been culture shock in that moment. kai-fu: i did not speak a word of english, but the people were extremely friendly, that southern hospitality. i made a lot of friends. in class i was totally lost. they were teaching in front and i was reading my chinese books. emily: somehow you caught up because you went to columbia, phd at carnegie mellon. you were working on speech recognition, of all things, which now four decades later is the forefront of new technology. kai-fu: also artificial intelligence, machine learning. it was an exciting age when there is so much unknown and so much naïve optimism, but it is gratifying to see finally all of that coming to the real world. emily: you joined apple in 1990. how closely did you work with steve jobs? kai-fu: i always say i was there between jobs. my tenure at apple, i joined as he left, and after i left, he came back. we did have some intersection. he did call me to see if i would go back to apple, but at that time it just looked too
rishaad: just about 30 minutes to go until we get going again for the hong kong session. let us take a look at what has been happening. has been a winning last day of trading for 2017. the highlights. looking at 14 months, straight months of a global stock that is gaining. this is unprecedented. let us go back to the dark days of 2008 when we had steep falls. in one month, 10% of the stocks declined. since then, recovery taking place. 2009.d bag since the last 14 months has framed what has been going on. the hang seng up about 34% so far this year. notwithstanding the gains we may be seeing in a little while. and that is when the session kicks off in about 29 minutes. singapore and taiwan coming online as well. let us go over to sophie and have another look at the markets. grant sporre: sophie: let us take a look. the ringgit is heading for its best year since 2010. in 2017 following the rebound in oil prices. is expected to test at a number three level. singaporean stocks.
you were 12 years old. you moved to tennessee. tell me about what must have been culture shock in that moment. kai-fu: i did not speak a word of english, but the people were extremely friendly, that southern hospitality. i immediately made a lot of friends. in class i was totally lost. they were teaching in front and i was reading my chinese books. emily: somehow you caught up because you went to columbia, got your phd at carnegie mellon. you were working on speech recognition, of all things, which now four decades later is the forefront of new technology. kai-fu: also artificial intelligence, machine learning. it was an exciting age when there is so much unknown and so much naive optimism, but it is gratifying to see finally all of that coming to the real world. emily: you joined apple in 1990. how closely did you work with steve jobs? kai-fu: i always say i was there between jobs. my tenure at apple, i joined as he left, and after i left, he came back. we did have some inte
you were 12 years old, you moved about whate, tell me must have been culture shock in that moment. i did not speak word of english. the people were extremely friendly. hospitality, immediately made a lot of friends. in class, i was lost. books.eading my chinese emily: it got to columbia, got your phd, studied computer science, working on speech recognition which four decades later is really the forefront of new technology. wasachine learning, it really exciting age when there is so much unknown and so much naive optimism. it is gratifying to see all of that coming to the real world. emily: you joined apple in 1990. how closely did you work with steve jobs? kai-fu: i would say i was there between jobs, my tenure at apple. i joined as he left and after i left, he came back. we did have some intersection. he did call me to see if i would go back to apple. at that time, it looked too scary. offer.got this job i said, not this time. emily: microsoft was not too happy about you w
here this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. president of china tells his soldiers to be combat ready at a grand military parade. president tromp blasts a former aide for his comments on his campaign s russia links and a much anticipated book. that may have escaped the fighting but the new reality is not much better place syrians adore a freezing winter and the open. our government rallies are being held in iran for a second day it follows five nights of anti-government protests a senior military commander has declared and to the protest movement in which twenty two people were killed franz envoy to the you it is accusing us of stirring violence in the country. joins us live from the iranian capital tehran says and what do we know about what s planned for today or how these protests are supposed to play out today. well we we ve seen a few small and short lived anti-government rallies overnight and a few cities around the country but what really is at play today are