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Luxury vehicles and 18 lesser models to use a 3 day Asia Pacific Summit last year but has failed to sell them Steve Jackson reports up a New Guinea is one of the poorest countries in the Pacific but spends an estimated $135000000.00 hosting the APEC meeting in $28.00 in the ongoing saga of the summit cars has caused the greatest public anger 40 miles or ratty supercars and 3 Bentleys were purchased along with scores of other vehicles some of them disappeared after the meeting and had to be tracked down by police now instead of selling them to recoup the cost the government has decided to give them to M.P.'s it insists they will only be using the cars while on official duties but campaigners say it doesn't look good a cardigan worn by Kurt Cobain the need singer of the rock band has sold at auction for more than 300 $30000.00 a tattered all of green garment complete with stains and cigarette burns was worn at one of the band's most famous live performances on m.t.v. Unplugged in 1993 it hasn't been washed since the Rugby World Cup in Japan South Africa and Wales meet shortly in the 2nd semifinal in Yokohama South Africa have won the tournament twice before but they've slipped down the rankings in recent years the winning team will face England in the final after they beat the reigning champions New Zealand on Saturday that's the b.b.c. News. 8 o 6 g.m.t. Welcome back to Weekend from the b.b.c. World Service My name's Paul Henley and I have with me guests for the rest of the program Gisela Stuart chair of the pressure group change Britain for president and gazers also a member of parliament for the center left opposition Labor Party here in the u.k. Jonathan Steele is a Brit He is a British journalist and author you'll hear more from them very shortly 1st the u.s. President's Donald Trump is to make a statement to the White House later today which he's trumpeted very much after reportedly ordering a operation against the leader of the Islamic state group Abu Bakar al Baghdadi a short while ago the Reuters news agency reported that 2 Iraqi security force sources had informed it that Abu Bakar daddy had been killed inside Syria Abdullah hard reports from Baghdad for the British newspaper The Guardian It seems this been confirmed that he has been killed actually in Syria there are some reports also that he had detonated a suicide bomb when he was surrounded by special forces but as you say it's been reported killed before but I think I do so think there's a sense that it is more credible this time you have covered extensively The Rise and Fall of Islamic state maybe you could remind us please of Abu Bakar al Baghdadi significance Well Paul I mean in 2014 I remember being in both the Guardian summer and there was the sensation that this was an extension of threat I mean I remember people fleeing because ISIS units reach 3040 kilometers north of the city and since then it was a huge phenomenal trouble for Iraqi security forces there Archaean terror terrorism unit specially who fought for every single meet. From buzz at the for most of the that until the liberation of Mosul 2 years ago I mean I was in the battle of Mosul it was we crazy I mean car bombs drones attacks they were so ideologues driven committed to fighting the members of Islamic states up internal days before the final defeat they were fighting in the all streets of Mosul so for but the dirty too done to be killed is a huge news for those who fight against Islamic states however I would like to add also that it's been 2 years since the defeat actual defeat of the Islamic state their presence is has shrunk into tiny little pockets I was speaking to some security officers 2 weeks ago they were telling me they're like in in the dozens they numbered in the dozens so it is not the biggest news in Iraq at the moment although you know it has a huge impact and President Trump will later try to maximize that and that impact if reports of his death a true he will claim it as a personal victory I mean of course trunked will claim it as a person victory how about the actual victory has been achieved 2 years ago by Iraqi forces coalition forces of course that supported them the paramilitaries at Ford against Islamic states the Kurds all these different elements the fight against Islamic state was a huge advance of that rage from eastern Syria to northern Iraq to Western there's a subpoena again I would like to stress something I know it's a huge news that there was a moment the better but that it but that he has been dead for almost 2 years practically and the streets are in the cities of Pella and also full if I may speak in some sectarian terms in for the Sunni is available at one point so Islamic state as a form of liberation from the control of Baghdad from the Shia government of Iraq that they were the 1st who wanted. Around the Islamic state so go to the streets of Mosul and ask about Islamic State Oh Abu Bakr but you will hear insults for hours announce Yes And as you've mentioned the Iraqi capital has plenty of other things to think about at the moment as does the rest of Iraq many deaths recently in anti-government protests in a sentence or 2 just sum up the strength of feeling that before you go. Absolutely I mean you can hear the sounds of tear gas grenades up until now yesterday there were street fights between demonstrators the police force the biggest news in at us at the moment is the demonstrations against the prime minister against the whole political elite and the Anti Corruption demonstrations and at the same time you have a very troubling news coming from the south of the country of the beginning of the clashes between Shia forces and we have to remember that these Shia forces where created to fight the slamming state 2 years after the defeat of the Islamic state now these Shia up forces well equipped well armed well financed by Iran and others are now fighting among themselves or not the story we've seen at all of the Middle East before haith Abdullah hard speaking from Baghdad when news of the death of the i.s.i. Leader if it's confirmed would have been huge 2 years ago he suggested it's not now how big will the news be worldwide do you think Jonathan Steele and I think it will be quite big let's look at the analogy Retha some of bin Laden I mean he was killed . Almost 10 years after 911 attacks and it was still a very big story and the Taliban had been toppled sir he was also out of the radar dodgy has been for the last 2 years he was more of a global name more of a global figure and of course there was the issue of u.s. Revenge they wanted revenge for $911.00 it's not the same attack I just killed more Europeans and Iraq isn't Syrians than Americans so just a different kind of story. Ristal talking about the i.r.s. Resurgence the fact that if their daddy really is Ted I asked May not resurgence god same to important which would be comforting to many perhaps to foreign policy experts within the White House particularly Yes that's certainly true but how how big a victory is this for Donald Trump who Trump has been arguing over whether or not the i.r.s. Is resurgent and people who are opposed to his pullout from Syria and saying you can't do it because I asked is resurgent So a lot depends on. The whole movement and that's no small car bombs the most recent attacks was a really emerge perhaps some people will want revenge for the death of identity and it will incentivize people to be more active What do you think of this still slightly speculative news Gisela. I think I agree with Jonathan's analysis of this that if it is true it's it's an important step but. I think we just need to give this bit more time to makes it really happened do you think the whole debate about Islamic state is is that the military. What's the word the military dynamite that it was until recently Jonathan. Well militarily Sorry I don't mean military I mean political dynamite beg your pardon who teaches political dynamite should produce a very difficult problem how do people get young people particularly get radicalized and become suicide bombers and killers and so on and I judge you learn can do that that's been happening in mosques and in moms. Largely financed initially by Saudi Arabia this country Sufi kind of ideology hardline and going back to the tribal origins of the Salafi movement that's not something that can be converted by military means or by shooting or such an aging at Leader thank you the time is approaching 14 minutes past the hour voters in the eastern German states of touring and go to the polls later today today in fact to elect a regional governments the right wing anti establishment party alternatives for Germany is expected to make strong gains and is predicted to double its share of the vote to around a quarter the B.B.C.'s Damian McGinnis spoke to me just after the polls opened what's interesting about these elections poll is as you say on the one hand the right wing populist a.f.d. Is set to do quite well but also on the other side the incumbent radical left linker or left party is leading the polls at around 28 percent this is seen as the successor of the East German Communist Party for many people so some people recall this is quite a controversial party so what's interesting about these elections people outside the region is that traditionally in German politics the consensus is in the Mr in the in the center so it's the center left the center right party that tends to form the governance here we have 2 quite radical parties getting the majority they want to work together so they weren't form a government but what we're saying is that no parties will work with the f.t. Which is seen as too far right the conservatives have ruled out working with the radical left because all of these roots in East German communism so we're going to find it quite difficult most like. Plea for parties to form a government in this region and that's why this state is being looked at by the rest of Germany because this is really the way that German politics is going as the 2 main centrist parties get weaker and weaker and this is an unusual result is it for Germany the dealing care the far left could actually win out right yeah I mean they've been ruling this state for the past 4 years and they've done quite a good job the quite popular in the state have a popular leader when they 1st ousted angle America's conservatives from this region there are all sorts of predictions about the economy plummeting unemployment soaring or didn't happen the economy isn't really well but what we are seeing is this splintering in German politics where the populous parties on the left on the right are doing quite well the center parties the traditional big tent parties the losing supporters losing members as well and this does mean that it's becoming harder and harder to form stable coalitions we might find in this particular region very uncomfortable for party coalitions of minority government and as a say this reflects on the wider picture throughout Germany because of more support for these smaller special interest parties almost none is the middle worry Damien. Yeah absolutely and particularly the center left Social Democrats now that we traditionally want to Germany's biggest parties in this state they could end up with single figures there or they're going through a leadership battle right now they don't want their sharing power in national government wrangle America's conservatives they don't want to be in this government they feel they're losing their identity with the conservatives and as a result there's a lot of pressure from left wing grass roots activists acquits the national coalition bringing down Angela Merkel's government while also things interesting in eastern Germany is of course you know in a few weeks Germany is about to celebrate 30 years since the fall of the Berlin wall yet at the same time the successor of East German communism in this region is more successful than ever so that's also an interesting trend was saying and then the rise of the f.t. In eastern Germany elections we've seen 2 elections in September where the f.t. Did very well nice in Germany that's also provoking a lot of questions around the sun a verse or usually previous big fall of the wall anniversaries we've seen a celebration remitted now the mood is a lot more reflective and people asking why 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall some instant German so dissatisfied that the voting for a populist right and in some cases also for the radical left the B.B.C.'s Damian McGuinness speaking to me from Berlin Stuart all eyes tend to be on the a.f. Deal turn it is for Germany because I suppose of history in Germany whenever there's perceived to be a turn to the far right the tail is Damian tells it here seems to be more the disappearance of the middle and that's a familiar one all over Europe isn't it it is and the original function of what the Germans call the folks part in the people's parties is that you govern from the center and you absorb the extremes so even in the United Kingdom context it was the job of the Labor Party to absolve the. The socialist work and the conservatives to deal with with British National Party and in Germany what you seeing is that splintering everywhere and it shows itself in the former East probably just more extreme because as in that report it was mentioned in the elections in Saxony in Brandenburg in September they have 50 got $27.00 another case 23 percent of touring and we're expecting something similar and on the other hand it's the extreme left bit to remember is if you were an East German in 1909 it was quite difficult for him to decide which political party you would support because even if you had Social Democratic leanings the former Communists went to your party so the old labels are disappearing and the former east still exists as a concept doesn't it there is if you go to parts of former East Germany you can see and feel the difference there's a worse living standard often isn't it is and after unification you had a lot of the young people going to to to to the west a lot of the institutions in the 4 maced were run by people from the west who were kind of parachuted in as it was seen. But just coming back to the free fragmentation that the state I was born in Bavaria a population of 11000000 it always was governed by the Christian socialist sister party of America's leading party and we used to I used to grow up thinking it was just a question how much they would win by the last election they were down to 36 percent and it wasn't that the electorate in the Varia had changed its views it just was no longer prepared to to vote for the main political parties and that's what we're seeing in Internet Jonathan Steele if this is a phenomenon outside Germany is the potential loss of the middle ground in politics something you lent Well I think it's really a revolt against new liberalism and globalization effect in the last 30 years. I mean we had been under such in Britain we had a famine starting to know there is no alternative and I think Chancellor Merkel had one point said situation Germany was out of Los I pronounce that. Sort of I think it's very clever of the f.t. To call themselves Alternative for Germany because it's very accurate it's not an inflammatory slogan It's just saying we have to find a new way and of course over 3000000 years Germans found a new way back immigrating to the west and that feed makes the people left behind feel even more deserted in abandoned and their solution except get out and they want something where they can remain in their hometowns and provinces so I think that it is this is something good about it as well I think because we do need to see alternatively evaluate your position in Britain it's. Going to the left we don't have a populist tried one party we have the left wing Labor Party becoming more left trying to find a new answer to globalisation this is the b.b.c. World Service. A reminder of our main news this hour President Trump is to make a statement today the White House after reportedly authorizing an operation against the leader of the Islamic state group more on that later now if you're a keen reader and book lover you probably spend some time in book shops but do you often browse for books that you like and then make a note to buy those books cheaper online rather than in the shop itself many independent bookshops are now struggling to survive because of the threat from giant online retailers Amazon of course in particular so should bookshops Here's a new idea charge a basic entry fee for customers just for the pleasure of being able to browse in-store Howard Fishman is a New York based writer and musician and he's just written an article in The New Yorker magazine supporting that proposal the I. It is to monetize the intangibles that are offered by physical bookstores that we love so much when we go into a bookstore we love to touch the books and look at them and talk to the people and feel the the sense of environment that is that we're in and those things right now are not monetize they're just built into the cost of the book but there's nothing really to stop people from doing their shopping in a store and they're browsing in a store and then going home and ordering them for much less online and do we know that a lot of people actually do that it sounds so cheeky. Well I think it's probably true that a lot of people do in fact there's a term for it called showrooming where that people use retail stores for this purpose as showrooms and then they go home and order online Ok so it is the thing what key propose exactly I want to be sure that I know that I'm clear that I'm not offering a solution because I'm not an economist but it is my thought is to would it be possible to charge some nominal admission fee that would go toward physical brick and mortar stores be more competitive with what their online competitors do you think that would go down well with the shops would they find it feasible you know the ones that I've talked to here in New York were very hostile to the idea and it seems that most of the people that I polled informally when I was working on this piece were also quite hostile to the idea to me it doesn't seem that onerous and ask to contribute a dollar or something when you go into a bookstore and a dollar that could be redeemed if you actually end up buying a book that is the model that is being used at the bookstore in Porto Portugal the name of which is escaping me was the very famous bookstore Yeah I could that's one possibility for sure. Do you think it's an Ok thing generally even be full the book still has became the poor relations to online book selling do you think it was Ok to sit on the floor of a bookshop and repeat I think that that has been something that people have done for a for a long time probably as long as bookstores have been around I don't see a problem with it and that's a culture that you'd encourage presumably I think that's one of the pleasures of going to a physical bookstore for sure tell me about what a book still means to you because this is at the heart of it to me bookstores are these incredible oases of you can be surrounded by. Centuries of great. Thought and literature and there's a sense that I have when I go into a bookstore of a real column and excitement at the same time excitement about all the things that are waiting for me to discover them but also calm because there's something very soothing to me about being in a physical bookstore that that really thrills me and inspires me and I don't want that to be lost and you'd really miss it if they went from you'll big cities would you. Absolutely I think a lot of people of a certain type would agree with you and they're probably fairly erudite fairly middle class people who appreciate these places if you're going to charge people a dollar to get in is going to become even more exclusive isn't it is going to put off the people at the bottom end of the social scale before they even get to the deal well that's why I suggested a dollar I mean the Porto bookstore charges 5 euro which is quite a bit more and the bookstore in Japan charges at the equivalent of 13 or 14 u.s. Dollars which is really a lot I think a dollar most people could afford that especially if as you say it were brief funded with the price of a book it seems to be pretty low ask how it Fishman who's a writer in New York gave you a bookstore browser not buying. I'm an impulse buy I can't going to book shop without ending up with a book of men I hadn't intended to so you love books. Yeah I mean that's my truth 1st true love so how are you going to protect them well it kind of reminds me when we you know 20 years ago we had retail price maintenance where was a fixed price for books and everybody said if you remove that then it will be the end of the physical book and what have you it wasn't the physical book has survived and we have a crisis and high streets this online this is shops to walk into is not exclusive to go cause it's a similar problem and that the response to that is what do you add to the bookshop because your coffee place you make a whole lot of other things by still want to go in and be enticed is always I think charging if you if you wanted to increase the prices on the high street chanting would be the quickest and best with doing it Jonathan Steele do you agree grieving I think there should be voluntary donations not not charging like my old newspapers . God you know some American radio stations and glitter nations get people to become members or subscribers or whatever they want to be called and urged off of people the chance to pay money but fall into not compulsory pricing they will sue book shops need to be more user friendly asking for more chairs for being so you can sit and read and so on then bookshops just become libraries and people sit in them all day reading and I don't know taking notes for studies all the libraries are closing time and spaces so the book shops are coming off let's say you think radical measures some write measures on a needed even if it's voluntary donations Well I think I mean some big change in Britain to give your loyalty card soon if you buy 10 books you get the Stephens book Free all our kind of thing so I think loyalty is a branch of what I'm saying turn fall into donations and invest in your stuff I go to one bookshop and go out of my way because when I look for something I can ask someone really informed and say what's the best book on and that is what makes me going back to that place so speaks a form of bookseller. 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And 980 highway patrol officer Frank shank waits goes in on usual cool boy was on his way to see him and he was very sick I had no idea what to expect he'd just come off a hospital bed the door opens a little red Pierce knickers jumps out he runs over the motorcycle Hi I'm going to get on your motorcycle Yes you can caress Frank had just hoped that boy's dying wish but he wasn't done then the making of the wish man on Outlook weekend. B.b.c. News with Eileen McHugh President Trump will make a major statement in a few hours' time following reports of a u.s. Special forces operation against the leader of the Islamic state group Mr Trump tweeted that something very big had just happened although he gave no details u.s. Media say Mr Trump authorized the operation targeting Abu Bakar al Baghdadi in the Syrian province of Idlib on Saturday some reports have said the i.a.s. Leader is dead but his death has been wrongly reported several times before power has been cut to almost a 1000000 homes and businesses in California in an attempt to stop damage cable starting new wildfires more than 2000000 people are losing their electricity supplies across 36 counties 90000 people have been moved from their homes the Iraqi prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi is under growing pressure to resign amid continuing violent protests which have left at least there 63 people dead in the past 2 days a group of M.P.'s that by a powerful cleric. Have started a sit in inside parliament to press for his resignation. People in Argentina will be voting in presidential elections today as the country wrestles with a deep economic crisis the opposition candidate tell battle Fernandez who's running mate is the controversial former President Cristina Fernandez to care center is widely expected to win. As Britain prepares for a possible general election the head of the Anglican Church the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned the prime minister bars Johnson to avoid using inflammatory language Justin Welby said the use of words like traitor and fascist had left some members of parliament fearing for their lives and at the Rugby World Cup in Japan South Africa and Wales meet shortly in the 2nd semifinal in Yokohama the winning team will face England in the final after they beat the reigning champions New Zealand on Saturday b.c. News. I'm Andrea Kennedy outlook week and. Now I know today's guest as Frank Chang quids but. By his nicknames. I'm referred to as a wish man. Some of the Bush years ago said. Let's just pick a little bit because they tell you quite a lot about Frank. Because of his day job Frank was a highway patrol policeman in the United States like office a punch now you'll need to be of a certain age to remember him because he was one half of the American t.v. Show chips. Always wearing his special aviator sunglasses and a good deal of swag. All the nickname is the wish man and that's because of his own off to Alice joke after taking off his helmet and stepping on. Frank de something quite different. Make really. Take a look. Since 1980 he's played a big part in granting thousands of wishes for children with life threatening medical conditions the wishes Frank says very greatly Some are funny some are so simple I want to basketball meet the Pope I want to meet the president they want to meet a sports star they want to meet him. And then as. A little boy. I want to eat in a restaurant with my family because he and his family have never been. Granting wishes to children with life right. Ning medical conditions became Frank's mission in life but he already had a job so what was it that led him to take on another one that would be so all consuming. Today an outlook weekend the making of the wish. So what would you wish for one if you had one wish as a child Frank Wantage was different to most children my wishes a child was strictly survival by mother divorced my father when I was 2 years old and she disappeared had no idea where she went at 5 years old I was in a kindergarden recess and a lady came up and grabbed me said I'm your mother you're going with me and kid that me off the playground I had no idea who she was my father had sole scuzz to be and for the next 5 years we lived in tents the back of a car and that was survival my wish then was survival it was a life of constant relocation and often isolation. My mother knew that my father and the authorities were looking for her and me and that's why she kept us at this very remote locations from ages 5 to 10 I never really had any playmates even at school she made sure that I went to school so far away that we lived that by the time I got home there were no other children in the area. My mother in fact did find as only 10 years old and grabbed the authorities to come and arrest her and get me and during that little interim she threw everything we had in the car and off we went to Arizona that was about it 3 week trip because she kept running out of money. She'd get a job as a waitress and just get some tip money and leave enough. A little bit of gas next town get a job but at 10 years old we finally hit an area called selectman Arizona which is up on all Route $66.00 in northern Arizona just not far from the Grand Canyon or the Indian reservations and it was the 1st time we lived in a town in fact a rancher took us in and we lived in his house sleeping on the floor on pallets for several months until she could finally buy an old travel trailer and I got a job as a dishwasher and 10 years old and started working almost full time and that's when I really started learning how to take care of myself even though all the money I made had to go to my mother. My mother and I were so poor that the poor people were helping us and by doing that they would bring us whatever they could beings in tortillas to help us out because my mother could hardly afford groceries and Frank found a father figure in town and local man cooled quite a deal along was a big impact in my life he taught me carpentry skills he taught me to appreciate music he taught me sports everything that normal father would do and if I have my father he would do also then when Frank was just 127 years after she'd snatched him from the school playground his mother left him again she came to me she said I can't for you anymore and you're on your own and she left and I really had no idea what to do then and I went to one as I said my father figure I said I'm not sure what to do and he said I've arranged for you to live at the Widow Sanchez House she's going to charge you $20.00 a week room board and he said you make $26.00 a week so the 1st time in your life you could have 6 hours a week of your own but the biggest thing that one told me was and I. I practice is the day I have lived my whole life always turn a negative to the positive and I said wow what do you mean my mother just left me I have nowhere to go and he said but they get his she left you you're on your own the positive is we've arranged for you to live with a widow Sanchez for the 1st time in your life you're going to actually live in a house you're going to have your own room that's a positive she's the best cook in town you don't have to worry about meals there was no argument about that that was a positive you're going to have indoor shower indoor plumbing which we didn't have that was a positive and the biggest positive is she's got the 1st television set and slogan Arizona which is for a kid was a big positive so although I was a member of dress my life that all those negative just look around trying to turn into the positives it must have been quite something to swim after his mother had just abandoned him to his fate but Kwan had another knife lesson as well that no Tony should he find the good in his situation he also need to tell us give back one what he mean give back I don't have anything except as a week and he said you don't have to have Bunny to give back you can give back your time and he said look for example of Mrs Sanchez look at her friend yard it's full weeds you're living there she's helping take care of you you can give back by pulling always clean in a hard look at the porch it needs painting you're big enough you know how to do that you can scrape and paint you can give back and they will messages that made a big impression on a small boy Frank finished school and joined the apple sway he worked for for years and then he became a member of the Arizona highway patrol tactical unit he was issued with a motorbike a badge a leather jacket and sunglasses he was part of a 10 man squads that covered the whole state well they had a little bit off time I asked my commanders if we could go to the local great schools. To talk to the kids about bicycle safety. And this is a period there was a television show in the States called Chips very popular the show is about 2 California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers punching John and the biggest demographic for that show was age group of 7 to 14 and that's why when we start right into the town 2 men seem like punching John all the sudden the little kids start on hey punch a John a ship. And the kids could care less about bicycle safety his want to get on the motorcycles and play with the lights and siren but again a great p.r. . But it was also a tough job one that involved dealing with death firsthand on a regular basis and in 1978 Frank came close to losing his own life we were assigned to a town called Parker Arizona the area that's on the Colorado River on the Arizona California border and it's a little town of Parker about the 1000 people grows to over 80000 people in this strip during what they call her spring break for the colleges and again this is in the seventy's this is the big period of sex drugs rock n roll everybody just high on drugs and on a high speed chase with a drunk driver he's gone 80 miles an hour and. As I'm chasing him another drunk driver pulled right in front of me I hit him broadside it 80 they told me the crash was spectacular and obviously I hit the ground it hit its Arctic cracked my helmet in half and my partner try to revive me he could not and he called in a code 963 meaning officer killed in a line of duty and was pronounced dead. At the scene but she will have candid frank didn't die thanks to an oft happened to be passing she said I'm going to try and revive him my partner said he's dead thank God because we're talking today she didn't listen and for 4 minutes she performed c.p.r. And obvious we're talking to Dave brought me back to life and well Was have to have a little bit of humor in that and I saw kind of the consuls later about the accident he said What do you recall you were dead do you did you go through what they call a tunnel and I didn't know what that meaning the scribe and I said well yes I did the tunnel as you're as you started dying your life goes away it's like looking at the end of the tunnel and all the sudden like goes on and they start bringing you back to life that like it's a little pinpoint and it gets bigger and bigger and then your sense to start coming in and he said What do you recall in senses and I said well the 1st thing I recall was something very sweet something very pleasant smelling and it turned out it was her perfect was the next sense the sound of hearing sense of hearing coming back I heard sirens I heard people saying she's brought them back brought them back what do they talk about have no idea. The sense of touch something is to clean my face turned out it was her hair. The sense again of touch some to design my lips the sense of sight I open my eyes and here's this beautiful blonde with a lip lock on me. Ok if this is 7 this is fine I appreciate this. But I learned I learned my partner and also perform c.p.r. And I'm so glad I didn't wake up to him I still have probably stress trauma because a big goggle guy big mustache bugs in his buds that's all that I've been quite sure Matic. But it took several months to recover from that accident I had massive brain injuries skull fracture all sorts of broken bones and bruises but during constantly when I was getting ready to go back to work a concert said God spared you for a reason and now it's up to you to find that reason that reason really could have been anything being a good father and good neighbor but 2 years later something unusual happened by now Frank had recovered from his injuries and was back on Highway Patrol g.t.s. When he caught a surprising cold on the radio find a payphone We have urgent message for you and a close the pay phone was 40 miles away I called in the dispatcher said We've just learned of a 7 year old boy named Chris Chris has terminal leukemia Chris only has a week or so to live and Christmas heroes are the characters from the t.v. Show chips punch and John and he told his mother when I grow up I want to be a how virtual motorcycle officer just like Ponce and John. She said a friend of the family has called the Highway Patrol and ask if there's any way that we could set up a special day for Chris and with permission of his doctors his mother and our commanders we're going to pick him up and our state police helicopter at his hospital fly him to our headquarters building in Phoenix and we would like you to be standing by when a helicopter lands so he sees that motorcycle officer and I guess they chose me because of the work I had done with the children it was just one of those chance things. And they timed it so I was just I was pulling into the landing zone the helicopter was landing I could see this little boy just grinning I mean just screamed he air to air as a helicopter landed now I had no idea what to expect I thought our paramedics were to help us a little boy he just come off a hospital bed just off I.V.'s the door opens a little red pierced sneakers jumps out he runs over the motorcycle Hi I'm Chris can I get on your motorcycle Yes you can Chris and he was just haven't he was all grins and giggles and everything and I look at his mother and she's crying and it I couldn't fake that out of hers then a dawned on me she has her 7 year old back she has a little boy running around instead of being a lane and a hospital bed with all these tubes in them. Chris went on that day to become the 1st and only honorary Hauber troll officer in the history of trauma this is a little over 39 years ago complete with a custom made uniform that we had made for him his own badge that is still assigned to him today but most important to him his motorcycle Wings' we went to his house the next day and to present that uniform we had it made tailor made it for us overnight uniforms or custom made in those days and we one received permission to go to his house I led several motorcycle officers car officers out there in a procession red lights and siren you commands in a neighborhood right Chris goes right now we have them as uniform he does quick change artists he goes out he comes out just right in wearing his uniform but he comes over to mean starts touching the wings on my uniform that motorcycle officers wear and he said I'm a police officer but I wish I could be a motorcycle officer and that's the 1st time I ever heard that word wish. And we just started teasing him and said Well Chris this is the training we do and it's a shame you don't have a motorcycle we would set up some traffic cones in your driveway and test you right now Chris is a step ahead of me he runs a house comes right in out a little battery operated motorcycle that his mother got for him in place of a wheelchair. And I had to laugh because motorcycle officer with the high top leather boots and his mother got him a pair what we call the ranches rubber mucking boots that are high top up most up to the knees that look like motorcycle boots and he's wearing knows he's got on a helmet he's got an aviator glasses like motorcycle officers where he goes through the cones is a comeback that I pass as you did Chris when I get my wings Those were special ordered and I said it'll take me a day to get those made and we'll deliver them to you. He got to stay home that night I got a call the next morning Chris is in a hospital in a coma probably not going to survive the day I went pick up the wings I received for mission to go to the hospital I went into his hospital room he's in a coma his uniform is saying right by his bed just as I penned on the wings on his reunify he came out of a calm very weak voice and looked at me and my motorcycle officer now yes you are Curtis his wish had become true. A few hours later Chris creation's. The experience understandably made a big impact on Frank Binay officer I mean we see death almost daily and especially with children you just can't get used to it is breaks your heart when a child is killed in an accident but this was special I mean we had bonded with this little boy so the fact that it's quite a bit. Our commanders learned that Chris was going to be buried in a little town in Illinois called Colonial annoy. And asked me if I would go back with my partner and give him a full police you know listen we have lost a fellow officer which we did and we were met in this little town the word a got out the tell of the media is picking us up and interviewing us as we're leaving Arizona as we arrive in Chicago it's about 120 miles of this little town and the media is waiting there television stations and they had formed Illinois state police the county sheriff's office the city police of what our mission was and all of these agents sent officers to join us to give this little boy a full funeral a full police funeral and Chris is buried in uniform and his great marker reads Chris gracious Arizona trooper. Flying home I just started thinking about this little boy who had a wish and we made it happen. And I just started thing what can we do that for other children. One Christmas mother came home I approached her and I said this is what I'd like to do and memory of your son and she said let's do it as there were going to we're going to have a child make a wish and we're going to make it happen and those wishes could be in a category of I want to be like a police officer fireman an actor I want to have a certain Toyah or whatever I want to see a certain place and the people who approach even the offices that were involved with us in the beginning know it's a bad idea it's never going to work nobody's ever heard of anything like this and it took almost 6 months but a fine they all came together in the November of 1980 we became official will received our our numb profit status and we are officially the Make-A Wish Foundation the 1st official wish they granted was for a 7 year old boy named Frank found in. Christ and being diagnosed with terminal leaky Mia not knowing what to expect Frank went along to meet him and I was his wish Granter would go out interview the child to see what the wish might be for this child so I mean even as a little boy and the mother was an bearers for me to come in the house so I borrowed a patrol car and went out and his name is Frank Salazar But is that then with Bob c. And got the patrol car and had him set in there and he just fastened it with everything and I just started asking if there's something you really want to have or do or see or be what would it be and he thought about a while and he said I want to be a fireman. And I just started laughing I see your son and how that whole car a police car and you want to be a fireman. And he started laughing and I thought to myself well that's easy my girlfriend at the time now my wife her brother was a Phoenix fireman and I know we could set that up and then he said no I want to ride and hotter balloon and I thought well I know people with a hot air balloon I know I can set that up that's going to be easy and he said no I want to go to Disneyland and that kind of threw me we didn't really at that time think of that far of a travel wish to Disneyland and I were in California so I said Ok and I'll get back with you and went to the board and I said I want to give him all 3 wishes so Bobsy did get to be a fireman afine star Department in fact made him the full turnout coat the helmet his size everything just like we had done for Chris little boy had so much fun got to ride in a hot air balloon just again so much fun Disney was a different story we kept calling the Disney and they didn't know who we were and just what we'd like us free admission to the park if he could get in front of the lines is wheelchair terminal illness to such a and we learned later they get these requests all the time that it's bogus and they just wouldn't talk to us and finally our sector said I don't know what to do so give me the name and the number and I'll give them a call I call over there and I got a secretary and I said a need to talk of the Director of Public Relations and who is this and I said this is Officer Frank shank with Arizona how to troll instead of saying President Make a Wish Foundation and she said What's this about a sample warrant for one of your people well guess I got to talk to. Now the minute I got the gentleman on the phone I said I just lied to you and here's my name here's my badge number here's my supervisor's name and telephone number all you have to do is call him and I will be terminated immediately Will you please listen to my story well he listened and now 39 years later Disney being one of the biggest sponsors over the years of Make a Wish Foundation literally hundreds of thousands of children of go on and so I tell people sometimes you gotta lie to get as you need to qualify that by right away and asked the foundation gree through did Frank's walk and after a year I had to make a career choice because I was working. Not only my shift but all sorts of part time jobs but I never took a salary with make wish every penny that we that I could make off duty went into the Treasury so we could grant these wishes. And I even my commander at the time called me in and I thought I was going to get a chewing out and he said I understand what you're doing Frank I support your program 100 percent in fact he can use our offices you can use our our equipment for correspondents he said but I want you to give me 8 hours of work a day now if it takes you 15 or 18 hours do it because I know so you're going to have to think some breaks or in a day and I respected that man and kept up my high standards for my arrest records and so on I've worked usually about 20 hours every day so I get 4 hours sleep and there are times when I say I just don't want to do this anymore and our core data recumbent say we've just been informed another child. Ok the children are more important I can sleep I would tell people I can sleep when they close led Frank did eventually retire from police we're off to 42 years but the Make-A Wish Foundation continues to grow we're go at 450000 wishes worldwide and we've got 63 chapters United States 50 chapters on 5 continents Frank has become the subject of a recent feature film called Wish man and sometimes just occasionally he bumps into someone he's wished he's helped to fulfill I was hired as technical advisor and I had to be one of the 1st ones on a set every day and work with a script supervisor and we have a go over the script for the day we would look at the settings for the day and about the 3rd day into a very loving girl named Kennedy Del Toro we got along great but would come in one morning and she's crying and she got something gives me a big hug and I said Kennedy what's wrong what I do and she says I'm aware Schild now we're both crying. She said when she was 11 years old she had a brain tumor. And she told the chapter I want to go to film school and learn how to be an actress and they said Ok and I set it up but she couldn't do it the doctor says she can't travel she's probably not going to survive while she did survive and at 17 years old she wanted to total remission a doctor so she can have her wish and make a wish center to a school in Los Angeles and the director of go or a movie she was working on ask if she would like to be and in turn for scripts supervisor and during the filming the regular scripts supervisor then show up one day the director said you know how to do it take over the next day again the girl doing come into director said she's fired you're hired and this young girl is business literally all over the world working on moving sets just having a great life and I always remind them no matter how old they are not be 6570 years old they're always going to be a Wish kid. It's a special group a special sorority society. Prank some quits confound of the Make a Wish Foundation you've been listening to out this weekend with me. Preach East by Tom hunting and. You. Will. Public radio for the north coast of California and the southern coast of Oregon you're listening to. Crescent City. Creek. In Reykjavik in Iceland in front of me of the cold gray wolves in this of the Atlantic. And fame. Equal so the pair in this company. It's. 2.25.
