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And Carol Hills Donald Trump says America 1st rounder Modi pushes for make in India and these 2 leaders cut from the same cloth they're not exactly alpha male but they're really striking in the way to present themselves seen as being business friendly but beyond that there's a world of difference plus ISIS fighters prepared to defend the Iraqi city of Mosul to the last man they're choosing to die a lot of them seemed like they knew this is going to be where the end was for them and a woman flying from Newark to Tel Aviv on an Israeli airline is asked to change seats just because she's a woman she felt kind of humiliated and degraded life should somebody asked me to move just because I'm a woman and those stories coming up here on the world. Why from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer the u.s. Supreme Court is reinstating parts of President Trump's travel ban N.P.R.'s Joel Rose reports the court has announced it will consider Trump's executive order during the fall term the Supreme Court has agreed to take 2 cases on the executive order which blocks Nuvi says for travelers from 6 majority Muslim countries for 90 days and suspends the u.s. Refugee program for $120.00 days the executive order was blocked by lower court judges in Hawaii and Maryland hours before it was set to take effect 2 federal appeals courts allow those nationwide injunctions to stand but the Supreme Court has narrowed those injunctions in potentially significant ways the court will allow the travel ban to take effect for quote foreign nationals who lack any bonafide relationship unquote to people or institutions in the u.s. Though the justices also say the travel ban will remain on hold for the plaintiffs who challenge the order in the 1st place it will also remain blocked for anyone who is similarly situated in other words who has family members in the u.s. Or plans to attend school or work here Joel Rose n.p.r. News New York the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is out with its much anticipated score of the proposed g.o.p. Health bill it finds the Senate bill would leave 22000000 more people uninsured by 2026 meantime the nation's largest group representing physicians us come out against the measure the American Medical Association in a letter sent to Senate leaders today says the draft legislation violates the medical oath of 1st do no harm there's no likely leading to higher costs the a.m.a. Says the Republican plan is also likely to make it more difficult for low and middle income patients to get health care authorities in Minnesota have reached a settlement with the family if lotto Cast Steel black motorist shot by a suburban police officer in Minnesota last year after told the officer he had a gun shooting gained widespread attention Africa Steel's girlfriend live stream distaff on Facebook Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Nelson report. It's a Solomon avoids a federal wrongful death lawsuit a municipal Insurance Trust has agreed to pay $3000000.00 to Valerie Castiel the mother of Philander Castiel who was shot to death sitting in his car after a traffic stop in July the settlement comes on behalf of the city of St Anthony its police department officers are contracted to patrol the neighboring city of Falcon Heights where the shooting occurred attorneys for the city and Castiel family say the agreement will settle civil claims by Castillo's next of kin and avoid a federal civil rights lawsuit the family was planning for n.p.r. News I'm Tim Nelson in St Paul orders for durable goods those are items meant to last took a drop in May according to the Commerce Department orders for durable goods fell 1 point one percent that was the biggest decline in 18 months with a key category the tracks business investment also falling mix close on Wall Street today the Dow is up 14 points the settle at 210040 9 the Nasdaq closed down 18 points you're listening to n.p.r. . Support for n.p.r. Comes from the John d. And Catherine c. MacArthur Foundation supporting creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just verdant and peaceful world more information is at max found dot org and the listeners who support this n.p.r. Station it's to all for I'm Suzanne Watley You're listening to k.p.c. See news fire crews continue their work on the placer read a fire in Santa Clarita which was sparked by a crash on the 14 freeway yesterday this afternoon's containment figure has risen now to 57 percent 870 acres have been scorched by the flames and some residents of Disney ranch were ordered to leave their homes for several hours yesterday heard Caplan with the National Weather Service says wind gusts of up to 40 miles an hour could make for a smoky afternoon for areas near the plastering a fire there for whatever reason it does refire up they could be proved River which means that if it rises the plume to go very high in the atmosphere and the smoke will be pushed towards the Antelope Valley a heat advisory is also in effect for the yellin empire in Linn Orange County and the Santa Clarita and San Fernando Valley as temperatures are in the low $100.00 Xin many of those inland areas but there is some relief in sight Forecasters say the long heat wave will begin to ease tomorrow u.s. Wildlife agencies issued their 1st approval today of Governor Brown's ambitious plan to build 2 massive tunnels in the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta the $16000000000.00 project would reengineer the system bringing Northern California water to the south the National Marine Fisheries Service and u.s. Fish and Wildlife Service both today said that the project is not likely to jeopardize endangered fish in the Delta Delta of course being the largest freshwater estuary on the West Coast a series of other decisions are still needed from federal and state officials the latest Transformers movie was the top over the weekend taking in 45300000 dollars Friday through yesterday it's k.p.c. . I'm Carol Hills this is the world in Mosul has a special place in the history of the u.s. War in Iraq it was the site of fierce battles to secure the city in the country's far north and dozens of American troops died there that's one reason the capture of the city by ISIS 3 years