i'm amy goodman. president donald trump called openlyly thursday for the leleas of ukraiaine and chihina to investigate trump's campaign rival joe biden and his son hunter for corruption. trump's explicit remarks came as leaders of the democratic-led house pushed ahead rapidly with their impeachment inquiry, which is centered around trump's july 25 phone call with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. shouting to reporters over the roar of the presidential helicopter from the white house lawn, trump responded to a question about what he hoped to gain when he asked zelensky to investigate the bidens during that call. pres. trump: well i would think that if they're honest about it, they would start a major investigation into the bidens. it is a very simple answer. they should investigate the bidens because how does the company that is newly formed -- if you -- by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens because what happened in china is just about as bad as what happened

i'm amy goodman. shelling is continuing in northern syria one day after turkey agreed to a u.s. plan to halt its assault on kurdish-controlled areas for five days. turkey invaded the region after president trump withdrew u.s. support for the kurds. vice president mike pence announced the deal after meeting with turkish president recep tayyip erdogan in ankara. pause turkish side will operation p spring in order to allow for the withdrawal of ypg forces from the safe zone for 120 hours. all military operations under e spring will be paused and it will be halted entirely on completion of the withdrawal. amamy: turkey has s refused to l the deal a ceasefifire. on thursday, a kurdish commander sasaid they would accept the del but only along part of the border. "the new york times" reports the deal "amounts to a near-total victory for r turkey's presiden" it would allow turkey to keep occupypying parts of northern syria. in addition, the u.s. would lift its sanctions on turkey. it remains unclear what will

i'm amy goodman. in northern syria, dozens have been killed and tens of thousands have fled their homes amid the turkish military offensive against kurdish-controlled areas. the kurdish red crescent said at least 11 civilians have been killed, including one baby. aid groups say a half a million people are at risk of being forced from their homes. turkey's ground invasion began just days after president trump ordered u.s. troops to fall back from their positions on the turkish-syrian border. to see our full coverage of the turkish military invasion of northern syria, go to democracynow.org. two associates a president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani have been arrested and charged with campaigign finance violationsns. the men, lev parnas and igor fruman, were arrested at dulles international airport wednesday night trying to board a one-way flight to vienna. where they were to o be meeting with giuliani. according to the indictment, the two florida businessmen pressured former texas republican cong

amy: well, i'd like to turn to h.u.d.ecretary, housing and urban development secretary ben carson discussing california's housing crisis on fox news last month. >> a lot of these people have mental health issues. a lot of them have drug addiction. some of them have simply fallen on hard times and don't know how to deal with it. as a compassionate society, it is something that we have to do something about. we can't just talk about it. should it be the responsibility of the federal government? no. these are local problems and the things that work best are when the local authorities take appropriate attention to these problems and then the federal government can helpp them. ththe state government can help them. amy: so that's h.u.d. secretary dr. ben carson. paul boden, if you could respond. paul: it's so profoundly ridiculous that this is the person that's running h.u.d., when you look at the 1937 housing act that created h.u.d., it said very clearly in that legislation that it was the federal government's responsibility t

amy: ssi?yes, but when they raise the car ratenly get $850 is now $900, where is the room , water?eries, pg&e it leaves no room. when that happened, you have two choices. either you can go commit crimes and try to stay up in there or you're coming out here. amy: how has been being without a house changed you? >> it has humbled me. it h has made me very grateful r when i did have a home and for all of those that you have a home, you really have something special because at nighttime when it gets cold, you adequate shelter. you don't feel the wind. i feel t the wind. i feel all of the elements. i have next toto no shelter. i really feel humbled. it is a humbling experience. amy: where do you live here? back trucknd the right behind these trucks. it used to be a u-haul truck. i made it into a little foam and shelter r to keep me from the elements and to try to keep warm and dry at times. amy: can you show it to us? close sure. dream ofe you living? >> anywhere that is a house that has running wate

i'm amy goodman. syrian troops are massing near the turkish border one day after bashar al-assad's government reached a deal to help protect the kurds from turkey's deadly aiair and ground assault. the kurds had been allied with the united states up until last week when president trump abruptly pulled u.s. troops from northern syria, paving the way for turkey's assault. more than 130,000 people have already been displaced over the past five days since turkey invaded northern syria. the death toll is unknown. turkey says over 500 "terrorist" have been neneutralized. turkey frequently refersrs to kukurdh groups ass terrorist. the third obseservatory for humn rirights is reporting tuturkish-backeded proxieses hat dead nine kurdish civilians including a prominent political leader, hevrin khalaf, who was killed along with her driver on saturday. she was the secretary general of the future syria party. kurdish authorities are reporting 785 people affiliated with the islamic state, including women and childr

