shares with the u.s. actually also in canada and australia and new zealand we share in the 5 eyes program in terms of intelligence and that's what the concern was with regard to while away now your question i think it's not so much being a 51st state it's that for example this coming monday liz trust the international trade secretary she's going to be over here talking about u.k. u.s. trade deal u.k. has proven to solve over obviously a great many years 2nd or worth war 1st world war to be a tremendous ally of the u.s. the u.s. has been able to count on the u.k. in. every single instance and every single war and every single conflict so i think that the u.s. and the u.k. still enjoy somewhat of a special relationship now exactly to get to your question i think that the u.k. has great concerns about this in duncan smith who is a former conservative leader he's leading sort of the charge to precious pressure boris johnson to say let's do the same thing we did with war way and eventually ban it and as you kn

across the u.s. crude puppy mills are supported by dog shows and still most of the puppies that are coming from these large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold in stores even joined a good businesses are involved like the mom center there has been a shocking amount of the organized opposition to adverts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding facilities most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with dogs don't buy dog. or welcome back as we track the spread of covert 19 experts are seeing a correlation between testing a newly reported cases so let's go ahead and take a look at those trends with r.t. correspondent side tabular so let's start with where we are friday you know brant i wish i had better news but we're just not there yet because we've just had the 19.4 a 1000000 miles down market it appears between each time between when we reach 1000000 now it's just 4 days now from this is 194

u.s. politicians to begin another day of talks of a further financial aid for millions of unemployed americans.

all of the u.s. operations of america and the server for the u.s. operation is completely housed in the united states what else can you all expect for a company operating in a very fashionable amana and loved by 100000000 users in the united states for example i think eventually these users may want to vote at the current president out of office if he really ruffles the feathers not with china but more importantly. messes around with the users of tick-tock in the united states that's i think the reason why i'm personally very confident that tick tock on many many other similar companies coming out of the big pipeline out of china will eventually demonstrate to the world that the if they worry about national security these are not the trees they need to park i see your point i think and they really do their homework rather then for example barking at the wrong tree ok i feel like you want to jump in here. well i think what he's saying is somewhat true and i mean to be clear i'm a big fan of many of these chinese technology companies i think that what

the u.s. ratchets up a digital dispute with china as you executive order targets not just social media hit to talk but china's massive payments and messaging service we chat. business sentiments 1000 south africa experts point out that the nation's recession was was think even before the pandemic hit apple look at the economic impact of. over 1000 on kenya as coronavirus cases in africa reach a milestone. been possible and that's the business world stocks took a dive today president or trump has spent of u.s. transactions with 2 of china's tech sensations $0.10 messenger a chat and dances video sharing app to talk as global ramifications. in just 6 weeks those uploading videos like this one to mobile app tick-tock can find themselves on the wrong side of u.s. law. the u.s. has around 100000000 take talk users but not for much longer. washington issued an executive order banning u.s. transactions tick-tock parent company the white house believes the app threatens national security saying it all

across the u.s. cruel puppy mills are supported by dog shows and pet stores most of the puppies that are coming from these large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold in stores even joined a group businesses are involved like ogling mom santa there has been a shocking. sounds of the organizers opposition to adverts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding for so many most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with jobs don't buy dogs on over to. your favorite recovering from the deadly blasts the un warns of a humanitarian crisis in the country already severe economic crisis now aggravated by the food supply of housing shortages we speak to some of those affect hundreds of thousands from down to the may have no longer legs to clean all says this middle of the floor no gas no. nothing nothing got polls over the. coming because the looters in the girl. who ever wins the next few us presidential e

he fears data from u.s. citizens could end up in the hands of beijing's communist party this could be microsoft's chance. 2 jake talk is an internationally successful video platform ringback. it allows users to upload short clips of themselves and watch clips of others available worldwide it is owned by a chinese company but dance that's a problem for the u.s. government shop wants to curb beijing's influence in the united states along with other chinese companies but dance is under pressure to talk cannot stay in the current format because it risks sending in from asia on a 100000000 americans in china and residents say they're surprised that apple has been dragged into the fight between politicians. i think it's because the u.s. china relationship has really deteriorated recently. found value we use many apps and softwares that were developed by the u.s. to take talk has been successfully gaining many users around the world but i didn't expect that due to political reasons this could affect the economy and

