death of a revolutionary. venezuelan president hugo chavez dies after a long battle with cancer. hugo chavez dreamed as a young soldier of revolution. he rose up to become president of venezuela and an inspiration for socialists across latin america. he fought for two years against cancer but ultimately lost his battle. chavez was first elected president in 1998. he redistributed oil profits and won the support of poor voters. he tapped into nationalism and became a thorn in the side to successive u.s. presidents. two years ago doctors detected cancer in his pelvis. chavez went through several rounds of surgery in cuba. the treatments weakened the once fiery leader. still, voters re-elected him to his fourth term this past october. his inauguration was scheduled to take place in january. but he was not able to leave hospital in havana. hugo chavez was 58. u.s. officials are trying to use their leverage to punish their counterparts in north korea. the americans introduced a draft resolution at the united nations security council. they re targeting banking transactions and what they call illicit activities by diplomats. they say the sanctions will be among the toughest ever. north korean scientists carried out their third underground nuclear test last month. members of the council met on tuesday to discuss how to respond. u.s. delegates drafted the resolution. they managed to get the support of north korea s long-time ally china. the international community is united and very firm in its opposition to north korea s illicit nuclear and missile programs. rice said the resolution would place new restrictions on diplomatic travel, banking transactions, and shipments of cargo. members are expected to adopt it later this week at the earliest. executives at a major japanese electronic company are in financial trouble. they ve been looking for help overseas, and they may have found a willing partner in south korea. ai uchida joins us now from the business desk. ai? yes, catherine. you re talking about sharp. they are expected to post billions of dollars in losses this business year. so they are desperate. while the struggling japanese electronics maker is set to receive funding from its biggest rival. south korean samsung electronics has agreed to a capital tie-up. executives at sharp will meet on wednesday to make a final decision. sources say the deal would secure about $107 million from the south korean firm. samsung would then have about a 3% stake in sharp. sources also say the two companies are discussing a long-term arrangement to supply sharp s lcd panels to samsung. sharp is mired in huge losses. the deal would improve its financial situation and boost the use of factory lines. for samsung the agreement would ensure a stable supply of lcd panels. sharp s executives have been sounding out several overseas partners for capital alliances. low-cost liquid crystal panels are vital to the success of an electronics company. a tie-up between sharp and samsung could affect the business strategies of competitors in china and taiwan. samsung currently holds the largest share in the global lcd tv market. the maker got there by building its own factories, taking advantage of tax breaks and a weak national currency. samsung officials lowered the cost of their tvs by mass-producing lcd panels in house. this helped them step up their global market share. but new rivals in china and taiwan offering cheaper products led to a plunge in tv prices. to stay ahead samsung is looking for a source of low-cost lcd panels. the firm s wide sales network united with sharp s technical expertise could trigger similar tie-ups among competitors. and on wall street u.s. stock prices powered ahead to reach a historical high. the dow jones industrial average exceeded its previous record, set about five years and five months ago. on tuesday the dow jones ended at 14,253. that s up 125 points, or 0.89%. buy orders prevailed as soon as the market opened, as investors became more hopeful about a u.s. economic recovery. at one point during the day the key index climbed nearly 160 points. the new york share prices have been on an upward trend since last november, even overcoming sharp falls stemming from political uncertainties in italy, which had elections last month. market sentiment was supported also by comments from federal reserve chairman ben bernanke, who defended the ongoing monetary easing policy. this helped to push stock prices higher. there s a lot of money still slashing around the system that has been created but quantitative easing. emerge k markets are starting to flag a little bit. so we re seeing money return back domestically. i would say the government s focus has to be on manufacturing and on housing. so we i think those are two particular areas of the stock market that will start to pick up focus should the economy continue to recover. now let s see how markets are doing here in japan. the u.s. stock rally is boosting tokyo shares. the nikkei is currently trading at 11,828. that s a gain of 1 1/4% from tuesday s close. market players are optimistic about a recovery in the global economy following tuesday s strong performance in the u.s. and europe. let s take a look at the currency markets now. the dollar is trading in a tight range against the yen. that pair is at 93.06-07. market sources say participants are waiting for the release of u.s. jobs data to confirm the country s economic conditions. the figure is due out later this week. the euro, that s also little changed against the yen. the euro against the yen is now changing hands at 121.55-60. and in other markets in the asia pacific, south korea s kospi is trading higher by almost 2/3 of a percent. 2,028. let s see what s going on in australia. the benchmark index is up by 1%. 5,128. japanese prime minister shinzo abe plans to announce his decision late next week to join the talks for a free trade deal under the transpacific partnership. translator: i will pursue what s best for japan. following talks last month with u.s. president barack obama. i will make the final decision. after taking into account our discussions with the u.s. and those within my liberal democratic party. abe said progress is under way in preliminary talks. that s on issues related to the automotive and insurance sectors, two areas of concern for the u.s. on autos the plan is for the u.s. to gradually remove tariffs on imported japanese cars. another option being considered is for japan to accept more american vehicles through simpler customs procedures. on other sectors, including agricultu agriculture, abe plans to forgo releasing specific figures on the expected tpp impact. that s because no decision has been made on which items to exempt from tariff cuts. i ll have more business headlines for you next hour. here s a check on regional markets. efforts to decommission crippled reactors continue at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. ahead of the second anniversary of the accident nhk world reporters have become the first media staff to enter areas previously off limits. reporter: we are near the number 1 reactor. this was the site of the meltdown and the hydrogen explosions. debris and shattered glass lie as they fell. hoses used to fight the fires also remain. steel panels on the ground prevent workers from radiation exposure. 9 the decommissioning of all the damaged reactors is scheduled to take 40 years. the high radiation keeps delaying the work. our camera room entered the control room for the system to purify contaminated water. employees are now allowed to work without masks here. they have to monitor levels of radioactive water around the clock. as the heat tons build up in the basement of the damaged nuclear reactors. the contaminated water increased by 400 tons a day as groundwater is seeping into the buildings. these tanks are designed to store the water. each is 11 meters high and can hold 1,000 tons. but it takes only 2 1/2 days to fill one tank. experts say space will run out in 2 1/2 years. we then visited the number four reactor. work is under way to prepare for the removal of over 1,500 spent fuel rods from a damaged storage pool. tepco engineers plan to start the removal of the rods in mid november. as the first major step of the decommissioning process. a tepco executive says they face many challenges. translator: we will have to resolve a number of technological issues before we can start removing a large number of spent fuel rods and extracting the melted fuel. we need to develop remote kr0e8d robots that can work where humans can t because of extremely high levels of radiation. reporter: the japanese government has targeted the decommissioning process to end within 40 years. but the high levels of radiation and the damage still left by the tsunami and hydrogen explosions are making it unclear what lies ahead. nhk world s yoichiro taitewa. people in northeastern japan are reminded daily of what they lost on march 1th, 2011. the earthquake and tsunami took away loved ones, homes, entire communities. survivors are moving ahead, but they still face obstacles at the damaged nuclear plant and all along the pacific coast. newsline will bring you their stories. don t miss path to recovery: two years on. members of the international olympic committee inspected several venues in tokyo on tuesday. it was their second day evaluating the city s plans to host the 2020 summer games. it included metropolitan gymnasium where the table tennis competition would be held. the site hosted the gymnastics events in the 1964 tokyo olympics. it s also where the table tennis world championships and other international events were held. some of the ioc officials enjoyed rallies with japanese players. including ai sukuhara. she won a silver medal in the london olympics. sukuhara said she was nervous. she said she tried her best to convey tokyo s enthusiasm to host the games. translator: i think i was able to show the interesting, fun parts of table tennis. ioc officials were all smiling. they seemed to have a good time. it was a big success. the ioc inspection will continue until thursday. the latest ioc survey shows that 70% of tokyoites support the bid to host the 2020 games. that s up 23 percentage points from may of last year. the president of the japanese olympic committee unveiled the survey results. translator: we shouldn t be content with getting a 70% support rate. we ll continue making efforts to gain more support for hosting the games in 2020. the support made for tokyo s 2016 olympic games bid was as low as 56%. observers say this was probably a major reason the bid failed at that time. the u.s. military will begin flight drills of the osprey transport aircraft over japan s main islands on wednesday. it will be the first drill over the region since the aircraft s deployment in okinawa. japan s defense ministry say three osprey will take part in the three-day low altitude flight training. the ospreys will fly over the so-called orange route. it s one of six flight routes in the main islands. during the drill the aircraft will fly from u.s. marine corps iwakuni air station in yamaguchi prefecture over shikoku island and wakayama prefecture. u.s. military representatives say it will also conduct nighttime drills through 10:00 p.m. they say the aircraft will fly at a minimum altitude of 150 meters during the day and 300 meters at night. defense officials from japan and britain say they plan to develop suits that protect against chemical weapons. this will be japan s first development of defense equipment with a country other than the united states. the country s leaders agreed last year to develop defense equipment at an early date. japan relaxed its long-standing ban on arms exports in 2011. this paved the way for japanese companies to develop equipment with foreign partners under certain conditions. sources say british officials initially proposed developing artillery parts. but japanese officials reportedly believed it would be easier to win public support for protective suits. japan plans to host a conference with african nations in may to discuss developments of natural resources like rare earths. the move is part of japan s bid to secure a stable supply of natural resources. economy, trade, and industry ministry toshimitsu motegi says ministers responsible for development of natural resources in 15 african nations will gather in tokyo. these countries include south africa and mozambique, that are rich in natural resources. the participants will consider issues such as how can japanese firms help increase infrastructure investments in africa. they also plan to discuss measures to train experts in the field. government officials note this is the first time for japan to host a ministerial-level conference with african nations to discuss natural resources development as a major topic. the outcome of the conference will be reported to the tokyo international conference on african development to be held in june. bangkok is hosting the meeting of an internationalct endangered species. ivory is high on the agenda of the meeting. although international trade of the material is banned, the host country, thailand, allows it domestically. this has made it a major hub of the global ivory market. nhk world s busavu sevasonbu reports. reporter: this is just a small portion of the ivory that thai authorities confiscate at bangkok s main international airport every year. more than ten tons have been seized in the past five years. all of it comes from african elements. translator: if a crate comes from african countries, we pay close attention. but we have to oversee 500 incoming flights a day. we admit we can t search all of them. reporter: according to wildlife ngos, 2012 was a deadly year for african elephants. 30,000 of the animals were killed for their tusk, which can fetch 2,000 u.s. dollar per kilogram. thailand is one of the biggest markets for ivory. this district is at its center. artisans here carve the material into various items which sell for high prices. shop owners insist that they don t use illegal ivory. translator: we don t do anything wrong. we don t kill any elephants in any country. but we have no chance to defend ourselves in the international arena. we are trying to cooperate, but i can t say if others comply as well. reporter: scientists want a conventional and international treaty on international species and flora and fauna. bans the cross-border trade of ivory. but it doesn t apply to trade within countries. since the thai domestic market is largely unregulated, it is the perfect place to render illegal ivory smuggled in from africa. wildlife groups demand that the thai government impose an outright ban on all ivory trade. there are measures in place to try to control the trade in ivory, but it s clearly not working. and really the only way to prevent the extinction of the elephant is to close the market. and unfortunately, the spotlight is on thailand because they have one of the largest markets in the world. three, two, one. reporter: facing international pressure, prime minister yingluck shinawatra said at the opening ceremony of the scientists meeting that thailand should halt the trade. unfortunately, many have used thailand as a transit country for the illegal international ivory trade. we will do what amending the national registration with the goal of putting an end of ivory trade. and to be allied with international norms. reporter: however, the time frame of the proposed ban has not been set. as demand is still high, it is not clear if thailand will really bow out of the ivory trade. nhk world, bangkok. emerging economic powers still struggling with poverty. emboldened citizens still demanding democracy. the threat of violence. the push for peace. the shadow of conflict. get news and insight on southeast asia every monday on nhk newsline. the batman of bradford has been unmasked. a man dressed as the comic hero handed over a suspect last week to british police, then disappeared. news outlets around the world reported on this story. now the would-be soourp superhero has disclosed his identity. the man dressed up as the caped crusader, then walked into a police station in the central city of bradford. he brought in a man charged with theft and fraud. police revealed surveillance video showing them talking to each other. they say batman told officers that he d caught the man for them, then disappeared into the darkness. my name s stan worby. 39-year-old, and i m a delivery driver. in a tv interview worby said he had been watching a soccer game in his costume. a friend asked worby to take him to the police station. he said he didn t have time to change his clothes. many people in the u.s. are having a hard time getting around. mai shoji joins us from the weather desk to tell us why. hi there. we ve got two storms that are slamming the western coast of the north american continent as well as the east. let me start it off talking about this, heading toward the pacific northwest. the sierras, the cascades. you ll probably find about 50 centimeters of snow. the heaviest bulk of snow will be in northern california in the higher elevations. and you can see a clear spiring with this cloud formation. that means it s going to be a potent system and the winds are strong, enough to create blowing snow, very hazardous for traveling. also, this one will be affect the metropolitan areas where te population is very high. winter weather advisories, warnings. 9 area has increased. thousands of flights are canceled. so do check your schedule if you are traveling in or out of these regions. they ll be moving very slowly toward the eastern seaboard. so the snowfall accumulation could be some staggering amounts in places where we don t really see that much. massachusetts, the appalachians, in the next 48 hours you ll probably see it on the order of 50 centimeters of snow. local areas will probably find about 75 centimeters of snowfall. down toward the south of that wind advisories are widely po posted and toward the south of that. thunderstorms could be possible. hail and gust reports. numerous have been reported in alabama, shifting toward georgia into the next 24 hours. here the temperatures are shaping up like this. double digits across much of the southern areas. but still minus 7 in winnipeg. well below your average. you can see the two air mass differences here. toward europe we go. central regions here also looking quite fine. the british isles will be seeing some cloud coverage and turning wet in toward the weekend. here, though, this is the mess traveling into the central regions of mediterranean. and this will be capable of unleashing hail gusts, strong ones, as well as thunderstorms. the lingering rain could create flooding across the iberian peninsula. temperatures shaping up like this here, across the central regions we re seeing much of double digits here. london even reaching 11 degrees. but do watch out for those heavy rain to come in. eastern continental asia looking fine as well in the central areas. the precipitation and the scattered thunderstorms will be popping up in southeastern portions of the philippines. we ll also see some snow and blizzard not a blizzard but windy conditions across the korean peninsula, northeastern china as well as southeastern russia. and also some snow will be piling up in hokkaido. nothing on the severe side, though. temperatures on the rise. 18 degrees for our wednesday how. talk about us reaching 17 degrees, due to the warm spring air covering much of the country here in japan. let me show you a video kaumg out from takematsu. the flowers are in full bloom here. the temperatures reached the largest national specialty scenic beauty garden. in full bloom. insects and birds are also enjoying the beautiful color and phrase of the plum. with that note i ll leave you with your extended forecast. and tha
this is today s edition of worldwide exchange. i m ross westgate. i m kelly evans. these are your headlines from around the world the bulls are on the run. the dow hits an all-time high 164,286, surpassing the 2007 record. telecom lead the beltway in europe with vodafone up more than 5% on report it could be eyeing a full merger with or sale to wireless giant verizon. venezuela mourns the death of president hugo chavez as the rest of the world eyes the future of the country s leadership and its vast oil reserves. one hour into the trading day in europe, fresh record highs on the dow. european stocks are looking for a softer start as you see. we re weighted to the upside 7-3. advancers outpace decliners on the dow jones 600. trading at multiyear highs and pushing higher this morning. the ftse 6,448. consolidated the move, up .25 as you see. looking ahead to the bank of england tomorrow. xetera dax up nearly 1%. the ibex up .had%. the .4%, the mib up.1%. as far as bond markets, interesting moves again on italian bond yield, 4.67%. spanish bund yields down below 5%. we hit 4.98%, the lowest since january. the euro slash dollar firmer, 2.954. the aussie dollar 1.02. sterling/dollar, 1.51. the currency markets pretty steady. we haven t moved a lot in the last 24 hours. let s check on the asian session. we have more from singapore. reporter: thank you, ross. the nikkei 225 added over 2% to a fresh 4.5-year high. retailers were among the top gainers with heavyweight fast retailing jumping over 8%. meanwhile, sharp was the most traded stock, soaring 14%. this boosted by reports that the struggling electronics maker may get a $110 million lifeline from samsung. this was later confirmed by sharp after the market close. taking its cue from the wall street rally, in china the shanghai composite ended higher by almost 1% after yesterday s over 2% jump. the hang seng in hong kong gained by about the same margin here. the telecom sector had a strong session on both markets. local media reports that china will likely grant licenses for 4g wireless technology this year. shares of zt as you see and china unicom and china telegold medal got a noaa telegold medal telecom got a nice boost. beijing is considering raising the deposit low capped on investors. south korea s kospi gained a modest .2%. technology shares continued to lead the gains. and down under, australia climbed to a new 4.5-year high after a solid q4 gdp data. the india sensex trading higher by .5%. back to you. all right. thanks for that. so you were excited last night, weren t you? i know you were. you mean about the dow. it was more about the anticipation of of whether it would happen as opposed to what it necessarily stands for. i was not breaking out the pom-poms but would you break out pom-poms if we break out the champagne? would you break out the champagne first? there s a sense of where we came from on the dow jones average. first it was the closing high, 194,164 level. we marched past that yesterday, 14,198 was the high. we got well above that yesterday in 194,200 range. so 14,200 range. do you have to take inflation into account? in the u.s., inflation is up 10.5% since october, 2007. you would have to add that much that s any investment, on any investment you look at real you know, people look at inflation, adjusted returns. in fairness because bob pisani would say, yes, you have to take inflation into account but you get dividend payouts. you have to reinvest the dividends. if you take the total amount into account, you would have done quite well. my colleague at the journal has a piece where he says, look, if you take the dow and include all the components on an equal weighted basis, we are above the past highs. the actual significance of the dow hitting the high isn t whether you re lng nominal returns, inflation adjusted returns, dividends reinvested. the significance of it is psychological more than anything else. i would say i think it goes beyond psychology at this point, as well. if everybody tune information to news last night, stocks up at record highs, there is a beneficial psychological impact, right, on sentiment? i don t know. i think people will be pissed off they missed it. wait a minute it makes people think, hang on, does it not make people is not the benefit of all the headlines last night in the states the evening news effect, absolutely. opens multiyear highs. i think to some degree it breeds more resentment today than in the past because there are fewer people exposed to the stock market, more people who say i ve lost money in real terms, i m worried about inflation, i haven t seen does it make ceos and cfos more confident about making an investment? perhaps it will trickle down. the question doesn t take much, takes one thing to move the dow. by the way, it s not just the dow which as paul donovan rightly point out, is a global index. 40% of sales are worldwide. we saw japan and australia at 4, 4.5-year highs. it is a global phenomenon. and speaking of global phenomenons, should we talk of vodafone? shares up 5% this morning. some suggestions that they ve been talking with verizon. verizon thinking about their relationship with vodafone and whether they should buy vodafone s stake out, whether they should consider a full merger. it s probably fair to say, one would imagine that every year these two companies have this discussion think about what should our relationship they will be normal every year, reviewing what the relationship should be. are they going to decide something. it comes in the middle of the cable congress in london. coming off the world congress in barcelona, the way that the mobile industry and fixed line industry are coming together, there s so much pressure on wireless networks. we saw vodafone looking at cable deutscheland, they re trying to get access it more consumers to offset the pressure on their networks. i think we ll see there s been a ton of dealmaking already. we re going to talk, in fact, to liberty global ceo in the next if only we were in that business. yeah. okay. let s move on. venezuela s president, hugo chavez, has died at age 58 after 14 years in power. he d been seriously will consider for nearly two years and hasn t been seen in public for several months. mr. chavez s body lies in state until his funeral friday. the nation has begun seven days of mourning. the vice president will assume the presidency until an election is called within 30 days. u.s. president barack obama expressed support for the country saying he remains interested in developing a constructive relationship with the venezuelaial government. it doesn t seem as if too much will change. after announcing the death, interim president maduro said he will expel a u.s. military official for meeting with military officers. translittranslator: you all the united states, the imperialist elite who look down on our people, have the objective of destroying the independence, democracy, and peaceful life of our country. they have decided to put in motion plans for the global destabilization of venezuelan society. coming up on the show, we ll speak to one guest who believes there was already a risk of continued instability in venezuela even before news broke of chavez s death. we ll see whether the view has changed in around ten minutes. we ll get a take on latin america as a whole, including what investment opportunities exist in brazil amid faltering economic growth. plus, we ll be in hong kong for a few on whether new measures by beijing to curb the rampant property market will have a lasting impact. and as london plays host at cable congress 2013, we ll have exclusively from the ceo of liberty global it how the landscape is changing for content providers. and off to disneyland. we look ahead to are we? apparently. we ll look why? in this sense we ll look at the entertainment giant s shareholder meeting in phoenix, arizona, where investors will be asked on splitting the role of chairman and ceo. look at those tea cups. that s not where the meeting is. they re in arizona. that would make for an interesting backdrop, wouldn t it, the flying tea partycups. china is committed to fiscal reforms and has stability to stimulate domestic demand heading to the head of the national development and reform commissio commission. property shares recoup something of the losses earlier. stocks fell heavily on monday after the government rolled out fresh measures to tame housing prices. many analysts believe china is unlikely to nishtd more aggressive initiate more aggressive moves to curb investments. they will focus on economic stability and is less likely to come down hard on the real estate sector unless there s a big spike in prices. china was the out performed up around 6%. not just due to the wider move but because of its solid results. beijing commercial district s biggest developer said underlying profit doubled last year thanks to the higher deliveries that it booked. nicole wong is regional head of property research at clsa. nicole, thanks for joining us. was the initial fears over capital gains tax and impact on the property sector overdone or not? i think the fears are very overdone because if you look at chinese property markets, about 90% of the chinese property market has just got 30% or less of the market transaction in the secondary market which is where the capital gains tax will hit. so there isn t that much impact on the overall although the impact will be felt in a lot of the first-tier cities. they account for 10% of chinese property market. yeah. so we ve seen volatility. what happens what is going to happe happen? the vol tilted volatility in the stocks is due to partial details announced and people gauging the impact. there could be further details, and people worry details could be worse. i think the details could be better because if we look at the issue that the central government needs to tackle, there are a few pockets of overheating property markets like beijing and the key problem is undersupply and supply can t catch up. the only alternative is to hit on the month. we have that and a lot of inventories and not really too much in terms of price appreciation. so i think this time around the policy tightening would be targeted, and it s not going to hit the overall industry too heavily. and nicole, so you like the property stocks here after the sell-off, basically saying this isn t like 2010 where these measures are expected to grind the market there to a halt but instead to just, you know, when we re talking about a 20% sales tax, et cetera, you can see why people are concerned. you re saying this will actually be something the sector shrugs off. yes. i think the sell-off has been a reflex reaction to sell whenever there are policy concerns, irregardless of the details. when there are more details coming forward, i think the sector will pick up again. that s why we actually are still overweight in the china property sector. yeah. you say overweight, china property sector. what s the best way to play tha that? if you look at the policy tightening, it s going to be very targeted at the top tier cities which means around 10 or 5 of them. and so 10 or 15 of them. and so the best way to avoid risk and benefit from the growth would be to invest in diversified developers, mainly the national ones. so the names that we like would be acoli, cr land bankur, plus a smaller southern chinese developer which is unlikely to get hit because they aren t they are in very few top tier cities. country garden in top-tier cities. nicole wong from clsa. thank you very much for your time. now the pound has recovered back from its recent 2.5-year low versus the dollar. what s the new level to look out for? more when we come back. on currencies, euro/dollar 130.50, holding off the multi-week low. sterling a touch firmer, as well, edging back from friday s 2 1/2-year low of 149.85. currently 151.04. improved risk appetite really. stocks in europe and the united states rallying. the dow jones at my highs helping off the multi-month lows. let s get more on this now with head of european fx strategy at morgan stanley. we ve come off the lows we hit last week. are we what s going to happen now? are we going to are those lows going to be difficult to break through in the short term? i think the pressure will remain on the downside actually for the euro. i think rebounds are likely to be fairly limited. i think the global currency market dynamics are changing quite dramatically. and we re likely to see currency market behavior changing. so while we may well have what appears to be a more global risk environment, increasing risk appetite, maybe with equity markets moving, continuing to move higher, i