But you know. Why it's because the devil it's a friend going to kiss is your boyfriend of demonstrations and she's going with bad news she's going to bring gas masks to the rally today they've ordered them from Amazon Catherine thanks but now she's on the brain gas mask would be a bad idea because of the subway station police are searching everybody including Man little ones and young people like us they're showing their backs and if they have any equipment with them like the gas masks I mass whatever they just arrest them. So my friend just asked me if it is a must for me to get the gas mask so I told her that no is not a mask I don't want to risk my friends getting searched so they get she told the other friend not to come out with equipment not ideal but she's gone without gas mask before Catherine grabs or not says by door mom doesn't come home early requests will be totally ignored we had outside. But then she turns and runs back with you because. I'm broke and it's very important. Even if it's not going to rain yet it is not for the rain it is for here yes and bullets rubber bullets that is it work some bullets yes frankly yes no no I don't understand why but always those bullets they slip all along the umbrella so they just they don't get through a rather. Protesters hide behind a wall of umbrellas and any graffiti or dismantle or close circuit t.v. Camera on the street doing anything else they don't want the police to see. But she and I and Emanuel head to the bus stop you know these other young people caring for sized umbrellas on this totally sunny day walking over here like to the bus so you like looking around to see if other people you think are going to protest always one. You know how many people is Iraq. Yet And so there's like some young people on our left 2 people standing next to you I think are probably is not to see fishy friends of our small back but that the tall guy that's all the top guy in white shirt yeah and then the couple behind you probably it's like are you on my side are you one of us went to the protest everybody's in a mass so you don't really know who's on your team in the neighborhood is kind of exciting to wonder who your allies might be. The protests in Hong Kong of an international news for months picked off by people's fears that Mainland China is threatening some very basic things about their city and their lives for the coverage here to show we thought we weren't seeing many stories who got to know anybody very well who they were what exactly they expected was going to come out of the protests given China's intransigence. 3 of us arrived in Hong Kong and in September me and Emanuel in a coworker Diane will. Say one of the things that was fascinating given the ugly state of democracy here in the United States likely was to be among so many young people who believe so intensely in democratic ideals and yearn so deeply for the basics like normal actions free speech and free assembly. Though just in the last few weeks since we got to Hong Kong we watch the situation change dramatically it's gotten much more violent measures by the government. This hour we have the story of the change that we witnessed what we think it might mean. If you haven't been following the story at all maybe even sitting this one out we're going to catch you up on what you need to know we have all sorts of people from all sides of this that we want you to meet. Go It's This American Life this week overseas with a lot of people who have some very American values stay with us. And the curse generation Ok so what politicized thousands thousands of people this much that they drop their normal lives in the coming out every single week in a protest it's now been 18 straight weeks. To Catherine for instance she's somebody who worked at Abercrombie and Fitch During college I don't mean the bust of protest that's why your English is so good somebody who wanted to be a singer actually got a chance to go pro when she was 16 but a mom kwacha that thing was too much of a long shot and she should get an education or get a normal job Catherine was actually very surprised when I informed her that an American parent I said the same exact thing. I thought like American dreams get the truth so you take that as I watch Glee. That of this is Lee watching Internet savvy college grad in her 1st office job how did she end up protesting in the street every weekend with tens or maybe it's hundreds of thousands of peers. For starters Catherine's $22.00 which means she's part of a special generation in Hong Kong already and Hong Kong the $980.00 Sesay right before it had over I'm Dorothy and I'm born in 1907 My name is actually I'm also born in 1907 you can call me. And I are born 9097 to 9097 is a year y. And Hong Kong was handed over back to China from the British Ok let's just pause in these 22 yards for a minute for some quick. History as you may or may not know how concepts on the edge are mainland China right there is a British colony for a new long time starting in the 1900 century and then finally in 1907 the British got out and headed over to China and the idea was there's going to be a 50 year transition period after 50 years China will fully be in charge but during that 50 years on Congress be a democracy now Hong Kong people ought to run Hong Kong and its allies British governor of Hong Kong during the handover ceremony in 1907 that is the promise and back is the honest shakable destiny. But to be clear Hong Kong had not been a democracy under Britain but they were going to transition towards it every bunch of years and the hope was after 50 years in 2047 the Chinese government let them stay a democracy which at the time did not seem like a crazy idea China was opening up in all kinds of ways though wasn't clear how this is going to play out. In the end of the day after 50 years in the year 2047 China was going to be able to do whatever it wanted in Hong Kong These are the children born the year that cock started ticking and if you've heard of the phrase curse generation Yes What's this joke along with the 970 people it was it was pretty much a joke pretty much a funny thing to us because I think what we 1st joke about it it's really primary schools but because the generation is just what we've been joking around for all those years the reason or the joke had to do with a coincidence they were cursed because of some weird bad luck during some big childhood milestones they all went through together like the year their kindergarten graduation the SARS virus hit Hong Kong and city shutdown graduations were cancelled 6 years later when they should've had their elementary school graduation same thing happen again but it's swine flu. And Catherine members or friends joke that when they graduated high school it was going to be a bola and that's when they started using the word cursed I think that was the time around the time that j.k. Rowling wrote her porter and the curse child. Yet so many of us are over the curse to always say that we are the chosen because it was chosen all of us love her so we always go where the shows and when we have to face something special in their life or we are the curse to what we have to face something bad or fate something significant. Others as a chosen one side of things didn't really kick into their senior year of high school was 2014 they were 17 the 17th year since the handover and that year people in Hong Kong were still expecting that Mainland China was going to let them start holding full on elections where they could choose their own leaders as promised back in 1907 and that year China announced it wasn't going to happen it was. Led to a movement called the umbrella movement headed by young people teenagers would wander politics in these public school classes that all these 22 year olds talk about as being instrumental in their thinking process that began as part of a handover called liberal studies classes 'd to explain among other things the promises of 1907 and the rise of Hong Kong citizens was they took to the streets most of them for the 1st time banning the boat carrying umbrellas thousands of people in a vast procession down the streets and protest movement that was almost entirely peaceful the and the last didn't get the vote after 3 months the protests ended. Dorothy works for a multinational company and an entry level job out of college she's a management trainee she went to some protests back then out of solidarity with her peers I was just amazed by the other students but she didn't get all the politics that changes June when I can introduce the bill that would allow mainland China to extradite people from Hong Kong to be tried and punished in China under Chinese law this is seen as a new and very menacing encroachment on the rights of Hong Kong citizens since 9097 they've been ruled by Hong Kong laws and Hong Kong courts everybody is presumed innocent but the rights we know in most democratic countries now anybody can get thrown into the prisons of courts of communist China I would say let that that was a time when I 1st feel awake and when I'm truly understanding what happened when I 1st go to the macho no extradition Bill and I was very very emotional at that time because like there is only around 7000000 people in Hong Kong but 1000000 books on the street with the same demobbed with the same wish like helping Hong Kong to remain its current state when Hong Kong to stay like it is with its own laws separate from China. A week later too many people came out at the time I was doing very well my God this is so touching like wise people so united and then the next 2nd the government just declares that oh we heard your fois But we're we will be continuing on the bill on Tuesday so that was like a really big contrast and like in the morning you see how peaceful things were that and night you see the police come in out and start brutally hitting people I was like it was really unforgettable to me because that was the 1st time when I witnessed with my real highways that the police chasing people there chasing students who did not do anything and start to beat them and arrest them. Other 22 year olds also told us how radicalizing it's been tear gassing and beating peaceful protesters and this point I understand this before we got to Hong Kong a lot of the emotion driving the protests is just about the police because the government is supporting them to do such things and there is no penalty for them even if they are doing things that are completely and this up to both to everyone. Because nobody knows where this is going to lead by 2047 when China fully takes over Hung of Catherine and lots of other people her age things are starting to feel pretty ominous with Hong Kong going to become just like any other Chinese city run by the communists when you're 50 what do you picture of life here will be like. I came pake chirped that. I would be super depressed because I was so perlite comment on political fate I really cannot imagine the day that I cannot speak freely on Internet and that way to know I have the freedom of speech and more and I cannot imagine that there will come a day me and my friends commenting on the government become a crime and you think that would happen yes I do when like all the sales that is happening and now expression I will say in. What is happening in Sudan will happen Hong Kong she's talking about internment camps where the Chinese are holding perhaps a 1000000 weekers and others they say is really education is basically a concentration camp they put people who would just not who do not agree with the government into the concentration camp and educate them and they got monitored wherever and whenever they go everywhere as police police monitors everybody's move and I do saying that if we do not fight for our future there will come a day Hong Kong will become like John because he's politically active This is not feel like an abstract threat with a 22 year olds picture who China's going to crack down on it's them Ashley is also in a 1st job out of college Georgia the bank who knows whatever they would do to us and under their extradition Bill who nurse where we will go how what time we would disappear that's what we feel off. Ashes heard of the social credit system the China started to monitor and rate its citizens she visited China decides that your anti government will make it impossible for you to get the job you want rise in society and the prices the China uses to monitor its population an estimated 200000000 surveillance cameras around the country with facial recognition software have been going up around Hong Kong tens of thousands of them this is something else I didn't understand before I came on the protesters like Ashley Catherine I just feel what's going to happen in the future with extradition laws on the Internet who is in free speech in their daily lives right now they believe the watch in China already transforming Hong Kong making it less like the Hong Kong may no more like the mainland. Changes in the public school curricula like he says a 7 year old nephew is speaking Mandarin in school 5 days a week didn't happen when she was a kid mandarins when they speak in mainland China and Hong Kong people mostly speaking Cantonese and English so all the Chinese classes are conducted in mentoring so he speaks Mandarin every day basically he's Beeks mentor him better than English can you can you explain a little bit like why can't unease is so important Cantonese is more like. An identity to us. Part of what makes Hong Kong Hong Kong another change she says she's seeing right now in Hong Kong she's upset other mainlanders moving there in her neighborhood and university students a chain of friends in Canada College the total of move to Hong Kong is over a 1000000 mainlanders since 1907 and Ok Just a quick heads up in our interviews with these 22 year olds get them started on the subject of mainlanders and get ready for a wave of totally bigoted opinions so especially I live in new territories so. All the people surrounding you here mentoring and then you start to see those less educated people they squatting next to it streets I did witness. Lance lady having her children at the rote and I always hear men then people yelling shouting out for nothing in the mohel and I always they jump into line everything while they're me and squatting with him in squatting I don't know they just they just squat on the ropes awaiting people they just sit and squat and wait for nothing they can swat for our people at home content to that we don't has who was well at the wrote well you can't if Sting it or why you can't just seat more comfortable it just doesn't look good it doesn't look like this in the civilized. To really harm the Katherine in the curse generation feel about the future the parents rather not as alarmed about China taking more control of Hong Kong about what the island's going to be like in 2047. Cashews parents they hate are going out to protest every weekend. Full of parents a line we really have some very serious fights and they think we're just like China take over Hong Kong it'll be fine I think for my parents some of the older generation just don't believe all they are not brave enough to open up their eyes and see what is actually going to happen to they just feel like they did not do anything wrong as long as you did not do anything wrong then you'll be fine it's going about this for Ashley is that she feels like she's being the responsible one fighting for everybody's future and they're telling her not to protest. She was like maybe if her parents had done this themselves years ago things would be so bad today like I'm 22 years old and in the past when I was younger they have never. Like a fight like us to ask for what they are promised and 997 it's funny when you talk about it your marriage your parents about it I just feel like I mean I don't understand why like why they would not want rice Why did they don't think that something bad is going to happen in the next 50 years. So actually Katherine and so many others they've kind of given over their wives to protesting their work during the week protest on the weekends they say that much time in their lives for much else what's interesting is they don't think it's going to work most of interviewees told us that they don't think China's going to give him again his Catherine I am pretty much pessimistic actually. I do wish that when they we also seed we want a democratic Hong Kong but now I just don't see a way out like it's been 3 months with Been trying each and every step we've broke into the legislative council we have more than the South and people got a rest but the government is still trying to nor all of this. If if you feel so pessimistic about the results like why why still go like why are you still going out every week and. At least the government see that we are not that how do we say we are not that obedient So we have to continuously tell the government that we are not satisfied with what they are giving so we have to do it again here starting I think even we if we have to lose we need to leave our true thoughts and history will we need to let the people behind us knows that with trite. 2047 is coming. And this is a very grand thing to say but so many of these cursed generation kids feel like they have a special destiny if we were born early on probably I would become my dad and mom and if I were born later I would probably become those little kids became enduring better than cancer these so I am happy that I am born in 997 we are in the middle we have the chance to know what is freedom and we are experiencing that our freedom is being taken away and that's why we are the group to step out 1st to fight for it . All the other way of getting off. I think we're getting off. After an hour bus ride we get to the protest Zach to the fight once off the bus Katherine ducks into a public restroom and comes out in black shirt black pants black mask of her face hair pulled back in a ponytail and we head into a street were surrounded by hundreds of people dressed exactly like her big shopping district stores closed and no cars on the side streets have been bought off of barricades by the protesters scaffolding and fencing trash cans and aren't construction cons piled in the street they do an efficient job. You never caught entranced by a big Victoria Secret Story I framed k.-k. K.-k. K.-k. Thank you nice to meet you. Yes very nice to be here to all this case in front of me. But for the record I'm with I'm off to noon no kissing at all . The city is giving permission for fewer protests these days and this is an unsanctioned demonstration where I would use it everybody here is breaking the law anyone is subject to arrest which affects crowd size maximum penalty is 5 years 10 years if we convicted of rioting Why are the protesters so scared of getting arrested all the time. But a spike that the beginning of the protests has the feeling of a Bach Party people strolling chatting you see a few parents and kids some non protesters cut through the crowd running errands. But in our entire all this around their eyes and their families and the kids there's nothing like a block party at all. People are standing on top of fences trying to see what's ahead of us. Starting to put on gas masks to describe it you see. The protesters are in the Thomas streets looking backwards so we assume that there are riot police on the other end of the road. There is tear gas fire it's over there. Is like 2 or 3 blocks away we walked towards the police and the tear gas were hundreds of protesters are massed on a side street the police are just half a block away but we can really see them through the crowd and then a whole wave of tear gas canisters marched towards us and it's us here lots of people us included I'm back away half a block away. Catherine calmly minister saving solution in the strangers' I think those are my recorder got knocked around running through the smoke so I do not have a decent recording of that. This is the role that she's assigned herself and protests 1st days helping anybody who requires it brought energy candy specifically to get out to people whose energy is flagging after being driven back Catherine and Hugo and k.k. I wait for this month to clear so this happens at every protest yes it's physical. So what do we do now. Wait wait try to get ourselves and go again. And when you go to the police what are you going to do they're going to stand in front of them if have transferred to defy the fact our goal is to make them to return to the front line after a couple minutes we had back toward the front line they were walking forward towards corner. Where it's this. Is out and then we wait around to get a water kind of goes off blasting water that is dyed blue place to stuff that stings your skin or tear gas and we pull back a little. Then we move forward we began this is both suspenseful and boring that's sometimes there's no way there's not always a purpose sometimes we setting out the bag is just as a part we just as important to those other fronts. Support like something happens you know the 1st day something like this but also they know that there are many people behind. It is important to give them some mental support as well oh yeah so many protesters I Catherine if I get their job to support the people at the front who are the hardcore ones who push back against police and throw Molotov cocktails and chase police with sticks and metal rods and tear stuff down to go barriers to some of the police wearing full gear helmets and goggles and gas masks and gloves. Finally the front runners yell that they want them to retreat and so we need to retreat and so we fought way back a couple boxes. So now we're just standing here that person will always support. Our existence like it's a part to those in the front line but it don't understand like so the police want to stay out of there they push they fire tear gas they spray blue water and everybody we move back. And then we stand here and what's our goal this has been a very frequently asked question but nowadays we're just trying to stand on our own grounds not to be dispersed that easily there to just to go is to just stay out as long as you can. And then eventually the police will push you off the street . So in other words it's exactly like the entire protest movement leading to 2047. Just try to slow them down as much as you can yes in the end China will win but 1st long as you can you just stand here in the street it is create. The sets say so but for pretty much our security it's. Close. To the yelling task when you start living. There we head into a massive retreat as the police advance towards us and for the 1st time this seems to be actual real fear or running down streets and side roads to get separated from patterns friends and from Emmanuel dodging the police and finally taking refuge in a church it was their safe houses like this around Hong Kong the protesters duck until the takes over an hour and finally the coast is clear and Catherine cause a friend to pick her up was there volunteer drivers for the protesters part of the infrastructure they've created Catherine changes out of her black t. Shirt into civilian clothes no make up she's too tired he says and Anita she's getting picked up. The Jets the nightmare 1st. Was a car pulled away across the street on Queens Road there was an endless row of police vehicles heading the other direction just dozens of them blue and red lights flashing and as night went on things became violent a woman approached us in the sidewalk upset about police beating somebody and showed us video that she chaat of it and the protesters are violent as well the newspapers had accounts of 6 of them beating up a middle aged man kicking and shouting at him they set fire to a subway station they do that a lot is lots of protesters the Konkan subway the m.t.r. With police That's right Catherine prefers the bus did not less convenient. Every protester we interviewed supports the violence they support because they feel like they have no other options that it's the only way than get the government to respond to them if you told us back in June they marched peacefully against the extradition bill and got nothing then they got violent and the bill was withdrawn it worked and violence has become a way to defend themselves setting fires and building barricades close police who are coming after them so they support the violence they place understand a man will talk to them about that word at 3 of our show and civil disobedience Here's a manual when I started asking protestors about violence a couple of them said We're not my own like Americans our tolerance for it is much lower so getting to this point to being Ok with violence isn't something we did lightly and all of them explained to me that they didn't always think radical pack tix were Ok what changed their opinion was the way police responded to peaceful protest that being shot at with water cannons tear gassed things a man knocked unconscious b. Him a baton handcuffed and kicked groups of thugs beating and attacking people with hammers clubs and knives watching all this and being subjected to it that's what got a lot of people on board with violence now some protesters threw Molotov cocktails vandalized buildings and chased police with sticks and robs Ira and I talked with one protester un did it would be acceptable for the protestors to kill police. I hope they do so. Do I do. It police died what do you think would happen next we would die to protest it through. And if things get that violent between the protestors and the police and protesters are being killed. Do you think Hong Kong will get democracy. Guy can tell at the moment now why so many people we talked with expected someone to die a protester or police officer most thought it would help the movement put pressure on the government this hasn't happened yet but destruction and violence are giving way to bizarre scenes throughout the city. My coworker Diane and I went to this protest in a mall one of many in Hong Kong sometimes the entire city can feel like one giant Chinese shopping mall connected by subway the stores are all open the mall is full of people but not many people are shopping in the entire premise of this protest is to go to the mall and not shop. The mall is 5 stories each tear has railings that look out over a central atrium their families kids older folks some people armed black others are just in their regular day clothes they chant they sing the protester and them glory to Hong Kong over and over the UK. One point someone starts handing out paper and suddenly hundreds of people are folding paper cranes then an act of gentle vandalism there's this machine that prints our reservation receipts for the restaurant called Jade garden the protestors hijack it forcing it to spit out hundreds of receipts they tape there is seeds together and string them from one end of the atrium to the other and back again a few times they target Jade garden because one of the company's founders has a daughter who supports Beijing that's how far things have gone in Hong Kong businesses are labeled either yellow or blue yellow for the ones that support the protesters blue for the police and government there's even a Google map that tells you if a business is one or the other. Soon things in the mall start to shift Diane and I watched a group of about a dozen protesters enter pro China a bakery owned by the same company that owns de garden they start targeting the South I'm proud of. It like Bach and so you can't really see inside. The prison you're right they're still in there yeah I shan't and it was she was a minute. I had some things out. I'm not going there just was the. Before things to nestle any further the workers force the protesters out close the store gates and barricade themselves in . A restless energy takes over it's like the protesters are looking for something to confront something to disturb but the thing they're fighting against is the x. Essential threat of China and that's not really in the mall and they March to more protracted businesses in the mall the alarm starts going off and it says The mall is very crowded please be careful. Then word comes police are on their way and some move that feels like a mix of fear and adrenaline fills the space protesters begin to build barriers out of whatever's not nailed to the ground blocking doorways paving obstacles they want to stop the police from entering from the subway entrance of the mall they start throwing cash cans down ask leaders. A group rips a 6 foot t.v. Screen out of a wall to use is part of a blockade the announcement remains the same please be careful the mall is very crowded. They open an emergency fire hose someone brings giant jugs of oil which they add to the water the tile floors the mall lobby is now a little lake that police will have to cross a woman slips and falls. And all this destruction is happening the shoppers the. Older folks even if you. Don't believe they're on the upper levels of the mall looking over the railing like they're watching a sporting event or something I'm super uncomfortable the protester next to us can in search of the event have protests like this one. Does this feel normal Ok. Is that weird that it's normal Yes but it's been a 100 days. There's this thing that protesters say to each other never severed ties sometimes even say never severed ties even if there's a nuclear explosion basically if another protester does something you disagree with say something on fire beat someone up you don't criticize them or cut them off. The police eventually come but they meet the protesters outside the mall they throw tear gas protesters there I'm on top cocktail. Smoking gas waft through SMI the world and many themes are come out of the malls upper levels giant Sacha's of wine mass and Peppermint Patty along with dozens of shoppers and protesters in line outdoor balconies all watch the confrontation between police and protesters unfold below. When the producers of our show coming up you're a protester you think the police are utterly immoral and undefendable So what do you do about the cop who happens to be your dad that's a minute. When our program continues. Mrs Caprio 90.9 Sacramento streaming a Caprio dot org. We get support from Sacramento Country Day School a pre-K. Through 12th grade independent school now accepting a Roman in many grades learn more about admissions during their Open House this Saturday sack c.b.s. Dot or. Get support from a better moving and storage company providing creating and shipping and stored services of fine art furniture pianos musical instruments since 1979 information on services at a better moving dot com. 82 in Sacramento 80 in Sutter Creek 82 new Placerville and 60 in Reno. It's 1230 time to smack knife marriage last today's program umbrellas up straight from Hong Kong and what it's like for people to live through over 100 days of protests there and have a Hong Kong with my coworkers Diane will Emanuel Berry We have arrived at Act 4 of our show act for good cop bad cop. So as an American visiting Hong Kong for the 1st time one of the things that kind of killed me was hearing that before the last few years of protests people were really into the police like they were trusted they were respected and it was only last few years especially the last few months of protests that changed all that and feelings about who decided with the police or the protesters they've gotten so intense it's tearing families apart on the telegram there's a whole channel for protestors who get kicked out by their parents and need a place to live Allan you grew up in Hong Kong you know as a family that is very far apart on this the son is a protester The dad is a retired police officer and I don't have them sit down and do what nobody in Hong Kong is doing talk to each other there's really no dialogue between police and protesters anywhere in Hong Kong as far as we could tell Here's our own I've known this family since I was 6 I knew them because of my friend Jonathan I wrote the school bus for them every day his father was the 1st policeman I knew in real life . I was excited to talk to him because you never hear what the police think about the protests police here are not really allowed to talk to the press. Peters retired but still very connected to the force so before the family all sat down together I asked Peter gets a gaggle with me and my producer Emmanuel I hadn't seen him since I was 12 Back then people called me which means fish ball because the Cantonese for fish sounds like Mr and they knew and because I was fat I will recognise you on the street I won't oh Ok serious i'm serious Ok all right I guess as a compliment thank you he's very cute yeah house used to be are facts. As a kid I like Peter he take time off work to stop by during recess and bias chips and other snacks my friend Jonathan what have his birthday parties at the police station which we love. Big barbecues other policemen the round Peter was the crude that. People in Hong Kong trust to even reveal that the police back then one of the most popular t.v. Shows was a cop show. Where the police procedural road. Peter's hair is gray now he's tall athletic he plays tennis my mind my nickname in tennis I don't know why running in tennis is Federer. Further. Federer Roger Well I don't I don't know why maybe my skill. He still likes is that jokes I cannot imagine Peter ever doing what I've been seeing in these videos beating up on armed protesters kicking people on the ground I thought surely he would object to some of those things and that his views would be complicated from what you've seen you know in recent months has there been anything that the police have on that you think you would disagree with. Nothing is perfect. But yes as a whole in general I think the police are doing doing a pretty good job if it is in the police force in other countries you know just look at the casualties look look just look at the column of fatal you know numbers it well it won't be 0. I ask him about different situations the police have been criticized from even show him videos of police brutally arresting people things I think are clearly wrong but he always seems to have a justification for the way police behave he says you're judging the police based on what you see in these clips that's not fair you don't know what the officer was facing the social media only showed the part of police hitting people but 1000000 ago. They would be a tech by lots of people so one minute later period 2 to the top you know attacking them so what you can see is one minute after but you did not see the full picture so he's not conflicted about police and he is a very sympathetic subprocesses he thinks the protests are destroying Hong Kong the extradition deal is Ok he doesn't think China will end free speech in Hong Kong and protesters fear of China is way overblown and naive Hong Kong based part of China Come on make up people because this is a fact whether China is group a bad Hong Kong is part of China if you don't like it. Those people waving the United States frag may win the Union Jack for if anyone takes you you can go to you and go to England. You go to Florida go to California. Go go if trying to go I had already been worried how this family conversation was going to go hearing what Peter believed did not help. Goes to protests but doesn't ask him about because he doesn't want any details. He does not ask Is that what he thinks of the way police asked protesters for the same reason. If he says. As a person just like I would feel. Yeah I. Think that could be. So this family does not talk about the protests at. Tennis. Soccer. Great but no politics. They've agreed it's a half the conversation pay for the voiding after that Jonathan's mom watches the visions. I recognize the song right away I'm surprised she's humming it in front of her it's a protest as new anthem glory to Hong Kong. Alpha is on Jonathan side she works with lawyers including some in the pro-democracy camp. I ask if Peter knows what that song is she says maybe we can go. That's kind of how it's being go in between her and her husband no real discussion but the occasional passive aggressive comment while they're watching the news or some passive aggressive humming during the shows this is the reason Jonathan avoids bringing up the protests he doesn't want to start a fight between his parents over the worst scenario be like. So we're moving out. Because 2 cars dented anymore yeah I guess. Living apart would be their worst case scenario I believe. Because that. Sort of officially means that. You no longer together sort of you know that could be as mom or his dad or him. We all said at the not hable Peter's facing me and Jonathan and Alva are next to me having some of them has their dog Loki named out of the Marvel character on his lap . And the conversation starts with all of them saying in different ways it's fine that we don't talk about this we all have mutual respect. There are 2 don't leave or instead of talking to each other or looking at he. The talking to me or looking at the dog got it for us all very careful proper and calm. This continues for half an hour. Then everything changes when Peter uses the word compromise compromise or call him high compromise it's basically the government mind that's what Hong Kong's chief executive carry of them says so that the protesters should stop protesting and also that the 2 sides can talk Alpha and Jonathan here that is meaning the protesters should back down they both lay answer Peter. Has a very serious. The entire time. Tomorrow you're. Going down Alva says the police are the ones who need to change they have to calm the situation Peters says the police are doing their job I don't know why when the police arrest people for fighting or breaking stuff it's treated as weird it's illegal so arrest them no problem. Johnson says Ok yes arrest them but how much force does the police need to use Sometimes a person just asks the police a question and they still get arrested or beaten people who are already on the ground near the subdued they still get beaten. Peter doesn't respond then they argue openly argue for the 1st time about one of the protesters main demands something the government refused to budge on the start and in the pending investigation into police behavior. Peter keeps repeating the same thing over and over it's like he's been backed into a corner that there's no need for independent investigation now is not the right time I see how those and. The city already has a system in place to investigate complaints about the police coming or going towards gum I see how. They talk a little longer but it doesn't go anywhere. Alva tells me later she had other things she could have brought up but the side against it she didn't want her husband's a few traps the word she used was safe which translates as that corner no place to go preserving the family was more important to her than trying to win an argument. Later Jonathan told me he still loves his the ad but he's given up hope that his father could be a reasonable human being at least when it comes to the police. When I started this I was kind of naive and I thought maybe Jonathan and his mother and father people who actually wants to understand each other could talk about this in a productive manner. And that if they could maybe there was hope that the rest of us could. But now I don't have a lot of hope. Now new is normally a reporter for w.h.y. Why show the pulse. At $52.00 weeks later so we 1st got to Hong Kong in September everybody we talked to warned us October 1st might be a big day it will be the 70th anniversary of the Communist Party founding the modern Chinese state China did not want to be embarrassed by demonstrations in Hong Kong and protesters wondered what kind of crackdown was going to come on October 1st or maybe in the days before it and sure enough the weekend before October 1st there were tons of police undercover cops posing as protesters a surgeon a Ras and then on October 1st this thing happened that several interviews had predicted was going to happen at some point for the 1st time a protester was shot with a real bullet a teenager and in the days since things just descended the government banned wearing face masks in public which then caused a huge backlash in the streets another teenager a 14 year old was shot by police a bomb went off next to a police car. Catherine the protester that I went to the demonstration with in mid September she went to all those protests before October 1st then she was out on October 1st and our coworker Diane Wood caught up with her the day after that when I took her 2nd to see how she was doing and also just to see what she made of it all and what he was doing on I met up with Catherine at the m.t.r. Station and on one on Wednesday she taken the m.t.r. Only because she was in a big rush to meet me after work every day. Fair in the home. It's a really sad day after yesterday she's talking about the protester who was shot it actually happened just a short walk from where we're standing. The last few days of protests have been especially bad. Catherine was in the middle of the crowd when dozens of special tactics police officers exploded out of a hidden door sprinting after protesters and tackling them to the ground people hadn't seen this before it caused a wave of panic everyone fled in terror including Catherine your phone was flooded with images of arrested protesters pinned on the ground by riot police face down with their wrists tied behind. Later she met her friend k.k. The one who makes out with her boyfriend all the time at protests and found out that in the rush she got entrapped she came really close to getting arrested out of a sudden everything was so close to me a very important friend of mine nearly getting arrested and all the pictures were ages I could see after this day everything just was so it was just too much for me it was too close yeah. Katherine's deeply fearful of getting arrested remember it could mean years in prison. After all of that on October 1st she was almost too scared to go protest but braved it anyways then police started to fire tear gas at people up ahead and we were on our way walking from one to a quiet farm and I realized that I couldn't keep walking I started to realize that I I just feel different like 2 weeks ago when I was when I was with I could still feel it is safe to run I'm going to be fine and I could still like run without any has Taishan but on but yesterday I just feel like I was so it's hard fight I started to shake from the either side and I didn't know what to do she panicked started crying her boyfriend helped her get home so I have to leave yesterday and. Actually on my way home was a friend of my I think you was just joking and say you left your teammate behind he sent this to me. So I was immediately cry I cried out immediately and really could not control myself because I didn't want this I don't want to leave my teammates behind I don't want to leave anyone behind but. I don't want to be a burden. In the only times I could be so brave I could be fighting with and then. And also 7 yesterday I couldn't do anything at all. The police strategy of clamping down on the protests by allying almost all of them and flooding the streets with riot police and arresting tons of people this is the toll it's taking on people and of course. Yes this is one way the whole thing could and maybe it'll scare people off and I saw my wife bring her boyfriend Joe shows up I see he's got his shirt tucked in and you protest tactic from this weekend the idea is to try and expose undercover police who wouldn't be able to tuck their shirts in over their guns and baton. Joe's here for moral support because incredibly Catherine is now on her way to another protest. We're headed to a soccer stadium across the street from where the protester was shot Catherine figures she'll stay as long as she can tolerate we walk on to the field it's a big solemn group of people and their work and school clothes all facing the bleachers there are a lot of people not show what they're looking at but. I think they are just waiting for a moment to mourn. It's a kind of vigil for the protester in the hospital Katherine and Joe put on black surgical masks everyone has their phones up with their lights on. The protest and I'm sure. That. Everyone on board or. I. We go into the streets Kathryn's on edge every time she hears a loud noise she squeezes throws hand she'll stay out until 1030 and she'll get dinner go home go to bed. In the morning Catherine will be at work again at her job where she can't let her bosses know where she was the night before. Overnight the red cleaners will come out with backhoes to clear the barricades over the graffiti fix the smashed streetlights the piles of brick from the gutters. They had so many days before turning the city back to normal. Except of course it can't be normal again. Is the managing editor of our program. Was produced today by Emmanuel Berry and I am will and field producer In Hong Kong and thanks to our interpreters for chime Diana Chan and Dominic Yang and special thanks to. You so a lot of fan and Martin Lee this American lives delivered public radio stations by the Public Radio Exchange for This American Life comes from indeed used by over 3000000 businesses from hiring reporters post jobs news screener questions to the short list of preferred candidates more and more at Indeed dot com slash higher. Co-founder Mr trying to you know he ran into a stranger on the street this week. 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Today is a good day now give me a call or text that may seem a happy day coming up a news big changes could be coming for the blue rocks tales just ahead right now it's 5 o 9 as Delaware's afternoon news continues traffic and weather together with traffic watch on the nines is Mike Phillips big problems on the interstate system in Castle County Chris I 495 southbound is shut down at the Delaware Pennsylvania state line due to a crash south of Philly Pike I 95 southbound traffic at a Delco has to stay on 95 in a Newcastle County current situation is this you're basically on the brakes 95 southbound from just below the blue route right on down to the Delaware Pennsylvania border the worst of it is below 322 or it's just absolutely stacked up a lot of drivers are pale and in a market so trying to go down Governor Prince Boulevard anything but stand on 9595 southbound in New Castle County slow all the way down basically now from namings road into the city a woman variable speeds through there none of it quick as a child a 141 southbound Newport to 95 actually boxwood road down to 951 in 7 specially the 7 southbound side all locked up down through cattle shoot to 273 earlier power outage causing problems limestone road north of Pike Creek affecting the traffic signals of Paper Mill Road Mendenhall Mill Road and bracken Ville road our next job to watch updated 9 minutes from the Golden brothers' plumbing heating air an electrical charge watch center Mike Philips your n.b.c. 10 1st alert forecast brought to you by the Christmas shop Foundation helping to support local nonprofits through the perfect gift shopping experience this Friday and Saturday at the Winter museum pavilion Here's to me Susan you'll see overcast skies this evening with periods of steady rain and even some isolated thunderstorms out there temperatures will be in the low sixty's now overnight we're going to remain cloudy with periods of rain your low in the. 52 and 4 your Wednesday mostly sunny a little. Bit seasonal with highs right around 65 looking ahead the sunshine continues right on through Friday but rain does return over the weekend I'm a. Meteorologist. We have rain or around the area at $65.00 right now in Wilmington cloudy skies in Middletown word $66.00 also clouds and $64.00 right now in Dover going down tonight to $52.00. While tonight's game one of the World Series in the series starting in Houston as the Astros host the Washington Nationals and the n.b.a. Season kicks off tonight with the Toronto Raptors wasting their championship banner then taking on the New Orleans Pelicans later on tonight the 2nd game of the season opener is the Lakers at the Clippers of course they don't travel far because they play in the same building 512. As Delaware's afternoon news continues major changes could be coming for the Wilmington blue rocks Shawn Green explains the blue rocks won their 1st Carolina League championship in 20 years last month but their future may be in jeopardy according to a report from Baseball America Minor League Baseball may contract from 162 teams down to 120 with an emphasis on keeping teams geographically closer to their major league bases that could be a problem for a Wilmington franchise that has been connected to the Kansas City Royals for 25 of their 27 seasons going back to 1993 leagues may need to be readjusted meaning some franchises could bounce between a double a and AAA which would actually be good news for a well maintained team that has made moves to try to move up to double in the past these decisions need be made ahead of the 2021 season the woman in blue rocks directed w d e l The minor league baseball for comment who has not responded Sean grain w d e l Delaware's news radio while the number of people dying in traffic accidents has fallen for the 2nd straight year across the u.s. Delaware State Police say they're seeing a spike in deadly crashes the majority of those accidents involving distracted drivers drivers say more and more people are using an electronic device behind the wheel as well as speeding and driving under the influence there have been 107 fatalities so far this year up from 88 for the same time period last year. At a time when of the year when supplies are usually rebounding from the summer drought the blood bank of Delmarva is seeking seeing a critical need for donations spokesman Tony Prado says the goal is to maintain a 7 day inventory of all blood types and right now that's not happening. Situation we want to we want to get people in here we want to get new donors and here are our donor base is fantastic but they can't do it all so we're trying to get some more people to donate blood Prado says among the new donors they seek are minorities whose donation levels could be stronger start to finish it only takes about an hour to donate a few and I learned more go to Delmarva blood dot org a man already behind bars is now charged in connection with the shooting of a 16 year old Millington police say Nazir Henry shot the teen back in August he was already jailed on unrelated charges candy ozone actually recover from the damage done to it. Peter Carter reports the owner's own hole is that it's smallest size on record NASA scientist Paul Newman says that the shrinking is due to warmer stratospheric temperatures over and arctic up not a sign that atmospheric ozone is suddenly on a fast track to recovery the ozone layer blocks potentially harmful ultraviolet rays from reaching earth site is 1st discovered the ozone hole and the thinning of the ozone layer in the 1970 s. They say the problem was caused by the production of chlorofluorocarbons as well as aerosol sprays Peter McArthur Delta the e.-l. Delaware's news radio and you can safely dispose of unwanted prescription medications this weekend Delaware taking part in the 18th national drug take back day expired or unused medicine can be dropped off at several locations across the state on Saturday all pills must be contained in a bottle box or a bag. 515 as Delaware's afternoon news continues among the stories we're following at this hour here on. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is criticizing President Trump's claim that the House and. Each month process is a lynching McConnell said given the nation's history it was an unfortunate choice of words he did accuse House Democrats though of presiding over a grossly unfair process and actress Lori Laughlin is facing new felony charges in the college admissions cheating scandal that are all prosecutors in Boston are now charging the actress her husband and several others caught up in the scandal with federal program bribery alleging they bribe a university that receives federal money the new charge carries a maximum 5 year prison sentence if convicted you'll see what conditions tonight but sunny skies ahead starting tomorrow I'll have the full forecast coming up on n.b.c. 10 1st alert meteorologist Tom He says that we've got big problems on 495 and 95 this afternoon the very latest from traffic watch next thanks for joining us here on yeah. You. 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Coming up in today's tech report when it comes to technology who are the most dangerous celebs to Google Well the list just ahead now 519 as the afternoon news continues traffic and weather together with traffic watch on the 9 Mike Phillips thank you very much Chris without the auto all you need is a job and 29 bucks of the all new Apple. Auto Mitsubishi n l can acres of brand new Mitsubishi's Apple Mitsubishi dot com for 95 southbound remains close to the Delaware Pennsylvania border due to a crash south of Claymont just below the Philadelphia pike as a result all the 95 southbound traffic out of Delco is coming straight down 95 in a New Castle County 95 southbound in Delaware County slope from just below the blue we're down to 452 then stack solid down of the state line and then it's a long line of traffic on 95 southbound off speed basically from namings down to Marsh and then jammed up before 20 to right down through the city of Wilmington $141.00 is really really slow now as folks are trying to avoid $95.00 it's really slow southbound approaching the experimental station in the tunnel McConnell bridge caution up in Pike Creek earlier power outage took out the traffic signals at limestone road and paper mill Mendenhall mill in Bracken Ville road now we have a crash with injuries in the Beaver Valley area it's actually going to be Route 90 To Beaver Valley Road at a Ramsey road just as you make that left there to go down to Thompson's Bridge Road something that might be a nasty one but don't be surprised to find that intersection shut down as a result of watch update in 9 minutes from the brothers plumbing heating air an electrical charge watch center on Mike Phillips. Here's Tammy Susan with your n.b.c. 10 1st alert forecast roads will be a little slippery over night it'll be cloudy with periods of rain and we'll see a low in the morning right around 52 degrees mostly sunny for your Wednesday as the storm system pulls away with the breezy conditions but seasonal temperatures in the mid sixty's and looking ahead the sunshine continues right on through Friday I mean . Meteorologists that rain right now around the area $65.00 in Wilmington $65.00 as well in Middletown cloudy skies in Dover where it's $64.00 going down tonight to $52.00. Coming up being news at 530 it was the honeymoon from hell while my wife was alight and immediately thought Oh my God there's a camera. I mean chairing. I 521 to get money news from Jason Brooks Wall Street sank in the final hour of trading after a fast track brags a deal failed to pass Britain's House of Commons that Al lost 39 points to 26788 but as backdrop 58 points to 8104 and the s. And p. Dropped 10 points to 2996 Procter and Gamble Harley Davidson and United Technologies headed higher on their earnings results while McDonald's u.p.s. Travellers and Hasbro finished in the red sales of previously owned homes fell over 2 percent in September Jason Brooks' c.b.s. News low tech news today before you point click and search your favorite celebrity be aware of bugs. She's probably best known for her role on T.V.'s Gilmore Girls actress Alexis Bledel designated as the most dangerous celebrity on the Internet by McAfee the cyber security company she leads the list of famous people found to generate the riskiest search results web sites infected with viruses or malware Number 2 is talk show host James Corden followed by Sophie Turner the survey is meant to amplify the danger of clicking on suspicious links unscrupulous people on line hope searching fans will fall victim get a known c.b.s. 