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Speaker 1: News when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Doug Krisner. The US is stepping up the push for

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Speaker 1: a ceasefire in Gaza. We have more from Bloomberg's Ed Baxter.

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Speaker 2: This comes with Secretary of Sate Anthony Blincoln visiting Israel

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Speaker 2: today and meeting with Israeli officials. The White House says

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Speaker 2: Israel has now agreed to hear concerns. NSC spokesman John

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Speaker 2: Kirby says six weeks.

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Speaker 3: If we can get that in place, then that gives

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Speaker 3: you six weeks a piece. It gives you no fighting

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Speaker 3: for six weeks, and that includes no fighting in Rafa.

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Speaker 3: And what we're hoping is that after six weeks of

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Speaker 3: a temporary ceasefire, we can maybe get something more enduring

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Speaker 3: in place.

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Speaker 2: Kirby says Israel has agreed that there will be no

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Speaker 2: attack on Rafa until the US concerns are heard. He says,

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Speaker 2: we'll see where that goes at Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Five people have been killed after a strong tornado hit

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Speaker 1: the Chinese city of Guangzhou. The state news agency Shinwa

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Speaker 1: reports the tornado also damaged one hundred and forty one factories.

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Speaker 1: The Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport also reported a blackout at

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Speaker 1: one of its terminals late Saturday. In Scotland, First Minister

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Speaker 1: Humza Yusaf reportedly is preparing to quit on Monday, the

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Speaker 1: Sunday Time saying he decided he would not survive a

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Speaker 1: confidence vote. The Time saying that John Swinney has been

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Speaker 1: approached to become intim First Minister in the event of

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Speaker 1: Yusef's departure. In the States, the Biden administration is walking

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Speaker 1: back plans for a ban on a deadly tobacco product

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Speaker 1: more from Bloomberg's tom busby.

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Speaker 4: The Biden administration now delaying plans to ban the sale

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Speaker 4: of menthol cigarettes here in the US over fears about

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Speaker 4: angering black voters in an election year. The CDC says

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Speaker 4: menthol is especially popular among black smokers after aggressive marketing

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Speaker 4: by big Tobacco in black neighborhoods for decades. The US

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Speaker 4: Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Bessera says that after

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Speaker 4: a quote immense amount of feedback from some activists and

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Speaker 4: smoking supporters, more talks are needed on that proposed ban

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Speaker 4: tom busby Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio Tesla CEO Elon m made a surprise visit on

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Speaker 1: Sunday to China. He was immediately granted a meeting with

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Speaker 1: Premier Li Chiang. Bloomberg's Boniau has more from Hong Kong.

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Speaker 5: Musk is looking to get approval for drivers system software

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Speaker 5: that could help arrest the comaker's revenue decline. It won't

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Speaker 5: be easy getting approval for Tesla's full self driving system.

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Speaker 5: That's due to sensitivities over the cameras that Tesla's system

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Speaker 5: relies on. Tesla's vehicles have been banned from China's military

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Speaker 5: compounds and some other government venues, but Musk is seen

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Speaker 5: as a friend to China, CCTV said primarily told Musk

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Speaker 5: his investment in China is a successful example of the

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Speaker 5: two countries trade and economic cooperation. In Hong Kong, I'm

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Speaker 5: Bonnie Al Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: We're hearing Apple has renewed discussions with open Ai about

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Speaker 1: using the AI startup to power some new iPhone features.

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Speaker 1: More from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.

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Speaker 6: So to say, Apple and open Ai have begun discussing

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Speaker 6: terms of a possible agreement and how the open Ai

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Speaker 6: features would be integrated into the next iPhone operating system,

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Speaker 6: Apple's iOS eighteen. Apple had talked to OpenAI about a

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Speaker 6: deal earlier this year, though those efforts faded. Apple also

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Speaker 6: remains in discussions with Alphabet's Google about that company's Gemini

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Speaker 6: chat pot. The next iPhone operating system will include several

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Speaker 6: new features based on Apple's in house Large Language Model

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Speaker 6: AI software that can generate human sounding texts, but the

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Speaker 6: company has also been seeking partners to power a chatbot

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Speaker 6: like feature akin to OpenAI's chat GPT. Denise Pellegriny Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: The billionaire owner of Vloxatan International, Reinold Geiger, is close

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Speaker 1: to making an offer for the skincare company to go private.

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Speaker 1: We are told a deal could value the firm at

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Speaker 1: about seven billion dollars including debt. And that is news

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Speaker 1: when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Doug

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Speaker 1: Krisner and this is Bloomberg