let's go dover -- let's go to stephen engle. you expected it to be higher after the announcement on friday. then, another rumor and report this weekend. take us through the story. stephen engle: they had a quarter-point boost after the report from the chairman and they said they could relocate the headquarters. on sunday, we have the news from the sunday times with the unnamed sources. they said that hsbc may spin off the retail banking business and reemerge. again, the report said that no deal was imminent. it did not say where it got the information. it was moving the market and it was the most since it was up at 5%. the other one got tons of information in hong kong. there is speculation that if they move the headquarters, it would likely be back to hong kong, the city that was cofounded in 1865. many say this would be a likely scenario. the talk emerged and they put out a statement saying, they will take a positive attitude should they decide to move back. again, they say they have links to hong kong. jonathan ferro: is the

nbc's richard engle is in kathmandu. communications even by satellite have been very difficult today and tonight. so we've asked richard to file this tonight from his reporting today. >> reporter: rachel what's amazing about this story, even three days after this earthquake when we speak to medical officials, military officials, they have no idea of the scale of the problem. they are all concerned that they are going to eventually reach some village or town that has been cut off because the roads are blocked, because it's inaccessible because of avalanches or landslides, and they're going to find that the town is destroyed and all the people killed. so they are very cautious about the death toll. now they talk about 4,000. but they are very worried that in the coming days, as they learn more that the number could rise dramatically. this is the moment nepal was brought to its knees. the quake left thousands dead and much of this already poor country without power. short of clean water. centuries-old temples fell. here in

nbc's richard engle is in kathmandu. communications even by satellite have been very difficult today and tonight. so we've asked richard to file this tonight from his reporting today. >> reporter: rachel, what's amazing about this story, even three days after this earthquake when we speak to medical officials, military officials, they have no idea of the scale of the problem. they are all concerned that they are going to eventually reach some village or town that has been cut off because the roads are blocked, because it's inaccessible because of avalanches or landslides, and they're going to find that the town is destroyed and all the people killed. so they are very cautious about the death toll. now they talk about 4,000. but they are very worried that in the coming days, as they learn more, that the number could rise dramatically. this is the moment nepal was brought to its knees. the quake left thousands dead and much of this already poor country without power. short of clean water. centuries-old temples fell. here i

our chief foreign correspondent richard engle has more for us. >> reporter: the yarmouk refugee camp in damascus, or what's left of it, blockaded and bombed back to the stone age, punishment for those that rose up and demanded democracy. no power, no food or water let in two years as the u.n. describes conditions as beyond inhumane. and now, it's gotten even worse. isis moved in earlier this month, releasing this video, claiming to show how they've pushed out local rebels and taken over. the u.n. has now launched a hashtag campaign, #saveyarmouk. its website shows residents burning clothing and furniture to stay warm. this week the security council met. it is said it has become a death camp. one human rights activist told us his group was forced to evacuate yarmouk. >> the children inside yarmouk are hungry. they're eating from the grass of the street. there is no clean water. there is no medical help. there is nothing there. >> yarmouk's 18,000 residents are palestinian refugees driven here long ago by war. now they could become refugees again. >> nearly 10 million syrians have alre

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stephen engle joining us live from hong kong. we are joined by kerry craig the global market strategist great to have you with us. >> let's talk about the premium. we can talk about the overall moves but you think there is some room there even with that epic rally? >> the rally has been going on for a long time now you are seeing their trying to find those arbitrage opportunities. it will eventually evaporate but it will take some time. at the same time you have the investors hungry for stocks. jon: we also see global detachment, the economics in china is not so much right now. >> this is a story about market easing and military easing. there is expectation of bad news being good news. inflation numbers came out this morning and were a little bit better than expected but the number is still very weak it is stabilizing a little bit and will be a challenging year for chinese growth. people expect more easing from the people's bank of china. jon: when you see a chart like this that looks like that how do you play this, bearish wages