ago was such a shocking turnabout but now after more than 8 months of bitter fighting an Iraqi general says the fight to retake Mosul is almost over military officials say only a few 100 ISIS fighters remain and that they've been given a choice surrender or die Mosul is the last major city in Iraq with an ISIS presence Stephen Kaylin of Reuters News Agency is in northern Iraq on his way back to Mosul he says the sense of anticipation in Iraq is building there's a lot of excitement on Iraqi state television for example looking forward to celebrating this but it's good to be a bit cautious because there have been a lot of promise is an expectation over the past year when this is going to happen and it often takes a little bit longer than most people hope and expect Can you give us a sense of what it's like there now this whole battle new for 8 months has been very complex urban warfare street by street house by house. What's different about the Old City is that if you've been to an Arab city like Cairo or Damascus it's very similar in that old centuries old historic part of the city which is crowded marketplaces and houses built on top of each other not really clearly planned or organized and so that's the environment that that they're fighting in now and this is the most difficult demanding environment that you could really ask for an urban environment you can't drive a Humvee down the street or you have to get out of your car your vehicle and you know fight the enemy and fight so that's really complex there's also as of a few a few weeks ago it's hard to tell exactly the numbers but there are at least a 100000 civilians in a pretty small neighborhood so a lot of people are trapped are civilians have been a problem throughout this battle an obstacle for the Iraqi forces. So really this is just an intensified microcosm of the entire battle and it sounds like ISIS is not completely spent either I mean I understand there was a significant ISIS counterattack yesterday what happened that's right there are a couple of suicide bombers that seem to have. Infiltrated our cross through the security barrier the front line that the Iraqi forces had established into areas that were considered previously cleared a few days earlier and said they detonated their charges and it's a setback and I think today the Iraqi forces spent their time they imposed a curfew and they were going house to house that was telling us trying to they wouldn't even bite us really got get very close because they wanted to shut shut down lock down the whole area and go house to house to make sure that there are no more sleeper cells. You know hiding out in these areas because that's something that could really just lay there and that's that's one of those things that that we we started saying you know be cautious about a timeline Well something like that could really set us back a couple days even a few weeks I understand the ISIS fighters remaining there have been told to surrender or die what are they seem to be choosing. They're choosing to die kind of what we've been seeing the whole time and you know if they if they have a chance to flee some of them take but a lot of them seem like they they made their their peace with this a long time ago and they knew this is going to be where the end was for them until you know a few months ago there was a possible path out of Mosul but that's pretty much been shut out and unless you are going to try to blend in the civilians and risk getting caught in the screening process there's really not much option for you we also understand there's a lot of foreign fighters in this area and obviously you know not to be able to blend in with the local population so I think a lot of the the fighters are you know really fighting to the last breath and that's causing unfortunately a lot of struction a lot of dust when this battle for Mosul started last October many observers were worried the Iraqi forces who are mostly Shiite would actually alienate Mosul Sunni Muslim population how is the battle for the hearts and minds been going. I think it's going better than expected there definitely was that fear I think one of the one of the things that's laid out is that the regular military forces they're the ones that are going to really leading this fight and some of the groups that were provoking more anxiety some of these militias some of them backed by Iran those are really the ones that were provoking the exotic and for the large part they've been kept out of the cities participated in about oh may have contributed but it's been more in a support role and sort of outside of the made population centers there have been reports of abuses human rights watch as documented abuses by the government forces but I think it's been a lot better than most people were expecting Stephen Callan of Reuters he's in northern Iraq thanks and be careful out there all right thank you very much on May 30th a few days after Ramadan began ISIS took credit for 2 bomb blasts in Baghdad that killed $27.00 people one of them was at a popular ice cream parlor in the predominantly Shia commercial area of Qatada where a crowd of young people and families had broken their fasts Hasan had lives in Baghdad and spoke with a Soon after the attack we're checking in with him again today House on Remind us what happened to this ice cream shop that day so this was a couple of days into the holy month of Ramadan a few hours after the breaking of fast there was a bombing the targeted and ice cream parlor and restaurant in the couple at the district that. There were something like 12 children over 20 injured and in the news one of them was a 12 year old girl that had gone to visit her grandfather from Australia and she was one of the ones martyred were you at the ice cream parlor that day I was I was actually at the their restaurant adjacent to my friends and I had gone to break fast at the restaurant and we ended up leaving about 22 and a half hours before the bombing took place so it was a very close call. When did the Ice Cream Parlor reopen 5 days it was unbelievable most of the shop damage was the front side which was glass repairing and replacing was relatively simple but the resilience of not only the shop owners but the people in the need good in the community the resilience