neighborhoods families that qualify receive a weekly boucher with the equivalent of 12 year olds.ocal donors can also choose to send money directly to their adopted families or even deliver food themselves like steve i believe this is my thought for me to pull it off because food is a basic need and it is so painful for somebody to go hungry while i can provide a meal for them. according to the initiatives found the adopt a family scheme has helped around 90 families so far with ambitions to reach a lot more. right now it's a drop in the ocean in impoverished keep era but a lifeline for those who are receiving it. and now let's have a brief look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world south korea says its troops have exchanged gunfire with north korean forces along their tense border a statement by the military said north korea fired multiple gunshots towards a south korean guard post early on sunday and south korean troops responded with 2 rounds of gunfire no injuries have been reported the pandemic has forced thousands of south africans to queue for food

and some of the clamps are also coming off and 3 nigerian state's residents of lagos a boucher and organ will gradually be given more freedom over the next 6 weeks a door exercise and travelling to work will be allowed but schools and dine in restaurants are going to stay closed those are the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera aids people and power could buy. join me steve clemons on the bottom line for your weekly take on u.s. politics and society i'm changing but the institutions frequently don't the system itself is set up to benefit those who understand that you have people who actually believe things that are not true that is a crisis for democracy is a crisis of concentration the bottom line on al jazeera. desperate for a safer more prosperous life millions of people have sought refuge in europe sometimes the dreams have come true sometimes disenchantment until stability have driven them home in the 2nd of 2 films on these conflicting experiences people in power has been to the gambia where disillusioned form a microscope a trying to persuade others from following the site. com

renee boucher, rand paul's neighbor. gill fredericks carnival cruise pr director.e, alamakee county caucus coordinator. he played the balloon boy. he played ruth bader ginsburg. he played george washington's ghost. he played donald trump's father in hell. sometimes he'd be in two bits per monologue. i couldn't choose between them and i'd just say you know what? do a quick costume change, we'll put him on twice. we could not get enough fred. he never had any time to prepare for these bits. we'd call him at noon and say hey, today you're going to be a boat captain. he'd say, aye, aye. he'd be on set by 2:00. we'd do one run-through of the script that was usually not finished yet. and then he and i would do it with no rehearsal live in front of the audience. and he nailed it every time. dozens of times. up to 86 years old he killed it. we loved being around fred. we loved having him with us. and what you're about to see, our time with fred, are some of my favorite moments from the show. >> jimmy: if there is such a thing as a comedy genius he definitely is one. please

to defend rule areas well still ahead on al jazeera we examine the call for air passengers to get boucher's instead of refunds for flights cancelled during the pandemic. and spaniards are allowed outside to exercise for the 1st time in weeks as infections and deaths decrease. how. the weather's largely fine and dry across a good part of the middle east and some places of clouds some showers just between the black sea and the caspian sea south of that is generally setf and it'll be the case as we go on through the next couple of days warm sunshine here in 37 celsius could just catch on the other side of the gulf that's not to be rolled out 41 celsius in dubai it's heating up we'll see temperatures possibly touching 38 here as we go on into monday that's 100 in found hot 5 and dry and again notice quite a keen way in pushing up across northern parts of saudi arabia a little bit of luck to lift the dust and sand coming through here pushing into iraq want to see showers there just in the southwestern corner as well western parts of yemen joining up with the showers that we have over the open ho

and reexamine the call for air passengers to get boucher's instead of refunds for flights canceled it during the pandemic. and more than 40 people have been killed during a prison riot in venezuela the protests started over a demand for relatives to be allowed to deliver food riots and latin america's overcrowded prisons have been increasing as coronavirus restrictions are put in place to raise a bar reports. prisoners from a general penitentiary taken to a local hospital and dozens of them were hurt after a shootout at the prison located in the city of 190 around 450 kilometers away from caracas relatives were anxiously waiting outside don't get it i must have it and we want to know what really happened to a relative's we've been waiting since noon and we still don't know anything human rights representatives have not turned up or anything like i want to know what happened to it and most of it. pictures shown in local media showed dozens of inmates dead the government says they were trying to escape but human rights groups say they were protesting for food and want a full investigati

will let the senate hearing on covid-19, there was a tense exchange between rand paul and anthony boucher. the senator pushed for schools to reopen, dr. fauci urged caution. >> is much as i respect you, i don't think you are the one person that gets to make a decision. >> i have never been myself out, or only voice in this. i am a public health official. i give advice according to the best scientific evidence. we don't know everything about the virus, we really better be very careful particularly when it comes to children. >> the president of the california teachers association says that when schools open, there will need to be measures in place to protect the health of students and teachers. >> i don't think any educator is willing to go back unless they know that things will be safe, in order to make sure the students have what they need and the educators have what they need. >> school re-openings could be based on availability of testing. >>> students at notre dame high school in san francisco were surprised, with a graduation gift from teachers and staff. >> i was surprised, i am so g

university of sydney professor anna boucher joining us to talk about migration and the impact it is havingglobal slowdown as a result of pandemic restrictions. we are getting breaking news. reporting the second half. annual as a return on investment and an increase on 14 at a half percent. in terms of that impairment coming through for the full year of 1.04 billion australian dollars. macquarie unable to provide meaningful guidance for 2021. a continuation of the theme we are seeing, the gray uncertainty for companies that have been -- the great uncertainty for companies that have been reporting. macquarie has been seen as being better buffered in terms of being less exposed and it comes to the mortgage market. ity are a global giant when comes to infrastructure. just getting you these other numbers. other impairment charges at 901 million australian dollars. macquarie saying it is unable to provide meaningful guidance for the next financial year. lots more to come. this is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: we did just get those macquarie numbers crossing the bloomberg. let's get more from paul allen. t

we have tom boucher ceo of great new hampshire restaurants. of discover night and eric, the ceo of nubakis corporation. good morning to all of you. tom, how are you right now doing since march when all of us were told to shelter in place? >> not good. just to future bluntly out there. you know, we have been down 'about 75% year over year in revenue. and that's clearly not a sustainable model. we have been doing curbside and takeout. but it is not a sustainable model for the coming future. brian: did you go for a ppp loan and did you get it? >> we did. we got the ppp loan and the irony is we did the best we could. we applied. the first day it was available. we funded on april 13th and we did what we were told to do which was hire back all of our full-time employees, which we did we are now three weeks away from running out of that funding. and then what? we're going to be right back where we were. we are going to need another round of funding or thousands of restaurants, especially independents, are going to be in the exact same position we wer