Action summit, but the Worlds LargestGreenhouse Gas emitters make few new commitments to address the climate crisis. President trump attended the summit for just 14 minutes. We speak to the prizewinning writer Tanehisi Coates about slavery, the power of memory, and reparations. His first novel is out today. The water dancer is the story of hiram maker, enslaved after nemec and the son of a slave master and the child of a woman whoho that slave master intern sold out. In 1861laved people wanted freedom. Amy Tanehisi Coates on the water dancer. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. N. Climate action summit kicked off in new york monday with World Leaders calling for action to prevent apocalyptic Climate Change. U. N. Secretary general Antonio Guterres said his generation had failed in its responsibility to protect our planet. 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg fought off tears as she gave an impassioned address. Plus you have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet i am one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. Eople are dying enter ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is the money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you amy President Trump later mocked the now worldrenowned activist on twitter, writing she seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see meanwhile, youth climate activists filed an official complaint under the convention on the rights of the child, calling on World Leaders to protect future generations from climate catastrophe. Well have more on the historic action and what took place at the summit after headlines. President trump made a brief and unexpected stop at the u. N. Climate summit before moving to a u. N. Session on religious freedom or he committed 25 million to protect religious freedoms, religious sites, and relics. Alex azar urged World Leaders at the u. N. General assembly to cut healthm reproductive and rights when speaking about health care. He said these ambiguous terms can help promote practices like abortion. Googler the Washington Post is reporting President Trump ordered a hold on 400 million in military aid to ukraine about one week before he spoke to ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and pressured him to investigate joe bidens son and his business interests in ukraine this according to three Top Administration officials. Trump has acknowledged discussing joe biden and his son hunter with the ukrainian president but insists there was no quid pro quo. Connecticut senator chris murphy said to linsky told him he believed the aid was cut out because refused to launch such an investigation. Senator murphy said there is an implicit threat and every demand that United States president makes of a foreign power. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reportedly consulting with democratic lawmakers on whether to impeach trump over the mounting scandal. The British Supreme Court ruled that Prime MinisterBoris Johnsons suspension of parliament is unlawful. Brenda hale, head of the supreme court, said it was not justified and has no effect. Its not yet known what action boris johnson, who is in new york for the u. N. General assembly, will take in response to the historic ruling. Britain, france, and germany saidid in a joint statement mony iran was responsible for attacks on Saudi Oil Facilities earlier this month. Last week,k, saudi arabia alsoso said the a attacks were unquestionably s sponsored by iran. Iranan has denied theyerere responsible for the attacks, which have been claimed by Yemens Houthi rebels. Iranian president hassan trump is expected to address iran during his statement at the u. N. Today. Iranian president hassan rouhani, who has rejecected the possibility of talks with the u. S. , is set to speak wednesday. On monday, democracy now spoke with iraqi president barham salih at the u. N. About the escalating tensions in the region. Quick question about the possibility of saudi arabia and war with iran and u. S. . We hope to avert a war. The last thing the region needs is another war. Amy in afghanistan, at least 40 civilians were killed by u. S. And Afghan Forces as they attended a wedding sunday evening. The civilians are believed to have been cacaught in ee crossfire of a raid onon a talan hidedeout. At least 22 memembers of the taliliban were alslso killed an4 were arrested in the operation, according to the afghahan minisy of defense. The attack came after the u. S. Killed at least 30 farmers in a drone attack in eastern afghanistan last week and as the country prepares for president ial elections on satuturday. In h haiti, an Associated Press photojournalist was shot in the face when a senator opened fire on a crowd of protesters outside of parliament monday. Chery dieunalio was wounded but survived the shooting. A Security Guard was also injured. Haitian senator Jean Marie Ralph fethiere later claimed he drew the gun in selfdefense. The protests came as the government of president Jovenel Moise was attempting to push through the confirmation of a new Prime Minister, fritzwilliam michel. Antigovernment protests have rocked haiti for months, calling on the president to step down over accusations of corruption and mismanagement of the hades economy. In china, drone footage posted on youtube appears to show police leaeading hundrededs of blindfdfolded and shshackled uir or other minority prprisoners a train station in xinjiang. The didisturbing vidideo shows blindfdfolded men with shaved heads sitting in r rows on the ground before being led away by police. China has been accused of cultural genocide against the uighur population. Over 1 million ethnic uighurs and other muslim minorities are believed to be imprisoned in internment camps, and countless children separated from their families. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and rival candidate benny gantz are in negotiations over a proposed powersharing deal. President Reuven Rivlin pushed for a unity government in talks with involved parties after neither Leaders Party was able to secure a victory in last weeks elections. Negotiations are now focused on who will lead government first, according to farright former defense miminister avigdor lieberman. Benny gantz had previously rejected a unity government wiwh netanyahu, who is facing indictments over three corruption cases. Back in the u. S. , the fbi arrested in active duty soldier who suspected of sharing online instructions on how to build bombs and discussed killing antifascist activists as well as bombing a news network, reportedly cnn. 24yearold Jarrett William smith also named president ial candidate beto orourke as a possible target. Smith also posted online about wanting to fight for a farright group in ukraine, according to prosecutors. He c could face up to 2020 yearn prison if convicted. Investigators say the federal aviatition administration mimisd congress about safety inspections for boeing 737 max aircraft. Safety inspectors charged with training requirements for 737 pilots were underqualified, according to the investigation, which arose from a whistleblower complaint. Two boeing 737 Max Airplanes from indonesias lion air flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed five months apart, killing all 346 people on board. On monday, boeing announced it will begin paying out 50 million in Financial Assistance to the families of the victims of the two crashes. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Scores of World Leaders gathered in new york on monday for the u. N. Climate action summit but the Worlds LargestGreenhouse Gas emitters announced few new measures to address the climate crisis. President trump briefly attended the summit but left after just 14 minutes. Near the beginning of the summit 16yearold swedish climate , activist Greta Thunberg gave an impasassioned address to word leaders. This is all wrong i should not be up here. I should be back in school on the others of the ocean. To us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams in my childhood with your empty words. And yet i am one of the young lucky ones. People are sufferiring. People are dying. Inter ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you [applause] for more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look saying youme here are doing enough when the politics and solutions are still nowhere in sight. You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry i am, i do not to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. Anand that i refuse to believe. [applause] the popular idea of cutting our emissions in half andnd 10 years only gives us a 50 chance of staying below 1. 5 degrees and the risk of setting off a Chain Reactions beyond human control. You, may be acceptable to but those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, warnings hidden by climate justice. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your co2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. So a 50 risk is simply not acceptable to us when you have to live with the consequences. Chance of staying below a 1. 5 degrees global temperature rise, the best odds given by the ipcc, the world had 420 gigatons of co2 left to emit back on january 1, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons. How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just t busins as usual and some technical solutions. ,ith todays emissions levels that remaining co2 budget will be entirely gone within less than 8. 5 years. There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us. But the young people are starting t to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, i say we will never forgive you. [applause] we will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. Andworld is waking up change is coming whether you like it or not. Thank you. [applause] amy 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaking at the United Nations on monday. Greta was later seen glaring at President Trump as he passed near her inside the United Nations. Meanwhile, Greta Thunberg and 15 other children from around the world filed a complaint monday with the United Nations, accusing five major countries of violating the convention on the rights of the child by failing to protect children from the devastating impacts of climate crisis. Greta anand the other petitiones spoke at the