the company is cutting exposure to russia. we do not see any reason to write it down but we are reducing our russian activities in the retail space substantially. central bankers under fire. janet yellen and mario draghi on the defense as lawmakers on both sides of the pond demand answers over recent actions. you re watching worldwide exchange. bringing you business news from around the globe. welcome to the show. we had german jobless data about three minutes ago. it stayed at a record low in february. the adjusted rate of 6.5% has come in at the same level it was in january. the unadusted rate down fractionally from 7% to 6.9 and the jobless number was 3.017 million. no significant improvement from the already impressive level it was at. the euro not moving too much off the back of that. let s take a look at stocks on the move. standard chartered trading higher this morning after the bank announced it is replacing it s ceo with ex jp morgan executive. shares are d
mother of the murdered black teenager, steven lawrence. lord [inaudible] a former assistant deputy police commissioner. lady jones, a green party politician in london. and lord finkelstein, columnist and a former associate editor of the times. to put all the new peers, in october a former first sea lord had a novel suggestion to make. and i wonder if the royal navy could come to the nation s assistance again, i ve been asking people to buy the third invincible class carrier, two having been scrapped, and i wonder if the house authorities would like to buy it to accommodate the huge number of new piers being created. [laughter] in fact, it can accommodate up to 700 people and has a bank, laundry and shop. the death of nelson mandela was a moment that parliament couldn t ignore. the first black president of south africa and father figure for his nation came to parliament back in 1996 and spoke in westminster hall. he was fully aware of the anti-apartheid campaigns that ran
for. and i think a fundamental reason for that is because of the way our personal data translates into dollar signs. so it took an executive at a company called nuance, which is a voice recognition company, to put it succinctly for me, this particular attitude. he said that privacy was an economic consideration. now, this executive was helping nuance which does the voice recognition technology for the iphone siri to create a personal assistant technology separate to that, that could go beyond siri ins could referencing all the data between the different apps on our phones. kind of like a butler that has the keys to all the doors in your house and all the cup boards and every safe, just to make them that little bit better at what they do. i asked him about, wouldn t consumers find that a little bit odd, to have their privacy unfringed like that? and he said, just again, i feel like this illustrates the attitudes in silicon valley, when do people feel their privacy has been bre
who aren t graduating high school, going on to college or getting attached to careers the way i was able to? the president and ceo of martha s table on leading the nonprofit, sunday night at 8 p.m. on q&a. now, conversation about the u.s. supreme court s role in badery with justice ruth ginsburg. mr. olson most recently argued before the supreme court on same-sex marriage. northern virginia technology council, this is 45 minutes. [applause] . good morning. good morning. [inaudible] audio. someone will also have to control the microphone. [laughter] it is a great privilege for me to have the opportunity to ask questions of justice ginsberg instead of the other way around. [laughter] i want to thank all of you out there who planted questions with me in the hopes that i would ask those questions, but i probably will not ask any of those questions. [laughter] let s start with the supreme court of the u.s. you and your court handled the most difficult and most contr
that we can speak our only much and you will get translation our english, but that colleagues here do not get any translation, or do you? no. but you should get translation into ingush so signal if there is a problem. i m also going to ask colleagues and our guests to be as brief and concise as possible and to allow for maximum number of questions. we will have one question, one i will ask time, and everybody to be very, very concise. listen toll, we will the men from the dsnd group. greenwald formr. being with us today. can i begin with where you finish, the source, edward snowden? in my report, i am going to be talking about whistleblower protection. yesterday we saw the congressional committee that by mike rogers, and they rejected snowden asion of mr. a whistleblower. what is your view of that? by rejecting that definition, they are seeing him as a felon. simple question, what is your view of that? secondly, on the federal court gment, which he welcomed, which you welcom
for us. is this a hostage situation? do we know? are there students and professors still trapped? what do we know right now? well, it has become a de facto hostage situation, whether that was the intent is is not yet clear. but we have reports of students and faculty members still trapped within that campus. it took hours for security forces even just to be able to break through the parameter of the university and get inside the university itself. they are now inside the university but we don t know as yet if they have been able to even engage with the attackers. fortunately, over 100 people are now being reported as having escaped. they bring with them some pretty horrifying details, brooke. grenades being thrown. students being chased. the tweets that were coming out of there made very difficult reading. please, someone, anyone, come help us. and this went on for hours. and as yet, security forces haven t actually managed to locate in which parts of the campus the attac
but doing preps in his own way. with less than 24 hours to go, the stakes could not be any higher. about 100 million people are expected to tune in. this make s tomorrow s toe to toe potentially do or die for both candidates. don t believe me? here are some numbers. a general election poll releelgsed today shows clinton and trump in a virtual dead heat. clinton up two against trump in a four-way matchup. when asked who they think will win the debate, 47% say it will be clinton, just 33% say the same of trump. those are some low expectations that worry the clinton campaign even today. we re concerned there may be a double standard. donald trump can t lie on that debate statement and win or even get a passing grade. behind me, we have students from hofstra university hyped up. next to me also hyped up, casey hunt and kelly o donnell. thanks for being here. this is it. this is the moment we ve been talking about it feels like since the convention, right? start with the new p
day of rallies in important battleground states. we re following all of them. donald trump is on his way to phoenix, arizona after holding a rally earlier in golden, colorado. a live look at daytona beach, florida. in just a few minutes hillary clinton is expected to speak at a rally there and later attend a co concert in miami with singer jennifer lopez. and the fbi s james comey calling on more investigations on hillary clinton s e-mails. coming out strong, congressional black caucus moments ago started their news conference saying, more information. what are you hearing from those at this rally? reporter: well, the clinton campaign first of all believes that the best strategy to deal with this is to ramp up the pressure on fbi director james comey to release more information. so you re seeing democrats, as you just mentioned, cdc and other groups come forward and echo that. the clinton campaigns thinks the murkiness is most damaging s in terms of her supporter, they don
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