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sale then shipped off foror as fruit or deep fruit, used in drink anand manufacturing.ts the e ecologists escalalin that reveveals a hidden side. >> [speaking foreign language] >> citrus fruit cultivation is vital to the economy of the region, butut rivalries abroad d a price crash have taken their toll. >> [speaking foreign language] >> each winter, thousands of migrants worked, hardly scratching a liviving harvevestg orananges. are are from africa, some from eastern europe, many are in the country illegally. can be 25 euros for four days. but it can be much less. many migrants living in appalling squalor in rundown farm houses or makeshift salon is on the edge of town. -- slums on the e edge of town. the ecologists had to go in after dark after being told that they were not welelcome. >> i can see 200 people. >> there is no running water, elelectricity, or anything?? >> no. when you see the conditions, it is n not right. >> mainstream hospitals often refuse to treat migrants. >> [speaki foreign l language] >> some migrants are in temporary refugee camps. daniel's stor

hear, a world-class astronomy project anand a farming industry that exportsts food d around the world producing 3.4 m million sheep p year. 7 million people rely on this desert for their daily existence. most of the a area is extremely dry with about 7-10 inches of rain a year. despite a short summerr rainstorm, all of the water comes f from wells drilled into the groundnd and pumped up intno thee s surface parking back totn older, slower time. farmers, scientists, and to these are worried that without access to clean water like this, this vast area will be economically devastated. this is the name of the desert, but it is also the name of a shale deposit. this basin stretches almost across the country of south africa. look on as a curse for some and a blessing for otherers, locked into the basin might be asas muh as 400 trillllion feet of shale gas, the fifth largestst deposit in thehe world. since the moratorium on natural gas exploration was lifted in 2012, companies like royal dutch shell and others are lining up about south africa's door, waiting for the green light for what the

anand, you knonow, plasticc shoppining bags arere a good exe of that. your fafamily does s nt need to o use them. . take a clh bag with you when you go shopping and put your shopping in there. there's an equivalent of a large garbage truck evevery minute of every y day backing upup to the ocean and d just dumping plastic into it. we really have to look at ourselves and say, do we deserve this beautiful ocean that was given to us? narrator: it's a $5 billion a year industry and an economic lifeline for dozens of small island nations, but for how much longer? man:n: as a pacicific islanander myself, i i would asksk one questition--will t the next ggeneration enjoy this industry as we do o now? narrator: it's fished every day and in nearly every ocean on the planet. an immense volume is captured and processed to keep up with the insatiable global demand. it's served in trendy restaurants around the world and in tin cans for school lunches. they're among the most valuable commodities in the ocean. it's tuna. yellowfin, big eye, albacacore, and skipjack. 4 1

we w will go to capipitol hill dispute e with lgtime demomocrac commererce members johohn conyes anand barbara l lee abobout ther shooting, the new lawsuit against president trump, and much more. we will also look at next week's special election in georgia, the most expensive congressional race in history pitting democratic newcomer jon ossoff against republilican karen hand. >> to o very clear, , jon ossof would be thehe conongressionalal meer r right now.. he really would hahave won the previoious special election butt for a combination of syststemic voter suppression tactics and techniques. amy: we will air a special report on the georgia race from investigative journalist greg palast. all of that in more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. house majority whip steve scalise of louisiana remains in critical condition this morning after he and four other people were wounded wednesday when a gunman opened fire at a baseball field in alexandria, virginia. the lawmakers were practicing at the fieleld for a chararity congress

for the first time in many years, moslem anand christn chilildren were e once againin y side. germain: bon aswe, tout moun! woman: we work not only with peacekeepers, t the traditional image of peacekeeping-- preventing violence, patrolling in the streets of vulnerable neighborhoods with weapons--but there is another side of peacekeeping. [guitar and percussion playing] [womanan humming] [indistinct conversation] [crowd chanting] [women singing in haitian creole] [people shouting] [man singing in haitian creole] [scratching] woman: whoo! germain: bon aswe, totout mou [singing g in haititian creole]] woman: aft t the pce c conrts tt we at e un missn in haiti organeded in porau-princ the capal, ames camback to and proposed to work on a workshop to engage youth from vulnerable neighborhoods, young artists, in creating, crafting messages for peace and composing songs for peace. [children singing in haitian creole] man: : ♪ uh, ok,k, yo, yeah... [all singing in haitian creole] boudre:e: so james, emeline, and beethohova are like brothers and sisteters. they've knowown each other fo

