because the u.s. should well know they should know that war with iran is the mother of all wars they must understand this. peace with iran is the mother of all peace they have to get that off you know what. also coming up venezuela's president says a drone assassin tried to kill him last week in. oh no not a good bit of chemical in that's a. new weapon of terror flying in the sky i'll ask the man who's being called the world's number one wrong expert. we begin the day with the same sions that went away and trump is now bringing back the united states is said to reimpose saying sins against iran's government tonight of this unilateral move is a direct result of washington's withdrawal in may from the iran nuclear deal which was known as james c.p.o. way tonight it is unclear what the u.s. president hopes to achieve with these new sanctions on monday the white house said that the sanctions are meant to change the iranian regime's behavior not topple its leaders last week trump surprised his own staff wh

u.s. sanctions mean that as a u.s. company knight cannot supply shoes to players in the iranian national team at this time sanctions applicable to have been in place for many years and are enforceable by along with the us threatening further sanctions even more american and european companies appear unwilling to deal with iran and that's despite the fact that since the trumpet ministration sanctions announcement e.u. officials pledge to support and protect european business it's true that new job will put to work as the european commission we have the juicy to protect european companies so we know me to act. we are determined to fight so that the decisions taken by the united states have no repercussions for the french businesses that invest and have invested in iran top u.s. officials even wrote a letter pleading with the u.s. to exclude european companies from the penalties in the state department's response it's our way or the highway we are asking every nation every nation who is sick and tired of islamic republics

u.s. trade negotiations produced no breakthrough and we are not seeing much of a move in other asset classes. we will show you that. the cash trade is less than 30 minutes away. guy: china-u.s. trade talks continue without much progress. $200 billion of extra trump tariffs looking inevitable. trump offers to buy italian bonds. it is reported the president made the offer to conti where they met three weeks ago. how would that work? the fed's chairman speaks at jackson hole. will powell say he is worried about what is happening to the rest of the world economy? he speaks at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. matt? matt: that is something we are all going to be glued to, especially u.s. traders, since that is 3:00 p.m. london time and it is friday. most british bankers will be off for the weekend. less than half an hour from the european open. the start of stock trading. look at futures. a little mixed trade with ftse futures down, dax and cac futures up. treasuries, little movement there. i have my th

u.s. and mexico prime minister justin trudeau says progress is being made on monday u.s. president donald trump announced a new deal with mexico that could replace nafta he says it will go ahead with or without canada and he warns that canada will face tariffs if it doesn't join the new product. we will as we have done this negotiation stand up for the canadian national interest and fortune in value while the team for here he is clear we can find it on for everyone to listen. has more now from toronto. several very tricky days lie ahead for the canadian trade negotiators in washington d.c. the foreign minister chrystia freeland has gone there to lead the team and the people that have been working with her on this file throughout her also there and they'll be scheduling sessions with the u.s. and mexico in the coming days and friday's the deadline let's not forget there's a fairly tight deadline here assuming the canadians stick to and the prime minister justin trudeau has been speaking abo

the u.s. in march the u.s. expelled 60 russian diplomats for the poisoning. even as the administration has taken action, the president himself has continued to make overtures to the correct lynn. -- kremlin. he sent letters regarding rand paul who was visited moscow. last week at campaign rally in pennsylvania, mr. trump touted his relationship with the russian president. >> but i got along great with him. >> but earlier that day, top administration officials said russian attacks on u.s. elections are continuing. >> we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. >> the president and paul discussed at the white house the president's upcoming trip to moscow, and the president approved of the introductory letter that he sent to putin. that letter sought cooperation from russia on terrorism, ukraine, and syria to conflicts where u.s. and russian interests remain at odds. major garrett, cbs news, berkeley heights, new jersey. >>> in califo

and u.s. security simply has a different. as american border forces are more focused on drugs coming in then weapons going out traffickers have adopted their business model. official data about trafficking is hard to come by but some us have come to attention such as this store chain called academies. it keeps coming up as a purchasing point of weapons that have been trafficked to mexico u.s. agencies are limited by law as to what data they can publish but in two thousand and eleven a spreadsheet with thousands of gun traces and academy sports features very prominently academy school it comes up a nearly one hundred traces some link to weapons recovered from the. now because the data is a bit old also conservation court documents and academy sports has come up again as a place where u.s. agencies have mounted an undercover investigation into the illegal sale of firearms . academy didn't respond to our interview requests but has denied any wrongdoing in previous statements adding that they have removed tactical weapons from op

