Debate countdown, Ukraine drone attack, Nippon’s undoing, Apple v Huawei and Germany’s borders

today it's crunch time at Harris and Trump campaign hqs ahead of tonight's debate a look at how nepon Steel's deal to buy us steel buckled under political pressure from the US Germany TI's border controls in an immigration Crackdown and apple tries to compete with Huawei for China's phone [Music] market it's Tuesday September this is reuter's world news bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes every weekday I'm Tara Oaks in Liverpool and I'm Christopher walljasper in Chicago survivors of an Israeli missile attack in Gaza gather around a deep crater Israeli missiles set a tent camp for displaced Palestinians on fire killing at least 40 including women and children that's according to the Enclave civil emergency service the Israeli military says it was a strike on a Hamas Command Center residents and Medics say the camp was an Israeli designated safe Zone a resident of a Moscow high-rise apartment block describing a Ukrainian drone attack which damaged his building Ukraine hit Moscow and Western Russia with one of its biggest drone attacks attacks to date at least 144 drones killing at least one woman damaging dozens of homes and forcing three of the capital's four airports to close it's not a great start to a day for either Apple or alphabet's Google Apple has lost its fight against an EU order to Cofer more than4 billion do in back taxes to irand and Google has lost its fight against a fine levied by the EU 7 years ago meaning it's still on the hook for that $2.7 billion for anti-competitive practices we'll have more on Apple's new launch later in the Pod hundreds of workers at a Samsung plant in India are on strike for a second day union leaders are demanding higher wages and better working hours the former partner of Uganda marathan Runner Rebecca chapay has died he was accused of killing her by dowsing her imp petrol setting her on fire and has himself died from Burn sustained during that attack Britain's Princess of Wales Kate says she has finished her preventative chemotherapy for cancer after it was diagnosed following major abdominal surgery in January the last 9 months have been incredibly tough for us as a family and legendary actor James L Jones has died the 93-year-old best known for his deep voice as Darth Bader overcame a stutter and went on to win Tony Emmy and Grammy Awards tonight is the night Donald Trump and kamla Harris will face off for their first presidential debate in Philadelphia and we'll of course have post-debate coverage on tomorrow's episode but the setting in the must-win state of Pennsylvania is also at the heart of an international business steel that's on the verge of collapse that's us Steel's potential sale to Japan's nipon steel White House correspondent Alexandra Alper has the story on how the once sweetheart deal has since unraveled so Alexandra where did nepon steel go wrong in trying to read the current American political scene on its surface you see you know a successful Japanese company from an Allied Nation willing to take a stake in a struggling us company in a critical industry so isn't this a win-win isn't this a no-brainer but obviously this happened to come about during a very tense election year right and as we know us steel is headquartered in Pennsylvania a swing state you've got the union of us steel opposing the nipon steel takeover so it just suddenly became like quite the political Hot Potato when did the Japanese company realize it might have a problem so the first kind of shot across the bow in March President Biden took the very unprecedented step of saying that he opposed the deal fast forward to August 31st 17-page letter comes from cifas with no warning to the companies in it they say this deal presents a national security risk to the US steel supply chain and in it there is no mention of the possibility of mitigating the risk or assuaging the concerns and that really sealed the deal from there the parties really felt like it was almost the deal was like on life support and a reminder that if you need a primer ahead of the US presidential debate listen to our weekend podcast special where we dig into what Harris and Trump have to pull off on stage [Applause] tonight and tonight's presidential debate has the potential to jolt markets comml cmans gives us the investor Vibe so markets are already on tenter hooks waiting to see what the FED does at next week's policy meeting but the political uncertainty is adding to the nerves if you think about it the last presidential debate resulted in a brand new Democratic candidate so tonight's event could generate some volatility wall Street's fear gauge the vix is elevated it's hovering around 20 that's compared to an average last year of 14.8 reflecting the uncertainty investors are feeling around the economy and the politics and if you're interested you can hear more about the vix and the seasonal volatility that hits US Stocks this time of of year in the latest episode of my podcast Reuters econ world you can catch it on reuters.com the Reuters app or wherever you listen to your [Music] podcasts German interior Minister Nancy faser announcing temporary border controls and all of Germany's land borders the government says is in order to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from islamist extremism Sarah Marsh is following the story in Berlin so Sarah how does this work in the EU isn't it supposed to be an area of free movement yeah that's correct the idea is that in the shenen zone you can cross borders between countries without needing a passport or being controlled by the police but there is a provision in the EU rules allowing the reintroduction of controls in exceptional circumstances and increasingly in recent years they've done so with you know Rising irregular migration so Germany's far from the first country to do so but in a way it had been seen as a Beacon of Hope I think for many Asylum Seekers with because it had more of an open door policy than other countries and in terms of context for this politically domestically the afd earlier this month became the first far-right party since World War II to win a state election in Germany will this border move be enough for the cental left government to win back voters so the government portrays it as a move to alleviate public services and municipalities that are overwhelmed by the number of people seeking asylum in Germany and also to ensure security given a number of knife attacks lately in which the suspects were Asylum Seekers but it does seem that this is also an attempt to win back voters concerned about migration given the strength of the far right in recent elections but at the same time it could backfire basically because it could strengthen right-wing parties who say that this is what they've been advising all along why haven't you been taking them seriously and and ultimately they're the ones that voters see as having the expertise on migration Apple has announced its new iPhone 16 but just a few hours after Apple's release which included a 4k camera and airpods that could be used as hearing aids a Chinese competitor Huawei held its own phone release the Chinese phone maker says it's pre-old more than 3 million of its new triple folding device even before Apple's announcement Max Cherney was at the Apple launch event in copertino California Max how are we going to see this AI integration show up in the next generation of iPhone so the short answer is they won't have new AI features when they roll out Apple already has a lot of machine learning and AI features on their phone the phones will get beta features in October and then more features will roll out later on this year so did Apple give a preview of of what this AI might look like once it starts hitting the devices yeah absolutely one of the features that the company talked a fair bit about is writing assistant and it can do things like proof free the text summarize the text the company also has a number of AI features related to its camera that will roll out over time what does huawei's decision to launch their device just hours after Apple's announcement say about the state of competition in China so Huawei is positioning itself as the biggest sort of homegrown iPhone competitor in China and the way it's planned its event around apples is just another example of it attempting to ensure it gets some of the spotlight around one of the biggest consumer electronics events of the [Music] Year today's recommended read is about the fear of a Lost Generation of Palestinian children it's officially the new school year in the Palestinian territories and every single School in Gaza is shut over half a million school children are missing classes including more than 50,000 who should have started first grade for more on that or on any of the stories from today check out rus.com or the Reuters app to never miss an episode subscribe on your favorite podcast player we 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