command in chief receive the bodies of the three killed in jordan. i m sandra smith here in new york. john: sad moment in american history. this is america reports . deadly attack happened last saturday in jordan and the u.s. has pinned it on iranian-backed proxies but yet to take any sort of action in response and critics say the delay may be giving the militia groups time to prepare for a strike and protect. sandra: rich edson is live at the white house as we await the transfer. do we know what the response will look like? we know it s coming and will have several layers but the specifics beyond that are very unclear, that s what senior officials are saying, an umbrella group of iran-backed militias in the regions killed the three. few other details about the strike. since mid october, attacked u.s. positions more than 160 times, mostly in iraq and syria. the u.s. struck the groups several times. lloyd austin says the pentagon has planned for a more substantial respo
Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. A strong Earnings Results for way bow. Will we see similar numbers for tencent . Tencent . Good morning, asia. Glad you could join us for this midweek edition of Asia Business report. Chinese social Media Giant Weibo has reported reve nu es of Media Giant Weibo has reported revenues of just Media Giant Weibo has reported revenues ofjust under 200 million, an increase of 67 compared the year ago levels. Profits are coming in at about 47 million us. The Company Claims 347 million monthly active users, an increase of 30 over the past year. Another tech giant in china, tencent, is tipped to report encouraging numbers today. But with a saturated market, what are the other avenues for growth . Certainly they need to start looking outside of the chinese market. Theres still a lot of growth in chinese market, for example tencent are actively looking outside, looking at Notjust China but around hong kong and singapore. The chine
night. it could be the end of the month. i hope it s sooner than that. another reason for this hope that it will happen sooner rather than later, maybe if there s full approval employers would feel better about mandating the vaccine. it gives everyone more confidence, even though as dr. fauci said, the authorization, the emergency authorization, that was done after a lot of scrutiny. it s not as if the authorization was nothing. it was incredibly important and incredibly diligent. no question. 347 million vaccines administered. that s good data to this point. we ve heard anecdotal evidence from doctors about an increase in covid infections in children. what s the data showing? more and more children are getting infected and ending up in the hospital.
or steel in said can small fraction of the price of goods in the can of soup. i m not sure. my next guest has concerns. the beer according to mcgreedy is worried about the developments. doesn t look like he convinced you. no, that adds up. that goes to a $347 million tax increase. if $347 million tax increase is a serious concern for us. this is minor under a penny. you say what? $347 million is not pennies.
neil: maybe they don t have to. the method is scare the countries doing this, dumping steel aluminum products and getting away with it. maybe they would plan to make investments to the united states, and voila, you don t have to impose a tax and this is gone. we have to see how the strategy plays out over the next few days. for american beer, 5,000 brewer, medium sized, small brewers, we are concerned with an additional $347 million tax. aluminum is the largest input. this is not a trivial matter for us, for sure. i prefer my beer in bottles. this is a moot point you say. the product mix changes over