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Support for the world comes from Babble a language app that teaches real life conversations in a new language like Spanish French or German Babble's 10 to 15 minute lessons are available in the app store or online at Babel be a b b e l dot com. I'm Marco Werman and this is the world thanks for being here it was a big day for trade President Trump announced yesterday as he sat down in the oval office and proceeded to dial his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto for a congratulatory call I believe the president is on the phone. And regain. Awkward Moment hey we're in radio we get it it's common to not connect when you're making an overseas phone call but let's also point out that this is why there are diplomats and assistance in the government to set up these important calls when the president says there's a big day in trade if you. Don't know what he did nobody thank you and right again congratulations that's really Pena Nieto did manage to speak and in a tone warmer than they have in the past so this is the u.s. Mexico trade agreement assume taht is hard to say the NAFTA Canada is not in the deal not yet in new monarch is a visiting scholar at the Cato Institute So can you give us an overview of some of the updates to NAFTA that the u.s. And Mexico have agreed to so right now we know a little bit about what was agreed to by the u.s. And Mexico based on some facts sheets that the United States Trade Representative post on their website yesterday afternoon some of the major changes the agreements are in the area of rules arch and rules of origin are the requirements that essentially say whether a product can qualify for duty free entry as part of the agreement some of the things that were the main focus of this for autos textiles chemicals and stealing kinds of products as well as optical fiber I mean the details do get pretty granular Tell me about the change of the. Sunset provision what is a sunset provision and what's changed about it so originally what the u.s. Side had proposed was that after 5 years the trade agreement would automatically expire unless all 3 parties agreed to continue it so now what they've agreed to is that the trade agreement would be in effect for 16 years and that after 6 years they would review it to see whether they would continue for another 16 years now if they don't get to some sort of agreement in that time period let's say within the 16 years there's a potential that the agreement could expire now it's not clear without seeing the actual text of the agreement what would happen but that appears to be the compromise solution for the sunset clause how significant would you say these changes are to what's contained in the original enough to deal with a what you expected based on what President trumpet said in the past well I guess it depends on chapter by chapter and we'll know when we see the full text So for example on e-commerce on labor and environment it appears that what we see are similar things to what's in the transpacific partnership agreement already and that I think was no surprise to many people who are watching us but in terms of strengthening the rules of origin which was sort of what President Trump said were the main things he was going to focus on he really has made them tougher So NAFTA is already one of the toughest rules of origin regimes of any trade agreement in the world and they just got a lot more strict and I think in that sense the impact will be pretty severe particularly for the auto industry where that content requirement went from 62.5 percent regional content requirement for duty free to 75 percent regional content requirement so that means like 75 percent of all the materials in a car have to come from the u.s. Or Mexico that's exactly right and there's an additional requirement that they put in which is really a new provision that's never been in any u.s. Trade agreement before that is to say that 40 to 45 percent of that $75.00 has to be made from workers that make at least $16.00 an hour minimum wage and that is something that we've never really seen before in a trade. And it's really hard to tell what the impact of that's going to be other than the fact that Mexico will be adversely affected by in what way because they're now going to have to shell out $60.00 per hour for everybody working on that factory floor pretty much and they make roughly on average about half of that right now whereas the u.s. And Canada are to pay their auto workers at least $16.00 are and so they won't really be affected by this what details have not been worked yet so the big question remains what's going to happen with dispute settlement which is basically where one of the countries can hold another to account for not meeting the obligations of the agreements ambassador light Heiser said he wanted this to be non-binding and if it's not binding it's hard to see how you wouldn't force the trade agreement at all and I think that's going to be a major thing to watch out for this week or us in terms of timing there to flow charts here one where there's a bilateral trade deal and another where there's a trilateral trade deal Canada comes aboard what does the timeline look like so right now we have a tight deadline this week in particular because Ambassador light has or has said that he wants to give Congress a Notice of Intent to sign that deal that starts the ticker for the signing of the