8 year old mother might have been to a post by and wave i told her, since i can speak to her anymore in person, it's a consolation with our mother was just one of the victims of the deadliest wildfire truly has witnessed. tens of thousands of people, most everything would worst yet because the discovery that the fire was intentional . what are you using? a sample, right? you hang a few is what i feel your evil. we think so many people, including children, died from only a year later for themselves. wildfires believed had been listen intentionally, are spreading in the county or region. authorities can see it's one of the hardest crimes to prosecute because the evidence has burnt, then covered with water and chemicals, and step down by firefighters. city. will this a blaze in the summer? could it be easier? all you need is what they call the 3rd. he ratio that is,

winds above 30 kilometers for our temperatures above 30 degrees and humidity below. so he percent then was just a cigarette and a few matches you can set fire to the bush and the twigs that are everywhere here, giving the culprits just enough time to make the getaway from the nearby highway. that's exactly what happened last year. so special prosecutor for wild flyers, was by the sudden don't. yes, in a rare exception, the alleged perpetrators of last year's deadly fire have been caught. of the 7 facing trials, one is a volunteer fireman, and others, paid firefighters from the national far as be corporation. he need, i've seen, seen deals of basic by to define on wanted to put top 5 so that he would be seen as a hero. while the others wanted more wildfire so that they could charge over time. looking to see that phone messages proved that it was they themselves who stopped with the 5 a. the ocean don't, says hiero,

maniacs are attracted by the fire. but in most cases of intentional fires, symptoms is lorrie, vengeance, or money moses that are increasingly spreading destruction and dest, you see, and human al jazeera, we know that in my tv now, nasa has launched a satellite to the moon hoping to find water. the luna trow, blaze up lost it all from tape cannot roll in florida on wednesday it's toss was fine. jane will try and find my fingers on vacation. so suppose that civil life sciences long belated, for the 1st one was on the moon surface sleeping increases the poles. that is it from may louisa, probing. the news continues here on algebra. awesome boy, the the,

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the 1st amendment. my name is margaret hester and i'm from arkansas and i'm a state senator. i'm the majority leader here in arkansas. so 1st of all, i'm very open about my face and i was very open about that in my campaign. and i hope that my face affects everything that i do hope it affects the way that i'm speaking to you. i hope that affects the way that i treat all my colleagues. and i certainly hope effects every vote that i take majority leader set or bart has servers recognize as part of the anti boycott bill because, you know,

i think it's just the right thing to do. jewish people are gods chosen people and i feel like an obligation to do anything within my control or power to support them or protect the members of that'll says what this does. this is an act driven public empties from contracting with and investing in companies. the boy caught israel, it's good pro israel middle by a sen. hester, appreciate again that the state is not protected from the church, but the church is protected from the state. i would say if there's 35 members, the arkansas center, i would say 35 members would say that they are believers in biology, scratch pressing for the house. this passage of senate bill 513, prepare the machine, mister flirt. i would say probably half would identifies evangelicals. they

understand how important is to support israel. 69 yeas 3 days. is there a present? the bill is past in the . so this is where a lot of the tomatoes are coming from. now. our family has been here for

generations. my grandfather, he was a farmer. all my uncles for farmers, as you know were scotch irish. i mean we're just white trash farmers. i'd be of assistance, but that has square ricoh from the left college. the 1974 just started magazine, called the arkansas times more than

the door, a bunch of 20, some things before we were the 1st people to have ever discovered arkansas. we were incredibly excited about the music, the history of the mythology, the beauty we wanted to discover arkansas or when to tell others about it. we want to write about it. this was a great story, the arkansas written next. what was it? love, or fighter country boy was a sort of a love letter to read next the, the times is free. so we can't be here without advertising. and the state governments, a big source of our income, the schools, the colleges, the health center is the hospitals. all those agencies advertise because you sign a contract with the state to provide them advertising and they provide your money now in order to get our money, we have to pledge not to boycott is real. i mean,

when we got our 1st notice, i didn't think anyone waiting for the or can we were able to to ignore it for a long time. and finally, there was this purchasing guy with one of the colleges and he was just not going to let go. they said, i'm going to keep you from getting business from us until you sign this as required by the law. the, you know, when we 1st read about this law, we would, we did a story on it. so, looks this and people, most people i talked to the go. what does that have to do with the price of to you in china? i mean, you know, you have to take a, you know, it's just, it has no relevance or bearing on arkansas have the right, the boy con, anyone i want to,

and the state has no business getting involved in that period. so there is so we said no the chair calls here. i'm always to state your name who you are present in a position on the bill. my name is virginia marie. i'm. i'm presenting myself and i'm against this bill happening today. a muslim group plans to issue a legal challenge to a texas law and it's all about israel. it was actually the 1st bill of the 85th legislature, governor gray, gavin signed into law. i would say is israel is one of the texas largest reading

