was to the united states, was to japan, was to korea, was to southeast asia. but this whole area to the west is undeveloped, is potential market for china, that historically has been part of where china sent its goods. (xi jinping speaking in chinese) - [translator] since the belt and road initiative was put forward over three years ago, over 100 countries and international organizations have given warm responses and support to the initiative. more than 40 countries and international organizations have signed cooperation agreements with china, and our circle of friends along the belt and road is growing bigger. - [narrator] the plan includes a maritime silk road, which aims to connect asian, african, and middle eastern nations through the construction of ports, naval bases, and canals to revitalize sea trade. - when you leave china and you go and then you go around southeast asia and then you go to the indian ocean, then you go around the tip of india and ultimately go through the middle east and to europe. that also is something which historically the chinese

honeymoon period down in southeast asia. >> there have been bureaucratic issues. in russia -- and south africa is benefiting -- southeast asia is benefiting from this at the moment. this is all been driven by politics. noise, corruption, everything -- markets are learning how to deal with geopolitics. you can have a sudden turnaround in the dollar or u.s. treasury maybe 3.5%, and then we are all caught of guard. -- caught off guard. then you have a real problem for central banks and economists. >> emerging markets have become

monday, a southeast breeze, warmer direction, drieras well. see some cool air moving off the north sea into north east parts of england, and eastern scotland, so you can see some gray weather across the beaches, but again towards the west of scotland some cloud. and some in the irish sea, but for most places dry sunny and a very warm day we could see 26, maybe 27 celsius in 12 spots of the south east and if we get 27, that's going to easily be a record—breaking early may bank holiday. we will go to break 24 degrees in 1999 in hampshire, but for tuesday, another fine a firm many areas, this week cold front will start to spread off the atlantic and market change, that's the weather we will see some cloud in western areas and spots of rain, it'll continue to fizzle out as it moves east, and bring some isolated odd heavy showers, we'll keep you tuned. further east it'll be sunny and another hot day goes to the west and cooler temperatures in the west and cooler temperatures in the mid—temperatu res, the west and cooler temperatures in the mid—temp

member of the palestinian journalist syndicate joining us on skype from manila benjamin's a walkie southeast asia analyst and human rights advocate and also on skype from paris christophe dunois secretary general of reporters without borders christophe is a former investigative reporter and author a very warm welcome to all of you mr del while why is global press freedom in a worse state than it was last year with the vet court a number of countries now being classified as having very bad freedom of the press for three main reasons in whereas drones in the a rare that are also supposed to be peace time but sometimes with. a lot of weapons against journalists jones are targeted on the really all the war yours there they want to leave the pro or the second reason is that in this part the country the control and information is worse because there are a lot of countries where this but the cream sat through china. you know the ones they want to read to suppress absolutely the rights for independent of the asian unserved in democracies there's an increase of intimidation of a trade against john th

tonight, i want to speak to you of peace in vietnam and southeast asia.eoccupies our people. no other dream so absorbs the 250 million human beings who live in that part of the world. no other goal motivates american policy in southeast asia. >> first addressing himself to the continuing problem of vietnam, the president outlined plans for a unilateral american deescalation of that conflict. >> tonight, i have ordered our aircraft and our naval vessels to make no attacks on north vietnam, except in the area north of the demilitarized zone, where the continuing enemy buildup directly threatens allied forward positions. and where the movement of their troops and supplies are clearly related to that threat. the area in which we are stopping our attacks includes almost 90% of north vietnam's population. and most of its territory. thus, there will be no attacks around the principled, pop lauld areas or the food producing areas of north vietnam. even this very limited bombing of the north could come to an early end if our restraint is matched by restraint in ha

