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VOA [Voice of America] Global English-20200205-150000

This is the way news I'm Gene Randall Chinese health officials say the number of Corona virus deaths nationwide is approaching 500 and that new cases of risen to nearly 25000 Meanwhile a luxury Japanese cruise ship with some 3700 people aboard has been quarantined in the port of Yokohama after suspected virus victims were evacuated Here's Michelle Hennessey of Reuters healthy passengers and now in quarantine on the ship and will have to stay on it for 14 days news of the outbreak is spreading fast across the world at its epicenter in Ruhani local media have said buildings like an exhibition center and a gym being transformed into makeshift hospitals it comes as the death toll is $525000.00 people have been infected That was Michelle Hennessey of Reuters another cruise ship lies off Hong Kong all on board are scheduled to be screened but Chinese Embassy in Canberra has criticised Australia's coronavirus travel ban for foreigners from mainland China for at least the next 2 weeks film or so reports for v.o.a. From Sydney more than $100000.00 Chinese students won't be able to start their university in college courses in Australia because of the travel ban put in place to try to stop the spread of the corona virus they'll miss the opening weeks of classes for this semester and will have to study online bank home in states the restrictions or about 70 Chinese students detained at Australian airports at the weekends and their visas cancelled Chinese diplomats say travelers weren't given enough warning of the ban with many already in the air when the ban came into effect on February 1 film Assefa v.o.a. News Sydney More news at v.o.a. News dot com There is also for your listening convenience an easy to use mobile app from Washington this is v.o.a. News with a rapid spread of the Chinese coronavirus comes the worry of how it can be stopped the Charles although doesn't has that report. Halting the spread of a new virus that has killed hundreds in China is difficult in part because important details about the illness and how it spreads still unknown China ocus trade histories largest antiviral campaign by blocking 50000000 people from leaving will hot on nearby cities where the outbreak has been concentrated some places are discouraging people from even leaving their apartments and businesses and offices of closed indefinitely foreign governments have rushed to get the citizens as a China also restricting visit this from the country and country's efforts to hold people in quarantine to stop a possible pandemic of not always been smooth and shells to live as u.s. President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress last night there was a hard edge to the atmosphere key players the president and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Here's a pic correspondent Saddam a goner. President and Speaker had not talked in months after a blow up during an October meeting here at the White House the joint session well timed to water they were not quadrille last night either the president did not shake the low seas outstretched hand before the speech mediately after he spoke Palosi Torah per copy later saying the speech was a manifesto of mistruths vice president heads tells Fox and Friends he doesn't know if Palosi was ripping up the speech or the Constitution the Trump campaign says Palosi might as well rip up by the plans for attracting it depended voters' Saager Megali at the White House the un says hundreds of thousands of civilians in the northwestern Syrian province of it Liber facing a humanitarian emergency and aren't desperate need of lifesaving assistance research line reports from v.o.a. From Geneva relentless bombing by Syria and its Russian ally is forcing tens of thousands of people to flee in search of refuge but there are no safe zones countries bordering Syria have repeatedly closed their borders forcing people caught up in the violence to keep moving in this area where no open escape routes exist over the past 2 months spokesman for the un office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Says more than half a 1000000 people most of them women and children have been displaced from their homes he says many flee with nothing more than the clothes on their backs he says line for b o news Geneva the major story of this day here in Washington the Senate's expected vote to acquit President Donald Trump on 2 articles of impeachment against him Gene Randall v.o.a. News. This is border crossing radio's number one works last hour and now your host Larry London hello there welcome the border crossings have the Voice of America it's your request program and we've got your requests coming up here on The Voice of America thank you for joining us start off with a request for a Bollywood dash bungler Radio 95.2 f.m. Who are listening to us right now and this is for our she. And this song is by night Cor and it's called Little do you know right here on border crossings so. If. Crossing the. Night course. From Norway and it's Thomas Nelson and Stephan Sutter Home and beautiful song called Little do you know a request from. Who's listening to border crossings today and a Happy Day to you thanks for joining us on The Voice of America I'm Larry London we've got a lot of requests to play for you in the next hour or so and I'm happy you're tuned in today thank you you can go to Instagram and send us a message Instagram we are located add border crossings v.o.a. And on Twitter it's hashtag b.c. V.o.a. And if you happen to be on Facebook you'll find us at facebook dot com That's our Facebook page and Hanna is with us right now Diego's if Karuna com to Paul I heard from a while Oh and Abdulla dear to Wally who all checked in on our for. Page so far lots of people go on to Facebook you can also phone. Who's answering the calls right now taking requests at 200-261-2007 extension 7 dollars up and let us know what we can play for you coming up with a request from a law who is a fan. Malik who no longer uses his last name started off with one direction on the t.v. Show the popular x. Factor in the u.k. With Simon Collis the judge but apparently had issues he had some anxiety issues back when they were doing the auditions he didn't want to dance he didn't you know he was contemplating leaving the group and ultimately he ended up being the 1st member of One Direction to leave the band even after they'd had all the number one songs and all the millions in sales here is this what's called pillow talk for not listening to border crossings. Feel in one ear Larry London a shot here border crossing in which tensions hit. Their Facebook Yama they should get their Facebook dot com slash real Larry London. Border crossings there's a request from Ahmed how he'd know who is listening from Bangor Radio 95.2 in Bangladesh it's Henderson with hard work from her debut album in 2014 called Chapter one The album did well in the u.k. Where she's a famous singer from the x. Factor t.v. Show she was expected to win in 2014 but she came in 6th but that hasn't slowed her down she's had a couple of albums out and some big hits like Ghost and glow and mirror man and that song is a lesser known song from Ella Henderson and Ahmed how he'd asked us to play that song and that's what we do we play songs on border crossings I thank you for listening to the show and for making that request and I want to remind all of our friends in Bangladesh if you hear your requests played on the program you will get a v.o.a. One t. Shirt and that is for the listeners in Bangladesh where the program is heard every Friday night this is border crossings on Larry London e from are always with us Vincent checked inside to Muhammad Ali Jacob Maestro Titus I heard from Clifford Lima and Lily dollar Wit thank you for all making requests on facebook dot com slash v.o.a. Larry London that is my Facebook page we're happy to have you there. Just checked in as well. As in Guyana listening to a border crossings today are coming up next we have a song request for Charlie and a song he wrote it features Wiz Khalifa and this is a big hit it's a 4 nice shod conduct her who is listening and I just read where Wiz Khalifa is going to be headlining the red rock sample Theater Festival this April April 16th which is in Colorado and not only Wiz Khalifa but the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be there Stevie Nicks Dave Matthews. Whose and Snoop Dog are all performing to be a big festival so well shod here is your request and this is called See you again. 'd it's. Not soon my friend. We've come a long way. From where we view. The place. We've been. Right here talking. About the place I go with nothing. But me to the point at. Which such good things to proceed to the future go where they are. Not when the better place where. We. Would stand there must. Be. Soon my friend. And. When. We've come a long way. From where we. Started. 1st Well. We've come. From. Alan. Crossings and it's pure love from Rush Rush who is from Iran and that is a request for Ek Ellie us from Bangalore Radio $95.00 f.m. I do want to say hello to car fi Dolly in Hargeisa and Ishmael Kargbo from Monrovia b. John Adams is in India thank you all for joining border crossing so happy to have you tuned in to our show and thank you for listening to the music making requests and I want everybody in Bangladesh to understand that we are heard Friday night but we taped the show on Wednesday so when people are asking Friday nights to hear songs on the show as you're listening to us we are prerecorded we are not live so you'll just have to wait till the next week to get your request played but thank you so much for listening to border crossings. Radio 95.2 f.m. As we continue to play all your song requests and dedications and I don't know if you've had a chance to check out Facebook dot com slash v.o.a. Larry London yet I put all kinds of interesting things up there and I recently posted the Grammy cd we're giving away the Grammy compilation cd with all the biggest names at the Grammys last weekend and you can win one of those all throughout the month of February but I also put up a carpool karaoke segment that features Megan trainer riding in the car with James Corden who is a late night t.v. Talk show host and he always does this segment where he's got some famous singer in the car and they drive around and sing songs and Megan just revealed that she suffered from panic attacks and she's got a panic disorder. She said that you know when she had her throat surgery twice not once but twice and nearly lost her voice she said obviously that that was a high anxiety time very stressful and anybody I think who's a singer and risks losing their. Moneymaker their voice would definitely be suffering from some stress but she checked in the hospital a couple of times to deal with that so he was sure a speedy recovery it's Facebook dot com slash v.o.a. Larry London you can check her out in the video that I posted on our Facebook page Ari coming up next here is a request from Sarah. And Sarah Raman is from Bangladesh this one is Alan Walker who's a very popular d.j. Producer and this is called faded You're listening to border crossings. Crossings Isn't it beautiful I've never heard that one before Thank you honey me on Parvati's from Bangladesh for requesting change Welker's and Jane with I can fly and hope you enjoyed that song lovely song I Can Fly I like that one all right to thank everybody in Bangladesh for listening and I also want to thank those who are tuned in here in the United States I just got a message from Ellen Ellen and Rob are on a trip in Florida right now they're on the road with the whole bunch of other folks and they are headed for some good news I'm sure so thank you Ellen and Rob for listening to our border crossings here on this wonderful day let's. Be positive keep positive thoughts my name is Larry London and coming up next Selena Gomez from her latest album rare and she just announced that she's going to be starting a beauty cosmetic line and she's going to incorporate the name rare from the new album it's going to be called rare beauty and she's teaming up with a for a with who were famous cosmetic company this is for s. Are on in Dhaka and it's lose you to love me beautiful song Selena Gomez on border crossings. Syrus. Oh I. . Border crossings and those guys from Montreal they're known as Chromeo the request is for Peter Talbot who is in the Madagascar Peace Corps and he's one of the by. And tears who are spreading the good cheer and good health and taken care of people in Madagascar thank you of Peter Talbot for listening to border crossings Chromeo night by night your request and Chromeo from Canada the 2 guys in the band David Mack live it and Patrick. Started together when they were 15 and they actually went on to win the disco mix club championship and they became the world champions in 1907 put out their 1st actual album in 2002 they've had 5 albums since then they're still putting out music to this day still doing their dance music synth pop thing and they jokingly refer to themselves as the only successful Arab Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture. And those 2 guys called themselves Chromeo thank you very much Peter for your request here on border crossings I'm Larry London don't forget we're going to be giving away the Grammy nominees compilation cd before the end of the hour which leaves us about 14 more minutes that's coming your way so hang around all throughout February you have a chance to win this Grammy compilation cd it's loaded with all of the biggest names from the Grammys from the last year so make sure you're tuned in and don't miss your opportunity to win told drove to request of this song for everybody in Ethiopia Tupac and changes here on border crossings also how to Holden challah with his friends in b. New town and fix solution in Sierra Leone. When right so what's. The right one it's a nice song it's a. Real some of. The things we. Read. Some nights out clubbing stuff. Sunday nights out. It can sum up some mistakes just followed by so. Border crossings and the band is called fun and they're having fun with the song some nights the title track to their 2nd album in 2012 Livingstone will request of that song the title track hope you enjoyed that they won 2 Grammys for a song they had before that song the biggest hit from their collection is we are young then in 2015 Nate Ruess the lead singer said we're going to take a break he released a solo album and we haven't heard from him since I want to say a lot of quest Sierra guar and lemon Abdul Teresa who is a long time listener and he's at work right now he's a utility is engineer at s l b l Sierra Leone brewery and so he's listening to me and and thank you for tuning in on tune in this is border crossings we've got time for one more song Beautiful It's a beautiful people song this is Ed Sheeran and Kalita for Diego 0 of. Listen . Everybody's. Trying to. Keep. Saying this is. It's. Due to. The. Border crossings colleague who just said he's going to be putting out a new album new music coming up and Ed Sheeran who has given up smoking and taking up jogging and lost some weight and that's called Beautiful people this is border crossings before I go I have a Grammy compilation cd giveaway to take care of and today our lucky listener of the day is Ron. Paul. Listens to us on his a shortwave radio so thank you Rajat for joining border crossings every day and we'll be sending out that Grammy cd to you Interpol we appreciate your support Hey before I go I want to thank the crew thank you too was our engineer extraordinary job is doing a great job over there and I also think Vince our director and a board our producer My name is Larry London will see it tomorrow with a special program make sure to tune in tomorrow for some great music which you'll enjoy tomorrow starting at 1500 universal My name is. Larry London this is border crossings on the global English network.

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VOA [Voice of America] Global English-20191223-090000

Report and said we would never allow prison labor in our supply chain in an interview with Sky News Isabelle Hilton with the Institute for Human Rights and business says it's compulsory for prisoners to work in China but they are not meant to get involved in the export supply chain this isn't the 1st case of Christmas cards or simply. A few years back and similar to being found in everything from handbags to retail clothing all kinds of things Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has struck a defiant tone seeing the Nord Stream to enter extreme gas pipeline projects will be launched despite u.s. Sanctions quoted by the Interfax News Agency last says Russia plans to respond to the new measures. Queen Elizabeth the 2nd attended church near the rural retreat as are husband Prince Philip spent the 2nd night in a London hospital a pizzeria Shaklee reports officials have not provided an update on the 98 year old Prince's condition following at the announcement on Friday his being admitted to hospital as a precautionary measure due to preexisting condition it's not clear if it will be released in time to join the rest of the royal family for Christmas at sundry the Queen's country state in Norfolk. The queen has not holiday with team and went to church on Sunday and joined by his son Prince Edward said. Then the Boeing storyline or mission didn't go the way it was planned but the young man capsule did make it back safely to Earth after an aborted flight to the International Space Station NASA administrator Jim Bryden Steen says despite the store liners failure to reach the International Space Station a lot went well on the test flight some of the hardest parts of this mission have now been proven to be very very capable and so that's that's all that's all positive when you look at the landing it was an absolute bull's eye better than I think anybody anticipated but that failure did mean the crew members of the International Space Station didn't get their Christmas present fact Boeing's Jim Clinton acknowledged I'd like to express Boeing's regrets to the I have such crew to whom we did not bring a Christmas present. And from Washington I'm Jim Berto would feel way news. Feeling. You call me. That is fine. I guess you. Well. Go to Goa. Exhibit I think I was born yesterday you have got. To. Get. Bin. Laden. Cut you out. From her debut album but as she's got a new album out now called Future nostalgia and she's working on tour dates for 2020 this is the only one to hit song Larry London a.j. Michel my friend. The bomb and. Was a chance to come and. Listen to. The memories and the memories but. Isn't. Playing. It with. The. Live it. Is the. Spring Kong memories and. Luck. Is to plug. And you know. The sled it'll. Be listening. Ship. I was. Told. She. May. This. They want to seize it. You need to keep it. Going to. Be so. He. Didn't want to. Put. She. Didn't want to. He. Didn't want to. B.j. Callid justin bieber no brainer we are now the d.j. Before that d.j. Snake Selena Gomez and tacky tacky way one d.j. Callid in the top 20 of Forbes list of the most richest music celebrities this year which also included the weekend made 40000000 this year with marshmallow the number one on that list Taylor Swift who made 185000000 dollars this year alone so congratulations to her Here are the Jonas Brothers with. The strong is coming in here next. Me. The game. Is the game. Just what do you. Need to say. To. News I'm Jim bird tell at least 23 people have been killed in nearly 2 weeks of demonstrations in violence after India's parliament passed the citizenship Amendment Act which critics have deemed anti muslim Reuters Libby Hogan has more Indian later never enter a Modi let loose a fiery speech Sunday blasting critics who call a new law anti muslim addressing a crowd of Hindu nationalist supporters in New Delhi dressed in red and green holding the national flag Modi took the stage after days of violent and deadly protests that have rocked India. The deal paid the way to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants those from Afghanistan Bangladesh and Pakistan that entered India before 2015 a card but not Muslims critics call that discrimination and that would be Reuters little Libby Hogan reporting fire officials in India say a blaze at a warehouse in New Delhi killed 9 people and left at least 3 others injured on Monday after nearly 3 months of waiting the.

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VOA [Voice of America] Global English-20191218-080000

This is unlike any seen in decades gone urges delegates attending the global refugee form in Geneva to put pressure on India to reverse these actions these us line reports from Geneva for b.-o. Way the 947 partition of India triggered the largest human migration in history some 14000000 people fled their homes and hundreds of thousands were killed Pakistan a largely Muslim state was borne out of these bloody advance in an impassioned speech at the global refugee forum Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan warns delegates said one of the biggest impending refugee crises is about to take place because of recent actions by the Indian government he says India's revocation of Kashmir special status on August 5th aims to change the demographics of the region from a Muslim majority Muslim minority state he says this is likely to provoke a refugee crisis that will dwarf previous ones the line for v.o.a. News Geneva stablished the pontifical secret used in clergy sexual abuse cases after melting criticism that the competence reality measure has been used to protect pedophile silence victims and the like police inquiries that it can spokesman says the move is a step toward more transparent say secondly it is a step forward in terms of transparency transparency for the victims and their families and transparency for traditional legal systems around the world which can now request the documentation of the ongoing trials and bring it into their legal systems in order to facilitate their work is also raise from $14.00 to $18.00 the cutoff age below which the Batak can consider is pornographic images to be child pornography and a special court and Pakistan Tuesday found former. As a military ruler. Guilty of high treason then sentenced him to death this was the 1st time a military dictator was tried and convicted in court in Pakistan but more news please join us that b.o.i. News dot com or the Bua mobile app I'm here in Washington I'm Michael Brown the only news. had an engagement they also had a child that they named future but even though the engagement didn't last the baby now lives with Sierra who's married to Russell Wilson the quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks football team and future recently welcomed his 10th child with his 8th baby mama so congratulations to future who's been a daddy 10 times now speaking of Reanna She recently went to London to attend the Fashion Awards there when she was on the plane guess who else was on the plane Sir Paul McCartney was on the same plane she posted a video talking to Sir Paul McCartney and that went viral a lot of people saw that I saw it there's to me like a male from the romance album this is a liar. Music Spinnin daddy's money would soon. Be. Sitting down. And. Going to break soon the family is pretty badly shaken to see the Chinese. Tried to chase him she want to do a trade in. And there's gone crazy. If you're going to. Spend in daddy's money. Syringe you aspire to. Be away one he's a 24 year old a rapper His name is Arizona service and he's from just down the road in a city called Hagerstown Maryland not too far from right here he released a lot of music on Spotify and he also used an app called pick talk and which is a popular app right now and they also have a nickname for Mitt ate the z. And that is Roxanne a top 5 hit on Billboard This is video a one. Larry London and coming up from Selena Gomez easy to love me. It's. Look very different from the car to keep. Going No was the. Show up in the carpet. To know such. a. Lot. The only one. Tiger and offset that is a taste on Larry London v.o.a. One of the hits. Same. Day. As soon. As. This movie. It's. True. I've. The. Odds and Demi Lovato Demi says that D'sevyn is just about ready to come out and I would that she's referring to the name of her next album and she's also got a new song she's of the next time you hear from me I'll be singing my name is Larry London on v.o.a. One with Ariana Grande days breathe. Martin Gehrig's dual scared to be lonely and do a leap I has a new album it's called Future which is now out my name is Larry London in a few minutes we've got some Katy Perry with Nikki Manav Nikki was on stage at the Billboard Awards Women in Music Awards she won the game changer award and she dedicated it to juice world who passed away couple of weeks ago at 21 and Nicki he apparently put on a little bit of weight so there's been rumors that she's pregnant think she got the . Mary before we get to our Katie and Nicky we've got good as hell here. The best thing. Listen. He's the cutest. historic vote to impeach President Donald Trump ahead of the vote the a piece to McGuire reports several anti-drug impeachment rallies were held around the country Tuesday evening some 600 demonstrations from coast to coast as far north as Alaska as far south as Florida where held today night ahead of Wednesday's House impeachment vote. In New York's Times Square actor and comic writer Tim Herod says President has to go we've got a new qualified foreign student in the White House while the demonstrators were passionate in their demands some are also disappointed that the rallies didn't draw as many people as other rallies for other issues in the past recent public opinion polls show the country just about evenly divided over whether to remove Trump from office I'm to McGuire the impeachment vote is expected Wednesday evening around the same time Trump is scheduled to be speaking at a campaign rally in the state of Michigan thousands of protesters and police clashed in New Delhi India over a new law that makes it easier for non Muslims from neighboring countries to gain citizenship Jo Davies reports Indian prime minister and the runner about his government says the measure is designed to protect religious minorities from persecution in neighboring Bangladesh Pakistan and Afghanistan. But critics say the fact that Muslims are excluded weakens India's secular foundation and there have been growing questions about the stance the government led by Modi is Hindu Nationalist Party towards India's Muslims Islam makes up 14 percent of the population the citizenship will follow as the revocation of the special status of the Muslim majority customary region and the court ruling clearing the way for the construction of a Hindu temple on the site of a mosque right used by Hindus eyelets That's Joe Davies reporting and for more news as always please join us at our website v.o.a. News dot com or on the v.o.a. Mobile app from here in Washington this is b. Owain who's under said thousands of public sector workers are protesting across France against President Emanuel Mark crones plans to overhaul the National Pension System Reuters Lauren Anthony reports demonstrates is in front of poured onto the streets in a redoubled efforts to get President Emanuel Micron's government to ditch a planned pension reform by Christmas. Take ass was find a protest is in unknowns and in clearings even the Eiffel Tower was closed trance. Trade unions. In a bid to amends him. Against recent days thousands of. His teeth.

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KSKA 91.1 FM [Public Radio for Alaska]-20191217-080000

In neighboring countries bear the brunt of such upheaval many are growing impatient not just with the refugee crisis itself but with the reluctance of wealthier countries further away to share the burden the un is hoping to drum up more financial support but it also wants changes in policy better education for refugee children were opportunities for adults and resettlement to new countries for the most vulnerable a special court in Pakistan has sentenced the former president Pervez Musharraf to death a high treason is the 1st military ruler to be convicted of this crime the charges related to his decision to suspend Pakistan's constitution and impose emergency rule in 2007 General Musharraf was sentenced in absentia has been living in Dubai since 2016. The u.s. Aviation giant Boeing is to temporarily stop producing is troubled 737 from next month the company who had been hoping to get the aircraft back in operation by the end of this year Peter both reports a 737 Max was grounded in March after more than 300 people died in 2 crashes involving the aircraft a problem with the plane's automated control system is thought to have been the primary cause and Boeing has been working to redesign it the company says safely returning the aircraft to service is its top priority but it acknowledges that the approval process must be extraordinarily thorough and row burst it adds that the delay will not result in any job losses although it is likely to affect Boeing suppliers and the wider u.s. Economy the European Space Agency is launching its 1st mission dedicated to the study of distant worlds some foreigner half 1000 planets have been discovered orbiting other stars but the Caleb's telescope will reveal more about their composition and structure to educate a project scientist on the mission what camps will do is to follow up on known exoplanets orbiting bright stars and the key is that it's a follow up mission so we know where and when to point we'll be looking at bright stars as we're able to measure their masses very precisely from the ground and by combining the sizes that will measure with k. Ops with the masses that when they should have measured from the ground will be able to determine the mean density of these planets world news from the b.b.c. . Officials in Afghanistan say that 10 civilians have been killed in a bomb explosion in hos province which borders Pakistan a Ministry of Defense spokesman said a civilian vehicle set off a roadside bomb planted by the Taliban a spokesman for the prevention governor said the victims 5 men 2 women and 3 children all belong to one family the balance comes as Taliban and u.s. Officials hold intermittent peace talks. Opposition political parties and students in India have held further demonstrations against a controversial citizenship law which discriminates against Muslims the new legislation fast tracks the naturalization process for numbers limbs from 3 neighboring countries Sen Rajan is in Delhi a day after unprecedented protests across India regional political parties are trying to put more pressure on the Indian government to withdraw the citizenship law by holding rallies in several places a number of buses were damaged in stone pelting incidents in the state of Gettler thousands of supporters of a regional party are holding protest rallies in Tamil Nadu in the Northeast the situation is tense but the government has lifted the curfew in Assam which was the worst affected in the Andes that isn't your block protest the Paris based organization Reporters Without Borders says the number of journalists killed in 2019 has been considerably lower than in previous years r.s.s. Have said 49 journalists died this year mostly covering conflicts in Yemen Syria and Afghanistan the annual average for the last 2 decades has been 80 but the organization says a higher number of journalists have been imprisoned an international team of paleontologist researching 6000000 year old fossils in Venezuela says the region was once home to an 8 meter long giant Cayman it was able to move between rivers. And those are the latest stories from b.b.c. . Hey this is World Cafe I'm Marina tourists Nashville if your country or American a musician it's basically the center of the universe next artist lives there she moved there for that music scene but to record her latest album McKayla and got out of Nashville she wanted to mix things up and made it in California here she is Sing along. It was. Peach fuzz from camp on the way new music from the car and the band have been nominated for Best New Artist at this year's Grammy Awards That's next on World Cafe. Hey you're tuned to World Cafe My name is Rena Doris if you take a look at the list of nominees for the Best New Artist category for this year's Grammy Awards you'll see some pretty big names on there like Billy I wish. You also see a band called Black Pumas you may have heard black rumors before on World Cafe there a duel out of Austin Texas they're getting the recognition they deserve given them in just a minute see it's. A list of World Cafe get in on the big stuff before it gets great Here's an artist who's brand new Who knows he could be the next big thing his name for the car with Helen back. The rowing the small to. The Along the way for this moment. McLaughlin's take on black bird and black who was who are nominated for the best new artist Grammy back there the song colors Thanks to our affiliates across the country from k s k o n McGrath Alaska to South Dakota Public Broadcasting we produced the show at the piano at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 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Is concentrated in the Pacific Theater this week on addressing Alaskans we're hearing from retired United States Air Force general how Chandler is top looks at the relationship between the United States China and the Pacific at large to the lens of his 3 decades of service that's addressing Alaskans troops did to move on Alaska Public Radio f.m. Like 1 point one. You're listening to k s k Anchorage f.m. 91 point one where listener supported radio thank you for your support. Coming up after the news it's people fixing the World with me William Kramer and this week we are talking about the carbon cost of delivering this more and more of us are buying things online and the streets in our cities are getting clogged up with delivery vans and trucks so what to do about it well obviously we can move over to some battery powered delivery vans but we also need to rethink the way that we're doing deliveries so how about this for an idea. At the moment delivery vans and to cities full and they leave and take various rubbish trucks and to the cities empty and they leave full What about if we combine the 2 so that rubbish truck actually delivers parcels that way we're cutting down on the number of vehicles in the city but that is exactly what they're trying here in Stockholm in Sweden and I've come to check the project out find out more after the b.b.c. News. B.b.c. News Hello I'm Gerri summit a global summit on refugees is underway in Geneva intending to find better long term solutions for tens of millions of people displaced by conflict and persecution the u.n. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said that while money was important the problems were global and integrating refugees was critical let's think outside Europe let's think Africa let's think Middle East Asia or Latin America this is where the bulk of the refugee crises are and there we need resources and we need different resources not just humanitarian money for short term responses but development money for education jobs the impact on the environment all this is also about policy about good laws about inclusion of Refugees International systems of health and education psychologists working with refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos have told the b.b.c. They're seeing an increasing number of children self harming and attempting suicide the United Nations refugee agency says more than $3500.00 people have arrived on his bass so far this month. Protests in India against a discriminatory citizenship law have now spread to different parts of the country passed by parliament last week the amendment to existing rules fast rags naturalisation for refugees from 3 neighboring countries as long as they're not Muslim Kavita Krishnan a member of the Communist Party of India said previous experience in the state of a sermon had shown what such a law could do people were asked to prove citizenship based on documents proving ancestors but it isn't $1000.00 to $1.00 that they are descended from gold and substance that is logically impossible to prove because poor people in India do not have documentation it's as simple as that So what the law is saying is that if you are.

