Economic cooperation summit. His fleet of helicopters was turned back because of the weather. R. We will speak with professor Bruce Cumings just returned from seoul, south korea, where trump was met with protest. We do not want trump to visit south korea because he keeps on talking about war and the Korean Peninsula and putting pressure on commerce and forcing weapons trading. How can we welcome someone like this in south korea . Amy then at the United NationsClimate Summit in bonn, germany, there will be several delegations from the u. S. Although President Trump says he is pulling the u. S. Out of the climate e accord, the e Trump Administration will be thehere o push coal, gas, a Nuclear Power. A number of mayors and governors , sayiying wee in bonnm arare still l in. We are stillll in as governo, university presidedent from ngo, anand others that are committedo meeting americas obligations under the Paris Agreement. Amy we will speak with 350. Org founder Bill Mckibben about the future of the climate accord, the latest catastrophes, and we will talk to him about his new first novel, radio free vermont a fable of resistance. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war r and peace report. Im amy goodman. At least four women have accused roy moore, the republican nominee in alabama for a u. S. Senate seat, of making sexual advances on them while they were teenagers, including one woman who says moore forced himself on her when she was 14 years old and he was 32. Leigh corfman says moore removed her shirt and pants, and then touched her over her bra and underwear. She recalls thinking, i wanted it over with i wanted out. Please just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over. Roy moore is a former state Supreme Court justice who is currently running to fill Jeff Sessions senate seat. Some republicans are calling on moore to withdraw, but even if he does, other candidates will have to be written in during the december 12 special election. On thursday, Alabama State auditor jim zeigler attempted to defend moore, saying take joseph and mary. Mary was a teenager and joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of jesus. Theres just nothing immoral or illegal here. Maybe just a little bit unusual. Steven bannon, the head d of the far right wing media outlet breitbart news, has also defended roy moore by attacking the Washington Post [captioning made possible by democracy now ] bannon is trumps former chief strategist, and has been a major backer of roy moores senate race. Post thathington drop that im on donald trump is the same these, amazon, Washington Post that dropped the dime this afternoon on judge roy moore. Now is that a coincidence . Say is what i mean when i opposition party. A statement, Sarah Huckabee sanders said like most americans, the president believes we cannot allow and your allegation to destroy a persons life. Presidident trump himselelf hasn accused of Sexual Assault and harassment by multiple women. During the 2016 election coming in lives and thread to sue them, although he has not sued them. One woman has in turn sued trump for libel for calling her a liar. Roy moore is famous for having been twice ousted as alabamas chief justice. In 2003 for refusing to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the alabama judicial building. After being reelected, he was again ousted in 2016, for ordering his judges to defy the u. S. Supreme courts ruling legalizing marriage equality. Moore is also well known for his racist, islamophobic and homophobic positions. In 2005, he said homosexuality should be illegal, like bestiality. Meanwhile, other allegations continue to rock state politics and hollywood. Multiple women have accused Minnesota State senator of Sexual Harassment. The women say schoen groped and touched them without their consent, and that he sent at least one woman a photo of male genitalia over snapchat. Several lawmakers and Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton are calling on schoen to resign. This comes after kentucky state congressman jeff hoover has resigned as kentuckys house speaker, after it surfaced that hed settled a sex harassment claim with one of his female staff members. He is refusing to give up his seat altogether, despite escalating pressure. Five women have come forward to accuse powerful Comedian Louis ck of Sexual Harassment and misconduct, including masturbating in front of them. The revelations, first reported by the New York Times, come after years of speculation and rumors about louis ck using his power in the comedy world to repeatedly sexually harass fellow female comedians. The premiere of louis cks movie i love you, daddy, was quickly ahead of thesday articles publication in the New York Times. Hollywood in emmyawardwinning writer kate ,r gordon has accused matthew weiner, the creator of the hit tv show mad men, of Sexual Harassment. Gordon says weiner says the two were working together on mad men when he told me that i owed it to him to let him see me naked. Gordon was let go of the show a year later. And film director ridley scott is in the process of editing Actor Kevin Spacey out of the nearly finished movie all the money in the world, after more than a dozen men accused kevin spacey of Sexual Harassment