the middle east is an unpredictable place.if anybody tells you what will happen in the middle east tomorrow doesn't know they are talking about. all kinds of surprises come up all the time. and for the united states of america. the lesson is don't panic. let it play out. give it some time. see what happens. don't necessarily reach the worst conclusion overnight. don't jump to the worst possible outcome. and i have one more thing to say about this. before i take all your question questions. 1958. ivwas there. i was five years old. that's me in a cute cowboy outfit. that's me my older brother to say i have no idea who this person is. i never want to see this person again in my life. father was in the united nations when i was two years old and a 1957 it was called the paris of the middle east and it literally i was the most open and fun place to live in the entire l region and was right on the mediterranean that you literally could go swimming in the morning and skiing in the afternoon or the other wayn around. of course when th

and that role has shifted largely to the middle east. and when i say the middle east, i really mean one country, the kingdom of saudi arabia. as far as we can tell has pretty much all of the world's slack capacity. it's the difference between what you produce and what you could produce. that if theoretically tomorrow, if there was a problem, like not getting bombed, that's an issue, because that affects the ability to produce oil, but if there was a problem elsewhere, venezuela descended into anarchy, there was problems in iraq, nigeria was having systemic issues, countries in the gulf, specifically saudi arabia, could increase production to compensate for the shortfalls elsewhere in the world. that gave them the role of so-called swing producer. largely that power of increasing oil production to compensate for shortfalls anywhere else in the world lies not just within opec but largely within the gulf. as far as statistics for how much slack capacity in the world are pretty opaque at this point. it's no more than 5 million barrels a day.

combat troops ever went into a mission in the middle east. our first combat mission but fortunately it turned out well only one army sergeant who died in the mission and he was killed in sniper fire later on but not in a day and it was later on. i will come back to that in a little bit but it began a tradition of american combat operations in the middle east. of course, as we all know now subsequent missions did not turn out as happily as beirut 1958. the second marine intervention in beirut, the 1982, turned out in a disaster and the death of over 240 american marines. it is useful to look back on this first mission to gain some ckunderstanding into what was going on. a few hours after the marines of course, 3:00 o'clockrines beirut time is six hours earlier in washington and president dwight eisenhower had gone gone on national tv to explain why he sent marines into harm's way. a year before eisenhower had laid out what is now called the eisenhower doctrine in the first time in american presidents said to the american people and to the worl

i thought, when you talk about the middle east in your book, i'm not sure how for east and west you gobut i think your discussion today is mostly focus on that little area from lebanon iran, is that speedy we covered come different authors will bring different examples but we cover from morocco to iran, a little of pakistan, the education by muslim faith a university of michigan focus heavily on north africa. >> okay. one quick comment and then a question. when you say while we may be here tend to look at all these problems as religious issues, one form of religious extreme against another, we have to remember that in many cases religion has been adopted as a tool to gain power, not the other way around. my comment is maybe the exception to that is afghanistan where religion is what's driving, people are trying to over the country for purely religious reasons, but that's a comment period the question is in the area you focused on, there are two engine historic advice. there's a religious divide between the sunnis and the shiites, and there's the ethnic divide between the persians and t

titling this program middle east dystopia questionmark twenty's. seconds is that a good title for this program yes it is a good title and it is also know we all moving into something that is going to be very tumultuous very. and it could end up in a much wider conflict while always happy when you come to moscow but not always happy when you. think you know i want i very much appreciate you joining us here on the r.t. interview it's time time for new year anyway. a little bit of let me. ask i would then we'll. pick i could. not trouble. to show more than. you love clues. tend to make good to see because don't want to cause them to want to have the kook on the scene do it in the out now as you. know most of the difficult to. the new of those 2 moons. much of this news tonight in 92 from the. 2 would you hire tried to use in to do. one thing with your house on the net. it is now a time in america for the surf class the workers who are making minimum wage they can't survive they have to have 2 or 3 minimum wage jobs they're rising up they're going on s

and its parts of the middle east are in deep recession and. it's going to have big popular. populist if you like impact and i'm not sure all good all of these streets will survive this period because they contra form i don't think we will see. because you know in lebanon the sectarian interest in. there is differences the gulf interests and all sorts of different interests and none of them really are capable the elites in the middle east i don't think any of them are really capable of making the reform look at the gulf states they say they need reform to i don't see that we're going to see there's that level of inertia or you do have these states here that spend lavishly on arms and we all know why didn't they keep their own populations in our control it's not our national defense i want to go back to the palestinian question here because you know it's we've all long known i mean from slow to the present is that israel has a choice as democracy or a sinus regime in which palestinians are 2nd class citizen and i'll use the. word there for both word essentially apartheid i mea

