fisa program by telling people in europe that if they use microsoft as their carrier, the data from that that relationship will not be stored in the u.s. will be outside the reach the nsa program in the west. thank you. we appreciate you joining us from davos. hope it wasn t too confusing. nope, perfectly clear from your end. and going back to that breaking news out of miami where justin bieber has appeared before the judge including resist ago arrest and driving under the influence, mark potter is outside the courtroom. mark? reporter: andrea, we re outside the miami beach police department. in the 4:00 hour he and another man were drag racing through a residential community here. bieber driving a yellow rented
administration is having a big effect among foreign leaders and their attitude and the huge internet companies. you have official in germany, andrea, this week, suggesting that relations between europe and america have not been this bad since the war in iraq when they reached terrible lows. the president reproposed reforms but this had a big impact in europe, perhaps bigger story than it is here and particularly in germany, which is such a strong ally of the united states, where people are very angry about the fact that angela merkel s telephone was intercepted and cause something of a breakdown in relations between europe. now you have the internet companies at davos saying it s not just europeans angry with the government but us losing business. we see this as a threat to american businesses abroad. you see the ceo of yahoo! saying we have to have changes here because this is directly hurting our businesses.
kiev, unbelievable pictures out of the ukraine. you ve got ukraine caught between a desire to pass fi moscow and do trade with moscow and pass fooi europe. opted to go with moscow with strong arming from putin and that infuriated the people on the streets of kiev. they ve been there since november. they are not going anywhere, we re going to take this fight right to the police. we ve had a couple of protesters dying. ayman, you were there not too long ago and seen firsthand how passionate the people are and jay carney saying this is the direct result of the president of the regime not taking into account legitimate grievances of the people. that s correct. that s been the commentary coming out of the political opposition in ukraine since this began. that the government was representing only one person or one part of that society and that is the society that still
kiev, the opposition is protesting against the president s allegiance to russia rather than the european union. clashes have left the capital looking for like a war zone. joining me now to discuss all of this and other foreign policy stories katy kay for bbc world america in washington and aymen moledine. this is a push/pull that involves vladimir putin and caught between two places and ukraine is hugely important in europe. there are certainly echos of the cold war and it looks like from the pictures out of kiev that are astonishing, two sides with pitch battles on other side of the camps in the streets of
davos switzerland. if we can pick up the conversation. you were saying you were in congress and you approved and voted for the way the records were not only being held but collection of records. what evidence did you have that you can share or attest to that the collection of so much so many records, millions and millions of records, all of the telephone records of americans is worth it because the suggestion has been made if you have everything you have nothing. andrea, that is really not what i was trying to say. we approved the contours of the program. we did not approve how much data would be collected and i no longer serve in congress as you know and haven t been on the intelligence committee for some time but what i was trying to say is that at this point, given all of this criticism, especially in europe, it s in