i'm amy goodman.s show in haiti where massive anti-government protests calling for the resignation of the u.s. backed president jovenel moise continue to escalate. a worsening economic crisis, a shortage of fuel and food and corruption allegations against moise have sent protesters to the streets on and o off for ov a year. hundreds demonstrated in the capital port-au-prince monday and anotheher protest is scheduled today, much of port-au-prince has been on lockdown the past few weeks. at least four people have been killed in recent days after haitian police opened fire on protesters using live ammunition and tear gas. this is haitian protester charles fanfan. charles: we demand a clean slate to change the system, the potential departure of haitian president jovenel doesn't mean things will just change. we'll continue fighting change in this diabolical system,ant won't kill us all and certain we'll have victory. amy: protesters are demanding a deeper investigation into accusations that president moice

amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >>>> the resignation is the rest that should happen, facing the people's demands. this does not mean he is a hero. it means we are heroes. we achieved a victory and we are continuing. amy: lebanese prime minister saad al-hariri has resigned after two weeks of massive anti-government protests calling for him to step down brought more than a million people into the street. demonstrators promise to stay in the streets until all of their demands are met. we'll go to beirut for an -- for the l latest. meet chesa boudin. >> since i mother was sentenced to prison, my father mamay ner geget t. my eliest memories are walking through steel gates. when served as public dedefend, i i brght thos exexnses with me every day as i woworkedn bebeha of thth poorest and stst oveookeked sidentntf r city tensure tt people who could noafafford lawye stilhadccess t equal justice. amy: trimary re for district aorney in san ananciscis n nexweek.. then a new documentary looks back to the 1970's when constant fi

i'm amy goodman. house democrats have subpoenaed president donald trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani seeking documents related to his work in the ukraine. last week, giuliani admitted on television that he had urged the ukrainian government to investigate trump's political rival joe biden. this comes as house democrats continue to build their case for impeaching the president following a whistleblower complaint filed by an intelligence officer working in -- who was detailed to work in the white house at one point. the whistleblower complaint focused on a july 25 phone call during which trump asked the ukrainian president to do him a "favor" by investigating the actions of democrats including joe biden and his son hunter. on monday, "the wall street journal" revealed secretary of state mike pompeo was among the administration officials who were on the call. meanwhile, evidence is growing that the trump administration pressured other nations -- including auaustralia, britain, and italy -- to take ste

i'm amy goodman. in california, extreme winds of up to 60 miles per hour caused new fires to erupt across the southern part of the state wednesday. in ventura county north of los angeles, the so-called easy fire came nearly to the doorstep of the ronald reagan presidential library as hundreds of firefighters worked to control the blazes. this is simi valley resident david pollack, one of 30,000 residents of the region forced to evacuate the climate change-fueled fires. >> as we get up, get out of here, get the car moving, everything else can be replaced. breathing at the end of the day is better than not breathing at the end of the day. amy: chile's president sebastian pinera announced wednesday his nation will not be hosting the u.n. climate summit in santiago in december as planned. he also canceled the scheduled asia-pacific economic cooperation conference, as mass protests against inequality in chile entered their third week. his announcement came as a shocking new report warned 300 million people

amy: and we are showing the images. let's hear chase on the red carpet with laverne cox. >> october 8, everyone should be aware the administration is asking the supreme court to make it legal to fire workers just because they are lgbtq. this is going to transform the lives of lgbtq people and people who are not lgbtq. anyone who departs from the sex stereotypes, like the fabulous people here. we need to pay attention b becae our lives are on the line. amy: that is chase strangio of the aclu, the plus one with laverne cox at the emmy awards. laverne is the first openly trans actress to be nominated for primetime, and any acting category. use that moment where the world was watching that was an interview on e! describe further the significance of this case and the trump administration's stance, how has it changed? >> as laverne said, tomorrow the supreme court is going to be hearing arguments on these three cases that will transform the peopleandscape are lgbtq -- all women, in particular, but anyone who departs from sex

