be less expensive on a per square foot or per meter basis, vis-a-vis the highest end prefab company for designer prefab companies. when you're doing things in asiad to go lower. i'm trying to average $70,000 now, trying really to cater to the mid-markets or mass prestige market, and to do that, you have to be very cost-effective and very budget conscious. i don't think it is dilution. if the people did think that was the case, then they would not have signed up for it. in fact, i think design market is a good thing, not a bad thing. think about it. if you are now able to live in the designer home you wanted to because you wear his clothes, and he happens to be a designer. you listen to the music of lenny kravitz and love his style, now you can live in a home by interior design. i think it's a great thing. ♪ haslinda: now, i want to take you to project obsession. robbie: okay, which part of that? haslinda: [laughter] you have commissioned artist to draw portraits of you, which are now, i guess hanging in your home. ♪ haslinda: robbie, four boys in the family. you're one of the four, the third one. how was it like growing up with the three brother

doctors for conducting the procedure on under-age girls the practice mostly carried out in africa or asia in the middle east and can have serious health consequences too including in extreme cases death an estimated two hundred million women around the world are thought to have undergone the procedure which the u.n. world health organization considers a violation of human rights we did put the issue up for debate and got opinion on both sides of the argument. it is absolutely misleading to suggest that female circumcision i'm talking about all three forms is intended to actually suppress female sexuality well i'm a doctor of human development and i can tell you that this flies in the face of everything that i've ever studied regarding women's rights so i want to make it clear that i am not pro mutilation i would never support the mutilation there are a set of practices that supporters like myself refer to as female circumcision and there are many different forms usually what happens with this terminology female genital mutilation or s.t.m. is that the most extreme form which is very actua

. >> and to expand internationally, whether in europe or asia, how concerned are you about this hot topicheftlies trade of intellectual property? cyber risk is something that fedex has experienced firsthand. >> we did. cyberattack was acknowledged by the u.s. government to be either done by a state or state on sir -- state sponsor. it was very costly to tnt. we have great cybersecurity folks, so it did not get to be fedex side, but it is something you have to work about everyday to protect herself. reporter: are you worried about the russians, north koreans, chinese? >> it may not be the government's. it may be -- governments. it is a tough environment. reporter: you don't think state-sponsored espionage is a big concern? >> it is. it is a very big concern. it is one of the things that the u.s. government has put on its list that needs to be fixed. reporter: amazon is a big fedex customer, also increasingly a competitor in some respects. aboutay's announcement the new york and d.c. area a good thing for fedex? delivering things from their fulfillment centers. we are delivering things from

economy is relatively closed compared with europe or asia. but it will have some effect.ok at the extent to which the fed has hiked already and the tightening on the balance sheet, if we look at wage inflation in the u.s. still hasn't got a huge amount of momentum, i think there is a strong argument to say the fed is likely to cap interest rate sites in the future. by the middle of next year. >> nice to see you. thank you very much, jane joining us. in on the first word news. here is courtney. courtney: more evidence of the housing market in the u.s. is struggling. home sales unexpectedly fell to the lowest level in four years. higher prices and rising mortgage rates are keeping more americans on the sidelines. president trump's former lawyer has pled guilty to lying to congress about a trump real estate deal in russia. they also agreed to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller. keep pled guilty to other federal charges in balding his tax businesses, bank fraud, and campaign work for the president. president trump said michael cohen is lying. president trump and pr

if you go to europe, for example, and -- or asia, for that matter -- and walk into an art museum, you don't find the trends of xyz museum. if you go into a hospital, you don't see that mr. jones wing of a hospital. there's just not a tradition of individual philanthropy around the world. part of it may come from our religious traditions, too. i think a lot of it comes from our religious traditions, actually. but a lot of it also comes from the fact that as an expanding country with the frontier, we had to be self-sufficient. but that always meant help our neighbor. i hope that's a good enough answer for you. >> is it true that during the depression, fdr fought to change the date of thanksgiving to deal with christmas shopping? >> yes, i have a whole chapter on this. [laughter] that was frank's giving. [laughter] in 1939, roosevelt had a press conference in august and he had this really dumb idea that he could extend the christmas shopping season by making thanksgiving a week earlier than usual. and he thought that americans would spend more money if they had more days to shop. america