that they showed was unbelievable and when it did Rio and they gave ice cream for free that night as a way to thank their patrons the customers and their neighbors What's it like there now nearly a month later it's completely back to normal I mean traffic is heavy around that area as always and as far as the patrons to the ice cream shop it's back to business has there been any increased security in the neighborhood since the attack there has you do see I'm going crease and traffic police and some soldiers as well that patrol the area especially that road I'm curious whether that bombing or those 2 bombings changed the atmosphere in Baghdad for the rest of Ramadan were people more cautious absolutely not the remainder of them on people who are going out and breaking in restaurants and they continued to go to the ice cream parlor on Twitter or some high level officials were going to the ice cream parlor and snapping photos the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad was one of them former Iraqi ambassador to the United States was another you know it was showing that the level of resilience is there and that you know no matter how many times it regardless where they strike bad guys can't lie and so it was good to see as far as other neighborhoods and other restaurants always you have to reserve to get a table to break costs that these restaurants so it was very good to see have you been back to the ice cream parlor sense absolutely when I go. And you have 2 young children you probably bring to. The idea that finitely I mean it's one of the few things that you can do to mix things up to give them a treat so definitely going out for ice cream is just a normal thing that people do here with us somehow that a resident of Baghdad speaking to us nearly a month after 2 deadly car bombs went off in the city Thanks Us My pleasure nice talking to you Carol 7 days that's how much time Carter has left to respond to an ultimatum by some of its neighbors last week Saudi Arabia and its allies handed the tiny Persian Gulf nation a list of demands it needs to meet before they lift a trade and travel blockade on that list of demands shut down the state funded news service Al-Jazeera which some of cutter's neighbors have accused of giving a voice to terrorist organizations know how Miller is a professor of media at the University of Bedford share in the u.k. I asked her why these countries have it out for Al-Jazeera it is not about a cheesier actor say but it's about cutter foreign policy and cutter seems to have used its media outlets including edges year to have a louder voice in comparison to each finally size so now the accusation involving a Jazeera is that it gave air time to jump to no star which branched out of Al Qaida it gave air time to setting groups. Took the side of certain dissenting or opposition forces like the Brotherhood a Muslim Brotherhood. And actually that is you know hosting dissident voices from neighboring countries including behind that equates now we have a spokesman for Al-Jazeera. A little comment from him responding to the accusations that Syria is a voice for terrorist organizations here ias for the vast majority of people. Around the world as a represents that's. Everybody should have rights to knowledge everybody should have a right since from. Everybody should have a right to your What's going on in Syria what's going on not only in their countries but around the world. Now one thing I want to ask based on what he just said is that there seems to be a huge difference between Al Jazeera English and regular Al-Jazeera and is the concern or charge that Al-Jazeera is playing into demands of terrorists is that around the Arabic language channel Yes there is a huge difference between just you know Anglish versus edges that are Arabic and English is widely considered reliable source of news and the more neutral and objective compared to the Arabic channels which is far from it and let's not forget that the Arabic channels faced Masters Ignatius' between 292011. Because many presenters and producers where where I'm happy with the way cuts are insisted that the cheesiness coverage remain aligned with the government's official stance on key regional conflict. Now what if Qatar says no we're keeping their open. I think at the fence on the negotiations it could be that the Jazeera Arabic is shut down but the English side survives it could be that . Network survives both Arabic and English channels but the real question here is what would as your Arabic look like even if it survives it will have to tone down its coverage of all neighboring countries and so it will lose more of its credibility so in any case that look a them shutting down the just you know offices in many neighboring countries will strip as you know it's competitive edge because it wouldn't be able to cover the region where it is based. Not just want to ask you a long view question you study media in the Arab world media and journalism do you think whatever happens to Al-Jazeera that it was a good thing that it happened you know back in 1960 I mean that is the long term impact of Al-Jazeera a positive one for journalism in the Arab world yes I mean yes when it was sick up in 96 I'm sure they didn't imagine the success that they will keep later but it made a big difference and at that time people who were talking about the so-called see and in fact because many Arab audience would simply go into c.n.n. And of course the b.b.c. To find out about what's happening. Especially after the 991 Gulf War when news about the war was was absent from the channel so I just you know came in the right timing to basically fill the gap and say it's not only about the c.n.n. And b.b.c. 