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

standard & poor's raised spain's credit rating one level, the first time they have increased spain score since stripping the nation of its aaa grade in 2009. joined by standard & poor's head of sovereign rating. good morning to you. thank you for joining us today. >> good morning to you. >> is the worst over for spain? this is the first time you have raised it since the cutting process again in 2009. is the worst over for the spanish economy? >> well, in general, in the euro zone and the periphery, ratings have been stable for the last two or three years. that has to do with finding a bottom. it also has to do with the policy initiatives to address the bottom that become more address -- more robust. it is the first upgrade since the crisis did begin. in a way, this is a turning point. we should remember that the rating is still at bbb. that is way below where the waiting -- where the rating was when the crisis started. there is still significant risks going forward. which are mostly related to the extraordinarily high level of leverage in the economy. not only the government, but the pri

many of the people here came to spain during the real estate boom. there were plenty of construction jobs. the pay was good. >> the spaniards welcomed us with open arms. romania at the time was doing badly. we came to work, to build a future. something not possible in romania at the time. >> she has been in spain 17 years. she began cleaning homes, then cared for sick people, and workaday hairdressers --and then worked at a hairdresser's. she opened her own shop. along with her husband, she now runs several shops. they have a wholesale business selling products from armenia -- romania and this bakery. >> i came here with very little money. now after so many years, we have managed to set up something. there are jobs here. not just for me but for a total of 30 people. >> when some people today speak badly of romanians, they are not telling the truth. all romanians who have left their country want to work. >> people like him. last year, he worked for a few weeks on a construction site in spain. he has been back for two weeks. he plans to stay. >> despit

spain's abortion rate is within the european average, but spain's conservatives have opposed the country's liberal abortion rights law from the start. now they are eager to see it overturned. she must advise her patience that in the future, women will only be able to obtain abortion in case of rape or if the woman's life is at risk. this patient, who wants to remain anonymous, says her mother and grandmother fought for abortion rights. now the conservatives want to turn the clock back 30 years. many in spain say the planned reforms are a throwback to the country's right wing dictatorship. under franco, spanish women were subject to discrimination. they were not allowed to have their own bank accounts or travel abroad without their husbands' permission. spanish society has changed radically in recent decades. the liberal abortion rights law was just one sign of that transformation. under the proposed reform, doctors who carry out abortions considered illegal would have their licenses revoked and face prison for up to three years. >> this new law is indicative of serious mistrust for women i

spain says it needs more help from the european union to bolster up that border. they also say that actually more work needs to be done to tackle the masses that they say traffic the migrants from their countries of origin in sub saharan africa. >> tom burridge. >>> moving to thailand, the thai army says it's released 124 people who were taken into custody after last week's coup. one of the conditions for their release is that they must avoid any political activity and tell the military of any travel plans. well, the army summoned around 253 people over the last week. you can just see this convoy here bringing prominent political figures, academics. thailand's former prime minister, yingluck shinawatra, has been released. she's still under some restrictions. red shirt leaders who support her are still being held. the military has broadcast these pictures today to show them still, that they are being treated well even though they're in detention. there is skepticism, however, about the total number of people who are in custody at the moment. reports of more swid sp

it is in spain as well. unemployment, if unemployment in spain around 25%. >> 50% if you're under 25. is one of the reasons they are adjusting. they're not cooking the books. i won't say that. it is creative, i will give them t. t are the percentage change, you will not see much of a difference. the total, you may well do. his answering questions from business leaders at the forum. can we listen a little bit? >> there he is, ryan has been speaking to a number of dignitaries and business leaders. >> is so interesting how the message from so many has been that the u.s. sanctions on those from the west having no impact on the russian economy. they're not even taking the threat seriously that the u.s. would up the sanctions. he compared to the use of nuclear weapons. >> one of the more interesting since.s came from he said that he thinks when it comes to business, that the perception is that the worst is over. when everyone is worried about the impact and the remick -- and the ramifications of the secession, he

vodafone very active in spain. when you look at what happened to the argentinian peso, down about 18%, they are likely to see a replication of that declinesalso from the in latin american currencies. this has been issued for telefonica. telefonica where it can't do much about currencies but it can do something about trying to shift its business in europe and its domestic market. >> partly it has been trying to do that by some acquisitions. it agreed to a deal that makes it the most powerful tv operator in spain. >> indeed it does. digital plus, this came out around 9:00 last night. what it means is they will be able to take a 56% stake in digital plus and increase their take to 78%. it gives it the lions share of this operator which has got rights to some of the biggest orting events in spain. with barcelona or madrid, this is a very valuable piece of particularly in sports-mad spain. that is one of the things they can do. the second thing they can do is use it to bundle up their cable, their internet and tradition