don t believe that many of the traditional pro-cyclical high currencies will participate within the movement. i think the euro is one which will lag behind and come under further pressure. so i think with regards to the euro, i think euro/dollar can still extend this move lower. i think there s still the risk that we do head down into the 128, 127 area in the near term as we see issues within the europe political issues within italy continue. while we still have the uncertainty, that will mean that the euro is unable to participate in a broader risk recovery. when you also look at the factors that may weaken the yen further, the fact is it may keep the pound under pressure. actually, would you be arguing that for the dollar here? dollar index can go up even if we maintain the stock advance. yes, i think the behavior of the dollar is actually changing dramatically. i think there is a rotation taking place with regards to funding currencies away from the dollar and toward the yen. so i believe that as we start to see equity markets continuing to move higher, the dollar could actually remain very well supported in that environment. and in fact, over the course of recent months, the dollar has in fact become increasingly more positively correlated to asset markets and to risk. so the dollar does appear to be coming in the asset currency rather than the liability of funding currency. so there s a big change which is taking place. so i think that s going that s a real factor in the market which i think investors haven t full i picked up on as yet. i think it will be a feature over the coming weeks. a risk-positive environment i think can be supported for the dollar. it s a great point. i wonder, too, where that leaves the traditional currencies like the aussie/dollar, further weakness then? these traditional higher beater currencies, particularly commodity currencies, could also struggle in this environment. i think it s quite interesting. when we look at some of the more specific fundamentals of these currencies, as well, they have been at extremely high levels. although as we ve seen in the case of the canadian dollar, it has already started to come under some pressure. the australian dollar has held up extremely well so far, but i think there are worrying developments starting to feed through from china and asia again which will put the australian dollar back under pressure. so we believe that, again, these traditional high beater and commodity related currencies could benefit there a more risk-positive story in asset markets. all right. we ll see what happens. interesting stuff. it could all be changing. head of f.x. at morgan stanley. thank you. venezuela is mourning the death of president hugo chavez following a long battle against cancer and leaving behind a deeply divided nation. translator: we received the hardest and most tragic news that we could deliver to our people. at 4:25 p.m. this afternoon today, the 5th of march, president hugo chavez died. he had been in power for 14 years and recently secured a fourth term as president after winning a landslide victory in last year s presidential elections. the country is expected to call for fresh elections within 30 days. with a mix of socialist and pop limp, hugo chavez swayed the economy during his 14-year rule including the oil industry. under the administration, poverty and unemployment declined, but crime and inflation rose. el commandante also became a polarizing force in venezuela s foreign policy for his anti-capitalist views. reacting to the news, president barack obama said the u.s. supports the venezuelan people and looks forward to developing a constructive relationship with the venezuelan government. we are joined with more. james, thanks for joining us. thank you. when we heard that chavez was ill, we saw a rally in venezuelan bonds. now that his death has happened, what happens for investors? well, i think they re going to be extremely cautious. there s going to be no i think any hopes of rapid short-term positive change for investors. they ll be frustrated, and the business environment as a whole will remain risky. the government is expected to call for elections. but i think that probably the vice president, maduro, will probably be the government candidate for elections and will probably win. poll data is uncertain. but he s received a massive boost through being anointed by chavez. and in that respect, the situation is different from a few months ago. yeah. and if he is indeed elected, does that mean a change? i think things will stay bradley the same for broadly the same for the time being. madd video a pragmatist. on the international scene, he will be looking to avoid apart from perhaps in the case of the united states, he will be looking to avoid excessive frictions with neighbors. he ll be looking to work with countries like colombia. at home there s been no indication from him or anybody else in the government that it will take a more moderate policy line including things like extracting investments. what a lot of people are wondering, what this means to the oil market. for the time being, not much. and you know, even if the opposition candidate were to win, hypothetically in elections, in a month or two s time, that would not be immediately good news. he d be very cautious about unwinding some of the previous nationalizations and unwinding some of the legislation that has happened. in terms of oil prices overall, i think this is only likely to have a major upward impact on the oil prices globally if there is some sort of political crisis. and i think that would only happen at the moment in the fairly unlikely event that there is an opposition victory at polls. i think that if the risks around the venezuelan situation generally have been priced in. you ve seen opposition victory. who is the opposition and what do they represent? i.e., why would that be a negative for oil? it wouldn t be a negative. it would be potentially a positive. but not as much of a positive as it could be. this is a table for democratic unity. the presidential candidate for the past elections was enrique caprilas. the working hypothesis is that he would probably be the candidate going forward, although some elements of his coalition are unhappy been that. is he more market friendly than the chavez-style rule? yes. what i m trying to figure out is from the point of view of whether venezuelan under chavez was too closed to international markets for its own good, would a new regime then be more market friendly or open to global markets? if so, that would have to come from an opposition candidate as opposed to maduro? i think that would have to come from an opposition candidate. if there was an opposition candidate committed and caprillas would be, he presented himself as centrist on the left. he would be looking to maintain political cohesion how much support does he have in the country? i would say around about 1/3 of the country. it s a very polarized situation. but as i said, poll data currently indicates that maduro would probably win. there s a poll agency which recently reported that 50% voting intentions for maduro against 30% for caprillas, more unfavorable than last october. i think there s been a lot of speculation about different factions with win it and how there within it and how there might be a faceoff. i think they re overstated for the time being. we ll have more in a bit. we mentioned on brazil and ask about argentina, as well. the reaction to chavez s death continues to emerge around the globe. find out why the prospeck of photograph elections may prospect of elections may create volatility in the oil markets at cnbc.com. if you were planning to see the oval office or east room in person, you ll have to be content viewing them on the internet. the white house is canceling tours until further notice blaming staff reductions due to the $85 billion in budget cuts known as the sequester. the self-guided tours are free, but people must submit requests at least three weeks in advance for security reasons. last year, 650,000 people visited the white house. and ross, the white house apparently is making a bit of an effort it draw attention to the effect of the sequester. you have to wonder whether they really needed to cancel the tours because of cuts. the effect of the sequester and cutting tours only matters if the five people that did the tours otherwise they saved no money. exactly. maybe they saved maintenance costs, the costs of issuing people going over paperwork or something. again, that can t be yes. are they giving less unless they ve laid off or furloughed the people doing the tours, surely they haven t saved money by stopping the tours. what s interesting is if they said, okay, fine, in order to make this, you know, an earnings accretive type thing, could we charge for white house did they charge? at buckingham palace it brings quite a lot of money. it s expensive. like 18, 20 pounds. $30, $40. it s 25 pounds to see the shard. anyway everybody pays, a lot of people pay to see stately homes in the u.k. if you have to pay to do a white house tour, shouldn t you as an american citizen regardless of whether you afford it be able to sign up for a tour? there are people who can t if they re going with a family of four at $100 to bring them through. anything that helps with the deficit. would you pay to tour the white house? how much would you pay? get in touch with us. you may vividly disagree with the idea you have to pay to go to the white house. e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com, tweet us or @kellyevans or @rosswestgate. you can give access to anybody regardless of ability to afford it. like going into a room and smelling the leather. emerging markets growing but can t get into gear. we ll discuss the index coming up. in the headlines, bulls on the run. the dow hits 14,286. that surpasses the 2007 record. telecoms are leading the way here in europe with u.k. mobile phone operator vodafone up more than 5% on a report it could be eyeing a full merger with or sale to wireless giant verizon. venezuela mourn the death of president hugo chavez as the rest of the world eyes the future of the country s leadership and its vast oil reserves. the dow finished at a record high. european stocks an hour and a half into the trading day after what was called a softer start, now up. the ftse up .3, the xetera dax up 1%, and .2, the mib up.2%, as well. the cac up .29%. the xetera dax index can typically be more mature. ten-year bonds, bund yields moving higher reflecting the risk-taking appetite. spain and italy lower, 5.01 can i point to this? we ve been watching this. earlier this morning, we did go below. we ve been below 5% this morning for the first time since early 10. amazing. italy, 4.66% is the yield there. ten-year guiilt moving higher. the dollar/yen firmer but not much. we re not far from the recent multi-week lows that we hit last friday. particularly in the euro/dollar, sterling. it s thought the dollar is going to turn from into an asset currency rather than a liability currency. you know, that the correlations could be breaking down. brazil s central bank is expected to keep interest rates at a record low of 3.35% for a third meeting, underpinning the country s slow-moving economic recovery. the bank is also likely to signal it would be prepared to raise interest rates if rising inflation moves closer to the 6.5% ceiling set by the central bank. james lockhart is still with us from lockhart. which way are they likelying to. 7.35%, 7.5. i think they re likely to stay where they are today. everybody will be eagerly passing what the statement, the central bank puts out, says whether this is likely to stay like this for the foreseeable future or will hint that this might be an increase the next time they meet. so we re likely to see, you know, over the course of this year, a gradual tightening again of credit conditions are we? what happened to brazil? it went from being one of the fastest growing, most exciting economies to almost a standstill. it was slowing down last year. i think its long-term fundamentals remain good. but really since 2009, 2010, there s been an increase in government protection. there s been a lot of conflict over currency flows, as well. all of this has had an impact on investment. the world is changing. ten years ago, it was enough for brazil to be one of the bricks and be attractive in those terms. we re seeing in our growth index a wider range of country of invest to investors who are the new brics? it s not new brics, it s a wider variety plus the brics, at the top of the markets. in latin america you will see countries like mexico, peru, colombia really? wow. yeah. they ve had strong growth over the past ten years. in brazil, what s happening with the you know, the development of the middle class? and then associated industries on the back of that? okay, if i was going to see that brazil s achilles heel was its growth environment, probably one of the most positive things for its long-term fundamentals are, as you highlight the emergence of the middle class and especially the lower middle class, people who move out of poverty through conditional cash transfers and so on. that s a process that s very much in motion. you know, the low hanging fruit of consumption-driven economic growth over the past ten years from that has perhaps been picked now. but there s still going to be further expansion in different forms of credit, different consumer demand in different areas which are going to drive growth up and drive demand for improving infrastructure, i think. okay. you talk about, you know, emerging markets losing some growth. we ve also got this report out today from hsbc, the hsbc mi report. the index easing to the lowest level since 2012. the activity expectations did rise for the second month to the highest since may last year. the manufacturing sector improved sentiment as the future output index hit an 11-month high. we have chief economist of central eastern europe at hsbc and joins us. it s something, we were talking there about emerging markets latin america. your index is saying similar things. it is true. emerging markets continue to expand. it was a slow pace of growth. as you were showing, it was the slowest pace since august. if you look at the details, it was broad based, manufacturing and services. within the bric conditions, brazil, china, india, they ve lost steam actually. if you go further into the details, we see new orders losing momentum, in particular, new export orders. and employment conditions, they continue to improve. but at the slower pace. you know, obviously there is still growth. but, you know, it is slower in february. and so we ve got slower growth, new business growth slowing. the input price inflation up at a ten-month high, that s not a great combination. it s not great, although if you look at the prices charged or output index, you don t see much of a pass-through to actual prices eventually. so there s a bit of increase in output price, as well. it s a modest pace. how fast do we think these guys as a sort of the model has been based for low-cost production. yeah. right? how fast is that changing? yeah. i mean, again, generally speaking it s growth rather than inflation that is the issue across emerging markets. we can make up two scenario was here. either emerging markets go so long they wobble along because you have strong external headwinds coming from issues or political and structural challenges, or you have the wild capital swings further, you know, boosted by japanese monetary policy stimulus, or as we are leaning at hsbc, this is a soft temporary adjustedment in pace of growth. and as we mentioned, the output index, expectations of future in 12 month s s time, they re strong. once adjustment works flew works through, cost pressures will feed into price pressures. yeah. i mean, i would agree in the case of brazil. we are expecting a weak recovery beginning through this year toward the end of the year. i think better evidence of that will probably be the trigger which will central bank to feel happier about beginning to raise the gain. you know, as i said, the long-term fundamentals of the country remain positive. this is more a blip than some permanent slowdown. i m interested in mexico. you say the expansion of the manufacturing sector continued in february. what s happening to the rate of growth? there s been a bit of a moderation. again, this was broad based. we ve seen it pretty much across many emerging markets and also service and manufacturing. obviously in mexico you had a transition of the administration. bit of an uncertainty with the reform momentum, labor market reform although it s gaining traction. generally speaking, we re concerned. how do you rate mexico? i think the story in mexico is exciting. it s important to note that when you look at long-term growth forecasts, the imf for 2017, mexico is performing a bit worse than of the other major latin american countries. it doesn t have the emerging markets or diversification of the other strongest countries in the region and negligible proportion of its exports go to china despite having joined the pascal lines. the new the special embarking on an ambitious set of reforms, especially energy reform. you know, he got sanctioned from his party last weekend to move ahead with that. that s still going to be complicated. that s going to depend it s complex negotiations with the other party despite them already having reached a broad-based pact in december. so it s a a complex situation. but the broad outlook is positive. i want to go pack to the point about the slowdown we ve seen in emerging markets. i think it was at jpms that we are looking at something like 2.3% global growth in the first quarter. by old standards, it would be considered recessionary. there s a sense if you talk to the imf that if we were below 3% given how fast the emerging markets are growing, effectively the world economy had slowed precipitously. is it your view that this is an inventory adjustment, or is there a sense in which the expansion that started back during the financial crisis has basically run its course? yeah. i mean, this would be a repeat of 2012. as you know, emerging markets have lost significant momentum in the second half of the year. what we look at, you know, pmi gives an idea about the business cycle for the future. even within emi, we have forward looking components like, for instance, new orders for inventories in china. arguably, these countries, particularly starting from asia and middle eastern oil-rich producers, they will regain momentum. i know you re an economist, but does that suggest that this is a time when investors might want exposure to emerging markets which frankly have continued to underperform? i wouldn t say underperform in a broader term like if you look at the year average. this year, we re looking for whole global growth below 3% which is low. the momentum will still come from emerging markets. looking for 5.5% to 6% growth. you know, in the new world, it is fairly decent. we d take it. yeah. a lot of places that would take that growth. chief economist for central eastern europe and asia hsbc. thanks. james lockhart smith from maplecroft. thanks. angela merkel said that concerns remain over turkey s membership to the e.u. hadley gamble caught up with the turkish minister for e.u. affairs and asked if it was a fair assessment. she also said that she has no objections against the prompsz as i said, the process. as i said, the process is more important than the end result. i have to give her credit. she was a sarkozy. sarkozy would block chapters and try to hinder the process. chancellor merkel has not hindered the process. she might have some other views about the end result of the process, but by the time they finish the process, she ll probably not be there anyhow. turkey will not be today s turkey. germany will not be today s germany. middle e.u. will not be the e.u. we will look at the situation then and make necessary assessments. it e.u. energy commissioner said there s going to come a time when the tables will be turned and the french and germans will be on their knees begging for turkey to join the e.u. do you think that time has come? he is probably right. that time will come. it s probably not there yet, but soon. however, once they are crawling, i can assure you we will treat them better than they treat us now. in corporate news, samsung throwing a $110 million lifeline to rival sharp. the struggling japanese firm saw shares jump on the news. we have more live from tokyo. reporter: struggling electronics maker sharp will accept a $111 million lifeline from south korean rival samsung electronics to raise much-needed cash. this investment would give samsung roughly a 3% stake in sharp, making the south korean firm the fifth largest shareholder. this is the first capital tie-up between major japanese and south korean electronics makers. the investment will increase sharp s tv and smartphone panel supplies to samsung and help improve their financial situation. for samsung, this tie-up will help boost its access to panels without investing in new production plans. the two companies will consider broadening their cooperation beyond panel business. sharp s in desperate need for cash. it needs to find money for a large convertible bond redemption coming up in september. it s expected to post a net list for the fiscal year ending this month and has been seeking partners to survive. sharp s financial foundation remains shaky since it looks like a deal with taiwan s industry has failed after almost a year of talks. samsung s investment is definitely a positive factor to show bank lenders that its business prospects remain solid. but it s still too small for sharp s needs to fix its balance sheet. shares rose, up today by 14%. back to you. thanks for that. fascinating change. it could have a lot of implications for apple, as well. let s look at the agenda in asia. tomorrow on, policy watch. yes, central banks in japan, malaysia, and indonesia get to announce their decisions. we re also waiting for january trade figures from australia. on the earnings front, property developer hong kong land and cheung kong infrastructure will hand in results. still to come, support for striking iberia workers. could the strikes spill over to the snuk a guest thinks we could be in for a summer of strife. oh this is lame, investors could lose tens of thousands of dollars on their 401(k) to hidden fees. is that what you re looking for, like a hidden fee in your giant mom bag? 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[ male announcer ] e-trade. less for us. more for you. welcome back to the program. a couple of interesting comments we re getting on the wires from bersoni in italy. he s saying there s unusual impoverrischment underway in parts of the european union. that it would be myopic not to note public ainger with some reforms. this, of course, as the center left leader bersni saying the political system is he s not courting grillo but does understand his supporters. comments there which frankly indicate the state that italy is in, talking about the poverty underway there and across parts of the e.u. and brussels post policies aren t working. yes, yes. i think is the jist of that message. on nbc is.com, with the cnbc.com, with the auto show underway in eneve awe ll lo i geneva, we ll have to look at how much they have to fork out to buy a set of wheels not just the wheels, the whole car. does the dow s financial high mean the worst is over or are there new risks on the horizon? and stellar results by the u.s. index. also, you ll like this, the spring arts season begins in new york. 200 new billionaires are swelling the ranks of the forbes rich list, demand outstripping supply the spring arts season. who knew there was a spring arts season? apparently there is. does that mean maybe ied have should go to cnbc.com. that s a tease. don t know what it means. go to the article and all will become clear. back in a few minutes. it will be clear. the australian economy continued to post solid growth in the final quarter of 2012. fourth quarter gdp expanded 3.1% from a year ago in line with expectations. commodity reports were the key facfactor, but they re trying to steer away from being overly dependent on the mining sector. we are looking at a transition from mining to non-mining growth. and we know that that won t be seamless as we go forward. what we do see in today s figures is tentative signs of an improvement in some non-mining sectors. in particular, we see further signs of recovery in housing, supported of course by lower interest rates. and that s certainly quite encouraging. british airways staff are holding a lunchtime demonstration in london today to show solidarity for their striking colleagues at iberia. employees at the spanish airline are striking over proposed job cuts, around 40% of flights for the carrier have been canceled because of them. a similar five-day strike last month caused parent company, g, the parent of b.a., around three million euros a day in losses. joining us for more on the latest round of strikes, founder of athena aviation. welcome. thank you. a nice show of support by b.a. employees i guess for the striking workers at iberia. what s iag to make of it all? i think iag in this case, they ll have to contend with the fact that b.a. unions will feel they ve got unfinished business with him. he s obviously gone through a painful round of restructuring with them previously. now the pilots are getting involved both on the b.a. side as well as the iberia side. it s going to get messy i suspect. at what point does it go from hazard of the job to something more significant? shares up .2%, 11% over the last seven days. yes, i suspect it s going to the numbers are painful. they ve been taken i think in the order of $4 million losses a day with a series of strikes. it will hurt the bottom line for the business. i think willie walsh has to toughen up. he s said he s going to go after them on transformation. the workers argue they put forward an option that really should have considered or taken at the time that forced strikes that are losing him all this money are. they right, or what s he to do in this situation? i think it s difficult to ask iag to do much more in the way of concessions. when they came forward with the november plan actually they were requesting higher job cuts, higher deeper cuts into the pay of the workers. they ve moderated their position somewhat. the reality is iberia is one of the least productive airlines in europe. is it really? yes. why is that? it s just over the years as with many legacy airlines, they ve ended up at the point where their cost base is too high. most airlines run on single-digit margins, and they re in a precarious position. we ve seen spanish labor costs falling amid the recession. is it because of unions that more of that isn t captured, that iberia isn t becoming more productive? i think a lot of it s to do with old union labor laws that exist within spain. a lot of the staff in iberia are extremely well paid. and they have been very well treated over the years. they haven t recognized the fact that if you ve got 25% unemployment in the economy, you re going to have to share in the pain if you want to establish an effective productive airline. right. the bank of england giving testimony on the financial policy committee and on banking standards. we re monitoring that session. it s come out saying banks are too big to fail. the single biggest issue for supervisors, and the financial policy committee would like to have greater powers, as well, on controlling leverage. we ll keep our eyes on that. let s get back and talk about away from iag, easy jet entering the ftse 100. pretty strong load numbers yesterday, as well. it was in line with expectations. look, how how much further can they if? as they go to the ftse, i mean, how much is a business operation? they ve been a successful maturing business. the reality is the legacy airlines that are going through the pain in europe at the moment create opportunities for easy jet and for ryan air. the guys that will come out extremely well out of all the strife will be those two. easy jet has a fantastic product. they re one of the best business class airlines in europe. one of the best business class airlines. i like the way you say that. they re not actually any cheaper. no. but they actually get you where you want to go on time. you have the opportunity to choose where you want to sit on board the aircraft. so they ve got the advantage cards if you fly in some ways a genius marketing strategy, using the internet. i was quickly going to ask why orion air needs aer lingus? i think that was more about consolidation play within the irish market. take out the competition. probably gives them more freedom and mike o leary has more freedom to engage in expansionist ambitions across europe. is it a reason for investors to steer clear of it, that it might not go through? i think it s unlikely that will deal will go through. it s been blocked twice. they ll appeal the decision. i don t know why the e.c. would overturn their own decision. the second time passing, six years later they had a second refusal. they ve offered as much as they can in the way of remedies, i think. if it hasn t gone through, i think it s unlikely to. i would expect that mike o leary will have to sell out and leave it to aer lingus and do it in time for that. where does it go with iag, obviously about your points. there is that. but with iberian problems, obviously an opportunity here. how much an opportunity does the american merger with usairways and expanding that group and and have a closer alliance and stimulation. i think that s something that s going to come it s not going to happen overnight. isn t going to be tenable to bring synergies to bear. american and u.s., as we talked about last time, have got enough on their plate to work through in their own back yard. i think the focus for iag needs to be the european sphere. yeah. and fixing their business there. arguably the challenge by iberia is it s distracting them from looking at the broader opportunities afield that would exist in the high growth markets like asia and the middle east. yeah. always good to see you. thank you very much for joining us. founder of athena aviation. we ve got more out from mervyn king. yes, we do. he s saying the bank of england wants to do more on leverage. they want to review supervisory system in four or five years. don t know whether powers will be adequate. this, of course, about the new committees that will be coming into existence here under andrew bailey. the original proposals on leverage were better, he says, and it s an unknown question if the bank of england has enough powers to solve the too big to fail problem. yeah. as i said, the panel policy committee, he d like to see it have greater powers on leverage. unknown whether our powers will be adequate. he later says we need more power. shocking. keep your eyes that. that s underway. more to come, as well. earlier we asked, would you also pay to tour the white house. bobby tweeted and said, can we pay to tour the cnbc studios? i think the you can. we ll throw in kelly to help out if you pay. i think we should auction off a tour of the cnbc studios to the highest bidder. what do we think? market process? quite cheap it will be adequate. the dow is past the all-time highs. the s&p next. we ll look at the outlook for u.s. markets. welcome back to worldwide exchange. if you re just tuning in, i m kelly evans. i m ross westgate. here are the headlines the bulls are on the run. equities around the globe making gains after the dow hits an all-time high of 14,286, surpassing its 2007 road. telecoms leading stocks in europe, vodafone up more than 5% on report it could be eyeing a full merger with or sale to wireless giant verizon. and venezuela mourning the death of president hugo chavez as the world eyes the future of the country s leadership and its vast oil reserves. okay. you re watching cnbc s worldwide exchange. we re into the second hour, if you just joined us, good morning you to. we started with the eurozone gdp and fourth quarter unrevised, minu minus .6% quarter on quarter and minus..9% year on year. exports down 9%. the full-year 2012 gdp revised down slightly from minus .5 to minus .6. the eurozone in contraction across the year. and first quarter 2012 gdp also revised down a