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seasons in the u.s. so it seems at the moment there is snow as far south as colorado in fact and this is denver the tension in denver dropped from 28 on thursday to bind us 9 on friday that is one huge change and you can see where the snow came in and that's also prompted the santa ana winds in california which doesn't help very much with the fires you've got a nor'easter developing in the northeastern corner but the active weather still really remains in the middle with the biggest temperature contrast is so you've got potentially nasty thunderstorms with her running up through the midwest inferred assassin and drifting of the northeast corner still tucking in the snow potential here probably not as far south as nebraska anymore we're talking saturday here and also you see nothing in the sky you also didn't see the cleverness of the winds blowing through the valleys the santa ana still in california the picture for sunday's a little bit quiet of the tempers are quite as low the snow isn't falling as heavily and the nor'easter is gone breathe a sigh of relief drifting sas for the caribbe

this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight confusion at nato as the u.s. signals it may return to syria at nato headquarters in brussels a struggle to find a common voice and if the united states says it may send tanks and troops back to syria after pulling them out just a week ago also coming up the man who could be argentina's new president left leaning about the fernandez has a huge 25 point lead as the nation prepares to vote on sunday. i'm going off it's good to have you with us tonight nato was struggling to find one voice over its member turkey and turkey's offensive in northern syria nato just ended a 2 day summit in brussels acknowledging different views on the issue at least as what secretary general younes stoltenberg said the behavior of yet another member of the united states that behavior not helping things at all the u.s. pulled its troops from syria earlier this month washington l says it will send them back to syria to prevent so-called islamic state from capturing crucial oil fields in the east. it isn't easy keeping up with america's position in syria after pres

should meet the demonstrators. shery: let's get you started with a quick check of the markets. u.s. futures under a little bit of pressure after the trump administration announced 28 euros and companies in china that will be added to the u.s. blacklist. we have seen the s&p 500 lose about a half a percent in the regular session as energy and consumer staples led declines. oil giving up the biggest gains in more than two weeks on conflicting signals about trade and energy demand, but also geopolitical stability. the focus this week will be on the trade walks -- talks in d.c. not to mention fed chair jerome powell speaking on tuesday. we are getting the fomc minutes on wednesday. what are we watching for in asia? paul: well, at the moment, we have the market open, new zealand that has been trading for a little over one hour. it is currently weaker by 1/10 of 1%. in australia, everyone back to work after the public holiday. futures pointing higher by one third of 1% after we did close recently higher on monday. futures out of seoul looking flat at the moment. payment datag for for the

the future of u.s.-u.k. relations. sunday night on q&a, the vagabonds, about the summer road trips taken by henry ford and thomas edison between 1914 to 1925. >> the idea was that they wanted to go out and have fun. they wanted to demonstrate, you get in your car and do these things. but they were not going to eat cold beans out of cans. they were not going to put a blanket on the ground. they had all these different amenities. they had a refrigerated car powered by edison batteries so they could have fresh dairy. they had chefs who would prepare gourmet meals. in the morning, they would dress in freshly ironed close -- clothes, but they were so famous and america was so grateful to them, it did not matter. the point was, we are out in cars traveling and seeing these things. you can do it metoo. it, too.n do >> in the wake of the trump administration's announcement the u.s. would withdraw troops from northern syria, the atlantic council posted a discussion on policy with a focus on the roles of russia, china, iran, turkey, and syria. this is 90 minutes. >> russia, china, iran, and

, u.s. troops were moving largely out of syria. a small group will stay in syria, despite trump's statement that all troops are coming out. probably about 300 to 500 will be staying in a small garrison to stay and protect an oil field in the area. everyone else is getting out. i saw some pretty shocking videos of u.s. troops being pelted with rotten fruit and vegetables. >> one of those pictures made the front page of "the wall street journal" this morning. >> and this is an area for the u.s. is wildly popular. it's one of the things were you wonder if there will be lasting damage with our partners in the region. today the plan had been to move troops into iraq and do i anti-isis operations there as needed. they said that they welcome their friends and we are happy to be the way station, but they can't stay here. that seems to throw yet another wrench into the pentagon's plans for how to handle the situation. >> when the secretary of state was talking about anti-isis operations, how did you see that being conducted? what was the green light for troops to come back into syria and a

a photo craze they say has gone off the rails. i'm rebecca ridges welcome to the program the u.s. military is warning turkey that its incursion into syria could jeopardize progress in defeating the so-called islamic state kurdish led forces in the region say they can't keep i as prisoners contained and hold back the turkish military and u.s. defense department is calling on its nato ally to halt operations there's already been one explosion near an outpost of u.s. special forces and the u.n. says 100000 civilians have fled their homes since the offensive began 3 days ago. attacked on all sides the kurds are pounded by turkish artillery with death and destruction on the ground. and from the turkish military footage shows the shift force with which they're targeting could ish militias. turkey is battling for territory held by the kurdish led syrian democratic forces ankara says the offensive will secure turkey's border and create a safe zone for syrian refugees. but right now this part of syria is anything but safe. this is the 6th time we've had an explosion in the city people are