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I'm Carol Hills this is the world once upon a time Venezuela's program for treating Aids was an international model but today the country is in a deep economic crisis inflation is rampant there are chronic shortages of basic supplies and medicine and together those have nearly destroyed the program Stephanie now Stephanie Nolan covers Venezuela for The Globe and Mail and Toronto she says when it began Venezuela's aids program had a head start on much of the rest of the world well the 1st thing is that it was early Venezuelan people living with the Cheney took their government to the Supreme Court way back in 1908 and won the right to in taking treatment to antiretroviral treatment when it was new and so on as well it did it much sooner than a lot of other countries and men under socialism government and there was also a really big commitment to expanding public health which in the early years of about government was quite successful and that included not only making the drugs widely available. For free but also making sure that high risk groups such as men who had sex with men and sex workers had constant reliable access to free condoms and rolling out a Chinese testing nationwide and so that was a program that was a model for developing countries all over the world in nearly 2000 now you covered the height of the Aids epidemic in African countries more than a decade ago what parallels are you now seeing in Venezuela. I have to tell you when I walk into the 1st hospital that I visited in minutes well on my most recent trip it felt like time travel it felt like going back to Zimbabwe or missiles who 15 years ago hadn't seen anything like that since then as well as hospitals are there frankly the worst public hospitals and seen in the 85 countries I reported from there were some hospitals in Mogadishu in Somalia at the height of the Civil War and you don't really see untreated aids very many places in the world anymore but it's quite recognizable if you know what it is and I recognized it immediately Stephanie in what ways has the aids program in Venezuela been gutted to be honest there's there's actually nothing left of it there is no h. I.v. Treatment there are no condoms available publicly condoms are selling for about $7000.00 ball of us for a pack of 3 and that's out of the range of virtually everyone to purchase There's no testing for pregnant women anymore which means that pregnant women are infecting their babies at birth something that didn't used to happen in Venezuela there is no infant formula so that women with each i.v. You can't breastfeed their babies have a way to feed their babies there's just nothing left except the doctors except these incredibly committed doctors who for years have fought to protect this program as everything fell apart around them so what happens now when a patient goes to a hospital in Venezuela with HIV or any other illness nothing nothing happens and I actually had a doctor say to me I just don't know why people come although I. I asked patients and they said they're coming for the compassion they are not going to get treated one of the patients I interviewed in the main hospital in Caracas died a couple of days after I met him for lack of a basic sailing solution to hydrate him I mean not only are there no antiretrovirals but there are no basic medications and you get compassion you get compassion and consolation from these doctors who have nothing else to offer you you have no way to protect yourself from infection anymore you have no way to confirm whether or not you are infected and if you do develop aids you have no access to drugs what are international aids organizations doing to help nothing. The Global Fund to fight each of you keeping an malaria the main multilateral agency that would help here has said it can't because its mandate is to help low income countries in Venezuela which of course has the world's largest oil reserves is not considered a low income country activists from Venezuela and outside have been pushing the global fund to rethink that decision and the regional sort of arm of the World Health Organization has been allowing Venezuela to buy drugs through its Strategic Health Fund but in order to buy those drugs the Venezuelan government has to use hard currency and of course it has a crucial hard currency crisis and so that money is being allotted to each i.v. Drugs only sort of sporadically are antiretrovirals available through Venezuela's black market Yeah but they are wildly expensive they're being smuggled in like anything else on the black market and of course of basic antiretrovirals will run you about $300.00 u.s. Dollars a month and on the black market I mean I don't even know what that is today but it's probably somewhere in the order of $2800000.00 in a month and to give you an idea minimum wage is $70000.00 for a month so that is out of the price range of virtually everybody I should say that what I'm telling you about HIV is also true of everything else if you go to the hospital today with kidney failure or cancer. Or anything else they're also not going to be able to treat you I think what was particularly stunning for me about the state of the h.p.v. Program is just that this is a place where Venezuela was such a leader and where for so long they managed to keep that program alive and now even that is decimated you mentioned you know you talk to a few patients in there what's the mood when you go into a hospital room and somebody struggling from Aids What's it like it took me back to being in South Africa as a way 15 years ago because people do know that treatment for HIV exists they know they don't have to be dying from what they're dying of and they also know it's entirely out of their reach it's not going to come and it's not going to help them and their death is inevitable at that point and there is just. The pain of that realization and then just also the fact that Aids is a profoundly unpleasant way to die people are just an extreme discomfort and distress and it's a very very hard to see Stephanie you know and as the Latin America correspondent for The Globe and Mail Thanks Stephanie thanks. For all its troubles Venezuela has not yet completely disintegrated one country that famously did fall apart about a quarter century ago though was Yugoslavia that break up spawn of brutal wars and conflicts that went on for years most were eventually resolved but one lingers what to call one of the fragments this small landlocked country calls itself the Republic of Macedonia but here's the thing its neighbor Greece doesn't like the name because there's also a Greek province called Macedonia So Greece has insisted the Republic of Macedonia call itself something else the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia awkward but after 26 years the country's