Challenge to washington and seoul, korea. We have the world covered here on daybreak asia. We will be live in beijing for chinas plans for a new silk road. In new york, all the details of the global hack attack. He careful as you turn your computers on. Liveis daybreak asia from bloombergs u. S. And asian headquarters. It sounds really ominous. It is just after 7 00 p. M. , those is a big story hospitals and government facilities being attacked, but all eyes will be on the bill and road forum, 78 billion in Infrastructure Spending pledged at the time we are a focus on data, retail sales data out of china. When it comes to the u. S. , theng seems to move much s p 500 2400 for the past couple of weeks. China,a big project from how will the u. S. And the rest of the world react. Earthquakelayy quality . We will examine that later in the program. We seem pretty stuck here. The retail Sales Numbers on friday did not eliminate anymore on where consumers in the market are going, so we will wa
A mobile money trail, why trailer parks have become hot property for investors in the u. S. Iraqi forces say they now control more than half of ramadi after a mission to retake it from i. S. I. L. The army claims to have advanced on the center of the city driving fighters out of many residential areas. Reporter it has been described as the final assault to recapture ramadi from i. S. I. L. The Iraqi Military says its troops are moving in on the center of the city. The provincial capital of the mainly sunni province has been under i. S. I. L. s control for months. For weeks those forces have been trying to reach the main government complex, but ramadi is an urban battleground. Progress has been slow. I. S. I. L. Is fighting back using suicide bombers. It is not known how many men the armed group has in the city, but iraqi intelligence believes there could be up to 300. There are also civilians trapped inside and it there are reports of casualties. The Iraqi Military are calling on peopl
Captioning performed by vitac the first crew was expedition one and were up to 44. Weve got two americans and three russians and japanese astronaut up there. It truly is an international crew. Sometimes theres a canadian, a german, italian, its always swapping out there. And right here scott kelly and mikhail are doing a one year mission, spending a year up in space. Its 342 days. Its not quite a year but im going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Its a year mission there. Scott is has an identical twin brother mark kelly married to gabriell gabrielle dif fordse doing a twin study. And the iss is currently funded by nasa through 2024. After that time, were not sure whats going to happen. But nasas commitment runs out in 2024. Ive got to believe the russians arent going to want to give this up either. They dont like to throw space stations away. If nasa abandons it, i could see them jumping in there and saying well take it, well run it and maybe do something commercially with it. S
Hungary is an eu member, but the government there the leadership has basically said we have our own conception of the of state interests, and we are going to emulate russia more than were going to emulate the e. U. , so your seeing a real crackdown on media and civil society. There was a recent protest, as im sure youre aware, bat new internet tax. Its really interesting. No one was really reacting to all these threats and attacks on journalists but when they started taxing the internet, that got people agitated. Goes to my point about linking the struggle for Media Freedom to the broader struggle for freedom of expression. But hungary is absolutely going the wrong direction. We just sent a mission to hungary led by our cpj board member, who is hungarian american and knows the country well, and her report was very chilling. She wrote about it in an oped for the times but this is a country that is an e. U. Member bus it rejecting e. U. Values. You mentioned earlier that the Chinese Gove
Possible by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Ukraine today accused russia and prorussian separatists of destroying evidence that could offer clues about the downing of that Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 298 people. The plane went down thursday in an area of Eastern Ukraine where the separatists have been battling Ukrainian Government forces. For more about all of this, we are joined now via skype from ukraine by paul sonne. He is the moscow correspondent for the wall street journal. Earlier today, he visited the disaster scene and posted these pictures on twitter. Is the site secure and who is in control of it . The rebels are in control of the site. It is in a territory about an hour and a half east of northeast of the city of dnesk in possession of the separ