chinese firms will have to adapt, which means collaborating with foreign or local partners. >> if infrastructure is built in southeast asiaan, or kazakhstan, or linking up with africa, first and foremost, that infrastructure should be shaped by the country in which it is. and that, i think, is extremely important in the whole execution of the idea. it is not that china dictates, not china saying, this is what your infrastructure must look like. that would be a failure. stephen: new maritime routes, new roads, new railways, new pipelines, new ports, china's superhighway is taking shape, moving its product to markets and bringing the world's offerings into china. up next, we weigh the risks versus rewards of doing business through uncharted territory. ♪ stephen: one of china's greatest challenges in realizing its belt and road initiative will be paying for it. the capital scope for targeted projects ranges from $4 trillion to $8 trillion. but it is how it manages money across country with high risk and poor credit profiles that provide one of the biggest unknowns. of the 70 or so china list is as -- lists as partners, the s

. >>> for the first time a 25 year history, the apex summit or asia-pacific economic cooperation, failsa formal joint closing statement. amid disagreements between the u.s. and china over trade and security. the vice president mike pence tweeting an hour ago, every nation gathered here at apac has a place in the presidents vision for free and open pacific our decision excludes no one we only asked that they respect nations neighbors sovereignty free fair and reciprocal trade and uphold individual rights. we have more from jerusalem. reporter: normally on the last day the asia-pacific economic cooperation summit, leaders present a redecoration of agreed-upon ideas. but this year amid tensions between china and the united states, the conference ended without consensus. according to reports the issue of the wto was a major sticking point. the vice president, mike pence, on behalf of u.s. argued that leaders should enough the organization and call for its reform.the prime minister, peter o'neill of papa new guinea where this was held pushed back against the idea. saying it was an issue that

the difference is either we get the oil or asia gets the oil through a port on the west coast of canada, by the way, it's worth noting that the decline in the oil price that we've seen continues in the, over the last two weeks now. oil, you know, just hit what people call a bear market, down 20% from its peak. we're really starting to see some realties stress there. by the way, the interesting phenomenon for the u.s. is in the past, distant pass, low oil prices were good for the economy because we are a consumer, more than a producer. now it tends to make people worried. it has a broader effect on commodities and on demand. so what's going on in the oil market right now should be a source of some concern. david: but the other side of that is we have had enormous success over the past year and a half of the trump at managers in rebuilding our war bonn energy -- carbon energy program, and it makes us less dependent on those crazy oil sheikhs and everything they're doing overseas. we are much bigger in exports, we can control somewhat russia's flow of oil and gas into europe. so there are

and it's not just happening in some remote park of africa or asia, it's happening right here in the unitedace in global supply chains around the world. >> you mentioned this, this is a big part of the film, that it does happen in the united states. in fact, i want to just play a clip from the film that is taken in tobacco harvesting land here in the united states. let's watch this. >> kept telling us he was sick, he was feeling sick, and passed out and he laid, we just laid him up under the leaves until we can get the ambulance to get there. that was the scariest day of my life. i thought i was going to lose my best friend because of it. >> how old was he? >> he was 12. i was 13. i was 13. he was 12. >> it's okay. . >> working tobacco farming is treated just like work in any other agriculture crop, which means 12-year-olds can go out on the field and work 50, 60 hours a week and that's perfectly legal. >> a few years back the obama administration proposed regulations to label tobacco as hazardous. >> powerful agriculture lobbying groups came out strongly opposed to these regulations, and i

others don't talk about brexit in the middle east or asia, very much a tertiary issue.ing quite telling because it one of the biggest global risks? he's, the think unraveling that begins from brexit, if we're unable to do a deal from here, as a major force of major long-term partner for europe. if we cannot do a deal, than that is obviously going to be the beginning of the breaking up of a very important block. with merkel entering the lame-duck phase, any german led component of a policy across the eu is no longer necessarily going to have -- the concerns of italy might diminish. a deal to be done on brexit needs to be done soon if it's going to have any -- within it. there's a much bigger issue, and this is one that has been touched on, the threat of an alternative government in the u.k., a socialist government that brings with it, as far as the world is watching, marxist credentials for the first time in british history. that would be, in economic terms, an extra ordinary threat to the stability we've enjoyed for the last 40 years or so. manus: sterling reclaimed of