forces particularly u.s. marines have been able to come in and out of japan without going through immigration controls until very recently without any covert 900 tests under the status of forces agreement a record $71.00 daily inspections were reported in okinawa on friday and hospitals are being overwhelmed the majority of cases a u.s. troops. in order for us to put every effort into combat in the coronavirus okinawa will issue a state of emergency but the commander of u.s. forces says it has nothing to do with that basis there has been absolutely no connection and has been proven to show that. there has been any spread from a coster's on the bases to the local community there are many elements the major power to the virus the government launched a travel campaign last week to revive the tourism industry that prompted the world health organization to call the campaign ill timed with fears the government was choosing business over health cover 19 is also the disease the primary kills elderly people japan has

responding to the u.s. including the u.s.ging that, i think the goal is to double down and it will not cede any ground. shery: stephanie segal, thank you for joining us. let's go back to the press conference by president trump. he is talking about china saying the u.s. has already responded in many ways. pres. trump: i'm saying to myself, gee, china wants us to lose very badly. you know who else is not happy with us winning? rissussia. the fake news stories about russia. it was just reported the numbers. i raised $400 billion extra in nato. to $400m $130 billion billion in a year in order to strengthen up nato. we became the biggest energy exporter. if you look at what we have, we are energy independent. our military is shorter than it ever was. we spent $2.5 trillion on our military. i exposed the terrible deal between germany and russia on the pipeline. no one even knew about the pipeline, nor extreme. nobody talks about it. i said what is this all about? we protect germany from russia. germany pays russia billions of dolla

u.s. filings hit nearly $6900000.00 in a single week while the better than expected numbers come as president donald trump issued an executive order that provides an extra $400.00 a week of unemployment that's down from the original $600.00 of insurance but those benefits may not show up for weeks the unemployment rate fell to 10.2 percent last month this was after peaking near 15 percent in april now even though 1800000 jobs were added in july the unemployment rate still well above the prepared to make level of 3.5 percent more on numbers and the state of the u.s. economy we are joined by the host of news with rick sanchez artie's rick sanchez himself rick let's get started thanks for being with us today let's start with this overall the numbers report here it was a pleasure a lot a lot still to be done and far from recovery here some of the biggest drops came from your home state of florida also new york and texas added to those drops is this a small step in the right direction. yeah but

the u.s. and china locked horns in a growing digital dispute and executive order targets to chinese success stories to talk and we checked. and what do you get when tourists stay away in cape town's case m.t.v. chiz and street tourism operators it's survival of the fittest. and ventures all that let's do business u.s. employers added $1760000.00 jobs last month that's much more than analysts had expected unemployment has now fallen from 15 percent at the peak of the pandemic to 10 percent marking a steep decline what is a return to jobs with restrictions lifted of businesses in major cities like new york while some economists are optimistic cases of coronavirus are rising go back to. the report this morning is just another proof point in this roller coaster of an economy that we find ourselves in and we are seeing early signs of recovery we track job to me and daily and employers are increasing their demand for new jobs in our country so we're we're on the right path and i think the the report

the u.s. state department calls a former top saudi intelligence official a valued partner saying it's concerned by allegations the saudi crown prince sent men to canada to try to kill him. alone i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program anger is growing off to beirut explosion residents blame corruption and mismanagement the president suggested could have been the result of a missile attack. in a india plane skids off the runway after landing in carola the death toll continues to climb. and hong kong chief executive carrier laumann 10 all the chinese officials a sanctioned by the us of a controversial security law. the u.s. state department has called former top saudi intelligence officials a valued partner it comes a day after it was revealed algebra filed a lawsuit in washington accusing saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman of sending a hit squad to canada to try to kill him the state department says it's concerned by al jump raise allegations an

