My name is and im a past president of the National Press club. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch or to follow along on twitter. Using the press club live. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without satellites and sophisticated snooping technology we have now. Spies had to get creative. The stories are epic. Here
For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without satellites and sophisticated snooping technology we have now. Spies had to get creative. The stories are epic. Here tonight to tell us about one of them, one of those epic stories is steve vogel. A former reporter for the Washington Post whose book, betrayal in berlin the true story of the cold wars most
We were talking about the rain chances and theyre going away. Yeah, i dont think were going to have that much in the way of rain in the next several weeks. This week we will get some rain in the middle of the week or so. Live in the golden gate bridge. Clear as a bell out there. We could see some fog mainly out toward fresno. The temperatures, we are looking at some mile readings, including San Francisco. 60 degrees in down found. 59 in livermore. 63 in daily sit aechlt future cast showing us by 10 00 oclock, quick to warm umout tlchlt i can aural 70s out there for a good portion of the bay area. By 2 00 p. M. , a lot of mid to upper 70s. Some pushing close to 80 degrees this afternoon. Going to be really warm out there. By 6 00 oclock tomorrow morn, well wake up once again to 50s and 60s out there. Tomorrow, going to be oorment warm day. A lot of locations will be a little warmer, even tomorrow, compared to today. We will challenge quite a records. If you got the holiday off for presi
Learned that day one. Telefonica and telecom reporting earlier. That was in line with the expectations of analysts. What they might be looking a little harder at is the fact that they have got this deal for 1 billion to buy the loan share digital plus, which gives him the rights. Many investors might hold on before doing anything with telefonica until they know the outcome of the commissions decision with regard to its bid for the German Telecommunications operator. You are watching iag, arent you . I have indeed. Iag deal turning the into something that will make money. Were talking about the return of dividends. Willie walsh negotiates very well. At britishdropping airways. The losses are narrowing. Things are improving. Youre quite right. Not exist at all in reality. What else are you watching . You get a little bit of data from the u. K. We will get industrial production. Anchor, producer and rector. I would tell you what. And director. I will tell you what. Italy, stocks opening i
Its a gathering that is meant to steer the world economy, but today, the g20 summit in st. Petersburg is being overshadowed i a war in syria that is becoming a crisis of global diplomacy. Russian president Vladimir Putin is the strongest opponent of possible american intervention, and today, china confirmed it was on his side, arguing that any attack would be a threat not just to peace, but to the world economy. One u. S. Official accused russia of holding the Un Security Council hostage over the issue. First, this report on the days diplomacy so far. A ensley handshake belies the urgency of the situation. The United Nations secretary general needs a solution on the crisis. He is at the g20 two present information about a chemical weapons attack. Europe is calling for a report by United Nations investigators as soon as possible. This remains a stain on the confidence conference. This economic summit is being overshadowed by syria. U. S. President barack obama is seizing the opportunity