stories, president obama says the u.s. will stand shoulder to shoulder with its south korean ally but at which point would a north korean attack provoke the u.s. military to step in. you see that video, that s what happened this time yesterday. the communist regime says it started firing on a small island after military exercises with seven after military exercises with 70,000 troops began. u.s. troops are on alert in the event of a strike. twenty-eight thousand soldiers are located in the de militarized zone in the buffer zone between the north and south. stephen yates was department ste stabt for security affairs from 2001-2005 and also president of the d.c. federal advisory. good morning to you. good morning. bill: simple question, simple point: what does north korea want out of this, why would it act? fortunately or unfortunately, very few of us have a clear idea of the mind of the dictator in the north. there is a well practiced
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a coffee chain starbucks is the latest corporate giant pledging to eliminate plastic straw it expects all of its twenty eight thousand stores to have switched to alternatives by twenty twenty plastic straws will be replaced by recycling this was a small waste opening customers were conned from go stores will receive paper straws or ones made of a composite of plastic a huge environmental impact of plastic straws is making them increasingly unpopular with consumers. and my colleague last halter our financial correspondent is following that story for us and he s joining me now in frankfurt last what s behind that move is it really all about saving the environment. of course the bottom line is monica that it is about saving the environment but there s a little bit more to it and that is exactly the reason why the policy and straws is rolled out globally in twenty twenty by the little bit earlier in seattle and bank cooper because starbucks has to ban straws seattle and bank hoovers who ar
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especially i was stalled because there is a danger of espionage and here comes the rocket of a long shot at seven o clock in the morning. right up until takeoff technicians work in the rocket and recheck everything meticulously because of the actual launch is one of the most dangerous moments of the whole flight obviously the launch is one of the more risky phases but it s also something the crew is really looking forward to to experience these incredible forces that push the humans from the surface of this planet into orbit it s remarkable the g. loads it s pretty quick less than nine minutes from lift off until you reach the weightlessness and you are traveling with almost twenty eight thousand kilometers
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of those companies over the span of about five years but equally problematic our government s own civil service job listings and we noted that in twenty seventeen about thirteen percent of those had. stipulated a preference or requirement for men online and in twenty eight thousand that actually went up to nineteen percent so almost one in every five government job that said it was for men only is but bond you for example one of the companies that you cite says that almost harvard senior mid-level managers are women so the progress although those ads that were mentioned terrible the progress also needs to be emphasized. yet amazing how many of these companies have offered that up as some sort of credible explanation or justification for engaging in other just growing that s already behavior which makes no sense right i mean it s it s good that they re employing people it s women that it s good that they ve got a limit on their boards but it s still illegal what is your problem it happe
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