09/30/ 090/22 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> we are one step away from victory october 2. one little bit is missing. in these few days, we must work to win the vote of all of those who love democracy. amy: former brazilian president luiz inacio lula da silva appears poised to win sunday's

election over brazil's far right president jair bolsonaro. but will lula get enough votes to avoid a runoff and will bolsonaro accept the results? >> people are saying this is very possibly the most important election in generation if not generations that cou have lasting applications, not just for brazil but it's neighboring countries. amy: we will go to brazil for the latest. then a cinema dedicated to documentary film opens here in new york city at the dctv firehouse, founded by keiko tsuno and jon alpert who just won another emmy. the lobby will be dedicated tonight to brent renaud who was killed while covering the war in ukraine. we will speak to jon alpertnd crairenauds wells re davenport. his film opens today called "i

d not see you there." >>very timi went t film. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the national weather service has issued hurricane advisories to more than 2.5 million coastal residents of georgia, the carolinas as her kitty and gather strength after carving and historic trail of devastation across florida. ian is expected to make landfall in charleston, site category 1 storm. this comes as rescue teams and helicopters and boats are struggling to reach those trapped by floodwater. so far this 17 u.s. ian number is likely to rise dramatically. pres. biden: this could be the

deadliest hurricane and florida's history. the numbers are still unclear but we are hearing early reports of what may be substanal loss ofife. amy: me t than 2 million homes and businesses across florida remain without power. threpublan governosaid the stmaused biblal damage to sanibel island and for homes to the concrete foundations in fo mys beach. santos cled it a o and 500 year storm nasaeports ocean temratures florid's cot were uto the degree fahrenheiwarmer than usu this ti of ar. heing to fuel e rapi intensificion of ttorm to near category 5 strength head of landfall. ukraine's government says a russian missile strike on a humanitarian convoy has left 23 people dead anmore than 30 others wounded. today's adly attack in the city ozaporizhia came as russian president vladimir putin prepared tdeliver a major address in moscow, where he's

expected to announce four russian-occupied regions of ukraine will join the russian federation. president biden condemned voter referenda used by russia to justify its annexation of the territories as an absolute sham, while u.n. secretary-general antónio guterres called annexation a dangerous escalation that would jeopardize prospects for peace. >> the u.n. charter is clear, any annexation of estate territory by another state resulting from the threat or use of force is a violation of the principles of the u.n. charter and international law. amy: sweden's coast guard said thursday it has discovered a fourth leak in the nord stream pipelines built to carry russian gas under the baltic sea as nato formally blamed sabotage for underwater explosions that led to monday's rupture. nato did not blame russia for the attack, though leaders of several nato mber nations have

claimed the kremlin without citing evidence. meanwhile, russian officials suggested the u.s. or one of its allies is to blame. the disaster is now thought to be the largest fossil gas leak in history. the u.s. geological survey estimates it added a tenth of a percent of estimated annual global methane emissions to the atmosphere. the u.s. senate has approved legislation to supply ukraine with $12.3 billion in additional aid, most of it to support ukraine's military. it's part of a stopgap spending package needed fund the u.s. government past midnight tonight. e house is expected to quickly approve the spending package, sending it to president biden for his signature and averting a government shutdown. congress previously approved about $54 billion in military and humanitarian aid to ukraine. this comes as the pentagon says it's preparing to open a new command based in germany that will oversee a long-term training and assistance program for ukraine's military. senators approved the stopgap spending bill after west virginia senator joe manchin

abandoned his own energy permitting proposal that would have fast-tracked federal review of permits for new energy projects, including the mountain valley fracked gas pipeline. this week the white house said it would continue to work with senator manchin to find a new vehicle to get his permitting reform legislation through congress. press secretary karine jean-pierre said in a statement -- "the president supports senator manchin's plan because it is necessary for our energy security, and to make more clean energy available to the american people." in brazil, voters had to the polls sunday for an election could see far right president jair bnaro replaced by former president luiz inacio lula da silva. the polls show lula has a strongly over bolsonaro that remains unclear if he has enough support to win 11 weight race outright. if not, brazil will hold a runoff election october 30. lula has been running on a platform to reduce and equality,

