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"Comfortable overnight early morning, 40s and 50s for the low before we're done. We are at 58° in our nation's capital. Good morning to you. Welcome in. It's one 45 on WTO. This is WTO news. Two top rights groups have denounced the severe Taliban restrictions of Afghan women as a crime against humanity. In a new report, Amnesty International and the international commission for juris or ICJ said the Taliban's treatment of women or girls in Afghanistan could constitute as gender based persecution, gender based persecution is listed as a crime against humanity by the International Criminal Court. When the Taliban seized power in August 2021, they promised a moderate rule, however, they started to enforce restrictions on women and girls soon after their takeover. I'm Karen Chammas. Here at home my man in Northern Virginia is accused this morning of stealing a police rifle, Arlington county police say the man was wearing a bulletproof vest and used a shovel to break into a parked police cruiser this week, then stole a rifle that was inside. He's accused this morning of waving that gun around and carrying it in an area near The Pentagon city mall on Friday morning. This morning to identify the man, as 21 year old Tyler Rodriguez Hernandez, he was arrested and is facing several charges we are told including grand larceny and destruction of property. A South Carolina judge halts implementation of South Carolina's strict new abortion law, so the state Supreme Court can review it. CBS News legal analyst then Rosenbaum with the latest. As many people feared last year when roe V wade was overturned. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that states must decide for themselves whether abortions are legal, the map of where abortions are accessible is shrinking, especially in the south. For instance, southern women must leave their states for North Carolina and Florida, which still provide more wider access to abortion. The new law prohibits most abortions after approximately 6 weeks of pregnancy, the judge's ruling came a day after governor Henry McMaster signed the bill into law. There's a decision that a battle between fighting western wildfires and polluted water, now a Montana judge, a federal judge there ruling in favor of fighting wildfires. The case surrounds a chemical retardant that helps put fires out, but also pollute streams and violates federal law. But the judge in the case decided the greater interest here was putting out those fires because they are growing bigger and more destructive these days, environmentalists had sued the government because the practice had left slurry had left red slurry material in waterways hundreds of times over the past decade we were told. I had this thing where I get older, but hey swifties, listen up, there's a new exhibit just for you, the museum of arts and design in New York City has dozens of Taylor
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Rights groups slam severe Taliban restrictions on Afghan women as 'crime against humanity'
"Two top rights groups have denounced the severe Taliban restrictions on Afghan women as a crime against humanity in a new report, Amnesty International and the international commission for juris or ICJ said the Taliban's treatment of women or girls in Afghanistan could constitute as gender based persecution, gender based persecution is listed as a crime against humanity by the International Criminal Court, the report underscored how the Taliban cracked down on women alongside other mistreatments such as imprisonment and torture could qualify as gender persecution when the Taliban seized power in August 2021, they promised a moderate rule, however they started to enforce restrictions on women and girls soon after their takeover. I am Karen Chammas
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"As the weary prime minister flies home, following the path of the Thames. He imagines bombers raising London. He simply can not let another war happen. And it was not just the thought of a resurrection of the western front. The other problem was technological, Baldwin had said the bomber will always get through, and the scientists had determined what they thought was true, that millions of people would go clinically mad after 6 months of aerial bombing. The reckoning was that actually it wasn't survivable, psychologically mentally. And so this is why you have appeasement. Appeasement is not something which is a bizarre fetish or strange kink of the human mind, so clearly rational thing based on the data they had based on their recent history based on observation. It was not just this girl emotional. I hate warring of pacifists. There's a highly rational logical position to take. A skeptic, dove Cooper, lord of the admiralty, urges for immediate British mobilization. In Hyde Park, air raid shelters are hacked out. On Whitehall, sandbags are piled around government buildings. The countdown has begun. At 8 p.m. on September 27th, Chamberlain makes a desperate radio broadcast. How horrible, how fantastic, how incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here. Because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing. In Berlin, the French ambassador warns that Hitler will be lighting the blue touch paper to another war. Chamberlain has one last throw of the dice. If Hitler won't see reason, then maybe Mussolini can bend his ear. On the 28th, at 10 a.m., four hours before the deadline. Chamberlain puts a call through to Rome. To his great relief, 60 minutes later, il duce's people get back. Hitler, it seems, is receptive to a conference. In Munich. The Führer pushes back his invasion. The next morning, the 29th, Chamberlain prepares to board his plane. Alongside him is Hermann Göring shooting pal, lord Halifax. Now, foreign circuitry. It starts to rain. There's a chill in the air, the mood is somber. In his old fashioned winged colon Hamburg hat, Chamberlain turns to reporters. When I was a little boy, I used to repeat if at first you don't succeed. Try, try again. So this was now ready seen as a moment of crisis in other countries, because now it was becoming clear. This was no longer about undoing beside something else was going on here. This was really aggression gangster foreign countries and against non German populations. People like Chamberlain still think this is ultimately maybe just a slightly more extreme version of undoing the precise system of creating this national security for Germany because of course what Hitler would tell someone like Chamberlain is not my ultimate goal is to dominate the entire Eurasian landmass. In Munich, amid all the uniforms, Chamberlain and daladier and their pinstripes, seem out of place. Chamberlain is in his tailed morning suit. His sidearm is an umbrella. By contrast, in strides Mussolini, chest puffed out, and the wash with metals. And then, of course, costumed as a brown shirt comes out of Hitler. The men and their entourages mill around a buffet table. It's all very awkward. Translators and adjutants wander in and out. The photographer suggests the four leaders go and stand by the fireplace. At 1245 p.m., their ushered into a conference room. It's Mussolini, in his self appointed role as master of ceremonies who takes control. He speaks slow English, some French, a smidgen of German, and not a great deal of sense in any of them. Hitler, meanwhile, just grimaces. It was of course really Mussolini, who had brought about Munich, which we now today see as a triumph of Hitler, but at the time it led his furious. This was absolutely not what he wanted to have. He really had wanted to march into Czechoslovakia, and now Mussolini had forced his hand and had brought about this international agreement, which Hitler objected to, and yet he also knew that he was dependent on Italian support. Finally, at one 30 in the morning, an agreement is reached. Britain, France, Germany and Italy, consent to a four stage transfer of the German majority regions of the sudetenland, beginning on October 1st, and an evacuation of the Czech population. An international commission will oversee disputed areas and arrange plebiscites. After this, promises Hitler, there will be no more territorial demands. The four leaders put their names to the necessary documents. Hitler, in a rare slip, lets himself be snapped wearing his glasses. At two 15 a.m., the czechoslovakian delegates, who have been waiting outside a brought in. It's up to the British and French to break the news to them. They have been sold down the river. The Germans and Italians are long gone. If ever, that silly old man comes interfering here again with his umbrella growls Hitler. I'll kick him downstairs and jump on his stomach in front of the photographers. In the morning, Chamberlain goes to Hitler's Munich apartment for breakfast. Ecstatic crowds throng the root. Over Viennese pastries, Chamberlain asks Hitler for a favor. He needs something material, something to show for his efforts. Could her Hitler possibly sign something, a letter of intent. A pledge that their two countries will never again go to war. No problems is the Führer. Barely bothering to read it, he scrawls his name. At 5 38 p.m.. Chamberlain's plane touches down at heston. The waiting crowd bids him hip hip hooray. Before the newsreel cameras, the beaming prime minister shakes hands and waves his precious letter. Pathe news is equally ecstatic. Our words and thanks are exhausted for a man who was averted another Armageddon.
