for more on this and the rest of the business headlines, jeff is live for us in london. good morning. >> good morning to you, brian. it's interesting, isn't it? even as markets may have wobbled in june, ceo pay continues to rise. interesting piece in "the new york times," citing an assessment of 200 ceos. $15.1 million. that is a 16% jump over 2011. that's the pay for 2012. they continue to pat themselves on the back. not slowing down that rate of compensation. elsewhere, the nfl stepping out of the obama care program. saying we do not want to be one of six organizations on the sporting front that are promoting this health care program, where young men would take up private health insurance. effectively, that's the perfect target market for the insurance sector. the nfl coming under pressure from republicans saying we will not participate now. this is two partisan an issue, brian. >> it's a fun parlor game in the summer to watch the summer movies and see how they do in the box office. a lot of good news out of hollywood. but a lot of it has to do with international sales,

want to check in with jeff live for us in london. jeff, what's the latest for the federal reserve. >> good morning to you, thomas. will they are won't they? that was the at the heart of investors' minds s the fed to get on the hurry on the tapering process? 50/50. there is a split on the council about how quickly we start removing some of this bond purchasing program. nen ben bernanke came out and offered good words. we got a relief rally off of the back of that. hedge funds are going to start advertising. . the s.e.c. has given the green light for hedge funds to start marketing directly to potential clients. they will put in place some protection, though, you'll have to be acredited investor with a sophisticated view of where you put your money. that's what the s.e.c. decided. >>> there was something rotten at the core of apple's e-book story, now they have decided that they did conspire with five publishers to set e-book prices higher than they should have been, apple facing hundreds of millions in fines potentially over this story

after all the fuss, it doesn't matter because, scott, it's a boy. >> pelley: mark phillips for us in london tonight. mark, thank you very much. a frenzied crowd mobbed a motorcade carrying pope francis in rio de janeiro today. police say the motorcade took a wrong turn and drove the pope into a bottleneck. this is the first day of the argentine pope's return to his home continent, a seven-day tour of brazil. the pope wasn't hurt today but the scenes looked alarming. dean reynolds is covering the trip for us tonight. dean? >> reporter: scott, the pope received a welcome that went way past warm and all the way to downright scary at times as he wound his way from the airport through the st through the streets here in rio. he declined the heavily protected and more familiar popemobile for the more modest fiat van which is unprotected and that proved so attractive a gesture that he was literally mobbed by well wishers thrusting their arms through his open passenger window and grabbing at his vestments. the motorcade route was apparently changed by the federal police here and the local authoritie

by the way, nird line to the throne behind charles and william. >> jim maceda, live for us in london. >>> president obama set to launch a major campaign to refocus the nation on his vision for the economy. he'll do it later this week. the president is expected to get out ahead of several major fiscal battles that are coming up this fall including the debt ceiling and the budget. the tour begins wednesday at knox college in illinois. the site where he first laid out his economic vision as a senator in a commencement address in 2005. the speeches are expected to offer broad strokes but very few new proposals. they are expected to touch on health care, housing, college and the strengthening of the middle class which are familiar themes from his presidential campaign. >>> when it comes to detroit when you crunch the numbers, it's a dauntsing equation. the largest american city to enter bankruptcy is $18 billion in debt. nearly one-third of it owed to retiree health care alone. michigan governor rick snyder who said in 2011 he'd not let the city fall into bankruptcy now says there is no ot

check in with karen cho live for us in london. >> record numbers on wall street on friday. we may see more support for stacks today, after the gdp numbers from china. 7.5% was the level of growth for the second quarter. but the headline this week is going to be what ben bernanke says. he'll be speaking again. but this time to the house services committee. he moved markets when he reassured investors about the timing of tapering. we have nearly one-third of the dow reporting and 75 companies on the s&p 500, the likes of coal cola, goldman sachs, morgan stanley, microsoft. some of the big ones to watch out for. apple is also in focus. this is a continuation of the story about the company's declining fortunes. the likes of verizon wireless, one of the carriers that's made huge commitments in selling apple devices. it's forked out about $45 billion over the next couple of years in anticipation. it seems as though sales are falling short. so, there are suggestions this is because of the popularity of other devices. the ramifications here, though, are down the track, it may not s

