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KQED BBC World News America September 14, 2017

Clear is month to me is there actually a deal or not ha thats a very good question apparently is the key word democrats were touting that they had an agreement. Basically that they would. Install these dacca protections for people came over his children undocumented the been living in the country a lot in the have. The normalized status in exchange for Border Security wrapped up Border Security. Donald trump in the morning tweeted out theyre educate. And that he brought up the wall again as you mentioned the the question is whether its going to tie that to these negotiations are not. If he tries to tie wall funding either in the package are afterwards then i think were gonna end up having democrats bailing on this and there will be no deal. Regardless of the details this is the second time hes trying to seek help from the democrats to think this is. An indication of a long term pivot towards the democrats. Well its been talk of trump pivots now for two years so its gonna be hard to say definitively yes this is a different strategy trump is pursuing. But now to is starting to be a trend. A week ago he struck a deal with with the democrats and the republicans who were in the room to. To have federal debt spending have a federal debt extension plus avoid a budget. Had all you had to budget disaster now were in. Talking about real policy and and actually solving an immigration problem that was a key part of Donald Trumps platform. When he was campaigning sell its a question of whether you can strike a deal but it does show a willingness to talk to democrats. Well anthony circa thank you very much indeed for joining me. And for more on how democrats on capitol hill are reacting to a potential deal my colleague michelle flurry spoke with congressman walking castro from texas for the Program Beyond one hundred days. Congressman thank you very much for joining us on the program. I would to stop asking about nan i want to talk about nancy pelosi did she says she trust trumps sincerity, when it comes to dreamers . I have not had a chance to meet with the president. If congress is able to reach an agreement that protects the 800,000 recipients in the United States, it would be the first time in generations that congress had passed anything having to do with immigration reform. And that would be ai win not only for those 800,000 for for the country. If it is tied to border restrictions, that would be all right with you because many in the base so they want bill. An cada daca we very much prefer clean bill, but the senate bill passed in 2017 head of security provisions in it. It depends exactly what theyre asking for and many of us in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Democratic Caucus have been clear that we are not going to trade futures of 800,000 young people for a wall across the United States of america. Thats simply not who the United States is. Yet, if you listen to donald trump today, when he got off the plane at florida one of the things he said is there is no deal without a wall. The president , atga 0 again, i said before on any controversial issue, you will get four or five different answers depending on who you talk to the white house and sometimes two or three of those will come from the president. So there will be a point here if the negotiations is serious on the part of the white house, where there will be something on paper in front of us that we will consider. You may ithen conflicting statements from the president from one day to the next. That is how he has been on every big issue so far. Thinkgiven that, do you it is worth the risk it sounds like you come to the table at least to negotiate . Well, i think that for the ,000 dreamers,800 we absolutely have to be willing to reach out to the other side and entertain the negotiations. Remember, democrats are not in the majority. We do not have a democratic president. So, because we are in the minority party, someone else is driving the bus. Weve got to at least sit down and listen to what they have to offer. Reporter i mean, do you think a given you be done, have got paul ryan coming out a short while ago say there is no deal . You have got the white house sending out mixed signals. It makes it very hard in this environment to get the trust going that is needed for negotiations. No, it certainly has. I remain hopeful because i want to be hopeful. I want to believe there is a way that this congress can make sure that these hardworking young folks are able to stay in this country and live and work here. So, all of us are going to keep pressing as hard as we can,. Pushing for a solution to this and that includes this negotiation, even though there may be mixed singles coming out of the white house. We cant control that part. The part we can control is making sure we negotiate in ernest and in earnest and do everything we can for these folks. Reporter coming to the table, thank you for joining us on the program. Jane as we mentioned, many communities are still struggling in the aftermath of hurricane irma. Of the more than 80 People Killed during the storm, 10 were in cuba. Still out in parts of the other. As will grant reports, there are a few other countries rushing in to help. Will days after irma struck cuba some are still clearing out the water. Th ferocious storm flooded of havanathes contaminating systems with seawater. Now house by house they must be emptied. One of the worst affected areas with central havana, a poor neighborhood directly next to the seawall. Today, the floodwaters have receded but a mark has been left in every sense. Local resident alexander took me around his damaged neighborhood. Savannahs waterfront is battered and broken, devoid of its usual hordes of tourists. Buildings and homes which were already precarious before irma, now in danger of complete collapse. Some are being demolished before they crumble. We have to help ourselves. Theres no help coming. Aid from the state takes time but we have to have faith