joining us from london. what is your take on what's going on. the letter from 47 senators and now senator cruz saying any candidate who supports this deal -- we don't know if there's doing to be a deal -- would not necessarily be fit to be president? >> well i think it's really tragic. i've never seen in all of the years of following arms control agreements between the united states and the soviet union, similar agreements that have taken place with other countries around the world, i've never seen the entire opposition party unite and basically embarrass the country. america's reputation in the world suffered under bush a little bit under obama. but a lot of that is due to the perception that we can't work together the republicans and democrats. and the republicans harmed the country by showing this level of dysfunction to in this case our adversary, let alone our friend. i've never seen it like that and obviously there's a reason that both obama and the republicans think this agreement, if it happens, is a really really big deal. and that's wha

. >>> let's bring in our senior political analyst joining us from london. marr won, the joint military force, how significant is this. it wasn't announced in the final communique, but by abdul fatah al-sisi himself. >> this has been an abdul fatah al-sisi obsession for a while. he's been the engine behind it and convincing the saudis to do it because it's the saudis who will finance it. now that the saudis have intervened in yemen, they have another thought in mind intervening in egypt. when he talked about a need to fight terrorism and arm the libyan government that he supports. so there is an intention on the part of the general president abdul fatah al-sisi to speak of a joint military force, because at the end of the day the summit has been emphasising, underlining the military solutions and it has been only lip service paid to the important issues of development, democracy, and you wonder how the voice will work, because there's renewed solidarity. there's an of talk and a lot of slogans, and words are cheap. talk is cheep. the only accessible decision

i'm joined by the columnist and editor joining us live from london. ery good to have you with us on al jazeera. if i could start off by asking about the ongoing saudi-led airstrikes we've seen in yemen for the past two days now, do you think that they can bring the houthies to the negotiating table? >> well, they said yesterday they're not going through negotiations. whether in doha or in riyal. but as these military actions continue, i don't see any other option in front of the houthies but to go to the negotiation because today, for example the whole yemeni air is under the control of the coalition forces. like a longer time, very advanced aircraft, and do nothing but to change the direction of the fight the battles on the grouped. i couldn't see any reason why they cannot go to negotiation although he was trying last night to say that they are strong and they will fight to the end. there are some signs mr. saleh the form president, a very strong ahigh school ally of them. he gave a new initiative based on some points, one of them is to go to negotia

phil ittner joining us from london. >>> not justifying what russia has done in crimea and ukraine. sounds like he's trying to have it both ways. i'll challenge him next. our special coverage of the cold cold -- new cold war murder in moscow returns. in two minutes. the new road hazard >> i'm driving like a maniac >> you're distracted... >> techknow's team of experts show you how the miracles of science... >> this is my selfie... what can you tell me about my future? >> can effect and surprise us... >> don't try this at home >> techknow... where technology meets humanity... only on al jazeera america >> vladimir putin rules russia in ways most americans find repugnant but his job is not to please americans. that is one of the provocative points made by stephen kinzer, with the op ed, putin's push in ukraine is rational. visiting fellow at the watson institute for international studies. steven thank you for joining us. in this op ed you go on to write, quote before the united states sends weapons or military advisors to ukraine we should stop to consider how we would react if russia

phil ittner joining us from london. >>> not justifying what russia has done in crimea and ukraine. sounds like he's trying to have it both ways. i'll challenge him next. our special coverage of the cold cold -- new cold war murder in moscow returns. >> vladimir putin rules russia in ways most americans find repugnant but his job is not to please americans. that is one of the provocative points made by stephen kinzer with the op ed, putin's push in ukraine is rational. visiting fellow at the watson institute for international studies. steven thank you for joining us. in this op ed you go on to write, quote, before the united states sends weapons or military advisors to ukraine we should stop to consider how we would react if russia did that in mexico or canada. end quote. explain this to me, why are you defending putin? >> in the first place i'm not defending putin at all. i'm trying to understand his motives. i like to justify the world, where all states are legally equally and they don't interfere in each other's affairs. strategic depth, means you don't want to have your enemy ri

phil ittner joining us from london. >>> not justifying what russia has done in crimea and ukraine. sounds like he's trying to have it both ways. i'll challenge him next. our special coverage of the cold cold -- new cold war murder in moscow returns. >> call amy smith at work >> when we're behind the wheel >> basically we just don't multi-task as well as we think... >> are we focused on what's ahead? >> what could those misses mean? >> distracted driving... the new road hazard >> i'm driving like a maniac >> you're distracted... >> techknow's team of experts show you how the miracles of science... >> this is my selfie... what can you tell me about my future? >> can effect and surprise us... >> don't try this at home >> techknow... where technology meets humanity... only on al jazeera america >> at one time i felt that selling cocaine was my purpose. >> as the amount of drugs grew guns came in. >> murder rate was sky-high. >> this guy was the biggest in l.a. >> i was goin' through a million dollars worth of drugs every day. i liked it. it's hard to believe that a friend would set you