and with the american combat operation of the middle east. and subsequent missions does not turn out as happily as beirut 1958 actually in 1982 it turned out as a disaster from over 240 american marines. if you look back on the first mission to gain some understanding into what was going on a few hours after they landed 3:00 o'clock beirut time was six hours earlier in washington president eisenhower gets on national tv to explain why he sent marines into harm's way. one year before eisenhower laid out the eisenhower doctrine the first time the american president said to the american people and to the world the middle east is vital to america's national interest. no president had ever identified the middle east as vital. one crucial interest was oil but the birthplace of judaism and christianity and islam and in the context of the cold war the united states cannot allow atheist communism to take over the birthplace of the three great religions. eisenhower 1957 did not identify the defense of israel as a strategic vital interest of the united

peter lobo donald trump's deal of the century has been put forward what does it say about the middle east geopolitics in even metaphysics i mean again joined by allister procures a former british and diplomat founder and director of conflicts forum alister welcome back to moscow every time we meet we talk about the middle east you know when donald trump and his administration put forward their deal of the century for what we thought was going to be the the israeli palestinian conflict to be resolved actually is something much much more comprehensive and i've read dozens and dozens of articles about it they all pretty much say the same thing but your article recent article israel in the middle east a civilizational and metaphysical war this is so think very different in looking at the deal this century what your thesis in this article is simply the fact to recognize that israel or zionism is more like any normal nationalism it's not like nationalism of russian nationalism or nationalism precisely because it was given this was dictated by gold and it was. a civilization will a metaphysical

that middle east is very unpredictable place.nybody who tells you what's going to happen in the middle east tomorrow, does not know what they're talking about. all kinds of surprises come up all the time. and many of the time they are very, very unpleasant surprises for the united states of america. the lesson is, don't panic. let it play out, give it some time, see what happens. don't necessarily reach the worst conclusion overnight. don't jump to the worst possible outcome. give it a little bit of time to play out. i have one more thing to say about all this before i take your questions. one of the reasons i wrote beirut 1958 is because i was there. i was five years old. that is me and the really cute cowboy outfit, that's my elder brother trying desperately to say i have no idea who this person is, i have no relationship to this person i never went to see this person in my life. my father was with the united nations, we had been posted to jerusalem when i was two years old. then we move to beirut in 1957. beirut in the 1950s w

east, and where u.s.ions against iran may lead. then kim talks about the decades long rivalry between iran and saudi arabia. after that bill corrie a retired career foreign service officer who served in the middle east for 25 years talks about u.s. policy in the region and the recent confrontation between the u.s. and iran. : : the book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. we will get to that subject eventually but the book entitled seven pillars in the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. from yemen to syria to iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil and has become a land of endless wars. and tragically, despite decades of intense and often well-meaning american intention in the expenditure of billions of dollars, u.s. policy has more often than not in a failure. maybe to caveat more often than not is too kind, and absolute failure that one except the basic lane was

so the united states may not be seen as central in the middle east were pivotal in the middle east any longer and so maybe the saudis say the united states is not reliable so we will have to make an agreement with iran and if it does, what happens to the complexion of the middle east? >> we have had the talk and the push in the region before, the '90s were. in the middle east where we had fewer wars, no proxy wars, very few battles because the saudis and the iranians were on good terms. that made a huge difference. the saudis often rushed towards the talks with the iranians when they feel endangered, when they feel their position is endangered. it happened during the iran-iraq war when the iranians were on the verge of what it felt like to the saudis as a possible all-out victory against sue don hussein, the saudis rushed to direct talk, they exchanged visits, the ministe foreign minr went to tehran and they offered huge compensation to iran, billions of dollars if they would bring in and to the conflict because they did not want to see a iranian victory. they iranians had requirements

the slack capacity within the middle east. how much they can wrap up production or turn it down depending on under supply or oversupply. this prosperity, which is fueled by middle east oil, facilitated the containment of the soviet union and its allies, and helped win the cold war. i think i have one more minute. what are u.s. aims regarding the oil industry past and future? i would argue there is not a whole lot of difference from what they were in 1945 and today. the most important factor is control over the global oil trade. not control over foreign oil fields. the oil is only useful if you have a market. as long as we control access to those markets -- most of important of which is the developed world who tend to be more oil intensive -- as long as you control access, you don't need to control the oil fields themselves in the producing world, which makes relations with oil producers more amicable if you owned their resources. we want to secure oil for the u.s. and allies at a reasonable cost, which we do by commanding the