impeachment inquiry. let us go back to 2014, 2015, 2016, the obama administration. what is u.s. policy toward ukraine at this time? consistenteen fairly anti---ukraine on reform. that is been fairly consistent under both president obama and president trump. under the obama administration, it was carried i his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in ukraine working with politicians there to clean up corruption. >> what was then vice president joe biden's role? obama's point person in ukraine and carried that message for the president. he also oversaw the u.s. u.s. messaging when it came to the conflict on ukraine and the russian annexation of crimea. and then the war began in eastern ukraine in the spring of that year. the first hot war in the region in an extremely long time. and biden really carried the messaging from obama. the united states that was worried about corruption in the ukraine at this time? for thes been an issue u.s. allies in europe and also for institutions such as the international monetary fund. the cornerstone of the being pushedeory about joe biden a

syria. he is in long time u.s. allies the kurds are not angels. softbank continues to design a plan for wework despite signs that the startup prefers jpmorgan. afterflix shares jumping investors concerns are called about a concern back home. we are seeing u.s. futures unchanged this is after u.s. stocks fell in the regular session. we had tech and energy leading the declines on the s&p 500. we also had treasury yields declining today. we have u.s. retail sales numbers that came in and contracted missing expectations. up the sentiment for potential rate cuts coming later this month from the fed. however, we did see the pressure continued to mount as we also had china saying they would retaliate if u.s. congress is up to have legislation in hong kong. sentiment not great across markets. we saw the u.s. dollar taking a dip. let's take a look at asia. more of the same with sentiment taking a hit. take a look at how futures are setting up and asia. we are seeing a mildly positive start when it comes to trading in some parts of asia. we have japanese markets hitting their 2019 high. a lit

endorsement of bernie sanders. and tim burchett talks about the trump impeachment inquiry and u.s. relations with syria. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern. join the discussion. --aaron mehta is at our desk. first, things are obviously moving fast when it comes to syria and the rack this morning. this morning. can you get us up to speed? guest: i will do my best, by the time i finish this segment something else may have changed. as of yesterday, u.s. troops were moving largely out of syria. inmall group will stay syria, despite trump's statement that all troops are coming out. probably about 300 to 500 will be staying in a small garrison to stay and protect an oil field in the area. everyone else is getting out. i saw some pretty shocking videos of u.s. troops being pelted with rotten fruit and vegetables. of those pictures made the front page of "the wall street journal" this morning. fort: and this is an area the u.s. is wildly popular. it's one of the things were you wonder if there will be lasting damage with our partners in the region. today th

mainly kurdish syrian democratic forces or s.d.f. defeated eisel here in 2050 with the help of u.s. led coalition forces. the turkish government describes the main fighting force of the s.d.f. as a terrorist organization linked to its outlawed kurdistan workers' party which is fought against the turkish government for decades the s.d.f. control around 430 kilometers of syrian territory along the turkish border they have fought and worked alongside the u.s. troops for years they say u.s. presidents don't trumps decision to withdraw the nearly 1000 american soldiers is a stab in the back one that gives turkey an opportunity to attack that turkey and how they said threats made by turkey to attack the area is not something new they have consistently done it for years we as syrian democratic forces take the matter into account and are fully prepared to fiercely respond to any imminent attack on syrian soil. turkey's government says it wants to create what it describes as a safety zone of around 30 kilometers in the site syria so around 2000000 of the 3600000 syrian refugees in turkey can ret

-term trade deal with the u.s. is possible. bigger trouble back home for president trump as the house votes to back the impeachment inquiry. of protestive months in hong kong put the country and financial recession. shery: u.s. futures unchanged at the moment after we had the s&p 500 lower by .3%. we had industrials and materials reading declines. of course, we had concerns over trade negotiations between china and the u.s., not to mention the weaker than expected manufacturing number and also jobless claims rising more than expected. we did get facebook and apple rising after earnings, and that offset some of the losses we saw across the board, but it still was not enough, so we had the nasdaq falling .1% and the dow using more than 100 points. let's see how things are shaping up in asia. sophie: after ending the best futuresnce june, pointing lower, kiwi shares off by .2% as we wrap up a busy week of eco-data and earnings. alibaba is to report later today. data from china and korea will likely signal further economic weakness. a survey of chinese pmi in inober might see a pullback o

the u.s. president dominating much of that time and obliterating their news rundowns in order to get his message into the news cycle kimberly he also did kind of broaden it out to what his his policy is and syria and in turkey he was pushed on that how would you characterize how he what he had to say about that. there's no question this is a president who is trying to counter criticism this is a president who is trying to make the argument look at despite the criticism of my syria strategy despite the fact that it didn't turn out exactly like i said it would it's not a withdrawal it's a repositioning of troops he's saying that this is working that he acknowledged the help of the kurdish fighters in this case the kurdish intelligence albeit he put that very low in the sort of thanking category preferring to instead thank nations like russia that we know interfered in the 2016 u.s. election as well as thanking turkey and iraq as well there's no question the president's probably going to get some criticism for the order of that. list or rather today sions the other thing that i think in