recently u.s. software company microsoft expressed interest in buying tick tock from byte dance the white house says if a u.s. company bought the app the ban could be avoided the u.s. government's executive order also focuses on 10 cent holdings the chinese owner of we chat hugely popular in china the messaging and social media could soon be banned in the united states as well. as take a closer look at this with an injunction is professor of communications studies at the. diversity of north carolina and she's an expert on china and digital technologies and welcome to day w professor but let's start with these u.s. allegations that the tick tocks threatens national security and the lives china's communist party to spawn u.s. citizens all those on occasions credible well this is a very interesting because. the white house has not offered any a concrete evidence so far that tick-tock is defying u.s. security standards and that it has engaged in national security reaching activities to talk in fact as

u.s. efforts to extend an indefinite arms embargo on iran have failed at the united nations unless further action is taken starting in mid october iran will be able to purchase conventional weapons christine salumi has more now from u.n. headquarters in new york it was a quick an unceremonious and to the united states efforts to extend the iranian arms embargo that is out of the war if that follows. in favor to watch again 11 at abstentions that draft resolution has not been a doctor. every failed. number in a statement u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o called it an inexcusable failure saying quote the security council paved the way for the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism to buy and sell conventional weapons without specific u.n. restrictions in place for the 1st time in over a decade under an agreement negotiated by the 5 permanent members of the security council and germany aimed at stopping iran from developing nuclear weapons the 13 year old ban on conventional weapons s

a u.s. watchdog is investigating the nation's postal service which has warned it might not be able to deal with the large number of mail in ballots in november's election the postmaster general louis joy denies allegations by democrats of intentionally slowing down the postal service there's expected to be a huge rise in mail in voting g.'s a pandemic while president troubles try to restrict the method because he claims without any evidence that it susceptible to fraud mike hanna has the story from washington d.c. . last week democrats in congress wrote a letter to the inspector general asking him to take a look at the situation within the postal service now that has been dire indeed in recent months there have been all sorts of problems in the postal service there's been a 10 percent reduction in letter sorting machines there's been delays of up to a week in postage and this follows the appointment of joy a close friend and confidante of president trump as postmaster general so it's likely

the u.s. stimulus. they saw the biggest advance since early july. see some are going to of those uncertainties, the lack of a deadline when it comes to the stimulus talks any the u.s. and the ongoing u.s. and china tensions. have japanese stocks on holiday from mountain day-to-day. this is how we are shaping up when it comes to the asian futures session. sydney futures as we kick off earnings season in earnest, 7/10 of 1%, which could mean a kick of 1%. we are seeing new zealand up by two tens of 1%. it is worth pointing out we have 100 days new zealand has gone without a single case of community transmission of covid-19. health and human services is expectedex azar to meet with the taiwan president on monday. he is the highest-ranking american official to visit the island in decades. stephen engle joins us from hong kong. this is sure to rub some feathers at a time where we are seeing day by day, escalating tensions between washington and beijing. >> this definitely is not going to help mend

u.s. stocks complete their fastest ever return to your record, topping february highs for the first time since the coronavirus upended the market. the s&p 500 capping a rally from march low. sydney opens later. net income coming below estimates. revenue jumped by one third. jeff bogged shows us -- joins us later on. china tensions rise further. u.s. colleges are being told to offload holdings of mainland companies amid warnings of a wholesale sale of stocks from american exchanges. shery: let's get you started with a quick check of the trending markets. u.s. futures opening flat. this after reaching a record high. finally passing the february high after failing several times in the past week. the s&p 500 was led higher by consumer stocks. propelled by tech shares. the quickest rebound on record. fastest ever return to a record after a drop of at least 20%. we are still headed for the fifth straight month of gains. the longest winning streak since september of 2018. take a look at the dolla

as the u.s. as a consumer is driven economy but banks right now are tightening their loan standards and you see j.p. morgan actually leading this entire this entire sector. they're accepting they're not no longer accept a new home equity lines of credit they've halted all non p.p.a. based loan so now you have almost all of the u.s. commercial banks halting all of these lending halting loans and in tightening lending standards all across the board from commercial industrial to home credit cards and auto to commercial real estate loans and so the loan standards for all these products they were hiked so much that they are almost matching the standards during the last financial crisis when it was virtually impossible to get any sort of loan for the average consumer so in short every single thing that is not explicitly backed by the government such as the p.p.p. loans banks just simply won't go near any more as they have 0 visibility on the future outlook and the possibility of repayment so right now