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News radio entertainment news this afternoon the Radio City Rockette circuiting offer her souls for the Christmas Spectacular one of the rockets Mackenzie McGrath says they practice 6 hours a day to get ready for one really feeds off each other because it is separate Brinker is and demanding and they are long days so when you're all in or in together there's like such a positive energy the Christmas Spectacular runs November 8th through January 5th of next year well Mike Rowe hosted of this Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs has become a voice for working class Americans is a new book out called The Way I heard it it's a collection of stories about famous people you know but done in a set of short mysteries may have called may be the called the voice of the overworked and underpaid but Rowe says Dirty Jobs was more than that Dirty Jobs was not a love letter to blue collar work period it was a love letter to my grandfather who was the epitome of all those things but it was also a love letter to entrepreneurship many of the people we featured on the show old small businesses and over 40 of them were multi-millionaires and we never made a point of that because the show wasn't intended to be a polemic or a rumination on financial wellbeing it was just to the joy of working hard and getting dirty Lisa g. Has more entertainment news Jimmy Kimmel is doing his show from Brooklyn this week where he was joined Monday by music legends Bruce Springsteen and Elissa King Springsteen talked about his new film western stars which he co-directed with Tom's in name we kind of conceptualize the whole thing together starting from the beginning and it was just a big collaboration between the 2 it's the 5th year in a row Campbell has moved his a.b.c. T.v. Show from Hollywood to the Brooklyn. Academy of Music where he polled in a studio audience of more than 2000 people. Harry Styles takes very good care of his clothing the singer's designer revealed in an interview with British g Q That styles keep his custom performance costumes in a frozen vault his designer didn't disclose where the secret vault is located but hinted at somewhere in England. Charlie x. Ray x. Is opening up about how she helped write send your Rita during a radio interview the British singer revealed the track started out as a concept for her own album but immediately knew the song wasn't for her she then sent it to Camilla come Ayo who sang it with Sean Mendez Coldplay will be releasing a double album the band compound that they sent fans typewritten notes directly in the mail alerting them about new music and that it's on the way the 2 part LP will drop November 22nd that's entertainment Lisa g. N.b.c. News Radio will get the latest on those problems 149595 with traffic watch next year on. Green Sam Robert he were president and c.e.o. 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Local 313 that make up no connection matters more than the one they share with Delaware i v e w local 313 and Mika we call our Delaware. Home to the mattress warehouse creative. Time 529 x. The road for traffic watch on the 9th of my kilt. Coming out of Delaware County for 95 southbound is close to the Pennsylvania state line due to a crash with injuries below Claymont 95 southbound your basis. We on the brakes from just below the blue ridge and then jammed up solid from the commodore Barry bridge across the state line past name and drug pick up in speed a little bit only to bog down again alongside the Rockman or prophet or straight through Washington really want to try to avoid 95 out of telco The problem is 322 up in that that area had an accident earlier just west of 452 it was causing additional problems there out of Beaver Valley at Beaver Valley Road at Ramsey road just west of to about to crash with injuries at that intersection don't be surprised to find it partially shut down as a result one and 7 still all bogged down through the cattle shoot down to 73 by the mall 'd still watch for delays on limestone road north of Pike Creek up to Paper Mill Road due to an earlier power outage that took out the traffic signals there which a crash Paper Mill Road and poly drum and hell road are next Jeff watch update in 9 minutes from the fold in Brothers plumbing heating air an electrical charge watch center on Mike Phillips broadcasting live from Wilmington Delaware your On the Go news source on air online and on your phone w.d.m. Delaware's News Radio. Everything you need to know as you drive home you're listening to Delaware's afternoon news here's Chris Garland afternoon rain 65 in Wilmington at 530 rain tonight but there are changes ahead I'll have that forecast coming up I'm n.b.c. 10 1st in our teeth meteorologist here are Delawares top stories President Trump tweeting about in peach Mint today Bob Constantini gives us the tweet and the reaction the president seems resigned to being impeached based on comments and this tweet he hopes Democrats will take as a warning so someday if a Democrat becomes president and the Republicans win the House even by a tiny margin they can impeach the president without due process or fairness or any legal rights all Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here a lynching reaction was swift especially from black Democratic House members including James Clyburn of South Carolina Andrew Johnson never more than described what was happening. This way and certainly Bill Clinton. Nixon this president is home and I'm number Constantini the White House Correspondent Linda Kenyon has more from Capitol Hill I don't agree with that language very simple house minority leader Kevin McCarthy defending the president but not the language he used while South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham took a different view saying the Democrat led process in the house is unfair yet this is a once in every sense this is un-American the president should not compare a constitutionally mandated impeachment inquiry to such a dangerous and dark chapter of American history Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries it's irresponsible for him to do so and I hope that he will apologize Linda Kenya Capitol Hill Wilmington woman's most intimate moments with her new wife caught on video in secret. Cherry reporting trust their b. And b. 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American military vehicles continuing to cross from Syria into Iraq they appear to be part of what the. Don says will be a redeployment of about a 1000 troops withdrawing from northern Syria meantime Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will introduce a resolution urging President Trump to end his withdrawal of u.s. Troops from Syria with just 9 days to go before the deadline for the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union the full text of the Prime Minister's deal was being evaluated and abated in Parliament today correspondent Steve cast of and says at the same time it's not clear what will happen as a result of the request of the year e.u. For another deadline extension to go she added Rex a deal was finally scrutinised by lawmakers in the House of Commons but its future was uncertain prime minister Boris Johnson said the plan is a solid compromise that should be approved immediately the deal is here on the table the legislation to deliver it is here before us opposition leader germy Corben claim that the plan would set off a race to the bottom while eroding worker and environmental protections the prime minister says to you should go back to the people and give them not just the members of the times the final signing the prime minister threatened to withdraw the bill and push for a general election rather than settle for more delays I'm Steve cast and bound actress Lori Laughlin and 10 other parents who are pleading not guilty in the college admissions cheating scandal are facing new bribery charges the federal program bribery charges ledges the defendants bribe colleges that receive federal funding many of the parents face decades behind bars if convicted on all counts could the Wilmington blue rocks says we know them be changing. Sean Green has details up to $42.00 franchises could be eliminated in a proposed overhaul of minor league baseball according to a report in Baseball America the plan is to eliminate teams with substandard facilities and try to eliminate long travel for teams within leagues and also for minor leaguers to their parents watch that could be an issue for the Wilmington blue rocks were located a half a country away from Kansas City Foley stadium was built in 1903 and has undergone some renovations in recent years but it's not clear where they stand among other. Teams in their league and class a baseball. Reached out to the blue rocks for comments they directed us to minor league baseball who has not responded the changes would have to be made ahead of the 2021 season show on grain w d e l Delaware's News Radio Newcastle County Police are now able to devote more resources and attention to people who face addiction or mental health conditions often their 1st stop as a jail cell. In its 1st 2 years County P.D.'s hero help program help 70 people seek treatment after a full time coordinator was hired that number jumped to over 350 in a year and a half County police chief Colonel Vaughn Bond says officers want fewer arrests and more success stories all police departments throughout this country have a platform and that can be used and should be used to bridge the gap for those in the Hero help coordinated by Dan mosse will now be part of a new behavioral health unit in County Police and one of the things we've learned is relapse is part of recovery and we do our best to work with people as long as they are willing it make a deal Marc Hauser w d e s News Radio Wall Street lower today the Dow falling 40 Nasdaq down 58 s. And p. 500 down 10 points Well coming up problems on 495 and 95 this afternoon the very latest from traffic watch plus your 1st alert forecast I'm Chris Carle thanks for joining us here on. 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Now in stock at car man Lincoln visit and test drive this beautifully styled Corsair at the root 13 studio today no improvement Unfortunately for 95 southbound still close of the Pennsylvania Delaware line they are all floating a tanker truck from one to the other because of a diesel fuel spill and that's going to take a while thus for $95.00 states close $95.00 southbound jammed up from just below the blue we're basically right on down across the state line and then slow going all the way down through woman just a long slog on 95 southbound right now Delco in New Castle County crash with injuries Beaver Valley Road Ramsey were just west of 2141 southbound still backs up boxwood road through Newport one and 7 still jammed up by the mall down towards 273 through town 273 core westbound they're all still jammed up there as well obviously the weather is not helping matters watch update in 9 minutes from the bottom brothers plumbing heating air and electrical traffic watch center Mike Phillips. You're standing with your n.b.c. 10 1st alert forecast you'll see overcast skies this evening with periods of steady rain and even some isolated thunderstorms out there temperatures will be in the low sixty's now overnight we're going to remain cloudy with periods of rain your low in the morning 52 and for your Wednesday mostly sunny a little on the breezy side but seasonal with highs right around 65 looking ahead the sunshine continues right on through Friday but rain does return over the weekend I'm n.b.c. 10 1st ill or teeth meteorologist Tammy Sue that we have rain right now 65 in Wilmington 65 as well in Middletown Dover checks in with cloudy skies and $64.00 going down tonight to $52.00 here on. Big day in sports game one of the World Series in Houston as the Astros host the Washington Nationals and the n.b.a. Season tips off tonight with a couple of games the 1st Toronto raising their championship banner hosting the New Orleans Pelicans the schedule makers thought that would be Zion Williams' 1st game the top overall pick but he's hurt so he's out for a few weeks then later tonight it's the l.a. Lakers at the l.a. Clippers in what should be a very interesting series as the season progressed. 541 here on. Health news this afternoon a potential new treatment for celiac disease could have widespread implications for people who suffer from a real range of auto immune diseases researchers at Northwestern University say they've developed technology that induces a mutant tolerance to gluten in individuals with celiac disease teaching the body to no longer attack the protein once it's introduced into a patient's system Professor Steven Miller who developed the technology at Northwestern says the bio degradable nanoparticle acts like a Trojan horse hiding the allergen in a friendly shell so the body will no longer attack it you know we think the beauty of the system is that the thing nanoparticle carrier platform. Simply by which is what protein or proteins are kept weighted with then as you know the possibility of the theoretically tree any auto immune or allergic to long as the protein driving that. Miller thinks doctors can eventually use this method to treat m.s. 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Like myself we've got we got millennial stepping up and doing their part but we could use more young donors and let me say this too as well we're also making more and more about how do we attract more minority donors Prado says they're seeing a decline in new donors and the decline in repeat donors at a time when there is an increased demand for blood if you'd like to find out more go to blood Delmarva blood dot org Otto says donating start to finish takes about an hour a hybrid here of health and health and tourism news of British tourist is credited in a thermal imaging camera in Edinburg castle for discovering she has breast cancer Balgo of Berkshires says that after touring the castle her group was making its way to the museum they stopped in the thermal imaging cameraman did as most families do wave their arms and looked at the images they had created Gill saw he patch coming from her left breast as she returned home she consulted her doctor who confirmed she did have early stage breast cancer cancer cells grow quickly causing blood flow and metabolism to increase that in turn makes the skin temperature rise. 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Where's this rain. Coming up in money matters a national department store says it's going to stop selling fur also Dave Ross says Facebook is indeed judging you that's all still to come here on. Now 549 as we go back to the roads for traffic watch on the nines for Mike Phillips just a major mess Chris for travelers coming out of Delaware County this evening for 95 southbound remains closed of the state line with Pennsylvania and Delaware due to the crash below Claymont 95 southbound jam solid from before the Commodore Barry bridge basically right to the state line 95 southbound continue slow in a New Castle County to Marsh Road you pick up ever so slightly and then just. Slam on the brakes again right by the rackmount a golf course down in the city a woman's interest a real slow go on 95 to see evening coming down out of Delaware County crash with injuries just west of the Concord pike on Valley Road 101 southbound still jams boxwood road through Newport to 951 in 7 all quad up through the cattle chute down to 73 the lay still limestone road the Paper Mill Road earlier power outage has the traffic signal so dark at that location and a chap watch update in 9 minutes from the Golden brothers' plumbing heating air an electrical charge watch center Mike Phillips. Here's to me Susan with your n.b.c. 10 1st alert forecasts roads will be a little slippery over night it'll be cloudy with periods of rain and we'll see a low in the morning right around 52 degrees mostly sunny for your Wednesday is the . Storm system pulls away will see breezy conditions but seasonal temperatures in the mid sixty's and looking ahead the sunshine continues right on through Friday I'm n.b.c. 10 1st alert chief meteorologist Tammy rain and 65 right now in Wilmington and in Middletown light rain starting now in Dover as well where it's 64 going down to 52 tonight here at home coming up in news at 6 o'clock Major changes may be coming for the Wilmington blue rocks I'm Sean Greene. And it's $551.00 and we get money news from Jason Brooks Wall Street sank in the final hour of trading after a fast track Bragg's a deal failed to pass Britain's House of Commons the Dow lost 39 points 226000 788 the Nasdaq dropped 58 points to 8104 and the s. And p. Dropped 10 points to 2996 Procter and Gamble Harley Davidson and United Technologies headed higher of their earnings results while McDonald's u.p.s. Travelers and Hasbro finished in the red sales of previously owned homes fell over 2 percent in September Jason Brooks c.b.s. News money matters this afternoon Macy's is getting out of the fur trade the retail giant announcing it will stop selling fur by early 2021 also close its for vault sense along which have offered services including storage repair is a mistrial in the 1st the announcement by Macy's comes less than 2 weeks after California became the 1st state to outlaw the sale of new for products Duncan is serving up a new plant based menu menu option Duncan says the beyond sausage sandwich will be available after a test run in New York The company says the highly anticipated sandwich will be in restaurants starting November 6th where the world's most expensive chocolate was unveiled in India priced at over 3000 dollars per pound the limited edition trio of truffle chocolates has made its way into the Guinness Book of World Records Trinity truffles extraordinary was created by a French Michelin star chef for the last. Chocolate brand for the Heat are dropped . By the creator. And they're destroying. It Back spiritually and the one to believe is that in chocolates the chocolate is so expensive because ingredients come from all over the world and nearly half of the world's wealth is in the hands of its millionaires Credit Suisse Research Institute publishing its Global Wealth Report it claims the global wealth is $360.00 trillion dollars this year and that 44 percent of it's controlled by about $47.00 millionaires The report also says China has more people ranked in the top 10 percent than the United States for the 1st time the richest 10 percent of the world's population owns 82 percent of global wealth and the top one percent owns 45 percent of the world's wealth. 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Working within a broken criminal justice system a team of rebel heroines work to change the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted Don't Miss Blow it up tonight at 10. Trusted. News that makes you think. N.p.r. . Live from n.p.r. News Ian Washington I'm Jack Speer President Trump insists the u.s. Withdrawal from Syria is going smoothly as N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith reports Trump spent part of today's cabinet meeting defending a decision has been criticized by foreign policy experts and bipartisan members of Congress President Trump's decision to pull u.s. Forces out of northern Syria has left Kurdish allies open to attack from Turkey it has been widely described as a betrayal of an ally that helped in the fight against ISIS but that's not how Trump sees it as you know most of the ISIS fighters that we captured we not Obama we we have to be our country capture them working with others and told them to Kurds and we help them don't forget we have the Kurds I was and the Kurds helped us and we helped the Kurds and All Angels Trump says the u.s. Didn't pledge to stick with the Kurds forever Tamara Keith n.p.r. News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has exhausted his efforts to successfully form the next Israeli government it will be several offers more Netanyahu made the announcement close to the end of the 28 day period he was allotted to try to secure a parliamentary majority Israel's president intends to give Netanyahu as Challenger Benny Gantz the next chance to form a government conses likely to face an uphill battle to convince enough lawmakers to join him despite talks Gunson the 2 now have failed to agree on the terms of a shared government reporter Naomi's level off Facebook is rolling out new measures to stop the spread of false information on its platform ahead of the 2020 presidential elections the social media company under pressure to stop a repeat of Russian interference in 2016 n.p.r. 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News San Francisco a bipartisan group of state attorneys general say they've reached a tentative national settlement with 6 major drug companies over the opioid crisis in Iran veiling plans for how to distribute almost 50000000000 in cash and medicine to hearted communities drug distributors Amerisource Bergen Corp Cardinal Health and can McKesson as well as drug drug maker Tev off pharmaceutical industries proposed a deal last week on Wall Street today the Dow is up 57 points this is n.p.r. From the w g b h radio newsroom in Boston I'm a real rob the Massachusetts man accused of causing the June crash in New Hampshire that left 7 motorcyclists dead has been indicted on 23 counts including negligent homicide Waldemar Isikoff He is scheduled to be arraigned next month he had been he has been in jail held without bail for the past 4 months Zuckoff He has pleaded not guilty. 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The n b t A's weekday pilots service between Foxboro in Boston got underway today with 10 round trip trains and half priced fares for reverse commute passengers traveling to Foxboro Brian early vice president of Patriot Place where the commuter rail station is located says the pilot program was in the works for 11 years were certainly part of a partnership between the n.p.t. a Drama transportation town Foxborough it's a it's really a public private partnership that we think is very important early says they'll gauge the success of the program over the next year and see if ridership increases another drone has been spotted near Logan Airport the Federal Aviation Administration says the crew of a Jet Blue flight approaching Logan saw the drone late yesterday afternoon about 2 miles southeast of the airport this is the 2nd drone spotted near Logan in the past week state police are investigating and sports the Patriots play the Jets this evening at the Meadowlands kickoff is it 815 beautiful weather today sunny with temperatures in the fifty's a little warmer tomorrow with a chance of showers in the afternoon rain possible on Wednesday as well for more reporting go to w. 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Troops from northern Syria and a White House announced meant now retracted that next year's g. 7 summit would be at a trump resort some moderate Republicans met with Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney this weekend at Camp David that's one indication of how troubled some lawmakers are here's another Republican strategist Michael Steele who was an aide to former House Speaker John Boehner says his phone has been blowing up lately I asked him what concerns Republicans the most. The situation in Syria and the abandonment of the Kurds who had been such loyal allies and such a critical force and containing and what we thought at the time was defeating I says That was the thing that really really bothered Republicans the most does it feel like now calculations among Republicans are changing somewhat when it comes to whether they will call out President Trump on something I think congressional Republicans have been calculating the limits of his tolerance for dissent since he rode down that escalator 34 years ago now is the the hour of maximum uncertainty means it's the hour of maximum danger for people's political prospects and I think the smart move right now is to make like America stay underground if you possibly can and your cat is that the thing that looks like a ferret Yes exactly I see but why do you think this is the maximum point of danger as you put it is it because just where we are in the election cycle is there something particular about this moment now I think that the Ukraine investigation and the fact that we are actually in an impeachment inquiry in the else even if the House Democrats haven't chosen have a vote yet they are taking testimony the Intelligence Committee is conducting an inquiry I think that means that the administration faces a an existential threat in a way that they haven't in the past how would you counsel a moderate Republican right now the challenge here is that while independents are increasingly turning against the president the base of the Republican par. Ne continues to remain very strong for him and so I think the way Republicans in tough districts or tough states have to thread the needle is by saying yes the president did something wrong I don't think you're in a very good position trying to pretend that he didn't but it does not rise to the level of requiring his removal from office when we're less than a year from the American people the voters getting to make that decision was that you think moderate Republicans or maybe any Republican should just go ahead and embrace the idea that President Trump did in fact suggest a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian president I think that's the only way to deal with reality right now look I think that House Democrats have made a series of errors in the investigation I think that it is a very poor decision to continue holding these hearings behind closed doors the idea that they are moving towards impeachment soley on the basis of the situation in the Ukraine is utterly untrue this is obviously the result of a series of investigations a series of outrages that they feel the president has committed but I don't think anyone is in a good position insisting that the president did nothing wrong when it came to asking the Ukrainians to investigate either this conspiracy theory that the d.n.c. Server wound up in the Ukraine following the 2016 election or that they needed to reopen the investigation of Hunter Biden's involvement in the energy company in Ukraine I want to play you something that President Trump said today the Republicans have to get tougher and fight we have something great fighters but they have to get tougher and fight because the Democrats are trying to hurt the Republican Party for the election what do you think of what the president said and I think it's entirely in keeping in character with President Trump he always wants to be on office he never wants to concede error and I don't think that that's a very good strategy for any Republican candidate who does not have the the Teflon coating that President Trump as with with Republican voters in particular so do you think President Trump's insistence that Republicans hang together and fight this impeachment inquiry do you think that that is a strategy that could hurt moderate Republicans who don't have to have non-coding right now. You know I think he could definitely be a poor strategy because particularly if there are further revelations and it seems like another shoe drops every day or every other day in the situation that could be increasingly difficult to defend I don't think any House Republicans in a moderate district in a difficult to defend district or a senator in a state that could swing the other way wants to be Wiley Coyote and realize there's no cliff under them anymore Michael Steele is a Republican strategist thank you very much for joining us today good to be with you there's been a lot of breaking news today on the opioid front 1st a major court settlement in Ohio and now talk of a tentative national deal valued at $48000000000.00 North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann is in Cleveland where these developments have been taking place and he's on the line with us now hi brian Hey there 1st there was the sudden settlement early this morning which resolves a lawsuit filed by 2 counties in Ohio that have been hit hard by the epidemic tell us what kind of help they're going to receive yet the very last minute just before the trial was scheduled to start companies agreed to pay summit and Cuyahoga County is roughly $260000000.00 in cash and medications I mean Shapiro is Summit County Executive and speaking outside the courthouse today she said Now these resources will save lives and also send a message to the drug industry we've got people dying we've got people that are addicted we need to stop us and so that was the primary purpose and that's the way that it works with companies is that getting them to change behavior is through the pocketbook Brian there was a lot of fighting in fact flapping there in Cleveland after this deal was announced there were there was no admission of wrongdoing in the settlement on the deal means that a lot of documents and evidence about the epidemic will not be released to the public how are people responding to that you know on this point there's a lot of frustration and anger I spoke at the courthouse also with Greg McNeil he's an opioid activist who lost his son Sam to an overdose in 2015 it's kind of a hollow victory because you have no admission of wrongdoing and I feel like if we had some admission here then you'd get a little bit of closure for a lot of families out there but I will say that MacNeill does agree that the my. It will help you know with medical care and social programs for people who are addicted this was supposed to be a kind of test case this was a major trial that was going to hash out some of the big questions about who pays for the opioid crisis so what happens now that the trial was cancelled this was a bit of an anticlimax in that sense and there is uncertainty now even some of the attorneys who negotiated this settlement voiced regret that this didn't turn into the test trial they've been building toward For months I spoke with Mark Lanier who's one of the attorneys for the 2 counties so we don't have a chance to test the legal theories that are being used here to see if they are properly used to see where the limits are the ballots are so what that means is that there are unanswered questions for all the other communities out there who are still suing the drug industry and as we mentioned there is another big news story in the opioid front today the framework for a national settlement was just recently announced tell us what that looks like and whether it's likely to be enacted Yeah this is kind of a moving target right now but a bipartisan group of attorneys general and 5 major drug companies say they've reached this $48000000000.00 deal that would resolve a lot of these opioid liability questions they say this plan will end at least part of the wave of litigation Here's Joel Shapiro is the attorney general in Pennsylvania if we can't bring people together and there is no doubt about it if you will have random haphazard litigation and need people across this country it will not be met Johnson and Johnson in particular has agreed to pay out $4000000000.00 in cash into this framework but now these attorneys general are going to have to convince a lot more states and local governments to suspend their lawsuits and sign on we'll see if they can pull that off that's North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann speaking with us on Skype thank you thank you. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm else the Chuang And I'm Ari Shapiro Canadians are voting today on whether to keep prime minister Justin Trudeau as Liberal party in power the race is tight after revelations of scandals involving Trudeau N.P.R.'s David McGuffin reports from Ottawa there is a sense of relief that voting day is finally here and the campaigning is over it's been an election featuring moments like this a familiar American chant this time aimed at Justin Shuto at a Canadian conservative rally I Conservative leader Andrew sure did put a stop to lock him up but overall this is been a campaign where the focus by the main party leaders has been on why the other guy isn't qualified for the job Here's Andrew Scheer over the last 4 years he has demonstrated time and time again that he is unworthy of that office. 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Was the politician who appears to be benefiting most from this situation is jack me saying the son of Sikh immigrants the young charismatic leader of the left leaning Democratic Party has surged in the polls into a strong 3rd place showing his rallies have a youthful party like atmosphere very similar to what Justin Trudeau experience 4 years ago I've heard from people who tell me their stories about not being able to find housing their stories not having health care. Young people who are worried about the environment. About letting their voices be heard. 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To fight ISIS in Syria but Trump says he made no promises to them when working with the Kurds we're going to relationship with the Kurds but we desperately need to you know protect the Kurds was fought with them for 3 and a half to 4 years we never agreed to protect the Kurds for the rest of their lives Turkey agreed to pause its military campaign to give the Kurds time to withdraw all about 20 miles from the Turkish Syrian border Trump who has hailed that arrangement negotiated by his Administration says he doesn't think it would have happened without the Kurds going through quote 2 and a half days of hell Michele Kelemen n.p.r. News the State Department a last minute deal today between 2 Ohio counties in the major drug companies they accuse of fueling the country's opioid epidemic N.P.R.'s Windsor Johnson tells us it came just before a federal trial was set to begin for defendants have reached a tentative $260000000.00 settlement in the nation's 1st federal opioid trial the company's included Cardinal Health McKesson and Tev of pharmaceuticals one of the defendants pharmacy chain Walgreens has not. To the terms of the settlement the lawsuits allege that drug manufacturers carried out deceptive marketing campaigns that promoted the benefits of using opioids to treat chronic rather than short term pain N.P.R.'s Windsor Johnston hours later news of an even bigger deal 5 companies have tentatively agreed to a $48000000000.00 national settlement that could end thousands of pending lawsuits the c.d.c. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Ari Shapiro and I'm Ailsa Chang President Trump is defending his decision to withdraw most troops from Syria leaving behind the Kurds who fought alongside the us against ISIS we desperately need to you know protect the Kurds was forced on them for 3 and a half to 4 years we never agreed to protect the Kurds from the rest of the Us Kurds in Syria and Iraq see it differently they say the u.s. Betrayed them some of them even threw things today at u.s. Military vehicles pulling out of Syria N.P.R.'s Generac has more from Iraq. There's a lot of traffic on his main highway in the Kurdish region to grab a constant stream of trucks taxis and buses even tractors but people come out of their homes and shops to watch these vehicles go past about a 100 miles from the Syrian border and there is an American convoy rolling past armored vehicles with gunners and some deterrence under commissars netting the American flags flying high as they pull out of Syria 7 years ago Syrian Kurds fought the Syrian regime to form a Kurdish led secular autonomy this region known as Raja then they fought alongside u.s. Forces against ISIS losing more than 10000 men and women 2 weeks ago President Trump decided to withdraw American troops and Turkish forces moved in to fight the Kurds in Iraq u.s. Military protection helped Iraqi Kurds build and protect their own semi autonomous region these Kurds lost more than 1800 fighters and their u.s. Backed battle against ISIS American forces were beloved here but not today. On a high in an indication that traders they are traders we allies of the Americans they sold out to Syrian Kurds and they come here and will sell us out to let's tell it Eunice a shopkeeper in the town to cheer after the convoy drove by. He's been watching on his phone a video of you. Forces being pelted with stones and trash as they drive through the Kurdish Syrian city of commish like rats escaping one of the men in the video shouts after him. On the road in Iraq 2 Kurdish fighters trying to hitch a ride home before it starts to rain watch the Americans go by. 45. Didn't expect America to turn its back on the Kurds in Syria. On another highway being used for the. Refugees fleeing northeastern Syria are traveling down the same road their destination is the refugee camp 45 miles west of there below where the u.n. And aid agencies are scrambling to accommodate up to 1000 refugees a day. I'm an erect director for the u.n. 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Of detained migrants to make sure that they're not already wanted for something in the United States and just so common sense that runs watching us today going this is so obvious I can't believe it's been more than a decade since Congress required authorities to collect d.n.a. Samples from anyone who has been arrested or charged with federal crimes and also from anyone in immigration detention under the Obama administration homeland security officials said it wasn't feasible to do that so the Justice Department gave them a pass but officials inside u.s. Customs and Border Protection thought that was wrong and they stepped forward as whistleblowers to say their agency is violating the d.n.a. Fingerprint Act of 2005 here's one of those whistleblowers Mark Jones speaking to Fox This summer we have a great tool that was mandated by and approved by Congress as a law and we're not using the Justice Department says expanded d.n.a. Collection will quote help to save lives and bring criminals to justice unquote but civil liberties advocates are skeptical they question whether it's appropriate to take d.n.a. By force from immigrants who have not been charged with a crime Marines. Shah is a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union the logic is very perverse and ugly it's they if your in immigration detention and this administration which treats you as they are you committed a crime and so even without charging it with a criminal offense it's going to go ahead and start the investigation Shah says the rule would apply to nearly all undocumented immigrants who are taken into custody the Justice Department rule does allow some exceptions for green card holders and for people who are detained briefly for example at airports but notably Shaw says there is no exception for asylum seekers whether they cross the border illegally or present themselves legally at ports of entry to ask for protection I think that they administration would like this to sound like it is about law enforcement and criminal investigation just the way they make every one of their immigration policies seem to be about preventing crime and church safety for the public when fact they're about demonizing people who are coming to this country to get safety the proposed rule will be published in the federal register tomorrow the public will have 20 days to weigh in Joel Rose n.p.r. 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People run but a few mass protesters dart forward and pour water over the smoking round killing it we have fire fighters which are the ones which put off the take gas that's Karen a paralegal in a regular protest attendee like everyone in the story she doesn't want to provide a full name because you risked a prison sentence of up to a decade for going to unauthorized demonstrations she explained to me the rules most hardline protesters have everyone calls them frontline defenders the street barricades and rip up bricks to throw during increasingly violent clashes you can't call them shoot so they are holding Breakstone holding fire bombs outside and then also the house. And whistles Yes which are taking your killers or trying to. The cyber how the police are going to work or how they're planning but it's not just frontline defenders keeping the momentum going behind the protests ordinary residents and rage by police brutality and seeming government indifference pitch in any way they can driving the protesters home donating gas masks and gloves and even creating an underground network for medical care. The next day Monday at a smaller rally outside a police station a demonstrator cuts her finger immediately protester shelter her from the us and then cross their arms in the air. Others are people just are yelling for help. A volunteer medic in a bright yellow vests sprints over in a minister's aide his backpack a stuff with vials of sailing to treat tear gas and bandages for splints to I don't think I'd treat the more serious injuries gunshot wounds from rubber bullets cuts bone fractures Calvin is a 22 year old e.m.t. But he quit his job to attend protests full time one of the hundreds of volunteer medics even the most violent of street clashes every night tending to the root cause 2 I know that unlike a lot of other volunteer medics I'm trained for that so I'm used to it I'm using my savings to pay for all of this and clearing my medical supplies Calvin sleeps during the day and goes out to protest in late afternoon after riot police retreat back into their station he sits down the curb smoking a cigarette and strolling Jack groups in case there is police action elsewhere. Tonights quiet the Calvin isn't going home just yet police have sought to arrest protesters at hospitals so Calvin and other medics also do house visits for seriously wounded people that way protestors could be treated with out being identified as a frontline defense bad guy I'm a Hong Kong or and so I'm responsible for these people who were injured police say they've arrested over 2500 people for writing so far those arrests infuriate more people into joining the front lines one of those is be a 41 year old hairstylist he only gave his 1st initial because his personal details have been released recently in a probe aging website and he's been receiving threatening calls he's a little older so he sees other front runners a bit like his children attacked him for look out and one night riot police with water cannons were chasing us but the front miners didn't want to abandon their precious gear their helmets and gas masks which incriminate them they had to talk them down into abandoning their toys and run be is also training to become a medic for future protests the wake up is at the head of the protests won't stop the fundamental issues are not resolved even if protests stop for the next 10 years this discontent will only flare up again. It's Tuesday the day after a long weekend of protest the city's demands on parlors clatter back to life and eerie normality quickly returns to a fatigue city a meeting t. Of Anja Human Rights Monitor she only gave her initial because the monitors occupy a legal gray zone they go to protest to film police documenting brutality and creating a visual record of the protests I'm going off and everyone's on 1st what. Everyone's like feeling a little bit tired and strange. Not knowing how to talk ask the last 4 months of protest have felt like mourning a person that's dying in slow motion zesty except that person is a city in that city. Your home and my Fang n.p.r. News. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. This is $8097.00 w. G.b.h. 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Tonight at 9 on w g b h 2 trusted. News that makes you think this is. Boston's local n.p.r. . As the impeachment of President Trump goes on more about one of its central figures former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. His ability to manipulate the media. For Sunday October 20th this is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. I'm Michel Martin. Presidential candidate Andrew Yang says he's still in the hunt for the Democratic nomination he makes his case as part of N.P.R.'s series off script a 100 percent can win. The biggest problems of our time and comedian on her new memoir inspired by a last letter from her dad one of the few things that if my house is on fire if there was an apocalypse I would take. You know my past. First this news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Janine Herbst in Syria Kurdish fighters say they've withdrawn from a key Syrian border city their 1st evacuation under a u.s. Brokered temporary ceasefire agreement with Turkey N.P.R.'s Jayna Raf reports Turkey invaded northern Syria 10 days ago a spokesman for Syrian Kurdish forces which fought alongside the u.s. Against ISIS says there are no longer any of its fighters inside Russell ain the u.s. Brokered a 5 day ceasefire ending Tuesday in which the Kurds agreed to withdraw from his own 75 miles long and 20 miles deep Turkey wants to carve out a zone and push Syrian refugees now in Turkey into it almost 200000 civilians have been fleeing many of them from areas expected to be taken over by Turkish forces and Kurdish Red Crescent officials said some still remain in ROs Elaine the u.s. Military meanwhile says it is continuing its withdrawal of troops from northeast Syria Kurds say the move leaves them defenseless against Turkish forces and the Syrian regime Jane around n.p.r. News dough hook in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In Lebanon protests continued for a 4th day in one of the biggest anti-government protests in years N.P.R.'s Daniel Estrin has more from Beirut tens of thousands of protesters are in downtown Beirut and many other cities throughout Lebanon they're waving Lebanese flags dancing chanting against politicians protests began Thursday when the government facing a major financial crisis said it would tax calls on the free service whatsapp but protesters here say they're also protesting years of government corruption and pour water and electricity Reuters reports the Lebanese cabinet may announce major reforms like slashing officials salaries paying off massive government debt and repairing electricity but protesters tell us they want the political establishment to fall or just are so lame see Dani I want to see the result. We won't give them up we're going to be dead you know Lester an n.p.r. News Beirut in Hong Kong tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators took to the streets today despite a ban on rallies N.P.R.'s Emily Fang has more chanting Hong Kong resists demonstrators tried out for a peaceful March to mending universal suffrage and an inquiry into police brutality among other things many were masks in defiance of a ban on such face coverings invoked under emergency powers earlier this month as the afternoon more on hardcore protesters began constructing barricades setting want to fire to delay advancing riot police disperse crowds marchers an ordinary bystanders tear gas water cannons police with blue tie the demonstration Sunday come after Hong Kong chief executive Kerry lamb proposed affordable housing reforms and whole policy address an effort to quell the protests and Gulf the city for almost 5 months and leafing n.p.r. News Beijing. And you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington from the radio news room in Boston I'm Mary Blake with the local stories we're following on this Sunday afternoon services were held at a New Hampshire church today for the 1st time since a gunman shot 2 people during a wedding last week parishioners arriving for the service say that they've been praying for their bishop Stanley Choate and the bride Claire McMullan as the to recover from bullet moments Cho remains hospitalized this afternoon McMullin was released last week friends say I'm a c.s.s. Parishioners won't allow fear to keep them from Sunday service an enemy to the wind we're not going to be afraid and if we're going to die alone thank your staff for Daniel says the church is about the people one of those things when you finally get in there use I'm going to look around and see. It's to me the buildings just the building. But it's your faith in God that keeps you going to encourage you the alleged gunman Dale Holloway pleaded not guilty to charges in connection with the shooting he is due back in court this week for a bail hearing utility crews are making progress restoring power to the hundreds of customers still without lights or heat 5 days after a powerful nor'easter took down trees and power lines a little more than $1200.00 customers are still without power according to the Mima power outage map National Grid spokeswoman Darlene Massey telling news most of the outages are in Franklin and Northern Wister counties she says crews have been working in tough conditions we had one customer in that area who had somewhat of a long driveway needed their power restored it required work to 6 different polls leading up to their home along with fixing a transformer and again it's crossfire Massy says National Grid now expects to have power restored nearly everywhere by late tonight that is 24 hours after the previous estimated restoration time of last night she says remaining scattered Singa. This will be addressed tomorrow and the forecast you might want to pack an umbrella this week showers are possible after midnight tonight then sun and clouds tomorrow highs in the sixty's rain on Tuesday right now it is 58 in Boston this is support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include indeed with its skills tests built for employers who want to see the deeper sense of the person behind their resume learn more and indeed dot com slash n.p.r. And the any foundation. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Michel Martin we're going to start the program today with a look at what's expected this week in the house's ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump more witnesses have been called to tell lawmakers about the circumstances under which u.s. Military assistance to Ukraine was held up but will they show up and what might we learn from them joining us for a preview is n.p.r. Congressional correspondent Claudio thanks so much for joining us thanks for having me who's being deposed this week so we're going to see officials with the State Department the Pentagon and the White House National Security Council who are expected to testify behind closed doors and one of the key witnesses this week include William Taylor he's the top u.s. Diplomat in that country who voiced concerns about whether Tromp allies pressured Ukrainians to find dirt on the current 2020 presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter and Democrats say these witnesses are corroborating these claims and Taylor could add more to that this week so are there any others coming in and what do we know about them yes there are other officials from various departments or less familiar with them they include Phil Reeker the acting top official at the State Department for European and your Asian affairs and he slated to come in Wednesday he's also a former State Department spokesman from the early 2000 also that day Michael Duffy is expected to testify he's the associate director for national security programs at the Office of Management and Budget and then on Thursday we expect to Pentagon officials to appear An official familiar with the impeachment inquiry told n.p.r. That the House committees are in ongoing discussions with additional witnesses and they could appear as well next week do we have any sense of when we're going to learn what these witnesses are saying I mean Republicans and the people who are our allied with them are. Continuing to complain about the fact that these are happening behind closed doors are these are closed sessions so when might we learn what these witnesses are saying well we probably will see a repeat of what we've seen in recent weeks which is a lot of this information is being released through congressional Democrats and like you mentioned these Republicans have complained that this doesn't paint a complete picture of what is being presented in testimony but it gives us some hints as to what that testimony will look like we'll get it on a daily basis after every witness appears eventual e. We're being told these transcripts will be released more of this inquiry will move into a public phase but for now it's going to be kind of the snippets that we're getting and in terms of timing many Democrats have said they'd like to see this inquiry wrapped up by year's end last week Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told this caucus that the impeachment trial could wrap up this year that the House could end its inquiry by Thanksgiving however we should note that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday waved off that prediction and said the timeline will depend on the truth line that was n.p.r. Congressional correspondent Claudio thanks so much for joining us thanks for having me one of the central figures in the House impeachment inquiry is Rudy Giuliani the former mayor of New York and longtime friend of Donald Trump's he describes himself as president Trump's personal attorney making frequent and often combative media appearances on Trump's behalf and that now famous phone call with Ukraine's president President Trump asked his counterpart to work with Giuliani in what critics say was an attempt to dig up dirt on a political rival Giuliani's involvement has confounded many who remember him as America's mayor a calm unifying figure who led New York City out of the chaos that followed the 911 attacks it was Rudy Giuliani that really was America's mayor I'm just saying that guy. I and see him now I am very nostalgic for the Giuliani of days past I hate to say his legacy to file but other New Yorkers remember a different Rudy Giuliani and a brace of politician who put his own image above all else who cut corners and inflamed racial tensions in the city Bob Henley is a reporter for the chief leader that's a paper that closely covers New York City's government he's been reporting on New York politics for more than 3 decades he's with us now from his home office in New Jersey Bobby Lee thanks so much for joining us thanks for having me you were a reporter at The Village Voice during the years that Giuliani was the New York Mayor what do you remember most I remember someone who was the originator of the kind of Donald Trump race based attack politics I remember very clearly Giuliani using his Laudner image to foment what some people call historians or I think are going to call the police riot taking on David Dinkins challenging his credibility and racism and race baiting Wortham middle part of the way that he wrote the city one of the things that happened was the use of stop and frisk which became an issue that people focused on nationally he really was the originator of that it did Rudy Giuliani had a relationship with Donald Trump back then what was that what was that relationship with a close I think that they were terribly creatures manipulating the media in a way that they actually became creatures of it and so tell me how you think that plays into what's happening now well I think that what's happened now is as we know narrative is so important in politics so the way that Giuliani got to be known and entered the national stage was really in that moment surrounding 911 and anyone who actually followed the tick tock of what was happening in the city knows that actually Richie awning made the situation much worse than the way that he responded and in the way that he created a situation where something as basic as fire radios the firefighters did not have what was required and it was the fault of his administration through a totally it league. An improper bidding process as a matter of fact the International Association of Firefighters contends that Giuliani's improper handling of the fire radios resulted in that in additional deaths $121.00 firefighters who went up in the north tower never heard the command to leave it no to be given twice you know this is a parallel narrative that exists if you're familiar with the city of New York in an intimate way as I've been fortunate to be but a Lute's and national press because they don't get into the details and so that's why I guess a lot of people will some are puzzled as you say that you know there are 2 wildly different views of really should Ali I mean some of him people see him as well he was the former prosecutor he's the law and order guy how would he be involved in something that other people see as either clearly cutting corners or even or you know kind of a blatant misuse of presidential authority or at you know at minimum cutting corners and some people just find that hard to square I take it you don't well narcissism manifests itself through this is a like an occupational hazard there's a point at which you begin to believe that you are the embodiment of these ideals and so that whatever you do that's in your interest it doesn't matter the other ethical constructs it's about advancing you who now come to personify all that's right and I think that that's what we see here and this idea of boundaries not apply this is a consequence and I saw it happen with Donald Trump I mean if you look at the way that the real estate industry and Donald Trump a particular were permitted to behave in New York City they did whatever they they wanted to do and they continued to do it and so the inability to hold them accountable when they were trying out locally Well now they've gone national Bob Henley is a reporter for the chief leader he's covered law enforcement in City Hall for more than 3 decades for various outlets including The Village Voice in New York Public Radio and he's a weekly contributor to Salon badly thanks so much for talking with us it was my pleasure. Now we're going to spend a few minutes with. Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang he says he is confident about his chances of becoming the party's nominee even though nationally he's polling at about 2 percent Oh I 100 percent in when I'm running to solve the biggest problems of our time I mean you have great ideas love the ideas thank you that's. A New Yorker who runs a nonprofit mentorship program to prepare girls for the workforce She's one of 2 undecided voters who sat down with Yang and Morning Edition host Noel King as part of our series off script they met yesterday at a New York City restaurant called bow de as in Bow the steamed bun Yang likes the spot for its dim sum and Johnny generally likes Yanks proposal for a universal basic income a guaranteed 12000 dollars a year for every adult Yang calls it the freedom but Johnny who often works with families in poverty pressed Yang about how he'll get enough conservative support to make this policy idea a reality. So I'm one of only 2 Democratic candidates in the field that 10 percent or more voters said they would support in the general election which makes me the best candidate to take on to be Donald Trump in 2020 and saying look the reality is we did blast away 4000000 manufacturing jobs in these communities many of which were in swing states or used to be swing that went red and so they see them trying to solve that set of problems and so I'm already peeling off disaffected Trump voters independents libertarians some conservatives I also talk in terms of numbers and business and a lot of conservatives are attracted to that art has I know you had a question about Mr Yang's identity and what it's meant so so cool so you be the 1st Asian American president what does that mean 1st of all and then also Asian American is such a big label. You know not every Asian has the same opportunities or different Pakistanis from Indians and cetera but within your. What are you going to do to promote Asian American I'm certainly very proud to be the 1st Asian American man to run for president as a Democrat and when I see Asian Americans around the country many seem excited about my candidacy at the same time like you said we're very very diverse community with very very different sets of experiences and so I would never suggest that you know I can somehow speak for all Americans or that my experience is representative but I do remember what it was like growing up in this country where I'd just be so pumped to see an Asian of any kind on the t.v. Where I jump up and down and like you know trying to get my. Things have changed this week but it's given me a lot of joy and pride to think about an Asian child turning on the Democratic debate and seeing me up on that stage and hopefully it gives them a sense that we're just as Americans anyone else that's Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang it's a portion of his conversation with undecided voters and N.P.R.'s Noel King he will hear more of their off script conversation later this week across n.p.r. And you can watch our previous conversations with candidates and voters at npr dot org slash off script. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News and right here on radio in Boston Good afternoon I'm Mary Blake thanks for being with us currently 58 degrees in Boston and just ahead on All Things Considered Turkey's invasion of northern Syria following the withdrawal of u.s. Troops has put the spotlight on the Kurds more about that ethnic group coming up on Boston's local n.p.r. 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News I'm Michel Martin we're going to revisit a story we've covered regularly on this program Facebook and how it handles false or misleading content critics from around the world have become increasingly vocal about this saying Facebook has become a vehicle for the rapid dissemination of lies and needs more regulation despite this Facebook has reaffirmed that it will continue to exempt politicians from fact checking allowing them to make false statements in their paid advertisements on Thursday though Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to address the matter further with a nearly 40 minute speech at Georgetown University on the value of free expression giving more people a voice gives power in the powerless and pushes society to get better over time to talk more about this we've called on Kara Swisher she is the co-founder and editor at large of recoat that is a media outlet that covers the digital world Kara thank you so much for joining us thanks so much and I do want to disclose here that Facebook is among N.P.R.'s recent financial supporters having said that what was the importance of the speech care that was any news made there well into sort of trying to figure it out still he's sort of on a p.r. Offensive again and right now it's around free speech and trying to defend what has happened on Facebook as being sort of a binary choice between free speech or against China I can't really quite figure out I thought the speech was pretty thin intellectually on a credibly complicated topic the New York Times posted a piece this weekend that talks about the overwhelming financial advantage that the Trump campaign has and even as some of the broadcast networks are refusing to air certain ads Facebook is taking advantage of the fact that the platform has said it will not subject. Politicians statements to fact checking and so there are posting ads that say things that have been completely debunked did he directly address that well he did he there was a question about that and he said he had thought about removing political advertising from Facebook which was that tight really news because he didn't do it but it's very clear he could remove people who are running for office you know and I don't know what he would do about super PACs but I think the issue was is this is been something that's been actually in place is that Facebook and Twitter not just Facebook Twitter and You Tube they allow all kinds of agree just lying to go on and especially when they're newsworthy figures on Twitter they use the term newsworthy to allow say Donald Trump to violate its terms daily essentially And so they're saying because we want all the voices to speak we're not going to we're not going to be the ones that are arbiters of what politicians say well let the public at large decide even if they're lying and that there's a mechanism in place which is called the press that will say these are lies the problem is once these lies get out there they get the same amount of attention that it's hard to pull them apart and that's the one thing they don't realize they're not like they're not like television which has certain rules around what it's allowed to broadcast or any other medium because it's so pervasive it's so hard to understand what's real and what's not and it's everywhere around us and I think that's the part he missed out he was trying to compare himself to radio or t.v. And it's not it's just simply not the same thing before I let you go on to testify for the 2nd time in front of Congress he's expected to speak before the House Financial Services Committee next Wednesday what is that about well it was supposed to be about Libra which is this currency that Facebook and they're moving it to dating and currency which is what could go wrong so they have this currency called Libor that they're in a consortium with a number of big payment providers pulled out of the consortium last week and so it's going to be very hard for them to talk about it because now it's not quite the same thing as they initially introduced they're trying to do this in a partnership style as they. Should But I think people are worried about Facebook having any control over money and so I'm not sure what he's going to say because there's not a lot he can say about what's going on so I suspect they'll be asking all kinds of different questions about Facebook's intentions around payments it could be a big player it could be and it could be a dangerous player so we'll say there is Kara Swisher co-founder and editor at large of Rico Kara thanks so much for talking with us thank you so much. A handful of colleges around the country charge 0 dollars for tuition to make the math work they build their budgets around the concept that they will not collect revenue from students reporter Jeff Tyler visited 2 colleges in Kentucky to see how they do it in the lush foothills of central Kentucky Berea seems like your average small private college down to its stately brick buildings and it's inspiring school and. Despite appearances is very unusual that 1600 students all come from low income families and not one of them pays for tuition Elahi people say this this isn't Leo this got to be fake but I came here made a visit and it was 22 year old Holly Jamison is living proof she's the 1st in her family to go to college she's now finishing her nursing degree I will leave in May of 2020 with a free education as an r. And that's isn't normal I even have friends in nursing schools here in Kentucky and that kind of say oh my gosh you're so lucky like I already have $20000.00 in debt and I am where you are and you have 0 Around here the idea of no tuition isn't new recolonize has not been collecting tuition from students is 892 Jeff Amber he is Maria's vice president of finance he says the colleges ability to cover tuition can be traced to a financial decision from 100 years ago the board made a rule that any unrestricted money donated to the college would be invested in an endowment to grow over time today the endowment is worth a whopping $1200000000.00 and profits from the investments cover most of the cost of tuition Amber he says other colleges could benefit from the same approach and those of ministration factors staff that are working there 50 to 75 years back Labradors the day that I think 20 and say May and work they did and if you don't have the patience to. Wait 75 years there's another model that covers tuition with out a massive endowment Let's move about 100 miles east to another college in the tiny town of Pippa passes. In the early 1900 and Appalachian Mountain Man traded the land along this creek to an educated woman from Boston when Alice Lloyd eventually founded a college here she never made her Course students pay tuition and that decision informs how the college is run today when you begin with the concept that you're not going to charge out of pocket. Everything you do has to be built around that concept Jim step is the executive vice president Alice Lloyd college and to help cover the cost of tuition for around $600.00 students it relies more heavily on fund raising it also asks more from its professors faculty would teach up to 40 percent heavier class low than you do a lot of summer colleges another way Alice Lloyd saves money no tenure so they can be flexible that might spark a revolt at some schools but there is something other colleges could learn from Alice Lloyd the way it pays for new buildings here we raise the money from private donors before we build. It on a campus tour with marketing director Katie Westerfield we watched giant machines claw a foundation this is the newest facility on our campus it has recreation for our students as well as a gymnasium and so this building even though it is not completed in won't be until the end of $2900.00 is fully funded it $20000000.00 steps says he understands how competition for students can make new facilities seem urgent at the same time he wonders how much debt should really go into as an institution do you need to spin as much money into the facilities when students are going to pay for that through to tuition Finally there is something else that Alice Lloyd and Maria both do that seems like a good way to save money Maria. And Alice Lloyd our work colleges requiring students to work at least 10 hours a week this opportunity provides great training and character building for students but when other schools tried it they found the work college approach to be too expensive for n.p.r. News I'm Jeff Tyler in Peppa passes Kentucky here in Washington d.c. Local lawmakers are debating a bill that would remove all criminal penalties for buying or selling sex between consenting adults if it passes it would make the district the only jurisdiction to allow sex worker prostitution as many still call it outside of some counties in Nevada as you would imagine this has been tremendously controversial including among sex workers or former sex workers themselves some say this would allow them to seek help from authorities when they need it to protect them from violence for example but others say this would only open the door to even more trafficking to help us better understand what to say we're joined by one of the co-sponsors of the bill council members and need of bonds and she's with us now in studio in Washington d.c. Council member Welcome thank you so much for joining us thank you for having me thank you I want to know one of the reasons that we called you is that you're not one of the original sponsors of the bill I mean the bill had been introduced a couple of years ago by 2 of your colleagues and you just joined this more recently and so I'm wondering did your mind change about this what happened to make you want to co-sponsor this bill well firstly by Cole sponsoring it I'm really saying to the public this is a subject matter that we really need to explore we are in urban community where a number transgender sex workers have. Have died they've been murdered and so it becomes an issue but to kill a for that community it also is an issue for some of the neighboring a Jewish dictions as well as the district where we know that there is child. Traffic doing well it turns out that the hearing on the bill was quite lengthy and he did it was as I understand it some 14 hours long. What did you learn from that that hearing was it what were some of the arguments that people present well interestingly enough I thought that the majority of the comments were against it because you know societal judgment Excedrin But you know when we look at the pieces of testimony and go through the tapes we discover it's not even but it's very close. And I think that's because many who are in the trade actually showed up so I think we really don't know I think that the community is unsettled on this issue and so we've got many parts to this issue and I found like you're unsettled yourself yes definitely tell me about you what's going on in your mind like one of the sides and what what what debate are you having in your own head about well I'm having a debate as to whether or not one I certainly do not want to decriminalize the johns for any reason people buying sex you don't. People that. Are are. Pushing individuals to be involved in the $63.00. Although I heard from many that are in the trade and they talk about this as work like any other work and that's a very interesting concept because I think as a society we haven't looked at it from that perspective but I'm I'm very torn on this issue there was a letter signed by more than 200 people opposing the bill some of whom are themselves former sex workers and they say that while those selling sex should not be prosecuted those buying sex should be and their argument is that decriminalizing this will just increase the opportunities for people to bring more people into the trade even by coercion that isn't always overt and so I guess what I'm hearing from you is you still aren't sure which you which argument you found more persuasive I think the most persuasive argument is the one related to issues without children many children become involved in the. Sexily their sex lives and we do know that and this bill as written doesn't help us to distinguished our young people from the so-called adults and I think that's why this bill will not fly Were you surprised though by how many people who are involved in the sex trade I mean as you said the one of the things that struck you is just how many people who were involved in sex work came out to testify or people who had been and I'm just wondering if that surprise you how many people there were who'd been involved I was surprised that the number that testified to have as many come out and to spin that amount of time waiting to have their say was very significant It tells me that there are elements of this community that are hurting deeply. That was d.c. Council member and bons she's a co-sponsor of the Community Safety and Health Amendment Act of 2019 for another take on this issue we point you to a conversation we had on this program yesterday with Sen Toyah brown long her life sentence at 16 for killing a much older man raised national awareness of the issue of sex sex trafficking of minors and you can hear that conversation at npr dot org. You're listening to n.p.r. News. The u.s. Led coalition forces defeated ISIS in Syria with the help of the Kurds Kurdish women soldiers were an integral part of that effort a new French movie celebrates a different narrative of women in war N.P.R.'s Eleanor Beardsley has this report. At the time. They could do to us. Sisters in arms is a fictional war movie based on the real life female Kurdish fighting brigades the movie's main characters are foreign recruits from Europe and America and a young Yazidi woman who escapes from sexual slavery with ISIS to join the Kurds this is the 1st film a French journalist counting for lest who once worked at the satirical weekly Charlie Abdo for Best says after a terrorist attack on the magazine that killed her colleagues in 2015 she needed to transform her rage and pain into something bigger it was and this is huge and this in language and fiction was d.s. Language and also I felt a very strong physical need to be among those fighters. Usually during the wars and we are used to deaths the body of the woman is the battlefield Indies conflict they have a he was a with the. Rebels. A great. Former Washington Post correspondent John Randall who's written extensively on the Kurds says the gender equality and its army appealed to American soldiers the fact that there were women in combat units and commanded combat units all this of course. Was surely useful for fighting this relationship with the American military Randall says the American strain the Kurds to call in airstrikes on ISIS units but it was the Kurds who did the fighting and dying on the ground in the war against ISIS basically smiting women because I don't see with the infantry but expects American soldiers to. Last out the issues were time goes from 500. His head of the Kurdish Institute in Paris he's seen the movie 3 times shared shared. That should matter and the rest cites an old Kurdish proverb a lion is a lie and no matter if it's male or female he says the West 1st discovered Kurdish female brigades during the Crimean War in the 19th century. A major firing Kurdish women fighting. Alongside the auto pilot until they called the Kurdish a Muslim. In the film The women sometimes late as they attack for arrest says the Kurdish guerrillas told her jihad is feared being killed by a woman you have to understand sometimes they have been caught we've spoken around them Nick because this Salt's that just after that they have the we have do you know with the press. That and they were also a superstitious being killed by you women can really deprive them from have sisters in arms came out in France the day the Turkish incursion into northern Syria to oust the Kurds began 60 year old Persian cat Mia as you lay had tears in her eyes as she left the Senate. That's what's happening right now this film is even more poignant and tragic she says director for best hopes her film will make the West realize what the Kurds have sacrificed Eleanor Beardsley n.p.r. News Paris. This is n.p.r. 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News I'm Michel Martin we're going to tackle a sensitive subject now it is the subject of suicide and we're talking about this because this has been a week of difficult news yesterday morning a funeral was held for a suburban Maryland police officer who'd been found last Monday on the top floor of a parking garage suffering from a gunshot wound he was on duty and said he was confronting someone but later the medical examiner confirmed that gunshot was self-inflicted on Tuesday evening a 33 year old New York City officer was found dead by his wife also by suicide that officer's death marked the 10th police suicide in New York this year alone and Police Commissioner James O'Neill told local journalists that far more police suicides have already taken place in this year than in most and while we could have a conversation soley about this disturbing trend among police officers there is more earlier this week the Centers for Disease Control publish new data and reported that death rates from suicide are on the rise among very young people aged 10 to 24 the rate is up 56 percent in the last decade before we say any more we want to tell you if you are in distress or know someone who is you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 180-273-8255 you can call 24 hours a day we want to talk about what might be happening here with people who have thought a lot about this issue and what might be done about it Catherine Barber is a senior researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health Injury Research Center She joins us from Boston Kathryn Barbara welcome thank you I'm going to be with you we're also joined by Sergeant Kevin Briggs formerly with the California Highway Patrol He's now a mental health advocate Sergeant Riggs as well known for his work on the Golden Gate Bridge where he answered $4.00 to $6.00 suicidal calls each month and trained other officers to deal with these calls he's with us from r.c.b. In Rohnert Park California starting Briggs Welcome to you as well thanks for joining us thank you good to be here and last but certainly not least Dr Jonathan Singer is with us from. And Chicago he's the president of the American Association of Suicidology and an associate professor of social work at Loyola University Dr Singer thanks for talking to us as well it's a pleasure thank you and I'm going to start with you all of this is troubling but I'm going to start with something I think will shock a lot of people those numbers from the c.d.c. Report that the suicide rates for children 10 to 14 years old tripled from 2007 to 2017 what might be going on here you know the tragedy of youth suicide it is so painful for everybody and one of the things that people have a hard time believing is that a 10 year old can think about killing themselves. The increase is in part due to the fact that there were very few reported suicide deaths and there are more and more part of that is reporting and part of that is access to lethal means and so these are some of the reasons why the the rates are going up for you with Kevin Barber what do you think is going on here I actually don't know why it is going up across all age groups and that's been unusual that's been happening since about 2002008 and when people say they know the reasons I'm usually skeptical and so when people go to simple solutions simple explanations they often don't pan out well Sergeant James what do you think I mean let's talk about police officers now and of course comparing data here to gear talking about anecdotes is generally not always the best idea but there's one advocacy group with the police oriented advocacy group that says that you know as of August they say that law enforcement suicides are up by double digits since 2018 Do you I mean obviously you still talk to people who are on the job you had a long career self do you think something's going on and if so what do you think it is I definitely think that things are going on and yes I do speak with law enforcement actually teach with the f.b.i. And do a number of things but what I see is when they're required to do a fit for duty evaluation they see the psychologist as an adversary. But I know there are studies out there one that showed out of $830.00 evaluations over a 5 year period 94 percent of the officers returned to duty so this needs to get out there and our leaders need to be involved a lot more than what they are and for officers that are seeking mental health treatment that they have to see that as a positive sign when laughter comes in they says you know things aren't going quite right they want to be better they want to be better for themselves for their family and for their communities so it all starts at the top as usual so you know this is a society sergeant he says a lot more open about a lot of things than it used to be I mean just in the spirit of full disclosure I'll just tell you I come from a policing family I had 6 police officers in my family at one point and you know there's a big difference between the way it was back in the day in the way it is now I see officers on the job now with you know drugs I see them with all different kinds of hairstyles I see them you know with different things that just would not have been tolerated you know years ago. But are you saying that openness to talking about issues feelings problems stress the stress of the job you're saying that that's that hasn't changed that that still is something that's kind of taboo in my opinion yes absolutely you go to a bar you handle it you come back and do the same thing the next day this is what we're expected to do it is getting better but I think we still have a long way to go back to saying I went to pick up on something that happened Barbara said which is that their rates of suicide are going up among lots of groups in the society do you agree with that and why what's your take on that why is that I absolutely agree and I think that you know understanding how the rates of suicide are going up in different groups helps us to understand the overall rise in suicide rates among youth and so understanding that suicide is not just a white person problem but it is a problem that affects all people and that the interventions the preventions and the post pensions that we engage in have to be culturally respectful culturally humble and address these different issues that we see in society today well why don't you start us off well let's wheel it around like what do you think would be helpful doctor saying 1st of all I think that what happens is there's a cultural mistrust with the mental health providers so we need to train faith leaders we need to train coaches we need to train folks who are not mental health providers to identify and respond to a motional cognitive and behavioral problems what about cops I mean I know that a lot of people don't have a lot of there are some people who have a very great deal of sympathy for people in law enforcement just frankly it's a difficult period in our country right now and some people do not have a lot of sympathy for police officers right now and is there something in this particular group you think would make a difference would make a difference with this particular group sure it starts with training in the academy and I'm seeing that little by little if we can start in the academy with what we call crisis intervention training and gets mobsters trained in that I was speaking up in Bend Oregon some time in. Oh and the chief of police there had all of his officers trained in c.i.t. Crisis intervention training and since he did that he noticed a 50 percent reduction in the use of force so something like that our officers can recognize what may be going on with an individual but also they're also learning about themselves and when they be me in crisis and how do we not get to that level that was Sergeant Kevin Briggs He's a former California Highway Patrol officer he's now a mental health advocate Catherine Barber was also with us she's a senior researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health Injury Research Center and Dr Jonathan Singer president of the American Association of Suicidology an associate professor of social work at Loyola University I want to say it again that if you're in distress or you know someone who is you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 180-273-8255 or you can text talk 274-1741 I thank you all so much for talking to us thank you thank you thank you very much. In 2016 comedian Allie Wong brought a fresh take to the stand up comedy scene in her Netflix special baby Cobra she performed her set while pregnant with her 1st child and offered pointed views on sex sexism and life as a woman and her book is called Lean In I don't wanna lean in Ok I want to lie yeah. And yes that's one of the few jokes we could actually play on n.p.r. Since then she has kept grinding she was a writer on A.B.C.'s fresh off the boat costar on 3 seasons of that network's American housewife she co-wrote and starred in the Netflix movie always be my maybe she had another baby and did another special no wonder she wants to lie down but she didn't she's also written a memoir in the form of essays dedicated to her 2 young daughters It's called Dear girls intimate tales untold secrets and advice for living your best life and it manages to be raunchy sweet and wise all at the same time and our own is going to tell us how she did it she's with us now from our studios in Culver City California welcome thank you so much for being with us well thanks what you're having me and so crazy listening to that clip of baby Cobra You know I don't I haven't watched that since I was in the editing room let me just say it's so hard to do an interview when you can't talk about half the things in the book that he had least not in the way that you talk about them so please help me write the Neal so I can continue to work here please and to not lose might lose my job so with that being said what a wild ride you've been on the movie to specials touring so why a book there were a lot of knocks on my door to write a book and I didn't have an idea really until a thought about writing letters to my daughters that's very much inspired by a letter that my father wrote to me before he passed away that began with Dear Alexandra and it's one of the few things that if my house was on fire if there was an apocalypse I would take with me along with you know my passport and. And my kids I just wish that he had written a lot more because I have so many more questions for him that it's too late to ask what you're my talk a little bit about your family because I found it really fascinating that you kind of got there like almost 2 thirds of the way through the book you actually really told the back story about your family which is quite extraordinary I mean your dad Chinese American your mom American and when you really hear their back stories you just I don't know it just kind of takes your breath away would you mind just a little bit of I hope my dad was born in the us he grew up in Chinatown He grew up in a one bedroom apartment with no running water he slept in a twin bed with his mom and his 2 sisters and his father would just sleep on newspaper and he was a chef and his father my grandfather came to the u.s. When he was 8 years old he came through Angel Island on a boat by himself and he came and worked for as a house boys for a family and in our family we have that picture of my grandfather as an 8 year old boy when he came through Angel Island and this black and white photo and he just looks so young and now that I have my own kids who are both under the age of 4 to really understand just how young he was when he came all by himself like that and my mom came to us from Vietnam when she was in 1960 she came when she was like 20 years old and which is very early it's very unusual for Vietnamese people They're always shocked when they hear that because most people came in 1905 and so yeah I mean I grew up just in a very interesting family that was very interested in art we would always they would take me constantly to the American Film Festival every time there was a new Wong Kar wai film they would take me to see it. And it you know made a huge difference in my confidence because. You know now there's all this conversation about how representation matters and. People talk about how they never saw themselves on screen I saw myself on screen all the time because my parents made sure of it and I don't know if it's because they were consciously trying to make it so that I saw myself on screen they were just so interested in what Asians and Asian Americans were doing in the creative field what will tell me about stand up though why why stand up I thought I really learned a lot about the whole stand up world from your book in a way that I didn't even really see it before so why stand up well that's one of those things where I I guess I kind of always wanted to try it and then the day I did something clicked and I was like oh this is what a calling it is you know it's like the 1st time you fall in love and you're like oh my God this is what all the r. And b. Songs are making all a big deal about this is what Babyface is talking about this is funny Braxton is talking about and with and you know we go through hard regular Oh my God this is what heartbreak is and that's how I felt when I found stand up and I don't really know how to explain it but I do just think that it was just it was just a very strong calling before we let you go you know I have to ask you about one of the last essays in the book is titled My least favorite question and that question is What's it like being an Asian American in Hollywood and you go on to say that most of the people asking you that question are also Asian American why do you think that is I don't know why it's very strange when they ask me that and I'm. I'm often feel disappointed I guess because I think. It's a really boring question and whatever answer I have to that is is very boring as well but I understand I do fundamentally understand why they're asking it I just wish they could see themselves beyond just being Asian American women you know any mean if you like if you like for always be my maybe For example I always say that when you populate a movie with Asian American people then they get to be people right so for Jenny who played Randall park's girlfriend she's that she's that Asian American woman dreadlocks if if there is a man that she was so crazy she's so gracious great you know like I grew up in the Bay Area I knew like 10 Jenny's And they were like a growing their own come Booch and stuff and then with a burning man every year right and I grew up with so many women like that and so it's like if she was cast in a movie with all white people then she would be known as the Asian girlfriend but in our movie she got to be you know that girl with dreadlocks who's kind of wacky who makes the hot dog spaghetti who's like you know works works for this community center that does slam poetry it was like she got to be a person so it's like if you if you challenge yourself to describe yourself outside of being in Asian American woman how would you describe yourself you know what I mean and I'm like why don't you look at yourself as that 1st before identifying 1st and foremost as like an Asian American woman you know I was going to ask if there's one lesson you want your daughters to take away from reading this book what would it be that certainly is a good one but is there another one. Don't date a d.j. You read a check. People act up I doubt what I'm talkin about do not date a d.j. That's only wrong her book Dear girls intimate tales untold secrets and advice for Living Your Best Life is out now I want thanks so much for your time bank guy. For Sunday that's All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Michel Martin thank you for listening we hope you have a great week. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from mind body where wellness and people meet with thousands of fitness classes to find and book in one place studios can join the network at Mind Body Online dot com slash n.p.r. . 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Police are searching everybody including Man little one this and I don't people like us there especially in the backs and if they have any equipment with them like the gas masks and mass whatever they just arrest them. So my friend just asked me if it is a must for me to get the gas mask so I told her that no is not a mask I don't want to risk my friends getting searched so they get she told the other friend not to come out with equipment. Which is gone without gas mask before . His body or mom doesn't come home early the requests will be totally ignored we had outside. Then she turns and runs back with you because. It is very important to. You that it's not going to rain yet it is not for the rain it is for your guests and bullets rubber bullets that is it works on bullets yes frankly yes no no I don't understand why but always those bullets they slip all along the umbrella so they just don't get through the umbrella. Protestors hide behind a wall of bros in the Pentagon or dismantle their circuit t.v. Camera on the street doing anything else they don't want the police to see. If you and I in a manual head to the bus stop and there's other young people who are in full sized umbrellas on this totally sunny day walking over here to the bus so you like looking around to see if other people you think are going to protests always wonder you know how many people around here and yet they're in so there's like some young people on our left 2 people standing next to you I think are probably if not to see Phish it brings a fair small back but the whole time it's more it's called guy in white shirt yeah and then the call. Behind you probably it's like are you on my side are you one of us went through the protest everybody's in a mass so you don't really know who's on your team here in the neighborhood it's kind of exciting to wonder who your allies might be. The protests in Hong Kong of an international news for months kicked off by people's fears that Mainland China is threatening some very basic things about their city and their wives for the coverage here on our show we thought we weren't seeing many stories who got to know anybody very well who they were what exactly they expected was going to come out of the protests given China's intransigence. 