. let's get you started with a quick check of the markets. u.s. future slightly higher at the moment. this after the s&p 500 fell for a second consecutive session, down 1.6%. the dow also lost more than 300 point. semiconductors taking the biggest hit. they fell the most in about six weeks. we've had potential retaliation coming from china after the u.s. blacklisted its tech firms. it was really another rush to safety. we had a treasury rally that sent the 10 year yield towards 1.5%, the lowest in a month. haven currencies rallying such as the swiss franc and japanese yen. we have the tech firms taking the biggest hit as well with the nasdaq falling 1.7%. let's see how things are shaping up for the asian market. sophie: after the drop in china, and chipmakers in wall street, futures in sydney pointing at losses of nearly 1%. nikkei futures in chicago have paired some of the decline. s. yuan at levels as the white house ahead of trade talks. the china mission might cut its day short by one. the pimco chief warned the trade war may push the u.s. into recession. the new imf head painted a glu

hero he died a coward. president donald trump confirms that u.s. special forces have killed the world's most wanted man isolator abu bakar al baghdadi. from incumbent candidate to underdog argentina's president's mody seal might create fights for another term in an election dominated by the country's economic crisis. a show of unity thousands of protesters in lebanon form a human chain across the country in support of anti-government protests. and a state of emergency in california as wildfires rage forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. the world's most wanted man is dead as a leader abu bakr about dogs he was killed joining a raid by u.s. special forces in the northwest syria u.s. president donald trump says baghdad he blew himself up after being chased into a cave our white house correspondent kimberly hawk it begins our coverage. because our daddy is dead in a rare sunday morning news conference president donald trump announced to the world the leader of eisele had been hunted down and killed by u.s. forces he died like a dog he died like a coward trump say

holding patter with regards to the main u.s. indices. then we got a tweet from the u.s. president basically indicating that he think say trade deal could be possible. he's going to meet with the vice premier tomorrow. who knows? you're getting 0.8% up on the s&p 500. similar moves on the nasdaq. even your small caps higher on the day. we talked to alan knuckman in the previous hour. he talked about a market that was to go up. we are seeing that knee-jerk reaction with regards to any situation improving on china. 1.35%. -- 1.3 5% now your 10 year yield. we are seeing a tick up. whether that will continue, we will have to wait and see. dollar weakness for another day. we haven't seen too many back-to-back days of dollar weakness, but getting it here, down about 0.2% on the bloomberg spot dollar index. we will talk about that more. keep an eye on crude. not just a big read on supply issues, but really on demand and what is going on in the global economy, whether that slowdown is to be believed. 0.24%.rude wti up about guy: in europe, stocks trading at session highs. the euro has been

2014, 2015, 2016, obama administration. what is u.s. policy toward ukraine at this time? >> u.s. policy towards ukraine since ukraine's independent from the soviet union has been fairly consistent in pushing ukraine on anticorruption reform. that's been one of the corner stones of u.s. messaging in ukraine for decades, and that's been fairly consistent, both under barack obama and under president trump, and you know, under the obama administration this was very much carried by his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in kiev in working with politicians there to try and convey the message of, look, you need to clean up corruption. >> what was then vice president joe biden's role? >> so joe biden was obama's point person in ukraine, and he really carried that message for the president. he also oversaw the u.s. response -- perhaps not the u.s. response but the u.s. messaging when it came to conflict in ukraine, the russian annexation of crimea, it was 2014 where you had russia lops off a chunk of ukraine, annexes crimea and then the war begins in eastern ukrain

fact and response to iranian provocation since may the u.s. is deployed in a ray of additional capabilities to the region including airborne early warning aircraft squadrons maritime patrol aircraft squadrons patriot air missile defense batteries b. $52.00 bombers a carrier strike group amphibious transport dock unmanned aircraft and engineering and support personnel this is involved 'd the deployment of about $14000.00 additional u.s. forces to the region. the u.s. military has on alert additional army navy marine and air force units to quickly provide increased capability in the region if necessary the united states remains committed to protecting our allies ensuring the free flow of resources need to support the global economy and demonstrating our commitment to upholding the rules based international order i urge other like minded countries especially our allies in europe to follow the united states lead and join us with our own defense of assets to ensure stability in the region as we continue to implement the national defense strategy my aim for the department of defense