tolerance for transparency if you take those that intolerance out on the press as you mentioned southeast asia has seen a decline in press freedom but missed the dial while the hostility that we're talking about too with the media is not restricted to these authoritarian regimes as most as a walk you mentioned the us has fallen again and next under president donald trump two places to one hundred forty fifth i mean this is a president who is openly hostile to the media and calls that. enemies of the people now is the united states are wrong forty fifth. out of one of the nato countries in the world press an index because that's a country where as you said the president uses the words that even at the births like it. used in moscow dozens of years ago and that's really worrying that's the word such insults against on the use by the president of the united states because for many people in the world this country set up an example for press freedom. it does does being a pervert the of gravity to to expand press freedom even if of course in some countries for diplomatic reasons it wasn't such

the city is southeast of houston.jured, we do not yet know the extent of the injuries. we also know one person is in custody and a second person has been detained. we showed you president trump tweeted just a few minutes ago. the president is expected to speak on this matter at a national address. when he does that, we will bring you. meanwhile, vice president mike pence is tweeting his thoughts to the students saying to the students, families, and teachers of santa fe high school and all of those effected by the entire community, we are with you. let's go ahead and bring the news conference in from santa fe, texas. >> there was one person, one suspect in custody, a possible second person that was detained that is being questioned. there are multiple fatalities that have been confirmed, it, the number varies, but it could be anywhere between 8-10 fatalities at the school, including students and some adult staff as well. there is also an injured police officer that was injured in a hospital. i do not know the extent of

clearing eventually from the southeast of mushy pu5h clearing eventually from the southeast of mushyoing with the far southwest of england overnight as well. should ease by donna with a clear skies a chilly start a sunday morning. a clear skies actually started sunday morning. attached is frost and milder in the east where you have got that cloud around. that 5um5 milder in the east where you have got that cloud around. that sums up sunday. cloud acro55 got that cloud around. that sums up sunday. cloud across the parts of the east and sunny spells further west. an east—west split continues for the day and fabrics a range anywhere through ligature towards aberdeen. pushing its way for the northwards but the best of the se55ion northwards but the best of the session will be for west of scotland, northern ireland and wales. there will be some sunny spells for the southeast of england towards the midlands. i brighter day that has been. temperatures up to 17 but a bit cooler around the east coast. a5 but a bit cooler around the east coast. as we look ahead through sunday night and into mo

- southeast?maybe it's southeast. - maybe it was southeast really threw them. - let's go into the hicks story for the benefit of people who've not yet read the book. so, born in wisconsin, grew up in the dakotas, in-- - [amy] south dakota. - south dakota. became, and difficult early childhood, right, upbringing. difficult circumstances. becomes a reporter and is working for the associated press in the white house when she and eleanor become acquainted? in the white house when she and eleanor become acquainted? - well she's actually covering eleanor as a possible first lady when franklin is governor of new york-- - pardon me it was prior to that, yes, - running, and she has just come off the lindbergh baby kidnapping and been a top reporter for that. and is frustrated because she sees a fair amount of corruption and malfeasance on the part of the police and the fbi and finally her editor says, "you've gotta stop "with this, why don't you go cover eleanor roosevelt. "the worst thing that'll happen i

it should east down a bit, some sunshine across the south and southeast, looking quite warm and southeast. as we headed towards the holiday weekend, more thundery and warmer airfrom the continent, weekend, more thundery and warmer air from the continent, so what the weather front, the air from the continent, so what the weatherfront, the pressure to air from the continent, so what the weather front, the pressure to the south, and southern parts which could continue to see the threat of some showers and thunderstorms and quite warm and muggy, the farther north you are, the larger it should be dry and fresh or overnight. so quite a mixed bag to go into the holiday weekend. but on the plus side, it is looking warm. but, it's not what you be dry, it could be some showers and thunderstorms. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. a bbc investigation reveals claims that donald trump's lawyer michael cohen was paid 400 thousand dollars to fix a meeting between the president and the ukrainian leader. petro poroshenko has responded, saying the allegations are a flagrant lie. yulia skripal w

