investment destination, iran has been enjoying a post sanctions boom. but will president trump spoil the party? plus, recharged! samsung says its profits tripled in the past three months as it puts last year s exploding phone scandal behind it. welcome to world business report. i m rachel horne. we start in iran, where all eyes today will be on us president trump. in a few hours‘ time, he ll give a speech outlining his new strategy towards iran. he has strongly hinted he will remove his support from the 2015 deal that lifted sanctions in return for iran halting its nuclear programme. congress would then have to decide whether to reimpose sanctions. that could put the us at odds with europe. the uk, france, and germany are firmly in favour of keeping the iran deal in place. european firms like peugeot and airbus are all doing business in iran. the big prize, of course, is energy. iran has the world s second largest gas reserves and fourth largest oil reserves. injuly, the fr
global debt to trade talks, will be getting the inside track with business correspondent andrew walker. airbnb is stepping up the threat to traditional hotel operators by announcing purpose built apartments in florida. today we want to know. do you rent out a room in your home? and if not why not? let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. we start in iran where focus today will be on us president trump. in a few hours time he ll give a speech outlining his new strategy towards iran. he has strongly hinted he will remove his support from the 2015 deal that lifted sanctions in return for iran halting its nuclear programme. congress would then have to decide whether to reimpose sanctions that could put the us at odds with europe. the uk, france and germany are firmly in favour of keeping the iran deal in place. european firms like peugeot and airbus are all doing business in iran the big prize of course is energy. iran has the world s
channels and 1,000 videos were likely linked to moscow. however, it says the viewership of those videos was low. let s kick it off with breaking news. industrial production numbers for september, coming out, blowout numbers here on the year on year figures. 8.4% for the month of september. the estimate was for 4.8%. month by month though seeing a mills. still seeing quite a bit of resilience. especially when it comes to year on year. this is the highest we ve seen in four years on the factory side of things for korea. we ll see how things fare, but really seems like this data may just fall in the shadows of all that is happening with this drama when it comes to the manafort indictment. testimonies under way pretty soon, as well as that phasing-in of the tax reform. that could be the big culprit, why we did see that pullback when it comes to markets. let s look at how things are faring here in asia so far. on the back drop of all that, we are seeing a little bit of green her
trump campaign colluded with the russian government. paul manafort s next court appearance is november 2. prosecutors want bail set at $10 million. the 300is investigating million dollar contract to rebuild puerto rico s power grid. the contract went to a tiny company based in whitefish, montana, the hometown of the interior secretary. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. bloomberg technology is next. emily: i m emily chang and this is bloomberg technology. coming up facebook s flawed fix , for fighting misinformation. the social media giant could be forced to go back to the drawing board with less than 24 hours to go for the start of silicon valley s big week on capitol hill. plus, the telecom deal to merge sprint and t-mobile could be placed on hold. we will run through the sticking points that may force softbank to pull the plug and discussed the potential impact on the industry
in september. after ahits a new high profit hitting 9.8 alien dollars. memorycts tight flash and conditions in the current quarter. samsung buying $1.7 billion worth of shares. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more , let s have aries look at markets. moving out on the lunch break in hong kong and china. we will see how that changes later on. this is bloomberg. reporter: this is bloomberg technology. facebook s flawed it thanks for fighting misinformation. they could be forced to go back to the drawing board with 24 hours to go for the start of silicon valley s big week on capitol hill. plus, the telecom deal to merge sprint and t-mobile could be placed on hold. we will run through the sticking points that may force softbank to pull the plug and discussed the potential impact on the industry. and, a leadership void at samsung. the korean giant is on track for another record quarter, but who is calling the shots? we will update th