the u.s.. by the altered between our two countries, it was an excess of $700 billion last year. inna's per capita income 1979 in purchasing power terms was approximately 300 u.s. dollars. it is not about 17,000 u.s. dollars -- now about 17,000 u.s. dollars. meaning, it is over 50 times larger than it was 40 years ago. no other country in the world has gone through that pace of modernization. one would think that this would be a cause for celebration of is u.s.-china relationship one of the most successful collaborations between two countries in human history, and yet, that is not the case. the foundation for destructive u.s.-china relations are more fragile now then at any time in the last 40 years. anytime in the last 40 years. it was not that they couldn't thiscile their ambitions, will increase the possibility of military confrontation. diverse resources from economic spending,t, military lead to a dangerous and costly arms or race, enhance the likelihood of nuclear proliferation, and incre

the u.s. government, congress, administration from the private sector, from embassies, academics and of course the press. so we're very pleased to have this fantastic panel here today to talk about what's happening in the u.s. china trade relationship. a lot of businesses, of course, are interested in what's happening. there have been a lot of concerns about what's happening with the tariffs. they're hoping, since we've gone down this road, we get a good result. we're having this conversation now. upcoming at wita, we hope you join us at upcoming come event. we'll be talking on may 9th and may 16th, we'll be looking at bank and the reauthorization and export financing, what it means for u.s. businesses. with that, i'll turn it over to our moderator, michael smart. grateful to him for all the support in wita and for what he's done with the trade. michael? >> thank you, ken. thanks to all of you for being here this morning. thanks to our panel. it's really a terrific lineup. let me just give a b

consulate u.s. immigration have burned me from entering the u.s. despite having a valid visa and valid travel documents we see this as outsourcing it's mccarthy to democratic repression against the b.d.s. movement for human rights in palestine to the united states the u.s. administration has been mobilized now to do israel's bidding in trying to silence palestinian israeli and international human rights defenders who are active in this extremely important and very effective nonviolent b.s. movement and what exactly were you having to the u.s. . i had this series of meetings and talks meetings with policymakers in congress meetings with the media talks new york university harvard university bookstore in philadelphia and importantly unprecedented meeting at the synagogue in chicago where we were going to discuss passover liberation and the palestinian b.d.s. movement for palestinian rights and i was also headed to the u.s. to attend my daughter's wedding and now both the u.s. and israel have refused to comment on the issue does that surprise there. n

so u.s. republican senator reggie's military how venezuela to provide what he calls genocide by presuming to durham and claims an invasion is being discussed behind closed doors. and. joining us this evening you're watching the weekly. after almost seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london with founder julian assange was sensationally dragged down by police this week after the south american country suspended the whistleblower citizenship revoked his asylum. filmed exclusive footage of the moment he was arrested. arrest the wiki leaks whistle blower was driven to the west the magistrate's court in london he was found guilty of failing to hundreds of into the authorities in two thousand and twelve relation to a sexual assault case that since been dropped in the cases. saunders told he would be sentenced in a later date. songes legal team in the wiki leaks which presently came out take a listen to what they had to say this sets a dangerous precedent this precision means that any

in 1921, for the first time in u.s. history, the u.s. passes a quota law. the doors to the u.s. remake -- remain opened but immigration is now limited. the opportunity available to immigrants is based on their country of birth, privileging so-called nordic countries. severely limiting visas available to southern and eastern europeans, places where jews and catholics live. at the last minute the senate rejects a proposed amendment, which would have made a distinction between immigrants and refugees by exempting immigrants who could prove that they were escaping political or racial persecution from these quotas. had this amendment been enacted in 1921, america's response to the refugee crisis in the 1930's might have been very different. for more than two years after the passage of this emergency quota act of 1921, the quota administered at the u.s. border it is chaos. , ships are racing across the atlantic to deliver their passengers before the monthly quotas are filled on ellis island. shipping companies start complaining to congress because they are being fined if they deliver

u.s. citizenship and immigration services, and john mitnick, general counsel of the department of homeland security, could be next to leave the administration. in related news, nbc news reports trump has been pushing monday to revive his family separation policy at the southern u.s. border for months and that nielsen's resistance to the move further drove a wedge between the two. unnamed officials who spoke to nbc said nielsen told trump the department of homeland security could not act against fedederal court orders barring the policy, and that trump would be defying his own executive order last year that put an end to it. kevin mcaleenan, head of customs and border patrol and incoming acting dhs secretary, reportedly was open to reinstating a form of family separation in which families would have to choose between being separated or being taken into long-term detention with their children. meanwhile cnn is reporting trump , told border agents not to let migrants in and to tell judges "we

