the purpose was to revive the threat of nazism and say west germany is still a danger to you.nnouncer: one of the major themes is forgery. dr. witten explains. >> developing countries where the governments and did not have the expertise to analyze properly these corporations. very cheap forgery excepted anti-american forgeries -- accepted anti-american forgeries are accepted. >> one of the most damaging measures of disinformation occurred in ghana where the number two man in the government held a press conference and waved a document around and said i have the proof. this document a report in the west german embassy of a conversation with the american ambassador where he explained how and why the americans were going to overthrow that a government. this led to a sharp deterioration between our governments. eventually they accepted the west german expedition of why this was a -- west german explanation of why this was a fake document. announcer: they were not the only forgeries. >> at this time the east german intelligence service started a worldwide campaign to undermine, to p

they had a couple thousand of agents and west germany.you wonder why the russians wanted to have somebody else and west germany but they had me go there first before. >> my question has to do with the family dynamic of this thing . agent riley shows up at your door, says hey were at the fbi and were looking at you. how does this reveal to go to your american family who i presume didn't know about your history and what sort of building back that trust. hey, my dad is someone i didn't quite know what their back story was. >> my wife knew. this is one thing that i told vince that i don't remember at all but i once told her, we had an argument and i tried to make clear to her what i risked to stay back with her and our daughter chelsea. that was a time when the fbi already had a bug in my kitchen. they had my statement on tape. that backfired by the way because her reaction was, then i'm not legal either. >> she had married you justice in the country because you are a us citizen. [laughter] >> yes, thank you for pointing that out. >> like the

that a couple of thousand agents and west germany.so you wonder why they wanted someone else. >> my question has to do with the family dynamic of this. they show by your door and said hey or the fbi. we been looking for you. building back that trust. one thing that i told vince that i don't remember at all that i once told her we have an argument and we try to make clear what i risk to stay back with her and her daughter chelsea that was at a time when the fbi our ready had a bug in my kitchen they have my statement on tape. that backfired by the way because her reaction was zero my gosh that i'm not legal either. >> that's the back story behind it. she had married me because she thought i was a citizen. >> we have to save it time for signing. she was more legal and i -- at that point that i was. my kids were reacting very positively i waited for both of them until they were 18 years old and when i told my daughter she cried because how do you prove to a child how much you love them that was a big one other than maybe throwing yoursel

it moved throughout west germany. had this number of units but as i mentioned because of the demobilization, it continued to shrink throughout this period. eventually command was responsible not only for all of germany, austria, but denmark and several eastern european countries. by the fall of 1945, they started the sweeps and this continued all the way to 19 49 49 in west germany. by the end of the agrc period, about 8400 americans had been recovered from all three zones. the french, american, and british zones. complicating this issue further as effect the soviets tidy tied the repatriation of soviet citizens to access in the soviet zone by american graves registration teams. this was an ongoing issue throughout this period. looking at the soviet zone itself, as early as the summer of 1945, the u.s. army requested access to the soviet zone to conduct more graves registration operations. by this point, the army thought there were as many as 4000 americans buried in the soviet zone of germany. it was done to the offi

they were removed from berlin and went back to west germany. stillch point the army considers it was about 600 havingto recover and recovered from this time. over 2000 remained. significant achievement in such a short. of time given all of the problems they dealt with with the soviet's. , youquote from the general will see in his book is a small portion or the script he wrote about many issues. some and itng about did not affect or a registration. nevertheless general clay was greatly frustrated. hrcting gears quickly, the also responsible for consolidating all the cemeteries across europe and 210 permanent cemeteries. at the same point congress then fished that we are turning returning the program of the dead. then they would have to turn over bodies, they would have to be sent to new york or rebecca has states. there was a massive undertaking of returning to debt to the united states. the army also in the same. an undercurrent seeing them in frankfurt. you can see many american soldiers mostly through accident. there was a whole variety of de