of damaging their reputation let's talk about this with investigative journalist tony goes to use in london what possible reason could have to have turned a sort of blind eye to this for what appears to be six years. well it's an incredible story is kevin isn't it back in the one nine hundred seventy s. we heard the the flying squad as they were at the time from scotland yard were rather too friendly with london's criminal gangs from the stand and used to spend rather too much time down the pub drinking with them i get the feeling that's what's going on here with the serious organized crime agency now because this is a very serious inquiry they've done actually two inquiries one from saka project riverside and another one from the information commission which is called project baird but what's essentially going on is it's quite clear that the hacking inquiry which lord leveson conducted is just the tip of the iceberg there's a massive industry and out there of criminals actually what they're doing is proposing is private investigators hacking into lots of databases mostly government databas

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us. in london this evening cnn's richard quest. in washington, cnn's rene marsh. in seoul, south korea diana magne. here in new york with me is dr. todd curtis an aviation expert. also robert francis, an ntsb investigator and the former vice chair of the ntsb. mr. curtis, to you first. i spoke to mr. francis about the people fanned out on the air field looking for he said parts of the airplane and other things as well. standard operating procedure. >> that is. there is no telling what piece may be critical for the investigation and you want to go out and collect as much as you can before weather, winds, water, what have you makes those pieces hard to find. >> mr. francis, we just heard from san francisco that two runways have been reopened now. does that seem pretty par to you that something of this magnitude, many people would be surprised that the airport would be back up and running even if it's just two runways at this point? >> i think that's normal. they've got delays, major delays already. the runways are separated enough so that they'll be able to use the

distaning in our guests froa joining us from a studio in london. is morsi now a figure of the past, as he finished, is he not part of the future? >> i think he is about the past and the present and the future. without acknowledging that morsi >> you need to change her mind if they become part of the process, don't you? >> of course. we did mistakes and we can change our mind when we see something. what happened now, we have in the table. we have seen nothing. we may think of that. is demolishing everything and it seems like that will not happen. >> any deal in this compromise will reflect the balance of power. the brothers can play the mobilization game and play the elections game but the two other game, the political violence game and the institution game is against them. the two is the balance of it. what catherine ashton can do -- there are initiatives out there. president morsi should come out and say he gives his powers to the prime minister and the prime minister would call on parliamentary elections. >> let's get back to the studio. thank yo

attica shubert live for us in london. natalie. >>> george w. bush is weighing in on the snowden controversy. the former u.s. president and his wife, laura are opening a health clinic. cnn asked him about snowden. >> do you think he's a traitor? >> i know he damaged the country. the obama administration will deal with it. >> but do you think it's possible for one man to really damage the security of the nation? >> i think he damaged the security of the country. >> and when it comes to surveillance, there can be real-time understanding of -- >> i put the program in place to protect the country. and one of the certainties is civil liberties were guaranteed. >> so you don't think there's a compromise between security and privacy? >> i think there needs to be a balance, and i think as the president explained there's a proper balance. >> more from our exclusive interview with former u.s. president george bush coming up, including what he has to say about his legacy. >> it's a very revealing story, a very revealing interview that mr. bush gave to robyn

in there, as well. >> nbc's annabelle roberts. thank you so much for joining us right there in london. ave quite a story on your hands tonight. guys, this is quite a moment to us occasion. some of us laugh about how popular it is here in american society. >> i'm sorry. we believe we have a gentleman announcing >> a new prince. and the first grandchild of his royal highness the prince of ireland. may he be long lived, happy. god save the queen. >> well, i will say the english really know how to preserve their traditions. he's got a good job, that guy. >> we'll call him the town crier for the british monarchy. >> all right. we've got a baby. he's 8.6 pounds. nonous yet how cute he is. but i'm sure he'll be very cute. a future king has been born. martin bashir picks up our coverage in a moment. asional have constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues... with three strains of good bacteria. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. what makes a sleep number what makes a sleep number stor

