north korea has announced its suspending plans for military action against the south the north state media says the decision was made during a meeting of the ruling party central military commission chaired by. the leader's sister kim jong who's in charge of relations with the south had warned of possible military action the joint an office was blown up last week and all official talks ended. south korea says it believes the meeting was very on the usual and is paying close attention it said it would keep working to stop provocative acts from its soil those include sending propaganda leaflets over the border which gong young says is behind recent actions. we saw the report from the north and we are

it is a battleground state in the last few campaign cycles. why? jim: north carolina is a battleground state, it's a purple state. democrats and republicans are relatively evenly divided. while president trump carried north carolina, so did governor cooper. it was a narrow win for cooper, but a win. republicans continue to dominate both houses and the legislature. but they had a lot of redistricting challenges. the redistricts they have drawn years ago -- redistricting is almost an annual event here. that might impact the legislature here. we are not sure yet. pretty evenly balanced state. some of the losses involving redistricting have shown even while republicans were winning the general assembly, democrats got more votes for congress the same year. it is a balanced state. andes are getting bigger more democratic and the rural are getting a little bit redder. the political at demographics of north carolina, what is the swing area in the state? jim: the swing areas are the suburbs. counties, if you will, are. some of the votes some of the closed-in suburbs d

the sister of the leader kim jong un and the demolition of the joint liaison office last week the north statemedia says plans changed during a meeting of the ruling party's central military commission. actually we saw the report from the north and we are reviewing it in a close serious way we will monitor the situation our government stance remains the 2 koreas should edge here to the bilateral agreement apart from this we stressed again and will continue to sternly respond to acts such as sending anti north leaflets which creates tensions between the south and north and threatens the safety of people in the border area. india has announced it's expelling half the staff of pakistan's high commission in new delhi over alleged spying pakistan was quick to reject the allegations as baseless and demanded india reduce its star by half in islamabad in response india accuses pakistan of spying which it denies u.n. secretary general antonio good terrors is urging israel to drop its plans to axe parts of the occupied west bank he says the move would devastate hopes for fresh talks on a 2 state solutio

donald trump winning nearly 50% of the vote, it is become a battleground state over the last two campaign cycles. why? jim: north carolina is a battleground state. it is a purple state. democrats and republicans are relatively evenly divided. carriesesident trump north carolina sodas governor does governor cooper. they have had a lot of redistricting challenges. redistricting is almost an annual event here. affect the balance in the legislature this year, we are not sure, but north carolina is pretty evenly balanced. some of the losses involving redistricting have shown that even while republicans were winning the general assembly, democrats got more votes for congress the same year. it is a pretty balanced state. cities are getting bigger and more democratic and the rural areas are getting a little bit better. >> when you look at the political demographics of north carolina what is the swing area in between states? jim: i think the swing area are ee suburbs right now and x-urban counties. some of the closed end suburbs are trending democratic and charlotte and where raleigh is. those counties have virtually no

four years ago in which donald trump wins 50% of the vote, is it a battleground state in the last few campaign cycles? jim: north carolina is a purple state. democrats and republicans are relatively evenly divided. while president trump carried north carolina, so did governor cooper. it was a narrow win, but a win. republicans continued to dominate both houses of the legislature. they had a lot of redistricting challenges. the districts they have drawn years ago -- redistricting is a must an annual event -- almost an annual event here. that might impact the legislature here. we are not sure yet. the lawsuits involving redistricting have shown even while republicans were winning the general assembly, democrats got more votes for congress the same year. it is a balanced state. cities are getting more democratic and the rural areas are getting redder. host: what is the swing area in the swing state? jim: the swing areas are the suburbs. some of the closed in suburbs are trending democratic in countries like mecklenburg where raleigh is. nose counties have republican legislators anymore. they are all democrats. the

