with the mcbride group. the governor detailed a sobering reality. pay cuts , and programs cut and a lot more. >> unfortunately there will be service cuts. and that's going to happen is taxes would go up. as far as cutting pay of government workers that's probably not going to happen like it's hard to imagine when the governor explains all of these cuts. they could be even deeper if it wasn't for the rainy day fund. >> you have to tip your hat to governor brown. he came in during the economic dire situation. he insisted on building that runny day fund. it is going to help break the fall. taxes will go up and services will go down. >> i'm on a move on to the somewhat sobering unemployment numbers. >> there are human beings behind all of those statistics. if you look at the trend of the unemployment numbers, those numbers are going down every week. they have trended down in the last 5-6 weeks. there is a high probability that so many of these jobs, 90% will return once the economy restarts. we are and that toug

that is the most important thing . >> mcbride says he thinks some segments of the economy will take longer to recover, particularly the travel and tourism industry. >> it's a big deal. thank you, pam. the time is 4:40 a.m. and let's move to steve paulson. talk about how warm it's going to be, steve. >> for many yes pam and dave one more day and we start to cool down. temperatures yesterday sword and we take a look at the record highs and there could be some today. there might not be as many as yesterday but today it might be a day with a high in charge and it makes a move to the next 24 hours to the east. fog is creeping up and it's not here yet but maybe by tonight. one were hot day and cooler at the coast and bay. it is a breeze kicks in late. fog returns late tonight. yesterday was a day of many record highs. including concord, sfo, but napa is 99. broke the old record of 98 back in 1896. >>> on may 26th of 1896 the dow jones industrial began and made up of 12 stocks that closed at 40 .94. on the 27th the future sword because they were zach hintze of a cool down. i kid. i kid because i

thank you for all those updates that's what mcbride insall a huge fireworks display is lit up the skies over the russian capital as part of celebrations to mark 75 years since the end of world war 2 in europe traditional commemorations don't cling a military parade were put off because of the pandemic also don't forget infections in russia are rising dramatically more than 10000 cases of reported for every day for the past 7 that it was are they on has more. instead of a military parade on moscow's red square russians marked 53 day in solitude covered 19 has changed everything the streets routinely used to display russia's military power are empty no tanks no music no marches. president vladimir putin place flowers at the a trial flame near the kremlin walls and for the 1st time in recent hears western delegates who were due to attend the event canceled. addressing the nation he called for unity. during the year we know and they firmly believe that we are going to believe understand together. a military air show replace the ground parade with jets flying over 47 cities across russia. du

thanks so much from mcbride there. the u.n. report says syria has the largest number of the splicers because of conflicts last year ours to a 1000000 people for a government offensive in december but since a ceasefire in march tens of thousands of people have returned to their homes to find that been destroyed or both in mali reports. celebrating the holy month of ramadan in the. dark i would see out and his family found safe from dusk until dawn now they are breaking that fast in what was going stare home. a splash of color in a sea of crushed concrete. says he fled his home marry her the end of the year when the syrian army and the russians bombed this area. now my family and i here on top of the destruction we are reliving a very difficult and painful memory i pray that god doesn't lead anyone else experience this his mother says with a kitchen destroyed they poor ready meals from outside in are 30 either the most important thing is that we relive our memories and eat in our. army how is situated in italy province a few kilo

flexible working practices because of concerns about a 2nd wave of infections let's speak to rob mcbride in seoul about this so rob how wearing is this new outbreak. it is a troubling development for south korea a country which does believe this is theirs handled the outbreak it is crushed the curve is that as they say and this outbreak is now behind this as you mentioned there most of these new cases are based around this warehouse distribution center just outside of the capital seoul 'd operated by one of the largest e-commerce companies here which ironically has been working flat out since the start of this outbreak because of course everybody is choosing to shop online rather than going to stores and it does seem as though in the crowded conditions inside parts of this warehouse facility where you've had lots of people working together you've had them sharing meals in cafeterias taking smoke breaks together maybe not wearing biases that as they should have done you have seen this outbreak now the authorities have identified up 244000 potential cases of people who may have come into c

