Find out, but we are getting out. We want to get out. We had good meetings with the taliban. We are going to be leaving, and we are going to be bringing our soldiers back home. Weve been there for almost 20 years. Its a long time. Weve done a great job in terms of getting rid of terrorists. Now it is up to other countries to get rid of those terrorists. Meet. Going to we have discussions to go, but weve made a lot of progress, ok . Thank you all very much. [indiscernible] press, lets go. Move lets go, press. Vonnie more of those comments from President Trump just a few moments ago. We talked a little bit about the peace signing. Very few comments on this killer occasion. He is meeting on this particular occasion. He is meeting with pharmaceutical executives today. We will hear more as the day progresses. We are monitoring gains on the s p 500. 1. 7 , nowas much down to 1. 2 . The retailers and the Food Companies are doing well. Consumer electronics, everything you might imagine would d
We bring that to you live. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. The markets. N on the hs is closing shortly and hang seng index sores soars. Carrie lam is going to withdraw her controversial extradition bill. That is the bill that kicked off the last 15 weeks of protests. Some of them with more than an estimated 2 Million People which is an incredibly impressive figure. They got that, hong kong has a total of 7 million citizens. From babies to the elderly. That would be like if you had a protest in america and 100 Million People showed up. Reportthe stock moves on the chief executive carrie lam is going to formally withdraw the controversial extradition bill. We saw moves around europe as well and we even see futures moving higher. Is South China Morning Post reporting the news after months of protests in the city. You can see here, these luxury stocks are getting the biggest boost. Swatch is up, lvmh is up 4 . This is such an important hub for luxury sales, for the chinese, with tons of
minister laurence boone, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, zeinab. why have the authorities decided to ban the use of fireworks during the july 14th bastille day celebrations this year? so, you know, after the riots last week, things have calmed down. it has been a huge drama and obviously people were really moved. and there s also been some riot that are absolutely unacceptable. the tension has softened and it s gone away and we think the situation is under control. but usually bastille day is the opportunity of fireworks, celebration and sometimes obviously some incidents. so given how close we are to the time of the riots, it was better to calm things down and avoid this. as well, you know, in some areas of france, there has been drought, and with fireworks, we better be careful. all right. does the government have a clear strategy to deal with this latest crisis? yeah, very much so. i mean, as you know, this is not a french specificity. it happened here in the uk exactly a
Is to forget their local election success. Leave no door unlocked. Ahead of next Months National vote. Good morning. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am guy johnson alongside tom keene in paris. Mark barton is in london. Quite a night. Quite a night. I was at the champselysees having a beverage of my choice. It was a champagne. It was fabulous and the excitement, it was not packed streets but there is busy streets with the usual celebration that you would expect in paris. It went well over 90 for mr. Macron. Guy it is going to be a fascinating story. It does not run out of momentum because people are already talking about kind of how he turns this victory and consolidated into the National Assembly. The challenge is by no means done. Timothy we will have much of that coverage tom we will have much of that coverage. He has to go to june 11 and the beginning of the monetary and elections to see if a macronled government, or if it is a coalition. Guy well see what the next five years wil
Its about 4 30am and youre up to date with the headlines. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Leaders around the world have adopted the language of war to capture the scale of the threat posed by coronavirus. But are they deploying the right weaponry . Notjust to protect public health, but to prevent a worldwide economic depression. My guest is laurence boone, chief economist at the Global Economic forum, the oecd. Will we get the dramatic, co ordinated emergency intervention needed to stave off Economic Disaster . Laurence boone in paris, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thanks for the invitation. Well, its a pleasure to have you on the show. Of course, youre in paris. Your own president , president macron, talks about a war. Has country in the world being engaged in a war against coronavirus. Do you see that actions are matching the words when it comes to trying to say that the World Economy . There are actually three fronts on wh