they were very upset during the financial crisis as stepanek -- as systemic violence went on. hase then, the whole debate become increasingly toxic. there was no discussion on why catalonia should be independent. it is just about why madrid is repressing a right to vote. tom: ben, thank you so much. we greatly appreciate the reporting from spain over the last few days. with us, we are with marc chandler from brown brothers. -- there ist what no discussion of spain leaving europe. they want the e.u. experiment to work. marc: that is true not only of spain, but any country since the referendum. pro e.u. sentiment has actually risen. the point about catalina -- the point about catalonia is about this anti-elitist wave. this is just a spanish expression of it. it looks like it will come to japan next of their election later. what is happening in catalonia, no one would allow a part of its country to break away in a unilateral referendum. the u.s. does not tickets are asleep. tom: the dirt on marc chandler, he hates wait traded industries. we look at wait traded euro and dollar. eu

accessing that building starting from two pm local time the head of the russian trade mission alexander stepanek told journalists that he considers the searches of the compounds as a takeover in violation of international law. which we are witnessing an example of vandalism you need international relations it's another takeover of russian corporate sube road we haven't been expecting so she was once again asked if we don't fall comes down to stupid am local time the us doesn't think we have to going to community anymore minutes before the closure all t's roughly video agency to film inside the premises as you can see more or less everything had already been cleared out leaving only empty shelves and corridors the diplomatic staff were given very short notice to leave the site only thirty six hours. while the state department says the search is all legal arguing that diplomatic immunity was lost following the closure however the vienna convention states that immunity remains in place intell diplomatic staff leave the country vienna convention on diplomatic relations article twenty two point one t

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she has taken some stepanek's on her pay -- step backs on her pay. to put out a statement saying she is not taking a bonus because this hack was bad and happened on my watch. i will take some of the table. $23 million is not bad. caroline: talk to us about the future. the japanese unit and alibaba, that will be helped by mckinney. is a board member. >> he is taking the helm of what they are calling the fund. it is nothing more than these huge asian assets with stakes in alibaba and valuable stakes. they will have that and other stuff. what happens, we do not know. it looks like it will be a tracking stock on some of the other major holdings. he will be in charge of that. as far as the day-to-day and website, that is going all to verizon. caroline: verizon it becomes. always great to get your perspective. coming up, reformer c.i.a. wikileaks has proven again to be an enemy of the united states. we will have more on his insights next. this is bloomberg. ♪ has been aton musk the front of the looming energy crisis in australia with battery technology.

earlier, djokovic — the world number two — came through in straight sets against radek stepanek of the czech republic. djokovic, who's the defending champion in doha, won 6—3, 6—3. he won the title last year without dropping a set, and he is yet to do so this year. djokovic now plays spain's fernando verdasco. elsewhere, there was an upset at the brisbane international, where the women's world number one angelique kerber suffered a shock defeat in the quarter—finals. she was beaten in three sets by the ukrainian elina svitolina. the number four seed garbine muguruza is also through to the semi—finals in brisbane. the french open champion beat svetlana kuznetsova in straight sets. muguruza won 7—5, 6—4 and will now meet the unseeded frenchwoman alize cornet, who knocked out the number two seed, dominika cibulkova. the manjudged the man judged by the manjudged by many to be the greatest tennis player ever unveiled a statue of himself outside rod laver arena in melbourne. the sculpture shows the rocket playing a backend, his signature shot, which are timber, the only man in hi