celebrations for his late grandfather last month less speak talk correspondent in seoul south korea iraq mcbride rob for us we had still pictures now of these moving images from north korean state media will these pictures finally silence the room as you think. it does show that kim jong un looking remarkably healthy especially as some reports had him barely clinging to life just a couple of days ago these are said to be video images taken at this opening ceremony of this fertilizer plant yesterday friday there were earlier reports from state run news agency k c.n.a. accompanied by photographs but now while on state run television we have had extensive video coverage of this whole opening ceremony the ribbon cutting kim jong un accompanied by his younger sister kim jong seemingly in good health interacting lightheartedly with officials around him giving field guidance which he often does on these events many officials of b.d. in the taking notes surrounding him he is pictured largely sitting down looking at the ceremony then in a control room again sitting down but he has been walking around the

we have bryan goebel the executive officer, kelly mcbride, graduate students. here we are to the next item 5 with recommendations. thank you. >> madam chair before we move from item 4, for the record, there is no action taken on item for? >> yes, no action is necessary. thank you very much. >> thank you, madam chair. you have heard the findings. now we are on to the recommendations for how to address the problematic issues in the survey. for the second year in a row, lafco partnered with the university of san francisco urban and public affairs graduate program to produce research to regulate the on demand delivery in san francisco in the time of covid is the and beyond. the class of 16 students was led by doctor mic bride. these are the class that produced the recommendations last year, some of those students have become legislative aids. we had 16 students working on this project during this selling esther. doctor mcbride is here with three of the students to present the findings of the research and recommendations. i will turn it over to doctor mcbride. >> i

minister shinzo abi announced a massive release program last month to keep the economy on track right mcbride is in seoul and he says the stimulus announced by the government may not be enough to revive the economy. we've had now 2 quarters where the economy has contract and so it is in a recession but this started at the end of last year in the last quarter this is well before anybody had even heard of kobe had 19 japan had already been hit by a rise in a culture of virtual sales tax from 8 percent to 10 percent that hurt spending it was already suffering from the lingering effects of a typhoon then of course that all of its economic problems are really now being compounded rolling into this year with the onset of kobe had 19 the delay of the summer olympics it was about this time that many companies throughout japan were expecting to be ramping up massively employing thousands of people as the country was preparing to welcome the world well as we know all of that is now been delayed by at least a year and just in april we had a the prime minister declaring a national emergency that further

minister shinzo are bannon's to massive release program last month to keep the economy on track right mcbride is in seoul and he says the stimulus announced by the government may not be enough to revive the economy we've had now 2 quarters where the economy has contract its.

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social events are being allowed on tuesday there were no local infections for a 3rd consecutive day mcbride has more now from the museum of modern loss in seoul . this is a further indication of restrictions here in south korea gradually being lifted as the country emerges into this strange new post virus world here at the museum of modern art along with other museums galleries libraries across south korea they are all being allowed to open but only with very strict precautions being in place we have the usual temperature checks of everyone entering the numbers here are strictly controlled 1st of all you would have to have registered online to visit your museum of modern art and with no more than 100 people at any one time allowed inside it's basically all part of what's known here as every day life quarantine basically the new normal but it's one the south koreans we've been speaking to seem to accept is part of the recovery from this outbreak and they are certainly welcoming the fact that they can now get back into public venues hound them and they've limited the number of people here whi

anymore and so the world wildlife fund hired this guy he's he's a he's a great character is named roy mcbride he was a legendary an animal tracker from texas and they hired him to come to florida and out of there any panthers left and he you know turned his dogs loose and went searching for panther signs and ultimately did find a panther and found signs or others and so they wound up hiring him to help out with saving the panthers by tracking them down putting radio collars on them so they could figure out where the panthers were and where they traveled that sort of thing and roy still at it today is his sons and his grandson are all working with him to continue trying to save the panther now florida's environment flip in time from wilderness to the 3rd most populated state in the maricopa would you say the panthers natural habitat is dwindling more because of roads housing and people out of the direct cause of the panthers disappearance. that's a big problem yeah the the the panther the maine panther colony that's left i mean they used to range over the whole southeastern united states and n

