it's nearly six months since i met amir and dimmer. despite president trump's reluctance the u.s. refugee deal is still under way but the details are oh pike. small groups of men are being flown from mannus to p. and g.'s capital port moresby. some nationalities iranians and somalis are rejected but for the lucky ones there is a new life in america and we get a tip off that imran may be among them. the men are taken to a motel under heavy guard. and border force offices have told p. and g. security not to let us film that is why. we're not allowed to take pictures here one of. its actions well maybe a bit it is doesn't excuse me but sometimes what i would also told i was anyway double decker on my face so that. we eventually confirmed that imran is here. and finally after six long months waiting in port most be a decision. this time there are no gods or handcuffs this time iran won't be flying as a prisoner i'm going to our. interview. i am. very sorry. for you you know. he doesn't quite believe it until the boarding pass is in his hands destination america. it's autumn in canada

amir we're happy to have because it's convey that into. believe it. fearing he'd be imprisoned after his malaysian student fazer expired amir also boarded a people smuggler boat headed for christmas island i had seen people getting on these boats i had seen these boats that they were leaky boats i had seen them looking. and terrifying and i had no options i had to take. to buy a twenty thirty mm more than the thousand asylum seekers had perished at sea including many aboard despite smashed upon the rocks of christmas island. amelia and jim rohn arrived safely here after this tragedy but in one sense their timing couldn't have been worse for. landing just after the labor government declared that all future boat arrivals would never be settled in a strong. joint thirteen hundred other single men on mannus crammed into a center that previously housed three hundred fifty it compounds just like a chicken house and they would throw people in there and they would lock these doors chains locks fences everywhere and all of them are guarded you can't leave you

dollars if i call it al house on menace through force of personality and a good command of english amir became a de facto leader. canada is anonymity and the job at a local tourist attraction and i was a man assigned and i had like one thousand five hundred people just running after me going up they sweating to know what's the news wanting to know when they get out of there wanted me to do stuff with it. being here all of a sudden he's just like there's nobody around there nobody asking me anything. nobody will like these from and i just want to civility. life is different now. compared to a place that you basically couldn't call it life. basically nothing but now it's a no so called. you know my life here. you know i i just want to say when i came here i just felt numb. like. oh it's so good to see you and you know the girlies for him but. it's the first anniversary of the misa arrival in vancouver his remarkable luck in getting to canada is due to this unlikely group of people. and they're all members of a private sponsorship group an initiative where citizens provide money and suppor

happy to see we can get some expert analysis on this now bring in our guest political commentator amir or an dyker project director at the jerusalem center for public affairs good to have you both on the program gentlemen i mean we start with you something that donald trump said recently essentially about the democrats and he wasn't holding back he said the democrats have become an up to use real and also jewish party are right is he. well he's not. only a few hours ago in fact he boasts the heavy iranian newsreel ninety eight percent of these rallies would have voted for him this is of course absolutely wrong many israelis perhaps not most but many israelis be test donald trump policies that may. dairies know all of that between being anti-semitic and israel and one can be. henri's really government this is certain policies without being anti-semitic in fact many jews both in israel and abroad are against the policies of the current israeli government even though they consider themselves proud jews they are proud of their jewish character ok and they resent any such comment well that'

amir we're happy to have because it's converted into. a believe is.fearing he'd be imprisoned after his malaysian student fazer expired amir also boarded a people smuggler boat headed for christmas island i had seen people getting on these boats i had seen these boats that they were leaky boats i had seen them looking. and terrifying and i had no option so i had to take. to buy a twenty thirty mm more than the thousand asylum seekers had perished at sea including many aboard despite smashed upon the rocks of christmas island. amelia and jim rohn arrived safely here after this tragedy but in one sense their timing couldn't have been worse for. landing just after the labor government declared that all future boat arrivals would never be settled in a strike. by joint thirteen hundred other single men on mannus crammed into a center that previously housed three hundred fifty it compounds just like a chicken house and they would throw people in there and they would lock these doors chains locks fences everywhere and all of them are guarded you can't leave