to u.s. nationals in vietnam have been sentenced to fourteen years in prison ever an attempted case they were among twelve people sentenced all of them members of the professional national governments of which was declared a terrorist organization by the country's authorities back in january they will invent not mended more than four decades ago but apparently the struggle goes on. the vietnam war one of the world's bloodiest conflicts and the american army's biggest defeat to ideologically opposed blocks in two decades of fighting came at a cost of fifty six thousand u.s. troops in a bid to overthrow the communist regime of north korea now but the casualties among civilians were much greater at least two million people died in the wall. after hopes of tightening democratic grip across the vietnamese state slipped away and up to one hundred forty one billion dollars was spent on military operations the us folded two had been exhausting rules at home and approved. in one thousand nine hundred

the u.s. is waging many alternative wars the war on terrorism the war on drugs but in afghanistan they appear to be shooting themselves in the foot in both cases. the homeless man living in spain who was coerced into having a stranger's name tattooed on his forehead save the cruel joke was actually helping him to turn his life around after the case gained widespread attention. i was going to come on this for food or drink obviously and one of the british guy who have some part of his friend. carried up to me and offer me my first tattoo i was this. mind and he said i'm going to pay one hundred euro if you're going to throw something more on your fork. i don't know what is it because i was drunk. we created a go fund me page we collected more than three thousand euros already at the beginning it was only to raise the tattoo but we know that tomic has problems walking because he was from poland so we don't know if it's his hips or knees so this afternoon the benidorm clinic will take him over fo

here in the u.s. because you have this enormous financial and reengineering to take all the money being printed and put in the pockets of a few folks and leave the vast majority in a state of zombification this is the collapse gap he was talking about the u.s. and the soviet union both collapse in the one thousand nine hundred ninety period it just took a stake in the u.s. as he describes it you know longer to realize that the last. room through there after the night. comedy show we're americans in america covering american news called foreign agent. recently nicaragua put down a violent trying to overthrow the government of daniel ortega and the other ever notice that most often when you hear the words violent too there's a little prefix that's often added on us back it's they did. they did come to us back then violent to go together like peas and carrots doesn't it they go together like monsanto and genetically modified peas and carrots. and it's actually nice because the g.m. of peas and carrots ca

just hours before the u.s. really imposes sanctions on iran tehran is lashing out at u.s. president trump for waging war on the minds of iranians appearing on state television iranian president rouhani accusing the u.s. of launching psychological warfare on his country u.s. president ordered to reinstate same since follows the withdrawal of the us from the iran nuclear deal three months ago also coming up authorities in indonesia are stretched to the limit as they work to rescue locals and evacuate thousands of tourists stranded after sunday's earthquake the death toll stands at ninety eight was is expected to rise but the islands of lone book in bali worst affected plus a ball of fire on an italian highway a tanker truck explodes ripping a hole through an eight lane overpass at least two people dozens were injured. it's good to have you with us iran's president hassan rouhani has lashed out at renewed u.s. sanctions set to take effect just hours from now accusing washington of launching psychological warfare against his country of speaking in an interview on state televis

u.s. space force but at what cost to the u.s. taxpayer? lauren: dow 74 points yesterday but the nasdaq ending higher for eighth session in a row. cheryl: today new worries rattling markets, down 20% this week, futures feeling the pressure. the dow down 105 in premarket. s&p down 13 and a quarter, s&p down 36 and three quarters. lauren: central bank wants to look at european exposure to turkey's troubled economy. cheryl: stocks in asia mostly lower with japan's nikkei down and kospi index nearly down 1%. lawyer -- lauren: how about gambling with barbecue wings, one restaurant wants to serve you just that, fbn:am starts right now. ♪ cheryl: 5:01 a.m. in new york, august 10th. lauren: happy friday, good morning, i'm lauren simonetti, barbecue wings, big plate sounds amazing. cheryl: football, sign me up. we will have the story later on. lauren: are you ready? cheryl: for fowbl i was waiting two months ago. the trump administration has announced plan for new military force to protect u.s. in

the u.s. semiconductor sector now has the poorest risk reward ratio in three years. cyclical risks are piling up as his having an impact on the semiconductor stocks. applied materials all falling today. also got a downgrade from morgan stanley and they lowered the price target to $54. caroline: sticking on the theme of stock movements. we've got some insight in terms of europe's equity funds. $56 billion in the last five months alone. today it is outflows again. a perfect storm brewing when you have concerns of russia and turkey. issues between saudi and canada. china and u.s. trade tensions continuing. that is what's knocking oil and energy at the moment. tariffs being retaliated from china knocked oil. health not feeling fresh today either. telecoms on the downside. it is risk aversion front and center. let's have a look at some individual movers. we have stocks in the greek i wanted to flash up for you. -- in the green i wanted to flash up for you. it seems as though the world cup did them