little bit. they say gdp s been falling for five consecutive quarters. extraordinary. this has been damaging if not more so to europe in 2007. a session low of 130.34. chief economist and founding partner at idq economics joins us. better bersan i in italy talking about the labor costs, hume at costs at the moment of policies in human costs at the moment of policies in europe and policymakers need to start listening to the vote in italy. it s very well having an ecb omt back stop. if the economics in spain and italy don t turn around, where does that leave us? well, it leaves europe in a recession with a periphery struggling. and that s where we are. the question is, there s one thing worse in the current situation which is if the euro upon to break up. frankly, italy, spain, and peripheral countries would be in worst position. the financial crisis would be awesome. you know, just terrible for them. yeah. so we don t believe that can happen. so that means you don t have exchange rate flexibility. and ultimately the countries have to have more pro-growth policies like the segment we had on iberia airlines. how competitive is that airline compared to some of the other airlines in europe. there s no fix other than fixing the companies. the interesting thing about ibeeria, this was held up as the paragon of what a country was supposed to be doing in temperatures of opening itself to global markets, et cetera. that did nothing for spain to help it avoid this crisis. so these reforms that are being pushed through so vehemently by regulators in other countries, are they really going to amount to anything, or is the point more stimulus, something the ecb needs to do? ultimately you need more labor market flexible and pro-growth policies. and unfortunately, those are there s a great deal of resistance from the countries that are embattled to embrace that. and from the electorate. so i think mario monti took useful steps, and you had but he was a good technocrat but not a great politician. you have essentially a hung parliament trying to put together a coalition government. and it s a coalition of the left and the right. if it comes together. the upstart party from grillo is not going to join in these other parties. so the question is certainly back into a another election or does it form a government and that last for nine months? remember the average life in the italian government is less than one year in the last 60 years. and half the time they re coalition governments. yes. we re used to it in a sense. italy s used to it. the question is we haven t done that during upon when we re supposed to be implementing such big reforms. if you look at what happened to the electorates, ultimately like in greece last year, some countries, when they ve been faced with the really difficult choice, they have decided to stay with the euro. and so my view is that italy will muddle through. and we re past the systemic phase of the crisis. now we ve just got this rather terrible recession. yeah. but it s not so deep. if you look at the declines in output, they are relatively mild compared to the debt of the recession following the failure. the unemployment number, the big question is whether the unemployment keeps rising and at some point labor stands up and says we re not taking it anymore, right? okay. good to have you on. stick around. nice to see you. kelly, how are the futures looking after the record close on the dow yesterday? we re adding to it which is interesting. usually when you see such a big move, there s giveback the next day. today there seems to be continued momentum. the dow looking to add almost 50 at the open. 14,283 the level. i can hardly believe i m saying that. the same thing happening at the nasdaq and s&p 500. the nasdaq over the 2,800 level. we know this index still better than 30% below its nominal highs in 2000 which should give you a sense of how strong the tech bubble was. the s&p 500, 1,543. also trying to take out nominal highs. you can look at european markets for a sense of momentum over here. another strong day for the xetera dax, adding more than 1% in germany. elsewhere, the ftse having .3% bolstered by vodafone, one of the stop performers on talk about a tie upwith verizon. the cac coran up .3%, verizon on talks of a full-up tie-up. ibex adding .3%. the same green attitude that we re seeing here is reflected in the bond space, as well. as far as bond markets are concerned, this is where we stand yields in spain and italy, a little bit lower on the day. 5%. we have been below 5% for the first time since, what, early january on the ten-year spanish yield. ten-year italian yield, 4.63%, as you see. a little bit lower on the session, as well. gilt yields slightly higher. on the currency markets, you are/dollar, sterling/dollar have been firmer. now going back negative 130.35. steady, sterling/dollar, 150.73. the interesting issue here is as we just heard earlier is whether the dollar is going to become an asset currency, away from a currency that has traditionally been a liebltd currency. people are talking about that move even as stocks go firmer. the dollar index getting firmer, as well. that s where we stand in europe. let s check in for a recap of the asian session from singapore. reporter: thank you. investors in asia joined the global buying spree after the dow s record close. thenique 225 added over 2% to a fresh 4.5-year high thanks to gains in domestic and cyclical export stocks. retailers were among the top gainers with fast retailing jumping over 8%. meanwhile, sharp shares soared 14% on news of the $110 million fund injection and tie-up with samsung. taking its cue from the wall street rally, the shanghai composite gained .9% after yesterday s 2% jump. shares of gte jumped on news it s teaming up with intel on the next generation of smartphones. in hong kong, the hang seng gained by the same margin. teleco has a strong session there. this after media reported china will likely grant licenses for 4g wireless technology this year. banks also rallied on report sboij considering the possibility reports beijing is considering the possibility deposit to lending cap. sentiment boosted south korea s kospi as investors picked up technology and shipbuilding plays. and down under, australia climbed to a fresh 4.5-year high ending higher by .8%. india s sensex closed ending higher by .7%. back to you. all right. thanks for that. that s the recap from asia. vodafone focus as well today up around 6.25%. reports suggesting that verizon is thinking about what it should do with vodafone. of course, vodafone has a large nighter stoke in verizon minority stake in verizon. whether they should buy verizon out or what should go on, investors clearly decided to review this every year. there s more to it this time. they are leading the stock 600 with the gain of 6.2%. yeah. used to be a few years ago every time we had a vodafone, it was whether they were going to increase it. now what is verizon going to do. is it coming to fruition. and media mergers the hot trend on the table. the most notable deal is liberty global entering the u.k. market with the $23 billion purchase of virgin media. joining us exclusively is ceo of liberty global. mike, thanks for joining us. look, how tough is a market is the u.k. going to be in terms of competition, competition with sky, you have a competition compete in some ways with b.t., and in broadcasting, of course, with the bbc and the other independent channels. there s no question that this is a competitive market. one of the most competitive in europe, one of the most dynamic. as we ve been watching the last five to seven years, it seems to have reached a level of rationality that s convincing for us. in the sense that people are acting rational, there s lots of investment required in networks and infrastructure and content. and folks look like they want to maintain a rational environment. that s always a healthy thing. it s when folk become irrational in competitive environments that we become concerned and we don t see that here. what do you mean by irrational, mike? rational in terms of pricing. of product. rational in terms of willingness to share content or infrastructure, rational in terms of the approach they re taking to the consumer. you know, competition is competition, but there s different types of competition. we ve been in markets that are irrational where disruptive pricing and things of that nature drive everybody down. we don t see that happening here. it seems as though the competition is heating up. shortly after the news of your deal, we had b. sky b., a big rival buying enough to be a triple or quadruple space to reach out to customers. that deal puts them potentially ahead of virgin media in terms of broadband customers. you indicated you talked with the murdochs about the deal. they have shown their support. as you say, it does look like the grab for assets here is heating up. a smart move for sky. you know, build their broadband base, have a larger presence in that important marketplace. makes sense to me. didn t surprise us at all, i don t think it necessarily changes the balance of power that dramatically. sure, we ve talked to the major competitors here. i think to the extent they can, they welcome our investment. and i think we re going to have a long-term relationship. remember, we re partners with sky. we carry their programming in germany as well. in ireland. so we have a long relationship and history with sky and news corp.-related companies. we don t see any disruption or challenges there at all. can you clear up also one issue with regard to tivo. when you re introducing this rival product horizon in parts of europe planning to roll it out, does it not threaten tivo s business model which, of course, is what s now part of the virgin service? at this point, we don t have any plans to change out tivo. virgin has been very successful with connectivity in the u.k. 1.3 million of boxes already launched in a relatively short period of time. there s no information to provide on that right now. we think the management team s done a great job, the brand is strong. the networks are strong, products are strong. we don t anticipate meaningful change. this isn t about coming in and fixing something. it s about joining forces and being stronger together. synergies that we can derive, both directions. a natural fit for us. we have exact same dna of the two companies. so we don t see coming in and making radical change at all. and what about adding, as you mention the mentioned, synergies adding in a player like netflix here? listen, we spend about $1.8 billion, beijing dollars, in content together. the two companies together. we re it s quite a large amount of money that we re putting in the hands of programmers and content providers. we will certainly have greater, we think, influence and leverage over the content landscape. doesn t mean we re going to start buying content or competing with others for content. but it does mean that we ll is a stronger position when it comes to negotiating rights. the key almost in negotiating rights is negotiating online rights and ipad rights and laptop right and thing of that nature. nobody s in a better position than us. we are already doing that in the u.k., as well as in our other markets, providing consumers with the opportunity to watch their television on multiple devices. netflix is behind the game. their expansion has struggled, they lost $400 million. doesn t mean they won t be successful at some point. but cable companies are in the ideal position to give consumers what they want, access to television and multiple devices, bringing internet and web and apps on to the television screen. we re doing that today with verizon and tivo. how important is owning content? look at b.t., they re buying they ve got a lot of cash. they throw off a lot of cash, buying spots. they bought espn sports channels. they re buying rights. do you need to do that? we don t think so. we don t think so. our goal because we have a large, open network, our goal is to provide all the content that s available to consumers. we re not trying to own content exclusively or compete for content exclusively. that hasn t worked very well over the history of our business. a i ve been in this business over two decades. generally speaking, we bet into trouble when we over we get into trouble when we overreach for exclusive rights. we will be expecting to deliver and distribute all the content in this market to our consumer. not necessarily acquiring it for our platform and not for others. that s going to be our general approach. i think we should be able to maintain that approach. good to see you. thank you very much for that. joining us from the cable congress that s underway in london. speaking of cable yeah. speaking of cable, the sterling/dollar cable. bank of england governor king, not sure he s moving the dollar a lot. he s testifying you in in front of britain s parliamentary commission on banking standards. monitoring that this morning. he s already been arguing saying we might need to review the powers of the the financial policy committee in four to five years. and they think we still haven t solved the issue of two big to fail for banks in the u.k. doesn t think e.u. rules either will be effective. won t have the effects that proponents intend. of course the idea of those proposed caps on bonus rules is to make banks safer. mervyn king, governor of bank of england, saying it s going to work like that. kelly? yeah. we want to talk about market indices. honest, today so much of the news comes off what happened yeth the dow punching not just through the high, jumping to 14,200 for the first time, and exploring what it means. should we care, do we care, should we take floingz and dividends into account. it s interesting where if you look, the dow is a price-weighted index. the s&p 500 is a market-weighted index. both are conferring the same judgment on asset prize. the main point you see going around is whether or not this is all just fueled by the fed or not. john, by the way, do you have a view on that? is if fed fuelled? i don t think it is fed fueled. if you take the high level of profit and profit margins in the u.s. and divide it by the corporate bond yield, an index of corporate bond yield, you get a theoretical valuation of those cash flows that s considerably higher than the current level of the market. now, that s not to see this stocks aren t are necessarily cheap and we ll have a big rally. we think 1,525 to 1,550 is where the s&p should be at the end of the year. tells you that the stock market hasn t bought in to the bond bubble the fed has created. and there is a valuation cushion that as interest rates correct over the next two or three years and the bond market won t necessarily weigh too heavily on equities. so this undervaluation gap is a kind of gravitational force that s pulling the market higher. we ll talk it some of the fundamentals, as well, with john when we come back from this break. jobs report in focus friday. we ll get adp today, give us a sense. yes. we re off to disneyland, not literally. looking ahead to disney s shareholder meeting. it s taking place in phoenix, arizona. investors will be asked to vote on splitting the role of chairman and ceo. [ male announcer ] i ve seen incredible things. otherworldly things. but there are some things i ve never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. which is good for business. because planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground and more time in the air. suddenly, faraway places don t seem so.far away. welcome back to worldwide exchange. if you re just joining us, these are the headlines european stocks trading higher after the dow rings in a record close. the euro falls after the latest reading from the gdp for the five consecutive quarters. the world wonders what s next for venezuela after the death of president hugo chavez. still to come, has president obama played up the impact of sequester cuts on the u.s. economy? more when we come back. aw this is tragic man, investors just like you could lose tens of thousands of dollars on their 401(k) to hidden fees. thankfully e-trade has low cost investments and no hidden fees. but, you know, if you re still bent on blowing this fat stack of cash, there s a couple of ways you could do it. or just go to e-trade and save it. boom. mervyn king, governor of bank of england, 82% owned rbc. he says we ve not been decisive enough in recatlizing, restructuring. we need recognize the losses. that means losses should be separated into a bad bank and its nonsense to have i think it s extraordinary. i can t believe king doesn t sound like the type that would talk about a name check a specific bank, talk about how frustrated with how the restructuring is going and saying this should happen within a year for recapitalization, split is into a bank bank and healthy bank. i m surprised. i wonder if it s the carney effect. ever since carney s been nominated, the bank of england has become more bold in its brow national endowments and ideas. do you do you think? john? canada avoided the entire financial banking crisis. there was a model that worked, and there was no rescue. maybe that is part of it. remember, this is five years in, it s five years next week. the five-year anniversary. my firm being forced into the hands of jpmorgan. five years ago. lehman brothers, 4 1/2 years ago now. in a sense, he s right. it is taking a long time to get to grips with these we ve had guests tell us there s no way at this point that rbc and lloyd s will be fully privatized. there s been talk of handing out shares with the public to 100 pence face value and letting them sell over a matter of years. it s clear this has not been handled well. maybe king sex pressing frustration that everyone maybe king has expressed frustration that everyone feels. at the time you say more bold things when you know you re on the way out the door. yeah. i find this very bring it on. can we have mervyn king out every day to talk? i d like to know what else he thinks. yeah. look, i mean, talk about legacy as far as you re concerned. how much we talked earlier to a guest who said the u.s. might become an asset rather than a looblt of swa a liable. principally because the u.s. will perform fundamentally better i suppose. and they have have stocks gone up because they re more a safe haven play? historically it was a growth trend. following lehman brothers it became a risk off the asset rather than on the asset. we thought the flipover would have taken place last year and the u.s. economy grown somewhat stronger and the dollar have been stronger. but the fed got in the way, muddling things up, with a new round of quantitative easing and expanding that in december. so the fed could add $1 trillion to its balance sheet. it s hard you ve got all of these different forces at work pulling on the dollar. if the fed could get out of the way and restore monetary sanity to the u.s. and the u.s. becomes a relative out performed amongst developed economies, i think you will get that. correlations have changed. we don t have that highly correlated market that we had in the three years post lehman brothers. right. to a large degree it broke down last year. and that does leave the way open for the dollar to shift if the fed get out of the way. add $1 trillion to the balance sheet. more to come from you. also, we ll talk venezuela after hugo chavez s death. what will the country look like a year or five years from now? carfirmation. only hertz gives you a carfirmation. hey, this is challenger. i ll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. it s just another way you ll be traveling at the speed of hertz. welcome back to worldwide exchange. i m kelly evans. i m ross westgate. here are your headlines today from around the world the bulls are on the run. equities around the globe are making gains after the dow hits an all-time high 164,286 14,286, surpassing the record. the eurozone s contracted .of% in q4. the fifth consecutive quarter that economic growth has fallen. venezuela mourning the death of president chavez as the rest of the world eyes the future of the country s leadership and its vast oil reserves. it s 14,280 we re looking at in terms of futures. trying to add 40 to 50 points. the dow jones average saw us take out the closing highs and intraday s highs hitting a new record. looks as though absence in market ship and apd could ma and the apd could be the shift. the nasdaq above 500. the s&p only the major index. i should say the nasdaq, too, down 30% from its nominal high in 2000. the s&p 500 is also below its all-time high which i believe is 1,565. in terms of the russell 2,000 and other broad market indices, it is across the board that we are at fresh highs. frankly for your global markets, which we can take a pulse check of, other multi-year highs, as well. .25 on the ftse global 300. japan, australia, at 4, 4.5-year highs. european trade is broadly higher. the xetera dax again the out performed adding 1.1%. the ftse 100 up .2%. vodafone is the top performer market in the stock 600, as well, i should add to talk about a further tie-up with verizon. cac coran adding .4%. the ibex 35, strong as spain s ten year fell below 5%. not much concern emanating in the stubborn bond markets. how do you make money in these markets? here s what guests have been telling us all morning. what we need is stocks which are going to appreciate during the rally but not come back too hard had hard when things get difficult. it s been a more attractive area because income is important and you can t get good income from interest rates at the moment. we re looking at stocks coming through on that basis and perhaps the most safest sector is some of the food sectors. i think the sell-off head been a sort of reflex direction to sell whenever there are policy concerns, irregardless of the details. so when there are more details coming forward, then i think the sector will pick up again. it s why we asked you about china. i think they re going to be extremely cautious. there s been no, any hopes of rapid short-term positive change for investors, they ll be frustrat frustrated. the business environment will remain highly risky over the short to medium term. all right. what about what s on the agenda in the united states? the february adp report out at 8:00 eastern. an increase of 178,000 expected in private equity payrolls versus january. at 10:00, january factory orders, developed to drop 2.1%. then the latest beige book report. fed president richard fisher speaks this evening. you said the fed needs to get out of the way, a short while ago. do you think they ll get out of the way on n your in your terms? no, president fisher is in our camp of wanting to have less k q.e. but at a lunch last week, san francisco fed president john pms spoke. we heard from ben bernanke twice in his testimonies. they re going to keep q.e. going into the second half of the year. the talk of tapering i think is reflecting the concerns of those who really don t have a vote. only esther george has a vote at the present time. she s descended trying to carry out the legacy. absolutely. and you know, the city fed carries an important message, represents the heartland of the u.s. they ve seen the impact on quantitative easing on unfortunately they re not getting much in terms of ben bernanke s ear. how strong will the jobs report friday have to be in terms of making people reprice and earlier fedex it? it s about the unemployment rate. with the unemployment rate still at 7.9% and the fed saying it has to get to 6.5% before they ll consider raising rates, you need a number of very strong employment report before we start repricing that from 2015. where s your view? where do you think the unemployment rate is at this point? what s interesting is, it s less about the economy than it is demographics. demographics brought the unemployment rate down far faster than we would have thought, given job creation. so we think the rate is only down to 7.5% or stowe end of the year. but or so at the end of the year. are they wrong to target unemployment? i think they re wrong torg to see target unemployment in the sense that monetary policy can do very little in the kind of economy we have to create jobs. the fed s already taken its balance sheet from $800 billion to $3 trillion. the unemployment rate is 7.9%. add another $1 trillion on if we keep q.e. at this pace this year. growth comes from incentives. and i think this is much more an issue for fiscal policy, much more an issue for tax policy. and unfortunately tax policies going in the wrong direction. president obama want higher tax rates on capital. higher tax rates on high earners. and you know, the private sector is muddling through. what i find amazing, the european numbers, how much green there is across the board now. as we sit around talking about this is the point, isn t? that you can hate ever being what the fed and the central banks are doing. but at the same time, the performance is in front of you. the verdict has delivered. right. which says how resilient a private sector we have in the u.s. and maybe emerging in europe. it is able to grow through macro issues and deliver profits. and that s a a great frustration to investors. many people sat on the sidelines to some degree because of the macro. and they re stuck figuring out what it is they re supposed to be doing here. okay. john, thanks for that. chief economist and partner at rdq economics. nice to have him in town, on set. great to have you on set. venezuelans mourning the death of president chavez, preparing for his body to lie in state today ahead of a funeral on friday. attention now turns to a new election, possibly within 30 days, to replace the socialist leader. our own michelle caruso cabrera looks back at chavez s life and derisive rule. reporter: as the president of venezuela sense 1999, hugo chavez led the country with the second largest oil reserves, the biggest exporter of oil in the western hemisphere. chavez used the platform and economic four brought with it to be a flamboyant player on the world stage and a thorn in the side of the united states. his most notorious moment, a 2006 speech at the united nations. when referring to u.s. president george w. bush, he said yesterday the devil came here. translator: it smells of s sulfur still today. reporter: a former paratrooper who tried to take over the country in an attempted in coup in 1992. pardoned after serving two years in prison, chavez founded a new socialist party. upon winning the election and taking office in 1999, chavez began seizing private property and nationalizing hundreds of businesses. often with little or no compensation for the owners. he became a close friend of the socialist dictator of cuba, fafk, giving the island nation fidel castro, giving the island nation 100,000 barrels of free oil per day. to pay for social programs such as free health clinics and government run supermarkets with subsidized food, chavez turned the country s world-renowned oil company into his personal piggy bank. in protest of the deep government intervention into the company, workers went on strike in 2002. chavez fired nearly all of them, 18,000 in total. that along with lower investment in the country s oil fields has led to falling production levels for the last ten years. chavez was a darling of hollywood. appearing at the venice film festival with director oliver stone. danny glover was by his side at the last election. sean penn flew down in december to voice his support. he is one of the most important forces we ve had on this planet. reporter: early 2011, chavez revealed he was fighting cancer and would seek treatment in cuba. hugo chavez was 58 years old. for more on the future of venezuela, we re joined by michael denison, research contractor. in the short-term with new elections looking likely to get the nod, does that change anything? not in the short term, no. i think there will be policy continuity. the chavez legacy is clearly very resonant with large constituents constituents of electorate. there will be no swift policy departure. i think the questions will be asked in a year or two s time. we were talking earlier about what this means for venezuela to potentially come more open, more friendly to global markets and to investment. does it at all? is there going to be a real change in the status quo? possibly in two to five years, i think. the reason being that the fiscal deficit that venezuela s running is unsustainable. there needs to be clear roadmaps to reform of the oil sector which was talked about in the clip just then. and also there s rising discontent among the core constituents that really supported chavez up until he died, yeah. it sounds like his successor, though is, potentially going to get at least half of the popular vote. maybe about 1/3 of venezuelan support, the opposition candidate who is seen as more market friendly. so at this point, especial when he we re talking about the oil market, what you say is it needs reforms. is there any prospect that it s going to happen? well, we ll have to see. and i think a critical issue will be the extent to which maduro who as you expect, as you indicated, will probably become the president, the new leader. will be able to, if you like, put on side the key constituencies that will enable reform to occur. his rival for the presidency in the movement is closer to the army, much closer to the so-called businessmen who do well out of chavez s rule. he will have to square those off to affect reform. i was going to say, how much does he is this something that you think that venezuelaial leaders know is needed? is it needed and how much are they going to press for it given as you say that it seems to be more popular not to pursue these snshs. i think they are a measures? i think they are aware of it. maduro s strength is that he s a pragmatist. he talked, for example, to the u.s. government on the sidelines last november. and one could expect a potential reproshment over time. domestically they are aware of it. chavez s policy formula if you like was to be ad hoc, tactical. now there s an opportunity to put that aside and to do some more strategic planning. that s the real question of whether he can do. it. does this embolden others across latin america who see now a void in terms of the kind of guy who s going to get up there and i was going to say bash the u.s. effectively. do you know what i mean? be the news or thought leader for what what he represented. that s right. he s a big symbolic loss for the latin america left. no you got that. he was a showman, he was flamboyant, he had the right sound bites. they ve lost that sort of figurehead if you like. he s also, support ran across ideological lines. he had support in argentina, for example, and you know, in many ways he was a good partner to the central american and learn states through his petro caribe scheme that gave oil to many in the region. they ll miss this figurehead. is it going to be good ultimately for latin america? i think so. i think the model that seemed to have worked in latin america is the brazilian model. it combines social justice policies with a more pragmatic fiscal and economic policy. more bradley. i think that s been seen as the way of reducing inequality but at the same time securing economic growth. i think that s the model that will ultimately take precedence over chavez. okay. mike em, thank you very much. good to see you. research director at control risks. another storm, meanwhile, headed toward the already badly hit east coast. after dropping snow across the midwest, winter storm saturn is expected to bring high winds and possible flooding to coastal areas of the northeast. mike bet czyz meteorologist at the weather channel bettes is meteorologist at the weather channel and joins us from atlanta. a relentless weather season for the northeast. what can we expect? this is a big one for sure. we have huge snow out there, tons of snow in major metropolitan areas. beginning in pittsburgh, winter storm warnings here. toward washington, d.c., and baltimore, heavy snow falling for us now. basically shutting down the city at this point. expecting as much as maybe a foot of snow to come our way. right through the beltway, it s going to be impossible travel today. up around baltimore, it s been a mix of freezing rain, rain and snow. a place like philadelphia, all rain. we expect that to go to snow. maybe as much as half a foot coming for philadelphia. here s a look at how much more we have to go. eight to 12 inches in washington, d.c. eventually this does get into new york. five to eight inches there. through new haven and hartford, springfield and boston could end up being the big winner, 18 inches to two feet coming. time to get out for new york rain and snow later tonight. winds gusting to 30 miles per hour with now new snow, three to five inches, overnight tonight. winds now going to 40 miles per hour. then an additional one to two inches tomorrow. so big event for new york city, as well. one to three inches tonight in boston. eventually that becomes big snow, one to three inches additional tomorrow. and then the biggest snow trial come as we go into likely friday. and then even into the weekend with another half a foot of snow coming for us there. winds up to 35 miles per hour, not to mention serious coastal flooding new jersey, new york, connecticut, and up through massachusetts. so watching a variety of things with this storm. but certainly big snow is the big concern right now. and heavy loss of power, as well. you know, it used to be upstate new york, my home i guess, that was the center of all of this weather. it s really shifted to some of the cities, the heavier population areas. mike bettes, thank you very much sir. if you re just joining us, the headlines european stocks trading higher after the dow rings in a record close. the euro falls off, gdp fallen for five quarters. the world wonders what is next for venezuela after the death of president hugo chavez. 