>> not just jill labor and some -- abramson and mark thompson. what happened was they arranged janine gibson to come in a week ago last monday to meet with arthur and thompson and the go to lunch. they were trying to recruit her. she did not tell dean she was recruiting to be a managing editor but doing digital. he was really upset. so he happened to have a dinner with arthur sulzberger is the following wednesday, tuesday -- two days later. and at dinner, dean did something very uncharacteristic. he is very gentle and a popular figure and a good journalist. he said it is unacceptable that this happened this way and the fact that jill is very difficult to work with, i find. arthur was confronted with the question, this fit into that sense that jill was too difficult and it was not a team that he felt calm but with. on friday, he asked jill to his office and fired her. he said would you like to announce your resigning? we are going to tell the truth. can i add one more thing about the pay which i think is important? it doesn't matter whether you dou

." >> mary: "they" is not just jill abramson but arthur sulzberger and mark thompson.i published an e-mail from mark thompson showing how involved he was in that search -- >> but they failed to tell-- >> what happened was they arranged for her, janine gip gibbs son, who is the editor of the "guardian u.s." to come in a week ago last monday to meet with arthur and thompson and go to lunch with dean beckett. she didn't tell dean beckett she was recruiting him to be managing editor, the same title he had, but digital. and who told dean beckett? janine gibson. he was really upset. so he happened to have dinner with arthur sulzberger the following wednesday, two days later, may 7. and at dinner with salzburger, dean beckett did something very uncharacteristic-- he's a very gentle, thoughtful, very popular figure in the newsroom and a good journalist. but he blew up, and he told arthur it's unacceptable that this happened this way. and in fact, jill is very difficult to work with, i find. so arthur then was confronted, arthur sulzberger, with the question, this fed into that

she also had struggles with the times ceo, mark thompson, who took a more aggressive approach to handling editorial operations in the newsroom than in the past. we still don't have the full answers as to why she left. >> you have been covering the story and you clearly were the one to break it. trace for me what's been going on at "the new york times" for the last year. >> it's been a time of great changes. the times has been doing well in terms of its digital operation. it suffered in terms of print revenue. it had to do a round of buyouts but jill oversaw. there is frustration that she was not more present while the buyouts were going on but it's turbulence there and turbulence for a lot of sort of legacy media organizations and i think what the times needed if you listen to what sulzberger said today as they needed a more concrete leadership structure. clearly, there was something not working out with jill abramson either in general or a specific issue so they're trying to write that ship and bring in some stability to the newsroom under the new executive editor. >> we will come to him

mark thompson reports. >> after one year of living under a state of emergency, residents of three nigerian states face another six months of the same fate. president goodluck jonathan describes the security situation in the northeastern reason -- daunting., quote, it gives them the authority to crack down on the militant group boko haram, thought to be in the area. weapons, and the supplies of arms made available to terrorists. people, mainly00 civilians, have been killed this year alone as a result of the ongoing violence. the international spotlight has been on their fight against the islamic militant, since the girls were abducted from the school in april. the president and his administration have been under fire for their failure to rein in boko haram. >> i personally believe it will not work. >> human rights officials in the country have also cast doubts on the government strategy. post in nigeria, they have not been able to crush them. licensenly given them to perpetuate this. teams from france, britain, israel, and the united states are all assisting to find the missing teenagers. i

several different reasons that accounted for a fraying relationship between jill abramson and mark thompson the ceo and dean back kay, executive editor at the "new york times." the buzzfeed report talks about the digital first transition at the paper. this will be widely looked a reporter today and son of arthur solzberger the editor. not focusing enough throughout the day on digital, now in addition to that you have the other sort of tensions and conflicts including jill abramson bringing in a co-managing editor as well as her issues with mark thompson had to do about perhaps being too intrusive over the newsroom. there's been this church state divide between business and the newsroom and increasingly the business side feels quite rightly they want to have more role in the newsroom and to ensure better future for the program. >> i see you shaking your head. >> i mean, as someone who works for the "washington post," every legacy organization is going through this. for a very long time we knew how to do one thing. you aim to get stories on the front page. that still matters and absolutely st