it is. the degree of. the u.s. says it has an initial trade deal with china and delays tariffs that's hit chinese goods next week but will a partial deal take away the trade uncertainty that settled over the global economy . also on the show ethiopia's prime minister was just awarded the 2019 nobel peace prize will look at the end vicious economic reforms he spearheaded at home. and italian cheese is about to get more expensive for americans the u.s. is set to impose penalty tariffs on european products in retaliation for e.u. subsidies to plane maker airbus. this is your business report i'm stephen beard simply lead thanks for watching the u.s. and china have agreed on a partial trade deal according to u.s. president trump that means the u.s. is spending plans to increase tariffs next tuesday on about $250000000000.00 of chinese imports trump and chinese president xi jinping could sign the partial agreement as early as november investors welcome the news with u.s. markets ending the day higher. us a look at this with our financial correspondent in new york yen scorer and now y

linking higher agricultural purchases to the reduction of u.s. tariffs. sterling reaches a four-month high amidst brexit. the hong kong drama turns the page as u.s. lawmakers vote to support the protesters and review the city's relation with china. shery: let's get you started with a quick check of the markets. we are seeing u.s. futures under a little bit of pressure after we saw u.s. stocks really rally throughout the session and major indices gaining about 1%. the s&p 500 at one point topping 3000. health care in financial stocks leading the gains. johnson & johnson, unitedhealth and jp morgan reporting solid results. we also have the nasdaq closed 1.25% higher. all of this as 10 year yields gaining for the fifth consecutive session despite the fact the imf came out and cut the global growth forecast for this year for a fifth time. let see how things are shaping up in asia. sophie: it is the bank of korea's turn in the hot seat today with a 25 basis point cut expected and the politically key jobless rate due as moon jae-in attempts to create employment. futures adding about 6

with u.s. president trump at the white house we'll bring you the latest. november on. all encounter the cost of africa opens up its borders in the hope of it relating the success of the european union nigeria shuts its borders blaming smuggling and tax evasion plus catulus airport expansion and the creation of a regional media hub counting the cost on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. the u.s. president confirms i saw a leader abu bakr al baghdadi has been killed in a raid in northern syria u.s. special operations forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime raid donald trump reveals unprecedented detail over how the operation was carried out. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up a human chain of running the length of lebanon protesters join forces to continue their campaign for political change argentinians go to the polls to pick their next leader with the fate of president aristide bakri hanging in the balance. thank you for joining us the founder and leader of i saw is that after an overnight raid by u.s. led forces in syri

turkey following its invasion of northern syria, he admits some u.s. t troops will remain in the region to protect oil fields in syria. we will speak to andrew bacevich , president of the newly formed quincy institute for responsible statecraft. then to capitol hill where republican lawmakers stormed into a secure room at the capital to disrupt the impeachment proceedings against president trump. >> the tactic start in an effort to delay the inevitable. they are a response to just damaging and pulverizing testimony yesterday from a courageous ambassador bill taylor. but they will not stop us in pursuing t the truth. amy: we will go to capitol hill for the latest on the impeachment proceedings. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump said wednesday sanctions will be lifted on turkey as a ceasefire remains in place in northern syria. turkey invaded the region earlier this month after trump withdrew u.s. support for syrian kurds who had helped the u.s. fight ththe islamic ststate. more than 11,000

white house and the evidence one day before the call kurt volker the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine sends a text message his alinsky aide heard from white house will grow rights assuming president z. convinces trump he will investigate get to the bottom of what happened in 2016 we will nail down date for a visit to washington then after the call ukrainian official andre your mac tells us diplomats once we have a date will call for a press briefing announcing among other things and election meddling in investigations bryza is the gas company linked to the son of former u.s. vice president joe biden the text messages released by house investigators show u.s. diplomats and trumps personal attorney rudy giuliani continuing to pressure ukraine to draft a statement announcing an investigation but none was released then in late august the ukrainians learned of trump's decision to withhold nearly $400000000.00 in u.s. military assistance the u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylor appeared incredulous texting i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a politica

more disappointing data sees the u.s. economy hitting breaks. and in hong kong, months of protests crippling tourism. retail sales are falling through the floor. and the indonesian president speaks exclusively to bloomberg. widodo says no one wins in eight trade war. of thea quick check market, futures gaining, but this coming after the s&p 500 saw the biggest drop since august 23. remember, that is when president trump announced another set of tariffs on chinese goods, so we %,ve the s&p 500 lower by 1.58 with every sector lower, being led lower by energy and financials, with disappointing payroll numbers, less than expected, the august number also be a revised lower. take a look at how futures in asia are trading, a little bit on the upside, up 3/10 of 1%. this, of course, after the nikkei fell the most in about a month and despite the fact that the japanese yen is at the strongest level in about a week against the u.s. dollar, but sydney futures are down 1.8%. this, continuing the fall after they saw the biggest drop since august on risk off sentiment in the previous session, ki