3 of us arrived in Hong Kong and in September me and Emanuel in a coworker Diane were. To say one of the things that was fascinating given the state of democracy here in the United States likely is to be among so many young people who believe so intensely in democratic ideals and yearn so deeply for the basics like normal actions free speech and free assembly though just in the last few weeks since we got to Hong Kong we watch the situation change dramatically it's gotten much more violent measures by the government. This hour we have the story of the change that we witnessed what we think it might mean. If you haven't been following the story at all maybe even sitting this one out we're going to catch you up on what you need to know we have all sorts of people from all sides of this that we want you to meet. Go It's This American Life this week overseas with a lot of people have some very American values stay with us. The cursed generation Ok so what politicised thousands thousands of people this much that they've dropped their normal lives in the coming out every single week in a protest it's now been 18 straight weeks. Take Catherine for instance somebody who worked at Abercrombie and Fitch during college domain the bust of the protests that's why your English is so good somebody wanted to be a singer actually got a chance to go pro when she was 16 but a mom kwacha that was too much of a long shot and she's getting. Education you get a normal job Catherine was actually very surprised when I informed her that an American parent I said the same exact thing. I thought like American dreams have a truth so you take that is I watch clique. Of exactly this is Lee watching Internet savvy college grad in her 1st office job how did she end up protesting in the street every weekend with tens or maybe it's hundreds of thousands of peers. For starters Catherine's $22.00 which means she's part of a special generation in Hong Kong. Hong Kong nightly Sesay right before the handover I'm Dorothy and I'm born in 1907 My name is Ashley I'm also born in 1000 on his I think you can call me. And I are born 7 to 997 is a year y. And Holcomb was handed over back to China from the British are used as Pozen these 22 yards for a minute for some quick history as you may or may not know how concepts on the edge are mainland China right it was a British colony for a new long time starting in the 1900 centuries and then finally in 1907 the British got out and headed over to China and the idea was there's going to be a 50 year transition period after 50 years China will fully be in charge but during that 50 years on Congress be a democracy now Hong Kong people are to run Hong Kong that's the last British governor of Hong Kong during the handover ceremony in 1907 that is the promise. And that. Is the honest shakable destiny. That to be clear Hong Kong had not been a democracy under Britain but they were going to transition towards it every bunch of years and the hope was after 50 years in 2047 the Chinese government let them stay a democracy which at the time did not seem like a crazy idea China was opening up in all kinds of ways though wasn't clear how this is going to play out. In the end of the day after 50 years in the year 2047 China was going to be able to do whatever it wanted in Hong Kong. These are the children born the year that cock started ticking and if you've heard of the phrase cursed generation Yes it was. 907 people it was it was pretty much a joke pretty much a funny thing to us because I think when we 1st joke about it it's really primary schools but the generation is just what we've been joking around for all those years there isn't a joke had to do with a coincidence they were cursed because of some weird bad luck during some big childhood milestones they all went through together like the year their kindergarten graduation the SARS virus hit Hong Kong and city shut down graduations were canceled 6 years later when they should've had their elementary school graduation same thing happen again but it's swine flu. And Catherine members or friends joked that when they graduated high school it was going to be a bowl and that's when they started using the word cursed I think that was the time around the time the j.k. Rowling wrote her poor and a curse child. Yet so many of us only had a curse to always say that we are the chosen one because her father was the chosen are all of us love her so we always know where the trolls are when we have to face something special in their life or we are the cursed one we have to face something bad or face something significant. As a chosen one side of things didn't really kick into their senior year of high school was 2014 they were 17 the 17th year since the handover and that your people in Hong Kong was still expecting that Mainland China was going to let them start holding full on elections where they could choose their own leaders as promised back in 1907 and that year China announced it wasn't going to happen was. This lead to a movement called the umbrella movement headed by young people teenagers would wonder politics in these public school classes that all these 22 year olds talk about as being instrumental in the thinking process that began as part of a handover called liberal studies classes. Explained among other things the promises of 1907 and the rise of Hong Kong citizens was to the streets motion for the 1st time banning the boat carrying umbrellas thousands of people in a vast procession down the streets and protest movement that was almost entirely peaceful was the last didn't get the vote after 3 months the protests ended Dorothy works for a multinational company in an entry level job out of college she's a management trainee she went to some protests back then out of solidarity with her peers I was just amazed by the other students but she didn't get all the politics that changes June when I got introduced the bill that would allow mainland China to extradite people from Hong Kong to be tried and punished in China under Chinese. This is seen as a new and very menacing encroachment on the rights of Hong Kong citizens thank you 97 they've been ruled by Hong Kong laws and Hong Kong courts everybody is presumed innocent but the rights we know in most democratic countries now anybody can get thrown into the prisons of courts of communist China that's a lot that was a time when I 1st feel awake and when I'm truly understanding what happened when I 1st go to the macho no extradition Bill and I was very very emotional at that time because like there is only around 7000000 people in Hong Kong but 1000000 books on the street with the same demobbed with the same wish of like helping Hong Kong to remain in its current state when Hong Kong to stay like it is with its own laws separate from China a week later too many people came out at the time I was doing very well my God this is so touching like why these people from United and then the next 2nd the government just declares that oh we heard your fois but where we will be continuing on the bill on Tuesday so that was like a really big contrast and like in the morning you see how peaceful things were the night you see the police come in now and start brutally hitting people I was like it was really unforgettable to me because that was the 1st time when I witnessed with my real highways that the police chasing people there chasing students who did not do anything and to bid them and arrest them. Other 22 year olds also told us how radicalising it's their police tear gassing and beating peaceful protesters and this point I understand this before we got to Hong Kong a lot of the emotion driving the protests is just about the police because the government is supporting them to do such things and there is no penalty for them even if they are doing things that are completely and the sceptical to everyone. Because nobody knows where this is going to lead by 2047 when China fully takes over Hung of Catherine and lots of other people her age things are starting to feel pretty ominous was hangin to become just like any other Chinese city run by the communists when you're 50 what do you picture life here will be like. I came pake chirk that. I would be super depressed because I super light comment on political thing I really cannot imagine the day that I cannot speak freely on Internet and that way to not have that freedom of speech and more and I cannot imagine that there will come a day me and my friends commenting on the government look become a crime and you think that would happen yes I do when like all the sales that is happening in mainland China and now expression. In. We're seeing. What is happening in Sudan will happen Hong Kong she's talking about internment camps where the Chinese are holding perhaps a 1000000 weekers and others they say is really education is basically a concentration camp they put people who would just not who do not agree with the government into the concentration camp and educate them and they got monitored wherever and whenever they go everywhere as police police monitors everybody's move and I do saying that if we do not fight for our future there will come a day Hong Kong will become like John because he's politically active This is not feel like an abstract threat with a 22 year olds picture China is going to crack down on its them. Ashley is also in her 1st job out of college Georgia the bank who knows whatever day would you to us and undid our extradition Bill Canary's where we will go how what time we would disappear that's what we feel off ashes heard of the social credit system the China started to monitor and wait its citizens she visited China decides that your anti government will make it impossible for you to get the job you want rise in society and the prices the China uses to monitor its population an estimated $200000000.00 surveillance cameras around the country with facial recognition software have been going up around Hong Kong tens of thousands of them this is an incident understand for can conquer the protesters like Ashley and Catherine they just fear what's going to happen in the future with extradition laws or with the Internet or goosing free speech in their daily lives right now they believe they're watching China already transforming Hong Kong making it less likely how can we know more like the mainland Catherine Price changes in the public school curricula like she says her 7 year old nephew is speaking Mandarin in school 5 days a week didn't happen when she was a kid mandarins with a speak in mainland China and Hong Kong people mostly speaking Cantonese in English so all the Chinese classes are conducted in mentoring so he speaks Mandarin every day basically he's Beeks mentoring better than English can you can you explain a little bit like why can't to me is so important Cantonese is more like. An identity to us. It's part of what makes Hong Kong Hong Kong another change she says she's seeing right now in Hong Kong she's upset other mainlanders moving there in her neighborhood and university students that she in a friends in Canada College the total of move to Hong Kong is over a 1000000 mainlanders since 1907 and Ok Just a quick heads up in our interviews with these 22 year olds get them started on the subject of mainlanders and get. Ready for a wave of totally bigoted opinions so especially I live in new territories so all the people surrounding you here mentoring and then you start to see those less educated people they squatting next streets I did witness. Lance lady having her children at the rote and I always hear them then people yell a shouting out for nothing in the mohel and I always they jump into line everything bother me a lot swatting women squatting I don't know they just they just squat on the road so when people they just sit in squatting and wait yeah yeah for nothing they can swat for our people hunt Calm down to that we don't test who was well at the rote why you can't if stand it or why you can't just seat more comfortable it just doesn't look good it doesn't look at this in the civilized. Harley harm the Katherine the curse generation feel about the future the parents rather not as a hard about China taking more control of Hong Kong about what the island's going to be like in 2047. I got his parents they hate are going out to protest every weekend. Full of hair and say we really have some very serious fights and they think we're just like China take over Hong Kong it'll be fine I think for my parents some of that only generation just don't believe all they are not brave enough to open up their eyes and see what is actually going to happen they just feel like they did not do anything wrong as long as you did not do anything wrong then you'll be fine it's going about this for Ashley is that she feels like she's being the responsible one fighting for everybody's future and. Telling her not to protest she was like maybe if her parents had done this themselves years ago things wouldn't be so bad today like I'm 22 years old and in the past when I was younger day have never stooped out like a fight eat like us to ask for what they are promised and 997 it's funny when you talk about it you're mad at your parents about it I just feel like I mean I don't understand why night why they would not want these Rice why chick they don't think that something bad is going to happen in the next 50 years. So actually Catherine and so many others they've kind of given over their wives to protesting their work during the week protest on the weekends they say that much time in their lives for much else what's interesting is. They don't think it's going to work most of interviewees told us that they don't think China's going to give him. I guess Catherine I am pretty much pessimistic actually. I do wish that one day we eat we want a democratic one combo Now I just don't see a way out. Like it's been 3 months with Been trying each and every start with broke into the legislative council we have more than the 1000 people caught and arrested but the government is still. Trying to ignore all of this. If if you feel so pessimistic about the results like why. Going out every week and. At least the government see that we are not that how do we say we are not that obedient So we have to continuously tell the government that we are not satisfied with what they are giving so we have to do it again here starting I think even we if we have to lose we need to leave our true thoughts in history will we need to let the people behind as knows that with trite. 2047 is coming. And this is a very grand thing to say but so many of these cursed generation kids feel like they have a special destiny if we were born early on probably I would become like that and if I were one leader I would probably become those little kids speaking Mandarin better than Cantonese so I am happy that I am 4997 we are in the middle we have the chance to know what is freedom and we are experiencing that our freedom is being taken away and that's why we are the 1st to fight for it. I think. I think we're getting off. After an hour bus ride to get to the protest Zach to the fight once off the bus Catherine ducks into a public restroom and comes out in black shirt black pants black mask of her face hair pulled back in a ponytail and we were surrounded by hundreds of people dressed exactly like her big shopping district stores closed and no cars on the side streets of barricades by the protesters scaffolding and fencing trash cans and construction cons piled in the street to do an official job. By a big Victoria's Secret store Hi Frank take a look at this you know next to me to. Bring Mr Beecher and have put all this case in front of me. But for the record I'm with the mile after noon no kissing at all. The city is giving permission for fewer protests these days and this is an unsanctioned demonstration which means that everybody here is breaking the law anyone is subject to arrest which affects crowd size maximum penalty is 5 years 10 years if a convicted of rioting. The protesters are scared of getting arrested all the time . But despite that the beginning of the protests has the feeling of a Bach Party people strolling chatting you see. Parents and kids some non protesters cut through the crowd running errands. But an hour in Tavis around their eyes and their families and the kids there's nothing like a block party at all. People are standing on top of fences trying to see what's ahead of us. Starting to put on gas masks to describe what you see. The protesters and that's how much streets are looking backwards so we assume that there are riot police on the other end of the road. Yeah there is tear gas fire it's over there. Is like 2 or 3 blocks away we walked towards the police and the tear gas were hundreds of protesters are massed on a side street the police are just half a block away but we can really see them through the crowd and then a whole wave of tear gas canisters marched towards us and it's us here lots of people us included I'm always half a block away. Catherine Conway minister saving solution in the strangers' I pity those are my recorder got knocked around running through the smoke so I do not have a decent recording about. This is the role that she's assigned herself in the protests 1st days helping anybody who requires it she even brought energy candy specifically to give out to people whose energy is flagging after being driven back Catherine and Hugo and. Wait for this month a quarter so this happens at every protest just physically. So what do we do now. We we try to get our south and go again. And when you go to the police what you going to do they're going to stand in front of that and if you have chance we're going to fight them back our goal is to make them see right through the front line after a couple minutes we had back toward the front line they were walking forward towards corner. Where it's this. It. Turns out and then we waited. I don't think you know what a kind of goes off blasting water that is dyed blue placed the stuff that stings your skin or tear gas and we pull back a little then we move forward we began this is both on suspenseful and boring that's sometimes there's no way there's not always a purpose sometimes we setting out the bag is just as happy as a part but just as important to those other fronts. Support like something happens you're the 1st day something like There is also they know that there are many people behind but it is important to give them some mental support as well yeah so many protesters and I Catherine if I get their job to support the people at the front who are the hard core ones who push back against police and throw Molotov cocktails and chase police with sticks metal rods and tear stuff down to build barriers to slow the police were in full gear how meds and goggles and gas masks and gloves finally the front runners yelled that they want them to retreat and so we need to retreat and so we fought way back a couple blocks. So now we're just standing here yeah there's always the part of our existence like a support to those in the front line but it don't understand break so the police want to stay out of there they push they fire tear gas they spray blue water and everybody we move back. And then we stand here and what's our goal this has been a very frequently asked question but nowadays we're just trying to stand on our only grounds not to be dispersed that easily or to just to go is to just stay out as long as you can. And then eventually the police will push you off the street . So in other words it's exactly like the entire protest movement leading to 2047. Just try this. Hold them down as much as you can yes in the end China will win but 1st long as you can understand here in the street it is pretty sad to say so but for pretty much our Keurig that's. Where the yelling was the start was. Never headed to a mass a treat as the police advanced towards us and for the 1st time this injury actual real fear were running down streets and side roads to get separated from patterns friends and from Emmanuel dodging the police and finally taking refuge in a church it was to their safe houses like this around Hong Kong the protesters duck until. It takes over an hour and finally the coast is clear and Katherine cause a friend to pick her up. There volunteer drivers for the protesters part of the infrastructure they've created Catherine changes out of her black t. Shirt to civilian clothes no make up she's too tired he says and her need is just getting picked up. The Jets hire the nightmare 1st on both. Was a car pulled away across the street on Queens Road there was an endless row of police vehicles heading the other direction just dozens of the blue and red lights flashing and as night went on things became violent a woman approached us and sidewalk upset by police beating somebody and showed us video that she chaat of it and the protesters are violent as well the newspapers had accounts of 6 of them beating up a middle aged man kicking and shouting and they set fire to a subway station they do that a lot these are the protesters the Concord subway the m.t.r. With police that's why Katherine prefers the bus did not less convenient. Every protester we interviewed supports the violence they support because they feel like they have no other options that it's the only way then get the government to respond to them he told us back in June they marched peacefully against the extradition bill and got nothing then they got violent and the bill was withdrawn it worked and violence has become a way to defend themselves setting fires and building barricades close police who are coming after them so they support the violence they place understand a man go talk to them about that word at 3 of our show and civil disobedience Here's a manual when I started asking protestors about violence a couple of them said were not my own like Americans are tolerance for it is much lower to getting to this point to being Ok with violence isn't something we did lightly and a lot of my explained to me that they didn't always think radical tactics were Ok would change their opinion was the way police responded to peaceful protest that being shot at with water cannons tear gassed things a man knocked unconscious beat him a baton handcuffed and kicked groups of thugs beating and attacking people with hammers clubs and knives watching all this and being subjected to it that's what got a lot of people on board with violence now some protesters threw Molotov cocktails mandolins buildings and chased police with sticks and rods Ira and I talked with one protester un did it would be acceptable for the protestors to kill police. I hope they do so. What do I do. If police died what do you think would happen next. We will die too cold too. And if things get that violent between the protesters and the police and protesters are being killed. Do you think Konkani will get democracy. I can tell at the moment. So many people we talked with expected someone to die a protester or police officer most thought it would help the movement put pressure on the government this hasn't happened yet but destruction and violence are giving way to bizarre scenes throughout the city. My coworker Diane and I went to this protest in a mom one of many in Hong Kong sometimes the entire city can feel like one giant Chinese shopping mall connected by subway the stores are all open the mall is full of people the not many people are shopping in the entire premise of this protest is to go to the mall and not shop. The mall is 5 stories each tear has railings that look out over a central atrium their families kids older folks some people are in black others are just in their regular day clothes they chant they sing the protester and them Korea Hong Kong over and over I. I I one point someone starts handing out paper and suddenly hundreds of people are folding paper cranes then an act of gentle vandalism there's this machine that pens our reservation receipts for the restaurant called Garden the protestors hijack it forcing it to spit out hundreds of receipts they tape there is seats together and string them from one end of the tram to the other and back again a few times they target Jade garden because one of the company's founders has a daughter who supports Beijing that's how far things have gone in Hong Kong. Businesses are labeled either yellow or blue yellow for the ones that support the protesters blue for the police and government there's even a Google map that tells you if a business is one or the other. Soon things in the mall start to shift Diane and I watched a group of about a dozen protesters enter approach and a bakery owned by the same company that owns Jade garden they start targeting the South I'm proud that. I'd like Bach and so you can't really see inside. The prison you're right there's still an air. Gap I shan't was she was a minute. And something sad. Not over just but it was before things nicely any further the workers force the protesters out because the star gates and barricade themselves in . A restless energy takes over it's like the protesters are looking for something to confront something to disturb but the thing they're fighting against is the x. Essential threat of China and that's not really in them all they March to more protracted businesses in the mall the alarm starts going off and spent says the mall is very crowded please be careful. Then word comes police are on their way and some move that feels like a mix of fear and adrenaline fills the space protesters begin to build barriers out of whatever's not nailed to the ground blocking doorways creating obstacles there one stop the police from entering from the subway entrance of the mall they start throwing cash cans down last platers. A group rips a 6 foot t.v. Screen out of a wall to use this kind of a blockade the announcement remains a scene please be careful the mall is very crowded. They open an emergency fire hose someone brings giant jugs. Oil which they add to the water the tile floors the mall lobby is now about a lake that police will have to cross a woman slips and falls. And all this destruction is happening the shoppers the older folks even if you think anyone is they don't leave their on the upper levels of the mall looking over the railing like they're watching a sporting event or something and super uncomfortable the protester next to us can is their child to even have protests like this one find. This feel normal. Is that we're going to it's normal Yes but it's been a 100 days. There's this thing that protesters say to each other never severed ties sometimes even say never severed ties even if there's a nuclear explosion basically if another protester does something you disagree with say something on fire beat someone up criticize them or cut them off. The police eventually come but they meet the protestors outside the mob they 30 or gas protesters there are Montauk cocktail. Smoking gas waft through Snoopy world and many theme for come on the monster levels giant Sacha's of Linus and Peppermint Patty along with dozens of shoppers and protesters in line outdoor balconies all watch the confrontation between police and protesters in full below. When the producers of our shot. Coming up you're a protester you think the police are utterly immoral and undefendable So what do you do about the cop who happens to be your dad that's a minute. When our program continues. Place. Here. In the next. Place. This. Snap judgments coming up at 1 o'clock this afternoon and also you can catch the program at 11 o'clock tonight support for k.q.e.d. 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So as an American visiting Hong Kong for the 1st time one of the things that kind of killed me was hearing that before the last few years of protests people were really into the police like they were trusted they were respected and it was only last few years especially the last few months of protests that changed all that and feelings about who decided with the police or the protesters they've gotten so intense it's tearing families apart on the telegram there's a whole channel for protestors who get kicked out by their parents and need a place to live Alan you grew up in Hong Kong you know as a family that is very far apart on this the son is a protester The dad is a retired police officer and I don't have them sit down and do what nobody in Hong Kong is doing to talk to each other there's really no dialogue between police and protesters anywhere in Hong Kong as far as we could tell Here's our own I've known this family since I was 6 I knew them because of my friend Jonathan I wrote the school bus with them every day his father Peter was the 1st policeman I knew in real life. I was excited to talk to him because you never hear what the police think about the protests police here are not really allowed to talk to the press. Peters retired but still very connected to the force so before the family all sat down together I asked Peter gets a gather with me and my producer Emmanuel I hadn't seen him since I was 12 Back then people called me recon which means fish bowl because the Cantonese for fish sounds like my surname you and because I was fat and I don't recognise it on the street. Oh Ok serious answers Ok all right I guess as a compliment thank you he's very cute now how do we are facts. As a kid I like Peter he take time off work to stop by during recess and buy us chips and other snacks my friend Jonathan what have his birthday parties at the police station which we love. Big barbecues other policeman the round Peter was the crude that. People in Hong Kong trust the even revealed that the police back then one of the most popular t.v. Shows was a cop show. Where the police were heroes. Peter's hair was gray now he's tall athletic he plays tennis my mind my nickname in tennis I don't know why my knitting in tennis is Federer. Further. Federer Roger I don't I don't know why maybe my skill. He still likes is that jokes I cannot imagine Peter ever doing what I've been seeing in these videos beating up on the protesters kicking people on the ground I thought surely he would object to some of those things and that his views would be complicated from what you've seen you know in recent months has there been anything that the police have found that you think you with this agree with. Nothing is perfect. But as a whole in general I think the police are doing doing a pretty good job if it is in the police force in other countries. Just look at the casualties look look just look at the column of fatal you know numbers it won't even be 0. I ask him about different situations the police have been criticized for not even show him videos of police brutally arresting people things I think are clearly wrong but he always seems to have a justification for the way police behave he says you're judging the police based on what you see in these clips that's not fair you don't know what the officer was facing the social media only showed the part of police hitting people but 1000000 a go. They would be a tech by lots of people so one minute later he react to it to the mob you know attacking them so what you can see is one minute after but you did not see the full picture so he's not conflicted about police he is a very sympathetic subprocesses he thinks the protests are destroying Hong Kong the extradition deal is Ok he doesn't think China will end free speech in Hong Kong and protest this fear of China is way overblown and naive Hong Kong beast part of China Come on make up people because this is a fact whether China is group a better Hong Kong is part of China if you don't like it. Those people waving the United States frag maybe in the during Jack fact if anyone takes you you can go to you and go to England. You know go to Florida go to California. Go through it trying to go. I had already been worried how this family conversation was going to go he really believed did not help Peter told me he understands but Jonathan goes to protests but doesn't ask him about it because he doesn't want any details. He does not ask Is that what he thinks of the way police and gas protesters for the same reason. If he says something. Something that. Complex. Sort of brings you as a person just like I would feel. Yeah that not who I thought he was you. Think that could be. So this family does not talk about the protests at all tennis Yes soccer Yes pets great but no politics. Tonight. They've agreed it's a half the conversation they from the voiding often Jonathan's mom watches the visions. I recognize the song right away I'm surprised she's humming it in front of. The protestors new anthem glory to Hong Kong. Alpha is on Jonathan saw your theory she works with lawyers including some in the pro-democracy camp. I ask if Peter knows what that song is she says maybe. That's kind of how it's been going between her and her husband no real discussion but the occasional passive aggressive comment while they're watching the news or some passive aggressive humming during the show is this is the reason Jonathan a voice bring up the protests he doesn't want to start a fight between his parents all war the worst scenario be like. Someone moving out. Because 2 cars dented animal I guess. Living apart would be their worst case scenario I believe. Because that. Sort of officially means they're. No longer together sort of. His mom or his that or him. We all sit at the nothing. Pitas facing me and Jonathan and Alpha are next to me having some of them has their ball lowkey named after the model character on his lap. Or in the conversations with all of them saying in different ways it's fine that we don't talk about this we all have mutual respect mutual respect there. Instead of talking to each other or looking at. Either the talking to me or looking at the dog got it for us all very careful proper and calm. This continues for half an hour. Then everything changes when Peter uses the word compromise compromise told here hi compromise it's basically the government by itself that's what Hong Kong's chief executive carry of them says so that the protesters should stop protesting and also that the 2 sides can. Alpha and Jonathan here that is meaning the protesters should back down they both lay into Peter. Alva says the police are the ones who need to change they have to calm the situation Peters says the police are doing their job I don't know why when the police arrest people for fighting or breaking stuff it's treated as weird it's illegal so arrest them no problem. Jonathan says Ok yes arrest them but how much force does the police need to use Sometimes a person just asks the police a question and they still get arrested or beaten people who are already on the ground knew something you'd they still get beaten. Peter doesn't respond then they argue openly argue for the 1st time about one of the protesters main them on something the government refused to budge on to star in the pin the investigation into police behavior. Peter keeps repeating the same thing over and over it's like he's been backed into a corner that there's no need for independent investigation now is not the right time I see how those. Guys in the city already has a system in place to investigate complaints about the police coming on board. So they talk a little longer but it doesn't go anywhere. Alva tells me later she had other things she could have brought up but the side against it she didn't want her husband's a few traps the word she used was say which translates as that corner no place to go preserving the family was more important to her than trying to win an argument. Later Jonathan told me he still loves his that but he's given up hope that his father could be a reasonable human being at least when it comes to the police. When I started this I was kind of naive and I thought maybe Jonathan and his mother and father people who actually wants to understand each other could talk about this in a productive manner. And that if they could maybe there was hope that the rest of us could. But now I don't have a lot of hope. Now new is normally a reporter for w.h.y. Why show the pulse. At $52.00 weeks later so we 1st got to Hong Kong in September everybody we talked to wanted us October 1st might be a big day would be the 70th anniversary of the Communist Party founding the modern Chinese state China did not want to be embarrassed by demonstrations in Hong Kong and protesters wondered what kind of crackdown was going to come on October 1st or maybe in the days before it and sure enough the weekend before October 1st there were tons of police undercover cops posing as protesters a surgeon arrests and then on October 1st this thing happened that several interviews had predicted was going to happen at some point for the 1st time a protester was shot with a real bullet a teenager and in the days since things just descended the government banned wearing face masks in public without cause a huge backlash in the streets another teenager a 14 year old was shot by police a bomb went off next to a police car. Catherine the protester that I went to the demonstration with in mid September she went to all those protests before October 1st when she was out on October 1st and our coworker Diane Wood caught up with her the day after that when I took her 2nd to see how she was doing and I said just to see what she made of it all and what he's doing on I met up with Katherine at the m.t.r. Station in turn one on Wednesday she taken the m.t.r. Only because she was in a big rush to meet me after work. Day. Care in the home. Is it is a really sad day after yesterday she's talking about the protester who was shot it actually happened just a short walk from where we're standing. The last few days of protests have been especially bad. Catherine was in the middle of the crowd when dozens of special tactics police officers exploded out of a hidden door sprinting after protesters and tackling them to the ground people hadn't seen this before and it caused a wave of panic everyone fled in terror including Catherine her phone was flooded with images of arrested protesters on the ground by riot police face down with their wrists tied behind them later she met her friend k.k. The one who makes out with her boyfriend all the time at protests and found out that in the rush she got entrapped she came really close to getting arrested out of a sudden everything was so close to me a very important friend of mine nearly getting arrested and all the pictures I could see after this day everything just was so it was just too much for me. To close. Katherine's deeply fearful of getting arrested remember it could mean years in prison. After all of that on October 1st she was almost too scared to go protest but braved it anyways then police started to fire tear gas at people up ahead and we were on our way walking from one to apply foam and I realized that I couldn't keep walking I started to realize that I I just feel different like 2 weeks ago when I was when I was with I could still feel it is safe to run I'm going to be fine and I could still like run without any has Taishan but on but yesterday I just feel like I was so terrified I started to shake from the either side and I didn't know what to do she panicked started crying her boyfriend helped her get home so I had to leave yesterday and. Actually on my way home was a friend of my I think you was just say you left your teammate behind he sent this to me. So I was immediately cry I cried out immediately and really could not control myself because I didn't want this I don't want to leave my teammates be high I don't want to leave anyone behind but. I don't want to be a burden. In the only times I could be so brave I could be fighting with they and then . And also says and yesterday I couldn't do anything at all. The police strategy of clamping down on the protests by allying almost all of them and flooding the streets with riot police and arresting tons of people this is the toll it's taking on people and of course. Yes this is one way the whole thing could and maybe it will scare people off like how my wife or her boyfriend Joe shows up I think he's got his shirt tucked in and you protest tactic from this weekend the idea is to try and expose undercover police who wouldn't be able to talk their shirts in over their guns and baton it's just here for moral support because incredibly Catherine is now on her way to another protest. We're headed to a soccer stadium across the street from where the protester was shot Catherine figures she'll stay as long as she can tolerate. We walk on to the field it's a big solemn group of people and their work and school clothes all facing the bleachers there are a lot of people not show what they're looking at but. I think they are just waiting for a moment to mourn. It's a kind of vigil for the protester in the hospital Katherine and Joe put on black surgical masks everyone has their phones up with their lights on. It's a protest and I'm sure. That the room. We go into the streets Catherine is on edge every time she hears a loud noise she squeezes trees hand stay out until 1030 then she'll get dinner go home go to bed. In the morning Catherine will be at work again at her job where she can't let her bosses know where she was the night before. Overnight the red cleaners will come out with backhoes to clear the barricades the pain over the graffiti fix this mass street lights the piles of bricks from the gutters. As they have so many days before turning the city back to normal. Except of course it can't be normal again. Is the managing editor of our program. Produced today by Emmanuel Berry and I am will field producer In Hong Kong with Chan thanks to our interpreters for Chang Vanna Chan and Dominic Yang and special thanks to. You. A lot of the fan and Martin Lee this American lives delivered pub radio stations by p.r. X. The Public Radio Exchange for This American Life comes from indeed used by over 3000000 businesses for hiring reporters post jobs new screener questions by the short list of preferred candidates more and more at Indeed dot com slash hire. Co-founder Mistry Malik to you know he ran into a stranger on the street this week. What the hell is wrong with you the Tories response was kind of weird This has been a very frequently asked question America asked back next week with more stories of This American Life. 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The weather for cheese days can be generally draw in the south with some sunny spell showers in the north of England parts of Scotland and across Northern Ireland a member toys but 14 Celsius. The Japanese to be free. He's trying to change to. 3 feet. subscriber. Only 5 life. On an f.m. Arrive in the u.k. On digital and online I'm Raj sharp We're up all night Barcelona was the place for tourists just a court ruling up the end of the. City as demonstrators run to the streets to protest what they saw was an Regis case of judges playing politics 9 leading lights in Catalonia as 27000 campaign for independence from Spain were jailed for between 9 and 30 years charged with either misuse of government funds or Satish the protesters fought a pitched battle with police on the road leading to our crops Spain 2nd busiest airport with rocks cans and fire extinguishers they held off riot police and stopped traffic as much as 5 kilometers away. Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party stormed a victory in the weekend's elections even if the opposition had a bigger share of the popular vote its populist agenda generously expanded welfare schemes for the worst off go hand in hand with a view of justice that the European Commission's consistently opposed saying the independence of Poland's judges is being a road it from here it seems a long way back to the time before the Cold War Sergei pluck he tells the little known story of the American airman who in the decisive year of 1944 set up an operating here base in the middle of the Soviet Union in Ukraine yet before long they were calling themselves the forgotten Bostons of Ukraine Professor pocky His book is called Forgotten Bostons of the eastern front it seems incredible to us know why would the Soviets ever have allowed the u.s. Air Force to set up a base smack in the heart of their territory timing is everything and the decided to allow that to happen in December off 1943 was they wanted the want to do in return was the opening of the 2nd front and to achieve that they were trying to be really nice to the allies especially to the Americans and the graphically that the 2nd front would have been where the 2nd front would be landing from u.k. . On the beaches of Normandy and opening a 2nd front in France. The Allies were already the Western Allies were already fighting in Italy at that time but stunning believed that that was not a real 2nd front because it was really very difficult to get from from the peninsula to the to the center of Europe so he was has had a ball once find out. Yeah yeah yeah so he wanted them to come from the other direction which of course of course ultimately and June of $94.00 they did so itself a high level team that flies out from Washington to Moscow Tobar of 1943 who are they who's who's on this team. Well probably the most important 2 or 3 characters from my story on the new brand new u.s. Ambassador to Moscow several Harmon before that he spent previous couple years and London deliver in helping to deliver and lend lease the 2nd very important person for my story is a general who has. The responsibility was to establish and run the military mission in Moscow and another person also extremely very important it was daughter O'Farrell her or him and Cathy Harman and she is important for a number of reasons but one of them is that she kept a diary and now we know a lot of things about. Diplomacy in her old winter diplomacy that we wouldn't know otherwise and she wouldn't have this diary she didn't write a diary and then of course this general General John Russell Dean he writes a book about it ultimately doesn't exactly exactly and the title of the book is strange alliance here like many who are on that plane and then later Americans who came to the Soviet Union here really was extremely optimistic in terms of the future cooperation when he came to Moscow but his story of. The life and work in Moscow was really a story of disappointment so that the and he and people who were around him including Errol Harmon they become one of the 1st cold warriors they really don't think that they could keep on working together and cooperate and it was the Soviet Union. It was Churchill who 1st called it the Grand Alliance as I learned from your book how had it been working out for the Soviets up to that point. Well. The the grand alliance is a really a very interesting creature in the sense that the member solo Alliance and those were the u.k. The Soviet Union and the United States they start the War of the 2nd World War when the different side of the divide so the. British of course fighting against Germany us is trying to support them and Joseph Stalin is trying to support Hitler Moloto of Robin trop pact the model Ribbentrop back to yes exactly August 19th 39 and then. Few days modern to be cleaned to use you distort of the the 2nd World War So that's that's where the beginning of the war is so they start on the different sides but eventually after Hitler attacks Stalin in June of 1041 Churchill makes his famous statement that if Hitler invaded how he would make a favorable remark about Devil in the House of Commons So that's that's what's the motivation for a grand alliance from the British side at least listen to them initially so they have come up the the military men have come up with us idea that they call shuttle bombing what Shuttle bombing. Well what that meant was that in the middle of my engine 43 when they 1st came up was that he did they didn't have the right fighter jets or fighter planes to a company of the b. 17 boom burst on their raids from Mukasey and then from internally into Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe included of course is Germany and Poland and that's where a lot of the German industrial potential was and. The fighters just didn't have enough. The tanks were too small the planes were too small they couldn't get enough gasoline to go let's say to war so and then to come back to you k. So they decided that instead of going back to your kid they would fly in the couple 100 miles or kilometers and land in Ukraine refuel get your new communication you Bombs them so on and so forth and then fly back to get and Italy and bombed their targets on the way back so that was the basic idea. Innovative idea but it took the Russians completely by surprise when they had abandoned the others 1st proposed it. Exactly and they were actually. Trying to postpone the decision did they didn't want to lend me allies so they were saying yes and maybe but really were doing nothing about that and it took creative President Roosevelt in Tehran to push Stalin on that issue it was in early December of 1043 and only after that things started to move and by late. April of 1044 you see already the 1st group of Americans your man. Going to Ukraine and by early June if you were days before the opening of the 2nd front in Normandy you see the 1st the 1st successful theory that the 1st shuttle bombed in that that goes from from Italy to Cray and of course Skechers Germans by surprise. What did they so it's actually provide in the way of facilities what they offer when they finally offered anything. Well there that me and thing was that they offered the labor so they offered the people who helped to really turn those bombed out air bases in the Ukrainian stamps into the. Drums that group except that group except heavy u.s. Bombers like be 70 and the rest was was provided by the by the us was provided by the Americans the Sunni that's also offered to protect the American sponsors they were there on the ground and that turned out to be a problem because the Soviets didn't have Raiders. Their fighters screwed in to operate freely during night time and if you weeks after the 1st very successful air raid what you saw was that the German looked too often bombed the hell out of the American airplanes. And made her there were $33.00 air bases all together and the Americans considered that to be the worst disaster still Spring Harbor would that land that they never after Pearl Harbor lost as many planes not in the air but on the ground as they did. On June 22nd 1904 and that was also a very much the beginning of the unraveling of the Grand Alliance and those bases did the Serbian students want the Americans see any more of the 2nd front was already there this raid it was beginning Paris meant for them so they started to push Americans out of their back it's been so used to the British air bases such a really well protected that some of them slept through the air raids. Exactly exactly then did they call them to magine the city. And there would go to be different anywhere else and so they had to do good in your case. When Let's go back to the kind of initial optimism because the Russians work tirelessly to get these places together and they do it in an amazingly short time don't they do it courtesy of something called Metal masking which gives them a runway exactly exactly did the mental math and came from from you ass and it came you United Kingdom so it ended up in more months condemned was brought by railway to in Ukraine and the Soviets were doing that at the time when The themselves are preparing for a major offensive called by going to chew on in a very successful offensive in Belarus but they found enough enough trains and cars and things like that to deliver and that's mad to start one personally was really impressed by that because that meant that you can actually great. Ear drums and air strips anywhere in the in Europe so they started to production dose mad software that themselves but that was a big big American know how so they put that and again their originally original relations were really very good Americans Americans really appreciated the Soviet war effort. The came to Ukraine already it was off to a stunning ground after cooler screwed the Soviets were doing mean fighting in Europe before the opening of the 2nd front so there was a what it was originally a lot of a good deal on the American side and also on the Soviet side when it comes to want to or officers and drunken file soldiers and pilots and the local population when. These bases are ready to roll and before the 1st a raid a whole lot of Western journalists or at least a good a dozen or so Western journalists appear. But then they get they get into a bit of a. Ruckus too don't they because all of access tell us a little bit about the the reporting of this obviously both sides have a lot riding on it and they want it to be reported properly very well 1st and it happened was that the Western journalists and those were mostly American and British and the British included also Canadian journalists they realized that something was going on people like General Dean and the passenger Horniman was not telling them about so there were. American airmen. From pie round imperium in Moscow again and again so they knew that something was growing up and eventually they figured out what it might be so they went to general Dean and he said Ok guys I offer you a deal you know we'll be silent and watch what is happening and in return for that once they will do the 1st shuttle bombing raid I'll take you. To their bases and to date they kept silent for a good couple beaks and something like that which is of course a difficult difficult thing to judge I was. And then well and good they came and said There's a cave we can we can go now this said that's Ok they can be only 5 or 6 and they rant on the strike all of them said that was the 1st strike of the Western journalists went on to most of the $44.00 they said that none of them would go there to pose. Unless all of them would be allowed to do that and that's actually what happened they did they got their way. And they were also so that a journalist. Or a dimension to the German hongbin or the air fields and among those who were killed was probably the most high profile this journalist was back then in the sort that you in the end his name was spent 3 and up he was. Someone who was writing for probably the main newspaper in the Soviet Union at that time so I guess it was a warm glow you know and and the journalist got to row got killed as well including And it was kind of sad that wasn't when they find his body and they find that has that Pulitzer been torn off and all his money taken office body yeah. When I found that document in the in the k.g.b. Archives and read them I was really full of disgust of. What was going on but again that's that's that's war and. War We haven't only heroes we have also villains. How did the locals get on with the Americans how did they view them . Well local said it was already the 2nd for an army in less than 2 or 3 years because the areas where the American scheme they were under German control and German occupation between summer of $1000.00 for your home and the fall of 1043 and the locals had all sorts of Fadia So was that might mean most of them they thought Ok that was a good thing maybe in the after the war the Communist Party would not be as strong as it used to be a bit of the Americans maybe there would have to do would be independent Ukraine so . They had all sorts of folks for him Tristen he is very unrealistic ideas but who left Europe was a very positive attitude and of course had very different ideas and he unleashed the security service on everybody didn't he that was another thing that you really fide Exactly and that's that that's how you know what's what people thought at that time because they were too. Secret Services were secret police services at work. Or bases the 1st one was called Smash Rich was short for death to spies and the other was the name of one of the branches of the Red Army counter-intelligence and death to ask was fighting against against German spies but in this particular case they created a network of spying on the allies from the Americans so there was one. Service Another one was a domestic secret police service and they kept surveillance off the local So the people who were getting in touch and in contact because they're Americans because as they. Playing Stewart to the rank and file soldiers and officers yes American still lies today but tomorrow they can be any mistake capitalists dent of the day. And they were pretty rough and ready about how they did this if you if you already had an American watch it exactly exactly and it's also very interesting how how cynical they were and how they were trying to instrumental lies the this date and that of course was happening around the American bases so as long as this. Believed to be that there was a political benefit to have from having Americans in Ukraine and that was before the opening of the 2nd Fronde before the German attack they actually encouraged date they did they did do simply police thought that that was like a good way to collect information on the Americans but once they decided that they didn't want Americans there and who or that's where they unleashed this a great service to do a very different kind of work so let's say an American g.i. Would be walking in a porpoise it in uniform Grizzle local go and there would be a group of people in the uniform who would come and insult rebel and then would talk physically that the poor woman and eventually there would be of course fines between the secret police people and the American servicemen. And new bathing was a bit of a flashpoint. Yes it was yes it was and. One of the journalists us journalists never never around to Paul but he interviewed by Liz who came from both Alma to u.k. To they had basis in your k. And they were telling all sorts of. Interesting stuff including fantastic stuff that regale Magid live Did did the Red Army had bought dolls which of course never was the case then they were talking about. Busing him in the lakes in the rivers there which had some factual phoned Asian but also was blown out of proportion but whatever it was it was true and not it was of course a major public relations disaster for the American efforts in the Soviet Union so the the military mission in Moscow u.s. Military mission who issued a special statement trying to to counter what was what was stated in that in that article American reporter and Iran years said Arthur and that was of cause that he was writing about all of that at the time when the sorriest were actually trying to break up whatever relationships. Emerged West happens between them or a conservative moment and a local. Local did anything survive there were there was nothing like the g.i. Bright syndrome from England but the English pieces you know back to the u.s. Yeah well. Commanders immediately informed the American American. Airmen that the slogan was Mall last like it was in u.k. Don't promise her anything but it was it wasn't forced too much much harsher so add added We know that there were no. Marriages that would happen despite the fact that there were a number of love stories you know that did the predecessors of the k.g.b. Did this military intelligence was really suspicious about especially the pilots who could take the bride on the plane and leave and leave the Ukraine. That they were the. Secret police was following those women who were really into the late forty's and early fifty's intercepting the correspondence that they had was there a lot in the u.s. So judging by the by the k.g.b. Documents that I had access to now. None of those marriages took is but I hope maybe k.g.b. Didn't know everything you know now as the war goes on and as you say the 2nd front is opened after after D.