it all started when amir met wang tireless daughter chelsea a melbourne based nurse who worked on mannus vaccinating asylum seekers. i tales. hi amy or how are you she was adamant quite honestly that we do something and yet we were we was somewhat. concerned that we could really achieve anything having not been through it before but we just said well we'll give it a go i think they're like ok a semi retired political consultant when tyler was undaunted by the complexities of refugee sponsorship and so this well connected group hit the phones lobbying politicians and officials to bring amir to canada oh well at her party right now it's almost inconceivable what these people could be treated the why that they have been treated certainly from the people who were part of al group when i heard that story felt that it was. i'm further noble that people could be kept by sickly as prisoners. yeah. and another one and we say every year there's. a muse getting on with the life that detention on menace interrupted. his vancouver community college or b.c.c. the first place that i started containing

ducks a former commissioner for agriculture agrees with drug amir's criticism to put it out the way romania has handled the swine fever outbreak and everything to do with it has led to a catastrophe. if you. take for example disinfection measures risen ash the locals say the authorities placed to special mats at the village entrance though without applying any disinfectant because they had planned to carry out this infected measures here local authorities were happy to collect the funds for this. but then they used water instead of real disinfectant. but they kill healthy pigs this is how things are in romania this is how they govern and this is why we keep getting poorer. i don't want that e.u. rules are being ignored and we are desperate there are no rules only sheer and utter stupidity. the farmer has only a few water buffalo left. we live stock farmers if they also if they are buffalo are infected will have to emigrate. romania's swine fever outbreak has hit livestock farmers very hard and many fear they could lose their livelihoods completely. now being a teacher can be a great job hav

it in to a to a camouflaged issue of criticism of israel this is not about ok criticism of israel amir on the resolution why do you think it went beyond semitism to all forms of bigotry does not not just water don on effectively leave it as a nothing document the power for israel's friends be the jews or. other denominations on capitol hill and in american politics is not only undeniable israel has in fact used the perception that it can move and shake on the hill to reach advantage so when it fits. the purpose it indicates to people in washington on that it behooves them not to do israel's bidding and when he does not. all of a sudden fears such perceptions but this is of course powerful to course if you'd like to sum up your argument a mere twenty seconds you know israel used to enjoy bipartisan support on capitol hill and in washington in being the country in general under benjamin netanyahu he has publicly supported the republicans over the democrats and by a contributor to the democrats now coming out in force against israel this is a very critical time for the democratic party mr

amir we're happy to have because it's converted into. a believe it's. fearing he'd be imprisoned after his malaysian student fazer expired amir also boarded a people smuggler boat headed for christmas island i had seen people getting on these boats i had seen these boats that they were leaky boats i had seen them looking. and terrifying and i had no options i had to take. to twenty thirteen more than the thousand asylum seekers who had perished at sea including many aboard despite smashed upon the rocks of christmas island. amelia and jim rohn arrived safely here after this tragedy but in one sense their timing couldn't have been worse for. landing just after the labor government declared that all future boat arrivals would never be settled in a strike. by joint thirteen hundred other single men on mannus crammed into a center that previously housed three hundred fifty it compounds just like a chicken house and they would throw people in there and they would lock these doors chains locks fences everywhere and all of them are guarded you can't leave you

to amir manalo where. battling a deepening drugs crisis of this week police seized more than ten million meth barrels with a street value of almost five million euros yet another massive haul in a country thought to be the world's largest producer of methamphetamine northeastern shan state is the epicenter of meth production with a network of local groups linking up with transnational traffic and gangs but it's a rampant drug use a mere might solve the just causing major concern as drug gangs push cheap pills to a growing number of addicts. is a shame to go home. the twenty seven year old has been a drug addict for almost a decade he left his village for fear of gang violence but he's real escape as being crystal meth. i use drugs because i get depressed. and they help keep me calm. and. this is the drug of choice for many in me is called yabba locally meth pumped out at rock bottom prices the u.n. calls it a ruthless strategy to feed local demand. so we're looking at increasing use across the country dema