. >> most tourists are not going to fly back into san francisco from the east coast or from asia or from europe to testify that they did, in fact, lock their car. >> reporter: but there is opposition like san francisco public defender jeff adachi who said tougher penalties are not the answer. is it worth a try? >> well, i mean we're moving away from increasing criminal penalties. >> reporter: last year there were 31,122 reported car break- ins in san francisco. that comes to 85 a day with less than 2% leading to arrest. >> the organized rings that are doing this, they know the loophole. >> reporter: ano too afraid o getting caught. >> people coming in and ride shares uber and lyfts, believe it or not, and they change with the time. >> reporter: wait a minute. they come in on uber and lyft, break into a car, get into the uber and drive out. >> we've seen that, also. >> reporter: well, this is scott weiner's second time he will be trying this. if at first you don't succeed, you try again. last year he tried a similar bill, only it got tied up in committee, didn't even go up for a public vo

no other country in eastern europe or central asia is seeing such a rapid spread women gay men and drug users are particularly affected one reason for this according to experts is that the state blocks or even beyond sexual education programs there's a person a series of reports on the crisis by de w.'s yury. several routes is a sleepy mining town with twenty six thousand residents but it's not a species full as it seems behind the facades of these buildings and each of the epidemic has been ravaging the community for years every fourth person in similar or else is infected with the deadly virus. here in the several roles of the epidemic has been moving to a youth phase making a definitive transition from the so-called vulnerable groups to the main population . so what does it have to mean for the people here and how much do they know about the virus. that is h.l.v. a problem here still lots of people are infected people should really wash their hands that people should get lax unaided against nature yeah something like that they're all here in town there are many of. them is one of the

. ♪ haidi: this is "daybreak asia or go -- daybreak asia."gest assembler of apple iphones is aiming to cut nearly $3 billion of cost in 2019. in an internal memo obtained by bloomberg, foxconn warns of a difficult and competitive year. to watch when taiwan opens. >> are we surprised, really, after all of the negative headlines surrounding apple in the last few weeks or so with the supply chain? foxconn is the latest in a apple of news for the supply chain. we wait for the share price to start reacting to this news. you can see on the screen, over the past five years, if you had gotten in in 2013, you would have gained a lot and then lost pretty much everything and then some. is down 53% since its record high, now its lowest since august of 2013. lamy give you the details from the cost cuts at foxconn. -- let me give you the details from the cost cuts at foxconn. they are going to cut iphone 6nks businesses by about billion yen. they are going to -- by about 6 billion. they are going to cut 10% of the non-technical staff. is a lot of earning p

or. the asia pacific summits where leaders fail to wrap on a joint declaration of trade rivalry between the u.s. and china is laid bare. on talking of birds how popular russian cartoon is accused of being a propaganda tool designed to influence children's minds around. two am encouraged to pm in beijing nine in the morning right here in moscow this monday november the nineteenth welcome to our to international our top story facebook surprise mark zuckerberg is on pressure from the firm's major investors who want him to step aside chairman their patience is wearing to following a series of scandals over the past year which is plate the social media behemoths. facebook is behaving like it's a special snowflake it's not it is a company and companies need to have a separation of chair and c.e.o. that concentration of power creates a lot of defensiveness within the company it's an exercise in hyden that there is a problem rather than admit in that there is a problem and set in the roadmap to fixing it. well the latest headline grabbing scandal to hit facebook a run in with billionaire philanthro