preserve the amazon rain forest, and protect results indigenous communities. there is widespread freer that bolsonaro could attempt to stage a coup if he loses the election. earlier in the campaign, bolsonaro said "only god will remove me from power. the arm is on our side. it is an army that does not accept corruption, does not accept fraud." we will go to brazil after headlines. in afghanistan, at least 19 people were killed and more than two dozen others injured today as a suicide bomber targeted an education center in the capital kabul. the blast struck a predominantly shia muslim neighborhood home to kabul'minority hazara community. most of the dead and wounded are female high school graduates who were studying for a university entrance exam. this follows twin bombings at schools in the same neighborhood earlier this year and a 2021 a blast that killed 85 people, most of them female students, while wounding 300 others.

india's supreme court has ruled that all women can access abortion care up to 24 weeks of pregnancy regardless of marital status. thursday's ruling ends a disparities in the availability of abortions to single versus married women. the court also ruled for the first time in its history that marital rape should be included in the definition of rape if a woman wants to abort her child. however, india remains one of 36 countries where marital rape is not a crime. meanwhile, lgbtq groups say the court's ruling leaves out transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse persons who deserve reproductive care and protection from sexual assault. a new poll finds public trust for the supreme court at an historic low. less than half of u.s. adults polled by gallup report they have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in the supreme court. that's a 20 percentage-point drop from two years ago. this comes amid fractures between the supreme court's conservative majority and liberal justices over whether the court's legitimacy has been

damaged by recent rulings overturning decades of precedent. justice elena kagan has repeatedly spoken out over the issue during the court's summer recess. here she is speaking at northwestern university's pritzker school of law on september 14. >> when we are talking about legitimacy of the courts, a prevents people from thinking it is all about politics. if a new judge comes in, if there is new members of the court and all of a sudden everything is up for grabs, all of this side and very fundamental principles of law are being overthrown, are, you know, replaced, then people have a right to say, what's going on? that does not seem very low light. amy: justice samuel alito, who authored the dobbs decision in june allowing states to once again ban abortions, told the

"wall street journal" this week, "saying or implying that the court is becoming an illegitimate institution or questioning our integrity crosses an important line." chief justice john roberts has also criticized justice kagan's remarks. the house january 6 committee has interviewed far-right activist ginni thomas about her efforts to help donald trump overturn the 2020 election defeat to joe biden. she spent more than four hours testifying to lawmakers behind closed doors on capitol hill. representative bennie thompson said afterwards that thomas had repeated her false claims about a stolen election, while denying she'd discussed her efforts to overturn biden's win with her husband, supreme court justice clarence thomas. justice thomas is the only member of the court who dissented in the supreme court's eight to one decision that led to the release of white house documents around january 6. justice thomas refused to recuse himself in the case, leading

many democrats to call for his impeachment. the biden administration has put student debt relief on hold for millions of borrowers after republican attorneys general in six states filed suit in federal court seeking to block president biden's debt cancellation program. in a court filling in a federal district court in missouri, the states of nebraska, missouri, arkansas, iowa, kansas, and south carolina argue biden's debt relief plan is unconstitutional and illegal. last month, the white house said it would cancel as much as $20,000 per person in student debt to help as many as 40 million borrowers. the education department said people who've already begun to thursday seek loan forgiveness will still receive it, while others will have to wait while legal challenges play out. at the hague, a man accused of helping to finance and organize the 1994 rwandan genocide has gone on trial at the international crimal court. félicien kabuga has pleaded not

guilty to war crimes charges including genocide and crimes against humanity. on thursday, the u.n. prosecutor rashid rashid said kabuga purchased machetes, grenades and other weapons for a notorious hutu paramilitary group known as the interahamwe, whose members were the main perpetrators of the rwandan genocide, which the u.n. says killed more than a million people in 100 days. >> the charges reflects its status of the wealthy and well-connected political fighter. in support of the genocide, kabuga did not need to wield a rifle or machete, rather he supplied weapons and a bulk and facilitated the trains. amy: and new research has found three people are killed every week while trying to protect their land from extractive industries. the report by global witness documents the murders of more