let's bring in vladimir fun villian borg our correspondent in syria he's currently a maraca blood amir what can you tell us about the situation on the ground right now. well this is today they finally announced her liberation not her over gosh and as you have readers even before the liberation. of the spite of this they want to continue with support from the u.s. not correlation because they're afraid they're still proud of isis the purcell's but until now like now. they're seated on the ground but there's still a risk of so i see superstock tax the battle for the goes has been going on for weeks why did it take the syrian defense forces so long to drive out i guess while there was some expected the large presence of course of billions of women and children most of them who are most likely i was to supporters but they didn't expect to be that many people learned to bring to us the minister more like sixty thousand people now in all guns and most of those people they have come from because recently. earlier we're talking about sleeper cells the caliph and is eliminated and but what does

spring and flooding your friend doesn't work our correspondent in syria is currently and roc-a lead amir what are you hearing about the situation in baghdad. well today as you have a final liberation i should stir dorrian more of the sort of syria. now there's a ceremony and buckles which were liberated from isis and. finally at the balance of a go it has been going on for weeks why hasn't taken the syrian defense force says so long to drive out. well the problem was there were thousands of civilians in book you sent it was not expected there was a spec to be only a small amount of personal use and that's why it took months before it was finished what happened to all the civilians are they now in refugee camps. while the men that were most of them i says biters they were brought to prisons and the woman and children that were most of them women and children from isis fighters who were brought to i did the gump in all your anorak the former capital of the caliphate how did people there respond to the news. well the people in the northeast of syria are happy to see that isis but they're al

on the kuwaitis if there was any hope to find a resolution to this crisis because it is the kuwaiti amir who will be at unsuccessfully however has unwaveringly tried to find a resolution to this crisis he's been leading mediation mediating efforts here there moralities in the saudis have refused some of his suggestions in the past even just to meet to discuss some sort of resolution to this but possibly through the latest calls by structure of state might compel some sort of breakthrough may be found. still ahead on the bulletin valley's dot the want to live protests face a crackdown but if it has trying to stop them. and the president of brazil and the u.s. meet at the white house among the top of the scots the political unrest in venezuela . hello again we're here across north asia we are watching one particular storm system right now making its way across the korean peninsula brings a very heavy rain not only for seoul but also for pyongyang now that storm system is what we're going to be watching as we go towards thursday because here on thursday that storm system makes its way towar

we're going to have to take a short break right now where we're back we'll continue talking with dr amir our modern president of the american iranian council talking about the tensions between tehran and washington stay with us. breaks it. you know world of big partisan new laws and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. through all the body go whoa oh it gets crazy oh. we've been a real good shot to begin murders controls all life. but sometimes on the last community young people are deciding if they want to not like their parents not like them liberals. are always struggling schools again you always have problems but you're not going to focus on the walk it's. the most ubiquitous going out there most police departments use it almost over stores in the school could get their ha

lawmakers are adopting a tougher stance on russia passing four new bills condemning what amir putin's leadership martin brakes on the story. according to some members of the u.s. congress trump is just not hard enough on russia new legislation is required the u.s. house of representatives just passed for bill specifically targeting russia they are mandating that no federal agency actually recognize crimea as being part of russia furthermore they are demanding that the intelligence agency dig into vladimir putin and his family's assets but that is just the tip of the iceberg resolution condemns the putin regime we speak out against strongman and dictator we will sanction them oppose strict sanctions imposed sanctions expose condemned reveal and they must be brought to account for their actions anyone who has ever watched mainstream media has heard that whole trouble putin montra but just in case you missed it why is he on russian president trump i said nothing but kind words to say for vladimir putin peace surrendering to putin's world view russia's handling of the loss was an asset th