actually been executed for blasphemy in pakistan but dozens have been killed by lynch mobs or militants. asiacoming days. many expect her to leave the country as soon as she can. secunder kermani, bbc news, islamabad. a man who was told he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair has walked again thanks to new research by scientists in switzerland. the 30 year—old, who was left paralysed after a martial arts accident, had an implant attached to his spine, which boosts the signals from his brain to his legs. and against expectations, some of his damaged nerves seem to have regrown. the researchers hope to test the system in the uk and other parts of the world in three years' time, as our science correspondent, pallab ghosh, explains. david's doctor said he'd never walk again. meet the men who were once paralysed. their remarkable recovery is due to a pioneering new technique developed in switzerland. david stockdale said he'd never walk again. now, among the foothills of the alps, he is able to travel more than half a mile. an implant around his spine has changed his life. to me, it me

or. her liam in can look forward to and in asia or her certain amount. of your own will be that the deportees were considered rebels by the french occupying much of algeria in the eight hundred seventy s. and were sent to this island a penal colony east of us trail and west of fiji the. good news of it. they are selling our colonies it will be on the new member records. this is the algerian exiles extraordinary story and of the lasting effect it's had on their descendants here three generations later. new caledonia is a small island of eighteen and a half thousand square kilometers first colonized by france an eight hundred fifty three still a french possession about ten percent of its population is of algerian origin in eight hundred seventy france was continuing its colorization of algeria but faced tough opposition. led to hear me. out of. milk the. women the most the. gender said to finance a few days out of the desert. in eight hundred seventy shaikh mohammed a granny a tribal leader from the east of algeria resisted the french for a year no no no.

absolutely i mean one he's been given asylum by ecuador effected or in asia on that deal that's going to upset her whole range of international agreements and laws and of course he is the editor in chief of wiki leaks it's a new form of high tech publishing but it is a publisher and if they go for him try to prosecute him under arcane espionage laws dating back from nine hundred seventeen in the usa then they would have to go after publications like the washington post. new york times which have published precisely the same sort of information in fact a lot of their stories been based on wiki leaks disclosures so you know everyone working in the media in the u.s. would therefore immediately become vulnerable to prosecution under the espionage act and that's just crazy you know that the press has protections for a good reason and they have protections under the what's called the first amendment in the usa and if i can just you know indulge me i just want to quote so in september this year the man who created the trump dodgy dossier the former m i six guy christopher steele was sued by

several world leaders are gathering in pope or new guinea for the annual asia pacific economic cooperation or apec summit he was present all trump and russian leader vladimir putin went to last year's summit in vietnam but are skipping this year's event but students some analysts to call the event the show with china's leader expected to be the most in demand under thomas reports. a year ago it looked far from certain port moresby would be ready for the biggest event papua new guinea has ever hosted but we've chinese and australian help and money the country's leader says it is i was very proud of our country and they've been able to step up and. going to deliver one of the most memorable and hospitable if it got me to. you know history papua new guinea is the poorest member of the asia pacific economic cooperation or apec group but the economies of its twenty one members are combined worth more than half the world's total discussing ways to grow them further through free trade investment and development is the official substance of the apec summit with big investment deals likely to be ne

all right now over to our panel in beijing shoe dong job research or on asia pacific affairs and a senior research fellow at the china institute of international studies by skype in curial a sri lanka's former electoral district raja would just send a former government official and in london charu out to hawg an associate fellow at the asia program a chatham house welcome to you all roger let me start with you today what the president in sri lanka has done first by sacking the prime minister then by dissolving parliament how much of a surprise has all of this been. because all the time that you know there wasn't all that prime minister. elect said it was time for. him to be breaking down. but there was a look at the hall at the time and then it was empty as well as you know you know who but that president at this depth that perhaps he should have taken earlier now in taking that step i think he assumed that he would have a parliamentary majority against the prime minister but that has been doing and throwing up and. there are allegations all by and these on both sides and i think there wa

