to our diplomatic editor james bayes who joins us from london. there has been tit-for-tat accusations between the russians and the ukrainians in that area where this plane is said to have crashed. there has been obviously already international reaction. what are you hearing? >> we're getting reaction every few moments from different places. including from key players. the president of ukraine only in power for just over a month has said that we don't exclude that the plane was shot down, but ukraine's military didn't shoot it down. and we're also hearing from the malaysian prime minister saying we're launching a full inquiry. and a full inquiry will be what is needed. i have speaking to military experts over the last hour or so as well as to diplomats to try to see what they can tell us about that. i am told that really the only people who can tell for sure what happened are those with sophisticated satellite technology and in effect i'm told that means only the u.s. and russia. probably are able to see the fingerprints of exactly where this miss

phil it ner joins us live from london.l, what are you hearing about european union efforts to strengthen sanctions against russia? >> well, morgan, there is a lot of talk about heightening sanctions against russia, namely coming from britain. we have heard from the british prime minister today, david cameron in an editorial in the sunday times newspaper in which he said this incident is so significant it might mean the eu has to re-assess completely its relationship with ukraine and that the european union should bring to bear all of its financial, diplomatic and other resources to try and influence vladimir putin, in particular, to move away from his support for those groups in the east, those separatist groups. we also oh, my goodness heard from the dutch prime minister, mark ruta. he is talking about the possibility of further sanctions. morgan, later this week, or in the upcoming week here on tuesday, it has been confirmed that the german, french and british representatives are calling for a meeting in perilous of eu m

from the politicians. >> our senior political analyst joins us life from london. david ward there was criticized very severely for his tweet. it really highlights the difficulty in discussing israel's strategy in gaza without being accused of being anti-semitic. >> well, it's very true, but i also would remind our viewers around the world that it was israel's highest decorated general and its former prime minister barack who said if i was born a palestinian, i would have at that age probably been a terrorist or one of the terrorist organizations. that was barak and not a british parliamentian. people are trying to express a particular sentiment when people are under occupation, when they get to a desperate position, when they have no other option except god and probably their own bodies, they probably would carry some terrorist actions. that usually needs to be understood in the context of this exploration. it's not justified, but it is to be explained and ordered to highlight a situation of suffering that needs to end. >> now, something that david ward told my co

thanks so much, phil it ner joining us live from london.tay tuned because coming up on "al jazeera america," it's a message for peace as the pontiff prays for gaza and the ukraine. americans are bank okay sharing for a little extra cash. is there a downside to this $26 billion sharing economy? >> disappearing polar caps... >> in the arctic the prize promises to be much substantial >> untapped resources... >> the really big expense hasn't been tested in the arctic >> could climate change reveal new battlefields? >> countries are developing combat capabilities fault lines al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> they're blocking the doors... >> ground breaking... >> we have to get out of here... truth seeking... award winning investigative documentary series the battle for the arctic only on al jazeera america >>> u.s. officials say they have evidence that the missile used to bring down flight mh-17 was applied by russia. john terrett joins us from washington with more on that. what are you hearing in d.c.? and quite frankly, what evidence do

immigration debate deadlock, but first, let's get to the new eu sanctions against russia, and joining us from londonryan chilcote. ryan, let's look at the impact this will have on russian banks. >> russian banks that are controlled by the state will be barred from selling stock and bonds in europe, so we have already seen some restrictions on some russian companies, vis-À-vis american capital markets, and this will be european capital markets, so it should hit them pretty hard and make it more difficult for them to raise money, more expensive for them to raise money. >> ryan, the sanctions, they are also targeting the russian energy sector. tell us about that. >> yes, so this is a ban on the export from the high tech technology that you would need to develop or derail in the deep shale orhe arctic, for shale gas, and sort of some of the more unconventional stuff. it does not mean a whole lot to the eu, some 300 50 million euros worth of exports per year, but why the europeans like it is it is minimally painful to them. is really no other place, they think, for the russians to get that, so they would

