military base this again puts the company in a difficult spot privacy is a selling point for apple washington is calling the shooting an act of terrorism it could have involved others. no chief col is gone has filed suit against the company for a with help or time it payment did not pay the 250000 euros saying don't quit while jailed in tokyo on financial misconduct charges guns said he had no choice given his detention and fled to lebanon to escape the charges. and choked up record annual sales in 2019 that's despite trade boys diesel emissions and slowing global growth given comic delivered 11000000 vehicles a rise of gold and stands on the previous year and likely enough to remain the world's largest automaker. the new mobility trends favoring sustainability and digital innovation of putting the likes of folks fogging and b.m.w. under pressure other companies have taken the lead like one berlin startup which believes that it's autonomous cob made by a 3 d. printer is the future of mobility. efficient digital and self driving this will be the car of the future if the berlin started big rap

attacked a military base this puts the company and difficult spot privacy as a selling point for apple washington is calling the shooting an act of terrorism that could have involved others. germany is known for its auto industry and the sector is a major employer in the country more than 800000 people work for carmakers or their suppliers but that could change more than half the jobs we're talking about more than 400000 people could be at the risk of disappearing between 2030 according to the national platform for the future of mobility it says the german government's plans to increase the number of electric vehicles by more than 80 times to between 7 and 10000000. by the end of the decade will mean fewer jobs and in the street that's because electric motors are much simply to put together an internal combustion engine has around $1200.00 parts and electric car motor just has 200 and fewer parts are likely to mean fewer jobs industry representatives call the figures the quote most extreme scenario so how hard will immobility hit the german car industry's workforce let's ask martin friedel profes

military base this puts the company in a difficult position privacy is a selling point for apple yet washington is calling the shooting an act of terrorism that could have involved others hackers from a russian military intelligence unit gained access to the ukrainian gas company at the center of the impeachment case against u.s. president donald trump as according to u.s. cyber security researchers democrats accused of pressuring ukraine to investigate the company which hired then vice president joe biden's son for moreto chief carlos golan has filed a suit against the company for a withheld pension payment rhino did not pay the 250000 euros saying go and quit while jailed in tokyo on financial misconduct charges mr gold said he had no choice given his detention he later fled to lebanon to escape the charges. motorcycles are a mainstay of any busy african city but you'll struggle to find one actually made in africa almost 100 percent of bikes are imported from asia still that's not stopping one firm in burkina faso from trying to convince customers that locally made tires are the way to go. wh

[applause] i'm inspired by the development of washington's newest apple, the cosmic crisp. several people from washington state university are here, including kate evans, who heads wsu's apple breeding program, and agriculture school dean andrÉ wright. congratulations to washington state university for what they have done. [applause] thank you. there are so many great things going on in our universities. i'm inspired by the university of washington team who developed an app to monitor a person's breathing rate and detect an opioid overdose. both the cougars and huskies show how broad the innovative culture is in our state. it's something we should celebrate. it is inspiring to see justice raquel montoya-lewis here, the first native american to join our state supreme court. thank you for stepping up to the plate. [applause] washington has felt deep losses this past year. courageous first responders have given their lives for us as they do all too often. we lost okanogan county fire district 3's assistant fire chief christian johnson; kittitas county sheriff's deputy ryan thom

i'm inspired by the development of washington state's newest apple, the cosmic crisp, which is on your desks. and several people from washington state university are here, including the person who heads wsu's apple breeding program, kate evans and ag school dean andre wright. congratulations to washington state university for what they've done. you know, there are so many great things going on in our universities. i'm inspired by the university of washington team who developed an app to monitor a person's breathing rate and detect an opioid overdose. both the cougars and the huskies show how broad the culture is in our state and it's something we should celebrate. it's inspiring to see in in perhaps her second public appearance, the first native american to join our state supreme court, thank you for stepping up to the plate. now, washington has felt deep losses washington has felt great losses this year. courageous firts responder have given their lives. we lost the district 3 okanagan county assistant fire chief, the sheriff's deputy, justin derozier. interim police chief, michael kn

