certain, when there's no rain, things out this cassava die, i think in the future it will be a desert hair. the, i think the next generation will have nothing that they will die, yolanda now the you and call the family here back in 2021. the 1st 5 min pause in the world solely by climate change, but a lot of people disagree with that. they say it's down to poor governance and to poverty. the truth, i think it's a combination of all 3 climate change, that it's wreaking havoc around the world, causing devastation here in madagascar. poverty, 90 percent of my da, gaskins live in poverty and poor governance inside and outside the country. for the people, though, it's all irrelevant for them these times simply known as katie, the hon, that clark al jazeera iraq. ah,

i for a quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera, the 1st football will come to be held in the middle east is just hours away. more than a 1000000 fans are expected cheer on that teams and cats all over the next 4 weeks . the 1st game on sundays between the hosts and ecuador, brazil's national team of touchdown in cat, are there the last god to arrive, brazil of one, the most will cup titles that's 5 and hoping for 6, the name on his teammates take the field. their 1st match on thursday against serbia defending champions, france of suffered a set back on the eve of the tournament star strike a carrion ben's emma has been ruled out of playing in any of the upcoming matches. after sustaining an injury during training, france opened their campaign against australia on tuesday. after long delay leaders at the cop $27.00 climates summit have reached a deal to help vulnerable countries, they bank a fund that would require wealthy nations to compensate poor owens for the loss damage caused by climate change. i've also been discussing

a target to limit global warming. malaysia is facing a hung parliament after a general election delivered no clear winner. the opposition leader. and while abraham says his coalition has enough support to form a government, his rival for my premier, we have been yes in has also claimed a when b turkish defense ministry says it's conducted air raid operations and parts of northern syria and iraq. the kurdish lead sirian democratic forces says 2 villages with internally displaced. people were among those shelled turkey. i says it's part of a cross border operation against the kurdish p k. k. that being blamed for a bombing in istanbul, a week ago, the group has denied any involvement. richie sooner has visited ukraine for the 1st time since becoming britton's prime minister. he met president vladimir zalinski and keith soon. i pledged his government's continued support, including an air defense, a package with $60000000.00. and for my years president donald trump has

a twitter page again, the company's owner, ellen musk says he's reinstating trump to the social media platform. announcement came soon after an online poll, which showed a narrow majority. it wanted trump back, but he's not committed to attorney to the platform. so those are the headlines. the news continues here now to 0 after up front statement. that's a lot better. what happens when the news media failed to do that joke? it's one of the biggest reasons why iraq is not yet a democracy. there is no accountability. the listening host exposes the power, is controlling the narrative, rush and media does the lot of favorably. he is message has to be back by the whole propaganda, apple and the tools they used to do it. how do you read through all of them? information found, you determine what is this and from now, with the listening post your guide to the media on al jazeera, what are we go has been grappling with recovery after series of natural disasters,

most recently hurricane fiona in september. but the problems don't in their fragile infrastructure, economic crisis and dependent on the u. s. all stand in the way of puerto rico's ability to pick up and walk. so how can the island rebuild and recover to speak to the former mayor of san juan harmon jolene cruz next. but 1st, donald trump wants to be president of the united states. again, the america's come back starts right now. warner president launched his bid this week from his home in mar, largo florida. stopped announcement comes just after republicans failed to score the kind of winds they were hoping for in the mid term elections, with high profile losses among trump indoors candidates. but what does another trump campaign mean? port already deeply polarized country. joining me to discuss this is renowned author scholar an activist. this week's headliner, mike larry, professor michael eric dyson, thank you so much for joining us and up front. thanks. bear with me, my friend,

former u. s. president donald trump has officially announced his bid to run for president in 2024. what do you make of this? well, this is the perfect storm of unmitigated narcissism meets political opportunism. ah, it is certainly wrecking the potential fortunes of the republican party. i think they've rejected the whole contests and have settled on figures like if not exclusively governor ron de santis of florida. he, after all, is the re max of donald trump equally authoritarian. ah, but with a, a panache and a style, a kind of palatable autocracy, if you will, that donald trump simply doesn't have, he's more brutal. he's more blunt. and i think it's really forcing the republican party finally, ah, to come to grips with the effect of trump ism. so the republican party is really