but also on the u.s. side, we are financing alibaba and baidu and other chinese companies fact inquiring key technologies from the u.s. we are using the markets to finance the degradation of our strategic technologying advantage. lots of money in the index funds are indiscriminately buying into stock manipulation and frauds, once again transferring i.s. wealth. fourth leg is in hong kong where we have seen companies that receive illegal state subsidies to dump their products in the u.s. are committing significant stock fraud to lure western money into the equity markets to provide a further subsidy to help dump their product. so those are the four areas i can see from my perch. maria: the administration has been using tariffs as a way to get china to stop its behavior in terms of stealing i.p. and forcing the transfer of technology. and chain today is retaliating. are tariffs the right tool for this administration to use to get china to change its behavior and bad practices? >> my view, that's not going t

put u.s. base presence in turkey at risk put a nato ally alliance with a nato partner at risk for one american who's being put through the churches just so you're saying this is our fault turkey is the financial situation has been in the works for quite some time and it dates prior to the imposition of sanctions on august i believe was august the first so this is been in train for quite some time and even up when the u.s. government for that but then all of a sudden stepping in on the side is qatar which has suddenly approved fifteen billion dollars in aid to help prop up the turkish economy i think it's one quarter now takes a look at how the decades old alliance between the u.s. and turkey spiraled to this point. country was built the entire entire if so now leading us to great new trade deals as opposed to the horrible food trade deals the drawing heritage as your president of the country should not be allowed to come in and steal the wealth of all great you and me. what countries could he

acting as a bully regarding the u.s. dollar financial system could ironically end up helping workers in the united states that's right do u.s. dollar being dropped into the reserve currency and so you titanic shifts are tectonic shifts i should say in the global economy and one of those would be use of alternative currencies again i think it's end up being better for the average person if any letters predicted this predicted us but what i'm saying is that i have lived in europe and i could witness with my own two eyes the life the lifestyle the the quality of living of the ordinary european is vastly superior to the lifes. the ordinary american and part of that they used to have as miserable an experience you could see that in europe before you know when they had empires once they got rid of the empires their lifestyles and their living standards have increased rapidly i think if you could see it across paris for example if. before that the lifestyles in europe are vastly improved because they don't pretend to be empires

u.s. wind up low level talks. president trump saying he is happy to press on with his tariff war. alibaba falling the most since june after earnings fell shy of estimates, but the highest revenues in four years. nevermind. in hong kong, i am rishaad salamat. haidi: and i am haidi stroud-watts in sydney. they are aussie may fall to a two-year low as political turmoil threatens paralysis. this is "bloomberg markets: asia." ♪ rishaad: out of the gate, singapore on a tear. the nikkei 225 showing modest gains. , but thats resurgence makes resources cheaper for the japanese. there you have it. the straight times down .4%. a lot going on in australia. about theare talking u.s. and china keeping communication open. talking will continue. talkslot of constructive over the past few days. it is headed to some resolution in an hour or so. that petition does have the requisite number of signatures and we may be looking at a change in the prime minister ship in about an hour. we are watching the impac

the u.s. of waging war on the economy and undermining the lira. the worstcy suffering since 2001. ramy: from bloomberg's global headquarters, it is just past 7:00 p.m.. not begain says it will used in the worsening trade war. kevlar continues to make headlines. paid by into the go private plan, but there is also a lawsuit. good morning to you. looking, depending on where you are in china, russia or turkey, it is a maelstrom of tariffs and sanctions. the currency and bonds comes safe haven buying heading into developed markets. a lot of people are trying to make heads or tails of what is happening. right now we are getting those about trade swaps and the limits for the turkish lira. u.s. marketat the closed before we get into currency reaction. they were down across the board. currency is really what is the roller coaster. right now, 1191. in 13 months, but the fear of contagion was hitting the euro. 113 there. the turkish lira is what we are all watching. their --strengthening 6.3% strengtheni