the u.s. senate is calling for military action against venezuela after accusing president maduro of genocide to bring you details after the break. but the number. they matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be rich eight percent world market thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business you know ford the one and only boom. the u.s. republican senators called for military action in venezuela in order to prevent monty's calling the genocide by president nicolas maduro that comes of in washington's repeated val's that it won't exclude any option after claiming the country's opposition leader as the interim president in january. we've got to really consider whether we do military. you know

and u.s. republican senator military help for venezuela to prevent what he calls genocide by president. claims in the version is being discussed behind closed doors. with a trip to ns the president of sudan's thirty year rule thousands of protesters have massed in the capital demanding an immediate transition to a civilian government. from moscow you are watching r.t. international hawkins' rove you are tonight thanks for joining us this hour. after almost seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london. was sensationally dragged out while police this week this comes shortly after the south american country suspended the whistleblower citizenship and revoked his asylum are video agency filmed exclusive footage of the moment he was arrested. ah. ah i. was. following his arrest the wiki leaks was. there he was found guilty of failing surround himself. twenty twelve in relation to. which prostitutes dropped. dangerous. prosecution in the united states for truthful information about the u

u.s. republican senator urges military help for venezuela to prevent what he calls genocide by president will drop claims an invasion is being discussed behind closed doors. and a military coup the president of sudan's thirty year rule thousands of protesters massed in the capital demanding an immediate transition to a civilian government. in the weekly here on r.t. international. thanks for joining us this hour. almost seven years holed up in ecuador and. dragged out by police this week came shortly after the south american country suspended the citizenship asylum. exclusive footage of the moment he was arrested. oh it. was a little over. his arrest. there he was found guilty of fighting for himself into authorities in twenty twelve in relation to a sexual assault case which has since been dropped but more details his. states. gave. the ok to the u.k. government needs to make sure it. will never be extradited to united states or. try to. put. police baton and taken into police custody now

u.s. to face trial if wiki leaks reports of u.s. custody fight document. i'm his fear is that he will be a victim. and then face extradition to america and leave a life in prison it's extremely. i'm convinced the judean expects to be thrown out is in trouble for exposing the truth about crimes and wars the stray was involved in and is a journalist and a publisher and he's free speech needs to be defended we hope that ecuador doesn't for its sake violate its own asylum rules and its own asylum its against the law he is a political i say lee under the protection of international law it's against the law to be handed down by back to the people who wanted it so what they're trying to do here is a trying to something illegal in a very underhanded way for now would be keeping you up to date on a feather developments that happened here right here in london outside the ecuadorian embassy. human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes assad is being used as a bargaining chip in relations between

the u.s. supreme court took ruled that boycotts for political social and economic change are considered free speech protected by the first amendment of the u.s. constitution so all those twenty seven states are following orders basically but they're violating their own u.s. constitution we will challenge that we are challenging that in u.s. courts a.c.l.u. is challenging at least three states on the antidemocratic. laws and we think we will prevail and struggle israel is trying to suppress b.d.s. from above by passing laws because it has miserably failed to stop the immense growth of the movement at the grassroots level among the trade unions churches women's groups energy beauty groups and so on and so forth. european elections are looming and with support the tea party is on the rise it comes amid fresh allegations of russian backing shalyn do bensky reports anti establishment parties already set records in the twenty fourteen election winning one hundred and sixty seats more than twenty per

of the u.s. state department is expected to name iran's elite revolutionary guard as a foreign terrorist organization and this would be the first time washington designated another country's military as a terrorist group or spawn joins us live from washington d.c. patty what does this mean. well herself first and foremost i want to caution this story this is being reported by the wall street journal and the reuters news agency both are saying that this could happen possibly as early as monday and this is something this is a threat that has been pretty much out there since president trump president donald trump took office whether or not they're actually going to go through with it we don't know oftentimes in washington what you see is the side that either really wants it or really doesn't want it they leak it to the press before decisions are going to be made so that other people can chime in see if there's basically any outrage of their support so we don't know that this is going to happen if it

