on chinese goods coming to the u.s.. these u.s. imports to china include automobiles, soybeans, chemicals, and aircraft. trading underway in jakarta. at theis having a look general flavor. it is quiet, but at least positive. mind, we haven almost half of asia's markets caps off with china, hong kong, and taiwan on holiday. have it joining the fray, adding .9%. the move across the region is seeing the yen lose ground, eyeing the 1.07 handle against the dollar. japanese shares are 1.5% with health care and real estate leading gains in tokyo. in singapore, we're seeing sti rise nearly 2% to lead the region higher. could be a hint of what to expect when hong kong returns friday. as we count down to the policy decision next week, we are seeing banks gain ground in singapore. in malaysia, stocks are rising over 1% ahead of trade data do this afternoon. the trade surplus is forecast to have narrowed in january. we have cost up 1.3 percent, focusing on the auto space -- a mixed bag there after the march auto data came out. we do have expor

u.s. process against u.s. companies involving u.s. account holders, there shouldn't be an issue, even frankly, that would come up in that situation. so having a conflict of law analysis apply doesn't make any sense. other than that, though, i think that's the only one i can think of in this context. >> right. and i know it's only been a few days literally since the act has passed, but just as you're thinking through the practical implications of how doj is going to use this act, to what degree will these kind of factors you're talking about such as commity and those kinds of issues sort of shape when you will use process versus trying to negotiate with the provider versus asking them to litigate. how will those factors figure into the practical use of this? >> just to feed off the point richard just made, when it comes to u.s. investigations, in our view this legislation restores the status quo. we would serve process in the way we always have and traditionally always have with respect to crimes we're investigating under violations of

and because of u.s. pressure and u.s. southern border plan, which referring to mexico's southern border, there is this enormous pressure from mexico to also treat these refugees as either kill immigrants. -- illegal immigrants. i think the caravan members, when i was there, their clear this is also just kind of a caravan that is also there to fight for their rights as refugees and asylum-seekers, in both mexico and the u.s. legal advice for people so they are aware of their rights in both mexico and u.s., so they can make a decision whether they would like to try to stay in mexico and apply for asylum there or hand and apply for asylum in the united states. nermeen: if i could ask you to elaborate on that, the changes in mexico's immigration and asylum policies. what specifically the u.s. has been asking mexico to do and the enormous transformation that occurred. since 2015, mexico has been deporting more people from central america than the u.s. has. >> that is correct. plan,t of a longtime which some people call plan me

because that would put pressure on the u.s. to reverse it. u.s. s&p market 500 beenown maybe dollars and now down about $180 billion. you have to think the tariffs will be extended to a much broader set of categories that justify the selloff that has occurred. vonnie: several different ripple effects, you say that it will affect confidence. it will affect assets prices, particularly the more sensitive asset prices to policy. >> i think it will. it should not obscure the point that, if you are a country that sells 3.5 -- exports to the is 3.5 times what you import, your goods overwhelmingly labor-intensive relative to the u.s. and you have higher tariffs . it is hard to win a trade war starting with that, unless you are particularly strategic and the other side is particularly bundling. they should have it manage. on the equities side to some degree but on the economic side the u.s. should have the advantage. mark: our markets suited for this role of becoming the barometer of successful policy? >> no. i think they are very poor choice. markets are

the u.s. means and whether china will retaliate in a huge way. we will have to wait and see. also tracking the yen, getting close to 107. it is retreating somewhat. we are looking at 105, 108. important levels for both of the economy and manufacturers. yvonne: not just on the trade front was a dollar-yen. waseard governor kuroda thinking about an exit, but not talking about it yet. at least they are more open about talking about an exit strategy. take a look at the tariff lines. 1300 targets -- products have been targeted by the u.s.. it is certainly runs the gamut. a wide net when it comes to medical imports like painkillers and surgical supplies. that will hit the pharma sector. than 5%.ticals of more industrial tools and materials as well. we are seeing a rise of 2%. usually the one that has been under the most pressure, acc, one of the ones hardest hit. we are seeing that down about 1%. defense also one sector to watch out for. that is rallying today. responsebeen a muted from investors so

u.s. and russia trade threats at the un never a suspected chemical attack in duma donald trump puts military options on the table . hello i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up china's president promises a more even playing field for foreign firms as a trade war looms with the u.s. . a peace accord in perilous a former colombian rebel leader is arrested for alleged drug trafficking. malaysia's prime minister faces the strongest challenge yet to his grip on power as an election date is set. the u.s. president says he'll make a decision shortly on how to respond to a suspected chemical attack in syria donald trump says all options are on the table including military action a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more. u.s. president donald trump says he wants someone to pay for the suspected chemical attack in duma on monday he convened his cabinet to discuss it it was an atrocious attack it was horrible when you are studying that situation extremely clo