>> they have to get out of this situation with the u.s. and the u.s. has made it clear top -- time has run out and there is only one way to get out of this and that is to release the u.s. pastor and others the u.s. is calling political hostages. the fact markets are responding so negatively to this just shows how lovable the turkish economy really is. musk wrote,eo elon "i am considering taking tesla private at $420, funding secured." is going private of the possibility? >> going private wouldn't make sense for a number of reasons. the company needs funding to grow, and ago private at $420 a share for probably be a total of $72 billion less about $14 billion that elon musk has, he will probably have to finance around $50 billion. more important, he needs to raise $2 billion to build his new china factory. he is going to need to raise additional money to build the 7 -- additional money to build the semitruck. going private would not make sense. >> shares of tesla, closing 11% higher, but hardly a straight line up. what you will see is a very unusual hor

tonight, u.s. president donald trump pushing back against accusations made by his former attorney, michael cohen. trump says hush money paid to two womemen during the elelectin campmpaign was t totally legall. he says it was his own money, not campaign funds. but tuesday remains the darkest day so far in the trump presidency. we'll asksk what happens next.t. also coming up, zimbabwe's constitutional court hears a challenge to president emmerson mnangagwa's election victory. opposition claims there was tampering. and "d.w. news" goes to the spanish territory of sauta in northern africa, following migrants determined to get across. brent: tonight donald trump is hitting back from what could be called black tuesday. trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, told prosecutors that trump used campaign funds for hush money to keep two women from going public with damaging stories about the u.s. president. trump claimed that the payments were not even a campaign violation because they came from his personal fu

in response u.s. senator chris murphy a democrat out of connecticut tweeted out we just bombed a school bus we need to end this now and then a rare instance of a senator or a u.s. senator putting his bill where his tweets are murky actually sponsored an amendment to the latest defense appropriation bill that would have put key restrictions on u.s. financial and other support for the saudi led bombing campaign would have being the key to words here because despite the massive amounts of casualties and devastation our bombs and logistics and caused including the forty dead children that didn't stop u.s. senators led by seven richard shelby of alabama respectively killing senator murphy's amendment. and as if to pour salt on these wounds of political cowardice and warmongering by senator shelby and his fellow fellow congressman less than twenty four hours after stopping murphy's bill dead another twenty six children were killed in an air strike in yemen last weekend i think it's time to start watching th

tonight u.s. president former personal attorney makes a deal with prosecutors will be revealed damaging information about. a federal courthouse in manhattan at the moment he's pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations bankrolled in texas hold charge will have the latest also coming up a suspect and former nazi collaborator deported from the u.s. will he face justice for the ninety five year old. from his home in new york today he is now in germany but the german government doesn't think there's enough evidence to put before. you thought computer games are all about sitting in front of a screen we're at the world's biggest computer games convention in cologne germany and finding out that. course. is good to have you with us we begin with breaking news from the u.s. u.s. president former personal lawyer. has reached a plea bargain with federal prosecutors in new york cohen appeared before a judge a short while ago he has pleaded guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud bank fraud and t

state of florida u.s. national security adviser john bolton push back on that accusation just a short time ago there was no u.s. government involvement in this at all just within the past couple of hours i've spoken with our charge a in caracas the head diplomatic official down there he and his staff arrived much of the night making sure that americans in venezuela were safe as of now now with respect to what happened last afternoon look it could be a lot of things from a pretext set up by the majority in itself to something else now let's take a look at how the alleged attack unfolded as venezuelan president maduro was speaking at a military parade in caracas. mud ruined food flow suddenly cut short. this footage broadcast live on state television shows the moment when an apparent explosion rocked a military parade sending hundreds fleeing on foot. the government declared it in assassination attempt. which i don't want to see on explosions were heard which we have established as coming from multiple drone

♪ >> u.s. stocks halt their longest slide since march as investors shrugged off the turmoil in turkey. >> ankara's not backing down. president erdogan boycotts u.s. electronics, and says he will not be pushed around. >> tesla among the days losers as goldman sachs says it is not actually on board with the going private plan. >> oil's brief recovery ends on a surprise expansion in u.s. crude stockpiles. a key delivery hub also saw a jump in supply. >> hello from sydney. i am haidi stroud-watts. this is daybreak australia. two hours away from the opening. >> just past 6:00 p.m. in new york. i am ramy inocencio. over the next hour we will look at how the action on wall street will play into your asia-pacific trading day. haidi, looking at the markets, looking at currencies, looking at bonds, it definitely was a risk-off environment. take a look at the s&p 500, up a little more than 0.6%. looking at this, it was actually a very broad rally, across all 11 sectors of the s&p. the leaders were consume

the u.s., the ruble at 66.2556. wilson,speak to nigel he joins us after 11:30 a.m. u.k. time. and thens, currencies, a nice conversation with nigel wilson about not only earnings but asset management. let's get to bloomberg first word news. with italy,ting they are ready to repeat the tough tactics they used to receive concessions on migration. deputy prime minister luigi demaio told bloomberg that the antiestablishment coalition has enough a flash taxes next year. he suggested this eu takes away the deficit and calculated his plans could be implemented without reaching the limit. china's factory inflation held off in july, even as commodity prices. they rose 4.6% from a year earlier. consumer prices rose at 2.1% against forecast of 2%. this is as china confirms they will match a u.s. tariffs on an additional $16 billion worth of import. the uk's prime minister is stepping up preparations as negotiations break down. theresag understands may is planning a top-level meeting of her next month to

