Shortly after kim jong ils death by young upper class woman trying to explain what the leaders meant to her. Its a bit like you with your jesus she said except for us jesus would also be a member of the family. In the heat of the summer we occasionally saw a fan cooling a portrait of the leaders. North korean art like this fresco near the entrance to a sports shoe factory is designed to protect the country as the party would like to see it that its not pure fiction but more often more an aspiration rather than a reality. The real one factory or weeping willow paradise has 700 workers 70 percent are women they produce 1500000 sports shoes a year its Assembly Line work. For years local products were conspicuous in their conformity. Now the factory is seeking to draw inspiration from foreign trends. In marketing jargon this is whats called benchmarking. You know guilty after he visited our factory a respected marshal sent us 142 pairs of foreign shoe models supply companies and all this b
Makes a more socially distanced return to the swing state of michigan. And prepare for a no deal break with the European Union Prime Minister Boris Johnsons warning to the u. K. He says the e. U. Doesnt want progress on a trade deal but brussels says thats just empty rhetoric. Im way off welcome to the program a teacher has been brutally killed outside the school where he taught youre paris investigators believe he was targeted for showing caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in class 4 people have since been detained in connection with the killing and the suspected attacker has been shot dead its the 2nd knife attack within weeks in france linked to cartoons of muhammad which are considered blasphemous among some in the muslim faith. Police at the scene of the gruesome attack on the outskirts of paris. The victim a teacher decapitated. Witnesses said the knife wielding attacker shouted allahu akbar before being shot dead by police. French president Emanuel Mckown visiting the site conde
A month by the coronavirus pandemic well go live to Christ Church as early results come in. Class riot police in thailand crackdown on protesters define a ban on demonstrations and the Prime Minister shrugs off demands for him to quit while it whats next for the democracy movement. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the program a truce between as a vision and armenia is threatening to fall apart after renewed clashes overnight as a big john says armenian shelling of its 2nd city gunja has killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens more meanwhile mania has accused as a vision of continuing to shell Populated Areas within the disputed new gono karabakh region hundreds have been killed since the fighting broke out over the region in september. And joining me on the line is kid asia is male over shes a journalist based in baquba as a vision what can you tell us about this latest attack on ganja. What. This is this is this really goes the clock on people who are pregnant largest city your own
Investigation into a cash for passport scheme convicted criminals fugitives and state officials. Drumming up support speed u. S. Secretary of state is touring the middle east to push arab nations to normalize relations with israel. And storm season is well underway the u. S. Gulf coast prepares for the impacts of horror. And unschooled the latest from barcelona following the n. L. Messi telling the club he wants to leave plus a record breaking night for the l. A. Clippers who are now just one win away from the western conference semifinals. At least 2 people have been killed and another injured during protests in the u. S. City of commotion demonstrators defines a curfew for a 3rd night demanding justice for jacob blake a black man black man shot in the back by police. Well tear gas was far to keep demonstrators from entering a courthouse building several buildings were set on fire and a state of emergency is now in place with extra National Guard troops to prune the process are contin
Playbook. The Campaign Senior digital advisor also discusses the decision to film and share the moment where mr. Biden called senator harris to be his running mate. From earlier today, this is about 40 minutes. Morning and welcome. Im anna palmer, coauthor of the politico playbook. Thank you for tuning in to politicos virtual programming during the reimagined political conventions as we come down to election day. This week has been all about the Democratic National convention and joe bidens campaign for president. You can follow the conversation all week on social media. In a moment, we will be talking to the Senior Advisor for the Biden Campaign, but todays playbook will include a new segment on swing state maps. Todays edition is about wisconsin and why it is one of the states that is likely to shape the electoral outcomes in just 75 days. All right, without further ado, lets get started. Welcome, simone sanders. Thank you. Great to be here. Great to see you all. You are coming off a