going to have a come to jesus moment because of his candidacy. there is a quote from speech that people are repeating a lot. he said, anyone who truly seeks to take on this rigged and corrupt system will be faced with a storm of fire. that only a few could understand. he's painting himself as the people's champion. could that tone make him more palatable to the republican base? could that give him a 2nd life in the american electro mind? well, it is base as proved in the past to be a highly gullible, or at least desperate enough to believe that that kind of political rhetoric doesn't mask the kind of chicanery that we saw going on. in other words, here was a guy who said, i'm going to be for the average joe. and when he got into office, he was a bunch of billionaires and multi millionaires who were running the show. now that happens in most administrations, that's not exclusive to donald trump, but when you claim to be the people's champ, um and when you lose use that kind of populous language. and then the deliverables

have to be judged differently. so this is donald trump brilliantly, ah, seizing the moment, understanding what's at stake, reading the wrong, so to speak, and giving the folk what they want. donald trump knows all along that he can't deliver on what he promises, but he promises, regardless, because that is part of the political theatre of a donald trump and it has not failed him so far. and it may indeed be successful this time around as well. why, as you alluded to a bit ago, the 1st sign of failure for trump might be that the folks he backed weren't successful. so we can safely say, you know, trump supporters or shot back candidates, rather i don't have the kind of gravitas and power that they had 4 years ago. what does that mean? why? yeah. first of all, when you look at the coaching tree of bill bella, check and you go, you know, is great as he was, the folk that he put into the li ain't doing so well. so if we look at donald trump

is bill ability. since they've had some kind of, i'm going, i'm going to know for my home cuz we got international audio that is a, a, a celebrated us football coach to the new england patriots. that's right. arguably the greatest of all time. some have made that argument. so yes, a coach of football forgive us for using that term in an international audience here. we know it's not football in the classic sense, but he's the guy who's a great coach and the coaching tree. that is the people who coach under him and then go on to have their own teams. haven't necessarily done as well as the original figure. so donald trump is able to weave, you know, this web of tremendous camera is my an appeal. he was more successful the 1st time around, as you recognized then as you were pointing out right now. and i think what it says is, the spell is wearing off. the magic is dissipating for those who are referred to political figures, but it may not indicate that donald trump has really spent ah,

his last bit of fortune here. his political capital is depleted to be sure, but it's not a completely wiped out. and if you can say anything about donald trump, it's the ability to reinvent himself, the supporters of from the people who are die hard people who still to this day say trump is our president. do they friend the red wave? that the, or the non red wave that happened and say, you know what, it's time for us to come out and assemble again. will this galvanize and, and draw out his supporters or is this evidence that he doesn't have as much support as we thought? no, i think it's the former and that the latter, i think look those people are so ah, die hard in their commitment to donald trump, you know, to death do us part. and then they want to get married after after they go to heaven, so to speak, and after in the after life. and donald trump is experiencing a kind of political after life, right. he was president, he lost, that's a political death for most presidents,

but maybe not for donald trump because his base is so deeply committed to him. that no matter what happens, the people who disagree with him are read as counterfeit. and i do believe that donald trump, surprisingly perhaps to the chagrin of many, ah, still maintains a powerful hold on the bread and butter republican. not necessarily the elite who were disingenuous to begin with. they knew donald trump was lying, they knew he was full of tricks and bad faith. they knew that he was doing stuff that was really antithetical to the constitution and certain rule of law. but they went along with it because it was of the best way to ride his coat tails. now that they've tried to get off and cut those coat tails and sees on to someone else, i think the bread and butter republican has not yet given up on donald trump. you earlier you talked about ron de santis as a potential heir apparent to donald trump. some say they're similar, some of suck,

