any reasonable sentient person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, they're going to fall in love. otherwise there's something deeply wrong with you. spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway. but in the very best possible way. this is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. also anarchy. this is where devout catholicism mixes with surrealism, modernist cuisine. with traditional tapas. christianity and islam spared traded places, shared space, and the effects and influences of all those things are right here to see. you can almost look back through time and through the mists of history and see the venetians marching up across the vega. or are those feral hippies? the influx of international hippies, many of whom have appeared to set up squats in the caves up the mountain have made things interesting. if they ask you what you're doing, say we're staging a moon landing. wherever you are on the ideological spectrum, some things are constant, it seems. some stereotypical expectations. it's true, there are free tapas everywhere.

any reason sentient person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, they're going to fall in love. otherwise, there's something deeply wrong with you. spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway. but in the very best possible way. this is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. also anarchy. this is where devout catholicism mixes with surrealism, modernist cuisine. with traditional tapas. christianity and islam spared space. the effects of influences of all those things are right here to see. you can almost look back through time and through the mists of history and see the venetians marching up across the vega. or are those feral hippies? many of them made things interesting. >> when you ask what do you do? and you say we are staging the moon landing. wherever you are on the ideological spectrum, some things are constant, it seems. some stereotypical expectations. it's true, there are free tapas everywhere. flamenco, yes, they do that also. it's a civilized thing to do, i think. but in granada, they do it old school. and oh y

by some accounts spain loses 8% gdp. swujz is spain turn clocks back. you have countries like the uk. spain falls in pretty much the same range but spain is actually an hour ahead of england along with france, germany, poland and many other central european countries. it wasn't always so before world war ii spain kept the same time as britain. but during the war when hitler sought to gain support the spanish dictator moved to align the clocks with those of germany's. seven decades later that remains the case despite spain's location. it is an interesting thesis and i don't know if it would work. the good news is that spaniards are thinking hard about improving the economy. we tend to think of spain as a european basket case. every second person between the age of 18 and 25 is out of a job. spain has been in a recession for several years. the eurozone has had to bail it out so that it could avoid defaulting. beyond the head lines there is now some good news. after years of recession gdp has begun to grow by 0.3% in the last quarter. eeconomists predict d

spain falls in pretty much the same longitudal range but spain is an hour ahead of england along with france, germany, poland and other european countries. it wasn't always so. before world war ii, spain kept the same time as britain. but during the war, when hitler sought to gain spain's support the spanish dictator franco moved to align his country's clocks with those of germany's. seven decades later that remains the case, despite spain's geographic location. economists say that turning the clocks back would make spaniards more productive and boost the economy. it's an interesting thesis and i don't know if it would work. the good news is that spaniards are thinking hard about improving their economy. we tend to think of spain as a european basket case. unemployment is at 26%. youth unemployment is double that. every second person between the age of 18 and 25 is out of a job. spain has been in a recession for several years. the eurozone has had to bail it out so that it could avoid default. beyond those headlines there is now some good news. after years of recession, gdp has finall

spain is getting better and better. if you look at the figures, we start with declining traffic in the first quarter of 2013 by nine percent. it has declined by a small percent in the last quarter. are nowmany of the jobs performing. better we will have a 2014. >> we have inflation data from spain. it shows deflation on a year on year basis. how does that feed into your business? is linked tothat our business. we have done our job internally. we have been promoting efficiency programs that are clearly offsetting the problems we may have on the income side. i am pretty convinced that with the recovery margins, the company will get much better. >> will the economy look better and014 than it did in 2013 2012 and 2011? the government is making reforms. unemployment is still high. there's a deflationary trend within the country. what is the outlook for spain economically this year? >> spain has been suffering a very long crisis, since 2008. to be honest, economic things do not change from one day to the next. many things hav

