Government would like to cooperate more closely with the United States on these sorts of things as they have their own problems with china, but at the moment it is legally impossible. That is the view in tokyo, what about the allegations in spain, 60 million calls monitored in one month alone. Tom, what is the root of the source of these claims . The information came out from the journalist glenn greenwald, responsible for linking the story about edward snowden, information that was published in him window this morning in undo newspaper this morning. Interesting that the monitoring activity according to these peaked on the 11th of december and that there was a lull in the activity around christmas. Coming on the day that the spanish and u. S. Ambassador was summoned by the french government. He met this morning with a minister in the Foreign Ministry and the spanish capital. No reaction after the meeting, but it is bad timing and there may be more pressure on the Spanish Government to
Our free nations cannot be complacent in pursuit of the vision we share a europe that is whole and free and at peace. We have to work for that. We have to stand with those who seek freedom. [applause] i know that throughout history, the polish people were abandoned by friends when you needed them most. So ive come to warsaw today on behalf of the United States, on behalf of the Nato Alliance to reaffirm our unwavering commitment to polands security. Article 5 is clear an attack on one is an attack on all. And as allies, we have a solemn duty a binding treaty obligation to defend your territorial integrity. And we will. We stand together now and forever for your freedom is ours. [applause] poland will never stand alone. [applause] but not just poland estonia will never stand alone. Latvia will never stand alone. Lithuania will never stand alone. Romania will never stand alone. These are not just words. Theyre unbreakable commitments backed by the strongest alliance in the world and the
Talks will continue to be held privately, secretly, and quietly. We are not getting the full detailed briefings from the negotiator about what the Sticking Points are. The message from leaders on both sides is clear, no progress has been made in their view. There has been some palestinian prisoner releases that have been very difficult for israel as well . That is right, it was part of an agreement reached with israel to get these peace talks restarted after a threeyear break, but that 104 prisoners would be released in batches. ,he last batch was last week but very quickly what we saw was that there was another announcement that the israelis were pushing ahead with plans for settlement construction with more than 1500 homes on the west bank. It really caught the headlines last week. It israelis are saying that is a condition to get talks started again with the palestinians and the palestinians are saying that this really undermines the talks , along with East Jerusalem and the gaza st