Permit to carry a gun in states that allow it. China engaged in security talks today with japan following north koreas Missile Launch today. This came after demands by President Trump for beijing to get tougher with pyongyang. Lauer, today show anchor, has been fired by the today show over allegations of sexual behavior. Global news, 20 four hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I am alisa parenti. Technology is next area bl oomberg technology is next. Emily i am emily chiang. Coming up, the u. S. Tax overhaul could be to blame for the tech crumble. Ubersing its take on cultural uturn and Sexual Harassment, from Silicon Valley to washington. And our ride in the chevy volt and my conversation with the gm president. Tech stocks were caught in a massive selloff in wednesdays trading session, while the dow hit a new record, tech shares tumbled more than 1 , its biggest decline in three months. Abigail doolittle joins us. How common is t
Us this morning is jon fortt and good morning to both of you. Regulators are ordering apple to pay back taxes to ireland. Lets get to Julia Charter will i in brussels with the latest. Julia . Thanks, kate. As you quite rightly said, apple has been ordered to pay over 14. 5 billion, the irony is ireland doesnt want the money as the irish finance minister, they say they believe apple owes nothing and they want to protect the relationship they have with Companies Like apple and other u. S. Firms apple has hate back, saying they ultimately believe this ruling will be overruled, but i think the statement cuts to a bigger issue, which is what does this mean for other companies trying to invest in europe . Their statement says it will have a profound and harmful effect on sleismt and job creation in europe and apple follows the law and pays all the of the taxes we owe wherever we operate. This is a point i think the competition commissioner made to me, that this is not really about the tax ra
Country, and that is why what is going on in mali is such big news here in paris and in france. Here back in paris the french Prime Minister is announced that the death toll has risen to 130 from 129 in fridays deadly attacks. This morning paris police met with members of parliament to discuss Security Issues and one member of Parliament Told us the list of topics they talked about. The whole list of very difficult issues ranging from the protection of schools to public transportation, protection of water systems. Theres great concern for what they call soft targets. Lets bring in from the financial times, the paris bureau chief. Good to have you here. The attack in mali today. How is this seen as being connected to friday nights attacks here in paris . Theres a sense that its connected because its only one week after the attacks here in paris but also because france has had such an active role in chasing after the terrorists. As you said, its one of the first big military operations t
Four decades or even more, its a little short of remarkable that were marking 25 years since the fall of the berlin wall. Its remarkable because on the one hand we can recall that event so vividly, but on the other hand, it sometimes seems like it took place a lifetime ago. Its also remarkable because for those of us who pursued our degrees and published our first books during the preceding decades, in some cases before the construction of the wall [ laughter ] its collapse seemed so unimaginable. In fact, if i can indulge you for a second, the year before the collapse, i organized a conference on john foster dulles. No one was more associated with the cold war. Some of you were there. There was lots of talk about the integration of europe. The soviets new thinking. Glasnost. Perestroika but no one was talking about the reunification this was the time john gaddes began their conferences on soviet and american relations. First time soviet and American Scholars got together. And Scott Ar
Scholarship about the causes for the fall of the wall but the proximate causes, the short term events are not wellknown in the nongerman speaking world and so i decided for the anniversary to try to put together that story as best i could and then of course as always happens when you start researching something it becomes more complicated than you expected. It ended up being a fascinating rg 31 so let me just gallop through some of the ideas in my book and then if we have questions we can talk more about them. I want to talk a little bit about the precursor to the night of november 9, 1989, when the wall opens. And then a tiny bit about how we think about these events, memory and legacy, themes that my colleagues will emphasize as well. So its important to say that the first unexpected event actually happened not in berlin but in moscow which is to say there were a rapid series of deaths. In 2 1 2 years there were four leaders of the soviet union, of course, after brezhnev died. Then a