stephen engle has this story. good morning. stephen: yes, they are up the most since 2011 up 5.1 percent this on top of a 4.2% rise on friday. a lot of news here that got hong kong wagging because of comments. of course, the sunday times paper in london is reporting without naming its sources the information that hsbc is considering spinning off its retail bank unit for about 20 billion pounds, 30 billion u.s. dollars, and, again, the paper did not give the source for that information, but really here in hong kong, lots of speculation after it was mentioned that they could consider moving their retail bank out of the u.k. because of that bank levy in the u.k., costing the bank about 750 million pounds last year. analysts are saying hong kong obviously could be a choice for the new headquarters as it was the previous headquarters. it was cofounded in hong kong and shanghai back in 1865. the headquarters was here until 19 93, and then they moved to london, so lots of speculation here that perhaps hong kong could again be the home

our chief foreign correspondent richard engle takes us to nepal tonight. >> reporter: flying into kahn katmandu today on a plane full of turkish aid workers, it was clear after saturday's massive earthquake nepal is bracing for worse to come. in the hall, we felt an aftershock, a big one, 6.7, immigration officials ran away from their station. outside the airport tensions turned to scuffles. people here want out before the next quake hits. katmandu is a poor and crowded city built of brick and cement. the nepal ease are staying as far away from buildings as they can. with the aftershocks still coming people here understandably don't want to spend time indoors let alone spend the night in their homes. so they are camping out on the sidewalks and in the parks. any bit of green space is being occupied. to today, violent aftershocks triggered more avalanches and land slides. a british army climbing team pinned down. >> you can hear the rocks crashing down around us. but unfortunately you can see them coming. >> reporter: a few dozen have been rescued from the mountains. but at least 17 hav

. >> i'm joined by nbc chief pentagon correspondent and chief foreign correspondent richard engle. when did the u.s. learn it made this tragic mistake? >> according to senior officials, there were two separate drone air strikes conducted by the cia in the rugged hindu area along the pakistan border. we're led to believe it was most likely across the border these two strikes occurred january 14 january 19. in one of the strikes, the american warren weinstein and the i tal can, two aid workers killed in that strike along with the american who became an al qaeda operative. we learned from our counter terrorism expert evan coleman a short time ago that he was a deputy commander in that region. the second air strike it killed an american who was the chief spokesperson the propaganda for al qaeda in that region for some time. although it's likely that he could have been considered as a prime target we heard from the president today and other officials that the u.s. was unaware that the americans and the italian aid worker were actually in those locations when those drone strikes were con

richard engle reports from italy. >> reporter: so far, just a few dozen bodies have been recovered frommediterranean, but there may be hundreds more. an italian prosecutor told nbc news a survivor from bangladesh told him 950 migrants were packed on to a wooden fishing boat headed for europe. the maltese prime minister says 200 of them were women 50 children. survivors claim hundreds of the migrants were locked below deck when the boat capsized. an official suggested their weight could have quickly dragged the ship to the seabed. europe has experienced a migrant crisis. >> it's a european emergency. so not the problem -- a problem to help europe. >> there is no magic solution but there is a responsibility that we have to exercise together as europeans. >> reporter: warmer weather has brought an increased number of ships. italy rescued 8,500 migrants just this weekend. even before the latest tragedy, 900 had died this year. ten times as many as in the same period last year. why? libya mostly. this is a migration center in libya. nobody here wants to stay. they all want to make their way

>> our chief foreign correspondent, richard engle, thank you very much. >>> let's stay overseas withdon school of economics. thanks for joining us today. >> it's a pleasure. >> we just heard richard talking to us about some of the reaction on the ground in italy. we know, unfortunately, this terrible tragedy involved an italian citizen. what is the reaction coming from our western allies? most of them are not using drones. how are they feel being this news today obviously and then the program more in general? >> well first of all, we have to wait and see. we have not seen any major public pronouncements on the part of america's european allies. but for our american audience, the drone wars so-called the unmanned drone attacks are very unpopular. not just in arab and muslim countries where most of the attacks take place, but also worldwide. the united nations, european civil societies, human rights organizations. american had the organizations view the drone attacks as illegal. as immoral. as you've said more than once on the show hundreds of civilians have been killed in pakistan in

