southeast asia is gaining —— belt-and-road initiative.g their manufacturing and supply of chain operations down to southeast asia. examples would be thailand, which has established itself as an automotive manufacturing hub, as well as vietnam, which has a growing textile and electronic manufacturing sector. investors are also cognisant of the slowdown in china and are looking at new investmentjurisdictions slowdown in china and are looking at new investment jurisdictions for driving their investment returns. in southeast asia, with its rising population and middle—class, represents huge growth opportunities for them. so anything related to the consumer or infrastructure or power are consumer or infrastructure or power a re key consumer or infrastructure or power are key investment destinations. let's now show you the markets before we go, because asian markets have opened higher. in fact, japan's nikkei upi have opened higher. in fact, japan's nikkei up i almost 1%, reversing the losses that we saw after that trump— kim summit wrapped up

patients stretching from japan through southeast asia. indonesian arc of islands to india, anchored by australia and new zealand. it was a pivot asking for a pivot to widen asia that describes a more characteristic path following the pacific war. what did they see? they saw this map inside of my book. it was the ark of containment that went around the south china sea. it connected to u.s. allies in japan and south korea. take ourselves back. in the early cold war, southeast asian nations had been received as dominoes. by the end, they had drawn closer to the united states and become stable regimes. this condition had been produced by british neocolonialism. -- that theis anti-communist nationalists had not cast them off. they established a new imperial system in collaboration with the to preserve their newfound independence. they did so during the cold war which i suggest is a bloody chapter in a much longer and continuous history of western imperialism in southeast asia. thank you very much. [applause] i think we have much to discuss. ju

let's cross live to kuala lumpur, where are southeast asia correspondentjonathan where are southeast nt jonathan head where are southeast asia correspondentjonathan head joins us from outside the high court. what are we expecting the vietnamese defendant to say? well, we are expecting our to support her defence position, which is that although she and this indonesian defendant, siti aisyah, were both involved in smearing the nerve agent on kim jong—nam, she was the second is to do it, so what the prosecution have said is that they believe the indonesian defendant initially put a precursor on. it is too dangerous to handle as an element on its own, this nerve agent, and then doan thi huong smeared on the second activating agent on kim jong—nam's face at the port. that turned it into vx nerve agent. —— airport. we are expecting her to read a statement in vietnamese which will be translated, where we expect to explain that she was recruited by what we now know to be korean agents, but she thought they were agents, but she thought they were agents for a tv show and she was carrying out te

southeast asia as well, how does this fit into your portfolio in 2019?id: -- >> that is a good question. again, the narrative is negative, because not only are investors very worried about growth, but also kind of believing it is very focused in a very few places, so china is growing, but the rest of asia is not growing. you often hear that outside of asia. growth isonstrated, strong in many other parts of asia, philippines, indonesia, the asean bloc. that is one of the luxuries in asia, a lot of markets to choose from, good growth and good fundamentals in many of those markets. the current situation for us is ,hat china and north asia including taiwan, maybe korea, maybe hong kong, have been left behind in terms of valuation as people have sought refuge in other parts of asia, because they have been worried about a china slowdown, so that has created for us more valuation-driven opportunities in north asia and southeast asia , not to say they aren't good markets, but better opportunities at the moment. yvonne: we will leave it there. on the way, carlos

ming: we don't see the same dynamics happening in southeast asia.you go back to one of our core missions, really around how do we enable entrepreneurs to thrive across southeast asia, our goal is to create over 100 million entrepreneurs on our platform. whether they are drivers, whether they are restauranteurs, people that operate their own businesses. if you look at the average incomes of our partners, across the region, they generate roughly 30% plus higher incomes than the national averages. that is key. as we continue to promote and enable entrepreneurism, that is the key to advance our platform. rishaad: we look at all of the businesses and there has been criticism you have too many silos. how do you respond to that? ming: we don't think of ourselves as a siloed business. in fact, what we think about our business is the super app platform that provides the most relevant services to our consumers in each of our markets. some of those markets may be ridesharing, other markets may be food delivery and mobile payments. weis all around, how do ident