democrats are demanding access to all communications between donald trump amir peretz in the us and made claims the us president concealed details of what he spoke about with his russian counterpart the following request has been sent to the white house. the committee's request the by march fifteenth twenty nineteen the department produced all documents communications regardless of form and classification the referral relate to any communications between president trump and president putin us emma kratz on doubling down on efforts to catch trump on alleged collusion with russia that could be because there's talk the current miller probe into the issue will prove to be a disappointment in that respect as caleb morton explains. there's an old saying among cops and prosecutors if you throw enough at a wall eventually something will stick and this old saying usually expressed with less polite terminology seems to now be the montra of the democrats in congress gerry navl or has been selected to lead the charge impeachment is a long way down the road we don't we don't have the facts yet but we

response coming from palestinians no you're invading my question what would let amir put in do if islamic rockets were shot of moscow you would. totally obliterate those enemies and that's what israel needs to do we have the right of self-defense and they do not accept any sort of preach from folks on the other side of the world when we're being shot rockets from a piece of territory that we handed over to the arabs what i can say is that we won't do that again at least no one's trying to preach i mean i think everybody understands no matter what the grasp of the situation in the middle east is that the violence the cycle of violence continues and that begets more aggression. how he's you know the what you're suggesting going to improve the situation. well what you're sort of describing is a two sided. situation where they're aggressive and we're aggressive but that's not the case we left gaza we want peace the moment they stop shooting missiles and my children's. home and kindergarten is the moment there will be peace we have no territorial demand over gaza and they just need to stop it

i quote him amir motion not legally binding. and it takes thank you very much and dates benedict have yet outside westminster where it is all happening. as soft furious it tonight three votes in parliament and mps invited against a leaving the e. without to deal in sixteen days time. add thehe prime minister sasays- that is pointing towards a delay of brexit -- i've joined on the line now by quentinn peel. at chatham house thanks for being with us the first twenty four tonight now i'm. hello this happened in the last. hour and would you agree that the prime minister's strategy seems to be now. threatening. i never the european union if you dive back my deal and she might even bring that deal back to the floor for a third time. yes i think she's going to try anan doo that but i think well today was really shown as she is rapidly losingg control. of the wholele process i t tnk o nights roads actually showed that the parliament is taking over. because motion was radically amended and then passed by a very clear majority so she did

but amir putin has officially suspended russia's participation in the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty which was a key cold war era nuclear agreement for more on this we're now joined live in the studio by in their patrol thanks for joining us what does this move by putin mean well the i.n.f. treaty which has been banning land based missiles with ranges up to five thousand five hundred kilometers since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight is falling apart completely the u.s. and russia have been doing it step by step and president putin has just made another formal one he actually signed a document which spends it on the russian side but everyone realized it was the beginning of the end of this agreement back in october last year when donald trump started bashing that treaty the u.s. government came up with an ultimatum demanding that russia stop violating the rules and russia said it wasn't violating anything the tit for tat began and it was due. and it is the only problem for the treaty russia has a legit violations then the u.s. government donald trump administration has be

dr amir khan, a gp, is worried about the impact no deal could have on the nhs.e eu is the best thing, both for research into medicines and into clinical trials, access to medication for patients, cancer treatments and recruitment. there is a recruitment crisis already in the nhs. but despite the sense of pantomime, businesswoman teri king argues no deal won't mean no more trade with the eu. i would really prefer something along the lines of how it was when we first entered, you know, more around an economic trading community without any of the politics around there, about none of the integration, that's what i would prefer. but as the absolute bottom line, iwould prefer to leave on wto rules. so the uncertainty and unpredictability essential ingredients for any drama remain, despite calls from all quarters for some sense of certainty, some idea of what happens next. as for a happy ending, again no one really knows whether that is achievable and when or if it will come along. john maguire reporting there from bradford. mps are already debating the government moti