here i noticed a state department putting out a statement appealing to north korea quote to refrain from further counter bridge up to actions that's pretty weak isn't it given they blew up a bill scott. well and the u.s. the trump administration so far has been relatively quiet on the us but of course the action has been directed apt south korea i think that the u.s. still would like to and is leaving the door open to talks but it's pretty clear that the north koreans are shutting that door and i think that really for the near term the focus is actually going to be more on management or containment of potential tension escalation near the d.m.z. and that will also involve the u.s. to some degree in support of the moon administration's efforts in that regard and north korea seems really i mean the language is always fascinating but it's a really angry with the united states at the moment because that the foreign minister put out a statement. saying 2 years since the singapore summit the 1st trump came summit and you know it was saying that the u.s. was hell ben

our north carolina state board of ed education will make a determination on where funds go they have held back and i address with an eye toward equity and where the need is, especially when it comes to conductivity and giving those dollars out. the governor of north carolina -- he wants the plan but it could be regional. >> liability comes up all the time in higher education. a significant concern with a pre-k through 12. what are your thoughts? a state solution is one thing, a federal solutions probably better. what are your thoughts on liability? >> we would welcome any help we can get, on the federal level. this is something we are looking at, what already are the protections in place on north carolina on the state level if we could do more. but the more we can do for our educators, the better. and any federal help would be welcomed. >> is there serious consideration being given to a safety officer in a school, to assure and monitor the safety standards continue? we have not had discussions about that on a state level. that is something that absolutely would be school bicycle. bic

. >> once you got to minneapolis you god you undergraduate degree at north dakota state university. what were the circumstances that took you no north dakota from minneapolis? >> we were at a make really going through -- we were as a nation really going through a breakdown in economic crisis at the time i also was experiencing my own personal breakdowns of really living a life that ultimately got tired of pushing against the grain and found a way to just assimilate to the ideas of me that everybody had and eventually felt stripped of who i really was and felt drowned me in a life i didn't really want for myself, and so i wanted to have the opportunity to really escape and start anew and find myself and took on a journey to disconnect myself from everything that was familiar and found myself with my two young children in interestingly diverse state college. state university i went to in north dakota. and i think that the landscape, which is very befitting of north dakota, was wide enough for me to breathe, reconnect with the image of me that it always had, someone who was passionate,

potential to spread quickly word of the new restrictions came from premier of the north the country's most populous state north wind was failure the new outbreak is centered on a massive meat processing plant 10 as. near the city of. more than 1500 workers there have tested positive for bias. russia says police deployments will be used to ensure the home quarantines of thousands of tenures employees with force if necessary. illit district of good is low we're not dealing with the biggest individual infection arc break in north rhine-westphalia and in germany. this specific situation with the geographical spread of locations and also the international nature of the turn use workforce mean that this outbreak is a potentially enormous pandemic risk. the mechanism agreed between the federal and local governments does not require widespread measures in the case of clearly localized infections. however we will knowing for the 1st time in germany return a whole region to the lockdown measures that were in place a few weeks ago. let's bring in our correspondent who's followed that story you know what exactly doe

is important all of those be viewed in the context of the fact we have declared states of emergency in charlotte , in north carolina and in the united states and we have a covid-19 pandemic. when i talked to the president, i commended him on not have had any rallies since march. because of the potential danger to the participants. it is pretty obvious that the state of north carolina cannot guarantee a full arena in august because we don't know what the status of the virus will be at that point and we are continuing to make sure we don't overwhelm our hospitals. i think there is still discussions going on. we will have to see what happens with those contracts but we are going to continue to keep the health and safety of north carolina indians as the number one priority here. thanks. next question. >> we are going to try rose with north carolina health news again. are you on the line? >> i am. thank you so much for taking my message. governor, i know you were talking about the inequities cases.e present in covid there is also inequities in the prison and jail population, but it is very difficult for folks o

