kingdom this time next year could look vastly different services campaigns set to kick into first gear to try and convince faces either way ahead of that date we went up to scotland to speak to some of the scottish people to find out how they're feeling about once the tastes have been made and the glass is empty scotland will wake up to what's to be a very big year come september eighteenth and scottish faces will be asked the question should scotland become an independent country in the arguments for and against what sort of swayze to say yes what's crazy is saying no i think just financially we're going to be job security but not everyone's course a new year resolution to revolution i think the bank is going to get engaged twenty four to mark and forward to the birth of my second child outweigh the most growing whatever happens scotland's future now lies in its people's hands i think it means of us going to timecode on the road here tonight would look after themselves not sure which way it's going to go to go and sort of everything they haven't. served r.c. . i'm doubting you has lin

the rugby world cup taking place in the united kingdom. stay with us more news in a half an hour. four part series, as we return to fukushima only on al jazeera america many worry that the gains made in education will not stick in the future. aljazeera's jane ferguson takes us to a school in kandahar city that was long considered a success and is now facing closure. >> it's a place offering more than these girls know, a quality education in real tangible skills, a path away from positivity and early marriage and towards university and a career. since 2002, the modern stud has been teaching women languages, like management and computer skills. that they are skills that speak of ambition which in the heart of tallle ban country is remarkable. >> we are a unique school, preparing women to go to jobs. our school is preparing women to go to universities. >>> welcome to al jazeera america, i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. the first day of coverage under the affordable care act starts with an exemption. and legal r

. >> reporter: well, the united kingdom has accepted some of the first migrants from the two newest members of the trading bloc. it's a politically sensitive issue here in the u.k. where concerns that the influx of immigrants will be a drain on the economy. the first immigrants were met by british m.p.s and they explain why they made the move. >> tomorrow i work. >> do you have a job. >> yes, wash car. it's not a great job, but i come there because i know i have, i don't know, maybe the best choice i make for this year. >> there are some opportunities here, and i have to learn the language. english is an easier language. >> reporter: latvia has become the 18th nation to join the you roeurohoping to improve it's ec. but as we have reports from riga not everyone is convinced that it's a move to the better. [ cheering ] [ explosions ] >> reporter: freezing below temperatures, residents of riga ring in 2014. the stroke of midnight marking not only a new year but also a new currency. outgoing prime minister making the first withdraw of euros from a cash machine heralding the end of the last. >>

john lewis, the biggest chain in the united kingdom said we saw a huge surge. christmas sales up 7%. they had 11 million hits on youtube. they did a little bit of price cutting in the runup for black monday when we are all meant to go out and go mad online. they saw an increase of 23% in online orders. that was a record third of their christmas business. they got 3/4 of traffic on line was in the mobile. they got serious orders on that day as well. john lewis -- outperforming. best ever christmas trading period. deben hams is not. they are saying look, it is early but there is little doubt that john lewis will emerge one of the main winners of christmas. they are going to be stealing market share. they stole it from debenhams. they had manic loss. >> thank you. the latest on u.k. retail. christmas shopping on your tablet. >> aing. shows you how much of a success they made of that project. adopting new way s of thinking about what the company does next. in a note from the company, we must give a bigger push for innovations including the business structure so tha

shots being fired in the united kingdom over people going about their lawful business monitoring the activities of a call set up by this government. and there have been shots fired over that which is appalling, this graceful and certainly should be condemned. we haven't heard any condemnation from the governme government. >> this has proved to be a success on two counts, in terms of jimenez and effectiveness. and if the honorable member had proposed the debate, laughing now, if he had a series accusation that shots were fired about people said, he should report that to the police. they will investigate and the people have done that they would have committed a criminal act and they should be prosecuted for it. let him produce the evidence before he makes these statements. >> and the like the the shambles around the current policy, there's a real danger now they will go down the route of gassing. gassing is included in human as the. the real answer is by thaksin badgers. >> please listen to the views of the members can listen to the views of the public. it is not all about cuddly creat