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[ male announcer ] e-trade. less for us. more for you. a talking car. but i ll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it s carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. after all, what s the point of talking if you don t have something important to say? keeping an eye on shares of microsoft today as e.u. regulators are set to impose a hefty fine against the company for breaking a pledge to offer consumers a choice of rival web browsers on windows software. doesn t this feel like a story out of the past? antitrust chief expected to announce the fine which could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. at 6:30 a.m. eastern. that s in just about 40 minutes time. the european commission has already fined microsoft more than $2 billion for not providing data at fair prices and for tying its media player to windows. as i mentioned, microsoft shares in frankfurt, not too far, standing at .5% at a bradley higher session. still about 6% over the past through month. and broadly speaking, it s one of the best performers in the european market today. yeah. and just remind you of where we are with the european markets. they are firm, a softer start this morning. we ve been up over a percent, 1.2%. the xetera dax up .8%. nine points higher for the ftse. seven for the cac coran. the ebig box up, as well. the ibex, as well. ridgeworth capital management, alan, thanks for joining you. record close on the dow s. that going to suck more money in, or is this a top? well, i d say over the near term, it wouldn t surprise me if the market were to take a breather in here. the the indices are somewhat extended with the s&p 500 well over 8% over its 200-day moving average. some consolidation is probably in order here. but i do think a lot of bond owners are going to be looking at the first quarter results and wondering whether or not all their fear and loathing of stocks is might be something might be time to put that behind them. the fear and why might it be time? well, if our perspective with the allocation strategies, we re looking for good valuations. we think that equities do provide both absolute and relative valuations compared with bonds. so we do like the market. the issue that i m a little concerned about over the near term is that while the economy is improving and the data we had in the u.s. yesterday supports that, we are starting to see some the question of the fiscal restraint that s hitting the economy here in the u.s. and the concerns that we have over in the e.u. with italy and the like, those are going to represent some headwinds. given that the market s extended, that is that gives us a little bit of pause in here. but if you look at bonds, bonds are bond yields are starting to back up. i think that we re going to see some negative returns in the bond sector for the first quarter. i think that s going to be a wake-up call for a lot of more conservative investors. alan, that s exactly what i was going ask which is to say even if you re not comfortable buying into stocks at these multiyear or nominal highs, what s an investor to do? do you go to the bond space which is also described as rich if you look at levels across investment or high yield credit? do you, you know, look at commodities? i mean, how what do you do with capital if you have a sense that you don t want to be in cash? well, it s true. i think that for a lot of the more conservative investors, they are going to have to see pain in their portfolios before they take action. i do think that for those that are more income oriented, we do have an overweight in the credit space. we do think that that is an area. given that the economy is improving, we think that the financial markets are going to continue to heal. that s going to keep credit spreads relatively narrow. obviously the big phone high yield has already been made. i do think that the high yield portion of that asset class is going to continue to give you that higher coupon that you would expect. so i think that there are some the good opportunities for fixed income investors, but for those who have been investing in treasuries, i think this is going to be a more difficult year. okay. alan gale joining us from ridgeworth capital management in richmond. i believe, richmond, virginia. i wonder, alan, if we hope you re not going to be affected by the storm that s apparently barreling down the east coast this morning. thanks for joining us. glad we got him today and not tomorrow i suppose. yeah. earlier we asked would you pay for a tour of the white house. rebecca says, no reason to pay to tour our house. obama will monetize anything. steve in kansas says, i wonder how the price of the tours would compare with a trip to see tiger woods. viewers not happy with president obama this morning. zap technology. arrival. with hertz gold plus rewards, you skip the counters, the lines, and the paperwork. zap. it s our fastest and easiest way to get you into your car. it s just another way you ll be traveling at the speed of hertz.
of the san francisco bay area. fleet week for many years in san francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the military and the first responders, the great coming together of our uniformed personnel and a great [speaker not understood] of san francisco. this amazing transformation in the last few years was due primarily to the vision and the dedication of three people, george and charlotte schultz and mike myers. i d like to pause to thank all three of them for this work. (applause) and in april of 1996, my last year as secretary of defense, i met one morning intelligence briefing at 7 o clock along with general charlie. the previous day general hughes had briefed us that the chinese military were to begin extensive military maneuvers in the taiwan strait. this morning we were stunned to learn that they had fired two missiles that landed just 10 miles off the coast of taiwan. the taiwanese had a presidential election underway, and the chinese were using a not too subtle way of explaining to them what they wanted the outcome of that election to be. thises was an unacceptable form of military coercion and both the general and i agreed that a strong response was needed by the united states, something more than a diplomatic letter of protest. after some discussion we agreed to send two carrier battle groups to taiwan. within an hour the president had approved our recommendation and before the day was over, though carrier battle groups were underway steaming to taiwan. at a press conference the next day, i was asked would i not fear this would lead to military clash with china. i said, i was not concerned of that. and when asked why, i said, i think, well, because we have the best damn navy in the world. this was not an extravagant or hyper bolic statement t. was simply a statement of fact. it was a fact that not only i knew. it was a fact which other nations understood. even one carrier battle group had more military fire power than any other nation s entire navy, and we had two of them on the way to taiwan. so, i was confident that no one was going to challenge the fleet that we were sending there. this and in fact, they did not challenge it even before our two carrier battle ships arrived in taiwan, the crisis was over and the maneuvers had been subsided. this positive result was possible because of the military capability of our navy and because both carrier battle groups were battle ready and able to steam towards their destination in less than 24 hours. so, why were we able to respond so effectively? certainly one important reason, because the technology in our ships was the best in the world. the results are true, that the training and the spirit of our sailors was superb. and we had absolutely first-class leadership in the navy. you will hear later today from admiral gary some examples of just how impressive that leadership is. the operational readiness of the fleet was a result, first of all, of having bases all around the world. but secondly because the strong program of exercise we conducted. the exercises were not only conducted on military scenarios, but we had an extensive set of exercises involved in humanitarian response. during the time i was secretary, we had a disaster response very similar to the one they re doing here in san francisco today. we bought naval forces from the united states, from russia and japan all to honolulu where we had simulated a tsunami disaster. and these three great nations brought their fleets to honolulu exercising how to respond and alleviate that disaster. well, that was then. how about now? last year the united states released a new security strategy. most of you probably have not even heard of that, but i have to tell you this was a big deal. it was one of the fifth american security strategies that we have issued since the civil war. among the highlights of that security strategy was a strong statement that the united states had the highest economic and security interests in the asia pacific region. not in europe as has been for 100 years prior to that, than the asia pacific region. secondly, that we would maintain freedom of access throughout that region. in particular, we would maintain the sea lanes in that area, whatever the challenge might be. even as we reduce our defense budget, therefore we must maintain and would maintain a powerful navy, and that that navy would be charged with maintaining the freedom of those sea lanes. we had, of course, to be concerned as to whether there would be a challenge for that. we observed that the rise and shine has more energy needs for more energy than they can produce themselves, and to maintain the economic growth which they believe is essential. we observed that the south china sea is a potential source of energy supplies for china and that there is a contention among the nations in that region as to where the ownership and rights of access are to the south china sea. and this is conceivable that china might seek to reestablish its claim there by military coercion and that could lead them into a confrontation with the united states desire to maintain free access. the best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. so, we want to avoid that. i believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an unambiguous commitment to doing that. i believe that our new national security strategy is that unambiguous commitment, and i believe that the u.s. navy is capable of maintaining that unambiguous military strength. as we sit here this morning aboard the uss macon island, in san francisco bay, looking out to the pacific, it is easy to believe that the united states is, in fact, a pacific power and that to keep it that way we will maintain the best damn navy in the world. thank you very much. (applause)speaker .. now i m going to introduce our next speaker, major general melvin spee splt e i ve known melvin for a number of years, obviously we served together in the marine corps. i can tell you he s been with fleet week for 3 years now and the one thing about mel, he s got a lot of ideas and he accepts no as an interim answer because a lot of things that he wanted to do to make fleet week better originally the answer from authorities was no. and he made some amazing things happen just through his will. a commander can will things to happen. and i really want to thank you, mel, for that whole peer to peer medical exchange was your idea and it was just a huge hit and i thank you so much for that. he s offered to be the pifrplg hitter for admiral roughhead who was captured back in massachusetts and couldn t make it back out here and with his experience, one thing about melvin speese, he is the premiere taipber in the marine corps. please help me welcome major general melvin speese well, of course i am not admiral roughhead, mr. secretary, but i did spend the night at marine s memorial club so i think i m able to fill in okay. as general my dsz at said, i ve had the p opportunity to purpose in fleet week over the last several years. my attention and focus has been, obviously, from the first marine expeditionary forces perspective and our close partnership, the third fleet and expeditionary strike group 3 in supporting fleet week. clearly filling in for admiral roughhead i m going to have to elevate my comments and move to a little bit different level. the department of defense is very comprehensively represented here at fleet week this year, more so than ever before. we have a representative from the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and american security affairs in the audience and they were here in august when we did our exercise with the city. fema is well represented and we have several defense coordinating officers here over the past couple of days. certainly the california national guard is represented heavily here. obviously they are going to be the first guys to respond to a disaster and they have several interesting roles not only from a state perspective but as they get federalized or with the dual status commander managing federal response and federal authorities of military authorities flowing in. and most significantly, we re represented today with the commander of northern command, general jackoby. as you know, defense report to civil authorities is not a primary mission area for the department of defense. we have codified it in policy over the years and certainly things have advanced since 9/11 and hurricane katrina, but there has been a real gap in detailed preplanning for emergency response, particularly as it works its way down the chain into the tactical forces that would respond, most specifically i think those on active duty. this is an area that we don t tend to pay a lot of attention to and very often when it comes we tray to look the other way. i believe that we have been reasonably responsive in immediate response, immediate response by doctrine and policy are military dod authorities moving out their gates into their neighborhoods when a disaster hits right next door. i mean, that seems to make sense. we have good relationships at our bases and stations and the ability to roll out and assist is something you would expect to work out pretty well. some of that has matured, in fact. in the state of california we have established a number of agreements, most particularly the wildfires where both third fleet and the expeditionary force assign helicopters in the need we are requested, it s pre-planned, our pilots are trained, we have the gary that s necessary and we can respond. most of the things we have done in the past, though, have come on almost random occurrences in the event of a complex catastrophe, so that is a little bit different for us. there has been movement within dod and we have grown and matured certainly our presence in the fema regions has expanded, new capabilities have been delivered to the states, and we have developed the much more responsive and functional command structure, i believe, with the dual status commander and that s somebody who can bridge national guard and active or federalized forces as they flow into a disaster response. but more recently the secretary of defense has elevated this and defense support to civil authorities has been dregted directed into the departments to start developing plans and policies that will adjust how we respond. so we re seeing a directive that will make things more expensive and specific in defense for civil authorities and this is the most significant move in dsca that i have seen in my career. since late november, 2011, comprehensive planning meetings have taken place to analyze the issues surrounding dsca and have provided a laundry list for recommendations of actions to be taken. the department of defense in the person of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the key principle staff members of the department, and our primary combatant commanders and commanders responsible for civil authority support are now acting on those recommendations in the form of directed tasks. the tasks sound very familiar for those who have participated here in san francisco fleet week over the last several years. the focus is on integrated planning with civil authorities, swift operations and mobilization, utilization of installations, capabilities and personnel, enhanced organizational effectiveness and improved doctrine, education, training and exercises. the directive comes with an already increased attention on dsca which we have seen the development of courses and training now delivered at multiple professional military education programs and other venues and the maturing of thinking and policies since 9/11 and katrina. there is a recognition within this analysis that there are gaps in awareness of the capabilities dod can provide in complex catastrophes, as well as the inherent complexities and lack of understanding in our various chains of command and our authorities. the report recognizes what we have used to drive the dsca portion of fleet week, that local authorities are likely to be overwhelmed in a complex catastrophe and that the president will direct support to civil authorities. that san francisco fleet week assumption is now stated as a guiding principle inside the dod for planning and activities. the objective of the dod effort is to enable the effective access to and use of defense capabilities in the event of a disaster. critical to this is a review of authorities, policies and protocols that govern the access to and employment of defense capabilities and that directive is required to be done by september of 2013. included are recommendations that will address specific core capabilities, methods on how to catalog them, changes necessary to facilitate planning and access to those capabilities. this is a significant change in dod s approach, particularly as it considers active forces in a more deliberate manner. the report specifically states to include those capabilities that have had previously a limited role in supporting civil authorities. i read that from my perspective down at camp pendleton as the active for the. u.s. northern command have been tasked to (inaudible) defense support to civil authority concept plans. with that, there is a recommendation to integrate and synchronize dod planning with federal, regional and state partners, something that san francisco fleet week has energized in the bay area over the past 3 years. the establishment of the dual status commander helps us pull title 10 and title 32 forces together in a more synchronized dod response. the new attention and focus by dod is only part of the puzzle, though. dod success in helping in response to a disaster will ultimately be determined by civil authorities and their ability to properly plan their initial response and then the means by which dod capabilities are requested and properly employed. we know dod is in support of civil authorities and the real burden to that effective support is going to be sound planning to ensure we re properly directed and we can best benefit or provide benefit to the need of the place where we re supporting. the guidance now being given will drive training and exercises. and recognition of our effectiveness at providing relief for our fellow citizens does require preparation. vice admiral beeman spoke emphatickly of readiness yesterday. readiness is no accident but is a deliberate outcome of focus and hard work. dod is now stepping up to the plate in a very formal and direct way but this will only work as well as our local state and federal civil authorities partner with us to ensure our capabilities are known, understood and well planned into their responses. well, i thank you for the opportunity to fill in for admiral roughhead. this new mission area that s coming our way i think in a more deliberate form is important to us. i have been a believer in it for years and i think what we are starting it see here in san francisco is a model of how we can approach our ability to spert our fellow citizens. so thank you very much for the chance to speak to you and with that, sir, i open it up to questions. is that right? (applause). okay, sir, we re ready for the panel. yeah, if you ll just remain in place, we re going to shift, we ll brin . yeah, if you ll just remain in place, we re going to shift, we ll bring the panel up and the person that will be introducing the panel, lewis loeven. i have to tell you, lewis loeven is the person that put all this together. he s worked months for this so i want to thank you publicly, lewis, for this. thank you. while the panelists are coming up i d just like to tell you when general myat and i went down to brief secretary schultz a couple months ago, he invited admiral roughhead and secretary perry into the briefing we had a discussion about the whole program at fleet week. we talked about all the public events that went on but we also talked a lot and concentrated a lot on the senior leadership program and what the rest of disaster preparedness was about. in that conversation we started talking about the internationals a special agent of fleet week. secretary perry actually suggested that we extend invitations to people from around the world that they might benefit from the discussions that we re having. admiral roughhead suggested that his friends from chile had an experience down in their part of the world with an earthquake and thought it would be a good idea for us to hear about the operations that the chilean navy had undertaken for helping out their citizens. we have a panel here today, we actually have two panels we re going to roll through. one is stories from the field, if you will, people s experiences in working in international environments to help promote humanitarian missions. fleet week got involved with a humanitarian mission back in october in the earthquake in van, turkey. there s a heavy kurdish in san francisco and the . better recover from their event and how to better prepare in the future from the katz traufk event that had taken place would not occur. we got a phone call at the fleet week association to ask if we could help bring together some resources and leet a fact-finding mission and we did that. one of our panelists is up here, second from your left, rob dudgeon, he s with the department of emergency management and he s the director of emergency services. rob s organization has been instrumental in creating the program that we have from back in 2010 all the way through to today and i know in the future we re already talking about putting together a hot wash of everything we ve learned through 2012 s fleet week. so rob is going to talk about the van, turkey mission. from turkey we have rear admiral guereva he has more than 14 years sea-going experience serving across various frigates. he assumed command of the suband joint command, chilean joint chief. he has been promoted to the rank of rear admiral. nita demato, serving as a major, she actually has a dual career. as a reservist she s also a professional educator and she s currently serving as a congressional fellow in the office of bob casy of pennsylvania focusing on the appropriations in budget for veterans and rebalancing services for future engagements but really what we re going to hear from her is an amazing story about the marine corps s activities in afghanistan and creating and promoting safe school environments for young girls and women. colonel barry newman is someone i met back in 2003. i at the time was chief officer for the city and county of san francisco serving in the administration of then-mayor willy brown. and general myat and i were talking about putting together a table top exercise and in came from some exercises from the marine corps and barry newman was a very energetic officer in the marine corps. he has gone over to afghanistan, i went over and saw him there, he was attached to the kabul police chief. i think he s going to have some interesting perspectives about working in the police department in a war zone. lieutenant commander patricia serrano, her assignments have been varied includes working as a immediate vaek core man, a legal clerk and a tqm instructor. she completed a 7-month deployment. captain mike napolitano is serving with the navy s expedition training group. while deployed in 2004, he spearheaded maritime patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as well as numerous theater cooperation efforts throughout the pacific and in 2009 captain napolitano reported as commanding officer of the expeditionary training group. this is a fabulous panel and i know you re going to appreciate what they have to say. rear admiral, i
critics. also coming up a war of work zone between the u.s. president and the prime minister of israel. and a man killed on the ground. we ll hear a witness explain what he saw. hello, everyone, i m errol barnett. eye welcome hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, this is cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with the latest information out of moscow at this moment. mourners are gathering to pay their final respects to boris nemtsov. you re looking at some footage that just came if to us moments ago as people gather around his open casket this morning. a memorial service has just begun for the prominent opposition activist. he was shot and killed while walking across a bridge near the kremlin on friday night. our senior international correspondent, matthew chance is there at the memorial and joins us now with more. just set the scene for us as this gets underway. what s happening around you? and what will happen throughout the day? reporter: that s right. we re at the center in the middle of moscow where this memorial service has now got underway. you see the open casket of boris nemtsov behind me. there are security guard been the casket somebody s family members. i can see his mother his daughter, his niece, a number of other family members, as well. obviously at the start of this long process of mourning throughout the course of the day that willum youly end in the funeral itself. that will ultimately end in the funeral itself. outside, hundreds have gathered in the streets and park that s just outside the center to carry in bouquets of flowers and tributes to boefr is nemtsov. that process will go on for the next four hours, we understand to give people the opportunity not you just family and people who knew him, but members of the general public in moscow to pay their respects. after that the casket will be closed and taken to the cemetery elsewhere in the capital where boris nemtsov will be laid to rest. we are at the start of a process which will take much of the day. this funeral process to see off finally boris nevermtsov. there is much more to see and do. we ll stay connected as the memorial continues. as far as who was in the rom and who was able to attend i understand some ukrainian officials were denied visas ahead of the funeral. i m wondering if we have a sense of who will be there today. reporter: well certainly it are going to be dignitaries here from russia opposition figures. i just saw a former prime minister of russia here paying his respects and laying a wreath at the coffin of boris never sopho. diplomats from various countries nemtsov. diplomats from various countries. a number of officials from poland and ukraine say they ve been denied visas for the country, for russia for various reasons. not specifically because they were going to be denied to come to this funeral you but because of the onmicrosofty of course, that exists at this point between russia and the european union and specifically with ukraine. despite this we are expecting to see a stream of dignitaries from the various foreign embassies here in moscow who will send representatives to of course pay their respects. i think as i speak now, i can see the american ambassador. if we could pan over to the american ambassador here. about to pay his respects there. jose gentleman. there shaking hands with people about to walk toward the coffin of bories theme of boris nemtsov to pay respects. the you united states has been condemning the killing and calling on russia and on president putin specifically to make sure that the culprits whoever carried this out, whoever ordered the killing, whoever pulled the trigger to be brought to justice. and of course vladimir putin and the kremlin have vowed that they will do that. although there s skepticism i think, among the russian public that this will happen. month use chance speaking to us from inside the memorial service. boris nemtsov s body is being seen now by relatives and well wishers. and matthew chance with diplomats also in the room. we ll connect again with you as this all gets underway today. as matthew mentioned, there are many theories swirling around nemtsov s death. some going as far to be conspiracy theories. the former deputy prime minister was one of president vladimir putin s vote spoken critics. investigators are looking into the possible that it could have been behind the killing. ivan watson walks us through nemtsov s final steps. reporter: the staff here at the liberal russian radio station echo is in mourning for buddy named soft. he gave thousands and thousands of hodelia intercareer. his final interview took place in this sued hours earlier. he was murdered on friday night. the focus of his conversation was the war in neighboring ukraine. created by the russian government. boris nemtsov spoke about the need of reforms, of democratic reforms, political reforms just to struggen against surprises and stop the war. reporter: after his okie must be interviewed, he came here to moscow s iconic red square. of after 9:30 p.m. he met his ukrainian girlfriend and they came to this upscale restaurant bosco, to have dinner. after 11:00 at night, the two came out of the restaurant and walked through red square. you ve got lenin s tomb down there. of course, you have the magnificent st. basil s cathedral and would have walked past the memorial. this area is bristling with security cameras, red square is arguably one of the most closely monitored, heavily guarded places in all of russia. it s here on the bridge mears away from the red brick walls of the kremlin that nemtsov took his final steps around 11:30 p.m. on friday. he was walking here with his girlfriend when at least one unknown attacker fired a series of shots, threw his back killing him almost instant and leaving the world with the burning we can who killed boreis nemtsov. that was ivan watson. we re showing a live look from moscow as the memorial service for boris nemtsov gets underway. he will be laid to rest later today. matthew chance is in the room. we will have continuing coverage throughout the hour on cnn. we re focusing on the other big story. iran s nuclear capabilities. world views are clashing in washington. israel and the u.s. agree iran should not have nuclear weapons. when it comes to how to achieve that there