bill mckibben is staying with his of 350.org and third act.organized today's day of action to stop dirty banks. ben jealous, executive director of the sierra club. coming up, dipti bhatnagar joined them. she is with friends of the earth international in mozambique. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. writer and activist -- as we continue to look at the climate emergency, we turn to southeast africa or tropical cyclone freddy has killed over 500 people in malawi and at least 66 people in mozambique, over half a million people have been displaced. cyclone freddy is one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the southern hemisphere and the longest lasting tropical cyclone on record. it first made landfall in madagascar on february 19. we are joined by dipti bhatnagar , longtime, justice activist based in mozambique. she is with friends of the earth mozambique. she is visiting the bay area. we are staying with bill mckibben of third act and 350.org and ben jealo

amy: you can see our interview with third act founder bill mckibben and sierra club executive director ben jealous at democracynow.org. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. when we come back, 20 years after the u.s. invasion of iraq, we will speak with retired colonel andrew bacevich, a vocal critic of u.s. foreign policy after 9/11. we will also speak with him about this week's meeting with xi jinping and vladimir putin in moscow, the war in ukraine, the 2003 u.s. invasion of iraq, and more. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "the second baghdad" by iraqi american musician rahim alhaj. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. chinese president xi jinping has left moscow where he met with russian president vladimir putin. the two leaders declared a "new era" in chinese-russian relations. during a joint news conference, putin said, "russia-china relations are at the highest point in the history of our two countries." xi jinping arrived in moscow on monday, just three days after the interna