. >> our senior political analyst joining us from london. thank you. >> the al nusra front has captured the northern city of idlib. it is the second capital to be taken by the rebels. >> the syrian army is gone. and opposition fighters are now in control here. the city of idlib has been under the syrian government for most of this war. but after days of fighting it is the rebels who are now in charge. this fight was under taken by a newly formed coalition led by the al nusra front an al-qaeda affiliate and contains other groups. al jazeera spoke with a fighter in the city. >> al fattah is the main reason for the advance in idlib city. rebels have gotten rid of their names. all rebels are fighting under the one name of al fattah. >> celebrating in front of the governor's building, fighters film themselves in victory. this shows fighters returning home reuniting with their families after what they say is years on the battlefield. geographically idlib is significant. it connects the road from hama in the south to aleppo in the east and borders

let's bring in carolin roth who joins us from london. what can consumers expect in apple right now? >> reporter: good morning to you. according to these reports apple is talking to major broadcasters in u.s. to launch online tv service. a further shakeup of your tv viewing expierce in your living room. according to the reports that tv service that would include up to 25 channels including all the major broadcasters and you could view it on all of your apple devices. let's talk about apple pay. now "the new york times," and my colleague, he argues it's not just the fall of apple pay. it's also the banks that are to blame because once fraud is detected they're not dealing with it sufficiently by also they don't know enough about their customers. >> let's talk about pin tres also in the news today. that's always been a fascinating website to me because it allows people to focus so much on specific areas that i thought would be good for advertisers and target. apparently they are seeing a pretty big return on its investments. where does it sit now as far as valuation goes? >> reporter:

joining us there from london. thank you very much. >> egypt's highest court ruled that an article in the law regulating elections is unconstitutionalal. the decision could mean a delay in the poll. egypt has been without a parliament in june 2012 when the court disdeveloped the main chaum chamber. still to come. departing to a crucial and historical mission. >> the israeli prime minister flies to the united states on a controversial speech to the nuclear demand. >> coming up we find out why business in pakistan live -- business men here live in fear that a member of their family will be kidnapped. >> and the first trophy of the soccer season. andy here with that story >>> now, here in qatar, n.a.t.o. is hosting an international conference on how to control weapons of mass destruction. the meeting coming a month before the u.n. hosts to reach a deal to shore up nonproliferation commitments. arms controls are facing new changes across the globe. >> at the army day parade in moscow participants showed up with a mack

this morning, a piece from "the washington post" with the headline -- joining us from london, england, your take on all of this from across the pond. caller: oh, hi. i think it is quite strange for the republicans. i am sitting here in london i don't see what the policies are and they seem to be obsessed with obama. everything he says and does is opposite to what they say. they just say no, they have no policies at all. what is the republican policy and their vision? what are their policies? they don't seem to come up with anything at all. what is their vision for america in the next war years? guest: this is something that jeb bush, the former florida governor and rand paul, have talked a lot about on the trail. they say, look, we cannot be the party of no, we have to be a party of ideas. marco rubio laid out his visions in a book. they say the same thing. as peter points out, the biggest thing they talk about is how they are not obama and they do different things than obama. this is an open seat and they are trying to appeal to republicans. we have not heard the vision thing yet, la

randy loeffler joining us from london. that does it -- francine lacqua joining us from london.for in the loop. his comments closely watched as he introduces one of the strong as providers. have a great day. >> this is market makers with erik schatzker and stephanie ruhle. >> russia at a crossroads, the murder of an anti-putin politician has many pointing their fingers right at the kremlin. >> republican rebels handed house speaker john boehner a humiliating defeat. can he get that homeland security bill passed? >> one billion viewers but no profits, we will see what

let's bring in geoff cutmore who joins us from london. we were talking about how all of us sat around the table making fun of steve jobs when he paraded out the i pad. we said who would want that in we don't get that. >> this is different. >> it's not. >> we have been debating. and you just saw after the i pod. the stock went down after after the i pad, people were mocking steve jobs. we had his boyographer here saying he was broken hearted that night looking at the terrible reviews and now it's revolutionized everything. are we doing it again with the watch? >> reporter: you never write apple off but will this be the product that gets apple over the big trillion dollar market cap number here and that's really the question. it's the pricing of this product, i think rather than the features that has people scratching their head here. the base model, the sports model comes in at $349. that's a chunk of change by anybody's math and as you look at the different models, the gold version at $10,000 and way up to $17,000. this is priced like an