anand scrambles across buildings with police weapons on him for being detained.barking, is london, 12 people arrested, seven of them women, as police searched properties set to be linked to the attackers. one neighbour who did not want to be identified said he had warned the police about one of the suspects. like most radicals he had justification for anything and everything. i realised i needed to contact the authorities. the list of those killed and injured reflects the cosmopolitan character of london. christine archibald was 30 and from british columbia in canada. herfamily said and from british columbia in canada. her family said she would have had no understanding of the callous cruelty that caused her death. the french foreign minister said one of his nationals had died and another was missing. 21 people are still in a critical condition. four police officers were injured, two seriously. danny willett deal is recovering in hospitalfrom his injuries. —— o'neill. recovering in hospitalfrom his injuries. -- o'neill. anand went on to him and said, this is for

ananybody can read them anand se what they say. the e first amendment sasays congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech. before the men it sasays none of us will be subject to unreasonable searches of our person our home without probable cause. the fiftfth amendment says thato person s shall be deprived of le or libiberty without due process of law. these are exactly the limitations that we have allowed the government systetematicallyo transgress without much backlash or objection. i just want to spend a little time as the lalast main point to talk about thinking g about what the implications are of allowing the government literally 2-wood nor all of the limitations -- allowing the govovernment to ignore all the limitations we have told them they have to abide by for us to consider their power legitimate. some of those implications are fairly obvbvious. if y you allow the government to transgress these themes that you have a government of the lawless, that means as citizen we lose crucial rights to change our society, t

>> and protecting the right of the president to assert it if he chooses anand the ready other privileges that could apply in this circumstance. >> i don't understand harry can have it both ways. the president can't not assert it and your testify that onlnly the president can assert it, and yet i just don't understand the legal basis for your refusal to answer. >> you would be premature for me to deny the president for and intelligent choice about executive privilege. amy: for more we're joined by elizabeth goitein, co-director of the liberty and national security program at the brennan center for justice. welcome to democracy now! your reaction to the hearing yesterday. >> are some of the who insisted on the opportunity to testify publicly so he could tell his side of the story, sessions at little information to the public his medications with russian officials before the election or the firing of james comey or any conversations trump and comey might have had that were not appropriate. he certainly expressed outrage at the notion that he might have been part of collusion with the russia

they don't't want to rreach ou they don't want to cross into streets anand neighborhohoods the palelestinians live because of a mixture of stereotypes and so on. >> so we decided to go together to visit each other's neighborhoods. and i would talk to israelis and david would talk to palestinians, and together we would face the harsh realities of our shared land. >> growing up in the 1960's, the palestinians just weren't in the head of anyone. palestinians were different. we knew we had property and it was taken away from us by force. i remember distinctly remembering that this was the wall that separated the east and west jerusalem. and this was no man's land here. >> my family lived in jerusalem for centuries. in 1948 the state was pounded, and for the palestinians this time was called the catastrophe. like many palestinians, my father and his entire family were pushed out of their ancestral home. they moved to a small apartment in east jerusalem because the city was divided into a jewish and an arab city. and in 1967, the six-day war happened when the israelis invaded jejerusalem m and conq

they issued a joint press release anand had a press conference. but it's hard to tell, so i'm now going to imagine where this might go. i'm not saying that's where they're taking it. i don't know exactly where they're going to take it, or even whether they're going to take it somewhere, but here's what i would do. imagine a trade union movement with a completely different strategic idea from what it has typically been. unions h have typically been organizations who make it possible for workers, instead of bargaining individually with the employer, , to get particucular conditions of work. the unionon bargainsns for the workers collectively. collective bargaining. and so it enters into a negotiation with an employer to get a contract that covers all the workers in a workplace. what unions do. and they try to get better wages than the workers have been able to get, better working conditions, and so forth. well, imagine now the following: the union sits down and bargains for the workers, but it doesn't just s say, "hey, we would like higher wages or

anand gus s what. from a social point of view, which is, kind of, better, 10 workers collecting a w weekly check or 10 workrkers building a whole new business that they really care about? and which they'd better r care about, because if that fails, they can't go back on unemployment. they've gotten their unemployment. a very interesting idea. and the italian government provides assistance along the way--technical assistance and so on--and subsbsidized loa. and are there precedents for the government helping in other ways? of course there are. here in the united states, for example, we have a longstanding government entity called the small business administration, the sba. here's the idea: in the united d states-- it's been going on for decades-- small business complained that there wasn't a level playing field. when they competed with big businesses, they had disadvantages. and they wanted to have a better shot at succeeding as a smamall business,s, so they wanted the government to set aside money and

