A very good morning to you youre watching r. T. International with me niki airing now a top story this hour russian athletes are holding their breath with the World Anti Doping Agency or wanda deciding on monday whether their National Team will be disqualified from International Sports for the next 4 years russia was accused of tampering with a doping test database they handed over to the body earlier this year russian sport is facing a number of possible sanctions including a ban on participation in International Tournament among them next is tokyo some a games as the beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 is officials could also be barred from sporting executive bodies additionally the country could be banned from hosting or attempting to host any major sporting event on top of it all the russian flag might not be seen at any competitions any time soon. Well the Russian Olympic Committee says warders recommendations are low to call and inadequate the scandal broke when want to analysts foun
Manager, Michelle Platini has been arrested over cup, awarding a tournament to qatar. He is being questioned by the Anticorruption Branch of the police. A mea culpa. Sues conference,ress saying she misread the anger of protesters who staged mass demos against a controversial extradition law. Donald trump gears up for his reelection bid for the 2020 election race. Brings us the latest from the paris air show. Carrie lam told the people of hong kong she misread their anger and issued an apology to protesters who filled the streets. She came under fire for her support of a controversial bill that would see suspects from hong kong extradited to mainland china. Roads are open again and resumednt offices have work after sundays mass protests and hong kong, only a handful remain on the streets. Lamite the calm, carrie made an impromptu speech calling. Or unity i have to shoulder much of the responsibility. This has led to controversy and anxiety in society. For this, i offer my most sincere a
Disney, of course, as you heard by now, buying various assets of 21st century fox in a deal worth dl more than 66 billion when you include the debt david faber broke the story weeks ago that the two companies were in talks and lo and behold, its soup now. Congratulati congratulations. Thanks. We were reminiscing about the various deals youve broken over the years. Yes, you and i go back to my first big one, British Telecom and mci. 2 22 billion deal in inflation . Exactly that got to the finish line on this one, bill a lot of talking going on between disney and fox and also our Parent Company, comcast and fox. Thats sort of where we want to begin today as we head toward the later parts of the day comcast did compete vigorously for these assets people close to the company indicate, or people close to all the companies involved, that being the people who were advising and so forth, indicate that the bid from comcast, in fact, did have a higher value than what fox accepted from disney we
Francine Warren Buffett says equities are less attractive than they were but still beat bonds. And theresa may says she will lead the tories into the next election, but does anyone believe her . This is bloomberg surveillance. Certainly a packed show, packed week actually for an end of august kind of feeling. It has been quite busy in terms of news. This is what im looking at in the markets. Stocks advanced on a rosier picture for the growth outlook. We had pretty good economic figures out of america. The chinese economy seems to be holding steady. The u. S. Administration sent different signals on north korea, which means that a little bit of the nervousness has been taken off. Among all other asset classes, dollar seems to be studying. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra Tropical Storm harvey has closed down almost a quarter of u. S. Oil refining capacity, flooding and power failures reduce americas feel making capacity by about 4. 2 Million B
Secretary wilber ross are scheduled to meet in washington. Topic is trade. Cyberattacks. The countries, 200,000 the weekend. Other about who he was hit . We had people from Healthcare Telecom and Car Manufacturers manufacturers. In terms of france we had car to shut downad production at a number of plants this. To mitigate theres a disruption in germany on the trains and Telecom Companies reported some disruption in their services. Whenever a hospital gets thats a serious business. How sophisticated was this . Take patch out in march and put it on your microsoft, it fine. Be i think it wasnt too hard these people to mitigate once they were affected. Pretty easy to have taken some precautions that meant you were not going to be affected by this. Saw a number of companies that had not taken those precautions. Surprising. In term of sophistication of most people think it was not too sophisticated. We know thatlf, as the u. S. Oped by National Security agency. Anybody could use that tool t