then -- more than 1700 environmental activists by mercenaries, hitmen, criminal gangs, or their own governments. topping the list of the world's most deadliest countries for environmental defenders last year was mexico, with 54 murders. that's followed by colombia, brazil, the philippines, nicaragua, and india. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. when we come back, we go to brazil to look at sunday's presidential election. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break]

amy: the song samples and anti-dictatorship anthem recorded in 1976. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show in brazil, where brazil's far right president jair bolsonaro faced off against former president luiz inacio lula da silva thursday night in the final debate ahead of sunday's presidential election. polls show lula has a strong

lead over bolsonaro but it remains unclear if lula has enough support to win the 11-way race outright. if no candidate receives 50% of the vote on run-off will be held sunday, a on october 30. lula served as president from 20 theory -- 2003 to 2010. during that time, he helped lift tens of millions of brazilians out of poverty. he is then running on a platform to reduce inequality preserve the amazon rain forest, and protect brazil's indigenous community. in 2018, he was jailed on trumped up charges paving the way for the election of j or bolsonaro retired military , a officer who has spoken favorably about brazil's former military dictatorship. there is widespread fear in brazil that bolsonaro could attempt to stage a coup if he loses the election. earlier in the campaign, bolsonaro said -- "only god will remove me. the army is on our side. it's an army that doesn't accept

corruption, doesn't accept fraud." during thursday night's debate, luiz inacio lula da silva criticized bolsonaro's efforts to keep secret many of his governments actions, including his handling of the covid-19 pandemic. >> i'moing to do something for you. i'm going to make a decree to in your 100 your secrecy. i'm going to make a decree inside it could to knowhat this man wants to high for 100 years and i'm going to stop here because i want others to participate in the debate. president, when you show up here, please lie less. amy: during thursday's debate, bolsonaro, the brazilian president, accused lula, the former president, of lying. >> the ex-convict says i decree the secrecy of my family.

which decree? give me the number. he said i delayed the purchase of vaccines. no country in the world bought a vaccine and 2020. stop lying. we talked about hunger, i gave aid to brazil. you gave it'll to the poorest. you used the poorest as a way to win votes. amy: to talk more about sunday's vote in brazil, we are joined by two guests. michael fox is a freelance journalist based in brazil. former editor of nacla and host of the new podcast "brazil on fire." he is joining us from são paulo. here in new york maria luísa , mendonça is the director of the network for social justice and human rights in brazil and a visiting scholar at the city university of new york graduate center. we welcome you both. maria luísa mendonça, talk about what is at stake in sunday's election.

amy: if you could begin again. i did not catch the beginning of what you said. >> thank you. this is a very important election in brazil because after four years of having a far right government represented by lsonaro, voters in brazil are about to send a strong message and say we don't want a far right government. i think it is important also for people to understand bolsonaro only once in election -- won election for years ago because lula was in jail. based on false charges. there was no evidence against him. but he was put in jail anyway so he could not run four years ago. before that, there was a parliamentary call in 2016 against president dilma rousseff. so that was the context that created the possibility for bolsonaro to get elected.

and now there is a broad alliance in a society to support the candidacy of lula. there is a lot of activism. many artists are involved with the campaign. lula was able to build a broad alliance for this election. amy: michael fox, what about the threat of bolsonaro, similar to trump, not to accept the results of sunday's election? talk about the polls, what they're showing right now. it is not just between the two of them. there is more than -- close to a dozen candidates. but one of them has to hit 50% for it to be an outright victory. >> that's right. what we have right now is lula this roughly 14 to 17 points ahead of bolsonaro, hovering around 50% according to the test polls. even though all of the other

candidates are minor candidates, have less than 10%, one has the most at 6% or 7%. the biggest question is, is look going to be able to win it the first round? like you said, the potential for bolsonaro to come out and say, no, i don't respect these results, that is absolutely -- most people think he is going to follow down trump's path. he is been setting the scene for the last year and a half. what was saw just two days ago is the liberal party came out and released a document saying they had audited electoral -- the voting system and saying there's the potential for grave fraud. the electoral court responded almost immediately, putting this in -- calling it absurd. they have now requested from the liberal party who paid the invoice, who actually bankrolled these documents because they think what is happening is