middle eastern history at cambridge united states and president of libya analysis.com and joins us from london you for being with us and can you tell us a little more about this tripoli force, who is backing them and who is funding this force and the government there? >> well since about august 2014 we've had two rival governments in libya and this had to do with the malitias which call themselves libya dawn concurring tripoli, kicking out the elected parliament to tobruk and establishing their own pseudo government. however, as time has gone on they controlled more territory and become more institutionalize institutionalized and got support from turkey qatar and sudan and in the last few months we have seen this conflict in the oil crescent region and that is the region to the east of cert and west of benghazi because these troops know that the oil wealth can be used by the tobruk government against them so they are trying to either destroy it or deny it to their enemies. >> right now you have been calling this a proxy conflict you have just told us that the government in tripoli is backed by

greg palkot joins us from london with the latest. >> tom, the word from officials is that they're gettingseful information from the first black box, a voice data recorder that they have recovered from the crash site. this as recovery teams that site. they're finding that not only the plane basically disintegrated and are in bits. the bodies of victims are broken up. 150 victims from that crash. the voice recordings they're not examining should explain this mystery why the plane went into a descent of ten minutes why there were no maydays from the pilots. victims from all over the world. angela merkel. as you mentioned three from america, including a mother and a daughter. the families of these and other victims now are going into their long wait. it is expected that it will take days before all the bodies are recovered from this very treacherous site. also weeks before they're all identified. one more thing, tom, they're still looking for that second black box, the data recorder. they think they found a casing, but they haven't found the mechanical stuff inside. very important stuff. back

mark: deborah aiken joining us from london. thank you so much. enjoy your weekend. madness is in full swing. so is the bloomberg backward -- racket. -- the bloomberg bracket. ♪ mark: remember, you can watch us live wherever you are on bloomberg tv on roku players and android tv streaming for free. march madness is upon us, along with the short-lived hope of filling out that perfect bracket. we brought together a group of titans from finance to take their best shot at our bloomberg bracket. each participant has donated -- has donated $10,000 with the pot going to the winner's charity of choice. you can follow along on bloomberg.com/charitybracket. it is time for today's latin america report. berg weiss air force says -- uruguay's air force says an argentine airplane -- it had taken off from the airport which served the two worst city of -- tourist city. up next encore. your guide to the biggest newsmakers of this past week on "bottom line." ♪ mark: welcome back to let's get you the top stories we are following on this friday. greece is running out of cash. the countr

he joins us from london. thank you for joining us. we were getting response from israelis and it seems to be divided. what is your response as a palestinian? >> thank you for having me. >> first of all, i won't call what happened in congress a speech. it was a performance. and what a performance it was. mr binyamin netanyahu used it to show how close iran is to a nuclear bomb. yesterday he had props that he kept flipping. he had two elderly gentlemen fighting in his corner that he produces. it was a performance. if you notice from the beginning, when he came to the podium the speaker of the house drew his attention that his tie was not strait. that was the only straight thing. he's a masterful performer, what do you make of the way he dealt with the u.s. and the recession there. well he came to an audience that was compliant and receptive. he is the master puppet ear. the puppets - they are terrified out of their wits that iran is a danger to international security and to the americans. the message there is that if you don't do what is

. >> joining us now is the former a visor to the last three prime ministers. he is live from londonank you so much for being on al jazeera. this is the most significant attack -- the most deadly attack to happen in sana'a since the houthis took power. what do you make of this escalating violence? >> well the whole overall scene is very grim all across yemen. they are obviously trying to divide the yemenese sects in general, and then there are people who are trying to make some gains from such escalation of sectarian violence between sadies, and houthis in yemen. the perpetrators i think, and the people behind them are very much linked to those who are now making a profit of this incident, and are trying to escalate and push the whole country over the rocks, you know. >> who are these people that you are referring to that are trying -- as you say -- to push yemen towards a civil war? >> first on the top -- amongst -- amongst all of them is the former dictator who thinks he can hold the world at ransom and push the whole country down a very steep slide towards anarchy, and complete di