new Foreign Minister Nicola Dimitrov wants to change Greek minds my 1st buy lots of these opposed to Greece and I have pleaded with our Greeks friends and the Greek citizens not on your to pollute these shows and I say I have asked them to rethink what kind of a neighbor they would like to harass Greece has blocked Macedonia's efforts to join NATO and the European Union because of the name but Dimitrov has been telling his Greek counterparts that such moves only make things worse when you block your neighbor for too long Deepavali could be near him in the neighborhood is not necessarily more constructive my brother more defenses and I have asked them to do think that blocking our old to nature could actually be conducive to a more friendly a political climate Dimitrov says people and businesses in both countries seem a lot less hung up about the name we have a tremendous Exchange for us citizens it serves up to what is a over the border business it's a really cold breaking Greece's a very important trading partner so this is a good basis to have a very friendly and open political relationship as well and I'm sure that sometime in the future be going to be able to be very very close allies so we'll soon be the country formerly known as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia we promise to keep you posted. Headlines are up next year with the world. Rare earth metals we need them for gadgets in the Pentagon's weapons but China has cornered the market so they now control from the basic raw materials all the way to the products that go into you know all your fighters all of our smart bombs everything on car result a rare earth monopoly next marketplace joining us this afternoon at 3.3 k.p. She says. I'm Carol Hills President Donald Trump breaks with tradition and decides not to host a traditional dinner marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan some American Muslims say the message to them is clear you are not welcome and your religious traditions are not American enough that's ahead on the world. You're listening to k.p.c. See News I'm Susanna quietly the National Weather Service says its heat advisory continues until 9 o'clock tonight Forecasters say part of the San Fernando Valley is going to top out at $106.00 degrees and it'll be around at 103 across the Santa Clarita Valley but highs decline starting tomorrow throughout the area a bill making its way through the California legislature could speed up help for Las homeless k.p.c. Cesário Paul to reports many homeless individuals get help from a lot of different places a person could have a psychologist through the public health system they could be on county probation they might have a child in the foster care system but all those workers and all those different departments can't talk to each other about their client Bill ANCYL head of l.a. County's homeless initiatives says the state's privacy laws prohibit collaboration the current restrictions are a major barrier there inefficiencies from not being able to share information a.b. To 10 sponsored by Assembly Member Miguel Santiago of Los Angeles would lift some of those restrictions so if an outreach worker met a homeless individual they'd know right away whether that person already had a psychologist or a probation officer and they'd be able to figure out quickly what kind of housing help that person is eligible for workers across the spectrum would still be bound by the same privacy and confidentiality protections outside of the system but they could talk amongst themselves county officials pursued the law changes l.a. Looks to massively expand services for homeless the bill passed the assembly with unanimous support now it heads to the state senate cover. In the social safety net I mean appalled sure Jim McDonnell spoke today about Friday's arrest of a missing boy's father 5 year old arm as Andries Ian Jr vanished in late April after a trip to Disneyland with his dad who is now charged with murder he was originally arrested shortly after the disappearance but released for lack of evidence and the sheriff says the rearrest in Las Vegas was based on evidence and their determination of the father was a flight risk investigators think he tried to commit suicide after killing boy and then planned to leave the country nobody has been found. The world we're coproduction of the b.b.c. World Service p.r.i. And in Boston President Trump got a legal victory for his revised travel ban today the Supreme Court partially lifted a lower court injunction on the ban on travelers from 6 majority Muslim nations that means some of the ban can now go into effect and the court will take up the full case in its next term Meanwhile here's another story about immigration and the courts ever since Trump took office immigration advocates claim that immigration agents are showing up more often at courts to detain people alarm bells went off recently when agents went to a special court in New York City where defendants are supposed to be treated as victims not criminals Beth Fertig of station w. N.y.c. Was there the defendants in New York's human trafficking intervention courts have been arrested for prostitution related offenses they're seen as vulnerable people often exploited by traffickers usually their charges are dropped if they agree to meet with advocates who can help them with their problems but earlier this month something really unusual happened in the trafficking court in Queens Yvonne Chen of the group Sanctuary for Families was there. In East Asian woman figuring out that ice is there for her and terrified that's right Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ice I was there too and they had apparently come for a petite young Chinese woman with long hair. Wearing a sweatshirt she was charged with offering to give an illegal type of massage and not having a license there were 3 deportation officers circling the court room Kate who is supervising attorney at the Legal Aid Society I saw her in the hallway as she approached one of the immigration agents a young man wearing a black baseball cap just outside the courtroom doors nothing identified him as law enforcement who questioned him and he showed her his badge under his t. Shirt Latimer also with legal aid was there too she says the judge told