for people, you know, buying subscriptions on spotify, using an uber or maybe in asia, riding a grab ing groceries on re it tmart, the payment processor behind it making the payment works seamlessly. that's what we do. rishaad: now, you're making a move out of europe to this part of the world. tell us about the opportunities asia provides. roelant: so what we're seeing is adyen has been working with many of the large international companies. so on the one side, many tech companies out of the u.s. but also a lot of retailers and on the one side, all heise companies are -- all of these companies are very keen to grow in the asia region and looking at us to make had a possible. what we're doing is we're building connections into a lot of local payment methods across asia. and making them available to those merchants so that consumers out here can purchase for items at those brands. similarly, we're building solutions locally. so adyen does not only process payments on mobile or online. we also handle payments for in store. there's a big retail revolution going on right now. retail is cha

world we are largely ignoring places like nigeria where the attacks have actually gone up or places like southeast asia where in indonesia or the philippines we really have to be concerned so it's a combination of being concerned about the returning foreign fighters to europe but also the fact that there is a bit of a whack a mole that a lot of ice is propaganda and activity has moved from the west from the middle east or at least iraq and syria to other parts because about an old according to one recent study in twenty seventeen global terror attacks fell by a fifth and fatalities from those attacks fell by a quarter that's a good news story isn't it what is this situation in twenty certain twenty fourteen was absolutely dramatic we had. people coming from our own countries leaving our countries and joining a terrorist group or in an incredible wave of departures. we never witnessed in the recent history so no for sure it is very relaxing at least to seize a flu volunteers for jihad as busy cli most stops for at least europe this is a very good news the the other thing that we need to look at is actua

have one facility in the united states and maybe they have another one within canada or mexico or in asia or europe. they don't have the ability to really pivot like many of our global members do about investments. it is -- if the cost of tariffs it to be too much, the levers they will pull is employment, and that is all there is to it. they have no other lever to keep their people going. i look for to the questions and look for to talk about the impact this is having on our membership. >> thank you for the heritage foundation and having us today, and i to date senator portman for his leadership and support for the u.s. auto industry in many years and in many different positions in regard to workforce development and his leadership with regard to questions about the use and misuse of 232 and i want to just note how appreciative we are in his leadership. terry mentioned a project that we started in 2015, and when we started this project, we set out to do something very simple and basic, which is we wanted to tell the story of the u.s. auto industry as it is today. the beneficiary of open i

military support whether it's trade or territorial disputes southeast asia is the potential flashpoint between the americans and an expanding chinese presence wayne hay al jazeera singapore. almost forty years since the fall of the camille rouge in cambodia two of its surviving leaders will soon find out if they've been found guilty of genocide you know today sions backed war crimes tribunal is due to hand down its judgment on new che and former head of the and former head of state to some person and sick a close look at who these two men are next to pol pot they were considered the commemorations most powerful leaders in one nine hundred seventy prosecutors say they were the architects of the ideology that resulted in the deaths of almost a quarter of the population up to two million cambodians. was known as brother number two or second in command to paul potts prosecutors saying help us to mind the systematic plan to punish opponents including forced labor and starvation shea denies ordering become a ruse to commit genocide but he has said that he must take responsibility for the dam

materialized i mean as you pointed out major european companies such as oil giant to tar or car make europe asia have already left iran and iran is still waiting for the package and for the alternative to the swift system from the europeans in this is why there is a lot of criticism within iran especially from conservatives against the wrong on the government say that iran should also withdraw from the deal never the less the europeans are telling iran swades in this will come into effect in the coming weeks and months we'll have to wait and see to see how much the europeans will be able to defy u.s. sanctions less of a savvy thank you very much for your time on this that is how mad the savi live and pare down thank you. let's move on now to our other big story of the day and turkish media have been reporting more details on the sell the hit squad that murdered journalists just last month the southern newspaper says his body was dismembered and put into five suitcases these were then driven to the saudi consuls residence that's near the consulate where kushal was killed on a toy the second some