s a big and bitter divide. in a speech to congress tuesday, benjamin netanyahu is expected to lay out what he believes is the beginning of a nuclear deal between iran and the u.s. netanyahu, though wants tougher sanctions against iran. he downplayed any friction on monday. my speech is not intended to show any disrespect to president obama or the esteem office that he holds. i vhave great respect for both. israel and the united states will continue to stand together because america and israel are more than friends. we re like a family. this agreements disagreements in family are always uncomfortable. but we must always remember this we are family. now when it comes to u.s. and israeli relations, president barack obama and mr. netanyahu seem to be on the same page. you but the president says the best plan for iran is to freeze nuclear activity for at least a decade. i don t think it s permanently destructive. i think that it is a distraction from our focus. and our focus should be how do we stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. mr. obama says the object of all the strife, a nuclear deal with iran doesn t each look promising right now. diplomats involved in the iran nuclear talks including the u.s. secretary of state and his iranian counterpart aren t letting the events in washington derail things in switzerland. they re meeting to keep working toward a pact. john kerry s warning mr. netanyahu not to spill any sensitive information. we are concerned boy reports that suggest selective details of the join going negotiations will be public in the coming days. i want to say publicly there doing so will make it more difficult to reach the goal this israel and others say they share. what s interesting is that on the political side mr. netanyahu s facing both criticism and support for his upcoming speech to the u.s. congress. what do the people of israel think? cnn s kate bolduan met with people in the heart of jerusalem. reporter: as diverse as the landscape, the culture, and the israeli poem themselves so are the opinions here on their prime minister s decision to speak before congress. a marine poll suggests the public is split down the mid. i saw that firsthand at this dinner party in the heart of - jerusalem. thank you very much for having us. this woman thinks it s wrong and all about re-election. what do you make of it? i think this is a classic move of distracting voters from domestic issue to foreign policy. you think this is a campaign snuf. totally. this woman disagrees. i m amused by the power that left seems to give to netanyahu heat. wins he is giving a speak e speech on a topic that he knows a lot about, but it s still just a peach. reporter: just a speech but its focus remains a central issue concerning all israelis. the threat of a nuclear iran. every israeli no matter what their politics on some deep level feels a deep sense of insecurity about our own survival. reporter: do you think anything that netanyahu says in the speech can push the needle on the negotiations with iran? one way or the other, i think netanyahu isn t going to be the reason that america makes this decision. i agree. i m worried that he will be blameded for it. blamed for it. will he be given credit if america stays out of it? and i doubt he will be begin credit. it s lose-lose. that s why i think it s such a good idea. most people think that the speech is not going to affect the negotiations with iran. most people are concerned about this wolf trap between the united states and israel. reporter: the professor is an expert on the american/israeli relationship. there were many crises but this is the worst. reporter: you think it is the worst? because it has been lingering for a long period of time. there s very little trust between the leaders, and the disagreement and the crisis is about almost everything. reporter: back at the dinner table, these israelis hope that doesn t mean irreparable damage. the connection of israel and the united states goes so deep and on so many levels yeah we re going through a bad time, but we ll get over it. reporter: cnn, jerusalem. to understand our very high interest in this story you ve got to remember the back story to this visit. house speaker john boehner invited mr. netanyahu to speak in front of congress without letting the white house know. a major breach of protocol. our fareed zakaria weighed in on that. i think the whole episode is a very bad precedent. to have the opposing party when it controls congress inviting a critic of the president s foreign policy, to present that criticism in a joint session of congress is unprecedented and a bad idea going forward. this really is a big deal. much more coming up in the effects half-hour including his thuts on whether anyone will get thoughts on whether anyone will get their way in the iran nuclear deal. stay tuned for that. coming up a police shooting caught on camera. and still there are questions over exactly what happened. ahead, an you audio expert tells us what the sounds reveal. also a major offensive underway in iraq. the latest on the fight for tikrit. and the russian opposition leader gunned down just outside the kremlin being laid to rest today in moscow. you re looking at live pictures coming in. denver international is one of the busiest airports in the country. we operate just like a city and that takes a lot of energy. we use natural gas throughout the airport - for heating the entire terminal generating electricity on-site and fueling hundreds of vehicles. we re very focused on reducing our environmental 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say he was shot when he reached for an officer s gun. the police chief says it appears they did everything they could to defuse the situation, but blackburn says the situation got out of hand quickly. i ve never seen something like that turny to horrible hoe quickly turn so horrible so quickly. you hear the officers saying can you back up? can you back up? that was one of the officers this fired the shots. after he came and stayed mad, i was ready to get up out of there. blackburn also says he did not see africa the man known as africa reach for the gun. meanwhile, investigators are analyzing video from two police body cameras, as well as that cell phone video. jason carroll took the recording to an audio expert to see what it might reveal. [ gunshots ] reporter: key to the investigation in the lapp shooting will not just lapd shooting will not be just what the officers did but what they said. paul ginsburg is a recorded evidence specialist. he has been in the listening business for 40 years. think of him as an audio archaeologist, a man who digs for sound. it s a puzzle. each of my cases is a puzzle. reporter: first, listen to a portion of that amateur video captured by a by stanner in its original bystander in its original form. [ shouting ] [ gunfire ] reporter: that s a lot of noise. it sounds like you can hear someone saying drop the gun in that. yes, and it will be much more prominent after we subtract out all of the background sounds. reporter: now listen again. this time to the enhanced version. some of the ambient sound has been suppressed background sounds minimized. drop the gun! drop the gun! drop the gun! reporter: listen again drop the gun! drop the gun! reporter: and again drop the gun! drop the gun! drop the gun! reporter: the enhanced version was run through a sophisticated computer program which shows five distinct so-called markers for the sound of gunshots. there you can very clearly hear five shots? five shots. i hear and see them. reporter: each of the spikes is gunshots? one, two, three, four and five. reporter: that s what the spikes are? these are markers. reporter: but is there even more here? police say the officer shot the suspect during a struggle after the man reached for an officer s gun. you can hear the young officer who is primarily engaged in the confrontation saying he has my gun. he has my gun. reporter: the los angeles police department made it clear that it appeared to them they definitely heard one of their officers saying, he has my gun. he has my gun. he might well be here. reporter: we listened to the enhanced audio again. drop the gun! okay i heard the word gun four times. you can hear it four times did comes out. reporter: when we listen more closely, you can actually hear the word gun four times, meaning someone is using the word two more times. the use of the word gun barely audible. who says it? the police or the man on the ground? even with the audio enhanced, it s unclear. like so much in the case. [ bleep ] reporter: jason carroll, cnn, new york. the mayor of cleveland, ohio is apologizing for a legal document that blames a 12-year-old boy for his own death in a police shooting. you may remember tamir rice was playing with a pellet gun in a parker in his home when officers shot him within seconds of arriving. the officers he didn t know the boy s gun was fake. in responding to a lawsuit from the family the city said tamir s death was caused by his failure to exercise due dire avoid injury. the mayor admits the wording was insensitive. tamir s mother says there s no excuse. this is not the character or personality of the city of cleveland. this is not to be that insensitive to family even to victims is not our character or personality. and so once it became gun me that this happened that we immediately went to how can we correct this. the whole world seen the same video like i seen. i m sure the world is saying you guys never gave him a chance. with that said, it can never be justified. the rice family says it wants an apology for the officer s lack of proper training. one of the biggest attacks against isis yet. coming up the fight to route the militants from tikrit. so,as my personal financial psychic, i m sure you know what this meeting is about. yes, a raise. i m letting you go. i knew that. you see, this is my amerivest managed. balances. no. portfolio. and if doesn t perform well for two consecutive gold. quarters. quarters.yup. then amerivest gives me back their advisory. stocks. fees. fees. fees for those quarters. yeah. so, i m confident i m in good hands. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. tikrit. australia plans to send 300 more respect to to iraq to help train iraqi forces in their fight against isis. the troops will join 600 australian airmen and soldier already in iraq. australia s prime minister made the announcement just a few hours ago. i want to stress that we haven t taken this decision lightly. ultimately it is iraq that must deflate the death cult, but we do leave the iraqows their own. at this hour iraqi troops are clawing away at isis-held territory less than 200 kilometers north of baghdad. as barbara starr respects, they re getting support from across the region. reporter: the iraqi prime minister says the fight to take back tikrit is back often the battle is a crucial test of the willingness of iraqi troops to fight after months of u.s. training. easier to reign in tikrit than trying to recapture the bigger prize, mosul. the key thing in my mind is proximity to baghdad. it s closer to baghdad. mosul is another 200 kilometers another many miles to the north from tikrit. reporter: the iraqi forces attacking from several directions in the effort to retake tikrit, engaging with isis north of the city at al alam and south at aldor. isis has its own versions of the event, claiming to show it is fighting back against the 30,000-man force iraq says it is fielding here. u.s. official are privately doubtful the iraqi numbers are that high. the u.s. is saying little about the operation, viewing it as a gauge of iraq s sectarian divide. tikrit is a sunni town. the troops are shia led. even as u.s. tensions with iran grow they van in the thick of the tikrit fight. the iranian news agency reporting that the commander of the elite iranian brig aid is in welcome overseeing the operation. iran is also providing iraq and its shia militias with weapons and ammunition. another sign no one can predict isis next move. nearly two dozen christian hostages released by the group, nobody knows why. we should not let up on isis because we saw this activity that seems to be a gesture of good faith. there is no good faith in isis. doesn t exist. we should continue to pound them as hard and as viciously as we can. now members of a canadian church are worry about their pastor who hasn t come back for a humanitarian trip to north korea. the reverend entered north korea from china the end of january. he was supposed to return to canada february th. his toronto-based church says he s made more than 100 trips to north korea and speaks fluent korean. the church says the canadian government is trying to help find the reverend. another big story we re following this hour. you re looking at live pictures coming in to us from moscow as mourners pay their final respects to russian opposition activist boris nemtsov. we re told the u.s. ambassador is there, the former prime minister as well as the mother daughter and niece of mr. nemtsov. relatives and dignitaries will be filing through throughout the day. we ll get you live to the memorial service after the break. meet the world s newest energy superpower. surprised? 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supporter including the administration say a deal would restrict iran s path to a nuclear bomb and extend the time it will need to embark on a weapon program. the so-called breakout period to a year. all while allowing the civilian nuclear program under international monitoring, much like the interim agreement signed in november 2013. opponents including prime minister netanyahu and some u.s. lawmakers say the only way to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon is to prevent it altogether especially in light of the past cheating. just today the iaea said iran has not provided information on past force to research weaponization. we have asked questions, and the questions are clear so they can answer. reporter: iran says it will never give up its nuclear program entirely meaning that if no deal is reached, military action and perhaps war could follow. reporter: even as the gaps narrow, another key disagreement was exposed. if there is agreement, the west wants sanctions lifted gradually to retain leverage. iran. the sanctions lifted all together right away. our negotiating partners particularly the western countries and particularly the united states must once and for all come to the political understanding that sanctions and agreement don t go together. if they want an agreement, sanctions must go. with our own fareed zakaria joining us from new york and host of fareed zakaria gps, first what do you think of the issue of sanctions as far as what s in this deal? is iran likely to get its wish for all sanctions to be lifted at once? no. there s almost no prospect that that will happen. remember the sanctions are essentially the american sanctions are ten ax of congress as i understand which will mean there would have to be ten acts repealing or one omnibus repeal. there s almost no prospect that that would happen from a republican congress at this point. so that s not going to happen. the president can unilaterally waive some of those sanctions, weaken others, and then of course there are the international sanctions. the sanctions put on by the u.n. so iran could get some sanctioned relief. but the idea that it would get a repeal of all sanctions particularly the u.s. ones which are the most punitive, the ones that have hit the iranian economy the hardest is highly unlikely. what do you make of the possibility being reported now that prime minister netanyahu might reveal classified information about the deal just in order to make a point about how bad it is? i think it s wrong. i think it s frankly disgraceful if in fact he were to do that. let s give him the benefit of the doubt and not say this he s going to do it. i think this whole episode is a very bad precedent. to have the opposing party opposing the foreign policy, to oppose it in a joint session of congress is unpress denned and a bad idea going for. there s an article in the the washington times that made the point this imagine if the democratic congress or democratic senate had asked jacques chirac president of france, to explain why george w. bush s policies on iraq were all wrong. how will we have felt? imagine if during president reagan s two terms one of his many critics and he had dozens of them around the world had been invited by the democratic congress to speak to a joint session of congress. how will we feel? the president is the lead conductor of america s foreign policy. and for congress to play this role of allowing somebody to come and giving them this institutionalized platform to criticize american foreign policy strikes me as a bad idea and a very bad precedent. it does appear to put salt in the international diplomatic mix, which is tough enough. considering that you have talks underway in switzerland. each side does want to walk away with something. despite this, you could call it side show what do you think the chances are that we will see a deal in the end? i ve always thought it was unlikely. i think that there s there s serious negotiations so i d say maybe 60% to 70% against the deal. 30% this we will get a deal. because on both sides the negotiators don t have much leeway. by which i mean president obama doesn t have much leeway to make many concessions because netanyahu is breathing down his backs. the republicans in congress are breathing down his back. he has to stand very tough. so tough that it s tough difficult to see what concessions he can make. on the iranian side don t forget they have a similar program. rohans rohani s not a very powerful president. they re watching over him. in both cases, there are hawk who want no concessions, which means the guys negotiating down have a lot of leeway. in that circumstance imagine negotiating the opening with china where he wasn t able to deal with the issue of taiwan because that would be an uproar and imagine if there you had a situation like that in china. the you need a lot of negotiating room. neither side has it. we ve got to make the point that the deal is far from being complete. fareed zakaria, thank you very much for joining us and providing some of your insight tonight from new york. thank you. u.s. house speaker john boehner, the man who invited mr. netanyahu, says ticket demand for the congressional speech is off the charts. there will be some notable no shows. chief among them of course president obama. the white house says he may not even watch the speech. personally i find it hard to believe. he won t be meeting with the prime minister either. also vice president joe biden, he will normally attend the senate president. you could say coincident low he is in guatemala now. and of course john kerry, america s chief diplomat will be meeting iranian officials in switzerland as he has been doing all week holding the very talks that mr. netanyahu will be lobbying against. i want to take you to the memorial service of boris nemtsov in moscow. live pictures as they re coming to us here at cnn. hundreds of people are expected to attend. our matthew chance telling us that some of the late opposition leaders immediate family members are in the room. someone gunned down nem sophofriday while he nemtsov friday while he was near the kremlin. police haven t made any arrests. this has heightened a sense of fear in the country when it comes to speaking out against the government. nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister himself, was a vocal critic of vladimir putin. many say his murder was politically motivated. our senior international correspondent, matthew chance has been in the room during the memorial the past hour joins us on the phone. i m wondering if you can update us on what you re seeing and hearing there this morning. reporter: well we re seeing a constant stream of people coming across carrying bouquets of flowers, tributes to boris nemtsov and laying the tribute at his open casket. also speeches have begun. a couple of prominent people said a few words including the u.s. ambassador saying that he will long be remembered boris nemtsov, as a great russian patriot. so it s the former prime minister of russia addressing the mourners, as well, saying that name of an enemy for many that boris nemtsov was an enemy for many because he would not come forward. and the tributes are continuing. i just noticed that john major, the former british prime minister is here also. representing obviously the british government. there were officials are all over europe united states, and elsewhere who have come history today pay their respects to this opposition figure in russia. matthew chance speaking to us from inside the memorial service for boris nemtsov. relatives, dignitaries look at his open casket while laying their own memorials, flowers and respects. poem continue to connect with matthew chance and cover the service as it unfolds in moscow over the next five hours. do stay tuned to cnn for that. after days of questioning, boris nemtsov s model girlfriend flew back home. we ll talk to her mother whos she s concerned for her daughter s safety and her emotional well being. stay with us. photos are great for capturing your world. and now they can transform it. with the new angie s list app, you can get projects done in a snap. take a photo of your project or just tell us what you need done and angie s list will find a top rated provider to do the job. the angie s list app is the simple, new way to get work done on your schedule. the app makes it easy, the power of angie s list makes it work. call, click or download the app for free today. the traffic jam. scourge of 20th century city life. raiser of blood pressure. disrupter of supply chains. stealer of bedtime stories. polluter. frustrater. time thief. 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it how successful this trip was with shoring up business interests. but considering that his you know prince william s father had a bit more of a frosty relationship with the country this time, it seems as though thing may have warmed. do you get the sense that without any major gaffes to speak of so far this trip of a success? reporter: certainly if you look at the commentary not just in the western media but the chinese modia, it seems positive somebody. you re referring to a couple of really unfortunate incidents in the past with the royal family. prince charles once described the chinese officials that he met appalling wax works and prince william talked about slitty eyed people. it was awkward. pral talkprincipals talked about slitty eyed people. it was awkward. but you see prince william having opportunities certainly means that the chinese authorities are open to working with him. it is a very long-term relationship. and i know that prince william s office sees this as a first step in a long-term relationship. and that would have been transmitted back to the chinese authorities. and it seems so far to be a great success. just this meeting itself. yeah. if he can get out unscathed without any unexpected gaffes it should be a good trip. max foster live in london with a bit of details on prince william s asian tour being wrapped up. now, severe floods are threatening nearly a million people in northern spain as the area nears record levels. pedram javaheri with more. very serious situation. reporter: the snow is melting across the pyrenees. the water is melting down. and it has the largest volume of water for spain as far as the river is concerned. and about a million people live along the river in one of the biggest cities in spain. and we ll show some of the images that we have of the flooding. this river has been known to have flooding concerns. the images show the tremendous flooding. some 800 hectors, 25,000 acres of farmland damaged boy the waters out there. you look at the satellite depiction, the color depiction from january, want to show you the river as we touched on. carrying the largest volume of water across spain. the perspective january into march, you see the river balloon. as we go in for a closer perspective, hard to pick it out in january and in march expanding quite a bit. we ve had drainage pumps put in place along the see it alleviate the problem. the concerns remain quite high as the forecast continues to bring snow showers across northeastern areas of spain. as that s the case as the temperatures warm heading into the middle portion of march. melting will cause more of an issue when it comes to the volume of water picking up in intensity. speaking of water, look across southern california. strong and isolated thunderstorms on the southern california coastline from malibu toward long beach. get up above 4,000 feet across the ventura mountain ventura county mountains, los angeles county. you can begin to pick up one to four inches of snowfall. in fact closer perspective across the greater los angeles basin. look at the burn areas taking on quite a bit of rainfall this hour. we had not only strong thunderstorms but funnel clouds reported into the early afternoon hours across the region with wintry weather. more than 120 million people dealing with wintry weather. more snow rain sleets in the forecast. want to leave you with the video, what occurred across huntington beach in southern california. hey now! look at them. people taking on unusual hail that came down an inch accumulate on the beach. people making hail balls and even a hail man as you ll see. what do you think of that in boston? yeah boston it s that california surfer dude mentality. just enjoy it. absolutely. no matter what it is. hang ten. hail on the beach. and you surf at all? i have not, no. i failed many times. thanks. so you next hour. that s it for this edition of cnn newsroom. zain asher joins me after this break for more of the biggest stories. stay with us. if you haven t heard about the latest sale at hotels.com, then you haven t seen this commercial. book now and save during the spring break sale at hotels.com. as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu gets ready for his controversial capitol hill visit, we ll look at why today s speech is coming upper such heavy fire. happening right now, mourners paying respects to a slain kremlin critic. and you ll hear from the man who roared this video of a deadly police shooting in l.a. hello and a warm welcome to our viewers wherever you you may be watching. i m zain asher. i m errol barnett. this is cnn newsroom.
wree apac later today and will address congress tomorrow. the white house not remaining silent today, susan rice and u.n. ambassador samantha power will also address apac today. president obama is sitting down for an en view with the reuters, he will also been pond responding to netanyahu. rice said netanyahu s speech was, quote h destructive but boehner says he is he getting a lot of interest. here is what he had to say. they certainly made it worse over the last five or six weeks. the debt coming from iran and the iron neens having a nuclear weapon is a threat to the region region it s a threat to the united states and a threat to the rest of the world. this is a serious issue and we re not going to resolve this issue by sticking our heads in the stand. the prime minister can talk about this threat i believe, better than anyone. reporter: and there are hard feelings inside this white house about netanyahu s vits. i talked to a senior administration who said netanyahu is trying to make himself the center of attention and the president will not be sitting down or talking to noou this week because the israel elections are just around the corner but as one senior administration official said don t even expect a phone call. all right. jim, thanks so much for that. so it s clear, benjamin netanyahu is not backing down so what will the israel prime minister say and how will it play is this global affairs correspondent traveled with the israel prime minister she has that part of the story. reporter: prime minister netanyahu spent the entire flight to washington from jerusalem about 12 hours working on that speech sharpening that language senior officials traveling with him telling us that he s going to use this opportunity to lay out the deal with iron that s shaping up as he knows t officials say israel has a great deal of understanding about this deal shaping up. he does not feel prime minister netanyahu that congress has been fully informed and so he wants to lay out the deal why he thinks it s bad for israel the united states and the world and also urge congress to put some pressure on the president obama administration to push back a march 24th deadline for a political framework. he says he s not against any agreement at all, but this is a bad agreement. i do think today, though he s going to use this address to apac that pro israel lobby to lower the temperature a bit, to try to mend fences a little bit with the administration saying he has a lot of respect for the president, the white house and try to take out the politically fraught tone of this speech. he s going to say, listen the relationship between the u.s. and israel always bipartisan always has been always should be. back to you guys. now it s just unusual that we have the leaders who seem to be presented a different face than the overall relationship between the two countries and that s causing some tension obviously. so let s bring hope in peter gonart and gid yan rose. is this a good move for prime minister netanyahu? politically it might be he s a good politician so he s clearly betting this is going to help him in the campaign and that he ll gain more than he loses by siding with the republican congress against the democratic administration. so literally it is. in terms of the broader strategy for the region and boarder u.s. israel relationship it s a disaster i think. you look at the numbers, peter, there is tension here. we are put up the poll about how this is being seen if this had general. here is the favorable opinion of him. going through the ages those aren t great numbers, he s certainly up against it there. we re hearing about division here among american jews israel juice. israel problem is that although it s very strong in washington right now it s based out there in the country looks like the republican party. it s older white voters african-americans, latinos and younger voters including judger jewish voters are more critical of israel and this in the long-term demographically could be a problem for israel s base of support in the united states. the white house is being a little cagey about it but senator feinstein comes out with something where when prime minister netanyahu says listen i have to think about all jews feinstein says this. he doesn t speak for me on this. he doesn t at all speak for me. does that goert bother you when he says he speaks for all jews? i think it s an air fwant statement. i think the jewish community is like any other community, there are different points of view. so i think that arrogance does not bee fit israel candidly. air kbaps. strong word. let s be honest. israelis consider the packet that american jews are over here not in israel to be a sign that they don t care enough to actually come over there so why should their concerns be taken into account? netanyahu is asserting that he has the right to speak for all jews everywhere as leader of the israel state and that makes sense in his eyes but it doesn t mean that he actually necessarily represents swrush opinion. right. two things here. one is obviously jews in america feel very strong ties to israel not just culturally but in term of loyalty to the cause and we see it on many different layers. i would challenge the fact how israel views american jews. when you say i represent all jews and you get push back jews usually do speak with one voice, though not through benjamin netanyahu, yes? i think the divisions inside the american jewish community on israel have been growing, they re growing because of an increasing generation gap. younger american jews don t see israel as threatened and weak as much as their parents do they certainly don t remember the holocaust or 1967 when israel was on the brink of does trucks. they ve seen israel as a powerful can country. do you think bb has made himself bigger than israel with this move coming here taking on the white house, essentially taking it about him, is that dangerous? yeah i