she e showed me how to forgive and how to love, f first myself anand then others. i live with other girls who have stories just like me. i know the other girls are afraid. they are angry. i know they feel that there is only one thing left for them, and i know late at night, they hurt just like i did. but like tci gave to me, so will i give back to them. i want to help the others, to protect them from the pimps and the brothels. srsrey: i am srey neth. i am a survivor. it has been five years, but t i have foundnd my home. i hahave found my voice and i am fininding myself. [woman singing in foreign language] rangina hamidi: trying to do business in a war zone brings challenges beyond anybody's imagination. things like basic infrastructure, electricity, transportation. we have a country and a government that is still not a working government, so trying to do business in this region is probably one of the hardest things to imagine. but yet, nothing's impossible, so everything can go forward. man: rangina hamidi was born in kandahar, but when the soviets invaded afghani

amos: madhu pandit das is the hare krishna missionary anand engineer w who designed the gravity force kitchen. madhu: you knonow, some of these processes are so laborious, we could have actually done away with it, but still we do it. for instance, coconut grating. toto grate cococonut to put t in sambar for 1 100,000 childreren is no joke.. we could easily avoid coconut. it doeoesn't make much differen. but it makes a diffefence in the tastste, because samambar means it has to have c coconut. amos: if the dish h is calleled sambar-- madhu: yeah, it has to havee coconunut. amos: there are 4,500 schools eagerly waiting for their meals. and each van visits roughly a dozen of them. considering the state of the roads... [horns honk] and the traffic, it seems miraculous that the lunches reach the schools on time. this road's pretty rough. man: yes, most of the roads are similar. this is a better road which we are traveling. there are a few roads which we take which are very bad roads. we cannot go even two kilometers per hour. that's how slow we go. it's such a horrible road. amos: because

fears that political pathways made by lava flows will allllow fracking fluluids and other ways to rise anand pollute t the watr table. and that goese lovove - goes set went to iraq, to the rock. our problem is 10 times, 100 times bigger.. you don't find these in the u.s.. >> the product is undnder such presessure thahat is alwayss log for these e preferrered slow pa. itit is believed in it will find his way up the gas wells. >>>> whahat will happepen a aft- 100 years after the abandonment of the well. >> the latest signs from the gas fields of america seems to support his conclusion. according too the study, and another from cornell university, wells are leaking gas and other chemicals into the air of a rate of about three times what the industry can use. the government suggests that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created helping to offset the 24% unemployment. small-scale farmers believe that this is shortsighted. >> it is thinking like this that scientists have been trying to instill in governmentnt and publblic health posisitions with oversight over the drilling activities. what is

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they will ease traffic anand avd accidents caused by human error, but sooner or later this car coulded in an accident. how can you decide when it is better to avoid the child or crash into a wall? who is liable with casualties? the biggest challenges by the so-called weapons systems, that once activated can engage anchor: targets without a human operator. drones already used in the warfare, but the autonomous could alter the nature of armed conflict.. what if they malfunctioned? and as artificial intelligence becomes more and more sophisticated, the ultimate question is perhaps, where will our place be in the new autonomously controlled world? >> if we can make super benevolent super intelligence that his wife and friendly, then guess -- that is wise and friendly, then it would helpp world better than humans alone. brent: i enjoyed at the table by the chairman of the german ethics counsel. good to have you on the show. are we heading towards a world where all the rhythms, artificial intelligence are going to reach a point of sophistication where they will be able to judge what is bes

anand a think ifif it is s a goa for the u.k. to lead the eu in this way. brexitit talks a are supposed dy march 2019. not much time for a step the country has never taken before. sarah: a few months from now, germany will be going to the polls. we have a summer before then, so dw thought it was a bad time to put together a special series to take a preview of the issues on the hearts and minds of voters. >> we are taking a trip across germany and we're taking you with us. >> how fair and equal is germany? and what issues matter to you? sarah: and for more, i'm pleased to welcome my colleague. >> you see us and/or develop -- deutsche welle viewers know that she will leave the studio and come on the road trip with me. we're starting next week and will be hitting the road. we will be on the road for six weeks, traveling to try to find out what german voters think about what is moving them and we decided to do that because the whole world is watching germany at the moment. and it is a crucial election. if you look at where other countries are going, a question

here of these apartment homes and condos and that is where apparently a crowd of people were gathered anandhey were shot. not a lot of information at this point in terms of one shooters, two shooter, were they in a car, were they on foot. from what i understand just really not getting a lot of information from witnesses on the scene. they're trying to develop more information so they can get that out to the public but at least from what we do that understand none of the gunshot wounds at this point appear to be life-threatening put still a very serious situation here along southern avenue in southeast. i'm melanie alnwick, back to >>> 4:49. mapping today in prince george's county p-eulalio tordil will be indicted. police say tordil shot and killed his wife in a high school parking lot and a day later shot four other people killing two more. >> today is the first rush hour test for metro after high her fares and service cuts went into effect on sunday. 1,000 metro cards will be given a way at dunn lore ring metro station this morning. >> a group of neighbors forms a human chain to save a wom