the u.s. government to provide assista e assistance. most in zimbabwe have already made disaster declarations. our best to everyone who is surviving and recovering from that event. the global water strategy was released on november 1st, 2017. it was the culmination of a year's work by many of the people in this room to set the direction for the united states government's work on international water issues. we addressed three major challenges in that strategy. the first challenge is that there are many countries where a significant portion of the population still lacks access to safe drinking water and sanitation. nearly two billion people worldwide lack access to water that is safe to drink and nearly four billion lack access to safely manage sanitation services. this is not only a threat to human health, but a factor in migration, civil unrest and terrorist recruitment. the second challenge is water insecurity. by 2030, more than half the world's population will still be living under water st

the u.s. government enters into international agreement or when we make a foreign-policy decision. it is a backlash to efforts by the foreign-policy establishment. you know how the president hates the establishment, there's a foreign-policy establishment. there are good people but in the opinion of many conservatives there approaches have not been working out so well and the president has tried to take a different approach, rejected some of those things advocated such as international agreements that people don't support nationbuilding with indefinite u.s. troops deployments and trade deals that leave the american worker out. this is very important to the president and he summarized it during the campaign when he said my foreign-policy will always put the interest of the american people and american security above all else. this is not isolationism, this is factoring in the interest of our people in our foreign- policy. it's pretty clear the president is prepared to use military force when nec

the u.s. must possess capabilities that are credible from the adversary's perspective. with credibility being a function of both u.s. capability and the will to exercise that capability. in essence, the will to go to war, possibly nuclear war in the defense of others. in addition, the u.s. commitment must be viewed as credible by our allies that we are seeking -- who we are seeking to defend and their views regarding the credibility of our security guarantees to them may differ. for example, our asian allies may have a different view of what it takes to assure them of our security commitment than our european allies. and even our european allies may hold different views among themselves. finally, of course, in the unlikely event that deterrence fails -- hopefully unlikely event -- obtaining and maintaining domestic support to actually employ nuclear weapons on behalf of an ally may be particularly challenging. especially if doing so exposes the u.s. homeland to a devastating counterstrike. the

the u.s. africa command has had to defend itself after being accused of military imperialism it comes after a report shows since two thousand and ten the us has been running thirty six operations all across the african continent far more than had been previously revealed but the government organization says its military activity has brought stability but the details here. u.s. africa command. strengthen security forces counters transnational threats and conducts crisis response in order to advance u.s. national interests and promote regional security stability and prosperity major carl weiss a spokesperson for the u.s. military's african command has come forward and stated the purpose of the pentagon's operations on the continent now he was responding to a tweet by the young gun control activist david hawkins now hawgs tweet was reacting to the fact that currently there are u.s. military operations underway on the african continent is not a small number the official reason given is to promote

characteristic confidence from u.s. president donald trump and the more cautious optimism from those who've been doing most of the negotiation the world's biggest economies may be close to a deal but getting there may take longer than expected. but for more i'm joined by angela i dare an american lawyer political adviser and the founder of d.c. berlin consulting that is the platform i understand that allows him to translate washington to germany or the world let's. by explaining what happened last night in washington well. we didn't learn a whole lot new i suppose the biggest piece of news is that they're still negotiating at all i think if you rewind about six months the chances of coming to a deal i think we're viewed as less likely and now it looks like the momentum really is moving toward a deal and so i think the deal have to entail in order to actually happen. for a few weeks now we've really. known the contours of the deal so if you differ buckets with the removal of tariffs as you mentioned the purchasing commit

in the u.s. i'm sure in russia you know in any way that there's been power and i think the detail that is conveyed in terms of the crimes of state and the undermining of democracy in countless ways i think has been a huge survey. to freedom in the greatest game of things and so not surprisingly the right wing the reason my represents i mean you know similarly to. even move right wing that donald trump represents not surprisingly they will celebrate absolutely did the rest of us on this but i think it's telling that there was a plausible deniability through twenty twelve that they were actually going to arrest him and extradition charges because when the swedish charges leveled against him he assigned said categorically i will answer these charges the swedish authorities can come across to me here if they give me a guarantee i'm not going to be extradited to to the u.s. i will come to sweden today and of course that that wasn't given but that was plausible deniability as i say and now we see categ

the u.s. and iran label each other's military forces as terrorists and raise the stakes in decades of hostility some of the objectives unlawful be the impact of these unprecedented declarations this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. now the islamic revolutionary guard in iran is both revered and feared commanded directly to the supreme leader and as well as enforcing power they control major businesses now it's been designated as a terrorist organization by the united states is the first time the u.s. has ever labeled a foreign government agency in this way and allows more citations to be imposed on iran but to kill the guard and its business connections the u.s. secretary of state says the iranian force poses a fundamental threat to u.s. security this is stored step of red the world's leading state sponsor of terror the financial means to spread misery and death around the world businesses and banks around the world now have a clear duty to ensure that companies with which th