ouro happened that mcbride, chief of staff, was standing right there. he had a telegram from the 8th corps that said to stop the advance on brest and seize dinan. patton said i will take care of middleton. it was the corps command of the eighth corps. that night or day we got rolling. we believe we went 60 miles in the dark and ended up in a place hix, i believe. breakfast, headed out again. we finally got to the outskirts of brest. grow, in his usual knowledge of terrain, thought that the place to go into brest, the route to attack was from a town called pavau, i believe. u a. i can get it for you in a moment. we had stopped at guipavas. this was the command group. half track more armored car, maybe a cup -- or armored car, maybe a couple of jeeps. and one of the drivers with a machine gun started walking down the road towards a hill one at a time. we noticed it was occupied by the germans. they started jumping around and running around and started firing at us with 20 millimeter ammunition. automatic weapons, which by the way was a vicious weapon. up

united states the taiwan straits are likely to witness more saber rattling in the months ahead rob mcbride al-jazeera. venezuela's central bank has launched a lawsuit to try to force the bank of england to hand over more than a $1000000000.00 in gold president nicolas maduro his government said it needs the money to support its coronavirus response the u.k. central bank has held off transferring 31 tons of gold for 2 years as britain doesn't recognise when to or as venezuela's legitimate leader a chinese man has seen his parents again 32 years after he was abducted as a toddler years mother quit her job to find her son along the way helping 29 other abducted children return to their parents in the end a d.n.a. test helped end her search so her reports. at the moment got to hug his parents after 32 years of searching leaching could finally touch her son's face cling on to each other making up for lost years this time she told him she wasn't going to let him go. now you must snatched in 1988 outside the hotel and sang the province his father had stopped off to get some mortar you was only 2

allowing outdoor sports starting with a hugely popular base but fans can not attend the games rob mcbride has more from this one. this is the last practice session before the long awaited start of day one of south korea's face ball season of the season that of course has been delayed by more than a month because of the coronavirus we're here at this stadium in tian that's the home of the s.k.y. vns that's in chung's local team who are taking visitors had eagles they are down on the diamond at the moment to having now quit their practice session now it is a long awaited start this has been well over a month that we've waited for the baseball season to get underway and very strict precautions are in place to make sure that all the players are safe a certain amount of social distancing is practiced they are not allowed to do high fives and shake hands also notably for baseball players they're not allowed to lick their fingers that's are tricky for the pictures and also nobody is allowed to spit most notably of all no spectators are being allowed in place of spectators what we have on some pa

has been watching how it handled the pandemic so we will be studying how it now recovers from it mcbride al-jazeera sold. a new group is working to put more mothers into american politics by removing some of the hurdles votes mama is making a concerted effort to increase the number of women on election ballots it comes less than 6 months before the house and senate elections in november ellen fessler reports from austin texas. before the world changed this was political campaigning in america to have 2 neighborhoods knocking on doors canvassing for votes now most of the work is being done on the floor and it's another obstacle to overcome if you're running for office particularly if you're a woman and a mother the reality is people look at you differently they're like i can't tell you how times i've been asked where are your kids julie oliver is running for the u.s. congress in texas one of the growing number of mothers who want to change the face of u.s. politics i think moms are the ones who have really delivered powerful movements in our country and whether it's black lives matter mom