the young woman's lawyer that ice was there for her and that moment she asked the judge to set bail to the client would be held in custody and give us time to to find out what was happening and then talk to the client about what her options were the woman was handcuffed and met her lawyer in another room as word spread that ice was in the building lawyers and their clients huddled in the hallway looking nervous then around noon the agent left I signal ij gets officers arrested 3 people outside the courthouse that day mobile ask who with Legal Aid has a theory I believe they came to court with a list a long list of people that they could take into custody and I guess when they filled the van or whatever vehicle they came to court with today they left ice wouldn't comment on who it was looking for that day I wasn't allowed to record in court so I turned on my mike as the lawyer and her client the young woman from China left but if you have any. Attorney Katherine walked the woman to her office the client looked terrified she did not want to be interviewed after they talked the client left in a taxi carbon r.-o. Was emotional this is going to happen. And that's terrifying. Because these are. Now there make it to. New York State's chief judge also says she's greatly concerned and that courts should be treated like schools hospitals and other areas traditionally off limits to ice immigration agents have been spotted in courts before but not human trafficking court. Says courthouses or public buildings and that it needs to find people in court when police and jails don't turn them over a common policy and so-called sanctuary cities like New York but Judy Harris Kluger doesn't buy that argument she's a former judge of the human trafficking court in New York She now leads the nonprofit Sanctuary for Families which advocates for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence she worries clients will fear going to court if immigration agents are present. A safe place for people to go whether they are defendants or or victims and certainly our clients are victims they are putting themselves in danger by not. Getting the protection that they're entitled to if these people don't feel safe going to court and don't show up immigrant advocates say they could face arrest and those who are considered victims will be criminalized even more for the world Beth Fertig New York City. Muslims in the u.s. Celebrated the end of the Muslim Ramadan holiday over the weekend and for the past 20 years there's been a dinner at the White House to mark the occasion but Donald Trump has abandoned that tradition. As an American Muslim essayist and humorist who's been highly critical of Trump's rhetoric on Muslims what you what is this just your say to you . It's. Endearing loyalty and love towards Muslims and Islam in America I mean it's been a love fest for the past year and a Half Men all seriousness what it seems is yet another gesture towards a part of his base which is seeking white nationalism white supremacy at the cost of dignity civil liberties of millions of their fellow Americans who happen to be a different color different ethnicity if they have ovaries or if they're Muslim and it does nothing to advance religious liberties and freedoms which are the bedrock of this country and very Jeffersonian and the last thing I'll say is he in I got a lot of heat for this on Twitter from some of his base I said this was a very un-American and Jeffersonian gesture by Donald Trump and his basis said no of course not Jefferson hated Islam and hated religions they never did anything like this before except Jefferson did in 1805 when he hosted the Tunisian ambassador and very specifically to accommodate the Muslim Tunisian ambassador on the letter he told everyone that we will be opening our feast at sunset which is during Ramadan which was believe it or not guys and if gardener all the way back in 85 How important is this White House tradition to Muslim Americans I mean it is the media over reacting. The media is not overreacting it's the messenger it's the administration it's the Trump and ministration that goes out of its way to break a tradition which a celebrates religious freedoms be shows us as a country that hey we welcome all faith traditions and we are acknowledging and respecting one of the major if not the major religious holiday of 1600000000 people around the world and the fact that don't trump and his administration and Rex Tillerson go out of their way not to celebrate at breaking tradition of both Republican administrations because George w. Bush did it and also Clinton and Obama signals to the rest of the world and especially to 3 to 4000000 American Muslim. You are not welcome and your religious traditions are not American enough what if he'd gone ahead and held the event wouldn't that have been awkward and looked just as disingenuous it would have and there would have been I think a lot of walkouts I don't think a lot of people would have attended but this is not about the if they are itself it's about the conversation he is having about Islam and Muslims in America you mentioned your Twitter account and I was checking it out and you take an interesting line well it's responding with humor which is good for humorist for example one woman tweets this is America glad we're not wasting the taxpayers' money you know about not having that if tar and you write back her few glad really wasting it to pay for Trump's golf trips and for security at Trump Towers in New York City so how did you not respond how did you just wonder how did you decide to take this approach on Twitter so basically what happened is I had no idea that this tweet would go viral you know I'm yesterday I'm celebrating Eve with my family and we're doing really Muslim exotic things like eating crab cake buffet after prayer and then at night once I had a little bit of time I see that this tweet goes viral and there's like just hundreds of these types of toxic nasty responses and so I prefer the Bugs Bunny approach not the deaf ear duck approach you could sit there get angry lose your mind tear your hair out but the animal always drops on Daffy ducks head or you could be like Bugs Bunny have some fun with that so I sat down for about 20 minutes and responded about 20 of them