sunday, second half of the weekend, area of high pressure building from the east and north—east.get off to a fairly cloudy start, particularly in the east, slowly the client will recede westwards, increasing of sunshine on sunday —— quite the cloud will recede. feeling a little bit warmer on sunday, particularly away from eastern coasts, temperatures up to high teens, still feeling fairly cool on the eastern coast sunday afternoon. as we start the week, high—pressure generally the dominant feature, quite a squeeze on the isobars. a lot of dry weather, feeling warmer, but somewhat cooler on the eastern coasts. that's it. good afternoon, i'm gavin ramjaun — and this is your latest sports news. as we've been hearing,leeds united great norman hunter has died in hospital aged 76 after contracting coronavirus. he was a key player in leeds‘ most successful era, winning two titles in his ia years at the club. he was also a non—playing member of england's 1966 world cup winning team. our correspondentjoe wilson joins me now...q - a joins me now...q - true a joins me now...q — true old sch

vacillating middle east relations. as a reminder, the ground rules for our discussion are as follows. we are on the record, if you would like to join the twitter conversation about what we hear, use the # ac mid east, please come to the stage and the floor is yours. [applause] >> this is a great audience, it is a treat for me too be here with you, thank you for the great introduction in the atlantic council. by this book. [laughter] the first thing an author has to say for another author, nabeel will autograph it. we have known each other for a long time, we stole horses together in casablanca, and baghdad and in yemen over the years. i don't know much, i am a connoisseur of people who know the difference between the maras and the oasis. who know the real middle east. i was always drawn to him because of that. he really knows the region in its reflective in the book, it is a fascinating perspective of an arab americans perspective on american diplomacy and the work as a diplomat in the region and particularly in iraq d

this looks to be as it travels to the north east on its way tohe east bay and then later on to the north face was not actually going to be arting that is typical with hese systems there's the shot of the golden gate bridge very very modest traffic of course, but the her issue is not a whole lot in the way of fog there is some actually to th south now that left over from all the rain but actually notso much in the north bay. so let's go ahead with future cast for you'll see the spinning around look at those moderate to heavy cells riht to the east bay and the lor is a shun with the pink to tell you wee getting some snow up there in mount diablo and also my helmet and when this is all said and done an then the last step along the joney will actually be up in the north bay, what looks to be about this evening and even after sunset little bit left over for tuesday, but the lion share will be on today on your monday. so let's shw the projections with all of this it startin the south. and they're moved tthe east bay amounts of the south they are notgreat we had a little bit overnight or yeerda

the east india company held the legal monopoly of the british trade with the far east with china, asia in general and was facing bankruptcy in 1773. why was it facing bankruptcy? one, mismanagement of the company and to, rampant smuggling brick there was smuggling everywhere.li into the colonies, into the home e islands and so forth and the british and the east india company was being undercut in terms of the crisis and the goods it was selling, especially tea by these smugglers. so, it will not surprise you to learn that many members of parliament were stockholders in the east india company and so therefore they do not want to use the east india company to go bankrupt wanted to preserve it. american settlers of the time, american economist at the time were known as printed edition and that is a term that was used contemporaneously, prejudice tea drinkers. the problem from the east india company perspective was that they were mostly drinking smuggled tea. the smuggled tea was known as dutch tea and it's always referred to dutch tea even though it did not always come from the dutch east

this sort of thing was driving east india company crazy. they were losing all of their goods, all ofll their money to items that are being smuggled through saint eustachian's and other places in the caribbean. now the tea act is very complex and hard to understand. but it's hard for the people of the time to understand so it should not describe people in washington something written by a legislative body was complex and difficult to understand t prayed certainly true of the tx. the key aim of the tea act was to lower the tax on legal east india tea in the colonies to undercut the smugglers. the smuggled diesel for half or two thirds the price of legal tea. so the idea was if you lower the tax that had to be paid on the sea, then it could at least approach the cost was being charged by the smugglers. now the americans key objection to the tea act, was the symbolism of the tax. they argued accepting the tea act was accepting parliament to tax them. by this time it's late 7073, the colonists were in agreement. even people who are future loyali