and assault. Kevin spaceys scenes are currently being refilmed d wita new actor, christopher plummer. In bonn, germany, a coalition of u. S. Cities, companies, universities, and faith groups have opened a 2500squaremeter pavilion outside the u. N. Climate conference called we are still in, an effort to persuade other countries that wide swathes of f the united ststates are still committed to the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Accord. This is alden meyer of the union of concerned scientists. A we are still in as coalition of mayors, governors, business leaders, university presidenents, ngos, and others that are committed to meeting americas obligations under the Paris Agreement. The public opinionon polls shown overwhelelming majority of americanss support harris. They want the u. S. To provide leadership. They dont support what President Trump did. Even a majority of trumps voters support more clean energy, solar energy, clean cars. They like the solutions to Climate Change. In the wake of the recent extreme weatather events inin Hurricane Irma andnd jose andnd maria, there is increaeasing recognition t the cost of not doing something on Climate Change could be quite astronomical. Amy this comes as officials in puerto rico have acknowledged that nearly 500 more people died this september, compared to september of last year. The data further casts doubt on the authorities claims that Hurricane Maria killed only 55 people. Meanwhile, puerto ricos capital san juan and other northern cities in pupuerto rico were plunged d back into o darknesssn thursday after a main power line failed. The power line that failed was originally repaired byby the tiy montanabased compmpany whitefih energy, whose 300 million contractct was canceled amidid contntroversy over whitefifishs ties to interior secretary ryan zinke. Democracy now is headed to bonn, germany. Tune into our coverage on the next week when we broadcast from the u. N. Climate summit. U. S. Officials say the pentagon is planning to send hundreds more u. S. Soldiers to afghanistan in early 2018, boosting the number of u. S. Troops in the country to about 16,000 soldiers. This comes the United Nations says a u. S. Airstrike in the Northern City of kunduz killed at least 10 civilians last week. The u. N. Findings contradict a u. S. Military investigation, which claims no civilians were killed in the november for airstrike. Local Officials Say up to 55 civilians may have been killed. U. S. Airstrikes in afghanistan have increased dramatically under President Trump. The syrian army has declared victory over isis militants, after it says it seized control of abu kamal, the final isiscontrolled city inside syria. Meanwhile, the United Nations is warning of a humanitarian crisis in eastern ghouta, which i is besieged by the syrian a army. U. N. Humanitarian adviser jan egeland says 400,000 civilians are in acute need of aid, whichh has been blocked by the assad government. This epicenter of suffering has 400,000 civilians, men, women, and children, in a dozen besieged towns and villages. I feel as if we are now returning to some of the bleakest days of this conflict again. At least, the fears are that we are now returning with civilians and crossfire in too many provinces at the same time. Amy in news from washington, d. C. , Senate Republicans have unveiled their plan for overhauling the tax code, as republican lawmakers scramble to push through trumps proposed tax plan. The Senate Version proposing this is different from the house versioion in several ways, including proposing to delay t e dramatic cutto t the corporatete tax rate by a year. President trump has made the tax overhaul a top legislative priority. His plan would shower billions of dollars in tax cuts upon the wealthiest americans, including president trtrumps family a and members ofof his administration. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether former White House National security adviser mike flynn plotted to kikidnap turkish cleric fethullh gulen, who lives in pennsylvania, and forcibly return him to turkey foror 15 million. The turkish government views gulen as a political enemy, and has accused him of plotting the failed military coup last summer. The Investigation Centers on a december meeting between flynn and representatatives s of the turkish government, including turkish president recep Tayyip Erdogans soninlaw and turkeys foreign minister. Flynn was working as a Foreign Agent for the turkish government last fall, even as he served as a top adviser to Donald Trumps campaign and failed to disclose his lobbying efforts as required by law. Flynn, areson, mike being investigated. President trumps former bodyguard and longtime confidant keith schililler reportedly testifified to the House Intelligence Committee that he rejected an offer by russia to send women to Donald Trumps hotel room during a 2013 visit to moscow for the miss univererse pageant. The questions came in response to a dossier about trump compiled by former british spy Christopher Steele during the 2016 election. As the dossier detailed links between trumpps campaign andnd russssia, and d alleged that rua had damaging sexual information about then candidate trump. New reports have surfaced showing how white