think it s dangerous because it makes people who feel like they have to choose between barack obama and benjamin netanyahu. if you look at an organization like apac its membership are mostly people who voted for barack obama but want to be pro israel. you re forcing them to make a choice and that is not good for israel. if you wanted to raise the question of dual loyalty you couldn t do it in a who are obvious way than netanyahu has done. we ve voted in the election here barack obama and the members of congress represent us. we don t vote to israel. there has been a long history of american jewish leaders making it clear while we care and feel connected to israel we have american citizens and that s a very important point to make. what do you think of the white house, though returning tactic for tactic which is we don t like o how you snubbed us by being with boehner so we re not going to pete with you, was that the best response to the white house? it s always difficult to deal with an ally who is aligning with your own political enemies. this happened with taiwan it s happened in georgia. the white house has a problem because it wants the israelis to shut up and go away bau bu it can t actually say that. how much it should reveal it s annoyance is a political game for hem. you always get to express your annoyance with allies but this is different than all those other examples that gid yan just gave. israel stands apart from any other ally that the united states has in the world. that s true. america has tended to defer to israel on the pal stin wrans, but when it it comes to questions of war and peace for the united states and that s what iran is if this iran deal fails, the united states moves closer to war with iran. this is the kind of issue on which american presidents democrats and republicans, have never deferred to israel or any other of our middle eastern allies. obama is in the tradition here. it s easy to say making a deal with iran is dicey, that s easy to say if there s no other solution and you see iran spreading not contractsing in terms of its influence. we do have to remember in the messenger of bb netanyahu this is a man who said this 2003 get into iraq get into iraq that s the place you need to be. often you have to consider the source. i think it s also not just about netanyahu there s a dwros hip raes in the israel position. they have a local nuclear monopoly, they can destroy iran in a second later today if they wanted to. what this is really about with iran is a potential future risk to the israel nuclear monopoly in the region. i understand why the israelis don t want to lose that and may eventually at some future date have to rely on deter rents like we do but the white house tears all this talk about this threat and they hear the israelis basically trying to manipulate u.s. politics and they get annoyed. whether they should show their annoyance is an interesting question politically, but i think the white house really feels like the israelis are playing fast and loose with the facts on this deal and not presenting the case honestly. it is an existential threat nobody faces the one the way israel does and that s a lens through which we have to watch their actions an what they have to say. and we have to see what benjamin netanyahu has to said today. while netanyahu is is in washington trying to stop a deal with iran secretary of state john kerry is in switzerland pushing for a deal in the iran nuclear taubs. kn s chief national security correspondent jim sciutto joins us line from switzerland with more. reporter: good morning, alisyn is. for all the drama and acrimoniy in washington the nuclear talks were right on lake geneva they re continuing at pace and in fact an accelerating pace. these talks this week were originally meant to be at the political director level, that s a level below secretary of state state, about you now face-to-face meetings added between secretary of states john kerry and his iranian counterpart. beginning tonight they re going to meet multiple times tomorrow on tuesday and into wednesday and you re also hearing from u.s. officials in effect a pre buttel to prime minister netanyahu s speech. they re say that he has been wrong before that the interim agreement which is in power right now has held back and restricted iran s nuclear program for the first time in a decade. they also say that they didn t choose this dynamic with the israelis it s not the way they want to go but that a diplomatic solution in the view of this administration is the only way to stop iran from getting a puck clear bomb. there s a long way to go in these talks, there s a deadline at the tend of this month but i ve spoken to people from both sides including the iranian side they say things are moving in a positive direction. that certainly doesn t mean there will be a deal but her getting closer and the level of focus here and level of work here in switzerland they re not listening to they re turning a deaf ear you might even say to all that s coming out of washington. jim sciutto, thanks so much for that update. breaking overnight a dramatic and deadly confrontation caught on tape. police in los angeles are investigating now an altercation between several officers and a homeless man had a ended when police say the suspect was shot and killed after attempting to get an officer s gun. our sara sidner is live this morning in los angeles with the very latest. another situation very concerning sara. reporter: absolutely. the video is chaotic, it s intense and it s disturbing because ultimately you see a man being shot to death in the streets of l.a. the video taken by a witness in downtown los angeles begins with an altercation between police and a man on the street. we don t see what caused the incident to turn violent, but the man appears to throw punches towards one of the four officers on the scene who were trying to arrest him on suspicion of robbery. it escalates ending up on the ground. you hear someone say what sounds like drop the gun. then the sound of a taser goes off. then more shouting that sounds like drop the gun yelled twice. a struggle continues and five shots are fired. the suspect lies motionless in the street. police say the suspect attempted to grab the officer s gun. during the attempt to detain him this individual resisted our officers they struggled with him, they tried to tase him a couple times, that was ineffective and eventually the struggle occurred where the officers were struggling with the individual over one of the officer s weapons. police say three sters fired their weapons including a supervisor. an investigation is underway. again, this is a very very early stages of the investigation and that analysis is based on one video which shows a portion of the incident that occurred. we want to wait until all the video is in that s available, we want to wait until all the people have been interviewed, all the witnesses, all the officers to determine exactly what happened before we make any kind of judgment whether this was proper or not. reporter: and you heard commander smith talking there about other videos. we understand that some of those officers did have body cams on and there s also surveillance video from one of the buildings there in the area. they are trying to look at all that as well as some of the witness statement. they are still taking the statements from witnesses. we talked to two of the witnesses and they said that before all this happened before that video started rolling, that the person who was killed was actually tased once before that but jumped up and started coming at police at that point in time. so in this case certainly still under investigation. a lot still to be known, but that video very dramatic and very very upsetting to many many people. back to you guys. we re going to have our legal analyst on in the next little while to talk about all they see there. thanks so much for that report. new this morning iraqi troops launching a major offensive against isis to capture takrit. fighter jets helicopters and artillery are attacking isis strong hold. this is the third attempt by iraqi forces to gain control of this city since isis took it over last june. it s also a key point of control in the region. tens of thousands of mourners harch against the assassination of a top critic of russia president vladimir putin. boris nemtsov was gunned down two days before a planned rally to protest russia greg s in ukraine ukraine. had he say nemtsov was gearing up to reveal information about russia s involvement in the conflict. over the weekend a parody of a toyota ad showing a dad dropping off his daughter sparking all sorts of outrage online. take a look. it looks like your ride it is here. you be careful, okay? dad, it s just isis. take care of her. that isis twist has many asking some wondering does the sketch go too far? did snl go too far? some saying that isis atrocities are too lane no us to milk for laughs. we ask you where do you stand, do you find it funny or think it goes too far? tweet us or host your comments on our facebook page. i love t i love what better hallmark of democracy is there than making fun of a group that hads freedom of speech. snl has done bin laden, saddam hussein, this is what they do. i m just throwing back to you the families that have just seen their kids leave, families right here in america, too painful for them so soon. could argue that they want these people to be disrespected post of all. but what do you think? you let us know. after the break we re going to talk to you let s show you this video again. what do you see here? do you see the police left with no other choice other than to use deadly violence or is this an example of extreme force on a homeless man? we re going to take you through it experts will break down the video. and the political fight to fund the department of homeland 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or not there was a reach for the firearm. once that happens police officers are trained that once it gets to that point deadly force is authorized. the other thing that they re going to consider too, is something you don t see in the tape which is what this suspect is suspected of doing. an armed robbery or other dangerous felony. we don t know that. right. we don t know that yet. that could amp it up for the police officers if they re aware that they may be dealing with somebody with a weapon. we don t foe what predicated this altercation. we do know police were responding to a robbery call this was a suspect and then this all happened. what do you see that concerns you? shoo the big concern surrounds the process which biwhich they get to justice here. certainly there will be a full and fair investigation, don t want to jump to any conclusions, any video could be spun any number of ways. we know the lapd district attorney will be investigating. there are concerns about w. that because that s the same law enforcement entity that works in the police and we see over and over again you want public trust. in order to get that public trust you want an independent entity to be evaluating this. from a police perspective the argument will be he s resisting, he may have grabbed for the firearm, he s noncompliant they re going to argue that he had mental health issues. but those are all fair points. absolutely. 100% they re fair point. there are there s two narratives the police will argue that and from the perspective that it was excessive force they ll argue there were multiple officers there, they already tased him. was the force imminent that is immediate to the officers and was the action reasonable? ultimately was the force they used the firing of a weapon, proportionate to the threat that he suppose posed? you can look at this two i ways. are police using excessive force, was this man resisting and was he reaching for the gun. here is one thing that we have not had prior to this is one of the officers at least was wearing a body cam rachlt how is that going to play into the investigation and subsequently perhaps legal resource? we re at a fascinating time in law enforcement history because these body cameras, originally defense attorneys probably thought this will over all anure to the benefit of law enforcement and not to victims, but it may actually show some police misconduct if that camera is on all the time with no volition or no control. is it still doesn t tell the whole picture. there s things that could have happened prior to this that we don t know about and that s where other eyewitness testimony, other cameras, we know there s a surveillance cameras one of the missions was there that police are getting their hands on. let s talk about why what you say is so significant. it s so significant the lead up because it goes to one critical issue and that is the state of mind of the officers who were there. when you enter into a situation, how fearful are you, what is the build up to it? what do you know that we don t know? so certainly that s critical but ultimately is also turns on what happened then and was it reasonable. let s flip the script. the state of mind of the suspect is key and reports say that this man was dealing with some mental elt issues. we know on skid row there are multiple mental health issues that s one of the things lap stchlt has been working on getting had a community policing so they know what population they re feeling with. that does play into the state of the mind of the police and also the suspect. then you have to take a step back and realize irrespective of any mental health issues police are trained in the force continuum, use the amount of force needed to meet the amount of force that is presented to you. once we get to the evaluation of is he going for my gun, officers no matter what their training no matter what they may make an ace about somebody s mental health once a hand goes for your firearm you re basically at the highest level and at that point deadly force is usually authorized. a lot of people are going to be quick to say this is another example of police brutality, reaching for the gun instead of using other ways to subdue a sus secretary. do you think it s too soon to even make that kind of assessment? we see what we see. it will be investigated i don t want to jump to any conclusions but there s major concern. when you grab for a gun i ve defended cases when you are re grabbing for a gun and the officer has to use force. did you get ahold of that gun. was it likely the officer was in danger and did he need to be shot by three different officers? finally, mcculloch, again, i don t want to poo poo the process, it needs to be independent and needs to engender the trust and respect of the community for us to resect ultimately what they do either indict or not indict the officers involved. the investigation, this happened yesterday, the investigation now will continue. danny, joey lulls great to have your legal minds on this. a man stood up against vladimir putin and what russia is to go in ukraine. he wound up riddled with bullets and dead. ma man was boris nemtsov. did nemtsov have more than an opinion? did he have information about russia that someone did not want exposed? i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. real transformations can happen as much inside a person as out. that s why you should take the listerine® 21 day challenge. use listerine® and over 21 days you ll experience a transformation. take the listerine® 21 day challenge and start your transformation today. the real question that needs to be asked is what is it that we can do that is impactful? what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the 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morning. probably 2 to 4 inches will be the likelihood but it warms up and for you, christopher, to stop your incessant whining i will finally give you a warm day. snow and ice the next couple days but look at this i give you 45 on wednesday. chad only in opposite world do you come at me for whining. i had to draw your tears when we were outside the last time. i know. thank you for for the latest. we will check in with you many times. israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in washington for tuesday s controversial address to congress. relations between the u.s. and israel at least between the leaders, seem to be at a new low as bb prepares to slam the administration s nuclear talks with iran. this comes just two weeks before israelis head to the polls to decide whether or not bb should be reelected. netanyahu today speaks to a pro israel lobby group. secretary of state john kerry defending israel before the u.n. human riefts council in geneva. kerry meets with iran s foreign 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absolutely unbearable. reporter: boris nemtsov a former russian tepty prime minister under boris yelt sin was shot four times in the back while walking with had his 23-year-old uk mean model girlfriend, the killing caught on surveillance camera. you can see the couple here walking along a braj right in front of the kremlin. just before midnight. a snowplow passes in front of them. that s when out of view investigators believe a hand shoots nemtsov then runs into a getaway car. president putin ordered an investigation and quickly condemned the killing. in 2014 nemtsov a prominent russian op sis leader compiled a detailed report on alleged corruption at the winter olympics in sochi. this is the most corrupted games in the history of mankind. they steal about 25 billion dollars. reporter: for recently ukrainian president said nemtsov was about to reveal information that would prove russia s involvement in the conflict in ukraine, sig that quote, someone was very afraid of that. some mourners believe that someone was putin or his supporters. do you believe that mr. putin, president putin, is responsible for this killing is this. we do believe in this sthr but the kremlin says this tragic killing was simple isly designed to damage russia and to create a political storm. well the popularity of vladimir putin is still skylight latest opinion polls suggesting that it s 86% which is absolutely incredible. the big question is will this killing change those opinion poll numbers or will they simply it will it simply send a message that if you oppose the kremlin like boris nemtsov did this is what could happen to you. yes, matthew those are the big questions this morning. thank you for that. as outrage and conspiracy theories swirl over the death of the outspoken krit kick listen to his prediction of his own fate in a candid interview. i m a known guy and this is a safety because if something would happen with me it will be a scandal not only in moscow city but throughout the world. let s beginning brink in had cnn s chief international correspondent christian a.m. pour. good morning. so you hear there it sounds like boris nemtsov pre saging his own if not death at least jeopardy and just two weeks ago he told a blog i m afraid putin will kill me. why did it seem the danger to his life was increasing lately? well he also told had his mother said that. he said that his mother had been telling him stop bark putin because they will kill you. so this is because this has happened in the past. critics of the kremlin over the last many years have been gunned down. remember the great journalist and human rights activist anna anna politskofiya. they are not a big threat to vladimir putin. look at his favorable ratings, look at all the control he has, done of these opposition figures have any access to the state run media or anything like that but they are irritants and the notion that he was going to lead an anti-putin march for the first time in about three years probably upset a lot of the people around vladimir putin. now, the kremlin says it wasn t behind it and it is going to investigate it. putin taking the file himself. but an environment of per miss i believe has been created this russia over the last many years so that even if it was a vigilante, they knew that shutting down somebody like boris nemtsov would be something that was viewed favorably by the kremlin. of course one of the theories is that he had some sort of damning evidence that he was going to present two days after he was gunned down at that anti-government rally. he was going to announce something. do we know what he was going to say? we don t really know but obviously the president of ukraine has said that and that s how we sort of know this was going to happen but do you know what alisyn we don t really need boris nemtsov to put that out. he may have had more details, but if you go to russia itself there are regular newspaper morning, you know obituaries for russian soldiers who have been killed in the war and when mothers go and, you know want answers, where was my son killed? why was he killed? they get told that they re traitors. mothers of russian soldiers who are dying in these wars in ukraine. so we know that there is that information. we also know from nato and other satellite imagery that soldiers and heavy military hardware has been crossing at various periods from russia into ukraine. so we know that this is a fact. had he got specific new information that would have added to that dossier of what is known? what happens. and all of this you know goes against, as i say, the environment that s been created by maximum amount of state run propaganda that anybody who questions what the kremlin is doing is an enemy of the state. and, you know boris nemtsov was a well-known critic of putin and he also knew putin well. he used to work for him. so knowing putin s desire for retribution against people who speak out and knowing his iron fist why was nemtsov so willing to continue to speak out against putin? well you know nemtsov was actually potentially at one point the chosen successor of boris yelt sin the previous president and he was his deputy prime minister. he obviously through putin, but when putin was chosen their paths divided and diverge and he was thrust into sort of the opposition path. people believe there is a very small but quite vocal opposition, you know sort of group in russia right now, but they ve been thoroughly quashed and it s very difficult for them to get their voices heard. why does he keep speaking out? because people who believe that they must people speaking out despite the dangers. the real big name in russian opposition politics is navalny. and he was meant to be leading this rally this weekend. he was jailed before the rally so that he couldn t go out on the streets and lead the rally. he said nemtsov now you must lead the rally and nemtsov was killed two days before the rally. thanks so 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irresponsible. i said the other night at the republican meeting that they are self righteous and delusional and they don t realize what s happening. that was republican congressman peter king calling out his party s right wing. lawmakers only managed to approve one week s worth of funding setting up another crucial test for john boehner s leadership. we ve got kevin madden former press secretary for house speaker john boehner, very key credential richard sock retease, a democratic strategist. we start with you, mr. madden. yes. what do you think mr. boehner thinks he can achieve by holding up this process when it looms over our heads like the last shut down and we foe how that went? look, i don t think boehner is interested in interested in holding up the pro he is is. i think so much of the maneuvering was an effort to try to get the process moving. he really does want to move his conference together i think that s his key goal right now. that conference they do believe that what the president did with his executive action was unconstitutional. they also believe the public is on their side. the election in 2014 this was a big part of that election and republicans won historical majorities. lastly if you look at the law, the law is on their side. the only judge is that has ruled on this has ruled that with the 26 states that are suing this action against this executive action and that has emboldened this congress to the point where we are at. but the point still remains the same that the democrats, harry reid and nancy pelosi they re not listening to the ee electoral judgment from 2014. they don t want to cede any republican authority on this. so i think that somehow towards the end of this week john boehner is not going to want the government to shut down and he probably will move to pass a bill with democrat support. kevin, you say that they think the public is on their side in the 2014 election is good evidence however, more recent polling suggests the republicans would shoulder the blame if dhs were to be partially shut down or the government shut down. i want to bring hope in richard here. so this fight, i mean they waited two hours up until the deadline then they didn t extend it for a year or month, they extended it for one week. all they could get is a week. all boehner can do is to get his caucus extend it for one week. i m glad kevin brings up the election. the republicans in the election said if you give us an effective majority if you give us both houses of congress and let us govern that we will korchgovern effectively. they are now failing at this most basic test it seems to me because they can t get anything done. this is like a nightmare for the american people. it s like a recurring dream that won t go away. is boehner done kevin? no. is this an example that he doesn t control the caucus this is the best that he can do they re not listening to him? richard is right. john boehner, i believe, is very aware of that risk that we send a message to the american public that we can t govern. i think when you re and to alisyn s point when you are the president of the limited government you do pay a price should the government shut down. i think once the senate tries to move to conference this bill and that doesn t work there will be an effort to pass this and make sure that dhs is funded. i just want to because you worked for john boehner as press secretary where why is he having such a hard time corralling his conservative kau kuk cuss? this is not leadership on capitol hill is not an event it s a process. you have 50 to 60 members of the republican conference that believe that the true test of their conservativism is voting no often and that is a very big challenge. i think john boehner recognizes that and what he has been trying to do lately and i think that s evidenced by a lot of his actions is he s trying to show them that the benefits of governing is going to eventually help he their conference get good legislation right now he s struggling about w. that. the prem had miss here is something we need to question, the idea that congress need needs to govern. i don t know that that applies. congress needs to bring hope back and forth. really this is about the white house when it comes to governing and i wonder you have an opportunity here you have an opportunity here they re not betting it done that s what you just saw from the house. now, you can either just complain about it which you guys love to do or take it as an opportunity to lead. i peel a little bit i have a little sympathy for john boehner because this is not what he wants, but what he s dealing with is a republican party that is at war with itself. there are members of the republican caucus in congress who would rather shut down the government they would rather put national security and national safety at risk. they are he a about opposition. than compromise even a little bit. that little slice is about opposition. i don t think john boehner is malicious. i think he likes to get a deal done. i think he d like to work with democrats but this is the republican party at war with itself. what are the democrats date of birth dog to make that easier other than pointing out what you just said? the democrats don t have a majority in congress so there s very little they can do. harry reid to have could have put it up for a vote and he wouldn t. they permitted in interim funding agreement to go through and i think they will cooperate to try to get a deal. i think we have to get a deal. there are reasonable people will prevail in this but it s this it s this kamakazi kau caucus of the republican party and they would rather tear everything down. you called hem malicious but the tea party stands for taxed enough already. their entire mission statement is to reign in government spending and reign in government overreach. that s what they do. they don t see it asthma lishs. and they have a core believe that what the president is doing is unconstitutional. the president himself said 22 times that the actions that he took on immigration would be unconstitutional. kevin, reason you confusing two different issues in that yes, you re right, you have your legal issues you have your court fight, you have a judge on your side right now, but by doing this you re not helping that effort by doing this. you re creating another problem, not a solution. i think that s and i think that s where you have folk like peter king and john boehner and others who believe, look we ve had as many votes adds we can on this harry reid and nancy pelosi are standing in the way, we have to fund the department. let the legal process work on out one side we will have another chance to reverse this action again. kevin the one thing that we re disagreeing over up there, it s not malicious intent it s about tactics. i think some of the tax tick up there are make taking the wrong approach. i feel badly for you, i feel a little badly for john boehner because you are not defending these guys. the truth is that your folks want to deal. you are as frustrated as the american people are, but you all said if you had a majority of both houses you would govern effectively and you are failing at that most basic test. very quickly, kevin, your sons. i disagree with that. i think this is part of the process. it is a very messy process, richard, it is not one that we like. but, remember the president by taking unconstitutional action and forcing this debate he didn t help it either. and the democrats aren t exactly in a compromising mood they are the ones who are holding up a lot. do you really believe that the president took unconstitutional action you have your remedies. you can challenge that in court, you can already toert recommend tease that are available. no one said it was going to be pretty. watching the sausage being made or not be made in this case separate but equal. thanks. richard, kefb thanks so much for the debate. so we are following a lot of news this morning. let s get right to it. this is a so err yus issue. we re not going to resolve this issue by sticking our hands in the sign. something happens to israel and that s knots the end of it that s just the beginning. the main goal here is to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon. if something happens with me it will be a scandal. politicians being killed in the center of the city neck to the kremlin. this is a dangerous time if you are in any way a member of the opposition. shots fired. male down. cleveland is blaming a 12-year-old boy for his own death. tamir rice murdered. this is new day with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. good morning, everyone. welcome back. the nuclear a.m. bigs of iran threatening to unravel the relationship between the u.s. and israel. israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu arriving in washington for his controversial speech to congress tomorrow a speech the white house never approved. going to get a peek whether bb will double down or take a step towards the white house in just a few hours. mixed feelings about the israel leader being in the u.s. is unusual to say the least. we have comprehensive coverage of the prime minister s visit and what it means for u.s. israel relations and bb s political future. let s start with cnn s senior what you say correspondent jim acosta. what is the word out of the white house? reporter: the white house is offering israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu an icy welcome. as you know, netanyahu will be giving two piece speeches one today at the aipac conference war and then tomorrow to a joint session of cobs but the white house is not remaining vie silent this week. they re going to put out firepower of their own, national security adviser susan rice and u.s. ambassador. president obama