fewer showers until perhaps later on in the southeast in a rather humid feel to the southeast in a rather the day with torches in the teens and 20s for many. —— temperatures. this is bbc news, our latest headlines. victory for the yes campaign in the republic of ireland as voters reject stricter abortion laws in a landmark referendum. of an hundred 6349. getting to know you, the leaders of north and south korea meet in the doom militarized zone in between the two countries. a dismal failure, according to mps. —— demilitarized zone. soaking up the atmosphere and kiev ahead of the champions league final. and now bbc news sport say. —— sports day. hello and welcome to sportsday, with me holly hamilton and john watson. the headlines this evening: red is the colour in kiev but can liverpool end real‘s dominance in the champions league. fulham are back in the premier league after beating aston villa in today's championsip play off final at wembley. chris froome's pretty in pink and set for an historic win in the giro d'italia. and saracens outplay defending champions exeter to regain the premie

seven, 8 degrees, still quite lowly in the southeast of england.th across eastern england super back fairly quickly towards coastal areas, it may well linger into the afternoon here and across southeastern scotland. otherwise sunny skies but we could the cloud bubbling up again and the southeast, to bring the threat of one or two times in the day. southern england and the two welsh we had temperatures into the mid—20s today. we will expect the same again on wednesday. it should be a warmer day with more sunshine in scotland and northern ireland, away from those northern ireland, away from those north sea coast. still quite strong winds across the southeast as we head into thursday. this time we see a little more organisation to the showers and showers or even longer spells of rain overnight and into thursday, moving very slowly into seven areas of england, perhaps into welsh. maybe one or two thunderstorms as well. as you head further north it is still dry. there should be more sunshine around, probably not so cold along the north sea coast as well

that he finds politically inconvenient or personally offensive to the point where to use another southeast asian example you have malaysia passing a law about fake news and being and essentially for the purpose of utilizing such a lot for electoral purposes and to your point feeling increasingly justified in doing so because the leader of the free world is doing the same thing in america trump doesn't hate the media he them braces breitbart news he embraces fox news is simply just like the media to demonize the media that he finds politically problematic and mr bell while we have seen a dislike of the media in what is guided. as the world's best region for press freedom in europe we've seen two journalists killed and the past year we've seen among teens a journalist and a slovakian journalist murdered if there are it's a case it is the fact that there were two nations but also there's the climate and virulent in which those cases to play and we have to say that in many countries journalism has been weakened by what you're say and sometimes but by one of the parts of the privilege and also

and improved communications with a southeast facility commission. she also established an annual retreat for our officers and subcommittee chairs to discuss the committee and identify priorities. a practice i hope will continue. she showed respect and courtesy towards her fellow committee members while still returning an effective meet. they will advise commission, staff and city officials about s.f. p.u.c. plans and priorities but the c.a.c. served another important function as a training ground for citizens leaders. this is a role in which she most ex sells and for which i have the greatest respect. sincerely, jennifer clearly, water program manager at clean water action. >> thank you. >> are there any other public comments? a couple more folks. >> my name is jordan davis. i am a friend of wendy araagon's. i want to thank you for honoring her. she's the conscience of the city and has a great equity lens. she went through the board commission institute last year, which i am on now, she's just really a great at calling out what it is and talking abo

near 20 in northeast scotland, 23 for some in southeast england. night into sunday, notice this front close to northwest scotland. we are going to keep more breeze here. some outbreaks of rain elsewhere. high pressure in control. it could well be we see increasing amounts of sunshine on sunday. though still eunice as an irish seacoast, west wells be pulling away here but may be affecting more than eastern side of northern ireland. some spots. wherever you see the sunshine, it is going to be pleasant. getting warmer still with such an especially in england and wales. then again on monday for the bank holiday, plenty of sunshine around. patrick laffer scotland, northern ireland and northwest england. still threat of some outbreaks of rain in northwest scotland. should not matter too much but more here. the best of the sunshine, two pitchers edging toward the mid—20s in some spots. we could will see something around 27 celsius. it is likely we are going to have the highest to richard ek is ever recorded on early may bank holiday. this is bbc news. lab

we caught up with him while he was on tour in southeast asia. i never really dreams of being a physician. i love music. there wasn't that much jazz in bali. i didn't really have any formal training, that is why i am mostly self—taught. but my dad helped me grow my music ability, even though