anand customers s there will prprobably never know thatat tr shoes were made from the hides of holy cattle taken from india. ♪ >> and now in global snack we find out what people around the world love to eat. ♪ >> sete on the french mediterranean coast, no wonder this harbor town is known as 'little venice.' george brassens one of thehe best known n chan singers in f france used to lie here. his music is an important part of the town's heritage. just like the snack that sete is famous for. ♪ >> the guilietta cafe is one place you'll f find the hearay pary calletielle it's sd as a sll sna, or as a ml. dric annumo is thehef. >> tielle is originally from from italy immigrants brought it here. it was originally a meal for peasantsts. it was fililling but cheap. the tielle from sete is tomato sauce and seafood wrapped in a pastry. >> cedric won't reveal his exact recipe. but he hasn't changed the main ingredients for decades. a simple dough made from water, flour and salt. a tomato sauce with spices, and diced octopus or squid from the mediterranean. all covered with another layer of dough. >> t

continues to provide challenge, but i can confirm that our firefighters through their professisionalism anandbravery have e been able to seah almost all of the building now. it c ctinues to o give us challengeses. reporter: the fire started on one of the lower floors around 1:00 in the morning and quickly engulfed the 24 story building in flames and smoke. witnesses described dramatic scenes as people attempted to escape as firefighters battled the blaze. more than 200 firefighters and 40 engines were involved. the tower was home to an estimated 600 to 800 people. one activist group said it had been printing a catastrophe for years. this is 1 -- had been protececng a catastrophe for years. thisis is one image from their website. >>>> obviously tragic things hae happened but when i want to report his we have repeaeatedly reported cononcerns, including fire safety concerns, which were not investigated. reporter: authorities have already promised a thorough investigation. but for now, community groups and churches organizing to help the hundreds of families who are now homeless. once again, lond

anand if they were toecomome convinced about this, they would demand policy actions be implemented, actction be taken. but whatat luntz said wawas that there's still a window of opportunity left, according to his polling, according to the focus groups that he had done, to confuse the public, to cloud their understanding of the issue, to try to make it seem as if the science i is stil fiercely contested. and what he said was as long as the public thinks that scientists don't agree, that there isn't a scientific consensus, they can be convinced that it might be too costly to take action. and so that's exactly what the forces of climate change denial have chosen to do ever since. theyey've doubled down, if you will, in this campaign of disinformatation. >> i want to do my part on global warming. all yes on 23 says is... >>>> the effort through televisn advertisising, throuough the cultivation of s so-called expes who attack the science, talking hheads, the cuultivation of talking heads who o appear on tk radio, who appearar on cable televisi, they've creaeated this very elaborate network of thi

anand to a certain extent, it failed in germany. because it's always been sold in germany as something which is almost unquestionable being part of the european union, losing one's german national identity, and becoming more european. and the economics have gone hand in hand with that in many -- many ways. seeing that germany has become pre-eminent in economic force in europe. and as you were saying, that they've got too much power. melinda: alan posner, you said yourself, the absolute priority to the politics of european integration and essentially assume that the economics would take care of themselves. can't the birth defect that he ignored essentially be seen as the root of the problems today? >> yes. all -- if you induce a common currency without economic union, you're heading for disaster. problems no, the that this currency will create will force us to integrate more deeply. now, this is the problem we're seeing. the problems came. and the result and the answer would have been deep integration and the question was how? and th

that deserves another human being kindly to sit through -- spend owe time with him, , u knto hid m anand listen to what he had to say. for once shut my mouth and listen and he said he had faith and he loves his family and his children and, you know, he didn't do anything to this man, you know, and he doesn't understand why he shot him. >> reporter: now, coming up on kpix 5 news at 6:30, a special edition, we will hear more from people in the neighborhood where big mike raised his children about what kind of father and man he was. ken, back to you. >> it's such a tragedy. all right. andria borba, thank you. >>> there's been an outpouring of support for the u.p.s. workers affected by the shooting. allen martin is here with more on that. >> reporter: liz, governor jerry brown weighed in on the tragedy this morning calling it senseless violence. san francisco mayor ed lee went to the u.p.s. facility himself. he wanted to show support the victims. >> these tragedies are so r terrible and they, of course, bring us together and from u.p.s., um, i personally felt -- i know my driver. . heworking