any reasonable person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, they're going to fall in love. otherwise, there's something deeply wrong with you. spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway. but in the very best possible way. this is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. also anarchy. this is where devout catholicism mixes with surrealism, modernist cuisine with traditional tapas. christianity and islam spared space. the effects and influences of all those things are right here to see. you can almost look back through time and through the mists of history and see the venetians marching up across the vega. or are those feral hippies? an influx of international hippies, many of whom set up squats in the caves in the mountains, made things interesting. wherever you are on the idealogical spectrum, some stereotypical expectations. it's true, there are free tapas everywhere. yes, they do take siestas, which is a civilized damn thing to do. but in grenada, they do it old school. and oh, yeah, bullfighting. they do that here, too. b

here's what we have for you in this edition -- spain -- why a princess had to appear in court. ukraine -- how pro-europe protests are spreading. and romania -- on the hunt for smugglers. tax fraud is not a trivial offense. tax dodgers are criminals in the eyes of the law even if they are famous. it is as simple as that. but of course, we all take a very close look whenever celebrities are caught outlining their own pockets. in spain, the monarchy has just been battered by another scandal because for the first time, a princess is a formal suspect in a corruption inquiry. and since christina, the youngest daughter of the king, had to appear in court over alleged money-laundering and tax evasion -- princess christina. her husband is accused of embezzlement of public funds. judges have to decide if they will press formal charges against the princess. >> a reporter for spain's largest daily joins around 400 other journalists, all waiting for the big moment -- the arrival of the daughter of the spanish king. they want to know just how blind love can be. until now, she has kept silent

for instance in spain the surrogate mom or are absolutely printed and they will. i think and the oranges for a long time and that you cannot do anything you want and optional is extremely and very very precise and forced so i think it's not stand back and once again fall swap more about what's going on in spain now our sunscreen an instant. and certainly they were talking about it here in france on saturday because on sunday there were those we've been talking that were demonstrating on saturday. it was a women and men of demonstrating in support of those who marched on the spanish capital. against a government plan to restrict access to abortion. but he's eager to a low one hundred of the swimming and playing. we were like terrorists. i don't know about my coach has said that i see the pillow yes my age i would never have imagined i would be happy and be fighting for something to think they should already have. and social rights. we treat god in which you will never get even. you know whats. which your reaction to what's going on in spain the team is the most dis

that house prices are going to rise the way that they're rising in spain in ireland spain and ireland that's where portugal wants to go they're the ones who are already free and clear they're out of the bailout program and the. particulars there seen their house prices rise but given how bad things are in the real economy in portugal that's not going to happen the best you can hope for is a stabilization the best we can hope for portugal a set of plans to resume auction of its bonds in the first half of this year and on january fifteenth they started selling one year bills point six nine percent now that's the lowest rate since two thousand and nine and what does this say about the portuguese economy and recovery relative to countries like spain and italy and greece even from my perspective it says more about the so-called you know outright monetary transactions that are talking about basically there's a backstop for all the periphery debt and people are using that in order to buy if you're a portuguese bank you can pick up a lot of the yield by. into portuguese government bonds knowi

house prices are going to rise the way that they're rising in spain in ireland spain and ireland that's where portugal wants to go they're the ones who are already free and clear they're out of the bailout program and they actually particular is their seen their house prices rise but given how bad things are in the real economy in portugal that's not going to the best you can hope for is a stabilization the best we can hope for portugal a set of plans to resume auction of its bonds in the first half of this year and on january fifteenth they started selling one year bills point six nine percent now that's the lowest rate since two thousand and nine and what does this say about the portuguese economy and recovery relative to countries like spain and italy and greece even from my perspective it says more about the so-called you know outright monetary transactions that are talking about basically there's a backstop for all the periphery debt and people are using that in order to buy if you're a portuguese bank you can pick up a lot of the yield by. into portuguese government bonds knowing