-Day and the Russian Front expands into German territory and so the the justification for these bases grows less because are fewer places that they can really reach is that the reason why the bases didn't survive you know more than roughly a year. Well that was certainly one of the reasons and democratic and slow lookin and debases in the way that Ok that's they important for military purposes but more importantly though for political purposes to show to the Germans that allies can actually fight together add also to it was to convince the sun that Americans are are. Good partners good allies they don't threaten the order the internal order in the Soviet Union did decide this audience would allow them to have your bases in the area would have passed somewhere in central Europe as Eastern Europe as the front moved closer to Berlin and especially important for them Erica as well as the permission to have the other bases in the far east as they were preparing for the major major battle for Japan and. Possibly did the victims would be counted in hundreds of thousands but none of that none of that happened that was just a one time shot in allowed those bases and he wouldn't allow any other bases and eventually eventually already by. Late September early October most of the people who are there and there were more than 1000 American airmen and they had to leave the Soviet Union they left a skeleton skeleton. Group him in. Iowa and that base lasted until June of 1045 but again it wasn't about Chantel bumping anymore it was about salvaging them Merican airplanes that had to land on the sled control territory in eastern Europe mostly in Poland and Western Ukraine. And if if I may just ask you one last question I mean the bases are terribly important and in a disappointed effort to support the poles after the the Warsaw uprising but the narrative of the book really is contained in a quote from one sergeant Myra sorry as a private private who was on the ice and he says I truly believe that we who were at the Soviet air bases in the 1944 days of the hot war really did witness the very beginning of the coming cold war and is he just talking about trust in the end you know the fact that things began on such a high note and in the end had to send that in to mutual suspicion yes yes that's exactly what he had in mind and I'm really was really impressed by that quote and here's his story in general he was a lifelong farmer from American Midwest but he really captured captured what happened there really really very well and what happened at the end was that the Americans who came really full of expectations almost all of them laughed the Soviet Union highly disappointed the reason was not really ideological because a lot of them thought at that time that the Get on Socialism is not a bad thing they've lived through the Great Depression but they couldn't take they did the system this is through terror and control law is and they will lie again and again and again sir then do your absolute the ratings came to the issue of trust and there was not a hit by the time that those people who live in were live in this sort of a union and again that particular particular private left so Ukraine already in early October so if you a few short months and what I were hopes whatever illusions they have they were destroyed. He is professor of history at Harvard University and his book is called Forgotten bastards of the Eastern Front and I'm told story or World War 2 And it's just after half past 3. Home digital b.b.c. Sounds small state government this is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live for the b.b.c. News Here's Lisa McCormick thanks for all the f.a. Chairman Greg Clarke said last night singling game against Bulgaria was one of the most appalling nights he's ever seen in football players still twice because of Rice's Chandon and gestures by local fans in Sofia England 16 nil the u.s. Is imposing sanctions and Turkey in response with attack on Kurdish forces in northern Syria Donald Trump spoken to President on the phone and demanded an immediate truce a British couple being held in the u.s. Detention center with a 3 month old baby after accidently crossing the border from Canada David Milenko owners have described it as the scariest experience of their entire lives and scientists claim hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved a year for commonly available drug was given to people suffering from head injuries t.x. Days already used to treat chest or abdominal bleeding down to the sport on his Katie Well it was a 6 no win saying Lind as they edge closer to year at 2020 qualification but the game against Bulgaria was clouded by 2 breaks in play due to racists incidents the 1st polls came in the 28th minute with a stadium announcement condemning the N.B.A.'s Bissell state in the match would be abandoned if it continued Well the game was halted again just before half time England had the option to walk off to play the full 90 minutes the f.a. Have condemned the obese and to investigate as a matter of urgency manager says he's proud of his players but their performance will be overshadowed sidling we know the people will be talking about that the performance was terrific from 1st minute to last we were calm of the last few days we knew we needed to respond and we played properly for the whole like 2 minutes and I think the focus of the team with or without the ball was excellent. One of the early victims of the racist abuse in the match was Tyrone Maine is making his England debut Well yes in village offender says it was dealt with in the right way I think everybody had the chance because it was disappointing not to tear it clear as day at times but luckily for me you know it doesn't affect me too much I mean I feel more sorry for the people who feel I have to have an opinion and make those comments but at the same time to so that was escalated in the right way in the correct protocol was followed elsewhere 2 goals from Patty McNabb help Northern Ireland to a 32 win over the Czech Republic in their friends a while if Island also win the Rugby World Cup They'll have to do it without sensibility Akki he'll miss the rest of the tournament off the failing to overturn his red card against Samoa and has been hit with a 3 week ban and why not download the laces Rugby Union weekly poll caused by the b.b.c. Sounds apt the team will look ahead now to this weekend's quarterfinals assess its governing body the audibly aff has ruled trans female athletes must lower their levels of testosterone the new regulation is the same as that which applies to athletes with differences of sexual development including castes and many a proof of the correct testosterone level is required for a period of at least 12 months prizes being declared eligible for the female category tennis and could Roger Federer get his hands on the elusive Olympic singles gold medal missing from his collection Well the 20 time Grand Slam winner will be a next summer's Olympics if he's fully fit he's only managed gold in the doubles something he wants to change I've always played every Olympic Games I could so far mystery Oh because of my knee surgery back in 16 my knee was just not well after Wimbledon so I had to take the rest of the year off and that included Rio too which hurt but so it goes and I just felt that's what I wanted to do he'll be 39 during the lympics Meanwhile Don Evans cemented his new place as British number one as he in straight sets in the stock come open 1st round on England's thrilling win over New Zealand in the Cricket World Cup final will never be repeated it's off to the boundary count back rules been a bow. List in i.c.c. Events is the problem in the semifinals and finals will now be repeated and so one team has called more than the other that's the latest now from b.b.c. Sport with. The least Premier League should anyone else. She was. Released. This week seem pleasing to me believe me listen this is 5 life. Stimulus in the past like school this is b.b.c. 5 Live. 8 with Shaab. After a 4 month trial the Supreme Court in Spain handed done sentences on line Catalan separatist leaders on Monday they were sentenced to between 9 and 13 years in prison and their offenses were either sedition or misuse of government funds it was all back to the 2017 in the pendants referendum 3 other defendants were found guilty only of disobedience and not sentenced to prison but independent supporters took to the streets and Barcelona readily in response to the verdicts clashed with riot police stations and the airport I've been speaking to they would pull ISIS in Barcelona and I asked them if the sentences are a direct result of those demonstrations back in 2017 they were late to the demonstration and some of the people that it's been complicated to tell you about 'd but a corking in Spain but also the organization of the eye legal reform does so that was helped you know go over 1st 2017 so it's 2 things one there for them the other thing it's one. Person that has been convicted today. It's because of organizing protests after the referendum So is this a political sentiments of their concerns for a political crime basically what they are saying what the court is saying that they are accusing them of sedition basically doing something or a legal against the government in power in that case Ok so basically. Firstly said that they could also be condemned by rebellion that impulse let's say by Allah and so at the end they condemn the solution and some of the ministers of the cut and I ministers of the of the time of 2017 has been also convicted by misuse of public funds because it has been proven that the Us public funds to pay the I like a reference amount of 2017. So taking into account they could have gone for they could almost have gone for treason good if they if they decided the organizing a referendum on independence was was against the Spanish state but how do. How have people responded to the the news of these very harsh sentences yet so the response has been very quickly and social media has been the key in organizing their 1st brokers during the day of today a lot of growing dependence supporters organizations associations have the March in the streets of Barcelona they have also been trying to block during the whole day the airport of Barcelona and that has been also quite a lot of clashes with the police take into account that in Barcelona now that are they cutting employees but also about a 1000 police officers from the Spanish national police that they came also to. Talk to protect and to and to help and the police say here in in Barcelona as always again the protests has been quite quickly quite a lot of people in the streets blocking the airport plonking as well or trying to block rail stations and I think that they said that this is only the start and they're following that yes it's going to be more and in terms of people who've been sentenced we're all members of the Catalan government where they are or members of the Catalan parliament Yes So basically we can say that there was the former vice president of the loney or you get us. The person who has been convicted with more years in prison 13 years and then we have also 3 former ministers that has been convicted well for sedition misuse of public funds and we have 2 others that have been only convicted for sedition and they expect x x speaker of the Catalan parliament also has been convicted for sedition and after that has been also 2. People in that case activist for pro Kaplan and pro independence Association so we. We can see a mix of former cotton and ministers and then they accept speaker of the council in parliament and some activist as well and in this the the former Catalan president had been the Mr and he would have been convicted to Woody he would have been chosen fictive Yes but the thing is that's. After knowing all what was happening he left to go live to Belgium so. This has been a bit also for for the for the court hearing Spain have a difficult because of course he is not living in Spain and he couldn't be charged bad day George what he did today to reactivate the European arrest warrant against him on so we simply the Supreme Court of the is now looking for him they know that yet in Belgium but it needs to be the police in Belgium who extract the States puts them on. To Spain and let's see this is going to happen at the end why did the Spanish government do this why did they decide to take such a hard line when when they could have been more forgiving. Well I just may make you make a point brought This is not deciding anything if they did the traditional part let's say so I. Would have different powers and what they say is that that they judicial power acts independently without the inference of the Spanish government so when you ask about that and a lot of journalists actually they ask. Why. It's a harsh sentence from the court and they said well we don't have anything to do with it we need to accept what the court said and normally the court is independent and it's not. The government and the site anything about how the sentences need to be done or not. So the judiciary has has had sole say in this and there was no political interference at all yet and that's that that's how we should be that's how the Constitution establishes in Spain that you have a judicial power that it's totally independent from from there from the political from the political power actually it's very it's very interesting as well all the sessions of the. Core of and etc That was for 4 months all the sessions in the court has been broadcast live in t.v. So people could be seeing transparently how these sessions were taking place without normally any any destruction or any interference from there from the political side as well and what happens to the independence movement from from here on the Versus this is seen as very risky from a broader view of inflaming popular feeling well that's that's a really interesting question I think now it opens a new era Let's say you know both for cutting and pro independence movements and also for politicians in Catalonia Spain president the president and its president better signs ever saying today that it's a new time to stay out of the dialogue to start trying to to to agree on things now because this is a sentence or a court ruling that needs to be that is like that it would need to be really we need to we don't really we need to apply you know the consequences but from now on what started the process and well for a forgot that I'm from dependence as a statement is yes a very bad knee it was not because that means that a lot of their leaders let's say activists but also politicians they are going to be they want to be in prison for for for a while and really badly it was but to sum up on all these Let's see how the next days are going as well in terms of protests and how these violent clashes that already started that we today how they are going to have a little bit in the next day in the next days. And we'll see how how all these finishes as well 4 for the cut and I'm pro pro independence a movement and we say a policy or a line they take from our own words can you just tell us we obviously the bin vast demonstrations against this verdict what actually happened so. Did the most recent step in this morning let's say one hour later after a court ruling was partly. Students and pro independence. Supporters they took the streets of basically Barcelona but also from of or some other crap and insidious and then. They decided to move to important infrastructures that mean train stations and the airport of Barcelona we need to say that there is a lot of police as I said before in Barcelona so the kind of boy that the demonstration demonstrators could go inside the train tracks and to block all day all that's going to coalition in Barcelona there has been a lot of clashes in the port of but I don't have a sickly they want me to kind of produce the images that we have seen feel weeks ago I'm sure you are all aware about Hong Kong for example they wanted to kind of repeat the same and the same picture and there was a lot of police and the clashes have been there quite a lot during all the evening and the night in their part of but I don't know because the police has been allow. The most traders to go inside the airport premises actually more than 8000 passengers and that where the airport has been blocked and. 100 flights has been canceled as well so basically I would say that they most critical points have been train stations and the airport or bus or now what we have been quite a lot of images of clashes. From demonstrators with police of Catalonia but also with dispatch boats. And from Spain that was a journalist David process we're looking in the papers this morning the Daily Telegraph says that talks are continuing and there is cautious optimism that a new deal can be struck that also says the Prime Minister's Council to plan a cabinet meeting in order to avoid tension for leaks we've got the Queen on the front of the telegraph and on the front of the Times Times reporting a very straight down the middle Queen's speech says prime minister's election manifesto Deal Express gets excited about prime ministers. Determination to get this amazing country moving again and just calls it Johnson's wishlist whereas the sun and the mirror boys talk about racism and football and the Bulgarian move which saw England stand tall in the words of the Daily Mirror we're going to look tonight at a different paper this is the one of the papers in Poland recent being that their big story today is a success of Poland's right wing Law and Justice Party which has won a 2nd term and power the paper as the Gazette e v Board Chair and the editor tonight as Stanislav skin ski who gave me a breakdown on what's been happening the biggest news is the 10 out because well 61.74 per cent of polls went to the to the polls as you can put it and which is the greatest number of a record so. That's definitely yes and in every respect but what has happened though when Justice won the election they have 200. And $35.00 seats in the lower house of the parliament which is $406.00 the seats strong so so it's a clear majority and. Well they they did this by the fact that they received less votes than the opposition in law and justice received a bit over 8000000 votes and if you combine diverts of the civic Alliance the left alliance and the Polish People's Party have been 8.9 to 5000000 so it's 900000 votes more than the injustice but because the votes are translated with the don't method. In 2 seats gives advantage to winners and the injustice has a majority an effect but. The surprise comes from the higher house of the parliament the Senate and opposition committees agreed not to stand in one another's way so there was only one and the low when justice candidate in each constituency and opposition has now $51.00 seats out of $100.00 so it gives them a say in possibility of if not blocking then slowing down and scrutinizing what's happening in the lower house of the of the of the parliament the law and just as one have it all their own way while parliament the the Senate has some influence on the legislation but that is very limited because the government is obviously decided in the lower house of the parliament and the Senate can mostly what they can do is slow down the diligence station process because once the Senate the high house vetoes the any any and the bill proposed and voted for in the in the same at the lower house. It goes back to the same and it can reject descendants objections where if a regular majority so that. Lowen justice would be able to do dart bar what will not be possible anymore is fast tracking diligence duration process and will be. At the low end just as they had in the previous term while they they were they were put transforming bills into act in less than 48 hours if I'm not mistaken but they give a give and take 6 hours so I think they they made it in less than 48 hours which was basically ridiculous in that way that you know there was no way of scrutinizing what's really happening what will be the effect of the of the proposed bill that that was that was just just complete madness and so they the high house of the parliament has also some ability of scrutinizing their work of the of the lower house and has say in appointments of important positions in the end in the state so that will limit put some limitations of the on the low end justices power but they are but it just slows down the process and put some limitations in fact but it doesn't really affect the government's decisions you have a story about Polish experts in the u.k. And how they voted they vote the same way as people at home. I know this very surprising because and it's even more surprising now because I dig into how they vote 4 years ago and 4 years ago polls in the u.k. Were voting rather far right voters. With voting generally for either Law and Justice or 2 of the major anti establishment parties cookies 15 or Korvin party and the District platform or so forth and the left will stiff so it was it was completely you know of an image of the far right. Voters brode bought this year this this year polls voted polls in the u.k. Voted to overthrow the government and Paul is there for a vote it generally worldwide in support of. Of the pro-democratic per European opposition. And with the Civic Alliance coming in fast with nearly 40 per cent and low and just in the mean 2nd was only 24 percent so it's nearly a reverse of what happened in Poland where law and justice had 444 percent and the civic Alliance had had 27 but in the u.k. The differences are even greater because well there were 58 polling stations in the u.k. 90000 polled voted and. 37 percent of them supported the civic Alliance and the last came in 2nd with over 23 percent and low and just as barely made it over 20 percent so it's a completely different while we're Poland in in the u.k. Where the directions will decide to tend to u.k. Poland will be in the completely different path of the ads that they Alexion. There's a break story which is about the number of Britons who live in Poland what sort of residency rights do they have while until right now they have full residency rights as the e.u. Citizens they can just move there decide that they want to live there and every e.u. Citizen can decide within the e.u. Well with some exceptions for those countries which recently joined but generally it is that way and so but with for exit coming sooner or later in that form or another they get up above charge there was a. Rather lengthy article about you know the Britain situation in Poland it isn't as a huge group as poles in the u.k. Because 100000 Poles lives in the k. Whereas only 6100 Britons already registered themselves as permanent residents in Poland and 900 of them did so in 2019 and 4 and that points to Bragg's it before they barely had to to to to register a thought that there was no need for that and no legal requirement for that. What what do we know about them well the majority of them about 80 percent of them are men they mostly are between 40 and 59 years old and they live in either Warsaw or Cracow or close by because this is the county breakdown not the city breakdown and well now they're asking questions what will happen. In effect of Bragg's because well there are there are some questions which are quite easy to our answer as the European Health Insurance Card will cease to work they will have to register themselves for the Polish house service and most of the problems concert are related to their close ones either spouses partners children because Doe's who are spouses or partners before Breck that are recognised by the British law. Of cause in 2019 in the 21st century not many not so many people register their spouses their partners anymore and so in the fact they are quite concerned how will they prove that this relation was poor form to prove brags those told brag that. Their history of describe the kind of technical So there is. John Matthews from London who lives in Poland since 27000 who are 6 and Boris Johnson from basically Bolger's Johnson from doesn't have a board just pages what will that look like to I have to collect pictures ask friends for testimony. That was their quote from their from our paper because well they have by consent. From the paper. On b.b.c. Radio 5. You. Feel. When you. Print before anyone else this c.b.c. Radio. Story. Is racism is the most appalling. Says it was a team decision. To racist incidents in. The. Hole to twice in the but the England team decided to stay on the pitch when in 6 nil to roamings was a wrong those. It was disappointing. Times. Doesn't affect me too much I mean I feel more sorry for the people who feel I have to have an opinion and make those comments at the same time so that was escalated in the right way in the correct protocol was followed so very proud of everybody for the decision that we made. To start a judicial review into advice given by. The Foreign Office to Northamptonshire police over the decision to grant diplomatic immunity to the American suspect in the teenager's death the anti Will was killed in a traffic accident in August president trumps an on site actions on Turkey in protest on his military offensive into northern Syria president insists he won't back down from his campaign against Kurdish forces is the Us vice president Mike Pence the sanctions that have been imposed today are a beginning president trying made it very clear that we will continue to use the strength of this economy as president from did today we're going to continue to call on President here to want to and the violence come to the table and embrace a negotiated settlement a British couple say the traumatized after being detained in the u.s. From lax adeptly crossed the border from Canada it happened when Dave in the length collars with the 3 month old baby nearly 2 weeks ago they say they were arrested after veering onto a small road in the non of the tensions and from Pennsylvania thousands of demonstrators have blocked access to Boston known as main airports it's after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced 9 cattle and separatist leaders to up to 13 years in jail protesters threw rocks cans and fire extinguishers at charging riot police a study says a cheap and widely available drug could save hundreds of thousands of lives from traumatic brain injuries the research in the Lancet suggests t.s.a. Can significantly improve some patients chance of survival inspectors say they're increasingly concerned about the pressure on n.h.s. Hospitals as New figures show more than half of 80 departments are adequate or need improvement the Care Quality Commission on your state of care report says emergency cast and it's a slipped over the last year Dr Nick Scrivens from the Society for acute Mets I'm no real surprise the papers are from time and we know we're struggling but I was quite a plague picture what they describe as a perfect storm it's quite easy to see how we've reached this situation but when you consider I say in that 52 percent of our members see an urgent task services. Underneath the improvement site that's quite worrying when the shoes Booker Prize will be shared between 2 authors for the 4th time in more than 20 years small group that would author of the testaments will share the prize with British writer but it didn't ever isto her novel girl woman other explores the lives of African women in modern Britain once I got close to it with a long list in the short list I really really wanted to win but you know do you it used to just have no idea what's going to happen so to him my name after Margaret I was just astounded and so delighted I'm still in shock love for the sport with Katie Smith England defended timings as he could hear the racist abuse as clear as day that it was a team decision to stay on the failed is off today you're a 2020 qualify was stopped for a 2nd time do you see racist abuse from Bulgarian fans well in line with his 3 step protocol for racist incidents a tunnel announcement warned fans after the 1st stoppage the game is halted again just before half time England had the option to walk off the pitch but played the full 90 minutes while on the pitch they dominated winning 6 nail cementing their place at the top of Group a the f.a. Has condemned the actions and called for us to respond elsewhere know that I led the Czech Republic 322 recalled their 1st win in an away friendly for 13 years meanwhile Christiane a renowned I scored his 700 career goal as Portugal were beaten 2 won by Ukraine in that qualify game are sure to be says it's disappointed with wild rugby's decision to uphold been diac his red card the island center has been handed a 3 week than I am will miss the rest of the World Cup and I haven't celebrated becoming the person tennis number one with a 3 set when I've been a tom it in the 1st round at the still come open this is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live on digital b.b.c. Silence small speak of the moment.
Former England defender Stephen Moore Nick wants tougher punishment for Bulgaria and should be barred from carrying on in the competition trying to qualify they should be making your overall well culture money you've got to hit them hard the fans that come out sometimes 25000 euros for incidents like that it's nowhere near enough because they'll make that back in the next game big auction needs to be taken president trumps imposing sanctions on Turkey over its military operations in northern Syria the u.s. Will suspend all trade negotiations and re-impose 50 percent tariffs on tacky stayed all correspondent David Willis is in Washington is calling on Turkey to end its offensive in northeast Syria and he says that he's fully prepared to destroy the Turkish economy if its leaders continue down this what he calls dangerous past Mike Pence the vice president making the point today that these sanctions could indeed be tightened if the Turks prove recalcitrant a British couple are being held in a detention center in the u.s. With a 3 month old baby even Milenko owners say they took a wrong minor road and ended up crossing from Canada into Washington state they described that attention as the scariest experience of their lives there was foreign minister Simon covertly says a breakthrough in the Bronx it talks is still possible this week he says technical discussions are continuing about plans to break the deadlock they use considering an emergency summit to get a bricks a daily dumb. And imo trollish from deaths from brain injuries can be reduced significantly by a drug called t.x. Say it prevents bleeding on the brain and could save hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide the studies being published in The Lancet daughter Caroline Leach worked on the trial head injuries the conflicts cause of death and disability in people age one to 40 years in the u.k. The young patients it's normally very tough lessons are so you know to patients that you see a lot of head injuries from simple trip and fall from standing so the hope is that now we've got results from this trial we can give patients this widely available drug either in the ambulance or why what's the emergency department hospice so the University and College Union says universities need to make serious changes to address inequality between white minority ethnic stuff the analysis suggests b m e staff are under represented and paid 9 percent less overall Joe Great is the union's general secretary it's worth pointing out that unlike the gender pay gap universities and not obliged to publish dates are all and rates on disability pay so we knew that they were actually independent research and the data that we've revealed demonstrates. I'm Bill Turmel says it's time for a proper conversation in the u.k. About the medicinal use of cannabis the former b.b.c. Breakfast present of his diagnosed with prostate cancer 2 years ago discusses the issue of the Channel 4 documentary he says more than 20 intelligent and balanced countries have already legalized but this will cannabis the u.k. Should join the time to support our heroes Katie England defended her remains as he could hear the racist abuse as clear as day that it was a team decision to stay on the failed is off today euro 2020 qualify was stopped for a 2nd time to see racist abuse from Bulgarian fans well in line with his 3 step protocol for racist incidents a tunnel announcement warned fans after the 1st stoppage the game is halted again just before half time England had the option to walk off the pitch but played the full 90 minutes while on the pitch they dominated winning 6 nail cements in their place at the top of Group a the f.a. 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Place from a court ruling that the city has demonstrators run to the streets to protest what they saw was a case of judges playing politics. Leading lights. Were jailed for between 30 years charged with. Or Satish the protesters fought a pitched battle with police on the road leading to a. Space 2nd busiest airport with rocks and fire extinguishers they held off riot police stopped traffic as much as 5 kilometers away. Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party stormed to victory in the weekend's elections even if the opposition had a bigger share of the popular vote its populist agenda generously expanded welfare schemes for the worst off go hand in hand with a view of justice that the European Commission's consistently opposed saying the independence of Poland's judges is being eroded from here it seems a long way back to the time before the Cold War Sergei pluck he tells the little known story of the American airman who in the decisive year of 1944 set up an operating here base in the middle of the Soviet Union in Ukraine yet before long they were calling themselves the forgotten bastards of Ukraine Professor pocket book is called Forgotten Bostons of the eastern front it seems incredible to us know why would the Soviets ever have allowed the u.s. Air Force to set up a base smack in the heart of their territory timing is everything and the decided to allow that to happen in December off 1943 was they wanted the want to do in return was the opening of the 2nd front and to achieve that they were trying to be really nice to the allies especially to the Americans and the graphic play the 2nd front would have been where. The 2nd from 2 would be landing in thrall u.k. . On the beaches of Normandy and opening a 2nd front in France. The Allies were already the Western Allies were already fighting in Italy at that time but Stalin believed that that was not a real 2nd front because it was really very difficult to get from from the peninsula to the to the center of Europe so he was has had a ball once find out yeah yeah yeah so he wanted them to come from the other direction which what you cannot course of course ultimately in June of 9044 they did so it's a failed high level team that flies from Washington to Moscow Tobar of 1943 who are the who's who's on this team. Well probably the most important 2 or 3 characters from my story on the new brand new u.s. Ambassador to Moscow several Harmon before that he spent previous couple years and London deliver in helping to deliver and lend lease the 2nd very important person for my story is a general who has. The responsibility was to establish and run the military mission in Moscow and another person also extremely very important it was daughter O'Farrell her him and Cathy Harman and she is important for a number of reasons but one of them is that she kept a diary and now we know a lot of things about. Diplomacy in her old winter diplomacy that we wouldn't know otherwise and she wouldn't have this diary she didn't write a diary and then of course this general General John Russell Deane he writes a book about it ultimately doesn't exactly exactly and the title of the book is strange alliance here like many on that plane and then late Americans who came to the Soviet Union here really was extremely optimistic in terms of the future cooperation when he came to Moscow but his story of. The life and work in Moscow was really a story of disappointment so that the and he and people who were around him including Errol Harmon they become one of the 1st cold warriors they really don't think that they could keep on working together and cooperate and it was the Soviet Union. It was Churchill who 1st called it the Grand Alliance as I learned from your book how had it been working out for the Soviets up to that point. Well. The the grand alliance is a really a very interesting creature in the sense that the member solo Alliance and those were the u.k. The Soviet Union and the United States they start the War of the 2nd World War when the different side of the divide so the. British of course fighting against Germany us is trying to support them and Joseph Stalin is trying to support Hitler Moloto of Robin trop pact the model Ribbentrop back to yes exactly August 19th 39 and then. A few days modern to be cliche to use you distort of the the 2nd World War So that's that's where the beginning of the war is so they started on the different sides but eventually after Hitler attacks Stalin in June of $1041.00 Churchill makes his famous statement that if Hitler invaded how he would make a favorable remark about Devil in the House of Commons So that's that's what's the motivation for a grand alliance from the British side at least listen to them initially so they have come up the the military men have come up with us idea that they call shuttle bombing what Shuttle bombing. Well what it meant was that in the middle of my engine 43 when they 1st came up was that he did they didn't have the right fighter jets or fighter planes to a company of the b. 17 boom burst on their raids from Mukasey and then from internally into Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe included of course is Germany and Poland and that's where a lot of the German industrial potential was and. The fighters just didn't have enough. The tanks were too small the planes were too small they couldn't get enough gasoline to go let's say to war so and then to come back to you k. So they decided that instead of going back to your kid they would fly in the couple 100 miles or kilometers and land in Ukraine refuel get your new communication you bombs and so on and so forth and then fly back to get and Italy and bombed their targets on the way back so that was the basic idea. Innovative idea but it took the Russians completely by surprise when they hadn't been and the others 1st proposed it. Exactly and they were actually. Trying to postpone the decision they didn't want to lend any allies so they were saying yes and maybe but really were doing nothing about that and it took creative President Roosevelt in Tehran to push Stalin on that issue it was in early December of 1043 and only after that things started to move and by late. April of 1044 you see already the 1st group of Americans your man. Going to Ukraine and by early June if you were days before the opening of the 2nd front in Normandy you see the 1st the 1st successful theory that the 1st shuttle bombed in that that goes from from Italy to Cray and of course Skechers Germans by surprise. What did they so it's actually provide in the way of facilities what they offer when they finally offered anything. Well there that me and thing was that they offered the labor so they offered the people who helped to release those bombed out air bases in the Ukrainian stamps into the. Drums that group except that group accept heavy u.s. Bombers like be 70 and the rest was was provided by the by the us was provided by the Americans the Sunni that's also offered to protect the American sponsors they were there on the ground and that turned out to be a problem because the Soviets didn't have Raiders their fighters screwed in to operate freely during night time and if you weeks after the 1st very successful air raid what you saw was the big German looked too often bombed Do the hell out of the American airplanes. And made her there were $33.00 air bases all together and the Americans considered that to be the worst disaster still Spring Harbor would that land that they never after Pearl Harbor lost as many planes not in the air but on the ground as they did. On June 22nd 1944 and that was also very much the beginning of the unraveling of the Grand Alliance and those bases did the Serbian students want the Americans any more the 2nd front was already there this raid it was beginning Parris meant for them so they started to push Americans out and the Americans have been so used to the British air bases such a really well protected that some of them slept through the air raids. Exactly exactly then did they call them to magine the city. And there would go to be different anywhere else and so they had to do good in your case. When Let's go back to the kind of initial optimism because the Russians work tirelessly to get these places together and they do it in an amazingly short time don't they do it courtesy of something called Metal massing which gives them a runway exactly exactly did the mental math and came from from you ass and it came you United Kingdom so it ended up in more months condemned was brought by railway to in Ukraine and the Soviets were doing that at the time when The themselves are preparing for a major offensive called by going to chew on in a very successful offensive Belarus but they found enough enough trains and cars and things like that to deliver that mad to start one personally was really impressed by that because that meant that you can actually great. Ear drums and air strips anywhere in the new Europe so they started to production dos mad software that themselves but that was a big big American know how so they put that and again their originally original relations were really very good Americans Americans really appreciated the Soviet war effort. The came to Ukraine already it was off to a stunning ground after cooler screwed the Soviets were doing mean fighting in Europe before the opening of the 2nd front so there was a what was originally a lot of good deal on the American side and also on the Soviet side when it comes to want to or officers and drunken file soldiers and pilots and the local population when. These bases are ready to roll and before the 1st a raid a whole lot of Western journalists or at least a good a dozen or so Western journalists appear. But then they get they get into a bit of a. Ruckus too don't they because all of access tell us a little bit about the the reporting of this obviously both sides have a lot riding on it and they want it to be reported properly very well 1st and it happened was that the Western journalists and those were mostly American and British and the British included also Canadian journalists they realized that something was going on people like General Dean and the messenger Horniman was not telling them about so there were. American airmen. From pie rank imperium in Moscow again and again so they knew that something was going up and eventually they figured out what it might be so they went to general Dean and he said Ok guys I offer you a deal you know we'll be silent and watch what is happening and in return for that once they will do the 1st shuttle bombing raid I'll take you. To their bases and to date they kept silent for a good couple weeks or something like that which is of course a difficult difficult thing to journalists. And then when good they came and said There's a cave we can we can go now this said that's Ok they can be only 5 or 6 and they rant on the strike all of them said that was the 1st strike of the Western journalists went on to most of the $44.00 they said that none of them would go there to pose. Unless all of them would be allowed to do that and that's actually what happened they did they got their way. And they were also Soviet journalists and Reagan mentioned the German hongbin or the air fields and among those who were killed was probably the most high profile this journalist was back then in the sort that you in the end his name was spent 3 and up he was. Someone who was writing for probably the main newspaper in the Soviet Union at that time so I guess it was a warm glow you know and and the journalist got to row got killed as well including And it was kind of sad that wasn't when they find his body and they find that has that Pulitzer been torn off and all his money taken off his body yeah. Well I found that document in the in the k.g.b. Archives and read them I was really full of disgust of. What was going on but again that's that's that's war and. War We haven't really heroes we have also villains. How did the locals get on with the Americans how did they view them . Well local set was already in the 2nd for an army in less than 2 or 3 years because the areas where the American scheme they were under German control and German occupation between summer of $1000.00 for your home and the fall of 1043 and the locals had all sorts of Fadia So was that might mean most of them they thought Ok that was a good thing maybe in the after the war the Communist Party would not be as strong as it used to be allowed the Americans in maybe there would need to do would be independent Ukraine so. They had all sorts of folks for him Tristen he is very unrealistic ideas but who left Europe was very positive. And of course had very different ideas and he unleashed the security service on everybody didn't he that was another thing that you really fide Exactly and that's that that's how you know what's what people thought at that time because they were too. Secret Services were secret police services at work. Or bases the 1st one was called Smash Rich was short for death to spies and the other was the name of one of the branches of the Red Army counter-intelligence and death to ask was fighting against against German spies but in this particular case they created a network of spying on the allies from the Americans so there was one. Service Another one was a domestic secret police service and they kept surveillance off the local So the people who were getting in touch and in contact was there Americans because as they . Playing stupid to the rank and file soldiers and officers yes American still lies today but tomorrow they can be any mistake capitalists the band of the day yeah they were pretty rough and ready about how they did this if you if you already had an American watch it exactly exactly and it's also very interesting how how cynical they were and how they were trying to instrumental lies the this date and that of course was happening around the American bases so as long as the song. Believed that there was a political benefit to have from having Americans in Ukraine and that was before the opening of the 2nd Fronde before the German attack they actually encouraged date they did they did do simply police thought that that was like a good way to collect information on the Americans but once they decided that they didn't want Americans there and who or that's where they unleashed this a great service to do a very different kind of work so let's say an American g.i. Would be walking in a pork received in uniform Grizzle local go and there would be a group of people in the uniform who would come and insult her family and then would talk physically that the poor woman and eventually there would be of course fines between the secret police people and the American servicemen. And new bathing was a bit of a flashpoint. Yes it was yes it was and. One of the journalists us journalists never never around to Paul but he interviewed pilots who came from both Alma to u.k. To they had basis in your k. And they were telling all sorts of. Interesting stuff including fantastic stuff that we care Magid lived he did the Red Army had bought dolls which of course never was the case then they were talking about. Busting him in the lake so in the rivers there which had some factual phoned Asian but also was blown out of proportion but whatever it was it was true and not it was of course a major public relations disaster for the American efforts in the Soviet Union so the the military mission in Moscow u.s. Military mission who issued a special statement trying to counter what was what was stated in that in that article American reporter and Iran years said Arthur and that was of cause that he was writing about all of that at the time when the sorriest were actually trying to break up whatever relationships. Emerged West happens between them or a conservative moment and a local. Local did anything survive there were there was nothing like the g.i. Bright syndrome from England but the English pieces you know back to the u.s. Yeah well. Commanders immediately informed the American American. Airmen that the slogan was small last like it was in u.k. Don't promise her anything but it was it wasn't forced too much much harsher so add added We know that there were no. Marriages that would happen despite the fact that there were a number of love stories we know that did the predecessors of the k.g.b. Did this military intelligence was really suspicious about especially the pilots who could take the bride on the plane and leave and leave Ukraine. That they were the. Secret police was following those women who were really into the late forty's and early fifty's intercepting the correspondence that they had was there a lot in the u.s. So judging by the by the k.g.b. Documents that I had access to now. None of those marriages took is but I hope maybe k.g.b. Didn't know everything you know now as the war goes on and as you say the 2nd front is opened after after D.