particularly of that provided last week by u.s. representative to ukraine could which made clear u.s. diplomats had been discussing the preconditions for a meeting between president trump and his ukraine counterpart this has to be a fair process and when you have a press release being drafted by our democrat colleagues cheery picking text messages when the full text of ambassador bowker's testimony last week would have exonerated this president let's release ambassador sandland was mentioned repeatedly in the testimony made public use text in e-mails indicating he was in direct communication with the white house throughout the discussions about ukraine his evidence is regarded as critical in terms of understanding the motives behind the trumpet ministrations engagement with the president of ukraine and the house committees are insistent he must testify a formal subpoena has now been issued calling on ambassador sutherland to appear with all these documents mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well the u.s. senate intelligence committee has found that russia was behind essential medi

china and the u.s. now shifted into the next phase of the global struggle for economic supremacy capital wars while still in discussions on the actual mechanics of how to implement and enforce the trump and ministration greenlighted this review this would affect billions of dollars and china bound investments as well as the u.s. equity indexes an e.t.s. of which contain a hefty weighting of chinese stocks one mechanism being considered is to force chinese firms to delist from u.s. stock exchanges under the guise of security concerns a force the listing of this scale would be unprecedented as more than $150.00 chinese firms currently listed on the u.s. exchange and other ways of curbing capital include limiting u.s. portfolio inflows into china and limits on exposure and also blocking new chinese i.p.o.'s from listing nasdaq is already cracking down on i.p.o.'s a small chinese companies by tightening restrictions and slowing down their approval process stocks in mainland china fell to the lowest in almost a month as the u.s. further escalates into the planned trade talks discussio

u.s. forces from northern syria to make way for the turks to move it with that the u.s. is practically handing over its ally the kurds to be slaughtered by their enemy the turks and there is blowback in washington tonight democrats and republicans say this is abandoning an ally that helped defeat isis for a trunk this is simply a transaction services rendered by the kurds services paid in full by america 1st i'm bored off in berlin this is the day. following our conversation with president trump that was told to start to be. hunted down that he thought outreach is considered the safest area off of the islamic state prevent all those are left this will displace people and force them out of their hundreds. we don't know what's going to happen we are preparing for the worst. and you are doing any further turkish aggression against the region tuesday stabilize northern and eastern syria and will be an opportunity for slumming state to regeneration and reorganize itself for some time to contend. also coming up tonight bringing cities to a standstill in the fight to slow down cli

with grave consequences for u.s. national security. the u.s. military races to withdraw 1,000 troops. and what about these isis prisoners we showed you. have they escaped? also tonight, the first white house official testifies in the impeachment inquiry. what she told congress in her marathon day-long meeting. a white officer in fort worth resigns after shooting a black woman to death in her own home. >> put your hands up! show me your hands! [gunfire] >> o'donnell: the victim's family wants him arrested. breaking news in the search for man missinnce new orans hotel partially mllapsed. plus sports history times three. how these young women just rewrote the record books. and reading, writing, and ,leeping in, a big change for students in one state. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell. reporting tonight from washington. >> o'donnell: good evening. and thank you so much for joining us. and as we come on the air, there is breaking news on syria. president trump tonight is calling for an immediate halt to turkey's invasion, and he is sending his vice president, mike pence,

them tomorrow right here. it is going very well. >> reporter: heads of the u.s. chamber of commerce and business council met and said they were hopeful for so-called early harvest agreements state news agent stated china is willing to face an agreement on matters both sides care about. that tone contrasts with the overarching effort in the chinese press to down play the talks. coming at a time when the level of drama in business relationship is especially high. the standoff with the nba and chinese dispute. criticism on chinese social media has been fierce with users calling the fans lackies the turn out could be a relief for the nba that it is retaining at least part of its chinese fan base >> going now to the professor joining us from singapore. if you take president trump at his word very, very good negotiation. are you buying it? are we likely to see some kind of a deal come out of these talks? >> i'm not so optimistic we've seen this play before that there is talk of some progress, some minor concessions, the markets see a sigh of relief but then along comes a tweet and then the tr

our u.s. starts october 24th on d w. russia and turkey agreed to share control of the border area of northern syria leaving the kurds no watch and some isis prisoners are now free and on the run and today u.s. president trump declared that a victory made possible by his foreign policy tonight u.s. president trump says he's lifting all sanctions against turkey and without mentioning russia and its new power in the middle east he says america is done and that it's time for someone else to fight over those blood stained cena i'm brick off in berlin this is the day. early this morning the government of turkey informed by administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in syria and making the ceasefire permanent and it will indeed be permanent this was an outcome created by us the united states and nobody else no other nation 1st of all turkey syria and all forms of the kurds. have been fighting for centuries. we have done them a great service and we've done a great job to let someone else fight over this long blood statement saying and. also coming up tonight a t