washington meanwhile apple is rejecting occupations that it refused to provide enough assistance into an investigation into that shooting well ted giant says it handed over everything that the f.b.i. requested attorney general william bother says apple didn't help to unlock to i phones that belonged to the attacker now the threat of what experts call a volcanic tsunami is forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in the philippines tal volcano is in the middle of a lake and it's fear that an underwater eruption could cause a destructive waves jamila undergone reports from batangas province. i'm not there is fear and anxiety here thousands of people are fleeing their homes and looking for a safe place to go everything happened in an instant i'll volcano in the northern philippines spewed ashes steam and lava on sunday a violent activity not see for decades and raising the threat not just to those living in the provinces of the day but even in the capital manila where many people also woke up to a city covered in now. driving to but down this was a difficult journey we cam

washington. meanwhile apple has rejected accusations that it's failed to help enough with the investigation intothat shooting the tech giant says it handed over everything to the f.b.i. as requested attorney general william bonneville says apple didn't help unlock 2 phones that belong to the attacker the u.s. says it will continue to raise concerns over egypt's human rights record after the death of an american man in any gyptian prison rights groups say mustafa qassam was on a hunger strike to protest his conviction when he died on monday the 54 year old to egyptian u.s. citizen was arrested in cairo in 2015 during a crackdown on protests against president abdel fatah sisi same had long insisted he was falsely charged and had no links to any opposition groups the u.s. says his death was needless and avoidable democratic senator chris murphy says washington should consider withholding military aid to egypt in a tweet murphy said like thousands of egypt's political prisoners should have never been detained and he said the secretary of state must remind egypt that military aid is legally tied to r

service tax that's a 3% of the on french revenue aimed at large online firms like google apple and facebook. is in washington instead agreed to continue negotiations at the o. e. c. d. where international tax records in the works. france has already said that any deal reached at the oecd wood replace its own tax. take a look now at monday's trading acti markets were closed in thunited statates for martin luther king day. b but a b bit a mixed bag on the major europeann indices to kick off we can see here. the footstsie finisishinge day down about a thirdrd of a pepercent. similar story on the ?ak conta dax m meanwhile over in frankfurt with some slslht gains.hare is up about the 50% there. investors were also taking isn't our news from the international monetary fund. on the eve of the world economic forum summit in davos switzerland the fund has revised its annual growth projections downward. i am f. now projects global goethe to reach three point 3% this year. down 210% from its previous forecast back in october. earth next year meanwhile projected to hit three point four percent. a slowdown in india degr

and they were one of our largest exports for washington apples. today canada, you can see a similar story. prior to the north american free trade agreement, our products into that country were roughly about $2 billion. today they're $9 billion. so continuing to modernize the north american free trade agreement is an important step for washington and for our economy. the important aspects of this deal help us open and get a fair playing field for wheat, for making sure that digital trade continues in a fair way, and that dairy products are accessed into canada in a fair way and that our wine industry, believe it or not, canadians drink a lot of wine, particularly in british columbia, and they have not always given us fair access to that market. so it is very important that it will increase access to washington wines into canada, which is the largest market for washington wines buying about ten million a year. but as i mentioned, usmca will maintain a duty-free access for our dairy products. it will certainly make sure that our wheat products are on

apple is refusing to do so. cnn's evan perez is live in washington. we've seen these cases, evan. ple help the justice department when it comes to cases like this? >> good morning, alisyn. it turns out apple says it cannot do that. there's only so much they can do to sort of defeat the encryption technology that they have on every single iphone. let me step back and talk a little about what happened yesterday. the attorney general announced what happened in pensacola, the case of a saudi cadet student training there with the naval air station, that that was a terrorist attack. and we have 21 saudis now being kicked out of the united states as a result of this investigation. but as a result of this, the fbi has been struggling to get into two iphones found on the body of the shooter. so they've asked apple to help them unlock it. the attorney general says that apple has not provided substantive assistance to the fbi in this investigation. apple responded last night by saying that they reject that characterization. they've turned over gigabites of information and that the fbi only re