current agreement within 90 days so that takes us to the end of November where the u.s. And Mexico could possibly sign the new agreement now for a trilateral deal it's hard to say exactly where that deadline might be other than before the u.s. And Mexico signed their own agreement what do you think the likelihood is of this moving forward without counted and just being a bilateral deal with Mexico and would it be effective. I think it's certainly a possibility and we shouldn't rule that out President Trump has made pretty clear that he's willing to go ahead as a bilateral and even charge Canada auto tariffs at 25 percent for some sort of compromise if Canada cooperate would it be a fact I don't think so when you think about the way that the 3 countries have integrated since NAFTA was put into a fact we have over one trillion dollars of annual trade between the 3 partners you know if you think of it as like a supply chain running through the 3 countries it's almost as if you're putting a wall up between the United States and Canada and I think I'd be very detrimental to all 3 countries that occurred you know monarch a visiting scholar at the Cato Institute thanks very much for explaining this to us thank you for having me as we said President Trump is implied he's ready to cut Canada loose if it does not get on board quickly Canada's foreign minister Chrystia Freeland today cut short a trip to Europe to join talks in Washington in person specifically trumpets that Canada must sign a new deal or face heavy tariffs on the cars they produce Gordon Ritchie was one of Canada's chief negotiators in the original us Canada Free Trade Agreement the precursor to NAFTA that was back in the 1980 s. Ritchie is actually optimistic about the talks I think you could be agreement in principle but this we can't now working on some of the final details may take a fair bit more talk but it is if there is a political will if the Americans are ready to pick up the given who has quivering on the table this whole thing could be wrapped up in this week and so the deal quivering on the table that that deal is is what essentially basically the old NAFTA with some modifications I would say you will not have to do what it is isn't the agreement to eliminate terms between the 3 countries which is what the existing agreement does with some additional rules on content what constitutes a product or to travel freely across the borders and around a few other. Bits and pieces some of which will be of interest to some people more than others for example the Us pharmaceutical industry makes an enormous effort to extend the patent monopolies it enjoys and it appears there may be some movement on that as well but the basic deal would be as before free cross border trade for qualified products between all 3 countries and by the way I know Mr Trump when he gives some idea or somebody was present thing in his ear specially from Fox News it stays in there her and it rattles around but to make a big fuss about the Canadian dairy tariffs is really kind of foolish I don't know which is done I don't like the Canadian program but we're talking about less than a quarter of one percent of the 2 way trade less than a quarter of one percent and on that trade by the way the Americans are running a substantial surplus and by the way these terrible terrible terrible Canadian tyrants are no higher than the tariffs on some American sacred cows if you'll forgive the pun like and tobacco and sugar so you know one has to understand Mr Trump is almost completely disconnected from objective reality he has to be very blunt about it he is appallingly ignorant certainly in these in these trade matters he doesn't know what he is talking about and so his negotiators have a very difficult task but they're doing a good job of it and I think they can probably pull this off your opinion may be that Donald Trump is ignorant but I mean if this plan works I mean does it matter well if this isn't a matter of of my opinion. Trump is criticized for being a pathological liar I think that's a bit of a bum rap I think he honestly doesn't know what the truth is in many cases and even really doesn't attach much importance to it he doesn't know. Think about international trade he doesn't for example in that press conference that he had to to announce this wonderful deal virtually everything he said was factually wrong including by the way that the big deal was with Mexico because trade is Kenya's a much smaller sector Well that's just plain silly I mean Canada is by far the biggest customer for u.s. Products in the world and the best customer I mean it's just one example but everything he said was inaccurate that doesn't make it any less dangerous. You know poor Bud Light eyes or I don't envy him but he's got the u.s. Trade representative he's got to deliver this guy a win Gordon Ritchie really appreciate your time thank you my pleasure that was Ambassador Gordon Ritchie Canada's deputy chief trade negotiator in the 1980 s. . All sides are committing war crimes in Yemen and that is the bottom line from United Nations human rights investigators in a report issued today u.n. Investigators said that both the Saudi led coalition and who think rebels are guilty of killing Yemeni civilians but they singled out the American back Saudi Coalition for the deaths of thousands of civilians in airstrikes they've died in bombing attacks on schools hospitals and markets investigator Charles Garraway said