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nbc's keir simmons is live for us in london. what do we know? >> reporter: well, we understand that kate and william have left where kate has been for the last few days with her mother. that's her family home that they have left there and that they appear to be heading towards london. we don't know where exactly they are heading for. this we think is around about the due date, mid-july. we heard from camilla that she hinted that perhaps the baby might be due by the end of this week. of course we also heard from the queen suggesting she'd like to see the baby born by the end of next week. so this appears to be around about the time but what we don't know is where kate and william are heading to. are they heading to the hospital or are they heading to kensington palace where it has been widely believed they will spend the last few days waiting for kate to go into labor. those two places are very close to each other. where they are coming from now, it is about an hour from london. if they are going to kensington palace, perhaps to be closer to the

. >> all right, mandy clark live for us in london with the latest on that investigation. mandy. >>> and do you remember this video? back in 2011 this uc davis police officer dousing peaceful student protesters with pepper spray. well, the officer was fired after the video went viral. so why is he now saying he deserves workers' comp? we'll be back. hey linda! what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support regularity! i want some... [ woman ] hop on over! [ marge ] fiber the fun way, from phillips'. >>> you can join the news nation on twitter. you can find us @newsnation. if you have your phone in your hand right now, follow my team. greatly appreciated. the former university of california police officer who lost his job after spraying student demonstrators at uc davis with pepper spray is now appealing for worker's compensation. the incident of the video went viral back in 2011. it shows officer john pike spraying students with a can of pepper spray as the

us. booktv in london continues with justin webb come the author of three nonfiction books the most recent titled "cheers, america: how an englishman learned to love america" he's also a former television journalist for the bbc where he served several years as the washington bureau chief. his current position is host of bbc today radio program. >> "cheers, america" is the name of the book, "cheers, america: how an englishman learned to love america." justin webb as the author. when were you in the states and why? >> i was sent to the united states in 2002 to lead to be honest, at the time it sort of felt like one. i didn't know anything about the united states. i was based in brussels as a bbc correspondent and i got a call saying the one to go to america? and i thought well, i don't really know anything about america, don't know anything of its politics for a particular interest in the place. but i do know one thing and i know this from films it's quite sunni and we were sick of living in brussels. i don't know if you remember in the olden days milk came in bottles and they got clouded up

us. >>> now to the fevered pitch in london where britain's royal baby is due any day now. we've learned the baby's title will be the prince or princess of cambridge. martin fletcher joins us live now from outside st. mary's hospital in london where duchess kate will give birth. martin, good morning to you. this baby is about to be the most famous newborn in the world. >> reporter: that's right. richard. this is a once in a generation event, the birth of a new mon mark. the when the duchess goes into labor. this is where she'll come the private lindo wing and 31 years ago this is where prince william was born to his mother princess diana who would be a grandmother today if she were alive. two main questions, firstly, will her husband prince william get here in time? he's 300 miles away in north wales at the royal air force base where he's a pilot. it's believed that the helicopter will be waiting there to bring him here to be at his wife's side to join the birth. the second question, of course, is it a boy or a girl? william and kate did not want to know what the gender of t

us. >>> now to the fevered pitch in london where britain's royal baby is due any day now. we've learned the baby's title will be prince or princess of cambridge. martin fletcher joins us live now from outside st. mary's hospital in london where duchess kate will give birth. this baby is about to be the most famous baby in the world. what are preparations like over there? >> that's right. this is a once in a generation thing, the birth of a future british monarch. but all the attention now will be faced here on the private wing at st. mary's hospital in london with where when the duchess of cambridge goes into labor, this is where she's going to come. the first question is will her husband william get her to belv standing by to bring him here. it will take him about two hours to get here. the other big question, is it a boy or a girl? prince william and kate did not want to be told the gender of the kield. so now the question is will this boy be a king or a queen, a future king or queen of england? the law has changed. if it's a girl, then without waiting, it's nothea boy in

in connection to the probe. joining us from beijing is cnbc's eunice yoon and staying with us in london, gina sanchez, chairwomaner of comma chantico global. >> we now know that there is another foreign national and u.s. citizen, an american, who has been detained. we don't know the name of this person, however we do know that this person, according to pfizer, eli lilly and glaxosmithkline do not work at those companies. the whole health care industry is very, very jittery. everybody is on edge and want to disassociate themselves as much as possible from an investigation if at all possible for them. the -- you had mentioned also there are -- that we really are seeing a widening investigation. there were two more people at astrazeneca who have been called in for questioning. this is after a local sales representative was taken away. also, the health ministry of china has said that 39 hospital staff would be punished for t e taking bribes from two drug companies. we don't know exactly which companies those are, but however, it really does highlight just how broad this investigation is becoming and how jittery peop

