i'm rebecca ritter's it's good to have you with us north korean leader kim jong un has appeared in public for the 1st time in 3 weeks state media broadcast video of came at a dedication ceremony adding that he was greeted with thunderous applause from the crowd came as re-emergence puts an end to speculation that the north korean leader was seriously ill or even dead. the video images from north korean state television appear to show kim jong un at the opening of a fertilizer plant he is surrounded by functionaries and appears to be healthy. most of the attendees are wearing face masks the 1st each which is not independently verified is said to be from friday kim was absent from the public eye for almost 3 weeks his last public appearance was on the 11th of april at a communist party event in the capital pyongyang. there was no sign of kim a few days later on april 15th one of north korea's most important dates he was absent from ceremonies marking the birth of his grandfather north korea's founder kim hughes soon rumors began to circulate with some u.s. and south korean media citing repo

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program reports a coming in of a cave political development in afghanistan president ashraf ghani and his rival abdullah abdullah have ended months of crisis by agree to share power abdullah had refused to accept danny's victory in last september's presidential election observers feared their failure to resolve this standoff was in danger in plans for a peace deal with the taliban. or even traditionally and its fate now to journalist alley latif even kabul alley some positive news just bring us up to speed on this announcement what's been a great on. sure so the news is basically that you know there is now political agreement which will see doctored up the law given the role of essentially leading all of honest peace efforts and getting to a point of officials in terms of that kind of a portfolio but he also will get to appoint cabinet positions up to 50 percent of the cabinet so it really is much more akin to some kind of a power sharing deal than the previous deal they had from 2014 to 2001000 in which dr ablow held the role of chief executive but didn't n

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program fiery protests continue in the united states as demonstrators range over the death of an on black and in police custody curfews are in force right now in several cities including los angeles philadelphia and atlanta as more states called in the national guard police deployed tear gas and rubber bullets to contain the escalating unrest. the wave of fine guess sweeping the united states reach the. it's of the white house for a 2nd night protesters in washington d.c. called for an end to police violence against minorities in noisy demonstrations i was. an uneasy calm in minneapolis the city where george floyd died after being pinned to the ground by a white police officer since his death the city has seen 5 straight days of protest and it's reeling from almost as many nights of violence the state governor blamed outsiders and urged people to obey the curfew. i'm asking each and every minnesotan to be clear about this these are not our neighbors these are not the people. that put in all of the work to build lake street to build community so minnesot

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program a wave of outrage has spread swept across the united states following the death of an unarmed black man in place custody in minneapolis where 46 year old george floyd was killed while being bain to time by police violence flared for a 4th straight night of already say local police and national guard soldiers have been overwhelmed by demonstrators and protesters have taken to the streets of other cities leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. do you believe it i'm sure over the persistence of police killings reaches boiling point it spilled on to the streets of new york where demonstrators scuffled with offices into the night. in the southern states of georgia protesters in atlanta faced off with police outside the head offices of media company c n n the clashes prompted this plea from the mayor. this is chaos a protest has purpose you are just pricing our city you are discoursing the life of george lloyd and every other person who has been killed in this country we are better than this. but it's the way that george floyd and many other a

reporter rebecca ritter's has been looking into the story you know for us welcome rebecca bring us up to speed well philip it on mosque has been in a standoff with all sarkies about the lock down missions for wakes now he's been pushing them to be able to open his frémont factory in northern california which has been closed since march 23rd now on monday he tweeted that tesla would be resuming production he wrote tesla is restarting production today against alameda county rules will be on the line with everyone else if anyone is arrested i ask that it only bade me now it has reopened now the car parks full and as we saw earlier we've been we've been hearing from people returning to work it employs around about 10000 people and some of the employees told local media on the grounds that they've actually been there since friday so this is definitely happening or has happened is past tense now california state law can issue fines of up to a 1000 us dollars per day or up to 90 days in jail but despite musk's sort of you know almost taunting for arrest in that tweet there it doesn't look li