the report does not specify what percentages of civilian deaths were caused by each side but he said there's been a clear pattern of violence against civilians we have covered the strikes by the coalition. Detention by all parties shelling by the de facto Thor's is the who tease in Thai ease sexual violence etc. We have therefore in a dingy firing pattens not so to identify any particular party that is more guilty than others however I think it fair to say that we have. Of those contests we have investigated and we have not been able to look at for example al-Qaeda and die each who also involved any of those parties none have clean hands on Monday Saudi Arabia accuse the un of bias for condemning to air strikes that killed scores of Yemeni children civilians earlier this month Defense Secretary Jim outed said the u.s. Was still supporting the Saudi coalition in Yemen and working to end the conflict we are constantly reviewing what support we are given Yes We also had an Army lieutenant general in Riyadh almost immediately following the early August tragedy to convey our concern to gnash for a didn't complete investigation and we will continue to do everything we can to limit this kind of tragedy but the most effective way is to get this to a u.n. Brokered negotiations Madis that u.s. Support for the Saudi led coalition in Yemen was in place before the trumpet ministration took over early last year but he said it is still a u.s. Priority so is minimizing the number of civilians caught up in the violence we reviewed it we determined that it would be the right thing to do to support them in the defense of their own countries but also to restore the rightful government. In effect what is what is going to our conduct there you have to try to keep the human cost of innocents being killed accidentally to the absolute minimum that is our goal where we engage with the coalition in Yemen in a as a general statement we stay out of the war ourselves and we are focused on defeating ice just an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula that's what we do where we conduct operations defense secretary Jim Matta speaking at a news conference today. You're listening to the world. It's become easier than ever to make things and that's reshaping the workplace when I 1st started practicing 23 years ago. If you are surprised. Then. It really is the way of the world should you assume you're always being taped and. On the next All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. On 89.3. 5 You should actually try to get rid of it it's surprisingly complicated but if you give it to. We make it really easy for you. No matter what condition it's in and handle all the paperwork . You'll be contributing to trustworthy local journalism you also get a tax deduction in the satisfaction of having supported the program you love you make possible. Thanks. I'm Marco Werman And you're with the world the u.s. Open kicked off last week in New York and one of the favorites to win the tournament is 23 time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams But over the weekend Williams was in the news because of something else the black body suit that she wore back in May during the French Open Here's what she had to say about it back then I had a lot of problems with. With my blood clots and I thought I don't know how many I've had in the past 12 months I've been wearing pants a lot in general want to play and so I can keep you know the blood circulation going so it's all it's a fun suit but it's also functional so I can be able to play without any problems so just to be clear that's what Serena had to say about her cats it back in a major in the French Open pretty straightforward fun and it also helped a Williams deal with blood clots from her pregnancy so why are we talking about this again 3 months later Eva Wallace covers sports for The Washington Post and she joins us from New York she's at the Media Center at Flushing Meadows Ava the French Open is behind us tell us why Serina Williams' body suit some would say cat suit has now resurfaced Yes So the president of the French Tennis Federation gave an interview in Tennis magazine recently where he said that the French Open would be in stating this dress code and that strange Williams cat suit that she wore this past May would be on the banned list next year and something that he kind of followed up with was he said you have to respect the time in place in the sport so it wasn't just this issue of they didn't like the look he brought in this whole issue of respect and implied that serene is out so it would have been disrespectful to at the French Open or the sport or to stand something along those lines Yeah the French Tennis Federation president Judy even said I think that sometimes we've gone too far do you see this as another case that's happened before where Williams is singled out yeah and it's kind of hard not to see it from that point of view her body how she dresses how she looks on court how she acts on court that's been something that's been discussed really throughout her. Whole career the 1st thing that I thought of was when she was just kind of getting on court in the late ninety's and early 2000 she and her sister Venus were singled out over the beads that they wore in their hair and then on Saturday at a press conference Williams was asked about Judith Shelly's statements let's hear what she said I don't know exactly what he seemed to say or what he