confirm that u.s. special forces have launched an operation targeting al baghdadi after receiving crucial cia intelligence on his possible location in northwest syria. now, president trump is expected to make a major announcement on sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. an administration official says the announcement is foreign policy related. that's all we know right now. al baghdadi has been in hiding for the past five years. ever since he stood in the great mosque in mosul, iraq in 2014 and proclaimed the isis caliphate. cnn pentagon reporter ryan brown has the latest from washington. and suffice it to say, ryan, these are the kinds of tips certainly that those special forces look for. what more do you know about the operation as it's under way? >> reporter: well, very few details about the actual operation have become known at this time. of course that's not untypical in such a high-risk, high-value target operation such as this. now, it's interesting that it took place in northwest syria, where actually the u.s. military does not have much of a presence. of course there's been a larg

u.s. china trade war tensions escalating with the kind of tit for tat tariffs that we see going forward the geopolitical risk premiums that we would have expected from tensions in the middle east have failed to hold the gains that they have so the us any kind of disruptions that we see of the type that were announced today with the apparent tanker attacks you know we expect those to have little little weight in prices going forward in terms of upside pressure all right joseph get your head of oil and gas analysis if it's the lucian's in london thank you so much for your time . thank you. well trade talks between china and the u.s. are entering their 2nd day with president on a tramp striking an optimistic note it's described today one of the negotiations in washington as quote there is a very good nevertheless. as a reminder of what's at stake now so far the u.s. has slapped tariffs on $550000000000.00 worth of chinese products china intern has said levies on $185000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods that amounts to $735000000000.00 in total and that figure could just be the tip of t

form the next government also coming up. the world's most wanted terrorists has died during a u.s. led british u.s. president donald trump prefers that american special forces stormed i would barbara by god he's played out in northwestern syria we'll get analysis from our correspondent in washington. thank you so much for your company everyone german chancellor angela merkel's conservatives have suffered a crushing defeat in the eastern state of her c.d.u. is projected to get about 21.8 percent well that is a drop of a whopping $11.00 percentage points the left party is soaring and has secured or is projected to secure 31 percent of the vote that is their best showing ever if there were the social democrats dropped to 8.2. the a of d. the other big winner this evening has serves to about 23.5 per cent the greens are at 5 point one percent and the f.t.p. at 5 as well at the 5 percent threshold that is needed to enter the state parliament now we have this following report for you with some reactions from the state capital erfurt. scenes of jubilation at the left party headquarters t

plans to change that. and consider the lobster fisherman in the u.s. state of maine are suffering from props trade war canadian colleagues snap up market share. this is t.w. business i'm in berlin welcome to germany's digital infrastructure continues to lag behind other european countries today politicians and lobbyists will be discussing how they can go about improving its an industry summit here in berlin what's the current reality on the ground in europe's leading economy let's have a closer look well it's far from world class 1st coverage of high speed internet is still very patchy studies show that just 88 percent of households here even have access to the internet at speeds required for streaming video for example that's pretty bad for a country that prides itself and its technological prowess and international ranking germany finds itself on down the list in 37th place to be exact and things don't look much better. it comes to wireless coverage that is 4 g. there are dead sports everywhere only around 77 percent of the population have continuous access to high speed wireless int

u.s. forces also coming up. british police find 39 bodies in a truck parked at an industrial site near london they've moved the vehicle to a secure location so they can identify the victims. and spain prepares to move the remains of dictator francisco franco his party will be exhumed from a shrine he himself ordered built the broncos regime continues to polarize spain 44 years after his death. i'm told me a lot of oh thanks for joining us. u.s. president donald trump is declaring his latest moves in syria a victory on wednesday the president announced that he would lift sanctions on turkey just 9 days after he imposed them in response to turkish forces entering northeastern syria the new direction from trump came hours after russia and turkey announced they were establishing a safe zone along the syria turkey border marking the arrival of russia as the new power in the region u.s. president is taking the credit for peace in syria this was an outcome created by us the united states and nobody else no other nation very simple turkey syria and all forms of the kurds have been fightin

