Two weeks after kurds voted to declare independence from baghdad a move that has been rejected by kurdish neighbors and kurdish alums also coming up in a v. W. Exclusive we meet a man he was helping the authorities in germany to hunt down fighters for a socalled Islamic State. And scores of people are still missing after saturdays powerful truck bomb in the somali capital mogadishu the explosion killed hundreds of people and the death toll is expected to rise even further. Plus the dawn of a new era in astronomy is at hand and thats what physicists tell us scientists have been discussing the existence of Gravitational Waves for a hundred years and now they have proved for the first time that they exist get ready to find out why these waves are so important. Im burnt off its good to have you with us iraqs military is reporting progress tonight but not in the fight against Islamic State iraqi forces have moved into the disputed city of kirkuk in a Bold Campaign to retake land from the ku
Celebrate their recapture of the city of kirkuk from kurdish fighters function as thousands of civilians flee the city the kurds threaten to make baghdad pay a heavy price for their victory. And with the Champions League hitting the pitch on tuesday its crunch time for bonus league team leipsic they face porto its a must win match that could kickstart their european hopes. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us she was multis best known investigative journalist yesterday she was killed by a car bomb duff make her want to leech it was known for her reports accusing the government of corruption she exposed what she said were links between government officials and secret Bank Accounts in panama on maltese Prime Ministers yosef must cut called the murder a barbaric act he also acknowledged that she was one of his harshest critics. Definitely cairo on a girlie thiers car exploded just after she had driven away from her home in moscow a town outside boxes kept of the latter the force
This week. A scary situation on an air asia flight. Plane started shaking violently, even concerning the pilot who asked the passengers to pray. Well have more on that. The kind of filing for bankruptcy protection. In her back recall. The details on the next step ahead. Google says the new questions over pay. The wall street journal reported that giant underpants women and resisting efforts to disprove the allegations. You can take a look at how features are faring this morning. Kids across the board on the dow futures. Look at tech stocks go. The nasdaq composite for eight straight monthly gains. Theyll be the longest winning streak in 22 years of the nasdaq composite. Take a look how stocks are faring in europe since the week begins. Kids across the board. Only 1 gain in france in asia overnight you can see how the markets now closed again across the screen. Japan, hong kong, shanghai and south korea. Plus, transformers at the box office as a franchise low. The full Box Office Recap
Means a fed hike moving to the back burner. We have the numbers from the latest Hong Kong Survey and discuss the implications of tokyos election results. A terrible outcome for the Prime Minister. Tensions in north asia as north korea continues to worry leaders around the world. We will get an update from beijing on the latest. This is Bloomberg Markets asia. I am betty liu here in new york. It is just after 7 00 a. M. In hong kong. Busy monday in asia with president xi jinping delivering that 20th Anniversary Gift hong kong, right . The bond connects set to launch this morning. We are expecting a ceremony at 9 00 in hong kong. Also, japan as well, a major setback for Prime Minister shinzo of days party shinzo abes party. We are looking at manufacturing a sectors and how they fared. The Manufacturing Sector has probably done pretty well in japan. Exceptingght, msci china ashares, and now the bond things, so it looks like are on fire there in china. We will see how things go. Setting up
Manufacturers up for a Third Straight quarter as exports drive expansion. Haidi chinas latest hong kong connect starts today, giving overseas investors access to the 10 trillion debt market. Beijing taking aim at washington after the pentagon sent theyve or shipment to disputed waters. Half an hour away from bond connect. The whole idea is to connect the world through hong kong, sending the northbound traffic to this 10 trillion bond market, corporate and sovereign as well, in china itself. What do we have . The idea is we have this big premium over china debt over u. S. 10 year debt, and hoping this will create demand, pushing yields down as we see that you cap balloon gap balloon. Of 120 five basis points difference between what you get in terms of yield in the u. S. Compared with china. Thats right. We are looking for the onshore rate as well as the dim sum bond and forstart never ring the chinese bond premium to start normalizing as well, closely correlated to money market rates. W