elementary particle nicknaming it the god particle two of the scientists behind the theory peter higgs and engle got the nobel prize in physics. without at a time there would be no molecules, the fundamental building blocks. there would also be no galaxy no planetary system. and no life on earth. >> it contains a ring of super conducting mag nats which boost particles. they will be traveling at almost the speed of light and analyzing their collisions could reveal new scientific secrets. they will look at aries like dark matter the invezible matter which makes up 84% of the known universities but can only be detected by its influence on visible matter like galaxies and planets. there could be more discoveries over the laugh time of this underground science city. naddeen barber al jazeera. >>> the u.s. major league baseball season opens on sunday and bosses hope that knew rules will help bring back some lost fans as john hendron reports from chicago. they are trying to make the famous game faster. modern life seems to have sped up everything including the american national pastime. >> i love baseb

richard engle has the details. the target of terror reportedly pope benedict himself. a plot to target the vatican, italian prosecutors say, by a major al qaeda-linked cell spanning italy a cell broken up today with police raids in seven areas, recorded on police video. 18 arrest warrants nine suspects detained nine others still at large. the suspects are pakistanis and afghans. a key figure prosecutors say, this preacher arrested outside milan. it was a fund-raising cell for al qaeda in pakistan investigators say, in direct contact with osama bin laden's inner circle. italy has been following this group for years, recording thousands of their phone calls. one investigator said that's how that 2010 plot against the pope was finally uncovered. >> this is a series of guys who are involved from sometime back. in some ways we're seeing a historical network being disrupted now. >> r italy days is on edge, and it's not alone. since the paris terror attacks in january, there have been dozens of police raids across europe. in france germany, belgium, great britain and italy. w

richard engle has the details. r the target of terror reportedly pope ben dibts himself. a plot totarget the vatican by a major al qaeda-linked cell. they were broken up and recorded on police video. 18 arrest warrants nine detained and nine still at large. the suspects are pakistanis and afghans. a key figure prosecutors say, this preacher arrested outside milan. it was a fund-raising cell for al qaeda in pakistan investigators say, in direct contact with osama bin laden's inner circle. italy has been following this group for years, recording their phone calls. that's how the 2010 plot against the pope was finally uncovered. >> this is a series of guys that were involved in a plot sometime back. >> reporter: italy these days is on edge. and it's not alone. since the paris terror attacks in january, there have been dozens of police raids across europe. france germany, great britain and italy, with fears of terrorism, anger and anti-immigration se are growing. and now in italy there's more concern than ever with migrants arriving by the thousands every week on boats from l

richard engle, nbc news everest base camp. >>> now alarming moment in the skies over dallas when pilots spotted a flying object coming way too close for comfort and realized it was a drone. all it would take was a collision with an engine or window and a drone could cause a jordy saster in the air. >> it's a danger rowly close call. >> some sort of lighted drone. >> an airbus landing in dallas from new york tuesday night narrowly missing a drone inside controlled air space. >> it was a lighted drone? >> it appeared to be. maybe just a hundred, 200 feet above us. >> the flight was on the final approach to the runway at love field. 600 feet above the ground. that's when the faa says pilots noticed the drone lit with red and green lights below the plane. they watched as it climbed straight up passing a couple hundred feet above their plane. immediately notifying air traffic control. >> airbus reported a drone passing over the top of them right around your present position. >> dallas police launch add search for the copter. >> if they end up colliding with an airliner it's going to be simil