-- more disappointing u.s. data piles new pressure on the fed. traders are increasingly betting on two more rate cuts before the end of the year. u.s. treasuries and german bunds reinforce the sobering measures that global growth is stalling and inflation hopes are fading fast. then president trump steps up his attack on his potential election rival joe biden, calling on china to launch an investigation. later, apple made a pricey gamble on the iphone 11 camera as more people get their hands on the device, we will ask if the gamble has paid off, but first, let's get you a quick check of how markets are trading at the moment. we are seeing u.s. futures currently unchanged at the moment. it is still early in the session, but this, of course, coming after the s&p 500 rose the most in a month. we are talking .8% gain for the s&p 500 as we had week services sector numbers, the weakest we've seen in about three years. that, of course, sort of raised odds the fed could be moving, and that led to investors pricing and more rate cuts. the dow gaining 122 points, and the nasdaq leading those gai

rights violations. the move came just as u.s. and chinese negotiators began preparations for trade talks for later this week. we have two of our trade experts on opposite sides of the globe. tom mackenzie in beijing and sarah mcgregor in los angeles. let's start with you. what exactly has the trump administration done to restrict business around these companies? administrationp took a similar move today as it did against a company like huawei, where it put it on a blacklist. u.s. companies are barred from doing business with these chinese companies. there are a lot of american suppliers in california who deal with these chinese companies. some of thed from people in silicon valley that it does hurt the u.s. companies as well, and so, with this action today, that really became a bit of a surprise because it was put on the back burner. the trump administration theseced blacklisted from companies are surveillance firms, ai firms, over human rights violations. paul: so tom, what do we know about these companies? they are involved in surveillance. what do they do and why do they matter?

deportation. as every soldier knows, you never leave a soldier behind. sadly, the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement or ice does not follow policy for solving cases of potentially removable veterans does not always identify and track such veterans. as a result, ice does not know how many veterans it has deported. recently the admin attrition has adopted policies that have affected the naturalization process for military service members and veterans. as a result military naturalizations have decreased by 44% from 7300 fiscal year 2017 to about 4000 fiscal year 2018. in august of 2019 u.s. citizenship and immigration service announced a change definition of the term resident. in fact, children born to certain u.s. service members stationed abroad will now be required to naturalize under a lengthier and more complicated application process. together with my colleague representative of texas we left a letter to the u.s. citizenship and immigration service with acting director, asking for reconsideration of this policy. without objection i would like to cement that letter as part of t

political benefits. china and the u.s. are getting close to signaling the birthday -- first phase of a trade deal. bloomberg has learned chinese officials down a long-term agreement is not possible with trump. they say that they will not budge on the toughest issues. keystoneda energy's pipeline linked an estimated 383,000 gallons of oil in northeastern north dakota. state regulators discover the leak earlier this week. the pipeline has been shut down since. it can handle about 23 million gallon daily. authorities said some weapons were affected but no sources of drinking water. 74 people have died after a fire broke out on a moving passenger train. the blaze was caused by [indiscernible] survivors say it took the train nearly 20 minutes to come to a halt after the fire began. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm ritika gupta. this is bloomberg. shery: live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i'm shery ahn. amanda: live in toronto, i'm amanda lang. we are now joined by our

-border attack on u.s. interests in the middle east, determined how best to salvage u.s. interests moving forward and evaluate the state of u.s./turkey relations. before we talk about the current state of affairs in syria, it's important to recall the path that brought us here. to begin, the syrian civil war is a complex, multisided conflict that has drawn in russia, iran, the u.s., nato allies, and other entities. over the course of this eight-year-long conflict, syria's brutal dictator, ai bar shal ai said, with the support of russia and iran, has relentlessly bombed cities and towns across syria, resulting in over 500,000 deaths and leaving over 10 million people displaced. we are all aware that many confirmed uses of chemical weapons by the russia-backed assad regime, adding to the humanitarian suffering in violations of international law. the syrian, russian, and iranian regimes now hope to build upon the successful defeat of the defl see cleared islamic caliphate. these are the circumstances we find ourselves in today. beginning in 2011, the islamic state took full advantage

the towers a new report by human rights watch says u.s. sanctions are preventing ordinary iranians from accessing human rights watch says the u.s. the sanctions are preventing ordinary iranians from accessing lifesaving medicine. and blood lifesaving medicine. and glad to meet putin meets with the hungary and prime minister viktor orban irritating western allies on the same day hungary vetoes a joint nato statement on ukraine. putin meets with the hungary and prime minister viktor orban irritating western allies on the same day hungary details a joint nato statement on ukraine. from moscow studio where it is 5 o'clock in the most. from moscow studio where it is 5 o'clock in the morning you're watching altie international i'm rosana loquitur thank you for joining us owning you're watching altie international i'm rise on a low quick thank you for joining us. now in the u.k. a public inquiry has released a report now in the u.k. of a public inquiry has released a report into the deadly 2017 grenfell towel fire with the investigators singling into the deadly 2017 grenfell towel fire wi