unicef headquarters. My name is alexandria. I am 14 years old. I am from new york. I am here because 30 years ago, the world signed a contract bebetween generatioions that t e present worlrld uldd leave a world woworth inhnheriting g te future. And today i want to tell the world, you are defaulting on that conontract and we are hereo collect. [applause] hi, my name is carl smith. I am fromm alaska. I am 17 years old. I am here because climatete changes affecting the way i live. It hasas taken away my home, the land, and the animals. [speaking foreign language] i am 17 years olold. I am from the e marshall island. I am here because Climate Change is destroying my islands through sealevel rise and storms. [speaking foreign language] morning. I amam 17 years old and i am frm argentina. I am here today because i have things to say and im here today on behalf of my peoplele. Argentina suffering from the climate crisis. Side weto decide which are on and we need to do it now. [speaking foreign language] hello, my name is david. Im 16 years old and im from the marshall islands. Im here today because my islands are drowning and i am here to stop it. [speaking foreign language] hello, i am 12 years old and im from b brazil. I i am here to demand all the World Leaders to listen to us and d to help us stop Climate Change together. Government dumbs sewage in the river which goes to the ocean in which we cannot go swim or sururf because we wil get sick. I am saying this because this is the right thing to say and this is the truth. In this is our life that is being harmed and our future. My name is carl. Im 17. I am here because i want my voice to be heard. I want bigger countries to know that small island nations are the most Vulnerable Countries to be affected by Climate Change. Our homes are slowly being swallowed up by ocean. To have fune used and enjoy. It is sad to say but those places are slowly disappearing. I am standing in front of you because i care about mymy generation. I care about my future generation. I want a better life for us, better future. In the most important thing, i want a better planet for us to live in. Thank you. [speaking foreign language] good morning, evereryone. I am 15 years old from hamburg, germany. I am here today because the climate chahaes not jusust affecting all of us, it is affecting every Single Person in this room and every single human being g on our planet. I want you t to take your responsibility and make decisions today you can still be proud of in 11 years. Thank you. [speaking foreign language] i am from the marshall islands. I am here because i am goingng o speak on behalf of my people because we are on ththfront lines of the climate crisis. And i am here to stop that. [ [speaking f foreign langua] hello, everyone. I amam1 yearss old and i am from india. I am here because i want all of the global leadersrs to do something g to stop climate chae becaususe it is not going to be stopped, it is going to harm our future. If we want to stop mobile warming, we have to do something now. Cook for locum everyone. First of all, i would like to introduce this s little sweet girl. From the community of sweden. She is eight years old and she is here today because she loves reindeer and she wants to take care of it when she gets old. People in heris country are suffering from the food reindeer in her country are susuffering from the food shortageges. Thatat is why she is here today. [speaking foreign language]e] hello, everyone. I am fromarars old and tunisia. I came here today to tell you i want my voice t to be heard by y country, which is one of the most countries that are suffering from Climate Change. And i want to tell you that Climate Change is definitely coming. We must prepare for confrontation. Thank yoyou. Hi. I am 12 and i am from nigeria. Im here to make an impact to represent my country. [speaking foreign language] hi, im 16 and i am from france. I am here because Climate Change is affecting my country econonomically, but alsoso affeg me personally. [speaking foreign language] my name is Greta Thunberg. I amam 16 years old and i am dog this because World Leaders a are faing to protetect the rights of the child by continuing to ignore the climate and ecological crisis. Amy Greta Thunberg and other young people speaking at unicef headquarters about their new complaint filed with the night a Nations Committee on the rights of the child. In other news from the u. N. Indigenousmber of came to new york to protest the policies of brazils far right president Jair Bolsonaro push to open up the amazon for agribusiness, logging and mining. Chief Raoni Metuktire talked about the situation in the amazon including the recentt fires. Today there are many things happening in brazil. In the previous government, it was not so bad. Is the bolsonaro government authorizing deforestatn. He is authorizing the entrance of wildcat miners and loggers and Mining Companies into indigenous territories. This is bad because it will destroy everything. It will destroy the forest, the amazon. It will be bad for us in the future. This is what i defend. I dont offend standing burgeon forcrce just for me. No, im thinking of the future, our grandchildren and g