mark: david powell joining us from london and hans nichols in berlin. thank you so much. up next, ted cruz tosses his hat into the 2016 u.s. presidential race will stop we will bring in our chief washington correspondent, peter cook, with analysis. ♪ mark: welcome back. let's get you to some of the stories we are following. the fate of radioshack made -- may be decided at a bankruptcy auction today. standard general has teamed up with sprint and has proposed saving 1700 radioshack shows -- radio stack -- radioshack stores. the back rooms the judge will make that decision. vivendi has rejected an activist investor's call to spin off its music business. it was suggested vivendi spin off universal music. vivendi says it will examine another proposal to raise the dividend. that's a look at the top stories we are following on this monday. coming up, alan bjerga has the latest study on honeybee deaths. a roundtable discussion as march madness hits the sweet 16. and the retail winners and losers from the west coast port dispute. ted cruz is in. the freshman senator from texas la

and christiane amanpour will join us from london. we also have a fellow from the center of middle east politics at the brookings institution. i want to start with you, wolf. when benjamin netanyahu began his speech he said that the united states and israel's alliance is stronger than ever. i want to play a bit of that sound and then ask you a question after. let's listen. >> reports of the demise of the israeli/u.s. relations is not only premature, they're just wrong. [ applause ] you're here to tell the world that our alliance is stronger than ever. >> wolf i got to tell you, as i listened to the rest of his speech i got the feeling that benjamin netanyahu doesn't really believe that. what did you take away from that? >> he clearly disagrees with the president of the united states on these negotiations with iran to try to end its nuclear program. he made it clear. he thanked the president for economic support, military support, intelligence support. he said there were certain things that the united states has done for israel. he coul

our atika shubert is digging into this story and is joining us from london. o speed on what happened. >> reporter: well, the prime minister has said that 19 people have been killed in this attack. but that number is likely to rise. a number of people were evacuated, wounded to nearby hospitals. some of them critically. so we're keeping a watch on that. but what we understand happened was that around mid-morning, at least two gunmen stormed the bardo museum, which is connected to the country's parliament. they then opened fire on

the emergency field director for the international committee joins us from london. thank you for talking to us. you talk about how the lights have gone out. if anything the situation is getting worse. talk us through what your teams are experiencing on the ground. >> well my organization and others are seeing what 80% of lives see on the ground it is schools closed because schoolsar attacked. it's going back to the dark aims. this was a country with so much potential and what we recognised as modern life. they have lost so much. >> what do you think can realistically be done. do you agree that the u.n. let the syrians down that they could do more, it is in their hands. >> there's two resolutions to try to get aid into syria. the international community does not have the will to enforce the resolutions. there's an increase from 2.3 million over 4.8 million in total in hard to reach areas, meaning they get aid once a month. it is not acceptable. the u.n.'s security council resolutions do not translate to action on the ground. there's more the community can do. aid org

. >> thank you very much, our senior political analyst joining us from london there. >> to syria now where rebel groups led by the al-qaeda-linked al nusra frowned has taken idlib after five days of intense fighting. idlib is the second provincial capital to be controlled. >> the syrian army is gone, and opposition fighters are now in control here. the city of idlib has been under the syrian government for most of the war. but it's the rebels who are now in charge. if fight is under taken by newly formed coalition led by the al nusra front and includes other groups. al jazeera spoke to a fighter in the city. >> the main reason for advance in the city. rebels got rid of brigades names. all rebels are fighting under the one name of al fattah. >> celebrating in front of the governor's building, fighters are in victory. they make it quick to make it on the superintendent. this shows fighters returning home reuniting with their families after what they say is years on the battlefield. idlib is significant. it connects the home from hama to aleppo and borders turkey to the north. close to

amy kellogg thank you for bringing it to us from london.s. >> wisconsin governor scott walker facing more press scrutiny. why the media is focussing on the potential white house candidate, his reaction plus our media panel will weigh in and getting amtrak back on the right track. a new plan in the works to clean up the tax funded railroad and run it like a profitable business. leah: right now a quick look what's still to come this hour of "happening now." it's not just march madness for basketball fans. wall street also beering up. -- gearing up. why investors keep close eye on the markets as the nasdaq inches towards 5000. >>> mysterious tunnel near the pan am games. police know who built it and why. >>> new efforts to hire border patrol agents. we'll meet women taking on this important task. jon: lots of eyes on potential republican candidates for the white house right now. wisconsin governor scott walker is getting a big share of the attention. he sat down with chris wallace to discuss that over the weekend. >> you have taken some heat r

. >> our royal correspondent max foster joins us from london. how exciting.them. they are running up to their tenth wedding anniversary. i think he wanted to talk about her and support that she's given him but also the context here is that she was deeply unpopular ten years ago when they got married. even more unpopular before that. and gradually the british public has warmed to her and i think he felt like this was a time to stortstart talking about her. he rarely gives anything personal away. this is about him opening up and trying to make the world know what she's really like and what she means to him. >> that's kind of lovely. why do you think that the public in britain is warming to camilla? is it because of prince charles, passage of time or does the princess have something to do with it? >> it's interesting. she's always compared with diana and so many of the world was in love with diana and camilla was the other woman. she's had to overcome that. in the '90s, there was an aggressive spin strategy in the palace trying to convince people they should lik

