"Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
President Trump said once again Sunday that he thinks a diplomatic end of the war with
Iran could happen soon.
“But speaking with reporters on board Air Force 1, he also said it's possible those discussions”
will fail. Trump also said the U.S. is allowing a Russian oil tanker to enter Cuban waters. Cuba's president says his country hasn't received any imports for three months and the power sector is suffering. But Trump said Cuba needs much more than oil.
Cuba's a mess. It's a failing country, and they're going to be next to it, within a short period of time, they're going to fail. And we will be there to help it out."
The Russian tanker is expected to arrive on Tuesday.
A funeral was held Sunday in Beirut for three journalists killed while covering Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon. One of them worked for a Hezbollah affiliated TV channel and was accused by Israel a producing propaganda. The killings have drawn criticism from Lebanese officials and press freedom groups, and Pierre's law and frayer reports from Beirut's.
Colleagues and relatives carried the coffins of TV correspondent Fatima Fatuni, her cameraman brother Muhammad Fatuni, and another veteran TV journalist, Ali Shahib, a household name in Lebanon. He's the one Israel says it targeted, claiming without providing evidence that he was a militant operating under the guise of a journalist.
And on its president called the killings of blatant crime, the Washington-based watchdog committee to protect journalists, says it's investigating what it calls a disturbing pattern of Israel accusing journalists of being terrorists. A CPJ spokesperson said journalists are not legitimate targets, regardless of the outlet they work for.
Lauren Freyer and Pierre News, Beirut.
“The fighting between Iran and Israel is occurring during an important time for both Christians”
and Jews. The next week we'll see both Passover and Easter taking place. But many of Jerusalem's holiest places are sitting empty. The Western Wall is close to worshipers, Israeli officials say gatherings are capped at no more than 50 people, and stores in the old city remain closed as the fighting continues.
It will be a short week ahead on Wall Street, and Pierre's Scott Horsley reports that traders may welcome the break after a big sell-off last week. All the major stock indexes fell last week as the U.S. War with Iran continued to scramble energy markets, crude oil prices topped $100 a barrel, and gasoline prices climbed to about $1 a gallon higher than they had been before the war.
This coming week brings a fresh look at the U.S. job market, we'll find out on Friday how any jobs employers added, or subtracted in the month of March. The job market has shown little movement for the last six months, but at 4.4% the unemployment rate remains relatively low.
“The traders will not get an immediate opportunity to react to the jobs report, the stock”
market will be closed that day for the good Friday holiday. Scott Horsley, and Pierre News, Washington. And your listening to NPR News. At least 14 people were killed this weekend by paramilitary forces in the Sudanese city of Dilling.
The Sudan doctor's networks says at least 23 other people were injured in the fighting, and some of those killed were children. Sudan's military says it was able to stop the attack. The paramilitary forces and the army have been fighting for almost three years. The area around Dilling hasn't recently faced a two-year siege with most supplies cut off.
Project Hail Mary, a feel-good movie about a space forage, is still soaring at cinemas and PR's Bob Mandelo as our details. Ryan Gosling's film about an alien encounter during a long shot effort to save Earth. No one has ever done this before. Took off like a rocket last weekend.
It is time-go. And apparently the 85% of its audience that said in exit polls that they'd recommend Project Hail Mary to a friend actually recommended it to a friend. Where most blockbusters drop drastically after a big U.S. opening, Project Hail Mary
will finish this second weekend with another $54 million in the till.
And it's holding even better overseas. So the worldwide 10 day total will top $300 million all before the start of next weekend. It's lucrative Easter holidays, Bob Mandelo and PR news. Gary Woodland won the PGA's Houston Open Sunday. He finished five strokes ahead of Nicolai Hitchhard, Woodland finished the day with
a 367 and a tournament total of 21 under 259. The wind comes less than three years after Woodland had brain surgery to move a lesion. The one also made him eligible for the master's tournament in August of Georgia which tees off in two weeks. I'm Dale Wilman and PR news.