how much is southeast asia being impacted by these trade wars? over the medium-term to long-term, china will try to andd an asia trading bloc, industrial class relocation will be positive for southeast asia. there is a medium-term for southeast asia countries all around. vonnie: it is great to have you here from singapore. bo zhuang, ts lombard. the we are hearing that commerzbank ceo is offering a quick decision in merger talks. remember, we had deutsche bank annual report out earlier on, and the ceo is talking to his current guidance in terms of the revenue story coming out of deutsche bank. he wonder whether it is a bit of pre-positioning in advance of talks. we understand that talks are ongoing. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ guy: live from london, i am guy johnson. vonnie: and from new york, i am vonnie quinn. this is bloomberg markets. guy: europe's economic outlook is being thrown into fresh doubts after reports showed weakness across france and germany, we were talking about the pmi data we got earlier on. germany yields now going -- german ten-ye

yvonne: let's take a look at markets in southeast asia are trading, the philippines once the darlingoreign investors have underperformance numbers but southeast asia having a good day on this trade optimism lines that we got earlier. eating close, flirting with his bull market territory but this rally has been stalled. at 8200 so to put some context, let's have a look at our bloomberg chart. you measure 12 months even if you get some inflows the last two months, if you add outflows the 10 months before he would still be negative. that is peering out, the fed raising rates and you had a horrible year last year, it picked up but we are still looking at a negative basis. let's get a sense of where we go from here, we are joined on the phone by the pse ceo joining us for an exclusive chat from manila. thank you for joining us. we will talk about market sentiment. you guys came out with earnings recently, operating revenue up 30% but i looked at the bottom line, we are down 12%. give us your take on what guidance is for this specific year. oprah nejra -- operating revenues are up by 30%,

africa or other parts of asia are shipping it through malaysia as well as other countries in southeast asia on to destination points in terms of places where buyers are are acquiring this so malaysia still remains a problem country there has been a lot of work done by the un and others to train customs officers here and to create more of a diligence if you will to keep tabs and customs officers so that they aren't on the take however that is a challenge we understand throughout much of the world especially in southeast asia so what we're seeing is that a lot of the cultures there they're trafficking their goods through these places and once authorities seize some of the shipments then that is switched to another countries some of the key countries are seeing you know the continually popping up are malaysia thailand laos vietnam and these are just some of them that are key problem cities countries if you will and steve who is driving the market. well that's a very good question it is extremely varied depending on the wildlife and the type of wildlife we're talking about if we're talking abou

supporters amid anger at power cuts and the housing crisis and the fastest growing economy in southeast asia look at those who've been left behind. the in. the in. hello again and welcome back to you know national weather forecasts are here across eleven we are watching one storm very carefully this storm is bringing a lot of rain across many areas there is low pressure is out here across the eastern mediterranean but the extent of the rain is all the way over here towards iran and more heavy rain is on top of the already saturated soil in the areas that we saw flooding earlier this week so that is going to be a problem for baghdad we do expect to see a rainy day at twenty five degrees and as we go towards monday the rain continues but the temperatures do come down a little bit we're going to be seeing those temperatures drop down to about eighteen degrees there down towards quite city you'll be seeing some rain as well but your temperatures about average for this time of year what's not going to be average is what is happening here in doha our temperatures are going to be well above average

africa or other parts of asia are shipping it through malaysia as well as other countries in southeast asia on to destination points in terms of places where buyers are are acquiring this so malaysia still remains a problem country there has been a lot of work done by the un and others to train customs officers here and to create more of a diligence if you will to keep tabs on customs officers so that they aren't on the take however that is a challenge we understand throughout much of the world especially in southeast asia so what we're seeing is that a lot of the cultures there are trafficking their goods through these places and once authorities seize some of the shipments then that is switched to another countries some of the key countries are seeing you know the continually popping up are malaysia thailand laos vietnam and these are just some of them that are key problem cities countries if you will and steve who is driving the market. well that's a very good question it is extremely varied depending on the wildlife and the type of wildlife we're talking about if we're talking about wil