being allowed to join global organizations well let's get more on this from our correspondent rob mcbride who joins me from the south korean capital seoul and rob this organ or inauguration really marks incredible change in political fortunes for side. absolutely it was just a year ago that she was way down in the opinion polls her party's policy of trying to walk this tricky more independent line from the much mightier mainland china next door simply was backfiring it seemed against this tiny island republic of taiwan china was using all of its vast economic and diplomatic weight and muscle to further isolate it president xi jinping of china was even talking quite aggressively that little taiwan was going to have to accept one way or another that it was going to be reintegrated back with the motherland possibly under the system of one country 2 systems form of shared government now if that sounds familiar well that's exactly the same sort of government that's in place in hong kong it has been a very easy a form of government and last year of course it simply fell apart we saw mass protes

has been watching how it handled the pandemic so we will be studying how it now recovers from it mcbride al-jazeera soul. has turned back on its plan to lift the lockdown rules this weekend the measures have now been extended until next sunday the government says it's too early to lift restrictions with nearly 1200 coronavirus cases recorded djibouti his figures are low on a global scale but it has the highest number of infections per capita in africa the world health organization ones more than $190000.00 people across the continent could die from the virus in the coming year. brazil's president is facing renewed criticism over its response to the pandemic on the day the number of deaths past 10000 jebel so not always seen writing at jet ski on a lake in the capital brasilia exactions and in defiance of advice and social distancing from his own health ministry also not only has dismissed a growing alarm over latin america's worst outbreak as you roses. well one of the world's most respected medical journals has described as the biggest threat to his country but the president and his sup

saying my compare his message sense of wrong signal to what it called separatist forces in taiwan rob mcbride is in seoul he explained surprise in sighing wayne's popularity in recent months. it was just a year ago the president was in a very precarious position taking this more independent line keeping mainland china at arm's length and china responding by using all of its economic and diplomatic might to isolate the island republic with president xi jinping of china even warning that. taiwan must be reintegrated at all costs but then towards the end of last year suddenly out of nowhere we had these street riots take place in hong kong which really scared many people in neighboring taiwan about what reintegration with the motherland under this so-called power sharing of one country 2 systems might look like if things went wrong so we saw a surge in popularity for president size you won this landslide of 57 percent in the january poll and indeed in her inaugural address she has once again rejected the policy of one country 2 systems but at the same time has said that taiwan is open to dialogu

are issue adopt flexible working practices because of concerns about a 2nd wave of infections rob mcbride has more from seoul. this is a troubling development especially for a country which seemingly had this all under control just a few weeks ago days go by here where we see very few new cases being reported often in single digits sometimes 0 cases of local transmission then you get a spike like this one most of these new cases are based around this warehouse distribution center just outside of the capital seoul now this is operated by one of the biggest e-commerce companies here in south korea ironically working flat out since the start of this pandemic because of course everybody is now shopping online rather than going to stores and it does seem as though maybe social distancing wasn't what it should be you had a lot of workers maybe in cramped working environment they were sharing the same cafeteria having smoke breaks together and not wearing them or enough masks and now we've had this spike in cases the authorities have moved very quickly on this identifying up to 4000 people eithe

making his 1st public appearance in nearly 3 weeks at the opening of a fertilizer factory as well mcbride reports from seoul rumors had been rife about the leaders health and whereabouts. in good spirits and seemingly in good health after disappearing from public view for nearly 3 weeks north korean leader kim jong un reemerged in style to open a fertilizer plant. the pictures on state run television said to be from an event on friday seemed to be north korea's uncertain world the growing speculation about kim's health. online news sites and some news organizations have been quoting sources that said kim was gravely ill even brain dead after a surgical procedure gone wrong. it had led to concerns about a possible power vacuum and instability in the nuclear armed state and focused attention on kim sister kim go joan who attended this event as a possible successor to him. she came to the world's attention as the point person in north korea's charm offensive during the 2018 winter olympics in pyongyang. she continued to feature prominently as the smiling facilitator in the subsequent into ko