partners to daycare or the council on american islamic relations. will announce a major 1st amendment legal challenge to the law. what you're really hoping to stay will do is completely repeal and review the any media stature. repeal anything that has to violate my a my right to freedom of speech, my right to boycott and to choose a political view of my own palestinian american teacher in austin, texas has filed a federal lawsuit for losing her job as a speech pathologist, after refusing to sign a pro israel old, and i sent an email to my service coordinator. i'm telling her, listen, i cannot sign this is against my principals against my constitutional rights and, and it's also, i guess, my moral and ethical values considering that i am a palestinian american and i have family to actually live in occupied territories or faxed me personally as well, so it affects me in both ways as american citizens and as of how seen in american to

the me one and have us not to have a snack 1st petri blackbar. huh. okay. i have a lot of family members are still reside in the occupied territory. news . i know what i've seen 1st and justice and equality that goes on there. they close off me. roads on implementing is raised to drive on those roads. basically, the idea is to make it as hard as possible for them to function and to have a livelihood anyhow,

school closures resting young children the and i could not, you know, stay quiet and just go on with my life. well, i know that this law is going to make it ok to continue this kind of oppression against the palestinians. the in recent years about 2 dozen states, republican and democrat has passed laws or executive orders to stymie the media movement, arizona, as long sale through the legislature with broad support that could make short all in

a difficult situation. his parents lived in the west bank during the seventy's and ever since college he's advocated for palestinian rights. short all never expected . his views on the is really palestinian conflict to come up in his day job. after all, he gave his legal advice to inmates in arizona. the was just opening my annual contract from the state of arizona. and i was rather shocked to see this the i had promised my son ever since is the bar mitzvah many years ago his mom is jewish, so i am not but i had promised him a trip to the middle east. and so as low as some 12 years later,

we finally went and we had an incredible trip there. i saw a lot of things that were very disturbing that we saw in terms of civil rights, civil liberties discrimination. my mom's parents are definitely more on the conservative side of things they would absolutely call themselves sinus. so it was interesting being exposed to that most of and easily having all of this exposure to the injustices that are happening in israel and palestine. the thing after that trip for him, it was really clear that he wanted to boycott any companies that were contributing to the yes, this is happening in the west bank. i am boycotting hewlett packard because they are involved in the bio metrics for the checkpoints. every palestinian has an id card that they must have and they delay palestinians for many, many hours at

a time. and so that's part and parcel of the occupation the after my a trip to the west bank and seeing what i've seen. i was incensed enough that i said i couldn't sign this and i had to file suit i was committed to continuing on providing the services but not getting paid a substantial chunk of change for me. but that was i was just unwilling to sign that certification and i didn't want to leave the jail in the lurch either. so i wanted to provide the services, the decision to the state. that was not one that he made lightly. we definitely worried about people smearing his reputation, calling him in this and that he was very fearful that he was this. it took us by

the head, the extremely proud of him and making the choice that you did the i 1st during the sale you as an intern at the so you southern california. believe that within the summer of 2009 it was after my 1st year of law school. it was definitely something i was seeking out since high school. i had been kind of obsessed with the sale. you to be honest. so this was at the beginning of the rack war, and i remember that there was this kind of rush to consensus that we shouldn't beta

rack because saddam had weapons of mass destruction. and that anybody who spoke out against it was a terrorist supervisor or a communist or are fundamentally into american. and i remember that the still you campaign at that time was that the sentence patriotic. and that's something that really resonated with me. i always like to tell people that we have the best clients in this case. i think that's absolutely true. all manner of people have been forced to sign these anti for certification forms. many of them are reluctant to throw themselves into the middle of a major public controversy. but we've got a few brave individuals to step forward and say, hey, this is the right thing to do. what i'm going to do it. that's the kind of all occurs that makes me so happy to work at these all you have us. i just want to check in briefly about the total case and where we are in the briefing is gone through basically all the levels of approval and that it needs to go through and

we're gonna get it out hopefully today. and what about the other cases? the arkansas one, i think it's going to be filed in the next couple days. and then the texas case, i hope will get in the next week or 2 on on many fronts. yes. one of the things that we hope to do with these cases is when a couple of them very quickly on the states that has these kinds of laws to kind of deter others from doing the same thing. if all the courts are unanimous that these laws are unconstitutional, then my guess is that these bills will just die. and i think the states, they don't want the public to really be aware of what's going on. they don't want to have an open debate about it. they recognize them and people actually understand what the state was doing here. they wouldn't be, i absolutely horrified and appalled that legislatures would be trading away americans 1st amendment right so easily. the problem today, where did that idea now? you know, i can't nail down exactly where it came from,