some have said that he's more polished up. we had one guest once they, he, donald trump, who can read, you know, there are lots of different ways to think about the same. but one thing that connects them to be sure to trump is the idea of right wing populism. ah, if we see the shift away from trump, have we simply paved the way not for a more mainstream political candidate or returned to the so called status quo, but simply opening the door to another right wing populace, perhaps potentially more polish, like a de santis or other full yes you nominal baptist preacher and there's a scripture that says when you cast out the demon, if you don't put some melts in its place, 7 worse demons than the 1st one are going to come occupy that space. and donald trump did create a kind of donald trump sized vacuum. i do believe that those, you know, out loud talks about round the santos are true. he's more polished,

which means he's more sophisticated about his chicanery. he's more sophisticated about his autocracy. he's more sophisticated by this fashion impulses, but he had braces the explicit language that ties him to donald trump's, if you will, or most of herman supporters. but he understands that the methodology has to end here and conform to traditional conceptions of law and order. and that may be indeed where he has a leg up on donald trump for those who want to distance themselves from donald trump, because they know he's wrecking the machine. but they want to embrace round de santis because he brings the spirit of donald trump to bear world. is the media play in all this? i can't help but think that there's a way that in covering his announcement so extensively. ah, we are aiding his bid. we devote so much different to his every move or we supporting his candidacy and i'm being so critical is what we're doing it right at this very moment. right? there's

a way that we have been assessed with donald trump's as 2016. and in doing so, we've given him unearned media unearned advertising. he's getting free publicity every day. are we repeating the same mistake of 2016 by giving trumps so much time? yes, this the paradox, right? because if you don't cover it, then you're left out in the competition for the resource of attention. and if you do cover it, you're just adding on and giving him a kind of, you know, a gravitas, a kind of legitimacy that otherwise he wouldn't have. you know, how in the hip hop culture they have that full mo, filling of missing out. well, donald trump has the photo feeling of trumped out. cuz ill in the one hand, if you don't trump in, then you're not like what you didn't hear. you didn't listen to what he said. you didn't pay attention to his body language. you didn't talk about right, we've all become truck deconstruction as we are trying to figure out what the heck donald trump is about what he's saying. did you see his left eye twitch? did you notice that his hair was pushed to the right further?

right. we're doing all this trop analysis and, and that the reality is yes, he is the creature of the media. but he's been the master of the media and having mastered the media in reality television, he understands how to push the envelope and to push the right buttons to get the media to pay attention. there has been a surge in white nationalism during trumps presidency. we saw an increase in electron denial ism, we've seen, ah, the january 6th insurrection. ah, we seen a 55 percent increase in the number of white nationals hate groups during the trump era. it's according to the southern poverty law center. when we think about trump running for president, again, do we have any reason not to expect a similar search? now? ah, in fact the opposite is true. it can be predicted was reasonable confidence that a similar surge will occur. that, you know,

when you're trying to catch one of these live servers and you're dealing with the search, and during the search you pay more. that's what we pay more. we pay more doing the surges of, of trump and white nationalism. we pay in terms of political capital that's precious to us. we pay in terms of lives, laws we pay in terms of an erosion of the american spirit. we pay in the refusal to acknowledge that white supremacy is the ultimate arbiter of truth in our political scene. you know, what january 6th proved to us is that people were willing to be hypocrites and, and when you told him they were hypocrites, they didn't even care. you say you like, you know, blue lives blue lives matter. and yet the police were equal if were easily disposable that day, they were seen to be enemies right out there. this is a people who said that they were committed to american, yet they were dragging through the halls of congress, the most vaunted symbol of american democracy. a banner of betrayal called the