it's been some downpours from the east bay.ck it out, in livermore, also around dublin, and then pulling out of hayward and fremont right now. scattered showers from the coast and your accuweather seven-day forecast that level one system with the downpours, maybe a storm, leftover showers for your monday and all about spring-like warmth and sun for the rest of the week. liz? >> that will be nice. thanks, lisa. thanks for joining us on "abc 7 mornings." i'm liz kreutz along with lisa argen. abc 7 news continues at 9:00 a.m. "good morning america" is next. 'r uer contr. with less eczema, you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. dupixent is a biologic, and not a cream or steroid. many people taking dupixent saw clear or almost clear skin, and, had significantly less itch. that's a difference you can feel. don't use if you're allergi

to his work on our website you can read on his own blog, middle east corner. nabeel retired from 25 years and u.s. foreign service in 2013 with the rank of minister counselor. no small feat. he taught at the national defense university and at northwestern university is less overseas posting nabeel service deputy chief of mission of the u.s. embassy in yemen. in 2003 during the iraq war he served as department spokesperson at u.s. central command. he earned his bachelors degree in political science from the american university of beirut and his masters and phd in political science from university of new york at albany. he has published articles on issues of leadership and development in the arab world, in the middle east journal, journal of south asian and middle eastern studies and international journal of middle east studies. try to keep them all straight. when he was posted to yemen in 2004 i recall a conversation that they had at the time with the mutual friend of ours, former yemeni ambassador to the united states. i told them use was lucky to send nabeel

requester, it's on the east side, the second floor. to the west, i believe it's both the third floor and the second floor extends beyond their existing conditions, and they would like to have that pulled back at both those levels. >> commissioner fung: and with the pull back, my suggestion to commissioner moore is that on the second floor deck, adjacent to mr. temple's side, that we determine that there be a six-foot high opaque screen there at the edge of the deck. >> vice president moore: i can accept that as a motion or pulling it in, either way, commissioner fung, you're correct. >> clerk: is the second amenable to the motion amendment? >> commissioner johnson: yes, i am. >> clerk: so the new motion is to take d.r., approve the project, provide a similar set back on the third floor on the east side as there is proposed to be on the west side and include a six-foot high opaque screen on the second floor on mr. temple's side. on that motion -- [roll call] >> commissioner diamond: a six-foot high -- >> yeah, i want to chime in here on

an era of volatile and vacillating us middle east relationships. as a reminder the ground rules for our discussion are as follows, we are on the record. if you would like to join the twitter conversation about what we hear use thehashtag ac mideast . tom and nabeel khoury come to the stage and tom, the floor is yours. >> nabeel, this is a great audience and it's a treat for me to be here with you, thank you for that great introduction and the atlantic council, okay. buy this book. the first thing an author has to say for another author and nabeel will autograph it. wehave known each other for a long time, resources together in class of lockout . in baghdad and in yemen . over the years and i don't know much. i'm not a connoisseur on many things but i am a connoisseur on people who know the difference between that garage and the oasis. whoknow the real middle east . and i was always drawn to nabeel because of that. he really knows the region and it's reflected here in this book and it is really for me a fascinating perspective of an american, era am

are we missing the broader picture for diplomacy when it comes to the middle east? >> what is the remedy? the united states has to deal with the government that is in power to some sense. >> we have to deal with the government in power but for example how much time do diplomats spend outside the walls of embassies talking and interacting on the local market as opposed to the government? we don't want to bring in us policy too much but the aftermath of benghazi is just a lockdown and when you go to beirut the us embassy in beirut is living under the same parameters. >> that's an important point and a strategic point which for us policy in the middle east that began with the events of 1979 with the invasion of afghanistan and a number of things that led to having this engagement primarily be what the military does a look at where we are today and learning what is the next move and what will the military do. and the point is that diplomats have has been decimated the last couple of years. there is an understanding we are flying a little more blind in the last point is

helena, napa, and it moves further east. moderate pockets right around hercules along the east bay.ou can see the east shore through berkeley and emeryville, closer to alameda and oakland we have some light rain. if we go west san francisco covered once again as well as the coastline. a few pockets of heavier rain reported right around half moon bay. if i pull it back you can see the center of the circulation. this is going to continue to work its way south into southern california. as it does we continue to get the wraparound moisture. here is a look at what we expect for today. there is your lunch hour, fairly moderate rain falling. later in the day mostly cloudy skies with isolated showers. it doesn't go away. if you noticed the time 7 am on monday all the way into monday afternoon on and off scattered showers in the forecast. another quarter of an inch expected by tonight, maybe even more for tomorrow. here is a look at the temperatures right now. below average for the afternoon. most of us in the 50s for the second part of our day. the extended forecast shows no change for mond