despite assurances them from the u.s. . despite criticism from the u.s. and some of its top allies chinese telecom giant weiwei is posting impressive gains and revenues allegations of spying only seem to push the company to higher international profile and brought more of the attention to much how to change over to five g. r.t.s. alex mahela legend joins us for more. hi alex hello there so we got a lot to get there today huawei that he did one. humanitarian support came in and things are looking really good by the company tell us about it yeah well he's performing really really well almost forty percent up year after year that translates to about twenty seven billion dollars profit margin of eight percent a little bit better than last year so we were seeing definitely that was a way is moving in the pluses looking when you compared to other companies that are also focused on smartphones as a part of their a bigger scheme of things a while ways really kicking but there's no other way to put it samsung for example we talked about just a few weeks ago samsun

and the u.s. with politicians and human rights groups expressing concern that a dangerous precedent has been set by his arrest we spoke to wiki leaks editor in chief about the possible repercussions this is a threat to journalists and journalists and if we don't have a media world. man allegedly linked to wiki leaks founder julian assange is arrested in ecuador that just sounds off the police dragged the whistleblower himself out of the south american countries embassy in london where he'd been holed up for almost seven years. and a military coup seized the downs president arrested around them urgency really imposed on in the space of twenty four hours we look at the roots of the northeast african countries conflict. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with minichiello and now our top story from human rights organizations to politicians across the globe people have been reacting to the arrest of wiki leaks whistleblower julian songs on thursday police officers dragged him

you said what's the tail risk to the u.s. economy. i don't think it's sitting within the u.s. economy. the bigger -- people underestimate. china is now, depending how you measure it, 40% of global growth today. it is hugely important, and it's about 50% of commodity demand. and it's a massive component of trade and manufacturing trade. they're a tremendous exporter. why does europe slow significantly, the rest of asia slow significantly? you could look at china as a really big driver of that. we have to keep one eye on china. the economy is tremendous now. it's the second largest economy in the world now, and it's been growing faster, slowing now to about 6% or so. you have to keep an eye on it. if china stabilizes finish which i think it will, because the amount of stimulus they're putting in, monetary, fiscal, legal, regulatory, etc., is going to stabilize that economy. which means german manufacturing pick up, korean manufacturing will pick up, taiwanese, etc. so you've not to keep an eye on that. if we're wrong, that's where i think the risk is in the u.s. economy. it's if

really, the u.s. is negotiating bilaterally. u.s. will extract unilateral confessions with china which will hurt other trading partners like europe, japan, australia and canada. the u.s. has absolutely forgone any leadership role. this is undermining the world trade organization. >> for market participants here, given the likelihood of potential flareups on multiple fronts, we were talking about it with some of our guys here. the question of the day is whether the china eu trades that will be something we have to talk about in headlines. do you see this movie beyond the u.s. and china? richard: absolutely. europe across the board, politically, entree, the rhetoric on china has changed from a close partner to an investment destination and investment opportunity, a competitor. these are things that happen entry to china. 'srmany is now firmly in china site as a competitor, it is an industrial goods. germany in particular, that is where the mood has changed. that could be the next battleground. the u.s. and china will do a deal. they wi

if the u.s. leads now, the regime will consolidate these gains and the jihadis will try to grow back again and the you has the opportunity to do something in syria if the u.s. pulls out of syria, the conflict ill unravel. iraq is very important, because now iraqi security hinges in fact on this stability because the borders are pourous. isis there. if there is any cop flict there, it will immediately affect aces like and bar and the -- anbar and i think this is very important, the key points to pay attention. >> would you like to weigh in? >> i don't want to go over what hassan has mentioned. and the civil society and the you interests in ensuring that the social conditions that not om allows for the conflict to begin with but accelerating the emergens of isis and al qaeda. and these groups. that should be a more pronounced part of the administration's goals. there is an interest in the new ambassador hoping to re-up our financial investments, which is i think still a very important of this and r