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stephen engle joins us from hong kong.tephen i guess this follows on from the reports late last week that this institution is considering where it is going to be domiciled. i guess spinning off the u.k. bank may be part and parcel of that. stephen: it could help facilitate that move. it has been the buzz in hong kong. the stock surging as much as 6% the most in one session since 2011. it is now at final settlement in hong kong, up about 3.6% for the day. that is on top of a more than 4% gain on friday. that news from the chairman saying they are considering moving the domicile outside of london and analyst we have spoken to say the logical choice would be the original birthplace of hsbc, the former hong kong shanghai banking corporation, being hong kong, which was founded here in shanghai. the other news that came out yesterday, "the sunday times" stating that the banking could be spinning off its u.k. retail business, re-creating midland bank, that hsbc acquired in 1992. this price tag, according to the paper, 20 billion

we hear elliott engle there but chuck schumer has not been overly excited shall we say, about learning about the deal. >> a short statement from chuck schumer purported to be the next minority leader of the democrats, thomas this is going to be a tough sell for president obama. he's going to face near universal republican opposition. we're starting to see statements coming from republicans such as homeland security chairman who setd the consequences will be dire if the deal moves forward and john boehner saying he wants to have a robust examination of the perimeters of this deal and that congress wants to get a real good thorough look at it. what's going to be interesting though, you're starting to see a lot of democrats saying we're not going to reserve judgment just yet on this deal but what we're going to do is really want to be able to have a review of it. you sort of have seen the legislative branch and executive branch we don't want you guys to have all of the power here. right now according to my calculations, 64 senators that would like this corker menendez deal which would con

totally other kind of question, because the default thing for paintings is there made in the steve englen the studio. charlie: david phil's sylvester's idea. here is him talking about his studio. >> i am not just working alone in a room. i have 130 people in my studio. a hundred people work at the foundry in germany. i am affecting the lives of a lot of people. we are involved with art. everybody is getting a better understanding of art. we are creating these things. i first started to work with people when i went to a foundry. i don't have a foundry. i don't have facilities to cast myself. you learn how to work with people and to trust working with people. charlie: you are doing this at gagosian. i would have expected you to do this at moma. john: i was originally. moma has a rule that senior people have to leave at 65 years old. i had three exhibitions. i realize if i try to do all of them, i would be at moma still. we agreed i would not do that. when larry asked me to do a show at the gallery, i said i know exactly what i would like to do. i would like to do a show of artist studios.

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richard engle is there and filed this report earlier today. >> reporter: officials here tell us any death toll at this stage is an estimate. they're coming to terms with the scale of this disaster. the aftershocks are continuing. the entire citykathmandu. people try to keep their children fed clean, and away from buildings. the sent secenter of kathmandu is the most popular area. a nine story tower over 150 years old now just a stump. a temple compound that was older reduced to a pile. volunteers dig with their hands. they don't expect to find survivors, just bodies. police have found around 150 of them in this area. she used to come to this same spot. >> why are you here today? >> i used to come every day, sit here. it's my place, my country, my people. >> this is also the height of tourism system. an american visitor captured this of guests huddled in front of the hotel after the earthquake and aftershocks. >> a huge crowd and aftershocks afterwards. everyone was saying get down get down. >> what's happening on the east slopes of mount everest is far less clear. there were more avalanch

nbc's richard engle reports from the worst-hit parts of cass man you do -- of kathmandu. >> reporter: the entire city seems to have moved outside. families live on curbs trying to keep their children fed, clean, and most of all, away from buildings. the historic center of kathmandu is the city's most popular attraction by far with ancient temples and palaces that bore the pursuant to brunt of the earthquake. where a nine-story tower happen over 150 years old now just a stump. a temple compound even older reduced to a pile. volunteers today were digging with their hands. they don't expect to find survivors, just bodies. police have already found around 150 of them in this area. this man used to come to this spot. why are you helping out today? >> i've been here every day, used to come here and hang out, to sit around here. it's may country my people. >> reporter: this is also the height of tourist season. an american visitor captured this video of guests huddled in front of their hotel during saturday's earthquake and aftershocks. >> a huge crowd and we had a couple of big aftershocks

