and that's when we had 5,000 teachers show up in frankfort. >> many teachers and state employees arebout being caught off-guard and not having a chance to see the bill before it passed. >> in 20 years at the stater capitol, i've neen protests like that. the teachers kept coming and coming.th were there every day. >> a penon is a promise! >> a pension is a promise! >> a pension is a promise! >> a pension is a promise! (cheering) >> decades ago, that general assembly made you a promise. >> yup! >> they said that if you dedicate your life to public service, that while we wouldn'tu pay you , we would guarantee you a solid retirement. (cheering) but they broke the promise. b and thke the law! >> yes, they did! >> put them in jail! >> because the law doesn't allow you to change a sewage bill into a pension bill and pass it on the same day-- that's government at its rst! (cheering) we deserve better. er that just felt like ano slap in the face. to take our pension bill and put it onto a sewer bill, we thought, "oh, that's symbolic." >> ♪ because we deserve better than that! ♪ in our schools

relieve some good news for animal protectionists and 11 years most of the glass eels confiscated in frankfort were put in the rhine river where they'll be able to continue developing normally. and staying with the question of what might or might not end up on your dinner table we all know that weekly grocery shopping can be a real pain hordes of across them are blocking your way or you're trying not to steer your full shopping cart into a stack of canned beans but a trial and friends to do away with the house and with the help of the latest technology it could also help people with mobility issues. this attentive little fellow is one of the autonomous delivery robots being child by french supermarket chain from 3. they're designed to help those who might otherwise struggle to push a shopping trolley around the store to get the groceries they need they can carry up to 40 liters of items and once you're through the checkout believin take them home for you. it's not going to change my shopping habits but it's going to help because i don't have to carry anything and it can go all the way to my ho

that's wt you're assembled here in frankfort to decide. >> in kentucky, the pension was used basicallys piggy bank. the problem was, once you started to short your state pensions to cover the budget shortfall, it's hard to just do it the one time. >> smith: one of the few local reporters ying attention was john cheves. >> i've been writingor 20 years now about the state's pension system and its been, you know, sort of a slow-motion car crash. >> smith: cheves watched as oner govefter another invested in roads, bridges, libraries,. and mo pension obligations were not met. >> as governor, i'm thrilled to be able to support this project not only with enthusiasm and congratulations, but with money. >> i think iemboldened the politicians. >> specifically $2.4 million... >> they realize nobody's paying attention, i thinkhey get a little bolder about it, and they realize, "why, no one's looking! i can do this!" >> they have effectively raided pension funds. just simply have not made the payments that they are morally required to make to fund the retirement promises that they've >> smith: davi

turning to europe the docks in frankfort was closed due to a holiday on monday. but the other major opinions he's finishing the day above the flat line the footsie up six tenths of a percent after the u. k. signed a preliminary free trade deal with south korea. another story moving markets is the proposed merger between two of the biggest defense contractors in the u. s.. three p. on and united technologies. goes through it would be the biggest corporate merger of the year. the aerospace firms have a combined i have about a hundred and twenty one billion dollars of annual revenue topping seventy billion. that also benefit from a large pool of highly skilled workers a combined sixty thousand engineers. the deal still needs approval from federal regulators that when president donald trump has already waitin. city was quote a little concerned a deal could reduce competition. and finally the us president may have his next trade war target and something that hits close to home. french wine benefits from an unfair competitive advantage according to donald trump. maybe

major european indices closed very slslightly higher at t the dockf ababout four tenths of 1% in frankfort. the british pound sterling was fairly steady as boris johnson emerged as the favorite in the conservative party's leadership contest. the slightly rosier picture on wall street building on what investors are hoping will be a june rally. disney sharess are outperforming up about four point 3% at the nasdaq about half a percentage point with less than an hour of trade to go. with an oil prices jumping sharplyy after that reported attack on two tankers in the gulf of o oman. ininternational brent up about o and a half percecent this hour a us wti at fififty two dollars ad twenenty two cents per barrel oc meanwhile has said that it output fell three five year low in the month of may. africa is it t the only region n the world where more women than men choose to become entrepreneurs. but difficulty accessing capital and financial institutions makes it harder for them to develop those businesses. loss of productivity is costing africa's economy making it onene of the topopics for disiscuss