house prices are going to rise the way that they're rising in spain in ireland spain and ireland that's where portugal wants to go they're the ones who are already free and clear they're out of the bailout program and the. particular is they're seeing their house prices rise but given how bad things are in the real economy in portugal that's not going to happen the best you can hope for is a stabilization the best we can hope for portugal a set of plans to resume auction of its bonds in the first half of this year and on january fifteenth they started selling one your bills point six nine percent now that's the lowest rate since two thousand and nine and what does this say about the portuguese economy and recovery relative to countries like spain and italy and greece even from my perspective it says more about the so-called you know outright monetary transactions that are talking about basically there's a backstop for all the periphery debt and people are using that in order to buy if you're a portuguese bank you can pick up a lot of the yield by. into portuguese government bonds knowin

house prices are going to rise the way that they're rising in spain and ireland spain and ireland that's where portugal wants to go they're the ones who are already free and clear they're out of the bailout program and the. particular is they're seeing their house prices rise but given how bad things are in the real economy in portugal that's not going to happen the best you can hope for is a stabilization the best we can hope for portugal a set of plans to resume auction of its bonds in the first half of this year and on january fifteenth they started selling one year bills point six nine percent now that's the lowest rate since two thousand and nine and what does this say about the portuguese economy and recovery relative to countries like spain and italy and greece even from my perspective it says more about the so-called you know outright monetary transactions that are talking about basically there's a backstop for all the periphery debt and people are using that in order to buy if you're a portuguese bank you can pick up a lot of the yield by. into portuguese government bonds knowin

to catholicism and ski in spain or continue singing and being forced into . the spanish government has plans to make amends for the fourteen ninety two jewish extortion it that forced hundreds of thousands of sephardic to emigrate to the news on the verge of offering citizenship to descendants of victims of forced including silk or as was come to spain and israel who will long for me it's really good now because i get to keep my kids ran kaspersky get to temple. i was thinking about days before and i'm here for my love of spain eight no postponement the token in the us it is called finkelstein this law is going to repair after five centuries one of the biggest mistakes the spanish navy in history the jewish ex bull genetic and fourteen ninety two people or homophobia from the pan. some of the prospect of spanish citizenship marxists significant dose of historic justice to others it simply offers a european union passport which is a big deal for many around the world and in israel we're talking about three point five meals of sephardic . i'm a nice well i take

house prices are going to rise the way that they're rising in spain and ireland spain and ireland that's where portugal wants to go they're the ones who are already free and clear they're out of the bailout program and they actually are particular is their seen their house prices rise but given how bad things are in the real economy in portugal that's not going to happen the best you can hope for is a stabilization the best we can hope for portugal a set of plans to resume auction of its bonds in the first half of this year and on january fifteenth they started selling one your bills point six nine percent now that's the lowest rate since two thousand and nine and what does this say about the portuguese economy and recovery relative to countries like spain and italy and greece even from my perspective it says more about the so-called you know outright monetary transactions that these talking about basically there's a backstop for all the periphery debt and people are using that in order to buy if you're a portuguese bank you can pick up a lot of the yield by. into portuguese government b

. >> and the battle over spain's abortion laws. protests are planned against a new bill. >> good to have you with us. these are the top stories on al jazeera. opposition activists in ukraine have been protecting an activist who was severely beaten. police tried to arrest him in hospital. ukraine's opposition leaders are about to meet u.s. secretary of state john kerry in germany. opposition demonstrators in thailand are holding a rally before sunday's elections. the prime minister urged protesters to not disrupt the poll and avoid violence. >> sunday marks the start of campaigning in afghanistan's elections, to be held in april. many afghan refugees who fled will not vote. over 1.5 million of them are in pakistan. a large number of afghans are living in refugee camps and sips 2002 a u.n. effort to bring them back led to near 4 million afghans returning home. we have more. >> this man is original from afghanistan. this is his counter home, a rev gee camp in the pakistani city. he has been living here for 35 years, but struggles to f