washington. >> authorities claim apple has been unwilling to assist them in accessing the gunman's two damagedes. but apple says they've been cooperating and weren't even told about the second phone until last week. >>> now to the race for 2020 where friction is brewing between the two big progressive stars ahead of tonight's debate. senator elizabeth warren has confirmed reports senator bernie sanders told her during a private meeting that a woman could not win the white house in 2020 against president trump. sanders denies making that remark. the meeting happened in december of 2018 as they discussed the election. despite the disagreement, both candidates say they're still good friends and will continue to work together to defeat trump. >>> meanwhile there's one less democrat on the campaign trail. senator cory booker is dropping out of the race for president after struggling to raise enough money and failing to qualify for two debates in a row. booker's message of unity and love failed to resonate with voters. his exit means former massachusetts governor deval patrick is now the only black

washington. on our us news feed, we're reporting on president trump's latest attack on apple.ooter who carried out an attack on a us base. the financial times looks into the rescue package offered by the government to save flybe after a £100 million investment plan failed. and as we have just said, a rutland drive—through has been a proof of mcdonald's. it is the one county in england that is yet to have the golden arches. and finally, the daily expressjoins the prime minister's plea for crowd funders to finance the cost of ensuring big ben bongs for brexit. with me isjeremy thomson cook founder of complete currency consulting. and you are the perfect gas for this morning because it is all about the currency for many new paper is today. japan times has it on its front page. the straits times as well. what do you make of their coverage because they're sort of talking a lot about the fact that this is all about politics. it has nothing to do with technicalities and yet, this is a semi—annual report to congress which is supposed to bea report to congress which is supposed to be a

reporting from washington natalie mcgill predicted tonight as every new yorker knows the big apple is the greatest city in the world but it could stand to be made just a little bit greater by improving its public transit that's why governor cuomo has pledged to add $500.00 new boys and girls in blue to keep their watchful eyes on the city's subways critics claim that this money could be more efficiently spent elsewhere but the n.y.p.d. disagrees and asked us to just think how much faster the trains would run if you weeded out all the potential criminals the new transit cops are going after favor of acres and vagrants to wait is that a troll lady no. i can get down with busting acoustic guitar a surprising one the wall covers but this is too far for over 3 years this chair a woman also known as elsa has served the broadway junction station with her homemade cinnamon coated fried dough sticks providing both a hearty breakfast the hardworking brooklynites on their way to an early morning shift and a delectable dinner to drunken trust fund kids on their way home from a late night body poe

the threat here between bezos and "the washington post," amazon, the white house, apple, it's very fraughttraordinarily fraught. the idea michael sanchez was the one who provided the information and saudi government was hacking, those are easily connected. someone had had to send a whatsapp message and he had to trust it and open it that remains to be seen if that's the link. it is very fraught it also connects the backdoor conversation a little, which is hardware backdoor into the phone implies the government in possession of your phone can go unlock your phone and read it. but that does not prevent whatsapp from having vulnerabilities. it does not prevent ios itself from having vulnerabilities. you see the stakes of security conversations are so high and so fraught, now they involve massive amounts of government intervention and very fraught politics in the region i think just saying it's going to be transactional, we will get a backdoor because we have tariffs, that is tim cook not holding up this end of the bargain. >> let's talk about this as spyware. a lot of people are not thinking