this facility gives us consistent artificial light which is very useful, especially here in west germanyd so we and we have very rare sunlight and so we have a facility which gives unlimited light. this is the world's largest artificial sun are composed of 1a9 projection lights. together, they commit a bean which is 1000 times the strength of a regular household bulb and 10,000 times the strength of the sun's race here on earth. and scientists here can use it to test the solar power instruments of the future. this is one of ourfirst instruments of the future. this is one of our first experiments, and a typical one. it is a hydrogen react and this reactor, we want to develop and this reactor, we want to develop a process on splitting water from solar energy to store this energy and to make it available in fuels. when we focus on it, we think we can reach temperatures of around 3000dc so reach temperatures of around 3000dc so this is more than a combustion processes ca n so this is more than a combustion processes can generate. the hope is that this facility can improve the efficiency of s

wording, similar to the case that happened with east germany joining with east germanyjoining west germanyny, it automatically entered the eu. the text simply reflects that this will also be the case if the people democratically choose to join ireland, that they will automatically become once again eu citizens. some people in britain think that the eu 27 are looking to punish britain for brexit, by slapping a pretty big bill on britain, 60 billion euros or whatever it is. is that how you see? absolutely not, ireland is a net contributor it as well to the eu budget. the reality is, we all made commitments financially, over the la st commitments financially, over the last number of years, the british, the irish and many other countries are beneficiaries of europe in support that makes the european continent economic or a stronger. so the mention of figures, i am not sure that is particularly productive. do you have a figure in mind? i do not. ithink productive. do you have a figure in mind? i do not. i think we should go down these robust discussions between the eu side and the british side

facility gives us consistent artificial light which is very useful,, especially in europe and west germany the weather is not perfect. we have very rare sunlight. so we have a facility that gives us unlimited light. reporter: this is the world's largest artificial sun, composed of 149 projection lights that met a beam the -- he 1000 times the strength of a regular household botto -- bulb. scientists can use it to test the solar power instruments of the future. >> this is one of our first experiments, and atypical one. -- and a typical one. we want to develop processes on filtering water from solar injured treat, and to make it available in the future. to one focus the line point, we think we can reach temperatures around 3000 degrees celsius. is that this hope facility can improve the efficiency of solar energy reactors, but with oil prices still relatively low, commercial interest in its research may take some time. joe miller, bbc news. ♪ tim: saturday marks president trump's first 100 days in office, a yardstick we journalists like to use to scrutinize these successes and shortcomings o

weste western germany found threats that were likely to jeopardize and voiced their discontent early on. interestingly, given the different attitudes toward tran transatlantic relationships i mentioned earlier, they were quite critical of the american stance behind closed doors, but the most striking example of a sort of shared european view on the cold war that included britain can be found in the transatlantic response to the invasion of afghanistan. britain now, and margaret thatcher. the strong western europeans showed aggression. they continued to keep seeking of. even though the public view was very different, more forceful than schmidt, they had a pack anyone that was similar. initialization of afghanistan in 1990 and continued to resist symbolic gestures. the difference is britain did that behind closed doors and they could do so in public. nonetheless, i do think the emergence of a western european position and that did not escape american attention. as early as march 1980, for example, national security adviser complained to carter that the western europeans had nothing in

in the early 1980s, we moved cruise missiles into britain and italy and we moved missiles into west germanynk in this situation we have to move some type of defense missiles into south korea or japan to protect the region and to protect the united states. >> thank you so much. former u.s. special envoy to north korea. appreciate your perspective. >> thank you. >>> colonel jack jacobs joins us at the moment. you heard what we heard from jay and that is that he is suggesting putting up a missile defense system in south korea and an increase in the military footprint on the korean peninsula, something that has not happened in the past. the note jay was making was soft power is important and cannot be denied here, but the style and the methodology that has been employed over the last 15 to 20 years, not the way to do it going forward. your thoughts on what he said? >> he said two things that are really important to remember. the first is that. we need to have a serious defense of our own forces and our allies in south korea there. i think we have about 30,000 troops there now. i think the assum

in the canadian arctic, scandinavia, the u.k., west germany, italy, greece, turkey, iran, pakistan, and japan. well with berlin was a special value for close access. amongst all these sites, north norway was an interesting case. window onrch value, a the soviet operations in the by the 1970'shat the americans were supplying the sophisticated equipment there 70% of the salaries of the norwegians who are manning it. close to theget shorter range soviet emissions led to most of the western allies to not interception operations from ships and aircraft. baltic thes for the soviet defenses would track and react to western aircraft that flew just outside their territorial limits. sometimes would deliberately stimulate the defenses and monitor the results. 1960, some 13 american aroundt were shot down the soviet periphery with a loss of 170 american lives. there were collisions between the u.k.-u.s. and soviet submarines. these are given no publicity. this close technical access coincided with the west's need for photographic coverage of soviet targets. overflights over soviet territory develop