. >> reporter: yes, in the united kingdom there is still risk of flooding. high tide coinciding wit coinciy rainfall and already soddened ground. warnings to stay away from the develop lines--the coastal lines saying lives could be at risk. >> reporter: huge tidal surges, heavy rain and gayle-forcer force winds striking hard, but it's not as bad as many forecasters predicted. as day broke over the southwest the worst of it seemed over. for now, at least. with a defense holding back the tide. >> we'll be out of the woods here, but we still have hefty flooding going on up stream. we have a number of flood alerts, and we'll get further flood warnings and alerts. >> reporter: but it has come at a price. protecting the town has cost around $7 million. in this area people were resigned to flooding, but this very modern defense system is keeping the water at bay. much to the relove of many people in the area. >> up until they put the wall in, we got flooded six times, and the worst was in 2007 when it came up to this level. >> reporter: some of the defenses may hav

. >>> united kingdom continues to be hit with heavy storms, a large portion of the country under water. the winter storms are the worst in the country for 22 years and expected to continue for another two days at least. more for you a little later. now let's go back to sir hale in doha. >> we'll have more on the building collapse in india, and riding high, we'll get a sneak peek at the proposed cycle path for london. and this trophy in international cricket. on techknow, our scientists bring you a sneak-peak of the future, and take you behind the scenes at our evolving world. techknow - ideas, invention, life. on al jazeera america >> welcome back to al jazeera, i'm sir hale raman. after iraq's government has a major attack to retake fallujah, just 60 kilometers from baghdad. on saturday. >>> across the border, syrian reckless are fighting with the same groups, the islamic state in iraq and levant. by many in syria's opposition. >>> 19 people have been killed in bangladesh in election rela related violence. set fire to polling booths around the country. >> indian politicians have vfted

cfos are the most optimistic in 3.5 years in the united kingdom. risk appetite is at a six-year high in the u.k.. all of that could translate into employment which can translate into those knockouts for the governor of the bank of england in terms of the 7% unemployment level. what is driving the market? we have got -- they had a tortured time in the close of last year in terms of positions -- provisions. it is about some of the retailers. marks & spencer's, we will tell you what their numbers were as we've gone up -- run up to thursday. the market is expecting marks & spencer's to deliver a look kind -- flat to negative one percent. there is a couple other stocks that i thought we should have a quick look at. complex, copper coming down. inventories are dropping in london, shanghai and new york. we haven't seen that since 2012. gold, traders the most bullish since december, 2012. crude oil rises about 0.25%. you will get more u.s. data later on today which should prove interesting in terms of the growth. tesco rising by 0.6%. where did you buy you

it has been a warm, wet winter in the united kingdom. what are these contrasting in relation to global energy demand. regard to talk about that story next. -- we are going to talk about that story next. ♪ >> welcome back. you're watching "the pulse." tablet,treaming on your your phone and bloomberg.com. we have seen a drop in demand for gas in europe. this on the back of the warmest december in 10 years. as you've seen from the pictures, u.s. demand is surging as a country braves the coldest weather in decades. good morning. idea ofget the rough what this means to utilities on the other side of the atlantic, but delve deeper into what the implications are. >> the cold weather in the u.s. is going to put pressure on the utilities there, particularly in the northeast, to make sure they have enough gas for the winter. last winter when it was this gas using import gas,ied natioural diverted gas away from your. >> was that mean for the utilities involved? in terms of the actual numbers they're going to be generating and with the margins wil

kingdom over the past decade it's had problems on schools hospitals infrastructure and pushing down wages in the country that is why he is struggling the only clear solution is to get your control of your borders back in order to do that you have to leave the european union if he wants to make the changes that he suggested he has to actually get treaty changes and agreement from other countries and they've already had the european commission in the form of perot's so they said that won't happen well leopards might not be the first thing to spring to mind when you think of the winter olympics but these big cats are assembled for sort of twenty fourteen for a reason the area is home to the endangered creatures who are fighting tooth and claw to survive to buy i would say is a sore cheek to find out what's being done to help still be hunted is resourceful scavengers persian let the smallest little while can't one stop these mountains in the caucuses. now these full of three elusive and skillful needed to be introduced to their natural habitat after fifty years thanks to the caucuses na

