thatat's really an area of research anand also speculation. the problem is that there are multiple toxic compounds that are in the ground and also in the air in this area, and to prove a one-to-one relationship is going to be very, very tougugh. in this area, there were a lot of supeper-fund sites and coal mines. so, you know, they weren't here, they weren't there. they were here. and that was the concern. and that's the concern in my mind toto this day. it's a question mark. i don't have the answer to this. i'm not a statistician, but intuitively it would seem to me more than chance that--that this would occur. >> while science continues to gather evidence, some people believe that politics and profit are outweighing the need to protect public health. >> whether it's a democratic administration or a republican administraration, coal talks. >> government agencies, in my opinion, have m more been apt to represent the best interests of the polluters. they seem to have rights more so than what people do. >> georgia power, i think, is very effecti

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kim, who has introduced a bill to block the amazon deal and redirect taxpayer money away from amazon anand toward d student t debt r. then as dedefense secretetary js mattis visits the u.s.-mexico border where thousands of troops have been deployed, we speak to fernando garcia of the border network for human rights. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in california, the death toll from the deadly fires has reached 50, with scores still missing. report the paradise fire is 30% contained. in southern california,

anand, i'm looking forward to a much longer conversation with you.hose of you in philadelphia, anand and i are going to have a conversation on friday morning that's going to be a fuller, longer version of this. thank you so much for being with me. anand is the father of "winners take all," a book i'm enjoying and learning how to say his name as well. the elite charade of changing the world. let's have a look at markets. the dow has enjoyed a strong day until now. oh, look at that. stronger than when i just last checked. up almost 2.5% after a couple of weeks that were pretty rough. we're taking a break. we'll be right back. >> teacher: let's turn in your science papers. >> tech vo: this teacher always puts her students first. >> student: i did mine on volcanoes. >> teacher: you did?! oh, i can't wait to read it. >> tech vo: so when she had auto glass damage... she chose safelite. with safelite, she could see exactly when we'd be there. >> teacher: you must be pascal. >> tech: yes ma'am. >> tech vo: saving her time... [honk, honk] >> kids: bye! >> tec

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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

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combining the current planning, finance, anand induststry ministrieies. what is his background? noam: again, this is an ultra-right wing icago econonomist. he has spent time in pinochet's chile. he has been very frank and open with the brazilian press about his plans. it's very simple. as he puts it, privatize everything, everything, infrastructure, anything you can think of. the reason, the motive is to pay off the debt owed by the predatory financial institutions that have been robbing the country blind. they will give away the resources of the country for the future. as i i mentiononed, this goes ag with his f favorite program of opening the amazon to agribusiness. he is exactly the kind of person who succeeded in driving chile's economy to utter disaster in only a few years. when the chicago boys took over the pinochet economy, they had every conceivable advantage. there could not be any dissent. torture chambers took care of that. they had the advice of the top stars of the chicago right-wing economic system.. they were clever enough not to nationalize -- privatize the -- o

thank you very much, anand menon. let's see what boris johnson very much, anand menon.twitter. he's talking about an article in the times, saying that if agreed, the customs union backstop would not be temporary, but the minimum basis for our future trading relationship with high alignment and eu control. this means super canada impossible. he is quoting sabine weya nd impossible. he is quoting sabine weyand in the times, and it says in his tweet that the cabinet must live up his tweet that the cabinet must live up to its responsibilities and stop this deal. so, borisjohnson, the former foreign secretary, adamant as other that this deal should not go through cabinet, let alone through parliament in a meaningful vote. joining me now at westminster is the conservative mp mark faswell from the erg. i've not been privy to the 500 pages of text on this. i did the lisbon treaty which was 300 but i have not seen the final. we have a goodidea have not seen the final. we have a good idea from all of the leaks and hence what is in it. and if it is giving away £39 billion of briti

anand actually, the e buddhist monks have been really active, you knowow, for the last few years in areng valley and also with otherer protests s that hae been happening all across the country. they feel that they are not just there to be religious figures, but they are there to actively be involved in fighting and helping the cocommunities fight and prottt for what they think is right and just. kalyanee: the wrapping of the trees, it's both symbolic and also practical. it's symbolic because, you know, the saffron robe is a symbol of the monkhood and is also a symbol of this affinity and connection with the trees. but it's also practical because if loggers come and they see the saffron robe, you know, wrapped around the tree, they might think twice, you know, about cutting that tree down. kalyanee: : this iababout, you know, what we want to pass on to our granandchildrn and d to the fututure. do we want to pass on a desolate desert oror do we wat to pass s on a heritage that i s loving o of the eartrth, you kn, loving of the land, loving of nature, and is giving,g, you know, to one anothe