the campaign director is with us from london. john, how was the protest? good, strong support from the public. even people in the offices in the facebook building who were opening windows and showing thumbs up. people are sympathetic to the question that we are asking facebook, which is, if you have done business that promotes such a terrible regime, the thing you should be doing is making it right, and by making it right, we mean, give the profit you have made promoting an atrocious regime like this, give it back to the people who it belongs to, ordinary civilians who are in desperate need of assistance and food. there are a lot of aid agencies that could provide assistance with that money. >> we reached out to facebook and they said they took the ads down, do not really know who paid for the ads in the first place, but the money did not come from syria, so they felt they were not breaking any laws. >> anyone who knows anything about this regime knows that it's tentacles spread beyond the region and within the region. whether syrians lived in paris or lon

he is with us from london.s someone who has worked in china, building technology company, what do you think of xiaomi's rise, how impressive is it? >> very impressive. one thing we need to point out is, xiaomi is impressive not because it is a low-cost copycat, which is easy for us in the west to think of them as that. they have gotten this far because of a product at an affordable price, but as brad mentioned in his article, their business model is actually very disruptive and they are not a global power yet, but the business model could be disruptive to someone like apple or samsung. >> part of that business model is selling directly to consumers, no retailers. they cut out the middleman. >> that is a 25% margin that the retailers are taking. they also do not advertise. they rely almost solely on social media and on the free press attracted to the founding team's star power. that is the question, can they afford that over to other countries? >> the google dna that runs to this company is very interesting to m

diplomatic pressure taking place. >> ben, thank you very much indeed for that, ben white speaking to us from londonyou can stay up to date with the situation in gaza around the clock by going to our website with a live blog with breaking new, video and up dates from our correspondents on the ground and that is at al jazeera.com. now the u.n. human rights chief says the shooting down of a malaysia airlines jet in eastern ukraine may have been a war crime. u.n. says more than 1100 people have been killed in fighting since mid april and pro-russian separatists want to break away from ukraine but the government sent troops to try to regain control and we are joined from donsk and clearly a lot of concern from the u.n. human rights chief about what is happening in eastern ukraine and particularly over the downing of this passenger plane. >> yes, she also called for a full and impartial inquiry but difficult to know how it will happen because at the moment the observers and australian and dutch police investigators who are here are finding it very difficult to get to the site and there is fighting all ar

thanks for joining us from london. >>> still ahead on the news hour, recounting every one of the country's 8 million presidential votes in are afghanistan. >>> religious organizations in the philippines. >>> and in sport move over tiger, new open champion rory, mcilroy. >> an area designated as the blue zone, people live long and healthy lives and we'll show you why. >> now to our other main story in the shooting down of malaysia airways flight mh17. let's get to the latest from se selena downs. >> a train carrying the crash remains has left close to where the jet came down on thursday. it is thought the remains would be taken to the netherlands. ra reached an agreement with the separatists guarding the crash site, give safe access to crash investigators and in the next hour the u.n. security council is due to vote on an australian proposal demanding full access to the crash site and a ceasefire around the area. >>> meantime, fighting has fled in the eastern city of donetske, in what pro-russian separatists say a ukrainian effort to retake the city. we'll have more on that effort. first, a

and understand what money actually means and of bins of all thank you so much for talking to us from sunny london today we really appreciate that as we know with the big point it's a working progress is it as we always say. saluting some everywhere isn't it as been a week of banking fines foes felt his largest bank. agreed to pay a record nine point five billion dollars to u.s. prosecutors the settlement is over allegations that france's largest bank violated trade sanctions that were imposed against trade with iran. and it was goldman sachs the u.s. bank was fined eight hundred thousand dollars by a u.s. regulator for failing to ensure the trades in its don't took place at the best price all dog pools are trading areas that keep prices private but they're still expected to offer the best prices available in the u.k. as barclays could be next the british bank is accused of falsifying documents missed representing benefits to clients including pension funds in response to the finding of the case shares of the bank dropped five percent. funds in russia then banking data will soon no longer be priva