regime and how there's a goal in pursuit of that of that goal really interesting get your perspective on this chris thank you very much indeed for joining us live there in london chris bambery thank you marty thanks a lot. well meanwhile syrian state t.v. is announce the army has discovered a rebel operated chemical laboratory packed with toxic substances the military claims they were destined to be packed into mortars and used to attack government forces in damascus it comes a week after the army far more than two hundred eighty barrels of hazardous chemicals at a rebel hideout in a different city the syrian u.n. ambassador claimed it was potentially enough to devastate a whole city and a geisha of chemical weapons being used by both sides been a crucial issue in the international dispute on how to handle the conflict in syria both the rebels and assad's forces have repeatedly made claims and counterclaims over the use of nerve gas belgian journalist willie van dam who's been closely following the syrian conflict says the allegations of rebels using chemicals very familiar. would be used and of course we only know the students made by the syrian government bu

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us. we're here to help. >>> now to the fevered pitch in london where britain's royal baby is due any day now. we've learned the baby's title will be prince or princess of cambridge. martin fletcher joins us live now from outside st. mary's hospital in london where duchess kate will give birth to the world's most famous newborn. martin, what is the mood like there? hi, mara. this is a on this is a once in a generation thing, the birth of a future british monarch. but all the attention now will be faced here on the private wing at st. mary's hospital in london with where when the duchess of cambridge goes into labor, this is where she's going to come. the first question is will her husband william get her to be by her side? he's 300 miles away where he's a pilot with the british royal air force. an airplane will be waiting to bring him here. the other big question, is it a boy or a girl? prince william and kate did not want to be told the gender of the child. so now the question is will this boy be a king or a queen, a future king or queen of england? the law has changed. if it's a girl, then wi

and erin is live in london for us.lver? >> reporter: well, it's a british tradition to give a newborn baby a little bit of silver as a sign of good luck. so they've produced 2,013 of these silver pennies. on average, some 2,000 babies are born every day here this in uk. it's a little bit of silver, a little tradition, a little luck, not just for the royal baby, but for babies born on that very special day throughout the uk. pamela? >> so much anticipation for this birth. how will we even know the baby's been born? >> reporter: well, the first indication that we'll get that a royal baby is on the way will be in the form of an announcement from the palace saying the duchess of cambridge has been admitted to hospital in the early stages of labor. we won't hear much more until the baby has actually been born. the queen has been notified. and then doctors at the hospital will write down on a piece of paper the sex of the baby as well as some more of the birth information. that piece of paper will be escorted via police to t

. >>> in 1989 a boeing that had been in use for just a few months crash landed in london. time of the accident the captain had flown 23 hours on the new series 400 aircraft and the first officer 53 hours. pilots were using a new glass cockpit design. when one engine failed after take off the pilots shut down the remaining good engine by mistake. 47 passengers died when the british midland's crashed. >> reporter: this is all that remains of the 3 -month-old boeing 737. once the pride of the fleet now crashed metal. >> the aircraft was on a routine flight from london's heathrow airport to helfax. the plane tried to make a landing instead the plane belly flopped and smashed into an enbankment short of the runway. the pilots may day alerted rescue teams and within pháeups of the crash they were pulling the dead and injured from the wreckage. but several passengers were crashed including one woman who could not be freed until eight hours later. local hospitals are filled with the injured including the pilot and co-pilot who both survived but are seriously hurt. from their hospi

in prison. julian assange will join us from the ecuadorian embassy in london where he has been living for more than a year. then we go to fort meade, maryland, where the sentencing hearing begins today. o'brien,peak to alexa who has been reporting from their everyday. >> we are not talking about the trial, as important as it is. we are talking about setting legal precedent for national security and whistleblowers, and beyond that, people using the internet, communicating in legally-protected speech. >> all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. for brentcing hearing a man and begins today following his acquittal on the most serious charge he faced, aiding the enemy, but conviction and 20 accounts. on tuesday, manning was found guilty of violating the espionage act and other charges for leaking documents to wikileaks. he avoids an automatic life sentence but still faces a maximum 136 years in prison on the remaining counts. the sentencing phase is expected to last more than one week with more than 20 witnesses expected to appe