as you know, francine, one of the great surprises of 2013 was the better than good united kingdom economy. >> thank you so much. time i'm looking forward to the program. tom keene with surveillance in 20 minutes from now. let's take a look at how european markets are trading. manus cranny is that the touchscreen with more. >> just jockeying between rising and falling, london him of the year of reality, or is it the year of higher rates? by march of next year, you're going to see u.k. interest rates at over one percent. that is a fourfold rise in rates . that is what is being bid on here in the u.k.. services are expanding for the fifth straight month around europe. not everyone is equal. u.s. futures have gone from a negative opening indication to just getting into rising market. s&p 500 at 1827. you also get isam nonmanufacturing in the u.s.. nonfarm payroll is 195,000. that is where the market really contents. the dollar trades just off a four-month high. guy, back to you. >> manus cranny our markets editor. whenever you got coming up for your? darron burke's chief economist joins us af

i'm guessing comanche and telltale the japanese and chinese ambassadors to the united kingdom had improved and children's book in the latest round of the few chinese officials have criticized japanese prime minister she was ill on that for his visit last month to a war related shrine in tokyo. now the two messages have compared each other's countries to baltimore. a villain from harry potter. gabe's and as a teaching her and she wrote an article for the daily telegraph. he warned that china runs the midst of playing the will of baltimore in east asia by spiking and honest race. he wrote that china's leaders are refusing to engage and on line and hence they will stop invoking the distant japan's military isn't. he was replying to an article last week by chinese ambassador new show me the relative peace in the same news paper comparing japan's military isn't to voldemort. he was criticizing prime minister on the visiting yes condi shrine the shrine honors japan's war dead in sin and that includes leaders convicted of war crimes after world war two the japanese defense minister has discussed

kingdom and yet only about one hundred thousand private properties being built that's included from the private sector prices are soaring and yet for some reason no private contractors want to come in and build homes but it's the economics of extinction so they're not building homes for british people and as they become extinct through austerity measures that starve them to death their remaining housing stock goes up in value just like the japanese fishermen who fish big bluefin tuna to extinction that turned it in their refrigerator is worth more because there's less of them so they're applying this mentality of let's commit economic genocide in britain to force the remaining houses up. in value and then we can use those collateral to get more loans to go down to. monte carlo and blow our of our asset extraction games. and various gambling of games well they in particular speak to one woman named pat quinn who is on disability she works for forty years or thirty years and she's lived in a property for forty years and the government is now introducing a bedroom tax and she's unable

kingdom. because they know they're losing the argument. they are losing the argument about jobs, about investment. they've completely lost the argument about the future of the pound sterling. they're using the argument about europe and just of course there should be a debate but a debate between people in scotland. the leader of the in campaign should debate the leader of the out campaign. now, of course, he as the lackey wants to change the terms of the debate but i'm not falling for that one. >> in the 13 years before 2010, there was net migration of nearly 4 million people into the uk. most into england and in many cases a result of work permits issued by the then government. what my right honorable friend give me an assurance this government will keep in place its capital number of workers outside the european union and encourage employees to reach out and hire young people here? >> i can give my honorable friend the assurance he seeks. we should keep the cap on economic migrants from outs

and the biggest growth in the united kingdom, all about tesco. foray into india and much more on that in a moment. that's talk tech and the city with hans. indiscreetof those conversations we have over e- mail, there is a new app called confide. it is basically snap chat or the c suite. you dry your finger across the xt and it is erasable. there is one regulatory hurdle and that it is they are sometimes required to keep electronic communication. we look at the app than the regulatory challenges ahead and then we will text and discreetly. >> interesting. >> in the u.s., tapering has started. we will see why fed officials are voicing concerns about the risks of bond buying. ♪ >> time for today's company news. hasworld's biggest maker canceled its contract with on terror and suing them for compensation over the baby formula contamination scare. it resulted in product recalls across asia including china. japan's health ministry is demanding a criminal probe into the swiss drugmaker novartis. they say they may be in breach claimsrtising laws for of