phil ittner joins us from london. it's been called a wake-up call if europe. what is the rehabilitation in europe -- reaction in europe? >> this has been a day of soro, condolences. many europeans hard hit by this, the tragedy of it, finding out about the people. now they have moved their cop sen federation -- concern tration from the shock to pushing hard to get in investigators, trying to get in 30 investigators from the org mication for security cooperation. they were not allowed to get access to the site. if they did, those are not skilled crash or aviation investigators. those were observers there taking an eye, and keeping an eye on the conflict in the zone. what they are trying to do is get police authorities, investigators in there, to secure the site, and to recover the bodies. they are trying to get the bodies back to the loved ones, and take a first good look at what caused it. >> some european countries resisted sanctions. will that change now? >> we'll have to wait and see on that. as you mentioned there. the you were peens have been reluctant. th

an with us from london today is richard demb, founder and ceo of abe's markets. s markets also has an investment fund that invests directly to their brands on the site. from yale university is dr. david katz, director of the prevention research center and nutrition expert. he's also written several books, inclusion "disease proof." you're in the hot seat right now. nikhail, you have the first questioned. >> in order to build a huge brand, you need advocating how do you build a billion dollar brand with something that's different to understand. >> i have moms amoo, the midwest mom who gives their vitamin to the kids, taking the vitamins themselves, and then through a nice celebrity athlete seating program, we'll get the product out there. >> richard? >> who is this marketed towards? the packages feels more gym-like, health club oriented, yet i'm hearing a lot about mothers. >> right now the demographic ironically is split 50/50. it's really for anybody that wants to live a healthier lifestyle like myself. >> dr. katz? >> i tasted it. i won't be swapping out a good

goodman with nermeen shaikh. , whouests are hannah allam is in baghdad, and patrick cockburn joins us from londonddle east correspondent for the independent and just returned from 10 days of reporting in iraq and has a new book just coming out called, "the jihadis return: isis and the new sunni uprising." patrick, you and your latest piece say that as much as the world attention is focused on the bombardment of gaza, that isis has captured much of eastern syria. can you explain? caliphate declared to recently has just gotten a lot bigger. and rather amazingly, the world hasn't paid much attention because of gaza. toward a bigacked province with a lot of oil wells in eastern syria. they probably hold about 98% of it now. whichof the capital city is run by the al-assad government. otherwise, they have routed the opposition -- syrian opposition, aside from themselves. they've also launched another offensive toward one of the kurdish enclaves right up on the turkish border. there are about half a million people there. i was talking to people yesterday and the isis have about 5000 fighters there, but

phil ittner joins us from london with more. the dutch are leading the outrage over how the bodies are treated. what is the foreign minister saying? >> well, the dutch foreign minister is saying they are in the ukranian capital of kiev. he and many of his compatriots are furious at the way the bodies are being treated. there's a further anger coming out of the international community, and those who are in the ukranian capital, trying to get to the site, but can't get there, because it's deemed too unsafe. there's a lot of anger being expressed there. there's now increasing anger directed at vladimir putin for his support of the separatists, and there are calls from areas saying that time is running out for vladimir putin to show that he is actually trying to assist in figuring out what happened on thursday in the skies over ukraine. >> give us a larger picture from europe right now. you are in london. let's talk about the u.k. prime minister david cameron talking about possible sanctions against russia. will the u.k. follow the

joining us from london, our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. christiane, you and i, we've covered this region a long time. hamas, what do they achieve by rejecting that cease-fire? >> well, it didn't really look like much of a cease-fire to begin with. almost immediately, it was rejected by the military wing. i mean there were no real long talks. we suddenly heard there was some proposal from egypt. but no indication of any kind of details. and right now, where you are, prime minister netanyahu has been speaking, and according to initial tweets that are coming out, explicitly according to tweets coming out, indicating a broader idf, israeli defense force, move against gaza imminently. we don't know, does that mean the dreaded ground offensive? the last time we cover thatted an was in 2009. of course it brings a whole other level of destruction and death to all sides. so this is a very depressingly familiar cycle that we've been covering for many, many years, and it just keeps going on, and each time it's been stopped with a cessation of hostili