didn't think the same way but I am we are you talking to said we have a great relationship we talked yesterday and you know says. Everything's fine. So you attended the press conference were you surprised by Williams kind of distancing herself from those remarks Yeah you never really know what you're going to get with Serena with things like this she can either absolutely go off and delve into those issues of policing bodies and not embracing different types of bodies on the tennis court so she can either really delve into that or the other 50 percent of the time soon 8 such things down and that's what she did on Saturday she didn't necessarily invalidate any of the issues that were brought up around the catsuit she was just saying everything's good here and she also added that she's sure if she had a chat with the Grand Slams if they realized that that suit was for health reasons she was sure they would come to an understanding it was almost kind of a power of the other Grand Slams a little bit in that way yes so when you say those comments don't invalidate any of the bigger issues here I mean tell us about what some of those bigger issues are sure I saw a lot of tweets online from people that I follow linking this issue to not living and see to play athletes unionize and not letting n.f.l. Players Neal it's just a way people were saying for officials in sports to have more control over the players it was of course linked back to all of those discussions of Serena's body and how she looks on court and it was kind of about sexism in tennis as well you know it was interesting I mean some of the pushback came from Andy Roddick and Chris Everett and even from Nike itself yeah Nike and serene as agent she obviously sat at the French Open she related catsuit back to me. I feel like a warrior princess like a queen and will conduct talking about the Black Panther movie that had just come out and make you tweeted you can't take the superpowers away from the superhero you can have your suit you can't see the powers so the French Open becoming a little bit like Wimbledon I mean in terms of dress Wimbledon as white tennis towards only what we're going to accept a white cats or. I don't I don't think we did this the French president said I think sometimes we've gone too far Wimbledon would definitely say that's going too far looking at the tennis what are Serina Williams chances with the u.s. Open this year well actually they got a lot better the number one seed Simona Halep lost to be 44 ranked player in the world she was actually the 1st top seed to ever lose in the 1st round at the u.s. Open and she would have played Serena in the 4th round so serious chances are looking looking better I would say David Wallace covers sports of The Washington Post she's been speaking with us from the media center at Flushing Meadows at the u.s. Open a New York Eva thanks for your time thank you so much incidentally one of the people who tweeted about Serena Williams cat suit was none other than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Yes the former president of Iran he wrote a why is a French Open disrespecting Serena Williams apparently someone's got a lot of time on their hands I wonder of Ahmadinejad has any opinions about Kean say and yet addresses because my next guest in the Talia Garcia of Southern California used Twitter to find a king c.n.n. Address for her friend Kayla this all started when the Tallia ran into Caylee's mom and I got to talking you see Caylee's mom had been battling cancer in the family didn't have a lot of extra money to spend on Kayla's party and she was kind of telling me how you know he didn't necessarily want the kids and yet because she didn't want to thank her mom her dad her family and so it was very you know in my heart I knew that this was something that I was meant to help with and so Metallica sent out a tweet that said hi guys if you have a kid say and yet address. Yes Around size 14 that you are willing to donate please let me know it really didn't like get super big At 1st I think I had gone to bed and it was at like 8 retreats and I was like oh I'm like look it's getting so much attention and I was actually so happy and I woke up and my brother was like in my room and was like Have you seen your tweet it has like thousands of retreats it was just it had blown up and so I had hundreds of people saying that they wanted to give away dresses that they wanted to donate cash that they wanted to give away photo albums that they didn't use tiaras in you shoes make up people were offering services of all kinds while it was just so heartwarming to see so did you find a dress and did Kayla choose one we've actually found multiple dresses believe it or not because. You know as a very special moment for girl and a lot of times what we do is we have the big ball gown dress and then we change into like a little party dress for the night and then you change back the ball gown dress like when you're kind of at the end of the party and so she's gotten big ballgown dresses we actually just picked one up from a grown Riverside and it will study also if she's listening thank you very much and then some thoughts he reached out to kill as well and they've given her dresses to change and to throughout the night they're actually even gifts that her mom addressed so Wow it's amazing so you did really good on behalf of Kayla and these dresses help us understand why it is so important for girls to go through the counts and yet a whole ritual so just the kids and you know it originates in Hispanic culture but I think you know all cultures kind of deserve to have like this coming of age thing look it's your it's your time to time it's this moment where a lot of the times we just kind of live in a world where we're just one piece of the puzzle and you get to be you know the center you get to be the center of the world or you're well that least so Kayla happy birthday and have a wonderful can say and yet a that was Natalia Garcia speaking with us from Laverne California. 