Would allow the safe return of Syrian Refugees are displaced people. Within one and a halfMillion People in Northern California are without power. Some for a second day. Pg e has cutity power across the region to prevent its equipment from igniting wildfires. 3 Million People may eventually lose power. The company is facing 30 billion in liabilities from wildfires over the last two years. Global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg world headquarters, im shery ahn. Amanda live in toronto, im amanda lane. We are joined by our bloomberg and rbn amp bloomberg audiences. Here the top stories we are following from around the world. Good luck. Negotiators from u. S. And china are meeting for their for for their 13th round of trade talks in washington today. Turkeys president bristles after europe because his move into syria and invasion, th
European foreign fighters, than number of American Foreign fighters. The size of problem is completely different. European setting france, estimated 1200 individuals. Germany, the u. K. , in the six, 700s. Even smaller countries like belgium with staggering 400 individuals. Eastern European Countries, kosovo, very tiny country, 3, 400 individuals. These are completely different numbers from the u. S. Where the latest numbers given by the government, the fbi, talking about 200 individuals traveled or attempted to travel to syria. So, were talking about a much, much smaller number. A lot of people have actually been intercepted. People that went and fought there, that 200 number should be further reduced. I think numbers are deceiving from another perspective, here in the u. S. , there are legal tools, more general a certain attitude from Law Enforcement which is significantly moring a agressive than in most European Countries. A lot of very effective tactics that the fbi use, sting oper
Addressed. Of course the refugee crise in europe, the fight against isil and a topic that was top of the agenda last year, the on going war in syria will be high on the agenda. The president is expected to sit down with russias leader for the first meeting in two years. Vladimir putin has not been to the unga in 10 years. Other speakers, chinas president xi will be speaking, frances president hollande, russias president Vladimir Putin, irans president rouhani. Thats just a few of the leaders that will get to the podium this morning. Todays gathering of word leaders is actually one of the biggest in years. We are live in the unit nations. A big year, john, tell us more about it. Well, its always a big year here. You know that. Theres always a news headline to come out of the leaders week of the United Nation emassembly of which today is the first day in the 70th session and this year round, it appears to be syria and the reason is that president obama is going to sit down with president
Welcome, youre watching countdown. Chinese authorities have stepped up targeted stimulus to shore up growth in the worlds second biggest economy. Kong. Joins us from hong tentative, small steps the chinese are taking this morning to shore up little of the chinese economy, but it could paint a picture, couldnt it . We have a hong kong economy catching up from yesterday. Straight out we saw the Hong Kong Market, that rise really significant compared compared to what we have seen in the european and u. S. Sessions on thursday. Look at that, the Hong Kong Market is up 2. 7 . Hadfirst to report there been stimulus measures coming through from the chinese government, also as you mentioned, playing catch up to that big rally we had in the region yesterday when hong kong was closed. You can see galaxy is leading. Casino stocks are looking strong today. There is weakness for the former export company. Elsewhere we are seeing solid gain. That has helped to be benchmark today. Helps the benchmark
40 years later well here from Philippe Petite how he pulled off the artistic crime of the had stay. These are live pictures from gaza where it is just 3 00 a. M. The ceasefire is over. The deadly violence has started again. In Gaza Health Officials say five people were killed by israeli air strikes after palestinian rockets were sent in a braj int gar an into israel. Today, american war planes bombed islamic fighters, as they moved into erbil. Tens of thousands of people are stranded in the mountains outside of erbil. The u. S. Also dropped crates of food and water. President obama says American Action is necessary to prevent a possible genocide. Lisa stark joins us again from washington with more and lisa more air strikes today. Any idea what we can expect in the days ahead . Well, as you can imagine john, white house says it will not be releasing any operational details but they did indicate that the president does not have to individually approve these air strikes. He has set out th