indonesia, maybe other markets across southeast asia, but if you throw in the oil selloff, does that complicate matters? marvin: it's a function of how much oil moves. certainly, we are within the highs we've seen in the last 12 months. there a lot of trading around those moves. for the most part, i think emerging markets are moving towards the weakest economies and those that have had problems that we know about. there is, however, firmness that was established in argentina, to a certain degree in turkey, but i wouldn't call it all clear. people are being selective, and that is encouraging. yvonne: taking a look at the moves that we saw when it came to the lira, we are seeing a little bit of respite when it comes to that depreciation. i have a chart that highlights what we have seen, but it has keyen out from the technicals of where the lira is. when it comes to central banks, are they doing enough?

hello we've got the usual rash of showers across southeast asia some big ones there into thailand over one hundred millimeters of rain here twenty four hours in those big dam pose will continue to trundle away from aced to west so more storms gathering together southern parts of the mill a potential northern areas of sumatra seeing some bigger lively downpours not wall to wall downpours but still plenty of heavy showers in the heat of the day lots of sunshine ahead of fact they go as you go on into thursday more of those heavy showers through much of the philippines down into malaysia indonesia on the other hand does look like is drying out quite nicely over the next couple of days jakarta

theution was worst in eastern mediterranean and southeast asia where some toxins were five times safety limits. south korea has begun dismantling loudspeakers in the dismantling -- the militarized zone. the countries agreed at the historic summit last week to end cross-border messages. there are signs north korea is also dismantling its loudspeakers, but seoul sza cannot confirm that. global news 24 hours a day on air and on tic toc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm paul allen. this is bloomberg. leapad: apple having a big in late trading after revenue beat analyst estimates. we have concerns about lackluster demand for its flagship iphones being calmed down. it is also returning more money to shareholders from a mountain of cash. people are almost relieved

appears to have failed. 0ur southeast asia correspondent jonathan head has been following the story from the start. it's very disappointing, obviously most of all for the relatives but also for this company, 0cean infinity, who were very confident with their more extensive equipment and with some refined views about where the wreckage might be as people have analysed particular drift patterns for the debris that has been found on the east african coast, that there was a higher chance, a much higher chance of finding it. they managed to search 80,000 square kilometres injust three months. whereas the previous search area searched a little larger than that but over a period of two years. so they covered a great deal more ground. they said their equipment worked very well in extremely challenging conditions, both high seas and very mountainous terrain on the sea bed where they looks. bed where they looked. but they are clearly looking in the wrong area and it simply opens up even more, the mystery surrounding what happened, particularly the end of mh370. there are conflicting theories about

saturday you may get a decent day in the southeast and then in the afternoon and evening it gets a lotrse. a beautiful day today. sunny and 82 in new york. d.c., sunny and 86. chicago at 84. so today looks nearly perfect for, you know, and getting towards the end of may. >> sounds like ayman knew this forecast ahead of time and he called in. >> you think he actually listens? >> when you say it's 82 and sunny, but everything else he blocks out. >>> hundreds of american workers have been left stunned after harley davidson is slashing jobs. the move is an effort to stay competitive despite expectations it will reap huge benefits from the new republican tax law. >> this is a road glide rear fender. >> he had worked for harley davidson for 17 years when he got the stunning news. >> disbelief. a lot of people, you can see it on everybody's faces they were just in shock. >> the company told workers in january it was shutting down this plant in kansas city, relocating hundreds of jobs to pennsylvania eliminating 350 jobs entirely. it's not the news he expected when president trump pitched slas

belleau wood at the southeast. >> so that's preparing the offensive on belleau wood, which is one of the most famous action for the americans troops. for the first time including marines fighting in europe. three-week long battles they are planning ahead. bat else that took place under french, french sixth army, who was leading the second division at the time. >> and that's -- they're loading up the artillery, do you know what caliber? >> this is french '75. most of the american artillery was french .75 or .155. >> those are empty shells, i guess? >> they are throwing the -- yeah. empty shells. >> probably was turned into trench art after the war. >> yeah. chateau-thierry, here they are,