and i say after germany - became an active citizen in west germany. initially i was against having a quorum in my political party. but we found that ultimately had to have a woman in the final selection and then first he didn't have any and then for years -- you are in the management and we always ask, we would beg them. we were not able to get the company to have one third of their membership with women. they actually are responsible for having not lost past. i have the honor of being women's minister from 1990 to 1994. if you have women's minister that comes to me in the year 2013 and she says we sell less than 10 percent executives and i can't say we can wait for another 50 years. ultimately we found women who were willing to take the position and now we go on. there are additional controversial discussions. i think that even in the transparency of equal pay for equal work, we found nobody knew it. that was really interesting. there was really nobody knew it except for one person that we have a lot that provides that they have the right to find out

importing them not only from the soviet union the help80's, but with of soviets, czechoslovakia, west europe, germany exporting the ingredients for britain gave extensively 2010.n 2006 and they had enormous stockpiles. charlie: the reason i'm asking is one of the principal reasons president obama said he did not retaliate after they crossed the red was because they made the areement to eliminate significant part of the chemical weapons from syria. that therved significant part of those were taken out of the country. obviously not all of them, because they have used them recently. dr. sparrow: we don't know that russia is in bringing back the same sarin it took away in 2013. but we also know something like it is a -- chlorine, medicine, it is used to so you canater, import it legitimately, but you can make it easily and cheaply. chlorine comes an effective way and cheap way of terrorizing a population, where in the end, we think clearly that tuesday's massacre was overkill. they did not intend to go and get this much international attention.we have seen this operate on a strategy where we had these at

west the current centre of the union —— is rarely. the midpoint of the eu has changed many times, from belgium, to france, to germany, although usuallybecause a country's joined the union. it hurts my heart thinking of the brexit solution. yeah, it's a great pity and i'm convinced that one day great britain will come back to the european union. but for gadheim, what matters now is securing the future of the eu. translation: it's a relevant where the midpoint is. the real centre is everywhere —— irrelevant. it's all

instead, we get the cold across the north—west of europe and that will push is waiting of germany.ly. —— the arctic. and we are later to get some snow over the alps and the dollar mites. we have seen our temperatures drop, certainly. this was aberdeenshire earlier today. very wintry look to the weather. we will find more wintry showers not just across scotland but in northern ireland and those showers are wintry across england and wales, developing more widely. it will feel cold but how long what's they called? stage and for the week ahead. —— how long will it stay cold? stay tuned for the weather for the week ahead. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. these are the biggest stories in the bbc newsroom right now. emmanuel macron and marine le pen have made it into the second round of the french election. president hollande has urged the country to vote for mr macron. the far—right would be deeply divise for france. they would endanger our freedoms and the founding principles of our republic. in the last couple of hours marine le pen has said she's stepping aside as the le

west. we are going to get all the votes in germany and the netherlands. those countries don't want us. that is as real as trump talking to the royal communities in the u.s. >> what are he has done is cemented power for at least 12 years. that's how many years he can stay in power. he is now the lifetime leader of turkey. >> that's interesting. when you look at heads of state, presidents around the world, every single one in power today that has been in power for more than 12 years has manipulated the rules with the exception of liberia, the one female. >> what are about angela merkel? >> chancellor. i meant president. changing the rule set happens a lot. all over africa and he decided his model is not european. >> always a pressure, sir. >> thank you. >> i'm obsessed with this special election and it's not the one you are thinking of. stay tuned. just imagine if all the machines at work were constantly thinking. always on the lookout for patterns and connections to make everything work better. i call it the internet of everything, but it's really the internet of everyday life. ♪ the pa