the u.s. treasury department has designated not just venezuela's vital oil industry but its entire banking sector as a target of u.s. sanctions and that makes the news way a lot almost untouchable for companies and banks the do business with the united states this is one of venezuela's main ports for bringing in everything from food to fertilizer to manufactured goods but as you can see there is very little activity here according to the government this is because u.s. financial sanctions are scaring off shipping companies and those who do venture to dock here are charging a premium. the sanctions are of course taking a toll on venezuela's already crumbling economy and on ordinary citizens the theory being that they will provoke a painful but a relatively quick ouster of president nicolas maduro. recent history however disproves this theory. who are going to look at the sanctions against cuba that they remove the castro no they only hurt the lives of the cubans there. remove assad in syria tha

former u.s. representative alan grayson gives us his take on the trade turmoil in paris and finally feel chrysler has made a move to dodge billions in fines and their stock is reacting at a met the c.e.o. of the adam mesh trading group joins us to sift through all of the stock and some of the other moves in the market all of that directly ahead but first the headline . and let's begin here with a billion dollar fine for a major london based bank it leads our global report today standard chartered moves to settle with the u.s. government over charges that it violated unilateral sanctions against iran the bank was also set. certainly accused of processing payments for a bank that the u.s. treasury says has links to the self-proclaimed islamic state or isis and involvement in illicit transfers to cuba sudan and syria as well as me m r the full financial sanction for the bank will total one point one billion dollars it also resolves a five year investigation that focused in part on the bank's branch

steven mnuchin says the u.s. and china are closer to a deal, but he is also worrying about currency manipulation in japan. >> let's get you started with a look at the markets close in the u.s. brought optimism over the global economy because of positive data out of china. s&p 500 gaining for a third consecutive week. onancials leading the gains friday, positive earnings out of jp morgan. the only sector in the red was health care, insurers falling for a second consecutive session as we had congress debating drug costs. u.s. futures holding at 29.13. let's see the asian session. sophie: some of the optimism may be happening for asia. futures are narrowly higher and we are seeing the tone set in wellington. we enter a week that offers chinese gdp numbers and u.s.-japan trade talks in the wake of japan highlighting concerns over china's industrial policies when they held economic talks on sunday. also we get trade data in india as the r.b.i. governor warns the economy needs to grow faster to deal with poverty and ch

the u.s. says no more exceptions to its oil export sanctions on iran so will it really go after major importers like india and china and what could today's announcement and iran's reaction mean for the global oil train. and what's the proper work life balance ali baba's jack ma says chinese employees should spend more time working but the country's rising middle class isn't so sure we'll take you inside the debate. i'm stephen burns in berlin thanks for joining us the white house has announced the end of waivers for countries to import iranian oil us had reimpose sanctions against iran last year threatening to punish any country that buys oil from tehran but it granted waivers to the eight primary buyers of iranian oil allowing them limited purchases for six months there are fears that removing the waivers now would reduce oil supply to a market that is already tightening but u.s. officials say any shortfall can be picked up by other countries including the u.s. itself and its gulf allies. to

the european union is preparing to impose tariffs to the u.s.. u.s. said it the would do the same for airbus. for saudi aramco's first offering was unprecedented. it received $100 billion in orders. a rare situation for a state-owned company. all of this mark dayton around from last year 1 wall st and institutional investors shunned saudi arabia after the murder of jamal khashoggi. --sia will keep working with moscow is cautious about oil production. vladimir putin spoke in st. petersburg. with opec and are willing to work to joint solutions. i would be cautious. we are prepared to continue cooperation. however, whether that would be the decrease of the output or maybe that would be keeping the level, i'm not ready to say that yet. kailey: global news 24 hours a day on air and on tictoc on twitter powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm kailey leinz. this is bloomberg. vonnie: thank you. can we take a second? because it is a historic date today, a day after the uva championship win and you are an alum. i'm wonderi

-u.s. trade but what we would like is a deal that delivers what people voted for in june 2016 and allows us to strike new trade deals with our most important trading partners. up in thewhere we end next few days. as: has the uk's credibility a counterparty to the united states been damaged? kim: what i find is a lot of americans asked me now about what is going on in brexit. they mainly want to understand what is happening in parliament, how the government is handling all of this as the clock ticks deadline.at new as you take them through the process and explain this is democracy in action, people are generally supportive and they are confident we will find a way through. a lot of people are watching all of these parliamentary events. the speaker has become something of a cult figure in the red states now. -- the united states now. confidencelot of both in our institutions and the government that we will find a way through that delivers what people voted for and also creates a good environm