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"It looks like you all hated me so much. That you're giving me this award for it. And I'm loving every minute of it. Fletcher later became known to TV audiences for her recurring roles on shameless and Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I'm Scott Carr. An abortion law from 1901 has been brought back in Arizona. On Friday, a judge lifted an injunction on the state's territorial law, which bans abortions even in cases of rape or incest. Now, abortions will only be offered in Arizona if the mother's life is in danger, candidate for governor in the state Katie Hobbs released a statement calling the law draconian and said not having exemptions for rape or incest will have dire consequences on women's health. Speaking at a Friday Democratic National Committee event in Washington, President Biden criticized the House Republicans knew what they call commitment to America plan. Policy goals with little or no detail, we didn't hear mention the right to choose. We didn't hear him mention Medicare. We didn't hear him mention social security. The president said some Republicans want to put social security and Medicare and the chopping block and accuse that party of seeking to criminalize abortion nationwide. He accused many Republicans of hypocrisy for their praise of police while defending rioters who assaulted officers during last year's capital attack. And again, argue there's no reason for a military style assault weapons in America. You can't be pro law enforcement and pro insurrection. You can't claim to be a party of Law & Order and call the people to attack the police in January 6th, patriots. The United Nations is giving an update on potential war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. The independent international commission of inquiry into Ukraine is reporting incidents of rape torture and unlawful containment and found that some Russian Federation soldiers committed the crimes, the updates as the age of those abused ranges from four to 82. The news comes after mass graves were recently found in Ukraine. A judge in New York City says former mayor Rudy Giuliani is in contempt of court and could be arrested if he doesn't make a payment to his ex-wife, Judith Giuliani claims her 78 year old former husband owes her $225,000. He says he only owes her about 50,000. The judge gave Giuliani until October 7th to pay
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"Back in Arizona. On Friday, a judge lifted an injunction of a state's territorial law, which bans abortions even in cases of rape or incest. Abortions will only be offered in Arizona if the mother's life is in danger, candidate for governor in the state Katie Hobbs released a statement calling the law draconian and said not having exemptions for rape or incest will have dire consequences on women's health. Speaking at a Friday Democratic National Committee event in Washington, President Biden criticized a House Republicans knew what they call commitment to America plan. That's a thin series of policy goals with little or no detail. We didn't hear and mention the right to choose. We didn't hear him mention Medicare. We didn't hear him mention social security. The president said some Republicans want to put social security and Medicare on the chopping block and accuse that party of seeking to criminalize abortion nationwide. He accused many Republicans of hypocrisy for their praise of police while defending rioters who assaulted officers during last year's capital attack. And again, argue there's no reason for a military style assault weapons in America. You can't be pro law enforcement and throw insurrection. You can't claim me a party of Law & Order and call the people who attack the police in January 6th, patriots. The United Nations is giving an update on potential war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. The independent international commission of inquiry into Ukraine is reporting incidents of rape torture and unlawful containment and found that some Russian Federation soldiers committed the crimes. They update says the age of those abused ranges from four to 82. The news comes after mass graves were recently found
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"We day afternoons at two eastern. These are retailers that have been on everybody's radar. Those Apple numbers continuing to come in. On Bloomberg radio, the Bloomberg business app and Bloomberg radio dot com. The White House is again accusing Republicans of aiming to impose a nationwide abortion ban, press secretary karine Jean Pierre. This extreme national ban is wildly out of step with American people. She said the Biden administration is committed to doing everything possible to protect women's reproductive healthcare rights. The U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned roe V wade and left abortion up to individual states. The United Nations is giving an update on potential war crimes committed in Ukraine as the war with Russia continues. The independent international commission of inquiry into Ukraine reported incidents of rape torture and unlawful containment finding that some Russian Federation soldiers committed the crimes. Moderna is requesting the FDA clear its new COVID boosters for kids and teens, the pharmaceutical company filed two authorization requests for the FDA. One is for kids as young as 6 and another 14 up to 17. I'm Brian schuch. From Bloomberg world headquarters in New York, I'm Doug prisoner, U.S. stocks joined European equities in a sell off today. It was triggered when the British government delivered the most sweeping tax cuts since 1972. Now markets are concerned these cuts will in turn fuel inflation at a time when the Bank of England is already struggling to rein in prices. Now the speculation is the BOE will have no choice but to raise rates by a hundred basis points next month. Remember earlier this week, the fed forecast to move up in its key policy rate to 4.4% by the end of the year. That implies another 125 basis points in fed tightening. Tony Rodriguez is head of fixed income strategy at nuveen. We do think this is going to slow the economy down. We're seeing that obviously already in the housing market. We've seen it in certain industries, you know, FedEx warnings, et cetera. So we do think that as further tightening happens over the balance of this year, we're going to start to see that slow down and Rodriguez says evidence of slowing will produce further inversion of the yield curve. Well, it may flatten further in the week ahead since we're expecting to hear from 13 unique fed speakers during 22 separate events. Today, the yield on the two year treasury jumped 7 basis points to 4.19%, the ten year was last quoted at a yield of 3.68%, aggressive Central Bank tightening, whether it's the BOE or the fed has raised the risk of economic contraction and now KKR is seeing a mild recession next year and Goldman Sachs has slashed targets for stocks, warning of a dramatic upward shift in the outlook for rates and resulting pressure on stock valuations. Today we had the Dow industrial average down 1.6%, the S&P 500 fell 1.7% the NASDAQ composite was down 1.8%. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is Bloomberg. Broadcasting live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studio in New York, Bloomberg, England three O to Washington, D.C., Bloomberg 99 one to Boston, Bloomberg, one O 6 one to San Francisco, Bloomberg 9 60 to the country. Syria's XM channel one 19, and around the globe, the Bloomberg business act in Bloomberg radio dot com. This is Bloomberg best. I'm Dennis Pellegrini, an events in Ukraine developing Fast & Furious. Russia calling up the first reservist to bolster forces former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, those says Putin's reserve call up is just another sign the tide is turning against him. He's running out of soldiers. He thinks by instituting this draft or this call up, he may be able to replace these soldiers that is losing day after day on the battlefield. And Taylor and Washington and all of Europe keeping a close eye on what's happening in Ukraine and Russia right now is Moscow moves to ramp up defense spending and Ukrainian foreign minister dimitro tells Bloomberg's Ann Marie harder and what he thinks Ukraine needs most right now. Let's listen in. Weapons because we are at the war and when you are fighting a war against such an enemy, you need more weapons. Sometimes I'm being asked whether there is enough of weapons that we have received. And I always say that I will be able to say it was enough, only after Ukraine wins. Until then, we will be asking for more. And from the United States is already asking Congress for another $12 billion or so. European allies have sent weapons for how long are you going to be needing to ask for the increase of these supplies, the weapons and the ammunition? Our recent successes in the east of Ukraine. I mean, our counter offensive is an evidence that a combination of Ukrainian stamina in western weapons and most of them come from the United States is the recipe to defeat Russia on the ground. So it's a clear message to everyone that it works, that it makes sense to help Ukraine with weapons because we can defeat president Putin and his army in our territory. So of course the sustainability of supplies is an issue and that's exactly what we are working on with our partners. Not only Washington but also all across the globe. You had this unexpected counter offensive in the vast territories around car keys. What's next? It was unexpected for some, but it was as thoroughly planned and well thought military operation. The next phase will be to continue liberating our territories. We will continue our counter offensive in the east of the country. I would like to recall that since 24th of February, the only region that Russia controls in full is this low guns region of Ukraine. Now, we have a clear goal of depriving Russia of this control, which will send a clear message that since 24th of February or Russia we truly achieve no strategic gains in Ukraine. I want to bring up the fact that what we're seeing in Europe right now, heading into very tough winter. In Germany in August, power prices, electricity forward power prices peaked in August, €1050 per megawatt an hour. That is normally 40, €45. Are you confident Europe is going to remain this resolve? Well, the prices that you have just mentioned is the direct result of presence putting energy blackmail of Europe and the entire world. And while he blackmails the west with high prices, he literally blackmails Ukrainians with blackouts, Russian missiles hit a number of critical infrastructure elements of how electricity grid. Causing blackouts in two big regions of Ukraine, including the hurricane region that was liberated by our army. Russian missile hit near Ukrainian nuclear power plant. And that nuclear power plant also contributes to our electricity grid. So we're facing kind of different levels of problems with our European partners. But we work closely with them in order to sustain this pressure coming from Russia. And I see that European leadership is committed not to allow put into succeed. And we are working with them. Well, you have Victor Orban flirting with Russia. You have to potentially about to usher in a far right government in Italy. Mario Draghi, a Russia hawk, he very much so backed Ukraine. He will not be there anymore. You have the rhetoric from the likes of
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"And to Nancy Lyons in Washington, D.C., hey nets. Thanks, Tim. Lawmakers have set the stage for last minute action to avoid a government shutdown at the end of next week. We get details from Bloomberg's Amy Morris in Washington. They have to decide if they're going to attach senator Joe Manchin's energy permitting Bill to the measure, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has teed up the first votes set for next week to include an insulin pricing Bill. Republican senator Richard burr says a practically clean bill has been reached, although a Republican aide tells Bloomberg government they're still finalizing details until legislative text is released for the stopgap, the deadline is September 30th. In Washington, I'm Amy Morris Bloomberg radio. Russia is conducting referendums in areas of Ukraine under its control, asking residents there whether they want to be part of Russia. But Ukrainian and U.S. leaders view the elections as an illegitimate attempt by Moscow to annex those areas. Meanwhile, the UN is reporting on its extensive investigation into alleged war crimes carried out in Ukraine, Eric murs chairs the independent international commission. The commission has been 27 towns and settlements and has interviewed more than 150 victims. And witnesses. We have inspected sites of destruction, grades, places of detention and torture, as well as weapon remnants and consulted a large number of documents and reports. Mura says they found evidence of Russian war crimes, including a large number of executions, including bodies with their hands tied behind their backs with slit throats and with gunshot wounds to the head. Global news 24 hours a
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"Irene like we showing solidarity with the protesters inc in his mounting. Collie we have been we. Have we have seen how police huff attack. It would fired gone on fire arms for example the medical assistance who are being like giving these health car to protesters. The people of the community are that are that are doing like these act of solidarity to feed the protesters in one war. We can say that solidarity is being criminalised. And i wanted to ask you on monday. President duke announced reforms to the policing in the country Do you think this is gonna. What were those reforms and do you think. Tissue is going to have any impact on the resistance under strike movement. I think the the basis of the reforms are very superficial. One of the points is changing their uniform. Because there's been a lot of criticism. One of the demands has been to take the police. The national police out out of the way from the defense ministry and put it into the interior ministry. Make it more civilian oriented. The police have been trained to treat civilians as essentially inter internal enemies. This is the mindset of years of internal war and conflict with the armed with the with the groups. So there's this mentality that has always played the national police to confront any kind of civilian opposition or mobilization or even street kids young folks living in the streets and and very marginalized communities as enemies as garbage and in many ways the response to the police abuse of the last few months is that rage. That's inside 'specially young people who were sick and tired of being treated as animals as as non human as enemies internally so the idea of changing a uniform to a blue and making them look really nice as to show that they're no longer part of the military doesn't take him out of the defense ministry. It's still within that frame. In fact yesterday the press conferences in the evening yet the defense minister speaking about the protests. That were getting supposedly violent last night in different parts of the country. So that's one thing. The other thing is putting bodycam so right that kind of again superficial approach to police violence and security. The bottom line is that the years of internal war has created this mindset within the public security forces and it goes from the national army the armed forces all the way down to your local kyw which is like the local police patrolling local neighborhoods. See the civilian population as enemies and in many ways it is destructive and this is what the among the many points of the protests that have been going on over the last several months. And it's not only about police reform. It's also about economic reform and recognizing the needs of many of these same young people who are street who have no job. Opportunities given the current economic climate have no opportunities for education. So the ten point political program. That was that's being put forward by the national strike committee nets essentially bringing the protests from the streets to political level is issues on living wages for working people about a state sponsored healthcare system which has been clearly shown to be inadequate given the levels of covert that we've seen the hospital the heart the public hospital system completely broken yesterday. I think the report was three hundred. Eighty people died of kobe yesterday. In other words every day here in columbia for the last several months we've been seeing up to between three hundred and five hundred people dying of gobert no healthcare system talking about a free education system for for for young folks who have no opportunities to go to school and of course the dismantling of the smart the national this rapid deployment police force. That was the creation of plan colombia. Back in one thousand ninety nine essentially to combat drug traffickers are now being used and have been used for the last fifteen years against civilians protesting against the government. So there's a lot of reforms of being pushed forward and unfortunately the colombian government continues to give it lip service and lese did yesterday talking about police reform on new new tax reform law which essentially is kind of putting a bandaid on several severed hand. If you will mario before i ask you about. The colombian mercenaries that were involved with the assassination of the haitian president very quickly. You're in columbia. Following the colombian human rights commission. Can you talk about the latest results. They have found in colombia right. The international commission was invited here by coalition of colombian human rights groups range of groups. That have been very concerned about the last few months of protests and how impunity which is a consistent pattern here in columbia was was basically getting into effect given the dozens of complaints hundreds of complaints and denunciations of human rights violations. That were taking place. During the first stages of the protests so the commission came here to bogota forty three members of the commission from around the world from from europe from latin america from canada the united states from other parts of the world to essentially visit different areas of the country so for example i went to the coffee-growing region media was in cali interviewed up we collectively we interviewed about one hundred eighty different victims. Who had unbelievable testimonies about how they were dealt with. During the course of the protests starting on april twenty eight and and we saw as was talked about before the victims of sexual violence who talked to us about the the abuse that they received the hundreds of people who were wounded and many who were detained without any explanation and disappeared for for days on end the reports are anywhere between seventy five to eighty people killed including forty four specifically attributed to the national security forces and so we were documenting that to draw attention to this problem which continues to get handled in the colombian media and by the colombian government in very kind of doublespeak way. As if they're living in a different world we met with public officials met with police. We met with governor govern governors and local human rights Government human rights workers who were supposedly. They had to defend the people and the answer is always the same thing you know how many police were wounded. You know how much public property was damaged essentially ignoring the demands and in many cases saying well. We're not hearing denunciations. We're not getting public denunciations from these so-called victims and the argument is is that once again they're forgetting and they're denying the many many years of repression against anybody who speaks out against people who against st against the government and.