switching to u.s. dollar u.s. dollar has been on many peoples radars since the beginning of the year. those expectations in january that the dollar would get somewhat of a bid with a more hawkish fed. we have not seen that really on the quarter the dollar index is down 2.5% actually what's interesting is the last couple of months have been pretty range bound. i'm happy to say that the global head of fx strategy from bank of america/merrill lynch joining us to talk all things fx. the greenback has been a surprising underperformer this year most people expected with a more hawkish fed, with the tax cuts that came out of the u.s., the repatriation, that all of these things would be a boom for the dollar but it has not materialized. why is that the case >> the u.s. debt has been strong the fed has been hawkish fiscal policy stimulus is one we expect to support the dollar, however the dollar weakened this year and it's at relatively weak levels there are two reasons that has kept the dollar from rallying. one is the co

it increases the u.s. companies adopting that dual education system what do you what do you hearing from them. indeed these clusters or apprenticeship programs started on the initiative of the german companies but bit by bit now three years down the road more and more american companies japanese companies and other european companies are joining and sold by now in these programs that are certified by the german american chambers of commerce german companies are only fifty percent of the participating companies and as we also have seen in the sport we have seen before. it's the german companies who start the process and then it's actually the peers american companies japanese companies in the region who see what's happening who go there talk to the c.e.o.'s talk to the apprentice a little apprentice what they are actually learning and why it's a good idea and then they say ok this is actually a convincing model so they then join the program later on this is something we have seen not only in georgia but all

although the u.s. announced a 60 billion package, we actually calculated the amount of those products at that very detail level that the u.s. announced. it was much less than that. it was barely half. a 50 billion,with real 50 billion package. it was too big for what china can do. china can do many things, but not on trade. which worries me even more. we will see how the market reacts. it will be worse if it reacts differently than trade. betty: the jets -- it's interesting you say that why do you think the chinese scramble together a package like that? alicia: four populist reasons. populist reasons. for both, it is nice to show they are reacting to their "strategic enemy." that is what we have seen. i don't think china benefits from this package, frankly. they will have to backdrop to what they will do is do it through announcements of reforms . i think that is what they are going to do. to show that they will open their market. that is the best-selling point, offering the u.s. market access. everyon

u.s. president trump all dislikes against assad's forces in response to an alleged chemical attack. strikes take place before investigators from the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. starts their probe into the alleged poison gas attack in duma last week and experts are due to arrive at the scene later today. washington says it's confident the assad government was behind the chemical attack in duma and the evidence comes from various media outlets and n.g.o.s we take a closer look at those sources. a warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me thank you erin bringing you continuing live coverage of our breaking news the syrian capital damascus has been hit by missiles fired in a u.s. led operation against the assad government the pentagon said it also targeted two locations near the city of homs president trump announced a military action in a friday evening t.v. address it comes in response to an alleged chemical attack in the syrian town of duma a week ag

the u.s. says it's locked and loaded for another military strike if the syrian government uses chemical weapons again now that warning follows the most significant western allies attack against president bashar al assad's government in the seven year war the u.s. u.k. and france launched more than one hundred missiles on sites they say were linked to syria's chemical weapons program it was in retaliation for last days to suspected chemical attack on the town of duma and the smoke was still rising from those sites as the reaction came in from across the region to hear expressed support for the strikes the syrian government and iran called the criminal russia drafted a u.n. security council resolution to condemn what it called the aggression that was voted down as mike hanna reports from the united nations. this is the first time the council has met on syria this week a series of meetings that have served only to illustrate the massive divide on the issue because the secretary general's repeated

one, pushing the u.s. to accept more refugees -- not just the u.s., but the u.s. shut down its borders. countries across the globe are shutting down borders to refugees, but especially were -- especially syrian refugees. and demanding that we talk about syria based on what the syrian people rose up and amended and looking at it that way and demanding, yes, an end told airstrikes, more humanitarian aid for survival, and accountability for all war crimes. amy: chelsea manning, you're running for u.s. senate against ben cardin. the primary is in june. what about the issue of taking the u.s. bombing of syria to congress, to have it authorized? >> i think congressional obviously, no-- single person should have the power to be able to arbitrarily engage in airstrikes for whatever reason without any checks and balances or anything like that. i really think that having a president or having any single person with this much power is problematic but i also think in this instance where you have -- even if yet congressional authorization, this is not about -- you don't bring