and it comes also as four other european countries, including germany and the united kingdom are leading investigations on similar cases that could lead to potential sanctions and fines. so in france, google did not inform users in the way the personal data is processed. as a result, users in france could not exercise their right to access, modify or delete that access according to the french privacy law. >> all right, stephane. >>> meanwhile, the keyboard is the future, apparently. this is according to the ceo re/code. blackberry's main market is as a tool for businesses and this is an interview with re/code. what do you think about keyboards? are they worth holding on to for certain reasons? let us know. get in touch with us. david says, there is a place for qwerty keyboards, just wish it wasn't only blackberry saying this. whoouk, andrew? keyboards, like that, or are you happy to do, you know, touch screen? >> i think blackberry feels it would have to say that because they're stuck with that as part of their image. i think it would be very hard for blackberry to move away to another k

. >> you know, when we do things like that, michael, the united kingdom is very much a partner of the united states in these things. >> absolutely, 100%. >> so, i mean, did you question it then? the whole idea of going into afghanistan, which is ruled by the tribal organizations, you know, this one living in a cave and that one living in aive ka, i mean, were you uncertain of that yourself? >> yeah, personally, you know, a lot of my guys questioned it. the reason for that, you have to look back to the insurgency in vietnam. you have to look at the soviets going into afghanistan in the 1980s, who walked away with their tail between their legs, and look at the way we didn't achieve the objectives in iraq. you have to look at the history. for me, the key thing the west needs to get their head around is that the domestic populations will of the occupying force -- so, for instance, in this case, the u.s. public or the u.k. public -- their will will shatter sooner than any insurgent will will, because it's a fight for national survival. if you had insurgents coming across the national borde

government in the referendum issue in the united kingdom come a very sensitive issue in britain. and it's really i think it backfired significantly on the obama administration. it's also the wrong message to be sending. i am of the view that it is in america's interest for britain to be outside of the european union. a free briton that is able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the united states that is not shackled to brussels is in the u.s. national interest. and i do think that the entire message is being sent by washington at the moment to britain is completely the wrong message and is also of course seen by many british people and has interference in an internal political debate. so on both scores i finca administration is rather short itself and foot. >> if you could raise your hand and identify yourself. some kind of the heritage foundation. i wanted to ask mr. thompson now you've got this political problem within the republican party, you've got the tea party that some on last weekend said really didn't want to modify the gop. it wants to destroy it and maybe replace its.

kingdom, mr. speaker because they know they are , losing the argument. because they are losing the argument about jobs. they are losing the argument about investment, and they have completely lost the argument about the future of the pound sterling, and they are losing the argument about europe. yes, of course, there should be a debate, but it is a debate among the people in scotland. the leader of the "in" campaign should debate with the leader of the "out" campaign. of course the hon. gentleman, as the lackey of alex salmond, wants to change the terms of the debate, but i am not falling for that one. >> mr. james clappison. >> in the 13 years before 2010, there was net migration of nearly 4 million people to the uk, mostly to england, and in many cases as a result of work permits issued by the then government. will my right hon. friend give me an assurance that this government will keep in place their cap on the number of workers from outside the european union, and encourage employers to give a

kingdom. because they know they're losing the argument. they are losing the argument about jobs, about investment. they've completely lost the argument about the future of the pound sterling. they're using the argument about europe and just of course there should be a debate but a debate between people in scotland. the leader of the in campaign should debate the leader of the out campaign. now, of course, he as the lackey wants to change the terms of the debate but i'm not falling for that one. >> in the 13 years before 2010, there was net migration of nearly 4 million people into the uk. most into england and in many cases a result of work permits issued by the then government. what my right honorable friend give me an assurance this government will keep in place its capital number of workers outside the european union and encourage employees to reach out and hire young people here? >> i can give my honorable friend the assurance he seeks. we should keep the cap on economic migrants from outs