let's go to richard engle. >> reporter: it is now a city where people aren't living inside their homes. every green taste space has been taken over. people are afraid to go into their homes, to sleep inside their homes. behind me is one of the biggest parks in the city. but it is not just this park. people are sleeping and cooking with their feels on the sidewalks, in the middle of the streets. they are afraid there could be another major earthquake or just more of the aftershocks. we felt today one of the aftershocks when we arrived. it happen just as we land at the airport and we were going through immigration. suddenly the building started shaking. the immigration officers ran outside for cover. then they came back. i think people have been amazingly calm in the several hours we've been here. we've seen people quite resilient, taking it with a take it as it comes attitude. there are still foreigners in the city and they don't have -- their situation isn't much better than the people who are living in the parks behind me. the hotels are operating at a status of kind of semievacuation

stephen engle, bloomberg, shanghai. : volkswagen may have taken a wrong turn in china.y are a maker says it will not beat industry growth as they catch in for suvs and minivans. the company that was the top-selling foreign maker in china last year, deliveries dropped in the first quarter creative local partners have been offering discounts to attract chinese buyers amid a slowdown in the u.s. and europe. the chinese automaker is looking to build a sports sedan to be unveiled in concept for at the saying hi auto show this week. the segment is currently dominated by models such as the bmw three series and the mercedes cls. they seek to step up competition to local -- the global automakers. coming up next, fill in the driving seat at the box office. 7 cruises past $1 billion. here in hong7:30 kong. if you are joining us on a monday morning here in asia. a little bit of a gray weekend and it continues to be a little gray this monday. we are 30 minutes away from the open of trading in australia, japan, and south korea. on your tv, on your mobile, and online, you are watching

stephen engle reports from the shanghai auto show ahead of the official start this week.eed to adjust the color on your screen. there is a murkiness that permeates more than just the environment. economic growth is slowing. the auto industry has matured to the point there is not much visibility. chinese sales are forecast to roughly the year, same pace as last year. that is half of what it was in 2014. pension at some dealerships who cannot meet lofty sales targets and are asked to skim margins to move stocks. >> the margins reached a new normal. rates are slowed down. enviably solid growth rate. >> we are about putting 5 million plus this year. beijing and shanghai alternate every other year, hosting china's largest car show. it seems like every few years the cities try to outdo each swankyn an ever larger exhibition center. thing that is not new is china's love of suvs. not necessarily for an suv's eight of the top 10 selling were chinese brands. recordhey reported vehicle deliveries last year, but for the first time, the big foreign carmakers are being outsold in the h

. >>> in a few minutes, we'll get a report from more than's chief foreign correspondent, richard engle. he's just arrived at a makeshift camp of earthquake survivors trying to cope with the disaster. >>> a new report claiming president obama's e-mail has been read by russian hackers. "the new york times" was told by senior official that some of the president's electronic correspondence was swept up by the hackers in a breach of the white house's unclassified computer system. nbc's kristen welker is at the white house on this sunday. what too we know about the security breach? >> reporter: well, according to "the new york times," russian hackers swept up far more information from the white house's unclassified servers during a cyberattack last october than originally thought, even gaining access to some of the president's emails. it's important to stress these were unclassified emails. still, the hackers could is gained access to sensitive scheduling information, e-mail exchanges with diplomats even discussions about legislation. when asked about the "times" story, the white house told

stephen engle, thank you for that. >> the japanese prime minister has started a week long u.s.focusing on trade and investment and strengthening military ties. why is the prime minister visiting american now? >> it comes at a very auspicious time. 2015 is the anniversary of the end of world war ii. that assertiveness that china has been showing reflects the change in the world order. this is the first time that prime minister, the japanese prime minister come is visiting the u.s. in nine years. that is up first on the japanese leader is visiting after the obama administration has announced its strategic decision focus its efforts on rebalancing to asia. there will be a lot of discussion of how the u.s. can .trengthen ties with japan howell as talking about military ties and economic ties could be bolstered to deter that rice. -- rise. yet, there will be a lot of tension contrary to what both the japanese and the u.s. on japan's war legacy and the way it is handled , the legend atrocities committed by former japanese and neighboring china and south korea. be one to watch out dur