the u.s. and iran label each other's military forces as terrorists and raise the stakes in decades of hostility some of the objectives the impact of the president in declarations this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. that the islamic revolutionary guard in iran is both revered and feared. directly to the supreme leader and as well as enforcing power they control major businesses to now it's been designated as a terrorist organization by the united states is the first time the u.s. has ever labeled a foreign government agency in this way and allows more to be imposed on iran but to kill the guard and its business connections the u.s. secretary of state says the iranian folse poses a fundamental threat to u.s. security this is stuart step of read the world's leading state sponsor of terror the financial means to spread misery and death around the world businesses and banks around the world now have a clear duty to ensure that companies with which they conduct financial transact

dollar the u.s. dollar is a ponzi scheme why do people buy the u.s. dollar because if they don't the u.s. military a cent and they're obliterated whether it's iraq or libya or some other place like this around and so that's what paul krugman a set of the new york times rightly said the u.s. dollar is worthless it's backed by violence. so for example europe not america has eleven trillion and negative. denmark is one of the longest suffering of negative yield and they have their own currency so you know where why it is worth earning because u.s. dollar is still the majority of all transactions in the globe are u.s. dollars to post world war two standard economic the measurement is the u.s. dollar and that's why at the moment you have day dollars a shindig level ization going on pretty rapidly and you have the the new york times would say this constant reminder to people around the world whether it's a c.n.n. that just came out recently and warned venezuela to stop playing games so back to the story about bank of america and their charts and looking at

if you look at u.s. stocks versus high-yield credit spreads, not surprising credit spreads have been tightening and stocks have been rising. which of these you think will move first? a widening of credit spreads or weakness in u.s. equities? be u.s.atalyst will equities. is 11 of those things where that correlation is important for global markets right now. it is a testament to why the dollar is strong. if you are going to be putting money into safe haven treasuries , hit his cautious optimism. neutrality is going to be reflected across dollar assets. it's one of the reasons you think equities could be the first to move here. the outlook for the earnings season. ofadding to the sort downswing we are seeing, i think that's going to be a negative. support is across the fed, across the ecb, but that is priced in. the curves are really flat. until we get good data, risky assets is cautious optimism. nejra: we were saying how fidelity says treasuries are going to test on inflation awakening. they are saying i

u.s. . fighter jets to turkey that's a protest against the purchase of a russian missile system which comes off from a major setback for president in a local election. live from moscow what's. very welcome to the program with us this hour. comedian and political newcomer has won the first round of ukraine's presidential election. took the lead in sunday's ballots with twice as many votes as incumbent president poroshenko those who rivals will face off in a second round vote on april the twenty first it takes a look at why support for the ukrainian president has been plummeting. they counted on him gave him all kind of help and thought he'd take the x. soviet republic somewhere new the result roughly eighty five percent of ukraine voters want to show petro poroshenko the door the western establishment is baffled for them choosing between someone as hated today as the chocolate king pershing co and funny guy all of them are zelinsky aka is a president is a tough one backing the winner of round

the u.s. and iran label each other's military forces as terrorists and raise the stakes in decades of hostility some of the objectives unlawful be the impact of these unprecedented declarations this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program dennis now the islamic revolutionary guard in iran is both revered and feared commanders also directly to the supreme leader and as well as enforcing power they control major businesses to now it's been designated as a terrorist organization by the united states is the first time the u.s. has ever labeled a foreign government agency in this way and allows more citations to be imposed on iran but to kill only the gold and its business connections the u.s. secretary of state says the iranian force poses a fundamental threat to u.s. security the stork step little brother world's leading state sponsor of terror the financial means to spread misery and death around the world businesses and banks around the world now have a clear duty to ensure that compa

ecuador and the u.s. playing this card against julian assange together i think today really we witnessed the end at the very least of the embassy chapter of the julian assange stuff saga and to moving on to perhaps or rather the truncated chapter of an illegal extradition battle. only border outside westminster magistrates court allowed to be spoken to the former president of ecuador who granted a song to sort of them. things the country's current leadership is out for revenge . you know maybe. i think marino deserves the title of the greatest traitor of history there are you could compete with judas the state of ecuador you know what it is with international law regarded by its own national pride it was simply a ploy to protect the person to whom it is granted asylum and instead they simply gave him up no doubt the british police to enter our embassy just imagine for a moment if it was the ecuadorian police entering the us embassy at the head it was a decision made by him or a no no if you want revenge f