--whats tilts increasingly good with a new form of scottish that if it were to break from the united kingdom could be, and slang, call the kilts but this morning the british treasury said it will honor gilts for u.k. debt and all circumstances. pay attention to the gilts versus kilts debate. >> it sound so good. let's go back to breaking news on airbus. it booked a record growth a number of orders in 2013 but also sees 2014 deliveries on par with blaster. business, of this remember, the whole business now called airbus. what 2014 is going to will. john strickland is an aviation analyst. good morning to you. 2013, much better year than we thought it was going to be at the start of the year. delivered more -- many more aircraft. just 114 going to continue the trend? >> it looks very positive. airbus has a success is the short arena, the a320 the most commercial successful -- commercial aircraft of all time. mineo, the new generation version, has really got enormous .anks -- the neo they were ahead of boeing in making a decision to the next generation with the a320 neo and airlines lapp

we have projects in the united kingdom. in india. we're developing in canada and we have aspirations to develop also in france. >> how big can you become if i speak to you in five or six years, how much will you have grown? >> we think very much that there are opportunities to start acquiring some projects. we would like to think that atlantis would be a multihundred not thousand megawatt installations. >> when do you expect to be on the market? >> certainly within the coming months. dependent on finalizing the process. >> we'll have to get you back on after that. tim cornelius of atlantis resources. >> there is this thing on bloomberg. the first word is up next but for viewers, it is the second hour of "the pulse" performs first up, francois hol land facing the music. we are live in paris to find out exactly what is going to be on the agenda. he would like to talk about the economy. he is probably going to have to talk about his personal life. how do those two factors interact? what impact will this have on european politics at a ti

so says a people of register for the day and i tell you all i mean in the united kingdom people are very much that they quite accepts the c.c.t.v. they think the police to a good job are the c.c.t.v. and while they're happy to identify criminals there's not so much a fear or surveillance at all taken in the united kingdom as possibly on all mainland europe. over the past decade the u.k. has been constantly seeking new ways to combat the perceived threats of terrorism. this military base two hours outside of london the news techniques are getting put through that base its. mark lawrence is one of the new breed of experts offering instruction in the east of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones. no official government sources who publicly talk about the effectiveness of this new technique only mark lawrence who speak with us. so one planning to do now is hopefully track patrick than either on his way there or is way back if i don't see him in a few yards i will fly to the track and see if we can pick him up. the hunt takes place across three miles. ok so we've got patrick located in use in th

most particularly, it is declining in france and the united kingdom, which is particularly disturbing given the fact that there is supposed to be a free market government in charge in the united kingdom. finally, the so-called bric nations, including brazil, are moving backwards. brazil plunged 14 places to 114 and is now judged as being among the mostly unfree countries on the index. those are the main findings. i wanted to hit the top ones. there was a lot in there. now i want to sort of moved to the discussion and get the reactions of our panelists. i am just going to introduce all three of them and get it over with and you will come one after the other. the first speaker will be derrick morgan, vice president for domestic and economic policy here at heritage. he was promoted to this post in 2012 after 2 years as chief of staff for the president of heritage. he was a policy expert on the republican policy committee in the u.s. senate and before that he worked for 4 years as a staff secretary to vice president richard b cheney. next is stephen moore, editorial board number and senio

they had a strong performance in the united pping kingdom and france. italy, however, underperformed. they say foreign exchange is going to be the head winds for burberry going forward in 2014. angela and christopher have delivered in a tough, tough market in the run-up to christmas. >> burberry is doing pretty well. they are beating stims again. however it is going to be a tough year for luxury overall. > it is. you had a conversation this morning with ccma. saying you are paying such a heavy premium to have that stock and that perhaps you want to think it is overvalued. goldman sachs have a note out this morning where they are saying anti- corruption is so going to be a big risk factor for the instructsry industry groups. you have the c.e.o. saying look, china is still a big issue on the downside for the next six months. add in that you have a falling yen. have you got the ability to from build in higher prices. can you rise your prices? bloomberg industry is saying mono names like burberry, one name, one selection of products, you pick up those chine

