stephen beckett delivered this from guangzhou.ink of drones, perhaps you think of something like this. or maybe this. well, how about this? so this is ehang's testing headquarters in guangzhou, and this is their passenger drone that they are developing. the idea is that this could ferry passengers from a to b around the world and it could even be flying in the skies in the next couple of months. it can go 135 miles per hourfor up to 35 km, so you can imagine if it takes off, it could be a pretty quick way to get around. so this what it looks like inside. got a little cockpit that you can climb into and you can close the door. get yourself nice and cosy. and there's even a seat belt. this can carry up to 220 kilograms, so a couple of passengers, and... you know, it's pretty cosy but if it gets you there quickly, that could be all right. the whole aviation industry has, you know, existed for a century and there was nothing fundamental changed in the past one century. ehang as a company started to think about building a passenger air

tom: sir tom beckett, thank you so much.we will drive for supremeversation with allied commander. this is bloomberg. ♪ nejra: i am nejra cehic tom keene. bevan's.s, james welcome. carry on the conversation that has rocked markets with the u.s. airstrike in baghdad killing qasem soleimani. we were talking about the significance of this figure being killed by the u.s. what does this tell you? >> the thing to remember, the saudi's once said you need to cut off the head of the snake. when they were talking about iran and in many ways this was the head of the snake. soleimani he was -- soleimani was the man who drafted foreign policy for iran. one thing that i think we need to remember is until very recently what many military analysts had been commenting on was the very careful calibration of iranian provocations u.s. in response to the maximum pressure strategy of the u.s. pulled out of the nuclear court. you had the attack on tankers without a drop of oil being spilled. you had the very high-profile warning of what iran can do

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stephen beckett went to guangzhou to visit one of the global leaders in autonomous vehicles to find outsouth of china. about 75 miles upriver from hong kong, it is one of china's biggest and most developed cities. home to around a0 million people, and now it is one of a handful of cities in china running large—scale trails of self—driving cars on public streets. this is pony.ai. you may not have heard of them, but here their cars have become a common sight in the area around their head office. over the last year they have been running an autonomous taxi service in the city. at the moment, the trial is only open to selected family and friends of pony.ai employees. pretty good deal though if you can get access, as it is completely free. with just a few taps on an app, an autonomous taxi will come straight to you. so this autonomous taxi service is operating all around the district of nansha, in around a 100 square kilometre area, mainly the urban bit. so we have quite a lot of choice of where we can go. where shall we go? that is a bit creepy. the driver has got his hands in a kind of rea

stephen beckett delivered this from guangzhou.or maybe this. well, how about this? so this is ehang's testing headquarters in guangzhou, and this is their passenger drone that they are developing. the idea is that this could ferry passengers from a to b around the world and it could even be flying in the skies in the next couple of months. it can go 135 miles per hourfor up to 35 km, so you can imagine if it takes off, it could be a pretty quick way to get around. so this what it looks like inside. got a little cockpit that you can climb into and you can close the door. get yourself nice and cosy. and there's even a seat belt. this can carry up to 220 kilograms, so a couple of passengers, and... you know, it's pretty cosy but if it gets you there quickly, that could be all right. the whole aviation industry has, you know, existed for a century and there was nothing fundamental changed in the past one century. ehang as a company, we started to think about building a passenger aircraft, you know, self—piloting ones, starting from ma

in a 1000000 years that i would and so suddenly is well out of nowhere and i'm yeah i'm doing it beckett university. and says it's really a. when barry people think of universities as i have alito you know they go over their toes in the case of the small over the toes in the case of just but how do you see your rules the university. assisting people over in the bottom in their lives to to something quite different is this an act of thing that you're saying that this is a purpose of one of our purposes other to be to so to us that concept of they are ivory tower is something we want to break down the thing that struck me so the 1st time i met the guys who guys who became members of our of our pretty not our access course it was on a resilience course that my boss and i were running and stump i had asked us to run it so we didn't know what to expect we just knew that we had some people coming out that in and homelessness who were going to be in a room and we were going to philly for a training and as i listened to the insightful things and i know that sounds patronize him but i i can't thi

