Sea otter. The fight against isil took center stage today on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in new york. President obama chaired a meeting of more than 100 leaders to discuss ways to fight isil and violent extremism. Mike viqueira joins us now, and tell me more about what happened at this compass. Reporter well, the fallout over syria continues over the violent clash between the two leaders in the violent stage of the assembly and the question now, what is russias role against isil. And can president obama and Vladimir Putin put behind their differences, on such open display yesterday about what to do about bashar alassad. The council with more than 100 countries, president obama said the fight would be long. Isil will eventually lose, because it has nothing to offer but suffering and death. Reporter but its now the shortterm has now in question. Russias sudden support of bashir al at add with military might has taken the white house by surprise, and the General A
Of nearly 2. 5 million volkswagen diesel cars, the growing scandal over emissions. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im del walters. A major reversal from the white house. The president today talking about withdrawing troops from afghanistan. Saying the u. S. Will now only keep handful of bases open through 2017. He says the decision is vital to maintaining security in the region. Just under 10,000 troops will stay on through most of next year. He will cut that number to 5500 troops by the time he leaves office. Our National Security correspondent Jamie Mcintyre joins us from the pentagon. And tell us more about the new strategy and just what prompted this change . Reporter well, there is a wellworn phrase here at the pentagon, no plan survives First Contact with the enemy. In this case the plan was the president s plan to get all u. S. Troops out of afghanistan by the end of his term, leaving just a small force at the embassy, the enemy was a resurgent taliban which
Volkswagen diesel cars. The growing scandal over emissions. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. In about a half hour, the white house says president obama will announce he is slowing down the withdrawal of u. S. Forces from afghanistan. Top u. S. Commanders in recent weeks had openly questioned the pace of those withdrawals, and the u. S. Has been helping Afghan Forces battle a resurgent taliban around kunduz. The current force will stay on for most of next year. 5500 will remain by the time president obama leaves office. Jamie mcintyre joins us from the pentagon now. Jamie, tell us more about this new strategy, and what prompted the change . Reporter well, it really is a case of reality setting in. The president s plan which was to try to wrap up the war in afghanistan by the time he left office simply didnt mesh with the reality on the ground in afghanistan, and that was illustrated graphically with this recent incident with which the taliban for two
I am francine lacqua. Out of china, the top desk the economy is growing slower. Industrial outputs also missed forecasts. The shanghai composite index dropped the most in three weeks. It is raised the perspective of more stimulus from chinese authorities as they try to push and the slowdown. As they try to cushion the slowdown. Malcolm, what can we expect next from policymakers. We are likely to see a response on numerous fronts. Weve heard from the government last week that plans are to boost the fiscal response to the slowdown. Today there were some tweaks around that. They are going to lower the Capital Requirements and some new Infrastructure Projects that will allow less of a down payment. Roads, rail, projects. More monetary easing that can come in various forms. Banks for reduction of rrr ratios. The downside on the deposit by inflation is picking up because of rising pork prices. That may limits go that may. Imit scope it will be ongoing. Effort to keep the yuan stable and supp
Down as much as . 10. 9 weakening . Because of more quantitative easing, we may not even finish until may 2017. Have bnpy agree, we paribas calling for parity. We could see further weakening. Copper having a little bit of a reprieve. Lets have a look on what is an m a deal cooling down as much as a percent. London, Zurich Insurance having problems with its own general back ofe unit on the issues of that port explosion in china. U. S. Auto exposure down 3 and rsa say they will not be buying it for more than 5 billion pounds. I wish i could give you volkswagens numbers. It could fall as much as 10 , it is all about admitting ditch eking on u. S. Air pollution tests for years. Where does that leave the chief executive . Volkswagen could be down as much as 10 . Will bring that stock open when it opens. Lets get your asia market wrap with zeb eckert in hong kong. Zeb another down day in the asiapacific. Look at the boards following on that 1 decline on wall street as investors interpret the