the u.s. and china indicate there willing to negotiate over tariffs. investigators breathe a sigh of relief. the vendors's cuts rating to one level above junk after changing legal structure and says other u.k. banks could be at risk. anna: the facebook ceo says data on most of its 2 billion users could of been accessed improperly, but the stock rises after hours. good morning, this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." something changed in the markets psychology in the markets assessment of what's really happening on the trade story. whatever you want to call it, it seems that sentiment change in the middle of the session yesterday in the united states and gradually the markets clawed their way back from losses to end higher, the s&p ending up during the session. how's it translating over into the asian's session? a lot has been written about how this has been a story that's focused on stock markets and has not affected other classes to the same in rent. were seen a little bit of relief coming thro

u.s.. s&p futures now down by over 1.5%, 44 points. it is a similar story in the currency market. the yen moves higher as there is a safe haven bid there. what is interesting to me is the lack of bid in the treasury market. twods moving lower i basis points, but when you expect an even stronger treasury market? we will get to that in a minute. we really only have one story for our quick take this morning, and that is what is going on with china. over night we had an exchange of trade sanctions with the u.s. , on $50 billion of chinese imports on things like semiconductors, lithium has put $50nd china billion in tariffs on things like soybeans, aircraft, automobiles, and chemicals. we will bring in our colleague in beijing, hello brian. she has -- emma o'brien. she has been covering this throughout the night. you were listening in on the news conference that ended a short time ago. what did we learn from that? it certainly did seem that china was coming out all guns blazing. that did take a

new u.s. delegation is again trying to mislead the international community it's known taking a further step toward confrontation. russia is already on the ground in duma this amateur video purportedly shows russian police investigating the the site of the attack moscow says it and the regime are ready to allow probe which shouldn't assign blame the u.s. says that's a cover up. history will record that on this day russia chose protecting a monster over the lives of the syrian people while the u.s. and its allies say russia's position is a smokescreen they want an independent inquiry to begin soon while they still evidence of what happened on the way canned like this gas canister said to have been discovered two days ago. and while diplomats argue over how best to respond the ledge to attack is already shifted syria's battle lines hiya displaced people from duma arrive in syria's rebel held north resistance collapsed in eastern guta after the attack the refugees are reminded of the brutal intens

u.s. president donald trump fires off a warning to russia over syria he tweeted to get ready russia missiles will be coming trump has vowed to strike syrian military targets after an alleged poison gas attack last week and. also coming up facebook boss mark zuckerberg faces day two of a grilling over his company's misuse of private data tells a committee of the house of representatives that facebook has not seen any activity by russia or china to collect data and the death toll climbs to two hundred fifty seven in a military plane crash in algeria the jet goes down just after takeoff near a military base outside of the capital algiers. kelly welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has blasted off a warning to russia over syria he has threatened to military action after an alleged poison gas attack last weekend just a short time ago he tweeted russia vows to shoot down missiles fired at syria get ready russia because they will be coming you should be partners with a gas killing a

war with the u.s. if the trump administration follows through on its proposal on tuesday to impose a 25% tariff on some $50 million -- billion, rather, of chinese exports to the u.s. so china today has announced it will reciprocate, the same scope, same size. 25% tariff on $50 billion worth of u.s. goods coming to china. and they would include soybeans and airplanes. and that's significant because those are major businesses from the u.s. to china. you had in 2016 $14 billion worth of u.s. soybeans. and roughly $14 billion worth of u.s. aircraft. the trump administration says it needs these tariffs to protect against alleged intellectual property theft and forced technology transfer. the vice minister of commerce in china was asked about that. those allegations. and his response was "fake news." he says china doesn't do that. >> all right. thanks. >>> remember the president said trade wars are good and easy to win. it appears wall street disagrees. dow futures are down more than 400 points. investors wo

u.s., european futures point higher. barclays credit rating is cut to capitall above junk and market division will see more earnings volatility as a result. facebook says most of its users data is vulnerable. ceo mark zuckerberg will testify in washington next week. sheryl sandberg joins us live today on bloomberg television. matt: we are less than half an hour away from the open and european markets. european equity markets. while get futures i did a double take because we're looking at substantial gains and index futures, 1.5% across-the-board area that does not come through in other asset classes, that risk on feeling. not to that extent. see yields up but not by much. we recovered in the afternoon as investors sold off bonds but they are not pumping them up fast -- out fast enough to align with the 1.5% gain and index futures so it is interesting to see that big move. what do you see in the other asset classes? guy: you see that in asia and the nneka i. china will be closed and back on

u.s. will respond with missiles after an apparent chemical attack in syria. but on trump's pick the secretary of state faces his senate confirmation hearing why some say pompei or is not the man for the job and the man once tipped to be china's future president is convicted of bribery. we begin in syria where government forces have pushed the last rebel fighters out of the southern town of the river that's according to a russian official well that country is a military police have now been deployed to take over security moscow's have i'm sure that those in the one order in duma well general was previously held by syrian rebels fighting the assad government it's one of the largest towns and eastern good which has been under siege since two thousand and thirteen fighting escalated last november the u.n. says eighty thousand civilians fled to government held territory in damascus in march and some twenty thousand rebels and civilians have been evacuated to rebel territory in the northwestern