. >> michael thank you very much for speaking to us from london. >>> flooding is hitting harvest seasonral argentina. at least 11 people were killed earlier this month. and millions of dollars of crops were washed away including soya. as daniel schreiber reports, massive deforestation may be to blame. >> reporter: every house is ruined, all residents evacuated, staying for now in the neighboring town. there were similar scenes across the north of argentina earlier this month as more rain fell in a few hours than normally calls in weeks. >> translator: when the water goes down i don't know what we'll do. i don't know if they will give us loans. >> reporter: one of the crops he lost was his soya harvest, the crop that covers more than 60 million hectors of argentina. but to make way for the soya huge swathes of native forest had to be cleared. where have all of the trees gone in these vast and very lucrative soya fields some way only exacerbate the flooding causing great suffering for many for the benefit of a few. soya production in argentina rose 126% in a decade most of it for export t

. >> sir tony brenton is joining us from london. he is also the former british ambassador to russia. i wanted to ask you, first of all, what do you make of the fact that one of thets suspects these suspects is a former chechen police officer? >> not that surprising. they are places where the gap between the police and the criminal fraternity are not that wide. >> well, i'm wondering if they are from that area, what would the motivation be to kill nemtsov? because nemtsov was an opposition leader. a lot of us look at this and think would they not have been essentially on the same side, nemtsov and these -- this chechen -- and the folks in the north caucuses, or is it nor complicated than that? >> i don't think that is really the way to look at it. i would guess -- obviously, i don't know -- but if you're shopping for a hit man in russia today is the place you go is the north chechen in particular where lots of outlawry and guns for fire. my guess is if these guys did it were probably hired by someone further back, rather than themsel

. >> daniel, good talking to you daniel levy joining us from london. >> while there were no savings to be made, there's still concern at the way the moneying being spent. we explain. >> a night in watching t.v., but in the nigeria capitol you can't take anything for granted. left fulling mr. in the darkness, the blackouts happen all the time. it isn't just t.v. affected. >> you cannot store basic food things in the freezer anymore. you have to buy food items on a daily basis to cook. >> nigeria's energy system is dysfunctional. billions have been spent trying to provide basic power to people in a country that's full of oil but a mixture of corruption and disorganization has left huge numbers without guaranteed supplies. in london, the british government has been watching all this with interest. its ministry with responsibility for aid hired a company to help sort out nigeria's energy problem. rather than offer aid they proposed that nigeria's energy sector should be sold off to private investors. >> the whole series of reforms were required. about $100 billion is required to expand the

cnbc's geoff cutmore joins us life from london. what can you tell us about this potential major deal? >> reporter: it seems the appetite for processed cheese in america is flagging. i think that tells you an awful lot about why kraft is on the table right now. i don't know whether you guys are just getting healthier, but it seems that the maker of mac and cheese is seeing flagging sales growth right now, and 3g opportunistically looking at this business and saying, you know what, there are some brands in here that would work quite well with the heinz stable. they're looking at a $40 billion deal here and cued us to the "wall street journal" for breaking this one. keep your eye open for this big processed cheese deal to get done. >>> moving you along, fascinating nusz for google here. they're getting a new cfo. it looks like it's going to be ruth pour rhett, once described as the most powerful woman on wall street. she was the cfo of morgan stanley. she comes into google at a time when people are scratching their head a little bit an

our atika shubert is digging into this story and is joining us from london. atika, bring us up to speed on what happened. >> reporter: well the prime minister has said that 19 people have been killed in this attack. but that number is likely to rise. a number of people were evacuated, wounded to nearby hospitals. some of them critically. so we're keeping a watch on that. but what we understand happened was that around mid-morning, at least two gunmen stormed the bardo museum which is connected to the country's parliament. they then opened fire on tourists as they were disembarking from a bus. and as you can imagine, it sent everybody in the area into a panic. you can see those pictures there of people inside the museum that were trapped there, trying to escape. security there was also trying to usher tourists out of the area. the gunmen also then went into the museum and took a number of people hostage. the stand-off went on for about two hours. ultimately though however, security officials ended up killing two gunmen and say the operation is over in the area.