nearing anand ford agreement to join forces on electric and the self driving vehicles.s selft in driving partner. the german carmaker is also going to share vehicle technology, allowing the carmaker to piggyback off the investment of battery-powered automobiles. major u.s. investment banks are planning to shift assets to frankfurt because of brexit. j.p. morgan, morgan stanley, goldman sachs, and citigroup have submitted plans to increase assets held through their frankfurt subsidiaries after the u.k. leaves the eu. it would see their balance sheets in germany grow to $283 billion. says theexpress people's bank of china has approved its license to become the first foreign payments company allowed to build a network in the nation. it will let charges be cleared and settled in china. it is a sign of progress in the access to mainland china. that is bloomberg business flash. yousef: thank you. dipping foreign reserves in china, iranian sanctions, midterm volatility, some of the key themes last week. we take a look at the top charts. >> let's look at the charts this week. c

they're still there, actually it went down a little bit east anand went right back up, by tomorrow the rain will disperse this and the wind will pick up. we're on unhealthy levels across the board here. the system is aways away and won't be here until late tonight with increasing clouds, there could be warm, overrunning rain, but most of the day will be fine. things will kick in at this time. it looks good for two systems, wednesday and friday, then we'll get a break over the weekend and early next week, and hefty totals, and we'll be here from 3 to 6, one to two and a half looks likely between the two systems: late tonight we'll see an increase not just with higher clouds, snow will be produced, it starts off high from 6,000 to 7,000. thursday looks fine, a few garden varieties, but the next system arrives friday morning, it will spread more rain, it looks heavier north than south. the first system will beat, 6 t 12, the winter weather advisory kicks in on wednesday. there's the a cold, pool behind that, it could provide connect activity. >>> and condition could be venatic activity. >

anand just last week, benjamin netanyahu, prolonged it to 90 years.o they are trying to keep these documents away from the public as to fortunately, for me and hopefully the readers of the many cap documents and share them with me. why did d they speak echo i thik facebook -- everyone has his own reason, but i think it is a common ground for why they speak. most of them come on the record. i think they spoke because they wanted to tell a story. they wanted to tell people off israel -- the people of the world, how and why did they take -- daring, steteering brave, controversial operations. they wanted to make sure after so many years in the dark, they wanted to make sure their part in history is been told. some of them told me, i'm telling you stuff that i did not even tell mymy wife. themthey spoke, many of repeated -- they were completely disconnected or not synchronized with each other, but they repeated one sentence, one quote from the babylonia which says "if someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first." and i think this was said that as

anand: if he doesn't have those 48, the boj would look rather silly.uppose you, have to hope it is there. she is safe for a year because they are out of options. that is one of the reasons i think they have hesitated for so long. anna: you could understand if she has had enough. if we do get the vote stage in parliament, what do you think the question will be? will it be the binary choice? anand: firstly, insofar as it you startnded, if tampering with the detail of the withdrawal agreement, activity falls. the second thing is, don't underestimate the fact that once the european council has happened, if it happens, the uptick changes quite dramatically. the first time you see theresa may alongside leaders on the same side. i imagine to see several business is coming out and saying this provides us with the level of uncertainty we have been craving. anna: is that the game plan? adam: levels of uncertainty are all relative. there's a lot to be welcome here. unlocking the transition is important for businesses. anna: thank you both very much. nejra: we did

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reporter: these are just a few of the people who have gone missing in syria, anand membersf their familiesthe photos adorn a bus in which activists of the families for freedom group have been touring europe, campaigning fofor justi. these women say the syrian regime is to blame. fadwa mahmoud's son and husband were disappeared in 2012. fadwa: i feel the typical emotions of a mother. i keep having flashbacks to my son laughing. these images just keep welling up. i imaginine him sitting next o me. i sometimes feel very desperate. reporter: this used to be a prison of the east german secret police, the stasi. it's in the hohenschonhausen district of berlin. here too, despair plagued the inmates. fadwa mahmoud and the other women have come to meet former prisoners and learn about the east german regime. in the 1980's, monika a schneir was caught trying to escape the country and held here for more than two years. monika: we also didn't know what would become of us.. would they make us disappear, or would we be out in a year or two? would they start terrororizings all over again? i knew that t i