trump ready to go with more tariffs on turkey. this comes after the u.s. withdrew troops from the north of the country but the move has pushed kurdish fighters into the arms of president assad. forces from the syrian government are returning to the northeast for the first time in years. and spain's top court sentenced cut elan separatists -- catalan separatists to 13 years. former catalan vice president was handed the stiffest sentence. the regional president at the time -- he remains in exile in belgium. in the sun of joe biden has broken his silence. unsubstantiated accusations. he is promising to forgo all foreign work if his father becomes president. he reiterated that he never discussed his business activities with his father. over to hong kong, a police officer is in the hospital after the neck aftern another weekend of violence. coming despite some protest groups discussing using back worried that the violence is alienating people. and in poland, nationalists are headed to another four years in power. itsparty is known for vilification of the gay population. and over to japan, th

part of the u.s. economy, but it is a significant part of the u.s. economy. >> it certainly is. in my midwestern district, we have more manufacturing than the average. i've heard about this, and the weaknesses that come from trade uncertainties. the thing about monetary policy and what the right positioning is, i definitely think the fomc has been moving to what at one point last year looked like slightly modest, restrictive position. now we have an accommodative position. whether or not one more rate cut is the right position or not, i think we will just have to go into the meeting and see. have a discussion about that. guy: chicago fed president charles evans speaking to me other woerle iran, before the latest ism data. we spoke in madrid at the global interdependent central banking series. as i say, that was before the ism nonmanufacturing number came out of the united states. we did also see some quite weak pmi data out of the euro zone as well, and out of the united kingdom. the pound is actually up today, mainly on the back of brexit. european stocks have reacted negatively to t

injured, very severely injured actually, in a u.s. coalition bombing sortee. this was not an attempt on baghdadi. this was not an attempt to kill him, but it was an accident. they got him but they weren't even trying to get him. he was in traction. he hurt his arm, his back. he was out of commission for a while but was still very much the going concern for this organization. he's still the commander of isis. so i don't quite agree that he's not somebody who is not in direct control of the organization. you know, he does. he commands a lot of authority from the rank and file not just by the way in syria and iraq. but, remember, isis has fanned out throughout the world and, you know, the thing that i would emphasize to your viewers is the deadliest attack, the deadliest foreign jihadist attack that isis planned and perpetrated was executed after the collapse of the so-called caliphate, after t they lost their, you know, putdtiput putative-state building enterprise. that was the sri lanka attack. so isis still very much has a loyal following not just in syria and iraq but around

as desperate and defensive the u.s. president called his potential 2020 democratic rival stone cold and without offering any evidence trump again denied pressuring ukraine's president to investigate biden and his son details of a call between the 2 were made public after a whistleblower complained that prompted the democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry more now from serious she has. house democrats announced on wednesday that they would subpoena the white house for documents related to their impeachment inquiry if they don't receive by friday they've also asked for documents from the state department am president trumps personal lawyer rudy giuliani but they warn that no one should think they can avoid cooperation through lengthy legal action challenging congress's authority for example so we are concerned that the white house will attempt to stonewall our destination much as they have stonewalled other committees in the past. it's why i say the white house needs to understand that any action like that that forces us to litigate or have to consider litigation will be considered

cross-border attack on u.s. interests in the middle east, determined how best to salvage u.s. interests moving forward and evaluate the state of u.s./turkey relations. before we talk about the current state of affairs in syria, it's important to recall the path that brought us here. to begin, the syrian civil war is a complex, multisided conflict that has drawn in russia, iran, the u.s. nato allies, and other entities. over the course of this eight-year-long conflict, syria's brutal dictator, ai bar shal ai said, with the support of russia and iran, has relentlessly bombed cities and towns across syria, resulting in over 500,000 deaths and leaving over 10 million people displaced. we are all aware that many confirmed uses of chemical weapons by the russia-backed assad regime, adding to the humanitarian suffering in violations of international law. the syrian, russian, and iranian regimes now hope to build upon the successful defeat of the self declared islamic caliphate. these are the circumstances we find ourselves in today. beginning in 20e11, the islamic state took full ad

line in your speech. unpack that a little bit? ow would you ensure u.s. taxpayer dollars won't be used to fund annexation? mayor buttigieg: it begins by basis of our the relationship with israel is not strategic alliance that's very important to us but also an lliance that's based on shared values. we need to make sure that our ooperation, our security and diplomatic and strategic cooperation with israel happens in a framework that's compatible values.ose it also has to be compatible with our u.s. security and policy objectives. and in the long run what makes the most sense for american as israeli as well as palestinian interests is peace solution.state [applaus [applause] so the problem, of course, with annexation is that it is two-state e with a solution and i believe ultimately moving in that represents moving away from peace. a responsibility as make y ally to israel to sure we guide things in the right direction. support is urity based on strategic objectives. it's based on values. need to make sure that it go-ahead urn into a where we would be endorsing annexation.ke that me