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It's a conduct that in this. Is completely but that doesn't mean that dispute settlement stopped effect members can still resolve their disputes through consultations and they are thinking about other mechanisms such as arbitration or good offices of the director general So there are a number of things that can be done that would be a stopgap solution the United States Mexico and Canada have signed a revised trade agreement the latest stage of President terms 3 year battle to rewrites NAFTA the new deal includes extra provisions for workers' rights and environmental standards at the behest of Democrats who now control the u.s. House of Representatives the Mexican president and dress mandrel over as Obrador said the deed was good for one because Mr Trump said it was good for everybody on the Canadian foreign minister Chrystia Freeland said it was a rare victory for multilateralism all of us together have finally accomplished what we set out again at the very end from. A win win win agreement which will provide stability for workers in all 3 of our country for many years to come u.s. Prosecutors have charged a former Mexican minister of public security with accepting millions of dollars in bribes from the Simoneau a drug Ontario Gennaro got to see a loon who was arrested in taxes and accused of allowing the cartel to operate freely in Mexico and giving it access to information about police activity. President Trump has led to the u.s. Senate's Detroit him sooner rather than later after Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives on veiled the 2 articles of impeachment against him they charge Mr Trump with abuse of power and of struction of Congress at a rally in Pennsylvania he ridiculed the articles and the House Democrats announced these 2 flimsy but that are ridiculous articles of impeachment the House Democrats are walking back from everything they claim with today's announcement they're now admitting there was no collusion there was no obstruction of justice and there were no crimes whatsoever there are no crimes it's as if there were no private b.b.c. News for comic tremors have increased on New Zealand's wine dial and the meaning probably found the declare used to the recovery of the victims of Monday's fatal eruption the country's geological agency said eruptions were likely over the next 24 hours with steam and mud reported to be jetting from craters 6 people confirmed dead a panel of foreign experts is stepping down from its advisory role in investigating the police in Hong Kong in a major setback for the Beijing backed government the international panel had been appointed in or goes to ensure the police wants dog the i.p.c.c. Conduct an objective investigation into allegations of excessive force by police during the recent pro-democracy protests by the panel concluded that the i.p.c.c. Lacked the powers to properly investigate the use of force against the protesters. Officials in Jersey City across the river from New York say 6 people have been killed and 3 wounded in a shootout that moved from a cemetery to a kosher grocery store and lasted several hours the dead include a police detective and 2 suspected gunmen along with 3 costume as at the shop jazz the city's police chief is Michael Cowley the investigation will take weeks maybe months the crime scene is very extensive as it 3 locations at least at this time we have one stolen you hold the vehicle. That may contain this in the every device that has since been taken from a location that is being examined by a bomb squad members Somalis security forces tackling and his limited attack on a hotel in the capital Mogadishu have killed 2 of the gunmen they've also rescued $82.00 people including civilians and officials who were foreigners say the operation is continuing b.b.c. World news. Welcome to News Day coming up with me then and of course next to me the one and Mr Alan because you're welcome welcome indeed to the moment here the latest of. The arrest of the former Mexican government official who was arrested in Texas as you heard in the news and also we'll be hearing from New Zealand getting the latest we've told you about the police investigation that's underway Stay with us to hear details of accounts from some people who were directly affected by. The eruption Yeah definitely something worth staying in from I mean you can keep up with the program by following the b.b.c. World Service on Facebook Twitter you can text theirs or send us a whatsapp message on anything you hear the number of course is plus full force 778-620-5085. But let's start with the climate because Greenland ice sheet is melting much faster than previously thought threatening hundreds of millions of people with inundation and bringing some of the most irreversible impacts of the climate emergency much closer the scale and speed of ice loss is much higher than was predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or the i.p.c.c. That means that sea level rises are likely to reach 67 centimeters by 2100 some 7 centimeters more than the i.p.c.c. Main prediction of rise will put 400000000 people at risk of flooding every year instead of the 360 predicted by the same organization by the end of the century. Is professor of art forms of vision of the University of Leeds one of the lead authors of the study we assess a whole bunch of different. 99 to look at the ice loss from Greenland since that we. The I she was about 4 trillion terms of life in that time period but more importantly the rate of our forces increased over time by about a factor 7 what does that mean that means that the ice sheets are effectively workin up to the warming that being applying to them for longer than that period taken them some time to become active but now they are it also means that unfortunately we're bought into. Bunch of sea level rise of the future because it will take a similarly long period to slow down again even if we were able to cool the planet which is an unlikely prospect I see here a minute that says the wild 2nd largest ice sheets is melting far more quickly than previously thought living 400000000 people exposed to coastal flooding but 2100 Yeah the thing that we can do with satellite nation is check the climate model predictions are on track when we have a long enough record and that record has to be longer than a decade because we have to be able to spot the difference between climate change and weather pattern. And so that's what we did we come here as losses from Greenland to the r.p.c. Seas project predictions and unfortunately what we found was that the ice she is in fact tracking the worst case scenario and that means more sea level rise than expected so this is a study that covers 2 to 6 years what does that mean diplomatic terms you know when we say a 1000000 years of geological terms it means nothing what about 26 years in climatic terms so agreement this quite well behaved compared to Antarctica because it has summers and winters or isn't it just has really just lots of winters from time to time the summers in Greenland the warmer than usual and we saw that in 2012 but we also see it this year in 2090 as well which is now included in our assessment they were able to comment on it because we've seen the year out now effect and even though we've seen some warm years from time to time and also a. General trend of increased us losses really pronounced in the 26 year record we can't really describe any of those changes and if you know the big pools Parkland Haven't we have this before we've seen individuals to this point and it's all the way across the quantum system pointed to changes in the way different parts of the planet respond to the thing being applied and we've seen classes in Greenland speed up what we haven't seen is the wholesale activation agreements last year that we've seen in the most recent years and we certainly haven't seen the flu comparison detail comparison to predictions which tell us that we need to extract the worst important because the sea level rise predictions that people are working to are underestimate I don't know if this is covered in your research but. Can anything be done to reverse the current trend if we were able to cool things down again 3 decades and there's no reason to think that these changes will slow that's a real tall order I don't think anybody really expects. Temperature to reverse stable or under separate professor of our Forbes of vision of the University of Leeds. And we've got plenty more coming up on the climate change course of the next hour as always here on News Day moving on a former top Mexican government security official Generica the Luna has been arrested in Texas on charges that he received multi-million dollar bribes from the Sinhala cartel Mr Garcia Luna wasn't just an important figure in the administration of former President Felipe Calderon he was also Mexico's secretary of public security in effect the face of the country's federal police force Jose d.s. President so is the Washington d.c. Correspondent for reform are the leading newspaper in Mexico and he joins us now thank you so much for joining us thank you for having me not at all this is an extremely important to rest isn't it because of the significance of the person who's been arrested exactly this is certainly front page news across the board in old newspapers Mexico giving the relevance of this character it was not all the one simple Probably chief but the actual responsible for this tried to do to fight the cartels in Mexico between 20012012 the and the allegations that are presented in the document by the u.s. Authorities are certainly something coming out of a movie. He was picked up in Texas do we have any more details of how and where the arrest took place in Texas the what we know is that Mr Luna had been actually living in Florida since 2012 after he left the Mexican ministration and this Since then he had been doing some consulting on security and other issues and for some reason he was based in Texas for the past weeks in a suburb of Dallas great fine that's what some reporters are saying here in America but we don't know exactly what were the circumstances self of their arrest but it certainly is a blow given that this tried force that basically capture him and. Him is based off of the actual agencies in the u.s. Government that collaborated with him back east I must government official what has been the reaction in Mexico to the fact that such an important official has been arrested on charges like this. I think there are 2 main effects. And feelings in Mexico regarding these arrests one is a condemnation of the policy of basically going after the kingpins of the cartels without any further strategy in the strengthening their judicial sector in Mexico because these basically has been the. Off balance that has brought more than 200000 dead in Mexico so that policy that started under President Calderon in 2006. Well basically is receiving its final blow with this arrest and 2nd in. One sense proof that many of the articles and many of the books that have been written about the drug war and under suspicious on the suspicion of what Mr Costello was doing these during all these years have proven right and certainly this is not something to be happy but certainly many journalists and investigators who allege already is some. Some involvement of Garcelle now with the cartel are are feeling vindicated as I thank you very much for bringing us up today with a story that has a d.s. Presents at the Washington d.c. Correspondent for reform a new day continues on the b.b.c. Rotunda in a few moments we'll be bringing you business news for details of that all those roles if you were a village a sports news almost all topping our list are us. With the latest sports news he's not Ok So stay with us for sports news coming up in a few moments right now the International Court of Justice in The Hague and what's sure to be a moment of high drama later today Myanmar's de facto leader the Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will attempt to defend her country against what many say is indefensible occasions government committed genocide against its Muslim population but who is she let's ask Barbara Victor who wrote on the biography about something it's called The Lady. She went to. Because her mother was ill and she went to care for her mother who is really dying and because she was the daughter of the hero to liberate or from the British She was somebody that everybody knew about and considered her a savior as well and so instead of going back to her husband and 2 or 2 sons she stayed and when she stayed she began protesting the military junta which was violent and oppressive and eventually they put it under house arrest and she became a symbol people gather every day and every night when she came out the balcony really to worship the k. She was the voice of reason. And liberty. How does a woman like that a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and up in the situation where she is defending her country and hat prime ministership of charges of genocide. You know it's very interesting because when I was that I spent 2 months as a guest at the floor believe it or not and I met her. And I saw things in front of her house soldiers killing protesters and she was very driven her husband died of prostate cancer why she was in them and she never went back to him her 2 little her 2 young boys who were raised by her brother and sister. She never went back to her family have either died and she became. A world known celebrity if you will for freedom and all of this. Disintegrated into something else which was less fear he became a sceptic by this war gentle hunt if you if you will and I guess the power was something that just went to her head it's interesting what you said that about husband when he was ill about the time that you spent with did you already a point get a sense of who was a woman for whom power could be more important than anything else even here nights . Actually I did I didn't think about more important human rights because she was still very involved in the human rights cause of people which was really bad but I couldn't imagine leaving my darling husband and 2 young children. To be locked up in a house because they would let her they would have let her go it's just that she could never come back she chose to stay so whilst many of us sit here wondering how a Nobel Prize winner has ended up in this situation from what you all saying what you saw of some of the life you're not that surprised no I was ever surprised and it's a matter of fact I gave a lecture at Northwestern University. In front of the worshippers. And I said there's something off. I believe that and I still do you know wanting notoriety and wanting adoration doesn't go well in my book with fighting for liberty and the oppressed and the braying Muslims were Oprah asked and they were really picked on by the Buddhists because they were Muslim and they were poor and they were suffering and you know she never stood up for them anyway she set up the Grammys people supposedly But do you think that how could you talk about of almost west shipping something that we've seen quite a lot across different parts of Asia is also part of the problem I do that's very interesting that you say that because we do see that we see that in Korea we see it in China and it was that way in Burma. He was a cult figure she was absolutely worshiped and people came there to pay homage to being under house arrest was not a terrible tragedy for her because she was at home and she had she had staff and she food compacter who were in her party when they went to jail they would be they were they were starved was pretty pretty hard I never believe she said I believe she revels in the attention. Author Barbara who wrote an autobiography about ants and she called the lady with some interesting views some many things quite harsh views on her earlier time spent with her. True some will say from the b.b.c. 21 after 3 I did there this time because I'm here I can always hear you know get rid of me Allan road. Did you and welcome to The Big Show thank you got a cricket story in here for you you need you like news in there I mean that's obviously should be leading the league you know I said when with a live ass in the Champions League you know we are talking European Champions League into Milan and I axed the big names who have failed to make the last 16 the Italian league leaders beaten 21 at home by Barcelona they finished 3rd in their groups thanks to policy adoptions win over Slavia Prague fellow Italians Napoli are through they beat game 4 mil but then they immediately sacked manager Carlo and chill Lotty Liverpool Chelsea Valencia the other winners who secured their knockout places there are 8 more games on Wednesday but only 2 places in the last 16 haven't already been decided also on Wednesday the Club World Cup gets on the way the invitee side of hosts Qatar taking on the Oceania and champions Yangon sport and in the next 90 minutes Test cricket is returning to Pakistan for the 1st time in over a decade Sri Lanka are the visitors the same nation whose past was attacked in March 2009 leading to the deaths of 6 policeman and 2 civilians and of course Pakistan spending the next 10 years only playing abroad will come back to load Ron thank you very much for that update of course all this to Ross with him in 25 minutes you're listening to news day from the b.b.c. With the big man Mr Alan procedure who sat next to me enjoying a nice packet of crisps and me and then let's have a look at some of those news headlines American objections have severely limited the work of the world trade on. As ation its appeal court is now shut down because Washington won't allow new judges to be appointed and President Trump is closer to achieving his goal of replacing NAFTA after the u.s. Mexico and Canada some signed a revised trade deal and we're going to be talking about some of those subjects do you want to say something I know that we'll be talking coming back to those shortly let's get the latest business news now from Andrew Wood at the B.B.C.'s business desk in Hong Kong Good morning to you Andrew. Good morning and we're coming back to the World Trade Organization those trade stories pretty quickly actually has as you saying earlier just now the World Trade Organization is formally run out of judges to hear appeals now the head of the director general the World Trade Organization Roberto Azevedo told the b.b.c. In an interview that he's going to take at least a few months in order to fix this the problem at the moment is that when the got a pair of countries go to the the World Trade Organization and they've got a dispute that the trade organizations dispute panel will rule in favor of one or the other but the party the country that loses can then go to the usually go to the appeals and there's no appeals judges at the moment you need at least 3 in order to hear an appeal and because President Trump refused to appoint new judges to approve new judges who've been appointed to this body there's only one left and that's not enough so he make an appeal basically you know you gun jump the system for a while now let's hear from Jennifer Hilman she used to be an appeals judge for the w.c. It's a very sad day and I think it's very unfortunate that the United States has been very clear about its concerns and its criticisms of the appellate body and very silent when it comes to proposing any solutions I was Jennifer Hillman used to be a judge. Let's hope the Americans come up with some solutions for this or this problem has always been to thank you very much for joining us now when New Zealand's White Island volcano erupted on Monday there were dozens of tourists of 6 have been confirmed 8 others a few are to have died about 30 of Syria's. Mahalo is for Tommy harbor where the queues wait Mishal are taken and there's been hearing about what happened on the island. The Hazan smoke from white Highlands will kind of corruption still hover over the area I can just about make it out standing here on the windy shores of Phuket honey harbor people were brought here when they were 1st evacuated but not all of the made it out 8 bodies are still on the island just a boat ride away from where I am all covered in ash after the police have confirmed time and time again that surveillance aircraft have seen no sign of life this is very much a recovery operation but even that hasn't been possible. Conditions are still to one stable in the area officials say there's a 50 percent chance of a smaller or similar size eruption in the next 24 hours Russell Clark is one of the paramedics who helped move the injured to safety he described the scene on the island it was like what I've seen the many series and there was just it was just blanketed the nation it's pretty I who am I mean the amount of the amount of dust and it really had time you know he can of I can only imagine what it was like for the people that were there the time they hit with a guy and it's a terrible experience for them by traumatic and and my tional recovery is going to take a long time why Thailand is one of New Zealand's most active volcanoes but also a very popular tourist destination Mary Scully lives close to the Phuket honey Harbor and has once gone on a trip to the volcano in white Highlands with a local guide who's also a family friend Hayden Marshall Inman was on the island that day he was killed in the eruption lovely Go ahead and not hide and since he was primary school age. Or things are things that kids do. And he's a lovely guy the real really good guy. Do you think there should have been more warnings to people given the high alert should they have been there we hear that there's an hour. And if you're not going out there of course it doesn't mean anything to you that it could have been fine today and a credible next Saturday that's like unpredictable Yes like when is a good time for a mountain to top How has this affected you what happened I think it just makes us aware of the fact that there is always danger and it might not be that it might be to simply going out on a vice asking to say something and. It just makes you just it's a wake up call for. Things a space police are now investigating circumstances of the death and injuries on white tile and an active volcano that has long been a tourist attraction but has now turned into a site of utter devastation and the Somalia reporting on volcanic tremors have increased on New Zealand's White Island we'll hear more about that in the news update coming up Yeah well let me it's always something about the climate in the news nowadays so it's I mean it's never good now it's never good I someone whether anything can be done through vast things move it it's on to optimistic we've got to be optimistic we've always got. Distribution of the b.b.c. World Service and the u.s. 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Have charged a former Mexican government minister with accepting millions of dollars in bribes from the cinema or drug cartel Janata Garcia Luna who was arrested in taxes is accused of having allowed the cartel to operate freely within Mexico security forces in Somalia have killed 2 gunmen of the al Shabaab group who stormed a hotel in the capital Mogadishu they've also rescued 82 people more Islamist militants are reported still holed up in the building volcanic activity is increasing on why Don and often all the New Zealand denting hopes of an early mission to recover the bodies of those victims still there after Monday's eruption 6 people are confirmed to have died 8 missing presumed dead officials in Jersey City which lies opposite New York's Manhattan say 6 people have been killed and 3 wounded in an extended shootout that moved from a cemetery to a kosher grocery store the dead include 3 members of the public a police detective and 2 suspected gunmen Chile's President Sebastian Pinera has pledged compensation and medical support for thousands of protesters injured in weeks of demonstrations he said there would be no impunity for members of the security forces who had committed abuses b.b.c. News. I mean I knew him as thank you very much Hello welcome this is news day we're coming to you are from London my name is Olive procedure and I'm with rotunda in a moment power cuts a causing havoc in South Africa also we speak to someone calling on the u.s. To do more to resolve what she calls a political crisis in Haiti. Is your 1st prime minister Our be Ahmed has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 29000 to ceremony the Norwegian capital. Prime Minister. The award bestowed upon new rests on 3 major achievements your crucial road in creating peace between every trip and as he opened. Your efforts to build democracy in a c.e.o. By strengthening civil liberties and developing institutions I'm 3rd but not least the award is given to you for your contribution to peace and reconciliation processes in east and north east Africa. I was a young soldier when war broke out with 3 and there in 3 and I witnessed firsthand the ugliness of war in frontline bottoms. Those who are never seen war but glorify several months agent they have not seen the fear nor of their friend the mournful impertinence of war after the carnage when I became prime minister I believed peace between the g.o.p. And they're in 3 I was within reach I was convinced and they imagine they were some party thing out of 2 countries for them I told long needed to be toned down I am committed to the point for peace every single day and in all the seasons be Ahmed the prime minister of Ethiopia However dozens of other trends held a protest in Oslo saying Mr Ahmed should not have received the prize because. Because of peace between the 2 countries have not really materialized novenas it's a high is a Swedish and human rights activist and she thinks that the decision to offer the award Mr to Mr Ahmed was flawed the war that had nothing to do with. Making sure that their continued same power really. Yes How. Both are legitimizing there to get government and before accuse the current dictator by posing with him and pictures coming coral quote best friends having dressing up like wedding a tired cutting up cake together but I think more importantly in the shadows the reasons why you agree with him no the primary reason I'm with him is because of his actions on the International Space So for example at the United Nations Africa for the 1st time presented one united message at the White Council this March for the 1st summer to I was brought up to the White House and they came and they were there to you know discuss the issues going on our country and for the 1st time they presented the United States and and this was obviously apart from the organ well being because previous and be still African countries have been very passive or just supported any efforts to hold their true government accountable but if you notice that it led to my station of virtue and government has prolonged their will you call it legitimization of the Returned government just saying making peace with the rich because the idea that these 2 neighbors were going to be in a prominent state of war was unsustainable. Of course I think there's a difference in making peace with a country and becoming what we've been seeing for tween Dr Abby have a fork in this it's not just 2 neighbors you know I mean I've never seen I'm Swedish as well as as I retreat and I never see the Swedish prime minister and the knowledge of Prime Minister you know act in the way that that you know them and I don't know their elections or been through them have been bad relations for the last almost 20 years and now they're suddenly trying to warm things up and a lot of people on both sides of the border were pleased to see that their leaders were getting along but you think I think peace is always better than war but I think to discuss Eritrea and to discuss it we need to understand both countries in context historical and political context Dr Abi represents a specific section of their of the Yorkie population. Eritrean president and their prime minister have come together and they say the made peace but according to the Algeria agreement that was made in 2002 peace means demarcation of the border and it's also not happened so on paper and you know obviously the celebrations that happened with this peace between the 2 nations the borders was opened very briefly it was shut down the airlines were opened only for the g.o.p. Is about Eritrea because actions can still not leave the country who has this peace benefit of obviously we're happy or it's never good thing ever anywhere but we need to look at how has this impact there to people and for who with the peace made it wasn't really a trivial it was for the extreme dictator and was for the benefit of the occupier misstepped regardless of who he represents in Ethiopia this is made for their benefit not that it can people and that is one language to argue that this is a starting point to the long term process. I think if you can argue that that's a very interesting conversation you can have in terms of diplomatic you know studies or if you're into the diplomatic relations in the Horn of Africa but to claim that this piece has anything to do with the well being of the ocean people as historically and it doesn't make any sense because the problem and they're actually lies with their treat leadership dictators and his closest friends who have been the same for decades you know this is just because they made friends with a few last year which I even said this is not making friends with the op is making specific portion of that and you can speak about it as a whole nation especially looking at how the situation right now and especially in the cult of support but regardless saying that they going to change just because there's reintegration in that region is the school story is accurate and does not reflect the current situation in the country but it's a high has traditionally Tran human rights activist. I got to say I love that novel prize music it was quite was it was great wasn't it was what happens when 6000 kilowatts of electricity is switched off in a nation when it means the lights go out and a lot of them and that is the situation in South Africa which is announced substantial nationwide power cuts the crisis is so bad that President Cyril Graham poses as cut short a state visit to Egypt to return home to meet Eskom officials to discuss the crisis he says measures are being taken to fix the situation at Eskom and other state enterprises we asked him this my wily in Cape Town for his personal take on the low chatting I mean the kitchen of our home we've just had dinner which has been rather early because it's a round about to get it to 6 in the evening we normally have to knock off to 6 but because of the load she got to tell you a day to fit in with those power cuts for me as a journalist for example. I can't use the Internet during those I was so awful good at work in between and I think about people who run small businesses for example thinking back into the Bahamas for example you know when power cuts happen. You know as you could hear there there's the bell in the background which obviously means you've got to open the door for someone but now when you have these power cuts when the bell works with electricity as through our landlines as well you can actually hear somebody at the front gate so what they normally would do is then send you a whatsapp message or call on their mobile to say they are outside as I walk around the house because it's summer time the we still have longer hours of daylight the sun is due to go are down it's about after 8 so even when the sun goes down and the power is out to try and keep the things and everything openness as long as possible to have some natural liked as I look at the electronic clocks around the house the ones on the stove in the microwave that you normally used to tell time as you walking around the house haven't even bothered to reset them because it's just it's not even worth your while trying to reset these things anymore because the next power cut will be due within a few hours after that graphic illustration there of the problems that many of facing in South Africa from. Your listening to us if you'd like to share your experience as well it'll be great to hear from you Texas plus 447-786-2055 you're listening to news day we're coming to live from London I mean. With Rahul. Tandon now we go to Haiti. The focus on Capitol Hill time to the tune Tuesday United States crisis hit neighbor currently ranked as the poorest country in the western hemisphere the country's been gripped by political and economic crisis fueled by corruption going back all the way to the devastating earthquake which hit the country 20 times among those speaking to the House of Representatives or Committee on Foreign Affairs was a man well do you know on with The Economist and leader of the civil society group new puppy dog meaning we will stay awake and ask for some context on the current situation that there is a price is right now in Haiti it is a political and economic crisis what's happening we have a president we see that in a corruption scandal yes we course from the. Economic situation has deteriorated and now many people from their 1st sectors will an urban areas have interest rates asking him to resign and we have a crisis where very often the administration and in a situation called the law literally bury kids everywhere and school hasn't been functioning for the past 3 moral and economic activities are paralyzed or role as a result rather going on for 18 months is about right yes there is also more accountability led by you may need this is the bit which Alan's movement that movement for a quarter of. The money to. Be Found a phone a fund in which you say $3800000000.00 went missing is that right exec exactly it's called the patrol car replanned. But just listening to describing Haiti you know describing anything new it's it's the same Haiti of the ninety's Haiti does not seem to have changed a lot over the last oh many years what is different with this situation what you know is there is more need for our country but it is the 1st time that you and we are asking for accountability we're identifying. Men interesting now. You know one of the things that you say you are putting statement is. That you recognize that the political system is broken and that it must be reformed to foster inclusion what does that mean. There of the political system is a very broad can't now and in all aspects like elections are not fear because election now he will literally buy or fold your cues present Moises government of corruption and impunity and uses it of the u.s. Government has largely stood by the president. Look since 2018 but the implication of high level officials and corruption and human rights violations undermines that what do you hope to achieve by appearing before the Senate what are you trying to give them to do 1st of all I would like to mention that I am not acting in the president the president is from all the indicted in corruption and its warrant. Was from the Senate and to we was from the court of. Formal and all poor dear and then what I wanted to achieve by testifying in front of the progress today in Green all those information is the u.s. Need to have a different approach and if we will you if everyone of course it is a good for 3 issue and become a. Coward for president intruding we ask him not to form a new government to work with this current government and try to see. Their policies toward. When you talk to people in Washington and in the us and you listen to what they have to say Do you sense of they actually care about it I think they care but they also have it is a fact. I believe it is because they are not leaving the situation Haitians are leaving and this is why the solution he said let him and well do you on. Activists. You're listening to news day from the b.b.c. With Alan Keyes Alan casino with Alan then you and me then let's have a look at some of those headlines American objects have severely limited the work of the World Trade Organization its appeal court is now shut down because Washington went to allow new judges to be appointed President Trump is closer to achieving his goal of replacing NAFTA after the u.s. Mexico and Canada survive signed a revised trade deal and the former Mexican security minister has been arrested in the u.s. On charges of colluding with this in the lower drug cartel. Alert is a gentleman Mr or Mr Ross thank you I do need an introduction no one knows who I am . Going to start with 5 qualifiers and one managerial casualty in the European Champions League Napoli one of the 5 teams who took their place in the last 16 thanks to a formal flashing game however they sacked manager Carlo Ancelotti the club. Run in Saturday how they sit down and 7th place in the Italian way the decision was announced just after what was our final Napoli post match press conference. But. Being under scrutiny and family normal it's part of the team as you have been writing as if he had. Nothing to say about Champions League. Every disappoint you so we will meet to look at the situation and then together we will make the right decision for nothing and for all of us. For there was a major Premier League club looking for a new manager on a. Finished 2nd in their group behind reigning champions Liverpool Salzburg to know in Austria Chelsea are also through they beat him on the strength he won it's Valencia though who win that group thanks to a big one the win in Amsterdam the knocks i.x. Out of the tournament into the other big name who did not break the last 16 history made as well in their 21 defeat to Barcelona with Kimi born and sue for becoming the competition's youngest ever goalscorer at 17 years and 40 days old he's beaten that record by almost 6 months what's the big games on Wednesday as well including Perry stands around against gala Tassler I am buying Munich against Tottenham but there are only 2 places in the last 16 that have not been decided I'd like to go Madrid the biggest thing not yet through they have to beat Lokomotiv Moscow or hope the group win as event to get at least the point against Leverkusen also on Wednesday the Club World Cup gets on the white 6 Continental champions and one invited Qatari side competing to become the effective world champion it's the invited kids are inside outside who will play New Caledonia as Yangon sport in the 1st round the European and South American champions Liverpool from Ankara and until the summer a final stage now switching to cricket over 10 years since an attack on the Sri Lankan team bus in Pakistan led to the deaths of civilians and police a cricket test will be played on Pakistani soil and the Sri Lanka who are returning match big. In Raul Pindi around that i was time his Pakistans Mohamed Abbas I'm very excited to be playing Test cricket in front of mine. Obviously. Thank you for. Coming so we're all. Very excited to have we are playing a friend of our nation and a quick word from Rugby Union where in Foster has been appointed as the new New Zealand coach he was Steve Hansen's assistant once and left his role with the All Blacks after this year's World Cup having lost to England in the semifinal. So what's that piece of news dot com And if you want to know Leeds top of the championship story about is about to start in Pakistan Pakistan have not played a Test on home soil since the Sri Lankan team bus was ambushed by gunmen in Lahore in 2009 when 6 policemen and 2 civilians died and several Sri Lankan players and coaches were injured this morning Pakistan will start a Test match against Sri Lanka and the northern city of Rawalpindi Pakistan have played their home Test match mainly in the u.a.e. For the last decade one person is looking forward with much anticipation to this game is one of Pakistan's leading cricket Jenny shied Hashmi the ground in rural Pindi Scheid always a pleasure to speak to you you must be pretty excited. I am excited and I'm thrilled to be part of a story 'd the. Sun is trying to come out of clouds Has Pakistan cricket from the next somebody put it ready right. First of Test cricket in Pakistan so very exciting an exciting moment for Pakistan cricket this is not just important in a cricket sense it's important for the country as well as. It is because the Pakistan cricket that suffered a lot international community has not supported budget done throughout this period some. Of decades of Pakistani security for Indians did not want to come to Pakistan but gradually about trying to get both smaller stats revived did 21st and one day international and now the d. And now the test to get a great loss for Pakistan cricket because of what the years the generation who was born in 2000 in this new century have not seen any cricket before their eyes and their development on something impeded with Angel Lanka coming are we going to see some of the other maybe begin teams if you want to call them that way now coming to Pakistan England Australia India. When you spoke to a Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman upon money yesterday with former i.c.t. President and he said that they gradually steps of we have asked England Cricket Board to come for 320 this year or maybe next year because of you have to have a cup of tea 20 next year even 2021 for a few matches and Australia for a few games in 2022 but these will be very gradual not Test cricket 1st but the white ball treated by quickly as he got into the ground this morning heavy security it's very heavy security back on the security agencies do not want to leave any stone unturned because of one mishap again understand back to at least 1015 years so they don't want to leave n.e.p. Anything to chance security is stringent security but it is very much needed to go and enjoy that much shine Hashmi that on the verge of that historic game in Pakistan. Moving on now the authorities in Bosnia have closed the company described as inhumane by human rights officials hundreds of people have been staying in tents in vodka close the border with Croatia despite subzero temperatures but still not enough capacity in asylum centers in the northwest part of you know where people are hoping to cross the into their opinion let's hear now from our reporter to Lenny. This is Camp near out on the outskirts of Baloch a clue do show a town on Bosnia as border with Croatia and what used to be a factory for making p.v.c. Windows and doors has been turned into a basic accommodation for around $500.00 people who found themselves stuck in Bosnia during the winter months the 3 hot meals a day it's warm inside and the roof a cell it is for washing bodies and clothes and at the very least the residents are come again to be safe during the freezing months of Bosnia's winter My name is on it is that each Concord need her income manager of country at all. I would say that is. A lot of meat a lot of people are in need to get the assistance and we have the capacity is what we have it is challenging to provide it for everyone as I mean there are some people who are stuck outside on their own Well yes their outreach to us we can provide than medical assistance referral assistance to the shelter or to provide food. The basic services actually. Were now in front of what passes for the medical building at Port a cabin in the 4th quarter of this former factory and the sign on it says Danish Refugee Council and it's got some details of the doctor's surgery times and there's a queue of people here waiting to see the medical staff. With. The cold weather is one of the major problems we're having problems finding places for people who are in need of assistance most of the Hodges is the doctor on duty at Camp Miral near normal those who have to move it's not an option to stay outside in these kind of why. Conditions there's no point just giving patients medicine they need decent living conditions for the treatment to be effective and if somebody is going outside in these sort of temperatures Walker happen to them. They can get injuries from freezing and anyone staying outside is at risk of death . On Tuesday the Bosnian off origins finally transported people away from another camp on Bosnia as border with Croatia. Hundreds of people had been staying on the outskirts of the city of b. Hatch this place was nothing like the reception centers run by the International Organization for Migration which was a former landfill site with no proper sanitation running water or electricity its residents shivered in tents which were bending under the weight of the snow last week the Council of Europe's human rights commissioner called conditions inhumane and the residents agreed I requested so you are not please help me immediately because I am all present in there is a young man not the animal. The hatch is a small city have around $60000.00 people here Thora cities have provided the land for camp but they say the national government has failed to meet its responsibilities for looking after people who found themselves caught in Bosnia and then run kitsch as an advisor to the man he says be Hatch simply can't cope with the numbers the number increasing so so high that people starting to feel concern for their own you know for their own security we had the break ups. Attacks and so on it's it was like a small city with good security such a situation that they. Didn't like that we. Are feeling here that we are a man. You know from our government for our state. Back at camp many of the residents are happy to stay for the winter the future of those outside is less certain even with the closure of camp hundreds of people still sleeping rough in abandoned buildings will be even the forest and many are determined to stay at the border close to that goal of reaching the European Union . I was all Balkans correspondent Guy. You know listening to you say on the b.b.c. Rules of it's been fun hasn't been fun ass though in your pack interests. I know because you've been telling me you know all the time about how healthy you're going to be so the next hour here on News Day I don't know we're going to get you going to have a healthier more vibrant. Because I'm going to steal a fizzy drink and. The news continues there will go on as will bring us up to speed on some pretty good on the world still of us if you have like of. 