and for Muslims the one thing we got the most is go back to your country and someone said Go back and slither slither back to where you came from and I said my mother's room from Los Altos hospital in the area California Ok I'll try to do that and there was no response and so I think having some dark humor about this stuff is cathartic because you don't have some dark humor as a person of color even as an American living in Trump's administration. You'll be depressed and angry and probably need Xanax every day so I go for the I go for the humor approach is fun much of the Muslim American playwright essayist and humorist thanks for speaking with us thank you so much. 2 years ago a woman named Rene Rabinowitz was boarding a flight from the u.s. To tell of Eve when she was asked to change her seat the reason the man sitting next to her was an ultra orthodox Jew and he said he felt uncomfortable sitting next to a woman Rabinowitz agreed to move but felt she'd been wrong so later she decided to sue Israel's national airline last week a court ruled in her favor and her case has gotten a lot of attention in Israel Isabel Kershner has been right following the story for The New York Times in Jerusalem Brant a is in her eighty's very elegant sharp witted retired lawyer she now lives in an assisted living facility and she was just going about a business being a retired elderly woman when she got some that flight and what actually happened to her on the El Al flight Well she was traveling from to tell a bit she being visiting family and she sat down in her. In business class and then the gentleman a ride to was assigned seat next to the window seat and clearly he was having a problem with that she then was asked by the right attendant would unite Betis close it's a 1st class Renee is as I said at the time she was 81 she has problems with her knees walks with a cane didn't really feel like moving but kind of felt pressured into it and she understood immediately why she was being asked to move because the gentleman in question was at the docks Jewish man and obviously seemed uncomfortable about the prospects of sitting next to the she did eventually move and at what point after that incident did she decide to sue the airline Well it was quite a while after what happened was she said she felt minimized and kind of humiliated and degraded why should somebody ask me to move just because I'm a woman and it was actually a couple of months later. When she went to. Say Jewish Study Center in Jerusalem and woman giving the lecture and that's Hoffman happens to be the director of an action an advocacy group the Israel Religious Action Center and they have being campaigning for several years in Israel against gender segregation in public spaces in Israel they won cases in the Supremes courts against the bus companies in the transport ministries about bus lines going through ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods where women were kind of expected to sit in the back of the bus and they have now taken on the whole airlines seat switching is to run a happens to be sitting in a lecture and that happens to be talking about this issue of women being asked to move and run a put up a handset that happens to me. And when not and that about this he said well we've been looking for a case for a test case of somebody who was actually asked or felt pressured to move or having been asked by a flight attendant would you want to go to court and if so we would represent you and that is how so what was her case based on she sues the airline and what did she ledge Well she was claiming discrimination she was asked to move because of her gender that this is unacceptable discrimination based on Israeli and Israel's own laws absolutely Israel's laws and come sooner laws and public space codes to Knott's allow discrimination based on gender how come in the Rene Rivkin its case and others how come the Orthodox man doesn't change his seat Well I think in cases where there is an available seat next to another man that and they will the ducks male passenger objecting to the seat assigned would happily move and sit next to another man in this particular case and this happened. Lights there isn't another available seat next to a man how does this bring a Rabinowitz feel today about winning the case well she told me she was exhilarated it'll happen rather quickly it was a hearing that she was intending she was in the courts and she wasn't actually expecting that to be a verdict that day she was quite thrilled What is her When mean I mean what's the take away from all this well the takeaway is that you know it's not the way to enforcing the anti discrimination laws certainly in this very act will screen religion and gender in public space and you know I think it's a step on the way to formalize ing that it cannot be gender segregation and indeed public safety is and I think from that respect to its right to rule it's very Isabel Kershner is the Jerusalem correspondent for The New York Times thanks so much Isabel thank you very much before we take a break here's a preview of an interview you'll hear tomorrow it's with the author Kevin qualm he lives in New York but his novels poke fun at the rich and famous of Singapore and Hong Kong one of the things that I do in my book is I really delineate the different types of money because there has existed for centuries now and old money culture in Singapore that's very similar to you know the sort of wasp or the British aristocracy where it's very discreet no one is showing off their money and you know everyone's living in old houses driving old cars living extremely privileged rarefied lives but it's all very very under the radar and these old fortunes are clashing against so much of the new money that's been made over the past 20 years in Singapore in Southeast Asia and then of course there's been the advent of the very very new instant money coming from mainland China what I call the China rich so it's really about how all these different classes of money clash with one another novelist Kevin Kwan joins us right here tomorrow. 