-Day and the Russian Front expands into German territory and so the the justification for these bases grows less because are fewer places that they can really reach is that the reason why the bases didn't survive you know more than roughly a year. Well that was certainly one of the reasons and democratic and slow look and the bases in the way that Ok that's the important for military purposes but more importantly though for political purposes to show to the Germans that allies can actually fight together add also to it was to convince the that Americans are are. Good partners good allies they don't threaten the order the internal order in the Soviet Union did decide this audience would allow them to have your bases in the area would have passed somewhere in central Europe as Eastern Europe as the front moved closer to Berlin and especially important for them Erica as well as the permission to have the other bases in the far east as they were preparing for the major major battle for Japan and. Possibly did the victims would be counted in hundreds of thousands but none of that none of that happened that was just a one time shot in allow those bases and he wouldn't allow any other basis and eventually eventually already by. Late September early October most of the people who are there and there were more than 1000 American airmen and they had to leave the Soviet Union they left a skeleton skeleton. Group in power and that base lasted until June of 1045 but again it wasn't about Chantel bumping anymore it was about salvaging the American airplanes that had to land on the sled control territory in eastern Europe mostly in Poland and Western Ukraine. And if if I may just ask you one last question I mean the bases are terribly important and in a disappointed effort to support the poles after the the Warsaw uprising but. The narrative of the book really is contained in a quote from one sergeant Myra sorry as a private private who was on the ice and he says I truly believe that we who were at the Soviet air bases in the 1944 days of the hot war really did witness the very beginning of the coming cold war and is he just talking about trust in the end you know the fact that things began on such a high note and in the end had to send that in to mutual suspicion yes yes that's exactly what he had in mind and I'm really was really impressed by that quote and here's his story in general he was a lifelong farmer from American Midwest but he really captured captured what happened there really really very well and what happened at the end was that the Americans who came really full of expectations almost all of them laughed the Soviet Union highly disappointed the reason was not really ideological because a lot of them thought at that time to think again socialism is not a bad thing they've lived through the Great Depression but they couldn't take they did the system this is through terror and control law is and they will lie again and again and again sir then do your absolute the ratings came to the issue issue of trust and there was not a hit by the time that those people who live in were live in this sort of a union and again that particular particular private left so Ukraine already in early October so if you a few short months and what I were hopes whatever illusions they have they were destroyed. He is professor of history at Harvard University and his book is called Forgotten bastards of the Eastern Front and I'm told story or World War 2 was just after half past 3. Home digital b.b.c. Sounds small street level my face is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live for the b.b.c. News Here's Lisa McCormick going through all the f.a. Chairman Greg Clarke said last night singling game against Bulgaria was one of the most appalling nights he's ever seen in football players still twice because of racist Chandon and gestures by local fans in Sofia England won 6 nil the us is imposing sanctions and Turkey in response with attack on Kurdish forces in northern Syria Donald Trump spoken to President on the phone and demanded an immediate truce a British couple being held in the u.s. Detention center with a 3 month old baby after accidently crossing the border from Canada David Milenko owners have described it as the scariest experience of their entire lives and scientists claim hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved a year for commonly available drug was given to people suffering from head injuries t.x. Days already used to treat chest or abdominal bleeding down to the sport on his Katie Well it was a 6 no win saying Lind as they edge closer to year at 2020 qualification but the game against Bulgaria was clouded by 2 breaks in play due to racists incidents the 1st polls came in the 28th minute with a stadium announcement condemning the N.B.A.'s Bissell state in the match would be abandoned if it continued Well the game was halted again just before half time England had the option to walk off to play the full 90 minutes the f.a. Have condemned the obese and to investigate as a matter of urgency manager says he's proud of his players but their performance will be overshadowed sidling we know the people will be talking about that the performance was terrific from 1st minute to last we were calm I've got last few days we knew we needed to respond and we played properly for the whole like 2 minutes and I think the focus of the team with or without the ball was excellent. 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After a 4 month trial the Supreme Court in Spain handed done sentences online Catalan separatist leaders on Monday they were sentenced to between 9 and 13 years in prison and their offenses were either sedition or misuse of government funds it was all back to the 2017 in the pendants referendum 3 other defendants were found guilty only of disobedience and not sentenced to prison but independent supporters took to the streets and Barcelona readily in response to the verdicts clashed with riot police stations and the airport I've been speaking to they would pull ISIS in Barcelona and I asked them if the sentences are a direct result of those demonstrations back in 2017 they were late to the demonstration and some of the people that that's going. To tell you about a corking in Spain but also the organization of the I leader referred on them that's what that was helped you know go over 1st 2017 so it's 2 things one. Other thing it's one. Person that has been convicted today. It's because of organizing the protests after the referendum So is this a political sentiments of their concerns for a political crime basically what they are saying what the court is saying that they get accusing them of sedition basically doing something or a legal against the government in power in that case Ok so basically. Firstly said that they could also be condemned by rebellion that impulse let's say by Allah and so at the end they condemn the solution and some of the ministers of the cotton and ministers of the of the time of 2017 has been also convicted by misuse of public funds because it has been proof that the Us public funds to pay the I like a reference amount of 2070 so take your lot into account they could have gone for they could almost have gone for treason good if they if they decided the organizing a referendum on independence was was against the Spanish state but how do. How have people responded to the the news of these very harsh sentences yet so the response has been very quickly and social media has been the key in organizing their 1st brokers during the day of today a lot of growing dependence supporters organizations associations have the March in the streets of Barcelona they have also been trying to block during the whole day the airport of Barcelona and that has been also quite a lot of clashes with the police take into account that in Barcelona now that are they cutting employees but also about a 1000 police officers from the Spanish national police that they came also to. Talk to protect and to and to help and the police are hearing impression as always again the process has been quite quickly quite a lot of people in the streets blocking the airport plonking as well or trying to block rail stations and I think that they said that this is only the start and they're following that yes it's going to be more and in terms of people who've been sentenced we're all members of the Catalan government where they are or members of the Catalan parliament Yes So basically we can say that there was the former vice president of the loney or you get us. The person who has been convicted with more years in prison for 15 years and then we have also 3 former ministers that has been convicted while for sedition misuse of public funds and we have 2 others that have been only convicted for sedition and they expect x x speaker of the Catalan parliament also has been convicted for sedition and after that has been also 2. People in that case activist for pro Kaplan and pro independence Association so we. We can see a mix of former cotton and ministers and then the x x speaker of the continent parliament and some activist as well and there's the the former Catalan president had been there Mr Push him on he would have been convicted today he would have been charged and convicted yes but the thing is that's put him on after knowing all what was happening he left to go to Belgium police to Belgium so. This has been that he's also for for the for the court hearings may not be difficult because of course he is not living in Spain and he couldn't be charged by the. Church what he did today to reactivate the European arrest warrant against which them on so weakly the Supreme Court of the u.s. Now looking for him they know that yet in Belgium but it needs to be the police in Belgium who expresses a puts them on to Spain and let's see this is on happen at the end why did the Spanish government do this why did they decide to take such a hard line when when they could have be more forgiving. Well I just may make you make a point brought this Spanish government is not deciding anything it's the traditional party let's say so I. Would have different powers on what they say that that that their judicial power their acts independently without the influence of the Spanish government so when you asked about that and a lot of journalists actually they ask Spanish government why the face harsh sentence from the court and they said well we don't have anything to that we need we need to accept what the court said and normally the court is independent and it's not. The government and the site anything about how the sentence is going to be gone or not. So the judiciary has has had Scholz say in this and there was no political interference a tall yet and that's that's how we should be that's how the Constitution establishes in in Spain that you have a judicial power that it's totally in the pending fraud from the from the political from the political power actually it's very it's very interesting as well all the sessions of the set. Core of the and etc That was for 4 months all the sessions in the court has been broadcast live in t.v. So people would be seeing transparently how these sessions what taking place without normally any any distraction or any interference from there from the political side as well and what happens to the independence movement from from here on David if this is a scene is very risky from a point of view of inflaming popular feeling well that's that's a really interesting question I think now open a new era Let's say you know both for Qatar and throwing the pendants movements and also for the politicians in Catalonia Spain president the president's Spanish president better signs yet or saying today that it's a new time to start a dialogue to start trying to to to agree on things now because this is a sentence or a court ruling that needs to be that is like that it would need to we really we need to we don't really we need to apply in all the consequences but from now on where to start up a new process and well for a forgotten pro independent assessment the city is a very bad knee was not because that means that a lot of their leaders let's say activists but also politicians they are going to be in prison for for for a while and bases really badly it was but to sum up on all these Let's see how the next days are going as well in terms of protests and how these violent clashes that already started that we today how they are going to have a loped in the next day in the next place. And we'll see how how all these finishes as well for for economic growth pro independence and movement and we say policy or a line they take from our own words can you just tell us we obviously the bin vast demonstrations against this verdict what actually happened so. Did the most recent step at this morning let's say one hour later after a court ruling was what started students and pro independence. Supporters they took the streets of basically Barcelona but also from of or some other crap and insidious and then. They decided to move to important infrastructures that mean train stations and the airport of Barcelona we need to say that there is a lot of police as I said before in Barcelona so the kind of boy that the demonstration demonstrators could go inside the train tracks and to block all day all that's going to coalition in Barcelona there has been a lot of clashes in the airport of but I don't have a sickly they want me to kind of produce the images that we have seen feel weeks ago I'm sure you are all aware about Hong Kong for example they wanted to kind of repeat the same and the same picture and there was a lot of police and the clashes have been there quite a lot during all the evening and the night in their part of but I don't know because the police has been allow. The most traders to go inside the airport premises actually more than 8000 passengers and that's where the airport has been blocked and. 100 flights have been canceled as well so basically I would say that they most critical points have been train stations and the airport a bus are now what we have been quite a lot of images of clashes. From demonstrators with police of Catalonia but also with the Spanish boats. And from Spain that was a journalist David process we're looking in the papers this morning the Daily Telegraph says that talks are continuing and there is cautious optimism that a new deal can be struck that also says the Prime Minister's Council to plan a cabinet meeting in order to avoid tension for leaks we've got the Queen on the front of the telegraph and on the front of the Times Times reporting a very straight down the middle Queen's speech says prime minister's election manifesto Deal Express gets excited about prime ministers. Determination to get this amazing country moving again and just calls it Johnson's wishlist whereas the sun and the mirror boys talk about racism and football and the Bulgarian move which saw England stand tall in the words of the Daily Mirror we're going to look though tonight at a different paper this is the one of the papers in Poland recent being that their big story today is a success of Poland's right wing Law and Justice Party which has won a 2nd term and power the paper as the Gazette e v Board Chair and the editor tonight as Stanislav skin ski who gave me a breakdown on what's been happening the biggest news is that pan out because well 61.74 per cent of polls went to the to the polls as you can put it and which is the greatest number of a record so. That's definitely yes. In every respect but what has happened though when Justice won the election they have 200. And $35.00 seats in the lower half of the parliament which is $406.00 the seats strong so so it's a clear majority and. Well they did despite the fact that they received less votes than the opposition in law and justice received a bit over $8000000.00 votes and if you combine the votes of the civic Alliance the left alliance and the Polish People's Party belts have been 8.9 to 5000000 so it's 100000 votes more than law and justice but because the votes are translated with the dawn method. Into see the give that vantage the winners and the injustice has a majority an effect but. The surprise comes from the higher house of the parliament the stand that and opposition come it is agreed to not to stand in one another's way so there was only one anti low and justice candidate in each constituency and opposition has now 51 seats out of 100 so it gives them a 3rd than possibility of if not blocking then slowing down and scrutinizing what's happening in the lower house of the of the of the parliament and Law and Justice want to have it all their old way. Well parliament the the Senate has some influence on the legislation but it is very limited because the government is obviously decided in the lower house of the parliament and the Senate can mostly what they can do is slow down the diligence lation process because once the Senate the higher house vetoes the and the and the and the bill proposed and voted fruit in there in the same and lower house. It goes back to the same and it can reject descendants objections where if a regular majority so that. Lowen justice would be able to do dart bar what will not be possible anymore is fast tracking diligence duration process and will be. At the low end just as they had in the previous term while they they were they were put transforming bills into act in less than 48 hours if I'm not mistaken but they give a give and take 6 hours so I think they they made it in less than 48 hours which was basically ridiculous in that way that you know there was no way of scrutinizing what's really happening what will be the effect of the of the proposed bill that that was that was just just complete madness and so they the high house of the parliament has also some ability of scrutinizing their work of the of the lower house and has say in appointments of important positions in the end in the state so that will limit put some limitations of the on the low end justices power but they are but it just slows down the process and some limitations in fact but it doesn't really affect the government's decisions you have a story about Polish experts in the u.k. And how they voted they vote the same way as people at home. I know that this is very surprising because and it's even more surprising now because I had begun to how they vote 4 years ago and 4 years ago polls in the u.k. Were voted rather. Far right voters. With voting generally for either Law and Justice or 2 of the major anti establishment parties cookies 15 or Korvin party and the District platform was 4th and to the left will stiff so it was it was completely you know of an image of the far right. Voters brode But this year it is this year polls voted polls in the u.k. Voted to overthrow the government and Paul is there for a vote it generally worldwide in support of. Of the pro-democratic per European opposition. And with the Civic Alliance coming in fast with nearly 40 per cent and low and just in the mean 2nd was only 24 percent so it's. Near the reverse of what happened in Poland where law and justice had 444 percent and the civic Alliance have had 27 but in the u.k. The differences are even greater because well there were 58 polling stations in the u.k. In $90000.00 Poles voted and fatties have been fair to 7 percent of them supported the civic Alliance and the left came in 2nd with over 23 percent and low and just as barely made it over 20 percent so it's a completely different while where Poland in in the u.k. Where the day elections were decided in do you k. Poland will be and that completely different path of the stare they. There's a break story which is about the number of Britons who live in Poland what sort of residency rights do they have while until right now they have full residency rights as the e.u. Citizens they can just move there decide that they want to live there and every e.u. Citizen can decide within the e.u. Well with some exceptions for those countries which recently joined but generally it is that way and so but for exit coming sooner or later in that form or another they get up above charge there was a. Rather lengthy article about you know the Britain situation in Poland it isn't as a huge group as poles in the u.k. Because 100000 Poles lives in the k. Whereas only 6100 Britons already registered themselves as permanent residents in Poland and 900 of them did so in 2019 and 4 and that points to Bragg's it before they barely had to to to to register a thought that there was no need for that and no legal requirement for that. What what do we know about them well the majority of them about 80 percent of them are men they mostly are between 40 and 59 years old and they live in either Warsaw or Cracow or close by because this is the county breakdown not the city breakdown and well now they're asking questions what will happen. In effect the brag that because well there are there are some questions which are quite easy to answer as the European Health Insurance Card will cease to work there will have to register themselves for the Polish health service and Bob Most of the problems come from are related to their close ones and spouses partners children because those who are spouses or partners before Brecht that are recognized by the British law. Part of course in 2019 in their twenty's had century and not many not so many people register their spouses partners anymore and so in effect they are quite concerned how will they prove that this relation was poor form to prove Breck's it Milt those polled brigs it and are that interested in crimes of the kind of sex they called so there is. John Matthews from London who lives in Poland says 2017 who asks and Boris Johnson from Mumbai Well basically Bolger the chance I'm from gathered overboard trust pages what will that look like do I have to collect pictures ask friends for testimony that was their quote from their from our paper because well there are 5 confirmed. From the Polish newspaper. On b.b.c. Radio 5. You. Feel. You feel. When you. Cringe before anyone else was c.b.c. Radio. As for. The top story this. Race is. The most appalling nobody's ever seen in football. Says it was a team decision to stay on the pitch. The. Whole to twice in the but the England team decided to stay on the pitch when in 6 nil to roamings was a wrong those. It was disappointing. Times. 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Place for a court ruling the city has demonstrators run to the streets to protest what they saw was a case of judges playing politics. Leading lights. Were jailed for between 30 years charged with. Funds or Satish the protesters fought a pitched battle with police on the road leading to a. Space 2nd busiest airport with rocks. Fire extinguishers held off riot police stopped traffic as much as 5 kilometers away. Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party stormed to victory in the weekend's elections even if the opposition had a bigger share of the popular vote its populist agenda generously expanded welfare schemes for the worst off go hand in hand with a view of justice that the European Commission's consistently opposed saying the independence of Poland's judges is being eroded from here it seems a long way back to the time before the Cold War Sergei pluck he tells the little known story of the American airman who in the decisive year of 1944 set up an operating here base in the middle of the Soviet Union in Ukraine yet before long they were calling themselves the forgotten bastards of Ukraine Professor pocket book is called Forgotten Bostons of the eastern front it seems incredible to us know why would the Soviets ever have allowed the u.s. Air Force to set up a base smack in the heart of their territory timing is everything and the decided to allow that to happen in December off 1943 was they wanted the want to do in return was the opening of the 2nd front and to achieve that they were trying to be really nice to the allies especially to the Americans and the graphically the 2nd front would have been where. The 2nd front would be landing for all u.k. . On the beaches of Normandy and opening a 2nd front in France. The Allies were already the Western Allies were already fighting in Italy at that time but Stalin believed that that was not a real 2nd front because it was really very difficult to get from from the peninsula to the to the center of Europe so he was has had a ball once find out yeah yeah yeah so he wanted them to come from the other direction which what you cannot course of course ultimately in June of 9044 they did so it's a fait high level team that flies from Washington to Moscow Tobar of 1943 who are they who's who's on this team. Well probably the most important 2 or 3 characters from my story on the new brand new u.s. Ambassador to Moscow several Harmon before that he spent previous couple years and London deliver in helping to deliver and lend lease the 2nd very important person for my story is a general who has. The responsibility was to establish and run the military mission in Moscow and another person also extremely very important it was daughter of rural her or him and Kathy Harman and she is important for a number of reasons but one of them is that she kept a diary and now we know a lot of things about. Diplomacy in her old winter diplomacy that we wouldn't know otherwise and she wouldn't have this diary she didn't write a diary and then of course this general General John Russell Dean he writes a book about it ultimately doesn't exactly exactly and the title of the book is strange alliance here like many on that plane and then late Americans who came to the Soviet Union here really was extremely optimistic in terms of the future cooperation when he came to Moscow but his story of. The life and work in Moscow was really a story of disappointment so at the and he and people who were around him including Errol Harmon they become one of the 1st cold warriors they really don't think that they could keep on working together and cooperate and it was the Soviet Union . It was Churchill who 1st called it the Grand Alliance as I learn from your book how had it been working out for the Soviets up to that point. Well. The the grand alliance is a really a very interesting creature in the stands that the member solo Alliance and those were the u.k. The Soviet Union and the United States they start the War of the 2nd World War when the different side of the divide so the. British of course fighting against Germany you has this trying to support them and Joseph Stalin is trying to support Hitler Moloto of Robin Trower pact the model Ribbentrop back to yes exactly August 19th 39 and then. Few days modern to be cleaned to use you distort of the the 2nd World War So that's that's where the beginning of the war is so they start on the different sides but eventually after Hitler attacks Stalin in June of 1041 Churchill makes his famous statement that if Hitler invaded how he would make a favorable remark about Devil in the House of Commons So that's that's what's the motivation for a grand alliance from the British side at least listen to them initially so they have come up the the military men have come up with us idea that they call shuttle bombing what Shuttle bombing. Well what it meant was that in the middle of my engine 43 when they 1st came up was that he did they didn't have the right fighter jets or fighter planes to a culpa knew the 70 m. Bone burst on their raids from Mukasey and then from internally into Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe and good it of course is Germany and Poland and that's where a lot of the German industrial potential was and. The fighters just didn't have enough. The tanks were too small the planes were too small they couldn't get enough gasoline to go let's say to war so and then to come back to you k. So they decided that instead of going back to your kid they would fly in the couple 100 miles or kilometers and land in Ukraine refuel get your new munition you Bombs them so on and so forth and then fly back to get and Italy and bombed their targets on the way back so that was the basic idea. Innovative idea but it took the Russians completely by surprise when they hadn't been and the others 1st proposed it. Not exactly they were actually. Trying to postpone the decision they didn't want to lend any allies so they were saying yes and maybe but really we're doing nothing about that and it took creative President Roosevelt in Tehran to push Stalin on that issue it was in early December of 1043 and only after that things started to move and by late. April of 1044 you see already the 1st group of Americans your man. Going to Ukraine and by early June if you were days before the opening of the 2nd front in Normandy you see the 1st the 1st successful theory that the 1st shuttle bombed in that that goes from from Italy to Cray and of course Skechers Germans by surprise. What did they so it's actually provide in the way of facilities what they offer when they finally offered anything . Well there that me and thing was that they offered the labor so they offered the people who helped to release those bombed out air bases in the Ukrainian steps into the. Drums that group except that group except heavy u.s. Bombers like be 70 and the rest was was provided by the by the us was provided by the Americans the Sunni that's also offered to protect the American sponsors they were there on the ground and that turned out to be a problem because the Soviets didn't have Raiders their fighters screwed in to operate freely during night time and if you weeks after the 1st very successful air raid what you saw was that the German looked too often balled to the hell out of the American airplanes. And made her there were $33.00 air bases all together and the Americans considered that to be the worst disaster still Spring Harbor would that land that they never after Pearl Harbor lost as many planes not in the air but on the ground as they did. On June 22nd 1904 and that was also a very much the beginning of the unraveling of the Grand Alliance and those bases did the Serbian students want the Americans any more of the 2nd front was already there this raid it was beginning Paris meant for them so they started to push Americans out of their back it's been so used to the British air bases such a really well protected that some of them slept through the air raids. Exactly exactly then did they quote into magine the city. And there would go to be different anywhere else and so they had to do good in your case. When Let's go back to the kind of initial optimism because the Russians work tirelessly to get these places together and they do it in an amazingly short time don't they do it courtesy of something called Metal matting which which gives them a runway exactly exactly did the mental math and came from from you ass and it came you United Kingdom so it ended up in more months condemned was brought by railway to in Ukraine and the Soviets were doing that at the time when The themselves are preparing for a major offensive called by going to chew on in a very successful offensive in Belarus but they found enough enough trains and cars and things like that to deliver that match and start one personally was really impressed by that because that meant that you can actually great. Ear drums and air strips anywhere in the new Europe so they started to production dos mad software that themselves but that was a big big American know how so they put that and again their originally original relations were really very good Americans Americans really appreciated the Soviet war effort. The came to Ukraine already it was off to a stunning ground after coups screwed the Soviets were doing mean fighting in Europe before the opening of the 2nd front so there was a what it was originally a lot of a good deal on the American side and also on the Soviet side when it comes to want to or officers and drank and file soldiers and pilots and the local population when. These bases are ready to roll and before the 1st a raid a whole lot of Western journalists or at least a good a dozen or so Western journalists appear. But then they get they get into a bit of a. Ruckus too don't they because all of access tell us a little bit about the the reporting of this obviously both sides have a lot riding on it and they want it to be reported properly very well 1st and it happened was that the Western journalists and those were mostly American and British and the British included also Canadian journalists they realized that something was going on people like General Dean and the passenger Horniman was not telling them about so there were. American airmen. From Pi round imperium in Moscow again and again so they knew that something was growing up and eventually they figured out what it might be so they went to general Dean and he said Ok guys I offer you a deal you know we'll be silent and watch what is happening and in return for that once they will do the 1st shuttle bombing raid I'll take you. To their bases and to date they kept silent for a good couple weeks or something like that which is of course a difficult difficult thing to join I was. And then when did they came and said There's a cave we can we can go now this said that's Ok they can be only 5 or 6 and they rant on the strike all of them said that was the 1st strike of the Western journalists went on to most of the $44.00 they said that none of them would go there to pose. Unless all of them would be allowed to do that and that's actually what happened they did they got their way. And there were also some good journalists and. A dimension to the German hongbin or the air fields and among those who were killed was probably the most high profile this journalist was back then in the sort that you in the end his name was spent 3 and up he was. Someone who was writing for probably the main newspaper in the Soviet Union at that time so I guess it was a warm glow you know and and the journalist got to row got killed as well including And it was kind of sad that wasn't when they find his body and they find that has that Pulitzer been torn off and all his money taken off his body yeah. Well I found that document in the in the k.g.b. Archives and read them I was really full of disgust of. What was going on but again that's that's that's war and. War We haven't really heroes we have also villains. How did the locals get on with the Americans how did they view them . Well local set was already in the 2nd for an army in less than 2 or 3 years because the areas where the American scheme they were under German control and German occupation between summer of 1400 the fall of 1043 and the locals had all sorts of Fadia So was that might mean most of them they they thought Ok that was a good thing maybe in the after the war the Communist Party would not be as strong as it used to be a bit of the Americans maybe they would have to do would be independent Ukraine so . They had all sorts of folks for him Tristen he is very unrealistic ideas but who left Europe was very positive. And of course had very different ideas and he unleashed the security service on everybody didn't he that was another thing that you really fide Exactly and that's that that's how you know what's what people thought at that time because they were too. Secret Services were secret police services at work. Or bases the 1st one was called Smash Rich was short for death to spies and the other was the name of one of the branches of the Red Army counter-intelligence and death to ask was fighting against against German spies but in this particular case they created a network of spying on the allies from the Americans so there was one. Service Another one was a domestic secret police service and they kept surveillance off the local So the people who were getting in touch and in contact because they're Americans because as they. Playing Stewart to the rank and file soldiers and officers yes American still lies today but tomorrow they can be any mistake capitalists dent of the day. And they were pretty rough and ready about how they did this if you if you already had an American watch it exactly exactly and it's also very interesting how how cynical they were and how they were trying to instrumental lies the this date and that of course was happening around the American bases so as long as this. Believed to be that there was a political benefit to have from having Americans in Ukraine and that was before the opening of the 2nd Fronde before the German attack they actually encouraged date and they did they did do simply police thought that that was like a good way to collect information on the Americans but once they decided that they didn't want Americans there and who or that's where they unleashed this a great service to do a very different kind of work so let's say an American g.i. Would be walking in a porpoise it in uniform Grizzle local go and there would be a group of people in the uniform who would come and insult to everybody and then would talk physically that the poor woman and eventually there would be of course fines between the secret police people and the American servicemen. And nude bathing was a bit of a flashpoint. Yes it was yes it was and. One of the journalists us journalists never never around to Paul but he interviewed pilots who came from both Alma to u.k. To they had basis in your k. And they were telling all sorts of. Interesting stuff including fantastic stuff that Tricare Magid live Did did the Red Army had bought Dell's which of course never was the case then they were talking about. Busting him in the lake so in the rivers there which had some factual phoned Asian but also was blown out of proportion but whatever it was it was true and not it was of course a major public relations disaster for the American efforts in the Soviet Union so the the military mission in Moscow u.s. Military mission who issued a special statement trying to to counter what was what was stated in that in that article by American reporter and Iran years said Arthur and that was of cause that he was writing about all of that at the time when the sorriest were actually trying to break up whatever relationships. Emerged West happens between them or a conservative woman and a local. Local did anything survive there were there was nothing like the g.i. Bright syndrome from England but the English pieces you know back to the Us Yeah well. Commanders immediately informed the American American. Airmen that the slogan was Mall last like it was in u.k. Don't promise her anything but it was it wasn't forced too much much harsher so add added We know that there were no. Marriages that would happen despite the fact that there were a number of love stories we know that did the predecessors of the k.g.b. Did this military intelligence was really suspicious about especially the pilots who could take the bride on the plane and leave and leave Ukraine. That they were the. Secret police was following those women who were really into the late forty's and early fifty's intercepting the correspondence that they had was there a lot in the u.s. So judging by the by the k.g.b. Documents that I had access to now. None of those marriages took is but I hope maybe k.g.b. Didn't know everything you know now as the war goes on and as you say the 2nd front is opened after after D.-Day and the Russian Front expands into German territory and so the the justification for these bases grows less because are fewer places that they can really reach is that the reason why the bases didn't survive you know more than roughly a year. Well that was certainly one of the reasons and democratic and slow looking and debases in the way that Ok that's the important for military purposes but more importantly though for political purposes to show to the Germans that allies can actually fight together add also to it was to convince the some of the ads that Americans are are. Good partners good allies they don't threaten the order the internal order in the Soviet Union did decide this audience would allow them to have your bases in the area would have passed somewhere in central Europe as Eastern Europe as the front moved closer to Berlin and especially important for them Erica as well as the permission to have the other bases in the far east as they were preparing for the major major battle for Japan and. Possibly did the victims would be counted in hundreds of thousands but not only that none of that happened that was just a one time shot in allow those bases and he wouldn't allow any other basis and eventually eventually already by. Late September early October most of the people who are there and there were more than 1000 American airmen and they had to leave the Soviet Union they left a skeleton a skeleton. Group him in. Iowa and that base lasted until June of 1045 but again it wasn't about shuttle bumping anymore it was about salvaging the American airplanes that had to land on the sled control territory in eastern Europe mostly in Poland and Western Ukraine. And if if I may just ask you one last question I mean the bases are terribly important and in a disappointed effort to support the poles after the the Warsaw uprising but. The narrative of the book really is contained in a quote from one sergeant Myra sorry as a private private who was on the ice and he says I truly believe that we who were at the Soviet air bases in the 1944 days of the hot war really did witness the very beginning of the coming cold war and is he just talking about trust in the end you know the fact that things began on such a high note and in the end had to send that in to mutual suspicion yes yes that's exactly what he had in mind and I'm really really impressed by that quote and here's his story in general he was a lifelong farmer from American Midwest but he really captured captured what happened there really really very well and what happened at the end was that the Americans who came really full of expectations almost all of them left the Soviet Union highly disappointed the reason was not really ideological because a lot of them thought at that time that the given socialism is not a bad thing they've lived through the Great Depression but they couldn't take they did the system this is through terror and control law is and they will lie again and again and again sir then do your absolute the ratings came to the issue of trust and there was not a hit by the time that those people who live in were live in this sort of a union and again that particular particular private left so Ukraine already in early October so if you a few short months and what I were hopes whatever illusions they have they were destroyed. He is professor of history at Harvard University and his book is called Forgotten bastards of the Eastern Front and I'm told story of World War 2 And it's just after half past 3. Home digital b.b.c. Silence small street vs is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live for the b.b.c. News Here's Lisa McCormick thanks for all the f.a. Chairman Greg Clarke said last night singling game against Bulgaria was one of the most appalling nights he's ever seen in football players still twice because of Rice's Chandon and gestures by local fans in Sofia England 16 nil the u.s. Is imposing sanctions and Turkey in response with attack on Kurdish forces in northern Syria Donald Trump spoken to President on the phone and demanded an immediate truce a British couple being held in the u.s. Detention center with a 3 month old baby after accidently crossing the border from Canada David Milenko Ners have described it as the scariest experience of their entire lives and scientists claim hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved a year for commonly available drug was given to people suffering from head injuries t.x. Days already used to treat chest or abdominal bleeding to enter the sport on his Katie Well it was a 6 no win saying Lind as they edge closer to a year at 2020 qualification but the game against Bulgaria was clouded by 2 breaks in play due to racists incidents the 1st polls came in the 28th minute with a stadium announcement condemning the N.B.A.'s Bissell state in the match would be abandoned if it continued Well the game was halted again just before half time England had the option to walk off to play the full 90 minutes the f.a. 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After a 4 month trial the Supreme Court in Spain handed done sentences online Catalan separatist leaders on Monday they were sentenced to between 9 and 13 years in prison and their offenses were either sedition or misuse of government funds it was all back to the 2017 in the pendants referendum 3 other defendants were found guilty only of disobedience and not sentenced to prison but independent supporters took to the streets and Barcelona readily in response to the verdicts clashed with riot police stations and the airport I've been speaking to they would pull ISIS in Barcelona and I asked them if the sentences are a direct result of those demonstrations back in 2017 they were late to the demonstration and some of the people that that's being completely. By the court being in Spain but also the organization of the eye legal reform on them that's what that was helped you know go over 1st 2017 so it's 2 things one there for them the other thing it's one. Person that has been convicted today. It's because of organizing protests after the referendum So is this a political sentiments of their concerns for a political crime basically what they are saying what the court is saying that they are accusing them of sedition basically doing something or a legal against the government in power and that is Ok so basically. Firstly said that they could also be condemned by rebellion that impulse let's say by Allah and so at the end they condemn the solution and some of the ministers of the cut and I ministers of the of the time of 2017 has been also convicted by misuse of public funds because it has been proof that the Us public funds to pay the I like a reference amount of 2017. So take your lot into account they could have gone for they could almost have gone for treason good if they if they decided the organizing a referendum on independence was was against the Spanish state but how do. How have people responded to the the news of these very harsh sentences yet so the response has been very quickly and social media has been the key in organizing their 1st brokers during the day of today a lot of growing dependence supporters organizations associations have the March in the streets of Barcelona they have also been trying to block during the whole day the airport of Barcelona and that has been also quite a lot of clashes with the police take into account that in Barcelona now that are they cutting employees but also about a 1000 police officers from the Spanish national police that they came also to. Talk to protect and to and to help the police a hearing in Barcelona so is it really the protest has been quite quickly quite a lot of people in the streets blocking the airport or plonking as well or trying to block rail stations and I think that they said that this is only the start and they're following that yes it's going to be more and in terms of people who've been sentenced we're all members of the Catalan government where they are or members of the Catalan parliament Yes So basically we can say that there was the former vice president of the loney or you get us. The person who has been convicted with more years in prison for 15 years and then we have also 3 former ministers that has been convicted while for sedition misuse of public funds and we have 2 others that have been only convicted for sedition and they expect x x speaker of the Catalan parliament also has been convicted for sedition and after that has been also 2. People in that case activist for pro Kaplan and pro independence Association so we. We can see a mix of former cotton and ministers and then the x x speaker of the Catalan parliament and some activist as well and in this the the former Catalan president had been the. Man he would have been convicted to Woody he would have been charged infected Yes but the thing is that's put him on after knowing all what was happening. To. Him so. This has been a bit also for for the for the court hearing Spain have a difficult because of course he's not living in Spain and he couldn't be charged bad day George what he did today to reactivate the European arrest warrant against him on so we sickly the Supreme Court is now looking for him they know that yet in Belgium but it needs to be the police in Belgium who extracted 8 puts them on. To Spain and let's see this is going to happen at the end why did the Spanish government do this why did they decide to take such a hard line when when they could have been more forgiving. Well I just may make you make a point brought this Spanish government is not deciding anything it's the traditional part let's say so I. Would have different powers on what they say that that that their judicial power acts independently without the influence of the Spanish government so when you asked about that and a lot of journalists actually they ask the Spanish government why. Say that's harsh sentence from the court and they said well we don't have anything to that we need we need to accept what the court said and normally the court is independent and it's not. The government and the site anything about how the sentence is going to be done or not. So the judiciary has has had sure say in this and there was no political interference of tall yet and that's that's how we should be that's how the Constitution establishes in in Spain that you have a judicial power that it's totally independent from from the from the political from the political power actually it's very it's very interesting as well all the sessions of the said. Corydon and etc That was for 4 months all the sessions in the court has been broadcast live in t.v. So people would be seeing transparently how these sessions what taking place without normally any any distraction or any interference from there from the political side as well and what happens to the independence movement from from here on David if this is a scene is very risky from a point of view of inflaming popular feeling well that's that's a really interesting question I think now open is a new era Let's say you know both for Qatar and throwing the pendants movements and also for the politicians in Catalonia Spain president the president's plan is president better Sanchez or saying today that it's a new time to start a dialogue to start trying to to to a. Leon things now because this is a sentence or a court ruling that needs to be that is like that it would need to we really we need to we don't really we need to apply in all consequences but from now on whether to start up a new a new process and well for a forgotten Brown dependence as judgment this is a very bad knee was not because that means that a lot of bad leaders let's say activists but also politicians they are going to be going to be in prison for 4 for a while and basis really bad meat was to sum up on all these Let's see how the next days are going as well in terms of protests and how these violent clashes that already started that we today how they are going to have a loped in the next day in the next place and we'll see how how all these finishes as well 4 for the cut and I'm pro pro and dependence and movement and we let's say a policy or a line they take from now onwards can you just tell us we obviously the bin vast demonstrations against this verdict what actually happened. So. They Must Ration started this morning let's say one hour later after the court ruling were starting . Students and pro independence. Supporters they took the streets of basically Barcelona but also from our off or some other cabin and c.b.s. And then. They decided to move to important infrastructures that mean train stations and the airport of Barcelona we need to say that there is a lot of police as I said before in Barcelona so the kind of boy that the demonstration demonstrators could go inside a the train tracks and to block all day all that's going to coalition in Barcelona there has been a lot of clashes in the airport of but I don't have a sickly they want me to kind of produce the images that we have seen fior weeks ago I'm sure you are all aware about Hong Kong for example they wanted to kind of repeat the same in the same picture and there were a lot of policies and the clashes have been there quite a lot during all the evening and the night in their part of but I don't have because the police has been allow. The most traders to go inside the airport premises