spain may insist it will be find. austerity is calming fears in the money markets. >> i believe that you have to have physical consolidation. don't believe those who are telling you that you can't -- >> reporter: it isn't working it is it? >> yeah, but you cannot have growth by accumulating deficit. >> reporter: madrid's two teams will play each other in the world cup final. the latest joke here is that everyone knows the date of the european cup final, but no one knows when european elections will be. >>> the italian navy has rescued more than 100 children from boats near the coast of sicily. >>> of course you can always keep up to date with all of the news on our website, aljazeera.com. bloc >> hi 'em i'm lisa fletcher and you are in "the stream." posttraumatic stress disorder, it's not effecting soldiers returning home. plus the routine medical procedures that may be leaving one in three patients with a mental disorder. about right now. ♪

the enclave is officially part of spain, albeit located on .oroccan territory numbers are now so high that the town's mayor fears it has become impossible to stop. >> they braved razor wire and a series of hyphens is. once they arrived on spanish soil, these african migrants hit the ground. he scaled a dangerous barrier between morocco and spain in a perilous bid to reach european territory. arrived and a tiny spanish exclave in north africa. spanish security has been beefed up in recent months as waves of would-be migrants have tried to get to the town as well as to alsoerritory which is accessible by boat. many of those who arrived on wednesday headed to a temporary immigration center where they joined other migrants detained in recent months. to holder is designed 500 people but is currently home to 2000. this comes after 500 people breached the 12-kilometer barrier in march, and in february, spanish authorities shot rubber bullets and a warning. spain and italy have been calling on northern european countries for more support in dealing with these waves of immigration. >> polling

> spain's deputy prime minister said she was dismayed. "our thoughts are with her family at this time. oh the leader of the country's main opposition party condemned the murder, and spain's prime minister traveled to the region to pay his respect. is a normallycs polarized and sometimes even tribal affair, but sometimes there is unity on all sides. televised debate has been canceled. so, too, have sessions here in parliament, and all main political parties have suspended campaigning. to women, a mother and daughter, age 35 and 55, have been arrested. both suspects reportedly have links to the popular party in leon, and according to one report, just days ago, the younger woman was denied compensation for losing her job at the regional government. >> for the first time, a doctor in egypt is to stand trial on charges of female genital mutilation. following the death of a 13-year-old girl. the girl's father is accused of taking her for the operation, and he is also being tried on a landmark prosecution. around 125 million women and girls in a

spain will face strong competition in their group matches with the netherlands, chile, and australia. >> it's a tough group. we meet the netherlands first. we played them in the final last time, and they have been excellent in the qualifiers. >> last saturday's champions league final showed clearly that spanish football is still at the top of its game. the national squad aims to hammer that message home in brazil. >> as old cold war tensions heat up over the crisis in ukraine, there is a rare bright spot where we can see some successful cooperation. >> a crew of russian, german, and u.s. astronauts docked with the u.s. international space station -- docked with the international space station thursday. >> we had a chance to follow one of them on his journey. >> the astronauts on the international space station opened the hatch to admit their new colleagues. the first to come aboard is from germany. for him, working at the iss is the fulfillment of a childhood dream. he joined the space station scientific team, working at the station until november. >> when i was a child, i was very cu

a place where spain's financial crisis has literally driven the city's theater scene underground. behind the doors of what used to be a butcher shop you can find the microfilter for money here you can catch something light hearted. or a thriller you know this is. smart and sense than a normal theater because you're very close it's also a new way for people to discover theater because the price is good. there are five theaters fifteen minute long performances and fifteen audience members apiece and when we say micro feeder we do mean micro blame this shrinkage on spain's financial crisis spain's culture ministry says arts funding has shrunk by almost half since two thousand and nine and a hefty tax on theater tickets has eaten into sales. this micro theater originally housed in an abandoned broth all has channeled the austerity into new opportunities for actors and audiences i must but i want to see how those weakens the designs for the theater when everything had been frankly special because of the crisis everything was tough but you can find michael theater and also faces now whi

