betty: and i am betty liu.t is always great to join you, pimm. pimm: thank you. we heard everything from jobless claims this morning to the passing greek bailout measure. markets are near the highs of this session as you can see on this chart. in fact, no, it has come down white a bit. -- hasy were trading come down quite a bit. but they were trading at the opening. pimm: the nasdaq is up more than 1%. betty: exactly. let's move over to the oil markets and see how they are trading. even though we are seeing a bit of a gain here, we were trading at a three-month low. that had to do with a stronger dollar. with the news from the ecb with the euro. pimm: and they are going to be spending a lot of money. let's take a look at the bond market. unchanged for the 10 year and basically unchanged for the 30 year as well. we will have to hear what janet yellen says this afternoon. let's take a look at the dollar currencies. the dollar is strong against the at thend take a look pound sterling. the pound is at a seven-year

olivia: i went to bring back in betty liu.p talking about greece, but also today was the jobs report. i know you have been speaking to a lot of business leaders and ceo out there. what are they saying about the state of the u.s. economy? eye onthey all have one greece. that is no doubt. but of course, they're focused on what is going on here in their homeland, in the country. we spoke with david rubenstein. i know we are going to be playing some of that or i know you have already played some of that sound from the interview with him or he agrees there is no lift off yet in the u.s. economy. one ceo who really has his pulse on what is going on in the u.s. is the ceo of southern company, the fourth largest utility company in the u.s. and knows exactly what is going on in the southeast. remember, the southeast is generally one of the fastest-growing and is florida, which has seen huge job growth in certain areas. this is what he said about what he thinks for his business. >> what we're seeing in the southeast traditionally, the s

here is betty liu with cgi president and founder bill clinton.ty: tell me the commitment you think will have the biggest impact that has been made so far at cgi america. mr. clinton: diverse people have a chance to grow with our partnership. some of them that are really exciting are those who have a chance to grow. there was a a fascinating commitment involving financial institutions putting in developmental funds to bring clean energy jobs to native americans. they are still the poorest group of americans. the native americans who live on tribal land who don't have casinos. that has gotten a chance to really blow up. there are several like that. the biggest one in terms of dollars and jobs by far is the continuation of the original $10 billion for the american federation of teachers, infrastructure. to retrofit buildings. the first $5.6 billion of this commitment had been deployed and spent. they created 50,000 jobs. that's a lot of jobs. betty: mr. president, what happens to the foundation's work? the great work you have done -- you mentioned m

i'm scarlet fu with betty liu. betty: it looks like a beautiful day.e're going to get a check on the markets with julie hyman. julie, we are pretty much sitting here at the lows of our session. julie: far from the roof. when our floor detector -- director said we were going to the roof. no, he was literally saying we're going to look at the view from the roof. we are seeing stocks fall to the lows of the session today. we are seen in irving -- earnings driven market over the past several sessions. once again, you can blame most of the decline on disappointing earnings reports. i want to look at a few examples. worst performer in the s&p 500 today, falling the most in a single day since 2008. i was looking at the one-day volume, which is already about five times the three-month average. a lot of volume and a huge to klein, even accelerating as the day goes on. huge decline, even exhilarating as the day goes on, now 18%. disappointing sales of its ms drugs, particularly teixeira. it seems as though novartis is taking some market share from the company. b

betty liu is joining us from there.phanie: she is joined now by jim reynolds, chairman and ceo of capital markets. betty covering shy town. take it away. -- chi town. betty: that is right, jim reynolds who we talked to in chicago, new york, and now here in asked and. great to see you. >> i don't know how it is. you track me down. are stalking you. you have been here three years in a row. of politics. gamut here you are talking about violence, youth violence in chicago? my panel at noon, myself and my cochairman tom wilson, ceo of allstate, our discussion will be on antiviolence efforts in chicago. you may remember, i think we launched our campaign on your show where we raised $50 million in three months from the business community in chicago to fight violence in chicago. , and weow 18 months in are going to talk about what we found and what we are doing, and how we are proceeding to do that. betty: has it gotten any better? you still see the headlines of gang violence in chicago. a.eets of chicago are tons has it gotten