davos, he said he confident huawei can survive further attacks from washington on business impact would not be very significant. appleanning a move into original podcasting. people familiar with the plans tell bloomberg apple is in discussions to make original podcasts related to programs ons would not be very significant. its video streaming service. apple sent out a request for pictures last summer asking , podcast producers to pitch ideas with connection to its shows. librane has left facebook project. it wants to focus on its own digital payments efforts instead. the libra association is down to when it wasrom 28 launched in those are the top june. global tech stories we are watching. taelor. taylor: thank you. netflix has since recovered in after-hours trading. they expect to add fewer subscribers this quarter than analysts had expected. for reaction on the netflix numbers, let's bring in dan morgan, senior portfolio manager at a company which owns shares in netflix. dan joins us from atlanta. i want to show you a chart that i'm showing inside my terminal here, and it is the story that you are pointing out as we

washington trip. and the trillion-dollar club. alphabet joins applen reaching a trillion dollar market cap. good afternoon, this is "bloomberg: surveillance." i'm in london with tom keene in new york. every day, i look at the money markets and probability of a rate cut. after today's dumbfounding retail figure -- retail sales markets aremoney 75%gesting a probability -- probability of rate cuts. tom: if there is a unit dynamic if units were down, and i do not know about digital, cyber monday , and all of that, but also the discounting is something we are going to see in the next 90 retail.-- 90 days from francine: now let's get to the bloomberg first word news with viviana hurtado. the government saying in 2019, the gdp is rising 6% still, in line with aging'-- beijing's target. a sign of a stronger economy will be on the way. on the capitol hill, where there was a rare show for bipartisan trip and a rare win for president trump. ,resident trump's agreement last night, democrats getting behind a deal, the biggest roadblocks were on labor, the environm

isn't being made on a street corner standing upon a wooden apple box no it was broadcast to the world from the national press club here in washington d.c. in the form of the bulletins now famous doomsday clock which of the nation reports has since its inception in 1987 served as a warning to the world about the perilous state we all live in thanks to the creation and deployment of nuclear weapons and now that clock is sitting just 100 seconds to midnight 100 seconds in a press release the bulletin explained why the hands on the clock now sit 100 seconds away from oblivion stating humanity continues to face 2 simultaneous accidental dangers nuclear war and climate change that are compounded by a threat multiplier cyber enabled information warfare that undercuts society's ability to respond the international security situation is dire not just because these threats exist but because world leaders have allowed the international political infrastructure for managing them to erode. so today my friends as we sit . perilously close to the edge i think it's time we explore not only how we got here but just where we hope to go as we start w

barr criticized apple for not helping the fbi get access to the shooter's personal smart phone. joining us is byron york. chief political correspondent for the "washington working with big tech. pompeo talking to the leaders of some of the big tech firms. barr is talking straightforwardly about what has to change with apple. we are seeing a real confrontation with big technology by the top -- some of the top members of this administration. >> on this specific case. there are two big issues. one, why are we inviting anti-american foreign nationals into the country for military training. that's a question right there. and the other question is with apple. here we have a dead shooter in a case that has been determined to be terrorism for which the u.s. government has a court order. and apple is not allowing them or revealing to them access to the dead shooter's iphone. we had this situation in 2015, a terrorist killed 14 people in california. and we mad the same situation, apple would not help the government in that case. lou: in point of fact that is taking sides against the country that you owe allegiance to in the case of am or any of the ask ask compan

apple's work common in the north. john adams's started his day with the tankard of hard cider. that was on the decline. probably because washington did not, as proximate to the production of cider. theit was more recently consume. whiskey, by contrast, was that traveled most easily. and particularly as you think about the nation's growth, the corn-appalchian west, could most easily be transported as a distilled spirit or whiskey. corn whiskey. madeira, there is always been a class element, classic take on wine, that continues today. wine has always been the refined palate. maderia, although today we would not think of it as a wine snob's wine, was at that time the wine of the elite. madeira is a fortified wine. brandy is added. a higher alcohol by volume. perhaps quicker way to get drunk. was commonly served and boarding houses. and the people that i studied, certainly madeira was the drink of choice. host: congress was smaller and the country was smaller. you have a sense of what percentage of approximately had families back in their districts versus those who were bachelors? dr. balcerski: that is an excellent point, because wi