calls on spain to face up to its history and former leader general franco. inflation rising in argentina, bias much as 50%. >> welcome back. the top stories on al jazeera. representatives for the pakistani deposit and the taliban are meeting separately at this hour. they are beginning preliminary peace talks. there's suggestions that the meeting may be postponed. >> thailand's opposition is challenging the weekend's election in a constitutional court. the opposition democrat party is calling for the vote to be declared invalid. a former rwandan intelligence chief is to go on trial in france. he is accused of complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity. >> humanitarian workers are concerned about the fate of people in the central african republic. many are trapped in towns, and some travelling in unprotected convoys. battles between rival militia conditions, including in the capital bangui. >> innocent civilians run for cover as the fighting rages on in the central african republic. french troops are trying to bring peace to the capital. >> christian f

four main routes went through france to spain. they joined at puente-la-reina in spain, where a single road passed through burgos and leon and culminated at santiago de compostela. in the center of france, the major starting point was the church of mary magdalene at vezelay. this great romanesque abbey church at vezelay in the heart of burgundy is built far too large for the needs of its local population. paul crossley is a distinguished architectural historian whose special interest is romanesque and gothic architecture. it served primarily two functions. it housed a large and prosperous community of benedictine monks, and secondly and most importantly, it was one of the foremost places of pilgrimage in france, for here was contained the relics of saint mary magdalene. thousands of pilgrims came through the western portals of this church, and they found themselves in a sacred way... a long avenue of arches and aisles which led them to the distant and luminous choir where the body of saint mary magdalene was contained. the dout me

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formed overtion was 50 years ago under spain's dictator to fight a fast independence. a huge war in madrid killed spain's prime minister. this killing in sure whole world took notice. the bloody past left over 800 people dead. in 1959, it was founded trying to win basque independence. name means basque fatherland and freedom. in 1980, militants killed 118 people in spain, its deadliest year. murders and bombings continued. in 2001, the european union declared a terrorist organization, a significant victory for the spanish government. .0 years later, this happened when members made the commitment to abandon our struggle, they had already been all but defeated by waves of arrests and the refusal of the government in madrid to negotiate with them. since then, the spanish authorities have been forced to release some prisoners by the european court of human rights, but hundreds more are still behind bars. >> the northern ireland peace talks have ended with an historic agreement. >> after the success of northern ireland's peace agreement, several key players offered adams,on

believe the close links between business and politics lead to corruption almost all firms in greece spain italy believe corruption is widespread four out of ten firms surveyed describe corruption as an obstacle to doing business sixty four percent of british respondents said they believe the corruption is widespread in the u.k. and the top it off the cost of corruption it is estimated to the e.u. economy is equivalent to the blocks entire annual budget i think the term was breathtaking what's your reaction. well yes i mean the european union itself is a corrupt institution from beginning to end but they haven't added to their books for some nineteen years so. they're not exactly a good example to set fire to business or to politics it is quite a dreadful organization every failed politician in any european country when he's finished making a mess of his own country then seems who often get a job with the european union or the european commission only in berlin how do you reflect upon this report it's quite damning it's really quite extraordinary the extent of corruption particularly in so

believe that close links between business and politics lead to corruption almost all firms in greece spain italy believe corruption is widespread four out of ten firms surveyed describe corruption as an obstacle to doing business sixty four percent of british respondents said they believe that corruption is widespread in the u.k. and the top it off the cost of corruption it is estimated to the e.u. economy is equivalent to the blocks entire annual budget i think the term was breathtaking what's your reaction. well yes i mean the european union itself is a corrupt institution from beginning to end but they haven't added to their books for some one thousand years so they're not exactly a good example to set to business or to politics which is quite a dreadful organization every failed politician in any european country when he's finished making a mess of his own country then seems who often get a job with the european union or the european commission only in berlin and how do you reflect upon this report it's quite damning it's really quite extraordinary the extent of corruption particularly

