Hours as we await the next jobs number. Time now for global exchange. From london to berlin and washington come our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with irans response to claims that the ukrainian passenger jet crashed in tehran was shut down. The head of the countrys Civil Aviation authority said this on state tv. Law, i said, based on the there is full coordination between our air defense and civil system. Are Aviation Personnel and defense personnel sit sidebyside, so it is absolutely impossible for such a thing to happen. Alix for more, we are joined by stuart wallace, Bloomberg News director for the middle east, joining us from washington. What is the latest . Stuart tehran came out with that, and they are sticking to its story. They continue to stick to that line despite just about everyone theye world saying that have reasonably good intelligence that there was at least a possibility that airplane was hit by a missile. That hasnt been
That to come. But heres editor joel weber. Joel we put together a holiday cover for you. Jason what a year. Joel this is one of the biggest stories of the year. And it started with we work, even preipo chatter. As that coverage developed and went on and on, there was another story we started to think about, which was softbank, one of the biggest investors and we were. We work. Carol softbank, we did talk about it so much. What i love is that you guys go into the layers of softbank division fund. Obviously the leader of it all, but also other players. Visionary at softbank, especially at division fund, this outside force in Silicon Valley, 100 billion vc fund that can do a lot of work because it has so much money. One of the ways it can do that is go into we work and bankroll we work, a Business Model that may not have been for the long haul. Carol funny you talk about the Business Model. Jason joel lets flood the zone with money. Go big or go home. Sometimes that works. We they have ha
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Carol more from the bloomberg 50. Our exclusive interview with beyond meat founder, ethan brown. Jason first up, the top political story, impeachment. Carol congress will ring in the new year with partisanship and division. This time, in the form of the Senate Impeachment trial of President Trump. Foot skit to reporter lets get to reporter josh green with more on that. You have a fascinating story that talks about how, with everything going on, this could benefit joe biden. Josh as we look ahead to january and the beginning of the 2020 election voting, one of the Big Questions everybody and questions everybody in washington has is what affect his impeachment going to have on the democratic field . What i wrote in businessweek takes a look at joe biden and his situation. One of the ironies of the impeachment trial is that it came about because President Trump thought that joe biden looked like he was going to be a serious rival and embarked on this mission with ukraine to turn up negati