czarist military company of a large number of intellectuals fled to istanbul and western europe fiacre amir and all based on all the high school. or. for long time this modest looking wooden lodge in the middle of a forest near my son drought was shrouded in mystery. it was rumored that every now and then black limousines would pull up to the property which remained closely guarded even though it stood empty for decades. it has since been established that stalin had the house built for himself and a small circle of aides the rooms it said were furnished in line with his wishes so that he could conduct business as usual if need be. but was he actually ever here. possibly but no one knows for sure. so the school solution. globally in the soviet era society was dedicated to implementing the idea of communism which we all believe that if we worked hard and implemented the idea the bright future of communism awaited us which. was to kill but gradually the idea assumed the form of a state religion. and eventually it became clear that the idea of communism was a big illusion because the course rea

on the kuwaitis if there was any hope to find a resolution to this crisis because it is the kuwaiti amir who albeit unsuccessfully however has unwaveringly tried to find a resolution to this crisis he's been leading mediation mediating efforts here there moralities in the saudis have refused some of his suggestions in the past even just to meet to discuss some sort of resolution through this but possibly through the latest calls by such a state might compel some sort of breakthrough may be found. israeli forces have killed three palestinians in the occupied west bank crowds gathered for funerals being held in the light and still mourning the palestinian red crescent society said the israeli army fired at its ambulance as it tried to get to the wounded. earlier israeli forces shot dead a palestinian man thought to be behind an attack in the occupied west bank on sunday that suspects nineteen year old i mean was found in the village of a boy in north of ramallah when troops raided the building where he was hiding israel says he was killed after he allegedly opened fire at the security forc

having i'm so sorry we're having trouble hearing us there so we'll have to leave it there bloody mérat amirf it thank you for your time sorry about that algeria is newly appointed prime minister nuri badly has started talks to form a new government a new cabinet will include experts without political affiliation in response to the ongoing nationwide demonstrations but it's still unclear whether this will be enough to stop the protests which forced algeria's ailing president to abandon his fifth term bet the philippines has officially withdrawn from the international criminal court it began the process to leave last year after the hague based court launched an initial examination into president rodrigo to tatters war on drugs thousands of suspected drug users and dealers have been killed since a crackdown started in twenty sixteen. one of the points of being a member of the international criminal court when when you agree to sign up. to its jurisdiction if you withdraw that that with a girl is suspended for a period of twelve months afterwards that is in effect to prevent situations just lik

lou: and the truth of the matter is, when this president -- when president trump talks about amir tookcyng our current immigration system, your reaction to it. because to me it makes all of the sense in the world that it should be mere tishes. >> yes, because that's how the whole standard of living is produced. it's not produced by imagining -- you know, there are groups who have specific skills who are just tremendous in some particular things. and almost any group there's some activity in which they not only hold their own but excel. so this theory that they should all be -- take the demographics alone. why should we expect the jewish, japanese americans, mormons all of whom who have median ages around 50 that they should be proportionately represented in baseball with hispanics with the average age in the 20s. 50-year-old men don't play baseball as well as men in their 20s. lou: and none of us seem to get better at it as we age. >> absolutely. lou: i want to turn to alexandria ocasio-cortez. she has thunder struck the national media. she's become something of a darling advocate for so

again on behalf of the amorality as was top russian oligarch cheryl dimitri of a close ally of blood amir putin's the emirates he saw that meeting as a as a way of creating a back channel between putin this guy dimitry of and trumps you didn't they i don't think so i was there to talk to the iraqis about somalia and some of the other problem areas that we did help with before it was also about iraq you know and it was so how did you end up with a with a russian oligarch who runs the russian direct investment fund and is seen by the iraqis as the messenger to putin they call him well as i recall the immoralities were investors in that fund and any fund manager fun any fund manager tends to travel to where their lp their investors need to be but what we chatting about with the russian dude. i've talked about in testimony and that's all i mean to say. but it was just a kind of accidental meeting yes even though georgia nader your fund raising like i said before it lasted one beer which doesn't take me very long. so you flew halfway around the world to a secret meeting in the seychelles to ha