all our industries all what we produce is produced in china the subcontractors are in china or in southeast asia so we need to re industrialize europe that's what he says by the way as well you know the commission has it changed their discourse the way they talk completely so much they talk again about renewed us rising europe just like donald trump is trying to do in the us for example so he's right in ways provocative but in this instance he's right any mentions also them graphics at the end of a speech and he's frightened in the sense that we have less children europeans young european couples need to work both of them they don't have time for kids they have to pay for the apartment and to pay for the taxes because we give back something like fifty five percent of the richness that we produce so this is. change europe is wrong on so many instances that we absolutely need a change and the populace like those in italy the left and right government in italy has decided to improve demographics demographics of italians by by giving incentives to young couple to have children so there is a change r

take their turbo trade and tariff show on tour making no progress on issues at the asia pacific economic cooperation summit or apec and pop out new guinea almost as soon as u.s. vice president might presents a writer for plymouth marry a packed meetings he restated u.s. grievances with china and stayed on message throughout the week and earlier today mr pence warned asian nations against an gaijin in china's vaunted belt and rode a nation of saying we don't drown our partners in a sea of debt we don't coerce or compromise your independence we do not offer a constrictor ring belt or one way road stay tuned this week for more from the apec summit and the region and staying in asia nissan motor company has forced chairman carlos go on out after he was arrested he was arrested for alleged financial crimes nissan says internal auditors discovered evidence of efforts by mr goen to mislead his colleagues at nissan quote over many years before today the brazilian born executive was most well known for his reputed reboot of nissan and french auto maker renault mr goen personally chaired the corporate partnership betwe

we are largely ignored in places like nigeria where the attacks have actually gone up or places like southeast asia where in indonesia or the philippines we really have to be concerned so it's a combination of being concerned about the returning foreign fighters to europe but also the fact that there is a bit of a whack a mole that a lot of ice is propaganda and activity has moved from the west from the middle east or at least iraq and syria to other parts because about it according to one recent study in twenty seventeen global terror attacks fell by a fifth and fatalities from those attacks followed by a quarter that's a good news story isn't it. what is this jewish an in twenty thirty and twenty fourteen was absolutely dramatic we had. people coming from our own countries and leaving our countries and joining. this terrorist group and in an incredible wave of departures that we never witnessed in the recent history so no for sure it is very relaxing at least to seize at these flu volunteers for jihad as basically almost stops for at least europe this is a very good news this is the other thing t

in these proxy wars around the world, whether if they're in the middle east or south america or central asiall continue this. i understand why the senate did this. they want a clear statement against the saudi crown prince. i don't think this is the way to do it. >> neil: what struck me, the lopsided support. support for the saudi arabia forces in are yemen was rebuked 63-37 when the white house urged a no vote. a lot of republicans, many more, said no way. >> it's distressing where the republican party can't get along with their own president. the president is supposed to set the foreign policy for this nation. these are incredibly difficult times. i doubt many of the senators other than the armed services intelligence really understand the deep issues involved in yemen, saudi arabia. >> neil: were you surprised, colonel? they send a signal to the president, we support the president but the fact that he hasn't said boo on this killing or reprimanding the saudis for anything to do with it, we have to take action in our own hands. >> he did say something. he said look, our national interests

special olympics to have it all over the world and it didn't matter if i went to the middle east or if i went to asia or south africa and stood there with mandela. celebrity power has a certain power of influence, and i think that's what led me to run for governor, and as a huge advantage because, first of all, you have the make recognition factor. name recognition. you have a huge popularity. people like your movies so you build this huge fan club out there. >> and it wasn't just the recognition, though. you were the -- you were the terminator. you were going to take a sledge hammer and smash a system that wasn't working. you actually took a sledge hammer during that campaign and smashed a car, i remember, because there was a car tax that you were going to repeal. >> hasta la vista, baby, to the car tax. >> and people have felt that, you know, maybe this guy, because of his persona, because of the vibe that he sends, he's not part of the system, that he can change things. >> well, and it is true. i mean, you can, as an outsider, change things because you go in there fresh, you don't owe anyone anyth

