George friedman talks about the future of europe and the potential for conflict in the coming years. It is next on booktv. [inaudible conversations] anything. On behalf of the owners and staff of all it takes them press, while clement thank you for coming out on this wintry night. Before we get started i would like to take a moment to remind everybody to turn off for silent cell phones. As well i would like to remind everybody we are recording the event. When its time to ask questions, please do use the ideas microphone which is right there so that your question will be recorded as well. As well if you could at the end of the event can you hear me . Is it on now . Is this okay . And if you can also fold up your chairs at the end of the evening and put them against a nearby shelf, that would be very helpful. [inaudible] okay. Is this better . Also one your way out, be sure to grab a schedule that has our events politics prose is hosting a lot of wonderful event in partnership with us po
Nuclear deal with iran. He blasted republican senators for sending a letter to irans government. John kerry i have never heard of nor even heard of it proposed anything comparable to this. If i had, i can guarantee you know matter the issue, i would have rejected it. Cory he said republicans are flat wrong in saying congress can modify any iran agreement. The imf approved to 17. 5 billion in aid for ukraine. Christine lagarde said the authorities have showed a commitment to reform. The economy has been devastated because of the conflict with prorussian rebels. There is more money for wall street bonuses, rising 3 according to estimates from the comptroller. The average bond 172,000. The Banking Industry added jobs the First Time Since 2011 even as revenue fell. A major outage hits apples itunes today, starting about 2 00 a. M. In cupertino, california. Users were unable to download apps or log into their accounts. The cause is unknown. Apple shut the store down on monday during its sma
A young lady at the Washington Post telling dads to maybe just hang on a second. In the meantime we begin with news on apple. The company experiencing a major server outage. Josh lipton has that story for us live from san jose. Josh, just how widespread is this . Mandy, if you are having trouble buying songs on the itunes store, then you are not alone. According to apples website, customers may be unable to make purchases from the app store, itunes store, i books store and mac app store. The problem the tech giant is experiencing major server outages. The cause at this time is not clear. What is clear is that apple is losing money. Remember, the itunes store generates a lot of cash for apple, and its last reported quarter apple says total reports of media and software from itunes clocked in at 2. 6 billion, and its not just United States. A customer in the u. K. Posted this picture of an oldfashioned credit card imprinter. We have reached out to apple, and were going to keep you posted
The fallout doesnt end there. Nbcs reporter joins us in San Francisco with the new details. Reporter five months after jack frazier was hit by a fire truck in this intersection, he is still recovering. Officials say that firefighter was drunk. Now the department is holding five other firefighters accountable. Issuing suspension notices. A San Francisco fire truck roared into the intersection of fifth and howard and slam into a motorcycle. Throwing jack frazier into a fire hydrant. This is frazier in the hospital in june. His attorney said his client is still recovering from extensive injuries. He sustained massive leg injuries. He had a collapsed lung, fractured ribs, he sustained a left tibia fracture, the left knee fracture. Reporter they say the firefighter passed the drug and alcohol test buzz the driver left the scene. Fire officials said he went into the bar where a camera recorded the veteran firefighter chugging water. When quinn did show up at the station hours later, his bloo
The worst of the slowdown in china may be over, and david inglis is looking at this. Pickup, 50. 8. A it was not a big surprise, because if you look at the range of forecasts from economists, pretty much everyone was expecting we would still see expansion. As high as 51. 5, so i guess you could argue that it is more in line with expectations. This is really a survey, at least for this particular one. A series of questions. How many optimists are there, compared to pessimist . A number above 50 indicates that people are perhaps a little bit more bullish on their own business, so that is what we have for the large enterprises. If you look at the medium sort of companies, mediumsized companies, because that is a critical area right now, we saw a big improvement here. 50. 3 in april, 51. 4, which suggests that some of these measures that beijing put in place over the past several have filtered over. That said, you look at the smallest firms, it is more difficult for these firms, 48 point e