mark thompson has more. >> drastic times drastic measures. after disappointing results from the first three months of this year, barclays bank has announced a series of structural changes, starting with sweeping layoffs. on thursday the lender announced 14,000 jobs or 1/10 of their worldwide workforce must he cut this year alone. around 5000 more are expected to go before the end of 2016. barclays posted a near 50% drop in pretax revenue in the first quarter, that is largely down from 41% for the british banks extend come, currencies and commodities business. this is blamed on the trading of bonds due to sluggish economic growth and interest rates job losses are expected to be cut in the u.k., and the investment will be split into. the barclays chief executive, anthony jenkins, says that the bank can stay competitive. >> in the future barclays will be leaner and stronger and much better balanced and well positioned to deliver less volatility and higher returns. >> they are creating a so-called bad bank which will control 100 alien euros of un

mark thompson has more on events. >> earning barricades on the outskirts of slaviansk after ukrainian forces launched an operation to retake the eastern town from pro-russian militants. the minister posted on facebook the country's troops had reclaimed a number of checkpoints and surrounded what he called the terrorists. it has been confirmed two ukrainian helicopters have been shot down. russian t.v. showed pictures reported to be of an injured pilot they say was on board one of the downed aircraft. >> the helicopter was flying over the city. there was a fight. after that, it was flying over here. it was taken down. one rocket missed it, but it was hit by the second one. >> ukraine says its troops have been ordered not to fire on buildings which could contain civilians. militants detained 18 of observers -- a team over a week ago. negotiations to free the international observers have only were resulted --have only resulted in one being released. >> pro-russian forces are reported to have seized the control center for the railways in eastern ukraine. a spokesman for the company said m

mark thompson has more. >> with tears running down her face, the south korean president took responsibility for the mishandling of last month's ferry disaster that is thought to have killed more than 300. presidentgrief as a who could not secure them. the final responsibility for not properly dealing with this incident is placed on me. she admitted many of those who died, most of who were high school students, could have been saved. the south korean president revealed plans to break up the coast guard which she said failed to fulfill its duties. relatives of the children on board have been critical of the government response to the disaster. they say they are concerned by the latest decision. >> it is clear the coast guard and be agitated by the news the search operation will be affected as a result. we asked the government, do you have the will to continue with the rescue operation until we find the very last missing passenger or not? foundtial investigations it was carrying three times the approved weight when it capsized on april 16. 15 members of the crew have either been charged with m

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the notion that mark thompson played a role, former head of the bbc, a man who had some controversial issues that he had to go back and testify some role there was calculated about that there was conflict between him and jill abramson. >> sure. of course there was a report a few months back that jill abramson chafe chafe was the word at the time mark them had come in and made a lot of the decisions that were usually under the jurisdiction of the executive editor. he had plans what the times was going to do in video and digital in some ways that the business strategy would affect the editorial strategy. for jill abramson who spent decades at the time, obviously has a long career in newspaper journalism. it was very hard for her to see this sort of infringement of the business side into the editorial structure. >> rose: what's the relationship between dean baquet and jill abramson. >> well it's a tough one to figure out. i mean publicly they have spoken supportively of one another. we certainly know that there were some very tense disagreements between them in the news room. as we repor

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seven billion to the stupid stats in staunton and saw grindhouse the minute and each instance mark thompson having to empty out the content adding in the ground running. the two thousand between those two i'm not taking the test at the prescott and they get to the family count indictment one investment scheme that sometimes if they are not based in mountain province the captain's knock me on the arm themselves and agents this comes from the guy does and it's not enough to the wonder pets and found out that and the winds of one of the dust will be taking a test of the cake the lunch the sense that sniveling of the most intriguing mind that's a good laugh after that i'll confess to vodafone and seventy two. the event. i didn't have any good god man stands a mini garden and as predicted the dvd it's from me and i tend to sixteen dollars was a danger to the presence of dead. should it indicated that he and the demi god. entrants need to highlight of the festival try to get dressed and then spread of aids. chris and jen was accompanied by some of the best condition and musician was a student at

