bangkok were joined by allan cut gama, who's a political economist and senior lecturer at the university of jeff enough. and also in colombo, jan pereira, executive director of the national peace counsel of sure anchor warble. come to you all a body from sector. if we can start with you social like as economy as we heard, has gone into free fall, it's the worst financial crisis since independence in 1948 and the people seem to be putting the blame squarely at the feet of one man, president roger parks or go to buyer. how on earth to chill anchor, get into this mess? a thank you again for having me on the show. it's a very timely discussion because we, i, and border political and economic crisis. now we've seen the warning signs, so some time there's been several policy issues that were disastrous, the tax, the fertilizer ban. and there was a lot of good byes given to the government over the last one and a half to 2 years. that the decisions being made and the mismanage was going to lead to some kind of crisis. but only a couple of weeks ago was this really realization by the government that we a

from weta studios washington and from our bureau at the wter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. jeffof eastern ukraine are the site of a pitched battle between ukrainian and russian forces. american and allied weapons keep flowing to help ukraine fend off the russians. from kyiv, we have this report. >> on the front lines of ukraine's east, russia prepares another artillery onslaught. russian forces continue to make slow progress from a firing on outgunned ukrainian positions. pressure release these videos today and said it targeted ukrainian railway station student disrupt the flow -- to disrupt the flow of western weapons, none more crucial than these american howitzers the u.s. is rushing to ukraine to counter russian artillery. the russian defense minister today threatened to target those weapons shipments. >> the u.s. and nato allies continued to pump weapons into ukraine. we view any transport of the nato alliance arriving on the territory of the country with weapons for materials destined to the ukrainian army as a legitimate target to be destroyed. >> yesterday, many of russi

of people to hospital with breathing problems. flights was suspended at baghdad. international and, and, and jeff airports authorities have also postponed university exams. the increasing number of sandstone is being blamed on climate change. and the destruction of agricultural lands. ford is still a haze on al jazeera and the top stated phoenix suns. go down in the bay piles. joe will have all the action coming on. ah. with a whole lou. ah ah, it's time to have his sport. he's joe with all the action from the n b a playoffs. jo, thanks emily. yes. the defending champions. the milwaukee bucks had been eliminated from the post season by the boston celtics. the celtics trailed early in the defied up at ron williams for the 3 high 27 points. and hit 73 pointers. jason tatum added 23 in boston that came 7 record with 223 pointers to win 109281. awesome new place. miami heat on tuesday in the eastern conference finals. and tatum's 4 year old son is particularly pleased with the idea of heading down to south beach, which was usa soon as they do you excited? go to miami, the good pool, g o, o gosh, ready? and i gay ending all year off to lead him a walk he to th

jeff, a student of the university of nebraska in lincoln, at the time, lived closest. he said it was about 8:00 that night when he happened to check his phone. >> ahead all these missed calls from friends, family. i knew something was up, and i could not get a hold of my dad or my mom. none of my friends called me, -- one of them called, and said it was my older brother. >> what did he say happened? >> somebody killed tom, and i need to go find my dad and talk to my dad, get to omaha. >> how far is it? >> about 45 minutes. >> those miles between lincoln and omaha seemed longer than usual that night. it's hard for jeff to remember exactly what happened when he got home. who told him what's, or wind? >> that whole thing is a blur. i didn't sleep at all at night. you are constantly trying to figure out what's going on. >> you lived in that same house where this all happened, right? >> yes, my whole life. >> now, jeff's mind was filled with thoughts of what had happened there, and of his brother tom, who was eight years younger. >> he was kind of a smart alec, growing up w

of stanford university. she's also senior fellow stand [inaudible] institute for the national studies, jeff sense downforce artificial intelligence and international security during the media the contributing writer at the atlantic but. wait, there's more. [inaudible] it's also about georgia to who latest title being spies lies and algorithms a history of human [inaudible] intelligence. amy, great to see, and congratulations on the book. >> wait to see you, too, bill. and thanks. it's always nice to finish a book rather than read just re-write and work. >> at least mitch might just question. i just listed countless things are doing in and around the stanford world. how do you find time to write a book? >> well covid to helped because we couldn't get together and we couldn't travel so i moved all my books to my home office and hold up and that's how i was able to finish. it took a lot of, you know, instructed somewhere from the office to get it done. >> and just a lot of discipline i guess and keeping at it because ideal in college writing i am writing 800 would push here and there but because it is a different creatu

university in the fall. coming up, gu goes in depth about why she chose to compete for china, and how that decision has not only changed her life but the lives millions of others as well. >>> jeff, warm up? >> big-time. we're going through the olympics of weather as we head through this week. really something for everyone in my seven-day forecast. and look at this warm-up. as jessica just mentioned, we're at 86 in walnut creek. a little bit of a breeze. what i want you to pay attention here is on that hourly forecast, look at how fast we're going to drop. already down 69 at 8:00 p.m. and by ten p.m., we're at 62. that's already going to be happening tonight. from some changes that are beginning out here in the pacific. basically, the storm track is going to start to lower. that's going to enable cooler air to start to move in for tomorrow, and also some cloud cover. so i really think the clouds are going to switch it up the most for us as we head through tomorrow morning's forecast. you can see as we start widespread overcast to the south bay. we'll get some breaks of sunshine as we head through the day. but still, plenty of clouds as we head through your afternoon tomorrow. so