risk of seeing thunderstorms break out anywhere really from about the far southwest up towards the southeast then through the midlands, wales and then through the midlands, wales and this eastern side of northern ireland. ido and this eastern side of northern ireland. i do not think you have many issues especially once the mist and fog is gone. temperature may be close to 13 and 14 in the values i am showing you there. the biggest weekend continues at a pace. swansea and coventry, the centres of activity as we get on through sunday and monday. there is still the event going on into coventry. not a wash—out on sunday despite the fact

still some merc in the irish sea and somewhere in the southeast 26 or 27 —— still some murk in the irishthis is bbc news, our latest headlines.

of backwater economy not being you know very developed into becoming this real force in southeast asia being perceived as this economic tiger could you tell our viewers a little bit about what the economy was like in malaysia before dr mahathir took power and then how he transformed it and where it stands now so before he transformed it it was very reliant on primary products as their export market but what they did during the time of the hockey was actually focus on electronics. the assembly of electronic goods and and also basically taking advantage of the lowest cost base the labor force at office. and in that regard it is that has actually expanded in that area while exports of cars and services accounted for something light from low proportion to the height which was probably a few years ago around about two hundred percent of nominal g.d.p. that's quite an achievement to increase your externals that as a proportion of g.d.p. to back sort of scale going forward there are challenges so basically at the moment

our southeast asia correspondent jonathan head has been following the story from the start. it is very disappointing, obviously, most of all for the relatives, but also for this company, who worked confident with their more extensive equipment and with some refined views about where the wreckage might be, as people have analysed, in particular, drift patterns for the debris that has been found on the east african coast, that there was a high chairs, a much higher chance, fighting it. they managed to search 80,000 square kilometres injust three months. —— of finding it. just a little larger than that, over two yea rs. a little larger than that, over two years. they covered a great deal of ground. they say the equipment worked well in challenging conditions with high seas and very mountainous to rain on the seabed where they looked. but they are clearly looking in the wrong area. and it simply opens up even more the mystery around what happened, particularly at the end of mh370. there are conflicting theories about

they are moving into southeast asia, and here in indonesia, on a conference call to board urbas, they were asked how they were doing and they said, to use a baseball analogy, it is like the first pitch of the first innings. anyone unfamiliar with it should know that there are nine innings in baseball, so they have a long way to go. even though they acquired a company which does business in this region for $2 billion in march. that is a lot of money. thank you so much. let me ask you, do you like vanilla?” money. thank you so much. let me ask you, do you like vanilla? i do. you do? are you sure? it is used in many of our favourite cakes and sweets but it is now the second most expensive spice in the world, behind saffron. i can't believe it. bad weather in madagascar has hit the vanilla harvest, pushing the price of over $600 a kilo, more than the price of silver. our correspondent reports from london. cookie dough, chocolate brownie, tremblay.

displacement of factory workers by china and southeast asia. so it's a fascinating world that we're living in today that they say textbooks don't have an answer for. maria: you would think that the dollar would be trading better but that's not the case. so what do you want to do based on all of these single nas. you want to short the market or be all in? >> i want to be right in between there. no. i think that, i think that -- so what i'm trying to say is, you're going to see -- you're going to see real inflation happening. this time it's going to be a global phenomenon. it's not going to be, let's say, contained by a sovereign wall or one down tri's policy. it's going to be global in its nature and that's something we haven't experienced as a world in a very long time. and so when you ask do i want to be all in the stocks or do i want to be short, you know, i think that there's so much money around the world that, you know -- i'll give you an example of the ridiculousness that we're

first and foremost, our candidates, and then, we would like to thank all of the good people of the southeast community facility. and i would like to especially thank shakira simley, executive director. shakira, could you come on up. all right. thank you. [applause]. >> good evening, everyone. good evening, everyone. that's more like it. that's how we do it in the bayview. my name is shakira simley. i am the executive director at the southeast center, and in addition to the san francisco utilities commission, we'd like to welcome you all to this space. how many of you here, this is your first time here? okay. how many of you are veterans of this space, raise your hands. fantastic. we are so excited to see this amount of civic engagement here in this space, and the league of san francisco -- excuse me, league of women voters of san francisco and san francisco neighborhood decided to use this space to bring these fantastic candidates. all of you are amazing public servants, and we are really glad to make sure this will be a nonpartisan and fair place. so please be sure to ask me if you have any