germany. you know, the east german and west german separation ended, and the two countries were unified early in the 1990s. so there's now one germany again, there aren't two, but in the east, which was a communist part of the eastern european block, that party was called the socialist unity party, sed, sozialistische einheitspartei, and that party dissolved, but large numbers of it moved also into this linke. so it's a coalition. in the eastern part--this is something americans tend not to o know for reasons having to do with our newspapers and our media--in eastern europe, in eastern germanyny the mass of people still vote for that party. so that party runs a number of the regional governments. in germany, they don't call them states like we do, 50 states. they call them laender, lands. so many of the laender in eastern part of germany are governed by this die linke party now, and increasingly, they've become powerful in the west. as i said, the last national election, they got 11.9% of the vote. 1 out of 8 germans votes for a party, one of whose slogans is "germany can do better than capiti

west have to take it seriously. society wants more and new military victories. >> kremlin media have exploited the military victory against nazi germany with success. brent: tennis news. maria sharapova has continued her controversial come back after a 15 month doping ban. she was in second round action at the clay tournament in stuttgart on thursday. and katerina makarova, she put her place in the quarterfinals. sharp hobo will play a net copyright -- anette of estonia for a place in the west four. russia and japan have called for a calming over the rhetoric on north korea's nuclear ambitions. the united states administration says it will use pensions and the plymouth as well -- sanctions and diplomacy. y ♪ >>> this week on "wealthtrack," social security guru mary beth franklin and katy votava help us avoid the big penalties if you don't get it right. their money saving advice is next on "consuelo mack wealthtrack." >> new york life along with mainstay's family of mutual funds offers investment and retirement solutions so you can help your clients keep good going. >> additional funding provided by --

west bank. >> he doesn't know what he is doing. >> to germany. >> he didn't think about what he does.ms rude, harsh, and not presidential. >> people don't seem to know what to expect or believe from president trump as he plays brinksmanship with the nuclear armed and highly erratic north korea. punishes america's neighbors, mexico and canada, and flip-flops on syria, lobbing a few dozen missiles at a regime th when they seemed to back them a few days later. >> these are truly uncharted times. >> i think our view here, observing it as impartial reporters is like a school report that says the start was not as bad as it might have been, but can do and must do better. >> the biggest concerns that we heard consistely was about credibilit unless the united states's promisesnd commitments are honored, then the u.s. cannot conduct foreign policy if is an enormous challenge when you're trying to conduct statesmanship. >> thank you for that, i'm glad i stayed and didn't run out for lunch early. that was a good report. now i'm going to get lunch. thank you for spending this hour with me on msnbc

the west may call him an evil — russia calls him an ally. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. police in germanyect, thought to have islamist links, after three explosions hit a bus carrying the borussia dortmund football team last night. they say they're treating the incident as a terror attack. the match against monaco is now being played tonight. 0ur correspondentjenny hill is in dortmund, where it has just got under way. jenny. stringent security here, as you'd expect a night, as the match got under way about half an hour ago. police are still trying to establish who was behind last night's attack, and what the motive might have been. as you heard there, they have made one arrest today, and they are believed to be looking for another man, though prosecutors are refusing to comment on fairly widespread media reports that one of those men was an iraqi national, the other a german citizen. nevertheless, right 110w german citizen. nevertheless, right now the focus here at the stadium here in dortmund, germany's largest stadium, is very much on the game. this is how germany defends home ground. f

west bank. >> he just doesn't know what he's doing. >> reporter: to germany. >> he doesn't really think aboute does. maybe he thinks about it a lot but he seems rude, harsh and not -- not just presidential. >> reporter: people don'seem to kno what to expect or believe from president trump as he plays brinksmanship with the nuclear armed and highly erratic north korea. punishes america's neighbors, mexico and canada, normally considered essential allies. and flip-flops on syria. lobbing a few dozen missiles as a regime his administration seemed to back a few days before. 100 days of president trump have passed. and if the best international observers can say is we lived through it, these are truly unchartered times. >> our view here viewing it as impartial reporters is like a school report that says, the start wasn't quite as bad as it might have been, but can do and must do better. >> that was nbc's richard engel reporting for us. >>> how the democratic party has benefitted from the trump presidency so far. but first, the simpsons' take on president trump's first 100 days in office. >> 100 da