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Why in Philadelphia I'm Terry Gross with fresh air today Trump and his generals that is his former generals General Jim Mattis the Secretary Defense General h.r. McMaster national security adviser General John Kelly the director of homeland security who became White House chief of staff there are now gone from the administration we'll talk with Peter Bergen c.n.n. National security analyst and author of the new book about how those generals tried to control Trump's impulsiveness how their relationship with Trump soured and why they left the administration Bergen says they were a very competent work cabinet willing to disagree with Trump but with their departure Trump is now running his cabinet like Iran is real estate company which is it's a bunch of Yesman supporting a one man show what does that mean for our national security that's coming up on fresh air. First news live from n.p.r. 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Federal Reserve another reason to leave interest rates unchanged the Consumer Price Index compiled by the Labor Department shows prices were up 2 point one percent in November compared to a year ago excluding volatile food and energy prices inflation was running about 2.3 percent in recent months the Federal Reserve been worried there's too little inflation not too much that's one reason the Fed voted to cut interest rates 3 times between July and October with prices now firming there's less obvious need for the Fed does apply an additional boost to the economy the u.s. Job market has also performed better than expected with employers adding 266000 jobs last month higher rents and medical prices over the last year contributed to November's inflation reading while the price of clothing has fallen Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington you're listening to n.p.r. News. N.P.R.'s just learned the Federal Reserve has decided to keep interest rates steady it was widely expected the Fed would take a pause in cutting interest rates after doing so 3 times this year the Chairman Powell will hold a news conference later this hour to discuss economic conditions and other news we're going to refugee Samian Mars' de facto leader is a lying when she denies her country's armed forces are carrying out a genocide against a Muslim minority on Sense who she was once revered as a champion for human rights we have this from Michael Sullivan the former democracy icon a Nobel Peace Prize winner was held under house arrest by me on Mars military for more than a decade today she was in The Hague to defend it there was no genocide She said We are however dealing with an internal conflict started by coordinated and comprehensive attacks by the un a come to him just how this should salvation on our shop to which my Mazda sense service is this funded it was that fighting suit he's adjusted that led several 100000 roving go to flee to neighboring Bangladesh where they now live in the biggest refugee camp in the world with countless stories of rape torture and murder by me and more security forces charges Suchi today also rejected for n.p.r. 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And I'm Robin Young I'm Tanya Moseley it's here now as the House moves closer to impeaching President Trump members of the Senate today questioned the Justice Department inspector general about the origins of the F.B.I.'s Russia probe d.o.j. Inspector General Michael Horowitz his report found no evidence that the f.b.i. Investigation of the truck campaign was politically motivated but he also told the Senate Judiciary Committee today that there were significant errors in the F.B.I.'s investigation although we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct we also did not receive satisfactory explanations for any of the errors or omissions we identified Meanwhile the House Judiciary Committee is expected to convene at 7 pm Eastern Standard Time tonight to begin finalizing the articles of impeachment before a float of the full House likely next week Phil Ewing joins us now to discuss all of this he's election security editor for n.p.r. And Phil Horowitz looked into the F.B.I.'s investigation of that 2016 campaign and possible ties with Russia Republicans have highlighted that the f.b.i. Is serious performance failures as detailed by Horowitz what's been their line of questioning they want to drill down very closely on one specific part of the f.b.i. Investigation the surveillance that officials conducted on a one time junior foreign policy aide to truck name Carter Page who was the subject of a number of renewals by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 20162017 what Horowitz discovered was as you mentioned there were many problems with errors affect in a mission and practices by the f.b.i. And the Justice Department in getting and then sustaining that surveillance the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham has drilled down very strongly on that as part of what's been a years long effort by him and the president in their supporters to. Tear down federal law enforcement the Justice Department in the f.b.i. In their view the problems with that case are emblematic of wider problems with the f.b.i. And the Justice Department and that's been a light motif for some time yeah I want to ask you about Attorney General William Barr he's attacked this report several times in the past couple of days what impact has Do you believe his comments had on today's hearing well the ranking member Senator Dianne Feinstein of California asked Horwitz the inspector general about those comments and he said that he didn't have any. Undue influence from the attorney general before submitting this report but he also restated that he believed there was inappropriate predication as he said for the f.b.i. In 2016 to open the investigation into the Russian attack on the 2016 election I mean there really was an attack there really was skullduggery that took place which has been uncovered by investigators and has been the subject of so much focus since then if Senator Graham focused on the details here about the page story the quarter page story Senator Feinstein of Democrats want to talk about the big picture that this really was an attack that it really was Russia not another nation has and has become the subject of controversy more recently here in Washington and that the f.b.i. And the Justice Department and other intelligence agencies were justified in responding to the information they were getting 2016 and trying to figure out what was happening and then report about it to Congress and the American people as they have . Yeah you've mentioned the committee's ranking member Senator Dianne Feinstein and Democrats have focused on the conclusion that Hall was found no evidence of political bias or improper motivation Let's hear what she had to say I believe strongly that it's time to move on from the false claims of political bias and those who showed great interest in the question of politically motivated investigations against President Trump should show the same concern about politically motivated they did investigations requested by the president or his attorney general is this hearing today likely to bring any clarity to the ultimate point you know point of this report are we just talking past each other Republicans and Democrats the answer to your 1st question is no Among other reasons because there are pages from the Horowitz report that are redacted and so there are still things about the story about Carter page for example that we do not know because they're continuing to be withheld by the government the other question which Senator Feinstein alluded to in those comments you played is that there's another report about the investigation still pending from the Justice Department Connecticut u.s. Attorney John Durham has been asked to do his own Look at this he's already said in an unusual statement when Horwitz this report came out that he disagrees with some of the things that are in that report so we have a whole other chapter of litigating about this to look forward to whenever derms work is complete Ok my last question with you for the few seconds that I have with you the markup of the impeachment articles begin tonight what are you watching for well that's going to be a normal process but also very contentious all legislation whether it's naming post offices or impeaching the president has to go through the same practice so Democrats want it to be by the book but we expect minority Republicans on the committee to make it as painful and draw it out as long as possible with procedural motion as and other time attempts to delay it. That's Phil yelling election security editor for n.p.r. Thank you Phil thank you well the u.n. Security Council meets today the topic there in North Korea The meeting comes at the request of the u.s. Over concerns the North might escalate its missile tests nuclear talks are stalled and North Korean leader Kim Jong un sent an end of year deadline for American concessions or the lifting of sanctions to get them restarted last Saturday North Korea announced it had conducted a test of its words great significance that action followed a series of missile launches on Monday Kim called President child heedless and erratic old man after the president tweeted that Kim has too much to lose if he acts in a hostile way Jim Walsh is here now security analyst he's with mit security studies program in the studio with us Jim what are you hearing about what's going on when I was in Washington last week you had a chance to talk with current retired u.s. Officials and I think they are of a view while they keep hope alive hoping that something else will happen I think they have concluded. That North Korea will between now and sometime in early January break the freeze for freeze agreement engage in a provocation the betting money the inside money is betting on a satellite launch $1.00 when satellite launch as sort of an interim force to move a satellite even though it would be for civilian purposes would be carried up into space by something that looks very much like an i.c.b.m. Or a long range rocket Not exactly but close and so that will be interpreted negatively so I think we're looking in the near term at a revival of the North Korean u.s. Nuclear crisis or at least an opening gambit and then they'll do that that's the overwhelming expectation they'll do something big and then the question is what happens is that descend into crisis does that lead to a decision to have negotiations that lead to a good outcome you know there pessimists an optimist a whole different views Well I mean why would it lead to negotiations that lead to a good outcome you know if I mean that doesn't seem like it's so. We're left with potentially a crisis and potentially the us reacting what happened here because this was such a bromance Kim wrote President Trump beautiful letters beautiful letters what happened Well I think a lot of things happened if I was going to point to one thing and of course we don't know the North Korean thinking on this so it's hard to explain it without being able to know more about their strategy but I think the noise the collapse in Hanoi definitely had a negative impact on the us and I would give you know blame to both parties on this the North Koreans have basically refused to engage in serious negotiation for quite some time the u.s. Special representative has directly and indirectly passed on messages that they're willing to meet at the working group level they did meet in Stockholm that did not go well at all the u.s. Any proposals and it just they just don't seem prepared to negotiate and it may be that either Kim has given up on the whole enterprise or he thinks he can get Trump to he may think that Trump is weak he's going into an election he starts off with the satellite missile launch you know bad but not terribly bad and then that escalates from there to a nuclear test or even an above ground nuclear How much is this because this has always been you know such a complicated almost impossible situation and President backed We thought he expressed it that he could be friend this man I mean they go to the d.m.z. And he doesn't lead John Bolton you know his hawk anywhere near that says because the Hawks well up in arms over it you know you are not his friend you know is that what we're seeing here that you know President Trump completely misread the situation and also Kim Jong un might feel neglected because the president's pretty busy. Well he's going to get a lot of attention if things go the way everyone expects them to go you know I don't I support I support the president's initiative to try to talk down rather than bottom up leader to leader talks as a way to jumpstart a process that might lead to some elk and then we did get freeze for freeze which was a freeze on our military exercises and a freeze in their new. Clear and long range test but it that was the high water mark and I think both sides there's reason to blame both sides in the intervening 3 years that each missed opportunities to really carry this forward with momentum Well you know expert opinion what should happen now well. Well I hope no one over reacts that's the you know the number one thing I don't think I don't think anyone will overreact I think maybe the North Koreans are overestimating their leverage here there's a lot going on here in the u.s. Which this is just but one issue so I don't know how much pressure really puts on the president but I think. You know what concerns me is if you go into a crisis and you have a broken national security apparatus rights some people are missing from the process others are in acting capacity not in full capacity people haven't focused on this in a while I I do worry that mistakes can be made but I don't think North Korea wants a war I think they prefer Trump to the alternative they think they can get a deal with him those are conditions that hopefully will allow us to skirt by without a mistake that leads to you know a problem just a few seconds we saw Kim writing on a white horse of a sacred now you know if you make of that well that's the 2nd time does so it's not a 100 percent predictor it's that and everything else remember the North Koreans have announced denuclearization is off the table they said they're refusing to meet with anyone they've said all this stuff it's all pointing in the same direction to most here now security analyst thanks so much thank you Jim. 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A young girl gets an organist a polemic Haugen Skurka Lutheran Church in Reykjavik Iceland from its $242.00 foot tower you can take in a breathtaking view snow capped mountains ocean Harbor row upon row of vividly painted homes and businesses tourists flock here to see Iceland's unspoiled nature or bustling business is a dinner our waiter will let me tell you not something and I said it's one of the most expensive cities in the world so if you're paying an office for this. If you look at the Icelandic handlers Association there are piles of Iceland's famous sweaters and hats were here to see firsthand the impact of the climate crisis on Iceland for instance tourists flying in contribute to emissions but they buy things boost wages and make it expensive for locals I don't think they can take the price down because the salaries start high and so it's it's a tricky thing we are very isolated island you know if people are taking this carbon footprint seriously then they have been probably stuck coming but for our economy definitely but we also see a lot of teams in the private last summer worse the hottest summer I remember reading that had a record year. And the annual Arctic report card just showed climate change ravaging me. We're standing on the accuracy a massive but lighter weight fishing vessel owned by Britain fisheries among Iceland's largest It's nearly carbon neutral uses geothermal and hydro power historically fishing is Iceland's highest grossing industry now it's 2nd to tourism and the industry is paying attention. To. Producer Karen Miller met and I started to are very modern brim processing plant. With supervisor held or once in awhile as you get dressed you have read her notes this will be a warning sign for the others so it will help them keep you safe also picture Lucy and Ethel at the Chocolate Factory you have pictures here now to have for it all right Ok so we are entering the processing area where the people are polluting the fish with machines and sending it and what kind of fish are we now are doing right fish and we're doing say we'll be changing over to cart soon. But there's not as much as there once was we walk carefully slippery floors through this giant facility workers from 40 countries goldfish sorted in giant buckets boxes of frozen fish stacked floor to ceiling then a 1st in the world technology recently debuted by Iceland's Valcke a company it looks like an m.r.i. Machine with a conveyor belt and it's sort of like a diamond cutter this is a water cutting machine in the front of the machine we have a x. Ray machine that takes pictures of the fellow that finds the bone in the patient and we use a water jets to cut the fish the fat. How . Perfectly cut here we have the mine the bone piece and then here we have the block I can tell you 98 percent of the fish and the product that comes in here we use even though this piece I dropped it on the floor like that so I don't worry this will go for Priest meal or for making food for salmon in or way it's a point of pride here use everything and be environmentally conscious as we leave Halldor a millennial with a master's in fisheries describes changes in recent years including the disappearance last year of the. Kape when he asked whether he thinks rising sea temperatures are responsible is a part of it and I am sorry to say because we had before the k. Plan and we did not have the macro in the macro is more of a warmer climate and the macro came in and is exchanging Capel in which is not necessarily good for us even though we have the same quota effect the card because Capel in is the biggest food resource for the cod and we saw that after the cod spawning that it took the cards almost a month longer to get the same weight as last year when the Kapler was present do you fear even more changes I'm afraid so yes. I am not happy with the changes that we're having cart is moving more north plus the spawning stations are in the south of Iceland and that is something that we have to be worried about that the ocean changes we have less ice in the glaciers than we have before and less fresh water coming in the spring and we want this. Salts I see water in the spring because it's the around the time that the corresponding and it protects the role from bacteria because the role doesn't want to be in 100 percent of salty water so. I'm afraid that later on if we lose the glaciers and we lose the fresh water that bursts with this new tissues into the ocean that the fish stocks in Iceland might decline not rapidly but it will happen gradually we're going to talk to your c.e.o. About some of the changes Britain is trying to bring about to prevent that future. But how much is is that important to you as a worker here. It's really important we. We Do What We Can I was proud when they they told us for instance for the vessels that they build new vessels but not by the regulation that is newly put in but they looked in the future and said Ok We want to do better vessels with less footprint than even the next regulation for. A main driver behind us thinking is brains a c.e.o. Good mentor Christensen in his office a wall of windows looked out on a gorgeous stone wall deep blue sea and snow capped mountains he recently received Iceland's environmental company of the Year award and in accepting said that respect for Nature has been our guiding principle sustainability results in increased profitability and it seems to be working we are selling for about $250000000.00 is our revenue we face 150000 tons of fish we have 800 people that bad for leaving your village of 600 people you know just a few years ago well my will it is 150 and the total area was $600.00 people. I'm very proud of my will it's his father was a small boat fisherman but Goodman does career rise parallels Iceland's growth in the last few decades and its move now to sustainability we had been over fishing or fish stocks for a long time and we had to break fleet now we have been reducing our fleet we have built up our fish stocks so we are using much less effort to fish the quantity we are allowed to fish every year you know you say when you say we is this government imposed or not not we is the fishing industry the fishing industry and the scientists and the government we have worked very well together for the last 35 years and so you limited yourself Yes How else are you taking it into your own hands to do things to offset the. Not the Coming Climate change but the climate. It's here already We're building better ships they use much less fuel than the old ships and we have lighter fishing gear and by having better fishing stocks we have fewer hours to fish what we need when you come to land we pluck an elective city and today also we plant hot water like in Christmas time and the boats are in for 10 days we are heating them with hot water but also we are seeing electrical cars more and more we study the carpet footprint when we ship our goods to Europe or us sell it take it by airplane or by ship we're doing a lot of small things you're trying some of the fish we have fish trying company which is using geothermal heat to dry the pads of our face and we sell it to Africa to Nigeria your goal is to use everything we use everything off the face fish ski and you're using it almost like a leather Yes we're using as a leather but also we have started to produce collagen out of it very allergen very good for your skin and your health and also now there's a company in north west of Iceland they are producing Band-Aids So you put a cork skin on your wound and he's very fast they're working with their skin doctors in the u.s. Now you've been in the United States you were telling us that you studied there you were up along the East Coast and fishing towns like Lost or down it you Bedford Fall River towns that have been decimated is that in your mind's eye Yes I like history I like my history teacher he said history repeats itself you're telling about the fishing stocks in the East Coast of us it was totally over 1st you can see that the buffaloes in the u.s. You total are over shoot them in the fishing this is the most danger that we all were exposed overfishing we must have a healthy stocks because then it is much cheaper to fish and that person let in Iceland that you have men. In many healthy fishing companies they can pay their bills on the right time and we buy technical equipment from the company who's been growing and because they can sell technical equipment to our company then they can sell abroad. We have a call here and when we pass away their fishing stocks are in better shape than when we came we have to be careful with nature and that this has been my goal all my life and is a key to that you need to have a good law or you need to have talked of transparency transparency is the key to successful not only fishing industry but also utilizing national resources the counters we don't talk transparency in utilising national resources they are all in trouble. So how important is fishing What's been the cause of a quarter of all workers in Iceland's had it share so another goal of sustainability is to maintain the peace for pictures of our visit while it's made of fish and other stories but here now our. 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And I'm Tanya Moseley it's here and now President Trump is addressing anti-Semitism on college campuses today by signing an executive order it would define the Jewish people as a race or nationality allowing the government to treat instances of anti-Semitism on college campuses as a violation of the federal civil rights law here to explain is Julie of The Washington Post and Julie the executive order won't mean that Jewish people need to change their I.D.'s but explain how it would change the penalty for acts of anti-Semitism right the reason that the trumpet ministration is interested in doing this is a federal civil rights law called Title 6 that deals with education if an educational institution is discriminating on the basis of race or national origin the federal government can withhold funds from that educational institution it does not apply to religious discrimination so the Trump administration has been very interested in any semitism on college campuses and wants to go after that and in order to do that they feel like they need to define Judaism to fall under race and nationality instead of falling under religion Ok so under Title 6 The Department of Education has already been applying a broader definition and did so last year when investigating allegations at Rutgers University Can you explain that case for us and how the department handled that one right a conservative Jewish organization said that the university was creating a hostile environment for Jewish students specifically around organizing that was happening on campus that was into Israel organizing of course there's a difference between any Semitism and being against the Israeli government but in this case the Obama administration looked at it they close the case without taking action and the Trump administration came into office an education department said we're going to reopen this case big. Because we think that there is a hostile environment here and not just based on what you think about policy about Israel but a hostile environment for Jewish students and in that case in order to reopen it the Education Department said by the way we consider Judaism to be a nationality and that is what this executive order is intended to create and why do you think the trumpet ministration is taking this action I mean this could clearly be done differently by an act of Congress that says something about addressing any Semitism specifically and about how the federal government should treat colleges that haven't any sentiment has a problem in some way Congress isn't passing that law the Trump administration wants to fit this in with existing law without getting something passed Yeah there have been some concerns about the impact this might have on free speech and some Jewish groups are actually supporting this executive order what have you been hearing very there's a lot of divide among Jewish groups there are people who say well gosh we'd like some protection from any Semitism but the Seems like really the wrong way to go about it there are liberal Jewish groups that say this is being used as a tool to confront Palestinian activists on college campuses and that this is not for protecting Jews there's also do they have a point I think we have to wait and see how this does end up being applied but they absolutely have a point defining Judaism as a race is problematic when you look at the fact that 10 percent of Jews are Jews of color American Jews are standing up and saying my nationality is American almost none of the Jews in America come from Israel directly it's a problematic definition to try to fit a religion into That's Julie of The Washington Post thank you so much for breaking this down for us Julie thank you it's here and now. 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Also invaded Iraq the Post obtained 2000 pages of previously unpublished notes of interviews with generals diplomats aid workers Afghan officials Jason Dempsey is a nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute for responsible stay craft He's also a retired Army officer he served 2 tours in Afghanistan and Jason The Post quotes 13 star general in a government interview in 2015 saying we didn't have the foggiest notion what we were undertaking your thoughts when you read this well it's both it's great that this report is out there you know we need to be having these conversations just the unfortunate part is we're having these conversations or there are too little too late and given that we've been talking about for years the question is will this finally be enough to get us to question some fundamentals about how are approaching Afghanistan now well and when you think that you know 2400 or so u.s. Troops died their blood was shed on this ground and you know we're reading that many of them at the time when they were there questioned their directions how about you. Yes and no I would say and that interesting thing about the design of this war and where the military shares a large degree of culpability is in the way we rotated people through such that the majority people who went there were going there for the 1st time and they went there with all the optimism and drive that you would expect of American service members unfortunately that optimism and dry. I've. Extrapolated over only something I maybe a $49.00 or 12 month the point it means that everybody could leave at the end of their individual tour and pat themselves on the back and say yeah I made progress without considering whether or not what they did actually added up to anything that was sustainable or contributed to a meaningful long term goal for the stability of Afghanistan to your question you know for me it was really it was being there in 2009 sharing all that optimism just as the Obama administration was pouring troops and thinking that we were all finally getting to the good war but then turning around in my case going back in $12.13 and realizing that we were essentially on a treadmill that very little progress was being made and that every single rotation was repeating the efforts of the rotation prior though at the end there is such a thing as the fog of war I mean this is these are video games you know these are complex societies but still you wrote this in February this year the u.s. Failed in Afghanistan the only point of debate left for analysts and historians are by how much and who is to blame now the report though seems to conclude that the war effort was going well in Afghanistan the effort to take down the Taliban which had given comfort to Osama bin Laden in the 911 attackers but then in 2003 the George w. Bush administration invaded Iraq based on false information about weapons of mass destruction a country that was run by a tyrant yes but it had nothing to do with $911.00 was a relatively stable country and the report seems to conclude or the people in the report seem to conclude that that's when Afghanistan went off track do you think blame can start there absolutely and unfortunately this is a case where everybody shares a little bit of the blame and we certainly took our eye off the ball but there was a. Also even had we been there and stayed there I don't think we could have overcome some of that fundamental American arrogance and ignorance with the way we are approaching foreign countries because remember it went so fast that we took down the Taliban and then you know around all the hoopla over the Loya Jirga and we're going to draft a new constitution for Afghanistan I think we fell into that quintessential American trap of believing that because we have unchallenged military might that that can translate into the ability to turn foreign countries into miniature versions of ourselves and by the way you say loyal jirga that's the tribal council . President Trump made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Thanksgiving announcing that peace talks with the Taliban had resumed he had canceled them earlier this fall after the Taliban had made attacks and also a u.s. Soldier was killed Here's the president speaking about an airfield on Thanksgiving the Taliban wants to make a deal we'll see if they want to make a deal is going to be a real deal but we'll see but they want to make a deal and they only want to make you feel good you're doing a great job that your leaders they want to make you. Absolutely no disrespect to the people he's talking to the service members you have no fault here or at all but you're you're you know I hear you chuckling Yeah I mean this is this was in keeping with this commander in chief who has failed in almost every respect to be a commander in chief there that statement caught her by by surprise including apparently the Taliban including his and go shaders including the Joint Chiefs It was something that he made up on the fly and I guess it's the perfect encapsulation of the absurdity of this in that. Reality be damned in Afghanistan we're just going to wish that it could turn out the way we want to well you are being very critical of President Trump but this report is critical of President Obama before him and. Resident Bush it feels as if every administration just could not wrap their arms around this and The Washington Post 1st came up with these documents but the New York Times has set them in a graph and it's stunning 2 trillion was spent in Afghanistan 1.5 trillion waging war and the Taliban now control or contest much of the country 87000000000 to train Afghan military and police Afghan forces can support themselves 10000000000 on counter-narcotics Afghanistan supplies 80 percent of the world's heroin I mean just goes on and on 24000000000 on economic development most Afghans still live in poverty again given the treasure that was lost there I guess there's plenty of blame to go around and unfortunately what we've allowed. We're stuck unfortunately in this weird situation where we've got this toxic and somewhat dysfunctional blend of both fear on the one hand and difference on the other what keeps us there a colleague of mine this morning who has a veteran himself also worked in the Obama administration and Wrexham said the reason we're still there is because everybody's afraid of what theoretically might happen if we were to leave now nobody can quantify that nobody can say why Afghanistan is more of a threat than any other terrorist safe haven on or so but we're still we're not going to plug in nobody wants an attack to come from there yet we also don't care enough to really dig in and say well. Are the actions we're taking are they actually making a sustainable difference and this is where every single metric you pointed out is absolutely true and almost all the metrics point to failure yet the way we've run this war is that somebody like Nicholson former commander in Afghanistan he can say hey look now we're taking on the opium trade and he can show you short term metrics of you know blowing up factories or taking opium out of the countryside but yet as we all know our opium policy is changed year by year by year and so who cares if tactically we made a short or small dent in the opium trade over 6 months we have not had a coherent strategy to deal with the opium trade writ large and so overall it's largely been a failure and that applies to almost every dimension of our effort in Afghanistan Well briefly what would you do. So for one we have to realize that we are not going to create an Afghanistan looks like American and fortunately what we've been building is a military that looks like ours we need to cut that out and let Afghanistan figure out its own direction its own path and that's going to be a little bit messy and we have to have some faith in the fact that people actually want peace besides us and so we should let them figure it out versus trying to impose our solution on Afghanistan does that mean u.s. Troops to stay there to kind of keep safety on the sidelines while this happens I don't think so because whenever troops are there where inevitably drawn into fighting or checking the various groups and and to a peace deal is reached with the Taliban any u.s. Troops that are there will find themselves in a constant tension of fighting the Taliban and at the end of the day as you mentioned before they weren't our original enemy they don't need to be our enemy now. Jason Dempsey retired Army officer who served in Afghanistan now a senior fellow at the Center for the New American Security also a nonresident fellow at the newly established Quincy Institute for responsible state craft Jason I'm going to ask other listeners who also served in Afghanistan to please weigh in see what other opinions that we get but thank you so much for yours and your service thank you for your time. And you're listening to hear now. And listening to Caprio 90.9 Sacramento and 90.5 Taino your n.p.r. Station. We get support from loaves and fishes a local provider of food warmth and a path home for over 36 years serving women men and children in the community who are poor and homeless information on volunteering and donating at Sac loves dot org . 