my name is amir questlove thompson. and i'd love to be your next president.for you day and night, no matter what. vote for quest, he's the best. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's great, guys. but once again, i don't think that's how -- [ cheers and applause ] that's not how this thing works. it just -- >> hey, uh -- hey, jimmy, sorry to interrupt. i just wanted to say, i'm really enjoying the show. keep up the good work. >> jimmy: thank you very much. i'm sorry, who are you? ♪er i'm a random audience member of "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon," and i want to be your next president. so next november, vote for audience member. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: no, no. stop, no! stop -- hey, no, stop! that's enough. no more running for president, okay? you're not guaranteed $6 million just because you announce you're running. someone needs to put their foot down and get things back on track. i know just the guy. ♪ hi, there. i'm jimmy fallon and as president i promise to put my foot down and get things back on track. it's a gimme, vote for jimmy. [

whether it is specific posters of amir baraka or the chicago wall of respect and the murals of respect that are not just in chicago but all around the country. black art, i think larry neill said it best when he said the black art was the cultural expression of black power. , who is they neill co-editor of black fire, the major anthology and classic anthology of leroy jones in 1968 which has just been reissued, black power and black art went hand-in-hand. in waiting until the midnight hour i tried to show the way in which culture and politics fed off of each other and they were not mutually exclusive. >> as someone that studies the civil rights so in-depth, i was wondering what you thought about 6 issue. headed by al sharpton and jesse jackson. jenna six is very important. i can't get these pronunciations right. jena six is incredibly important and reminiscent of the 60's and 1970's. one of the things we forget very 1969, thehat after 60's are not over. they should be rumored as a metaphor. they don't necessarily start on january 1, 1960 and they do not end in 1969. through the 1970's,

on the kuwaitis if there was any hope to find a resolution to this crisis because it is the kuwaiti amir who albeit unsuccessfully however has unwaveringly tried to find a resolution to this crisis he's been leading mediation mediating efforts here there moralities in the saudis have refused some of his suggestions in the past even just to meet to discuss some sort of resolution to this but possibly through the latest calls by such a state might compel some sort of breakthrough may be found. u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say they have taken control of an area surrounding backhoes the remaining part of territory controlled by ice so in syria force is made up of mostly kurdish troops called a significant progress but fell short of declaring victory over isis fighters the operation to seize control about close down to the beginning of this month. now an al jazeera investigation has revealed new satellite images showing a secret prison built by the united arab emirates on the eritrean cursed they have been reports of prisoners from the war in yemen being held there amid allegations of

some of them meeting with the amir, for example. alan dershowitz and martin kline, the head of the zionist organization of america. qatar gave donations of hundreds of thousands of dollars to zionist organizations, including the zionist organization of america. it's incredible. no one is talking about that. nobody can deny it, because it's all in the official disclosure documents that the lobbies firm had to do of how -- whether money came from and who it went to. it came from qatar and went the zionist organization of america. those have to be investigated. the only thing i will say is, we -- the electronic intifada, a little publication. we have a staff of eight. we were able do this because we're independent. because we're funded by our readers. that's not a pitch, but feel free to donate. electronicintifada.ny electronicintifada.net. that's critical. the fact we're independent, we do not fear the pressure of the lobby. no one is going to fire us for doing this job, because this is our job. it's what people support us to do. [ ap

dr amir khan, a gp, is worried about the impact no deal could have on the nhs.e trade with the eu. i would really prefer something along the lines of how it was when we first entered, you know, more around an economic trading community without any of the politics around there, about none of the integration, that's what i would prefer. but as the absolute bottom line, iwould prefer to leave on wto rules. so the uncertainty and unpredictability essential ingredients for any drama remain, despite calls from all quarters for some sense of certainty, some idea of what happens next. as for a happy ending, again no one really knows whether that is achievable and when or if it will come along. john maguire reporting there. susannah streeter is here now with the latest business news. here's your business headlines on afternoon live the us plane maker boeing has now grounded its entire global fleet of 737 max 8 aircraft. investigators have uncovered new evidence at the scene of the fatal ethiopian airlines crash which killed all 157 people on board. facebook is yet to exp