and the housing crisis the fastest growing economy in southeast asia. has been left behind.hello again and welcome back we're crossing eight states we're seeing a weather system pushing through we're seeing some colder air up to the north and some warmer air down here towards the south in the north that means temperatures that are going to be in the single digits so we are looking at those freetime temptress but they feel more like winter time with minneapolis high fuel for chicago at four in kansas city at nine but down here towards the south we are still seeing a lot of warmer air for atlanta it's going to be a cloudy day at eighty but as a system.

africa or other parts of asia are shipping it through malaysia as well as other countries in southeast asia on to destination points in terms of places where buyers are are acquiring this so malaysia still remains a problem country there has been a lot of work done by the un and others to train customs officers here and to create more of a diligence if you will to keep tabs on customs officers so that they aren't on the take however that is a challenge we understand throughout much of the world especially in southeast asia so what we're seeing is that a lot of the cultures there there trafficking their goods through these places and once authorities seize some of the shipments then that is switched to another countries some of the key countries are seeing you know the continually popping up are malaysia thailand laos vietnam and these are just some of them that are key problem cities countries if you will and steve who is driving the market. well that's a very good question it is extremely varied depending on the wildlife and the type of wildlife we're talking about if we're talking about w

that is a healthy addition to global gdp and southeast asia, frankly, doing okay. it's doing just fine europe seems to have bottomed at this 1.5, 1.75% growth the latest data showing a tiny bit of a pickup and u.s. at 2% growth when you roll it all in, it's 3.5% global growth i don't see this global recession. >> david, how would you invest though the situation in china, kind of suggests you can have a slowdown and still have rallying stock market because of liquidity. where would you invest >> we're value investors we look at the price we're paying for what we're getting. can't just look at growth and everything else. you have to look at the price you're paying and right now, all the bad news, most of the bad news in the world today between brexit and the fights between the italians and the europeans, all the bad news is in europe and it's overly reflected in valuations of european equities in our view. if you want to look for a place with depressed stock market values and depressed currency, so you could buy cheap stocks with a cheap currency. >> that's a great p

so there were a number of nationalist movements going on in southeast asia.hen finally, the big issue that truman felt faced during the second term was the korean war that broke out on the korean peninsula. so this part of the exhibit we call 10 faithful months. it's really the 10 months after truman was inaugurated for his second term. china is going to the communists. also, the soviet union exploded their own atomic bomb. and so suddenly the united states is not the only nation with an atomic bomb. but the soviet union has one as well. and it causes truman to support the development of a hydrogen bomb. so the cold war between the soviet union and the united states is really ramping up. and the ramifications of that are both international and domestic. so on the domestic front, there's a real push mostly by republicans but also by democrats to root out communists in the american government. once it was discovered that there were spies that had stolen atomic secrets, then people became very suspicious of other government employees. the fear of communism was b

s exit from the european good morning will get to grips with one of southeast asia's target cup economies really pretty soon the five key telecoms are counting the cost over. hello again i'm. reminded of the news this hour at least three people have died in cross border shelling between india and pakistan in the disputed kashmir region indian officials say a mother and her two children were killed tensions remain high after new delhi said they shot down each other's jets on wednesday. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across algeria over president bush's plan to run for a fifth term next month police fired tear gas at some protestors analogy is that the demonstrations were mostly peaceful. high level talks between the u.s. and taliban are expected to resume within a few hours and u.s. envoy zalmay khalilzad says an earlier round ended with an unprecedented progress to end the seventeen year war that the taliban is refusing to directly negotiate with the afghan government. forces in syria say they expect the battle to retake the last held area to be over soon u.s. backed syrian