mark thompson has gone the drastic times. drastic measures often disappointing results in the past three months of this he apologized bank has announced a series of structural changes starting with sweet pea layoffs. on thursday the lender announced fourteen thousand jobs or ten of its worldwide work force to be tough this year i learned. around five thousand more are expected to carry before the end of twenty sixteen. please please to the mid fifty percent drop in pre tax revenue in the post was a constant largely down to forty one cents for when the british bank's fixed income currencies and commodities business the downtown's been blamed on the drop in the trading of bonds due to sluggish economic crisis and uncertainty over interest rates. off the job losses are expected to be caught in the uk. specifically the company's investment on which will be split into you barclays chief executive on to the jenkins think this will help the bank stay competitive. in the future but these will be leaner stronger and much better balanc

eastern city of snow the angst pro russian audience they're down to another military helicopter as mark thompson explains the gun down strokes. and bullets holds true to sow doubts. signs of an escalating conflicts between ukrainian governments and three russian militants interior minister on some of the cough is to change in the region on monday. he said they were bustling around eight hundred such tests in the city of the call also admitted skipping the funds to win and the there's a war going on against us cartoon character in the hands are tied because the civilian population around us some support to understand somewhat the russian language and others didn't. ukrainian soldiers cannot shoot at civilians. this is something our enemies making full use of our enemies hiding behind them and shooting at what was wrong. rebel flight is on bush ukrainian forces on a monday triggering a fierce gunbattle on the outskirts of the city. the defence ministry say sexist or social down the military had come to the pool since friday ukraine insists its forces on doing everything possible to spend civilian

now we have more planes in the can one seat on the ce mark thompson and matt id card but the steps necessary to strings and a defence and security of iraq al east said rasmussen. last month made in a distant city its military presence in the baltic states. two weeks ago my scale military exercises of nato forces began in holland they will last at least eight p m today the chairman of the oic match but thinking of quitting the toughest of the city of kut teh says it is to discuss the situation in ukraine. in addition insist on the second practicing even at the stations have a moscow has no plans to cut the steak and am but because of the scheme is toughest ukraine. united ukraine nearly ten thousand gallon have a chance to get overwrought but dissipated into flash mob under that title. it was one of the biggest events held in the c2 recently. children wagon ride it into the improvised forgot to take great solace north west and east connected with the borders of one country the macbook which was depicted on a huge banner with building that ranks the children form the inscription unite this cou

she goes to arthur and mark thompson and complains. payalso finds out that her -- she finds out that washington bureau chief, her pay was lower than the person -- >> is there any explanation for this? >> there are always explanations. in the case of the washington bureau chief it was phil. he was on the editorial board. he was making more money. >> i don't think that is a good explanation for why the comanaging editor -- >> you think someone does in the glare of the new york times would say we cannot afford to pay any sort of salary a woman has added that is less than a man. here is where the convocations begin. when you just compare salary and not total compensation you are comparing apples and oranges. after i wrote my first post on wednesday he put out a statement the next day saying total compensation was roughly comparable to abramson. they didn't ask the question about the managing editor. how is that? you have to look at what the bonus is. they did agree to bump up their $500,000 to $525,000 after she protested. then she did som

joining us with his thoughts, mark thompson, director of the southeast asia research center at city ofversity of hong kong. mark, good evening to you. for the military, the coup seems to be the easy bit. the hard part as sri was suggesting is actually getting us back to on elections and having elections that people will respect. how do we go from here to there? >> it's very unclear. the opposition to the thaksin government, including protesters on the streets of bangkok in the last six months have resisted taking part in elections. sort of the ironically named democrat party boycotted those elections knowing they would lose as they've lost every election basically over the past 20 years. the question is, how can things change enough so that the opposition forces and the assumption is, this is something i think is important to say, the assumption is that the military favors the opposition. the leader of the army is known as a staunch royalist, known as quite hostile to thaksin shinawatra. the former prime minister has been exiled. even though he had reasonably decent relations with his

polite protest and it fit into narrative that had been forming in arthur saltsburger's mind and mark thompson'sd, she was a difficult person to deal with. >> difficult to deal with. or as an unnamed source told him, it fed management's narrative she was, quote, pushy. difficult, pushy, brisk, polarizing, we have yet to get the full story behind the upheaval but words to describe jill abramson tell a story of their own. joining me now is the co-creator of the daily show and cofounder of lady parts justice, liz winstead and correspondent at the chicago institute of politics anna marie cox. liz, the words pushy, difficult, polarizing mercurial, i can't remember the last time a major male figure was ousted for character issues like that in such an unsceremonious and transparent fashion. >> first that is my twitter file. i keep going back to is that it is -- it is -- it's simply feels like, oh, she's difficult, pushy, blah, blah, so she gets to go. forget about the three years, forget about the publishers, the talent. i was trying to think how many men have i ever heard were let go of a major media