world has been watching how we've handled the pandemic so we be studying how it now recovers from it mcbride al-jazeera so. china has reported the fast case of covert 1000 for more than a month and that's a city where the virus was 1st detected back in december a national health commission says the new case was previously asymptomatic the capital of a province was the 1st city in the wild to go into lockdown and it's been slowly returning to normal since restrictions were lifted last month on the other hand malaysia has extended restrictions aimed at reducing the spread of the virus by a month schools places of worship and state borders were meant to open on tuesday but it's now been pushed back until the 9th of june the prime minister says the measures have been extended in ponte to stop the launch amount of travel that usually comes with the end of ramadan now further south in singapore has put a robot dog on patrol in a park as part of efforts to encourage social distancing or you see and for those to ground instead to. thank you. this is spot who broadcasts a recording of lock down rules

speculated that china sent a team of doctors to treat him after a heart procedure had gone wrong rob mcbride joins us live from the south korean capital seoul hi there rob so as ever with the north korean leader more questions than answers i guess. indeed but it does seem to put to rest the speculation that has been going on now for several weeks about his suspicious disappearance from public view we have no reason to believe this event didn't happen but it should be pointed out that we only have at the moment the one report released through case cna this is north korea's state run news agency but accompanied by these photographs which do appear to show a fairly well that kim jong un smiling ribbon cutting opening this fertilizer plant one of the pictures shows him and also accompanied by his sister kim jung jong in front of a placard which gives yesterday's date may the 1st this would be a fitting way of celebrating international workers day we are told from this news report indeed that the the work force at this fertilizer plant gave him a rapturous reception but of course it was missing a

has been watching how it handled the pandemic so we will be studying how it now recovers from it mcbride al-jazeera sold. brazil's president is facing renewed criticism over his response to the pandemic on the day the number of deaths past 10000. we're saying writing a jet ski on a lake in the capital brasilia in defiance of advice from his own health ministry he dismissed growing alarm over latin america's worst outbreak as a euro crisis. well one of the world's most respected medical journals has described elsinore as the biggest threat to his country but the president and supporters refusing to support stay at home measures saying the economy must come 1st and it's underground preeti as it's from. brazil recorded more than 10000 copies in 1000 dates on saturday supporters of president of the sending their game on the capital brasilia to defend their battered. leader and demand their names down measures they rallied in front of the country's supreme court angry after it allowed an inquiry into the president for allegedly interfering in a police corruption case against. all this happeni

economy on track japan has recorded more than 16000 cases of the virus and close to 750 deaths or rob mcbride is joining us live from seoul rob japan's economy was already beginning to slide into some recession before the pandemic hit but things have just got even worse haven't they. that's right and there is worse economic news to come from a coded 19 but as you mentioned we've had now 2 quarters where the economy has contracted so it is in a recession but this started at the end of last year in the last quarter this is well before anybody had even heard of coded 19 japan had already been hit by a rise in a controversial sales tax from 8 percent to 10 percent that hurt spending it was already suffering from the lingering effects of a typhoon then of course the all of its economic problems are really now being compounded rolling into this year with the onset of covert 19 the delay of the summer olympics it was about this time that many companies throughout japan were expecting to be ramping up massively employing thousands of people as the country was preparing to welcome the world well as we

joining us to discuss, sarah mcbride who has been covering the story.mething selling so much of t-mobile? softbank needs cash. the need it badly in case they need to selloff some of their own assets including a division fund. it reported disappointing results on monday of $13 billion loss in division funds. billion.n $17.7 it is looking around for places it can find cash. t-mobile shares could be a good -- be a good spot for it to do that. why does softbank have such a large stake in t-mobile? softbank bought a majority stake in sprint for $22 billion and almost immediately started trying to t-mobile, andnd the obama administration said no. they had to shelve it, then it went back and two years ago tried to get that deal going again. it was looking shaky. there were all kinds of lawsuits. and then earlier this year softbank got a win. the government said it could go ahead and do that merger. it finally got the merger done. as a result it owns about a quarter of t-mobile out of the stake in sprint. softbank place where have a rear win -- layer win -- rar