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Demitted I'm going to make for the 1st time the most difficult decision of my life I don't want to lie to myself anymore I do not want to give the illusion that my presence in government means that we are up to the challenge so making the decision to leave the government today live on air Mr earth said he is calling it quits out of frustration over the lack of action on climate issues under President Emmanuel McCraw This is especially surprising given macro's own pledge to be a leader on climate issues you might recall his response to President Trump make our planet great again after trying to pull the us out of the Paris climate agreement p.r. I ask you as a commentator for France on and he was in the studio when low announced. His resignation Nicolo is a special character is no other politician he's a long time activists t.v. Star you had for a long time a show on t.v. On and Vironment issues the fact that he accepted to be in government was already a big surprise because he had always resisted the temptation to go into politics and and for the past 18 months in Mr McCall's government he was uncomfortable and all of a sudden it came to a breaking point and he made this very surprising announcement because he hadn't told the president all the prime minister before hand and he even told us during the interview that he had made up his mind the night before he hadn't told even his wife and he decided during the show to announce it yeah I mean even the interviewer was taken aback kind of like what did you just. Absolutely well it was very surprising because we had a coffee with him just before going into the live interview and he was 10000 a bit upset by some issues but nothing that would let us think that a couple of minutes later he would announces a surprise resignation from dozens with a very emotional and dramatic tone so let's talk about what all this means because as he said. He's not a politician something of an environmental celebrity almost president back recorded him pretty aggressively and after trampled out of the press climate change agreement macron veiled this campaign to make our planet great again so what does this resignation actually tell us about just how aggressive Micron's environmental policies are if you listen to Nikolai you know it just means that Emanuel McCall like most politicians in the world is caught in this big contradiction between having to solve the economic and social issues right now and take and this is the remeasure has to solve the climate issue tomorrow and that's what you know we would not accept especially after the summer where we had this heat wave Nicolo says If that's not the time where it is the absolute priority when is the time will the resignation of low hurt macro's image now as a climate leader yes definitely I think it it brings back this day limit do we need a specific Green Party or is every party today taking into account their climate and their environment issue and probably Nicolo knows resignation will bring back this debate because he said I was alone in government I had no army behind me I had no party I had no members of parliament and that's the weakness of the and Veyron and issue in politics today what's been reaction from environmental groups in France. They paid tribute to those August seeds for speaking his mind then and not wanting to be and you know the kind of smiling face of their environment policy when there's no real hard substance behind it p.o. Does this episode tell us anything more generally about life and macros cabinet and inner circle Michael came as the new kid on the block and he had the promise of reinventing politics with new people civil society one of the members of his parliamentary group are Syrian society people who had no previous political experience and you know was really kind of traction figure for that what it tells us is how difficult it is to reinvent politics because political rules have a way off coming back reimposing themselves including with new people. Ascii with a Radio France on TAF thanks very much thank you. We're going to talk about the Koreas for the next few minutes there was a lot of pomp and circumstance around the Trump Kim summit back in June but there was also a sense that the devil was going to be in the details soon after the summit reports came out that North Korea was in fact not slowing down its nuclear activities secretary of state Mike Pompei o seem to be staying the course he has visited North Korea several times and met with Kim Jong un and self last Friday however President Trump suddenly canceled what would have been Pompei is 4th visit to the country sue Kim is a contributor for The Hill she's also a former analyst with the CIA specializing in East Asia propaganda and leadership studies So Kim Why was this trip cancelled so the service cancelled because as