went and went to raise what she thought was a polite protest and and it fit into a narrative and mark thompson'sat she was a difficult person to deal with. >> abramson clashed with the intrusion of the business side into the newsroom as well as the hiring of new managing editor for the digital side. "the times" does dispute the reports of pay disparity and seemingly clashing terms and we'll get into that. she was the first female executive editor having resumed the role in september 2011 and will be placed by dean decay, first african-american to run the paper. leslie ben fet, author of the feminine mistake. david, you've been doing incredible reporting and you confirmed there was a confrontation about pay gaps. do you think that's the primary reason for the ouster, there are a lot of different voices on jill abramson. >> i think that was one of the sparks to light what became this that played out brutally in the past 24 to 48 hours, this took a lot of people by surprise and even the top levels of the times newsroom. but there was a back story to this. sulzburger, the chairman and publisher was

. >> rose: tell me about that, i know a number of people-- including mark thompson, who used took the head of the bbc, has given that lecture. >> it's an interesting lecture to give. i'm the first actor that has given it, talked about the netflix model and did two seasons of a series without doing a pilot that you start to see how so many emerging talents are finding new platforms, new ways to be discovered, new ways to get their material out there, self-producing. and one thing interesting about the netflix model-- and maybe this certainly began with boxed sets-- it's really shown and proved that audiences like to be in control. they like to decide how they're going to watch something, when they're going to watch it -- >> they do not want to be tethered to real time. >> exactly. i felt sometimes films of this nature are undervalued by the industry. they're put in a niche corner, and i wanted to use this film to see how much of a cross-over is there. if people like, for example, what '05 done in "house of cards," "richard iii" is where it started because francis underwood is based on

mark thompson, the former head of the bbc who is now the ceo of the parent "times" company has made a the idea of video, and salsburger was supportive of that and abramson less so. the fact that there's a dispute about exactly what the digital future holds wouldn't seem to appropriate tate such an abrupt departure. she wasn't even allowed it address staff as her -- as the announcement of her departure was made by arthur salsburger, jr., the paper's corporate chairman and also publisher. >> shares were down almost 5% today, we should add. carly, what do you make of it? >> obviously it was abrupt and unexpected and i think it's odd that in the announcement nothing was said about her, nothing about her tenure, nothing about her accomplishments, nothing about her contribution. i mean, perhaps there was tension, but it did seem a bit cold to me to welcome the new editor and say nothing about the departing editor. >> that's why, david, i'm curious about is was this perceived -- was she perceived as a figure whose time was limited just more recently, or was it almost from the get-grow? what'

. >> with clay thompson and what he thinks about mark ajackson earlier in the let's talk about stephurry. because i mean it seems simple to say when he gets the ball and held to 17 points. warriors lose. what does golden state have to do from x and o standpoint. he needs to play one of my boyhood iet yils. sleepy floyd he needs 51 point game. he has to have a game and be he has to get there. and not only and you can look for guys on the wing and get the ball to them. so that is a problem he's having a hard time. so that is the key. >> home crowd, fans don't want this. to be the last game of the season. what is your pick, mark? >> you're going to make me say this in front of my hometown? i think clippers goring to win. >> thank you for coming. come together right after this cue here. we hoped to have it here. >> one thing sharks warriors don't want it to go out of the way the sharks did last night. five teams with leads that failed to close out and lost to l.a. kings. rather somber sharks locker room last night. >> they let the fans douvenlt everybody in the organization down. it's no

