in frankfurt chelsea delaney is standing by for us i shall say so we're seeing profits tumble at iran co 1st of all what does this mean for the saudi economy which relies so heavily on oil revenue. this is a huge challenge for the economy right now when saudi arabia took saudi aramco the state owned oil company public and. they were doing this because they wanted to get away from being so reliant on oil they get about 70 percent of their revenues right now from the oil they produce an export and they knew that this was going to be a problem in the future and they just didn't expect it to come so fast so they had been putting a lot of effort into to to diversify an economy and before they could really get the chance to do that they have been faced with this really unprecedented collapse in oil prices and this is going to put a lot of pressure on their finances this is already really making it difficult for them to to maintain some of their stimulus efforts they're having to raise money they're having to sell more bonds they're going to see their deficit really really widen this year and s

the world's biggest oil exporting company iran co has reported a 25 percent drop in profits during the 1st quarter the saudi arabia energy giant blames the drop on the corona virus outbreak around code was listed on the saudi stock market in december and a historic $29400000000.00 i.p.o. but it's been facing heavy losses as the pandemics and oil prices crashing to the lowest in decades. every fison is reported in southern yemen between saudi backed government forces and separatist fighters supported by the united arab emirates the 2 sides are vying to control zinjibar the provincial capital of our province separatists in southern yemen declared self rule last month breaking an agreement with the internationally recognized government signed in. both the demand and price for seafood around the world is plummeting as the pandemic disrupts supply chains in australia industries being forced to reassess how it gets its product to consumers they're going to gauge reports from city the hawkesbury river is well known for its fresh always does shared employment has been operating here for more t

advanced at, is identifying and fighting these co—ordinated information campaigns coming from different state actors around the world, whether it is russia or iranf tactic. it's not that there aren't going to continue to be issues, countries will continue to try to interfere, we will see issues like that. it's a little bit of an arms race in that way, but i certainly think our systems are a lot more advanced now. i think in many ways more advanced than many other company or governments around the world, and ifeel confident about our ability to help protect the integrity of the upcoming elections. mark zuckerberg talking to simon jack. our top story this lunchtime. a warning that time is running out to finalise a test, track and trace strategy that would avoid a potential second surge in coronavirus cases. coming up — enjoying dressing up. the challenge for schools to get youngsters comfortable with face masks. coming up on bbc news, in sport, one former premier league striker warns project restart is at risk if players decide against returning to training amid fears over covid—19. they were images of a heavily—pregnant woman suffering from covid

advanced at, is identifying and fighting these co—ordinated information campaigns coming from different state actors around the world, whether it is russia or iran it's not that there aren't going to continue to be issues, countries will continue to try to interfere, we will see issues like that. it's a little bit of an arms race in that way, but i certainly think our systems are a lot more advanced now. i think in many ways more advanced than many other company or governments around the world, and ifeel confident about our ability to help protect the integrity of the upcoming elections. the number of coronavirus cases in the community is remaining relatively stable with one in 400 people in england infected, the government's surveillance programme shows. the office for national statistics survey involved nearly 15,000 people. it provides an estimate for community spread between 11th and 17th may. joining me now is peter benton, director of population and public policy operations at the office for national statistics. in or peter good afternoon. what else caught your eye on these figures? to see these figures stable through time. there was ever

advanced at, is identifying and fighting these co—ordinated information campaigns coming from different actors around the world, whether it is rush hour or iranr iran or in some cases china. in 2016, this was a new tactic and there will continue to be issues and countries will continue to interfere and we will see issues like that so it isa will see issues like that so it is a little bit of an arms race in that way but i certainly think that our systems are a lot more advanced now and i think anyway more advanced than any other company or governments around the world andi governments around the world and i feel governments around the world and ifeel confident governments around the world and i feel confident about our ability to help protect the protect ready asset integrity of the upcoming elections. — — i feel confident about our to help protect the integrity of the upcoming elections. in afghanistan, the united nations is warning civilian casualties at the hands of both the taliban and the government's security forces are on the rise. the un is calling for a reduction in violence as the country tries to grapple with the spread of the coron

advanced at is identifying and fighting these co—ordinated information campaigns coming from different state actors around the world, whether it is russia or iran tactic. it is not that there are not going to continue to be issues. countries will continue to try to interfere and we will see issues like that. it's a little bit of an arms race in that way but i certainly think our systems are a lot more advanced now. i think in many ways more advanced than many other company or governments around the world and i feel confident about our ability to help protect the integrity of the upcoming elections. the proof of the pudding and all that, simon. he talks about an arms race, particularly when it comes to misinformation around elections, and with the us election coming up this november, how confident are independent observers that facebook and mark zuckerberg will actually be able to deliver what he is talking about? obviously, you remember the last election, the cambridge analytic scandal where tens of millions of facebook users' information and data ended up in the hands of political lobbyists. it was quite a bold claim, he said they we re quite

