Welcome to news asia glad you could join us a former senior general of the Pakistan Army is facing accusations that he used his influence to build a sprawling Business Empire spending 99 companies and 4 countries. Is currently chairman of a joint china Pakistan Economic project and a special assistant to pakistan Prime Minister imran khan a news website in the country has alleged that as was promoted through the ranks in the army his Family Business is that comprise speeds of chains and realistic that expanded general bargewell has denied the allegations against him and his family but did have. Any has been following the story and he joins me now from moscow is it give us a sense of who general bods what is and how hes so influential. Well general budget has been an important member of pakistans paul the structure for nearly 2 decades now he has served 4 Different Army chiefs starting with president general musharraf in 2002 but it was really doing his job as the Spokes Person of the b
Talking about our high fire danger and a spare the air alert with our hazy and smoky skies. There is a lot to get to. The heat advisory is along the coast and the bay for today. We have excessive heat warnings in effect for the rest of the bay area. All the highlighted areas in pink are under the excessive heat warning. We have a spare the air alert that remains in effect and we continue with smoky and hazy skies. We are record 21 days in a row with our spare the air alert in effect. So we are looking at a red flag warning, critical weather conditions up in the hills. The north bay mountains as well as east bay hills, that is from tonight all the way until wednesday morning. We will talk all about this coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes. Lets check in gianna lets look at traffic. We start on 80, westbounder leisuretowne boulevard we have a crash with all lanes blocked that happened at about 2 30. This is a fatal incident. Chp is still on scene for the investigation. Th
And governments scaled back their measures to protect the civilian population and they suddenly realized that they could not abolish them entirely because they still had a duty to protect so they decided to reactivate old or existing structures and theyve got to be tested now the question is are people in germany ready do they know what to do if the sirens go off. Over my own personal point of view i dont know in fairness its hard to be prepared for all of ensure. Theres no way of knowing when this or that might be needed but i dont know of any air raid shelters nearby where i could hold. So im not a parent know even before but ive been. If the sirens go off id have a look around to see whats going on but if theres a fire somewhere or someone needs help for you here. This is yes thats the big question was what would i do i guess id turn on the radio if its not already on. Try to find out more details about whats going on you know what i should do to a. Correct answer say the experts at
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You might have the best time ahead outside with those smoky skies booklets go to meteorologist mary lee with a check of the forecast. We have some good news this morning compared to yesterday. The air quality is a little bit better for most of us. Checking our quality conditions you can see a lot of yellow dots and it is moderate this morning. Those red dots are indicating unhealthy air for portions of the north bay as well as for the peninsula. As we go through the day we are still looking at that unhealthy air quality and that is why a spare the air alert is an effect and will likely be exndedfor t week. Temperatures are seasonal and we will talk more about the rest of the week including the Holiday Weekend forecast and alice check in with gianna and it is a slow ride on the Allatoona Pass. It sure is. We have brake lights into the Allatoona Pass out of tracy and mount house to grant line. The eastbound side has an accident around grant line road that was rocking one lane and they ar