and hope. Flooding may be gone from the streets but for many the aftermath is almost as bad. With thousands still without power or clean drinking water, the longer this crisis goes on,the more cuba may need some help of its own. From abroad. The cuban state is tackling the initial cleanup unaided and sending doctors to assist other parts of the caribbean. Dennis will has donated 10 times of emergency supplies. Venezuela has donated 10 times of emergency supplies. The rebuild will be long and costly for the common is run island. Alexander takes me to visit a neighbor whose home is underwater. Raul is trying to salvage what he can carry the floods washed away nearly everything, even the photos of his children. No help has come at all. None. I do not know if they are going to other houses first. I know there are lots of other people who are affected in this neighborhood. So, we have to wait to see if they come. Maybe tomorrow. Will as cubans dry out their homes and possessions, this is a final test of raul castros presidency. In past crises, the state has reacted quickly, but this time there is a sense that cuba has almost no one else to turn to and unlike other nations must rely entirely on themselves. Other news from around the world now. Suicide bombers and gunman have carried out attacks on a highway near the southern iraqi city, killing 60 people. One attacker detonated an explosive vest in a roadside restaurant. While his accomplice open fires and hauled grenades at people in by. A Police Checkpoint was targeted. A fire at an Islamic Boarding School in malaysia has killed 22 teenage boys and two staff. The blaze broke out in a door entry in the capital of kuala lumpur. Officials say the building had only one door and metal grills on the windows have prevented the victims from escaping. s Prime Minister is to announce further details of our vision britains future beyond the european union. In italy. Theresa mays visit on september 22 is likely to be seen as a bid to berak th break the deadlock in withdrawal negotiations. Russian submarines have fired a number of cruise missiles at socalled Islamic State targets in syria where the war has been raging for six years. Two years ago, russia entered the conflict on the side of president assad. Since then has Government Forces have been steadily regaining ground. Meanwhile, Kurdish Forces backed by american air power have been making gains against Islamic State in the north. Our correspondent Steve Rosenberg reports from the syrian city. The coast ofoff syria with the russian navy. This is the admireal s admiral essem. The russians will show us something they have never let foreign journalists film before. Combat alert. Sea, emerging from the cruise missiles from a russian summary. Submarine. The target is hundreds of miles awayir. The socalled Islamic State. Theres a second submarine and another large. Another launch. The fact that the russians invited foreign journalists here today shows how confident they are that the war in syria is going their way. The sobering submarines surface. We are told mission accomplished. Destroyede strike commandant munication post, depots and groups of militant southeast of this syrian town. This week, the russian army took us on a guided tour of syria, presenting its view of what is happening here. Its russian firepower that has kept president assad in power and that has caused criticism in the west. But today, moscow wants the world to see it as a peacemaker in syria, not a problem. Hommes, we were shown russian shoulders sol d diers handing out humanitarian aid. There was a crush and chaos. Many of the people had made their way here from it an area controlled by the syrian opposition. Russian were tradings removening syrians to mines, preparations for making postwar syria save. The russians believe it could take up to 10 years to rid this country of all the exposes planted h ere. Explosives planted here. Frontier, for now, the military continues in the air and at sea with moscow believes the conflict could soon end. But dont expect the russians to step away. In t his war of many global players, russia is key to deciding syrias future. Youre watching bbc world news america. So much for the from these guys. Flight attendants at aeroflots were told that size would determine pay. And more meant less. Dvd piracy and pakistan has been a multimillion dollar business. Most International Film distributors do not operate in the country so shops selling bootleg options are tolerated. As our correspondent found out, the piracy industry in the country seems to be dying out. Not because of a crackdown but because of the internet. Reporter dozens of pirateed dv ds are being packaged up for sale. It might be illegal but it is big business in pakistan, or at least it used to be. Dvd piracy is dying out. The Rainbow Center in karachi once called itself the biggest dvd market in asia. Shops were filled with pirated films. Now, t hough, most sell clothes or mobile phones. Hundreds of thousands of people used to be employed by this industry. It has been going on since the days of videocassettes. Now people stream films on the internet, no one comes here to buy them. Reporter until around 2005, there used to be whole factories in karachi making tens of millions of pirated copies each year to sell and export abroad. When the government decided to crack down on them, production moved to smaller shops like this one where they burned dveds and print their sleeves. Ay theyen here they s are only making hefty amount because there simply is not the demand anymore. Once closed, some of the businesses here have never reopened. The price of shops in the center has dropped massively. After decades of huge profit, the piracy industry in pakistan looks to be on its last legs. Jane it was an image makeover that went horribly wrong. Run Russians National character decided to link the pay of his Flight Attendants to their dress size, many people were outraged. One Flight Attendant decided to go to court and she won. Our moscow correspondent reports on how the