of mine from jeff yesterday. and we were talking about this conflict right here and he said yes, growing up as a child. he did faced some anti semitism on schools and university, but it wasn't any type of government program. it was just that unfortunate baseline anti semitism that you find all over certain parts of europe. at the same time, he said he noticed a massive change as she was growing up and getting older than that. anti semitism started to disappear and he said for him, the election of a limited zalinski was the ultimate sign that he is a jewish ukrainian man. that he was a full fledged member of society there. he said that was the symbol for him. so he completely, as many people just rejects the association and the accusation that there's some type of nazi presence in ukraine. ok, let's now look at potent allegation that russia isn't waging a war in ukraine and it hasn't committed. these will crimes that have been alleged against them. well, i mean, when it comes to the claim that there isn't a war going on ukraine. i mean, what else is it when there are bombs flying in bullets flying? i mean, just because they haven't officially declared war does

university. your future starts today at nu.edu. >> shannon: a raging wildfire burning through a fluid south carolina immunity producing multimillion dollar mansions to robles in just a matter of hours. correspondent jeff angeles, good evening, jeff. >> good evening, shannon. the wildfires in california move through a coastal community in orange county so fast just minutes to get out. we are learning from authorities the fire is only 15% contained with 230 acres with multimillion dollar homes and damaging several others. >> it is tragic. and you feel for the residence. to lose a home, i can imagine and we don't have a season these days. >> they are calling at the coastal fire with forced hundreds to evacuate. it started near a water treatment facility. position between lagoon and legato, laguna beach. it is under investigation but residents say at one point the sky turned orange and filled near the canyon in the ocean. >> the heat started getting on us. and it got worse. the fire sparked and you could see it got really, really close really, really quick. >> we were not shocked. i've never been through anything like this and we really had 30 minutes notice. >> everybody had to evacuate quickly yesterday

university. according to the president, jeff cox, community college has received $18.5 million from merrill fest to date and he says the extra funds are more crucial now. >> the impact ofugh on our economy. rural folks and tt ahohe tladdey hard-hit with the pandemic and our students are a lot of them in that category. ♪ reporter: of course, all of this depends on a thriving music festival. >> welcome some merrill fest veterans! reporter: and that means finding a fresh combination of sounds to attract audiences. a veteran took the stage. sam bush and jerry who have attended the festival from the beginning. ♪ reporter: the old pro medicine show even re-created a performance like they did 20 years ago drawing a large crowd. ♪ the band sang songs for members with ukrainian roots. this has been an effort to diversify the musical talent and attract new audiences as well. ♪ reporter: one rising star in americana and roots music, a 41-year-old, alice russell who had three grammy nominations. a black woman playing the banjo, she is a proud part of a history with its own deep roots. >> the banjo is at the heart of bluegrass. the oldest banjo was heard in haiti. this musicomes ou

university. according to president jeff cox, wilkes community college has received $18.5 million from merlefest to date. and he says the extra funds are even more crucial now. jeff c: the impact of the pandemic has been really tough on our economy. rural folks and folks who are kind of at the bottom end of the economic ladder were particularly hard-hit with the pandemic. and our students are, a lot of them, in that in that category. jeffrey: of course, all this depends on a thriving music festival. >> watson stage welcomes the merlefest veterans. [cheering and applause] jeffrey: andhat's meant finding the right balance of tradition and fresh sounds to continue attracting audiences. merlefest veterans took the stage, musicians including famed mandolinist sam bush and dobro player jerry douglas, who've attended the festival from its beginning. old crow medicine show even recreated a bit of street busking of the kind they did here and elsewhere more than 20 years ago. once word went out, a large crowd gathered. the band scythian drew special cheers to singing songs from members with ukrainian-american roots. this remains a largely older and white audience. and there's been an effor

jeff has worked in an around the farm credit system for virtually his entire adult life. raised as a true d.c. native, he earned his bachelor's degree from the university of maryland before obtaining his masters at tulane university. his notable career working on farm credit issues started as an intern on capitol hill before he moved to usda in what was then known as the farmers home administration. then went to work representing farmers at national weed growers association which led him to the farm credit team in 1987. perhaps one of the most distinguished moments of his career was when he worked to help pass the farm credit act of 19le 7-1987 which set it on a sustainable bath the organization continues to enjoy today. his reputation in washington is second to none. jeff has been the face of farm credit for many on capitol hill, and we will certainly -- will he certainly be missed as he enters retirement. farm credit, american agriculture, and our country are better off because of jeff's exceptional work. congratulations, jeff, on your very successful career and best wishes to you and susan for a long and happening next chapter. thank you, mr. speaker.