on the do you 29,000 >>> china confirmed it had sign a phase one trade deal in washington next week, and a report that apple is seeing strong sales in china, and that helped the nasdaq cross 9200 for the first time sue has the update. >>> house minority leader kevin mccarthy slamming house speaker nancy pelosi and democrats on their plans to vote as will as plotti's continues efforts >> we're in our first week back in session in a new year, and the majority is only focused on two things, first stalling of their self-described urgent impeachment. secondly, blaming american for iran's escalation. >> more cases of vapinging illnesses and injuries have been reported the cdc says ago of january 7th there's been -- at least 57 deaths have been reported in 27 states and washington, d.c >>> and the british tabloids are criticizing pretty harry and megle markelle to step back from their royal duties meanwhile, the queen and prince charles has directed their teams to find solutions to the situation. >> it was pass nating what philip wham had to say. >> he's had quite a lot of impact on the sovereign grant, so he know

isn't being made on a street corner standing upon a wooden apple box no it was broadcast to the world from the national press club here in washington d.c. in the form of the bulletins now famous doomsday clock which of the nation reports has since its inception in 1987 served as a warning to the world about the perilous state we all live in thanks to the creation and deployment of nuclear weapons and now that clock is sitting just 100 seconds to midnight 100 seconds in a press release the bulletin explained why the hands on the clock now sit 100 seconds away from oblivion stating humanity continues to face 2 simultaneous axis then she'll dangers nuclear war and climate change that are compounded by a threat multiplier cyber enabled information warfare that undercuts society's ability to respond the international security situation is dire not just because these threats exist but because world leaders have allowed the international political infrastructure for managing them to erode. so today my friends as we sit . perilously close to the edge i think it's time we explore not only how we got here but just where we hope to go as we s

barr criticized apple for not helping the fbi get access to the shooter's personal smart phone. joining us is byron york. chief political correspondent for the "washingtonh big tech. pompeo talking to the leaders of some of the big tech firms. barr is talking straightforwardly about what has to change with apple. we are seeing a real confrontation with big technology by the top -- some of the top members of this administration. >> on this specific case. there are two big issues. one, why are we inviting anti-american foreign nationals into the country for military training. that's a question right there. and the other question is with apple. here we have a dead shooter in a case that has been determined to be terrorism for which the u.s. government has a court order. and apple is not allowing them or revealing to them access to the dead shooter's iphone. we had this situation in 2015, a terrorist killed 14 people in california. and we mad the same situation, apple would not help the government in that case. lou: in point of fact that is taking sides against the country that you owe allegiance to in the case of am or any of the ask ask companies head qua

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on monday at six synagogue in washington dc, he will offer us pots on american political divide. also that they will be at green appleks in san francisco. print up with technology reporter and a wiener who will recount her experiences working work silicone valley expert up. wednesday will be back in san francisco for university of texas professor samuel woolley discussion on how technologies are being used to minute late public opinion. on thursday look first at brown university were international studies professor peter endres will provide a history of war through drugs. back to the nation news capital for an event at politics and prose books on friday with editor who will argue this morning american institutions, rather than replacing them, will unite the country. all of these events are open to the public. in attendance, take those picture and take those set book tv on twitter facebook or instagram. book tv in primetime stars now. first retired career foreign service officer, talks about u.s. policy in the middle east. in the recent tensions between the u.s. and iran. and then history professor, davos, recounts a

washington these days. i'm tom steyer and i approve this message. let's make change happen. >>> the u.s. attorney general is calling out apple for not assisting in a federal terrorism investigation. now ilabt the saudi aviation student who opened fire at a florida naval base. 3 american service members were killed. well now federal investigators have the shooter's iphone, and they want apple's help to unlock it. well, of course this is not the first time apple has taken this kind of heat. the company refused to write code to allow access to a suspect's phone in the san bernardino mass shootings back in 2015. >>> thousands of iranians protesting their own government after word they shot down a ukrainian plane in a missile strike on u.s. forces. 176 people on board were killed. it was shot down just hours after iran launched a strike in retaliation for the u.s. killing of general qassem soleimani. >> we've warned the iranians repeatedly, i've done so personally myself, that an attack that took american lives would not be tolerated, and they tested us. >> the trump administration says the death of soleimani makes americans safe