pimm: thank you very much, betty liu. bloomberg market day, look out below, the shale industry safety net is about to give way. how our shale oil drillers may be losing their biggest asset this year. ♪ ♪ pimm: welcome to the bloomberg market day. i am pimm fox. i want to begin with some of the top stories. in eastern tennessee, about 5000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes after a train derailment. a car filled with toxic inflammable gas went off the train -- off the track. officers were hospitalized after breathing in the fumes. the largest spanish language broadcaster in the united states is going public. filing,n, in its ipo said it has the youngest demographic in the u.s.. about 57 million people are in the spanish-language market. markthan six years ago, zuckerberg tried to buy twitter and there is speculation he may try again. they say he is considering whether to buy twitter, citing sources. those are your top stories. we just want it to -- want to take you to the end the annual -- the annual aspen ide

i am betty liu. welcome to "titans at the table." dish network founder charlie ergen has always been something of a fearless renegade. ergen led a group in the 1980's and started dish in the next decade. in the process, he has become one of the richest men in america, worth nearly $20 billion. he stepped out of the spotlight in 2011 and handed the ceo reins to joe clayton. asis back in the hot seat another undergoes change. creating a new over the top product called sling tv and buying up the billions of dollars worth of wireless assets. assets he says can be used to build a legitimate competitor to at&t and verizon. when we first sat down for interview, i asked ergen to describe this new frontier. charlie: now we are in another transformation. it has gone about in two places. one is tv itself is transforming. people are looking for more of what they want to watch. not paying for things they don't watch. they want to watch their tv everywhere, and part of that is the technology of ott, over the top,

betty liu: with the right ingredients -- >> we have sugar and butter. betty: -- celebrity chefs have turned their kitchen chops into sizzling businesses. >> anybody can do this. betty: luring us in with their tips of the trade -- >> it's a very easy recipe. betty: -- and the high-stakes drama of the kitchen. >> i'm dying up here and you're killing me. betty: tv shows, restaurants, and cookbooks. >> i feel like a burger or something. betty: these larger-than-life personalities have made eating into a multi-billion dollar industry. we all know some of the best conversations happen over a meal, so we gathered at a classic new york city restaurant. let's meet the titans. first up, mario batali. shorts, vest, and orange crocs. a le cordon bleu dropout, instead batali got schooled in a remote italian village. he made his splash in new york with babbo, and now he is known around the world for his restaurants, cook books, and personality. mario batali: when you tell me that you're in a hurry, i'm already leaving the house. betty: next, rachael ray. if the kitch

i am betty liu.ording to some reports, it is not so fun to work for charlie ergen. dish network got some of the lowest ratings in the country for its work environment. ergen told me he is trying to change some things internally but also defended the culture he has built at dish. charlie: i am a really great guy to work for if you are a high achiever. if you just want a job, you will probably not like it too much. i think dish is a culture for those people who want to achieve something. there is some uncertainty, as you know, with what you can do with the wireless. it takes a little bit of bravery as a shareholder. i think even for employees, they like to know what will happen tomorrow but we don't always know. it is a special -- it takes trust in your management, a bit of an adventurous spirit to work here. you have to be more of a self-starter. for those people who like that, we have people who started in the warehouse that are executives. people who are achieving their own internal potential and th

betty liu will be back in just about a minute.t's so rare for us to both be on set at the same time. a discussion on china where the stock market has recovered. ♪ matt: welcome back to bloomberg market day. we are looking at a pro-eu rally and athens. keep in mind that although european leaders like to say the referendum was about staying in , andou or leaving the eu greece, the idea was we are voting for or against austerity. it has nothing to do with whether or not we stay in the eu. scarlet: the majority of greeks want to stay. matt: the majority want to stay in the euro but do not want austerity. they want to have their cake and eat it, to bank. -- too. scarlet: we want to stay in the eurozone but we just don't agree with the conditions. let's go straight to the top headlines. matt: the iran nuclear talks continue at this hour. vienna.ry just spoke in he says both parties are in -- he insisted the u.s. will not be rushed. that echoes a twitter posting from iran's foreign minister singh the iranian negotiators will not be rushe

i am betty liu. welcome to "titans at the table." dish network ceo charlie ergen has been known as something of a renegade, being thrown out of casinos for counting cards and other things. in the process of starting his company, he has become one of the richest man in america, worth more than $20 billion. he stepped out of the spotlight in 2011. just four years later, the founder is back in the hot seat. like the satellite tv business, ergen wants to be at the forefront of television change being at the top of sling tv. he wants to buy assets of what he says can be used to build a legitimate competitor against at&t. when we sat down at "titans," i asked him to describe his plan. charlie: people are looking more for what they want to watch and not paying for what they don't want to watch. tv is everywhere. part of that is the technology is over the top that allows customers to do that. the second reservation is wireless. there is only two ways to do this, one is through the wire and the other way is t