but first the trade dispute between the u.s. and china is continuing to ask the late right sumi earlier today beijing announced additional terrorist on one hundred six u.s. products around fifty billion dollars including cars and soybean and that's a clear message to the white house because more than half of u.s. soybean exports go to china meaning that farmers most of whom voted for u.s. president are most likely to be hit. the take effect. before the frump administration had rolled out its own list of proposed chinese imports to be hit with terrorists thirteen hundred products worth roughly fifty billion dollars would be subject to an added import duty of twenty five per cent now the list includes various industrial components for airplanes like launching gears turbines flight data recorders and even tires the medical and pharmaceutical sectors is also affected with extra terrors to be put on defender later and many medicines interesting you know mobile phones which constitute about forty percent of u.s. imports from china are

the u.s. says it's locked and loaded for another military strike if the syrian government uses chemical weapons again well that warning follows the most significant western allied attack against president bashar al assad's government since. seventy of war began the u.s. the u.k. and france launch more than one hundred missiles on sites that they say were linked to syria's chemical weapons program and it was in retaliation for last saturday's suspected chemical attack on the town of duma well the smoke was still rising from those sites as reaction came in from leaders across the region turkey expressed its support for the strikes the syrian government and iran though called them criminal while russia drafted a u.n. security council resolution to condemn what it called the aggression the resolution was voted down more on that shortly but first this report from al-jazeera as defense correspondent patty culhane from the pentagon. i used three words to describe this operation precise overwhelming a

u.s. and china will reach a deal. he says his administration will probably come to an agreement to resolve a dispute and prompted fears of an all out trade war. the chief economist says the bank continues to expect the two countries will reach a compromise. is said to be evaluating the potential impact of devaluing the yuan, in response to the worsening traits that with the rest. officials are setting up a two-pronged reaction. one models what would happen if to offsetere models the impact from tariffs. mark zuckerberg will tell congress later that facebook's problems are his responsibility. he is due to give two days of testimony over the worst crisis in facebook's history. to company did not do enough prevent fake news and potential harm to users. zuckerberg will try to explain how much facebook contribute to the walled while excepting he did not realize the consequences. , the latest high profile person to abandon facebook. he expects it will be decades itsre facebook change policy. he

and a former u.s. president gets the freedom of belfast as northern ireland mocks a historic peace agreement. from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello the spring won't see is really boosting in china temps is heading towards the thirty mark in hong kong thirty and humid similar sort of story up towards shanghai but that also brings rain with it the rain knocks the temperature back so shanghai drops as a cloud start to build and the yangtze value looks like seeing well nice to spring rain once again this will be the second bite in the last week south of this it's quite quiet most of the landmass of southeast asia is dry by satellite and in the forecast the shells are increasing in the philippines maybe born is still a ways is drug that has been for weeks if not months and that's true jobbers well in fact although we should be seeing the rain she's in stopped in thailand the next day or so sees mostly a draw in thailand sumatra is a bit wet you'll notice we have there

u.s. of white nationalism that is not new with trump and charlottesville. it is inscribed in the founding of the u.s.. the economy which is grounded in the violent theft of indigenous lands and slavery with settlers armed to the teeth throughout its history, and there population of 500 million in the united states, -- with 300 million people in the united states, the number of guns in the population's hands is also 300 million. the a number of people on the guns. only 3% of the population own 50% of the firearms in civilian hands. ,> this minority of gun owners are mainly white men, descendents of the original settlers. i have of course the new book, a history of the second amendment, tracing that history and the contemporary manifestations. although this writing project on the nations immigrants -- on the tracing theigrants, dubious claim, the history about -- it came to be a term is the idea that the u.s. has always been a nation of immigrants. ven from colonial times, 1607 on. so even t

let's get a closer look at the u.s. market close going into asia -- the s&p 500 turned early losses and to gains as stocks and bonds rising as a bloomberg report saying the white house is not actively seeking to take despite theazon, tweet attacks from the president over the last several days. could tonight our connection, it looks at investor focus is turning away perhaps from trade to earnings a bit more. su: that can bring a positive tone to the market despite the continued downturn in the market as the trump tweets continued. it turned into a risk on what's the white house report of no action directly plant against amazon. is the trade council quote safe smart money will come back in and buy stocks. you saw the risk on. yields rising and bonds retreating, and you also see oil up on speculation of a surprise run in supplies, which we will get in a wednesday report. let's look at the thank trade because he sought amazon come back to positive. havefacebook which would been down," a positive note. if you look at spotlig