we found out North Korea apparently sent the United States very hostile letter expressing disk. Angelman towards the lack of progress between Washington and Pyongyang you know over its denuclearization efforts United States has not been seeing much progress on the part of North Korea dismantling or coming clean on its nuclear weapons program from the North North Korean perspective they don't see it as progress because they are not seen reciprocated action from the United States in the negotiations So what reaction have you heard about this canceled visit from Pompei are from South Korea have you heard any reaction from North Korea. Well from South Korea the South Korean government appears to be sort of on edge because they want to see progress in Enter Korean relations and perhaps even relations between Washington and Chung out for a moon administration that is bent on producing some fruit with North Korea that the fact that there's this big hurdle which is you know between Washington and Pyongyang is at a standstill could actually affect negatively affect South Korea's engagement with with Kenya. There's high value placed on these meetings but my understanding is Secretary Pompei would not have actually met with the key players Kim Jong un specifically why meet for a 4th time what what was the strategy the purpose of Secretary Pompei as trip in my opinion I think as much as it said in the public that they were hoping to get something concrete from North Korea it was probably attributed to the fact that we have not seen any progress so far in our in our gauge with North Korea so perhaps that the trip would have been a gesture on Washington's part to show that we are serious about the relationship and we're serious about moving things forward but at the same time we do want to see I would hope that we would want to see something reciprocated by North Korea before we take another step forward and they gauge what process so you can what worries you the most as things with North Korea move forward the most concerning thing is we don't seem to have a coherent firmly grounded understanding of how the regime operates we do have an understanding of who the players are but it just seems like the the the cognitive understanding of the roots of North Korea existence its motivations for coming to the table are understood by few key players and we're not really willing to take a step back and to reassess perhaps we calibrate our approach which is it's it's dangerous because if we continue these these dual slash multiple track engagement efforts with North Korea without really securing anything on the part of both Korea whether that's its nuclear weapons or perhaps taking a less hostile approach towards the United States or softly or the region unless that is guaranteed unless that is secured it just it's seems like it's not. It's not a reciprocated engagement I would say so Kim writes for The Hill she's also a former CIA analyst thanks very much for your time thank you even if things are tense now between Pyongyang and Washington there's a general sense that a thought could continue between the 2 Koreas at least and that's meant more tourists checking out the d.m.z. The 150 mile long demilitarized zone along the border reporter Steven Nessun joined a tour from the South Korean side. When I arrived at the entrance to the d.m.z. It looks more like a theme park than a memorial to the war that divided the Korean Peninsula. Pop music plays at a gift shop there bumper cars and another museum and a giant boat that swings back and forth called the super Viking it's not what you'd expect after driving through an arm checkpoint where soldiers board the bus to inspect passports and it's not the kind of place you'd normally go to pay respects to a living memorial to the Korean War a war where $3000000.00 soldiers and civilians were killed in a conflict that dragged on for 3 years. The 1st person I meet is some junkie She's been working at this gift shop for 30 years she sells Jade Chachi is fake North Korean currency and what is claimed to be actual ginseng liquor from the other side as well a T.-Shirt in the shop reads d.m.z. Since 1953 speaking through a translator some says since the historic meeting in April between South Korean president. And North Korea's Kim Jong Il tourist business here at the d.m.z. Is booming it turns out the prospect of peace is profitable Pillai had done them when they. Got badges and asked for my set increase the banks today stocks made that up under the manual. Mining foreigners and Koreans are like there's 2 layers of barbed wire fence and prison style guard towers dotting the landscape defectors from either side who attempt to cross here. Or are typically shot so this isn't exactly Disney World visitors can't just stroll into the d.m.z. You need to buy a government sanctioned package tour and once you arrive at the main entrance you're escorted to a bus stop it probably my bosses half filled with American journalists and international tourists from China Europe some of them pick up a crunchy local snack before boarding and offer me a taste of what it is that you. Think is going to drive up hills and witness in a standing a radio flora and fauna because nobody's allowed to live in the d.m.z. It's now home to rare birds and even the easy attic black bears can be seen on occasion lurking here there are also thousands of landmines here left over from the war. Were let out of the bus and head over