arianna huffington joins betty liu.e will get her insight on the media landscape, politics, and much more. plus, we will look ahead at tomorrow's jobs report. all that and more coming up on the bloomberg market day. jack is back. today is jack dorsey's day -- first day at twitter. what can we expect to see with the company back in its cofounders hands? cory johnson from san francisco, how different is the company now than when dorsey left? how might he change at this time? corey: jack dorsey taking the helm from dick costolo. it gives us a chance to really look at the business. what is working, what isn't working, and the way they can squeeze more out of the business. at the end of the day, the most important number might not be the number of users or the different ways people can access twitter or the different things they do on twitter. but how they are able to squeeze more juice out of the lemon, how they can get more dollars out of the customer for this business. this is the number i will be looking at here, the per

i'm mark crumpton here with betty liu.eeing you here. if i had time more. betty: i know, i feel like i should be on the other side of the screen. as we headarkets toward the close, just a few hours away from the closing bell. we are mixed right now. digesting whatl the fed said yesterday, but also the gdp numbers that came out this morning, the second order gdp numbers. a bit of a disappointment there among economists in terms of the topline gdp growth. but we did see consumption of 2.9%, and that seemed to be a bright spot. also in the treasury markets, yes, you see the 10 year yield continues to come down. but the two-year note is rising. the gap continues to narrow and that is because we are expecting september rate hikes. in terms of the currency markets, we've been watching the dollar hover at the four-month high. the euro is trading higher again -- lower again given the dollar strength. bek: a lot of that seems to because the consensus is there will be a fed rate hike in september. for the next two months, that data

stephanie: thank you to our own betty liu.head on "bloomberg market soccer is becoming an increasingly popular sport in the united states. ♪ stephanie: welcome back. i'm sitting in for betty liu. let's take you to the big stories of the market so far today. what have you got? reporter: the major markets are all up about .5%. the nasdaq up about 1/3 of 1%. all of them paring gains from earlier in the day. take a look at my bloomberg terminal. out of the 10 sectors of the s&p right now, we are seeing nine of the 10 sectors here all trading in the green. financials leading the way. this is on the news that ace will acquire chop for about $29 billion. looking at treasuries, they are dropping today. for a second day in a row, the 10 year yield is up to more than 2.4%,little more than thanks to greece's prime minister singh he's ready to accept most conditions for that tsipras saying he's ready to accept most conditions. finally, we want to get to oil. it is trading down today, its lowest level since may 19 trading, $57.42 in change

i am betty liu.s fun to sit down with charlie ergen, but according to some reports, it is not so fun to work for him. from reports in 2012 and 2013, gave dishurveys network some of the lowest ratings in the country for its work environment. ergen told me he is trying to change some things internally but also defended the culture he has built at dish. charlie: i think i am a really easy guy to work for and with if you are a high achiever and you want to achieve something. if you're just wanting a job, you are probably not going to like it too much here. i think dish is a culture for those people who want to achieve something. and there is some uncertainty, as you know, with what you can do with the wireless. our shareholders don't know exactly, so it takes a little bit of bravery as a shareholder. i think even for employees, they like to know what will happen tomorrow but we don't always know what is going to happen tomorrow. it is a special -- it takes trust in your management, a bit of an adventurou

i'm betty liu. matt: i'm matt miller.cks little changed in looking for direction as we close out the week. we go to julie hyman for individual movers. julie: coca-cola enterprises one. the stock is the best performer in the s&p 500 as we get underway. up 11% right now after the wall street journal reported it was potentially considering a three-way deal with its other bottlers, fornish the german when i will need mats help to try and figure out how to pronounce. matt: what's the name? julie: i'm not in going to attempt. it could value in billions of dollars. according to analysts, they say this deal would be dilutive, to buy the iberian or spanish bottler would cost about $5 billion and would boost enterprise earnings-per-share. the german business estimated $87 billion costs would not be helped. i can see matt smiling because i'm sure he has the answer. it's an interesting name. it means freshening drinks. julie: royal caribbean, going to do that one because it's easier for me to say. the company is raising the forecast