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The door in to come you know a rapist in your path and it's making its way around the world it 1st began and she lay created by the Chilean artistic collective last he says to highlight gender violence in the country where it's been reported that there are $42.00 cases of sexual violence reported to police each day they have now been spontaneous performances of this song and Mexico Venezuela France Spain India the u.k. And now here in the United States where it's inspired many women to hold demonstrations and colluding volute a Choa who is organizing a performance this Sunday in Washington d.c. Welcome to Lou thank you this song is really powerful it starts with an electric beat the women singing in unison wearing blindfolds and one of the most striking lyrics is quote and the fault wasn't mine not where I was not how I dressed the rapist is you why does the song resonate so deeply with you. It reminded me of the many times that I fell violated and that I have felt salted and it was very emotional I just went through it was it was like an electricity going through my body and then magically the next day a friend of mine reach out to me a friend of mine who owns south your company here in Washington d.c. Called out reliable said she reached out to me and invited me to join and and we basically now are about a people in the organizing committees so it's a communication of single ambiance Yes it's a and yet it is a collective so we decided. We decided to make a collective It's called purple movement. And it's you know it's in the mission to basically make awareness of gender violence and call for a stop when you perform it in d.c. This weekend does it take on more or different meanings for you and gender violence here in the United States the message like I said it's pretty much the same I feel like we swim in we are always you know consider fold when it comes to someone abusing us or assault in us so what less steps is did was basically provide you know black form of expression through a song that summarizes basically the feeling in the experience that every one of us goes through since childhood so some of our was one of the girls are part of the organizing group are Charlie and so we're still trying to maintain the Misses should chill it but we're also trying to translate that into a more international message which is why we translated also the lyrics in that we are performing in both Spanish and English Yes I mean it's not only a song. It really is a political mobilization What do you want to come of this song I'm pretty sure we all want to be heard. We want to be listened we want to show that we care even though we have not been violated you know I mean I think there's been a lot of criticism in terms of they saying that you know like so more us are crying wolf but it's not that is it's that we we are basically together we are women ultimately beyond you know beyond being born in a different country beyond having a different political view we are all women and we all feel the same pain and we all have had a cousin or a sister or a mother that has been abuse we are the 50 percent of the population so if we want society to really work we need to make a statement I mean to start making some changes in need to be considered as equals volute think what strikes so many of us who are watching this is that it feels spontaneous that there is something about art in theater working in this way to spread a message that is very important it's gone from country to country and now it's here in the United States what I can tell you from here in Washington d.c. Is that it was it was a it was like like a big wave of of women coming in wanting to participate we we didn't really it wasn't like a big effort we didn't have to do any paper motion it was just worth of mouth and women just flocked to us in started asking us how they can participate in volunteer in so yeah I mean it's people that we haven't met we just created a group on Facebook in it started getting bigger and bigger and now we are over 300 people in the group and we just started talking about planning this event 2 weeks ago. And and that dad really means something you know it does mean that this is real this is truth in this is happening to to a lot of us that's for Lou who is organizing a performance this Sunday in Washington d.c. At the Lincoln Memorial thank you so much for that for joining us I think it's an Abraham. Was. That was. Here and Now is a production of n.p.r. And you are in association with the b.b.c. World Service I'm Tanya mostly and Robin Young This is him. Was. 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To make precise promises that can be held against them once in office 2nd because in the Brecht a terrier in particular the debate has become so very simplified between on the one hand getting it done which sounds simple but probably isn't so on the other hand having a referendum so that people can decide to the BRICs it debate insofar as we have one is a debate of between catchphrases rather than a debate about substance do you think this is because both of the parties are holding quite extreme positions on the brakes it debate Well I think the Labor Party would contest to categorize ation that sees them as extreme because what they will say is we're actually the party in the middle the conservatives are saying let's do let's make it hard won the Lib Dems are saying let's revote whereas Labor say let's see if we can negotiate something a bit closer to the European Union but ultimately let's let the British people choose if they want that or they want to stay in the European Union so I'm I'm not sure Labor would accept that they are being extreme but certainly. They are offering either a soft bricks or remain are we getting it true picture of breaks and then the electorate as a whole has quite strong views about Bret's it already and I don't think they're that worried about the detail now there are people who just want to leave there are people who just want to remain and that is what is determining their electoral behavior because very very interestingly in this election whilst we talk about a very volatile electorate which it is well we talk about a large number of undecided voters which there are there is remarkably little switching between leave supporting qualities and referendums of course Agazzi So we seem to have coalesced into a leaving remain camp in our politics if we take the debate about immigration do you think the electorate getting a true understanding of some of the biggest issues here well I think you know there are obvious. Leading claims made there are those who say that you know immigration is bad for the economy and I would challenge those people to find a single study that finds the same thing but at the same time you're going to be sensitive to the fact that our debate over immigration has changed quite significantly revery different political context now to the world we were in and 2016 when we had the referendum and in fact what you find is amongst the British population those people who think immigration is a really important issue that number has dropped and the numbers of people who see immigration as positive either economically or culturally or both has increased so there's a more permissive context at the moment for debates about immigration and that's one of the reasons why all the parties including the conservatives are proposing. Immigration regime significantly more liberal than that that was on the table and that's a reasonably decent Libby misled only seems like doing a trade deal do you think that's going to be quite easy to complete after the whole break sit process is over I think the bottom line is how easy or difficult a deal is depends on what the deal says and does yet you could sign or a statement of intent with the United States is that both parties agree it would be a really good idea to trade more together when change anything reasserting been sent I think war and you could do that in 20 minutes if you want to really begin to trade would remember historically levels of terrorist between us and the u.s. a Very low c.e.o. Having to talk about things like services where you need to talk about making our regulations converge which means intruding on domestic law far more complicated far more politically sensitive far far harder to do and far far to get ratified so partly the length of time it takes is a function of the ambition that there is that there's no doubt that if we leave the European Union the short to medium term economic impacts will be negative the scale of those impacts will be determined by how close our relationship with the European Union is after we've left but of course for many people. This isn't about the economy it's either about control it's about solvency so it's about not being on the laws made by the European Union for others it might be about immigration which means that we can't be accepting creaming So you've got 2 different things going on here the politics and the economics and what you think is the best it's going to depend on what you prioritize most they get that our reporter NASA honey speaking to a professor an unmanned Menin who is the director of the organization called the u.k. In a changing Europe and they're talking about the general elections and of course back seats in all the party manifestos according to him about the vague and I mean a stick and that is go to some music and this is the. But I'm on but I think. This is. Fit to Lead a mother could love those who moved to coal. Mum. The sun got to shut it out of the temple. Chat monologue to tell the to. Follow the lead. He told. If. Any. Good name. Calling. We did. A meticulous. Upturn You're listening to on b.b.c. Radio Manchester and b.b.c. Radio now is find out what's happening on the region's roads his new car go. Travel. 6 north and south coming down through Cheshire and also. Their problems I can see there's a breakdown on the m 16 a slip road so it's not causing massive delays looks like. That's the report again 3. Stop or paramedic coming round from from that direction 2nd round traffic to or stop or if you live in the most right stop or Pearman coming off that junction just to close the traffic to the main character on the slip road is moving relatively well when the weather is affecting driving conditions on the high spots if you're heading into your 2223 over the. Network and it is very windy at that take it easy although there aren't any specific restrictions I know of traffic through traffic parks park quite some reason just off. The winter wonderland on around there and they say it could be people going from that. I don't know when they closed. But given the recent looking at things elsewhere. Things are fine in public transport long pass through some more can they of us not far short of the train crews buses replacing all the services on that line the latest the a.b.c. Radio Manchester and the a.b.c. Radio in Lancashire. You are listening to b.b.c. Radio Manchester and b.b.c. Radio Lancashire indeed now Test cricket will return to Pakistan later this week for the 1st time in 10 years with the series against Sri Lanka the longer format of the sport hasn't been played in the country since 2009 after the Sri Lanka team bus was attacked in Lahore while I'm joined on the line now by our reporter Nasser as reported on cricket from Pakistan Welcome to the program Nasser. Thank you very much so 1st of all how important is it for global cricket to have tests back in Pakistan hugely important especially because the conditions in Pakistan a very challenging especially for countries like England and Australia and it's important because it will bring Pakistan back into the the mainstream so to speak they've been left out in the wilderness ever since that attack 10 years ago they've had to be the pariahs of world cricket having to play in empty stadia in the Middle East in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in places like that so I think it's very important not only for Pakistan but but for the for the rest of the nations too because they get a chance if they wish to because that's the other big question how many countries will talk more if they wish to they will play in really interesting conditions for Test cricket and so what sort of security come expect to see in place it's going to be massive I was there when Pakistan play India back in the North Seas and you can expect a large number. Of security personnel being put in place it has been the case ever since international teams started touring in the shorter format of the game so you had the Zimbabwe tour back in 201531 day internationals took place then and there was a lot of security during that particular tour those matches incidentally were played in Lahore this time around though the matches are going to be played in Bindi the 1st Test and Karate the 2nd test as well but expect a big police presence and of course army personnel and paramilitaries as well because Pakistan wants to use this as a showcase really it wants to show this off to the countries like England and like Australia and New Zealand who are perhaps more reluctant to tour that you know Pakistan is as safe as anywhere in the world and that they too should be free to come here and play Test cricket you know hopefully reassure the rest of the world really isn't it so you've been to both of the venue the mentioned in the garage what sort of reception can the Sri Lankans expect Pakistanis love their cricket and whether it's the shorter format of the game you know when they played the the the match is the one day series just a short time ago between Sri Lanka round and Pakistan the crowds were a sell out and lots of. A lot of paraphernalia in the crowd as well posters from some of the supporters the Pakistani fans just glad to see Sri Lanka coming and helping them out in their time of of need so I think what you're going to get is a massive reception the tickets I think have been priced quite. Modestly for people on a budget so that's just to get 50 rupees I believe but if ironies absolutely so but what we have to bear in mind though with this because that test. Muchas Test matches are always difficult to sell unless you know you're in England or Australia or New Zealand where you can get big crowds in parts of the world like India and Pakistan people tend to go for the short form of the game because it'll finish in a day people just know how the money they don't have the time and the money to spend 4 days watching a Test match so they're trying with this sort of cheaper end of the market cheaper pricing to get more people into to watch the games and and hopefully that will work and get bigger crowds watching Test match cricket and also not bad you know 50 rupees and in English pounds we're looking at $25.00 pence considering the rate of the rupee at the moment but in terms of the teams and how they approach in the series Well I think it's going to be a very very interesting series for both I mean for for. For for surreal Lanka they've come back off a really interesting win against Pakistan in the shorter form of the game just a few few weeks ago they played Pakistan in Pakistan in a t 21 day type series now in those matches they defeated them and that was supposedly a 2nd string team this time they're bringing some more experienced players you've got money Matthew Angelos coming as well and they key players so they will be looking to try to try to you know secure victory now for Pakistan is the other end of the coin really they've just been hammered in Australia the Australians gave them a real fashioned thrashing in the both the Test match series and the t 20 series so they will be looking for some sort of pride they really installed. As an hour early as the captain a short time ago he is in charge but he's had a pretty bad series Down Under in Australia so he will be looking to get some pride back they've also brought back a player who hasn't played Test cricket for 10 years followed. Very much off the radar but he's been brought back into the side so it's pride what the Pakistanis are really playing for here they will want to secure victories in front of their home crowds because failing that is probably going to be the worst place for the Pakistan team to be to lose in front of your home crowd. Very important historic moments a world view freely really damning Well thank you very much and also and if cricket reporter there and of course NASA has covered cricket over the years and indeed for our program as well but thank you very much for your time and clearly a very important time for Pakistan. Now that Test match has come back and good luck to them all really and if I had the money not that I'm a cricketing found personally as most of you probably know even are paid 25 pence to go and see it let's go to the music and then we'll have the news after that. Very emotional that night there with them he You're listening to in this here on b.b.c. Radio Manchester and b.b.c. Radio Lancashire Well it's now time for a roundup of this week's agent News joining me in the studio is a race com Thank you talent a vigil was held this week in on a of the 2 people killed in last Friday's a terror attack a London Bridge Saskia Jones and John Marriott were stopped by a convicted terrorist a small income they were all attending a conference about prisoner rehabilitation Khan was shot dead by police he was under supervision after being released from prison last year authours he's announced checking more than 70 other convicted terrorists in similar situations the London Mayor City Khan said that the city would on of the victims by committing to hope not hatred Meanwhile the b.b.c. Has learned that a spawn Khan's funeral has been held in his family's ancestral village in Pakistani media one residence in Kashmir said the people were attending out of sympathy for the family not because they condone Khan's terror attack. In other news race equality campaigners say that voters from black Asian and other ethnic minority communities shouldn't be underestimated in next week's election the really need trust says that there are around one point sorry 4800000 ethnic minority voters in the u.k. . A British couple who have won nearly 120000 pounds in damages after being discriminated against by not being allowed to adopt some deep. From show were turned down because of their Indian ancestry and were told that they had a better chance in India or Pakistan the council and the adoption agency denying any such discriminatory statements were made the comedian issue Maher was booed off stage after making a political joke at a charity event this week the mash Report host had a bread roll holder to the law states have an as a cricket lunch he responded by saying that in his 13 year Korea is the only time he's ever had anything thrown at him b.b.c. One radio or breakfast host Greg James says that he was embarrassed to be there and has described the treatment as appalling international news now an Indian police say that a factory fire in Delhi has killed at least $43.00 people the huge blaze in the city's a crowded old quarter broke out in the early hours of the morning many of those who died were laborers sleeping in the building the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has a Describe the fire as horrific. An Indian woman attacked and set on fire on her way to testify against her alleged rapists as Dari to of her injuries they turned to a 3 year old who was travelling to court in the northern states of water Pradesh on Thursday when she was set upon 5 men have been arrested for the attack including 2 that she had accused of raping her in a separate case in India 4 men who were accused of rape and murder have been shot dead by police all 4 were taken for a reconstruction in Hyderabad at the spot where they allegedly killed the 27 year old vet when police say that they tried to escape that deaths have prompted some celebration in the country a property developer has agreed to hand over cash and assets worth 190000000 pounds which will be passed on to the Pakistani government the assets of Mollica Riaz Hussein who owns one of Pakistan's biggest private sector employers were frozen by the U.K.'s National Crime Agency on the grounds that they may have been in the process proceeds of crime. And finally NASA says that it's found India's Vickery which crashed in September the wreckage was identified by an engineer from Chinari after NASA released satellite images and asked people to search for it well and at least they found the wreckage didn't lay in cost a lot of money a lot of money to get it out there but there you go a story we have covered on in this as well should they spend on space so should they spend on the people in a way that discussion will no doubt continue more from race later on. What a year he sucks me to Christmas already would be a busy one for the 1st trip they call the midwife to the to introduce things we do to promote the health of this is a trauma on Albert Square someone must've been frustrating you disabled good for you to the business that's the fun with Michael McIntyre. So. How was it to take Gavin instead say cooking told us people tidy Christmas on t.v. See one. RINGBACK Of you know. This. Stuff. So. I thought. It. Was. Time to turn. Legendary British music producer Dr Seuss to the team doctor with another ukase hottest new talent that's pretty and that was ticked up was doing quite well and he certainly didn't quite well as well as an easily been around the block a few times and still there offering all sorts of interesting music for us you're listening to interest here on b.b.c. Radio Manchester b.b.c. Radio. Still to come he went from a small village in India to becoming a prominent activist and leader of British Muslims we speak to the co-author of a new biography on. The Quay and he was the one who was one of the co-founders of the British Muslim Parliament so we'll be hearing about his life as well and then later on in the program we'll get an update on the Delhi 5 Factory House well but now it's time for traffic and travel cross over to Nick arco. The radio Manchester and b.b.c. Radio in Lancashire travel update. It's looking a bit busy around traffic park still I think people leaving the Christmas thing there the winter wonderland it's looking busy coming out onto the motorway of course the rugby has been on the stadium as well but it didn't look too bad coming out of there I think that finished about an hour ago a half ago. An expert on rugby matches that the m 6 right north and south no problems through Cheshire find heading through line sure is well the sixty's all right now are there were some problems earlier on but they managed to meet that broken down vehicle stop apparently that was the one that was left over and it seems the weather is improving over the canines so those warnings are not there for the I'm $62.00 now it didn't seem as bad as it was it's not to say that extra care isn't needed having you still a bit when the other things on public transport Lancaster to more come to shore to train crew so northern services for that line there is a bus replacing it patently earlier on I was told it was just nothing but there are buses replacing their service which is something at least that's the latest. B.b.c. Radio Manchester b.b.c. Radio one show. Women. Want to. Show me. Knowledge common. The I'm. Glad to. Be but give it to. The. And that's their bit of. Music and another great artist sing very well for herself You're listening to induce here on b.b.c. Radio Manchester b.b.c. Radio show with me to live through the time now to give you time check is 644 now we return to our feature and tonight we take a look at a new biography of academic and political activist. In so the key now the key cofounded and that the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain since 992 and is director of one of the oldest Muslim think tanks in Britain the Muslim Institute which he also co-founded in 1973 Well how did rubbing shoulders shoulders with the likes of Malcolm x. Muhammad Ali Ayatollah Khamenei and Tony Abbott fact him while a very British Muslim activist the life of the author the into the key unveiled how a young boy from a small Indian village became Alito a British Muslims now the book is written alongside the philosopher writer and put it to go find his c. Scott Jordan who joins me on the line now from the u.s. Hello there Scott you're right I guess I'm doing fine how are you fine Very well thank you very much for taking time out to speak to us so 1st of all really why is the also the into the story worth telling in your view. In my view his story is unique in a way that it's more the way he lived his life was in a way that it was in that is interactions with other human beings that really helped them shine and really kind of helped. Major events that had kind of come through throughout is why it wasn't the fact that he was focusing on itself or on what he was trying to accomplish but in how he could help others accomplish what they wanted to especially when it was with the lines of say obtaining justice for others or making sure that that everyone is treated well and that we all progress as a society and as a community together and that by goes for pretty much everyone expects more of a global And I think as his wife progressed you found that out even though it seemed like a very big thing for someone born in a very small village India to eventually take on life I mean did you 1st become aware of him then. I became aware of him about 2 years ago so I was I've been writing for critical Muslims for quite a few years at this point under the editor a person says there was an Sardar he is a member of the Muslim Institute as well and so I've had lots of interactions with various individuals that are part of the investments or 2 and I know they had been working on this biography for a long period of time trying to get together I know they I think had several attempts that didn't end up panning out I know that earlier in his life he wanted to train but the other and. They essentially came to me and asked if I could kind of help them put it together and it was quite a big feat to take on but I felt. It was and it was a challenge I wanted to take on that was a lot of fun for me so actually when I had met him 1st was the they do this winter gathering every year which is where fellows from the movement to to go down to Salzburg and have sort of the it's like a conference but not quite as formal more of just like a weekend of intellectual thought and camaraderie and all of that and so I was there 2 years ago and introduced to him that I know that a year later I'd be writing a biography Well of course but you did you write the book with him so Bob about prose this lunatic. Well it was the 1st thing I because they had asked me and I was I was in the states time I'd kind of gone back and forth I'd worked for a little bit in the u.k. At that time but. At this when they had actually asked me for certain was last summer and so I was doing 2 summers ago I was doing I was working in the u.s. But point time and they had said well you know what are you looking at it was all short term work would you want to come to the u.k. And help write this biography and I said Well certainly and so it began for me by just kind of combing through biographies because I'm like well you know there's a bunch of different Sure there's certain ways to write them but you know you can write a biography if you haven't read too many and personally I myself always been a fan of biographies but I want to take kind of a new direction so I want to see what everyone else is doing 1st there had been a series of interviews done by a son Masood is one of as the chairman of the trust for the Muslim Institute and he he kind of helped guide that he was kind of my I don't know spiritual guide if you will through the writing of the book and then kind of gave me pointers of where to look you know maybe read this book read that book similar people have gone through it at least lived in similar times which is very different as a book like this hadn't necessarily been written and so there was a lot of creative opportunities in that but also had to do a lot of research looking back at history and what exactly happening and how people were feeling and and get a feel for that and then eventually I went to actually live with that city he and his wife for about 2 weeks and during that time I did so my own interviews got a look through kind of his extensive library and notes and all that and then interview several people he had been close with throughout all the years and then after that it's just me sitting down and putting it together in words so yeah now as. We have had the opportunity on our program certainly in the past to interview. Dr Gayle So the use of the selves but in retrospect people could say he's had a controversial past he was a supporter of the Iranian revolution and a supporter of Ayatollah Khomeini's forth one life of summer nationally how does he look back at those days now. Well I mean. It's I think it's part of being human to be a bit controversial right we're all going to have opinions that are what we call I suppose unpopular. In mocking back at what was happening. There is when we all can say. We may have been wrong in doing that or you know we could've done this better but the the important thing is that we've distilled some kind of a lesson out of it and I think personally I've always seen Dr city he is a man who kind of found himself in these very interesting situations and these very interesting circumstances speaking to very interesting people. And and it didn't matter who it was and how other people thought of them he always saw everyone as human being and someone from whom he can learn from and maybe there can be somewhat of a mutual learning that takes place in that. Of course and looking back you know certain things you you kind of hold firm to your beliefs even though even upon retrospect maybe you might think differently upon them as they happen today. But I think it's there's it's important to see both sides of things and that there aren't just good guys and bad guys as it works I think is kind of what happens with the media today we try to we try to figure out who wide things went wrong who is to blame who's the bad guy who's the good guy and part of the challenge in writing this biography was to look at people who many people would say are bad guys and just try and make them human because that's all we all are right with scoping the family we are running out of time but finally what kind of impact has the gal's of the into the key had on the lives of British Muslims would you say. The the key impact is hit him and his generation in particular laid the foundations and made it so that you can say the British Muslim community and all I have to do is say that you know what I'm talking about and there's a history to that there's a culture and there's a there's there's dimension to all of this it is in fighting to make sure that they weren't a struggling minority in. Somehow in that how that sense can be seen in other communities throughout the world. And I think his biggest impact was to not only to make it make it so the world knew who the British Muslims were but also so the the British Muslims knew that they need to look at themselves and that we all have to kind of look in the mirror one day and say are we doing it right can we do it better now what do we do for tomorrow it's well thank you very much for your time and sending good luck with the book it is out now the publishers can just remind us of them yes speaking books become book The Right lovely thought if you want to get the latest offering by Beacon books then it's out now a school thank you very much to know that we shall cut with you again in the near future. Ok thank you thank you very much thank you and now let's go to a piece of music just before. He. Says in. This. Someone. You're listening to. The radio. I know well it's race alone I just saw you walk through it while you live on air talk about your wife in such a horrible way because talk about my wife in a horrible way to proceed kicks up a storm I tell you that she has I've Nadya's do me a you sent me. Some info about storm. You know she's coming on air this saying. Well because they can't. Stand he actually means a gift and this is a bit of your philosophy when doesn't it. When is it coming by the way it. Is the kind of all over the place where the men are. Finally is kind of around Wales kind of n.c.o. Mint and saying that the rains that we've you know the past 4 Yeah I was probably part of it as well Ok well. I mean you know that you know I mean well 1st you could have the could. Be for the new sin are scanning troll one person a while you know right so you might remember last week I was me right last week why all went. Well apparently sort of went to pot. Because we got a message. Last week we had. A hard. Right literally it means that now the camel has come. Out from behind the Mt mountain basically or is coming from of the mountain. Now on the script Terry says . The truth has come out. Now I think that's kind of Roy I mean are you just not me the wrote this because it's from us or this one provision was was filling in for that. I didn't ask I'll buy our own park is on a kind of means that the the hidden has become uncovered I think but apparently there's a listener that things different world yes I mean we were trying to get hold of him but he hasn't replied yet. And basically he tweeted in saying the particular tweet that you mentioned. Was the explanation was a bit wrong really. Hello Well I just caught up on in this for the last few minutes this is safe and to catch the program and he wanted to share his information regarding the translation of want by heart of Guinea it doesn't mean truth is out but someone's ego arrogance is belittled. Won't be hard to meet is different to the heart of some Yeah so I don't know whether we're quite wrong with another Hugo. So we were a little confused then and anyway we got 30 seconds for sure we should really just resign I reckon we should. It's a cliffhanger as it's a cliffhanger so maybe going so literally maybe that's a quote that you can it maybe storm at the heart of a hard look be a dick look we're. Going to get the news then then after the news we'll continue that chat and we'll continue with a bit of quote as well from the lovely race gone but let's take in the news 1st. Thank you. B.b.c. News at 7 o'clock I'm sorry Caffrey some of the key pledges of the election campaign are being pushed by the party leaders as they try to win over voters on the last weekend of the campaign the conservatives are focusing on immigration and labor social care both parties have also faced renewed scrutiny of Torney issues with Boris Johnson insisting there would be no checks on goods moving between Northern Ireland and Great Britain on during his breaks a deal the shadow chancellor John McDonnell has expressed concern that the issue of anti semitism in labor could affect the election results he apologised to the Jewish community and said there were always lessons to learn the Liberal Democrat leader Joe Swinson has ruled out supporting either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister in the event of a hung parliament saying neither man was fit for office she told supporters in Sheffield what she was fighting for. We're doing this for the future for our country's future because we are better other Comfrey than the time I heard old broken version that comes from Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbin they would have us pull up the drawbridge be insular be close to the society but we know that Britain is better than that we know that we can be an open their liberal an inclusive society a man has been arrested after monkey chants were allegedly made towards Manchester United players during yesterday's Darby against Manchester City the man whose $41.00 is being questioned on suspicion of a racially aggravated offense the construction firm Kier has said as an employee has been suspended 3 people including a 13 year old boy have been arrested in Northamptonshire by police investigating the murder of a woman the 25 year old victim was stabbed and rushed in last night and died at the scene our reporters Simon Jones has more details 13 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of a 27 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and a 2nd 27 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted the police haven't sat if the victim and the people who've been arrested were known to each other but officers of the scribed this is a tragic event and they say the community is very much in a state of shock 2 people have been arrested in Dover on suspicion of terror fences relating to Syria the man and a woman are being questioned by officers from West Midlands counterterrorism units hundreds of thousands of people have marched through the streets of Hong Kong to demand grace or political rights over the past 6 months there have been many violent demonstrations but today's protest was peaceful. B.b.c. News the time is just coming up to travel by happy saying time now it's 6 minutes past 7 now police in India have arrested the owner of a Delhi factory where a fire killed more than 40 people the fire service said there were have been hampered by the narrow streets in the area affected but they had been able to rescue more than 50 people from Delhi but the. Reports. Of the fire broke out in the early hours of the morning on the ground floor of the multistory factory before spreading quickly to other level. Officials say around $100.00 workers were sleeping inside the building at the time the fact she is in a congested and densely populated area of telly and the narrow alleyways made it difficult for fire engines and I'm going to insist to reach the scene firefighters had to carry the victims out one by one eye gazing up but is this woman yes men says her younger brother died in the fire. Is that a child was born today he didn't know about it we can't.

