he claims that matsu came to him in a dream encouraging him to step up for the taiwanese people. that's quite an endorsement as it is but it's as close ties to china that may get him on the ticket he plans to run in the primaries of the opposition kuomintang party but stresses it's not a done deal yet. i am willing to participate in the primary elections. for me if i am not willing to accept being appointed without being elected. again if elected i will represent the kuomintang in the twenty twenty contest or forty. if i am not elected it means that i didn't try hard enough. to call me tongue favors closer relations with china where foxconn has a dozen factories with more than a million employees making it the largest private employer in the country. it's a challenge to taiwan's current more independence minded government at a time when relations between taipei in beijing are strained is. a correspondent saw how this corporate boss came to run for office decide divine intervention. terry clare that's the goddess mogs who told him his dream that he should run for tolerance preside

really calling on the international community now on the support is to to push authorities in me and matsu come up with a different resolution to this ruling. what message does this verdict send charlotte to other journalists investigating allegations of human rights violations in myanmar. well human rights groups in me a model of already documented a climate of fear that calling it among journalists reporting from inside myanmar but of course this ruling will be another huge blow to them in fact in the amnesty international today issued a statement in britain in response to this ruling saying that it was a blow to press freedom it was also just pointing out that it's not just journalists who are targeted by also authorities in mia ma they were made the point there are a number of people who've been arrested in recent days in fact for allegedly criticizing thirty's in me and ma so there is a real concern among human rights groups about freedom of expression in mena. the jailed reuters journalists were investigating the persecution over hinge of muslims by the myanmar military their work wa

ballard does a great job but it is help from the top, you know, the va out in the matsu valley, a huge veteran population, finally has not just 1, not just 2, but 3 doctors. it only took 5 years but now we have some doctors. and mr. secretary, i want to thank you, not exact you exactly in your purview but you may have seen my alaskan native vietnam veterans equity allotment act was recently signed into law and when the president cited the broader bill he highlighted this , very important bill for alaska that helped our vietnam veterans overcome a huge injustice. the fact that the president highlighted that in a signing ceremony made me -- that and add to mention that caregiver legislation closes one of the last moves of the vietnam era, sadly. it has been 44 years since the fall of saigon. i think the alaska allotment issue was one that, sadly, took almost as long and i think that also closes a loop, particularly for a state that has the highest per capita number of veterans in the country. >> i appreciate that, mr. secretary. and you weighing in on that, h mer secretary zinke weighing