ago july 2019, congressman yoho would travel from washington to new york and beat the crazy traffic in midtown manhattan and met with her in the big apple, and and also attended a gala dinner where she received a major gift from national endowment of democracy and the freedom house for her outstanding leadership in defending taiwan's sovereignty, democracy, political freedom, civil liberties, and human rights. and just to remind you, because of all this great american organization,, ngos, what they've been doing, , the right things in been doing, national endowment,on freedom house and there's a couple of others being blacklisted by china, and just yesterday the human rights watch was denied entry in hong kong again because of what this organization has been doing, something right. so this is a very important issue here and we always believe that any proud country, united states, taiwan, big or small, like any proud individual, man and woman in this room, if you don't stand for something, you are far from anything. and this is what the general 11th election in taiwan were all about. this is what the robust u.s.-taiwan relations are abou

apple and other technology companies to help us find a solution so we can better protect the lives of the american people and prevent future attacks. >> sandra: griff jenkins following this developing story for us from washington. griff, good morning. >> good morning, sandra. apple rejecting claims it did not provide assistance in the wake of the shooting. issuing the lengthy statement saying this -- we reject the characterization that apple has not provided substantive assistance in the investigation. our response has been timely, thorough, and are ongoing. the company says they only received requests and generate eighth and had a call with the fbi to provide technical assistance. the fact remains, while the fbi was able to reconstruct the two iphones at the shooter tried to destroy during the rampage that killed three and wounded eight others, and despite a court order, they cannot unlock the anencrypted devices that apple's help. the frustration is very clear the doj. >> i also want to add that we don't want to get into a world where we have to spend months and even years exhausting efforts when lives are in the balance. >> and the tech giant addressing the need or issue of using backdoors, something they w

stock buybacks have gotten a bad name in washington but we know this money will be resisted in smaller companies, it goes into you know funding of future apple companies, it is good for everyone. >> susan, how many companies does apple buy every two weeks they seem to buy a new company? >> yes, right, not for a lot of money, i think they bought one an artificial intelligence and health care, they don't make bit acquisitions, last one of the beat. >> fantastic for them. werewolves are a booming business. david: great reporting, we appreciate it. >> we mention global fears growing over coronavirus, disease control and department of health and human services reveal more details about government's screening effort here in united states we go to jeff gloc flock. reporter: yesterday 5 airports were screening folks, quarantine centers, they are calling them now it is 20, including 5 from yesterday, chicago, yfk, now to smaller airports. officials want to get on the ground in china, but they are not being per midded to yet by chinese government, the health and human services secretary, saying they need to be on the ground. >> getting w.h.o., cdc exp

that and whether they might be turned off by apple as these new phones come to market over the next few months >> meanwhile, chinese ceo will travel to washingtont week to sign a trade deal with the u.s., following months and years. >> let's bring back the global head of commodities research who is still with us let's talk about the phase one trade deal with china. part of the alleged pledge is that china will be buying more u.s. agricultural products is that being fully priced into u.s. life stock and ags at this point from a commodities perspective? >> the answer is no because there's still a lot of uncertainty about exactly how you could achieve 40 or potentially $50 billion of agricultural purchases last year it was around $17 billion. >> even before the trade war it was $20 billion. >> so the increases we're talking about are tremendous the other factor that makes it difficult is because of the asian swine flu, you don't have the same amount of animals who can eat all of the soybeans if you brought them into china. so if you put it altogether, you go what is china short, what is the u.s. long, you put it together and the two markets where