president pulls the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal will that have repercussions for any deal with north korea and the u.s. surely if there's no binding deal to be made then surely there would be a new trust in the north koreans are not trust anyone all right there's a bigger senior fellow and head of the asia program at the base think tank the german council on foreign relations mr berger thank you very much we appreciate your insights. all right another grilling for facebook today daniel winters has that and all of these business news. so british lawmakers are repeating that call for c.e.o. mark zuckerberg to appear before parliament of a data breach they rejected explanations from chief technology officer mike tripp he told the committee facebook will introduce new measures to boost advertising transparency in britain by june as a crackdown on manipulative political ads and the spread of fake news defended his company's handling of the data scandal as many of. a million british facebook users had their d

warships and choosing u.s. planes out of the sky then we had donald trump's tweets talking about all these missiles could get ready russia these missiles are coming so for this attack to actually pan out is three rather limited strikes against. strikes against three different facilities and not anything that would put russian military lives in danger puts the lives of iranian personnel or hezbollah personnel on the ground in danger i think the russians would accept this as a cost that is worth bearing considering the trajectory of the conflict in general is going in their direction surely really there are two perhaps avenues of thought here as to perhaps why russia perhaps might not be as angry as it sounds that in diplomatically one is this de confliction line which is a communication line between d.c. moscow and then also the general comments being made on twitter by president trump which would have indicated to the russians that we're going to do something. yes it was tweeting this was going to be a serious

the u.s. trade representative has announced fifty billion dollars in new tariffs on chinese products this is the latest salvo in what threatens to be a trade war this round is over the future of technology the u.s. has targeted thirteen hundred products in the aerospace information technology communications robotics and machinery industry they say this is necessary due to harmful chinese policies that is a reference to china's china two thousand and twenty five plant in which china plans to replace technology imports by domestic products by the year two thousand and twenty five the u.s. says that china has misappropriated us intellectual property through requiring joint ventures by unfair licensing rules through buying u.s. tech firms with state funds and through outright theft this all began when president donald trump announced tariffs on aluminum and steel coming out of china china retaliated with tariffs on pork fruit nuts and wine that was specifically tailored to her trump supporters in

u.s. trade turfs german chancellor angela merkel has been lobbying president trump in recent days in a bid to try and exemptions for the european union now in germany france and britain say they'll move to the fish and sea and st if they all hit spike you contentiously christine that it's also on the program. and immigration scandal brings down britain's interior minister resigning office as she admits she misled lawmakers of the targets for moving in the migrants will get the latest from our correspondent in. the house or an escape from syria's nukes forest prisons our correspondent meeting a former inmate who's now speaking out about which will. also have all the latest going to single action for you. facing a startling braman most focus pick up a victory that will help us secure a champions league school next season. when i'm stressed of a spring thanks for joining us governments around the world are bracing for a possible trade war with washington set to decide soon whether it will imp

u.s. forces in syria. hello welcome to our jazeera live from doha i'm nineteen that is also coming up beijing promises to hit back after the u.s. hikes tariffs on fifty billion dollars worth of chinese in pole. russia's president launches a nuclear project from promises foster arms deliveries as his country moves closer to turkey. and music streaming company spotify strikes a chord with investors during its opening up on wall street. u.s. president donald trump a spray can again of his desire to pull american forces out of syria suggesting that victory over eisel is imminent the u.s. is launching airstrikes almost every day in the war torn country and has around two thousand troops on the ground president trump says if the saudi allies want america to stay the kingdom they have to pay for it alan fischer reports from washington. the president insists he's never been keen on america's foreign military adventures seeing the cost too much money thank you at a news conference at the white hous

the u.s. reacts to a husbandan led missile strike on syria, vice president pence calls for other nations to get on the right side of history. >>> what's next whep it comes to u.s. military action? is this real loo one and done? or is this likely to lead to more u.s. involvement in the complicate? >>> by declaring mission accomplished on twitter today president trump triggers a political firearm storm. we begin with the strikes in syria ordered by president trump and two key u.s. allies at the end of what was a tumultuous week for the president of the united states. it took place just days after the president trump pushed for a withdrawal of troops from syria. assad's regime ordered chemical weapons attack on the citizens of the country. he tweeted mission accomplished a phrase president bush used prematurely in 2003. hans nichols is live at the pentagon. jeff benity is at the white house. we haven't seen president trump today but our understanding is that he has been on the phone talking to so