this is a historic moment for spain. never before has a member of the royal family had to testify in court like a normal citizen. i do not know not to worry. and we'll try to ease don't use of common and easy to accommodate east european court. the capital in the eye when spain's wheel family often stands and some honey taste. may your khakis course and when her husband keith and eckstein and run the operations he sensed my suspicions. mikey mean anything. hi nice to think it's in peace convention hotel to meet a trip to this test on tuesday on profit taking coming into racing and sports. as its president he continued his inherent in funding. leo the twenty theoretically it was the concept of heaven but experts say it wasn't worth one point two million euros therefore my hand full stockings the keys to finding time to identify me in unison copy contents to the false foundation into his and call it. as he's commented presents. also coffee cake she said to use the money to finance the state counties dots lessons under reno

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this is cole's to jn one in spain. the nice doctor daughter dylan feral cats reid visited priest sexual abuse claim against the jewish filmmaker in a letter on the website of the new york times the revival of the accusation against allen comes just ahead of this year's oscar awards for the seventy eight year old writer director is nominated for best original screenplay for his drum and blues jazz and starring kate one chance longtime girlfriend mia farrow and alan split in nineteen ninety two amid revelations that he had an affair with another new parents adopted daughters then twenty two year old soon he later married in nineteen ninety seven. allen was never arrested or prosecuted in the decades old dylan fairer abuse case which was investigated by state police in connecticut where mia farrow and her children live you intense letter published in the new york times website is the first time she has written publicly about the allegations. now twenty eight dillon says the island led her to an attic at their house when s

believe the close links between business and politics lead to corruption almost all firms in greece spain italy believe corruption is widespread four out of ten firms surveyed describe corruption as an obstacle to doing business sixty four percent of british respondents said they believe that corruption is widespread in the u.k. and the top it off the cost of corruption it is estimated to the e.u. economy is equivalent to the blocks entire annual budget i think the term was breathtaking what's your reaction. well yes i mean the european union itself is a corrupt institution from beginning to end but they haven't added to their books for some one thousand years so. they're not exactly a good example to set to business or to politics it is quite a dreadful organization every failed politician in any european country when he's finished making a mess of his own country then he was who often get a job with the european union or the european commission only in berlin and how do you reflect upon this report it's quite damning it's really quite extraordinary the extent of corruption particularly

people in the crowd in countries such as spain italy and greece are getting very frustrated with the corruption and and the problems and i think really david said they wanted to come out with the report to show that they are. doing something which they are not ok so this is a public relations this is a public good no no let me go to italy in berlin that's a very good point this is a part of it that yes it's very very bad but what are you going to do for the people in greece for example or cyprus or spain and southern italy and going on and on i mean i i'm not i'm not i'm an american you know i don't have to care of the european union collapses or not it's none of my business here but i do know that there is a oh sure there is growth there is growing poverty in the european union and people dark tying it to corruption as well. well the motto of european integration is unity in diversity if you would too much centralized competent system we have all the reasons to call it a socialist project and then we have all the reasons to criticize the commission for being ignorant about differenc

believe they close links between business and politics lead to corruption almost all firms in greece spain italy believe corruption widespread is. four out of ten firms surveyed described corruption as an obstacle to doing business sixty four percent of british respondents said they believe the corruption is widespread in the u.k. and the top it off the cost of corruption it is estimated to the e.u. economy is equivalent to the blocks entire annual budget i think the term was breathtaking what's your reaction. well yes i mean the european union itself is a corrupt institution from beginning to end but they haven't added to their books for some nineteen years so they're not exactly a good example to set to business or to politics it is quite a dreadful organization every failed politician in any european country when he's finished making a mess of his own country then he was who often get a job with the european union or the european commission only in berlin how do you reflect upon this report it's quite damning it's really quite extraordinary the extent of corruption particularly in some