trying to set the scene for bolsonaro to come out later on and say, see, i told you it was fraud. this is the general playbook that we are already expecting. everybody in brazil is pretty much expecting this. the reality behind it is most of resilient society, they are not -- resilient society, three quarters of brazilians said in a recent poll that they want democracy and they want to stick with this. i think we are crossing our fingers and hoping that is what happens. amy: we are talking about the sixth or seventh largest population in the world, brazil. this election is extremely significant. talk about what lula represents. >> lula is a very popular speaker in brazil because when he was president, there was real change in e lives of people. i think for the first time in

brazilian history, there was a great deal of investment education, in health care, in job creation. so there was also a lot of support for culture, for the arts. i think people saw in very concrete terms what the results of his government, also one of the main programs in his administration was zero hunger program. now in a few years of bolsonaro, brazil is in a so-called hunter map. there was a huge increase in hunger, in poverty in the country. also president dilma, also for the workers party after lula, was very popular president in her first term before the orchestration of a parliamentary

coup. so the only way the right wing parties can take power is by orchestrating those kinds of coups. that is why there is a real fear right now. but at the same time, the majority of brazilians understand their lives were much better before and they want those kinds of changes and investments in education, health care, culture, and the arts. amy: let's go to luiz inacio lula da silva speaking monday to his supporters. >> never before in the history of this untry have so many parties, popular movements, unions, trade unions, associations of classes, workers, and entrepreneurs,

professionals, artists, people of different colors and religions, sexual orientations and political preferences come together in the first round of an election to say enough with so much hatred, so much destruction, so many lives suffering and 70 deaths. we are going right now the second of october to rebuild the country. amy: michael fox, if you can take off from what lula is saying and also talk about the resilient rain forest. talk about the amazon, the protection of the amazon what has happened to it under bolsonaro. >> the organizing and supportive lula has been extremely important and unprecedented. many different social movements even join forces to create what they're calling is popular committees, these grassroots committees and neighborhoods around the country. it kind of takes off the work that was happening under the pandemic responding to the hunger were people were working

in solidarity. they have now built grassroots committees between 5000 and 7000 around the country to organize for lula and continue organizing regardless of what happens. it is an extremely important election. i want to say for a second, it is not just on the presidential election but also on the very local level. you have different social movements, indigenous peoples, women, black women who have an unprecedented number of new candidates. that is important on the local legislative level. the amazon has been devastated under bolsonaro. one thing to point out, in 2019 we had the huge fires, people protesting around the world. the fires this last year were worse. they have been worse consecutively each year. deforestation in the amazon is worse than in a decade. bolsonaro came in with the promise to push development in the amazon. he gutted agencies that in

the past had defended indigenous territories, defended the environment. he gutted this in his own violent rhetoric of trying to open the amazon development let loose landowners and loggers and narco traffickers and said, you have carte blanche to do whatever you need to do in the amazon. that is what they have done. invasion of indigenous territory spiked in the first three months of bolsonaro's government. during covid, a backed up because every thing was isolating an illegal forces took advantage of that to move into territories, violet spikes, and this is the destruction happening in the amazon right now. it is important to understand if you look back 20 years ago when lula came into power, deforestation of the amazon was worse than today. within a couple of years, he went in and they were able to

enact a series of new measures, policies that cut amazon deforestation in half within two years. there is hope if lula is able to win, he by be able to re-implement some of these things to push back on the devastation that is happened in the amazon. amy: in august, bolsonaro relaunched his campaign with an attack on lula. this is what he said. >> our country does not want to take ste back. we don't want gender ideology is schools, legalize drugs. our country does not want to become an ally to communism and other countries. a country once a president tha if it's private property, a country that increasingl -- we are going to talk politics today so tomorrow one will prohibit us. amy: maria luísa mendonça, talk

about what he is getting at. >> bolsonaro this part of this global far right movement and also he has a lot of support from the evangelical church in brazil. he dismantled several policies and institutions that protected women's rights, that fight against racism in brazil, the arts, the culture -- he dismantled the human rights institutions in brazil. he promotes this violent rhetoric. i think this is another reason why in brazil, what we see, for example, he tried to spread fear, fake news, and hate. what we see is also a broad coalition in addition to the grassroots movements, the social movement that michael was