are you see nothing major and not so much ofthe east bay like it was yesterday that me of the valleys are seeing some of thisorning and to this evening. the a little bit of an upticis still possible as well, but beyd that that will really be a it and then as we get into tuesday, it everybody that's because the high will be in the righ location to kind of shut everything off futu cast for terms of what this looks ke for the marine layer clouds not a whole lot going on here. we see the marine layer coming back a little bit morrow morning but sure it's the king of the high that's because you don't get a lot of vertical mixing going on overnight. typical inversion stop but boom that's going to swayin the morning hours tomorrow and hen wednesday, a few little scatred clouds breezing on in from the pacific. so we're talking mostly sunny and mild toay still breezy in spots we talk about that tomorrow mostly sunny to hot in luck. near 90 now this is pushing it in some of thoslocations of the contra costa county particularly solano county. some of these locatns will be some 70 degrees above th

and a sorry night africa china and then east asia then to europe and then finally to the united states so we had so much time to prepare and we just didn't it was dismaying. and you know made me almost ashamed to be an american because at a time when we're facing literally a once in a century global health crisis when tens of thousands of people are dying when this is the time more than ever. for our global health leadership and global solidarity to have the united states undercut the world health organization was indeed painful to watch i never thought i would see an american president. undercut a vital u.n. agency in the way the president tried did and i think it will do will happen or it will just the united states has now lost all voice all influence over. international relations and global health and affairs. i think that the world will be outraged by this act while the u.s. president is still keen to lift social distancing restrictions in some states possibly by the beginning of may is that although with some governors who want to make that decision themselves mike hanna has more

danville 87, east san jose 86 and napa 85. now as you bring in the east bay, you can see high clouds moving in. the thing i wanted to point out on this graphic is it's going to be a little longer here with these milder temperatures tonight. so your houses are going to take a lot longer to cool off. if you don't have air-conditioning, it could be a rough early evening for you until we eventually see those numbers beginning to drop. here's the deal. high pressure starts to move a little bit more to the south tomorrow. that's going to take a little bit of that heat with it. and that stormtracker will get closer. i think overall this will help us see increased high cloud cover this weekend. so that means tomorrow morning we start off with a mix of sun and clouds and 50s here for the north bay. we will start off at 56, san francisco 54 and the east bay at 58. let's get you a closer look at the clouds. you will see we're not tote kwloifr cast tomorrow but there will be fog at the coast and north bay will have the best chance of seei

we've got heavier rain from the east bay into the santa cruz mountains. in the coastal hills and the mountains, they'll pick up the most with these two systems. by the afternoon, we've got a bit of a break in the north bay, but it's going toger into monday, this system. rainfall amounts today anywhere from about a third of an inch, maybe a half inch up in calistoga will add in your sunday, and this is when it starts to increase fromthqutee . maybe a half inch in san jose. winter storm warning through monday. look how the snow piles up from incline to south lake, around kirk wood. holy cow. looking at a lot of snow there. and hikes today around 60 in oakland, 61 in palo alto. scattered light rain showers. monday, we still have showers. it's cool, in the 50s. tuesday we're brightening up in the 60s. by wednesday, we're looking at more springlike conditions. the accuweather seven-day forecast, the first half of the week and the weekend looking rather wet and gray. by the middle to the end of the week, looks like we are well into spring. this could be the las

bayshore at times, widespread over the east bay.hift to the inner city east bay, rain falling alongside 80. over towards highway 4, we have some there as well. areas over american canyon, just a few hit-and-miss showers reported there. santarosa getting some showers, roanoke park a few sprinkles there. out to the west, looks like you have it as well. we'll continue with that rainfall for today. anywhere from a quarter to a half inch expected, up to 2 inches when it's all said and done. more details on the wet weekends and the extended forecast plus snow in the sierra, coming up in just a few minutes. >>> thank you. let's talk about the federal government and what it is doing in terms of looking into an issue with a big order, $40 million in surgical masks that was supposed to go to hospitals. no one can figure out where they went. the health care workers union announced a deal for the purchase of the n-95 masks, which were supposed to go to hospitals and government agencies. but a week later, no masks. the l.a. times reports that fe