believe the close links between business and politics lead to corruption almost all firms in greece spain italy believe corruption is widespread four out of ten firms surveyed describe corruption as an obstacle to doing business sixty four percent of british respondents said they believe that corruption is widespread in the u.k. and the top it off the cost of corruption it is estimated to the e.u. economy is equivalent to the blocks entire annual budget i think the term was breathtaking what's your reaction. well yes i mean the european union itself is a corrupt institution from beginning to end but they haven't added to their books for some one thousand years so they're not exactly a good example to set fire to business or to politics it is quite a dreadful organization every failed politician in any european country when he's finished making a mess of his own country then he was you often get a job with the european union or the european commission only in berlin how do you reflect upon this report it's quite damning it's really quite extraordinary the extent of corruption particularly

we self deploy this force from camp lejeune to spain. that distance on the red arrows is about the same as it is down to the gulf of guinea. pretty significant. that is to scale. a map of the united states. it is about 3.7 times the united states that can fit inside the continent of africa. when they built maps, it always looks like the united states is a good size. russia is a good-size compared to africa, but africa is huge. you start running into significant problems or issues operating there. we also moved the force from spain to djibouti and then further on. the distance from moron, spain, to djibouti is about 34 nautical -- 3400 nautical miles, about the distance from alaska to florida. we repeatedly moved from moron, spain, to support operations in the african region. that is the distance from new york to new orleans. even routine movement which we did several times from moron, spain, is not routine based on this distance. the combination enabled that to happen. for the last six and a half months, i will start on the left-hand sid

these were dark days for spain's royal family. now it's his wife who will answer to allegations of tax fraud and embezzlement in a company they ran together. forfeiting our right to appeal, she'll appear here with her lawyers. she will be directly in front of the judge, as well as a portrait of her own father, the king of spain. it's the first time that a member of the royal family will testify as a subject in criminal proceedings. there will be another 40 people in this room at this historic event. more than 100 officers will be present, half of those have had to be drafted in from the main lan at a cost to the taxpayer. the royal household has attempted to isolate this case from the rest of the family, but the aledged involvement of the duke and dutchess has tarnished spain's monarchy. the case has also highlighted the level of corruption here in spain. that members of the royal family was involved has only increased the distaste in the country. >>> you are up to date on all of the news from europe. back to doreen. >>> a report

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what if spain -- one of spain's most celebrated managers has dead at the age of 75 t he led the european championship. aragonas was in charge of his country for 5 years and managed. as a player at athelico, scored 172 goals. >> he showed spain winning was no longer a possibility but a reality. without a doubt, it was due to his character and personality. >> that's impossible to forget. he played a key role in spanish football. he set the standards spain still follows to stay at the top. >> lots going on the english premier league. sundayer land won their match 3-nil after frustrating. west ham beat swansi 2-nil. m manchester united scoring with a big deflected free kick, going at ha now. tottenham behind and everton, a 1-nil at home to aston villa libya's footballers earn a chance of winning first major international title. they will play ghana in the final in the african nation's championship. kickoff is a couple of years ago, a combination of players based in the con sonit. libya's footballers have enjoined a dream round in this competition and are one win away from a first major inter

now the tv up to prosecute mongers who reside in spain. zero change comes as the country's national court to see the rest was the former chinese president and seen in four of those as part of the probe into alleged genocide in tibet ninety china which denies committing crimes and it took control of tibet in nineteen fifty two not that astonished to find deal with the ec will risk souring relations between beijing and that its tibet activists in spain you began campaigning decade to bed now face having the case are now come to the new goal crispy on the wooden heel on the chinese government is putting lots of fresh air on the spanish government the chinese government is trying to hold the spanish government and is trying to force it to change goals the spanish government is listening to the temple spain's ruling popular party claims the universal justice principle promised a lot but any cause to conduct a complex human rights lawyers say the new bill will pull the plug on a host of other cases including one involving alleged rights abuses b