in london. thank you for joining us. >> guest: thank you very much, indeed. >> next from london, booktv interviews judith flanders about high in london in the victorian era and the city's present-day underground. ms. flanders is the author of five nonfiction books. this interview is about 35 minutes. >> host: and this is booktv on c-span2. we are in london interviewing authors, and we want to introduce you to author judith flanders who now joins us. judith flanneledders writes about the victorian era in many of her books. ms. flanders, what is the victorian era when we talk about that? >> guest: well, the victorian era is technically the period in which queen victoria reigned. so it is technically 1837-1901. i'm not very technical, i cheat a lot, so my books cover what we politely call the long 19th century. which sometimes starts in the 18th century, so sometimes i discuss things that happened in the runup to queen victoria and often it goes to the beginning of world war i in 1914 which is, actually, a much more logical break when things changed very radically again. >> host: was it known as the

tweet us. >> up next, book tv peterson interviews offers in london.his week the series concludes with military historian anthony peeler followed by victorian era expert jeter flanders. talking about his research and writings on world war two. he has written to nonfiction books. this is about half an hour. >> host: this is book tv on c-span2, currently in london conducting interviews for bring shoppers. we're joined now by british historian and to the beaver. he has written several books on world war ii and related topics. if we could start with is some are related topic, the spanish civil war, how did that began. it did have rolled in the beginning of world war ii? >> it was definitely part of what is described as the law more of the 20th-century. started in 1917 and ended in 1989. a wonderful debating point for historians. one doesn't want to go too far down the road. many people regard it as the opening round. it was very much a test bed. working at the tactics. particularly. there are also the -- using their equipment. they learned quite a bit as w

kate snow remains standing by in london for us tonight. kate, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you. the palace will officially not say anything until kate middleton is safely in the hospital, and that lack of any real information led to a very long week, a very crazy day. someone says or sees or hears something, and we all jump. bucklebury, kate's hometown, where she started her day. then came word she might be on the move. not that anyone actually saw her. could it be? finally time for all those photographers waiting outside the hospital in london to jump on their ladders? >> well i've had my spot marked up since the first of july. it's incredible. >> reporter: taxi drivers have given the road a new name. >> crazy street. >> we're sort of chasing each other to see if anybody knows more than the last person. >> reporter: the slightest hint of news is enough to set hearts racing. so when these two walked up this afternoon, they were seasoned jourmists who tweeted things like kate's just gone in. no, they were just look-alike

us. booktv in london continues with justin webb come the author of three nonfiction books the most recent titled "cheers, america: how an englishman learned to love america" he's also a former television journalist for the bbc where he served several years as the washington bureau chief. his current position is host of bbc today radio program. >> "cheers, america" is the name of the book, "cheers, america: how an englishman learned to love america." justin webb as the author. when were you in the states and why? >> i was sent to the united states in 2002 to lead to be honest, at the time it sort of felt like one. i didn't know anything about the united states. i was based in brussels as a bbc correspondent and i got

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or a week ago, some confusion on that, so let's go to royal commentator katie nicholl, live for us in londonwe have been on royal baby watch for a while now. any signs from the palace? >> reporter: we're still waiting, victor and poppy, we are still waiting. but you know what i think the great irony of all this is, do you remember we used to call her waiting katie, because she was waiting on the sidelines for her prince to propose? what's waiting now? she's having the last laugh because we are waiting now. >> you know, it's interesting when you look at this. everyone wants to know all of the details. and the palace has kept so much secret. how will the public find out about the news of the baby's arrival? i mean, are we going to know hours after or days? >> reporter: no, i would imagine it will be hours after. once the baby's been born, the consultant gynecologist who will be in the delivery room with her will sign a document. that document will then be brought here to buckingham palace at high speed by a police convoy, and it will be pinned to a glass-fronted easel and put outside the gates