and so spain and france had contested the boundaries of louisiana going back to 1682. so france said we are selling in louisiana, and the french understanding of that was much broader and such of his adopted that. the spanish understanding was much narrower when they adopted that. >> you guys have a good evening. >> you, too. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> iraq war veteran phil klay is next on booktv. he discusses the collection of short stories about soldiers who fought in iraq and afghanistan and the experiences they had while back in the u.s. between deployments. this is about 45 minutes. >> all right, thank you. here we go. thanks so much for coming here. good to be a. this is my first time in l.a., so be good to me. it's a thrill to be here with tony. so the book is 12 short stories all from different perspectives. and i'm going to start out just read the opening of the story about an artillery unit. the store is called template south. an artillery unit on this l

we do mean micro blame this shrinkage on spain's financial crisis spain's culture ministry says arts funding has shrunk by almost half since two thousand and nine and a hefty tax on theatre tickets has eaten into sales. this micro feeder originally housed in an abandoned broth all has channel the austerity into new opportunities for actors and audiences i must. to have awakened to the designs will see it when everything had been friends and especially because of the crisis everything was tough but you can find michael c. and lots of places now it's about going up the create is right is direct is an act is why doing more of it in madrid now. a four year old take it pays the theatre companies and the bar upstairs covers the rent it's usually a full house it's unfortunate because right now especially in spain but. it's about it's not too very warm and companies distributing to invest to the so many people investing in this say that for my case it's now i pay because i know that it's paying for the act of living. the microfilter movement has been so successful that it's now spreading to

spain opposed gibraltar joining uefa, and the two are being kept from playing each other. was the president's low-key involvement political? >> i can't answer for the president. i can't answer on our behalf, and we have it very clear. we've had it clear from the very beginning, we remain at any moment ready to develop relations with the federation, and we enjoy an excellent relationship with the members of the president and other senior members of the spanish federation. that will continue. we're very keen to keep politics anpolitics. >> allowing two goals in the first half and turned nasty after the break. it looked every bit like a game going into extra time when legal frank stole the trial after two minutes added on. his scor goal made the score 1-. now a place in next season's uefa looking. >> it's incredible. the first round is going to be made up, and then after that we can get past the first round. we're looking at teams like celtic and it's just amaining. it's unreal. >> a remarkable achievement and an opportunity for what is really not much more than an amateur fo

and times may be tough but the show must go on in debt ridden spain there's a group of actors who are shaking off a steri with some performances matras i've got a front row seat at my core theatre. this group the side street off madrid historic ground is home to both high culture and low. a place where spain's financial crisis has literally driven the city's theater scene underground behind the doors of what used to be a butcher shop you can find the micro future for money here you can catch something light hearted. or a thriller no. since more intense than a normal theater because the a very close it's also a new way for people to discover theater because the price is good. there are five theaters fifteen minute long performances and fifteen audience members apiece and when we say microfilter we do mean micro blame this shrinkage on spain's financial crisis spain's culture ministry says arts funding has shrunk by almost half since two thousand and nine and a hefty tax on theater tickets has eaten into sales. this micro theater originally housed in an abandoned broth all has channel t

african my grants make it to europe after storming spain's border in morocco. negotiations to secure the release of the school girls. >> later with robin in sports. >>> now, in northern france, a makeshift refugee camp using bulldozers, hundreds of people have been living in filthy conditions in the town of calae. many of them hope to settle. let's get an update from the site which, as we say, just cleared out by french authorities. talk us through it >> reporter: it was very difficult for many of these asylum seekers to watch what was happening to their possessions, their tents, sleeping bags,

>> reporter: well, spain gets money from the eu to try and control that border. but it says it needs a lot more money. we went up into the mountains in morocco near melilla. and there are makeshift camps there. and there are tens of thousands of migrants living there in pretty poor conditions. but they are incredibly determined, all of them, to scale that fence. the fence itself is up to six meters high in one point. it's got barbed wire on it. but as you say, we've seen this happen on numerous occasions over the last few weeks and months where hundreds of migrants in large groups essentially storm the fence. and inevitably, quite a few of them are successful. the authorities there seem unable to really control this problem. despite spain and morocco investing more resources, more reinforcements on that border fence. >> tom burridge in madrid, thanks very much, indeed. >>> we hope to go to paris in a few moments' time. let's just move on before we do that. because in thailand, the army says it has now released 124 leading politicians, activists and academics who