in fact, as we look ahead to east sunday, looking pretty nice. upper 50s along the coast, and mid-60s for high temperatures on easter sunday with partly cloudy skies overhead. that means more sun than clouds but more or less 50/50. new outlook from the climate prediction center taking us two weeks into the future calls for a decent chance of below-average precipitation and below average temperatures for not only the bay area but most of the northern coast of california up into the pacific northwest, all of the cool air locked up on the other side of the rookies. here's the seven-day forecast. there is that warm up once we get to the weekend. not much of a rain chance if the showers tonight don't pan out. i'll have a new batch of data to look at coming up during our 6:00 half our. we'll have some more kids' art to show you at 6:00, as well. >>> up next, years of helping bay area seniors for free is paying off more than ever during this difficult time. we introduce you to (soft music) - and they're countingnts ci on your takeout and delivery orders

moving off to the east. scattered showers around san jose. a few more moving through solano koir county and eastern napa county. it's going to pack a much bigger punch. we're talking wind, rain and thunderstorms possible tomorrow with small hail and you'll notice here, our rain totals, especially in the santa cruz mountains and areas south of san jose, looking pretty significant. a closer look at when the heavier rain will arrive and more on 2 to 3 feet of snow coming up in our forecast in 12 minutes. >> rob, thanks very much. coming up, still on board. how hundreds of crew members on the grand princess cruise ship will be spending their days sitting in the middle of the bay. >>> a business is forced to close in the middle of a pandemic. but how do you shut down an aquarium? we talk to the president of the aquarium in the bay next. what we do now will forever change our tomorrow. so let's do the right thing, today. let's stay at home. let's wash up. let's always keep our distance - please, six feet apart at least. let's look after ourselves,

mountains is what we're saying is we start our day a little bit and that will spread out off towards the east bay asthe day starts to progress he. it is on stormtracker 4 and some of the pinks are showing up showing you that we're getting some winter-like precipitation thrown into that up to mount hamilton and diablo there you see also was spread out to the east bay we lo to be some of the heaviest amous to be found there looks like for today live shot from snowlots of overcast skie as a precursor of motion before all this and there's the goen gate bridge with off to the distance a little bit of blue we can see kind of ke it out ust a bit. here's the bay bridge toll plaza and rain rain rain and the early afternoo particularly it's going to take a probay to about 11:00am before it starts to get up there to the east bay and that at times be heavy and maybe some claps of thunr thrown in there because the cold air aloft before spreading out into the north bawill go and have some of those projections for you coming up ijust a bit back to you. >>all rit dave, thanks a lot. well today the death toll

temperatures up to 2425 across east anglia and south—east england but turning cooler from the angliat turning coolerfrom the north anglia and south—east england but turning cooler from the north and west and that continues into easter monday, a weakening front sliding south, starting to draw air from the north—east, a cold direction it saw the blue colours, the colder air of replacing the one area recently saw a real change in the way the weather feels on bank holiday monday. it will be dry with spells of censure, the best further west, cloud and eastern coast and a strengthening breeze so feeling colder, gusty winds on the eastern coasts and channel coasts and they could touch 50 most and temperatures for some struggling to double figures, feeling very much colder on monday and adding the strength of the wind and adding the strength of the wind and at full feel even colder. things are working mainly dry week, after a chilly start with frosty nights temperatures are recovering, some shells developing by next weekend. the mike some showers developing. this is bbc news with the latest

hour,to come in this half trying to find the truth in occupied east jerusalem. why coronavirus infection numbers could be twice the published rate. plus. dame's great bell rings again a year after the cathedral was devastated by a fire. ♪ ♪ >> a lot of finance sunny weather across europe at the moment. high pressure very much in charge. areas of cloud and rain, low-pressure. some disturbed weather in scandinavia. into the western side of russia. lively weather toward greece and turkey. some snow across the greek mountains recently. it will clear up over the next couple of days. i wish i could say the same for spain and portugal. this area of low pressure is going to continue bringing wet weather through thursday and into friday. warm generally dry, sunshine around paris. 20 degrees celsius in london. still seeing showers around the western side of russia on thursday. these will move further east friday. to the southeast, it brightens up. sunshine coming through. wet weather coming into england and wales. staying unsettled across a good part of spain and portugal