we are seeing u.s. fewer sugars -- u.s. futures under pressure. we had ask leading u.s.-china tensions fan yelling -- fanning the data. the bloomberg dollar index flat at the moment. this after a fifth consecutive weekly decline that will be the longest losing stretch since january of 2018. the offshore yuan is flat at the moment. this after the yuan led declines in asian currencies. we have president trump moving to been tiktok and we chat. hang seng futures down to tense up 1%. under pressure from the last two sessions. it is a thin trading day. singapore and japan are closed. we have a china data blitz that could be confirming the recovery we are seeing. we have ppi numbers. not to mention retail sales and investment numbers out later in the week. markets are bracing from eventually more diplomatic feathers being ruffled as we get the u.s. health and human services secretary expected to meet with taiwan's president on monday. this is a trip that stands to further worsen relations between the u.s. and china. azar is the highest-ranking american official to visit the is

u.s. president donald trump has publicly rebuked the leader of the white house coronavirus task force he accused deborah berg's of hurting his administration she said the rapid spread of covert 19 in the u.s. represented a new phase in the pandemic flooding and landslides in south korea have killed at least 13 people president has called an emergency meeting he says rescue teams will do all they can to prevent further loss of life more than 300000 people are without electricity in north and south carolina after hurricane osias made landfall rescue teams are on high alert for flash flooding the storm hit florida over the weekend those are your headlines it's inside story now. as protest rage over police brutality and corona virus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the vote followed the u.s. election on a. first it was a long way now he's t

u.s. troops in iraq will be at the top of the agenda during prime minister. meeting with the u.s. president in washington their 1st meeting comes at a critical time the recently appointed prime minister says iraqis still need u.s. assistance to counter the threat from isis but they don't need to wreck the military support on the ground. nor will the device that the has right now we see iraqi defense capabilities have improved maybe we need help and american presence and training and intelligence with regard to weapons but the situation doesn't require a wide military response. more than 5000 u.s. soldiers are stationed in iraq some iraqi m.p.'s want fewer kazumi took over in may when baghdad's relations with washington were seen by some as being especially precarious the american drone strike killing of a rainy and general hossam so the money an iraqi militia leader abu make the on the hundreds in fact that in january prompted shia m.p.'s to demand u.s. forces leave iraq after months of an

u.s. military still there in iraq number one in its position next to neighboring iran the u.s. seeming to feel there is a need to keep some of those soldiers there as a deterrence the other interest is oil and of course iraq is a major oil producing nation and that is a valued interest to the united states as well 1 in terms of stability so we heard a couple of interesting things coming out of the oval office meeting between the iraqi prime minister and the u.s. president i think what's most interesting is that it was very clear coming from the iraqi prime minister he did not mince words speaking through an interpreter he was very clear that he does not want his country to be used as a platform he said for attacks on neighbors not mentioning iraq specifically but it's very clear that there was a message there the united states cannot use iraq for its proxy war with iran we're furring to of course the u.s. joe drone strike earlier many many months ago on the iranian commander qassam solomon

u.s. tech giant microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy chinese own video optics talk meanwhile u.s. president donald trump has threatened to bomb the company over concerns it could allow beijing to spy in a moment we'll get the latest from our correspondent in new york but 1st here's a look at a company that has come to him balti the growing mistrust but. when u.s. and chinese tech giants. with its $800000000.00 users take top bows itself as a digital playground but now it's turning into a box all grown between the u.s. and china. with american suspicious of its owners the be backed up may have exploded in recent years but not everyone is a fun. would you recommend that people download that up on their phones tonight tomorrow any time currently if you want your private information in the hands of the chinese communist party the struggle over digital technology is intensifying on the u.s. side facebook twitter and on the chinese side to talk on the technology giant while we also the target

headquarters the u.s. has already threatened to use the snap back provision in the nuclear deal that would restore all un sanctions against iran so what's tehran's next move now that. well from one diplomatic battle on to the next now iran has warned the europeans that they will have to take responsibility for anything that happens if those sanctions are returned or one of the key benefits for iran staying in this deal despite the united states putting them putting themselves out of in 2019 word lifting of those united nations sanctions now from mr devolves reid has said that the united states is trying to use the security council to destroy the security council and if these sanctions are reinstated it would be the end of any multilateralism and international law but the options open to iran are that they could completely pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal that means any of the restrictions placed on the nuclear program were they would no longer have to abide by the rules so they can enrich uranium to a hig