we could see 22 degrees, maybe even 23 across the southeast, but cooler across the north sea coast.sday nights, it'll pick up on the weather front, and move north and we will start to see some thundery rain across the midlands, and into northern england, spreading into wales as we reach friday morning. it could be pretty well through friday morning, and this portion of the country. but into the afternoon, it'll country. but into the afternoon, it‘ ll start country. but into the afternoon, it'll start to fragmenting will see some sunshine developing across south. and that could spark of a few thunderstorms at the north of it, and again, cooler along the north sea coast. as he had into the bank holiday weekend, some thundery air, low pressure will be stabilising the atmosphere, some storms throughout. —— destabilising. a lot of dry weather, to the south, are at risk of seeing some showers and thunderstorms. but it will feel warmer. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00: yulia skripal — poisoned with a nerve agent in salisbury — says she and her father are lucky to be alive. transla

we had rain in the southeast, some through the northeast.one batch of showers over long island, southern portions of rhode island, clip cape cod. and one lone storm over scranton. this will exit quickly by peak of rush hour, it will be gone. then the attention goes to tropical development. this is 90-l. next two days, zero chance it develops. off the coast of belize, has to skirt past the yucatan. next five days has a 50% chance of becoming a tropical storm or subtropical storm. a system we will track. this is the development zone as it drifts northward next couple of days. that takes us toward the weekend and takes it closer to the southeast. here's the rainfall forecast through thursday. this is typical afternoon rain we have been getting. by the time you get to memorial day weekend, three to four inches of rain. north florida, northern gulf coast, not a good destination for a beach weekend. it will be rainy, breezy, cloudy and wet. >>> still ahead. a game four thriller. will james harden and company have enough for the series. details nex

we have many of these southeast asian markets closed for the holiday. we could be getting some good volumes. qe, pretty much flat. we continue to watch oil prices proceed further into decline. the aussie, at least in the asian session, holding steady at .75. dave are upe and with more with "daybreak asia." dave, what are you watching? dave: we talk about the leadership. i think yvonne was just talking about volatility. it's a fascinating conversation we are about to have. he is thead -- tashaon of lauren joining us to talk about a new book, how you really want to leadership.ples of they have a framework that applies to things like afghanistan. if you look at business leaders across the world, how can that apply to today's reality? they will be joining us in about 40 minutes from now to talk about the book and where we go from here. yvonne: an interesting, fascinating case study in india, as well, which they highlight in their book. of course, these concerns whether saudi arabia and russia output curves.e he's not concerned the saudis are ready to ease t

near 20 degrees and at the scotland and the sunshine, low 20s in southeast england.cture at high pressure in control for most of us, look at these weather fronts brushing northwest scotland at times. on sunday, some of story here, more cloud here, a bit of rain at times, still an area of misty weather to the irish sea, and may just touch the east coast of northern ireland, sunday, but elsewhere let me get increasing amounts of sunshine during sunday and worked as a result. not everywhere will give it to the mid—20s but the sunshine and high teens and low 20s, very great place. bags of sunshine on monday, patchy cloud into scotland and northern ireland, little bit amiss on the irish sea and a little bit colder towards northeast scotland over the coast of england as well compared to the previous few days. temperatures up the previous few days. temperatures upa bit the previous few days. temperatures up a bit further in southeast england, mainly to the northwest ii and could see something around 26 for avon 27 celsius. that is significant if he gets there. it is easily