the u.s. treasury sells $18 billion and 30 year bonds. alix: yes, viacom out with third-quarter results. revenue meeting estimates, $3.24 billion. network revenue, $2.5 billion, earnings $1.18 a share. david: a good beat on earnings per share. to see ifwill look they are if actuating the turnaround. the big issue is will viacom end up with a separate company or part of cbs. it will be curious to see how their operations have done. alix: media networks almost $800 million. we are joined by michael mckee. we are joined by peggy collins. it was the story that has dominated headlines, elon musk and tesla going private. saidd a nice coup that onon musk and moshier sh met on a private buyout. >> it looks like that talks did not go anywhere and they have not had discussions this year. where is hehinking going to get this money to take this company private, especially if he is planning to do it different than a buyout like dell did. it appears he is banking on his existing believer and mom-and-pop inv

by now the u.s. is going to reach information, we see more in marching positions being taken, even extreme actions. can you say in world -- seaworld worldch we -- se e a in which that erodes away? warren: i do not think so. in the 1960's and 1970's we were torn apart by vietnam and we had a president resign. we have gone through all kinds of things. we went through a great depression, a great panic that almost turned into a great recession, but this country moves forward and it will keep moving forward. the luckiest person in the history of civilization is the baby being born in the united states today. david: how much does it depend on the circumstances? particularly the top and bottom, they are growing apart and not going together. warren: we have the problem of a family that is getting richer and richer and of the market system, which worked wonderfully in terms of delivering output, now gives more and more to the people at the top. and you know, if you go back to energy years in the agrarian soci

dollars when interest rates were low in the u.s. and elsewhere foreign capital flows also poured in to take advantage. of relatively higher interest rates in turkey a financial bubble expanded as the cash flow dim but now global economic conditions have changed u.s. interest rates have risen making the us an attractive investment destination the u.s. dollar has strengthened making it more expensive to pay back the dollar denominated loans with the turkish lira and amid several political tussles don't trump appears determined to use the u.s. is economic clout to stop what he feels is washington supremacies of rancorous when the markets the global markets were flooded with cheap dollars everybody got excited particularly across imagine fun to markets and we'd see a win lash on the china dollar weaponized libretto by design president says he will not raise interest rates to stabilize the turkish lira so with the lira plunging it's unclear whether turkey can meet its debt payments that may potentially be disastrous for the global financ

u.s. military says it may resume war games on the korean peninsula does it mean the end of the fall in relations between washington and pyongyang at the u.s. north korea summit in june president agree to drop the drill. and the battle for gaza knee afghanistan's second biggest city we talked to a family forced to flee the fighting between the taliban and government forces. i'm terry barton could have you with this german national team coach you watching live has today admitted he failed to motivate players and chose the wrong tactics at this summer's world cup he was grilled by the media today in his first news conference since returning from a disastrous tournaments some german media outlets had called him to resign or be fired the german football association extended his contract just before the start of the tournament is part of what i had to say today. shows is different. he hasn't contacted me to this day even though i've tried calling messaging him several times in the last two or so

stock market u.s., it's all deal. a a trade deal, u.s. and mexico, donald trump announced today, see the dow jones industrial average, by the close, up more than a percent, points. s&p 500 get up 22 points. nasdaq, nearly 72 points. optimism that the trade war dominos are starting to fall. lead to progress on other fronts, heidi? heidi: yeah. suppose, if you look at all he strategies, warning, don't extrapolate this deal with any sort of optimism when it comes to china and the u.s. trump saying now is not the time to talk to children on those trade issues but take a setup in asia with those record highs in the u.s., bit of positive activity through to the asian section. the moment. at percent about a half decline overnight as the safe of mood seemed to recede with a little more risk taking. look positive to build on the previous days' gains and the some , 73.49 giving back of those gains that came through yesterday.ally let's get you the first news with jessica. >> thanks, heidi. $5 farmers will get almost billion of direct government aid