but really so much just talking with my colleagues reading and then a chance meeting with another legislator from another state helped me really start to try to wrap in what was important. i was at a hotel and there was an hour meeting going on. a coastal resort, protected by armed guard. this is in the state capital. it's a resort hotel where lawmakers are winding dying as members of the american legislative exchange council or alec. this is a very, very important group across the country. we've been more than 1300 people here. organization represents 25 percent of all state legislators in the country. look closely at many conservative was passed by state legislatures and you're likely to find the hand of alex alex is the perfect petri dish for what ends up being a very, very destructive legislative scheme in our country. they bring together corporate leaders, evangelical leaders,

and right wing legislators. they meet twice a year behind closed doors. almost in very of the laws they seek to pass and move out into the world, restrict the ability of people to be able to effectively operate in their democracy . from stand your ground self defense laws, district photo id laws, which critics say make it harder for minorities and the poor to vote. the group says it's motto, bills are templates for as many as $200.00 state laws passed a year. they're thinking about creating what's called model legislation. i like bills come complete with blanks where legislators need only fill in their state name. you start out with one idea and i met test the sizes into something that c, a radically could be applicable every place in the united states. it's pretty safe to say that there wouldn't be an type boy bills popping up in different states

around the country without out the so we have the tribune. obviously we have k u t, cbs and the office. number 250 the high you made it easy as one of my days.

the wind round rock speech pathologist, but here we filed suit against blue gerbil i as the and the state of texas. she says she didn't do it for as railing or palestinian values, but for american values is our responsibility to fight, to protect and preserve free speech for children. similar to exactly that, our founding fathers having visions this law hospital 89, was nothing but a censorship long. meant to silence texans and punish them for expressing the practical view. texts and government should not be putting the interest of a foreign country over its own people. thank you. a speech pathologist and full real says the state is trying to silence her right to free speech. when this story, the here story started getting a lot of attention, the governor of texas simply tweeted out, texas stands with israel period. any anti

israel policy is an anti texas policy? the as far as i know, i'm the only speech. so i missed the call just as the service and the founding

austin and then losing an important service that's not available. otherwise i feel like i am putting down my community the there's no boycott. activism at arkansas probably this law is about the only thing people only way people know about course we're just, we're not boycotting anyone. we're just saying you have no right to tell us what our speech should be. and if we what we think we want to boycott, we can, and oh, it's none of your business it's, it's a, it's a political act. and it's that one that i choose to take. i just object to government say, we've got a big a whole lot of money over here,

but we're not able to give it to you will that will advertise with you. but here's, here's some, here's some conditions that you need to meet 1st, such as, here's the political position you need to take regarding foreign policy for god's sake and we're in arkansas. well, as i think alan's case demonstrates, you don't have to be participating in a board kind of israel to find these. and t boycott was fundamentally on american. alan, i hate to ask you this, but let's say that the paper uh action is unsuccessful in cory. do you plan on signing that pledge or what does that mean for the future of your newspaper? should you lose? i haven't gone there yet to, but that that's something that will be a very, very difficult uh, very, very difficult decision for me. so we close this wednesday, march issued for about and 51000 and we need to get to 65 is what we got. hang it out there. started the time. so $200.00.

so i wanted to go through the advertise last year. we dodge so many bullets are less 45 years and and the newspaper businesses got tougher and tougher. the accurate clinic room for about 35 people here to people who has families and mortgages the year for that state advertising. we can be on the the when we launched the lawsuit, i was very confident mean any country that bases it's found the mythology around

the boston tea party and the boy todd of tea. you would think that today you, 100 years later, we would still see boy cods as a political, a former political speech, and therefore protected by the 1st amendment. today i'm going to sign an executive order that says if you boy tide against israel, new york will boring time you, we in america must stand strong with israel through 2nd. one of the highest duties of elected legislators is to defend our constitution. but here they are just giving away for our 1st amendment rights to a foreign country. i have the right, the boy costs anyone i want to and the state has no business getting involved in that gods chosen and blessed us because we protect israel. i want to continue,

do want to state level all that i can't support the 3 part series explodes, the implications of us and people who called lower the freedom of speech and 1st amendment rights more about the issue, whatever i'm looking for. so my thing for talk to him, quote on which is 0 months on pouches era from trade was to size big shifting us policy on gaza and ukraine. president donald trump is shaking of global forwarding to stay updated with the latest development. rigorous debate, unflinching question upfront cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom. on the 14th anniversary of the city and revolutions, the fall of the asset regime has ushered in a new era. as silvia as rebuild their nation, made his hand goes head to head to perform a straight line. can president run it from a single china? it sets out its vision for its future. as far as those of delegates gather for daniel's so called to sessions on march,

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