betty: i'm betty liu. look at the markets trading here at midday.tocks are paring back from the session lows. remember that they were really taken down overnight by the overnight slump we saw in chinese shares good stocks hitting their lowest level since 2007, down as you can see there 8.5% for the shanghai composite. everything else was pretty much read across the board. while prices are now in a bear slump. they are in a bear market. particular for brent crude, which is rebounding if you look at the six month chart. bathroom we offer a moment. pimm: what are we talking about? $40 a barrel for crude? commodities tend to follow. brent crude is $53. gold, while a little increased, that is not biting well for gold. thus boding well for gold. let us take a look at the bond market. a little bit of a change there . below that crucial 3%. take a look at the two week trend of the u.s. 10-year. prices go higher. let us look at how the u.s. dollar is performing. 11115 against the euro. the pound sterling basically unchanged. we take a look the spot index and

i'm excited to be here with betty liu.t's begin with a look at the markets at this moment. stocks are little changed. we are pretty much near an all-time high for the s&p 500. we are a little bit off the highs of the session.

i am betty liu. here are the top stories making headlines this hour.al motors says you have not seen nothing yet. they easily beat wall street estimates. americans flocked to gm light trucks. sales were stronger in china. the chief financial officer tells us this sets the stage for the next 12 months. >> our growth has been driven by strong performance in north america and china, and we expect that iscontinue, and underpinning expectations that the second half of the year will be better than the first half. betty: gm broke even in europe last year. ford is looking to shake things up in contract talks with the uaw. ford workers have the most general -- generous contracts dating back to 2009 because they did not seek bankruptcy protection like chrysler and gm. if you ever wanted to make a ferrari purchase -- here is an affordable way. the automaker is planning an ipo. no word on the share price, but it is sure to be cheaper than one of their cars. models start at $180,000. the u.s. men's soccer team blew a chance to defend its gold cup title, upset by ja

i am betty liu, here with mark crumpton.ark: our next story fixes to mclean, virginia, a half-hour outside of downtown washington. betty: that is where you will 's singlen bridge bank location. betty: nine republican presidential campaigns love to park their cashier. why? phil mattingly joins us from washington to explain. how could a virginia bank with one branch become the gop's bank of choice? by happenstance. this bank was started in 2007, designed to be a community bank. the financial crisis hit and john mccain was good friends with the chairman of the bank. chain bridge happened to have a clean balance sheet. the mccain campaign don't -- -- that0 million started the process. they have become the goto bank for republicans, largely because they tailor their services to what campaigns need. betty: what is it about this bank that is so attractive? size is offputting to some outside groups but is the most beneficial thing about it. a campaign walks up to a bank and says look, i will be 50 credit cards come a credit line of

i'm betty liu, here with mark crumpton.ark: let's go to julie hyman with a look at the markets right now. a lot of green. we start with two names searching in the defense space. julie: indeed. a lot of earnings driven movers today. northrop grumman trading at records today before the earnings report -- biggest one-day gain in six years. up nearly 8%. both of them reporting earnings that beat estimates. oath of them raising their forecasts. we have seen not as strong defense spending, but they have both found ways to offset that. general dynamics has been selling more gulfstream jets. once in grumman, only the past 20 one quarters hasn't seen an increase in sales, but it's margins are moving as its increasing efficiency. a cool graphic from bloomberg intelligence. at defenseking spending and nondefense government spending. defense spending in the orange. a downturn over the past year. it is rebounding a little bit. the nondefense spending roughly the same trajectory. recessions.are past this shows you what these two companie

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i'm betty liu. seeing strong gains across the board. we are near the intraday highs for the s&p and the dow. the s&p is up about half a percent. the best equity gain yesterday in two weeks. we are building upon that as we gains across the board. we are near the intraday highs for the s&p and thehead to the'. there is technology shares that are tumbling, twitter and yelp. twitter came out with disappointing numbers today. m easily 2 million -- a measly 2 million active users. yelp down a record 28%. part of that has to do with their cutting their sales forecast but also cutting back on their national branding campaign. lots of analyst cutting their forecast on the stock, rating on the stock. a different story in commodities, inventories in the u.s. dropped by over 4 million barrels. were actually a gain which is why you're seeing nymex crude higher than 2%. giving a dropon in oil prices has gone down. also looking at industrial stocks and commodity stocks. oh's are higher today. let's take a check on