anand that's what i do. reporter: the grandfather of raffi's wife varda was an early victctim of the confnflict betn arabs and jews in palestine. he was killed in an attack in the 1880's. she herself lost her brother to the conflict. varda: b but it's not just us o susuffer. the palestinians are suffering, too. suffering is part of being human and we must accept that. to recognize the suffering of others is the first step toward peace. reporter: and then they head toward their meeting point. zakaria and his father through the west bank towards tel aviv. raffi i drives from tel aviv towards hebron. they have arranged to meet at israel's tarqumya checkpoint. raffi waits for his passengers among thousands of palestinian workers who've managed to obtain a coveted israeli work permit. it's not easy to find someone in the morning crush. but then he spots them. the palestinian father and son have to cross the checkpoint on foot. without raffi to transport them, zakaria and his father would be stuck here. they could

anchor: anand how does s she e her gyroros best?ndrea: in a a traditionalal , with p potato, tomatatoes, and ketchup -- a and tzatziki,i, of coursese. >> t they all wantnt to tastee traditioional greek gygyros! anchor: alexexander the grgreat surerely would havave approved.. and that's all from lobal 3000" this week. but as you knonow, we loveve heg from you. so do drop us a line to global3000@dw.com, or post on facebook -- dw global society. see you next week -- and until then, take care! [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, han bin: 4.3 billion people live across this vast cocontinet called asia, and we are telling their stories. on this edition, china's spider-men. meet the migrants who clean shanghai's skyscrapers, taking on a risky job to give their families a better life. [man speaking g chinese]

anchor: anand how does s she e her gyroros best?ndrea: in a a traditionalal , with p potato, tomatatoes, and ketchup -- a and tzatziki,i, of coursese. >> t they all wantnt to tastee traditioional greek gygyros! anchor: alexexander the grgreat surerely would havave approved.. and that's all from lobal 3000" this week. but as you knonow, we loveve heg from you. so do drop us a line to global3000@dw.com, or post on facebook -- dw global society. see you next week -- and until then, take care! [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, >> today on "earth focus," nuclear r power: the downside. miles benson reports on where nuclear insurance falls short, and dr. helen caldicott on the health effects of nuclear radiation. coming up, on "earth focus." >> an earthquake and tsunami struck japan's fukushima nuclear power plantnt. three reactors suffered a meltdown. >> the japanese government has raised the crisis level at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant from 5 to 7. >> the confirmed death toll

new york state assembly member ron kim, stat stacy mitchell, anand greg leroy.his is democracy now! when we come back, we go to the border. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we turn now to the u.u.s. mexico border, as jim mattis goes to the border. nearly 6000 active duty troops are currently deployed in texas, california, and arizona following terms escalating attacks against the central american caravan headed toward the u.s. in the run-up to thehe midterms. trump has warned that the number could swell to 15,000. more than the u.s. forces in afghanistan and most trouble the number of troops in iraq. according to some reports, the border deployment could cost $220 million. despite the factct the penentagn does notot see the caravan as a risk. a few hundred migrants from central american caravans have arrived in the border town of tijuana tuesday as the vast majority is still at least 1000 miles away from the u.s.-mexico border. amy: mattis' visit comes

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i've seen our schools anand detroit close down.se to 60 schools have closed downwn in the city of f detroit whwhile we are channeleling pubc money. these e are our own taxexes inta hockey stadidium. the e red wings hockey stadium downtown detroit. 60% of the funds that went totoward thehe hockey stadium tt could have gone to schchools. $4$400 million awaway from schos .nto an adultt playground a for-profofit industry. to me that is completely unethical, immoral. for me it means living in a just, fair, equitable society. and that is not faiair when you have billions in thehe corporate welfare line when our children are stilll hungry, when our schools are still underfunded, where i cannot even get -- the fire hundreds in some of our neighborhoods need to be fixixe. i cannot undnderstand the lack f resources that we have to deal with the increasing concentration of poverty and many of the neighborhoodods. it is wrong. to me, it is agagainst what i believe is the role of government, which iss issue be about people, not cororporations w

anchor: anand how does s she e her gyroros best?ndrea: in a a traditionalal , with p potato, tomatatoes, and ketchup -- a and tzatziki,i, of coursese. >> t they all wantnt to tastee traditioional greek gygyros! anchor: alexexander the grgreat surerely would havave approved.. and that's all from lobal 3000" this week. but as you knonow, we loveve heg from you. so do drop us a line to global3000@dw.com, or post on facebook -- dw global society. see you next week -- and until then, take care! [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, from berlin. no breakthrough in brussels, as britain's prime minister works to finalize the terms of the u.k. bricks of deal. theresa may has been meeting with european commission had jean-claude juncker. on the table, a blueprint for britain's future ties with the blockhead of the crucial summit on sunday. also coming up, stand off. the eu tells italy it is sleepwalking into instability.