November. The party is divided, but main stream republicans opposing trump. His campaign frequently runs into controversy including a ban of muslims coming into the United States. Trump calls for building a wall along the southern u. S. Boarder to shut out illegal immigrants. Turkey is widening its crackdown on people it says are linked to the men it blames for staging a government coup. Teachers and Police Officers have been either suspended or dismissed. Two dozen tv and radio stations. Investigators have detained over 8,600 people, including military officers for questioning. The death toll from the coup attempt stands at 240, including 173 civilians. The blame of movement led by u. S. State fethullah gulen, attempting the coup. Gulen has wide support in turkey. The Prime Minister said that turkey has made an official request to the u. S. For the extradition of gulen. Gulen has denied the coup attempt, and has denied any role in it. The white house says the u. S. Urged ankura to sho
Votes entitled to be cast at the convention has been selected as the Republican Party nominee for president of the united states. Party leaders held a state by state roll call on tuesday in cleveland. Trump took 70 of the delegates. Indiana governor mike pence was officially confirmed as trumps running mate. Trump appeared via video link to address the convention. He said he was proud to be the nominee. Were going to win the presidency and bring real change and Leadership Back to washington. Republican Party Leaders will get behind trump and his Campaign Slogan make America Great again. But the Party Remains divided with some mainstream republicans unwilling to back their partys nominee. Speakers at the convention have been calling for unity and focusing their attacks on Presumptive Democratic nominee hillary clinton. A foundation towards comfort women will be launched next week. The south korean government will set up the foundation. It aims to help restore the honor and dignity of th
Bring new skills and experience to aging workforces. Supreme Court Nominee Merrick Garland met today with Democratic Senators al franken of minnesota and Kirsten Gillibrand of new york. The Republican Leadership refuses to consider judge garlands nomination, saying the next president should choose a successor to antonin scalia. Colombia says it will hold peace talks. The government has exploratory discussions of the National Liberation army. The talks raise hopes for and end to Political Violence in the country. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by our 2400 journalists and more than 150 news bureaus around the world. From the Bloomberg News room, i am mark crumpton. Cory im cory johnson, in for emily chang, and this is bloomberg west. Microsoft makes a big new bet on Artificial Intelligence after the last ai project lead to a stream of profanity laced tweets. We will show you what Satya Nadella has in store. Foxconn stopping negotiations to acquire sharp at a discount. Through will
Discussions of the National Liberation army. The talks raise hopes for and ended to Political Violence in the country. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by our 2400 journalists and more than 150 news bureaus around the world. From the Bloomberg News room, i mark crumpton. Cory im cory johnson, in for emily chang, and this is bloomberg west. Microsoft makes a big new bet on Artificial Intelligence after the last ai project lead to a stream of profanity laced tweets. We will show you what Satya Nadella has in store. Foxconn stopping negotiations to acquire sharp at a discount. Through will tell you how the iphone hack has one japanese stocks soaring. But first tower lead. Microsoft opening his Developers Conference in San Francisco. Satya nadella making a big bet on Artificial Intelligence. A week after his last Artificial Intelligence effort flamed out in an embarrassing and hilarious fashion, microsoft launched a tweeting program which went from antiseptic tweets to racism and sexis
Migrants and turkey criticizes the response to the refugee crisis. Fresh face. Japan students and parents attend University Entrance ceremonies with hope and concern. U. S. Researchers say they have detected suspicious activity at a north Korean Nuclear facility. They have zeroed in on a Laboratory Complex used to produce plutonium, the material used in nuclear bombs. The researchers at Johns Hopkins university released what they say are recent satellite images of the complex. They say in recent weeks exhaust plumes were detected from a thermal plant used to reheat the main plutonium reprocessing lab. The plumes may indicate significant activity is or will be under way in the lab. It remains unclear what that activity is. The top u. S. Intelligence official warned in february that north korea could start extracting plutonium at the complex. James clapper said it could happen in a matter of weeks or months. Under an agreement in 2007, north korea disabled the reactor in exchange for int