recently u.s. software company microsoft expressed interest in buying tick tock from byte dance the white house says if a us company bought that up the ban could be avoided the u.s. government's executive order also focuses on 10 cent holdings the chinese owner of we chat hugely popular in china the messaging and social media could soon be banned in the united states as well. as take a closer look at this with an injunction is professor of communications studies at the. diversity of north carolina and she's an expert on china and digital technologies and welcome to you professor let's start with these u.s. allegations that the tick tocks threatens national security and then on china's communist party to spawn u.s. citizens all those on occasions credible well this is a very interesting because. the white house has not offered any a concrete evidence so far that tick-tock is defying u.s. security standards and that he has engaged in national security reaching activities and to talk in fact as public

the u.s. and laura new cases and that would cause more harm than good but other countries like the philippines and are strange how one the other hand decided to go back to a partial lockdown in order to stop the spread of the virus. r t correspondent thank you for that insightful report. and time now for a quick break here because when we return the oil industry continues to struggle due to a lack of demand called by the pandemic to break down the situation and what it's going to take for the sector to rebound as we go to break through the numbers at the close. look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. must obey the orders given to human beings except where such a conflict with the 1st law. we should be very careful about. the point of use the . very thing with artificial intelligence to. protect its own existence. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason f

this has to do with the u.s. economy, about u.s.olicies and politics, and the fed being very aggressive. mehink that is probably for the key story globally now. a quick thought on these u.s.-china tensions, because they are now saying that the u.s. needs to get approval or that chinese approval is needed for this tiktok sale. they are throwing a wrench into some of those plans. will we see more of those kinds of relations as we get closer to election day in the united states? guest: yes, without a doubt, and beyond. identify trump with the tensions between america and china and technology, but it is much deeper than that. he is a proponent of that it.rlying move toward i don't think there is any reason to believe a biden administration would be soft on china. but obviously they would speak differently and try to cooperate in a more systematic way. but fundamentally, we are in a major multi year phase of tensions between these giants and it plays out in the technology world. i hope it does not blow up with the sanctions against each

is even opened up more than the u.s. the u.s. has very high stringency even now cash is because our politicians are so invested in the closures the lockdowns and the mass mandates and everything else that they don't see a way to kind of pull back from it because it's it almost seems embarrassing because they don't seem to have a good reason to do it again. tomorrow's versus last week so these stringencies continue in place and i think that more than a thing else is the source of a lot of the economic dislocation and that we. hold ation that christine mentioned in the financial markets were just a handful of companies we have to open up this economy we need to do it really so we should've done it 4 months ago but it needs to happen right away and whether whether about that come out that's going to happen before november i just don't know well yes you see kind of both sides where a lot of cities are a lot of places do have bars restaurants indoors everything open then you see the other side where they're not open either way nobody

u.s. cases top 5 million. calling for incredibly important government -- checking the markets, asia mostly lower. geopolitics hitting investor sentiment this monday morning. we have trump's executive orders. also we have the possible sanctioning of carrie lam and other officials in hong kong. the asia index down, singapore and japan shut for a public holiday. the csi 300 index lower by .9%, down for a third day, below the 10 day moving average. july consumer prices at 2.7% year on year versus the estimate. the pboc governor says china will implement the phase one deal with the u.s. he said that in an interview with tsinghua. chinext is down, extending a decline after bearish reversal. china internet stocks were up friday -- following the ban on tiktok. some say forget the tencent risk, asian stocks are silly by. alibaba -- still a buy. s&p.r tech giants on the we have futures in the u.s. 3343.ng to a flat open, the s&p 1% away from its all-time high. this on the outcome of the u.s. stimulu