. >> max foser joins us from london. there's a difference between anti israel or israel's actions in gaza and being against jews in totality, but some of the lines seem to be getting blurred here. >> they do. the politicians have desperately trying to balance freedom of speech and criminal behavior. there are acceptable demonstrations, anti war demonstrations, pro palestinian demonstrations taking place but on the frinchs there's some particular nasty language coming out and there's concern it could escalate. last week, we had the foreign ministers of france, italy, issuing a joint statement to say they are going to do all they can to combat this anti semitism here in the u.k. issued a statement saying it's to our collective shape that antisemitic send ments have been out there. >> what is actually being done? anything substantive? any action being taken? >> they launch an inquiry in the u.k., a parliamentary inqirly. actually finding an incident and nailing it to anti semitism can be a problem. they same the number of a

joining us from london. >>> 648 palestinian yaps have been killed in -- palestinians have been killed this gaza. most of the dead are civilians. ize rail says the aim is to stop rocket fire. live to nicole johnson, who is at the main hospital in the kahn younis area, where there was heavy fighting and battles last night. set the scene for us. what is happening around you? >> that's right. there was a heavy battle going on in the area east of here. it was a few kilometres from here. this is the hospital where the injured are turning up, as well as the bod yes. the fighting is in the eastern part of gaza. when you look at what has happened over the last four or five days, it started in the north, moved to the eastern flank and seems to be moving south. we are in the central part of gaza. we are hearing about an area called perform -- pozar. ambulances have not been able to get to it. they got to the outskirts, they pulled some bodies. there could be a lot of casualties in that particular area. for now the ambulances are not going deep inside there. just to explain what kind of area we a

cnn's max foster joins us from london with more on that. hi, max. >> reporter: hi, carol.t's interesting, you know, because a lot of people suggesting yesterday that the blacks boxes aren't that important if they can prove that there was a missile attack on this plane because actually the black boxes just really give you information about what happened on board, and the best evidence will be on the ground about whether or not a missile attacked the plane, but it's interesting because the blacks boxes are becoming more and more important. uk security sources have told me today, carol, that all the evidence does point to the same conclusion that it was shot down boy an sa-11 surface-to-air missile launched by separatists operating in southern eastern ukraine, but also crucially there's also evidence that the site was tampered with. so the first thing they're going to be looking at with these boxes is were the boxes tampered with? they're not going to go straight into the boxes to get the information out of it. at this point the most crucial bit of evidence might be just to l

joining us from london to break this all down for us, howard wheeled a commercial and senior defenseu for being with us. it does seem that the european nation had a chance to make a strong, bold, aggressive statement against vladimir putin and russia and simply chose not to. >> yeah, i think you worded that very well. a lot of noise coming out of europe, particularly out of the uk and france, but actually not much bold action. nor do i think there will be. europeans are in a very, very difficult situation here, they want to take action, but actually in part of sanctions, their action is very small. it's a double-edged saw here. we require germany or certain parts places great emphasis on what they take from russia in terms of energy. so it's going to be very, very difficult for germany. france has to be very careful in not upsetting germany by pushing who hard. the uk, well, the uk on russia in terms of economic partnership is actually quite small. but we've got to be careful not to upset the european union. so it's politically very, very difficult. and i don't think we're going get

let's get more on the human rights situation in the country from bach radio opposition leader feel about jobs now joining us live from london very good to see you today thanks for joining us on r.t. international how is the protest movement fairing in bahrain. well the protest movement is so huge and so big and maybe like before more but unfortunately you hardly can hear about it in the international media because the gulf jeems could silence the international media could silence the international community frightening them with no business the countries like civilized country like european countries like united states government the heart of the you can see criticism on behind even in the media as you know media either owned by the ruling family in our region or influenced by the ruling family so unfortunately with the opposition that we have found in bahrain with the revolution that we have maybe it is the hugest and ten most percentage of the you just if you lucian you will ever seen in history but you will hardly see on t.v. and that's because of the impact of those ruling family of the money of the worth of the arms sa