to a tunnel covered in a green on it. If we climb into a roller coaster like car on a track as we descend underground we get a history lesson. We got on the hard few 10800 number on a long hike as a mom confronted the block 180-8105 then to the not. The tunnel is cool damp and the ceiling is low so you have to bend over while you walk at 5 feet 7 inches I bump my head at least 3 times. To get. More gas masks but word is this tunnel was built for $30000.00 North Korean soldiers to launch an invasion against their enemies in the south. Were allowed to walk to the end of the South Korean side of the tunnel it's boarded up but there's a small window you can peer through to the other side but you can't see much. Were ushered above ground and brought into a theater. Every visitor to the d.m.z. Is required to watch this video. He is there. The scenes of explosions in newsreel footage of crying families and dead bodies is a reminder of the South's tense relationship with the North but the film's message is also that not that long ago this was one nation and could be again. Or believe mortgage relief. She hears regroups is a. War. Before leaving the d.m.z. We stop it it's train station which looks like a Hollywood set the doors and station opened in $2413.00 and his Brighton area with a bustling gift shop one train arrives from Seoul every day this is the northernmost stop on the line for now posted on the wall here is a giant map of a route that doesn't exist from Seoul through North Korea to China and on to Russia as guards in black helmets in camouflage stand at attention tourists are taking pictures in front of a sign that reads to Pyongyang the capital of North Korea one after another the visitors pose in front of the Pyongyang sign and make a heart shape with their fingers as the picture is taken Kim show long just finished taking pictures here the 29 year old says many Koreans believe unification is possible which it will tell you that's what's good for. It would exist failed it could lose that is going on between South and North Korea to stay still we wanted to come here to build a mood and learn lessons tourists from China and Russia have reportedly been flooding North Korea to get a glimpse of the d.m.z. From that side but earlier this month the North's leader Kim Jong un blocked all tourist visas until after the 70th anniversary celebration of his country's birth and after that another round of talks between the north and south are scheduled possibly bringing the nations of a little bit closer to each other. The World I'm Stephen us I'm. Here with the world and their. 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I'm Marco Werman You're with the world multiple times a day every month for approximately 30 years half the world's population needs sanitary pads and tampons they are not cheap and some women and girls have serious challenges when they can't afford them this past Friday Scotland decided to offer free sanitary napkins to students reportedly the 1st country to do so one of the activists behind this move is Victoria Heaney She's a member of Women for independence a grassroots group and skull and I asked her about her research on period poverty that caught the Scottish government's attention last year the special thing about research is that it's grown break and it's never been done before so we decided to look at 2nd asked some questions before we knew we had the biggest evidence based research and the Western model to seen in regard to this topic so it's been tresses and Woman Oh and what did the research show I mean like how bad is a problem for girls who menstruate during the school year well we're finding that a lot of people who can afford people attacks have to say to say you know what in school you we also find as we do that sometimes the trolldom wasn't actually that a bit money sometimes the problem actually came in the she was asking someone as well so that the pain to her your relationship with your family was and how comfortable you had as a woman talking about your 40 and talking about having a visible p.t. Them public to you and the one thing the research pointed to was that after women have been trouble accessing short docs because they couldn't afford them the bank yes in most Coleman and site experience who Stockman Sheehan and this was women feel and she feeling just to feel unhygienic and now actually feeling like they can access everything in society when they don't there Pete just to just the statement was hand in hand with that So walk us through Victoria what this will look like at schools colleges and universities like How will students have access to these products when they get there Harriet what it's going to look like the research isn't a gated. Over 22 percent of the people that took part in the survey have actually rescued with the best work that most appointments so hopefully this provision is now going to start enabling shouldn't stop without the stock market she was having to ask someone so these a movie dispense to be feely available and you would have to you know if you like your and the seventy's and asking the nurse for a time porn or for a pad when you come on you know I got to say when I 1st heard about the story I was kind of surprised that it was happening in Scotland fairly wealthy country I mean I covered an almost identical story in a slum in Nairobi Kenya girls who could not afford sanitary pads and tampons ended up missing school sometimes