the u.s. big south in support of a former saudi intelligence agent at the center of an alleged assassination plot by the crown prince. alone sam is a band this is al jazeera live from also coming up anger in hong kong after the u.s. imposes sanctions on 11 officials including kerry lam as hope fades of finding survivors after the explosion in beirut president external interference. punishments are handed out to violators of venezuela's coronavirus rules but many say they have to take the risk. the u.s. state department has spoken out in support of a former top saudi intelligence agent who was allegedly targeted for all the sasa nation attempts it describes as a valued partner of jumper a filed a lawsuit in washington d.c. on thursday accusing the saudi crown prince of sending a hit squad to calendar to kill him michaela has more. patrick leahy was one of 4 senators who sent a letter to the white house last month in the letter the senators expressed their concern about what they call the abduct

he said u.s. stocks can continue to rally as long as investors believe analysts are behind the curve on earnings estimates and price targets. shery: scarlet fu with the latest on the markets. investors watching with the federal reserve is doing. we heard from leger to, leaving open the pop -- we heard from richard clarida, leaving open the possibility -- he reiterated it is not likely now and reiterated negative interest rates in an online event hosted by the peterson institute for national economic spirit >> -- for international economics. >> i believe there is potentially a place for yield curve control, but that yield curve control is a complement to forward guidance and traditional large-scale asset purchase programs. there could be circumstances where it would be considered, and we were clear in the minutes of our july meeting, and i tried to be clear in my speech that it is something that is in the toolkit. christopherlcome -- we arerings watching what happens on the u.s. stimulus package. w

and following a move by the u.s. commerce department on monday to impose new sanctions restricting any foreign semiconductor manufacturers from selling chips made using u.s. technology to walk away without a special license the chinese foreign ministry of foreign affairs continued its full throated rebuttal of government action against chinese tech companies. so it's also really true that the us has done has completely the big leaf of them are going to qana me and fair competition principles of the u.s. has advocated violating international trade rules when undermining the global industrial chain supply chain and value chain it will inevitably damage u.s. national interests and its own image we believe that we urge the u.s. to immediately correct its mistakes stop you'll entering china and stop suppressing u.s. companies the chinese government will continue to take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests. this company was. in the medical and pharmaceutical world cup at 19 is virtually the

u.s. government executive order also focuses on 10 cent holdings the chinese owner of we chat hugely popular in china the messaging and social media app could soon be banned in the united states as well. of to senior market analyst data wanda craig craig what have been the significance of the u.s. banning we chat well i think it would be significant not necessarily on u.s. consumers because they are still quite limited in number but what the broader ramifications really would be the action of that's how you can it's not entirely clear but if it if extends for example to the scope of you wouldn't be allowed to download it on an i phone because apple's an american company all on and would be his has a similar reasons and all of a sudden the ramifications become far more severe also i think it's worth noting that any action taken by the u.s. is going to have a response from china so you get you looking at the u.s. tech space and say which u.s. tech companies are in china which u.s. tycoon riz

the u.s. state department has called for most top former top saudi intelligence officials sydell jobbery a value partner it comes a day off or it was revealed brief filed a lawsuit in washington accusing saudi crown prince mohammed bin selman of sending a hit squad to canada to try to kill him the state department says it's concerned by al job reason allegations and says any persecution of his family members back in saudi arabia is unacceptable it's also being reported that interpol rejected a request to extradite him back to saudi arabia because they said it was politically motivated well the u.s. state department comments were made in a letter to democratic senator patrick leahy who had requested a full update on the case in the letter the department says dr responded around the clock to threats against the u.s. mission in personnel it adds the department of state is concerned by the alleged activities that led to dr algebras exile in canada and says it repeatedly requested the government to

u.s. trade representatives and i think a couple of things 1st of all we must all say i don't know of anybody who wouldn't say that having 7 republican and 6 democratic senators unite on anything is wonderful so there is a lot of bipartisan support for this what they really stalking about is that talk about specifically actually the licas unwinds in a lot of european products you're totally right they want the lifted i think 2 things here number one they're right because there is a huge stockpiling all over all of these products and that's really due to code 19 of course the restaurant industry has been you know obviously pummeled it's projected that 85 percent of independently owned u.s. restaurants are going to file for bankruptcy and be out of business so this is stockpiling all these goods from europe and that's why i think the senators from across the nation on both parties both sides of the obf and both parties have raised this issue which i do think is an issue however we need to hav