talking about that is also broad coalition of artists, musicians, very well known artists in brazil are speaking out and are campaigning for lula. so there is a broad coalition and so this is a key moment for brazil. we also need international solidarity. in relation to the destruction of the amazon, we need to look at the foreign corporations that benefit from that. we are not talking about development. we are talking about the destruction of the land, destruction of brazil's natural resources. there are mining companies, financial corporations in the u.s. that benefit from that destruction. i think it is very important for us to have solidarity -- international solidarity. we will be that moving forward. amy: on wednesday, the u.s. senate passed to ensure the election is conducted in a

"free, fair, credible, peaceful manner." senator sanders sponsor the legislation. >> it is imperative the u.s. senate make it clear through this resolution that we support democracy in brazil. it would be unacceptable for the united states to recognize a government that came to power undemocratically and it was in a horrific message to the entire world if we did that. it is important for the people of brazil to know we are on their side, on the side of democracy step amy: michael fox, your final comments leading into sunday's election in brazil? >> i want to say that resolution from the senate was so important. if you look back and acted 64, the coup that happened, that was

greenlighted by the united states. to get a really strong profound statement from the u.s. senate, that means a lot stuff it means a lot to the military here come to the business sector and i say, look, the mood on the ground is one of a lot of excitement, tension. people are hopeful they will see change on sunday. amy: michael fox, journalist in são paulo, brazil, thank you for being with us. maria luísa mendonça, network for human rights and social justice in brazil. next, as a cinema dedicated to documentary film opens in new york city at the dctv firehouse, its lobby will be dedicated today to the documentary film maker brett renaud, killed covering the war in ukraine. we will speak to jon alpert and brent's brother craig, as well as reid davenport.

his new film is called "i did not see you there." ♪♪ [music break]

amy: performing in 2009 in democracy now!'s firehouse studio. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. tonight in new york city, the former home of democracy now!'s firehouse studio will open as firehouse: dctv's cinema for documentary film. it comes as dctv celebrates 50 years of media activism and training. the cinema's ribbon cutting last week featured christopher marte. as well as dctv co-founder and co-executive director keiko tsuno. >> we never dreamed this theater would become a reality.

at that time we started our theater from an old milk truck. this is something we never expected and never imagined. with this dude theater, we will be able to reach -- with this new theater, we will be able to reach even more people and transform more labs. >> many people here knowjon or keiko to the international work, being one of the first to interview for her or work in russia or in the amazon or in the middle east. but here in the community, we know him for what he asked died here for decades. whether it is interviewing garment t workers as they were taking on eir bosses for exploitive working condition,

working hours, or using his tv truck to teach people how to speak english, where he would go up and read -- help them read what is on the screen. or documenting what happened to our community post 9/11 or to the pandemic. and now with this fight, stopping shift from being constructed here in chinatown and lower manhattan. amy: for more on the opening of firehouse: dctv's cinema for documentary film, we are joined by its co-founder and co-executive director jon alpert and by filmmaker craig renaud, who we'll talk more with a minute. first, jon, congratulations both on the opening of the cinema and also just last night you won the emmy for outstanding crime and justice documentary for your hbo film "life of crime 1984-2020,"

about three friends from newark, new jersey, and their addictions whom you have followed for decades. welcomck to democracy now! congratulations. >> thanks, amy. i was hoping we could be in the studio. everyone at dctv says democracy now! t-shirts, please, please. amy: i wish we were there with you in the firehouse studios. but it is so beautiful to see what you have created at dctv right now. can you talk about -- well, take it where chris marte left off, place the cinema for us, where it is right there in chinatown, what is next-door and what you're hoping to college with it. >> it actually inhabits some of the former democracy now! studio. what emanates from your presence has really blessed us and

