October 18, 2025: WPT: Putin Demanded Key Territory, US Warns of Hamas Attack on Palestinians, More

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm
ad Kaaliki. The Washington Post reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin,
in a phone call this week with President Trump, demanded
that Kievs surrender full control of Donetzik, a strategically vital
region in eastern Ukraine, as a condition for ending the war.
This from two senior officials familiar with the conversation. Putin

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has tried and failed to conquer the territory for eleven years,
repeatedly repulsed by Ukrainian forces who are deeply entrenched in
an area they believe as a major bulwark against a
speedy Russian advanced westward toward their capital. The US State
Department said and informed countries involved in the Gossip peace
Agreement that an attack by Hamas is being planned against

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Palestinians and that it would be a violation of the
ceasefire deal. The planned attack would undermine the significant progress
achieved through mediation efforts. This according to a release Saturday
by the State's Apartment that offered no details of the
credible reports it cited. The State Department declined to comment
on the statement. The White House did not immediately respond
to a request for comment. President Trump says the two

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survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug
carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador
and Colombia, their home countries. The military rescued the pair
after striking a submersible vessel Thursday, in what was at
least the sixth such attacks its early September. After Trump's announcement,
the Pentagon posted on XA brief black and white video

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of the strike. In the clip, a vessel can be
seen moving through the waves, its front portion submerged inches
below the water's surface. Then several explosions are seen, with
at least one over the back of the vessel. Demonstrators
across the US turned out for what organizers said would
be more than twenty six hundred No Kings protests across
the US to express their opposition to President Trump's agenda.

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Saturday's mass protests followed similar No King's protests on June fourteenth,
as organizers estimated that four to six million people attended
then demonstrations and Washington, the protest stage was next to
the US Labor Department, whose facade is partly covered with
a big banner displaying President Trump's face. Democrat California Senator

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Adam Schiff talked about the need for such rallies. It's
all part of the.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Same efforts silence and intimidate the president's critics. When there
are millions of people coming out today to say hell no,
we will not be silenced, we won't be intimidated. We
will not have a return to a king or a dictator,
not of America.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Democrat California Senator Adam Schiff AFP reports Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyah, who says he will run for office in
the November twenty twenty six elections and expects to win.
Appearing in a program on the right wing Channel fourteen, Netanyao,
who was asked whether he intended to seek another term,
he replied yes. When pressed on whether he expected to win,
the veteran leader responded yes. US China trade talks are

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set to pick up again soon. Bloomberg's Monica Ricks reports.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson and China's Vice premier are expected
to negotiate down escalatory measures next week over President Trump's
latest round of tariffs and China's new rare Earth restrictions.
Bessett says the two spoke virtually last night and made
plans for their face to face meeting in Malaysia. Meantime,
President Trump has expressed optimism that talks with Chinese officials

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could yield an agreement to diffuse the crisis. He says
he still plans to meet with China's President Shijing Pig
at APEX summit in South Korea at the end of
the month. Monica Ris Bloomberg Radio.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
The blame game over the government shutdown continues that a
new poll finds nobody's winning. Bloomberg's Amy Marris reports from Washington.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
The Associated Press Nork poll of about thirteen hundred adult
spines most Americans see the government shutdown as a significant problem.
The poll shows roughly six and ten Americans say President
Trump and Republicans in Congress are responsible for the shutdown,
compared with fifty four percent who say that about Democrats.
At the center of the shutdown as a stalemate over
federal tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, The poll

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shows roughly forty percent support extending those credits, only ten
percent oppose it. The poll has a margin of error
of plus or minus three point eight percentage points in Washington,
Amy Moore as Bloomberg Radio.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
The Wall Street Journal reports Caring is in talks to
sell its beauty business to Laoreal and a deal that
values the unit at roughly four billion dollars. This, according
to people familiar with the matter, an early moved by
the Gucci owner's new chief to revive the luxury giant's fortunes.
The deal could be announced as soon as next week,
assuming talks don't break down unexpectedly or another bitter emergence.

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The development comes just weeks after Caring's new chief executive,
Luca Demeyo, started in the top job. That's news when
you want it with Bloomberg News. Now I'm made Kleggy.
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