. >>> also in london, where we eagerly await for news of the arrival of the prince or princess. nbc's martin fletcher is live in london. martin, tell ust all of the hype. >> reporter: well, mara, there's a lot of it that's for sure. couple of hundred cameras and photographers here already. waiting for that iconic photograph on the steps behind me when the baby is born with the duke and duchess holding their new baby. as for the people there's been less excitement. that will explode i suppose when the baby is born. they'll find out this way. prince william will phone himself his grandmother the queen of england, his father, prince charles, to give them the news. and the family of kate middleton. as for the people of england, a medical bulletin will come down these steps, in a car, to buckingham palace, it will did displayed on easel. at that point, the interest will explode. there are $100 million of royal baby items already for sale in the shops. as to when it's to happen, it's expected saturday. no one really knows. on the weekend, prince william is scheduled to play a game of polo. polo for the prince or a new baby? >> he better not

jade hernandez has been watching it as it's happened in london. joins us from the newsroom with new video and comments from the parents. >> that's right, pam. >> there's the baby, the new royal heir. >> reporter: there's prince william, katherine and prince william. prince william emerged. he also got a chance to hold his new son, now third in line to the throne. both the prince and his wife addressed the crowd gathered outside of st. mary's hospital. the baby was swaddled in a white blanket with his head peeking out. his william says his son as more hair than he does. >> very emotional. >> i think anybody parent knows -- any parent knows what it feels like. >> hope hopefully you can get back to normal and we can look after him. >> reporter: the prince said his new son a bit heavy. he was born weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces. what neither parent revealed is a name which could be released at any time. it did take a few days for princess diana and charles 0 to release prince william's name when he was born. we saw the new parents leave the hospital. it was the p

mary's hospital in london for us. martin, tell us about all the hype. >> reporter: certainly a lot of hype. there's a couple hundred cameramen and photographers staking out the front of the hospital waiting for the photograph of the duke and duchess with in their hands the new baby, the future king or queen of britain. there's excitement among the people but that will explode when the baby is born. how will they find out? prince william is expected to phone his grandmother and his father and the family of kate middleton to tell them about the birth. as for the people, they'll be told when a medical bulletin comes down these steps behind me. it's going to be placed in a car and then driven to the buckingham palace where it will be placed on anneesle on the palace gates. it's expected to have the gender, the weight of the child and its given name if known at that point. then that's when the excitement will explode and the $100 million worth of royal baby items for sale will probably fly off the shelves, it's hoped. now

us about this. >> this is in london and at the beginning of the show, she is asking people to get out the video cameras. okay. get out your camera videos, because this is a gift. >> as in the tabloid daily mail? >> there is a great story behind this, because she is referring to the daily mail article about her recent performance in glaston bury and all they talk about in this article is this moment where her breast happens to pop out of her bra. listen to her response. ♪ i was doing a number of things on the stage ♪ ♪ including singing a song ♪ and they chose to ignore that ♪ ♪ and wrote a review of my boob ♪ >>> and to make it better she gave the fans and the daily mail even more of a sh. ♪ and it is inside of her body and current ly enshrined in her body ♪ ♪ but she came out of her scl t clothes ♪ >> and she strips down completely naked and you can imagine that there are all angles of the performance, because she told everybody to get the cameras out. >> she is awesome and has a sense of more. >> this is the best ever. >> this is great. >> if you want to see the video with all of the glory go to best

connection there by the looks of things sorry about that that's clive stafford smith there in london talking to us a little about the human rights situation in guantanamo well after the break this is the life here in moscow after the break a court verdict which divided america will look at what's happening off the george zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering a black teenager trayvon martin. the official. stream quality enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television. now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. some of these traditional chilly lines. passed down from generation. this is a total destruction of the culture of mexico i tell him i mean this is not going to mexico whatever happens here. in the world you know. why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. it continues here in r.t. three days of violent protests that's how thousands across the u.s. are responded to the controversial acquittal of a neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman shot dead on and a black teenager trayvon martin last

die in a bloody turmoil well let's discuss what's been happening in iraq with middle east blogger karl who's joining us live from london carl thank you so much for joining us here in r t well as we can see the prison cells had all the hallmarks of a thoroughly planned armed operation so in your opinion what does that say about the strength of al qaeda in iraq. i think this is an indication of the resurgence of al qaida and jihadi groups in general in the levant and you cannot this from whatever is happening in syria but also it points to the fragility of the order the americans left in place the political order in iraq in order for them to withdraw and kind of a responsibility from the afters of their occupation and what we were being told for years is that the iraq finally has a stable political order and the sunni tribes were recruited into this fight to contain those you how do you threaten al qaida but unfortunately what we're seeing now against the backdrop of a wider regional conflict and sectarian growing sectarian tensions is the resurgence of those groups. affiliated groups and then exploiting the grievances w