san francisco asia which is a local -- known as asia alternatives could investment together or separate account with asia we asked for $150 million. we did get $150 million. san francisco s e.i.r. the k-1 we asked for $30 million. we were awarded 30. the large cap buyout software specialist manager we have had great success with we asked for $50 million in august. we closed with you $50 million. vista, also another large cap software buyout specialist we have had great returns with. we asked for $50 million and we did get $50 million. crescent which is a healthcare venture specialist in san diego has an office here locally. we did ask for $50 million. we weren't surprised we were cut back to 35. early stage venture is hard to get a complete allocation to. we have a couple personnel things to update the board on. one is -- go ahead. >> thank you, jay. i have it here. >> closed at 10.57 this morning. the wng aircraft opportunities we have this in the real assets. it is an equity oriented investment, not credit investment. $50 million. that the did close yesterday. we got notice of that to

all right now over to our panel in beijing shoe dong job research or on asia pacific affairs and a senior research fellow at the china institute of international studies by skype in korea last sri lanka's former electoral district raja would just send a former government official and in london charu ata hawg an associate fellow at the asia program a chatham house welcome to you all roger let me start with you today what the president in sri lanka has done first by sacking the prime minister then by dissolving parliament how much of a surprise has all of this been. because all the time that you know there was all that prime minister. elect said it was time for. him to be breaking down. but there was a look at the hall at the time and then it was empty as well as you know you know who but that president took this step that perhaps he should have taken earlier now in taking that step but i think he assumed that he would have a parliamentary majority against the prime minister but that has been doing and throwing up and. there are allegations of by and these on both sides and i think there wa

and asia or is it something else? >> the tech sector has been a lightning rod for markets many times in the past and this year it's been critically important. it's been the one tech -- factor driving the market that has continued to rise so it's gained even more importance as a consequence of that and it's gotten more and more isolated in terms of the valuation base. so we were observing this a few months ago that the technical picture generally was detear rating worldwide, except in the u.s., except in tech. what if that then failed? it would have global implications and that's exactly what happened. >> good morning, it's manus in abu dhabi today. i noticed that there was a tweet from donald trump last night where he said and our opinion columnist said it isn't completely bonkers. the democrats' goal could be about more investigations. big headaches for the stock market. our analyst maintained, yes, that could be big headaches for the stock market. is that tweet bonkers or real? >> well, i -- >> this is the tweet sug

level i do, the question is, would they even apply to a modern nationstate in the middle east or southeast asia, that's not even claiming to be rooted in the traditions and by and large, people will say no, dollars say no -- scholars say no and this leads to something we need to be explicit about. scholars are human beings, not angels. if a scholar of a certain country his paycheck comes from that country conveniently happens to quote traditions, it's okay to question that person and their intentions, there's nothing wrong with that. go to a scholar that is neutral. if a person is living within a repressive regime and i'm not even impugning dishonesty, maybe they feel their life is threatened in that country, maybe they feel that something is going to happen that's physically harmful and in our religion, when you are coerced to do something, you might be forgiven, so we should be suspect of groups of scholars, not all the scholarly class, groups of scholars that legitimize the system they are benefiting from. that's okay. all we need to do, don't discredit all scholars, go to scholars outside t

they say is no showers now making good progress across southeast asia or in indonesia you see the big down poles coming through here hundred ninety eight millimeters of rain in twenty four hour as the heavy showers of course continue through much of malaysia and they are tending to drift away further wes with some potential all seeing some lively showers in the heat of the day that's going to be the case as we go on into friday so the positon seeing more wet weather well in thailand generally try bangkok at around thirty four degrees you got some wet weather into southern parts of india china over the next few days if anything the rains here will pass but the usual splash of showers right across southeast asia a little bit of wet weather to making its way into piles of australia fair but a cloud of rain across the fall north just around the top and further south you got the usual drifting of the waves across the bite down towards a southeastern corner where temperatures have fought in the way significantly well been struggling to get to around eighty degrees pushing labby getting up t