commission by intends to buy the u.s. agricultural colossus for sixty two billion dollars u.s. officials have insisted that by divest additional assets as part of the deal a full now goes smoothly mega deal will be the biggest ever taken all the u.s. company by a german one. back over to daniel in frankfurt daniel the merger appears to finally have the green light despite many concerns. yes exactly where and there are still are lots of concerns because we have to face as with this merger by our monsanto we'll have a mano paly position that is the reason why until the very end approvals from the us and also e.u. authorities were pending and monsanto has said in the past that their version at least with this merger they will play a major role to make sure to meet the rising demand for food in the future others see all of this very different mostly farmers are concerned their fear that their seed cause go up dramatically and yes the market is not very big by monsanto doudou pong and champ china those are the global players they will control more than seventy percent of the global

u.s. president fires off a warning to russia over syria in a tweet he wrote get ready russia missiles will be coming and alleged poison gas attack last weekend prompted to destroy syrian military targets also coming up the death toll climbs to two hundred fifty seven in a military plane crash in algeria one of the deadliest disasters in aviation history the nation has begun three days of mourning and facebook's boss completes a two day grilling in congress mark zuckerberg tells lawmakers that he thinks it's inevitable that social media will be regulated in the united states says. it's good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump has blasted off a warning to russia over syria and he's done it via twitter in a tweet earlier today the u.s. president threatened military action in retaliation for an alleged poison gas attack last weekend syria's army has sought to hide its military aircraft because of fears that they might be targeted several western nations believe that the poison gas

oh the u.s. definitely has a strategy they're taking this very very seriously and i think we can see that by the fact that cia director might pump a.o.m. to pyongyang and have discussions with kim jong un himself the united states only has a strategy they've been careful about stating that they don't want to raise expectations too high because you know the outcome is not going to be anything perfect is going to be some degree of promise by north korea. process work of telling that promise some early. dismantlement by north korea of the test site maybe of some of the facilities at yongbyon and then a lot to be determined in the months and years ahead ok robin do you agree with that even the u.s. has a solid strategy going to this summit i mean we we still don't have a u.s. ambassador to south korea is there a team in place do they know what they're getting into yeah i'm a little bit more skeptical on that primarily because of the president's on erratic personality i'm genuinely doubtful that presi

the largest u.s. supermarket company kroger is set to hire eleven thousand new employees in an effort to increase customer service and efficiency at its more than twenty eight thousand locations the two percent increase employees will bring the total number of workers at kroger to four hundred fifty thousand the hiring strategy as part of a three year plan to refocus on existing stores as opposed to opening new location so the move comes as grocery stores are facing increased competition and white of amazon's purchase of whole foods last year and pressure from grocery deep discounters like european based altie and others which are expanding in u.s. markets. a so-called fat finger error by an employee of the giant south korean electronics firm samsung has created one hundred five billion dollars debacle at the firm stock trading arm last friday an employee at samsung securities attempted to share dividends with pensioners but instead of giving them a thousand one dollar per share instead they were sent

. >> other u.s. officials going even further, one telling reporters that the russians expelled from the u.s. were aggressive collection personnel, spies, cloaked as diplomats. america's top spy, director of national intelligence dan coats, says of the russian consulate in seattle just shut down by the trump administration, there were, quote, collection opportunities there at places like mcchord air force base near tacoma and the boeing facilities in the area. another senior administration official says a key reason that russian consulate in seattle was closed was because of its proximity to a submarine base, likely the sensitive nuclear subbase on the kitsap peninsula in washington state. putin is quickly ramping up his navy's submarine fleet and intelligence veterans say that u.s. base and other facilities near seattle are a gold mine. >> the goal is for those people who have access to collect information, to steal secrets, and then pass them back to the russians, which the russian government will t

speaking to u.s. colleagues last week, the chief executive commented on the progress of its white wave integration >> the integration is going well synergy plan is slightly ahead we continue to see enormous attraction in the long-term growth behind the pudding, non-dairy alternatives with brands like silk, so delicious organic, nondairy, which is a great combination of our dairy business, which is making danone an unparalleled brand company that can address the needs for people to have a variety of choices on the market. >>> shares in heineken are trading lower. asia and the americas saw sharp increases with overall beer volumes up 4.3% year-on-year, that's thanks to the late lunar new year and an early easter the brewer struck a bullish note on the full-year retaining its outlook saying it expects operating profits to expand by 25 basis points. sticking with booze, remy has cited strong demand for its premium cognac in china for a boost in q4 sales. asml holding reported a 540 million euro net income