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"Herald reports the detain colombian said. They were hired to work in haiti by the miami based company c. T. you security which is run by venezuelan man named immanuel on three ago. Lara who is anti president the precedent event as walea. This is the sister of a colombian former soldier accused of participating in mesa assassination. Who was killed during a gun battle with. Haitian police jenny. Comprador said her brother had been hired as a bodyguard. Will it okay. Something that doesn't add up. Something is wrong. Something happened what i do know and what i will assure. The world of is that my brother was correct. Person and my brother did not do what they are accusing him of democracy in the last conversation i had with my brother. He told me we got here too late. Unfortunately the person we're going to we couldn't do anything on saturday. One of haiti's top gang leaders. Jimmy shut a former police officer known. Barbecue said his men would take to the streets to protest. The assassination appeal moon keynote opposition. Many people from the opposition and stinking bourgeoisie join together to betrayed the president. It is a national and international conspiracy against the people not good bus. I ask all groups gang to mobilize take to the streets. We demand explanations about the assassination of the president. We had a problem with the president but we have never said that foreigners can enter a territory to kill the president. This comes as pentagon spokesperson john. Kirby told fox news. Sunday the united states center an interagency team from the department of homeland security and the fbi quote. See what we can do to help the investigative process the us said they are also upping military aid to haiti and the interim government has called for both un and us troops to come into haiti for more we go to haiti's capital port-au-prince to speak with magi komo the knee. A former minister of culture in heyday. She's the coordinator civil society commission to find a haitian solution to the ongoing political crisis. Welcome to democracy. Now it's great to have you with us. Can you tell us what you understand at. This point took place over this past week this historic unprecedented assassination of the president. What you know. So far magli komo. The knee are you a hear me. Yes no yes. Can you talk about what you understand has happened since this unprecedented assassination of the president of haiti who is involved. Who's been arrested and who you think is behind this historic attack. Just of all. Let me see that. We are very very very slowly for what happened to the president. This is not what the population was asking for. We are very shocked that makes three four years that we are asking him to go to leave the power and he didn't but this is knew what not what we we wanted did so many say now his. I don't think that. I don't think that this is what it is important. Now for us. We want justice we want investigators to identify or toes of that crime and to punish them according to the law. Exactly the same way as we as just this fall. Marie-antoinette declare my young the political commod. Who had been assassinated five days before the assassination under president of the president. All those are not most victims into capital andrea andrea of teams People being killed kidnap. It we are seeing justice for them to do its job. What is important really important now is that we are in this catastrophic situation in we have to do all we can do to stabilize the situation in headed people leave. So let's the investigators will be able to answer this question Better than i than i can do. Those kitchen will have on unprepared time. Could you talk about this whole issue of. Where were the president's guards. There was no shooting between the assassinations. And the and the supposed guards of the president at the time. Has anyone been able to figure out or question. His own security gives you the infants to get us. We'll end sadat i. I wasn't in the house. I i can answer you seriously. We are the gods. You see scenes twee four years there were. There was a line of crime in the country and the international division of the crime and of the life and disease in the atmosphere mid single kind of crime to assassinate the president in his wound so that assassination is related to all of the assassinations that that we had in the country. Doing those to tweet us. Remember that chief of the bar association have killed in his house very very closed to president house so this is not an it is very very special situation because it is a a prison but it is not as related to one of due dot crazy that we must be installed delaying of climb and now the president have been reaching of his own way on so we are sorry for that. But that's let's let's do their job again. And i wanted to ask you. Also what's your response to the interim prime minister of asking the united states and the un to send troops and security into the country. It's only for him because he knows that he key to the power without emended without any any agreement. So that's why he he needs the protection of the military but we there is no situation could discipline and intervention of the of the us. We don't want that. We already had that and you know and we know what that last for her. We don't want the boots. we have our way. We already have the boots on our knees now on our necks. That's not not physically. But we cannot brief now in haiti. We don't want them to come. We welcome the international commission of investigation including the fbi. That we really don't want that. And what we we have to recognize if the match you of the population. This population had been in the suite. Most each did you end up last year's and when that happened there was no manifestation of joy. there was no wyatt there has no people industry burning et cetera et cetera. The people the population is very calm. Very very calm and doesn't want to give any pretext to the government to ask for any intervision intervention that is for its on incubus in brussels for its personal protection that is asking for that mongolia. Komo any who do you believe right. Now is in charge of haiti. And according to the new york times haiti's interim prime minister. Joseph says he's taking command of the police and the army declaring a state of siege. That essentially puts the country under martial law but constitutional experts questioned his right to impose it in his claims to power was quickly challenged by a rival. Dr all the Who was named to be the next prime minister under mo- east but not sworn in you have the president of the supreme court who's just died of covid who constitutionally would have been next in succession. Who what do you think what entity should be in charge of haiti right now and your concerns about the calls for us and u n troops. None of them off the is legitimate to to be on power. Delis no vision in the constitution sean. For that situation we are in an extract constitutional situation. We have to look for a solution of exception. I'm here working for the commission that i've been created lied to civil society could be some to find a haitian solution to the crisis. This is when you we. We were in a crisis and duck four months that we are working with all the political groups are civil society groups from the ends to the union flom human rights organization fleming east organization diaspora etcetera city la to create a broad consensus between are the sectors of the population to propose a haitians Sunni sean is no other legal answer to that situation of exception. Going back to president maurice. Could you talk about his role in the petro corrib scandal whereas billions of dollars from venezuela. What mark for haiti disappeared people. The population was asking for where where is the money from the two cardi b. Well jobs where the hosts beatles that was supposed to be created to for with that one and the answer of the government. Wise killing people was Gas ceiling during the march beside that all the gangs that he has armed against dodgy that he has a federated where can be able to protest with the protection of the police. This is a vast system of coalition. That i've been reinforced. I said that the create the cohesion in the state but we have at which level of coverage that we never knew before so This is what has to be done. Investigation for the kind of crime financial or crimes. Also and can you talk about Paradise all one of the haitian oligarchs i believe. Now there has been an arrest warrant issued term this was before under maurice which could have extremely to say the least angered him But being in washington hiring lobbyists What his role in haiti is right. Now and then what you believe the us could do should do of is glasses. He's one of the kids as many many other candidates the special position because he comes from the private sector and he was one of the men. The support of the president's juvenile ee. He he had him To which the power. But i have no special for now. He's conducted like the other one that deserves special attention because they are ten twenty but what do international the. Us can do for once for once. We are asking them to listen to worse. We are porcess. I mean the meeting and meetings every day this week. We are in the process to have lodged consensus between rbis sectors of the population. For ones. please. I'm asking them to listen to our voice. They always say that the program has to be sold by the haitian i would like we would like them to respect their woods and in fact and in fact led the nation solve their problems and bring taos solidity to that solution that we that we are creating now they are being. There are elections be held. Their elections scheduled to be held in september. Ardent believe should go forward. Listen listen since we years it was there was one speech. People are killed. Election are being kidnapping election the before the assassination election of the president's election the after the assassination of the president election as if nothing had happened. It's an insult to our intelligence. Dick not keep doing the same same thing over and over again but it takes expecting different results. That's the definition of insanity we have to reset we have we have the car is broken of auditors are flat and you still want to go to the beach. Let's let's let's repair it. Let's talk listen to us. We know what to do and we are so what not to do. The the the the body. The ballot recode body crops of the president was barely cold that the department was still insisting to have election in two months. We know that all the politics into crises. Doing those twenty or thirty years came from bad election. We don't want to cheat zebo kouassi. We were shocked when there was that violate wired on this symbolic and democratic institution.