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I'm Carol Hills when you're with the world India's prime minister the remote he is in Washington visiting President Donald Trump today at a press conference this afternoon Trump talked trade security and energy and Twitter Prime Minister Modi and I are world leaders in social media. Who are believers. Giving the citizens of our countries the opportunity to hear directly from their elected officials. And for us to hear directly from them I guess it's worked very well in both cases and the 2 men surely some of the same political philosophy Modi slogan make in India mirrors trumps America 1st approach she did and I got to is the Washington correspondent for The Times of India he says the similarities don't end there they're proof Rice was quite unexpected and exceptional they both this rhyme against the established norms and the stablish and it's a in one case and came out and expected returns they have strong personalities they're . Not exactly alpha male but they would be striking in there in the way they present themselves one similarity they seem to have as their funds for Twitter indeed. What should we call social media beings officials on both sides of pointed out that they are. Or should we say the world's leaders are the largest following Mr Trump I just checked yesterday and on the Trump has something like 32000000 followers on Twitter Mr Morty's not far beyond to quantify what they're about and they both tweet out of bed although the nature of their treats are a little and different Mr Trump's tweets are fairly political they're also controversial he likes to wrestle to television shows new shows sometimes the press know Mr Moti streets fairly staid by comparison when Modi 1st visited the us as prime minister in 2014 he had a massive rally in Madison Square Garden this visit seems to be a little bit quieter how come yeah I get a sense that the Indian side is keeping it low key and my sense is they could have gone in for a bigger show but obviously they didn't want to make a big sort of to do about it and then Mr Trump is fond of his own rallies and likes to boast big rallies those I don't think it. Like any of you know anybody else feeling under and besides this is also their 1st meeting and we were told repeatedly that or more by way of them getting to know each other so my sense is that Indians like to keep it low key what are the biggest issues right now between the u.s. And India if you're talking of issues where there is some potential for disagreement and conflict it would be the economy business trade particularly India's biggest strength is its manpower and really talk of trade in goods and services India may not have the goods but it has the services and services by re off exporting it's going to manpower and the us increasingly has barriers against it you're talking about the visas each one being pretty much there a couple of guest worker visas it's when you get something else called one which involves intercompany transfers so there are a bunch of guest worker bees and all of them have been subjected to tariffs in the sense that the processing fee for the pieces have been hiked to a great degree $4500.00 in some cases they're also slowing down the process and indeed sees that as a barrier the us sees the Indian economy as still being closed despite all the reforms and all the changes they like to complain that there are high tariffs so both sides have issues and that is probably the most significant difference between the 2 sides what do you think people India really want to come out of this visit I think they'd like to see a continuation off Toreador back a little bit us and your relations have progressed and improved dramatically over the last 20 years it's been gradual it's been significant We thought it had peaked with the Bush years but Obama carried it even further and so they'd like to see it continue to at least they would like to see it disrupt in this very close relationship which has gotten better over the last 20 yes good non-drug data is the Washington d.c. Correspondent for The Times of India. Thanks for speaking with us thank you for having me let's finish up this Monday with a look back at one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century October will mark the 100th birthday of jazz pianist and composer Philonous monk and now 35 years after his death there's a new album out that features some of his previously unreleased music it's a full transponder track to the 1960 French film Dangerous Liaisons Monk's biographer Robin Kelly says it was recorded at a key moment in Monk's life. The recordings themselves really represented monk sort of at the height of his powers on the one hand but also in the aftermath of a serious mental breakdown. Ido not defecting I was an odd time for monkeys on the one hand he was recognized as one of the really outstanding jazz pianists composers in at the same time the mental illness had become worse he only months before had been diagnosed with a called manic depression manic depressive so by the time he went to the studio to make this recording he had just began taking that acacia and so he was sort of in limbo in a sense famous but still struggling to make ends meet. But never the less when it's his studio recorded soundtrack and play some extraordinary music. Canonical was a song that he had written for his friend put on a card to const water whose home he was spending a lot of time in and where he actually saw the film. It's a a ballad kind of a temple beautiful song and it was used. Throughout the soundtrack and certain romantic moments 2. It is significant that the soundtrack is coming out in Monk's centennial year October 10th he turns $100.00 and Monk is making a comeback and I think that his music in this is a cliche but it's truth music is timeless something that's always and if it's of its time it's very very both dissonant but also deep in the level of musicality and melody you could hear Monk everywhere and I think there's a lot of interest in what Monk has to offer in terms. Not just to Coos to jazz but in terms of breaking with sensual rules of harmony you know he has always been off on guard he will continue to be oblong guard and he will continue to be the pianist that most young piano players will either study or find frustrating because music is very difficult and always find new ways to create their own sound . 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