u.s. and even from asia. this is how your markets are doing. we have a little breaking news out of the turkish central bank. it is restarting. the turkish lira has had quite a bit of an impact over the last day or so. here are the markets. stoxx x 600, down .2%. a bit of a wait-and-see mode about the u.s. and china trade. looking at crude oil, currently at 63.34. of course, or arising in the last day or so after fighting in libya raised the risk of supply outages. the yen is also something good to look at as a currency market, 111.45. ed coming up, we have a conversation with minnesota cranny and the saudi oil minister. will talk to him about libya as well. let's get first to the first word news in new york city would viviana hurtado. u.s. and china are closer to a deal, after high-level meetings in washington and the week before in beijing. despite optimism from larry trade reviewss. in a does say some issues are hard to crack. there is fighting on the outskirts of tripoli continuing. at

the u.s.. he made the threat last week but acted sincenot then. he says he is pleased with steps mexico is taking but affirmed he is willing to close the border if he has to. auto sales in the u.s. fell, a sign the economy is touching the brakes. most saw declining demand. released results only on a quarterly basis and says sales slug. -- slugged. the long-awaited trial of the malaysian prime minister begins wednesday. there is a long list of charges. he will face 42 counts of corruption and money laundering read it will shed a light on the complex transactions that have of to the disappearance money. i am jessica summers. this is bloomberg. >> thank you. the imf and the world trade organization are increasingly as a mystic about global growth, warning momentum has been lost. global growth projections to the lowest in three years, citing the impact protectionism. christine lagarde saying the global economy is in a precarious situation. she is not expecting a recession, but there are global hea

russian national marine jailed in the u.s. for failing to register as a foreign agent but a lawyer insists she's a victim of washington's current political climate. none of. these activities of the u.s. were illegal. in and of themselves but she got caught up in this and she rushes. and saudi arabia comes under fire from the un and human rights groups for a mass execution which concerns that the charges against the thirty seven most inhuman were trumped up. the weekly here on our international with me in a deal with highlights from the last seven days on the latest up to date stories welcome to the program. from a nuclear free north korea to bilateral relations. and met for the first time on thursday in russia's far eastern city of lot of os talk after nearly two hours of face to face talks the leaders expressed a willingness to further develop relations and tackle the situation on the korean peninsula. and that's just we just had a fairly alright one two one conversation we managed to talk about the history of our bilateral r

regulators and the u.s. government will take a step back from their usual love for boeing and actually hold them accountable well unfortunately i don't think we're quite shy about pointing out as we saw whenever we had this second crash there were dozens of countries that had completely grounded this seven thirty seven max before the united states did anything and that's a time when aviation officials here in the u.s. were still saying it's fine it's fine and then finally you know they got the order to ground those planes so it doesn't look like they're quite turning their back on boeing right now it'll be interesting to see when they say that they have the software update and they say that the plane is ready to. how many people actually are willing to then fly on those planes but i know i've heard from almost everyone i've talked to this want to catch themselves on one of those planes they'd rather fun one that has a better track record and that they know the pilots can actually control so we'll see what ha

also be directly to tell the u.s. about his position and about the questions he has it today with the situation on the korean peninsula we also found out that the russian leader is confident that pyongyang essential desire is international security guarantees guarantees for sovereignty and when it comes to dealing korea's ation according to mr putin the only way forward is through these kind of guarantees i would like to remind you that for years russia's peace road map was about mutual concessions from both sides of north korea on the one hand and south korea and allies on the other and china is backing of this while the russian president believes that for years every step forward made by washington was followed by two steps backwards it was do it get to you but with some confidence building measures to be taken which could have been taken back in two thousand and five when the u.s. and north korea came to an agreement with it later on for some reason the american partners thought this was know if they needed to add

the u.s. and china are said to be scheduling new trade talks with top level -- it could happen in may. victory in indonesia. a result should extend the six-month stock rally. shery: later in bloomberg technology we will look at why apple and google are blocking downloads of the popular tictoc app in india. for now let's get you started with a quick check of the markets close in the u.s. it was a broadly down day on wednesday. we had news of a potential trade deal between the u.s. and china. not even that could lift the indices into the green. we had the s&p 500 down .2% holding at the 2900 level it was all about health care. health, really falling again as there were concerns over policy changes in the future. the nasdaq composite was unchanged but the nasdaq 100 saw a record as we continue to see a surge in qualcomm shares after that licensing deal with apple. let's see how we are shaping up in the markets in asia. sophie: asia and futures are pointing to a mixed start to the session ahead of

