Treasury imposed restrictions that made it difficult to access funding. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im Alisa Parenti. This is bloomberg, and Bloomberg Technology is next. Emily im emily chang and this is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, amazon arrives at your front door after a 1 billion deal to buy a smart home tech company. The ecommerce giants larger delivery strategy. Widget for the sky and raising the stakes for disney and fox. The allout bidding war erupting between the three big media players. Activity for fitbit hits alltime low. Shares tank post earnings. But first to our lead. Amazon has agreed to buy a californiabased Smartphone Company that makes video cameras, doorbells, and other tech. It is valued at about 1 billion and pushes amazon further in the smart home market. J. P. Morgan chase advising on this deal. Joining us now with more details is alex. It was not long ago that ring was booted off
A low i Maryam Namazie in london youre watching aljazeera also coming up russia uses its veto to block a u. N. Resolution that would have condemned irans involvement in the war in yemen. And unprecedented food crisis in south sudan west sixty percent of the population is at risk of starvation. And it may one day save the world the global seed vault home to nearly a million song pulls as its tenth anniversary. The syrian army has agreed to suspend as strikes and rebel held eastern for a daily five hour long truce Russias Defense Ministry says syrias military will now halt its bombardment so the injured can leave this agreement comes forty eight hours off to the United Nations pasta resolution for a thirty day cease fire in the area but that was ignored and russia has now set the terms of this new deal meanwhile on the ground in the east and twenty six people have been killed in the latest strikes zain hodder has our report. Orders of private lives good. Opposition fighters say they are
Mark vassella. This is Bloomberg Markets asia. Ishaad that rally continuing we have treasuries and focus. Goldman sachs making the call about what could happen if. Ields go up to 4. 5 looking unlikely at the moment. But who knows. Jay powell, two testimonies on capitol hill. Highly cognizant of global markets. He would be aware of the significance and scrutiny over these separate days of testimony. Up fory report, setting janet yellen 2. 0. He will be want to be treading carefully given the web saw sessions we have had over the past few weeks. Over withtrong hand yesterday pushing its 50day price action on the friday session. Where watching the opening in hong kong. Got a barrage of japanese numbers coming out this week. How are we tracking so far . Sophie we have stocks across the board gaining ground at the tie ask the taiex. We are looking for yellen 2. 0 from jay powell. Hovering around 1. 07 against that backdrop. We have stocks in tokyo led higher by electronics, telcos seeing th
A partial truce in the rebel held on place. Moscow vetoes a u. N. Resolution that aims to pressure iran over its role in the war in yemen. South africas president recalls key ministers sacked by his predecessor jacob zuma in his first cabinet reshuffle. Of talent x. Generation y. Five networks will change all lives will have the latest from the World Mobile Congress in barcelona. Could soon be a pause in fighting in the rebel held area in syria russias president Vladimir Putin an ally of syrias leader Bashar Al Assad has ordered a five hour ceasefire every day in east and go to the capital damascus is. Following the order of the russian president with the aim of eliminating casualties among the civilian population of eastern guta a daily humanitarian pauses being introduced starting february twenty seventh from nine am to two pm and a humanitarian corridor will be created for the exit of civilians its cordon its have been prepared and will be announced soon ok. The un has welcomed russ
A desperate search for missing girls who died after a rico silence of projects can form one hundred ten girls both kidnapped from a school by suspected bomb extremists we have an exclusive report on one family trying to find the door to. An unwelcome im on with that she they are new reports out of syria that suggest chlorine gas was used an aerial bombardment has authorities an eastern who to see a child has died and several others have suffered from symptoms consistent with exposure to the gas russia says these reports are me a provocation but a Monitoring Group says people have been treated for breathing difficulties in the rebel has a district now damascus the government has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons its reported the attack happened just one day after the u. N. Called for a cease fire ongoing bombing of eastern huta has killed more than five hundred civilians in just a week. Turkey has requested the extradition of the syrian politician who was taken into custody in pr