the north state media says a decision was made during a meeting of the ruling party's central militaryion, chaired by kim jong-un. the leader's sister, in charge of relations with the south, warned of a possible attack. ofturbing video has emerged cruelty to elephants in thailand. wildlife shows are a major tourist attraction, but they have been closed because of the pandemic. areal welfare experts saying they should ban the clip -- the shows permanently. reporter: this has become a familiar yet painful routine for her, the fourth time she has had one of her calves taken from her. the latest 18 month old is tethered to another adult and taken away. tied to a tree, she is clearly distressed. is this one, chains, crying out for her mother. >> it is traumatic for those elephants. in the wild, especially the female calves, would stay with their mother almost their entire lives, in an intact social heard. -- herd. reporter: in the video, some of which is too disturbing to show, we shot north of bangkok. the techniques and punishments, such as being beaten or prodded with metal hooks while b

ministers will attempt to agree uniform measures for all 16 federal states in the meantime the state premier of north rhine-westphalia says going on holidays should be possible for those with a negative test would you have asked us what to expect from the other federal states including northern germany is that we can arrive at the right measures here and that we are able to act together to deal with this crisis. well reporter i mean a safe is outside a coronavirus testing center in does the which is in that area so i mean what's the situation like there. right the building behind me is actually a community college but school is not in session they've turned this into a makeshift coronavirus testing center the authorities announced that everybody and due to slow can get tested for free but this is the only center they provided and as you can see a massive line has formed here it starts around the corner several 100 meters and then continues down the street for another several 100 meters countless people in line can't even see the end from where i'm standing we've talked to several families we talked t

there and telling them they have to go back to their districts now are the last of these the state premier of north rhine-westphalia here he warned other states not to stigmatize people from low and bought into it he said that there are virtually no cases within those districts outside of the meat industry and most of those people are all of those people hopefully are in quarantine already so we said please do not stigmatize people traveling outside of my state at the same time health ministers are going to get together to decide on a unified plan for going forward because it seems that around germany people are afraid of a 2nd i'll break. all talking about other breaks understand there's a similar if smaller break underway now at a poultry plant also in the north east of germany in northwestern germany rather can you tell us more about. that's right invidious housing that's a separate state to the northwest of here $23.00 workers at a poultry slaughterhouse have tested positive for a corona virus and that's just out of 50 tests that were done now many of these people that were tested were showing

north korea's leader kim jong un the suspended plans for military action against south korea state media says kim made the decision during a meeting of the ruling party central military commission tensions rose after activists in the south through propaganda leaflets across the border. joins us live now from seoul rob so we've had some response from south korea what is sold been saying. that's right this is a surprising move which has been generally warmly received here in the south the the defense ministry has said that they welcome this announcement the unification ministry which handles into korean affairs they're a little more cautious saying they're monitoring the situation closely it's thought that the military measures that north korea will now not go ahead with include things like the deployment of extra military units along the d.m.z. which they had said that they were looking at in recent days as the relations between north and south had been. deteriorating so it is generally welcome to specially as north and south seem to be getting locked further into a propaganda battle with

our neighbor germany with its state of north and this failure has shown how quickly the situation can turn dramatically so we were there for forced to issue a level 5 travel warning for the state of the hope of course that the situation there were quickly improve and that there won't be a further spread across germany. to see here. overall numbers are still low in germany but the latest local outbreaks are causing concern the meat processing industry in particular is under pressure dial living conditions of the workers are blamed for the spread of the virus. 23 workers have tested positive at the visa home plant gemini's biggest poultry plant testing of over 1000 wakas got underway today. a reporter see faces in one of the towns on the lockdown we asked him what he's hearing from authorities responding to this crisis so the good news from the district administrator today he said that out of 230 tests that they have the results back for 229 were negative and one has to be redone he said that this shows that they have the situation under control that the covert 19 virus has only spread