, i'm amy goodman.en catholic peace activists are going on trial today for brbreaking into the kings bay naval base, one of the largest nuclear submarine base in the world. the activists, who are known as the kings bay plowshares 7, face up to 25 years in prison if convicted. on april 4, 2018 -- on the 50th anniversary of martin luther 's assassination -- the activists entered the based armed with just hammers, crime scene tape, baby bottles containing their own blood, and an indictment charging the u.s. government with crimes against peace. their goal, to symbolically disarm the nuclear weapons at the base, which is home to at least six nuclear ballistic missile submarines. each submarine carries 20 trident thermonuclear weapons. the activists that they were following the prophet isaiah's command to "beat swords into plowshares." over the past four decades, activists in the plowshares movement have taken part in about 100 similar actions at nuclear arms facilities beginning in 1980 at the general elect

i'm amy goodman. president trump said wednesday sanctions will be lifted on turkey as a ceasefire remains in place in northern syria. turkey invaded the region earlier this month after trump withdrew u.s. support for syrian kurds who had helped the u.s. fight ththe islamic ststate. more than 11,000 kurds died in that campaign. while president trump had vowe toto remove u.s. troops from syria, he acknowledged on wednesday that some u.s. troops will s stay to guard the oil fields. >> a small number of u.s. troops will remain in the area where they have the oil. we're going to be protecting it and d we will be deciding what we're going to do with it in the future. let someone else fightht over ts .ong bloloodstained sand amy: russian and turkish forces have agreed to join patrols along the syrian-turkish border after president e erdogan presidident putin n met in soch, russia, and agree to a plan that would force syrian kurdish forces to return from a wide swath of the region. the united nations reports

>> thank you, amy.pletely agree with mehdi and kay who earlier mentioned we are talking about and planning issues of our time, immigration, climate change, so many others that were not raised. the new york times and cnn missed an important opportunity on the very day of the debate come october 15, one of the trump administration's signature policy changes were scheduled to go into effect yesterday affecting 26 million people in the nation. this is a radical reform to our legal immigration system. we have been successful in blocking it in the courts. last friday we had about four different courts, federal courts, that blocked temporarily the administration from implementing this. in awas a major gap three-hour debate. we expect much more, not just from the media, but also from the candidates. amy: and on the issue of the latest news, the border wars book coming out from the two new york times reporters that raised president trump in the white house, pushing for migrants to be shot when his staff told him

i'm amy goodman. in northern syria, u.s. troops continued their withdrawal sunday, as residents threw potatoes and rotten fruit at the convoys as they departed. the pentagon says they will be re-stationed in iraq despite president trump's claims that he was bringing the troops home. this is pentagon chief mark esper. >> i had a discussion last week with my french counterpart and i had a conversatation with the no secretary general. we both agreed on the importance isisontinuing the d de- campaigngn. amy:y: trump hastily o ordered e withdrawal frosysyria afr speaking on the phonone with turkish president recep tayyip onn way for the turkish offensive against kurdish-controlled areas of northern syria. there were reports of ongoing fighting between the turkish military and kurdish groups over the weekend, despite a five-day ceasefire, which ends tomorrow. "the new york times"s" reports a top kurdish commander has warned of a bloodbath, saying, "there will be ethnic cleansing." "the times" alalso reptsts

i'm amy goodman. in an explosive testimony, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, william taylor, told congressional lawmakers tuesday the trump administration held up $391 million in aid to ukraine for the purpose of pushing ukraine to incriminate trump's political rivals, particularly presidential candidate vice president joe biden and his son hunter. in taylor's opening statement, which has been made public, he lays out his interactions with gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union and a wealthy oregon hotel magnate who received the ambassadorship after donating a million dollars to trump's inauguration. taylor says ambassador sondland told him that everything, including security assistance, was dependent on ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy announcing an investigation into burisma, the gas company where joe biden's son, hunter, was a board member. taylor said -- "ambassador sondland told me that president trump had told him that he wants president zelensky to state publicly tha

i'm amy goodman. president trump said tuesday he will not cooperate with the congressional impeachment inquiry, pushing the united states toward a constitutional crisis. the white house announced its decision and it eight-page letter addressed to house democratic leaders, blasting the inquiry as partisan and unconstitutional. the letter arrived just hours after the trump administration ordered a key witness in the impeachment probe, u.s. sondland not to , appear for schedule testimony on capitol hill. president trump tweeted, "unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroooo court." text messages turned over to congress reveal sondland helped to mediate conversations between ukukrainian officials and trum's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, aimed at winning a promise from ukraine's president to investigate joe biden and his son in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars of u.s. military aid that trump had placed on hold. on capitol hill, house intelligencece commimitte

i'm amy goodman. syrian troops have advanced across northern syria after the syrian regime struck a deal to protect the kurds from turkey's deadly air and ground assault. the deal comes after the united states pulled its troops out of northern syria, paving the way for the turkish offensive. on monday, the u.s. announced it is imposing sanctions against turkey over the military offensive and called on turkish president recep tayyip erdogan to implement an immediate cease-fire. vice president mike pence and national security adviser robert o'brien will soon travel to turkey. this is pence speaking monday. cook's president erdogan reached out and requested the call. tosident trump communicated him very quickly that the united states of america once turkey to stop the invasion, to implement an immediate cease-fire and to with kurdishtotiate forces in syria to bring an end to the violence. amy: "the new york times" is reporting that u.s. state and energy department officials have been considering plans to