u.s. independent oil producers spend more and get less as the shale development hits some road bumps. make glencore great again. record profits at glencore not enough for investors as they clamor for buybacks in dividends. and big growth plans. lyondellbasell's ceo bob patel outlines expansion plans for one of the largest petro-chem giants in the world. ♪ alix: i'm alix steel, and welcome to "bloomberg commodities edge." it's 30 minutes focused on the companies, the physical assets, and the trading behind the hottest commodities with the smartest voices in the business. all right, let's kick it off with "spot on." it's our analyst's take on our big story. joining me now is tamar essner, nasdaq's lead energy analyst, and our spotlight on oil earnings. good to see you, tamar. thanks for being here. tamar: thanks for having me back. alix: the big theme with enp independence in the u.s., production guidance goes nowhere. capex goes much, much higher. what was your big take away so far? tamar

u.s. nears a post-nafta deal with mexico. president trump says he will terminate the yield agreement and find a new name. canada will rejoin talks in washington. >> i am kathleen hays in new york, where it is passed 7:00 p.m. on monday. beened reproduction has met. -- model three production has been met. is there anything to rescue? yvonne: don't you love it -- it?leen: don't you love trade news in the headlines. this time, it is not china. it is mexico. president trump announcing a deal has been reached. we do not have a lot of the details. a little bit of concessions on what the u.s. wants from mexico. they certainly want a lot. canada jumping in. the minister who covers trade -- coversfor canada trade for canada. what does it mean for asia, china in particular? yvonne: the linkage may not be as positive when it comes to china. that is still the big elephant in the room when it comes to trade discussions. a lot of questions weather we have reached the end of this trade war. a lot has to

china and the u.s. will hold lower level talks later this month and a bitch to resolve the it's escalating trade dispute the chinese promise ministry said a delegation led by its vice commerce minister will meet with an american group led by the undersecretary for international affairs at the department of treasury the chinese markets and currency have suffered losses in recent months investors have been spooked by washington and beijing's to attach terrorists. the chinese economy has lost steam in recent months washington's tariffs have put a damper on investor sentiment since the last trade talks between beijing and washington in main the shanghai composite has declined more than ten percent and the you won has been falling to the chinese currency has slumped over the past few months it has fallen more than eight percent against the greenback since last may but the you once fall has also helped cushion the effect of terrorists by making chinese goods cheaper that is another sore point for washington w

saudi arabia and the u.s. have enjoyed wide military cooperation both under the trump and obama administrations washington provides riyadh with billions of dollars worth of planes tanks and other military equipment but now united states you want to bassett or seems to perceive the latest attack on civilians as a development by the same scenario having played out for years we had that as.

u.s. and to regional security. the regime has artie heard hundreds of nicaragua citizens through the use of paramilitary groups. situation has all the necessary radiance to spiral out of control entities to the life the region and that -- includes a deteriorating economy. a paramilitary group swear allegiance to ortega with the string of command is on clear. in florida there is a home to a a -- aicaragua community vibrant nicaragua community. nicaraguanues -- continues to align itself with cuba against the interest of the u.s. and other democracies. we need a strong ambassador to give the people of nicaragua to give a clear message that the u.s. stance with them and their act back patient -- expectations. to puttizens are having up with -- making a parison with street violence or fleeing the country. the most effective it would be to work with the government america to improve the security situation services do not feel they have to leave these country. our foreign assistance and help by t

mccain eavvs at a time when the u.s. needs him. genie: what have papers n the dheepthiia: there is a really nnce article from the "new york times" thht talks about perhaps oneeoffhis ggeatest legacies,% his contributioo to ammrican politics as a republican senator. sure, he was conservative, but democraay, and was even known % cross the political divide to suppoot ideas just because he thelieved -- mmre than polltical divides, hh believed in his own ideas. -phis belieff. to stand up for that made him speccal, and increasingly rare in politics. there are touching illustratee trrbutess republican party statesman, as -pyou see in this cartton. heaven is beckoning him and out. -pthis tribute from bob englehat is quite sad. it is mccain's fighter jet, only mccainyou mentioned john was also a war heeo. he spent five years in captivity after his plane was shot down, and evennhis former jailers have spoken out about his death. colonelka::a retired mccaan's jailers, and has spoken to the wire agency ap, rememberiig mccain as an avid reader,

u.s. markets surge of walmart.d by the only question you really need an answer to the right now much longer can america outperform? ap moller-maersk plans to spin off its drilling business on the nasdaq. matt miller live at the company's headquarters in copenhagen. air france has a new canadian pilot. will unions get on board with the foreign ceo? will passengers take flight? we are less than half an hour from the start of european cash trading this friday morning. let me show you what the futures point to this morning. yesterday u.s. markets were on a tear, driven by those amazing walmart numbers. the retail story in the united states looks very strong. the outperformance of the u.s. market. europe will do nothing today. that is the story will get at a headline level. at an individual equity level we will see a different story. we will talk about air france, ap moller-maersk, and the commodities space. outperformance yesterday from the united states was impressive. s&p up and the doubt su