of the sunshine on wednesday in the southeast temperatures still we re the southeast temperatures still and what's left of it fairly quickly cleared away from east anglia and the south. a lot of sunshine follows on behind, many places will be dry and a few showers with most of the many northwest of scotla nd with most of the many northwest of scotland could be sharp in the middle of the day but these will fade away later on. temperatures a shade higher. cooling off in england and wales. nevertheless with light winds and sunshine and should feel like a decent day. what cloud we have will melt away during the thursday evening because we're have this area of high pressure across the uk. does not last too long because we look at in the west again we have got other weather front and will bring rain for the western side of the uk. the company by stronger winds which will blow the rain into northern ireland in particular slowly later into west wales and the southwest of england. further east, we will see drive. sunshine around and breezy. maybe a touch warmer. 16 to 18 degrees. this weather fr

he could see a degree or two higher in the southeast than we had today with 17.d warmer still particularly across england and wales, but does let dry for most. high pressures keeping weather fronts mostly at bay, brushing to the northwest at times and the other thing we're doing is losing the atla ntic airflow thing we're doing is losing the atlantic airflow right across at the moment picking up this warmer air, drierairas moment picking up this warmer air, drier air as well so that in itself would indicate a bit more sunshine to come as well but cloud amounts will always be the bane for the next few days. saturday for example could be low cloud, first thing and then the fungi will burn its way through because it is quite strong now, the sunshine and we will be lovely warmth. but with the approach of the weather system in the northwest it is bound to get cooler, cloudy or wet conditions later on scotland. still meandering around sunday, looks a bit wetter but again it is just the far north and west we feel from the bulk of northern ireland, scotla nd from the bul

. >>> alberto moving through alabama overnight, bringing heavy rain and flooding through the southeast. the interstate 65 corridor may see as much as 8 inches of rain today. >>> more than 8,000 starbucks stores closing early this afternoon. >>> and the warriors with a come back in the western conference finals. those are our top stories on tuesday, may 29th. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> like dÉjÀ vu in the nba finals. >> considering changing the name of the finals to warriors, cavs finals. we'll have more on that coming up. we start this half hour with diplomatic maneuvering, making sure the cancelled summit between president trump and kim jong-un actually takes place. >> and we caught this scene overnight. a top north korean official spotted in beijing as he is reportedly planning to travel to the united states next. boarded a flight to new york we are told. japan's prime minister is expected to sit down with the president to discuss north korea ahead of what's now being called an expected summit. jonathan carl with more. >> reporter: on memorial day, president trum

high pressure holds firm towards the southeast is moving to sunday but for the north and west a bit ofy in and bring more clouded to the island and scotland and there will be breaks of rain at times but certainly not all the time. breezy here as well whereas down towards the southeast again long spells of sunshine and those temperatures may be another notch higher. 21 or maybe 22 degrees awarded to 20 across the coast of scotla nd awarded to 20 across the coast of scotland as well. a bit cooler over the weather front. further ahead over next week the odd shower elsewhere and plenty of dry weather and spells of sunshine. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at eleven: princes harry and william step out to greet the waiting crowds 0ver100 people are feared dead after a passengerjet crashes shortly after take—off in the cuban capital havana. ten people have been killed in a high school shooting in texas — the majority of the dead are students. and on newsnight, we learn that three former ministers who have left the cabinet in the last six months are hatching a plan to avoi

to see showers and thunderstorms pushing slowly northwest things drying up you notice across the southeastough the night, we're also going to see lots of missed and merck and low clouds, that feeling in across parts of northern ireland and england. up into scotland as well, a warm and muggy night, tempered is no lower than 11 and 15 degrees, perhaps uncomfortable for sleeping if you're going to head to bed. understands likely to cause further trouble issues during tomorrow, but was leading and the risk of the some disruption will stop your bbc local radio station will keep you up—to—date but a slightly —— likely different area of the western and northern france the country to seeing vicious bindery downpours we re seeing vicious bindery downpours were as comes the southeast, far fewer showers that we have had today, gestalt of sunshine but of course southwest of england particularly well, and the west midlands and northwest england and northern ireland and scotland, you can see from our high—resolution weather model, a scattering of picket and the showers and thunderstorms. there will be s