i'm amy goodman. turkey launched an aerial and ground assault wednesday on northern syria targeting kurdish-controlled areas just days after president trump ordered u.s. troops to fall back from their positioions on ththe turkish-syrian border. the syrianan observatory for hun rirights reports at leasast 16 s have been killed so far.r. turkey claims the death toll is over 100. fear is also growing the turkish assault could lead to the escape of isis fighters imprisoned in northern syria. "the new york times" is reporting the u.s. military has moved several dozen islamic state prisoners to more secure locations. the european union has warned turkey's hostilities would "further undermine the stability of the whole region." the u.n. security council is expected to meet later today. on wednesday, president trump described turkey's assault as a bad idea but defended his decision by saying the kurds did not help us with normandy. pres. trump: the kurds are fighting for their land, just a you understand. the

i'm amy goodman. the united nations special envoy for syria is meeting with the foreign ministers of turkey, iran, and russia in geneva today, where he's arguing for the fragile ceasefire in northern syria to be respected. >> we are strongly appealing for the cease-fires to be respected and that we have also been appealing for a nationwide cease-fire to come in to effect. we do believe the fighting going on is just another proof of the importance of the political process in a way that can help alling out the problems in of syria, including in the northeast and obviously in idlib. amy: turkey says that syrian kurdish fighters have still not fufully withdrawn from a s swatf northern syria near the turkish border. under the terms of the russian-brokered ceasefire, these syrian kurdish fighters are supposed to leave the area by today. hundreds of thousands of civilians have already fled northern syria after president trump abruptly withdrew some u.s. troops from the area, clearing the way for the turkish

i'm amy goodman. the white house said sunday it will end support for kurdish forces in northeastern s syria d hahas ordereu.s. troops toto stp aside while turkey begins a massive air and ground operation. the u.s. has about 1000 troops in northeastern syria. it is s not clear whether they'l pullll back to allllow turkey's assaulult or leave syriaia enti. u.s.s. has backed the syrian democratic forces, led by the kurdish people's protection units or ypg, since 2014, in their fight a against isisis. a spokesperson for the fighteres calleded trump's decision a "shocking and unexpected" betrayal. on sunday, the white house said president trump made the decision after speaking by telephone with president recep tayyip erdogan. this comes as mass anti-government protests are continuing in iraq. the death toll has now topped 109 as police and soldiers continue to open fire on thousands of demonstrators who are defying government-imposed curfews. later in the broadcast, we will speak with middle east correspon

amy: yeah.emonis: so, i never like the brand on the door to be the brand on the product inside that store. the idea of creating brands and doing what you do inside of anderson is great, but what i would prefer to see is anderson on the door, and then inside of the store, other brands that you may own in your back pocket. when the brand on the door and the name on the product is the same, the customer is gonna see that as almost a house brand, like generic cereal. and the high margins that you were actually going for, they may not come to fruition. what's it like working for these two guys? val: the way that they treat us, they're fair. they're nice. i will say that they are kind of spread thin. amy: usually, it's pretty stressful, and you know, john is going, "give me the new art, new customer, new business, sales." and he's just very pressured and wanting to make sure we're doing our jobs. sometimes i feel like they just need to focus on one thing. lemonis: are they late with their deadlines? a

i'm amy goodman. in northern syria, as many as 300,000 civilians have been forced to flee as turkeyey's assault on kurdish-controlled areas continues. vice presidentnt mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo have arrived in turkey, where they are expected to meet with president erdogan today. they are said to be pushing for a ceasefire, which erdogan has so far rejected. turkey invaded northern syria after president trump spoke with erdodon on the lephone ocber 6, a the u.s abruptly y drew a smalall numumber of u.s. . troom the regegn. on thursday, the house of representatives voted overwhelming to condn n trump'ss acactions in syryria, in what te new york timimes" describebed as "thehe most signifificant biparn repudidiation of mr.r. trump sie he took office." shortly after the vote, trump met with house speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders and had what pelosi called "a a meltdownwn." that putting two to one of the republicans voted to oppose what the president did probably got