the east bay you're still in the clear. we'll start in the south bay, folks, as we look at your map and green sensors everywhere. i give a shout out to the mountain view and sunnyvale area out of palo alto. southbound 101 as you pass through mountain view to the 85 split, a crash reported somewhere along the stretch not on the overpass, but it's nearby. we'll track that with some activity. two crashes reported but they have similar details so it's somewhere before or after that transition. we're looking at 280 with overnight resurfacing work menlo park and cupertino. in the north bay 101. there's a closure overnight. redwood highway is an option. >>> thank you, mike. it's 4:47 and new this morning the search is on for a drive-by shooter in contra costa county. it happened in brentwood before 10:30 last night at the intersection of balfour road near walnut boulevard. the shooter pulled up next to the victim and sprayed him with bullets. the man was able to drive home and call 911. he was then airlifted to the hospital. >>> a

so at this hospital in occupied east jerusalem an improvised new ward has been set up 16 beds readied to isolate patients who test positive for coronavirus already 3 patients who have tested positive have been sent to hospitals in west jerusalem after an infected man from a nearby neighborhood visited his elderly father hear all spittle director says the israeli government has failed to help prepare you stew slim's health system to tackle the pandemic not enough protective equipment and 23 ventilators between 3 hospitals serving 350000 people this is too little i mean the. people our population in egypt please please please because you know if there. goes out of course there is nothing we can do that he surely could we can do the israeli health ministry has said coded $1000.00 patients from east jerusalem could be treated in the west of the city and that a major outbreak isn't expected but in recent days cases here have started to spike despite attempts by local committees to enforce lockdown measures. the israeli occupation was not happy with this and they clashed with the groups i t

in the east left over from the rains meanwhile up to the north bay in the ninsula, not so much that of course will clear up pretty quickly and notice how what happens in the ddle afternoon there that's really he rain induce fog by that point we have you can see into tri valley, particlarly east bay shorelineyou're a word and up to the santa cruz mountns some leftover fog thertoo lenny things up korea today, a few showers by 10:00am wee got rain at 01:00pm some of th rain will beheavy at times and because of the cold air aloft mabe some strikes of lightning and some snows and our local mountains with more details coming up at the party back to you all to the news this morning day, the death toll in the u.s. from the conavirus could surpass 10,000 people. >>so far there are more than 337,000 cases over 9600 deaths here in the s. in factover is killed twic as many americans than the bombing of pearl harbor and the 9.11 terror attacks combined. now the nati's top doctor says we need to bracefor the worst over the next 2 weeks. >>wel it's tragically fitting that we're talking at the beginni

news, it monday april 27th, m robin winston hi everybody i'm rty gonzales and happening today in the east ba a drive-thru coronavirus testing sitwill be opening. >>in pleasanton in about 2 hours or so at the alameda county fairgrounds that's where we find kr four's will tran want to get moren this and will i understand that people don't need a reservation for this right. they don't need a reservation, you probably need your alth insurance. the reason being her than. >>somof the other places that we've shown over the past couple of weeks, this one charges. they're not asking you money up front. but they are going to ask you for your alth insurance they will accept all health insurance and then the results cou come back in about 72 hours from now you can see the cones are rit behind me starts in 2 hours from now goes all the y until 5 o'clock in the evning monday through friday or as long as supplies last. they hope to do about a 150 people everday. they will do this and saying li all the other locations if you meet all the criteria, including if you are pregnant or recently pregnant. if yo

a nice view to the east.the sun is illuminating clouds over the east bay, temperatures and a mix of 50s and 60s. oakland warmed to 65 degrees. a burst there. otherwise we're talking mostly around 60. within a degree or two on either side. temperatures in the upper 40s. and low 50s. about where we started this morning. tomorrow's temperatures, a degree or two warmer than today, but still at best around what's normal for early april. most spots one, two, three degrees below average, for the south bay, mid to upper 60s in most locations along the coast, upper 50s. you're used to that weather pattern. for the east bay, mid 60s for the tri valley. upper 70s. close to 70 degrees farther inland. around the bay itself, low to mid 60s. farther north, temperatures a little bit warmer. not quite as warm as the past couple days, everybody more on an even playing field. easter itself looking good. temperatures near 60 along the coast. mid 70s inland. warm air will stick around through most of next week. with after that ch

in fact, it has been raining in the east bay, and also looking at the south bay.ratures in the 50s. winds are gusty. the front will move through and bring some heavy downpours. my accuweather seven-day forecast is next. >>> but eventually people are going to be able to occupy those seats in arenas next to each other, like we have for all of my life. >> president trump making it clear he wants fans back in arenas in the nfl season starting on time. the california governor gavin newsom saying not so fast. we look at the possible time line, next. lately, i've discovered that while keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out! -sort of. so while you're discovering new things to do in the box, we'll be here for you... at the drive-thru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. on the mobile app, there are times when our need to connect really matters. to keep customers and employees in the know. to keep business moving. comcast business is prepared for times like these. powered by the nation's largest gig-speed network. to help give you the speed, reliability, and sec