house chief of staff john kelly tried to unsuccessfully pressure the acting department of Homeland Security secretary elaine duke to cancel the special immigration status of more than 50,000 hondurans living in the United States. The Washington Post reports kelly called duke and tried to convince her to cancel the honduran tps. Duke refused, although she did announce the cancellation of the temporary protected status for 2500 nicararaguans. Anand in boston, masassachusett, residedents are demanding immigration authorities release activist siham byah, who is facicing deportation to morocco. Byah is the mother of an eightyearold boy, who is a u. S. Citizen. Hundreds of people rallied earlier this week outside the Federal Building in boston to demand her freedom, saying byah is being targeted for her political activism. She has now launched a hunger strike. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President donald t trump is in vietnam to attend the asiapacific economimic cooperation summit and discuss trade with leaders from 21 member countries. The visit is part of his fivenation tour in asia. Hours after leaving china, trump took the stage of the apec summit and gave an address that criticized chinas lack of a balanced trade relationship with the United States and condemned the multilateral accords pursued by past president s. Pres. Trump for many years, the United States systematically openeded our econonomy with feww conditioions. We lowered or ended tariffs, reduced trade barriers, and allowed foreign goods to flow freely into our country. Marketle w we lowered barriers, other countries did not open their markets to us. Funny. They must have been one of the beneficiaries. Simply put, we have not been treated fairly by the world trade organization. Organizations like the wto can only function properly when all members followed the rules and respect the sovereign rights of every member. We cannot achieieve open markets if we do not insure fair market access. I do not blame china or any other country of which there are many. For taking advantage of the United States on trade. If their representatives are able to get t away with it, they are just doing their jobs. Administrations in my country saw what was happening and did something about it. Amy immediately after President Trump made his address, chinese president xi jinping took the stage to deliver a starkly contrasting speech that called for more global trade agreements. The chinese leader also said he supports the pararis climate accord. We have seen a a profound change and economic globalization n over the last fw decades. Hasomic globalilization contributed significantly to global growth. Indeed, it has become an irreversible, historical trend. In the face of deep changes in the global economy, does the Asia Pacific Region of the bravery to face the wave of reform or do we hesitate . Should we still economic globalization or should we dither in the face of challenges . Should we jointly advance Regional Cooperation or should we go our separate ways . Amy shortly before trump landed summitnam where the apex is taking place, the white house announced he will not have a formal meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin, who is also in town to attend the apec summit. U. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson said thursday that a meeting between the two leaders would depend on if they had sufficient substance to talk about. White House Press SecretarySarah Huckabee sanders said the leaders may meet at an upcoming regional conference in the philippines. She also said they might have an informal meeting in da nang. This comes as trump said thursday after meetings with chinas president that he would like russias help in getting north korea to give up its Nuclear Weapons. Trump spent much of his s trip n asia focused on north korea. He told leaders of south koreas government on wednesday that the unitited states stands ready to attack north korea over its Nuclear Weapons program. While in korea, trump the tentative visit the demilitarized zone, but his fleet of helicopters that included the press was turned back because of bad weather. Trumps first stop on his asia trip took him to japan where he said japan could shoot north korean missiles out of the sky with military equipment bought from the u. S. Ipans Prime Minister abe said they could intercept missiles if necessary and said pres pushingg into the deal. Billions of dollars of weapons on japan. For more, were joined in chicago by Bruce Cumings, professor of history at the university of chicago. He just returned from seoul, south korea, last evening. He is the author of several books on korea, including koreas place in the sun a modern history and north korea another country. Welcome back to democracy now can you talk about how President Trump was met in south korea, where you also were . Well, President Trump was given the red carpet treatment by the government, just as he was in japan and china. But there were large protests right outside the american embassy, which is in downtown seoul. There were maybe over 1000 protesters. Sayingy against trump, particularly, no war. I was really struck by the violence of emotion on that particular issue. Koreans are under the threat