north korea has announced its suspending plans for military action against the south the north state media says the decision was made during a meeting of the ruling party's central military commission chaired by. the leaders sister kim jong who's in charge of relations with the south had warned of possible military action the joint is an office was blown up last week and all official talks ended. south korea says it believes the meeting was very unusual and it's paying close attention it said it would keep working to stop provocative acts from its soil those include sending propaganda leaflets over the border which prong yang has said is behind recent escalations. we saw the report from the north and we are reviewing it in a close serious way we will monitor the situation our government's stance remains the 2 koreas should edge here to the bilateral agreement apart from this we stressed again and will continue to sternly respond to acts such as sending anti north leaflets which creates tensions between the south and north and threatens the safety of people in the border area. or of m

north korea's leader kim jong un has suspended plans of military action against south korea state media say kemah made the decision joining a meeting of the ruling party's central military commission tensions rose after activists in the south propaganda leaflets across the border north korea says their actions violate an agreement aimed at preventing military confrontation. abu dhabi is providing support to syrian intelligence and helping president bashar al assad rebuild infrastructure that's according to the french magazine our own $21.00 it's quoted a report by a non-governmental organization called justice and liberty for all this says the u.a.e. has financed the construction of buildings and found all power stations in damascus while providing training to senior military officials you easy relationship with damascus has warmed since they are minorities reopened the embassy in 2018 last week the u.s. warned abu dhabi about this approach mall after the caesar act came into effect this u.s. law threatening sanctions against anyone caught doing business with is associates and the gover

a number of weeks here between north and south north korea's growing frustration that the fact that all of its nuclear negotiations with the united states seems to be stalled basically almost in a deep freeze at the moment and this seems to be the north's way of lashing out blaming the nearest person they can which of course is south korea it is of a concern these hot lines are very important keep communications going between the north and south across the heavily fortified militarized the d.m.z. to stop any possible miscommunications or misunderstandings these the lines were protein places you'll recall relations failed to an all time 2070 with north korea's nuclear and long range missile testing before that of course you just had megaphones talking to each other across the barbwire so it is significant we knew that there was something afoot yesterday monday when the south may want to be 2 daily phone calls to north korea is it done as it does every day on the call. so there was a split suspicion that something was up so this does seem to be north korea confirming. relations. remain to be seen how far it takes it is just said that he's

neighbor germany with its state of north and this failure has shown how quickly the situation can turn dramatically so we were there for forced to issue a level 5 travel warning for the state and what we hope of course that the situation there will quickly improve and that there won't be a further spread across germany. overall numbers are still low in germany but the latest local outbreaks of causing concern the meat processing industry in particular is under pressure employees living conditions are being blamed for the spread of the virus 23 workers have tested positive at the reason health plant gemini's biggest poultry plant where mass testing of every 1000 workers got underway today. heading shilled says mare of the city of go to snow which is home to about a 1000 of the meat factory workers and decide to go back into lockdown welcome to the w how were you feeling after this news. was a feeling for somewhere between anger sadness and exhaustion and at the moment we are really giving the most human power we can we can put in to solve the situation and go why. well. i mean all the i

trump is visiting ara zona one of the states that's emerging is a covert 1000 hot spot earlier he inspected newly built sections of the wall along the mexican border north korea's state media says leader kim jong un has suspended plans for military action against south korea tensions rose after activists in the south through propaganda leaflets across the border but what right has the latest from seoul it is interesting we only have this one short statement so people here in south korea are trying to decipher the wider implications of this the 1st thing that people have noted of course is this in the current spat this seems to be the 1st time that the north korean leader kim jong un has become directly involved which is revealing itself when it comes to these military plans that are now apparently being reconsidered we have to assume that these are the various measures that were announced over the past week or so as relations have soured at least 2 syrian soldiers have been killed and 4 others wounded in israeli airstrikes the missiles hit a military outpost in the city of in the south other dubay is providing support to syrian intelligence and helping