spy on everybody in spain. and of course then there was the deal between the u.s. and england where u.s. spy agencies couldn't spy on people in the u.s. but british spy agencies could spy on people in the u.s. so the two governments said alright each of us will spy on the other's citizens and then we'll trade and that way will be surveilling our own people so this is what i think of as the scandal did do you still feel yourself that in this tech crowd as one of the tribesman or more of that outsider these days i feel largely an outsider because most of them are developing services to be available over the net that are going to collect data about their users and i wouldn't use them. after all if we look at u.s. government surveillance of the people it's mostly not the u.s. government directly looking at everyone know it's businesses various companies that collect data about people and then the u.s. government gets it from them the systems that these companies run have to be designed so that they don't collect any data about most people only about those for whom ther

spy on everybody in spain. and of course then there was the deal between the u.s. and england where u.s. spy agencies couldn't spy on people in the u.s. but british spy agencies could spy on people in the u.s. so the two governments said alright each of us will spy on the other's citizens and then we'll trade and that way we'll be surveilling our own people so this is what i think of as the scandal do you still feel yourself that in this tech crowd as one of the tribesman or more of that outsider these days i feel largely an outsider because most of them are developing services to be available over the net that are going to collect data about their users and i wouldn't use them. after all if we look at u.s. government surveillance of the people it's mostly not the u.s. government directly looking at everyone know it's businesses various companies that collect data about people and then the u.s. government gets it from them these systems that these companies run have to be designed so that they don't collect any data about most people only about those for whom there

we self deployed this force from camp lejeune to moron spain. that distance is about the same as the distance on those red arrows as it is from a moron spain down to the gulf of guinea. pretty significant but as you can see there, that's the scale. map of the united states or an outline of the united states, about 3.7 times the united states can fit inside the continent of africa. it's a bit of a trick cartographers when they build maps. it always looks like the united states is pretty good size, even the -- russia pretty good size compared to africa. but africa is huge. when you start operating in there, you would run into some significant time space problems or issues. we also move the force from a moron, spain, to the camp in djibouti. and then further on you and debbie. that distance from moron, spain, down to djibouti is about 3400 nautical miles. were the distance from anchorage, alaska, miami, florida. and then another 800 miles into entebbe to support operations in south sudan. we also repeatedly moved from moron, spain, down in our to s

spy on everybody in spain. and of course then there was the deal between the u.s. and england where u.s. spy agencies couldn't spy on people in the u.s. but british spy agencies could spy on people in the u.s. so the two governments said alright each of us will spy on the other's citizens and then we'll trade and that we will be surveilling our own people so this is what i think of as the scandal did do you still feel yourself that in this tech crowd as one of the tribesman or more of that outsider these days i feel largely an outsider because most of them are developing services to be available over the net that are going to collect data about their users and i wouldn't use them. after all if we look at u.s. government surveillance of the people it's mostly not the u.s. government directly looking at everyone know it's businesses various companies that collect data about people and then the u.s. government gets it from them these systems that these companies run have to be designed so that they don't collect any data about most people only about those for whom the

went out and bought the debt of itly and spain. -- italy and spain. they take 175 billion euros and take that money to absorb that liquidity so they are not increasing the money supply. the bundesbank has given them -- od to stop stair sterilizing the bond purchases. it could open the door for q.e. down the road as well. >> let's take a step back. do you think the e.c.b. will have to do something significant within the next quarter? >> yes. there are three different elements. first, interest rates. and liquidity has been drying up in the banking ystem in europe. we know that as we approach 1407, short-term, we start with show liquidity. deflation is clearly looming. >> do you think they will do something today ob can they wait? >> frankly, i would bb surprised. -- be surprised. they want governments to continue to act. spain, portugal, greece, italy and france have a lot to do. on the other side, the leading indicator is liquidity in the banking system. last, let's keep in mind, there is the asset review. refinancing. >> talk to me about the politics