teams to mix in with the feeds to give at least that sense of the participation of spectators from mcbride there for us live from inchy and thanks so much for all new zealand has reported no new coronavirus cases for the 2nd day in a row now prime minister descend rudd has now joined a meeting of a stray is cabinet on tuesday to discuss quarantine free travel between the 2 countries but she says it'll be a long time before there are open borders with the rest of the wild new zealand began easing its strict lockdown last week well there are now growing calls in canada to let international train doctors support frontline health workers the tight regulations are leaving many shots out of their chosen profession daniel arap reports among all the trainees are taught at this level some heroes are. on oral performance. samir chohan reads a letter of recommendation from a doctor who supervised him as a medical volunteer in the united states that's the only way this canadian born graduate of a foreign medical school could get work experience with the covert 1000 crisis placing heavy burdens on cana

mostly in seoul a comma some countries in the asia pacific are looking to restart air travel while mcbride's reports. in show an international airport south korea's gateway to the world practically deserted the aviation industry here is decimated as it is globally with predictions of a slow recovery. earlier we thought the industry would recover 80 to 90 percent by the end of the year but now we expect 50 to 60 percent and even next year the global market still won't be fully recover the parts of the world emerging 1st from the virus are likely to see their line businesses pick up quickest a number of countries in asia pacific south korea among them have won international praise for the way they've tackled the pandemic they've had to pay a high economic price for tough travel restrictions but the fact they're now being eased is widely seen as a reward for that effort so-called travel bubbles allowing free a movement between neighboring states that have the virus under control will help the process new zealand and australia are considering establishing one so we both stand to benefit from get

has been watching how it handled the pandemic so we will be studying how it now recovers from it mcbride al-jazeera sold china has reported the 1st case of covert 19 for more than a month and the city where the virus was 1st detected in december and national health commission says the new case was previously symptomatic of the capital of problems was the 1st city in the world to go into lockdown it's been slowly returning to normality since restrictions were lifted last month. to brazil now where the president is facing renewed criticism over his response to the pandemic on the day the number of deaths past 10000 share but it was seen writing a jet ski on a lake in the capital brasilia his actions are in defiance of advice on social distancing from his own health ministry for sonora has dismissed growing alarm over latin america's worst outbreak as neurosis. well one of the world's most respected medical journals has described the biggest threat to his country but the president and supporters are refusing to support saying the economy must come 1st. as this report. has brazil recorded mo

that it doesn't have any cases of the coronavirus and the kim is very much alive and in charge of mcbride al-jazeera so. at least 10 members of the iraqi paramilitary group the popular mobilization forces have been killed in 2 separate attacks but i still fighters the northern thailand of maccie shrub was targeted overnight on friday in the province of. the other tank half an intel to help the country to claim victory over i still at the end of 2017 now to syria simona fulton is in baghdad and says these are the most brazen attacks by isis fighters in the last year. well it is the deadliest attack that i think has carried out in iraq over the past few months or even a year resulting in the death toll of 10 people as you mentioned earlier and it comes just days after the group tried. to stage another attack in kid coop on the intelligence headquarters so what we're seeing is that i saw is now resorting to directly attacking the security forces which is something that we didn't see over the past years what we've seen until now was i saw for example planting improvised explosive devices in r

well mcbride has more from outside the museum of modern math in seoul. this is a further indication of restrictions here in south korea gradually being lifted as the country emerges into this strange new post virus world here at the museum of modern art along with other museums galleries libraries across south korea they are all being allowed to open but only with very strict precautions being in place we have the usual temperature checks of everyone entering the numbers here are strictly controlled 1st of all you would have to have registered online to visit your museum of modern art and with no more than 100 people at any one time allowed inside it's basically all part of what's known here as every day life quarantine basically the new normal but it's one that south koreans we've been speaking to seem to accept as part of the recovery from this outbreak and they are certainly welcoming the fact that they can now get back into public venues hound them and they've limited the number of people here which is good because it's not so crowded and when it's n