status question and then exploit to their own benefit, whether it's the ukraine, the middle east, asia orica. the president should meet with put where on one pr -- on one p. the independence of the ukraine and the annexation of crimea. we don't give them something for nothing. we don't give them face time until there is a serious concession. you saw in north korea it was the deneur nuclearization of north korea. trish: you would vote for him sitting down with vladimir putin. >> it depend on whether it's a meet and greet photo opportunity or substantive meeting. trish: g20? it feels like a big photo opportunity. >> it is. but before that meeting, you heard secretary mattis. there can be discussions behind the scenes between russian inlocs andthe u.s. but with no preparation and no preconditions, no. trish: turning to china, a mess. i give the president credit for calling china out. for too many years you had big business and a lot of ceos who want nobody that market. a lot of consumers over there. they want to have a presence. they are so concerned about quarterly e and showing investors t

or asia. rely on beinglly able to have things get to us from all over the place.ithout it, we won't survive. -- it is a tariffs very, very bad thing. it hurts our relationships with other countries. area, and my geographical we rely on those good relationships. we rely on goods and services that we need. i think it is extremely important that the united states be a part of the world and trade with the world. that is what a civilized place does. we don't close up our walls. we don't close ourselves off from other people. then we internalize everything and we become north korea or we become is non-significant country. it hurts us here in hawaii. we will suffer. facebook says getting a better landscape for the united states and a better playing field is very important and a worthy pursuit. tom says when it comes to it being an issue he says no, but the recession is. virginia from pennsylvania, republican line. caller: hello. what i want to say is the united states of america did great before we get the free trade. i think we could be self-sustaining no matter what. i

asia equities. this is the mliv question of the day. a the trade driven rally false start or hope first docs -- four stocks? this seems like a distant memory. is that wise or foolish? you can join the debate. reach out to us on your bloomberg, i.b. plus tv , which allows you to join the conversation. let's get a bloomberg first word news update with yvonne man in hong kong. yvonne: anna, thanks. the u.s. agreed to let eight countries to buy iranian oil after imposing sanctions november 5 according to an official in the administration. china is still in discussions on terms, but is understood to be among the eight countries. crude heading to its biggest lost february after opec production is at its highest level in two years with saudi and libya offsetting the loss of crude. set tont donald trump is have an agreement with president xi. sources say the president asked officials to draft terms of head of his meeting with xi at the g20 summit. onecomes after a teleph conversation, the first probably disclosed call in six months. >> they want to make the deal. we've got to mak

even though southeast asia did not really significantly shaped the course or the outcome of the war, asia in really multiple and also profound ways, depending on where you look. and what are some of these ways ? you look. and what are some of these ways? so, one of the things that i write a lot about in the book is that representatives of the central powers, like from germany and austria, also from the ottoman empire, often working in concert with anticolonial indian and vietnamese revolutionaries, they worked actively in the region to try to undermine allied authority where ever it was manifested, especially in british player and french indochina, and they were also trying to get to india as well. —— malay. the neutral country surrounding the areas were crucial. the germans were able to work with anticolonial revolutionaries in siam, the dutch east indies, and china as bases to co—ordinate and safer internet day british organisations. -- anti—french an anti— british. there are still scars from world war two and the japanese occupation, but tell us a little bit about how world wari te

to put caps on vehicles from asia or europe, gm brings in very little cars from there.e is using this as political capital. justit a, general motors laid off a lot of people. that is not going straight to gm. it would be more widespread tariffs on asian vehicles. that would in effect -- not american carmakers -- but it would affect foreign carmakers quite a bit because they import vehicles into the u.s. every year. emily: this tariff on u.s. trucks dates back to the 1960's when the u.s. retaliated against .hicken tariffs in germany what does this mean for the financing of electric cars. isim: assuming that he referring to the $7,500 tax credit, it would impact the industry. buyers are always price sensitive to these things. however, in the case of gm, interestingly, they are hitting a threshold beyond which the tax credit actually phases out. should this tax credit be repealed, ironically, it would impact competitors like ford and fiat chrysler, who are way behind. for tesla, we think they hit that threshold, 200,000 electric vehicle sales. we think they hit that thresh