west bank. that after benjamin netanyahu abruptly canceled plans on tuesday. germany possible to meet critical organizations in a democracy. netanyahu says he will not see diplomats who see groups who seek to try them as war criminals. the u.s. navy guided missile destroyer flight toward an vessel. the latest encounter happened monday as the iranian vessel came with an 1100 yards of the navy ship. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. joe: "what'd you miss?" it was a busy day in washington as the white house unveiled its tax reform parties. also reports that the white house is considering with drawl from nafta. the mexican peso, canadian dollars and shared companies that rely on cross-border trade all weekend on the speculation that the white house in. could scrap the trade agreement. you can see the moves here, the dollar up nearly 2% on the news against the peso. let's get more insight from bloomberg's international politics correspondent, mike mckee. these reports, talki

west bank. >> he just doesn't know what he's doing. >> reporter: to germany. >> help doesn't think about what thinks about it a lot, but he seems rude, harsh and not just presidential. >> reporter: people don't seem to know what to expect or believe from president trump as he played brinksmanship with the nuclear arm or highly erratic north korea who punishes america's neighbors, mexico and canada. normally considered essential allies. and flip-flops on syria, lobbying a few dozen missiles at a regime his administration seemed to back a few days before. nearly 100 days of president trump have passed. and if the president international observers can say is, we lived through it. these are truly unchartered times. >> i think all of you here are observing it as impartial reporters is like a school report that says, the start wasn't quite as bad as it might have been, but can do and must do better. >> so let's talk about the president's place in the world, the view of him in the world, with our panelist, military analyst, jerry barry mccaffery, steve clemmons and national security analyst rebecca

west wing position. she has herself seated there. angela merkel, chancellor of germany, the head of t imf.hristine le guard. ivanka trump is diving in the deep end of the pool given her professional experience she is more of a kate middleton. kate middleton wouldn't be on that stage. what position is she in here? >> she is in a difficult position. the white house should not have had her attend this conference. simply put. they should realize that being a good surrogate for your father on the campaign trail doesn't make you a policy expert in international discussions. it just doesn't happen that way. she should be learning, getting her chops on policy and then she can roll out something of her own. she is also known to be a calming influence on her father and maybe brings in a different point. and she should do that quietly and out of the spotlight. this was a mistake. >> but that calming influence, does the white house not cherry-pick when to give ivanka credit for being a calming influence? for example, eric trump, though she disputed it there, said credit to my sister for influencing my

west indies in guyana. hello, and welcome to the programme, where we start with the news that borussia dortmund's champions league quarter—final first leg match against monaco had to be postponed in germanyesday. three explosive devices detonated near the team bus while it was en route to the match, damaging the windows and defender, marc bartra, was taken to hospital where he underwent an operation to his right wrist. the fixture has since been rearranged, with the teams to play at 16:45 gmt on wednesday. a short time ago, i spoke to our football reporter, john bennett, who rounded up the events. the spain and borussia dortmund defender has undergone surgery to remove shrapnel and repair a fracture on this hand and wrist area. there were three explosions as they left their hotel. this is them as they left the stadium. police have given a press conference to explain. they say it was the dortmund team bath that was the target of the attack and say these we re target of the attack and say these were serious explosions. —— bus. they could have been in a hedge or a parking lot. police say they discovered a letter near the scene which they are trying to authenticate. they have not said what i

west indies in guyana. hello, and welcome to the programme, where we start with the news that borussia dortmund's champions league quarter—final first leg match against monaco had to be postponed in germanyus while it was en route to the match, damaging the windows and defender,

west bank. >> he doesn't know what he's doing. >> reporter: to germany. >> he doesn't really think about whathe thinks about it a lot, but he seems rude, harsh and not -- just not presidential. >> reporter: people don't seem to know what to expect or believe from president trump as he plays brinksmanship with the nuclear armed and highlier rad dick north korea, punishes america's neighbors, mexico and canada, normally considered essential allies, and flip-flops on syria, lobbing a few dozen missiles at a regime his administration seemed to back a few days before. nearly 100 days of president trump have passed. if the best international observers can say is we lived through it, these are truly uncharted times. >> i think our view here, observing it as impartial reporters is like a school report that says the start wasn't quite as bad as it might have been, wu can do and must do bett better. >> one thing we heard consistently is there were questions about credibility. people don't know if what the administration say, what the president says can be believed, and that is a major, major obstacle w