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"In the atmosphere mid single kind of crime to assassinate the president in his wound so that assassination is related to all of the assassinations that that we had in the country. Doing those to tweet us. Remember that chief of the pens bar association have killed in his house very very closed to president house so this is not an it is very very special situation because it is is a prison but it is not as related to one of due dot crazy that we must be installed clan of climb and now the president have been reaching of his own way on so we are sorry for that. But that's let's let's do their job again. And i wanted to ask you. Also what's your response to the interim prime minister of asking the united states and the un to send troops and security into the country. It's only for him because he knows that he key to the power without emended without any any agreement. So that's why he he needs the protection of the military but we there is no situation could discipline and intervention of the of the us. We don't want that. We already had that and you know and we know what that last for her. We don't want the boots. we have our way. We already have the boots on our knees now on our necks. That's not not physically. But we cannot brief now in haiti. We don't want them to come. We welcome the international commission of investigation including the fbi. That we really don't want that. And what we we have to recognize if the match you of the population. This population had been in the suite. Most each did you end up last year's and when that happened there was no manifestation of joy. There was no wyatt. There has no people industry burning the et cetera et cetera. The people the population is very calm. Very very calm and doesn't want to give any pretext to the government to ask for any intervision intervention that is for its on incubus in brussels for its personal protection that is asking for that mongolia commode any. Who do you believe. Right now is in charge of haiti. And according to the new york times haiti's interim prime minister. Joseph says he's taking command of the police and the army declaring a state of siege. That essentially puts the country under martial law but constitutional experts questioned his right to impose it in his claims to power was quickly challenged by a rival. Dr all the Who was named to be the next prime minister under mo- east but not sworn in you have the president of the supreme court who's just died of covid who constitutionally would have been next in succession. Who what do you think what entity should be in charge of haiti right now and your concerns about the calls for us and u n troops. None of them off the is legitimate to to be on power. There is no vision in the constitution. Sean for that situation. We are in an extract constitutional situation. We have to look for a solution of exception. I'm here working for the commission that i've been created lied to civil society could be some to find a haitian solution to the crisis. This is when you we. We were in a crisis and duck four months that we are working with all the political groups are civil society groups from the ends to the union flom human rights organization fleming east organization diaspora sit and city la to create a broad consensus between are the sectors of the population to propose a haitians Sunni sean is no other legal answer to that situation of exception. Going back to president maurice. Could you talk about his role in the petro corrib scandal whereas billions of dollars from venezuela. What mark for haiti disappeared people. The population was asking for where where is the money from the two cardi b. Well jobs where the hosts beatles that was supposed to be created to for with that one and the answer of the government. Wise killing people was Gas ceiling during the march beside that all the gangs that he has armed against dodgy that he has a federated wear can be able to protest with the protection of the police. This is a vast system of coalition. That i've been reinforced. I said that the create the cohesion in the state but we have at which level of coverage that we never knew before so This is what has to be done. Investigation for the kind of crime financial.
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"The covid. Nineteen pandemic is a lot of people that we've been talking to and it's been pointed out as really what led to the final explosion of social unrest again. This wasn't a spontaneous eruption the protests that took place and it started on april twenty eight a part of a process that really started back in november of two thousand nineteen and the continued moving forward the pandemic when it first hit in columbia. Obviously there was a major closed down. Everything was locked down. Public transportation was was stopped. People who essentially kept inside and as it as it did in the united states the primary kind of the people suffer the most were people basically from the poor popular sectors. Columbia writes The wealthy the the today bien as they call them here the they generally got out unscathed whereas the masses of the people essentially lost everything and continue to lose everything. And i think what by by the time two thousand twenty one came in and people were really tired. This is one. The protests came out and and right. Now it's almost you walk through the streets of what it's as business as usual. I think the government has been reluctant to clock closed on the economy again. Even the right now as we've been talking to people here on the ground it's a second wave that is consistently staying at that level. Four hundred five hundred people dying a day which if you translate that to the us population. That's about three to four thousand people dying every day in colombia as nothing was happening i wanted to go back to other. Have you had geraldo the jesuit priest and veteran human rights defender is doing this. Lowlier is dave. I see why seen who's seen the grassroots leaders who are avenue c. non-union members from our classes. But for instance. This is presently. Here's the colombian government is allowing this kind of grassroots leadership. Most of the thousands social leaders that have been assassinated since the signing of the peace. Of course have these characteristics. Their humble people will come into resistance in relation so in this last minute we have mario. Can you talk about how long. The international commission of verification investigation will take where it's going the the international commission There's about forty people from representing eleven different countries all over latin america europe canada. Us mexico and the plan is to the last few days have been meeting with human rights groups here in bogota meeting with local activists as well as national level activists who apart of the movement student movements women moving inside the lgbtq. And starting today this afternoon how all the groups are going to be breaking up into different regions going to eleven different regions throughout the country. Where some of the most violent responses to the protest taking place in cali in calc gene in the caribbean coast And and i'm going to be heading to the coffee growing region to pineda and then later to kim deal and we're gonna be talking to frontline activists there and these are the people who are being targeted. It's not an accident that they're being accused of terrorism of vandalism of causing violence because that's been the discourse of the right for decades here in columbia any political social opposition against the economic political model of of intransigence. A tire newsham of militarism has been has been silenced in that fashion. We have to leave it there but we will continue to talk to you in columbia. Mario marie award winning journalism professor at hofstra university. I'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Thanks for joining us..
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"The covid. Nineteen pandemic is a lot of people that we've been talking to and it's been pointed out as really what led to the final explosion of social unrest again. This wasn't a spontaneous eruption the protests that took place and it started on april twenty eight a part of a process that really started back in november of two thousand nineteen and the continued moving forward the pandemic when it first hit in columbia. Obviously there was a major closed down. Everything was locked down. Public transportation was was stopped. People who essentially kept inside and as it as it did in the united states the primary kind of the people suffer the most were people basically from the poor popular sectors. Columbia writes The wealthy the the today bien as they call them here the they generally got out unscathed whereas the masses of the people essentially lost everything and continue to lose everything. And i think what by by the time two thousand twenty one came in and people were really tired. This is one. The protests came out and and right. Now it's almost you walk through the streets of what it's as business as usual. I think the government has been reluctant to clock closed on the economy again. Even the right now as we've been talking to people here on the ground it's a second wave that is consistently staying at that level. Four hundred five hundred people dying a day which if you translate that to the us population. That's about three to four thousand people dying every day in colombia as nothing was happening i wanted to go back to other. Have you had geraldo the jesuit priest and veteran human rights defender. Luik is doing this earlier is dave. I see why seen who's seen the grassroots leaders who are avenue c. non-union members from our classes. But for instance. This is presently. Here's the colombian government is allowing this kind of grassroots leadership. Most of the thousands social leaders that have been assassinated since the signing of the peace. Of course have these characteristics. Their humble people will come into resistance in relation so in this last minute we have mario. Can you talk about how long. The international commission of verification investigation will take where it's going the the international commission There's about forty people from representing eleven different countries all over latin america europe canada. Us mexico and the plan is to the last few days have been meeting with human rights groups here in bogota meeting with local activists as well as national level activists who apart of the movement student movements women moving inside the lgbtq. And starting today this afternoon how all the groups are going to be breaking up into different regions going to eleven different regions throughout the country. Where some of the most violent responses to the protest taking place in cali in calc in medigene in the caribbean coast And and i'm going to be heading to the coffee growing region to pineda and then later to kim deal and we're gonna be talking to frontline activists there and these are the people who are being targeted. It's not an accident that they're being accused of terrorism of vandalism of causing violence because that's been the discourse of the right for decades here in columbia any political social opposition against the economic political model of of intransigence of terrorism of militarism has been has been silenced in that fashion. We have to leave it there but we will continue to talk to you in columbia. Mario marie award winning journalism professor at hofstra university. I'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Thanks for joining us..
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"The covid. Nineteen pandemic is a lot of people that we've been talking to and it's been pointed out as really what led to the final explosion of social unrest again. This wasn't a spontaneous eruption the protests that took place and it started on april twenty eight a part of a process that really started back in november of two thousand nineteen and the continued moving forward the pandemic when it first hit in columbia. Obviously there was a major closed down. Everything was locked down. Public transportation was was stopped. People who essentially kept inside and as it as it did in the united states the primary kind of the people suffer the most were people basically from the poor popular sectors. Columbia writes The wealthy the the today bien as they call them here the they generally got out unscathed whereas the masses of the people essentially lost everything and continue to lose everything. And i think what by by the time two thousand twenty one came in and people were really tired. This is one. The protests came out and and right. Now it's almost you walk through the streets of what it's as business as usual. I think the government has been reluctant to clock closed on the economy again. Even the right now as we've been talking to people here on the ground it's a second wave that is consistently staying at that level. Four hundred five hundred people dying a day which if you translate that to the us population. That's about three to four thousand people dying every day in colombia as nothing was happening i wanted to go back to other. Have you had geraldo the jesuit priest and veteran human rights defender is doing this earlier. Is dave i see why seen who's seen the grassroots leaders who are avenue c. non-union members from our classes but for instance. This is presently. Here's the colombian government is allowing this kind of grassroots leadership. Most of the thousands social leaders that have been assassinated since the signing of the peace. Of course have these characteristics. Their humble people will come into resistance in relation so in this last minute we have mario. Can you talk about how long. The international commission of verification investigation will take where it's going the the international commission There's about forty people from representing eleven different countries all over latin america europe canada. Us mexico and the plan is to the last few days have been meeting with human rights groups here in bogota meeting with local activists as well as national level activists who apart of the movement student movements women moving inside the lgbtq. And starting today this afternoon how all the groups are going to be breaking up into different regions going to eleven different regions throughout the country. Where some of the most violent responses to the protest taking place in cali in calc gene in the caribbean coast And and i'm going to be heading to the coffee growing region to pineda and then later to kim deal and we're gonna be talking to frontline activists there and these are the people who are being targeted. It's not an accident that they're being accused of terrorism of vandalism of causing violence because that's been the discourse of the right for decades here in columbia any political social opposition against the economic political model of of intransigence. A tire newsham of militarism has been has been silenced in that fashion. We have to leave it there but we will continue to talk to you in columbia. Mario marie award winning journalism professor at hofstra university. I'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Thanks for joining us..