the u.s. washington has been demanding business transparency and threatens to delist mainland companies. protests against police shootings spread to the nba. playoff games are canceled as refused toee bucks leader court. haidi: we continue to have that lackrnaut rage despite a of very meaningful headline developments on the positive side. we are getting incremental positivity when it comes to u.s.-china trade as well as daily developments on the search for a coronavirus vaccine as well. we are seeing futures flat at the moment, lower by .1% after both the s&p and the nasdaq hitting another all-time high. optimism being seen in the fourth straight day of record highs for u.s. stocks. the nikkei 225 just erasing some of the earlier moves, flat at the moment when it comes to futures trading in chicago. we wait to hear from president abe's press conference tomorrow. the focus being on his health and the future of auburn onyx and where dollar-yen goes from here. it is holding at 105.91 at the momen

u.s.oods is well below where they need to be to meet the target. television president alexander lukashenko has put the army on alert, deploying it to the country's borders with the european union, as he makes his mass protests in the challenge to his 26 your role. it comes as the european bloc holds a special summit. european leaders may decide sanctions are needed. the political crisis in monday has escalated. the president has resigned after being detained by the military. on television, he says he thought he had no choice but to comply. it comes after weeks of protests that an edge corruption and nepotism -- that allege corruption and nepotism in the government. that is the first word news. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and @quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. now let's get to the interview of the day. on hong kong with a series of high-profile chinese stock listings, and a pickup in trading at the hong kong exchanges a

some u.s. politicians made a murderous attack on chinese like to talk and in chinese companies like. the root cause is that they harbor hostility towards anything related to china and are attempting to impose ideological labels on chinese companies. these people are hunting to talk and other chinese companies under the guise of national security and are full of lies and slander which are in essence bullying who me. so the times we see it as it is is a larger issue between the u.s. and china in terms of nations but if we focus back in on absolute. and the return on athens is he not doing pretty much the same thing the any app that we could not that does and is a whole list of things that we are going to do this this is the say yes yes yes except haven't even read the small print and he's doing all sorts of things and maybe selling your data etc etc it's we just got the chinese version everything else that we use on different apps from around the world anyway. well the key there is that. the that

embedded u.s.ersonnel experts, administrative experts in various ministries throughout the government of liberia who are teaching their counterparts proper administration of public funds. time, i would publicly recognize nongovernmental organizations that are focused on pushing for anticorruption, such as the anticorruption commission of liberia and the auditor general of liberia in support those organizations whenever feasible. most importantly, i would highlight to the president and the government how essential it to change the perception of corruption and liberia, not just for private investment, but also for things like the millennium corporation, if they are interested in -- they are just wrapping up the first compact, $257 million in liberia that is doing things that the president and the people have been asking for. additional electricity, freshwater, and new roads. however, to get a new compact, they will have to re-task the mcc scorecard, which they have not passed for the past two years.

while a new forecast from the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention estimates that the death toll in the u.s. is projected to reach at least 173005 august 22nd so that's less than 20 days from now that's going to claim another $15000.00 lives and brand so far july has been the worst month in the u.s. with nearly $1800000.00 cases in this month alone and about 4040 percent of the cases in the u.s. occurred in july when restrictions were lifted in most states and we thought we saw the worst of it in april when we had over 858000 cases but then again in july we saw such a big jump may and june both were in any better but going into august we're looking for a better numbers but the good news is that deaths have been significantly lower in july compared to other mon so that's a really big plus so going into august on sunday the u.s. reporter around $47000.00 cases. now that's that's an increase in almost 4 weeks that's a small it's actually i should say increase in almost 4 weeks and as of 4 pm monday another 8500

u.s. shares briefly touched a record. we had tech leading the gains. investors banking on further stimulus. the msci asia pacific index is up .6%. the 2020 losses wiped out almost $6 trillion of market value. the s&p is still down 9% below its all-time high. we are tracking dollar-yen at 106.73. dollar yen is trading at the upper 106 level before u.s. retail sales and trade talks are planned for the weekend. we are seeing dollar weakness in recent days. gold futures at $1946. it is above $1900, a wild ride for the metal after surging 30% this year. we saw the plunge below $1900 tuesday. gold is still an of the best-performing commodities of 2020. 66.22.. 10 year yield at let's flip the page and look at where we are in terms of the chinese shares ahead of a slew of data for july on friday, including industrial production and retail sales. the csi 300 is in negative territory, down .4%. the yuan is at 6.93. the hang seng is getting some gains. center, infront and negative territory right now