southeast asia is very close proximity and a very good target and location. have a very big infrastructure gap. about $1 trillion needs to be able to be funded to make it the same criteria of where china is today. that move starts to happen and we will have to see how quickly can countries and economies catch up. rishaad: we seem to be edging towards some sort of trade deal. 24 hours ago we were edging towards deal with north korea and washington. what would a trade deal look like? and if you question had any sort of trade deal, it has to be based on trust and verification, ultimately. gerry: we live in interesting times. through, ineal came my mind and our mind we think it would be one that looks a little different from previous trade deals. right now, if you look at the key points of discussion between the u.s. and china, it is not so much about moving products but it is also around ip, market supply chains aren't far more automated than they used to be in the past. these issues are important in trade. to have reasonable tariffs and a very comprehensive vie

firms of global ambitions after was forced to sell its loss making operations in china russia and southeast asia to local rivals karim was established in twenty twelve and operates in fifteen countries across the middle east africa and asia. brags that is set to affect the republic of ireland more than any other e.u. country especially if a hard border is reestablished between it and the british province of northern ireland that would bring back memories on the island of a more violent iraq and could result in the resurgence of smuggling which an open border had long kept under control. if you want to go out on bush three hundred fifty. mike has plenty of tales of smuggling he lives in northern ireland right next to the border the former truck driver says lots of shady stuff went on in the area in the past much of it involving customs control or between the british province and the e.u. member state to the cells i seen you can enter a shed. on the sale so with when this big ship is. made a very through that door that door let's share that shit are also not in the say the virus so he thought that

they wouldn't be eligible for the draft that took so many of our young men to southeast asia where many never came home, the last time the voting age was lowered. some states, 16-year-olds can't even drive their car alone. they can't take out a loan. they can't take out a mortgage. can't open a credit card. and they can't even run for the offices that we would be asking them to be allowed to vote for. this is an amendment that has political reasons behind it. it's a reason that i believe the democrats are pushing it. it's because they believe they will be able to increase the number of democrat votes that are put forth in the next election. this institution should not be used for that. this bill is political enough, this bill as a whole is nothing more than a charade to make permanent the democratic majority that just came into existence just a few months ago and that's why i believe h.r. 1 is a bill that should be voted against. please vote no on h.r. 1 and please vote no on this amendment for the reasons that i put forth but again, thank you to my colleague from massachusetts, my coll

and the kashmir crisis disrupt international air travel with major airlines in southeast asia or through routes or cancel flights to and from europe. welcome to the w business i'm joined in and berlin thank you for joining us now the u.s. economy grew in the fourth quarter at its slowest pace since the beginning of twenty eighteen indicating that the boom fueled by tax cuts and fiscal stimulus could be fading u.s. g.d.p. expanded by two point six percent in the final three months of last year down from three point four percent in the previous quarter despite the slowdown these figures still beat expectations but analysts calling it a decent result more sluggish rate of expansion however is untested pated going forward. yes carthage joins us now from wall street to break the saul down good to see there you are now those figures they weren't exactly stellar but they still beat expectations they're still better than forecast so how's that going down with investors. you know because they were a bit better than expected to market did not really lose that much here in the thursday session even

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and the housing crisis in the fastest growing economy in southeast asia we look at those left behind. the ear. hello again and welcome back we're crossing eight states we're seeing a weather system pushing through we're seeing some colder air up to the north and some warmer air down here towards the south and the north that means temperatures that are going to be in the single digits so we are looking at those springtime temptress but they feel more like winter time with minneapolis only a high fuel for chicago at four in kansas city at nine but down here towards the south we're still seeing a lot of warmer air for atlanta it's going to be a cloudy day at eighteen but as a system pushes through so does some of that colder air come into play so for atlanta your temperatures do drop to about fourteen in dallas is going to be a cool day if you are as well with a temperature there of fourteen degrees where across parts of the caribbean we are seeing some clouds and some rain this is been the trend for much of the islands out here towards the east we are picking up some rain as well over h