as a member of the u.s. caucus senator sullivan has a long-standing interest in indo-pacific region and applications for u.s. security and international trade. senator sullivan himself has substantial policy experience in these areas long before he came to the senate. during the bush administration senator sullivan served as the assistant secretary of state for economic energy and business policy. was also the director of international economics director of the national security council senator sullivan has also served in the u.s. marine corps including in afghanistan and central asia. i should note as well we asked senator mark warner to be here as well so there would be a bipartisan conversation and senator warner was unable to make it for scheduling region -- reasons. to kick it off speaking of the congressional perspective as i'm sure you have seen over the years different administrations of the different levels of congressional engagement with regards regard to the indo-pacific relationship. we be inter

u.s. national security and intelligence chief doubled down on trying to tackle alleged foreign interference as it jitters grow over the upcoming midterm elections. refugees in jordan are being required to hand over biometric data in order to gain access to aid and food journalists from the redfish group investigate the ethical concerns around the practice fundamental principle but. is informed consent. for the out of the benefit of the. nato develops a game to teach players how to spot fake news but critics say it is simply a propaganda tool. and a german sportswear giant says it will no longer work with the iranian football federation just a month after rival mikey did the same. for broadcasting live from our studios most of this is our international on the certainly glad to have you with us. and u.s. security and intelligence chiefs have put on a united front at the white house reasserting their suspicions that russia is currently meddling in the upcoming midterm elections and as. one by

about this and this is all just a live from doha also coming up the u.s. and threatens to impose more sanctions on turkey as turkish debt is downgraded. a u.n. report suggests four ways to help protect palestinian civilians. and mexico's next president says he wants to put the fate of a new airport to a vote. civilian and military leaders are gathering in pakistan's capital islamabad for the formal swearing in of the country's new prime minister and non-con was the country's most famous cricketer before turning to politics but it's taken him more than two decades to find any claim the top job will come all hydras joining us now from islamabad come all first of all just set the scene for us what's going to be happening. as you mentioned. from the navy army air force. bureaucrat diplomat have all gathered at the president a way the president. will be administering the oath to him ron is going to be a very many. indian cricket doing another thing. and of god he has. made from india. going to be. taking prime minister of bug very well will be taking. at the pr

u.s. futures initially took a dip but they have recaps some of their losses. trade talks, trump ruffled feathers in beijing ahead of negotiations in washington. meanwhile, a report o of a massive breakthrough. discussions are said to be nonstop. the pound gains as both sides agreed to pick up the pace. ♪ anna: good morning, everybody. this is "bloomberg daybreak: ." ope it has just gone 6:00 here on wednesday morning. we have been digesting the. metaphor news, and the michael cohen news, coming at similar times. also beenacific has trying to bank some gains on the .4%.y session, up by asking questions about risk appetite in light of the fact that trumps long-term lawyer, please guilty to various federal charges. we saw a bit of a dip in risk appetite, dip in so-called riskier assets, a slip also in the haven assets, and you can see that reflected in the bloomberg u.s. dollar index. we saw a dip in the dollar this.e of amount of reducing of demand for risk assets, and a mild move into som

the u.s. plan when it comes to iran hurt the economy hurt the people forced the government to agree to change much of its foreign policy the policy is not regime change but we definitely want to put maximum pressure on the government and it's not just to come back to discuss fixing a deal that's basically not fixable dealing with the nuclear weapons aspect we want to see a much broader retreat by iran from their support for international terrorism their belligerent military activity in the middle east and their ballistic missile nuclear related programs all things around is unlikely to agree to still as the partners in the nuclear deal are urging dialogue we really just encourage united states to start talking. in order to be able to find a route forward the european union is trying to protect its companies taking the unusual step of issuing a blocking statement that says european companies should ignore u.s. sanctions but still car companies drug manufacturers and many other big names are lea

the u.s. economy? randy: i do not think it will make a huge difference. turkey is a large economy but not a major trading partner for the united states, and the u.s. is engaged in trade wars with china. it is dealing with the e.u. and is in negotiations with nafta so it has a lot going on, and this is not the biggest priority. david:'s experience as a lesson, this will not be the end of it. what comes next as we assume does not cavedan into president trump? randy: i think we can expect donald trump to ratchet up the pressure on turkey. he could increase the rate of tariffs on turkish imports -- imports of turkish steel and aluminum. he could increase sanctions on the country. there is a lot of tools at his disposal and that would not be far-fetched to think that he would use those tools aggressively. sheri: trying to gauge if the impact that turkish tariffs would have on the u.s. goods, what are some of the items on the list? randy: one of the items is rice. they could hurt the agricultural co