but sure, they will be in the lime light just like william was from a very ear early age. >> if you are joining us, word coming to us from londoninally gone into labor. happened in the last couple of hours. max foster is on the line with us from outside the hospital. max, we are expecting this to go fairly smoothly. tell us exactly how this played out when you first got the word. just recap for us, if you like. >> yeah. respectively, we had a few photographic sources that they saw something going on around the hospital and we addheard shs in the early hours of labor. so the scene of the moment, the palace officials, trying to organize us, i wish them luck. there is a huge amount of media already. let alone the ones on their way. >> so, essentially, the queen will be the first one who find out about this. she is in london right now. she will -- so she won't be -- there's lots of talk she would be coming to the hospital. she wouldn't do that. i think the first call would either be to her or to prince charles from william. i would have thought that would have been -- she is head of state. william is very close to her. he knows thi

we're going to check in now with steve sedgwick who is in london for us.g, steve. >> good morning. all the stories interrelated. what is fascinating at the moment is house prices are proving a fantastic asset for people who stuck with it through the tough times. of course, we hit our low over the last couple of years. it seems some cities according to the index are rallying to levels we haven't seen at all before, denver and dallas, for instance, hitting records we've not seen since 2000 when the records started. but nationwide, house prices still 25% below the pace they hit in the middle of 2006. not only investors are falling. according to a survey by bank rate.com, 1,000 u.s. adults, the best place to put their money at the moment is in cash. 26% of people wanted to put their money in cash. 23% real estate, gold, 16%. only 14% thought the stocks were a good long term investment. and that, is of course, a product of the crash we saw in 2007 to 2009. that said, investors in facebook, they might be smiling actually. even if they had them from the ipo, sinc

amy kellogg with the news live for us this evening in london. hello, amy. >> hello, shep. well, no, we didn't get a name. we didn't get a whole lot of information about the cambridge plans. quite frankly, shep, a lot of people just wanted to catch a glimpse of the couple and see the future king of england and also 15 other countries who recognized the sovereign and that look they obviously got this evening when the duke and duchess of cambridge came out smiling, beaming for the cameras. the little baby boy as you mentioned a bit harder to see under all the folds of his blanket but his little hands kept kind of popping out and moving. at one point it almost looked like a little regal wave. in any event william who often has a tense relationship with the press acknowledged this evening that it's been a bit of a long stretch for the group outside the hospital, too. >> i remind of his timeliness when he is a bit older. hopefully you guys can all go back to normal now and we all look after him. >> and, shep, william proved that he is not too posh for pampers, acknowledging also

all right, lama hasan in london for us this morning. thank you for that. >> it is exciting. everybody, stay with abc news for coverage of the royal baby's arrival. we continue to update you throughout the morning this morning and the very latest live from london on "good morning america." >>> well, the torrid heat wave that's been baking much of the nation has been broken by a source of powerful storms across the country. a storm that rolled through phoenix over the weekend dumped nearly an inch of rain in only a half an hour. flash floods may have caught many drivers off guard stranding them in their vehicles and it had others scrambling for higher ground. >> i was freaking out screaming unplug everything in your room. get everything up, you know, that you don't want messed up, get up, up, high because i don't know how far it's going to go. >> the southwest and all of arizona will be seeing even more rain today before things finally start to dry out. >>> and in california, thousands of evacuees are returning to their homes in communities near palm springs now that crews are

he was an american, an american banker who used to live in london. essentially, as far asld see, he was chosen by montague norman to take over at the bank. and he arrived in 1940, and the manager of the bank was a frenchman called roger -- [inaudible] and the deputy manager of the bank was a german called paul heckler, member of the nazi party, who signed his correspondence aisle hitler. so during the war perhaps not surprisingly when you consider the bank is in neutral switzerland and it's not really accountable to anybody, the bis became the maybe venue for the covert channels between the allies and the nazis about postwar planning. and, for example, 1942 perry jacob soften, who's the bank's economic adviser, went off to america to have a lot of high-level meetings because, obviously, they're thinking once the war's over we've got to set up some new financial system afterwards. and he comes back, and what does he do? he goes to berlin to tell everything that he's learned. so we must think that it was predictable that the people in states would know