and joining us from london mary schiavo, aviation analyst for cnn.hat's your bottom-line conclusion based on what we know right now, mary about those final eight minutes and that relatively slow descent? what does this sound like to you? >> to me -- this is based on prior crashes and accidents that i've worked on. it does sound like some sort of a decompression or some other event that incapacitated the pilots. the b.e.a. representative was very careful with his words. but he has to be because of the families. they hang on every word from the investigators. but it was clear that he said from the roughly two hour and ten minute tape on the voice recorder he does have voices. but they're sorting them out. it almost looks like a movie script when they're done because they will put into the final transcript the radar information that they have and any kind of recordings from the air traffic control tower and flow control and flight control. even if they don't have the data recorder they will at least have a running transcript and they will only release i

amnesty international's singapore researcher, thank you very much, joining us from london there. >>> now, let's get some of the financial success stories from singapore. aaron is here with all the numbers. and it's beyond dispute at just how quickly this country rose. >> kasia, it was just poof like that. but astonishing numbers we've put together. i'll show you. thanks very much. hello there. as you've certainly been hearing, the founding prime minister of singapore, lee kuan yew, has died but during his three decades in power, he masterminded his country's transformation from a small fishing port to a regional financial hub and technology powerhouse. in 1960 singapore's gdp was less than $1 billion. in 2014 take a look at that. it was just under $300 billion. in 1960 the country's gdp per capita was $427 per person in 2013, it was that. look at that $55,000 per person. by any measure, this is an astonishing success story. so how did he do it? well, business-friendly economic policies, easy regulations, and low taxes, which certainly helped to attract massive investment. we're going

. >> abdul joins us from london via skype. why is is ill destroying this iraqi history?because they are applying the most literal interpretation of islam in our history, and those people actually consider this kind of heritage unlawfully and unislamic, and they are saying that the prophet? >> mohammed, destroyed all of the statues when he managed to open mecca. they are trying to say we are following our ancestors, the prophet, mohammed but this kind of heritage was there for 2000 years, and the empire the turkish empire they timidlyouched them. this kind of interpretation of islam is completely unacceptable. >> it's certainly not a view shared by the muslim cleric. we heard him calling this destruction a heinous crime. >> i believe those people would likely say look, you know we have our different interpretations, and they are looking for publicity. they know that this kind of distraction will attract the media's attention and they are doing so. we witnessed one incident like this when the taliban blown up their stages of buddah in afghanistan. so maybe they are followi

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research on war and conflict who specializes in boko haram and lectures at the university joining us live from london good to have you with us on al jazeera. we will get to the election the main issues of the selection. what is at stake for nigeria,? just a moment. but if i could start off by asking you how worrying is it just days before this much-anticipated election two al jazeera journalists who are probably accredited to cover it who had been embedded with the military have been arrested? >> well, it should be worrying particularly going to the fact that this is one election that everyone in the world has its eyes on nigeria. and it is expected -- everyone wants it to be a very credible free and fair election. world leaders have called that it is free and fair. and now we're having this kind of interference from the military. and given the fact that the opposition have been complaining that there is an attempt to use the military as a power of the imcouple banaci to weaken the of situation. this could be seen as a [ inaudible ] to that. >> oak. so let's get to the main -- to the election now, ma

joins us live from london. mark welcome to the program. we'll talk about the possibilities of the nuclear deal in just a moment. what about the sideways many diplomacy? >> it's vital to keep the members of the council informed of the negotiations. they have been very worried and skeptical that the united states might make a deal behind their backs. that's highly unrealistic but the united states has to bend over backwards to reassure the saudis. it's a good thing that john kerry in saudi arabia right now. >> major gaps, probably somewhat of an understatement isn't it? >> well, i think it's fairly accurate. they are close. they are closer than i thought they would be. i've been pessimistic that iran would be willing to accept the kind of limits that would allow for this one year breakout period so they couldn't rush to produce material for a bomb before one year. but it appears that they have agreed to those conditions, a couple of weeks ago in munich they made some major concessions. agreeing on the limits got over what i thought was the m

okay, we will wait and see what the results bring, for now thank you very much for speaking to us from londonhank you for having me. >>> nigeria military detained two al jazeera journalists in the north. and were embedded with the military before they were detain detained and held if their hotel since tuesday. al jazeera is demanding their release. here is what is coming up, on the news hour how bombs which can't be seen are another dangerer in the fight for northern iraq. and freedom of religion and freedom to discriminate, the debate in the u.s. over a controversial new law. and in sport we will hear from australia cricket captain as the country celebrates the fifth world title. ♪ but first the syrian government has reportedly sent one of its top military commanders to recapture idlib and coalition of rebel factions took control of the area after four days of fighting and it's the second provincial capitol to fall into opposition hands and the city is close to a major highway that links the capitol damascus with aleppo and syrian refugees need aid with resources dwindling fast and increasin