with the far east with china, asia in general and was facing bankruptcy in 1773. why was it facing bankruptcy, for two reasons. one is mismanagement of the company and number two, rampant smuggling everywhere. into the home islands and so forth into the british and the east india company was being undercut in terms of the price of the goods. though notin surprising to learn many members of the parliament for stockholders in the east india company. so, therefore they didn't want them to go bankrupt. tey wanted to preserve it financially. now, american settlers at the time. it is a term that was used contemporaneously but the problem is it was known as the dutch tea and it's always referred to although it didn't come from the dutch east india company or the dutch caribbean it was always called dutch tv and it made its way into the colonies through the island of the stations. have you ever been there? has anybody here ever been there? i had heard so much about it that is the big state statemente caribbean i had. it's a tiny island of thought on anybody's radar these

where it's coming from as you can seethe general local location and that projected to go throughthe east bay throughout the early afternoo in the north bay probably by thelate afternoon into the evening hour. >>what is this this is not hamiltoand lick observatory where we expect to see some snows from all of this when it'all said and done a look at the golden gate bridge and a kind of ugly a little bit from behind us. bu the shot ahead of us looking kind of optimistic there a littleit as the skieopen up a bit little bit of a morning breeze as wecan see from the flag flapping around quitecold store up in the north bay, 34 sata rosa, 37 front about uh what napa elsewhere around midday, middle 40's at that warming up into the 50's this afternoon with rain showers so already starting in the late morning hours. otect these we get into the afternoon to and some that rain in the east bay will be picky heavy at times and maybe some clps of thunder will go project all that for you coming up in just a bit party >>all news this our health officials acro the country a warng this week is going to be

england, east anglia, there will be some rumbles of thunder.er north, fewer showers, still some around. some good spells of sunshine for the far north of scotland. wind will be a feature across southern england, south wales, through the channel. gusts of a0 or 50 mph. showers here should rattle through quite quickly. lighter wind further north. sunshine will be limited through the afternoon. top temperatures of around 12, 13 or 1a degrees in the south. it will stay showery this evening and overnight. low pressure still with us. clear spells around, too. quite windy in the south, win slowly easing. it will remain breezy through the night. 0ne slowly easing. it will remain breezy through the night. one two more chilly spots, where we have some shelter. low pressure still with us to close the week out and start the 1st of may. the wind pushing into the north sea, so the focus of the showers will be across scotland, northern ireland, particularly north and north—east england. through the afternoon it will turn heavy with hailand afternoon it will t

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parking lots and staging areas will be closed off at ten east bay regional parks. trails will stay open. san jose officials are taking a similar approach. >> trying to prevent people gathering in groups. we know these regional parks are areas that can get crowded. we have observed and received reports regarding compliance with certain parks and people gathering. we want to be really proactive. >> nine regional south bay parks will be closed to the public this weekend. if you're wondering what's open for a weekend jog or bike ride, we've put together a complete bay area list on our website, abc7news.com. >>> it's going to be an interesting weekend as we track this weather with easter. we're all kind of getting used to celebrating holidays over zoom with our family, i guess. >> yeah. i hope not for long, but, yeah, we sure are getting better at that and seeing a lot of folks out in the neighborhood today. it will be a brighter day for some. otherwise a continuation of what you saw yesterday. a lot of you saw sunny skies and mild temperatures, so not a whole lot of ch

so the united states may not be seen as central in the middle east or pivotal in the middle east any longer and so maybe the saudis say the united states is not reliable so we'll have to make it out sometime, if it does what the complexion of the middle east change? >> we have had the talk and in the region before between the two countries pray th. the '90s with fewer wars and fewer battles because the saudis and iranians were actually on good terms, that made a huge difference. the saudis often rushed toward the talks with the iranians when they feel endangered, when they feel their position is endangered. it happened during the iran, iraq war where the iranians were on the verge or what it felt like to the saudis as a possible all-out victory, against who don sued oandthey went to toronto it mistaken, and the saudis offer huge confrontation to iran, billions of dollars if they would just bring an end to the conflict because they did not want to see it outright iranian victory. the iranians had requirements that the saudis could not abide by, that included the issue of a joint body