this is very important for spain. an economy that is still dragging itself off its knees in place of the financial crisis. and also, the day you're building in spain, which needs an investment, we are also dealing with a rather strong euro. how do you hedge that out and minimize the impact? bear in mind, it's a euro denominated export going for the rest of the world. >> well, this takes a very long-term view. obviously currency fluctuations depend on a monthly basis depending on where you are, so this is specifically because this is a sensor of commercial excellence on this end. so we have a long-standing history and long-standing production plant that we have in europe and it is a sense of commercial vehicle excellence. so we take a long-term view in terms of the commitment. there's over 100 million euros of investment into barcelona and means more products are being brought to barcelona. we have a hatchback coming in the second half of this year, so we are very committed in spain and we have obviously that strong in

spain, they insist will be fine. austerity is calming fears in the money market. >> i believe that you have to have fiscal changes. don't believe those... >> it doesn't wr to work here. >> you can't have growth by accumulating deficit. >> reporter: madrid will be in the news this week, its two teams playing each other in the euro cup final. you wonder how many know about the young shig on emergency rations. the latest joke is etch knows the date of the european cup finals, but not the elections. >>> a california woman held in captivity for 10 years. we have that story and other headlines. >> yes, the man accused of holding the woman captive was reigned today. he was accused of kidnapping the woman in 2004, when she was 15. garcia inflicted years of abuse. forcing the young woman to marry him and fathering a child. >> i'm so happy and privileged to be with my family. that's what i want all the time, all the time. i cry for them, for my mum and my sisters. >> reporter: . >> a neighbour said they didn't notice anything

the protests have also reached spain one of the worst hit countries by v. economic recession it has been the scene of frequent anti austerity rallies in recent years on saturday people demonstrated in the streets of madrid to mark the anniversary of the movement against the government's repressive economic policies are reports. fifteen m. movement or coalition of political activists is staging this authorized rally in this mannish capital they marched here about a thousand strong from the city hall here to the possibile soul where there reciting a statement of political action but it's the most on the get that we have so many unemployed people now on top of that people are living in the streets under bridges and this is in the hands of those who implement such policies but want to see an end to the violation of our rights such as the right to life the right to housing and the right to have rights we're talking about lots of different issues some of them can european for example austerity have crossed the continent you're also talking about the issues that a

you have just seen spain come back down. y for get over to jonn a quick reaction. >> how do you compare germany to france? they have been doing this for the last couple of months. ecb play this? how much weight does it put on germany? at some point, you have got to look at these growth figures in france, spain, italy. it is dire. you have a pmi contraction in france. that could be fuel on the fire for the ecb to do something about it. >> i look forward to the breakdown on those issues. time for the top headlines. fed officials believe there is no risk of inflation as the central bank continues to unwind its record stimulus program. minutes from the april meeting show that officials questioned whether there was a trade-off between lower unemployment and inflation. with both items still below target, officials believe stimulus will improve both goals. asian stocks rose after a chinese manufacturing gauge rose to a five-month high in may. the preliminary pmi reading from hsbc rose to 49.7 which beat economist estimates. the rep

neither the united states, spain, holland, switzerland, nor the european union can tell us how to do things. >> reporter: guatemala will likely return to the international spotlight, but that is still seven months off and bringing the country's most infamous dictator back to court may prove to be an elusive goal. al jazeera, guatemala city. >> the remains of thousands of unidentified victims of 9/11 have been returned to ground zero in new york. they were placed in metal boxes and wrapped in an u.s. flag returned to the spot. some relatives protests against the move saying it's wrong to store the remains at its storage site. still to come on the program. >> the st. louis rams select michael sams. >> history is made as america's biggest football league select it's first openly gay player.

spain and italy came in fourth now however the amount of russian visitors to europe is expected to drop and that's partly down to the weakening ruble because obviously visitors will now be getting less money back when when they give in their euro isn't when they arrive which means of course less spending money always right now although for foreigners coming to russia of course this is a real headache for troubled southern european countries where russians spend their

spain had delayed naming their arld cup squad giving madrid chance. a 19-players picked squad for a game against bolivia next week. the world cup first phase werts for the first match, want all players in the best possible condition to play in a very important game against the netherlands on june 13. tos is the reason not produce a definitive list of 22 players because we could be making a mistake. instead, we will make a list. >> he picked up an injury in lisbon and is racing to be fit for the world cup. he was loaned to barcelona last season and was not in their list of the world cup squad. won the monaco grand prix for the second straight year after holding off hamilton. he accused the german during qualifying. he got his second win of the season. hamilton came in second. his struggles continued and he retired five laps in. the defending champion won in austria and enjoyed another good day. the leader missed a breaking point on lap eight as he took second place. lopez took third. the frenchman took full advantage of being awarded pole position as h