. >> with clay thompson and what he thinks about mark ajackson earlier in the day.ple to say when he gets the ball in and held to 17 points. warriors lose. what does golden state have to do from x and o standpoint. he needs to play one of my boyhood iet yils. sleepy floyd he needs 51 point game. he has to have a game and be he has to get there. and not only and you can look for guys on the wing and get the ball to them. so that is a problem he's having a hard time. so that is the key. >> home crowd, fans don't want this. to be the last game of the season. what is your pick, mark? >> you're going to make me say this in front of my hometown? i think clippers goring to win. >> thank you for coming. come together right after this cue here. we hoped to have it here. >> one thing sharks warriors don't want it to go out of the way the sharks did last night. five teams with leads that failed to close out and lost to l.a. kings. rather somber sharks locker room last night. >> they let the fans douvenlt everybody in the organization down. it's not a good feeling >> i think th

mark jackson. >> i'm excited to see this young basketball team l experience a game 7. on the road. they haven't experienced it as players. it's new tocly thompson new to curry. new to greechbility new to all my guys other than the veterans. it has been around and been on other teams. it's new to me. >> warriors pacers and thunder all force game 7. great fba my off action if you are into hoops. when we come back what do the raid doors with a fifth pick in the draft? pick in the draft? that's next ♪music the lord says, "come to me all you who are weary and find life burdensome, and i will give you rest." join us for the majesty of the catholic mass here sunday mornings at 8:30. for more information visit mysundaymass.org information visit mysundaymass.org sp. >> nfl draft exactly one week away. the raiders have the fifth over all pick in round one. today general manager mckensey is not afraid of wheeling and dealing a little bit. >> this draft thing is, when you have 31 other teams you have no idea who they want at a certain time and that's what, that's what makes it fun. i that's what makes it fun. i stubborn and say i'm not moving but that's no

mark jackson. >> i'm excited to see this young basketball team l experience a game 7. on the road. they haven't experienced it as players. it's new tocly thompson. new to curry. new to greechbility new to all my guys other than the veterans. it has been around and been on other teams. it's new to me. >> warriors pacers and thunder all force game 7. great fba my off action if you are into hoops. when we come back what do the raid doors with a fifth pick in the draft? pick in the draft? that's next sp. >> nfl draft exactly one week away. the raiders have the fifth over all pick in round one. today general manager mckensey is not afraid of wheeling and dealing a little bit. >> this draft thing is, when you have 31 other teams you have no idea who they want at a certain time and that's what, that's what makes it fun. i that's what makes it fun. i stubborn and say i'm not moving but that's not my style. phone line stays open on draft day. >> shark saw the season come to a rather abrupt and disappointing and last night they became just the fifth team in pro sports history to blow a series lead as they fell to the kings in game 7 last tonight 5-1 as y

mark jackson. >> i'm excited to see this young basketball team l experience a game 7. on the road. they haven't experienced it as players. it's new tocly thompson. new to curry. new to greechbility new to all my guys other than the veterans. it has been around and been on other teams. it's new to me. >> warriors pacers and thunder all force game 7. great fba my off action if you are into hoops. when we come back what do the raid doors with a fifth pick in the draft? pick in the draft? that's next (tiffany) ask yourself what your children or cigarettes. for as long as i can remember, my mother smoked. she died from lung cancer when i was 16. i could not take the chance of continuing smoking and not being here for my daughter. i know how much i needed my mom still, and i didn't realize it until i had lost her. you can quit. for free help, call 1-800-quit-now. but at this moment, she's fighting a brain tumor. announcer: please take a moment and join st. jude in finding cures and saving children. visit stjude.org. sp. >> nfl draft exactly one week away. the raiders have the fifth over all pick in round one. today general manager mckensey is not afr

mark and they move the process. so what you're offering with mr. thompson today isn't something that we are arguing about. we are arguing about this process that brings together this ill considered a moment to do what we could have done with tax reform and give the long-term predictability. >> be issued to add some strength to the argument, when we wait until the lame-duck session to make decisions on this, we put the irs in the situation where they have one month before the paper is supposed to go out and people are supposed to begin fixing their taxes. we make an impossible situation for the irs by waiting this long and making this decision about something which is clearly not going to pass. he's already put out a proposal that tells you we ought to be negotiating, not passing pieces of legislation like this that have no chance whatsoever of going through, and i think that's why the amendment is a much better way to go saying we have a place to start, let's start the negotiations now rather than on the 15th of december when we are all wanting to go home for christmas. we will still be here on this issue