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"Itself as a group that doesn't have a future constantly denounce is that they don't have anything else to lose killed. We go now to boga. Columbia joined by. Mario an award winning journalist and professor at hofstra university in long island new york. He's in columbia reporting on the international commission. He's closely followed columbia for decades. His books include colombia and the united states war un rest and destabilization. Mario thanks so much for joining us. can you talk about the significance of the april uprising and the deadly crackdown by yvonne. Duquet well thank you for having us. I think the significance of the uprising and crackdown is that it's a continuation of the process. That's been going on pretty much since two thousand sixteen when the peace accords between the farc guerrillas and the government of one santos was signed and the right wing did everything in its power through its media through its politics through its discourse to completely derail that peace process and now withstanding the problems in the many flaws in the accords. That were signed. There were some efforts to Make some steps forward in terms of political participation in terms of land reform in terms of substitution of coca in the countryside for poor peasant farmers a range of things that essentially have been derail completely by the by the first the right wing government before they took power in two thousand eighteen and then yvonne dookie the current president. And so what we've seen since that moment has been systematic elimination of the popular forces the popular sectors throughout the country. That have been trying to push some of the measures to be implemented from the peace accord environmental activists human rights workers participation political participation indigenous movements afro-colombian movements. You had a segment on becca citizen and undo this just so just to start the show this morning. We have about eleven hundred better car in colombia. Since two thousand sixteen social movement leaders at the base who've been targeted by a dirty war of of elimination of genocide we can call it and in fact some of the members of the commission the organizer of the commission are not refraining from using that term at the same time. You so you have this elimination but you also have a situation where the situation economically socially has been getting worse ever since two thousand sixteen partially because of economic model that was never part of the negotiation partially because of the covid crisis which i think was the explosion that led to the final explosion. But that you've you've seen people basically from every different sector of the colombian society students women's groups lgbtq movement afro colombian sector the indigenous movement. Basically seeing that their place in colombian society is being more and more marginalized as the rich get richer and they get more targeted and there's been protests going on for a long time now since two thousand sixteen different sectors but what we see now in the uprising that started on april twenty eighth and that in many ways continues is a multi sector explosion where the people are saying. Enough is enough and you send. You're seeing frontline activists. Young activists who are basically saying the social is not an who tutors. We do not have a future. We have nothing to lose even our lives. We're willing to sacrifice our lives to put a change to the situation in colombia. So those are the two kind of strains that are happening here. I wanted to ask you. There's been a lot of stuff happened last week. In colombia and south america didn't get much coverage the cia director william burns of visited columbia as well as a president on our in brazil. President biden had a phone conversation with yvonne duca and duke himself supposedly was the target of an assassination attempt or people firing on his helicopter. Could you talk about the. Us military role in a in in colombia especially given the fact. That colombia has such an extensive border with venezuela. Well that's a good point. I mean first of all. You're right those those events happened and they didn't get a blip on the radar screen in terms of the us media. And i think it's important to talk about us policy because it's pretty much been consistent for the last sixty years or so. Maybe even more go way back to the nineteen forties the destabilization initiatives to target the social movements. The popular movements and columbia were driven by and directed by and by us us policy makers state department of the us embassy here in columbia and it hasn't changed so there was some optimism that because okay now we have. Suddenly we have a democratic administration that perhaps the human rights initiatives and demands that have been put forward by colombian human rights leaders and organizers. for years. We'll be taken seriously. There is a discourse human rights and in fact biden during the height height of the protests. A few a couple of months ago about six weeks ago actually publicly stated that we have to respect human rights. You have to respect the democratic mobilization etc but on the other hand he's having these conversations full support full a backing of the colombian security forces in this in this process. The good news is and this is where the pressure from. Us the us community. The public has to come in. Because there was a measured by the led by a number of congressman. Jim mcgovern who's always been favorable towards human rights conditions on us military aid a measure that was passed just recently that pointed to reduce thirty percent basically negated thirty percent of the military assistance to the national police particularly smart which is a kind of swat special rapid forces police unit that essentially a military unit. That's targeting civilians directly in fact international commission. Here that's here on the ground right now for the next couple of weeks next week or so. That's what they're looking at is looking at how the security forces have been doing what they're doing with complete impunity. As you pointed out eighty people killed if those happen if that happened in iran if that happened in venezuela that would be front page news every day in the united states. But here it's happens and it's as if it's part of the situation in columbia. There's nothing we can do about it. And mario columbia also passed the grim milestone of more than one hundred thousand covid nineteen deaths south america as a whole has become a major epicenter of the pandemic in the world. Could you how. How is the government dealing with with the covid. Nineteen pandemic.
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"Itself as a group that doesn't have a future constantly denounce is that they don't have anything else to lose killed. We go now to boga. Columbia joined by. Mario an award winning journalist and professor at hofstra university in long island new york. He's in columbia reporting on the international commission. He's closely followed columbia for decades. His books include colombia and the united states war un rest and destabilization. Mario thanks so much for joining us. can you talk about the significance of the april uprising and the deadly crackdown by yvonne. Duquet well thank you for having us. I think the significance of the uprising and crackdown is that it's a continuation of the process. That's been going on pretty much since two thousand sixteen when the peace accords between the farc guerrillas and the government of one santos was signed and the right wing did everything in its power through its media through its politics through its discourse to completely derail that peace process and now withstanding the problems in the many flaws in the accords. That were signed. There were some efforts to Make some steps forward in terms of political participation in terms of land reform in terms of substitution of coca in the countryside for poor peasant farmers a range of things that essentially have been derail completely by the by the first the right wing government before they took power in two thousand eighteen and then yvonne dookie the current president. And so what we've seen since that moment has been systematic elimination of the popular forces the popular sectors throughout the country. That have been trying to push some of the measures to be implemented from the peace accord environmental activists human rights workers participation political participation indigenous movements afro-colombian movements. You had a segment on becca citizen and undo this just so just to start the show this morning. We have about eleven hundred better car in colombia. Since two thousand sixteen social movement leaders at the base who've been targeted by a dirty war of of elimination of genocide we can call it and in fact some of the members of the commission the organizer of the commission are not refraining from using that term at the same time. You so you have this elimination but you also have a situation where the situation economically socially has been getting worse ever since two thousand sixteen partially because of economic model that was never part of the negotiation partially because of the covid crisis which i think was the explosion that led to the final explosion. But that you've you've seen people basically from every different sector of the colombian society students women's groups lgbtq movement afro colombian sector the indigenous movement. Basically seeing that their place in colombian society is being more and more marginalized as the rich get richer and they get more targeted and there's been protests going on for a long time now since two thousand sixteen different sectors but what we see now in the uprising that started on april twenty eighth and that in many ways continues is a multi sector explosion where the people are saying. Enough is enough and you send. You're seeing frontline activists. Young activists who are basically saying the social is not an who tutors. We do not have a future. We have nothing to lose even our lives. We're willing to sacrifice our lives to put a change to the situation in colombia. So those are the two kind of strains that are happening here. I wanted to ask you. There's been a lot of stuff happened last week. In colombia and south america didn't get much coverage the cia director william burns of visited columbia as well as a president on our in brazil. President biden had a phone conversation with yvonne duke and duke himself supposedly was the target of an assassination attempt or people firing on his helicopter. Could you talk about the. Us military role in a in in colombia especially given the fact. That colombia has such an extensive border with venezuela. Well that's a good point. I mean first of all. You're right those those events happened and they didn't get a blip on the radar screen in terms of us media. And i think it's important to talk about us policy because it's pretty much been consistent for the last sixty years or so. Maybe even more going going way back to the nineteen forties the destabilization initiatives to target the social movements. The popular movements and columbia were driven by and directed by and by us us policy makers state department of the us embassy here in columbia and it hasn't changed so there was some optimism that because okay now we have. Suddenly we have a democratic administration that perhaps the human rights initiatives and demands that have been put forward by colombian human rights leaders and organizers. For years we'll be taken seriously. There is a discourse human rights and in fact biden during the height height of the protests. A few a couple of months ago about six weeks ago actually publicly stated that we have to respect human rights. You have to respect the democratic mobilization etc but on the other hand he's having these kinds of conversations full support full a backing of the colombian security forces in this in this process. The good news is and this is where the pressure from. Us the us community. The public has to come in. Because there was a measured by the led by a number of congressman. Jim mcgovern who's always been favorable towards human rights conditions on us military aid a measure that was passed just recently that pointed to reduce thirty percent basically negated thirty percent of the military assistance to the national police particularly smart which is a kind of like a swat special rapid forces police unit that essentially a military unit. That's targeting civilians directly in fact international commission. Here that's here on the ground right now for the next couple of weeks next week or so. That's what they're looking at is looking at how the security forces have been doing what they're doing with complete impunity. As you pointed out eighty people killed if those happen if that happened in iran if that happened in venezuela that would be front page news every day in the united states. But here it's happens and it's as if it's part of the situation in columbia. There's nothing we can do about it. And mario columbia also passed the grim milestone of more than one hundred thousand covid nineteen deaths south america as a whole has become a major epicenter of the pandemic in the world. Could you how. How is the government dealing with with the covid. Nineteen pandemic.
