yes, absolutely. so russia is very dependent on oil, and as oil prices have been plunging over the past few months this is basically what their revenue is. oil goes down the rev few goes down. everyone wants out of the currency. the russian ruble is under attack. despite the efforts of a central bank over there, it s really not working. this is something we need to watch here in the u.s. as well. mandy, joy joined us to talk about the hostage standoff in sidney, which ended with the death of two australian hostages. quite a shock if that are country, isn t it? it s a huge shock. the flags are flying half mass in australia. what we re asking now in the aftermath are questions like how is it that the gunman an iranian refugee was not on the terrorist watch list. he had an inflammatory jihadist website. there has been an investigation launched into the motives of the gunman and also how he got a
50 counts of sexual acts with ten boys. he has pleaded not guilty. the escort at the center of the secret service prostitution scandal says the agents involved were, quote, idiots. talking to a colombian radio station. juarez says she could have gotten sensitive information compromising president obama s security. translator: of course, at that moment if i had been a member of one of those terrorist gangs, it s obvious that i would have been able to get everything just like the newspapers say, they re a bunch of fools. they re responsible for obama security and they still let this happen. i told them i m going to call the police. so that they would pay me my money. they didn t care. they didn t see the magnitude of the problem. even when being responsible for obama security. i could have done 1,000 other things. suarez says her reputation is shattered. she adds that she s open to other opportunities like posing nude for magazine for the right price. in an unusual move
this has been an incredible saga. if you look back at the past week, he escaped house arrest, he took rev few in the u.s. embassy. today it looks as though there was a breakthrough. he walks there the embassy a free man, he was taken to a hospital for medical treatment, reunited with the family. but how there has been a complete back flip. speaking to him, he says he kne feels he s been let down by the united states, that while in the embassy, he was cut off from the news and he was encouraged to leave. when he left, he went to the hospital, he met his wife, and his wife told him what had been happening to her ever since he fled. she told him that the guards who were locking them down in their village took her away, tieder h to a chair and interrogated her, said they were waiting for them with weapons back in their house. chen told me very clearly that if he stays in china, he fears for his life. initially he wanted to stay in the country. he says he can no longer live it the