the housing crisis in southeast asia is fastest growing economy we look at those who've left behind. hello gated welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across europe we have seen plenty of nice weather across much of the area now things are going to change basically down here towards the south as well as up here towards north let's start with the north first we do have a funnel bondy right there across northern germany as well as poland coming through parts of dust scandinavia that is going to bring some winds with it as we go towards the next couple of days we're not going to see a lot in terms of clouds here or rain but we are going to be seeing some windy conditions as well as a drop in temperature so for berlin we do expect to see here ten degrees over towards london at twenty paris though you're going to stay about twenty degrees and that is going to continue as we go towards monday windy conditions will continue across much of the area and the down here across the a bit of peninsula it is going to be wet cloudy and cooler with madrid seeing attempted the

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splines have already moved their orders to southeast asia where the labor costs are lower than here it's had a big impact on us the impact will get worse if the trade war between china and the us. especially in the number of orders which will greatly affect us. there is mounting pressure on chinese and u.s. negotiators to settle that tariff war economic slowdown so groff in twenty eight hundred at its lowest in three decades brought on by entangle and external forces. you from your own accord on the one hand china has an aging population problem and our traditional industries are suffering downward pressure on the other hand the traditional export oriented economy is facing extradition. for you to throw your can on value their annual gathering in beijing delegates are expected to rubber stamp a series of policies aimed at addressing u.s. trade concerns a bed to try to left the mood. and for more on this let's talk now with our financial correspondent new york ians quarter yes what's been the market reaction of this talk of a trade resolution. well we got away with. the markets started on

turning now to the waters off southeast asia which as you can see behind me shelters a rich a ray of marine life along its coastal reefs but looks can be deceiving and cambodia they are now raising the alarm over a fall off in the number of large fish in coastal waters saying it has to do with overfishing and pollution international squad of scientists is trying to determine if you are a large fish is having a cascading effect and in danger in the future of cambodia's reefs or a shimmering spectacle rich with color greets divers here off the coast of kut stay or king island but this marine hangout may be missing some former regulars though we do see areas with a lot of coral cover and everything is very alive down there but we do see fewer and what seems like fewer and fewer large fish and things like turtles and marine mammals. where did they go. locals have fished these coastal waters for generations. they blame larger often illegal boats from across the gulf of thailand for overfishing and that may have knock on consequences. a team of international scientists is on the case. and

clients have already moved their orders to southeast asia where the labor costs are lower than here it's had a big impact on us the impact will get worse if the trade war between china and the us escalates especially in the number of orders which will greatly affect us. there is mounting pressure on chinese and u.s. negotiators to settle that tariff war economic slowdown so griffin twenty eight hundred at its lowest in three decades brought on by n ten zero an external forces . you follow me on my record on the one hand china has an aging population problem and our traditional industries are suffering downward pressure is on the other hand the traditional export oriented economy is facing extradition. for your third or core value of their annual gathering in beijing delegates are expected to rubber stamp a series of policies aimed at addressing u.s. trade concerns abed to try to left the mood. back in europe energy ministers are meeting in brussels today to debate the european commission's proposal for a transition to a carbon neutral economy by twenty fifty germany has long been committ

election in thailand mean for the country's economy which barely keeps up with its neighbors in southeast asia. also on the show after years of death and destruction of aleppo's industry is slowly making a comeback. welcome to do business asia. good to have you with us thailand is heading to the polls this sunday after nearly five years of military rule the economy has recovered since the coup in twenty four team growing four point one percent last year and while the upcoming election means political uncertainty most international investors are optimistic including german car parts manufacturer g f. o. it's the moment michel vika turned his team have worked hard for over the past two years the grand opening of s g f first manufacturing plant in asia including the traditional bali who. is a global leader in the production of drive shaft couplings a medium sized company from the variable started thailand operations with sixteen employees its main customers are auto makers from china japan.