inspired us. we wanted to build something that really respected and paid tribute to documentaries. you have seen the theater. it is the most beautiful theater in the city. it is completely interactive. we can connect any two places so we can have discussions with you, kazakhstan. it is what we would have liked to have had as we went through our career, whatever was in the film world. we were documentary makers. we want everybody to come. you will see from the programming, the gentleman coming on next, this is going to be different theater that will serve the community. that is the good news. the bad news is it is 90 feet away from what is projected to be the first world jail, 40 story jail, $9.5 billion -- no

money for schools, no money for housing i'm in no money for health care but money for bars. it is almost a copper his civil somebody thinks this is a good plan. everybody in the community opposes it. it is probably -- if this gets constructed, it is over for us come over for the community, and we are working trying to get the city to come to his senses because we have two perfectly good jails recently that can just be re-adapted. if you readapt those jails and take the savings and spend it on the things that prevent people from going to jail, giving opportunities to people, it will be wonderful. we hope the city will come to its senses. amy: just quickly on that, i remember next door to us as we were there broadcasting for years was the detention complex right down the street from you. they had to take down that sign when bernie kerrick was

imprisoned there, the former police commissioner of new york. just for people to understand and then we want to move on, when you say a jail scraper, what are you talking about? >> we're talking about a building that is probably one third of the size of the empire state building that is a jail. new york city has a hell hole for a jail with rikers island. the plan is to build local jails in the community's. we support that but we don't support what is basically a gigantic pork barrel scheme to forget about every thing else and just build giant bars. amy: i want to move on to what is going to happen tonight, the dedication that is one to take place. at the firehouse, firehouse: dctv's cinema for documentary film opens.

the lobby will be dedicated to filmmaker brent renaud, who worked out of dctv for many years along his brother, craig renaud, spent two decades producing films and television programs with brent. before brent was killed earlier this year on march 13 as he was filming refugees near kyiv in ukraine for a documentary series called "tipping point." he was the first u.s. reporter killed in the ukraine war. craig, our deepest condolences to you and your family. on democracy now!, we remembered crack after he was killed. i cannot even believe we were talking about remembering craig, just having crack on about what he was filming. i look forward to seeing you there tonight come the full family as you dedicate the lobby of this documentary film, cinema. can you talk about brent after

these months of his death and what it means to you to have this cinema and at the place where we both worked so many years? >> yeah, i mean, it is a huge honor. we were at dctv yesterday getting a tour of the theater for the first time. seeing the paque to brent, it is still surreal. it is been six months and it is still hard to believe we are talking about brent in this way but this could not be a better way to honor him. considering many years and many films we did with dctv and jon to be coming back and honoring bread in this fight is great. amy: we are showing a photograph of jon and you and bright and sharif abdel kouddous. >> is that the one where we are

and my surfer shorts? amy: you are just standing. i want to go to a clip from "bridge to baghdad" which is directed by jon alpert, which craig and brent went together with our colleague sharif abdel kouddous in 2003 to iraq to make. >> going to visit my aunt.

>> there is no army here. [indiscernible] >> when they told me he died, the doctor told me, i think at least give me some of his hair. she gave it to me after he died.

i say, please, l him in peace. i kept this. this is one of his legs after he was shot. they cut it in the operation. full of holes. look. look. [crying]

they said, we don't have civilian people. amy: "bridge to baghdad," the film that was filmed by craig and brent renaud, directed by jon alpert. you both appeared on democracy now! several times, including "off to war" about the deployment to iraq of the national guard from your home state of arkansas. this is an excerpt.

>> nearly 3000 soldiers were called to active duty. >> yeah, they're going to target you because i think you're just a bunch of lazy fat national guardsmen who don't know how to do their jobs. closely soldiers are part of the largest diplomat of national guardsmen since the korean war. >> the military has confirmed four arkansas soldiers are killed in a rack this weekend. >> 57 come from the town of clarksville. this is their story. amy: excerpt from "off to war" from roving arkansas to erect directed by brent and craig renaud.