beckett really does end quick. about 35 years old is the oldest guy on the track right now.it is pretty crazy. it is crazy how much our body has to take and how much impact because the jumps are so big and the racing is so competitive. you have to be a young, fine- tuned athlete to be in the sport. >> i am looking at the tracks that you run. is a difference in the tracks the you go to from circuit to circuit, or do you like some better or some easier or are some harder? but there were definitely harder tracks. it depends on the dirt. for for instance, oakland has some of the best at we have all your. in fact about oakland is the last six years, we have had a different winner. that is because of the dirt. the dirt is so good. the racing act this? you said you started as a kid. was a gradually doing it more until you are doing these amazing jumps we see on screen? >> it is difficult. you start at a young age, and you have to decide if you want to do it. it is not for the faint of heart. you are doing 75 foot ripple jumps where at any moment you could come up short or do someth

potential, particularly if it is in one part of the state rather than another part of the state, beckett have a big impact. i think all we can tell you from the surveys that have been done so far is that it is not at all clear about what will happen caucus night. for those of us that our political junkies that probably , adds to the fun. but as scholars we would like to be able to say something with a little greater certainty than that we have no better guess than you do. >> kelly? >> i have all the answers. [laughter] >> just kidding. >> please share. >> i am keeping those and i will tell you on february 4. no, i completely agree. we are all guessing at this point. polling, especially when you think of who will show up that night, is pretty important. that has changed outcomes of both iowa caucus results and general elections, who shows up. i think it is interesting that diane was exactly right, the three top polling are white men, then we have two qualified women running. i am curious to see how it shakes out. i am most curious how those second choice picks will come, because there is

played her last match in melbourne given a wild card this time around she was beaten by dawn of beckett's it's now 3 slams in a row where she's lost in the 1st round and she set to drop out of the world's top $350.00 she couldn't say if she'd be back next year. it's tough for me to tell it's going to happen in tournaments. no issues though for the 2nd seed carolina police given she safely into round 2 after a comfortable whenever christine m. 11 of each top seed ashley barty is back in action on wednesday david stokes al-jazeera. well that's it for me in a cloud for this news about my colleagues ironically right here another half hour of news in just a couple minutes i felt. big stories generally sounds like the media angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives thing has never really been believed deep modern a war to even separate the screen from the facts the misinformation from the judds on this show is clear and sounds to me and here people just think that we've listening post on al-jazeera frank assessments the one thing about t

proposition 64 which to criminalizes cannabis in california, according to the district attorney diana beckettany has nonprofit criminal conviction data analyzed to be clear, people with marijuana convictions in the county could reach out to see if the records can be cleared. >>> this sunday will be the last day of job for tom sweeney in san francisco. sweeney has been at the hotel 43 years as a doorman, he started in 19 years old, sweeney said he had no idea it would be such a venture. >> shaken has a presence, i met the prime minister, president bush. how many jobs does that happen? >> city two years old, sweeney says he's ready to spend more time with his family, run marathons, and volunteer. >>> the kitchen serves as last meal january 19. the second location in oakland will stay open, also a mexican restaurant close before an anticipated increase in the building for 15 years. >>> interim police chief getting a permanent job, we speak live with ed alvarez about his vision for safety on bart trains. >>> plus. >>> i am the queen, i am a diva. >> still to come we catch up with craig robinson,

risk, i and your top heard it from tom beckett early on friday morning. where is the strategy?at there needs to be a recapitulation, a reinvigoration of an american strategy on the broader middle east. dr. bremmer: there is more of a pivot from the middle east. i do believe that the -- tom: can we afford to leave the middle east? dr. bremmer: a lot more than our allies can afford us to leave the middle east, both in europe and the middle east. when the saudi's were hit by iran, they were so stunned that the united states did not did -- did not do anything to back them up that they started negotiating with the iranians directly. that was the interesting take away. east is clearly going to be a more unstable place going forward. how much of that is going to affect the global marketplace is likely to be reduced because the u.s. is producing much more of energy. francine: if the u.s. can afford to leave the middle east, with russia -- would russia or china not take its place? dr. bremmer: let's be clear. the russians and the chinese do not have allies in the middle east. they have