pro-free market, in charge in the united kingdom. finally, the so-called -- are moving backwards. brazil plunged 14 places to 114th, and is now judged as being among the mostly unfree country of the index. so those are the main findings. i just want to hit the top ones. there's a lot in there and now i would like to sort of move to the discussion, get the reactions of our panelists. i'm just going to introduce all three of them, get it over with and to can come up one after the other. the first speaker will be derek morgan. is the vice president for domestic and economic policy here at heritage. is one of the nations most respected, public policy research is in domestic issues. he was promoted to his post in 2012 after being two years as chief of staff at heritage. he was a policy expert at the republican policy committee and before that he worked for four years as staff secretary to vice president richard cheney. next is stephen moore, editorial board member and senior economics writer for "the wall street journal." he was previousl

suggests that germany france spain and of course the united kingdom are engaged in conversations in damascus with the heater out. the maid syrian intelligence agency plus a mohawk about iraq the military intelligence agency and the reason for their conversations and so the concern that the west has and indeed russia is the number of rather. the hardest who are either joining all qaida sponsored operations but the mad thing is all several. missions fighting assad at the moment and that it's vitally important that for example the nato eighteen hundred foreign fighters without prior to the united kingdom have something like three hundred people that and there is pressure to although the intelligence agencies always deny it to time there is precedent if you remember. just before the fall of moammar gadhafi in libya so mark allen who was the head of the british intelligence counterterrorism side was having very presence conversations with most who went on to become the. minister of foreign the of the it was denied at the time but of course when gadhafi fell and the documents were revealed the bri

this is the epitome of the true sportsmanship between two top clubs in the united kingdom. but they didn't show such aga generosity on the pitch winning the game. in unprecedented act of kindness will never be forgotten by the travelling fans of burton. >>> there is much more sport on our website. for all of the latest check out aljazeera.com/sport. there's also details there on how to get in touch with our team using twitter and facebook. and that's it for me for now. robin will be here with more a bit later. >> thank you very much, farah. >>> and thanks for staying with us here on al jazeera. there's much more ahead. good-bye for now. >>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. a new report on the holy efforts to conceal child sex abuse in the church. spending bill heading to a vote no the house. and the monster sinkhole and levy that is holding it back. ♪ >>> dotting the i's,s crossing the t's and counting the dollars and

germany france spain and of course the united kingdom are engaged in conversations in damascus with the it may syrian intelligence agency plus the military intelligence agency and the reason for their conversations is the concern that the west has and indeed russia is the number of radical are you the hardiest who are either joining al-qaeda sponsor operations but they're mad thing years are several red ball operation dart at the moment eighteen hundred foreign fighters with al qaida the united kingdom have something like three hundred people. a wave of bombings in iraq killed at least sixty two people in baghdad in the northern city of books the worst attacks or eighteen die when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral procession the u.n. says over five hundred people have been killed this month alone or last year proved to be a wrecked deadliest year since two thousand and eight and this continued standoff between the iraqi army and al-qaeda linked militants who have been in control of the city of fallujah for more than a week now in today's breaking the set on our t.v. martin i

kingdom that says little has been done to stem the sex abuse of children by priests, all of this, no doubt, creating a big challenge for pope francis. john terry in studio right now. is this meeting going to do any good? >> it remains to be seen. the vatican has been hauled before that committee on the rights of child. the vatican signed up for it in 19 that it be. they have no choice but to attend, they're part of the convention and have to attend, so that's what they're doing. whether the committee has any backbone or not is an entirely different matter. according to the conference of catholic bishops, something like 6,900 accused priests stretching back to 1950, and that's out of 110,000 catholic priests in this country who have been active in that past 60 years. there are approaching 17,000 victims. david lorenz represents snap, the survivors organization and speaks for them in the state of maryland. we spoke to him about his views on this meeting taking plagues at the moment. as you'll see, he thinks it's good that it's taking place, but that the meeting itself really lacked bac