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"Reconnect them. Unify these families. I was surprised to learn that. There is a long history of using dna for identifying remains against some from wars or from terrorist incidences. But it hasn't been used for missing people or separated families in the case of migration. Why has this been so different. Yeah i wish it had been used for the nurse. And i have been talking about this for many years. Cross-border missing persons investigations are really really challenging their bureaucratically difficult to communicate information the data that is sensitive across borders war. Crimes have been very difficult to manage that. Dna data for example in cyprus where there are a number of people that died from the separate wars in the seventies and eighties and the greek cypriots and the turkish cypriots both died and both are in in mass graves and cyprus but neither will work with the other in order to identify the remains because each only wants to identify the remains from their own countrymen. So they have to work with the third party and in that case they can work with bony technology or the international commission on missing persons or some organization that can work with the data identify the remains and then communicate that back to those particular countries that kind of bureaucratic difficulty is partly what faces the lives missing. Persons and one country does not want to take responsibility for investigating missing person for another country's family members what kind of non-governmental organization. And do you see at the center of managing this data. By managing the dna data at the intergovernmental organization like the icmp. That data is protected from government. Intrusion in governmental organization sets outside of any government authority and is responsible at the international hegg level in the netherlands where they can manage the data for human rights cases and only responsible to the member states. If anyone tries to get that get access to that data they can deny those subpoenas they can fight them and can protect that data as they have for war crime investigations. This is mostly focused on families that are separated and in the us. But do you see this as something that could be more. Broadly yes the icmp international commission on missing persons. They have this capability already for the war dead for the bosnian conflict for libyan conflict for syrian deceased people and they have the ability to do this for live people to. They are actually in the hague netherlands and there amidst the thousands of unaccompanied children that were crossing into europe the syrian conflict or living conflict etc children migrating all through africa or from africa and separations. That are happening. As families are coming into europe. There needs to be a better system. We need a global framework and we don't have one and that's problematic. It's fine to look at the border between mexico and the united states and try to get united states mexico to work together and to figure out solutions for managing the children that are coming from third and fourth and fifth other countries. But it'd be better to have global protocol that can manage all of the countries around the world and the children that are displaced and needing find ways back to their families. Thank you so much sarah. Thank you so much for covering this work. Sarah cassandra's is a research assistant professor at the lurie children's hospital and northwestern university. You can find a link to the policy forum we talked about at science mag dot org slash podcast and that concludes this edition of science. Podcast if you have any comments or suggestions for the show. Right to us at sites podcast. As dot org you can listen to the show on the science website at science mag dot org slash podcast on the say you'll find links to the research and news discussed in the episode. You can subscribe there or anywhere. You get your podcast. The show was edited and produced by sarah crespi with production help from podgy meghan. Can't well and joel goldberg. Transcripts or vice crabby and jeffrey composed the music on behalf of science magazine and its publisher triple. As thanks for joining us..
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"I'm sure of a lot of people who thought that this was going to be about teeth. There's still this enormous number of former rebels. I mean, who are trafficking and drugs, and you know there's still a lot of violence in the countryside. They're still in cohorts with the Venezuelan dictatorship. Bringing drugs out of Columbia into Venezuela, and then trafficking them up to a central America and to the United States. So they're still even though supposedly, they called this a peace agreement. They're still doing quite a bit of drug trafficking, and they're still ah, lot of violence. I'm you know, they would say these air dissidents, part members, but I don't think we have the evidence to support that claim back back to Central America, the United Nations International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, which shortens too Say, C J C I G I G American. Help me with this but marries, written several columns about the abuses that see that this commission has practiced over the years. Is there reason to believe that the Biden State Department will reassess Mary Yeah, they want to bring it back in the Latin Americans caused see Sig and the idea that was that It was going to be a U. N body that went in would be work with the Guatemalan justice system to kind of get at corruption. And you know, they did investigate some criminals. But surprise surprise. Had no checks and balances on the top commissioner basically behaved kind of like the vice, right and it became a weapon for the left to put people in jail and to kind of create this terror in the society. So anybody who spoke up to question Do the lack of due process on be abuses that he would engage in was then you know, at risk of also being arrested and They use something. They called preventative detention, which is that they would knock on your door and tell you, you know, we have reason to believe that you are corrupt. And so you used to go to jail and used to stay there because otherwise you might run away And you know Guatemalans could stay in jail. You know, four years a couple of the case they worried about work. We're close to four years and they never proved anything on them. And, of course, but they had no accountability. So it was sort of obvious to anybody who understands how bureaucracies work that once they got up and running, they were really in business to protect themselves. And as they say they became a political weapon for the left. So now, so they got their their their mandate was not removed renewed and they're not there anymore. But Biden and his his cohorts who are working on Latin America say they're going to make a new one. It's going to be Guatemala, Honduras. And I'll sell the door and it wouldn't be a U. N body. It would be a Justice Department project, which might make it a little bit better because you know there would be some accountability of to Justice Department. The U. N has zero accountability. Um, but I'm still very suspicious that it wouldn't turn out to be a political tool. For people who agreed with the Biden worldview, which is basically socialists and finally about about abortion or right alive their contest in the United States. However overseas it's a different contest. And you note that there's a poll showing that Americans oppose US financing to support abortions and other countries. What was news to me in your column? Is that other countries opposed the U. S supporting abortion in their countries, particularly in Latin America, their sensitive about it. They're very sensitive about it. You know, they feel like this is in issue of sovereignty and the I mentioned Honduras because Thunder's just passed a constitutional amendment which requires a very large, It's not a majority. That you need for a constitutional amendment. You need something much higher than that. And like a 4/5 of the Congress voting in favor of it, and you needed in two sessions of Congress. So once Congress turns over after new election, you need to get the Congress to vote again in the affirmative, and they got that which I think reflects. Value in these countries..
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"international commission" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"The first cases in guinea since two thousand sixteen when health officials declared an end to the world's largest ebola epidemic which killed more than eleven thousand people across west africa. Meanwhile the world health organization has identified three new cases of in bola in the democratic republic of congo in burma. Armored vehicles had been unleashed on the streets of major cities as mass protests opposing. The military coup continued for the tenth consecutive day today in the northern state of kachin security forces fired at a crowd of protesters had gathered outside a power plant sunday. They also used water cannons to disperse the crowd. Five journalists were arrested while covering the clash on sunday security forces raided the homes of several prominent critics of burma's military coup activists around the world are calling on indian authorities to free dish. Ravi a twenty two year-old climate activist. Who was arrested over the weekend. She's accused of sharing an online which was tweeted by swedish. Climate activists could at the tune. Betty white information on how to support the ongoing farm workers protests ravi is one of the founders of the indian fridays for future youth climate strike in somalia a blast from a car bomb near the parliament headquarters in the capital. Mogadishu killed at least three people and wounded at least eight others on saturday. The attack came amidst a deepening political crisis which led to the postponement of elections last week. The militant group al shabaab which threatened has threatened to attack the polls massive protests continuing haiti thousands or taking to the streets demanding the resignation of president juvenal accusing him of orchestrating coup to in power beyond his term. It's about mussa. Handed support of donald trump using some venezuela calling on the americans to trump's policies. Get rid of the terrorists. Moise mandate as commission this calm immigrant justice advocates continue to denounce the biden. Administration's ongoing deportations of haitian asylum-seekers a warning to our audience. The next story contains disturbing images of violence advocates across the united states are condemning the rise of racist violence against the asian american community last month in eighty four year. Old man from thailand was killed in san francisco after being attacked while on his morning. Walk just days later. A ninety one year old asian man was shoved to the in oakland's chinatown and in new york city last week a sixty one year old filipino. Man was slashed in the face. While on the subway. Asian americans say hate crimes and discrimination against their communities have been on the rise since the beginning of the pandemic some twenty eight hundred incidents have been reported since last march according to the group oppy hate stop a hate. Activists and allies in oakland held a rally over the weekend. This is connie one. Co founder of asian and pacific. Islander women lead what about that vitamin of living in poverty under a system. That doesn't seem to care about our people. That's the violence. We need to answer to the vigil coming out here causing more police. I need you to answer some of that. Violence i want you represent events community. Awful suffering the aboard tation to bet violence in detention centers. For an amount of times. I need you there for that true. And then they're not even accounting for the violence that are women are experiencing on youtube account for that allegiant. Airlines has come under fire after they kicked four black teenagers off a flight last week. Leaving them stranded in arizona far from their homes and sacramento california. The teens were in arizona with their basketball or part of a youth mentor ship program. Cold voice of the youth. Allegiant airlines ledges. They were not wearing their face masks properly. But the boys say they adjusted them when asked by airline staff one teen says he was afraid for his life when police showed up to remove them from the plane. A coalition of international human rights legal groups are preparing to submit a report to the u n high commissioner for human rights about racist police practices in the united states. The report will be based on the findings of the international commission of inquiry on systemic racist police violence against people of african descent in the united states. As part three weeks of hearings to make a palmer. The mother of brianna taylor testified before the commission about how her twenty six year old daughter was shot to death in her own home. In louisville by plain clothes officers serving a no knock warrant briana was in one of the safest places in the world to be home with the person she thought would protect her from the world and he tried to do just that with the laws that are given to us to protect and serve our kingdoms and when that law was broken there was no accountability for the people that broke that law for the people who perjured themselves to obtain a warrant that. Put those people in motion for daniel camera. Who lied about the casey presented to the grand jury and get injustice or berry and never gave them the opportunity to charge other officers even when next. That was brianna. Taylor's mother to make a palmer you can read and watch all the testimonies from the increments and systemic racist police violence at inquiry commission dot org. The new york. Police departments arrested individual in connection with four stabbing attacks in house people in the subway over the weekend which left two of the victims dead and why pd announced it was adding five hundred more police officers to patrol subways organizer whitney who responded on twitter on twitter. There's always money for more cops in the subway system but never enough money to actually house is the homeless and keep them safe and warm in news from the white house. Deputy press secretary. Tj duck low has resigned following revelations last week he made threatening and assad gymnastic comments to political reporter tara palmeri telling her quote i will destroy you after. She asked him to comment on his romantic relationship. With an actually reporter duck. Low had originally been suspended for a week. President biden told incoming staff during a swearing in ceremony. That if anyone spoke to a colleague with disrespect quote i will fire you on the spot and longtime investigative journalists. Jim ridgway has died at the age of eighty four reg- way was the washington correspondent for the village voice for thirty years. He also wrote for mother. Jones ramparts new republic the nation and other outlets in a career that spans six decades in two thousand ten. Jim ridgway co-founded solitary watch focused on the plight of prisoners in solitary confinement. Some of their stories appeared in ridgway's book. Hell is a very small place. Voices from solitary confinement. You can see our interviews. With james ridgeway at democracy now dot org and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now democracy now dot org the quarantine report when we come back. The senate's acquitted donald trump for inciting the deadly january six insurrection. We'll talk with a former reagan administration lawyer about what the acquittal means and what the house democratic managers could have done to.