spain the accident it will be fine. the banks are reconstructed, austerity is calming fears in the money markets. >> i believing that you have to consolidation in parallel with job oriented policies and social reforms. don't believe those who are telling you that you can't. >> reporter: it doesn't appear to go working here, does it? >> but you cannot have growth by accumulating deficit. >> reporter: madrid will be in the news in weekend for other reasons being its two teams will play each other in the european final. you wonder how much they care with the thousands of children being well guide toda young livg relegate today rations, everyone knows the date of the final, but no one knows when the european elections will be. al jazerra, madrid. >>> that brings you up-to-date with the latest news from europe it's back to doha. >>> thank you very much in teed for that. coming up here on the news hour, is it time for the american football team the washington redskins to drop that name? half the senate says it is. we'll have

the countries ruling party says it entered huge problems but spain's project has left a lot of young people unemployed a bad sign, for europe's future. lawrence lee reports now from madrid. >> of this school, the teen years have been drawing what they see they are country going through. so they get a man looking through -- a woman shivering because the electricity is too expensive. cuts to the health soft, children sharing a sandwich. children realize the parent lings couldn't afford to feed them properly. >> in the summer they bring winter clothes and when it is winter they bring summer clothes. and you can see not the right material to be in the class. they don't have pen sits. they don't bring notebooks. >> so then they called in for a charity for the first time in it's history is spending money on spanish children as it does in asia or latin america. they say this is what it has done. >> obviously the situation was not taking place, seven or ten years ago. in fact, in spain, there's always been a portion of structural poverty that's not the segment we are working with. way are wo

you can imagine how valuable that property must be in spain. it allows telefonica to bundle together cable, internet, and television altogether. it will be able to find a new revenue stream at a time when traditional telefonica revenue streams are under pressure in spain. but also under pressure in latin america. they're also being hit by , thencies, one example argentinian peso during the first quarter down 19%. what is the status in telefonica's bid for the german mobile operator? this is a bid that would make this deal seem like small beer. to recap what the -- this is the bit where telefonica wants to unite telefonica deutsche land with the german mobile operator now owned by a dutch phone company. that would make it the biggest operator by customers in germany. bys is finding some concerns the competition authorities. the european commission is looking at. will get anhey approval for this in june. yesterday, the european commission says they have suspended the deadline because they do not have enough information. >> thank you. passionate b

italy, spain, big expectations. brazil. >> you have be a used to winning. >> she is clearly under a lot of pressure. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> how does that compare to the $11 billion? >> maybe they have a stronger grasp on the decided. that is controversial. i will let you play with that. but still to come, a bloomberg exclusive. we are live with the financial conduct authority. they say that the industry has seen enough scandal. we will talk to him in just a moment. >> welcome back. let's see how the markets are going. manus cranny has the esa checks. >> hello. of markets are closed. in the united kingdom, we are for a third day. 1999 is the last time that the ftse 100 was at these levels. i do not want to shake anyone's confidence. a few touchy years after that. the dax, when can a break 10,000? the -- for a long time of low growth. all kinds of risk that the ecb will want to avoid. in the united kingdom, they are talking about early rate hikes and avoiding the bigger issues going down the road. the sterling

first off, what can you tell us about the vote in spain? no figures out already, but what we know is about the turnout, it is quite similar to the last elections in 2009. if we take the forecasts done before these elections, we can see that there will be a loss within the two big parties. the socialists and the conservatives, and the smaller parties that have come up with in the last month or years will gain strength. but it will not change the political landscape here in spain at all because the big parties will still have majority. >> what about spades painful pain'sic crisis -- s painful economic crisis? >> that explains the loss of resented jews and voters for the big parties, that is expected today. the conservatives in the government have to respond to the measures taken in the last three years. the socialists may also lose voters because they did before. people are quite fed up with all of their cuts that they have seen in the past few years. from madrid with those results. thank you so much. we go back to germany and the success of