north. wildfires have been spreading across the u.s. state of california due to high winds and dry weather water dropping helicopters worked through the night to put out a bushfire in los angeles county the national weather service is issued red flag warning for several regions in the state of. new zealanders are returning to life without social distancing restrictions a day after the country was declared free of the coronavirus residents are flocked back to cafes to catch up with friends or going back to sports classes that were canceled during the long term. today marks a year since the start of mass protests in hong kong last june more than a 1000000 people marched through the city to protest a draft law that would allow extraditions to mainland china that bill was shelved but throughout months of demonstrations protesters faced a heavy crackdown from police and officials beijing has announced a new national security law that would threaten hong kong semi-autonomous status pro-democracy protesters now fear what they see as an unprecedented

our neighbor germany with its state of north and the failure has shown how quickly the situation can turn dramatically so we were there for forced to issue a level 5 travel warning for the state of the hope of course that the situation there were quickly improve and that there won't be a further spread across germany. overall numbers are still low in germany but the latest local outbreaks of causing concern the meat processing industry in particular is under pressure employees living conditions are being blamed for the spread of the virus 23 workers have tested positive at the reason health plant gemini's biggest poultry plant where mass testing of every 1000 workers got underway today. let's have a look at this with kristin lindenmayer who speaks for the world health organization and joins us from geneva welcome to the what do you make of german efforts to control this new outbreak. of thanks for having me well it's a typical scenario where you don't have communities in the whole country anymore but we have now a cluster of cases not ship equipped and large cluster of cases. and here

peninsula north korea has announced its suspending plans for military action against south the north's state media says the decision was made during a meeting of the ruling party's central military commission chaired by kim jong on the leader a sister kim jong il who is in charge of relations with the south had warned of a possible attack and a few days ago the north blew up the jointly as an office. police have used tear gas so disperse crowds of protesters in the capital of them across it republic of congo hundreds of demonstrators blocked traffic outside the parliament thinking shasta there angry a new judicial reforms proposed by former president joseph kabila party which has a majority in the national assembly members of parliament were shuttled to vote on the changes president kennedy supporters organized the demonstration in an effort to stop the vote fixture a day celebrations have been held in cities across russia moscow hosted the annual military parade and they are show commemorating the surrender of nazi germany in 1905 the parades are usually held in may but were delayed because

in april more than 600000 people are now back under lockdown in germany's most densely populated state north rhine-westphalia authorities have reimposed restrictions into neighboring districts after more than 1500 workers at a slaughterhouse tested positive residents blame the facility owners for placing profit above public health. districts a few times now and barren tar far back under coronavirus restriction. until the end of june residents can only have contact with their own hides hounds pubs cafes museums and gyms will cause again. we will now for the 1st time in germany return the whole region to the lock down the ashes that were in place a few weeks ago. before. the decision came after a massive corona virus outbreak at the 2 nears slaughter highs where more than 1500 workers have tested positive for cope with 19 dire living conditions are being blamed for the quick spread. the specific situation with the geographical spread of the locations and also the international nature of the tenuous work force mean that this outbreak is a potentially enormous pandemic risk similar clusters have

states. thatommercial institutions were springing up in the north had few counterparts in the southern states. have the did not numbers of turnpikes, canals, banks, corporations, and issues money that the north had. fearing any interference with institution, the planter dominated legislature minimum.rnment to a they taxed their citizens much less heavily than the northerners and spent much less on education and social services than did the northern legislatures. although most southern farmers were not slave holders and many the southin folk of surely worked as hard as any theseon northern artisan, ordinary southern folk could never give the same kind of enterprising, middling tone to southern society that existed in the north. middlinge fewer institutions in the south, fewer towns, fewer schools, fewer fewer businesses, fewer manufacturing firms and fewer shops. and there were fewer middling people in the south. fewer teachers, fewer clerks, fewer publishers, fewer editors, fewer patnters and patents. south neverum became a society like that of the north. patriarchal order continued to domina