All Things Considered
U.N. Investigators Help Yazidis In Iraq Find Bodies Of Loved Ones Killed By ISIS
"Region of Iraq. It has now been six years since the ISIS genocide against the ancient ancient Yazidi Yazidi religious religious minority. minority. And And yet yet survivors survivors are are still still trying trying to to find find bodies bodies of of their their loved loved ones. ones. To To that that end, end, U. U. N. N. Investigators Investigators began began X X Hume Hume ng ng a a mass grave in October, MPR's Jane Arraf was there. In the village of Solo yellow tape ropes off what used to be a fish farm attached to a technical college laborers and investigators dressed in white suits and masks. Carefully digging and sifting through the Pachter as I walk up to take a closer look at one of the man is shoveling the dirt into this big rectangular sifter and then Fine pieces of dirt come out, and he flips the gravel over. The other one is now going through it by hand, trying to make sure that they don't miss any of the bones. Investigators have found at least 17, mass graves so far in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. Things. One is known as the mother's grave, and it's believed to contain the remains of dozens of pregnant and the older women. Isis decided it didn't have any use for Including the mother of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad. And game ideas. I would frosty Sarah Holly in all areas born on this land, but in bigger Snus is her brother Side. Murad is among the Yazidis who have come here in 2014. Isis rounded up and shot almost all the men and older boys. And they're morons Village of coach. Oh, Sayid was wounded Overlooked among all the bodies he managed to escape. He could have moved to Europe is a refugee, but he doesn't want to leave this land where there's been so much tragedy, or did they come in? I shall remember of vision. And now for the dish they come up with. That number was born. I come and get you if you're not getting my mother was the most peaceful, charitable person in the world. If she saw a poor person and we had only one piece of bread, she would cut it into half and give it to him. No idea, And I didn't get enough time to spend with her. We needed to have her with us longer. He takes off his dark sunglasses and wipes tears from his eyes as he body movement quotes whatever he's in all of Green uniform, a fighter now Thea's Edie paramilitary forces here in Sinjar, it's taken years even begin to exhumed bodies to identify them. Some will likely never be found. Sayid returned here after US backed Kurdish forces drove Isis out. It was a year after the massacre, and some the remains were still lying on the ground. They got hot demand. Mama, where a ditty Rusty and Beef Acela's when they came back, and so this I was very depressed because I could see their clothes, some bones. They all disappeared. I don't know who took them. Maybe animals got them or some group of people took them away. When we came back after that, we didn't see their bones. People leaves that, along with his mother's body. The grave contains the bodies of his aunts and his uncles and cousins, wives against the backdrop of so much horror and loss. The only consolation for many of the survivors has to be able to find the remains of their loved ones and bury them properly. A community center still under construction in the village of coach Joe Yazidis have gathered to give DNA's samples. The International Commission of Missing Persons based in The Hague started working to identify victims and mass graves in Bosnia. 1996. There's still not done there. It will likely take years here is well. Woz Abdullah Bas, the commission's deputy Iraq director walks me through the process we start. Take the information. Take it. In our record. There is any missing formation. After that, we shift Do the second table just on here. He would give a blood sample. Ideally, each missing persons with $3 on it's better to be, you know, Close one. So mother, Father Sir. Planes. You know, parents, six year
Your Brain on Facts
What's In A Scientific Name
"From loon example of a trial by in Hunan China called Hans Solo to a butterfly Pea flour reminiscent of Georgia. Oh painting called Couture Couturier Turn Tia. The naming of species offers almost as much in the way of entertainment as it does scientific classification. The official rules for naming species set down by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature are surprisingly simple. The name must be spelled with the Latin alphabet and must not be overtly offensive and that's pretty much it. My Name's Moxy and this is your brain on facts. Most of US know that the animals we call by single name such as a horse actually had a two part name in that case equis Columbus. In contrast to astronomical bodies like stars, Asteroids and planets which are under strict naming conventions overseen by committees, there's almost unfettered freedom it comes to zoological nomenclature. The name can even be on sense string of arbitrary letters. While there is a wealth of name fascination to report on from plants to drugs to telescopes. Ourselves today to the Animal Kingdom. For as long as we have had records and probably longer mankind has sought to classify the world around us in an effort to begin to understand it. This is called taxonomy the study of the general principles of scientific classification from the Greek words for order or arrangement and science. Three centuries before the common era aristotle grouped animals I by similarities like where they lived and then hierarchically with humans naturally at the top. Not, every animal fit well into this system though ducks posed a particular problem as they had the bothersome habit of living on water on land and spending time in the air. It would be eighteen hundred years before another natural philosopher as scientists were called, then would try their hand such as Andrei sessile, Pino Italian physician, and botanist who sorted plants by the structure of their fruits and seeds. The first scientist to use a binomial or to name system that we would recognize was Swiss botanist guest sparred Boeing. Some six thousand plants by genus and species in sixteen, twenty three. There were several inconsistent and sometimes conflicting systems of classification already in use when Carolina's wrote his. SYSTEMA naturally in seventeen, thirty five. Laying down the system we use to this day. Lena's was first taxonomic east to list humans as a primate, but he also originally classified whales as. All living things were sorted into them, Feilim class order, family, genus, and species. Many of US memorized that in middle school by way of a new monarch like King Philip came over from great Spain. Housecat for example, is kingdom and Amelia filed them cor data meaning it has spinal cord. Class Mammalia order can Adora family feel a day genus fearless and species cactus. A lion diverges at the genus Pan Terra, which awesomely means reaper of all and species. Leo. So the scientific name for Lion Is Penn Tara Leo. This system can be visualized as an enormous branching tree with its trunk, very broad and its branches increasingly specific. We. Still name some animals in accordance with their appearance with a little poetic license thrown in for good measure. The tiniest and most pastelle of the armored mammals was christened the pink fairy armadillo. A. Hand Size Lizard with a gift from a meese camouflage was given the fairly metal moniker satanic leaf tailed Gecko. It's actual religious beliefs remain a mystery. As advertised, the star nosed mole has a burst of delicate sensory tendrils on the tip of its snout. Also, sacks myuka Flores is an unappealing worm who lives off the bones of dead whales which would explain its name bone eating snot flower. A bacterium that was taken to the International Space Station, and exposed to cosmic radiation earned the Latin moniker for traveler of the void. China boasts a salamander species that can grow to a whopping one point. Eight meters were nearly six feet long. It goes by the name. Hell Bender and this reporter for one will not argue with it.
Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe
U.N. Panel Says Russia Bombed Syrian Civilian Targets, a War Crime
"Are you an investigation into atrocities committed in Syria has accused Russia Syria and Turkey of war crimes the report described indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets like medical facilities and markets honey McAnally is from the independent international commission of inquiry on Syria there is a war crime of intentionally terrorizing the population to force to move and I think we're seeing that picture emerging very clearly for example
BrainStuff
How Do Animals Get Their Scientific Names?
"Today's episode is brought to you by the capital one venture card the capital one venture card you earn unlimited double miles every purchase every day and you can use those miles toward travel expenses like flights hotels rental cars and more just book and pay for your travel using your venture card and redeem your miles toward the cost capital one. What's in your wallet? Credit approval required capital one bank U._S._A.. An a welcome to brain stuff but production of iheartradio brain Steph Lorraine Vogel bomb here and I'm here today to tell you that an oddball catfish species I spotted in one thousand nine hundred eight in Brazil at last has a name and it is Grio. Yes as in the Rhodesian Bounty Hunter Star Wars more formerly the catfish at fish who's bug-eyed stare and Droopy Chin like extension really do bring to mind Guido will henceforth be known as Peck Alenia greeted by that final is sound in Latin is a possessive so it means something like grotto's fish one Dr Jonathan armbruster professor professor and curator officials at Auburn University and Longtime Star Wars Fan created the name while studying the fish in two thousand fifteen. It's about one of forty species of fish. He's named date by tradition. Whoever discovers a new species gets to name it discovers covers doesn't necessarily mean fines though armbruster explained discoveries a weird term? I discovered Pedo I in a jar but others actually discovered it in nature. They just didn't have everything they needed to describe it. Armbruster did describe it he. He discovered the nature of the species. The new part of new species is weird to in this context armbruster explains a new species is one that is newly described named of course it existed before scientists got involved describing describing a new species is a science in itself in taxonomy which is the scientific discipline of classifying living things scientists examined physical genetic behavioral. 'em ecological traits to logically scituate species within the biosphere taxonomy is a big deal it reveals how a new species fits into are known world and provides a universal language to describe study it taxonomy lays out the components of biodiversity and thus the tools to preserve it it offers scientists engineers and inventors their best chance at understanding were standing the incredible capabilities that the natural world and explaining it to the rest of US naming is part of taxonomy. A name often reflects a distinctive characteristic like the name Tattoo Rita Brazilian ncis for bat discovered that lives in Brazil. Oh there's a lot of leeway in naming though and scientists often get creative like p Guido I for a fish that looks like Guido or my oldest might attack this for a bat with golden for after mythologies golden touched King Midas. This approach can sometimes be problematic though we spoke with Dr Ricardo More telly biologist with the Waldo crews foundation who named the Golden Bat he explained a characteristic that we I think is you need to that species. Maybe revealed as shared with others or even variable. Able within the species for instance the aforementioned t Brazilian says was later found to live throughout north and South America resulting in sub-species like T- Brazilian says Mexicana or the Mexican Brazilian F- Retail Bat other names <music> honor colleagues immortalized family members or less common but more compelling exact revenge scientists Carlin is who in these seventeen hundreds founded the taxonomy and nomenclature systems still used in biology today named an entire genus of Rican weeds <music> secust Becca after one Johan seek us back a botanist who had endlessly criticized his work. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature needs to approve names but the organization is Pretty Open minded it approved sid vicious aside and Johnny Rotten. I four two species extinct trial bite named by taxonomic whose friend loved the sex pistols it also gave the nod to Agatha Idiom Bush. I A Cheney I and a Rumsfeld I four three species beetle title. The Republican taxonomic actually entered is a good thing it also approved ampule X. Demento for wasp that turns cockroaches zombies before eating them the behavior apparently recalled Harry Potter's spirit sucking adversaries that last one was chosen in a vote by visitors to Berlin Museum of Natural History. Some scientists are giving away. They're naming rights to educate engage and fund research and Conservation Merlin's museum patrons learned about the new wasp and taxonomy and it's critical role in conservation. Asian as part of the voting the scripts institution for oceanography cells naming rights for five thousand two twenty five thousand per species with the proceeds porting institutions work and that's a bargain at a two thousand five auction the online Golden Palace Casino L. paid sixty five thousand dollars the rights to name a species of monkey supporting the National Park in Bolivia where the new monkey was discovered. This commercialization makes some in the field uncomfortable with money in the mix. There's concern about biased. taxonomy armbruster said it has the possibility of getting out of hand. Buying a name is a good thing as long as it is four species we have already identified as new. We need more money for taxonomy. Finding creative ways to fund the science is a good thing by the way a Golden Palace named the Monkey Cassius our pilot. Why are we piloting meaning Golden Palace and Latin the Casino wanted dot com in there too but it couldn't be Latin sized? Today's episode was written by Julia Layton and produced by Tyler Clang. Breen stuff is the production of iheartradio's house stuff works for more in this and lots of other well categorized topics visit our home planet house networks dot Com and more podcast from iheartradio iheartradio APP apple podcasts. I listened to your favorite shows would not rob.