confederate flag. they don't care, wait a minute. i thought you loved the police but beaten them up. i thought you were concerned about real democracy, but you're waving a flag that is the ultimate sign of betrayal to america. not really see all of that before we go when you see all of that. is there any reason to be hopeful for the future of american democracy? if trump is able to reemerge even at this stage as a legitimate political figure? yet here's the hope. now it's a, it's a negative hope, so to speak. ah, but you know, if thou jumpers reelected, that is got to say something to the folk who don't support him and, and look as many people as there are that support him there. millions more who don't the will no longer just the donald trump because what will have been revealed is that there's something roiling beneath the surface that is fundamentally in

opposition to us as human beings. that was going to happen that, that could happen. and to finish my thought about what happened on january 6th, the real religion, the real politics, the real force of society, the real democracy is whiteness. a particularly virulent, narrowly focused narcissistic. whiteness is the real basis of what america is about. the great philosopher beyond say, jacell knows said a when giving in a war to the football quarterback x football quarterback. ah, collin, catherine said that it is been said that american racism is so deeply entrenched in the country that it's identified with america itself. so that when you challenge racism, it looks as if you're challenging america. so many more people will come to grips with the fact that this is not simply about donald trump. this is about a way of

a life that we of embraced. and i think the fall will be precipitous. and i think the revelation will be thundering, but we have to continue to, to really not away at that resistance. that's the only choice we have. because if they can win that battle of the will and they can make us believe there is nothing we can do about it, they will have won the ultimate prize, which is the conversion of us into a kind of hopeless not of voters who don't even use what we have at our disposal, a lever to make a difference in this democracy. like michael argon, thank you so much for joining us in a front. thanks for having me. my for the in september of hurricane fiona hit, the island of puerto rico, causing mass destruction, catastrophic flooding and island wide power outages. the u. s. territory may have been able to cope with the hurricane to some degree, except it was still recovering from the devastation caused by

a category 5 hurricane in 2017. the islands residents have faith continuing issues from a fragile electrical grid to a faltering economy of puerto rico, struggles to climb out of bankruptcy. but the problems don't stop there. there has been a decline in manufacturing, chronic food insecurity. and what many of the islands residents essentially view as neglect by the united states government? so how does puerto rico recover and stabilize for the next climate disaster? joining us to discuss this is carmen jolene cruz, the former mayor of san juan, puerto rico and fellow at mount holyoke college in massachusetts. he's also the host of a new park f card. she row x about every day women who are changing the world. one community at a time, jolene. thank you so much for joining us and upfront. you've seen the devastation after the hurricanes up close when you were the mayor. when you left offs in 2020 the island hadn't recovered from the impact of hurricane maria. and now in fact, it was still recovering from maria in september when fiona hit its talk to me about

what it looks like on the ground. you just got back. talk to me about that. well, 1st of all, there's a lot of people are very angry and they have a right to be. but they're also about to leave. and i think that's the worst of sasha that there can be. there are still communities that don't have electricity. hospitals that are faltering in they're providing services that would people have to understand is that, and you, you mentioned that a little bit we were still recovering from hurricanes each month and money yet, which was $1.00 right after the other financial bankruptcy. there were 2 coastal storms. then there were 2 major earthquakes, and then there was the pan. that's all in a for your time span. so it's one crisis after another. and what people are seeing is, 1st of all, there was the trump administration that discriminated against puerto rico. and the

money started flowing into puerto rico in 2020, even though it had been appropriated some time before. but would people are seeing on the ground is, is a lack of vision. and according of the local central government, or puerto rico of the resources that come into puerto rico and the mayor's are saying, can me the money. and let me put all these plans moving forward. what it looks like. it's like a war zone that goes and recover. you mentioned the sort of crisis in 2017 is at least partially being linked to the trumpet administration discriminating against puerto rico. now, we're in 2022, there's a biden administration. how distinct is the response in recovery effort now versus then i understand there's lots of problems on the ground. so in some ways it seems like it's not that different. there is