. >> petula clark joins us from london today. what a treat for us. looking fabulous, my love. 40 hits in the u.s. in the '60s. i cannot believe this. you say you were totally swept up in this, and it took you by surprise that you made it so big in the u.s. >> well, yes, you know, i wasn't expecting it. i was living -- actually, i wasn't even living in the uk. i was living in france. i was married to a frenchman. i had two small children, big career going for me all over europe. and suddenly i recorded "downtown." and there it was. you know. it was great, but it kind of complicated my life, too, but it was a lovely complication. it was great. >> on behalf of america, i apologize for complicating your life so much. but you wrote a terrific op-ed on cnn.com where you basically say americans were going nuts for you for the brits during the british invasion. why do you think we were so addicted to what you guys had to offer? >> well, you know, the thing is that before all that, everything was going the other way. it was americans coming to the uk, you know, all the big stars were c

us in london. what are you learning? >> reporter: what we're hearing from the ukraine and prime minister, a bit more detail about the sort of investigation they want to see happen. they've already said, he says, formed their own governmental commission. they are appealing for an international investigation, not only of this, but also of the downing of an illusion 76. that's a large passenger cargo plane on the 14th of july, near that same area. and also the an-26 cargo plane on the 16th of july. they want all three incidents investigated together, of course, part of their broader narrative, something which the separatists may well be mind here. you pointed out this book missile system which many people are talking about. not something we have seen much of on social media. the separatists are very keen to parade their weaponry, lots of amateur video. they mostly have light artillery that's mobile, some rocket launcher systems. we haven't seen this. there is on social media and i say it's deeply unreliable, but there is a tweet reportedly claiming to have bee

that's our senior political analyst joining us from london. >>> norway has beefed up security across the country after being informed of an imminent threat of attack for people linked to fighters in syria. we go to felicity. >>> norway is on high alert. they say they received reliable information an attack could happen in days. rebecca singh has this report. >> reporter: officials deal with what they're describing as a concrete threat. >> translator: while researching this case, the information's credibility was strengthened. we also have information to success that any act of terrorism against norway may take place shortly probably within a few days. we have no information about who, how, what goal or the manner in which such a possible attack it planned. >> reporter: they do know who could be behind it, people with links to fighters in syria. it's believed about 50 people have traveled to syria from norway as foreign fighters, and many of them have now returned. news of a possible threat comes just days after norway's anniversary of attacks three years ago. eight people were kimmed

joining us from london to break this down is howard wheeldon a defense and aviation commentator. they are very dependent on russia for energy. france, in particular, very gent on russia for, say, shipments of two -- right now, two big ships they're trying to complete a deal on. did they just talk yesterday? was that a threat or was that real action? >> yes, i'm afraid lots of rhetoric, lots of cause for more sanctions. but very, very little action. and i don't think there will be a lot of action. you mentioned the energy -- the energy relationship, particularly germany and some other countries have with russia. it is important for them. therefore, france is in a difficult, more delicate position. not just on the fact that it's got a billion-dollar two helicopter landing ships it's been moving for russia. one of which is almost ready for delivery. that's a problem. but france doesn't want to upset germany. they're both members -- big members of the european union. they're both eurozone countries. and there you have britain which is outside the eurozone but in the e.u., it's callin

supports cost against austerity and government cuts well let's find out more from paul the boy who joins us live from london the were all the action is happening politics about the mood on the streets right now. well marine of the rather rowdy crowd that's gathered behind me is made up of public sector workers like teaches firefighters health care workers and transport workers and you can see quite a number of them have have gathered in central london despite the typically british summer weather that we're being graced with today and of course the overarching theme here and the issue is better working conditions and the top issue that is about pay now british public sector workers have experienced pay freezes over the past several years and twinned with the ever increasing cost of living well they say that it's just not a living wage that they're getting at the moment the money terribly much worse off than they were several years ago and they can get by on the money that they're being paid at the moment now a lot of the media focus about today's strike was also on teaches that of the books out today now the

atika shubert joins us from london. this one is unprecedented between friendly countries but it's kind of a one-two punch following the fact that we learned that angela merkel's cell phone, right, was bugged or monitored at some point by the u.s. >> well that's exactly it. germany was already angry at the fact that her phone appears to have been monitored, spied on by the u.s., this was revealed as part of the leaks by ed yard snowden, but then to have another two spying scandals on top of that, german officials that apparently gave over or sold secrets to the u.s. spying officials, that's what's really, really upset the germans. you can take a listen to what the german foreign minister had to say earl whier this morning and you can see how upset he is. take a listen. >> translator: our decision to ask the current representative of the u.s. intelligence services to leave germany is the right decision, a necessary step and fitting reaction to the breach of trust which has occurred. taking action was unavoidable, in my op

let's go to our diplomatic editor james bays joining us live from london.