analysts have been saying it is now the u.s. and china, u.s. and south korea, and japan has been sideline. to me it does not seem like that, but what is your take? toluse: when you look at the optics, bringing prime minister abe to mar-a-lago to spend personal time with the president does kind of give you that close feeling that the president and the prime minister are very close. administration officials we spoke to earlier said president trump had met with prime minister abe more often than any other world leader across the world. so there is that level of closeness, but it has not yet transferred to deliverables for japanese on trade, on missiles, on north korean policy. it does not appear that including hisp is japanese counterpart when he is making major decisions whether it is slapping tariffs on steel and aluminum and giving exemptions to various countries and living japan off that list, or making discussions with the north korean leader and not telling the japanese in advance. what has kind of overshadow this is that we heard the presid

on the u.s. side, if they are interested in a financial deal, our country's position is that the tpp is the best for both countries. shall bethat, we dealing with the talks. president trump: thank you very much. the united states has a massive trade deficit with japan. it is anywhere from $69 million to $100 billion a year. that is massive by any standard. on steel and232 aluminum, and if we can come to an arrangement on a new deal between the united states and japan, that would certainly be something we would discuss, aluminum and steel tariffs, and i will look forward to being able to take them off at some point in the future. but right now we have a deficit that is a minimum of $69 million year. japan since us millions and millions of cars, and we tax them virtually not at all. and we do not send so much products because we have trade barriers and lots of other things. so these are the things the prime minister and i will be discussing over the next short period of time. the media has not cove

voicing she it won't threaten the u.s. veto over significant policy decisions taken by the world bank we will see that the world bank shift its focus from countries like china to putus countries the u.s. and many other countries would welcome that it is you know it to be honest i think i was surprised that the us agreed to do it because it has been so hostile to making concessions of the sorts. in the past i think it reflects the sort of on off approach to engagement with international institutions that we've seen under the trump administration and it certainly reflects some skill diplomacy by the leadership the president of the world bank himself i think it's a personal triumph for him speaking of stability or perhaps lack of it the ongoing tensions right now between the united states and russia over everything from the war in syria the dispute over meddling in domestic politics and all the rest of it the ongoing sanctions there is the potential for this to to grow into something further not just a cold war but a real war

u.s. impose sanctions against russian oligarchs. have the stock easing up in the pressure we saw at the start of the session. --y are urging shareholders rishaad: how important is the yield curve? at least one policymaker attaches a great deal of importance to it. presidentlar's fed says interest rates should be raised because the u.s. is near full employment. he told them there watching the you curb very carefully. >> i would say that i would guess that both sides might be well served to lower the heat on the rhetoric. it would have to be very fundamental private discussions. not only on reciprocal trade and tariffs but issues like intellectual property. transferring the ability of foreign countries to do business in china. all of that requires direct conversations. >> china is said to be evaluating the potential impact of devaluing the yuan. anior officials are studying two-pronged reaction, one that studies the effect of using the currency as a tool of negotiation and what could happen

and u.s. this week, and the government is working with credit suisse and deutsche bank on the offering that could include 5, 10 and 30 year notes. qatar last told bonds internationally in 2016 when it raised $9 billion. betty: boeing is celebrating another win over airbus, getting 47 dreamliner's, a $12 million deal. they are expanding wide-body sales in the u.s. and comes on top of american's cancellation of an order for 22 a350's. that could convince the wide-body customer to switch to the 787. the hawaiian jumbo last month -- haidi: reports from seoul say gm korea may suspend production because it cannot pay its bills are the chief executive told staff the company is unable to pay for contractors and may have to shut down. workers were told the tracks may be transferred to china. million aover $1 month this -- in this month alone. prime minister malcolm turnbull is trying to defend his leadership after the government launched 30 consecutive poll offers to the executive -- the opposition par

in the u.s. if you looked at the mirror times and other newspapers today korea seem to be the much bigger headline so this was a talk that was meant it's the exceptions were managed beforehand merkel was trying to to go at this low key because mick rule was unable to change terms mines yeah. probably i mean this is in part we don't really know right i mean the great thing about these kinds of talks that just happened is that we will see effects on may first is the deadline for for the steel tariffs there's still an element of the minimum terms may twelfth the deadline for the pulling out of the year round deal by the u.s. so if they have they were successful we will see what they were trying to do is suggest trump has the final decision and he will have to make it ok claire let's talk a little bit about what we heard in that press conference at the very beginning the first point that trump made was the money point saying that members of nato continue to not spend the two percent of their two perc

u.s. a sense of risk off but smaller declines relative to what we saw before. map, at this point, for sectors trading higher -- four sectors trading higher. just seven sectors lower now. industrial on bottom with companies, investors selling on the possibility of a trade war with energy and materials up top. even though the declines are relatively small, investors are going to be more defensively natured sectors. tech had been the worst sector earlier but one reason it is no longer the case, now apple is trading higher, 20% of their revenue does come from china. investors think this company will not be impacted at anytime soon. u.s. centric companies trading higher, including cbs that cvs, walgreens, kroger, most of the revenue comes from the u.s., most of the products sold not affected by a possible trade war. the technicals are still weak for the s&p 500. 4399, whicht g #btv you can access on gtv, a one-year chart of the s&p 500. uptrend last year where the buyers had the index above the

