Good morning. Welcome. Live watching the pulse from Bloomberg European headquarters here in london. Also coming up on the pulse , the boss of one of britains businesses, nigel wilson joins us and about 10 minutes. Get his take on everything from the u. S. Jobs report to the autumn statement. The news cycle is being dominated by one thing and that is the passing of Nelson Mandela. South africans are mourning the death of their first black president this morning. Leaders around the world pay tribute to his life. Johannesburgin yesterday. Et bring in tv africa anchor clearly south africa in a state of shock this morning. We knew he was ill we knew he would be in intensive care and for quite some time, but the shock of the reality of the situation changes so many things. I was in shock. We had been covering the story for quite some time. You for theares death of a man that people respected, people loved. Also a man that changed the fate of the country, that could have been in a very diffic
Welcome to countdown. Prime minister erdogan won turkeys first direct president ial election with nearly 52 of the vote. He will extend his leadership through 2019 as he treat seeks to transform turkey. Hans nichols is live in istanbul. Good morning. What happens next . Good morning. Later this morning, the justice and peace party will have a meeting and determine who is going to be there next Prime Minister. That is the position that erdogan is coming from. As he seeks to transform a ceremonial role, the office of the president , into one that has real authority. He has been very clear about his intentions. He wants the power to call cabinet meetings. These are the moves he is making to consolidate power. Turnout was only 75 . It was 90 in local elections. He did win 52 . He avoided a runoff but it is not a rousing mandate. One thing voters arent happy with, the economy. Average 5 growth over the last 10 years. 4 growth is expected for this year. Maybe 2 . There is concern about infla
And lots of action. What does it take to make a stunt performer . We take you behind the scenes. Plus, putting the best faces forward. The new facial recognition software. Turkeys Prime Minister has won the countrys first direct president ial election. The former mayor of istanbul extends his leadership through 2019 as he seems to build a new turkey. Our international correspondent, hans nichols, has been in istanbul. This is everything that erdogan wanted, isnt it . It is everything he wanted. The question is, how does he consolidate the power . How does he transform a veryonial office into a powerful and authoritative one . This morning, the leading Business Group has called on erdogan to stop polarizing the country. They say it is holding back economic growth. This is very controversial, what he is doing. He is taking a parliamentary democracy and turning it more into a president ial style system. It is a reward for economic growth. Average over 5 over the last 10, 11 years. At the
Questions vote so dairys book is about the making of the fifth revision of the dsm which comes out on wednesday, right . And so i guess my first question is, your book came out two weeks ago and it has received pretty much uniformly positive reviews, and everyone has been piling on to the dsm. The question is, who might defend the dsm, why is no one defended, and what does it mean that you cannot find anyone who will defend it . Support dsm. Ive been feeling sorry for them for two years. So, theyre are two answers to that question. Why wont anyone defend the dsm . First of all, it is because people who produce the dsm, frankly, dont have the chops to defend it. You need to have a fairly sophisticated grasp of postmodern philosophies to defend the book full of signifiers that dont have the signified. And the simi petitions seem to have gone out there for one minute. Explain that to everyone. Really . You have been writing about this for years. Ive never said that. So what does it mean t
Has looked at cases ranging from health care to gun ownership. This is a little under an hour. Thank yall for coming. This feels like old home week for me. Not only being here again, having a chance to chat with marsha. We overlapped for 20 years in the Supreme Court press room. Marsha. You see her book the Roberts Court for struggle for the constitution. The struggle for the constitution. Not sort of whose constitution is it but who understands the real meaning of the constitution, right . You maimed this, just for those who havent had a chance to look at the book. Marcia made an interesting choice to frame her story of the Roberts Court through the lens of four major Roberts Court cases. One about guns. One about race. One about money and one about health care. So it doesnt get much more fundamental than that. And you can have lots of struggles for the constitutional implications of those subjects. So, ask you to elaborate a bit on that. Sure. The struggle is within the court over th