[03:11.21]Julia Pierson has been with the agency which looks after the president’s personal security for about three decades.
[03:17.81]She replaces Mark Sullivan who resigned last month after apologizing for the scandal.
[03:22.36]The United States says it takes the latest threat by North Korea to strike U.S. bases in the Pacific very seriously.
[03:30.31]A Pentagon spokesman George Little said that Washington was ready to respond to any contingency and urged North Korea to stop making threats.
[03:39.14]He said the behavior of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was predictable and damaging to its own interests.
[03:46.32]“The DPRK will achieve nothing by these threats of provocations
[03:50.50]which will only further isolate North Korea and undermine international efforts to ensure peace and stability in Northeast Asia.”
[03:57.55]The North Korean high command said earlier it was placing its long-range artillery and strategic rocket forces on high alert
[04:04.32] to launch a possible attack on U.S. bases in the Pacific region.
[04:08.01]The Brazilian Senate is debating a bill which if approved would for the first time give domestic servants the same rights as other workers in the country.
[04:16.72]The reform seeks to limit the working hours of housemaids and cooks in Brazil to eight hours a day and 44 hours a week.