u.s. president donald trump says he'll be joining other world leaders on a donor conference call for lebanon on sunday he also said aid from america is already on its way at 3 pm this afternoon i spoke with president. of lebanon to inform him that 3 large aircraft on the are on the way and they're fully loaded fully loaded with medical supplies food water many other things lots of emergency equipment also 1st responders technicians doctors and nurses are on their way are u.s. intelligence officials warning that foreign governments are trying to interfere in november's presidential election and a statement the director of the national counter intelligence and security center says his agency is primarily concerned about china russia and iran he says beijing wants donald trump to lose the vote it's allegedly increased efforts to influence u.s. politicians and shape public opinion all with the hope of affecting the presidential race agencies determined that russia wants trump to win again and

so the u.s.ted from a kind of very quick and very significant stimulus provided, by both providing that are on, broader unemployment benefits, checks to low-income individuals. all those things have been very helpful in preventing particularly low-income being able to continue to make spending decisions over the course of the spring and summer. but many of those programs ended at the end of july. the pandemic has not ended, the infection rate is still above 10% and we need fiscal policy to continue and it is critically important that congress continue to provide support. ofhad you modeled the impact the ending of the fiscal stimulus? eric: some form of additional stimulus is going to occur. it would definitely be bad news both for my forecast and for the economy if we don't do additional stimulus at this time. the mainpervised street program, perhaps the most controversial. according to your figures, 856 million dollars in loans and the system, but it is a program that could do $600 billion in lo

u.s.,ection here in the emotions of both sides, the u.s. populations are fairly polarized. the early part of what i call the current century tech cold war. lastedt cold war we had 50-plus years. it is accelerating as we speak. we did a machine learning based covid, it spiraled higher. headed toe world is what we call a tech wall, which in twoivide the world halves. whether companies will have to comply to operate. attacks, a higher cost for companies to operate. rise, we had a sectorrecently, the tech , a staggering $3.5 trillion. romaine: what has been the net effect on the technology industry? a big part of the growth in technology has been the cross-border sharing not only in supply chains but also in customers and talent. how do you continue to have technological progress? >> absolutely. the tech sector has benefited the most from globalization. this supply chain which china has assembled over the last 40 years has done a lot of work and has networks that are hard to replicate. if you wanted to relocate that to parts of asia, it would t

and u.s. sanctions on hong kong the territories chief executive kerry lamb and 10 other chinese officials singled out over a controversial security law. the u.s. has spoken out in defense of a former top saudi intelligence agent who was allegedly targeted and a fall the assassination attempt the state department's described. as a valued partner filed a lawsuit in washington d.c. on thursday accusing saudi crown prince mohammed bin someone of sending a hit squad to canada to try to kill and mike hanna has more. patrick leahy was one of 4 senators who sent a letter to the white house last month. in the letter the senators express their concern about what they call the abduction in saudi arabia of. son and daughter in his court filing recesses children now aged 20 and 21 were being hilda's what he called human bait to lure him out of hiding the state department has now responded to the senator's concerns in a letter to senator leahy it described. as a valued partner to the u.s. government working

out now you waited till we use many apps and software is that were developed by the u.s. to take talk has been successfully gaining many users around the world but i didn't expect that due to political reasons this could affect the economy and even at users personally damaging this it will not so far microsoft successful ventures into the world of social media have been limited to linked in platform for career professionals but this deal with tic toc could give microsoft a larger market share with younger millennialism generations ahead with pressure from the u.s. government on tech talk microsoft says it's looking to purchase the american business operations by september the 15th. all right let's go to new york now and talk to our correspondent there yes quarter good to see you so how close are microsoft and talked to a deal. well i mean wall street seems to believe very close the stock of microsoft going to a good fight finish off percent year on monday from not mistaken reaching a new all time high and we actually do know quite a bit so far so you already mentioned by