will be sitting down for an interview with routers and you will recall it was rice last week who said that the set up where netanyahu is going to be giving the speech to congress, he arranged this with john boehner without looping in the white house, rice called all of that destructive. john kerry sort of dialed down some of that rhetoric. here is what he had to say. we don t want to see this turned into some great political football. obviously it was odd if not unique that we learned of it from the speaker of the house and an administration was not included in this process, but the administration is not seeking to politicize this. we want to recognize the main goal here is to prevent iran interest getting a nuclear weapon and on that israel and the united states agree. now, white house officials say their other goal is to stress the strength of u.s. israel relations but make no mistake there are hard feelings inside this white house. i talked to a senior administration official who said that thank you is turning this week into something of a circus and just making himself the center of attention and as you know the president is not going to be sitting down with netanyahu the white house says because israel elections are just around the corner but this official told me don t even expect a phone call. back to you guys. all right, jim, tui. the israel prime minister is up for election at home but he s also being evaluated in the u.s. as well as by this citizenry. so it s the politicians and the the people here. what kind of trouble is this going to cause in both places for him. cnn global affairs correspondent lisa laf vat has been traveling with the prime minister. the prime minister tomorrow is going to lay out the iranian nuclear deal shaping up as he understands it. the israelis have a lot of information about the deal on the table, enough to conclude it s a bad deal for israel but also for the u.s. and the world. netanyahu does not believe congress has been fully informed on these negotiations and he s hoping this speech will raise questions and he s going to urge congress to pressure the white house to push back that march 24th deadline for a political framework. his aids say israel is not against any deal at at all but feels there are too many compromises that will leave iran able to move toward a nuclear weapon down the line. i do get the sense the prime minister realizes this political fraught part of the trip. he is going to use the speech today to lower the temperature, talking about how important the relationship with u.s. and israel s how it s always been bipartisan how it always should be and as jip said you can see the obama administration also toning it down secretary of state john kerry not only talking about how the u.s. and israel still need to work together on a deal but also today defending israel at the u.n. human rights council in geneva. so i think the white house realizes bickering, placing too much focus on the speech want to take the wind out of the prime minister s sales as those nuclear talks start in geneva this week. back to you guys. thanks so much. thanks for breaking all that down. prime minister netanyahu s visit is sparking ago fierce debate among many in the jewish community. a full page ad in the new york times had this message, prime minister netanyahu, congress is not a prop for your election campaign. let s bring hope in the president of j street that s the group behind that new york times ad and the founder and executive director of the group this world he is strongly supportive of prim s visit and speech. it s great to have both of you on with your differing perspective because you disagree. in that ad that you put out you also said the visit will damage u.s. israel relations. how so? well i think the basis of the strength of the friendship has been that it s been able to be bipartisan it s been able to cross a whole range of ideological lines to unite behind the notion that israel s security is a paramount american interest and the united states and israel s friendship is rock solid. when the prime minister works with the ambassador to washington and works with the prime minister and speaker boehner to set up a speech behind the president s back and does it to the benefit of his own election campaign to the benefit of speaker boehner s efforts to undercut the president that injects partisanship into into relationship. okay. your response to that? i know you support the prime minister coming here but what about all of those back room deals? the issue of jewish unit is absolutely secondary to the survival of the jewish people. jeremy s ad in the new york times was not against hamady who has threatened the nuclear a my lags of israel. it s against the prime minister of israel who is here to warn the world 70 yearsing ago jews were marched in death camps where they were gassed to death. his organization is attacking the democratically elected leader of the jewish people instead of the dictator of iron that is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. murdering innocent civilians through hezbollah, through rockets. this is astonishing. before we go any further i will subordinate jewish unit excuse me jeremy excuse me. please be a gentleman and allow me to speak. i will subordinate jewish unit any day to stopping a second holocaust and the threats against the jewish people in cope hay began and brussels and paris, jews are dying in too many places. your response. before we go any further, your ad this weekend has done more to union guy the jewish community than anything that has happened in this country than probably several decades. i d like you to take this opportunity to say to susan rice the national security adviser to the president of the united states that you apologize for the ad that you placed this weekend which was vile and repugnant and has called for apologies from across the board. here is the ad. let me show the viewers what you re talking about. they put up this ad in the new york times susan rice has a blind spot. genocide. do you still stand by this ad or do you want to apologize as mr. benemy is suggesting. the person who should apologize is susan rice. she said that his speech alone, his speech alone would be destructive to u.s. israel relations a speak about preventing genocide of the jewish people. why is the obama administration so absolutely keyed up about a speech? why are they so threatened about a speech? i went to the church in ra a want da where those skulls are from. 8,000 ra want dance died absolutely one of the most excuse me. you need to learn to be a gentleman on television. excuse me. allow other people to speak. genocide is a serious issue notwithstanding how much jar he knee jeremy your political access is it is loath some. now, be a true jewish leader speak up for your people attack iran not me attack iran not netanyahu. the fact that you spend most of your time and your money attacking fellow joist is it self repugnant. it is vulgar and loath some whaufr done and to proclaim yourself to be america s rabbi and run an ad like that putting susan rice s tase next to a series of skulls and accusing her of supporting genocide on a personal basis is really one of the low points in my 30-plus years in american politics that i have ever seen. this is astonishing. we said that susan rice had a that you have sunk to we said that susan rice has a blind spot based on what her successor samantha power the current u.s. ambassador to the united states wrote about her. she called her a bystander to genocide it was a 2001 article in the atlantic. samantha power repeated it in a book called a problem from hell about genocide. everyone recognizes what susan rice said at the time that political considerations must take precedence over stopping the genocide in ra want da or labeling it a genocide and that is something that cannot happen again in the united states. the message is that susan rice and the obama administration are ignoring the evils of iran. what is your response to that? well the thing that unites democrats and republicans in the united states and israel j street and aipac, the entirety of the jewish community that we are concerned about the possibility of iran getting a nuclear weapon. the question is what is the best way to prevent it. the president of the united states says that a dim hat tick arrangement over the course of the next 10 to 15 years that denies iran the right to get to a nuclear weapon that keeps them a year away and has intrusive inspections and limits the amount of uranium and tracks it from the moment it leaves the mine to the moment it s processed and leaves the country that that is the best way to prevent it. there s no reason to go after people on a personal basis the way that the rabbi has done it in this case. gentlemen, obviously it s a very heated debate as it will be for the next 48 hours as we watch the prime minister s speech here. tlaings so much for both of your perspective. let s get over to chris. right now the biggest military operation in iraq since last june in underway. that s when isis took at that create and right now iraqi forces are trying to take it back. we also have a major and shocking development. isis terrorists in northern syria release 19 christians. ben wedeman is leave in erbil with the latest. reporter: chris, as far as that operation to retake at that create we understand that as many as 30,000 troops are involved in that effort. not just the iraqi army and the air force, but also sunni militia men as well as shia militia 34e7b. this is a city of 300,000. not very well disposed to the shia dominated central government and army. the worry is that the city has been sewn with ied s, booby traps and mines, but it s a very ambitious goal set by the iraqi army and a very important step on the road to liberating bow sul, which is about 200 kilometers to the authority which is the strong hold for isis in iraq. now, as far as those syrian christians in northeastern syria we understand that 19 have been released 19 who were kidnapped by isis earlier last week in addition to one man who was kidnapped a month ago by isis. now, of the 19 who were kidnapped last week 16 are women are men 3 are women. we understand that money was handed over to win their release, but of course there s still as many as 200 still in isis hands and the worry is that some of them could end up on the slave market for isis fighters. chris. all right. ben, thank you very much. mcculloch. a fatal lapd shooting caught on video it is raising new concerns about police use of force. this happened sunday on l.a. s skid row a robbery suspect confronted by police and a struggle en viewed sued. it ended when police say he reached for an officer s gun sara sidner joins us live from los angeles. reporter: you know the video is extremely disturbing and it shows a man being shot and skilled on the streets of l.a. on skid skid row. there s a lot of talk about who this man was. some of the witnesses saying he was homeless but police have not confirmed that for us but there is an investigation going on as we speak. the video taken by a witness in downtown los angeles begins with an altercation between police and a man on the street. we don t see what caused the incident to turn violent. the man appears to throw punches towards one of the four officers on the scene who were trying to arrest him on suspicion of robbery. it escalates ending up on the ground. you hear someone say what sounds like drop the gun. then the sound of a taser goes off. then more so you get that sounds like drop the gun yelled twice. a struggle continues and five shots are fired. the suspect lies motionless in the street. police say the suspect attempted to grab the officer s gun. during the attempt to detain him this individual resisted our officers they struggled with him. they tried to tase him a couple times. that was ineffective. eventually the struggle occurred where the officers were struggling with the individual over one of the officer s weapons. reporter: police say three officers fired their weapons including a supervisor. an investigation is underway. there has been criticism there were a lot of officers and only one guy why did they have to shoot him. that analysis is based on one video which shows a portion of the incident that occurred. we want to wait until all the video is in that s available, we want to wait until all the people have been interviewed, all the witnesses, all the officers to determine exactly what happened before we make any judgment whether this was proper or not. reporter: now, according to police there are several other videos from different angles. one being from the surveillance camera at the homeless shelter, one being from some of the officers wearing body cams. we have not seen toes videos yet, we are hoping to get ahold of hem at some point. there s also a statement from the person who initially called 911 who said that they were being robbed describing the person that police eventually went after. the man who was killed. we do not yet know though the identity of that man, but this video has really gone viral, a lot of folks talking about it on social media and already there was a small peaceful protest about 20 or 30 people who came out late in the evening to recognize what happened here in los angeles. mcculloch. there has not been a rush to judgment but there s a lot of as you mentioned surveillance video and that body cam video from the officer had a obviously they need to take a look at. thanks for that. we ll say following that. let s take a look at live pictures here. this is secretary of state john kerry speaking to the human rights council in geneva. he is in switzerland for iranian nuclear talks. he will meet with his iranian counterpart for the latest negotiations. iron s foreign minister insisting all sanctions must be lifted for there to be a deal. israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in washington, d.c. to denounce these negotiations. law enforcement officials say an upcoming justice report will blast the ferguson missouri police department but over traffic tickets. it it accuses them of targeting blacks in traffic stops, creating years of racial animosity which boiled over after the michael brown shooting. it says the city relied on those traffic stops and the fiennes they earned to balance the city s budget. once the report is out ferguson officials will likely have to negotiate a settlement with the doj or they could face a civil rights suit. a skydiving student in australia suffered a seizure midair. yeah the dramatic moment caught on video, you can see the hand s instructor here try to grab ahold of christopher jones, he was finally able to smag the 22-year-old and deploy his parachute for him. fortunately jones gained consciousness before releasing the ground allowing him to make a controlled landing. jones medical specialist did clear him for the jump. this judge man was halfway through a training program to be a licensed qualified jumper. many are asking why somebody with epilepsy would be allowed to get that kind of clearance. it seems like the most dangerous place to be if you have epilepsy. terrifying isn t it? once he s tumbling away how did the instructing get town to him? luckily he was able to. great still skill on that guy s part. it is a legitimate question. you also have to figure that someone gave an answer to it somewhere along the way if he was through this course if his doctor had cleared him for the jump. so the question is you re going to have to know where y. they did that to assess the situation. thank god for that guy that grabbed him. thousands of russians pourng the slain opposition figure boris nemtsov we re learning more about the man and what may have made him a target for assassination. did he know too much? politics 101 when deciding to run for office being cagey, respected, dragging your feet tolerated, but when your hunger for office starts to get questioned it is time to get in or get out. john king has what hillary s advisors are telling her to do on inside politics. 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[cat meows] meow, meow, meow, meow. it s more than just a meal it s meow mix mealtime. with great taste and 100% complete nutrition, it s the only one cats ask for by name. man stands up and says i oppose vladimir putin what we re doing in ukraine is wrong and he winds up getting shot and killed. are the two things connected? joining us ambassador if i can las burns he was george hw bush s director of soviet affairs for the national security counsel under president clinton. it is very good to have you with us. so boris nemtsov, well known in russia for his opposition to vladimir putin. do you believe this was a political assassination? we ll never know for sure. i think it stands to reason that someone in the russian government at some level in that highly controlled society probably knows something about this. the other theory is that extremist russian national groups might have been emboldened by the fear that vladimir putin has created. i think the truth will not come out. as you saw over the weekend the cripple lynn spokesperson were pointing fingers at the other governments and we will not see truth as to what happened. putin was open and loud in his demanding an investigation basically threw what amounts to his entire investigative agency into this. that could be for show of course if if he wanted to be cynical, but the for direct question for you is why would it help vladimir putin to kill this man? well first of all, we don t know who killed him. and i think what s that s the speculation, right if is that somebody friendly to vladimir putin took out an opponent. why would he need to do that when he s so popular and this guy was really just a shadow voice sm. the speculation is that it is either someone in the russian government below putin or someone outside the government tied to the government through nash in a list circles. waste embarrassing for putin was that boris nemtsov was killed in red square right next to the kremlin in the full ware am fact it s on videotape for all the world to see. it s an embarrassing spectacle for the russian government so they re launching this investigation, pointing the finger at everyone but themselves in an attempt to avoid responsibility. and if it is embarrassing that t. raising that same question if they did it why would they be embarrassed by it. then there s the other side of it let s given to boris nemtsov in his own words frighteningly predicting his fate. i am a well-known guy and this is is a safety because if something happens with me it will be scandal not only in moscow city but throughout the world. he was talking to anthony bore dane of cnn. ambassador, the speculation is what? they knew something that the kremlin didn t want to get out? what could he know that would be so dangerous? i know that s a question that s impossible to answer but the universe of possibility on it. there are two sources of speculation. one is that nemtsov was about to public an exposé about the degree to which russian troops are involved in dividing ukraine, fighting in ukraine. putin has never acknowledged that thousands of his troops have crossed the border to support the pro moscow separatists there. the other thing is that nemtsov was a rifle to putin in the 1990s, they both worked for president yeltsin, both were the presumptive heirs and nemtsov has been leading a small embattled democracy party since then. so those are the pockets here. he was clearly someone that the kremlin detested but, again, i think the tragedy is we re not likely to know the truth because the kremlin is not about the ruth. it s going to sweep thinking under the rug if it uncovers evidence. there s a question of whether this man and life wound up being in vain because it s supposed to be a call to the legitimacy of the situation is but when you look it s very difficult with the internet and the media even as it exists in rufks to explain how the russian people could not know that russia is so heavy handed in ukraine right now. does vladimir putin s popularity signal that they don t care that russia is in there banging up ukraine is this. that is part of the rob. since putin invaded crimea a year ago his popularity has sword. there is a rising tide of russian nana ligslism. he has never acknowledged putin, that he has intervened military y ally. russian soldiers have been killed this ukraine and they re trying to cover that up and apparently nemtsov was working on a report to expose that to start a public debate with about that. certainly against the wishes of the kremlin. look we know that there is a very heavy investigation going on but of course it is compromised with the speculation that those investigating it may have been involved in it. of course that s always the russian paradox in situations like this. ambassador burns, thank you very much for the insight into the politics and the dynamics there. alisyn. back to politics here at home. wisconsin governor scott walker riding high in conservative popularity polls, but he s also changing his stance on some major issues. john king will talk about it all coming up on inside politics. mcculloc . israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu just hours from speaking to a pro israel lobby group before tomorrow s controversial address to congress. relations between the u.s. and israel as strained as they have ever been as netanyahu prepares to slam the obama administration s nuclear talks with iran. the lapd is investigating the fatal shooting of a homeless man that was caught on video. this happened sunday what you re watching right now. cnn has blurred the faces of the officers involved because we don t know who was involved this this shooting yet. police say they tried to taser the man but it did not work and that he reached for an officer s gun and that s when police say they needed to fire three cops fired at him killing him. the police say they re going to review all video of the incident including officers body cams as part of their investigation. we ll stay on it. out of pl plane resting rights on its nose after skidding 60 treat offer the runway at marco island airport. it is a private jet. during landing the reverse thrusters and landing gear failed. of the nine people on board one was taken to the hospital. fortunately no serious injuries were reported. the faa is now investigating. hopefully i didn t take years off your life on that one. no i blame winter. absolutely. and now you ve said that this is why you sold the jet. occasionally this happens so i just got rid of the private jet. what was it about the luxe are ri yacht, again? i still have that one. too slow slow. had to walk too far to get down to the main deck. let s get inside politics on new day. monday morning, be a little bit more gentle to your colleagues. thank you, john. i want to ride on the yacht, though. busy monday morning. to go inside politics. jonathan martin of the new york times, peter ham bee. let s go through scott walker then and then. scott walker is the ascend ant candidate during the 2016 republican hopefuls placed second in the straw poll over the weekend. this is 2013 remember he s gearing up to run for reelection what he thinks will be a competitive reelection campaign and he s asked about the undocumented the estimated 11 million year in the united states and he s asked if they should be able to get a pass to legal status or citizenship. can you envision a world where with the right penalties and waiting periods and meet the requirements where those people to get koizship? sure. yeah. i think it makes sense. sure. i think it makes sense. that s october 2013 to the was saw daily herald. here he is on fox news sunday yesterday. my view has changed. i m flat out saying. it candidates can say it. so you ve changed from 2013. absolutely. i look at the problems we ve experienced over the last few years, i ve talked to governors on the border and people all across america and the concerns i have we need to secure the border ultimately needs to put this place a system that works. now politicians should be allowed to change their position and to his credit he doesn t try to hide it, but this 2013 he was with george w. bush and john mccain and barack obama in saying it makes sense. now he has the republican mantra border security first. it s a lot of republicans were at that place in the beginning of 2013 obviously marco rubio led the senate immigration bill this is after they got clobbered losing his pan mix in the presidential election three to one. it s just one more example of republicans boung to the actual reality of republican politics which is that you really it s very difficult to be for a bath way to citizenship in the republican primary. jeb bush god booed for saying so at c pac, but you are so write right, we were talking during the break, if it was john mccain or mitt romney they would be getting drilled by this but walker has goodwill and credit with the republican base. it seems like this is something he knows he might get a pass on. but for now, though he s going to have the scarlet achl for amnesty branded on him and he s going to have it brand on him by folks to his right, ted cruz comes to mind and he s also going to be held to account by folks like jeb bush who are going to say you were where i was a couple of years ago until it was convenient for you politically to change. so he s going to get it from both sides on this. so let s see what kind of reception he gets after a bunch of direct mail and tv spots have rained down on his head over this. and when people starting to to other issues. go back to that campaign. also back in the cane it didn t turn out to be as lows as he thought, he was running against a democratic candidate. scott walker ended up winning comfortably comfortably. scott walker says he s personally anti-abortion, but i support legislation to increase safety and to provide more information for a woman considering her options. the bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor. reasonable people can disagree on this issue. bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor reasonable people can days agree. again, in the interview on fox news sunday yesterday he says when he is from a policy standpoint what you might describe as pro choice he says he s doing it only because the courts require him to. we acted on the grounds that we have legally to be able to act under the supreme court s decision. we ll act that way at the federal level if we were at a position as well. but ultimately it s a life. ultimately it s her choice. legally that s what it is under the guidelines provided by the supreme court. is it me or does it sound sliek during the reelection campaign his tone is a lot softer? i remember burg that that when that ad ran it was within the last couple weeks when he was running against democrat mary burke he thought the race would be closer. i was told he thought the police was going to be very close, he was writing his own ad dripts that campaign spot was him sort of being a little afraid cautious taking that softer tone. again, now that he wins back to republican plik. he is trying to say in this campaign i fight with the unions, i stand with you, i m the next ronald reagan. if he has a few of thieves position shifts height he not be the next ronald reagan? might he be the next mitt romney. i would not go that tar. there s no question he s going to have some fodder out there that is going to be available to his opponents to challenge him. the question to me that you raised earlier is how much goodwill does this guy have? this comes a certain point because of his credentials on the fights against union that the base tunes out some of this stuff. he s not john mccain he s not bush he s one of us so he does get some of that grace. the real question looming here is how many of these they ll compile up before some questions do begin to loom. now that he is raising in the polls all of the republicans if they haven t already done this research they re working on it as we speak. right now. the wall street journal has a story that says the hillary clinton campaign is telling donors to look for a roll out sometime in april. thes she s running, we ve been waiting for the official word. let s look at her calendar. she s busy in the month of march, speech this week foundation event for the clin toll foundation u.n. en pourment principals irish hall of fame. american camp association. so he is sh busy giving some speeches. the question has been when does she say i m a candidate for president. there has been in the donor community the people say we need the signal so we can get out and raise all this money. do we believe this it s going to be april? if you talk to people around clinton and there are not just layers of them there are generations of them they have long been sort of hinting april at least for the last few months. there are people who want her to delay they don t want him h. her to take the slings and rare owes of going being an official candidate but she does need to raise money. what this story was to me also was a symptom of what i was just saying of a greater malady which is that you know this is donors or advisors or whoever getting, you know too far over their skis you know no matter how many you know they feel the need to say something and there s not a campaign out there telling them what to say. exactly. totally. it s wonderful. no matter how many you know disciplined advisors they bring hope in rob wree mook will be their campaign manager. great guy, a real professional but they re still going to have to deal with donors with loose lips and advisors and friends of the candidate. she ll say something in april, the question is is it going to be a full blown campaign announcement or is it going to be a nod to that in april. how would she only do a mod? she s been exploring for a long time. the viewers should know april isn t some random nice spring month, april also is the first month of the second quarter so she can get the maximum period of fundraising ability. you have that three-month period. when you file in three months it looks like a boom. i don t know why anybody worries about that but it is one of the old rules. peter, jonathan thanks. alisyn one of the other stories we ll keep our eye on is they have to get back into the department of homeland security funding fight, they he can tended it for one week one of the big questions is are people going to go after speaker john boehner. there s also crumbling about mitch mcconnell. we ll keep an on on all of that. i think they re trying to for tour you personally by extending it one week at a time. reporting is fun, it s knots torture. thanks, john king. the city of cleveland is triggering outrage with its response to a law tut by the family of tamir rice who was fatally shot by a cleveland police officer. why they say the boy is to blame for his own death. when account lead craig wilson books at iaquinta.com. he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can settle in and practice his big pitch. and when craig gets his pitch down pat, do you know what he becomes? 