christian amanpour, cnn international correspondent live for us live in london . first prince of cambridge in more than 100 years. the last was a george, was albert who then became george iv, the queen's father. give me more historic context here. >> reporter: well, sometime in the next century, perhaps there'll be a george vii reigning over this land. i'm here in trafalgar square. obviously this is where all the fountains turned blue the night the baby was born. also dotted with lots of statues including george iv who wasn't that remarkable. george iii, his predecessor, mad king george who lost the colonies which became america. and george vi as you've been saying who is this baby's great-great-great grandfather was the subject of the film that everybody in america knows, which was "the king's speech." question is i don't know why it's alexander. i can only assume, but i could be entirely wrong, that prince phillip is greek. his great grandfather. maybe it's for alexander the great. who knows. louis. louis is important to this family. as you know, prince william'

well now we've got our to contribute a hash in return joining us live from london right now and the venezuelan president he said it's more important to talk about not what snowden is facing and his predicament but more about what snowden is actually revealed in the course in the wake of these latest leaks by him britain spying allegations let's talk about those because they've somewhat been overshadowed haven't they in recent events. that's right the media loves the bond like tale the jason bourne like tale but of course as i understand in the past few hours glenn greenwald the journalist who edward snowden confided in his said that there are about to be some shattering revelations just around the corner because remember this is the tip of the iceberg so far but whatever is the case here is a man that only wanted i mean based on his releases so far is the up holding of the fourth amendment of the constitution of the united states and congressional oversight what did he get in reward for that president obama first of all these people saying he's very dangerous then president obama in africa say

she's in london along with cnn royal commentators, kate nichol also in london. victoria as victoria arbitor is joining uswell. give us a comparison between how the current birth has gone along compared to what we remember with the two brothers, almost 30 years ago. >> of course the palace never gives too many details in terms of the nitty-gritty because there are some elements of the birth that should remain private. but diana's baby, she was induced. she had the pressure had simply been too much, so she just wanted to get the show on the road. we do know that kate had a natural birth. we don't know whether she was induced or not, but it was suggested this morning that everything was progressing naturally, so she had gone to the hospital when mother nature was ready for her to go to the hospital. i think really it's been pretty similar. hopefully kate will leave the hospital tomorrow. things have gone smoothly. and so i think she'll probably leave sometime early afternoon. in the same way diana did. she left the next day. >> one thing that's different this time as opposed to 30 or so years ago, there was

and political commentator alexander in the cross of joining us now live from london mystic process thank you very much indeed for joining us here at r.t. great to see you so what do you make of snowden's refusal to take the lead in a putin's offer. well to be honest with you i think this whole story doesn't resemble the fuss of i think that president putin did the right thing by saying that snowden has to stop this until american activity if he is because i think what president putin did basically was cut off and your route to russia for snowden and children immediately said as long as a part as i understand from the reports that no he will not be asking for the political asylum. from the russian authorities but to be honest with you it's the american squad behaving in a very strange way because for them to be saying now that they want all the countries to help them get snowden without really saying so to at least for spying practically on everybody including their allies and for president obama and joe biden and barack obama to basically shrug off that most important part of death row a

max foster is outside the hospital in london for us covering the story. e anticipation continues to grow. >> reporter: yeah. last night we did confirm saturday, last saturday was the due date. we are in overdue territory. no wonder the family is on tender hooks. this is what camilla, prince charles' wife had to say when she was called yesterday. we don't often get that opportunity. she's expecting the baby by the end of the week, she said. >> i think so. by the end of the week, he or she will be there. >> we are not quite camped outside, pam. we are not quite camped outside. we are coming and going. there's strong media presence here, still. >> you are becoming the story out there. there's such a big crowd. i'm sure tourists are stopping by, taking pictures of you all. >> reporter: absolutely. on the other side of the road, you have moments where people are taking pictures of us. we are hoping kate is going to arrive soon. >> i bet. hopefully it will be soon. thanks max. >> when you have a name like max foster, it's like he's a superhero. >> meant to be on