a u.s. district judge says the sides should reword the deal to isid ambiguity on what musk and is not allowed to post. samsung has reported operating profit drop, the most in four years. it has been buffeting membership prices. 60% in the quarter, they issued a rare warning last month that it will be short of estimates. that is your bloomberg business flash. concerns over a protracted slowdown in europe is being fueled by economic data. a double blow yesterday, a factory slump followed by a forecast for 2019 predicting the weakest growth. equity is set to cut its forecast. jane foley, head fx strategy, senior currency analyst, rabobank and emmanuel cau, head european equity strategy, barclays bank are still with us. we were talking earlier about with global equities, you were advising not to sell. with european equities, are you taking a position on europe versus the rest of the world, or more reallocating within europe? emmanuel: both actually. the sentiment and positioning on european equi

china opposes u.s. is generalized concept of national security its frequent abuse of export control measures and its interference in a nutrition of normal international trade and cooperation between enterprises china urges the us to correct its mistake as soon as possible in the principle of mutual trust and mutual benefit and remove the companies from the list and facilitate and promote normal trade and cooperation between enterprises of the two sides but what does it mean being on verified list it would allow u.s. companies to treat those organizations with even more caution than before essentially u.s. suppliers can no longer use license exceptions that to sell their products to those companies but instead they will have to get a new license it is almost as if embargoes have been in place but in a more practical effect very very. keep it but if there's one thing that the u.s. loves is to make things complicated and even more when it comes to chinese entities we now see uncle sam that is continuing to

the u.s. congress has passed a bill against american involvement in saudi arabia's war in yemen both chambers and both the so-called war powers act to stop the u.s. from supporting riyadh without congressional approval a motion has had to dodge some efforts to block it i think are valid explains. fine print a few lines of text that can ruin you financially allow facebook to know more about you than your family and friends ever will and keep the u.s. sponsoring a war that has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis the u.s. has passed a resolution to stop washington support for the saudi led campaign in yemen for a very long time. many have been desperately calling for this while the war hawks in congress have been equally desperate to prevent it from passing and the means that they've resorted to to derail any such initiative absolutely spectacular. when house democrats put forward a resolution like this last time republicans added an amendment to it which condemned anti semitism this tra

and the u.s. that just hours after police dragged the whistleblower himself out of the south american countries embassy in london. meanwhile a man allegedly linked to a son is arrested in ecuador where some worried about a dangerous precedent being set by a song his arrest we spoke to wiki leaks editor in chief about the possible repercussions. threat to journalists and journalists freedom of the media world. and the military sudan's president arrested and emergency rule imposed all in the space of twenty four hours to look at the roots of the north east african countries conflict. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. from human rights organizations to politicians across the globe people have been reacting to the arrest of wiki leaks whistleblower julian a song on thursday police officers dragged him out of his refuge in london's ecuadorian embassy after quito cancelled his asylum earlier we discussed the reaction with. cheati

if the u.s. gives assurances to u.k. that the u.s. will not seek the death penalty i doubt will that will come in the u.k. . because they certainly don't want to extradite an individual if it's they're going to be given assurances were doors are interesting to that they wouldn't do but certainly they can legally the u.k. as an e.u. member context or advice anyone to a country where they could face the death penalty but that's long been the fair among junee in a song his legal team that as you've just said the one sees on u.s. soil the further charges will be brought the carry stepha penalties than just hacking a government computer any kind of legal guarantee that thinking kate can get from the united states to make sure that that doesn't happen. well you raise two issues ones the death penalty and one is whether there would be additional charges. is frequent late that the u.s. seeking extradition from countries that are are against the got going to be whether european or latin countries that in this state department state department

and in the u.s. with politicians and human rights groups expressing concern that a dangerous precedent has been set by his arrest we spoke to wiki leaks editor in chief about the possible repercussions. this is so fred to journalists and journalists the freedom of the media world. and the military who sees to down its president or rested on the majesty rule imposed on in the space of twenty four hours to look at the roots of the northeast african countries pointing. to. a very warm welcome to you watching off the international with me making. an alleged collaborator off the wiki leaks founder julian assange was arrested on thursday in ecuador the south american countries interior minister confirms that a person who is quote very close to the wiki leaks organization was detained as he boarded a flight to japan well this comes off the british police dragged a distressed looking us songs out of the ecuadorian embassy in london where he'd been holed up for almost seven years. i know. i'm. an internationa