they appeared on democracy now to talk about their time embedded with the arkansas national guard. this is brent. close arred in baghdad with the national guard unit with , arkansas national guard in these same sort of unarmored vehicles. right away in april, which was one of the bloodiest months of the war, when we arrived, there were right off the bat, a lot of injuries and deaths, particularly with echo troop, who you just saw in the clip. within that group, there were a number of guys who refused to go out on missions almost immediately. after they had seen their friends and their fellow soldiers die right in front of them. fortunately for them, sergeant short, who you see in the clip, the one talking in the humvee, handled it internally, gave them time off, allowed them to get it together and get back on the job. but i would say right off the bat, i witnessed about three to four guys who were just saying, “it's too dangerous to go out there. we're dropping like flies,” as you also heard it in the clip,

and this is a prty widespread sentiment. amy: that is brent renaud in the firehouse studio we were broadcasting talking about that amazing series, crag. i know this is so hard. you have worked for so many years together. your final thoughts on how his legacy continues? >> it is always going to continue. i'm working on a film about brent right now. the nice thing is when i got to ukraine, i had two goals, which was to get brent home to our family and get them out of ukraine -- amy: the he was working with? >> we filmed my entire journey over there. so we're are putting together film right now about brent's assignment and the work he died trying to do it. amy: juawas his colleague in

ukraine who was also shot but not killed? >> that's correct. juan was at the theater dedication. amy: jon alpert, your final thoughts as we move into the film you'll be showing tonight at your new cinema? >> i think brent is a real hero. how many wars? i've lost count. you can't count. once you see were, it happens to you. you tell the world what war is really like. we have a lot of problems in america but we are fortunate that the words in general have been here but we have been inlved -- is impoant americs knowhat hapns when people gto war. entommittedis life teing thatarticurtory and gaveis le for th. he ia real ho. it is gog to be moment o

ide toee his picrep there, pined with dness beuse weave allost somebody whos fhting r us every sile day but very proud of what he has done. >> absolutely. amy: craig -- >> craig has done the same thing. you have done the same thing. it is what we do. amy: craig, thank you for speaking with us today. it is great have you back on democracy now! jon, the maker, cofounder of dctv who worked closely with brent. we thank you both for being with us. as we end today's show the documentary that is opening today at firehouse iits ne york city? debut when people walk to the lobby will see brent's face as that lobby is dedicated to him. the film is called "i did not see you there was quote from the directed by reid davenport who

has cerebral palsy and refles onhe partrail people wi a disability immediate and pular culture. this is excerpt >>very timi went o to film come ithe shop. amy: an excerpt from "i did not see you there" the directorial debut of reid davenport. one quote set of goat the film is first-person poetry -- one quote said "the film is first-person poetry." welcome to democracy now! congratulations on your film. you're not just the director,

are also director of photography stuff you filmed this entirely yourself. talkbout how and why you made this film. dumentary film has traditionally -

without showing my face. amy: it is amazing. it changed me because it is all from your perspective as if we are your eyes, we are you. talk about the title "i did not see you there." >> asking forgiveness during --

amy: talk about why he preferred to be called a person with a disability rather than a disabled person? >>

i don't really identify as a person with cerebral palsy. medical diagnosis. but in reality -- joint amy: we played a clip from "i did not see you there and he referred to the circus tent. can you talk about the fak show and the circus tent in your film? >> i think aft making a few personal choices, questioning whether orhy people watch my

film. was it because to be more accepted or -- amy: reid davenport,on the directing award at the sundance

film festival where "i did not see you there" premiered. it went on to win the grand award in durham, north carolina, and the golden gate award at the san francisco international film festival jon alpert, i'm glad you're still with us. i wanted to ask about the significance of first it was abby disease from that premiered last friday night and then having reid's film there as you dedicate the lobby to brent? >> we hope this is the cinema that gives the information, gives voice, gives power that we all need to have in our society. reid, my hats off to you, quite an inspirational film. abby disney's film talks about important information. you will see that at our cinema. hope y'all come. we have worked hard to make it.

amy, i wish you were there to share this with us. you will be there tonight and hope everybody else will come down to our cinema. amy: it is a fantastic cinema. jon alpert, cofounder of dctv firehouse cinema. reid davenport, filmmaker whose award-winning directory -- directorial debut "i did not see you there" is planned tonight and all next week at dctv firehouse. that film is also going to be on pbs, pov in 2023. januarythat does it for our show. happy belated birthday to our engineer paul powell. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

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