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Speaker 1: News when you wanted with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Doug Krisner,

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Speaker 1: and we begin in Japan, where Prime Minister son of

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Speaker 1: Atakiichi has secured a historic landslide win in Sunday's snap election.

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Speaker 1: Local broadcaster NHKVE reports Takiichi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has

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Speaker 1: won a two third supermajority in the lower House. Now,

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Speaker 1: this outcome positions her as Japan's strongest leader in the

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Speaker 1: post war era. Here is Bloomberg's Brian Fowler.

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Speaker 2: I mean, six months ago, the LDP was completely on

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Speaker 2: the ropes. It had lost its majorities in both houses

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Speaker 2: of Parliament and was muddling through the summer. And then

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Speaker 2: Takeichi becomes the nation's first ever female prime minister in October.

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Speaker 2: Four months later. She secured the greatest election victory in

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Speaker 2: the history, certainly in the post war history. And she's

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Speaker 2: going to become that much more assertive, I think, on

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Speaker 2: the international stage as well as domestically.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's Brian Fowler. Analysts say Takeiichi now has

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Speaker 1: a clear mandate to use fiscal stimulus to break a

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Speaker 1: long standing deflationary cycle. The end is weaker right now

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Speaker 1: at one fifty seven sixty five. Later in the day.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, Takeiichi said she is looking forward to visiting

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Speaker 1: the White House in the spring to strengthen the Japan

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Speaker 1: US alliance. Former Hong Kong media mogul and pro democracy

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Speaker 1: activist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to twenty years in prison.

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Speaker 1: Hong Kong's highest court handed down the punishment for conspiring

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Speaker 1: to collude with foreign forces, as well as a separate

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Speaker 1: sedition conviction. Here is Bloomberg's Minmen Low.

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Speaker 3: Well, obviously this is a high profile case that is

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Speaker 3: sending a warning message in some ways as well to

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Speaker 3: the rest of Hong Kong citizens said, China will not

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Speaker 3: tolerate any form of subversion, right. But it's interesting because

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Speaker 3: the potential sentence could have an up to life in prison.

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Speaker 3: So Jimmy Lai didn't get the maximum sentence that he

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Speaker 3: could have gotten. But again, considering his old age, twenty

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Speaker 3: years is not a light sentence as well.

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Speaker 1: Now that twenty year sentence is the most severe penalty

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Speaker 1: ever handed out under the Beijing imposed National Security Law.

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Speaker 1: President Trump and British Prime Minister Starmer are among those

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Speaker 1: who have previously appealed for the release of the seventy

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Speaker 1: eight year old Lie. In the UK, the chief of

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Speaker 1: staff to British Prime Minister kir Starmer has quit. Morgan

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Speaker 1: McSweeney resigned on Sunday and claimed to take full responsibility

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Speaker 1: for the advice he gave Starmer to hire Peter Mandelson

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Speaker 1: as UK Ambassador to the US despite knowing Mandelsson's ties

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Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein. We are told officials we're bracing for

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Speaker 1: cabinet ministers to privately tell Starmer to stand aside, or

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Speaker 1: they would threaten their resignations if he doesn't. One ad

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Speaker 1: to a cabinet minister said it was a fifty to

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Speaker 1: fifty chance as to whether Starmer would last the week.

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Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen is blaming Chinese traders for last

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Speaker 1: week's wild swings in the gold market. That story from

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Monica.

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Speaker 4: Ricks Secretary Besson addressed a record breaking rally in precious

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Speaker 4: metals fueled by speculative buying, geopolitical turmoil, and concern about

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Speaker 4: the federal reserves independence that abruptly reversed last week.

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Speaker 1: Things have gotten a little unruly in China.

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Speaker 2: They're having to tighten margin requirements, so the gold looks

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Speaker 2: to me like a classical speculative.

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Speaker 4: Below all Besson on Fox's Sunday Morning Futures. The turmoil

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Speaker 4: helped lift the dollar and the Dow top fifty thousand

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Speaker 4: for the first time last week. Besson says that shows

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Speaker 4: the US economy is headed in a positive direction. Monica

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Speaker 4: Ricks Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: US politics is an issue at the Winter Olympics. Last Friday,

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Speaker 1: US athletes were asked by reporters how they felt representing

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Speaker 1: the country during the Trump administration's heightened immigration enforcement actions.

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Speaker 1: American skier Hunter has said was a little hard and

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Speaker 1: he felt mixed emotions. Has said just because he's wearing

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Speaker 1: the flag doesn't mean he represents everything that's going on

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Speaker 1: in the US. Well. Today, in a post on truth

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Speaker 1: Social Trump said it's too bad Hess is on the

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Speaker 1: team and that it's hard to support him. Trump called

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Speaker 1: Hesse a real loser. The US has won two gold medals.

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Speaker 1: Italy sits atop the leader board with a total of nine.

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Speaker 1: The Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl champions, beating the New

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Speaker 1: England Patriots Deny twenty four to thirteen. Seattle's defense was crushing,

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Speaker 1: racking up two interceptions six sacks and two forced fumbles,

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Speaker 1: one of which was returned for a touchdown. It's the Seahawks'

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Speaker 1: first Super Bowl appearance since the twenty fourteen season, when

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Speaker 1: they lost to the Patriots twenty eight, twenty four and

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Speaker 1: Seattle's running back Kenneth Walker was named Super Bowl MVP

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Speaker 1: following the win. And that is news when you want

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