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Our family is complete again said the wife of Princeton graduate student she with a long as news of his release broke while had been arrested in 2016 while working on his doctoral dissertation in Iran u.s. Officials denied Iran's claim that Wang had been sent to spy on Iran President Trump and Secretary of State might pump a 0 both hailed ones release Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif posted photos of himself flying back to Iran with scientist Massud Summa Mani who had been arrested in Chicago last year and charged with violating trade sanctions the swap comes amid generally hostile relations between Washington and Tehran Peter Kenyon n.p.r. News Istanbul. Congressional negotiators say they are close to working out a deal on authorizing funding for the military N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith reports it could include a somewhat non-germane provision that provides paid family leave for federal employees the massive must pass bill often becomes a vehicle for initiatives not entirely related to national defense in this case Democrats and presidential adviser and daughter of Volga Trump are both hailing a provision that would provide 12 weeks of paid family leave to all federal employees currently They receive no paid time off for the birth or adoption of a child as the country's largest employer the United States government must lead by example of vodka Trump said the idea being that this could open the floodgates to more private employers offering a full 3 months of paid family leave a Democratic aide told n.p.r. Negotiators had a tentative agreement to add the provision the negotiations were not yet complete on the entirety of the National Defense Authorization Act Tamara Keith n.p.r. News traveling around France was tough today as truckers blocked highways the most trains were canceled various strikes and protests against President Micron's economic policies continue activists also want to cancel his new reform of the country's pension system but the country's prime minister says that won't happen this is n.p.r. News. Michigan environmental officials say they will examine a property that is contaminated with uranium the partially collapsed into the Detroit River last week as Ross McNamara from member station w d t reports the site has been polluted for a decade revere copper and brass used to construct uranium rods for the Manhattan Project the United States' top secret nuclear program Nick ason Delft is with the Michigan Department of Environment Great Lakes and energy he says the Detroit River was tested near the site earlier this year before a stretch of shoreline in a dock collapsed last week and there was no cause for concern then you know we did some sampling out there in the spring in River samples and we found no levels above normal back on levels in terms of radiological element now ason delve says more testing of the river water will be done there is a Detroit drinking water intake just down river from the site for n.p.r. News Russ McNamara in Detroit Red Korea's u.n. 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Nothing to clowns from the Joker to hustlers and parasites a look at class warfare in the movies of $21000.00 also Christen bell on being a Disney Princess and the House moves toward each president Sunday on Weekend Edition from n.p.r. Sunday from 79 on k. P.b.s. . This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Michel Martin we're going to begin this hour with the news that the American graduate student she way Juan who had been held in Iran for 3 years after being accused of being a spy is now free as part of a prisoner swap brokered by the Swiss government one was exchange for Iranian scientist Masood Sulaimani who'd been arrested in the u.s. Last year for allegedly violating trade sanctions and was due in court next week negotiations over was released began under Robert O'Bryant who served as the State Department special envoy for hostage affairs but in September O'Brien became the new national security adviser replacing John Bolton earlier today Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep had a chance to speak with O'Brien about the prisoner exchange and Steve Inskeep is with us now Steve thanks so much for joining us there Michel so you know the national security adviser has previously been quoted as saying For example he said this in March the president has had unparalleled success in bringing Americans home without paying concessions without prisoner exchanges but through force of will and the goodwill that he's generated around the world that was a quote so this was a prisoner exchange what happened what changed well it wasn't about goodwill because the Iranians are not happy with President Trump for obvious reasons I don't know that it was necessarily about force of will it does appear to have been a trade it was a specific trade that was proposed publicly by Iran's foreign minister months ago this specific prisoner for another specific prisoner who was facing charges inside the United States now Robert O'Brien the National Security Adviser minimized the value of what the United States gave up here here's what O'Brien said about that Mr Solomon is returned to Iran the charges against him were dismissed you'll have to talk to the Justice Department about the details of that but I can tell you he was going to court next week and. This was a very very. Good deal for the United States of America I think I'm hearing you suggesting that he would have gotten out anyway perhaps you weren't giving up that much is that what you're telling or are we we didn't we didn't give up anything take a step back here relationship between the United States and Iran have been tense for months now there was not a sense that there were any ongoing negotiations do we have any sense of when that changed it's not clear to me that there are direct negotiations now the indications we get is that the United States works through Switzerland the Swiss have an embassy in Tehran which the Americans don't and the Swiss handle u.s. Interests there and seem to have taken the lead in this so let's let's go back to the whole question of the prisoner exchange one of the arguments against a prisoner exchange is that it makes prisoners more valuable Yeah when you ask Yeah the national security advisor about this what that he say. I asked O'Brien about that here how do you avoid creating an incentive for Iran to take other prisoners to trade or even other countries to take American prisoners to trade what we've been very successful at during the entire Trump administration is not giving concessions for hostages we haven't sent pallets of cash we haven't lifted sanctions there were and there was no money for the Iranians here which is something that has been a consistent demand of theirs over the years we still have a lot of reporting here to understand if there's a little more to this agreement than we know or a little less to this agreement than we know because again the United States is stressing that this wasn't very much really to surrender at all so we let you go Steve that there are at least 4 other Americans currently being held in Iran do we have any sense of whether their circumstances were discussed as part of this Mr Brown have something to say about why none of these other prisoners seem to have been a part of this this agreement we don't know O'Brien indicated that this deal came about now because of a change in Iran's position that in spite of Iran's public statements that they were willing to arrange a prisoner swap and they've said this sort of thing for many months that Iran didn't seem serious about it and now they became serious in this one instance but we don't know what are the talks might be ongoing at all with other prisoners Bachar namaz he is one of them and he issued a statement on behalf of his family saying that he has beyond devastated that his brother and his father remain inside Iran. Having been convicted of charges that are rather opaque to us and they were not included in this deal here's what O'Brien said about that well we don't leave anybody behind and we look for the opportunities to bring hostages home as they arise and we're going to continue to work hard to to bring the other Americans home that. Was national security adviser Robert O'Brien from his conversation earlier today with N.P.R.'s Steve Inskeep. There are a lot of words we could use to describe the n.p.t. Hearings held so far by the House Intelligence Committee and the Judiciary Committee tense heated personal and that's not just a reference to the sparring between Democrats and Republicans know even the witnesses are feeling the heat and having their motives questioned on Wednesday Doug Collins the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee suggested that Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan was not acquainted with past testimony which caused Carla to respond this way I would not speak about these things without reviewing the facts so I'm insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor I don't care about those facts now exchanges like this one has sparked a lot of commentary throughout these hearings with some suggesting that gender dynamics might be at play or that is just simply a reflection of today's political divisions but Tom Nichols thinks it might be something else he is the author of The Death of expertise and he's with us now from Rhode Island Professor Nichols thanks so much for talking to us My pleasure so the exchange we just play got a lot of attention this week I assume you've been watching the hearings as well what have you noticed the problem here is that the hearings were basically a set up of dueling experts and this is when people start to distrust expertise because they think of experts as hired guns and so I think there are a lot of people in the public who looked at this and said experts know a lot of things but they bring that expertise and to political service I think that's unfortunate because experts try quite consciously not to do that I share it Professor Carlin's outreach Doug Collins is question but it's a political environment that's to be expected when one recurring claim from the Republicans during these impeachment hearings is that the witnesses experts testifying are partisan and one lawmaker on Wednesday even asked the 3 law professors who were chosen by the Democrats as witnesses how they had voted in 2000 . 16 I'll just play that exchange I mean just with a show of hands how many on the panel actually voted for Donald Trump and 2016 I don't think you are obligated to say anything about how we just asked about how it was just a show of hands and I just want to point out that the 4th witness on Wednesday Jonathan Turley whom you just mentioned who was chosen by the Republicans to testify I felt the need to say that he was not a trump supporter so given your thesis here that the main point of your book The Death of expertise is that the American public has grown hostile towards expertise overall what do you make of that whole exchange there how do you understand what just happened there the question was completely inappropriate and it underlines I think a popular view that if experts have well defined political views they are incapable of being professionals and keeping those views out of their work this is I think one of the things that the president has really hammered home over the years that you can't trust journalists you can't trust scientists you can't trust anybody except him but this predates President Trump that you know because people don't really understand a lot of these issues they assume that anyone who explains them is trying to hoodwink them let's go back to the point that you made earlier your book The Death of expertise precedes president trumps administration 2 what do you attribute this I mean he said that this whole attitude that there is no such thing as earned expertise is a longstanding sort of problem to what do you attribute it I think the underlying problem in not just American culture but in the developed world is an increasing narcissism that convinces people that complicated issues are simple and that they can figure them out because we're all intelligent people and we all tend to embrace even the most complicated issues and I thought I was primarily writing about Americans and within a year it was in 12 foreign languages which really disturbed me because it suggests that this is a problem. Of affluence of the kind of information overload that's available through too much bandwidth on television and cable and the media and the Internet and I think it also reflects a lack of trust we used to trust each other more we used to assume that our doctor was not in the pocket of big pharma or that you know our carpenter was not in the pocket of big wood but now we look at each other constantly with a jaundiced eye in part because we spent too much time alone and in part because everything has become an extension of politics and it's driven us crazy is there any benefit now and now I am asking you to kind of return to the present moment. Do you feel that there has been any benefit to these hearings to kind of describe to the public to lay out the case to the public I mean that's the purpose of these public hearings do you feel any useful purpose has been served I took quite a lot of static from a lot of people on social media because I did not think the impeachment hearings with a panel of lawyers went particularly well I think all it did was confirmed people in their beliefs either one way or another it gave an opportunity to politicians from both sides do a lot of grandstanding but I think was unfortunate I think some of the questioning was excellent I think if you were paying attention with an open mind you could learn things but I don't think it really moved the public debate or produced that much of a moment of civic education I think. What I would rather see are members of Congress debating each other directly instead of sitting up behind a podium and just throwing spitballs at professors which is something that a lot of people just find out pertaining So I think actually having to go to the floor and debate each other and marshal these arguments about what constitutes impeachment what the Federalist Papers may have said what the founders may have believed I think educating our members of Congress would be a. A better use of our time and then forcing the American public to watch that debate and to hear those arguments then just you know Pepper a panel of professors with preloaded questions that was Tom Nichols he's the author of The Death of expertise he's also a professor at the u.s. Naval War College but wants to emphasize that he's speaking here in his own behalf Professor Nichols thank you so much for talking to us thanks for having me. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. 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And Iran have carried out a prisoner swap Iran released a Princeton University grad student one of several Americans held in Iran in exchange for an Iranian scientist who face a federal trial in Georgia the California utility p.g. And e. Says it reached a 13 and a half $1000000000.00 settlement to resolve claims related to wildfires blamed on the company's equipment the deal still needs court approval but it would settle claims from several major fires including the deadly camp fire from last year and firefighters in Australia Sam massive wildfire burning on the edge of Sydney can't be extinguished without the help of heavy rain since October fires have destroyed some 700 homes and killed at least 6 people I'm joining her post n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from t.i.a. 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That it could happen anywhere and we're also service members that are just about right to be here N.P.R.'s Greg Allen is in Pensacola and he is with us now Greg thanks so much for joining us you're welcome the authorities have said that the shooting was done by a Saudi national a member of the Saudi Air Force at the base for training have they said any more than that well very little Michel the big question of course here is whether this was an act of terrorism and on that issue Authorities won't say at this point some elected officials including a congressman in Florida senator Rick Scott say it is terrorism but they haven't provided any details in the meantime troubling information has been emerging although very little has been confirmed yet by authorities one key detail involves a Twitter account that appears to have belonged to the gunman it talks broadly about American crimes against Muslims and it was posted apparently just before the shooting occurred and later in the day twitter suspended the account but that's about all we know about that at this point so what can you tell us about the condition of the victims Well today we learned the identity of one of those who was killed it's Joshua Caleb Watson he was a recent graduate of the u.s. Naval Academy he was at the Naval Air Station there flight training his brother posted information on Facebook today on the post he said Joshua quote saved countless lives today with his own after being shot multiple times he made it outside and told the 1st response team where the shooter was and those details were invaluable and then Watson's father spoke to the pay. The coal News Journal he said his son was taken to hospital didn't survive on arriving there at today's prayer vigil in here and that's a call to the chief deputy sheriff in a Scandia County chip Simms had a few details on some of those wounded he talked about 2 sheriff's deputies and someone that he identified as a Navy policeman who were among those were wounded one deputy was treated and released the other officer at the Navy police and he said We're doing well and in good spirits or he has a little more of what he had to say it shook us all it shakes the 1st responders safe a law enforcement gets there but we know this that that the training and the support that we get from our community from this community from you guys is going to is what's going to help Pensacola a scheme be a county get back to where we need to be and Greg tell us what we know about the investigation at this point well it's all being handled by the f.b.i. And they're not known for being really free with details although as I say there's a lot of information that's being sourced by various news organizations but has not they've not come from publicly today they released photos of personnel working the crime scene and collecting evidence they say they're focused on conducting additional interviews in a tweet today the f.b.i. Said members of its joint terrorism task force are part of the investigation that they haven't determined the shooter's motivation so those are some what the f.b.i. Has been saying meanwhile reporters asked Defense Secretary Marc esper about this he was at a conference about what he thinks whether terrorism is a volved he says that he wouldn't say he says too early to say about that but he says they are taking a look at how the u.s. Government grants foreign nationals access to its military bases here in the u.s. Thanks That's N.P.R.'s Greg Allen and Pensacola Florida Greg thank you you're welcome. We're going to spend some time now talking about the 2020 presidential race on Tuesday California senator Kamel Harris announced that she is dropping out of the Democratic primary saying she didn't have the money to continue to be competitive it wasn't. Brought end to a campaign that had been soaring early on Harris the 3rd black or biracial woman ever to run for president the victor in a number of successful campaigns in the largest state had been considered a front runner after the 1st debate her campaign wasn't perfect in recent weeks her campaign was taking fire over staff turnover and the lack of a clear message on key policy issues among other things but the senator's exit has sparked almost as much commentary as her entrance with a number of observers asking whether Harris's rough road is just another example of a double standard for women candidates especially women of color or whether the challenges were particular to Harrisburg so we thought this would be a great conversation for our weekly Barbershop roundtable because that's where we talk to interesting people about what's in the news and what's on their minds so joining us today are Jennifer Riley Collins she is an Army veteran the former executive director of the a.c.l.u. Of Mississippi and she most recently ran for Mississippi attorney general Jennifer Collins welcome thank you so much for joining us thank you glad to be here also with us is like she is an attorney and a writer in New York Michael welcome to you as well thanks for having me Michel and last but not least Kelly Ditmar is a professor of political science at Rutgers University in Camden where she is a scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics and welcome you as well thank you so much for joining us thanks for having me and I'm going to start with you because you wrote a piece for c.n.n. a Couple of months ago and you argued that women running for office have to run what you call a dual campaign I'm going to read a bit from the piece you write women quote have to oversee a traditional campaign in addition to a 2nd one to convince skeptics of their electability it puts a strain on the campaigns most vital resources time and money and quote do you think that that's a factor here absolutely I think when you see what Kamel Harris had to respond to throughout the course of her campaign from media to voters questions to even her. On the. I'm hanging on the campaign trail having to tell people that this was possible because folks were asking whether or not a black woman could be elected as president of the United States and that's something we've seen women and particularly women of color have to deal with because we have not seen them in this level of leadership so generally callers I want to ask you this because one of the reasons we called you is that you were running to be the chief law enforcement officer of your state and I wondered if you felt that you had to sort of prove your competency despite the fact that you had this long career in the army you retired as a full bird colonel you were an Army intelligence officer so did you still feel though that there were these sort of basic questions about whether you could do the job that someone else with a different biography would not have had to to do yes because it's often assumed particularly in a red state like Miss 50 that is you know you are not a white male that you are not as electable you know one would assume that my resume reads for itself but the reality is I had to read my resume repeatedly to people to let them know that not only was I fully qualified but that I was the most qualified and more like I'm going to turn to you because after Harris suspended her bid you know you wrote a piece that caught our attention you know for the Guardian you wrote that and you also felt that even if you credit the double standard to which you know women and people of color may be held you still felt that she had problems in her candidacy in part due to her policy positions and in part due to the fact that she was a prosecutor and I want to ask you 1st you're a lawyer yourself was the fact of her being a prosecutor itself disqualifying to you Oh absolutely not I think you can have people who are progressive prosecutors you can have examples of prosecutors where there is controversial legislation where they would support it or not and often calmly has chose silence or to send mixed signals. There was a race that she was running with a Republican opponent the policy measure was about reforming the 3 strikes law and she chose not to use other Republican opponent ran to her left so there are several examples of this throughout Conley Harris's candidacy where she did not have to choose particular options so it doesn't suggest mere electability or making herself viable but that these suggest that these are her ideological positions and in a time where we had multiple black lives who were being just not considered in the justice system and their families did not receive justice we can't afford to have people who send mixed messages on our lives and our well being but Kelly Kelly didn't want to go back to you because one of the things that intrigues me is that come on Harris's critics criticized her for being too invested in her identity as a cop and some people thought that that was used to you know to her detriment and as you heard like I say it's not just that she was a cop but the way she was a cop so I credit her her point of view on this but I was curious whether is this in effect a kind of a tricky issue for women candidates because on the one hand they are being challenge to prove their toughness but the very jobs that they would take to demonstrate their toughness. Creates difficulties in with other constituencies do you think that that's that's true yeah I think there's something to that this double bind that we often talk about when it comes to women candidates is true and it's particularly true when we're talking about executive office and what we've seen historically is that women are expected to be both sort of what I would say man enough for the job right meet the masculine expectations of being tough of being strong on issues around security or defense or the economy right things that have been unfortunately traditionally associated with Met male expertise while at the same time meeting expectations of their gender or race which would in many cases be sort of in Congress to those stereotypical expectations of masculinity so Jennifer on a college you know what about you you know you have this incredible resume I mean again as I said Army veteran and intelligence officer and you know an officer but you're also the executive director of the a.c.l.u. So it seems that you also have firm grounding in civil rights and civil liberties so what do you why do you think you didn't prevail in your race it seems to me that you are as qualified as a person could possibly be for the for the very reason that was spoken about earlier. It's not they still on on qualifications but based on people's perception of who's done it before so the same by is that Senator Harris had to deal with for being a prosecutor in my opinion doing her job because we know as attorneys that we have to provide competent and zealous representation for our our client at the time of her being a prosecutor her client was the state of California and she was doing what was required of her. By the state of California so I. I don't necessarily like to see her penalized for doing what she is required to do by the codes of professional and competent and zealous representation of her client before we let you go I wanted to ask you Jennifer only cause I'll start with you is do you draw any any message from Senator Harris's experience or from your own experience that you think other people should take note of particularly women of color who are trying to seek executive positions I still go for it so I think we have to redefine the metrics against which a woman of color is measured to say whether or not she's viable whether or not she is then also electable let my qualifications my performance my potential speak for what I can do not the money that I can raise all right marketable what about you do you draw any lesson from Senator Harris's experience yes to even to aside from her kind of her prosecutorial record was which has been mixed and you know to be fair that can be that's arguable there are 200 black women progressives that have supported Elizabeth Warren because she's been speaking boldly about these issues consistently for several years and so calmly Harris had committed to a particular message I think that she would have gone farther but she committed to mixed messages while collecting billionaire donor money and Kelly did what about you is there any lesson you think that should be drawn from Senator Harris's experience as a presidential candidate or is it just is that just her. The fact that there have only been 15 black women to ever serve in statewide elected executive offices across this country in all of us history tells me because I know that black women are more than qualified for these positions and have done the work in fact to get many other people elected that something else is going on these heavy stereotypes expectations and barriers that are placed in the way of white men and calmly Harris's particular campaign have a lot of problems but there's also another thread of the conversation that still should be important to our thinking and analysis about this campaign which is the role of gender race and the intersections of those in the barriers we place in the way of women running for office especially the highest office that's killing him or she's roster of political science at Rutgers University Camden we reached her in wonder also with us will like a job Ali She's a writer and attorney in New York she was with us from our bureau in New York and Jennifer Riley Collins is a former executive director of the Mississippi a.c.l.u. a Former colonel in the Army and she just ran for state attorney general in Mississippi we reached her in Mississippi thank you all so much for talking with us thank you thank you thank you Michel. 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George Zimmerman the Florida man who shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin in 2012 is back in the news Zimmerman was acquitted of homicide in connection with the killing but he is now suing Martin's family the family's attorney and a law enforcement agency for more than $100000000.00 The suit claims that Zimmerman was the victim of a conspiracy and malicious prosecution and that he has been defamed now while the merits of the suit in the eye catching demands have been widely reported one detail has not been Zimmerman's lawyer he's being represented by Larry Klayman who is known for Politico filing of lawsuits in support of long de bunked conspiracy theories for example he spent years denouncing President Obama as a closet Muslim who was not born in the United States we wanted to learn more about Larry Klayman and his work so we've called on Heidi by Rick she leads the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project which publishes its Hate Watch blog and she is with us now from her office in Alabama Heidi thanks so much for joining us thank you for having me so the Southern Poverty Law Center as we said tracks hate in extremist groups in the United States and you have extensive information on your website about Larry Klayman Can you just begin by telling us why you started following his work Yeah well it really started in the early 2000 as as he was beginning to attack the candidate Obama and started looking into Obama's as part of the Berger conspiracy this idea that Obama wasn't born in the United States but once we started looking at him we realize that his conspiracy mongrel went further back into the 1990 s. And he's basically kept it up until the present day just in the very recent past he held a grand jury convened on his own to indict Robert Mahler related to the Muller investigation into Donald Trump so these activities continue so he's often identified as a gadfly which I think implies that he's you know kind of harmless or perhaps a bit eccentric but how do you see it well I don't think. That he's harmless he's a gadfly in the sense that he seems to attach himself to every kind of controversy involving anti-government extremists for example he tried to represent in Bundy who was a rancher in Nevada who brought a bunch of militia types and anti-government extremists to his ranch in an attempt to repel a federal effort to reclaim cattle from him he had paid his cattle fees and forever and whenever there's a high profile situation like that it seems like layman shows up to represent somebody who is also involved in conspiracy mongering and you know the Gadfly issue also relates to the Zimmerman case here because it's making headlines and here we find clément again accusing there of having been some kind of you know controversy in the courts and he's making a big stink about this and he's basing it on a video that was put out by guy who works at Info Wars right one of the biggest conspiracy sites in the world the family through their attorney Ben Crump who's also been named in the suit has basically called this cruel noting that George Zimmerman has been acquitted and is a free man but they have to live with the loss of their son and they basically said this is cruel how do you think Americans should view this suit and the coverage that it is likely to bring about I think the lawsuit is shameless Senate is cruel and it's putting this family back having to relive the loss of their son and it's outrageous and it's probably being done to drum up funds for Clamens own organization and to propel himself into the press and it's just an extremely cynical way to draw attention to claim it but you know he's not above that this has been his track record now for 30 years that's right he Barack Intelligence Project Director for the Southern Poverty Law Center Heidi Park thanks so much for talking to us thanks for having me. 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Dot com to send an instantly via email that's d i n g dot com I'm Janine Herbst with these headlines the investigation into the motive of the attack by a Saudi military pilot at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola yesterday continues 4 people died including the gunman several others were wounded the pilot was at the base for training congressional negotiators say they are close to working out a deal on authorizing funding for the military and it could include a provision providing paid family leave for federal employees and Hong Kong's new police commissioner says his forces will use both hard and soft approaches to deal with protests that are now on at 6 month tanks as violence won't be tolerated but minor incidents will be dealt with humanely. N.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Progressive Insurance offering its home quote Explorer so shoppers can evaluate options in one place when buying home insurance custom quotes and rates are available online learn more at progressive dot com from the Union of Concerned Scientists putting rigorous independent science to work for a healthy planet and a safer world more at you c.s. USA dot org And from listeners like you who donate to this n.p.r. Station. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Michel Martin this next story is about a man who is either an unsung hero to his country or a snitch he's been called both he is from Sri Lanka an island nation where suicide bombers killed more than 250 people at hotels and churches last Easter this man knew the attackers and suspected what they were planning but when he tried to intervene he became a target and P.R.'s Lauren Frayer reports from a small town in central Sri Lanka. As soon as bottom of jhana welcomes me into her mud brick home she bursts into tears. The not. To be considered tell me her husband story Sri Lanka's mostly Buddhist Fatima's family is Muslim and her husband Mohammad Taslima was on the town council last year he was asked to investigate the vandalism of some Buddhist statues he soon heard rumors about 2 brothers Deek and Shahid Abdul hoc neighbors said they'd become radicalized and were stockpiling weapons Mohammed alerted police but they didn't arrest the brothers. On the photo or known it I from a new n.b.c. a Few weeks later Fatima recalls an ominous message popped up on Facebook calling Mohammed a snitch a few days after that Fatima woke up with a start at 4 15 in the morning. Then how to tie a common humanity I heard a loud I don't know what in bed with my husband his eyes were wide open but he couldn't there was blood in the. Room and running out of the holes and I started screaming my worst fears were confirmed Mohamed had been shot point blank in his right temple or 9000 front running in and. Says she immediately suspected the Abdul hock brothers and told that to police but when police went to the brother's house that day they were gone it wasn't for another month after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people on Easter that police finally arrested the Abdul Haq brothers but it wasn't for shooting Mohammed those weapons he tried to warn them about Authorities believe they were used in the Easter attacks that are the heart brothers are now awaiting trial for allegedly assisting those suicide bombers and they face additional charges for the attempted murder of Mohammed. Attempted because 9 months after he was shot Mohammad has a lot. Life in a hospital under police protection can you walk I don't know. If his left side is paralyzed he says it was in this hospital bed that he got news of the Easter bombings Carlon on top of the. Car and I was devastated because the well it's had a record but that when I 1st elected them none of this would have happened I wouldn't be in this hospital even if they had arrested them after they have a shard they would have saved the lives of more than $250.00 people there were other missed warnings the u.s. And India had both alerted Sri Lanka of an imminent attack but the president and prime minister were bickering the government failed to keep the military in the loop 10 years ago Sri Lanka defeated terrorism by ethnic Tamil separatists in the country's civil war but a new Islamised threat was barely on officials radar these groups maybe did themselves didn't know how serious it was That's the charitable explanation analyst j. Hunt Pereira says there was negligence and incompetence Sri Lanka's intelligence chief has since resigned but there were also failures in local policing most of Sri Lanka's Muslims are Tamils they were on the losing side of the Civil War Many politicians have since sought to win over Muslims by respectfully trying to stay out of their affairs Perera sess Muslim radicalization was a interim Muslim phenomenon that one set on was Slim's are fighting it the other said on Muslims and therefore there is no need for the state to get in Ward the Muslim politicians are powerful saw the government didn't want to antagonize them the government would instead ask civilians like Mohammed tousle eem to investigate his own community and when he came back with rumors authorities were reluctant to act since the Easter attacks Sri Lanka has seen anti Muslim riots mosques have been attacked and last month the. Country elected a new president a former military man who crushed separatists at the end of the civil war. Now adays Muhammad's brother in law sure Raaz babysits their 3 boys so that Fata Mark can visit her husband in the hospital going every day medicine every day going to come back to your sister is visiting her husband taking care of him and have government ministers visit him the president the president coming here. That no one Muslim government minister has been sending a bit of money but she says his family is mostly just an embarrassing reminder to the government of its own failure the family now wants to leave Sri Lanka out of fear from Ahamed safety and for better medical treatment which Mohammad will likely need for the rest of his life Lauren Frayer n.p.r. News in Melbourne Ella Sri Lanka. And finally today when we think about music coming out of Mexico City r. And b. Probably isn't what comes to mind but our next guest is trying to change that she is Marianna they Miguel who goes by the name girl. Although she is only in her twenty's she's been at the forefront of the movement to grow Mexico's r. And b. Scene and now her 1st full length album has been released and girl is with us now to tell us more about it from her studio in Mexico City grow Alter thank you so much for joining us no thank you for inviting me so where does the name girl Altro come from you just came out of this special new energy I felt because I I was part of a of a disco band when I came out of high school and I was thinking about going solo and I felt like I needed a name that empowered me that way so I just want to I just feel like this superhero in. Thing I just brainstormed and it just came out and I felt very comfortable with that alter ego thing so as we mentioned that there really hasn't been that much r. And b. Scene in Mexico and I think it's fair to say you're one of the few artists making this type of music there what is it about r. And b. That started to speak to you I don't know like I just summed up the music that I grew up with like beyond saying Destiny's Child and then I was like What is this why does this feel so comfortable and passionate and when I started singing by myself. I just really realized that it was inside of me when I started composing when I was like probably 1415 years old and everything started to shape into These are it be contemporary soul thing because I was. I was listening at the time when I when I had like a wire and ideas and all that all that I. I just became this musical researcher and. I just found out like. The roots and all in all the stuff D'Angelo and it was like a whole new world for me so as I think a lot of people know you know r. And b. Is kind of synonymous with a sort of a sultry vibe I want to play something from your new album that fits that description this is called discuss your. Will because. How would you describe what you were going for and how did you know when you had found it I realize I'm looking for. A particular nostalgia I've never lived such as like. What happened in the eighty's and I'm a big fan of the eighty's I just I worship the eighty's and I don't like i.e. I feel some kind of mystery and passionate thing about my personality on and off the stage and I just try to fight that that connection between the sound. And the words and the person that I am like currently. This fan photo that I've become. When I step on stage most of your songs have lyrics in Spanish but there are some bilingual tracks and one of the songs I want to play now is a collaboration with Kuko and it's. The video is already getting a lot of love so let me play a little bit of that and then we can talk about and then ask. You. This. Was. Very nice that song got so many things so tell me a bit about how it came together it was crazy because I met Google here in Mexico City and we were playing the same festival different stages at the same time and I was particularly very dragged to music in the past and we exchanged numbers and we started talking online like we were exchanging like this crazy stuff because we were mean people and I was like a was up I'm coming too late let's let's hang Let's link up and he was like why don't we make a song or make something like let's go to to the studio so we rented a studio and as soon as we came in like we just started by me we just connected and we were like Ok What in. English and why don't I sing it like completely in Spanish in my verse like let live just like switch things up you. Know we started. Writing you were like laying down like dude like let's make smoke and make up song like I want to listen to like yeah and we were writing the lyrics and it just felt very comfortable going back and forth Spanish and English whole thing sounds really come for I want to measure for people who are no where to go is like a teen phenomenon main had a huge online following and what's so fascinating about this is that it is so easy it just feels so natural to kind of go back and forth between the Spanish and English and I just wonder do you think that that's maybe more with what I'm looking for more typical than people may realize is that for people who speak both languages they just go back and forth just do you see them saying yeah it is completely typical And you know what like a lot of people in Mexico really speak English because we got English and everything like in our products and t.v. In the music so we're just like very close to each other do you feel that the I don't know that whether this was intentional or not but do you feel that having the lyrics be in both Spanish and English will kind of help the song reach a broader audience or is that just that's just how it appeared to you that's just how it came to you. It's how it came to me Bill we definitely wanted to make like this cultural clash like who regularly speaks English and he's every day and I speak Spanish but he speaks fluent Spanish and I speak out of a fluent English so it just feels so natural like let's just switch to our 2nd language what kind of reaction are you getting to the album especially as we mentioned earlier if you're trying to grow the r. And b. Scene in in Mexico obviously you know north of the border there's already a big you know appetite for r. And b. What kind of feedback are you getting. I was very worried about this haven't because it was like an experimental album because it just I wasn't aware of what people was was going to think about all of the process and it was well received like I don't know that they were they've been very thankful for for the album and that is just a blessing Well what's your favorite song on the album or maybe that's not a fair question so what is on to You shall we go out on I love the last song on the album. Because it's a very very personal song I wrote about it's like a love letter to my city and your city Mexico City is what you meant right Mexico City Yeah so I don't know I felt like I this year especially I had this pretty hectic passionate love hate relationship with my city and I don't know I just felt like writing a love song to do that and I've never ever written a love song and that's what it is 'd. That is grow old. They make her new album out. 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B.b.c. World Service it's 8 hours g.m.t. This is Weekends with. An Indian woman who was attacked and set on fire on her way to testify against her alleged rapists has died of her injuries is Germany's governing coalition hanging in the balance after Anglo-American coalition partner ponders its future and we'll be speaking live to one of Ukraine's best known writers about prospects for peace with Russia as Ukrainian president Zelinsky gets ready to meet Mr Putin. The legacy of what the novel. Began to express about gender the difference between what it's actually like to be a woman and one of the world's most famous opera houses the Vienna State Opera stages an opera by a woman for the 1st time in its 150 year history that's here on weekends. Baby same news Hello I'm Gerri Smiths one of the world's most popular discussion websites readed says he believes the counseling to Russia we're involved in the league has sensitive documents detailing trade talks between the u.s. And the u.k. a General election will take place next week in Britain where the dossier was seized upon by the opposition Labor Party is that the paper's show the prime minister Boris Johnson was willing to put the National Health Service up for sale which he denies Mike Wendling reports since the documents became public there have been questions about where they came from now Reddit the place where the documents 1st appeared says it believes the leak was part of a campaign originating in Russia the site has suspended 61 accounts which it believes were involved in a pattern of coordinated action Reddit says it is based its judgment partly on information from law enforcement agencies but the site has given few further details about how the documents came to be posted online scientists have warned that climate change and pollution are reducing oxygen in the oceans threatening face fish species including tuna Mollen and sharks around $700.00 ocean sides are now suffering from the oxygen compared with 45 in the 1960 is now micro reports the threat from fertilizer runoff from farms has long been known to impact the levels of oxygen in the waters and still remains the primary factor especially closer to coasts but this study highlights the growing threat from climate change as the world warms around 90 percent of the excess heat goes into the oceans warmer waters holds less oxygen the loss of oxygen tends to favor species like jellyfish but bigger fish like tuna who need more energy have to move to shallow waters where oxygen is more plentiful making them more vulnerable to overfishing the best solution say researchers is to hold nutrient run off and curb greenhouse gases an Indian woman in the northern states avert a. The day she was attacked on such wrong far on her way to testify against her alleged rape is has died of her injuries more from Prateeksha gilding though the victim's sister has now told the b.b.c. That she expects nothing less than the death penalty for the accused and that her family even continued to fight for justice and court tremendous comes close and he said after this case of the $27.00 you believe women who was attacked in the southern city of Hydrabad and oysters set on fire by a group of men needing to build a new debate in India about crimes against women about sexual violence in attitudes towards them in the oath or says in the us say that continuing to investigate the motives of the Saudi government who showed that 3 people at a military base in Florida the Air Force train a who was killed during the attack had been receiving training in the us you're listening to World News from the b.b.c. Lawyers for a British cave explorer who sued the Us entrepreneur a law must for defamation have described Mr masks of code victory as not a good verdict for society the Tesla founder Vernon Unsworth Peter guy on Twitter during a row about the rescue of Thais schoolboys trapped in a cave last year. Firefighters in Australia have warned that a huge far about an hour's drive from the country's most populous city could take weeks to put into to put out the mega blaze north in Sydney's straits his 1st 60 kilometers and is bigger than the city itself Formosa is that Sydney is again shrouded in a toxic smoky haze health warnings have been issued and many weekend sporting activities have been cancelled several blazes of combined to create a 40 mile mega fire to the north of Australia's biggest city there are $95.00 bushfires in drought hit New South Wales half a burning out of control or far it is say that only heavy rain will put some of the fires out but all mislay the forecast is for more hot and dry conditions the form of the Libyan President Obama royalists has traveled to Cuba from Mexico where he's been granted political asylum the trip has been described as temporary to visit a team of Cuban don't who had treated him in the past but the b.b.c. Correspondent in Mexico says there's speculation he may choose to travel on to Bolivia's neighbor Argentina where a new left wing government has had to take office Mr Morale has resigned last month following protests over a disputed election makes it has government has welcomed a decision by Donald Trump to delay classifying Mexican drug cartels as terror groups as the Trump said he wouldn't make the change for now at the request of his Mexican counterpart the move would allow the u.s. To disrupt the cartels finances by imposing sanctions b.b.c. News. It's 8 o 6 g.m.c. You're listening to Weekend on the b.b.c. World Service I'm Celia Hatton I'm joined by 2 guests who were with me in our London studio for the length of the program Miriam Francois is a Franco British writer journalist and filmmaker based in London and Robert Fox He's also a journalist and broadcaster he's the defense editor and foreign affairs commentator for The Evening Standard newspaper here in the u.k. We'll be hearing more from them in just a little while but 1st an Indian woman who was set on fire by a group of men as she prepared to testify against 2 she'd accused of rape has died of her injuries the 23 year old was traveling to court in the northern state of auto Pradesh on Thursday when she was set upon the case has sparked outrage in India where there was already widespread anger over a murder and rape case in the southern city of Hyderabad last week the B.B.C.'s petition is joining us from Delhi producer it's a gruesome case but remind us of what happened to this woman. Indeed c.d.i. Quite a gruesome case and as huge as you said a 23 year old woman who was on her way to reap keys hearing in the Norden state of the predation a case that she had filed against 2 men in March earlier this year she was set on fire 5 men are alleged to have the alleged perpetrators in the case including 2 a foot or 2 of her alleged rapists who are now under her dress so a total of 5 men under arrest on accusation of having set her on fire she was reportedly on her way to a train station when she was dragged by the accused men to a nearby a nearby field according to the doctors who have been who had been treating her she sustained 90 percent burn injuries and and they said that she died because of a cardiac arrest late last night. But she had been flown in to Delhi for specialized treatment but still the doctors couldn't save her that was the extent of her injuries the victim's family are quite understandably very distressed and the victim's sister has told the b.b.c. That she expects nothing less than the death penalty for the accused and that her family will continue to fight for justice she was given specialized medical treatment after this happened to her but are there any questions being raised about the level of print police protection she was given on her way to this trial. Indeed Celia there are questions over why if this mad this the alleged rapist if he was in jail by was he given be should there be stringent bail conditions for a book used and according to some reports the police also had inputs that he was stalking her so yes there is a lot of debate about when should it go betrayed betrayed to be given bail and how stringent should be conditions in a case be and. As you said this Cobbs close on the heels of another hooded figure. Of a 27 year to leave it in the southern city of Hydrabad vet also she was brazenly dragged from from the road into. Into a scrub land and raped before being set on fire so increasing anger and increasing outrage among the vice section of Indians on how the alleged accused being able to act in such impunity Ok I thank you very much that was the B.B.C.'s protest. Now let's go to Germany where the fate of Angela Merkel's governing coalition is hanging in the balance her junior partner the social democratic partner s.p.d. Are considering whether to leave the coalition after 2 years the party conference is underway in Berlin we're joined now live by Hannah Wright charge she's the deputy leader of the s.p.d. Youth branch she joins us now on the newly elected leadership has threatened to leave and you yourself in the youth wing want out you've always maintained that why don't you want to be in power. Good morning 1st of all it's not that we don't want to be in power actually so we make made our list and you know that there are so many big solutions needed for our future house to invest men's. In public transportation system Climate Protection and its location and stuff like this and all these objects need desperately solutions and we can find in the great coalition there's a sample solutions of this problems actually so our standard so will you leave. So our conference made a decision yesterday actually after. Elected Island new leaders that we will. Have to Scott Jones we'll see you with our coalition partners. Too when it comes to all of these big topics and that we want to reshape or try to reshape the next 2 years of the coalition and bend these talks are successful and then we can find common sense our common goal for the next 2 years when it comes these topics and the great coalition can have a future when there's no possible way to go for asked. Then our new leadership will talk about this and make the decision to leave or not I You just really just pushing for more power within the coalition and not really so far as it comes to this topic so for us from our useless perspective it comes to our future actually and there are so many big problems and we just try to find the right solution and it's not happening with the Social Democratic Party and when we can't have power in the coalition because of our partners if not the opportunity actually and it's not all right to go let's open this up to our 2 guests Robert Fox isn't there a problem of declining poll ratings your junior partner wishing it right across Europe and we're seeing it in the general election campaign here in u.k. Squeezed liberal sometimes the social democrats element which is not even present in our Labor Party it's a thing eluded to this yes I think one of its most bus brilliant essays on Europe even crossed the light that failed you're on to a loser I think wouldn't you agree. No I wouldn't agree actually like what happened yesterday at our conference is that you're right that the neo liberal . German social democracy across our European social democracy. Faced the last last years or a century. Is now there's now a change so yesterday happened there was the trying to elect back to social democratic roots actually marry him. So I was just running if you've hinted at then but what are some of the food lines of where the conversation has broken down if you like in terms of shed objectives within the Coalition see what do you feel needs to happen which isn't happening so what we saw the last years that we desperately need huge investments in the future when it comes to schools that need to be run away didn't we need to build up our public transportation system we desperately need in Germany it's a let's ation the whole. Actually because there are still regions in Germany who. Has as an access to Internet actually this is all the 21st century just so it's a horrible situation actually so for us we need desperately these investments and we want to have them because it comes to our future comes to the future of the situation of Germany Yes So Ok thank you very much can a return to speaking to us from Berlin Hannah is the deputy leader of the s.p.c. Youth branch. Now let's move on to Ukraine where big protests are planned for tomorrow opposition parties have called on their supporters to get out in the street to warn President Vladimir salinity not to make any concessions to Russia on Monday in Paris for the 1st time Mr Selenski is set to meet with Vladimir Putin face to face that meeting will take place 5 years into the war with Russian backed separatists in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 14000 people the conflict erupted weeks after Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula elected 8 months ago President Selenski has said he wants to end the conflict but many are wondering what Mr Putin might ask for in return Well we're joined here in the studio live now what with Andrei Krakoff he's a Ukrainian writer and political commentator He's best known internationally for his novel death and the penguin Andrei where do we could begin as Lenski has said he wants peace but at what price Well it's a good question I think the price will be very high definitely And of course Putin is not interested in the end in this war because once the solution on bus found the next question about Trey Mia arises and nobody in Russia was to discuss Crimea So in other thing is that if we remember that after the collapse of the Soviet Union the biggest depot of ammunition in Europe was in terms nice trip as there was out there which transistor became an ruled part of now the biggest Depaul of the nation is done by us because I've been Russia was supplying Soviet time emanation together with a new emanations a new weapons to tests to then bus already for 5 years till the danger of this meeting on Monday is huge for Ukraine because we have an experienced president with no political background a pure Dillahunt who has some strange sometimes ideas but I mean the. It's idealist if you think that he can easily talk to Putin and he's trying to play the role of a tough guy but nobody knew crane believes he's a tough guy you don't think he's any match for Vladimir Putin of course not it will be actually it's like a friendly Diena between cat and my mouse very friendly I'm sure well you've traveled to eastern Ukraine what are people on the frontlines saying about prospects for peace Well I mean people who leave there they want peace but the same time they are afraid of people on the front line on the credit side they have been afraid of finding themselves in the gray zone because now actually Ukraine together with separatists sort of withdrawing their troops from the frontline and they're talking about withdrawing them for several dozens of calamitous we should leaves villages and towns without any protection so I mean the locals afraid and the. These soldiers the army is also a bit upset and. Asking questions actually what will happen if the separatists and Russians will break the agreement and will the Ukrainian army have time to come back to defend the territories which were already on the grain control government control under let's speak to you about about your work you're a keen observer of developments in your country in effect you're here in London to introduce a new book of essays written by Ukrainian journalists and writers tell us about your contribution you've written an essay about the differences between Ukrainians and Russians Yeah I mean this is the daily question I get every way in the world actually because the Russians continue to say that Ukrainians have the same it just different part of Russian people but I mean these 2 peoples with 2 different histories and 2 different mentalities I mean Russia Russians monarchist I mean their mentality is based on the historical metrics of Monarchy The only is love that's when they were fed. Up with the South they would kill one and a dog the next one Ukrainians the organized Democratic and our kids I mean they never had their own royals they were ruling that territory themselves they were actually electing the head man who was head of the army and head of the state but they never had fixed borders and they never had their own currency so I mean it's a very strange mixture of democracy and anarchy but definitely everyone had its own opinion about future and the state of affairs today this way we have 350 even more political parties registered in the Ministry of Justice and Russia as Soviet Union remains one party system where Putin's party is the main one if you want to be a civil servant you become a member of this party and you live happily ever after. Robert Fox. I agree with you I think that I can see the pope Putin is interested in bass because even more than Trump he's the great disruptor that's how he maintains his present he has to disrupt Europe so under but I would like to ask you if you use the expression great but how as a Ukrainian do you feel Ukraine as a totality has become a great great because when I look at whether it's NATO whether it's the e.u. But it talks about guaranteeing Ukraine Ukraine has asked for membership that it is treated with great time to give a great time but now you see me now you don't do you feel in a way you're a victim of super European just politics Well I I mean there is a. Victim all the theory in Ukraine that it created as we always do because victims but I am not a supporter of this theory I mean Ukraine is between the West and the east between visits by tradition and European tradition but I mean the general tendency is now to was Europe I mean if you come to key if now you won't see much difference between Kenya of good style of life and Budapest and more so and maybe even badly in of course I mean the further to the east you go the more by 17 elements you find but general I mean I was talking about this 2 mentalities and the border between them intelligence was in the middle of Ukraine 20 years ago and every year it was moving to its east so if we didn't have the conflicts in 50 years time the border between Russia and Ukraine intelligent coincide with the border between Russia and Ukraine and that would be the end of Russian influence on Ukraine I'm signing. The reception has been in Ukraine to recent suggestion during the end naysaying meeting that you're right may wish to see a greater rapprochement with Russian naval is House has not gone down in Ukraine of course it will when done very bad live because I mean it. Everybody had this to McCrone his French president and Ukrainian president he was French she has to be back in Russian supermarkets I mean he wants French economy to work and Russian market is hugely important also for Americans for everybody else so there is a very I would say shaking balance between democracy and commercial interests and now the actually commercial interests becoming more important with Bragg's it in England with the problems in Greece in Spain etc So I mean you Europe wants to be well fed and reach and not to struggle in economical and defending democratic values somewhere on the margin of. And what about becoming a lynch painting in the the Us political scene at the moment how that's great I thought I did not know and I spent 2 weeks ago 2 days in the States I mean everybody who had my passport in their hands was Smythe and say oh Ukraine you are doing a great job you're doing a great job Well I mean it's not Ukraine is doing a great job of course I mean it's Americans are doing a great job. But you got the subject for your next novel for bad I wish I could have time for all the subjects I have for the Ukraine for the nobles but I will choose I mean I have a menu of subjects you think you're a busy man thank you so much for coming to speak with us thank you Kearney a writer under a Kurkov a reminder you are listening to Weekend on the b.b.c. World Service and one of the world's most famous opera houses the Vienna State offer a stage an opera by a woman for the 1st time in its 150 year history the Austrian composer Ogle Neuwirth has written an opera based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando which deals with themes of gender fluidity and duality Bethany Bell reports from Vienna. I. I. Just sing a cake Lindsay who plays Amanda Wilkes on stage wearing a brilliant red dress by the designer of a culpable of come to Gus sung the character of all now and then he did some centuries begins as a man in Elizabeth in England changes into a woman the composer Oh the night it says androgyny and the rejection of gender stereotypes has inspired her ever since she 1st read Virginia will snuffle as a teenager not only as a trainee through centuries but it's a trend of constant questioning of imposed norms by society and society is made by man so I'll go for all of a. Should be assumed both of freedom humanity and of freedom of opinion but also in a very playful and ironic way which I like so much you all of the 1st female composer to have a work premier tear the Vienna State Opera How does that feel I mean it feels a little bit strange because one has to consider 150 years it's a long time but as always it is never too late it's good for the definably have thought about that it would be a good thing if you're diverse there has to be a 2nd in the 3rd and so on and so on so it's always good to have a starting point I'm in rehearsal for a land at the Vienna State of her house. And on stage and see slides saying sexual freedom equal pay for all pictures of wars and disasters during the 20th century and up into the 21st century as the story has been updated and music. This piece reflects the in the tween ness of the story of a band as well as the classical history on stage there is and then that trick guitarist and drum kit. She hears brilliantly quoting a specific musical types and styles that have been conceived in various individual times the conductor pincher says the composer is taking the audience on a journey through musical history this is all kind of blending together unfolding into this this. Incredibly Shirin expressive fabric of what music is and what music has been in the past and what it might be the future so it's it's rich it's human it's a cause of. The transgender and trans Shonar autist just in Vivian Bond who plays the role of old and as child this opera has a personal significance. Conceptually and the legacy of what the novel Orlando began to express about gender and transgression and about you know the difference between what it's actually like to be a man or woman if indeed there is that much of it to friends and since I'm a non-binary person who's trans famine and I guess you could say. Happily stepping into a moment and I guess I'm the sort of representation of where we've come. That was just in Vivian bond ending that report from Bethany Bell in Vienna Wow where do we where do we start I mean it's the 1st time in its 150 year history that