we really want to know -- fox sports one correspondent peter schrager, and kenny white joining us from london what are you doing there? >> i am -- well, it's top secret. i really can't let you know that. no, we're investigatorring into maybe having the epl on hot roster, but i will be back in vegas wednesday night for the tournament starting on thursday. the best four days you could possibly spend anywhere if you're a sports enthusiast, the first four days of the tournament. liz: it is truly unbelievable, kenny. what is the spread, what are you looking at -- i know that's not even the right word, the bets? because everybody's got their own little brackets here, right? >> everyone has a bracket, and i would say it's probably close to 80 million people will fill out a bracket this weekend. and i think on average, i think most people spend about $20 and maybe fill out two brackets on average, about $20 a bracket. the favorite is kentucky. they're even money to win six in a row, finish the season 0-0. -- 40-0. hasn't happened since 1976 with the university of indiana. liz: hasn't happened since '

keir simmons joins us from london.social media surrounding this. >> that's right, it caught online for sure but now the mystery in moscow we are seeing video of the president putin meeting the president of kurdistan. had to apologize for suggesting that meeting had already happened. happened. i guess little wonder there's been so much intrigue. where is putin trending on twitter, rumors that his girlfriend former gymnast had been having a baby. another suggestion a coup was under the way, following the putin critic shot dead walking with his ukrainian girlfriend in the center of moscow. >> the kremlin is opaque centralized, know little about what's going on. >> reporter: the likely explanation, the leader has the flu, fighting a different kind of cold war. one russian newspaper cartoon picturing him in bed. u.s. officials tell nbc news putin is believed to be under the weather. his image as strong man even in past comedy sketches protected at all cost. >> vlad it is barack. been trying to call you all day, where you be

. >> thank you for joining us from london. >> you are welcome, thank you. ♪ vote counting has resumedria's closely contested presidential election and early results showing the military man buhari edged ahead of the incumbent goodluck jonathan and voting in 36 states and the capitol abuja and counted in 18 states and 10 states went to buhari and 8 voted for jonathan. and buhari leads in over all votes the number of votes doesn't settle the election and yvonne is joining us from the capitol abuja and yvonne is watching the results come in and will tell us first of all what else it takes then yvonne to win this election? >> reporter: well, not only will the winner have to score the majority of votes nationally the winner of this race will also have to get at least 25% of the vote in at least 24 of nigeria's 36 states, that is according to the constitution. now, if the incumbent president goodluck jonathan fails to do that if the main opposition challenger buhari fails to do that they will have to face a runoff and it will be the first time in 16 years since nigeria became a democracy th

thanks for joining us from london this morning just pass 7:40 there.te it. >>> and we are, of course still following the breaking news out of ferguson missouri where two police officers were shot, one shot in the shoulder, one in the face. we will be speaking to an eyewitness to the protest right after this break. stay with us. [ male announcer ] you wouldn't leave your car unprotected. but a lot of us leave our identities unprotected. nearly half a million cars were stolen in 2012, but for every car stolen 34 people had their identities stolen. identity thieves can steal your money, damage your credit and wreak havoc on your life. why risk it when you can help protect yourself from identity theft with one call to lifelock, the leader in identity-theft protection? lifelock actively patrols your sensitive, personal information every second of every day, helping to guard your social security number, your bank accounts and credit, even the equity in your home -- your valuable personal assets. look. your bank may alert you to suspicious activity on your cr

nbc's kelly has the latest for us from london. >> that's right. one of the flight's black boxes may not have been sending out an emergency signal underwater because of an expired battery, according to a report. the battery in the beacon should have been replaced in 2012 more than a year before the flight took off. the report blames a glitch in maintenance records. that may have made it tougher to find flight 370. crews are still scanning the southern indian ocean for the wreckage. no sign yet. the battery in the second black box was up to date and it's beacon should have been working. both black boxes still should have recorded data. another interesting note in that report, along with the 237 passengers and crew on board, the report says the flight was carrying 500 pounds of lithium icon batteries, cargo that never went through security screening. the report however, sheds no new light on why the plane went down or where the wreckage might be. >> thank you. >>> in wisconsin, emotions are running high after police shot and killed an unarmed black t