north korean state media says neither kim jong un has suspended plans for military action against south korea tensions rose to this in the south of the leaflets across the border. now india has announced its expelling half the staff of pakistan's high commission in new delhi of alleged spying pakistan was quick to reject the allegations as baseless and demanded that india reduce its stuff by author and is not about in response just the latest news in the ongoing diplomatic raul welcome joins us live now from islamabad relations between india and pakistan were already tense and now this what more can you tell us. you're seeing the what happened was the indian ministry of external affairs someone to charge day affairs and gordon that he had to do duty by 50 percent because. it's only stuff wasn't in war the nature of your knowledge and giving link brigade it is the pakistani foreign ministry didn't react to it saying ok to go to believe that they were dismissing these charges and also over in photo great brokaw are taking the indians did you get the magic. how face right now it should be

north korea's moves. the japanese government will work closely with south korea as well as the united d states to analalyzehe north's reasons f demolishshing the liaisison off. before the tuesday's explosion. japanese government officials consider it unlikely that the incident will lead to major military clashes between the two koreas as pyongyang had given advanced warning of their plan. some officials have noted that it w was kimim y y jongng, nortn leader kim jong-un's sister to w.h.o. had given the warning. they say it appears aimed at solidifying in the north. tensions could rise if f the noh makekes further provocation. >>> in the u.s., president donald trump has signed ann executive order on police reform amid nationwide protests against police brutality and racism. >> law and order must be established nationwiwide and yo federal government is ready, wiwilling, and able e to help. >> trump december missed called to defund and dismantle police departments. under the order chokeholds will be banned except when an officer's life is at risk. the order includes creating a database to share information on

authorities in german -- germany's western state of north rhine was failure are conducting mass testingnd re-imposing lockdowns. the restrictions apply to hundreds of thousands of people following a major spike in infections at a meat processing plant. other german cities are also facing outbreaks as the summer travel season gets under way. >> this is what it looks like when the coronavirus restrictions are back -- long lines formed outside the testing facilities. the new restrictions here and and neighboring state took effect at midnight. this follows a huge outbreak at a slaughterhouse were more than 1500 workers have contracted covid-19. now some 600,000 people are affefected by the restrictions. the mayor told dw he is furious. >> i am angry with the company. i'm angry with the system behind all this and angry with the system of sub-sub-subcontractors, which is totally entrenched in this. >> people had to put up with long waits to get tested. >> i want to get tested and do my bit to help find out if we are all infected here or not. >> we want to travel to bavaria on saturday, and th

churches in the city of phoenix is once again attacked china for its handling of the pandemic north korea's state media says leader kim jong un has suspended plans for military action against south korea tensions rose up to activists in the south loop propaganda leaflets across the border at least 2 syrian soldiers have been killed and 4 others wounded in israeli airstrikes the missiles hit a military outpost near the city of in the south of abu dhabi is providing support to syrian intelligence and helping president abbas had a less sad rebuilding infrastructure that's according to the french magazine on 21 last week the u.s. cautioned abu dhabi about proportional to syria warning of sanctions under its new caesar act. a saudi led coalition fighting in yemen says it has intercepted a ballistic missile heading towards riyadh 8 to drones and 3 ballistic missiles have been fired towards the kingdom since monday and who think rebels say they plan to launch more. at least 44 people in one building complex in japanese capital berlin have tested positive for covert 19 as well as the reimposition of rest

our neighbor germany with its state of north and the failure has shown how quickly the situation can turn dramatic. river for forced to issue a level 5 travel warning for the state of the hope of course that the situation there were quickly improve and that there won't be a further threat across germany. to secure what. overall numbers are still low in germany but the latest local outbreaks of causing concern the meat processing industry in particular is under pressure employees living conditions are being blamed for the spread of the virus 23 workers have tested positive at the reason health plant gemini's biggest poultry plant where mass testing of every 1000 workers got under way today. earlier we spoke to christian lyn myer from the world health organization in geneva and we asked him if and forcing locally controlled lockdowns as germany is doing is the right approach instead of having a community spread which we don't cannot over see where the why resist we will have to work on trying to get the response so strong and saw strict testing so so strict and surveyors that we can res

