Im guy johnson. Francine and im francine lacqua. We are getting breaking data out of germany. The figure for current assessment, pretty much in line. If you look at Business Climate current assessment, they are less. Guy 106. 8. The median forecast 107. 7. Slightly on the light side. Interesting thing is why german industry feels that it needs to be less optimistic during it i guess there are still ongoing issues with russia. Francine greece. It just finished so there were all these ongoing situations with the negotiations in greece and that huge deal with russia. That would kind of explain it. Guy 113. 28 is where the currency is trading. The u. S. Dollar down by about 0. 5 . Francine after fridays dramatic deal in brussels, greeces Prime Minister has just a few hours left to submit reforms. Guy we have every angle on this story covered. Joining us from berlin, our international correspondent, hans nichols. From the dread, charles. From athens, Erik Schatzker. Hans, lets talk to you f
Hearings, there are many experts who would contend the complexity of the geopolitics that led to the u. S. Retreat from europe created an opening for putin and the ukraine. Clearly we must closely coordinate with our european friends for the sanctions against russia to work but i think without any doubt we can all agree on one point and that is that the United States must take the lead. I believe the administration the legislation passed with unanimous consent in both houses of congress. It authorized the president to provide much needed military and humanitarian aid to ukraine and imposes additional sanctions against russia. This legislation was necessary in december. And it is certainly necessary today. Now, we all want a diplomatic solution. But this can only come about when at the cost of continuing to ravage ukraine is simply too high. Providing nonlethal equipment like night vision goggles is all well and good. Giving ukrainians the ability to see russians coming, but not the wea
It comes back operationally, we do tolerate failure. The first thing in the field, this is not a zero mentality. People make mistakes. Theres fog and friction and we reward innovation and i think it exists. Constitutional ly institutionally, its a little harder. But in the acquisition realm the processes are not they grind on so its not that they dont reward innovation. Its that innovation and new ideas dont naturally arise from it because theres a risk aversion. Everybody wants a piece of it, they want to add their requirement to it. Its hard to get the process right. Intellectual intellectually, you read other things, you read small wars journal, every major interesting piece that are at odds often with what the secretary and the chief are saying. Thats a great thing. And the army has this incredible ferment. Do those people stay in the army . Are they punished for . I never really sayee that. The army is a culture, and so i have no doubt we have certain cultural biases. We try to no
Than 60 million phone lines in that country over a onemonth period. This comes as a european delegation is in washington looking for answers. Al jazeera has this report. Reporter at the white house the president ial spokesman refused to be drawn on reports that the you u. S. Tracked millions of spanish foe calls but repeated the nsa Surveillance Programs are being examined. We are doubling a review. We are mindful that some of these disclear us disclosure had tension in our relationships. With new capabilities we recognize there needs to be additional constraints on how we gather and use intelligence. Reporter tensions spiked with reports in germany suggesting president obama was briefed on the surveillance of german chancellor Angela Merkels phone in 2010 and fast tracked any information gathered correctly to the white house. In the fast few days Anonymous Administration officials told the u. S. Media that was false. And that a white house review only discovered the surveillance of Wo
Or i will terminate it. Meanwhile, ukraine makes another field attempt to seize. Theres not a Nuclear Power plant according to the Russian Defense industry. Despite the presence there of the team from the International Atomic energy agency. On dinner developing story, moscow accuses washington and t have a violating the biological Weapons Convention due to the activity of scores of bio labs in ukraine rush. It said it will convene an urgent meeting of the convention, signatories to bring attention to the issue with welcome to our, to international. My names you know, really good to have your company. This saturday. Key of forces have made another attempt to seize. Theres up a rose, she a Nuclear Power plant, despite a team from the u. N. Nuclear Energy Watchdog being at the side. That is, according to the Russian Defense ministry, which claims 250. 00 ukranian troops tried to cross the den epr river in more than 40 boats on friday evening. The temp was aborted after around half of the