and to be honest with you, the southeast deserves this kind of a plan. we deserve something really nice out there, okay? so we on the c.a.c. urge you to approve the concept plan. now in my role as the chair of the c.a.c., and as the volunteer and advocate for god knows how many years, i am an advocate for the shipyard, and i'm also an advocate for the community because you know i was raised in the western addition. i remember the days i ran with the folks who were the movers and the shakers of that time span and was blessed in being able to do that. but i am an advocate fore the community, and people come to the c.a.c. sub committee meetings and full c.a.c. meetings and they share their transportation concerns and other concerns with us. so i would like to make a suggestion to all of you. i would suggest that there be a convening to discuss today's transportation issues in the southeast. you need to hear what people are saying about the transportation, and there are either joys in what they're able to access or their inabilities to access transportation,

a key driver, we are basically seeding we think 450 bail ondollars a year of our weght to mostly southeast asia, a little bit to mexico. and our policy with china -- we allow china to send to the wto in 2000, is one of being a pass passivist. it goes back to kissinger, excek accelerating under obama. first what was happening wa wast was just cheaper to make things over there. and china plays the long game. they run a giant trade imbalance with us but they steal our intellectual property. whether you look at the bipartisan commission that was put together under president obama or if you look at the council of economic advisers or the department of defense reports over the last, call it, 12 months twhrb' months there'ss that ip theft from the u.s. to china has been right around 3 to $500 billion a year. 3 to 500 billion. maria: that's a big number. >> it's a number that's unconscionable. and yet the narrative that china develops in the past that we're an open society, an open economy and we need to continue globalization and free trade. what china is saying we need to keep stealing as much a

we're looking at the southeast.lanta, new orleans, miami, orlando and along the roads, heavy rain and ponding will be big problems along i-20, 75. problems on i-10, as well. on saturday, humidity in the east. tropical downpours and sunday, looking for plains heat all the way down to texas. heavy rain continues in the southeast. and rain risk continues as we make our way into the northeast. memorial day weekend, the eastern half of the country not looking that great. staying hot from the great lakes, all the way down to texas. the big problems, travel-wise, in the southeast. we're going to look for problems from nashville, atlanta, charleston, raleigh-durham. and on the roads, big problems, as well. i-95, i-40, >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall, mist and drizzle for san francisco it's going to be slow to clear, only 59 degrees. oakland 64 and 69 in napa. and for the interior valley, expected to reach in the upper 60s and low 70s in the 7-day forecast and high for holiday weekend, it will be warming up, lo

and speaking of rain, the southeast yesterday got soaked. it's humid. each and every afternoon now this week we'll see a lot of he havery rain showers and storms. texas is just fine. and finally guy, our tropical potential, yeah it's may. hurricane season doesn't start till june 1st but we do have a 40% chance of this which is now in the caribbean developing into a tropical system and that could bring rain on memorial day weekend to the south. >> that's going to stink. >> definitely. hope it it doesn't. >>> you just knew it would happen. king james and company bounce back in game four. while on the ice tampa aims to reach the stanley cup finals but the capitals has a different idea. details next in sports. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. picking the right style takes time. ♪ one picky customer shouldn't take all your time. ♪ that's where office depot can hel

hamilton about 13 miles southeast of san jose. so far we've heard no reports of any damage. >>> developing at this hour, the first storm making landfall in south florida. alberto is expected to bring heavy rains in parts of the pan handle and alabama. the governors are already declaring the states of emergency. this also turned deadly for our nbc family had western north carolina. two journal the i haves wes the gusts and heavy rains have swamped the southeast. mike mccormick and derrek died when an uprooted tree fell on their news vehicle. they were reporting on the severe weather for our affiliate in south carolina. >>> president trump said he spoke by phone with the japanese prime minister shinzo abe about the upcoming summit with north korea. it is still scheduled for june 12th in singapore. the u.s. officials are meeting directly with the north koreanh agenda. analysts say they are encouraged by the involvement. >>> up next, an urgent request from the fbi. the simple thing you need to do to protect yourself from russian hacke