our neighbor germany with the state of north and the failure has shown how quickly the situation can turn dramatically so we were there for forced to issue a level 5 travel warning for the state of the hope of course that the situation there were quickly improve and that there won't be a further spread across germany. overall numbers are still low in germany but the latest local outbreaks of causing concern the meat processing industry in particular is under pressure employees living conditions are being blamed for the spread of the virus 23 workers have tested positive at the reason whole plant gemini's biggest poultry plant where mass testing of over a 1000 workers got underway today. but let's bring you up to speed with some other developments in the coronavirus pandemic india's registered 16000 new cases its highest ever daily increase the government has called in the army to manage new treatment facilities in delhi new u.s. cases of surge to the highest level in 2 months in the state of florida confirmed cases have tripled compared to 2 weeks ago arizona texas and california are

peninsula north korea has announced its suspending plans for military action against the south the north state media says the decision was made during a meeting of the ruling party's central military commission chaired by kim jong il the leader sister kim jong who's in charge of relations with the south had warned of a possible attack disturbing video has emerged of cruelty to elephants in thailand wildlife shows are a major tourist attraction but they've been claw closed because of the pandemic animal welfare experts are urging the thai government to ban the show's permanently when hey reports from bangkok. this has become a familiar yet still painful routine for. it's the 4th time she's had one of her calves taken from her the latest 18 month old shoe is to the to another adult and taken away her are tied to a tree in tyler is clearly distressed the as is buju very. far away chained up crying out for her mother it's really traumatic for us elephants and a while especially male stay with their mother. most entire life they would stay back social hurt with their mother. assists on the videos s

our neighbor germany with its state of north and the failure has shown how quickly the situation can turn dramatically so we were there for forced to issue a level 5 travel warning for the state or more we hope of course that the situation there were quickly improved and that there won't be a further spread across germany. to secure. overall numbers are still low in germany but the latest local outbreaks of causing concern the meat processing industry in particular is under pressure employees living conditions are being blamed for the spread of the virus 23 workers have tested positive at the reason health plant gemini's biggest poultry plant where mass testing of every 1000 workers got underway today. u.s. president donald trump says some of the u.s. troops to be withdrawn from germany will probably be moved to poland made the statement during a white house visit by his polish counterpart andree duda a staunch ally of the us president today is the 1st foreign leader to visit the united states during the coronavirus pandemic he's running for reelection on sunday . news washington bure

according to north korean state media the demolition of that jointly is on office was ordered by kenya jong this is sort of north korea's leader kim jong un here's our correspondents assessment of the role that kenya jones plays if we look back a couple of months 'd to those rumors that surfaced about the grave illness of leader kim jong un we were talking about who might be the next leader of north korea and of course kim your junks name repeatedly came up i talked to an expert here in the south korean capital and he said if we see her actual and her profile in north korean propaganda increase then that game for the crown to be the next leader of north korea would be over and we could you know then conclude that kim. jong is is the likely heir to the north korean leadership. of the insert on now to some of the other stories making news at this moment has opened an investigation into alleged links between a former police chief and people implicated in the mother of prominent journalist. 3 years ago the police you've resigned in january amid accusations that he had bungled the probe int

state can reduce the prison population by have. >> the two inmates who tested positive halting the scheduled transfer to north kern state prison are under isolation and in her medical watch pick >> public health officials point to the transfer of more than -- >> this afternoon advocates or inmates plan to hold a rally to demand the state take action. >> bay area counties are pulling back on the reopening plans. coronavirus cases are hitting new highs. rosen foster reports from contra costa county. >> after several weeks of what felt like progress yesterday it felt like a setback. multiple counties are deciding on or considering a positive there reopening. what should we make of that? >> my wife and i were talking about it. it seems like a setback only because it seemed like we were on the verge when we were about to open pick >> contra costa county is rethinking the reopening timeline. that means another possible setback for ravi martinez. he thought he would be back in business come july 1. >> we were pulled back. the reins were pulled back on our business anyway as being a gym. >> what we don't want to have to happen is you have