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what do you make of that? the statement, injuries were directly and proximately caused by the failure of tahir to exercise due care to avoid injury. a 12-year-old child essentially responsible for his own death. what do you make of that? i am very disappointed that they are blaming tamir for his own death instead of them taking responsibility for killing him. what would you like them to do? i would like for them to hold up to their responsibility. does it make sense to you that he caused his own death, ms. mildretta? no, no he did not cause his own death. if he was any threat to anyone out there one of them kids would have went out there and told their parents. did your granddaughter see what all was happening before that before the shooting? no. she was in the restroom. she was in the restroom. walter let s talk about that because we see this video, i think we played it over and over here we ve seen it i think it s been shocking to so many people to see how this all played out. he is seen wandering and then when police finally arrive on scene in a matter of seconds they open fire. there was it seems to us at first blush that it wasn t a reasonable amount of time to then place the blame on the child for causing his death. well it s just outright outrageous. and the discussion assumes that this person should have been a police officer in the first place. however, taking the situation as it is, there s 1.7 seconds and there s no indication that this officer or these officers even gave the child the opportunity to comply. and he shot and, you know and then the behavior you know we can t look into the minds of people but we can judge what they re thinking by their behavior. how concerned are you about the overall practices of the cleveland police tept. there was a federal investigation that was conducted prior to tamir s death, the justice department pointed to excessive use of force by the cleveland police officers failure to follow proper police procedures to prevent crossing the line. obviously there was concern on a federal level. did you and other people in the community have their own concerns? there is there s grave concern in the community and there has been that concern for a number of years. unfortunately it takes situations such as the death of a 12-year-old child for the world to now turn their attention and the federal government to the division of police in the city of cleveland. it s unacceptable it is reaching epidemic proportions across the country and now the nation is focusing on cleveland to see what they will do to try to rectify this police brutality. it s horrifying to so many that a 12-year-old would be the face of the the current face of that situation. about the ongoing discussion about police actions in our community across america. ms. mildretta i m curious are you getting support from your community, from your church? is the family feeling as though they re rallied around? yes. the support has been tremendous. you know you can t ask for more and as you just mentioned, a 12-year-old is now the face of this this issue and i think that the situation has just reduced itself to just that. it s that it s that far out of hand that now 12-year-old children are the victims of police brutality and excessive force. we know that there is still an ongoing criminal investigation, we also know there s a civil suit against the city of cleveland. we understand that there are still hopes for your family that you will receive a measure of justice for your grandson. piz mildretta, warner davis, walter madison, thanks so much for joining us here on new day. our best to the family. thank you. thank you. all right. chris. michaela the or axle of omaha is offering sage advice that he we have warren buffet s biggest stock tips for you coming up. me people are shocked when we show them where they re getting the acid and what those acids can do to the enamel. there s only so much enamel on a tooth, and everybody needs to do something about it now if they want to preserve their teeth. i recommend pronamel because it helps strengthen the tooth and makes it more resistant to acid breakdown. we want to be healthy and strong through the course of our life and by using pronamel every day, just simply using it as your toothpaste, you know you will have that peace of mind. i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24, a circadian rhythm disorder that affects up to 70 percent of people who are totally blind. talk to your doctor about your symptoms and learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. don t let non-24 get in the way of your pursuit of happiness. normally people wear pants. yeah that s why i m hiding captain obvious. not very well. i found you immediately. you know what else is easy to find? 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works. works! works? works. works. the tension may be at its worst right now. it s clear the president and the prime minister don t have a relationship. if anybody should bear the blame for this i would start looking at the speaker. people scared to death the president is running the country right off the cliff. they are now failing at this most basic test. john boehner has turned this most prestigious venue into a political setting. they came out with a gun and shot him five times. they always shoot to kill. that man is dead now! this is new day. good morning. welcome to your new day, monday march second. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in washington to address the threat posed by iran and rally against any deal with iran as being pushed for by president obama. the stakes are high at home and abroad. the tension could not be higher. the prime minister taking a big political risk by coming here. the white house did not invite him and israelis decide in two weeks whether to elect him. the story begins with cnn correspondent, jim acosta. what s the latest. reporter: the white house is offering an icy welcome to benjamin netanyahu in washington to warn the world the negotiations with iran will backfire and spokes to the pro israel lobby aipac and will peek to the white house tomorrow. top security advisor susan rice and samantha power will address a aipac. and says it was destructive but boehner says it is the white house making matters worse. they certainly made it worse over the last five or six weeks. the threat coming from iran iranians having a nuclear weapon is a threat to the region and the united states and threat to the rest of the world. this is a serious issue. we re not going to resolve this issue by sticking our heads in the sand. the prime minister can talk about this threat i believe, better than any. reporter: white house officials insist they want to emphasize the strengths of the u.s.- u.s.-israeli relationships this week but there are hard feelings. one senior administration official says the prime minister is turning this week into something of a circus putting himself at the center of attention. the president will not be sitting down with prime minister netanyahu because the elections are around the corner and one said don t even expect a phone call. you can cut the tension with a knife. what will the prime minister say to congress? our global affairs correspondent has been traveling with benjamin netanyahu. reporter: alisyn tomorrow the prime minister will lay out the deal as he understands it. the israelis have enough information on the deal enough to conclude it is a bad deal for israel and they say to the u.s. and the world. netanyahu doesn t believe congress has been fully informed on the negotiations and hoping this speech will raise questions and will urge congress to pressure the white house to push back that march 24th deadline for a political framework. the prime minister s aids say israel is not against any deal at all but there are too many compromises in this deal to let iran create a nuclear weapon down the line. he will provide a speech today to aipac to lower the temperature, saying how important it is the relationship between the u.s. and israel. it s always been bipartisan and it should remain so. you can see the obama administration also turning it down. secretary of state john kerry saying yesterday timing is bad but the prime minister is still welcome in d.c. i think the white house realizes this bickering place as to much focus on the speech. they want to take the winds out of the sails of the prime minister as these nuclear talks start in geneva this week. at least we have the talks and the politics surrounding them. let s bring in aaron david miller who served as administrator in republican and democratic administration ss and at least six presidents relied on his advice. thank you for joining us. the big political question surrounding this event, the key word event how does this play with audiences? we have new polling. who disapproves what s going on here? do you disapprove? yes, i do. 48%. no 30%, i don t know 22%. let s break this down by party. it does feel like a partisan ruse on some level. let s put that number up. do you disapprove of netanyahu? do you approve is what it should say. i will not give misinformation to the american people. you can see the republicans are much better with it than democrats. do you believe that the political trouble here is largely partisan and b.b. is just an extension of that now? that s certainly the case. one of the reasons we re having this discussion for the first time in the obama administration you have a republican controlled congress and determined to put its stamp on american foreign policy. the one issue they really do align themselves in a very con gruous fashion is the fear threat and uncertainty surrounding any kind of deal with the mullahs in tehran. on that score, there s no question. the other reality is netanyahu s poll numbers here are one thing. his paloll numbers back home on where the issue of where netanyahu stands on iran are pretty much in his favor. we re two weeks away from an israeli election. the problem is presenting a case you have a lot of broken crock errey right now. severe tensions with the administration. partisanship injected into what has traditionally been a bipartisan relationship. i think the prime minister has handed the obama administration an effort to unmistakably send a signal to the people of israel that they prefer someone else handling the israeli peace of the u.s.-israeli relationship. let me throw out something and you tell me what the truth is netanyahu is only here to secure his race at home and the white house is not meeting him because the white house never gets involved in israel politics. this is as bad as it has ever been between the u.s. and israel israel. do you buy this hype? from the 70s to present, under democratic and republican relationships, the relationship maturely evolved, i think this is probably with the exception of bush-baker and loan guarantees this is probably the worst it s been at the top level. there is the institutional relationship and then there s this dysfunction between this odd couple in the white house and jerusalem. the white house doesn t get involved in politics? i worked for half a dozen secretaries of state and r and d administrations. let s be clear. the presidents and secretaries of state have their favorites. if you ask president obama or john kerry right now, would they prefer netanyahu s rival essentially become the prime minister i think their answer would be yes. sometimes they re able to promote that as bill clinton did host g hosting simone perez in 1996 in the white house a month before his runoff with netanyahu. no. we intercede in politics and they most assuredly intercede in ours. netanyahu is here to help himself in politics and not iran. iran has been beating the drum a long time. i had both the late rabin and netanyahu tell me personally using almost the same language the following. don t try to lecture or micromanage our security requirements. you live in chevy chase, maryland. we live in a very dangerous neighborhood. i think there s a lot of conviction here. there are no good deals with iran chris, only deals that provide varying risks and uncertainty uncertainties. benjamin netanyahu is against most of them. at the end of the day, aren t there two pro-situations at the end of the hype. prop po situations at the end of the height. you try to cut a deal that limits what is inevitable. say whatever you want israel is the only ally in that region that arguably shares not usc interest but also largely u.s. values. u.s. interests. there s no question about it. that s why. despite the delight and glee among israel s adversaries that would like to see this relationship get a lot worse. i made this comment before not to trivialize it. unlike lehman brothers it really is too big to fail. you have two factors including the one we just alluded to we are watching the middle east meltdown and all the gallup polls suggest we will create a lot of resilience and durability for this relationship despite the dysfunction at the top. not to say there aren t issues with the settlement of the west bank across the board they wind up the best ally and probably remains that ally. aaron david miller thanks as always to help us understand the situation a little better. always a pleasure. while netanyahu is in washington trying to stop that deal with iran secretary of state john kerry is in switzerland pushing for a deal. jim sciutto joins us live from switzerland with more. what s the latest jim? reporter: for all that drama, all the acrimony back in washington here in switzerland where the talks are taking place, they re accelerating. this is meant to be a meeting at a much lower level, political director level. now you have secretary of state john kerry here and his iranian counterpart in switzerland as well. they re not just going to meet multiple times, meeting through wednesday. they wouldn t do that if they didn t have something to talk about. you are hearing from other state department officials and administration officials, what is in fact a prebuttal to the speech in washington saying he doesn t know what the deal is on the table and many facts are wrong and been wrong before the interim agreement in place since november 2013 has held back iran s nuclear program in a way not done for ten years before that. all that said still a long way to go here. a deadline the end of this month for general political framework and in june while gaps are narrowing, both sides telling me that. iranians and u.s. officials have a long way to go. as the speeches take place tomorrow in washington negotiates here say they won t be listening. jim, thank you for that. now, to the political upheaveal over funding homeland security. five more days until the money runs dry. dhs already passing a clean funding deal. if speaker boehner allows the same thing to happen in the house, many believe his days as speaker are numbered. politico headlines, john boehner s big week. i think they put it well. they did. we were reporting friday night as the chaos was erupt inging about whether or not the department was going to shut down at that moment the big question among boehner allies they were telling me the reason he took to it the wire was they were concerned his conservative opponents, those very much for sticking to their principles and not giving in on not allowing the department to be funded without also stopping the president s immigration plan they would make a move on him. i talked to one of the leading conservative house members, jim jordan on state of the union yesterday and asked him that question. he said we re not going to go there. there. we re just going to follow the process. reporter: have you been in any conversations about trying to get rid of speaker john boehner? that s not the point. reporter: have you? that s not the point. we will do what we told the voters we will do consistent with the united states constitution and fundamental fairness the only court to rule on this do it in a way consistent with the federal judge s decision. he pretty much laid it out in a couple other questions, no pretty obvious he didn t want to go there on the issue of john boehner and his leadership. as we go forward this week the big question is how quickly is john boehner going to allow that clean bill to fully fund the department of security to pass the house and what matchchinations will he have to go through? clearly his conservative right flank are still very upset they can t get through this issue, which is using the power of the purse to stop the president, which they feel very strongly about. thanks so much for sharing that interview with us. news out of egypt. reuters report inging audio difficulty the blast reportedly going off near the building s main gate. it s unclear if any was killed. more details as they become available. north korea firing two short range missiles into the sea. the act coinciding with south korea start ging military exercises. pyongyang said it would bring the divided peninsula toward the brink of war. you remember the texas nurse who survived ebola? 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when you reach for an officer s firearm, get it out of his retention retention holster, the situation is now from a non-deadly situation to an armed suspect. the officer hasn t had an opportunity to keep his distance. you ve already closed distance and now a lethal force situation. the issue of gun grabs and retention training will be critical here all true if there was a gun grab. it is key, correct? if you can see it. i have watched this several times we know there was surveillance video and body cam on the officers. yes. that should give us other points of view. correct. if it all came out, successfully reported. the video we have all seen now as far as i m concerned, appears pretty ambiguous about what started the confrontation. we have heard about a supposed gun grab. based on what you see there, you cannot tell if there is or is not a gun grab. another thing that highlights to me look at the location this took place, l.a. skid row, a population that deals with mental health issues and drug and alcohol abuse. we also know i know for a fact lapd have done a lot, made efforts to work on community policing in those specific areas. will mental health come into this do you think? it will in that the officers knew the suspect they were dealing with somebody they understood may have had mental health issues. if they had any knowledge beforehand that will come into play. as i said before when it comes to the situation of a gun grab if there was a gun grab officers are thinking more about he s going for my firearm and less about what mental health issues this suspect may have. it will come down to whether or not this was in fact a gun grab. is there a specific propertytocol for gun grab or are they trained? officers are trained to deal with gun grabs themselves. one of the goals always the goals for police officer is try to de-escalate situation ss so you are not wrestling with someone on the ground and don t have the possibility of a gun grab. there s a lot we don t know about this confrontation except this man is dead. you lived and reported in l.a. you know skid row is a very identifiable place where police have long experience. it certainly seems perhaps a de escalation would have been a better scenario than what happened. again, it is early on in this. it happened yesterday. the investigation is not even at full steam at this point. they re collecting evidence. there s a lot to look ratat. what is your biggest concern? 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that s what the venezuela president is calling them and he has barred the duo and several conservative congressman from traveling to that country. shasta is in miami breaking it all down for us. what do we know? reporter: a number of bizarre announcements over the weekend where the president not only banned these alleged terrorists from entering venezuela but also said an unspecified number of americans had been arrested for espionage and recruitment, including a pilot of latin-american origin. we still don t know their names or how many they were. he also said all americans will now require visas to get into venezuela and the u.s. consulate in cur has to scale back. this appears to be a tactic to de divert attention from the very real problems in venezuela talking about mahis own approval rating at below 25% and people are taking to the streets and we ve heard him repeatedly over the last few weeks, blame the united states for a conspiracy to overthrow his government and even arrested opposition leaders accusing them of conspiring with the united states. the question is whether this will work and help him galvanize support. back to you. here we go with the five things you need to know. israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in washington for a controversial address tomorrow to congress about the nuclear threat. number two, all sensationsanctions must be lifted against iran for there to be a deal. john kerry will meet later today. and this confrontation captured on video by a bystander in downtown l.a. tens of thousands gather for a rally supposed to be led by opposition leader boris nemtsov. he was gunned down friday and the u.s. says he was about to release information damageing to damaging. tens of thousands of troops using fighter jets helicopters and artillery are attacking strongholds. be sure to visit new day at cnn.com for the latest. gunned down within walking distance of putin s office. his name boris nemtsov. what did he know and is that why he was killed? 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you feel strongly it is putin behind this? putin tells us he is personally going to lead this investigation. this is like al capone offering to do a tax audit on his own accounts. the reason boreis nemtsov is a marginal figure. he was deputy prime minister of russia. he stayed a critic. a lot of other people were bought off, cowed, submitted, a bunch of democratic type critics in the yeltsin era bought off, intimidated into silence. nemtsov was a very brave man that decided not to do it. i had him on my program. he was remarkable and even then you could tell it took enormous kowrblg to courage to do what he was doing. on the other side he was around a long time and he could have been taken out for a long time. this happened right in the red square very embarrassing for putin. and the optics that he wanted to get rid of putin. putin is wildly popular in russia even though he s in ukraine. why would he have done this? a good question. i point out putin is wildly popular at home because he system systematically gets rid of any opposition figure shuts down any media organization that criticizes him. taken over control. remember russia once had a free television media it no longer has. nemtsov was criticizing the one issue putin cares deeply about right now, ukraine. the only major political figure criticizing putin on ukraine. i think it s more likely what this represents putin has created a gang of vigilantes and outlaws in the system somebody decided it would serve the master well and powers well-to-do it. remember that great line in english history, henry the 2nd will somebody rid me of this meddle meddlesome priest and people go out and murd ther archbishop of canterbury. let me ask you, what do you think of the tens of thousands of people taking to the street. not hundreds thousands of people marching in silence and frustration and anxiety. i would like to believe that. it certainly shows a great deal of angst and despair where russia is heading. but this is in the big cities not clear it s representing the country. not the first time. putin s strategy is there are people that don t like me and allows newspapers and magazines to run. and his tv blankets the entire country, a running documentary on the virtues of putin and to the point chris was making he has been pretty good on economics until recently and he s very good on nationalism. he knows how to press those buttons. you just returned from jordan and sat down with king abdullah and talked about radical islam. let s play a portion of your interview. sunni islam is 1.5 billion muslims. they represent only 1%. out of that maybe 200 to 500 500,000 of these people are actually jihadists, these are the crazies of this element. to label islam under the term of extremists and moderates is completely wrong. making the comparison they re extremist muslims is working exactly what these people want. what does he suggest calling it. he means outlaws or renegades of islam. he wants to convey the idea these are people operating in a fringe area where they are using some interpretations and are using some texts but that it s really marginal. he really wants to flip the way people think of it and say we are mainstream people law abiding go about our business we are the majority. there s this crazy sect out there doing this stuff. is that tactic or truth? it s clearly truth when you think of the vast majority of people indonesia, the largest muslim country in the world. 300 million muslims. most are ordinary people going about their business. a tactic is look there is this problem and not enough people willing to condemn interest. it s got much better in the last year or two. the real sin of the world of islam is not a sin of comission as much as omission. there needs to be much more continuous condemnation. you need a lot more people like the king of jordan. why haven t we seen the king of saudi arabia foreign minister of saudi arabia do the same kind of interview. every time this thing happens, these guys shoot press statements. why not say this is not islam. do what the king of jordan did. fareed great to see you. another issue with u.s.-israel issues not going well right now before the israel prime minister came forward to bash the relationship between the u.s. and iran. is this just to bash the president or is there a real division between the two countries. i m going to focus on the heart. i minimize my sodium and fat. gotta keep it lean and mean. pear: uh-oh. heart: i maximize good stuff like my potassium. and phytosterols, which may help lower cholesterol. major: i m feeling energized already. new delicious ensure active heart health supports your heart and body, so you stay active and strong. ensure. take life in. you just got a big bump in miles. so this is a great opportunity for an upgrade. sound good? 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frankly, alison because he has as little leverage a speaker has had in my recent memory. let s remember before this there were earmark, there were ways for a speaker to reward and punish those who didn t vote for him and didn t align. this time john boehner is going blind. we have no earmarks anymore. i think he also has an entire new class of folks that have come in that may not come from the legislative body in their state, that don t have the legislative history and experience. it s a very hard thing for him. i think he has the most thankless and hardest job in washington right now. you smile wide with what s going on with boehner right now. are the democrats missing an opportunity? are you gloating at see, they re not getting it done instead of finding a way to work with them. harry reid has been no friend to this process, true? i disagree for the following reasons. the reason we are at this place because it was the republicans who decided last fall to tie the executive order to the funding of the department of homeland security. well they execute what the president puts in place. they could have pursued a legal strategy that gave them an out last week. the judge s ruling in texas gave them an out. we will pursue the legal security but won t endanger the security of the united states of america. i agree with anna speaker boehner has the toughest job in washington. what we re seeing is the republicans told the american people give us control of both chambers of congress we will get things done get to jobs and the economy. instead, what i think it s laid bare is the fractures within the republican party. the democrats are not the problem here. the problem they can t get an agreement among republicans. does speaker boehner survive this? oh gosh alisyn. if we had a dollar for every time there s been a threat against boehner s authority and boehner s speakership we could go out and have a nice round of drinks tonight. this is what happens. every few months we get the same rumor boehner is about to be ousted and this will happen and he survives. at the end of the day, he s a very savvy operator and has a critical mass of people that support him. the conservative caucus against him is very divided and a lot of fractions. they can t get their act together and boehner ends up surviving. put it out as another chapter in the boehner ousting book. january, it was too soon feb, it was too soon. now, we re in march, is it an appropriate time to look what republicans said and say they have not been able to deliver what they promised in the last election. they ve been able to deliver on a lot. this dhs thing has been ridiculous and unseemly. they ve been able to pass the keystone act. keystone able a lot of bills that have made it through congress amazingly that have even gotten when it comes to the able act passed a couple of weeks ago have been signed by the president. there have been things. it s just we don t pay attention to the things that pass. we talk about this melodrama i tell you is ridiculous the way the republicans have brought it on unseemly. the american public is tired of this weekly telenovella and shutdown showdown every other week. not a way to conduct themselves and they have to get their act together. they can t bring something on the floor and not have the votes. that was a good mellow drama or telenovella. to benjamin netanyahu s visit tomorrow how should the white house be handling this? i think we should be clear. there s two points. another sign of the weakness of john boehner as speaker of the house. he decided to extend this invitation in part to apiece that very right wing base of his party, to show he would stand up to president obama. instead, it s playing politics with one of our most important relationships. with the safety and security again of this process. i think the white house has tried to tread very carefully. what s interesting to note last night right here on cnn, at least reported that the prime minister netanyahu has actually started to soften his rhetoric a little bit. it will be interesting to see what he actually says in his speech tomorrow and i think you will see a reaction appropriate accordingly from the white house. why didn t the white house throw their arms around benjamin netanyahu when they knew he was coming instead of feeling slighted. why not take the high road. if i said the republicans look ridiculous with this dhs funding, the white house looks ridiculous with this benjamin netanyahu thing. they have been throwing a tantrum going on six or seven weeks. i don t know why they didn t ignore it so the president is not going to meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and move on. wait. there are legitimate concerns. you said the white house has treaded carefully. if this is what you call treading carefully it is a bull in a china shop. we have susan rice we know misspeaks at times and regurgitates any talking point put in front of her. they re being destructive- they are being what is destructive is funding just a moment. you can respond. in terms of netanyahu s speech there are legitimate concerns. you have secretary kerry as we are talking trying to cut this deal and republicans are essentially undercutting his leverage by showing fracturing in the united states. if they were legitimately concerned what the prime minister had to say, they could have had a private discussion with him instead of publicly bringing out into the open a disagreement about undermining legitimacy of president obama. this has nothing to do with the real facts. karen, anna thanks for the debate. it will be an interesting 24 hours on capitol hill. thanks so much ladies. did you know sometimes good deeds go noticed. we will tell you about the deed and what was done for the guy who did it coming up on the good stuff. and what those acids can do to the enamel. there s only so much enamel on a tooth, and everybody needs to do something about it now if they want to preserve their teeth. i recommend pronamel because it helps strengthen the tooth and makes it more resistant to acid breakdown. we want to be healthy and strong through the course of our life and by using pronamel every day, just simply using it as your toothpaste, you know you will have that peace of mind. denver international is one of the busiest airports in the country. we operate just like a city and that takes a lot of energy. we use natural gas throughout the airport - for heating the entire terminal generating electricity on-site and fueling hundreds of vehicles. we re very focused on reducing our environmental impact. and natural gas is a big part of that commitment. at mfs, we believe in the power of active management. every day, our teams collaborate around the world to actively uncover, discuss and debate investment opportunities. which leads to better decisions for our clients. it s a uniquely collaborative approach you won t find anywhere else. put our global active management expertise to work for you. mfs. there is no expertise without collaboration. when salesman alan ames books his room at laquinta.com, he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can check in and power up before his big meeting. and when alan gets all powered up, ya know what happens? 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