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we focus a lot on spain. where do you see dangers? >> definitely spain remains a difficult country. look is very positive. all of the good news we receive from the countries it should translate into sales. being a amid about chief executive. i love to get your vision of your priorities. you are focusing on the emerging markets and china. is there a challenge that you need to make sure you do not miss and the next six months? acquisitions or pricing or emerging markets? expandt of all, it is to our geography. i am very please of the performance in which we have in africa. we have opened a five new facilities in five different countries. it has grown by more than 30%. first of all a geography and being positioned to see the growth potential and where it is. today, more positive news coming from the western world. that is number one. number two is to continue to invest and particularly and innovation. have a newinitely challenge and opportunities with the digital. the digital world. and we have a lot of new products in the digital world. we have antioned m&a, clear strategy. investment

crowds marched on spain. protests were held in london, rome and brussels. >> wal-mart is closing a down quarter with an upbeat outlook for the future. a reduction in food stamp benefits has made a dent in the profits. a new president ceo, doug mcmillan, took the rinse, starting as an -- reins, starting as an hourly worker in 1984. being an insider gives mcmillan an edge. >> well, i think that they view that that has historically been successful for them. the prior ceos had a similar experience and track record. doug is knowledgeable of the company. sometimes when you get a ceo from the outside, they get a lot of time, one, two, three years, to get acquainted with the new company. the plus for this person is that he knows what doesn't work. can he bring change to move the company forward. >> the new ceo comes in after wal-mart closed 50 stars in brazil and china. and after the retailer is set to lay off 2,000 employees. >> microsoft is likely to name sadia nadella to the top spot, to become only the third ceo.

and they do still exert a lot of influence on the politics here in spain. another crucial thing is that the government here in madrid of the popular party center right government is under huge pressure from its own supporters. it strikes an extremely hard line over eta. it refuses to even negotiate with the group under any terms up until now. and the key thing is would this provide enough concrete evidence that eta is willing to do more and will that, and it's a big question, will it make the government in madrid any more prone to enter some type of negotiation? maybe not directly with eta but at least enter some process towards negotiation which could end the actual group's existence. >> stay with us on "bbc world news". still to come, ahead of the third round of syrian peace talks, our correspondent fights a confident mood in damascus among supporters of president assad. when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. ♪ 800,000 hours of supercomputing time, 3 million lines of code

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we self deploy this force from camp lejeune to spain. that distance on the red arrows is about the same as it is down to the gulf of guinea. pretty significant. that is to scale. a map of the united states. it is about 3.7 times the united states that can fit inside the continent of africa. when they built maps, it always looks like the united states is a good size. rush is a good-size compared to africa, but africa is huge. you start running into significant problems or issues operating there. we also moved the force from spain to djibouti and then further on. the distance from moron, spain, to djibouti is about 34 nautical miles, about the distance from alaska to florida. we repeatedly moved from moron, spain, to support operations in the african region. that is the distance from new york to new orleans. even routine movement which we did several times from moron, spain, is not routine based on this distance. the combination enabled that to happen. for the last six and a half months, i will start on the left-hand side of the screen. we

and embarrassing them all to keep the door to the king of spain is real to establish what role she played in a form of money or three days. well not much else by cadres are mindful motorsports. two people have been killed in the lineup was injured after a boulder the size of a car struck a train in the french alps any old today. also the impact was enough to de rail sections of the train leaving carriages dangling at the edge of the mountain tracks for strikeouts with his brush with the details he reeled in hanging precariously the tourist train was coming from the coastal city of nice to be named in the lower alps. i was promptly threw three aren't any link huge boulder the size of a cough and pulled off the mountain and smashed into it. the tent into the ministry reports more than one hundred rescuers and two helicopters were deployed. the remote location and the weather has hampered the rescue. the key on your current the accidents and also train of the profiles railway which i believe is a private company you a clue. the weather is for us to an epic snow is making rescue efforts typic