UN News
News in Brief 8 January 2019
"This is the news in brief from the United Nations Guatemala should reconsider its decision to withdraw support for an international panel to tackle impunity United Nations. Chief Antonio Guiterrez said on Tuesday, the UN secretary general's comments followed these Central American countries announcement via letter that it intended to terminate an agreement establishing the international commission against impunity in Guatemala, also known by its initials. CIC I g his u n spokesperson Stefan, g jerick, as you know, secretary general has and continues to support the work of the commission and expect ciguatera. Molly government to provide the commission with all the assistance necessary for the discharge of its functions and activities, including the freedom of movement of its staff and throughout Guatemala as provided in the agreement in September twenty eighteen the head of the UN panel event Velasquez was barred from reentering Guatemala, mister Gutierrez recalled the important contribution to the fight against him. Unity made by the international commission. It was set up in two thousand and six at the invitation of the government and was seen as an effective way to help strengthen the rule of law following the country's civil war which ended in the nineteen ninety s Saudi national behalf. Muhammed? Al Kuni cannot be sent back to the kingdom. Yuen refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday, adding that it was in contact on a daily basis with the eighteen year old who is in Thailand seeking asylum. Speaking to journalists in Geneva, UNHCR spokesperson Bubba, Bella confirmed that the agency intends to examine miss alka Nunes at request for protection in terms of the claim and all of details, which she will be sharing with us in terms of what were the factors that she's trying to run away from? We'll be listening to all those will be premature or even in terms of confidentiality from an individual who talked to us. We won't be going into details. What they have told us. The only thing I can say we look carefully into all. All the claims and trying to find out what are the risk factors to elevate? The claims ahead of UNHCR's involvement. Ms alka, noon said that she had fled from her family and Kuwait to Bangkok airport where her passport was taken away. She says she would be killed if sent back home under international law anyone who claims to me shelter outside their home country cannot be returned to a territory where their life or freedom are threatened. Mr. Ballack said in Iraq around a quarter of a million Syrian refugees and the communities that host them to get better access to healthcare. Thanks to a two and a half million dollar donation by the United States, welcoming the development the World Health Organization or WHO said that the funding would provide urgently needed help to local authorities in the Kurdistan region of Iraq where the refugees live health and other services in Iraq have been stretched since nearly six million people fed via in two thousand fourteen with two point six million still displaced may. Major military operations to retake the country ended in late twenty seventeen. But the humanitarian crisis is far from over you and humanitarian have warned the US contribution will support the provision of primary healthcare in Erbil to hook and Sulaymaniyah as well as provide training for medical professionals to treat people with disabilities and mental illness and finally an energetic campaign that goes a long way to raise awareness about refugees two billion kilometers. In fact, that's the total distance the world's at twenty five point four million refugees cover to reach safety every year. According to you, h CR the UN refugee agency ringers from me on traveled eighty kilometers on average to neighboring Bangladesh it said while those leaving south Sudan travel, six hundred and forty kilometers to reach you Ganda people can participate in the campaign by walking cycling or jogging. The aim is to reach a collective total of two billion kilometers this year. For more information. There's a campaign website where users can lock the number of steps they take in support of the 'cause it's WWW dot step with refugees dot org. Daniel Johnson UN news.
NPR's Business Story of the Day
Japan Plans To Resume Commercial Whaling Operations
"Japan says it is going to resume commercial whaling operations next year. This is a practice that has drawn widespread criticism from conservationists Japan will also pull out of an intergovernmental body that regulates the industry and piers Anthony Kyun joins me from Tokyo to talk about why this is happening and why now Anthony morning good morning gave it. So what does the Japanese government saying here to explain this? What you pans? Chief spokesman said today was that this organization that it pulled out of the international commission, which is based in Cambridge England has a sort of double task part of it is to protect whales, but the other part is to protect and promote a sustainable whaling industry in Japan claims. It's no longer doing that. It's completely siding with the conservationists, and therefore there's just no place. There's nothing the pro whaling countries can do now. Japan says it's going to remain an observer in the item. You see it's going to consider the ideal BC's guidelines on how many Wales to catch. Although it won't say exactly how many in general just stick to whaling practices. Also, it says it's not gonna go very far afield anymore. It's going to restrict all its wailing to its own territorial waters and exclusive economic zone. So basically, basically, it's coastal waters. But whatever the Japanese government thinks about the Whaling Commission and its mandate. I mean, isn't there an international moratorium on whaling that is still in effect right now? What does that mean for Japan if they if they start doing this again? Yeah. It's still in effect. It went into effect in the mid nineteen eighty s and after that Japan just kept on whaling and selling whale meat. But what it said he was doing was scientific research, basically that was panned in dismissed by lot of conservationists as a real fig-leaf. You know was basically a hoax, but Japan argues that thanks to this moratorium wheel stocks have now recovered to the point where they can continue. And you know, they they lobbied the idol BBC for many years to allow more wailing, but it just it doesn't work. And now that there are no longer a signatory to the WC. They're not allowed to go to the Antarctic or in the northwest Pacific. They have to fish in their own waters. I mean, this this announcement was just hours ago. But it sounds like there's already been a lot of reaction from around the world. Yes. And as you might expect it's been pretty pretty grim. The condemnation from environmental groups has been pretty stern Greenpeace basically says this move is out of step with the international community, Australia and New Zealand taken a strong stand on New Zealand's, foreign minister said whaling as outdated in it's unnecessary, and they hope Japan, we'll just reconsider and stop this commercial whaling. Of course, they're glad that they're not going to be wailing in the Arctic, and they're not going to be continuing continuing under the guise of commercial whaling, and you know, in twenty ten Australia actually took Japan before the international court of Justice. And that was NPR's. Anthony Kyun sounds like we lost him there. Anthony talking to us about a decision by the Japanese government today to resume commercial whaling operations next year. This is a practice that of course, has drawn a lot of criticism. And a lot of countries already reacting this morning. We'll be following the story again Japan picking up whaling operations again next year.
First Light
Mike Pompeo meets Saudi king over Khashoggi's disappearance
"He is dead. The result of what they're calling an interrogation that went wrong. More from John Lawrence two weeks ago, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into his consulate in Istanbul. The frequent critic of the Saudi government reportedly died sometime after entering the building secretary of state Mike Pompeo is expecting information on castrucci Steph while in the region he may go deter. Turkey. You may not he may be with all of them together. But we want to find out what happened. And he's got instructions to find out what happened his family issued a statement calling for an independent and impartial international commission to inquire into the circumstances of his death. We're working with Turkey, and they're working together to figure out what happened. Ultimately, the question will be who ordered it and is there accountability serious. Or is it a cover up? That's what the world will want to know some critics of the president's say they're concerned about links between the White House and Saudi Arabia. I have little doubt that the United States. At least the Trump administration would do everything they can
Morning Edition
Russia, Ukraine talk peace in meeting with Germany, France
"Will get up to eighty seven santa rosa reaching eighty nine later and sacramento we'll have a high of ninety three degrees it's eight forty two from npr news in washington i'm lakshmi singh the british parliament's considering today's briefing from prime minister theresa may on the recent g seven summit where the us and its allies were glaringly divided over tariffs mesa countries had to avoid taking unilateral action to protect the global trading system the foreign ministers of germany france ukraine and russia are meeting in berlin this data discuss a lingering war in eastern ukraine npr's harasser howdy nelson has more the first time in sixteen months the four ministers are meeting to talk about the conflict a week ago the un security council formerly encouraged russia and ukraine to recommit to a twenty fifteen peace deal the four ministers backed the idea of deploying a un peacekeeping mission to help ensure ceasefires aren't broken but they disagree over what kind of a mandate the international force would have the international commission on missing persons is bringing together leaders of four mediterranean country in rome today to help them cooperate on the identification of missing migrants more from joanna kakissis commission help identify thousands of people buried in mass graves during the balkan wars in the nineties now the group is hoping to help italy malta greece and cyprus identify hundreds of missing migrants who were buried in numbered grapes but the plan which involves the country sharing information on missing migrants may hit a roadblock with italy which recently elected an anti refugee government this is npr news eight forty three now and time for a listener perspective bees are often thought of as something new shoe away from an outdoor meal but that outdoor meal probably wouldn't be there in the first place if it weren't for bees with some thoughts on this this morning here's peggy hanson it's noisy in there and hot ninety degrees no matter rain or shine freeze or thaw i lift the lid and they rise to greet me each one a tiny fuzzy genius though disturbed by my intrusion they are happily mellow and unmilitary eleven pounds of them swirl around the hive or cling to combs inside tending business more pressing than my arrival that's roughly forty thousand honeybees.