apple go aad-to-head over unlockin killer's iphone. aeteran's sobering take on survival skills and much more. ♪ >> this is "pbs newshour" from wetatuos in washingtonm the west at walter cronkite university in arizona. judy: we returned to the upcoming impeachment trial of president trump. lisa desjardins has new details. lisa: madam speakeris tomorrow the day? lisa:el nancy pi told house democrats they will vote on sending articles of impeacatent to the s tomorrow. this after pelosi held t to impeachmenarges over three weeks. democrats insisted it was the right call. >> it is important to have made a point about the fairness of this whole process. lisa: this sets up the trd presidential impeachment trial in u.s. history. president trumbull face two charges, abuse of power and obstruction of justice. it centers around president trump's phone call to volodymyr zelensky last summer, to investigate his opponent joe biden for possible corruption related to time his son hunter served on a ukrainian energy board. democrats charged trumpl froze viilitary aid and blocked a white house meeting in attempts to get that investigation. on the others of the capi

the f.a.n.g.s except for apple over the past year jim cramer speaks with microsoft's ceo satya nadella tonight. he joins us live from microsoft's headquarters in redmond, washington. you have breaking news then we will talk about microsoft and satya. >> microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030 what that mean is these guys are putting the hammer to everybody, suppliers, themselves, whatever is necessary to reverse what's going on for hundreds of years i think they can do it because remember they are a powerful force when it comes and to data centers. i think they can make an impact. this is real this is not green wash. >> give us insight to the conversation you think you are going to have with satya tonight. >> i think we have to talk about how this company reinvented itself we have to talk about how he has decided these are the things we have to do in order to be a real and a good company you have got to make profit, make profit along the way of trying to make society better. it is interesting. this is not a milton friedman story. this is a company that is uniquely trying to i would say evolve its stripes of course we are going to find out about what's going on

apple, which make profits in this country. the so—called tech tax is due to come into force in april. downing street said today the new tax would go ahead despite a threat of retaliation from washingtononomics editor faisal islam reports from the world economic forum at davos in switzerland, where the argument came to a head. the virtual business giants of the tech world have a very physical presence on the streets of davos at the world economic forum, where they need to keep the world's powerbrokers on side. taxing them has been tricky and is now a global diplomatic incident, with britain committed, in april, to a 2% tax on the uk sales of the likes of google, facebook and amazon. sales of the likes of facebook, google and amazon. as we leave... here, the chancellor under pressure internationally, in particularfrom president trump's treasury secretary. can they get a trade deal with you if they insist on introducing a digital tax in april? well, we will be having some private conversations about that. i'm sure the president and boris will be speaking on it as well. you know, if people want to just arbitrarily put taxes on our digital companies, we will consider arbitrarily putting t

apple, which make profits in this country. the so—called tech—tax is due to come into force in april. downing street said today the new tax would go ahead, despite a threat of retaliation from washingtoneditor faisal islam reports from the world economic forum at davos in switzerland, where the argument came to a head. the virtual business giants of the tech world have a very physical presence on the streets of davos at the world economic forum, where they need to keep the world's power brokers on side. taxing them has been tricky and is now a global diplomatic incident, with britain committed, in april, to a 2% tax on the uk sales of the likes of google, facebook and amazon. here, the chancellor under pressure internationally, in particular from president trump's treasury secretary. can they get a trade deal with you if they insist on introducing a digital tax in april? well, we will be having some private conversations about that. i'm sure the president and boris will be speaking on it as well. you know, if people want to just arbitrarily put taxes on our digital companies, we will consider arbitrarily putting taxes on car companies. another trade power play from the us. the chancel

baltimore, and apple lis,and he goes -- annapo and he goes and makes a speech, surrendering his sword and his commanding goes back to fredericksburg. when king george the third is told george washington has laid down his sword, like cincinnatus, to go back, he said he will be regarded as the greatest man in the world. that was the king of england who is the head of the british empire, which had dominion over so much of the world, who is now saying george washington would be regarded as the greatest man in the world. this is high praise. this is incredibly high praise. clear, it's clear these qualities, the integrity, the honesty, the courage, the , itsty, two term limit wasn't mandated by law but washington said two terms is enough and that became standard for all american presidents until franklin roosevelt. where did he get these from? he clearly got them from his mother, so she should be ofarded not as the founder america or anything like that at all, but simply the inspiration for the founding of america, or one of the great inspirations for the founding of america. that's really why i wanted to write the book because history has been so unkind to her over the last 250-300 years.