that's get back to stephen engle. is this a trend that could continue?ere could be some legs left in this rally. that is propelling the nikkei to do five above 2000 for the first time since april of 2000. earlier this morning it reached 2006 before paring some gains. you can see some of the biggest gainers. five and a half percent in four-year profit, beat estimates. another heavily weighted stock the operator of unique low -- uniclo. it boosted its forecast by 20%. they make that a new high. we have a frenzy in hong kong. they propped it up on the hang seng. today a bit more muted, even though we heard from the ceo. we heard there is no specified time frame for expanding those quotas. that's a quick look. mostly green. caroline: the possible deal. contest the story. put this into context for us. >> it would include the new york authority. this is the department of financial services. he could be driving the number even higher. that is the benchmark. that is the record paid in 2014. they had 1.1 billion. we had barclays at 451 and lloyd's around 380 3 mi

laura engle live in our new york city newsroom. how did this happen, laura?urvived on rain water and fish for those 66 days but, that of course was not the initial plan. it started off as an adventure back in january to simply sail and go fishing according to his mom. after he wasn't heard from in a week his worried family reported him missing. jordan was living on his sailboat named angel at a marina in conway south carolina, before setting off on his voyage january 23rd. the after the 37-year-old was reported missing, coast guard sent out alerts to being loon the look out. february 8th, they checked financial records to see if he came ashore without being noticed. that search was suspended. a crew found him floating on overturned hull of his sailboat, as you mentioned 200 miles off the coast of cape hatteras. after being rescued by the coast guard he got on the phone with his very relieved dad. >> we prayed and prayed and hoped that you were still alive. so that is all that matters. that is only thing that matters. your mother -- what? >> i was praying for

bill: thank thank you, laura engle.z there, she testified that he asked her to remove a black box from the basement. that she debossed that black box in random trash bin. that was never found. the speculation it may have contained the murder weapon which was never part of the evidence that was put forth here. nor were there any witnesses in this case who testified to the fact that aaron hernandez shot and killed odin lloyd. let's bring in judge andrew napolitano, fox news senior analyst. judge, what is your reaction? >> well you know, martha, it is rare that jurors will return a first-degree murder conviction where all of the, all of the evidence is circumstantial, meaning there is no eyewitness there is no fingerprints on the gun. it is all inferences. so this is an unusual, unusual case quite frankly, i'm a little surprised. i expected there would be some sort of a compromised verdict not because he has any redeeming values whatsoever because the evidence for first-degree murder was not quite as tight as the governmen

he did it in the 2010 campaign when reid was running against sharon engle, a headline changed on oned anybody use the word mccarthyite to talk about a politician on the senate floor using the term "un-american"? >> i totally see what you were saying but want to push back a little, jon. are you sure that's why they killed the article? did somebody actually say that and why didn't you say something at the time? >> well i did -- this is not the first time i've written about this. i talked about why i left the "sun." tra brian greenspun killed this column. there was no mystery about why brian greenspun did this. it became known locally he killed this column. i thought about publishing it a couple other times but after seeing his just complete unrepentance about what he had done essentially saying something in the ends justifying the means, that is harry reid in a nutshell. do whatever it takes. he doesn't care if he takes criticism for it. just get it done. >> okay. >> katty? >> you have covered nevada politics longer than anybody i can think of. i'm i soupassuming in the past you had wr

nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engle reached base camp, he is back in kathmandu this morning. describe what you saw for us. >> reporter: good morning. first of all a bit of news. we spoke to three rescue pilots, all of them have told us that they do not believe that there are any climbers who are still trapped or stranded on mount everest. that most have made their way down to the base camp, the place where we visited today. and are making their way off of the island -- off of the base camp, or they have already been evacuated. the base camp is where the main avalanche occurred and when we were able to visit it today we got a sense of what happened. on saturday around noon when the earthquake struck, a large piece of ice and snow and rock broke off of a mountain overlooking base camp. it fell with incredible speed, that avalanche swept through the middle section of the base camp, taking away tents, sending some climbers hundreds of feet in the airment of it also wiped out the only medical facility on the base camp, killing at least 15, maybe 17 people. maybe more. they haven'