Profits. Samsung. And the new silk route. We visit a thriving port city in pakistan which is attracting billions of dollars from china. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. It is friday. Glad you could join us for this condition. We start with samsung and they estimate their Third Quarter operating profit nearly tripled compared to one year ago, beating expectations due to demand that their memory chips. Does this mean the south korean giant may have bounced back from last years costly recall of the galaxy note 7. I posed this question earlier. M you look at the market, they had a good launch in septemberfor the note eight. The programmes are in place. Even though there was strong despite what happened yesterday with the vice chairman and his appeal for the vice chairman and his appeal for the corruption case. The trial doesnt seem to be making much of a different situation on the fundamentals of samsung. That is a good thing. You want to comfort eat that no matter what happens on the man
answering another distress call in the mediterranean. two vessels carrying hundreds of people are in danger of sinking off of the libyan coast. and yet another boat is smashed where there they have confirmed the deaths of a man and a child. paul what more have we learned? the latest that we have is from the italian prime minister. there were three boats involved. potentially each with 300 people on board and one of those boats was in trouble. that came from the international organization from migration which said it received a distress call. in the last hour we heard from the italian employment that he has given details of two boats. one is a rubber boat, an inflatable boat with estimated between 100 and 150 people on board 30 miles off the libyan coast that is in double. and a larger both with boat with it. distress call has been received from that pair of boats and ships are headed in that direction to determine what the situation is and if necessary make a rescue of th
pakistan with $46 billion of investment. and primed, shined, and ready. cars go on sale in shanghai, but will the roll out of new modelings be enough to stop sales from slowing down. first the italian coast guard is on its way to answer yet another distress call in the mediterranean. it follows the sinking of aship that could have had as many as 950 people on board when it went down. two vessels carrying hundreds of people are in danger of sinking right now off the libya coast. meanwhile, a boat carrying asylum seekers are smashed into rocks. all this as e.u. leaders meet in luxembourg. they re calling for decisive action on the growing problem. first let s go to barnaby phillips who joins us live from catania. barnaby. another day and another incident in the mediterranean. tell us about these two vessels that are in danger. what we ve heard is from the prime minister renzi. there were two boats. the first with 100 to 150 people on board. the second boat is throughout to ha
development worker warren weinstein, who was kidnapped by al qaeda in 2011. and 39-year-old italian development worker giovanni lo porto, who was kidnapped al qaeda in 2012. this week we learned that both men were accidentally killed in a c.i.a. dren strike in january. here s how it happened. the c.i.a. spotted an al qaeda safe house in pakistan and closely monitored it. judging senior al qaeda leaders to be present, the c.i.a. attacked. and while the drone killed a number of al qaeda terrorists, including an al qaeda leader and an american fighter for the group, mr. weinstein and mr. lo porto were later found to have been hidden in the building. al qaeda had made sure the hostages couldn t be seen by u.s. surveillance efforts. president obama apologized for the loss of life. president obama: as president and as commander-in-chief, i take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations, including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovanni. i
mongolia are getting some healthy advice from a handbook that s been helping japanese mothers for more than 70 years. members of japan s ruling parties have settled on a key issue as they move to expand the role of the country s self-defense forces. they ve agreed in principle that prior approval would always be needed from the diet before sdf units are sent to provide logistical support for foreign troops. lawmakers with the liberal democratic party and its coalition partner komeito want to create a permanent law so that the sdf can be dispatched quickly to assist foreign troops fighting for global peace. until now, the government has sought special legislation each time it has wanted to dispatch sdf units for that purpose. komeito officials have insisted that under a new law, prior approval would be necessary without exception. they say that would prevent the arbitrary sdf dispatch. but ldp officials say exceptions should be allowed to ensure that the sdf can be dispatche