. >>> hello there, welcome to nhk "newsline." it's 9:00 a.m. in tokyo. i'm catherine kobayashi. >>> iraqis are decrying the obstruction of alnuri mosque in mosul as the hands of islamic state militants. it comes in ramadan and as military troops closed in on the building. the extent of damage is not clear, but photos by the iraqi military shows the mosque and its surrounding area destroyed. the centuries' old building is famous for its leaning minneret. and the building is also an important symbol for the militants. it's where their

. >>> a very warm welcome to nhk "newsline." it's 9:00 a.m.n tokyo, i'm catherine kobayashi. >>> police in hong kong have arrested pro democracy activists who staged a sit-in ahead of a visit from chinese president xi jinping. xi is expected to arrive in the city to mark 20 years of chinese rule. two dozen students sat at the foot of a statue given to hong kong by beijing when the territory was returned from britain in 1997. the monument overlooks the site of a flag-raising ceremony planned

. >>> live from our studios here in tokyo, this is nhk "newsline." i'm james tengan. >>> panama has established diplomatic relations with china and is severing formal ties with taiwan. beijing says the country now recognizes the one china policy, that the island is part of its territory.

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this is cnn newsline. >> i'm george howell. >> at least six people have died.id to be missing. one survivor said there are are no life vests on board. the boat carrying around 170 people near the popular tourist town. >>> the democratic unionist party leader is hoping to finish a deal with theresa may. a downing street spokesperson said that are arlene foster may meet with may later today. she is trying to win the support of the dup's ten lawmakers p. >> tested in the uk since the tower fire failed fire safety checks. least 4,000 people have been evacuated from tower blocks deemed unsafe. authorities say those refusing to go must leave. 600 buildings are being tested across the country for potentially dangerous siding. >> cross over live to the united kingdom. ian lee is live in london. one of those buildings evacuated, ian the list of high rise buildings that failed the safety collection it seems to be growing and growing and the outreach growing as well is look, people are forced to leave their homes. >> that's right, so far test at least 60 buildinges. there

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on the cnbc newsline to talk more about this is ed lee of recode and ed, this is the conversation thateople are going to be talking about all day. what happens to uber without travis kalanick? >> well, right now, i mean, they're going to continue operating as they have they already had sort of in place a leadership team. he was taking a leave of absence so they've already sort of kind of geared up for this. i think the bigger picture though is what it does to the valuation, to the whole idea of the company. a lot of the earlier investors still think of uber as travis kalanick's company anyway. so for some of those early guys, i think they're still kind of coming to grips without travis kalanick company anymore that's the big question mark >> what's happened to competitors like lyft in the meantime as all of these confusing stories have been swivelling, as uber's been kind of focused on its own internal issues they've been picking up market share, right >> that's a good question. but i've actually been surprised that lyft hasn't taken better advantage of uber's troubles right now uber s

as chairman of the board through december joining us right now to break it dawn on the "squawk" newsline scott davis of barclays. you heard the news we tried to assess a couple of things one, how to consider jeffrey immelt's tenure as ge? and also, what's going to happen to ge under john flannery? >> well, good morning, guys. this was -- this was an announcement we didn't really expect until the end of the year and quite frankly, we're happy to have it now ge needed a new messenger. it's jeff immelt has struggled to really connect with investors now for several years. the stock has lagged, as i'm sure your viewers are painfully aware. and so we're expecting fairly dramatic changes out of new ceo. what we'll get, we'll see. but we've been long calling for an at&t-style breakup of ge and we would expect a new ceo to seriously consider something down that path >> when you look at the timing of this, as you said, you were expecting it later in the year i think a number of shareholders were also expecting to the degree that something was going to happen, it would happen later in the year. how