west the current centre of the union —— is rarely. the midpoint of the eu has changed many times, from belgium, to france, to germany, although usuallyh, it's a great pity and i'm convinced that one day great britain will come back to the european union. but for gadheim, what matters now is securing the future of the eu. translation: it's a relevant where the midpoint is. the real centre is everywhere —— irrelevant. it's all about the european idea, at every place, at every point it should all be about the european project. place, at every point it should all be about the european projectm the corner of this foreign field, britain has sown confusion. how, they ask, to mark this new departure, and how long before the heart of europe shifts again. jenny hill, bbc news, gadheim. a quick moment to remind you of our top story this hour and that is swedish police say they are increasingly certain the uzbek man they have arrested is the one who carried out friday's attack in stockholm. they also say others could have been involved. authorities say they found a suspect device in the lorry he used. king carl gustav has said the people's respo

the soviet union had east germany construct a wall in order to keep east germans from fleeing into the west and was successful. saw governor brown on "meet the press" say that he looks the wall and thinks it's intended to keep americans in. i submit to you that is preposterous. americans know it's preprosperous, the wall is not about keeping people. in it's about border security in an area of extraordinary dangerous drug cartels and terrorism and the commit to the sovereignty has had the impact of reducing nonpermitted border crossings by 40%. attorney general sessions has been to border the last two weeks to talk about this. already wildly successful if you change the attitude of the government temperatures people entering the country illegally. fewer overstayed visas and the reason that israel built a wall, the reason saudi arabia built a wall, hungary, is because of the movement of people is do dangerous for the residents of the country into which they're going. we need border security. >> host: radio talk show host and hugh hurtt is eye gust. 202-748-8200 in the east and central time se

west this year. >> yeah, absolutely. and i was so concerned about germany, but now we all have to fear a frexit, so we will all be watching. we will have you back on soon. e.j. will be back shortly. donald trump is not only dabbling in the politics of france. this week he called turkish lead to congratulate him on his victory. it was an odd offer of well wishes from an american president, given that international on ser varies say the election, which cements his authoritarian role was riefed with political intimidation and poll lat r ballot rigging. earlier this month trump welcomed to the white house the egyptian president, w. joining me now is the author of the motte to hack america, and steve clemons. steve, let's start with you on this first, on the last point, on the welcoming sort of attitude toward the egyptian strong man by donald trump. but a lot of people are saying that the relationship that he's formed is to be credited with freeing an egyptian american prisoner who came home, at least according to the spin from the trump administration, from hi

germany invading poland. russia quickly invaded for the west to take their chunk of poland's freedom. years later we won the cold war and poland joined nato. but poland has never been truly free because mr. putin, mother russia, has controlled poland's energy. mr. putin has punished poland by selling natural gas exports in a cold polish winter that ecame much, much colder. uncle sam is about to put the russian bear on permanent hibernation by exporting american liquid freedom. our liquefies natural gas will leave the pass in june heading to poland. the russian bear is on the run. let american liquid freedom reign. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new jersey seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for ne minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to recognize the hard work of the youth in the new jersey 129 district. mrs. watson coleman: this past weekend a group of high school s

the claims by true.s are not germany is standing behind its foreign minister, who met with a group called breaking silence. that group is critical of israeli actions on the west that's after prime minister benjamin netanyahu roughly canceled planned -- abruptly canceled planned talks. parts for a u.s. missile defense system to find -- designed to defend south korea from the north have started to arrive. the system is being rushed into deployment on the site of an old off course. this installation, saying the advanced radar can penetrate its territory and undermine security. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm alisa parenti. this is bloomberg. it's just after 5:30 p.m. wednesday here in new york, 7:30 thursday morning in sydney. i'm joined by bloomberg's paul allen with a look at the markets. asx futures are looking flat ahead of trading here. nikkei futures looking a little weaker in japan. of 39 economists surveyed expect to see no change in the policy setting from the bank of japan. looking ahead, most think the next policy move will be tightening. there will be a quarterly update o