the u.s. pastor held in turkey for two years over alleged political links now the white house imposes sanctions against turkish government officials. able outbreak in democratic republic of congo the world health organization deploys stuff and equipment to counter the virus. redefining immigration laws france reduces the time in which refugees are allowed to claim asylum. in zimbabwe three people have been killed in post-election violence in the capital harare soldiers have opened fire on opposition supporters protesting over the slow release of election results the party of president emerson among gaga has won two thirds of the seats in parliament but the result of the presidential vote is not yet known reports from. opposition supporters say they've. demanded transparency commission official so that really. has won a majority in parliament these people are convinced the results already. got. the police to move in to disperse them but when that fails the. those who try to resist. the followin

oh for the first time u.s. president donald trump has been directly tied to his associates crimes and a guilty plea trumps former lawyer and fixer michael cohen said unlawful payments he made to silence women with dirt on trump then candidate trump's behest in an interview on fox news trump denied any violation of campaign laws did they come out of the campaign they didn't come out of the campaign they came for me and i tweeted about it you know i put the i don't know if you know but i thought we did. about the payments but they didn't come out of the campaign fact my first question when i heard about it was did they come out of the campaign because that could be a little dicey. and the line at the white house is clear. as the president said we've stated many times he did nothing wrong there are no charges against him he did nothing wrong there are no charges against him in this he did nothing wrong there are no charges against him for nearly a congress which wields as much authority as the executive branch at

as the u.s. imposes sanctions on ministers and turkish president of the once common that's over the case of an american pastor held in turkey but it's fresh low inflation a fifteen year high. washington miles new sanctions on iran and western companies and investors are getting cold feet because president trump has threatened to also punish those trading with iraq iran. business. turkey's dispute with the united states over the fate of u.s. pastor bronson is threatening to further destabilize the lira the u.s. had imposed further sanctions on two ministers and president russia. after months of plunging exchange rates the turkish currency has now had a fresh low against the dollar inflation also rose again in july to nearly sixteen percent a fifteen year high increasing pressure on the central bank to hike interest rates . for days one issue has been dominating the front pages of turkey's newspapers. the country stacked with the united states has fueled fears a full blown economic turmoil. at the

all day, u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer and canada's foreign minister will be continuing their negotiations in washington. tomorrow, they have a deadline. now, we are joined by lisa and michael. thosestart with negotiations both of the president and prime minister of canada had encouraging words yesterday. >> i think canada very much wants to make the deal. i think it is quite be very good for canada if they do. i think it is probably not going to be very good at all if they don't. david: at the same time, president trudeau said he very much thinks that mexico and the americans want to get the deal done. but i've said all along it has to be the right deal for canada. encouraging news out of washington, are they going to make it? lisa: it seems like, yes. it seems like everybody wants to make a deal. i was talking with the correspondent who says he sees this as a tweaked nafta deal. it is not an overhaul. it is also the easier of the trade deals to get through. it is actually encouragin

many u.s. companies, many factories in the u.s., and many factories in china that sell in china figure, their figure is larger in the u.s. as opposed to china. there are estimates that the figure is about $400 billion. that may include the goods produced by u.s. companies in china, and sold in china. in fact, the u.s. enjoyed a slight surplus with china, therefore i think president trump is greatly mistaken to believe that the u.s. will be an easy winner in a u.s.-china trade war. haidi: i want to bring up this chart. taking a look at the impact of the yuan, the correlation between equity assets and currency had declined eight weeks in a row. we added another 16 today, the lowest since 2017. we are calling seven the line in the sand from the rhetoric we are getting from policymakers. is unders the currency pressure, are we going to see pressure for equity? >> yes. the currency is certainly under pressure. has affected chinese investor sentiment, but i think the bigger point with respect to the

in response to u.s. senator chris murphy a democrat out of connecticut tweeted out we just bombed a school bus we need to end this now and then a rare instance of a senator or a u.s. senator putting his bill where his tweets are murky actually sponsored an amendment to the latest defense appropriation bill that would have put key restrictions on u.s. financial and other support for the saudi led bombing campaign would have being the key to words here because despite the massive amounts of casualties and devastation our bombs and logistics and caused including the forty dead children that didn't stop u.s. senators led by senator richard shelby of alabama respectively killing senator murphy's amendment. and as if to pour salt on these wounds of political cowardice and warmongering by senator shelby and his fellow fellow congressman less than twenty four hours after stopping murphy's bill dead another twenty six children were killed in an air strike in yemen last weekend i think it's time to start watching