i'm amy goodman. the leader of isis abu bakr , al-baghdadi, was reportedly killed in a u.s. special forces raid in northwestern syria. baghdadi had led the so-called islamic state since 2010. atat its peak, i isis controllla large swath of land across syria and iraq and maintained a force of tens of thousands of fighters recruited from more than 100 countries. the e oup also c claimed responsibility for deadly attacks across five e continents some analylysts say al-baghdadi was radicalized after he was jailed by u.s. forces in iraq in 2004. he was held for 11 months, including reportedly at the notorious abu ghraib prison. on sunday morning, president trump announced al-baghdadi's death h in a televevised addres. tried s so hard to intimidatete others spent hiss t , in total utter fear panic and dread, terrified of the american forces bearing down on him. amy: during president trump speech, he invoked the names of u.s. journalist and aid workers who were killed by isis, although the vast majority of c

i'm amy goodman. turkish president recep tayyip erdogan is meeting with russian president vladimir putin in sochi, russia, today as the five-day ceasefire between turkey's military and syrian kurdish groups expires at noon eastern time. restart thet to offensive and crushed the heads of syrian kurdish forces if they don't withdraw from the turkey-syria border. the turkish invasion into kurdish-controlled areas of northern syria began after president trump spoke to erdogan on the telephone october 6 and then announced he was abruptly withdrawing u.s. troops from the region, clearing the way for the offensive. convoys of these u.s. troops have been departing northern syria for western iraq, where the pentagon says they will be re-stationed. but the iraqi government says the u.s. does not have permission to station those troops in iraq. meanwhile, president trump now says some u.s. troops will remain in n northern syryria in order to p protect oil f fields. "the new york times"s" also reports despite pre

amy: dr. bradbrook, we played the clip of the german climate activist, the migrant rescue makes that link between immigration and climate. since this is such a key issue all over the world, the issue of migrants and the industrial polluting countries blocking migrants from coming in, can you talk about that link -- climate refugees? >> yeah, i think this is the issue of eco-fascism. up to one in 10 people will be on the move without wanting to be due to mass drought, places becoming to hide, due to flooding. and the idea that t we canan sin our racism and close our borders is simply not going to work for us. obobviously, it is a moral issu. alsoso, there w will be mass migration within countrieies. withth u.k., 10% of the popopulation will l be on the me by 2050. e recent ipcc r report, whichchs about ththe cry is faiair and te ocean the levelel r rising, yet again says t things were worse d flooding events that were once every 100 years will move into being every y single year inany locations

hi, amy. >> hey, reggie. let me get out of the way so you can see the fire right now with lots of smoke right now, and that is continuing to happen throughout tonight. we get lots of bright fire, and then the vantage point is blocked by huge plumes of smoke. the wind has died down, and it is stagnant and not really moving like it was. and the fire though, sorry, let me, the fire when we pulled up, we have seen the fire move aggressively down the hill into the valley and they put the mandatory evacuation in place for geyserville, and i have video of the structure control room, can you confirm? is that the structure video that is burning? okay. thank you. yes. we shot this probably around 6:30 this morning, and we did see a structure go up,ed a it was destroyed by fire. i can't tell you from the vantage point exactly what burned. we are watching from alexander road to 128, and that is tough to see. the firefighters have not told us of any reports of anyone injured and we have seen the people safely evacuating o

we know that we have individual amis in the 30s. and given that, the majority of the units in this particular development will be far out of reach for those amis that are in the local neighborhood. >> one of the questions i had was in my neighborhood, there's a lot of doubling up, a person x works for somebody and maybe they're in a profession that only pays 40 or 50, person y is in the same kind of spot, but together they are able to each get one bedroom in a two bedroom place. i'm looking at kind of how many more people in the neighborhood could actually afford some of these units rather than just at the average. that's the a question that i have. and i really do believe i second commissioner johnson, i believe commissioner moore and commissioner koppel said it, we really need to take a look at neighborhood amis and how we can incent projects to more closely stratify the neighborhood amis. it's going to require a subsidy. i get it it costs money to make those units affordable. but i really wish i could understand that more because

a little scary. >> amy is in healdsburg. the fire is not burning in healdsburg, but you can see how much of a few they have of the fire. that definitely, youknow, brings back all those feelings of just two years ago when people lost so much. we'll show you the areas under evacuation order. that's red winery road, alexander mountain road, and highway 128 from geysers road to river road. that does include the river rocca seen no. two evacuation centers have been set up. the first at windsor high school at 8695 windsor road. the second evacuation at the healdsburg community center at 1757 held buraldsburg avenue. the evacuations will be consolidated to the healdsburg community center. so you might as well head to that one. we are sending out push notifications as the fire developments and you can find out more on abc7news.com. >> lisa argen is tracking the latest weather conditions fueling this fire. we're still under this red flag warning now. >> yes. right through the afternoon. we'll have gusty winds, the offshore flow. righ