it's staging an opera written by a woman Marian truss What do you make of that well as says the out when I was doing a bit of reading about this I did realize that there's also just being one female compose a program to 15 needing u.k. Opera House company companies between 200-100-2019 so this isn't just the uneasier an Austrian problem which is probably was pointing out I think it certainly reflects the fact that the senses of culture in Europe is still closed old boys' clubs and you know maybe it's time to not be really hard on those doors and remind the midst almost 2020 people Robert Fox you're shaking your head I found very moving but how it took the whole story of Orlando it's based in history in fantasy in autobiography of the new wolf The Been wonderful renditions Tilda Swinton enough to stick Sally part of it 92 but what I would like to say to you ladies is please celebrate the ring the great people like postcards of a coming on Barbara how to get talkie of your native country absolutely fantastic Canada How has. How is the discipline singing performing wonderful actors and conduct that absolutely unbeatable and she is yes she's not she's not a stereotype she is absolutely unique that celebrate the both and they must bring that opera to London and optimistic note to end on it's coming up to 830 g.m.t. Things to our 2 guests Miriam Francois and Robert Fox and thank you for joining us for this edition of weekends from the b.b.c. World Service. Distribution of the b.b.c. World Service in the us has made possible by American Public Media producer in distributor of award winning public radio contest a.p.m. American Public Media with support from c 3 dot. Addressing the world's most challenging problems at the convergence of artificial intelligence io t. And elastic cloud computing learn more at c 3 dot a I. I'm Joe make ever in and for this week's assignment on the b.b.c. World Service I'm in Sri Lanka looking at the field gripping the minority Muslim community everything was changed here by bomb attacks last Easter on churches and hotels carried out by a small Islam is to sell they intensified a campaign against the country's Muslims which hardline Buddhists are accused of stoking that's on assignment after the news b.b.c. News read Jerry's summit sciences have borne the many species of fish are vulnerable to the combined threat of climate change and nutrient pollution which are reducing the amount of oxygen in the oceans around $700.00 ocean sides are now suffering from low oxygen levels 15 times more than the 960 s. An Indian woman who was attacked and says Home far on her way to testify against her alleged rapists has died of her injuries the 23 year old was travelling to court in order to produce state on Thursday when she was a bomb. Father is in Australia have warned that a huge fall about an hour's drive from Sydney could take weeks to put out the mega blaze which stretches the 60 kilometers is one of almost $100.00 fires currently burning in New South Wales. The discussion website readed says he believes the counselling to Russia reinvolved in the lead could sensitive don't commence detailing trade talks between the us and the u.k. Neither the us nor u.k. Governments have disputed the authenticity of the documents which were published in the run up to the general election in Britain the opposition Labor Party said it showed the Prime Minister Barak stones and was willing to put the National Health Service of the sale which he denies. They were thought is in the USA They're continuing to investigate the motives of a Saudi gunman who shot dead 3 people at a military base in Florida the Air Force trade he who was killed during the attack had been receiving training in the us. The former Libyan President Morales has traveled to Cuba from Mexico where he's been granted political asylum the trip has been described as temporary to visit to tame the Cuban don't have treated him in the past but there's speculation he may move on to Argentina. And those are the latest stories from b.b.c. News. I. You have been getting constant. Threats intimidation. Are going to kill us. If you don't stop politics some of the threats are from me as well in fact I happened to overhear one of the traits and it was very chilling because not only did they threaten us with death they were in fact threatening situation by hands on me to. This lady had gone to discos restore and the very nice to her but this if we can not serve you anymore because we've been told by some group not to serve Muslims decision to call the office and say you know what we want to. I do feel sad that I have to leave as much as I would like to see as a progressive country I think. As an educated person I cannot say that. I'm Jill McIvor in hand in this edition of assignment on the b.b.c. World Service I mention when Muslims are deciding whether to stay or leave following the Easter bombings. When I think about Easter Sunday. I think the thing that stayed in my mind is that really. The security camera footage of a young man with a rucksack on his back full of explosives and his courage surely walking towards the church he pops a little girl on the head and he walks right inside while the people are worshipping. I mean that church now it's. One of the more than 250 people that were killed in the east of bombings almost died here. I'm with a young local journalist who is herself a Muslim she agreed to be part of the program to help me make sense of some of the complexities along the way on condition I didn't reveal her identity the moment we . Just turned around and I saw so many people staring at her as it was obvious it was because the rucksacks I think it goes to show just how much people all about anyone with a suspicious bag or rucksack when I travel in public transport. And because I'm also wearing a rucksack said people know that even though I am going. Somewhere. And I'm the parish priest. The chances. I noticed coming in that the security forces there on the gate they checked our backpacks and our identification How much are people concerned about security when they come to the church. Of course. Same experience again and again and what would your message be to peace loving Muslims here. Already forgiven the troops saw an ongoing $2.00 do it with a body able to most members understand neighbors and their brothers and sisters and what was on the out of you off on up because they are very much grows. This need so you can come in free and you can receive anything so that should be does of. This being very little backlash against Muslims from the Christian community since Easter despite the FIA and suspicion no one really knows why the Islamic extremists chose churches and luxury hotels as their targets one serious they thought that would make the biggest impact internationally but actually when Muslims here feel resentment it's not towards Christiane's but towards the Buddhist Sinhalese majority hardline Buddhists have been accused in recent years of stoking a hate campaign against Muslims and even inciting violence in this program I'm examining the impact of the Easter attacks on the Muslim community and exploring why many Muslims now feel so afraid or unwelcome in their own country. I'm in the pouring rain now in a small town called Mina one Godor it's an hour outside Colombo it's coring and the . For a while after the things were normal but when people heard Muslims were responsible they stopped coming to the shop but on the 13th of May I heard rumors that mobs were going to vandalized the stores on the main road here it was also the holy month of Ramadan. As the time came to break off fast we quickly closed all shops and went home. We should all doors and windows and took cover inside the house we had all sorts of noises and then we got calls from people in town saying that the shops were on fire but we couldn't leave because the curfew was already imposed we were really frightened anyway so we stayed put do you know of any people in the Muslim community who want to leave and months. I haven't heard about precise plans but I have heard talk of people wanting to sell or think only that if you could afford it would you do they owe him a yes of course if such an opportunity presented itself I would certainly know but because we don't have the resources will just carry on as best as we can. I am of Ca when I was asking him about what happened seemed a little bit reticent and little bit embarrassed at times he seemed not to understand or not to be willing to say to me why businesses in. To kill or were targeted in these riots What do you think happened just soft. There was obvious a lot of anti Muslim sentiments and that that to me became campaigns against Muslims in general and to escalated to a point where it galvanized mobs to destroy shops and establishment that I won by Muslims there was this fear this thinking that Muslims own and lot of shops of a lot of businesses and they were much better off than the Singhalese counterparts something else he mentioned was that immediately after the riots people didn't come to his shop people in the Sinhala community didn't come in to shop to buy things for a little while I thought of the people talking about this sort of informal boycott how much evidence is that that's been happening I think there's plenty of evidence every of the most I'm shocked that you would go to in this particular town would tell you the same thing people believe you know which shops sell one by Muslims and which are not it sounds like a sort of economic jealousy at the heart of it yes Day Yes a lot of jealousy against this needs. Some tissue kept coming up the idea that the Sinhalese majority all cellists of Muslims trying because Muslims make up about 10 percent of the population that deeply integrated into the society they've lived the generations in all areas of the island in villages and cities many a while educated well heeled professionals part of a middle class many unlike Mohamed Sia can afford to leave and they go to these agents to help them with the complex and they Gratian process. These files are still here because they're proved like the sorest some moon is the boss here a dynamic plain talking entrepreneur in a small black dress she's been in this business for 25 years and in the months after the east of bombings she witnessed something extra. Affords varying off the hook and emails so we don't have many meetings in person it was just the phone was ringing off the hook and emails were coming in and so we were having meeting after meeting either on line or in person as much as we can it took us time because it's a long term decisions so we have to through all of this find out what are you going to do once you make a move are you going to move permanently if not you can lose your residency because there's certain residency requirements by countries like Australia and Canada so that was very stressful because their families and mostly families that were looking at this option many with young children so suddenly from having almost no Muslim applicants you got this rush of 80 percent being applicants what 10 own would you say was typical when people getting in touch with you how are they feeling so they didn't have to explain it it was more fear and uncertainty that was the tone and when you asked people why do you certainly want to leave the country and if somewhere else what sort of reasons were people giving days the reasons from April to like July and then after July the reasons changed because it was much more common but back then it was because they were having personal attacks against their family members races commands so this lady had gone to discos restore and they were owned by Singhalese people they're very nice to her but they said we can not serve you anymore because we've been told by some group not to serve Muslims or they'll stone them or shut the shop down that was really hurtful I mean she was absolutely hurt she'd gone home told her husband it was their decision to call the office and say you know what we want to move as a Sri Lankan How do you feel having watched what's happened since Easter Saturday. Sad because I know when I go through the applications how much they have they are a contributor to our economy and that's another problem with this silent Exodus the economic impact on the country of the. Flight of capital of skilled professionals it's hard to calculate because the people applying for visas seem too frightened to talk about it we approach many who were planning to leave but didn't want to talk about it publicly. Become one of your projects. And finally I found a young entrepreneur who's taking steps to emigrate and said she would meet me. Didn't give her name right before the. Economy. Very successful right after the East. Even the clients. This project. When. He stopped prioritizing despite being behind the deadline. And he. And. He has. Taken on a religious element now in a way it has and. I was putting. Them and I had gone through them. And I was I didn't believe. It was. As a community. How do you feel about the. I'm here at a time of crucial elections to choose the next president. I come to a big rally in the same town where Muhammad c. Is shot out the crowds here to support a right wing candidate. Among seniors pro Buddhist and someone who gets tough on security. This particular moment is speaking right now. Oh no one but he has been supportive of this is. This a go to. National The hard it is those people who are here. To pledge their support to him a lot seem to see him as a strong someone who will be tough on the Muslim community and make sure that you stand up against as a threat to further attacks I think that stems from Mr Gotobed. And as being someone who was. Taboo has repeated in his previous tragedies said that his government is Monday. And it is just arriving to Tapia Rajapaksa the man who wants to be president and. The rock is. This is a ceremony of one of his oldest and best. Clearly the message from the temple here is one of love and peace and. But this is and. Intertwined. The mostly Buddhist Sinhalese majority here are 70 percent of the population and yet they're accused sometimes of having a minority complex in recently some groups have grown up representing their interests some of them accused of being hardline like the b.b.s. a Group that some people say has incited hatred even violence against Muslims I think it's time I try and go and see the b.b.s. And put to them some of those accusations. My name is the. Chief executive officer but the. By. The object of this organization is to protect one of the global minorities called Sing the Buddhist group so global minority but a majority here in Sri Lanka majority in Sri Lanka but unfortunately we don't have democracy for Georgia writes During the last 34 decades because divided and as a result of that when it comes to gaining power you have to get the majority support things are decided by majority groups today that is transferred to. Groups and today. Claiming that they are the king makers of this country sometimes B.B.'s has been accused of being an anti Muslim party What's your response to that definitely not we are not anti any ethnic group in Sri Lanka but unfortunately some . Some say that we are Christian organization and largely. Muslim organization we are not we are against all forms of extremism or forms of fundamentalism and all forms of. Terrorism but a lot of ordinary Muslims also feel very frightened at the moment they feel that they're being targeted or there's a backlash against them since the Easter attacks I don't think that's in their lives are against any race most of these are there to a politically motivated spin that suddenly after 2 weeks somebody created this I think you saw in certain select a dubious my understanding all politically motivated politically created attacks but you are one of the people who were blamed for being involved in some of those backlash attacks. If you did not even not what is going on there because we've seen evidence that since Easter there's been a surge in Muslims from Sri Lanka who now want to go elsewhere to other countries because they don't feel safe they don't feel welcome anymore this is of some of the problem because it's going to lead us free to develop economy been never there is it was it was this country I think. I'd want to leave the country otherwise I don't think that Muslims have any problem of living. That life to change on Easter Sunday for many interest throughout this trip I've met Muslims here who've been reluctant to talk plainly to me about the fact what was a worrying undercurrent of anti Muslim feeling has now surface to become more aggressive and more blatant one of the few people who has spoken out repeatedly is. The vice president of Sri Lanka's Muslim Council and he's paid a price he and his wife Selma have been in hiding for the past 8 weeks after getting death threats I caught up with them by chance on the day they returned to Colombo they have a huge stylish home with a sweeping staircase and beautiful furnishings but when I met them there they were unpacking and repacking trying to decide where it would be safe to sleep that night . You have been getting constant. Threats intimidation for 4050 days. To kill us. If you don't stop politics some of the threats. In fact I have 2 of the greats and to think because not to. Speak it fact. 2 things changed drastically for the Muslims in straight after the bombings but clearly I think I would say for the remained because. Question And. Question everything came into scrutiny and was I thought needed any space to speak out any opportunity to go out and speak I grabbed 8 and I thought the most important thing was to speak. Because I wanted to kind of let them know. Going through why people so anxious about speaking out. Saying that you know you. Could be speaking on behalf of the community and. The thinking of the. The Muslims. As people protesting about everybody. Just. You cannot kind of separate politics. Because it's all kind of to get at the fact that I am a Muslim. But this there. Would call and threaten me because they think that I have a different particle believe to dance but they have also threatened me using abusive. Because of my feet they use abusive targeting my race and they use abusive birds because I am a woman it is simply an excerpt. So. You just. Just can't in fact. We were discussing. So you have to make up your mind if you. Keep running for. This is my final day in trolling can use coincided with the results of the presidential election celebrations all subdued public gatherings have been banned the only sound on the streets are prayers from a Buddhist temple. The strong man the man who promises to crack down on Islamists and to protect the Buddhist majority this is the result Muslims I spoke to most. Being with me as we've heard so many stories in recent days of people talking about discrimination talking about fear as a Muslim yourself how those stories made you feel it's a conservation because there are those who think the same way you have young children would you consider leaving or are you committed to staying or leaving is not an easy thing to do it doesn't happen overnight it takes months. And so I think maybe wait and see how things go and with the days actually a brighter. Presidency. I'm back at my hotel now and I've come up to the rooftop looking out over a city in darkness. Thinking about all the people I've met here and what this means for them the ones who want to leave but can't afford to go the ones who are making plans to emigrate another. Like Hilmi and his wife Cilla want to turn into stone despite the fact they've been getting death threats. Early after I'd finished talking to Hill me and she quietly excused herself and went up stairs I followed her she was packing a bag getting ready to spend the night at a secret location separate from her husband just in case anything happened to either of them. Just getting a few things ready fall. And night maybe he'll get me a few close together but your husband staying here tonight even though the 2 of you have both been away for 8 weeks now he is here and you're going to another yes. Because I feel. For the 2 of us not to. Be together in case someone breaks in. Trade. At least one of us you see if. We have. To think off the beer and they have been very. Fussy and they didn't want us to. I could see the expression in your eyes you're quite tearful How are you feeling at the moment dealing with this it's not easy. It comes as a shock actually I think it has been a C.D.'s of shocks found us not only just us but as a community and also not just for them this can community but. The minority communities. I'm not trying to demonize majority community because really wonderful people. Even small group of. Disparate I would call them disparate individuals could play havoc on the entire country. So from this edition of assignment the reporter was me. And the producer was Caroline Finnegan. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service on k.s.u. T.v. 4 Corners Public Radio and southern tribal radio thanks for joining us this is k.s.u. T. Ignatieff Ok Eugene again sheo t.t.n. G. Durango p u u t farming 10 Q us w. Flora Vista n.k.p. G.s. Pagosa Springs we can also be heard in Cortez make us Silverton and online at k.s.u. Cheap dot org You can stream our signal right there on the website also on the n.p.r. News app i Tunes radio and on to news. 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Broke down here N.P.R.'s Debbie Elliott but defense secretary Marcos said today he's not ready to call this a terror related attack the intelligence group cites as there are reports the Saudi government had anti-American views congressional negotiators say they are close to working out a deal on authorizing funding for the military N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith reports a could include a somewhat non-germane provision that provides paid family leave for federal employees the massive must pass bill often becomes a vehicle for initiatives not entirely related to national defense in this case Democrats and presidential adviser and daughter of Volga Trump are both hailing a provision that would provide 12 weeks of paid family leave to all federal employees currently They receive no paid time off for the birth or adoption of a child as the country's largest employer the United States government must lead by example of Aga Trump said the idea being that this could open the floodgates to more private employers offering a full 3 months of paid family leave a Democratic aide told n.p.r. Negotiators had a tentative agreement to add the provision the negotiations were not yet complete on the entirety of the National Defense Authorization Act Tamara Keith n.p.r. News and you're listening to n.p.r. . Well for news biggest utility has reached a 13 and a half $1000000000.00 settlement resolving all major claims against it from the deadly wildfires blamed on its outdated equipment p.g. And e. Says the settlement which still requires court approval will resolve all claims from the $27000.00 wildfires in northern California and it also includes last year's camp fire which was the deadliest and most destructive in state history and it was the one that prompted p.g. And e. To enter into bankruptcy protection in the 1st place and this is the 3rd proposed settlement p.g. And e. Has worked out it previously reached a $1000000000.00 settlement with cities counties and other public utilities and an $11000000000.00 green meant with insurance companies this year's flu season has gone up to a slightly earlier start than usual with a start in the south is beginning to spread more broadly That's according to the c.d.c. N.P.R.'s Rob Stein has more the c.d.c. Says that the flu season has started a week or 2 earlier than usual this year in fact the flu season hasn't started this early in more than 15 years this isn't great news because it could mean the flu would have more time to make more people sick but the c.d.c. Says there's always a chance this could mean the flu season could end up peaking in ending earlier than usual to there's just no way to know the flu is notoriously unpredictable but this he she says is still a really good idea to get a flu shot no matter what happens Rob Stein n.p.r. News and New York state has declared the flu prevalent in that area. And you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include the n.p.r. Wine club where every bottle tells a story and n.p.r. Shows become wines like Wait Wait Don't Tell me you know who are available to adults 21 Years or Older learn more at n.p.r. Wine Club dot org. President Trump says this is all over nothing it's a hoax it's a hoax it's a very fragile x. But House Democrats are drafting articles of impeachment the president. Attorneys from both sides will testify about the findings of the House Intelligence Committee I'm Jeremy Hobson listen for special live coverage of the next step in the impeachment inquiry from n.p.r. News and Monday morning at 9. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Michel Martin we're going to begin this hour with the news that the American graduate student she weighed who had been held in Iran for 3 years after being accused of being a spy is now free as part of a prisoner swap brokered by the Swiss government wine was exchanged for Iranian scientist must sued Sulaimani who'd been arrested in the u.s. Last year for allegedly violating trade sanctions and was due in court next week negotiations over was released began under Robert O'Bryant who served as the State Department special envoy for hostage affairs but in September O'Brien became the new national security adviser replacing John Bolton earlier today Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep had a chance to speak with O'Brien about the prisoner exchange and Steve Inskeep is with us now Steve thanks so much for joining us there Michel so you know the national security adviser has previously been quoted as saying For example he said this in March the president has had unparalleled success in bringing Americans home without paying concessions without prisoner exchanges but through force of will and the goodwill that he's generated around the world that was a quote so this was a prisoner exchange what happened what changed well it wasn't about goodwill because the Iranians are not happy with President Trump for obvious reasons I don't know that it was necessarily about force of will it does appear to have been a trade it was a specific trade it that was proposed publicly by Iran. As foreign minister months ago this specific prisoner for another specific prisoner who was facing charges inside the United States now Robert O'Brien the National Security Advisor minimized the value of what the United States gave up here here's what O'Brien said about that Mr Solomon is returned to Iran that the charges against him were dismissed you'll have to talk to the Justice Department about the details of that but I can tell you he was going to court next week and. This was a very very good deal for the United States of America I think I'm hearing you suggesting that he would have gotten out anyway perhaps if he weren't giving up that much is that what you're telling me where we didn't we didn't give up anything take a step back here relationship between the United States and Iran have been tense for months now there was not a sense that there were any ongoing negotiations do we have any sense of when that changed it's not clear to me that there are direct negotiations now the indications we get is that the United States works through Switzerland the Swiss have an embassy in Tehran which the Americans don't and the Swiss handle u.s. Interests there and seem to have taken the lead in this so let's let's go back to the whole question of the prisoner exchange one of the arguments against a prisoner exchange is that it makes prisoners more valuable Yeah when you ask Yeah the national security advisor about this what that He say I asked O'Brien about that here how do you avoid creating an incentive for Iran to take other prisoners to trade or even other countries to take American prisoners to trade what we've been very successful at during the entire Trump administration is not giving concessions for hostages we haven't sent pallets of cash we haven't lifted sanctions there were there was no money for the Iranians here which is something that has been a consistent demand of theirs over the years we still have a lot of reporting here to understand if there's a little more to this agreement than we know or a little less to this agreement than we know because again the United States is stressing that. This wasn't very much really to surrender at all so when we let you go Steve there are at least 4 other Americans currently being held in Iran do we have any sense of whether their circumstances were discussed as part of this to Mr Brown have something to say about why none of these other prisoners seem to have been a part of this this agreement we don't know O'Brien indicated that this deal came about now because of a change in Iran's position that in spite of Iran's public statements that they were willing to arrange a prisoner swap and they've said this sort of thing for many months that Iran didn't seem serious about it and now they became serious in this one instance but we don't know what other talks might be ongoing at all with other prisoners Bachar namaz he is one of them and he issued a statement on behalf of his family saying that he is beyond devastated that his brother and his father remain inside Iran having been convicted of charges that are rather opaque to us and they were not included in this deal here's what O'Brien said about that well we we don't leave anybody behind and we look for the opportunities to bring hostages home as they arise and we're going to continue to work hard to to bring the other Americans home that was national security adviser Robert O'Bryant from his conversation earlier today with N.P.R.'s Steve Inskeep. There are a lot of words we could use to describe the impeachment hearings held so far by the House Intelligence Committee on the Judiciary Committee tense heated personal and it's not just a reference to the sparring between Democrats and Republicans know even the witnesses are feeling the heat and having their motives questioned on Wednesday Doug Collins the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee suggested that Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan was not acquainted with past testimony which caused Carlin to respond this way I would not speak up. Out these things without reviewing the facts so I'm insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor I don't care about those facts now exchanges like this one has sparked a lot of commentary throughout these hearings with some suggesting that gender dynamics might be at play or that is just simply a reflection of today's political divisions but Tom Nichols thinks it might be something else he is the author of The Death of expertise and he's with us now from Rhode Island Professor Nichols thanks so much for talking to us My pleasure so the exchange we just play got a lot of attention this week I assume you've been watching the hearings as well what have you noticed the problem here is that the hearings were basically a set up of dueling experts and this is when people start to distrust expertise because they think of experts as hired guns and so I think there are a lot of people in the public who looked at this and said experts know a lot of things but they bring that expertise sent to political service I think that's unfortunate because experts try quite consciously not to do that I share it Professor Carlin's outreach Doug Collins is question but it's a political environment that's to be expected Well one recurring claim from the Republicans during these impeachment hearings is that the witnesses experts testifying are partisan and one lawmaker on Wednesday even asked the 3 law professors who were chosen by the Democrats as witnesses how they had voted in 2016 I'll just play that exchange can be and just with a show of hands how many on the panel actually voted for a dollar Trump and 2016 I don't think you are obligated to say anything about how we just asked our ballot was just a show of hands and I just want to point out that the 4th witness on Wednesday Jonathan Turley whom you just mentioned who was chosen by the Republicans to testify I felt the need to say that he was not a trump supporter so given your thesis here that the main point of your book The Death of expertise is that the American public has grown hostile towards expertise overall what do you make of that whole exchange there how do you understand what just happened there the question was completely inappropriate and it underlines. I think a popular view that if experts have well defined political views they are incapable of being professionals and keeping those views out of their work this is I think one of the things that the president has really hammered home over the years that you can't trust journalists you can't trust scientists you can't trust anybody except him but this predate President Trump that you know because people don't really understand a lot of these issues they assume that anyone who explains them is trying to hoodwink them let's go back to the point that you made early in your book The Death of expertise precedes president trumps administration 2 what do you attribute this I mean you say that this whole attitude that there is no such thing as earned expertise is a longstanding sort of problem to what do you attribute it I think the underlying problem in not just American culture but in the developed world is an increasing narcissism that convinces people that complicated issues are simple and that they can figure them out because we're all intelligent people and we all tend to embrace even the most complicated issues and I thought I was primarily writing about Americans and within a year it was in 12 foreign languages which really disturbed me because it suggests that this is a problem of affluence of the kind of information overload that's available through too much bandwidth on television and cable and the media and the Internet and I think it also reflects a lack of trust we used to trust each other more we used to assume that our doctor was not in the pocket of big pharma or that you know our carpenter was not in the pocket of big what but now we look at each other constantly with a jaundiced eye in part because we spend too much time alone and in part because everything has become an extension of politics and it's driven us crazy is there any benefit now and now I am asking you to kind of return to the. Is that moment. Do you feel that there has been any benefit to these hearings to kind of describe to the public to lay out the case to the public I mean that's the purpose of these public hearings do you feel any useful purpose has been served I took quite a lot of static from a lot of people on social media because I did not think the impeachment hearings with a panel of lawyers went particularly well I think all it did was confirmed people in their beliefs either one way or another it gave an opportunity to politicians from both sides do a lot of grandstanding that I think was unfortunate I think some of the questioning was excellent I think if you were paying attention with an open mind you could learn things but I don't think it really moved the public debate or produced that much of a moment of civic education I think. What I would rather see are members of Congress debating each other directly instead of sitting up behind a podium and just strolling spitballs at professors which is something that a lot of people just find out retaining So I think actually having to go to the floor and debate each other and marshal these arguments about what constitutes impeachment what the Federalist Papers may have said what the founders may have believed I think educating our members of Congress would be a better use of our time and then forcing the American public to watch that debate and to hear those arguments than to just you know have for a panel of professors with preloaded questions that was Tom Nichols he's the author of The Death of expertise he's also a professor at the u.s. Naval War College but wants to emphasize that he's speaking here in his own behalf Professor Nichols thank you so much for talking to us thanks for having me. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. 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And Iran have carried out a prisoner swap Iran released a Chinese American Princeton University grad student one of several Americans held in Iran in exchange for an Iranian scientist who faced a federal trial in Georgia the California utility says it reached a 13 and a half $1000000000.00 settlement to resolve claims related to wildfires blamed on the company's equipment the still still needs court approval but it would settle claims from several major fires including the deadly camp fire from last year and firefighters in Australia say a massive wildfire burning on the edge of Sydney cannot be extinguished without the help of heavy rain since October some 700 homes have been destroyed at least 6 people have died I'm n.p.r. News. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from t.i.a. Committed to the idea that while most things in life run out from clean shirts in the morning to a favorite dessert at night lifetime income in retirement shouldn't learn more it t.i.a.a. Dot org slash never run out and from the pajama gram company creators of matching holiday pajamas for the whole family including dogs and cats with Charlie Brown Star Wars and Grinch themes in its fleece and flannel available at pajama gram dot com. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Michel Martin now to Pensacola Florida where a gunman killed 3 people and wounded 8 others at the Naval Air Station yesterday just outside the gates of the base at the Olive Baptist Church Air Force service member Nicole body attended a prayer vigil she was on base when the shooting happened yesterday and spent the rest of the day in lockdown inside her apartment she said this was the 1st time she had been out but felt she had to come. Just embarrassed a bag. That it could happen anywhere and we're also service members that are just about right to be here N.P.R.'s Greg Allen is in Pensacola and he is with us now Greg thanks so much for joining us you're welcome feeling authorities have said that the shooting was done by a Saudi national a member of the Saudi Air Force at the base for training have they said any more than that well very little Michel the big question of course here is whether this was an act of terrorism and on that issue Authorities won't say at this point some elected officials including a congressman in Florida senator Rick Scott say it is terrorism but haven't provided any details in the meantime troubling information has been emerging although very little has been confirmed yet by authorities one key detail involves a Twitter account that appears to a blank to the gunman it talks broadly about American crimes against Muslims and it was posted apparently just before the shooting occurred and later in the day twitter suspended the account but that's about all we know about that at this point so what can you tell us about the condition of the victims Well today we learned the identity of one of those who was killed his it's Joshua Caleb Watson he's a recent graduate of the u.s. Naval Academy he was at the Naval Air Station there flight training his brother posted information on Facebook today on the post he said Joshua quote saved countless lives today with his own after being shot multiple times he made it outside and told the 1st response team where the shooter was and those details were invaluable and then Watson's father spoke to the Pensacola News Journal he said his son was taken the hospital didn't survive on arriving there at today's prayer vigil in here in Pensacola the chief deputy sheriff in a Scandia County chip Simmons had a few details and some of those wounded he talked about 2 sheriff's deputies and some of that he identified as a Navy policeman who were among those were wounded one deputy was treated and released the other officer of the Navy policeman he said We're doing well and in good spirits and he has a little more of what he had to say it shook us all it shakes the 1st responders shakes law enforcement they did gets there but we know this that. The training and the support that we get from our community from this community from you guys is going to is what's going to help Pensacola scheme be a county get back to where we need to be and Greg tell us what we know about the investigation at this point well it's all being handled by the f.b.i. And they're not known for being really free with details although as I say there's a lot of information that's being sourced by various news organizations but has not they've not come from publicly today they released photos of personnel working the crime scene and collecting evidence they say they're focused on conducting additional interviews in a tweet today the f.b.i. Said members of its joint terrorism task force are part of the investigation that they haven't determined the shooter's motivation so those are some what the f.b.i. Has been saying meanwhile reporters asked Defense Secretary Marc esper about this he was at a conference about what he thinks whether terrorism is evolved he says that he wouldn't say he says too early to say about that but he says they are taking a look at how the u.s. Government grants foreign nationals access to its military bases here in the u.s. Thanks That's N.P.R.'s Greg Allen and Pensacola Florida Greg thank you you're welcome. We're going to spend some time now talking about the 2020 presidential race on Tuesday California senator Kamel Harris announced that she is dropping out of the Democratic primary saying she didn't have the money to continue to be competitive it was an abrupt end to a campaign that had been soaring early on Harris the 3rd black or biracial woman ever to run for president the victor in a number of successful campaigns in the largest state had been considered a front runner after the 1st debate her campaign wasn't perfect in recent weeks her campaign was taking fire over staff turnover and the lack of a clear message on key policy issues among other things but the senator's exit has sparked almost as much commentary as her entrance with a number of observers asking whether Harris has rough road is just another egg. Sample of a double standard for women candidates especially women of color or whether the challenges were particular to Harrisburg so we thought this would be a great conversation for our weekly Barbershop roundtable because that's where we talk to interesting people about what's in the news and what's on their minds so joining us today are Jennifer Riley Collins she is an Army veteran the former executive director of the a.c.l.u. Of Mississippi and she most recently ran for Mississippi attorney general Jennifer Collins welcome thank you so much for joining us thank you glad to be here also with us. She is an attorney and a writer in New York Michael welcome to you as well thanks for having me Michel and last but not least Kelly Ditmar is a professor of political science at Rutgers University in Camden where she's a scholar at the Center for American Women in Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics and welcome you as well thank you so much for joining us thanks for having me and I'm going to start with you because you wrote a piece for c.n.n. a Couple of months ago and you argued that women running for office have to run what you called a dual campaign I'm going to read a bit from the piece you write women quote have to oversee a traditional campaign in addition to a 2nd one to convince skeptics of their electability it puts a strain on the campaigns most vital resources time and money and quote do you think that that's a factor here absolutely I think when you see what Kamel Harris had to respond to throughout the course of her campaign from media to voters questions to even her. On the Came hand on the campaign trail having to tell people that this was possible because folks were asking whether or not a black woman could be elected as president of the United States and that's something we've seen women and particularly women of color have to deal with because we have not seen them in this level of leadership so generally callers I want to ask you this because one of the reasons we called you is that you are running to be the chief law enforcement officer of your state and I wondered if you . Felt that you had to sort of prove your competency despite the fact that you had this long career in the army you retired as a full bird colonel you were an Army intelligence officer so did you still feel though that there were these sort of basic questions about whether you could do the job that someone else with a different biography would not have had to to do yes because it's often assumed particularly in a red state likeness city that is you know you are not a white male that you are not as electable you know one would assume that my resume reads for itself but the reality is I had to read my resume repeatedly to people to let them know that not only was I fully qualified but that I was the most qualified and more like I'm going to turn to you because after Harris suspended her bid you know you want a piece that caught our attention you know for the Guardian you wrote that and you also felt that even if you credit the double standard to which you know women and people of color may be held you still felt that she had problems in her candidacy in part due to her policy positions and in part due to the fact that she was a prosecutor I want to ask you 1st you're a lawyer yourself was the fact of her being a prosecutor itself disqualifying to you Oh absolutely not I think you can have people who are progressive prosecutors you can have examples of prosecutors where there is controversial legislation where they would support it or not and often only has chose silence or to send mixed signals there was a raise that she was running with a Republican opponent the policy measure was about reforming the 3 strikes law and she chose not to sell the Republican opponent ran to her left so there are several examples of of this throughout Conley Harris's candidacy where she did not have to choose particular options so it doesn't suggest mere electability or making herself viable but that these suggest that these are her ideological positions and in a time where we had multiple black lives who were being. Just not considered in the justice system and our families did not receive justice we can't afford to have people who send mixed messages on our lives and our well being but Kelly Kelly didn't want to go back to you because one of the things that intrigues me is that come on Harris's critics criticized her for being too invested in her identity as a cop and some people thought that that was used to you know to her detriment and as you heard like I say it's not just that she was a cop but the way she was a cop so I credit her her point of view on this but I was curious whether it is this in effect a kind of a tricky issue for women candidates because on the one hand they are being challenged to prove their toughness but the very jobs that they would take to demonstrate their toughness. It creates difficulties in with other constituencies do you think that that's that's true yeah I think there's something to that this double bind that we often talk about when it comes to women candidates is true and it's particularly true when we're talking about executive office and what we've seen historically is that women are expected to be both sort of what I would say man enough for the job right meet the masculine expectations of being tough of being strong on issues around security or defense or the economy right things that have been unfortunately traditionally associated with men male expertise while at the same time meeting expectations of their gender or race which would in many cases be sort of in Congress to those stereotypical expectations of masculinity so Jennifer on a college you know what about you you know you have this incredible resume I mean again as I said Army veteran and intelligence officer and you know an officer but you're also the executive director of the a.c.l.u. So it seems that you also have a firm grounding in civil rights and civil liberties so what do you why do you think you didn't prevail in your race it seems to me that you are as qualified as a person could possibly be for that for the very reason that was spoken about earlier. It's not they still on on qualifications but based on people's perception of who's done it before so the saying by is that Senator Harris had to deal with for being a prosecutor in my opinion doing her job because we know as attorneys that we have to provide competent and zealous representation for our our client at the time of her being a prosecutor her client was the state of California and she was doing what was required of her. By the state of California so I. I don't necessarily like to see her penalized for doing what she is required to do by the codes of professional and competent and zealous representation of her client before we let you go I wanted to ask you Jennifer only cause will start with you is do you draw any any message from Senator Harris's experience or from your own experience that you think other people should take note of particularly women of color who are trying to seek executive positions as they still go for it so I think we have to redefine the metrics against which a woman of color is measured to say whether or not she's viable whether or not she is then also electable let my qualifications my performance my potential speak for what I can do not the money that I can raise my kids or by what about you do you draw any lesson from Senator Harris's experience yes to even a side from her kind of her prosecutorial record was which has been mixed and you know to be fair that can be arguable there are 200 black women progressives that have supported Elizabeth Warren because she's been speaking boldly about these issues consistently for several years and so calmly Harris had committed to a particular message I think that she would have gone farther but she committed to mixed messages while collecting billionaire donor money and Kelly did what about you is there any lesson you think that should be drawn from Senator Harris's experience as a presidential candidate or is it just is it just her the fact that there have only been 15 black women to ever serve in statewide elected executive offices across this country in all of us history tells me because I know that black women are more than qualified for these positions and have done the work in fact to get many other people elected and that's something else is going on viz a viz. Stereotypes expectations and barriers that are placed in the way of white men and calmly Harris's particular campaign have a lot of problems but there's also another thread of the conversation that still should be important to our thinking and analysis about this campaign which is the role of gender race and the intersections of those in the barriers we place in the way of women running for office especially the highest office that's killing him or she's Russert of political science at Rutgers University Camden we reached her in London also with us like a job Ali She's a writer and attorney in New York she was with us from our bureau in New York and Jennifer Riley Collins is a former executive director of the Mississippi a.c.l.u. a Former colonel in the Army and she just ran for state attorney general in Mississippi we reached her in Mississippi thank you all so much for talking with us thank you thank you thank you Michel. You're listening to n.p.r. News. George Zimmerman the Florida man who shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin in 2012 is back in the news Zimmerman was acquitted of homicide in connection with the killing but he is now suing Martin's family the family's attorney and a law enforcement agency for more than $100000000.00 The suit claims that Zimmerman was the victim of a conspiracy and malicious prosecution and that he has been defamed now while the merits of the suit in the eye catching demands have been widely reported one detail has not been Zimmerman's lawyer he's being represented by Larry Klayman who is known for Politico filing of lawsuits in support of long de bunked conspiracy theories for example he spent years denouncing President Obama as a closet Muslim who was not born in the United States we wanted to learn more about Larry Klayman and his work so we've called on Heidi by Rick she leads the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project which publishes its Hate Watch blog and she is with us now from her office in Alabama Heidi thanks so much for joining us thank you for having me so the Southern Poverty Law Center as we said tracks hate and extremist groups in the United States and you have extensive information on your website about Larry Klayman Can you just begin by telling us why you started following his work Yeah well it really started in the early 2000 as he was beginning to attack the candidate Obama and started looking into Obama's as part of the Berger conspiracy this idea that Obama wasn't born in the United States but once we started looking at him we realize that his conspiracy mongrel went further back into the 990 s. And he basically kept it up until the present day just in the very recent past he held a grand jury convened on his own to indict Robert Mahler related to the investigation into Donald Trump so these activities continue so he's often identified as a gadfly which I think implies that he's you know kind of harmless or perhaps a bit eccentric but how do you see it I don't think. That he's harmless he's a gadfly in the sense that he seems to attach himself to every kind of controversy involving government extremists for example he tried to represent Bundy who was a rancher in Nevada who brought a bunch of militia types in anti-government extremists to his ranch in an attempt to repel a federal effort to reclaim cattle from him he had paid his cattle fees and forever and whenever there's a high profile situation like that it seems like layman shows up to represent somebody who is also involved in conspiracy mongering and you know the Gadfly issue also relates to the Zimmerman case here because it's making headlines and here we find Klayman again accusing there of having been some kind of you know controversy in the courts and he's making a big stink about this and he's basing it on a video that was put out by who works at Info Wars right one of the biggest conspiracy sites in the world the family through their attorney Ben Crump who's also been named in the suit has basically called this cruel noting that George Zimmerman has been acquitted and is a free man but they have to live with the loss of their son and they basically said this is cruel how do you think Americans should view this suit and the coverage that it is likely to bring about I think the lawsuit is shameless and it is cruel and it's putting this family back having to relive the loss of their son and it's outrageous and it's probably being done to drum up funds for Clamens own organization and to propel himself into the press and it's just an extremely cynical way to draw attention to claim it but you know he's not above that this has been his track record now for 30 years that's right intelligence project director for the Southern Poverty Law Center thanks so much for talking to us thanks for having me. 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Program listen for news reports on Morning Edition and All Things Considered I'm Janine Hurst with these headlines the federal investigation into the motive for an attack by a Saudi military pilots shooting at the naval air base in Pensacola yesterday continues 4 people died including the gunman several others were wounded the pilot was at the base for training the u.s. Resumed peace talks with Afghanistan's Taliban in Kabul today the 1st official talks since President Trump declared a nearly completed peace deal with the insurance insurgents rather dead in September talks today focused on getting the Taliban to reduce violence and Hong Kong's new police commissioner says his forces will use both hard and soft approaches to deal with protests that are now in their 6th month as tanks as violence won't be tolerated but minor incidents will be dealt with humanely. N.p.r. News and Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Progressive Insurance offering its home quote Explorer so shoppers can evaluate options in one place when buying home insurance custom quotes and rates are available online learn more at progressive dot com from the Union of Concerned Scientists putting rigorous independent science to work for a healthy planet and a safer world more at u.c. S. USA dot org And from listeners like you who donate to this n.p.r. Station. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Michel Martin this next story is about a man who is either an unsung hero to his country or a snitch he's been called both he is from Sri Lanka an island nation where suicide bombers killed more than 250 people at hotels and churches last Easter this man knew the attackers and suspected what they were planning but when he tried to intervene he became a target N.P.R.'s Lauren Frayer reports from a small town in central Sri Lanka. As soon as a spot to my John not welcomes me into her mud brick home she bursts into tears. The not. To be considered tell me her husband story is mostly Buddhist to most family is Muslim and her husband Mohammad tousle eem was on the town council last year he was asked to investigate the vandalism of some Buddhist statues he soon heard rumors about 2 brothers and Shahid Abdul hock neighbors said they'd become radicalized and were stockpiling weapons Mohammed alerted police but they didn't arrest the brothers if released and that she and the for. A few weeks later Fatima recalls an ominous message popped up on Facebook calling Mohammed a snitch a few days after that Fatima woke up with a start at 4 15 in the morning. Then how to tie a come on the Monday she good alone I don't want a little bit word my husband his eyes were wide all good but he couldn't there was blood on the pillow then I saw a little running out of the hose and I started screaming my worst fears were confirmed Mohamed had been shot point blank in his right temple 9 confirmed by the CIA to get Internet to Mrs she immediately suspected the up to hock brothers and told that to police but when police went to the brother's house that day they were gone it wasn't for another month after suicide bombers killed more than $250.00 people on Easter that police finally arrested the Abdul Haq brothers but it wasn't for shooting Mohammed those weapons he tried to warn them about Authorities believe they were used in the Easter attacks the brothers are now awaiting trial for allegedly assisting those suicide bombers and they face additional charges for the attempted murder of Mohammed. Attempted because 9 months after he was shot Mohammad has a lot. If in a hospital under police protection can you walk can't know. If his left side is paralyzed he says it was in this hospital bed that he got news of the Easter bombings calling to. Give a call and I was devastated because the police had a record that but when I 1st elected them then of this would have happened I wouldn't be in this hospital even if they had arrested them after they have a shark they could have saved the lives of more than 250 people there were other missed warnings the u.s. And India had both alerted Sri Lanka of an imminent attack but the president and prime minister were bickering the government failed to keep the military in the loop 10 years ago Sri Lanka defeated terrorism by ethnic Tamil separatists in the country's civil war but a new Islamised threat was barely on officials radar these groups maybe did themselves didn't know how serious it was that charitable experience analyst j. Hunt Pereira says there was negligence and incompetence Sri Lanka's intelligence chief has since resigned but there were also failures in local policing most of Sri Lanka's Muslims are Tamils they were on the losing side of the Civil War Many politicians have since sought to we know for Muslims by respectfully trying to stay out of their affairs Perera says Muslim radicalization was a interim Muslim phenomenon that van sit on was Slim's all fighting as I said on Muslims and therefore there is no need for the state to get in Ward the Muslim politicians are powerful saw the government didn't want do and Tiger needs them the government would instead ask civilians like Mohammad tousle eem to investigate his own community and when he came back with rumors authorities were reluctant to act since the Easter attacks Sri Lanka has seen anti Muslim riots mosques have been attacked and last month the. Elected a new president a former military man who crushed separatists at the end of the civil war. Now adays Muhammad's brother in law Shiraz babysits their 3 boys so that Fatima can visit her husband in the hospital he's going every day medicine every day going come back so your sister is visiting her husband taking care of him and I have government ministers visited him the president the president you know coming here. That not one Muslim government minister has been sending a bit of money but says his family is mostly just an embarrassing reminder to the government of its own failure the family now wants to leave Sri Lanka out of fear for Mohamed safety and for better medical treatment which Mohammad will likely need for the rest of his life Lauren Frayer n.p.r. News in Melbourne Ella Sri Lanka. And finally today when we think about music coming out of Mexico City r. And b. Probably isn't what comes to mind but our next guest is trying to change that she is Marianna they Miguel who goes by the name girl Ultra. Although she is only in her twenty's she's been at the forefront of the movement to grow Mexico's r. And b. C. And now her 1st full length album dress has been released and girl is with us now to tell us more about it from her studio in Mexico City girl Alter thank you so much for joining us Bill thank you. For inviting me so where does the name girl come from it just came out of this special new energy I felt because I I was part of a of a disco band when I came out of high school and I was thinking about going solo and I felt like I needed a name that empowered me that way so I just want to I just feel like this superhero when is thing I just brainstormed and it just came out and I felt very comfortable with that alter ego thing so as we mentioned that there really hasn't been that much r. And b. Scene in Mexico and I think it's fair to say you're one of the few artists making this type of music there what is it about r. And b. That started to speak to you I don't know like I just summed up the music that I grew up with like Beyonce and Destiny's Child and then I was like What is this is why does this feel so comfortable and passionate and when I started singing by myself. I just really realized that it was inside of me when I started composing when I was like probably 1415 years old and everything started to shape into These are it be contemporary soul thing because I was what I was listening at the time when I when I had an odd isn't all that old that I legal. Young. I just became this musical researcher and. I just found out like. The roots and all in all the stuff D'Angelo. It was like a whole new world for me so as I think a lot of people know you know r. And b. Is kind of synonymous with a sort of a sultry vibe I want to play something from your new album that fits that description this is called discuss your. Job Bill because. Oh. Just is. So. How would you describe what you were going for and how did you know when you had found it I feel I some looking forward I particularly I've never lived such as like what happened in the eighty's and I'm a big fan of the eighty's I just I worship the eighty's and I don't know like. I feel some kind of mystery passionate about my personality on and off the stage and I just try to find that that connection between the sound. And the words of the person that I am like currently. These fans that I've become. When I step on stage most of your songs have lyrics in Spanish but there are some bilingual tracks and one of the songs I want to play now. The video is. A lot of. Go. That's. How it came together it was crazy because I'm here in Mexico City and we were playing the same festival different stages at the same time and I was very dragged to. In the past and we exchanged numbers and we started talking like we were exchanging like this crazy stuff. And I was like was up I'm coming too late let's let's hang Let's link up and he was like why don't we make a song or make something like that to studio so we rented a studio as soon as we came. We just started buying We just connected and we were like Ok what an. English. Like completely. Just like switch things up go. Home. You. Know we started. We were. Laying down. Like. Like yeah we were writing the lyrics and it just felt very comfortable going back. For people who aren't aware of. What's so fascinating about this is that it is so easy just to kind of go back and forth between the Spanish in the English and I just wonder do you think that that's maybe more with what I'm looking for more typical than people may realize is that for people who speak both languages they just go back and forth I'm saying yeah it is completely typical And you know what like a lot of people in Mexico really speak English because we got everything like in our products in t.v. In the music so we're just like very close to each other do you feel that the I don't know whether this was intentional or not but do you feel that having both Spanish and English will kind of help the song reach a broader audience or is that just how it appeared to you that's just how it came to you. It's how we came to me but we definitely wanted to make like this cultural clash like who regularly speaks English and he's every day and I speak Spanish but he speaks fluent Spanish and I speak kind of a fluent English so it just feels so natural like let's just switch to our 2nd language what kind of reaction are you getting to the album especially as we mentioned earlier you're trying to grow the r. And b. Scene in in Mexico obviously you know north of the border there's already a big you know after tight for r. And b. What kind of feedback are you getting. I was very worried about this haven't because it was like an experimental album because it just I wasn't aware of what people was was going to think about all of these processes and it was well received like I don't know that they were they've been very thankful for for the album. That is just a blessing What's your favorite song on the album or maybe that's not a fair question so what song do you show we go out on I Love The Last Song of the album. Because it's a very very personal song I wrote about it's like a love letter to my city your city Mexico City is what you meant right. So I don't know I felt like I specially had this pretty hectic passionate love hate relationship with my city and I don't know I just felt like writing a love song to do that and I've never ever written a love song and that's what it is. To see. 'd her. That is grow old. They make her new album out. This is out now girl today Miguel thank you so much for joining us and congratulations on everything thank you so much because. Rather. Like to tell you about a story that we're working on for tomorrow's program in the Spanish language all nouns are gendered feminine nouns. And nasty ones. But there is a push among teenagers in Argentina to make all nouns gender neutral We'll have more on that story tomorrow. For Saturday that's All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Michel Martin you can follow us on Twitter at n.p.r. A.t.c. Or follow me n.p.r. And I see you back tomorrow thanks for listening we hope you have a great evening. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from little passports a monthly subscription service for kids each package includes games souvenirs and activities from a new country designed to spark curiosity and cultures around the globe little passports dot com slash radio from Capital One committed to reimagining banking well for ing savings and checking accounts that can be opened from anywhere Capital One what's in your wallet Capital One and a. And from the sustaining members of this n.p.r. Station. This week. 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