. >> aeshingsz's senior political analyst is with us live from london.hat are the chances of this saudi-led coalition achieving it's mission of getting the houthis out of sanaa? >> this will be a very very difficult challenge. one thing is to bomb bard those positions from air to destroy the heavy armory and to attack the military basis. when it comes to urban populated areas like sanaa, like aden, and as we have seen in other places like syria, iraq and lebanon and so on, moving forces on the ground is very difficult, getting the houthis out of places like sanaa is going to be a challenge. and i suspect that the saudis and their allies are hoping that enough strategic pressure will be -- will be put on the houthis and their patrons in tehran in order to go back to the negotiations table instead of going in to a full-fledged civil war in yemen. >> this operation, though is just the kind of thing, isn't it that the arab league is looking at when it says its going to set up this unity force. >> well, you know one thing that different soldiers from differen

. >> atika shubert live for us from london. atika, thank you so much. >>> we are also following some breaking news at this hour. an arrest has been made in the death threats against u.s. ambassador caroline kennedy. a lot of questions, so let's get straight to anna coren live in tok tokyo. what are you learning now? >> reporter: a manmade thr made phone calls threatening a bomb. and 28,000 u.s. troops stationed. as far as these calls are made, they were made this month. local media reports, people still refuse to confirm that 30 calls have been made to the u.s. embassy, specifically against caroline kennedy. the u.s. ambassador to japan who's been on the job for 16 months. she is widely respected and admired. and security, as you can imagine, at an all-time high since these threats have come to light. obviously, more so after the attack on the u.s. ambassador to south korea, mark lippert a few weeks ago in which a crazed man yielding a knife slashed his face and arm. the ambassador required stitches. in light of that, security

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. >> al jazeera's senior political analyst joins us live from london. is this a force being put together for yemen? >> well, this is a force or the idea for a force have been floating around for a while. it started with egyptian president sisi and later on especially now in light of yemen, supported by saudi arabia. of course the egyptian president is first and foremost a general and he tends to see the problems of egypt both internal and external through military prism so even the very own problem with the muslim brotherhood with the situation he saw from military prisms and now is looking elsewhere in the region and proposing simply military solutions and notably, the formation of a joint arab force. how will this be done, who will finance it, is it even probable in terms of logistical operation. >> there isn't a lot of agreement on some of the other issues and conflicts. does this become a force to really introduce arab consensus and move military consensus into the battlefield or is it a common vehicle for each state to carry out its own military in

mark: deborah aiken joining us from our london bureau. thank you so much. stay with us.ine" continues in just a moment. ♪ mark: mark: get the latest headlines at the top of the hour on bloomberg radio and streaming on your tablet and on bloomberg.com. that does it for this edition of "bottom line." thank you for joining us. on the markets with scarlet fu is next. scarlet: it is 56 past the hour. boomer television is on the markets. -- bloomberg television is on the markets. u.s. stock indexes attempting to stage a rebound from this morning's losses after three straight days of decline. we are not quite there yet. the momentum stocks are snapping back from yesterday's plunge. hanging in the balance is the year-to-date performance. the s&p 500 briefly erased its 2015 gain, but is now higher. the dow is still off by .6%. only the nasdaq solidly higher. today's economic data on jobless claims and consumer confidence did top analyst estimates but the broader trend of late has been manufacturing and housing that fail to live up to market expectations. what does that mean for i

nbc's bill neeley now joins us from london with the latest.ois hollande has confirmed there are no survivors expected on that a-320 airbus run by germanwings. it was 42 minutes into a flight from barcelona to dusseldorf in germany when all contact was lost at 6,800 feet. that is an area of the french alps and debris has been spotted in that area. the plane is believed to be in a crevasse in the mountainside. inaccessible from roads. so even if there were survivors, it would be very very difficult for search and rescue teams to access that plane. however, in an area like that it is quite possible that within the next few days the flight recorders will be recovered. because at the moment there is no real clue as to why the plane crashed. the weather was perfectly normal light winds, light cloud but no thunderstorms, no bad weather reported at all. the pilot did send out a distress signal and the plane then went down descended from 38,000 feet. and descended at a rate of about 3,000 to 4,000 feet a minute. now, that sounds quite dramatic but it i

he spoke exclusively this morning with francine lacqua who's with us from london.ascinating story. what is it that he says he can prove? >> i spoke to him for 50 minutes and tried to get exactly from him how he knew this was true. we talk about hsbc and the swiss authorities and what really came out of the interview is that he said he can prove hsbc management new of these alleged tax abuses. >> i can prove and explain that the top management is aware and was aware of the problem that was faced by the private bank generally. i'm really surprised at the top management of hsbc are not even trying to know what it is about -- they don't even try to get insights that they did not even get from their own way to receive information. >> we did try to get him to identify any bank executive but he declined to describe the evidence he had, only saying that none of the documents were signed by top management but he said the files provided logical proof stop what that means, i don't know, but it could be some kind of software that was bought or the software that was set up. eri

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