. >>> 23 people have been arrested in spain after riots broke out in barcelona. police evicted squatters, 300 extra riot police have been deployed to keep things under control. >>> egyptian presidential candidate abdel fatah al-sisi is promising new future, 92% of the vote. hundreds who boycotted the polls have been staging anti-coup rallies as georgi jamal fasal r. >> egypt's second largest city, alexandria, thousands of political prisoners currently behind bars. activists are billing this the second indian intefada. some say the number is as high as 40,000. many are crammed into small rooms forced to sleep on the ground with little or no sunlight. forcing prisoners to take drastic measures in a bid to secure their freedom. >> they treat my father very badly. they treat us badly when we go to visit him. that's why we have decided to gather with him to start an open-ended hunger strike until he is trowrnd us a free man. >> cheered him on in tahrir square. despite exit polls pointing to ah sisi having won over 92% of the vote, crowds gathered to celebrate. credibi

but now a team of researchers in spain is hoping to remove the guess work and they have been using the latest in technology to match what people say are comfort >> shoes with certain physical attributes in the footwear. >> things in the shoe monitor the force to the feet into the shoe itself and then to the floor. they are using 14 infrared cameras tracking the movement. now taking this data, they are able to work an out using a number of computer models just what features of a particular shoe make it comfortable. >> so a we found that women prefer shoes with space in the toes and they like shoes with flexible insoles and the men is the weight of the shoe. light shoes affect less the way they walk. >> not all shoes are getting the same attention. he spent his life helping people with foot problems and the results of poor fittings or badly designed shoes. >> a good pair of shoes is fundamental avoiding the injuries and formation injuries. in a bad pair of shoes it is not functioning the way it should. >> spain's dun turn has affixed to the nation's feet. shoes need to be seen as an inve

concerned about them and spain, and portugal. clearly, it will be a big benefit for those countries if you get the targeted rfo. thecaught up with secretary of state. >> the ecb will make the decision that you expect and a lot of opinion makers expect. that could be positive. >> it is clear this will benefit orchard goal. -- portugal. it will benefit spain. what is clear is they need to do something for these countries. these guys are profitable and they make money. but they are financially constrained. areird of those in portugal financially constrained. that is huge and will dampen the recovery. weigh on inflation. is the local factor, the individual local factor. thes the conversation >> -- bank of england coming out with a new survey. >> thank you. bet on fitness is starting to pay off. the company has committed millions of dollars to sponsoring group fitness events. such as the spartan race. crossfit games. >> that, i have done. >> you can tell us about it. a new workout concept. i am surrounded by fitness fanatics. caroline

they will be processed here a few will be offered asylum in mainland spain. many more will be sent balk. jonah hull, al jazeera. pro-russia demonstrators have been rallying in the eastern ukrainian city of donetsk. a crowd said they view the new leader as i will legit after voters elected a new country on sunday sunday. pro-russian separatists stormed the airport on monday. >> the organization for security incorporation said four monitors are missing after they last contact with them in donetsk two days ago. sglj there are reports out of nigeria that the former president has met with people close to bell helicopter in an attempt to broker the release of those 200 captured school girls. the armed group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping that took place more than a month ago in the northeast earnvil village of chibok. what have you found out about this story? >> reporter: well, just like millions of nigerians and people around the world, former leaders in nigeria are concerned about the failure of the current government and military to find and rescue th

rising.ces are bond prices in spain are rising. investors are very much focusing on mario draghi and our eu elections. percent, when i left europe three years ago, we were at five or six percent. we're seeing surgeon shares of italian banks by the popularity of as much as seven percent. unicredit also gaining some 4.6%. the reaction there in the italian equity markets and bond markets. we are really zynga matteo renzi escape the blame for the economic stagnation that took down so many others. >> this isn't the first time he has had to face the public. of course he hasn't faced the public in italy before. it is a massive support for what he is doing in italy. >> there was a lot of concern about if the results were bad affect theuld berlusconi/renzi packed. he's coming out of this with a stronger mandate than ever for fiscal reform. >> does that we can berlusconi in the long run? doesn't make him less relevant. questions for our italian guest later in the next hour. put up or shut up as they say here in the u.k.. will it walk away fr

spain, they insist will be fine. they have reconstructed aust tearty incurring fears in the money markets. >> i believe you have to have consultation with job-oriented policies. >> it doesn't appear to be working. >> you cannot have growth by accumulating deficits. >> mad rid will be in the news this weekend for other reasonses. two teams will play each other in the european cup final. you do wonder how much the elite knows of the thousands of spanish chirp being relegated to young lives on emergency rations. the latest joke is that everyone knows the date of the european cup final but no one knows when the european elections will be. lawrence lee, al jazeera, mad rid. >> don't forget to join us at 8:00 p.m. tonight when we take a deeper look at the issues surrounding the european union election. >> that's 5:00 p.m. pacific time. the u.s. is spending 3 and a half million dollar to tie land over this week's coup, suspe suspending. they say more aid will stop if the military does not return control to elected leaders.