ago july 2019 congressman yoho would travel from washington to new york and beat the crazy traffic in midtown manhattan and met with her in the big apple and also attended on gala dinner where she received a major gift from the national endowment of democracy and freedom house for her outstanding leadership in defending taiwan's sovereignty and democracy. political freedom, civil liberties and human rights. just to remind you because of all this great american organization, and ngos, what they have been doing in the writings of them and doing national endowment, freedom house and couple of others being blacklisted by china and just yesterday mr. -- of the human rights watch was denied entry in hong kong again because of what this organization has been doing something right. so, this is a very important issue here and we always believe that any proud country of the united states, taiwan, big or small is like any proud individual, men and woman in this room. if you don't stand for something you will fall for anything and this is what the january 11 election in taiwan was all about, and equal -- this is what the robust u.s. taiwan relatio

washington have the smartwatch. virginia democratic senator mark warner owns an apple watch, but roll call noted it cannot be confirmedf he had it on the floor. the supreme court come the standardbearer of banning electronics from the court room, does not allow apple watches in the court room, among features at the latest apple watch they write, the cellular capabilities, which newer wearers can use by leaving their cell phones behind. they can call, text, and surf the internet. we will see if the apple watches remain on the wrists of those senators when they reconvene today, especially after as much attention as they got yesterday. host: 1:00 watch it on c-span2. independent line, this is garrett. caller: good morning. i would basically like to say that i am somewhat disappointed in the proceedings in the impeachment trial. it closely resembles high school football rivals. democrats and republicans just push back in any matter in congress. i don't know, if anything good comes from this impeachment trial, i simply hope that maybe it will be the end of parley potter -- of party politics, because they clearly do not wor

apple. would you be putting money into the big tech stocks now? >> well as a washington analyst stuart i would just say all this hype about breaking up the tech industry, or going after the financial industry, it's not going to happen as long as the senate stays republican and i think that's likely, that's the firewall. so any kind of radical agenda against these industries would die in the senate. stuart: i just want to put those stocks back up on the screen there. we had mcdonald's on there, microsoft, these are the stocks that have propelled the market, the dow, so quickly, from 28 to 29,000. it was less than two months, less than a two-month period when we did it. mcdonald's has gone up 7.2% in that less than two months. even though the ceo left, and i'm not sure, but walt disney is only up a fraction, .3%, that's it so that didn't give a great boost to the dow, american express, 5.8% please remember, 5.8% sounds not that great, but it's spectacular, for a company of that size in that timeframe. show me apple can you do me apple and mcdonald's again and microsoft aga

apple. finishingoubled ge strong for 2019. centsvious beat by four for earnings, but the stability of the financial ratios, it is a usual ge terse presser out of washingtonket clearly likes it with a left. the company delivers organic revenue growth which was iconic from years ago as he writes the ship. of thes about priorities leverage of the balance sheet as they move forward into 2020. viviana: we begin with the coronavirus. it is prompting airlines to cancel flights to china. cathay pacific will cut flights to the mainland by 50% or more. dailyh airways halting flights to beijing and shanghai. united airlines will reduce flights. the pentagon raising the number of u.s. soldiers injured in a missile attack on an iranian base in -- on a base in iraq. concussion or brain injury. the most valuable tech company reported that her than expected -- better than expected revenue. apples forecast also beat estimates. global news 24 hours a day, on air and @quicktake on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. hurtado.ana this is bloomberg. tom: i want to bring up a chart as we go to william power. bring up the char