she joins us from london. so how is joe feeling these days?> i thought he might be licking his loans. this is a big setback that he lost to his biggest competitor, general electric. actually, he was pretty leased. he did spend a lot of money hiring lawyers and bankers to put together this last-minute bc --having mr. mitsubishi putting a money of their own parent i asked him, and did youwere you actually see this as a strategic set? here is what he had to say. >> i was very serious from the very beginning about doing the best. we're seriously considering all of our options. we took one step at a time and that is pretty much what we wanted. >> you got what you wanted. did you see the outcome as a victory? and camek hard on it up with a great proposal superior to other proposals. >> is the deal with the train built -- business still in play? do not think so. it takes a lot of time and .specially a great partnership if the partner is not willing to partner and do one step at a --e, >> he says there the train deal, , thinking there still could be a

our expert on russia, ryan chilcote with us from london.urasia group also with us. or news in a moment. -- more news in a moment. ♪ >> if you've been watching for the past few minutes, you know we have been telling you about a malaysia airlines boeing 777 that has crashed in ukraine. 280 people are dead. at least 15 crew members as well. this is a tragedy. >> it has officially been confirmed at this point by malaysian air. confirmed that the plane is missing. they lost contact. the ukrainian interior ministry confirmed that the plane crashed and has supplied us with figures on the casualties. ares possible -- they accusing ukrainian rebels of shooting this plane down. it's a human tragedy. a human story. a political story, a diplomatic story. it's also a financial story. let's take you to olivia sterns. the minister saying on his facebook page am accusing rebels of shooting down this malaysian air flight. malaysian airlines has said they have lost contact of this flight . interfax reports that they have found wreckage burning on the ground

and understand what money actually means and of bins of all thank you so much for talking to us from sunny london today we really appreciate that as we know with the big wind it's a working progress is it as we always say. something everywhere isn't it has been a week of banking fines foes france's largest bank. agreed to pay a record nine point five billion dollars to u.s. prosecutors the settlement is over allegations that france's largest bank violated trade sanctions that were imposed against trade with sudan iran. was goldman sachs the u.s. bank was fined eight hundred thousand dollars by u.s. regulator full failing to ensure that trades in its don't took place at the best price on dollar pulls all trading areas that keep prices private but they're still expected to offer the best prices available on the u.k.'s barclays could be next the british bank is accused of falsifying documents missed representing benefits to clients including pension funds in response to the finding of the case shares of the bank dropped five percent. a month in russia then banking data will soon no longer be private

tom reed are joins us from london.en the world wakes up and realizes it needs russia's oil? >> i don't think the sanctions are short-term. these are long-term impacts. and we are likely to see a slowdown in growth rates .otentially russia has high technology costs companies to continue giving it technology to make sure that oil production doesn't start declining. it is also investing a lot of money in shale. and again, foreign technology will be crucial. but it does not take away anything from the short-term oil supplies and russia has continued to pump at 10 billion barrels -- 10 million barrels a day. said that, bear in mind that western technology companies are probably going to be a problem in the longer run. let's not forget a lot of chinese companies and asian companies are probably going to be willing to step up and fill that gap. it is not necessarily that dire a situation when it comes to oil supplies just yet. >> and yet, russia, the u.s., and saudi arabia all live for the top three spots. between the three o

ryan chilcote, joining us from london.ore on how the sanctions could impact does this is operating in russia and the russian economy, i want to turn back to nariman behravesh, chief economist at ihs. my biggest question -- he is also the author of "spin-free economics," either the way, so is a good perspective. do u.s.ion is when companies pull out, wash their hands of russia and walk away? >> to some extent, russian -- u.s. companies have already pulled out. russia, ub for this entire thing with crimea and the you -- even before this thing with crimea and the ukraine, they discouraged foreign companies coming in and doing business. they are protective of their resources. resource nationalism, if you will. the business environment has already discouraged u.s. companies from going back in, and they have not been doing that much. >> sure. >> once the whole thing with ukraine, the conflict started, the annexation of crimea occurred, you started to see capital leaving russia. we have had over $65 billion in capital leaving rus