west is willing to make there. second tillerson is in italy meeting with foreign ministers of the group of seven, g7. counterparts from france, germany, italy, japan, canada, united kingdom. at the white house, continued rhetorical pressure on russia. >> speaks pretty loudly the number of countries that have stood shoulder to shoulder with his president. russia on the other hand, stands with syria, north korea, and iran. >> it is second tillerson's task to confront the putin regime in russia as he departs italy for moscow tomorrow. the secretary has spent days criticize russia for supporting sod and failing to destroy all of syria's chemical weapons. >> regardless of whether russia was complicit here, or whether they were simply incompetent or whether they got outwitted by the bashar al-assad regime, you would have to ask the russians but clearly they have failed in their commitment to the international community. >> this morning kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov has said "a complete reluctance -- the russian foreign ministry added it could work with the u.s. on counterterrorism. that's becoming difficult. the attitude towards russia i

germany in the red and bigger gains for the uk. now only the uk in the green. slight declines for continental europe. >>> oil pricing, westrude seeing declines. wti breaking a four-day winning streak yesterday. the brent also breaking a two-day winning streak. now as for the ten-year note, we've been talking about the yields were dipping further and further lower and lower. 232 basis points. that's down from the 240 that we ended the week last week. a flattening yeield curve which does not point to stronger growth in the future. as for the u.s. dollar, the u.s. dollar index has been positive for five sessions in a row. but did give back versus the yen yesterday. as you see, looking at some small declines across the board. then gold prices, seeing if we can check in on that. breaking that losing streak last quarter. >> though the dollar stronger against the euro and the pound today. now to today's wall street agenda, including a pair of economic reports. february trade deficit numbers out at 8:30 a.m. eastern, followed by orders at 10:00 a.m. daniel tarulla speaking this afternoon. stepping down from the fed tomorrow. to a

west. good morning. first, our main story. police in germanyieve the three explosions that hit a bus carrying the borussia dortmund football team were directly targeting the club. the team was on its way to its champions league match against monaco. one player has undergone surgery after the blast shattered windows on the coach. jane—frances kelly reports. forensic teams have spent the night examining the blast site. three devices in what police described as a targeted attack exploded as the players‘ bus left their hotel shortly after 7pm. it's believed the explosives were hidden in a hedge and were detonated as the bus passed. the vehicle had reinforced glass. but two panes at the back shattered, injuring spanish international marc bartra, who's undergone surgery. other team members were unharmed. at a press conference held soon afterwards, a spokesman for the team gave an update on his condition. translation: marc bartra is being operated on right now for a broken bone in his right hand and he's got various glass shards that have been blasted

west. see you later. good morning. this is bbc newsroom live. the headlines at 11.30am. police in germanyortmund's team bus is linked to islamist terror. the us secretary of state rex tillerson is holding talks in russia with foreign minister sergei lavrov, as america urges moscow to stop supporting syria. but a kremlin spokesman said that would be absurd. the white house press secretary sean spicer has apologised after declaring that adolf hitler did not use chemical weapons during world war two. it was a distinction that didn't need to get made. they both did horrendous, tina staines. any comparison was regrettable and a mistake. milani trump has accepted damages from the daily mail. they we re damages from the daily mail. they were based on allegations made about her modelling career. lets get all your sport now. let's get all your sport now. the borussia dortmund players are back in training this morning, after that attack on their bus last night. the postponed champions league quarterfinal between dortmund & monaco will go ahead this evening. thousands of fans were already in the sta

germany, britain, pennsylvania. walter is right that even as a foreign-policy person, i am more connected to my counterparts in britain and japan or even in beijing than folks in west virginia. >> i could not agree more. i think we just need to listen. trust is something people develop. franklin roosevelt was not very much like the average american. he was about as privileged as was possible to be. e, which hea crippl lied about, and yet people feel that he cared about them. even then it was difficult for him to knowledge in the country into world war ii. -- nudge the country into world war ii. he's don't trust on things that ony understood, then built things that were more challenging. there is a difference between being an elite and being a leader. i don't think on our side of this, we have done enough about that. >> i don't disagree with you. abouthere is a perception the voter, whether in pittsburgh or west virginia, and how they feel left behind. at the same time they feel left behind because they see so many people -- >> i think they are actually looking at india and brazil and mexico. >> those people are gaining a sense of confidence. walter: i don't think t