spain and ,ou have massive unemployment over 20%. why are there no far right parties there? as far as this piece is concerned, what is happening is which haveuntries managed integration in terms of migration and immigration, they are the ones that have succeeded in having a unified society and not a divided society with farm right groups gaining sway. i thought i was fascinating because it away spain and portugal are showing an example to the north of europe where we see the brits and the netherlands upset about these issues. >> we have the majority of countries that will vote on sunday, august 21 countries -- that is 21 countries. one country not part of the selections will be holding their own poll. buddies ukraine for the key presidential election -- that is ukraine for the key presidential election. >> one of the foundations of the crisis it has had is it wanted to join the european union in the first place. janokovic said no. the poll is for president. thenew man on the block, post has a piece about him. is looking at whether he will win. he is the front runner in the r

the art world of the day, the most esteemed court painter in europe, when in 1628 he was summoned to spain to paint the king. from his capital at madrid, philip iv ruled the greatest empire in the world, with dominions stretching from the philippines to peru, but bogged down by a long war in the netherlands, the most powerful state in europe was about to slip into decline. at a time beset with uncertainty, the arts flourished. of the painters he met at philip's court, rubens was particularly impressed by one-- the young diego velazquez. velazquez was an original who would paint a classical subject like bacchus getting drunk, with a group of real peasants. velazquez first drew the court's attention with his early paintings of daily life, what we call genre paintings. they were startling pictures, depicting things never before painted, such as the precise moment at which cooking eggs solidified. like many young painters of his time, velazquez was profoundly influenced by the naturalism of the italian, caravaggio. caravaggio placed miraculous events in a familiar, naturalistic setting. velazq

on the periphery, we have seen better data in the likes of spain and italy. i think the larger point to make is that on the governing council, is there any agreement on what tool they are going to use next? what are they going to do about bank lending? to use are going unconventional tools, which tools are they going to use? >> inflation not low enough for germany and the euro not high enough for germany. all the exporters are screaming in pain. near 1.39,me we get mario draghi tries to talk it down. it gets to the point where it is time to walk the walk. talking the talk has not worked for six weeks. he has used pretty aggressive language and it has done nothing. conference, he is going to give it another go. will it be enough? again, we are waiting for new projections to come through. the 14th is when we will get those. anythingly won't get today. a very different problem. everybody is talking about rate hikes. thing everyone is talking about is the housing market. that is going to be the focus of today's decision. as you said, no change today. the bank is

standard & poor's raised spain's rating. >> an in home prices are at record highs. this morning, we get earnings from one of the companies specializing in property management and investment. max james, thank you so much for coming down. let's start with wembley, probably your biggest project. two thirds of your total assets. give us a progress update. how is that going? he also had some initial sales. >> very encouraging. we spent the last 10 years in the company involved in the project. but over the last three years, we have been developing a big recreation destination. the next piece of news that people are looking for are our essential sales. they have gone extremely well. >> 570 point square foot. you are trained to get a huge project out the doors. how is demand? can those prices hold? is there a risk of oversupply at this kind of price point in the market? point, if youe look at the london market, you are going to see some quite clear tears in the market. in the market. they are well within the range of professional london. we are providing in a formal solutio

it had ireland, spain, portugal. greece the last man standing. suggest where to go has a clean bill of health? what is the economy? >> oddly not. at around 214debt billion euros. 129%. unemployment is at 50.3%. example of why this is not exactly healthy. pretty intense debt levels. requirenot precautionary credit lines. there is no need to have a safety net. it could allow a few. portugal have the confluence to say we are on the right track. >> generating eminence in the eurozone. it'll be interesting to see how they trade. we want you to stick around. we're going to talk about a country that has its economic problems. kiev admits it is essentially civil war. russia is considering the next move. disturbing scenes in ukraine. >> it very accurate description is things are getting worse. ukrainianople in the government are now calling it essentially a war. they think what you have on the a lot ofs you have these places. it is not only just limited to the east right now. this is just beside the border. note isimportant to that oh just as in the south