a difference in tone and understand right? one through paper, towel, trash, and that gym has still continues to haunt the united states. and the other one is, is really going out of the way the biting administration to say, hey, look, let me see what i can do without dictating energy policy. the problem is that what has to be done in the ground and puerto rico sometimes contradict the energy policy in the us. you know, you, you can have it both ways. you can let the green here, but then, well, let's not go back. there is money still from let's talk about that money. i'm glad you mentioned money. you've talked about the distribution of money before. fema, the federal emergency management agency allocated $28000000000.00 for recovery effort. this is public assistance funding, right. 5 years later,

this happened 1805 years later, only about one 5th of it has been released. there been additional funds allocated post fiona, but the issue, as i see it isn't really allocation as much as it is being able to use public assistance money for recovery. why is access to the money? that's why have access to the money such an issue. one of the things was that it was withheld by the past administration, but now it's flowing. right? so you think, well, what is the problem will be my just went into an agreement with the central government in puerto rico and the sub recipient of the central government are the municipalities. so there's this entire red tape. you know, the map requires certain aspects in order to give them money, but then the central government of puerto rico requires additional money. and it is, it is ludicrous. you know, there are mayors waiting for bridges to the bills of their citizens waiting for

bridges to be built for roads to be thanked. all over puerto rico. i have to wonder how much of the slow recovery effort, how much of the overall condition put a recall is tied to the fact that you have such a sort of uneasy untenable kind of political status. you know, you have one represent, one representative in congress doesn't get to vote. you've been to us territory since the late 18 hundreds. but never had the kind of political representation that would come from se statehood. is this the reason for the neglect, but if you had more of a voice in congress with that matter. well, let me put it to you this way. puerto ricans call on your territory is a euphemism for a colony. and we are a nation twice invaded 1st by spain, and then by the united states, show what people and myself have been advocating is for a process of self determination. first of all, the question that you ask is

a very good work. puerto ricans be better off with representations in congress well, or african americans are better off and voting rights to having representations in coverage. this is a fight that has been congress. ma'am john lewis gave id like to make sure that everyone, not only african americans, but that everyone in the united states have a right to bode, are women that are seeking abortions, better with representation in the united states senate or a congress. so what we're looking for is to be seen to be respected, entering a real process of self determination. we're all puerto rican voices can be heard. and all man colonial is you know, if the current status in the colony, we shouldn't include the current status. but you sort of advocated for a kind of complicated relationship to the kind of colonizing power of the united

states. you talked about a free association, you know, rehabilitation for puerto rico, that's not exactly statehood and that's not exactly the kind of for independent nation that many people advocate for. and so something you're sort of advocating for a relationship where you have some of the representational power of a state, but also a kind of sovereignty that comes from being an independent nation. well, one of the things that the u. s. has already already has with the wireless and the money on this type of situation. but listen, in 1917. the us may puerto ricans us citizens in 1941, puerto ricans out for citizenship by law. so that can change tomorrow. let's say that congress goes even crazier than they have certain time. and they say, we're going to strict that out in puerto ricans will no longer be born citizens of the united states. what would i am saying?

and you're right, and i'll answer your question. what i'm saying is that there is a mentor way. i'm having a good relationship with puerto, with between puerto rico, us just 5000000. puerto ricans in the us. and i'm one of them right now. and when i go back to puerto rico, january, i'll be part of the 3200000. puerto ricans that live in puerto rico shell. there is a responsibility when you put food on the ground. when you checked the contraceptive pill in puerto rican women. when you tested agent orange into one of the largest reinforces in puerto rico. when you use the island of the kids as target practice, mom did and read it to other countries to be able to use it. there's an obligation to at least provide the people of puerto rico, the opportunity to decide what the future of their relationship with the united

states should be. so regardless of what i believe, which i believe in free association, more importantly than that is that the process is a process that is transparent that it's democratic. and that stage the implications of people voting for each one of the options and your mama. so that there can be no translation into puerto rican spanish, which will have nothing to do with the reality of what bad well would actually, well really, and i want to thank you for your time with us on up front and of course, best of luck. thank you everyone. if we're going to recovery, that is our show up front. we'll be back. next. talked to al jazeera, we also do believe that women of afghanistan was somehow abandoned by the

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