betty: and i am betty liu.'s get a check on what the markets are doing in light of the agreement in greece. looking at some specific winners in the nasdaq, starting with garmin. becausen is up 4.6% baron says its share price should get to $60. shifting to wearable fitness devices and those sales and profits have been helping their bottom line. over to another gainer in up after and win is the government of mccallum says it may ease bans on smoking. in hong kong also rallied on that news. american airlines is up by about 3.1%. this year, after a bloomberg report showing that jet fuel prices fell 37% from a year earlier in the second quarter, and that means margins will gain likely by 740 basis point. 4.9%,x is trading at nearly 5% in the noon hour because goldman sachs raised their price target today to $780 from 620. this year, it is because of the company's international expansion. netflix international subscribers could jump to 450 million people by 2020. you can see that the buys have fallen over the past fe

betty: in betty liu. that blue looking tempting. right before the weekend. i am betty liu.hat blue sky looking tempting. s&pe: google and the languishing here. what is pushing them down? individually you can point to best buy, the worst performer in the s&p 500, downgraded to either performed by merrill lynch, which is saying that the second half will be tricky for best buy. the second half of the year, bank of america-merrill lynch say there will be a mixed product cycle. you will not necessarily have a big iphone 6 introduction or something comparable. there is not the hot product to drive traffic. those shares taking a tumble today. also taking a tumble today -- earnings per share missing estimates and they increased provision for energy exposure. loans to energy companies. the energy loans in the second quarter at $3.3 billion. that was their exposure. you can see shares falling. and then the curious case of betsy -- etsy. marketplace up 33%. the source of this game is a tiny, tiny line in the google conference call in which it said developers like etsy are seeing an in

betty liu is here. betty: on the other side.age with the fact i had not sent you a linkedin invite. low and behold, linked in people started saying, poor betty, i guess we will send you a linkedin invite. that is armor last time they missed analyst estimates and the stock got hit, will we will see what happens this time around for it on a lighter note, that is right. people felt sorry for me because you never asked me into your linked in network. since mark never send unification come i figured i would here and i would like to add you to my professional networker mark said he were trying to expand your linkedin network. you both were quite humorous on-air today. make a mark crumpton good team. very enjoyable to listen to daily. let's just run away together. [laughter] my name wasu notice mentioned a lot? how does that make you feel? betty: not good. not. i would imagine but we will be watching for that very closely. having the same problem like facebook. the user growth is slowing down. stay with us. "bloomberg market day" conti

betty liu is here to explain. lots of campaign donations?e unsurprising developments, wall street has backed these candidates time and time again. jeb bush is at the top of the list and it looks like goldman sachs, their bankers have donated something like 100 or a $4000 in total so far to the jeb bush campaign, ranging in people from the cohead of investment management to one of their advisors, the former head of the world bank. goldman sachs, jpmorgan, morgan's hanley, all of those banks have supported or arson orting those republican ventures. pimm: not the banks, but the individuals, up to a $2700 limit? betty: $2200, but yes. what are the hot button issues that banks want going into the 2016 election? one of them that could be a bipartisan issue is to roll back the shadow banking industry. we are talking about the peer-to-peer lenders, the private equity groups. might he be targeted? those firms who are doing what tanks traditionally did before dodd frank, might that be an issue? both sides, clinton -- i don't know about bernie sanders

betty liu joins me now to discuss. we are not talking about traditional banks like jb morgan. a company called loan depot dock -- loandepot.com, and they have been able to make aliens and billions of dollars in loans. this is the hot thing. scarlet: like your lending club or others? betty: lending club was an ipo just a few months ago, so these join the big banks, but the big banks want to fight back. they are coming back to try to disrupt this. non-bank lending, though, and -- scarlet: and the market overall. yes, the market overall, goldman sachs put out a report saying that the loan market is worth $11 million -- $11 billion, that is just a fraction, but it is a growing fraction. while iteer lending, is hot, lending clubs, they -- they zoomed up and now below its ipo price. there are questions as to how viable they are when you get banks coming back on board and fighting with them and undercutting them with rates and as they loosen their standards as well as the economy coming back. so it is all going to be very interesting. this is all part of the shadow banking industry t

earlier we spoke with betty liu -- earlierumpton betty liu and mark crumpton spoke to the ceo. >> we'ren exchange to compete directly with them. but this is a place where we wanted to walk rate. cooperate because our customers wanted us to. the whole financial system no -- wants to know the closing price, even though we both have great backups. this voluntary? >> i don't want to speak for in favory are probably of it, but this was a bilateral discussion that has been going on for quite a bit of time. betty: when that happened, a few weeks ago i was with several ceos at an event, and western was was this a cyber attack? was is always a>> tie concern. ist we are concerned with contagion. -- that is always a concern. the order was found that things went along. k: when that happened, there seemed to be enough safeguards in place. was that the idea yet though the idea because of the financial crisis, because of the -- crash that enough firewalls all -- are in place now that you can still continue to do business in will ive?be that disrupte >> i think so. we sell the benefits of the competiti