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the japanese following a virtual scorched earth policy in large parts of southeast asia so there are power on someone. well i think basically it shouldn't coach shall we as soon as she ate so juice political on me as still as that new rate of you or and or dear is as sauce of peace set to a man so in so here's we always come on street it's the only look it's really ok you for you for thai people in for any shoot people because we rule for you and order not for polk you know early to cool participation thanks very much for breaking that down for us tour is stronger on our you tara from bangkok's to out on corner of us thank you very much to us. that story i'm on our website did up a dot com for what's left issue and don't forget to check us out on facebook as well so freely even though with the last steel ritual on the beaches of on the it's to go to find the universe for today's people of simon's see you next time about the for. staying up to date don't miss our highlights. program online w dot com highlights. the players. the table. and the state. patrol. in a poker game of power an

from southeast asia desk. give us an idea of the scale of this who's got more to lose malaysia or the u.s. is the e.u. playing fair when you get to be honest the malaysian market does not enjoy a lot of leverage over the top in union the two did forty billion worth of trade in two thousand and seventeen in goods and it's the twenty first largest trading partner for european union having said that money sure does have a leverage when it comes to free trade deals and malaysia could play a spoiled sport when it comes to the trade ambitions of european union in the region dictate dogs with malaysia have been on hold since two thousand and twelve and looking at the current scenario it seems unlikely they're going to start anytime soon now what that does is that that effectively any possible free to deal with ozzie and which is european union third largest trading partner outside of europe out of the picture because your opinion sees trade deals with individual countries as building blocks for a wider treaty good as

to when they got kicked out of china or kicked out of indonesia or kicked out of anywhere in southeast asia hong kong was always this kind of free home and if hong kong was now starting to kick out a foreign journalist to me that was a real turning point. professor chung takes us out of the city he wants to shores the new bridge to true high and macau for chung it's another symbol of beijing's power and influence the longest sea crossing on earth linking three major cities on the pale river delta built with chinese money and might one thing in the car with the hope that the beatings i should do is to is to get people through and to stick to it i the one country two system keeping keeping their promise is the best way to gain back the cotton and trust of people. beijing and hong kong as the mainland tuns up the pressure the sense of freedom and hong kong is gradually being eroded. there's more on our website t.w. dot com for slash asia and you can check us out on facebook as well we'll leave you with pictures from south korea which is commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of its indepe

the southeast asia, we generally see as an area of growth.philippines engaging with tv content in interesting ways. you see tv trends becoming trends on twitter within the region, as well as globally. and k-pop seems to drive engagement and many markets, including thailand, which is an exciting growth market. emily: that was twitters asia-pacific vp. i want to bring in selina wang, who covers twitter for us. how big is asia-pacific for twitter? selina: international revenue in general has been big. if you look at the active user base, while it's been flat or negative in the united states, it's been pretty good growth internationally. and japan is twitter's second-largest market. and growth has been bolstering some of the declines in the u.s. the past several years, just in the fourth quarter, revenue grew 30%, outpacing domestically. they are all very important markets for twitter, and increasingly so. emily: we saw during that interview with juliette saly this question of how they will ofable to stop the spread faking news. have we seen them

we see our audience continue to healthily.a very very healthy markets in southeast asia in general asorea being a very exciting source of growth for us . increasing demand for video and premium video, so our partnerships in the video space continue to thrive. >> is video the strongest component or contributor to revenue? >> over the last year, it has more of our50% or revenue, so, clearly, that is where audiences are putting their time and eyeballs, and it's also where advertisers are really driving engagement. particularly, we see strengths in the areas and times when marketers want to launch new services. twitter is the platform and twitter video particularly is the exciting offering for them. >> in terms of how twitter has evolved from a platform of hundred 40 characters or less to being able to push out further what your message is and also video, how do you see twitter poised to evolve and grow -- from a platform of 140 characters or less? the conversations could be text or video, but essentially enabling a connection in the world around topics that matter so people can come to t