actually more than 8000 passengers and that where the airport has been blocked and. 100 flights has been canceled as well so basically I would say that they most critical points have been train stations and the airport a bus are now what we have been quite a lot of images of clashes. From demonstrators with police of Catalonia But also we've discounted parts. And from Spain that was a journalist David process we're looking in the papers this morning the Daily Telegraph says that talks are continuing and there is cautious optimism that a new deal can be struck that also says the Prime Minister's Council to plan a cabinet meeting in order to avoid tension for leaks we've got the Queen on the front of the telegraph and on the front of the Times Times reporting a very straight down the middle Queen's speech says prime minister's election manifesto Deal Express gets excited about prime ministers. Determination to get this amazing country moving again and just calls it Johnson's wishlist whereas the sun and the mirror boys talk about racism in football and the Bulgarian move which saw England stand tall in the words of the Daily Mirror we're going to look though tonight at a different paper this is the one of the papers in Poland recent being that their big story today is a success of Poland's right wing Law and Justice Party which has won a 2nd term and power the paper as the Gazette e v Board Chair and the editor tonight as Stanislav skin ski who gave me a breakdown on what's been happening the biggest news is that pan out because well 61.74 per cent of polls went to the to the polls as you can put it and which is the greatest number of a record so that's that's definitely yes. In that respect but what has happened though when Justice won the election they have 200. And $35.00 seats in the lower half of the parliament which is $406.00 the seats strong so so it's a clear majority and. Well they they did this by the fact that they received less votes than the opposition in law and justice received a bit over 8000000 votes and if you combine diverts of the civic Alliance the left alliance and the Polish People's Party have been 8.9 to 5000000 so it's 900000 votes more than the injustice but because the votes are translated with the don't method. In 2 seats gives advantage to winners and the injustice has a majority an effect but. The surprise comes from the higher house of the parliament the Senate and opposition committees agreed not to stand in one another's way so there was only one low when justice candidate in each constituency and opposition has now 51 seats out of $100.00 so it gives them a say in possibility of if not blocking then slowing down and scrutinizing what's happening in the lower house of the of the of the parliament and Law and Justice want to have it all their own way. Well parliament the the Senate has some influence on the legislation but it is very limited because the government is obviously decided in the lower house of the parliament and the Senate can mostly what they can do is slow down the diligence lation process because once the Senate the higher house vetoes the and the and the and the bill proposed and voted fruit in there in the same and lower house. It goes back to the same and it can reject descendants objections where if a regular majority so that. Lowen justice would be able to do dart bar what will not be possible anymore is fast tracking diligence duration process and will be. At the low end just as they had in the previous term while they they were they were put transforming bills into act in less than 48 hours if I'm not mistaken but they give a give and take 6 hours so I think they they made it in less than 48 hours which was basically ridiculous in that way that you know there was no way of scrutinizing what's really happening what will be the effect of the of the proposed bill that that was that was just just complete madness and so they the high house of the parliament has also some ability of scrutinizing their work of the of the lower house and has say in appointments of important positions in the end in the state so that will limit put some limitations of the on the low end justices power but they are but it just slows down the process and put some limitations in fact but it doesn't really affect the government's decisions you have a story about Polish experts in the u.k. And how they voted that they vote the same way as people at home. I know that this is very surprising because and it's even more surprising now because I dig into how they vote 4 years ago and 4 years ago polls in the u.k. Were voted rather. Far right voters. With voting generally for either Law and Justice or 2 of the major anti establishment parties cookies 15 or Korvin party and the District platform was 4th and to the left well stiff so it was it was completely you know of an image of the far right. Voters brode But this year this this year polls voted polls in the u.k. Voted to overthrow the government and Paul is there for a vote it generally worldwide in support of. Of the pro-democratic pro European opposition. And with the Civic Alliance coming in fast with nearly 40 per cent and low and just in the mean 2nd was only 24 percent so it's. Near the reverse of what happened in Poland where law and justice had 444 percent and the civic Alliance have had 27 but in the u.k. The differences are even greater because well there were 58 polling stations in the u.k. In $90000.00 Poles voted and fatties have been fair to 7 percent of them supported the civic Alliance and the left came in 2nd with over 23 percent and low and just as barely made it over 20 percent so it's a completely different while were Poland in in the u.k. Where the day elections were decided in do you k. Poland will be and that completely different path of the stair they. There's a brag story which is about the number of Britons who live in Poland what sort of residence or rights to they have well until right now they have full residency rights as the citizens they can just move there decide that they want to live there every citizen can to fight within the e.u. Well with some exceptions for those countries which recently joined but generally that it is that way and so but will brag coming sooner or later in that form or another. We get that up above charter was a. Rather lengthy article about you know the Britain situation in Poland it doesn't as a huge group as poles in the u.k. Because 900000 Poles lives in the k. Whereas only 6 point one towels and Britons already registered themselves as permanent residents in Poland and 900 of them did so in 2019 and point that wants to brag that before they barely had 2 to 2 to register a thought that there was no need for that and no legal requirement for that. What do we know about them well the majority of them about 80 percent of them are men they mostly are between 40 and 59 years old and they live in either Warsaw or cracker or close by because this is the county breakdown not the city breakdown and well now they're asking questions what will happen. In effect the brag that because well there are there are some questions which are quite easy to answer as the European Health Insurance Card will cease to work there will have to register themselves for the Polish health service and barks most of the problems come. Close ones. Spouses partners children because those who are spouses or partners before Brecht that are recognized by the British law. Part of course in 2019 in their twenty's had century and not many not so many people register their spouses partners anymore and so in effect they are quite concerned how will they prove that this relation was poor form to prove Breck's it not those poll break that and. They hit a crisis kind of takes the cold so there is. John Matthews from London who lives in Poland says 2017 who asks Boris Johnson from by well basically people just chance on from gathered overboard trust pages what will that look like to I have to collect pictures ask friends for testimony. That was their quote from their from our paper because while their 5 concern. Very good morning to you it's former am on Tuesday the 15th of October b.b.c. News I'm Wally Webb the European football authority you a fur is under pressure to take action against Bulgaria after England's black footballers were racially abused by fans during a match in Saffir the euro 2020 qualifier had to be stopped twice in the 1st half when England players complained to the referee about monkey noises a Nazi salutes the empty racism group which says Bulgaria should be expelled from the qualifiers England went on to win the match 6 nail the former player models soared ill says there's a case for refusing to play under such conditions this is so much bigger than just the game what happens if it was all. Going to get played again he's going to get 3 points. In this given circumstance in this situation. President drum person posed economic sanctions on Turkey as a punishment for its military offensive against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria state television in Syria has shown pictures of government troops moving into border towns to help repel a Turkish attack Mr Trump's critics say he for silicate had the Turkish action by suddenly withdrawing American troops from the region the care regulator for England has warned that the n.h.s. Is facing a perfect storm with increasing demands staff shortages and patient stuck in unsuitable hospitals far from home the annual reports of the Care Quality Commission says the standard of care for people with learning disabilities or mental health issues is deteriorating while more than half of a any departments are inadequate or require improvement a study says a cheaper and widely available drug could save hundreds of thousands of lives from traumatic brain injuries the research published in The Lancet suggests trying to examine acid or t.x. a Can significantly improve some patients chances of survival if they get it within 3 hours Professor Lima shark who are still from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says it could transform treatment this is so much bigger than just the game what happens if England go off with it was all about in the game going to get played again who's going to get the points because none of that matters in this given circumstance in this situation I do apologize that obviously was not what you wanted to hear about the drug will we'll hear that now it's a simple injection it can be given around the world by doctors and nurses there's no specialist training needed to.
They should be banned from carrying on in the competition trying to qualify they should be making your 00 Well culture money you've got to hit them hard the fans that come out sometimes 25000 euros incidents like that it's nowhere near enough because they'll make that back in the next game big auction needs to be taken president trumps imposing sanctions on Turkey over its military operations in northern Syria the u.s. Will suspend all trade negotiations and re-impose 50 percent tariffs on tacky still all correspondent David Willis is in Washington is calling on Turkey to end its offensive in northeast Syria and he says that he's fully prepared to destroy the Turkish economy if its leaders continue down this what he calls dangerous past Mike Pence the vice president making the point today that these sanctions could indeed be tightened if the talks prove recalcitrant a British couple are being held in a detention center in the u.s. With a 3 month old baby even Milenko owners say that to go wrong minor road ended up crossing from Canada into Washington state they described that attention as the scariest experience of their lives there was foreign minister Simon covertly says a breakthrough in the Bronx that talks is still possible this week he says technical discussions are continuing about plans to break the deadlock they use considering an emergency summit to get a Brick City dumb. And imo trollish deaths from brain injuries can be reduced significantly by a drug called t.x. Say it prevents bleeding on the brain and could save hundreds of thousands of lives world wide the studies being published in The Lancet daughter Caroline Leach worked on the trial head injuries the colonies cause of death and disability in people age one to 40 years in the u.k. The young patients it's normally very tough lessons are so you know to patients that you see a lot of head injuries from simple trip and fall from standing so the hope is that now we've got results from this trial we can give patients this widely available drug either in the ambulance or why what's the emergency department hospice so the University and College Union says universities need to make serious changes to address inequality between white minority ethnic stuff the analysis suggests b.m. East Africa represented and paid 9 percent less overall job Grady's the union's general secretary it's worth pointing out that unlike the gender pay gap universities am not obliged to publish dates are all and rates on disability pay so we knew that they were actually independent research and the data that we've revealed demonstrates. I'm built on Bill says it's time for a proper conversation in the u.k. About the medicinal use of cannabis the former b.b.c. Breakfast present of his diagnosed with prostate cancer 2 years ago discusses the issue of the Channel 4 documentary he says more than 20 intelligence and danced countries have already legalized but this will cannabis the u.k. Should join the time to support all his Katy England defender timing says he could hear the racist abuse as clear as day that it was a team decision to stay on the failed is off today euro 2020 qualify was stopped for a 2nd time to see racist abuse from Bulgarian fans well in line with his 3 step protocol for racist incidents a tunnel announcement warned fans after the stoppage the game is halted again just before half time England had the option to walk off the pitch but played the full 90 minutes while on the pitch they dominated winning 6 nail cementing their place at the top of Group a the f.a. 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On digital and online I'm Raj Shah and we're up all night Barcelona wasn't a place for tourists yesterday a court ruling a panda the city as demonstrators run to the streets to protest what they saw was an Regis case of judges playing politics 9 leading lights in Catalonia as 27000 campaign for independence from Spain were jailed for between 19 and 30 years charged with either misuse of government funds or Satish the protesters fought a pitched battle with police on the road leading to our. Spain 2nd busiest airport with rocks and fire extinguishers they held off right police and stopped traffic as much as 5 kilometers away. Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party stormed to victory in the weekend's elections even if the opposition had a bigger share of the popular vote it's populist agenda generously expanded welfare schemes for the worst off go hand in hand with a view of justice that the European Commission's consistently opposed saying the independence of Poland's judges is being eroded from here it seems a long way back to the time before the Cold War Sergei pock tells the little known story of the American airman who in the. Year of 1944 set up an operating air base in the middle of the Soviet Union in Ukraine yet before long they were calling themselves the forgotten Bostons of Ukraine Professor pluckiest book is called Forgotten Bostons of the eastern front it seems incredible to us know why would the Soviets ever have allowed the Us Air Force to set up a base smack in the heart of their territory timing is everything and. Decided to allow that to happen in December off 1943 was they wanted the want to do in return was the opening of the 2nd front and to achieve that they were trying to be really nice to the allies especially to the Americans and it was really graphically that the 2nd front would have been where the 2nd front would be landing from u.k. . On the beaches of Normandy and opening a 2nd front in France. The Allies were already the Western Allies were already fighting in the room at that time but starting to believe that that was not a real 2nd front because it was really very difficult to get from from the peninsula to the to the center of Europe so he was has had a ball once find out yeah yeah yeah so he wanted them to come from the other direction which what you cannot course of course ultimately in June of 9044 they did so it's a fait high level team that flies from Washington to Moscow Tobar of 1943 who are the who's who's on this team. Well probably the most important 2 or 3 characters from my story on the new brand new u.s. Ambassador to Moscow several Harmon before that he spent previous couple years and London deliver in helping to deliver and lend lease the 2nd very important person for my story is a general who has. The responsibility was to establish and run the military mission in Moscow and another person also extremely very important it was daughter of a real her or him and Kathy Harman and she is important for a number of reasons but one of them is that she kept a diary and now we know a lot of things about. Diplomacy in her old winter diplomacy that we wouldn't know otherwise and she wouldn't have this diary she didn't write a diary and then of course this general General John Russell Dean he writes a book about it ultimately doesn't exactly exactly and the title of the book is strange alliance here like many on that plane and then later Americans who came to the Soviet Union here really was extremely optimistic in terms of the future cooperation when he came to Moscow but his story of. Life and Work in Moscow was really a story of disappointment so at the and he and people who were around him including Errol Harmon they become one of the 1st cold warriors they really don't think that they could keep on working together and cooperate and it was the Soviet Union . It was Churchill who 1st called it the Grand Alliance as I learned from your book how had it been working out for the Soviets up to that point. Well. The the grand alliance is a really a very interesting creature in the stands that the member solo Alliance and those were the u.k. The Soviet Union and the United States they start the war the 2nd World War when the different side of the divide so the. British of course fighting against Germany you has this trying to support them and Joseph Stalin is trying to support Hitler Moloto of Robin trop pact the rather Ribbentrop back to yes exactly August 19th 39 and then. A few days modern to be cleared to use you distort of the 2nd World War So that's that's where the beginning of the war is so they start on the different sides but eventually after Hitler attacks Stalin in June of 1401 who Churchill makes his famous statement that if Hitler invaded how he would make a favorable remark about Devil in the House of Commons So that's that's what's the motivation for a grand alliance from the British side at least listen to them initially so they have come up the the military men have come up with us idea that they call shuttle bombing what Shuttle bombing. Well what that meant was that in the middle of my engine 43 when they 1st came up was that he did they didn't have the right fighter jets or fighter planes to a company of the b. 17 boom burst on their raids from Mukasey and then from internally into Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe included of course is Germany and Poland and that's where a lot of the German industrial potential was and. The fighters just didn't have enough. The tanks were too small the planes were too small they couldn't get enough gasoline to go let's say to war so and then to come back to you k. So they decided that instead of going back to your kid they would fly in the couple 100 miles or kilometers and land in Ukraine refuel gets you in your communication you Bombs them so on and so forth and then fly back to carry and Italy and bomb their targets on the way back so that was the basic idea. Innovative idea but it took the Russians completely by surprise when they had abandoned the others 1st proposed it. Exactly and they were actually. Trying to postpone the decision they didn't want to lend any allies so they were saying yes and maybe but really were doing nothing about that and it took really President Roosevelt in Teheran to push Stalin on that issue it was in early December of 1043 and only after that things started to move and by late. April of 1044 you see already the 1st group of Americans your man. Going to Ukraine and by early June if you were days before the opening of the 2nd front in Normandy you see the 1st the 1st successful eery that the 1st shuttle bombed in that that goes from from Italy to Crane and of course Skechers Germans by surprise. What did they Soviets actually provide in the way of facilities what they offer when they finally offered anything . Well there that me and thing was that they offered the labor so they offered the people who helped to really turn those bombed out air bases in the Ukrainian stamps into the. Drums that group except that group except heavy u.s. Bombers like be 70 and the rest was was provided by the by the us was provided by the Americans the Sunni that's also offered to protect the American sponsors they were there on the ground and it turned out to be a problem because the Soviets didn't have Raiders but their fighters screwed in to operate freely during night time and if you weeks after the 1st very successful air raid what you saw was that the German looked too often bombed the hell out of the American airplanes. And made her there were $33.00 air bases all together and the Americans considered that to be the worst disaster still Spring Harbor would that man do that they never after Pearl Harbor lost as many planes not in the air but on the ground as they did. On June 22nd 1904 and that was also a very much the beginning of the unraveling of the Grand Alliance and those bases did the Serbian students want the Americans say any more of the 2nd front was already there this raid it was beginning Paris meant for them so they started to push Americans out and the Americans have been so used to the British air bases such a really well protected that some of them slipped through the every side exactly exactly then did they quit on to magine the city. And there would go to be different anywhere else and so they had to do good in your case. When Let's go back to the kind of initial optimism because the Russians work tirelessly to get these places together and they do it in an amazingly short time don't they do it courtesy of something called Metal masking which which gives them a runway exactly exactly do the mental math and came from. You ass and it came real you United Kingdom so it ended up in more months condemned was brought by railway to southern Ukraine and the Soviets were doing that at the time when The themselves are preparing for a major offensive called by going to chew on in a very successful offensive in Belarus but they found enough enough trains and cars and things like that to deliver and that's mad to start one personally was really impressed by that because that meant that you can actually great. Ear drums and air strips anywhere in the new Europe so they started to production dose mad software that themselves but that was a big big American know how so they put that and again their originally original relations were really very good Americans Americans really appreciated the Soviet war effort. The came to Ukraine already it was off to a stunning ground after cooler scooted the Soviets were doing mean fighting in Europe before the opening of the 2nd front so there was a what was originally a lot of good deal on the American side and also on the Soviet side when it comes to want to or officers and drank and. Soldiers and pilots and the local population when. These bases are ready to roll and before the 1st a raid a whole lot of Western journalists or at least a good a dozen or so Western journalists appear. But then they get they get into a bit of a. Ruckus too don't they because all of access tell us a little bit about the the reporting of this obviously both sides have a lot riding on it and they want it to be reported properly very well 1st and it happened was that the Western journalists and those were mostly American and British and the British included also Canadian journalists they realized that something was going on people like General Dean and the passenger Horniman was not telling them about so there were. American airmen. From Pi round it period in Moscow again and again so they knew that something was growing up and eventually they figured out what it might be so they went to general Dean and he said Ok guys I offer you a deal you know we'll be silent and watch what is happening and in return for that once they will do the 1st shuttle bombing raid I'll take you. To their bases and to date they kept silent for a good couple Bieksa something like that which is of course a difficult difficult thing for journalists. And then when good they came and said There's a cave we can we can go now this says that again they can be only 5 or 6 and they rant on the strike all of them they said that was the 1st strike of the Western journalists went on to most of the $44.00 they said that none of them would go there to pose. Unless all of them would be allowed to do that and that's actually what happened they did they got their way. And they were also Soviet journalists and Reagan mentioned the German hongbin or the air fields and among those who were killed was probably the most high profile this journalist was back then in the sort that you in the end his name was spent 3 and up he was. Someone who was writing for profit. Newspaper in the Soviet Union at that time so I guess it was a warm glow you know and and the journalist got to grow good killed as well including And it was quite sad that wasn't when they find his body and they find it has that Pulitzer been torn off and all his money taken off his body yeah. Well I found that document in the in the k.g.b. Archives and read them I was really full of disgust of. What was going on but again that's that's that's war and. War We haven't really heroes we have also villains. How did the locals get on with the Americans how did they view them . Well local set was already in the 2nd for an army in less than 2 or 3 years because the areas where the American scheme they were under German control and German occupation between summer of 1400 and the fall of 1043 and the locals had all sorts of Fadia So was that might mean most of them they thought Ok that was a good thing maybe in the after the war the Communist Party would not be as strong as it used to be of the Americans maybe there would have to do would be independent Ukraine so. They had all sorts of folks for him Tristen he is very unrealistic ideas but or who left Europe was very positive. And of course had very different ideas and he unleashed the security service on everybody didn't he that was another thing that you really fide Exactly and that's that that's how you know what's what people thought at that time because they were too. Secret Services were secret police services at work. Or bases the 1st one was called Smash Rich was short for death to spies and the other was the name of one of the branches of the Red Army counter-intelligence and death ask was fighting against against German spies but in this particular case they created a network of spying on the allies from the Americans so there was one. Service Another one was a domestic secret police service and they kept surveillance off the local So the people who were getting in touch and in contact was there Americans because as they . Playing stupid to the rank and file soldiers and officers yes American still lies today but tomorrow they can be any mistake capitalists the band of the day. And they were pretty rough and ready about how they did this if you if you already had an American watch it exactly exactly and it's also very interesting how how cynical they were and how they were trying to instrumental lies the this date and that of course was happening around the American bases so as long as the song. Believed that there was a political benefit to have from having Americans in Ukraine and that was before the opening of the 2nd Fronde before the German attack they actually encouraged date and they did they did to simply police thought that that was like a good way to collect information on the Americans but once they decided that they didn't want Americans there and who or that's where they unleashed this a great service to do a very different kind of work so let's say an American g.i. Would be walking in a porpoise it in uniform Grizzle local go and there would be a group of people in the uniform who would come and insult her family and then would talk physically that the poor woman and eventually there would be of course fines between the secret police people and the American servicemen. And nude bathing was a bit of a flashpoint. Yes it was yes it was and. One of the journalists us journalists never never around to Paul but he interviewed pilots who came from both Alma to u.k. To they had basis in your k. And they were telling all sorts of. Interesting stuff including fantastic stuff that we care Magid lived he did the Red Army had the Dells which of course never was the case then they were talking about. Busting him in the lake so in the rivers there which had some factual phoned Asian but also was blown out of proportion but whatever it was it was true and not it was of course a major public relations disaster for the American efforts in the Soviet Union so the the military mission in Moscow u.s. Military mission who issued a special statement trying to to counter what was what was stated in that in that article by American reporter and Iran years said Arthur and that was of cause that he was writing about all of that at the time when the sorriest were actually trying to break up whatever relationships. Emerged West happens between them or a conservative woman and a local. Local did anything survive there were there was nothing like the g.i. Bright syndrome from England but the English pieces you know back to the Us Yeah well. Commanders immediately informed the American American. Airmen that the slogan was more or less like it was in u.k. Don't promise her anything. But it was it wasn't forced too much much harsher so add added We know that there were no. Marriages that would happen despite the fact that there were a number of love stories we know that did the predecessors of the k.g.b. Did this military intelligence was really suspicious about especially the pilots who could take the bride on the plane and leave and leave Ukraine. That they were the. Secret police was following those women who were really into the late forty's and early fifty's intercepting the correspondence that they had was there a lot in the u.s. So judging by the by the k.g.b. Documents that they had access to now. None of those marriages took really is but I hope maybe k.g.b. Didn't know everything you know now as the war goes on and as you say the 2nd front is opened after after D.-Day and the Russian Front expands into German territory and so the the justification for these bases grows less because are fewer places that they can really reach is that the reason why the bases didn't survive you know more than roughly a year. Well that was certainly one of the reasons and them are against a look and the bases in the way that Ok that's the important for military purposes but more importantly though for political purposes to show to the Germans that alliance can actually fight together add also to it was to convince the sa is that Americans are are. Good partners good allies they don't threaten the order or the internal order in the Soviet Union did decide this audience would allow them to have your bases in the area would have passed somewhere in central Europe as Eastern Europe as the front moved closer to Berlin and especially important for them Erica as well as the permission to have the other bases in the far east as they were preparing for the major major battle for Japan and. That possibly did the victims would be counted in hundreds of thousands but none of that none of that happened that was just a one time shot in allowed those bases and he wouldn't allow any other basis and eventually eventually already by. Late September early October most of the people who are there and there were more than 1000 American airmen and they had to leave the Soviet Union they left a skeleton a skeleton. Group in power and that base lasted until June of 1045 but again it wasn't about Chantel bumping anymore it was about salvaging the American airplanes that had to land on the sled control territory in eastern Europe mostly in Poland and Western Ukraine. And if if I may just ask you one last question I mean the bases are terribly important and in a disappointed effort to support the poles after the the Warsaw uprising but the narrative of the book really is contained in a quote from one sergeant Myra sorry as a private private who was on the ice and he says I truly believe that we who were at the Soviet air bases in the 1944 days of the hot war really did witness the very beginning of the coming cold war and is he just talking about trust in the end you know the fact that things began on such a high note and in the end had to send it in to mutual suspicion yes yes that's exactly what he had in mind and I'm really was really impressed by that quote and here's his story in general he was a lifelong farmer from American Midwest but he really captured captured what happened there really really very well and what happened to the end was that the Americans who came really full of expectations almost all of them left the Soviet Union highly disappointed the reason was not really ideological because a lot of them thought at that time the thinking on Socialism is not a bad thing they've lived through the Great Depression but they couldn't take they did the system this is through terror and control law is and they will lie again and again and again sir then do your absolute the ratings came to the issue of trust and there was not a hit by the time that those people who live in were live in this sort of a union and again that particular that particular private left so Ukraine already in early October so if you a few short months and what I were hopes whatever illusions they have they were destroyed. He is a professor of history at Harvard University and his book is called Forgotten bastards of the Eastern Front and I'm told story or World War 2 was just after half past 3. Home digital b.b.c. Sounds small speaking from a vase is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live for the b.b.c. News Here's Lisa McCormick thanks for all the f.a. Chairman Greg Clarke said last night singling game against Bulgaria was one of the most appalling nights he's ever seen in football players still twice because of Rice's Chandon and gestures by local fans in Sofia England 16 nil the u.s. Is imposing sanctions and Turkey in response with attack on Kurdish forces in northern Syria Donald Trump spoken to President on the phone and demanded an immediate truce a British couple being held in the u.s. 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After a 4 month trial the Supreme Court in Spain hand the done sentences online Catalan separatist leaders on Monday they were sentenced to between 9 and 13 years in prison and their offenses were either sedition or misuse of government funds it was all back to the 2017 in the pendants referendum 3 other defendants were found guilty only of disobedience and not sentenced to prison but independent supporters took to the streets and Barcelona readily in response to the verdicts clashed with riot police stations and the airport I've been speaking today would pull ISIS in Barcelona and I asked him if the sentences are a direct result of those demonstrations back in 2017 they were late to the demonstration and some of the people that that's been complicated. By the courting in Spain but also to the organization of the I leader refer on them does that what's helped you not go over 1st 2017 so it's 2 things one the other thing it's one. Person that has been convicted today. It's because of organizing protests after the referendum So is this a political sentiments of their concerns for a political crime basically what they are saying what the court is saying that they get accusing them of sedition basically doing something or a legal against the government in power in that case Ok so basically. Firstly said that they could also be condemned by rebellion but impulse let's say by all and so at the end they condemn the solution and some of the ministers of the continent ministers of the of the time of 2017 has been also convicted by misuse of public funds because it has been proved that the Us public funds to pay the legal reference amount of 2017 so take your law into account they could have gone for they could almost have gone for treason good if they if they decided that organizing a referendum on independence was was against the Spanish state but how do. How have people responded to the the news of these very harsh sentences. Yes So the response has been very quickly social media has been the key in organizing their 1st brokers during the day of today a lot of growing dependence support terrorist organizations associations have the March in the streets of Barcelona they have also been trying to block during the whole day the airport of Barcelona and that has been also quite a lot of clashes with the police take into account that in Barcelona now that are they cutting employees but also about a 1000 police officers from the Spanish national police that they came also to. Talk to protect and to and to help and the police are here in in Barcelona so exactly the process has been quite quickly quite a lot of people in the streets blocking the airport plonking as well or trying to block rail stations and they think that they said that this is only the start and they're following that yes it's going to be more and in terms of people who've been sentenced we're all members of the Catalan government where they are or members of the Catalan parliament Yes So basically we can say that there was the former vice president of the loney or you get us. The person who has been convicted with more years in prison for 15 years and then we have also 3 former ministers that has been convicted well for sedition misuse of public funds and we have 2 others that have been only convicted for sedition and they expect x x speaker of the Catalan parliament also has been a convict for sedition and after there has been also 2. People in that case at least 4 Pro Kaplan and pro independence Association so we have we can see a mix of former captain and ministers and then the x x speaker of the continent parliament and some activists. And there's the the former Catalan president had been there Mr Push him on he would have been convicted today he would have been charged infected Yes but the thing is that's put him on after knowing all what was happening he left to go to Belgium Philip about him so. This has been that he's also for for the for the court hearings may not be difficult because of course he's not living in Spain and he couldn't be charged bad a charge what he did today to reactivate the European arrest warrant against them on so weakly the Supreme Court of the u.s. Now looking for him they know that yet in Belgium but it needs to be the police in Belgium who expresses a puts them on to Spain and let's see this is on happen at the end why did the Spanish government do this why did they decide to take such a hard line when when they could've be more forgiving. Well I just may make you make a point brought this Spanish government is not deciding anything it's the traditional party let's say so I. Would have different powers on what they say that that that their judicial power acts independently without the influence of the Spanish government so when you asked about that and a lot of journalists actually they ask at the Spanish government why the face harsh sentence from the court and they said well we don't have anything to that we need we need to accept what the court said and normally the court is independent and it's not. The government and the site anything about how the sentence is going to be on or not. So the judiciary has has had Scholz say in this and there was no political interference a tall yet and that's that's how we should be that's how the Constitution establishes in in Spain that you have a judicial power that it's totally in the pending for from the from the political from the political power actually it's very it's very interesting as well all the sessions of the said. Corydon and etc That was for 4 months all the sessions in the court has been broadcast live in t.v. So people would be seeing transparently how these sessions what it taking place without normally any any distraction or any interference from there from the political side as well and what happens to the independence movement from from here on this is a scene is very risky from a point of view of inflaming popular feeling well that's that's a really interesting question I think now is a new era Let's say you know both for cotton and pro independence movements and also for politicians in Catalonia Spain President the President's an ex-president better Sanchez or saying today that it's a new time to start a dialogue to start trying to to to agree on things now because this is a sentence or a court ruling that needs to be that is like that it would need to we really we need to we don't really we need to apply in all the consequences but from now on whether to start up a new a new process and well for a forgotten Brown dependent us Szechuan Yes a very bad knee it was not because that means that a lot of their leaders let's say activists but also politicians they are going to be going to be in prison for for for a while and B.C.'s really badly it was but to sum up on all these Let's see how the next days are going as well in terms of the protests and how these violent clashes that already started that we today how they are going to have a loped in the next day in the next place. And we'll see how how all these finishes as well for for economic growth pro independence and movement and we let say policy or a line they take from our own words can you just tell us we obviously the bin vast demonstrations against this verdict what actually happened so. Did the motivations that with these morning let's say one hour later after a court ruling was what started students and pro independence. Supporters they took the streets of basically Barcelona but also from of or some other crap and insidious and then. They decided to move to important infrastructures that mean train stations and the airport of Barcelona we need to say that there is a lot of police as I said before in Barcelona so the kind of boy that the demonstration demonstrators could go inside the train tracks and to block all day all that's going to coalition in Barcelona there has been a lot of clashes in the port of Barcelona basically they want to kind of produce the images that we have seen feel weeks ago I'm sure you are all aware about Hong Kong for example they wanted to kind of repeat the same and the same picture and there was a lot of police and the clashes have been there quite a lot during all the evening and the night in the airport of but I don't have because the police has been allow. The most traders to go inside the airport premises actually more than 8000 passengers and that's where the airport has been blocked and. 100 flights have been canceled as well so basically I would say that they most critical points have been train stations and the airport a bus or now what we have been quite a lot of images of clashes. From demonstrators with police of Catalonia but also with the Spanish boats. And from Spain that was a journalist David process we're looking in the papers this morning the Daily Telegraph says that talks are continuing and there is cautious optimism that a new deal can be struck at also says the Prime Minister's Council to plan a cabinet meeting in order to avoid tension for leaks we've got the Queen on the front of the telegraph and on the front of the Times Times reporting a very straight down the middle Queen's speech says prime minister's election manifesto Deal Express gets excited about prime ministers. Determination to get this amazing country moving again and just calls it Johnson's wishlist whereas the sun and the mirror boys talk about racism and football and the Bulgarian move which saw England stand tall in their words of the Daily Mirror we're going to look tonight at a different paper this is the one of the papers in Poland recent being that their big story today is the success of Poland's right wing Law and Justice Party which has won a 2nd term and power the paper as the Gazette e v Board Chair and the editor tonight as Stanislav skin ski who gave me a breakdown on what's been happening the biggest news is that pan out because well 61 points 74 per cent of polls went to the to the polls as you can put it and which is the greatest number ever recorded so that's that's definitely yes and in that respect but what has happened though when Justice won the election they have 200. And $35.00 seats in the lower house of the parliament which is $406.00 the seats strong so so it's a clear majority and. Well they they did this by the fact that they received less votes than the opposition in law and justice received a bit over 8000000 votes and if you combine diverts of the civic Alliance the left alliance and the Polish People's Party vote have been 8.9 to 5000000 so it's 900000 votes more than the injustice but because the votes are translated with the don't method. In 2 seats gives advantage to winners and the injustice has a majority an effect but. The surprise comes from the higher house of the parliament the Senate and opposition committees agreed not to stand in one another's way so there was only one low when justice candidate in each constituency and opposition has now 51 seats out of $100.00 so it gives them a say in possibility of if not blocking then slowing it down and scrutinizing what's happening in the lower house of the of the of the parliament in law and just as want to have it all their own way. Well parliament the the Senate has some influence on the legislation but it is very limited because the government is obviously decided in the lower house of the parliament and the Senate can mostly Will they can do is slow down the diligence lation process because once the Senate the higher house vetoes the any any and the bill proposed and voted fruit in there in the same and lower house. It goes back to the same and it can reject descendants objections where if a regular majority so that. Lowen justice would be able to do dart bar what will not be possible anymore is fast tracking diligence duration process and will the world at the low end just as they had in the previous term while they they were they were put transforming bills into act in less than 48 hours if I'm not mistaken but they give a give and take 6 hours so I think they they made it in less than 48 hours which was basically ridiculous in that way that you know there was no way of scrutinizing what's really happening what will be the effect of the of the proposed bill that that was that was just just complete madness and so they the high house of the parliament has also some ability of scrutinizing their work of the of the lower house and has say in appointments of important positions in the end in the state so that will limit put some limitations of the on the low end justices power bar they are but it just slows down the process and put some limitations in fact but it doesn't really affect the government's decisions you have a story about Polish experts in the u.k. And how they voted that they vote the same way as people at home. I know this very surprising because and it's even more surprising now because I dig into how they vote 4 years ago and 4 years ago polls in the u.k. Were voting rather far right voters. With voting generally for either Law and Justice or 2 of the major anti establishment parties cookies 15 or Korvin party and the District platform or so forth and the left will stiff so it was it was completely you know of an image of the far right. Voters brode But this year this this year polls voted polls in the u.k. Voted to overthrow the government and Paul is there for a vote it generally worldwide in support of. Of the pro-democratic per European opposition. And with the Civic Alliance coming in fast with nearly 40 percent and low and just in the mean 2nd was only 24 percent so it's nearly a reverse of what happened in Poland where law and justice had 44 percent and the civic Alliance had had 27 but in the u.k. The differences are even greater because well there were 58 polling stations in the u.k. 90000 Poles voted and. 37 percent of them supported the civic Alliance and the left came in 2nd with over 23 percent and low and just as barely made it over 20 percent so it's a completely different while we're Poland in in the u.k. Whether their actions were decided to do k. Poland would be in the completely different path of the events that they Alexion. There's a break story which is about the number of Britons who live in Poland what sort of residency rights to they have well until right now they have full residency rights as the e.u. Citizens they can just move there decide that they want to live there and every easy it is and can decide within the e.u. Well with some exceptions for those countries which recently joined but generally it is that way and so but with Bragg coming sooner or later in that form or another day. It goes up above chart there was a. Rather lengthy article about you know the Britain situation in Poland it isn't as a huge group as poles in the u.k. Because 100000 Poles lives in the k. Whereas only 6100 Britons already registered themselves as permanent residents in Poland and 900 of them did so in 2019 and 4 and that points to Bragg's it before they barely had to to to to register a thought that there was no need for that and no legal requirement for that. What what do we know about them well the majority of them about 80 percent of them are men they mostly are between 40 and 59 years old and they live in either Warsaw or Cracow or close by because this is the county breakdown not the city breakdown and well now they're asking questions what will happen. In effect of Bragg's because well there are there are some questions which are quite easy to answer as the European Health Insurance Card will cease to work they will have to register themselves for the Polish house service and most of the problems concert are related to their close ones either spouses partners children because Doe's who are spouses or partners before Breck that are recognised by the British law. Of cause in 2019 in the 21st century not many not so many people who resist their spouses their partners anymore and so in the fact they are quite concerned how will they prove that this relation was poor form to prepare exit note those told brag that. Their history of describe the kind of technical So there is. John Matthews from London who lives in Poland since 27000 who are 6 and Boris Johnson from basically Bolger's Johnson from Gaza have a boat just pages what will that look like do I have to collect pictures ask transport testimony. 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