ruling could be part of a bigger trend. Slim is at aeroflot, in. This is the look russias National Airline wants to present. D Flight Attendants paid to their dress size, it came unstuck. She spent seven years working at aeroflot. Last year she discovers she did not fit the new image or the new slimmer uniforms. You have to add this. It is my little secret. Reporter this is to make it bigger. Then she realized it was not just the uniform that had shrunk. It was her salary. I was in shock at first. It made no sense. How could they cut your pay because of your dress side . A document said the success of a stewardess depended on his size. Of course, that really offended me. Reporter this job was a childhood dream for her. But it has gone sour. Aeroflot denies discrimination but she says hundreds of william had their pay cut or were moved to lower pay flights, judged too old, too fat, or too ugly. Sexually equality is a principal soviet russia prided itself upon. It was celebrated with images of strong and independent women. Years later, russian women are once again battling discrimination. They are not only judged on the way they look, they are barred from 500 professions for being female. The ultimate trail blazer. In 1963, she was the first woman in space. But today, this woman is fighting for the right to captain a boat. She tells me she has spent years suing for discrimination. She was denied a job under a law that protects womens reproductive health. Whether they want children are not. The list of dangerous jobs includes driving truck centuries, or even carpentry and trucks and trains. I do not think it is the quality, it is a very patriarchal country. May be they name women to some state position but the list speaks for itself. Reporter she took aerflot to court. There its lawyers try to defend the pay cut saying every extra kilo cost more fuel. The judge ruled against them. And she notched up one victory in a much bigger battle for equal rights. Slowly getting to a place were perhaps size does not matter. Now to the world of tennis where Maria Sharapova said shes putting behind her the diping scandal that led to the doping scandal or g has her sights set on winning another gland slam. Grand slam. She speaks about it in her new memoir unstoppable. She sat down with laura trevelyan. Sharapova, what was it like playing in new york at the u. S. Open just a few weeks ago, back there in the limelight after your suspension . Fora i had been training quite some time and to be able to walk onto a court with thousands of people, the crowd, the emotions, the noise. And the feeling that i had walking into it was a feeling of warmth and welcome. And no, it just felt like that is a place that i belonged. Its been my stage for so long and have not felt that experience. To be in a grand slam after such a long time was very special. Laura lets talk about the suspension which you talk about in your book. Why did you stop taking maldonin, which was not a banned substance . Maria after my first grand slam at wimbledon, i was not very healthy. I went to see a childrens doctor back in russia that my father took me to. I was still a teenager. He ran some tests, did an ekg sunday had some abnormalities in my heart. That was one of the supplements he recommended i take. It was common in russia. It was completely legal for take for to take. And all truly became illegal for weeks ofst last year. This you say in the book, is an email from the International Tennis federation telling you that it is now banned. You didnt click on the attachments. Why not . They were really buried in hidden and those are not the types of attachments that any of the players open up. It was not noticeable at all. They didnt make an effort to show us that that was a very commonly used supplement in eastern europe. And that should of been flagged. The canadian player says that you are cheater and should not be allowed back in the sport. Maria i think those are comments not based on fact. Therefore, i do not take them into consideration. Laura lets talk about your path to world numbmer one number one. You came here h 6. 5, brought here by your father from russian speaking no english, turning up at the Tennis Academy of florida. What was that like for you . Maria difficult. Much more difficult for my father, but i was very young and i took up the language very fast and i was around kids that spoke english, that little children, they speak all the time. Laura can you win another grand slam . Maria i would love to. That is my goal. It is up there with a lot of other things i would like to accomplish. Ive been fortunate to win five majors but in my mind, i like to think i have not won in order to have that hunger and motivation, i still have a lot more to win. Jane Maria Sharapova talking to us there. To a mission that is coming to an end. Sini spacecraft is taking its final plunge taken the last pictures of the planet, including the rings. The journey has led to some extraordinary discoveries about the gas giant over the past 13 years, including images of liquid water shooting up through icy surfaces of the moon. Nasa is terminating cassini because it ran out of fuel. Tomorrow we wil on the special satellite. You can go to our website right now to see a gallery of the people who helped make the mission possible. Im jane obrien. Thank you very much for watching world news america. With the bbc news app, our videos are designed to work around your lifestyle, so you can swipe your way through the news of the day and stay up to date with the latest headlines you can trust. Download now from selected app stores. Funding of this presentation is made possible by the Freeman Foundation and kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. Planning a vacation escape that is relaxing, inviting, and exciting is a lot easier than you think. You can find it here, in aruba. Families, couples, and friends can all find their escape on the island with warm sunny days, cooling trade winds, and the crystal blue caribbe

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