have been announced most of them from seoul and link to an online shopping warehouse there is right mcbride is in seoul with this update. this is an outbreak that's causing major disruption to the reopening of schools schools here in south korea as elsewhere have been closed for months and after a lot of very careful planning to make sure it's done safely then very carefully we are in the middle of a staged reopening of schools it's a reopening that's already been delayed by a couple of weeks because of another cluster or another outbreak and we're now likely to see further disruption we're white in the middle of this process so some schools that had are due to reopen several 100 of them now have to pull back their we openings and there's more than a $200.00 schools in an area called both of bhutan and to the west of a soul a soul which had already reopened are having to close again no boots on is the location of this major warehouse distribution center that is at the center of this latest outbreak we have had the latest daily cases of the new cases of corona virus in south korea or $58.00

workers in rural areas initiatives for moving timely as a country recovers from the coronavirus as rob mcbride discovered on a visit to the southern growing region. in the quest to grow the perfect fruit this is one strawberry farm that is increasingly turning to smart technology every aspect of the growing environment is carefully regulated the amount of sunlight let in to the water and fertilizer is used it's helping to compensate for the loss of young people not wanting to go into farming like their parents can. get them we don't have enough workers in the rural areas but by using smart technology we can reduce the need for manpower. the farm is owned by a husband and wife team who gave up high powered jobs in large corporations to pursue their dream they are part of a growing trend of people with high tech backgrounds opting for a new life in the countryside and in the young people coming to rural areas these days are quite interested in smart farm technology we've hired young koreans and are training them to share our know how to grow strawberries helping to spread the smart farm message

for other economies as they emerge and try to restart their economies too for the update thanks rob mcbride in south korea thank you but brazil has reported another daily record of more than 26000 infections the number of dead has also risen by more than a 1000 for the 3rd consecutive day the death toll in brazil is now approaching 27000 in this week a u.s. study warned that that number could increase 5 fold by august or the biggest and most densely populated slums near argentina's capital is under lockdown villa will be isolated for 2 weeks after it emerged as a coronavirus hotspot it's home to about 4000 people the area has been sealed off and people can only leave with permission from the police testing as are begun in another low income neighborhood nearby trees a bow has more from point as always and explains the challenges the government faces. argentina was one of the 1st countries in latin america to impose the very strict laws down a mandatory lockdown with security forces controlling access to the city of when a site is controlling main roads among other things and so far it's con

a festival is a factory rumors have been swirling about kim's health and even possible death row mcbride has more from the south korean capital seoul. it has been a reminder of just about the peculiar nature of this kim dynasty and the fact that there is so much power in the hands of one person the cult that surrounds the leader what happens if that leader suddenly isn't there what fills the vacuum or who indeed fills the void can you join his sister potentially has been groomed as the heir apparent but it's by no means certain that she would have or could have taken over so it has raised concerns about this hermetic state north of the d.m.z. of course which has all these nuclear weapons at least 10 soldiers from the iraqi paramilitary group the popular mobilization forces have been killed in an attack by eisel feiss they launched an assault on the northern town of mcleish in the early hours of saturday and it's the largest attack by eisel since the group was defeated in the region in late 2017 assault style rifles are being immediately banned in canada and response to the country's wors

speculated that china sent a team of doctors to treat him after a heart procedure had gone wrong rob mcbride joins us live now from the south korean capital so rob good morning so he's alive and well what do we make of the pictures. that's right apparently so this report was released by state run news agency k c.n.a. reporting the conjunct. company by his sister kim jung john attended the opening of the ribbon cutting ceremony at a fertilizer plant apparently according to the news agency there was rapturous applause from the workers there this all happened on may 1st which is a fitting way of marking workers' workers' day in north korea we've no reason to suspect that this didn't happen but we only have the one news agency report to go on and also these 2 photographs showing the redbook ribbon cutting and also kim jong un in attendance it's a if it's true then it does settle all of the speculation that has been swirling for several weeks now about his condition is this all originated of course because he missed a very important celebration 2 weeks ago the day of sun this is the day when the