betty: i am betty liu. you can see equity markets are lower but remember we were much lower earlier. there was the knee-jerk selling reaction and now we're making up some of those losses. the dow is down by about 42 points. the oil markets, most of the market besides gold are moving down. it is below $60 a barrel level. with the safe haven search, that is about 1/10 of 1% up. pimm: lots of binding on the bond market. more buying in the 10 year, 32. let's look a look at currencies and see what the dollar is doing versus the euro. just a little bit of a decline. the japanese yen strengthens against the dollar and the pound sterling losing a little bit of strength. let's take a look at some of the top stories crossing the bloomberg terminal. president obama is making a rare visit to the pentagon to ask his national security team for an update on the fight against islamic state militants. they flew 38 bombing visions against islamic state targets this weekend. the president hopes to hold a press conference when

he joined us to clarify his stance with betty liu and pimm fox.n: they made it very clear that they want more understanding and want to be heard in europe. they are mad as hell. the fact that the banks are going to remain shut even longer is going to make the matter. importantly, it is making the economy ground -- grind to a halt. first it means that the greeks are going to have to do more in terms of reforms. secondly, the europeans will have to do more in terms of that reduction and immediate financing. it complicates negotiations that were already pretty complex. are very complex and it looks like basically the economy has ground to a halt, as i mentioned. they have extended bank holidays until wednesday. capital control stays in the then. how much longer can the greek economy just kind of stay still like this? mohamed el-erian: not much longer. it has a vicious cycle to it. the greek banks can only open under two conditions. either the ecb increases supports for the ela, so they give more money to the banks, or alternatively you get some new c

betty: i am betty liu. once again we are looking at how the markets are trading, starting with stock markets. what a run we have had so far. much at session highs for the s&p and dow. losses erased all of the that we have seen so far this week. that is based on the trauma in the chinese stock market and what is going on in greece. this is a rally on the back of the roof warm proposals by the greek government. oil markets are still seeing steep declines for oil. nymex is down 1/10 of 1%. we have had oil continuing to in oile most since march prices. that is on the back of concerns about demand from china. pimm: and on the strength of the u.s. dollar. bit onre selling off a the yield is the tenure goes higher, 2.38 percent. the yield on the 30 is 3.18%. we can see the treasury on the tenure looking back over two months. looking at currencies, the 30 year, bouncing back with a bit of a selloff. the currencies, the dollar weakens against the euro, 111.50 four. the yen strengthens against the dollar. the pound s

. ♪ to thewelcome back bloomberg market day, i am betty liu. the top stories this afternoon, the developing story we're following right now, looks as if the federal highway bill is finally ready to roll. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said just moments ago theress is in agreement on measure. the transportation funding has been hung up with unrelated ills and differences between the house and senate. according to a new poll, the vast majority of americans support the restored relationship with cuba. history was made yesterday when embassies were reopened in washington and havana. that signal the restart apple diplomatic ties after more than half a century. -- restart of full diplomatic ties after more than half a century. than 1000 workers in new york city's airports say they will walk off their jobs starting tomorrow night. they voted unanimously to authorize a strike at jfk and laguardia airports. their union represents a cure to officers, baggage handlers, and wheelchair attendants. the strike would be the largest since the union bega

liu says his brother later died of his injuries. residents here denounce the system as cruel and unfair. >> "for those who don't have much money, it is hard for them to have a second or third child, for the fine will make them return to poverty. for the rich, there is no restriction on the number of the children they can have: the birth of four or even five children is also permitted. ...what they do is not to control the number of population but to squeeze money from people into their own pockets." back in guangdong, zhou toasts his brother's birthday with friends. but thoughts of what has happened to his missing daughter continue to haunt him. zhou says he will keep looking for her, even if that trail leads him to find her happily adopted by another family, in another country. >> "i would be overjoyed if i could see her. but i would let her to decide whether to stay there or not, because, after all, she has a complete adoptive family there. as her father, i will be much satisfied very happy to see her live in peace. if she wants t