thompson calls himself a float down eat re. i thought that was funny. here is how it works. you order on-line and then stand in an area marked with an x and then an employee wraps the sandwich grilled cheese and drops it out of a window to you. i will go to you, joanne. as a bulemic is it nice to see food? it is coming to you instead of the reverse. it is weird. >> it may be a form of therapy. which could be nice. >> but it is tasty. why stop at grilled cheese? i want pizza. i want pbj. what about a chicken salad, sandwich. >> i don't like chicken salad because i don't like crunchy with soft. i like soft and i like crunchy, but you can't put it together because that's wrong. then you don't know what will go where. >> textures are technically good in food. on our food show here we are learning a lot. >> i was supposed to be on "red eye." what happened? >> let me ask you, ambassador, mr. i know everything because i was in the white house, is this a good idea? >> it is a good idea. personally i would rather have my food delivered by drones. you don't have to stand under where they make the grilled cheese sandwich. deliver it to

thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, today i rise to recognize mark a. nortonberg, chancellor of the university of pittsburgh. which includes regional campuses in the pennsylvania fth congressional district and -- in titusville. he will step down at 19 years as chancellor but will remain at the university that he has served for over 37 years. during the chancellor's tenure, the university experienced tremendous growth. annual applications for dmission climbed from 7,825 to 27,626. overall, enrollments have steadily increased. average s.a.t. scores for incoming students are now 185 points higher. and the university continues to expand and to modernize. today the university of pittsburgh is ranked nationally and competing for the best students in the region, the country, and the world. chancellor nortonberg joined the faculty of pitt school of law in 1977. eventually serving as dean and interim provost of the university. in 1995 he was elected interim chancellor by the university's board of trustees, and in 1996 he was elected chancellor. through his visio

thompson. >> most of the repeat offenders that come in and they're like celebrities. they know everybody and they ask is -- is so-and-so still working here, whoever. >> you got any scars or marksfrom the top and work your way down. >> rose with a bleeding heart. >> on your left shoulder? >> on my right. my kids' names on my right ankle. i've got initials on my hands. >> we do our strip searching in this actual area here. and when we do do the strip search, we make them squat and cough several times, and we're visually watching that just to make sure that they do not have any contraband. >> after a strip search and shower, it's off to be photographed and fingerprinted. >> do you usually do your whole time? >> like i got a six to eight-month sentence. >> you're going to do at least six months. the whole eight if you get in trouble. this is prison, do your time. >> not nobody else's. >> that's right. >> i ain't here for no drama either. i'm ready to get this over with and go home. >> unlike laura and alissa, sharon thompson has been here before. she violated parole and is sentenced to two years. >> her fingerprints are kind of difficult because there's a lot of scarring. i don't

thompson. did want to mention up with other mover, interpublic has been getting some chatter. i pg, companies. >> left behind. >> mccann is one of their biggest assets. take a look. see what it's done. marksa lot of chatter out there, again when publicist and omnicon went down, consolidation occur, this is a name that keeps coming up. i will add a number of trading sources indicate there's been a buyer of late. i think it may be elliott. elliott management, the large fund run by paul singer which occasionally dabbles in activism. it could be an investment. elliott not responding in terms of confirming or not. worth a mention. because again, a number of different sources in those circles say they've been seeing significant buying, believe it is elliott. >> explain how it work, omnicom had a banker, wanted to do a deal. >> yeah. >> does the banker go home and say no more deals or look around. >> they always say look around, although i'm not sure that's the name. >> i'm just saying that industry is ripe for some consolidation. >> that's what bankers do. >> i feel that it's very funny, i mean, i do watch the show "mad men" and mccann is involved in an acquisition there. we forget that there u

thompson, thank you very much. >>> yet another nba owner is at the center of controversy this morning. dallas mavericks owner markorced to issue an apology over some very candid comments he made about race. nbc's ron allen's got that story. ron, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you, savannah. cuban admitted, using his words now that he is bigoted and has certain prejudices about people based on their race. it was a wide-ranging interview at a business conference. cuban called donald sterling's attitude about race, stupid, but it was this remark that got him into trouble. >> if i see a black kid in a hoodie at night on the other side of the street, you know, i'm probably -- on the same side of the street, i'm probably going to walk to the other side of the street. >> reporter: cuban's following thought expressed a similar attitude toward a hypothetical white figure. >> if i see a white guy with a shaved head and lots of other tattoos, i'm going to the other side of the street. >> reporter: but describing a black kid in a hoodie as threatening ignited outrage. tweets calling his remarks very proble