actually having to drop out because of something as been ours their Perrier personally for you what was your own awareness of this problem in Scotland and were you surprised to hear how consequential things can be for the school girls during menstruation what we've all found is that there's a dangerous mess that access d.p.t. Pro-tax only AFIC certain countries or you know certain demographics or you know countries with us here in economics too but I think what we've seen is than most western countries had experience in status to that experience you know cutbacks and it comes to social provision to so there's as many that these situations don't happen on our doorstep but that actually happened to the women then straight as well so in Scotland what work still needs to be done well there's always works that women as well but I think right now I mean we need to celebrate you know our success of this fact to say would be our country has become a world leader and we also need to celebrate the fact that we have people and every walk of society who are less into these organizations they're less into campaigners I thank cushion for riches lost more we need to do in terms of education biological education has to match up with Hogan sees our place in the world with no society even using treats women to so I think was the goal of normalization today when it comes to how we talk about p.d. It's how we act around them and how we talk to boys and men about. We all need to be educated on the same level of Victoria Heaney is a member of the Scottish grassroots group Women for independence her research helped lead to Scotland's decision to battle period poverty in schools by offering free sanitary products to students. With good colleagues at our London office who report for b.b.c. Great Lakes they don't focus on Lakes Michigan superior and here on know their patches that part of East Africa that includes Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika and the countries of Rwanda and Burundi Robert Missa Garro is with b.b.c. Great Lakes he comes from the capital of Burundi and he's been reminiscing about one street and a building that were important to him growing up. In the district the missile to me is the level streets and in French which is the switch Well I grew up but the building actually it's a bit further away it's a youth center coming in that's where I basically had my life totally transformed and if it wasn't for you of Santa I wouldn't be where I am today. As a teenager growing up when I was a lot of 13 or 14 when there was a war in Burundi and coming it was one of those areas coming is the area where I grew up in any way as was one of those area though where ferry affected by the war had a way you know shootings like every day almost the conflict was one the the 1st elected president in Berlin 2 was killed on that day in 1903 he supports is decided just to fights the army which we know they claim the was responsible for his death Saul a started quite sporadically in areas like where I grew up people started to arm themselves to fight the army which turned into a big rebel group which. Camp for the. Island of peace will. Play music and forget about all of his troubles. The 1st day I want. For. Most people grew up in Africa they would understand to be able to find a nice woman to play you either have to be a member of a church or have someone who is really well connected so place you know being able to. Play an instrument was a bonus to me our loved music. Ever dreamed of being able to actually you know play music so for me was it was almost dream as he said it was an island of peace let him find mental refuge from the War My colleague Robert Missa Garro there with b.b.c. Great Lakes recalling growing up in the capital Burundi and learning to play the guitar. We leave you today with some more guitar sounds from Burundi this from the 1970 s. When the band African Nova how I managed to track down the song it's a long story but a good one I'll save that for another time that is our show today from the studio w. G.b.h. In Boston I'm Marco Werman We'll see tomorrow. 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In St Paul today the studios of Minnesota Public Radio It is Tuesday the 28th day of August a good as always to have you along everybody at the risk of muddying the international trade waters more than they have already been muddied We begin today with an update to developments in the reading of the North American Free Trade Agreement while noting that the Canadian foreign minister Chrystia Freeland was back in Washington today trying to get Canada back in that 3 party deal after yesterday's news that Mexico and the United States have come to terms the update from the White House goes a little bit like this hold your horses Marketplace's Tracy Samuelson introduces us to something called trade promotion authority trade promotion authority or t.p.a. Sets up this quid pro quo between Congress and the president Congress gives the president the. Ory to go out and negotiate trade deals that's the quid Bill ranks with the Center for Strategic and International Studies Congress sends the president off with gold for those deals and lots of rules in timetables for telling them what he's up to the quote from Congress is that if the president does all the things t.p.a. Tells him to do then Congress agrees to consider the agreement that he brings back in a timely fashion without any amendments a simple.