i want to know the effects of china-u.s., u.s.-china, china-u.s. to the emerging markets of this globe. what does it mean, not for mexico, not the n-11 nations. what does it mean for emerging markets around the world? >> it is not good news for emerging markets. not good news, period. now this is the response to the teel and aluminum tariffs. it is some a somewhat limited response. it is calculated to deal with the size of the exports of chinese products to the united states, on aluminum and steel. there is a better way here designed by the g-20 and that means the united states and china and all the g-20 leaders ich is the global forum on excess steel capacity which we established to deal with the substance to have the problem. if we don't deal with the substance over the problem, we will continue to deal only with the manifestations, putting tariffs on each other. the oecd is the facilitator on this global forum. it is working. it is making progress. we should give it a chance. tom: within that and giving it a chance, the fact is the president of

two u.s. border agents have been reprimanded for trying to illegally force an injured man across the border into mexico the office has made no attempt to identify himself and no medical assistance a violation of international treaty but reynolds reports. a new case spotlights the tensions at the border between u.s. and mexican officials a mexican official recorded the cell phone video in march of two thousand and seventeen it shows two uniformed u.s. border protection agents escorting a disheveled and apparently mentally disturbed man in handcuffs up to the border at calexico california mexican authorities on the other side challenge them saying if the man is a mexican citizen he should be properly repatriated through the mexican consulate in the u.s. after his identity and nationality have been confirmed would i have known. that i was going to as the u.s. and mexican officials argue the man flails about and lays on the ground one of the u.s. officers says the man looks like he's mexican but t

in the u.s. our economy partnership is more than one hundred twenty five billion we have plans to double this number in the near future a qatari business delegation is touring the u.s. to promote investment opportunities in the gulf state last june. u.a.e. bahrain and egypt imposed an economic blockade on qatar accusing it of supporting terrorism. joe has strongly denied the qatari officials say their economy remains solid other beginning of the g.c.c. crisis us president donald trump made statements critical of qatar but in recent weeks the president along with top military and financial leaders have praised qatar's role in the region the u.s. has approved the sale of advanced walk it systems to worth three hundred million dollars i wish we had many more partners like you we have a trade surplus you invest in our country we have a military base and you work on terrorist financing where thoughts so thank you for all that you do the u.s. has invited gulf leaders to discuss the future of the region

think the u.s. does not want to get into war with china. we are in a situation where they may be in the future increasing tensions as china works on becoming more assertive in the world. they built their first foreign military base in djibouti. they're looking at perhaps building others. it is something to watch with caution but not alarmed. host: who is the enemy than to china if they are building up? who are they most concerned about? guest: the united states. their most immediate concern is the string of u.s. bases in asia. japan.e south korea and the u.s. military presence in other parts of asia as well. china feels suffocated by that . they look at their map around them with china to the north -- with russia to the north and central asia to the west. to all the east and southeast they have the united states. they would love for the u.s. to get out of japan and south korea and for the u.s. to stop doing their freedom of navigation operations in the south china sea. they would love that and i thi

so under u.s. that they are interested in a bilateral deal, at any rate, country's position is that tpp is the best for both of the countries and based on that position, we shall be dealing with the talks. >> thank you very much. the united states has a massive trade deficit with japan. it's anywhere from $69 billion to $100 billion a year. that's massive by any standpoint. we are doing 232 on steel and aluminum and if we can come to an arrangement on a new deal between the united states and japan, that would certainly be something we would discuss. aluminum and steel tariffs. i would look forward to being able to at some point in the future, take them off, but right now we have a deficit that's a minimum of $69 billion a year. japan sends us millions and millions of cars and we tax them virtually not at all. and we don't send so much product because we have trade barriers and lots of other things. so these are the things that the prime minister and i are going to be discussing oaf the next short p

u.s. president donald trump meets his advisors to discuss possible military action in syria. the middle east to the day job war russia warns of a wider conflict with washington and also for the united nations to help. them or col this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the nominee for the u.s. actually of say trans cafe at his senate confirmation hearing when confronted with several of trump's controversial statements. and a show of strength china carries out a massive naval exercise in the disputed south china sea. u.s. president donald trump still hasn't made a decision on how to respond to a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria earlier on thursday an emergency u.k. cabinet meeting was held where ministers agreed on the need to take action meanwhile in france president emanuel said he now had proof that the syrian government had used chemical weapons in duma and would decide whether to respond in due course meanwhile russia has called another u.n. security council meeting