the scholarship that started to co-come out having read all this was to attack eisenhower for being a kind of evil genius. over here he'd overthrown the government in iran and guatemala and what about the kongo? so here we have him depicted as evil. the pendulum is constantly swinging and if your head is swimming, i'm not surprised. where's the real eisenhower? i'm a historian but i'm not interested in making ike into a saint orville lain. i wanted to find out what made him tick but what's the real meaning of thize be hour impact on the country, what impact did he have and why was he so popular? people said i like ike but why? what was it about him that they liked? i'm going to talk on on two big answers to that question. if you want to know why ike was popular, look at what he did, the accomplishments in his eight years. and i'll touch on a few of those but then i want to talk about his character and the man the who he was and the kind of man he was. let me talk about the substance of his presidency first and give you just a gist of what's in the book. eisenhower's proudest accomplishment as president was that the united states did not go to war for ei

you code 's that were6 co-located with filer -- fighters in alaska, which is what we're going to have, what message with that center adversaries, china, russia, north korea, iran? the secretary defense has twice now stated the message that would be sent is that would give the message to our potential adversaries that the united states has extreme strategic reach. do you agree with that? >> i do, senator. >> senator king mentioned an issue that just came up in a hearing just a couple months ago. general alliance mentioned in his posture statement that the air refueling statement is that number one readiness -- the number one readiness concern and continues to underpin the joint deploy ability to across mission areas, and that's critical. king's mentionr of this being an urgent manner, what general lyons said, do you agree it makes sense, as general goldfield has said, to bed down decision in a location that allows them to be responsible for multiple threats and combatant commands? >> i agree it would give us the most possibility. -- most flexibility. >> does that allow the most flexibility? >> that is one of the areas that we look at to give the most reach, as

co. located in alaska which is what they will have in the next year, what kind of message would that send to the adversaries? >> china, russia, north korea, iran. the secretary of defense is twice now stated the message that would be sent to do what is the message to potential adversaries that the united states has extreme strategic reach. >> i do, senator. >> senator king mentioned an issue that just came out and i hearing just a couple of months ago mentioned in his statement that it's the number one readiness concern and continues to underpin the joint force ability to deploy the immediate force across all areas, and that is critical. based on senator king's mention of this being an urgent manner and with the general said recently, do you agree that it makes sense that the decision thinkers are limited in the resource in the location that allows them to be responsible for the multiple threads and multiple combatant command? >> does that allow for the most flexibility? >> that is one of the areas that we look at and it gives the most 'each. >> can they continue to find the clustering, i see my time is up. let me just ask one final one. >> yo

co-author of "healthy buildings." how indoor spaces drive performance in productivity. >>> let's turn now overseas. three weeks after irannd reopened, coronavirus cases have spiked in eight different provinces. according to government tallies, more than 7,000 people have died with about 122,000 infected. in the last 48 hours alone, iran has seen almost 5,000 new cases. joining us now, staff writer at the "new yorker," dexter fillkins. his new piece "the enemy is here. after decades of hostility with america, iteal khamenei faces threats from within his own country." good morning. good to see you. how serious is the problem of coronavirus in iran and what threat does it pose to the ayatollah. >> it's bad and it's especially bad for them because, you know, this is a regime that's made up almost entirely of elderly men. and who were, of course, especially vulnerable. what happened here was there were reports of this virus being in the country as early as december. and there were doctors that were sending warnings. and the virus was already -- you know, there's direct flights to china on iranian airlines. the virus was sprea

advanced at, is identifying and fighting these co—ordinated information campaigns coming from different state actors around the world, whether it is rush hour or irand countries will continue to interfere and we will see issues like that, so it's a little bit of an arms race in that way but i certainly think our systems are a lot more advanced now. i think in many ways more advanced than many other company or governments around the world and i feel confident about our ability to help protect the integrity of the upcoming elections. that is a big claim because you will remember the controversy surrounding facebook when tens of millions of users data and up in the hands of cambridge analytica but they are saying they are confident they can get done. it's interesting mark zuckerberg is coming out now. they think people have turned to them on instagram, facebook. you'll be hard pressed to say they haven't help people stay in touch they are feeling a bit more confident on the back foot. there was a warning and what he said about the payments going through the economy and they launch something this week called base bookshops. they are going to try and ma