spain has been warming up against bolivia. spanish football fans will be glad to see that has been included. >>> footballers have reached an incredible milestone. they have qualified for their first international tournament, the asian cup. the cup title beating the philippines in the final. the match winning goal and one that has meant so much to the country. asian cup will be held next january. >>> thin nba the heat headed to their fourth final. >> reporter: all season miami's supremacy in the eastern conference a has been challenged. defending champions the heat show their experience on the bigger stage. >> wade, a three. wade continues his three-point shooting. >> lebron james scored just seven points in game five, a career low. he responded with 25 matched by chris bosh. a dominant performance, 117-92 victory as the heat ended the pacer's season for a third straight year. >> we're going to celebrate tonight. we're fortunate to be part of this three times. you just can't take these moments for granted. >> we're competing ag

typical english weather. >> i'll take spain. >> i'll take spain any day. >> ivan, thank you. >> see you later. >>> moving to brazil now. brazil's world cup preparations have been hit by another tragic death. a construction worker was killed thursday in an electrical accident at one of the stadiums. this happened in the southwestern city of puaba. this is the eighth person to die while working on the country's 12 arenas. >> the brazilian president checked on the progress. the world cup construction has been delayed and it's prompting concerns about the readiness for the games which kick off next month. >>> well, a massive protest rally is underway right now in bangkok. >> we're going to take you there live after the break, tell you what the opposition is demanding. >> any efforts to take these children should be made as quibbli quickly as possible. >> gordon brown talking about the support for the kidnapped girls. more of his conversation with cnn right after this. >>> and welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm errol barnet. thanks for watching to all of you in the

right now especially in spain but. it's about it's not two very well and production companies are struggling to win best to the so many people investing in showcase. that for my case it's now i pay because i know that it's paying for the act of living. the my cricket or movement has been so successful that it's now spreading to the u.k. and the us proving that even in tough times. small things can have a big impact. r t. now the world's largest ever election saw five hundred sixty three million people cast their vote in india resulting in an overwhelming victory for the main opposition party its leader there and ramadi is lining up to become prime minister today's breaking the sad looks at what he is when could mean for the country. it's what is it going to experience. you know eight hundred million people believed to be due to vote the election commission has said that this election in two and get duos headboards i wanted for. the number is the good then any of the electorate anywhere in the opposition b j b party lea

spain, romania, the list goes on. when you are analyzing the independent standalone, there is much hope that it would be supplied by overseas. atlantic would have to face them on their own. they are not making calls as much as we used to. we can use skype and messaging. provided need the data by phone providers. now, they are trying to lure us in to get us using faster connections. the have to invest in that. that is sitting there earnings. the earnings are going to be worst. they have not grown in a year and they are telling us that next year will be even more poor because of the investments they have to make. out ine stretching spain, and germany, it is not paying off. it is a long-term bet. >> vodafone being alone, independent, not being part of a takeover. >> wehat worry investors? got a deal. a $48.5 billion deal because at&t wanted to bring acquisitions over to europe. there was talk that they would cable is goingd crazy. you have comcast buying time focus atd at&t has to home and not focus on europe. the likeli

this comes to us from spain. >> check this guy out on his way to the hoop. it's pretty awesome. whoa. he steps on the rim and the top of the backboard. flips over, and throws the ball through the hoop. >> trampolines aren't allowed in slam dunk contests. even though, a pretty athletic move. i don't know what's so impressive? >> what's so cool about this? except everything. the lords of gravity they call themselves. they're out in spain. >> the reason i think it's not so cool is because i can do that. >> can we get that one time? >> sure. but i don't want my breathing problems to get in the way of hosting my book club. that's why i asked my doctor about b-r-e-o. once-daily breo ellipta helps increase airflow from the lungs for a full 24 hours. and breo helps reduce symptom flare-ups that last several days and require oral steroids, antibiotics, or hospital stay. breo is not for asthma. breo contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. it is not known if this risk is increased in copd. breo won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden copd symptoms a

"i was in spain last week, it still sucks"? >> there is an element of that but europeans are generally more cautious, more conservative. we lost a lot of our clients in italy who bought italian bonds when they yielded 8% and now that they yielded 3, they are beginning to feel that the valuation trade has moved too far. onwhen i was going to greece vacation i had a lot of people saying "buy me debt." our u.s. investors underestimating risks that are still over there? >> i would say in general because the time horizon for fixing greece is measured and probably a decade. there was a collapse of gdp of over 40%. it makes the great depression here feel like it was a practice run. the recovery will not be a sharp v-shaped recovery. people who are sending their thinking this is an easy trade for the next couple of years, they are likely to be disappointed, simply because the economy is going to take a lot longer to change. banks,k at the greek there were rules -- there are 3 of them and before the financial crisis there were 24. the 3