response to the house resolution from israeli journalist gideon levy and phyllis bennis and remi kanazi. and on's international women's day, we speak with the mexican-american author valeria luiselli, author of the new novel "the lost children archive." >> these children coming from central america are not to be that areigrants refugees because of the situation they are fleeing. to seekek asylum. they turn themselveses into borr patrol andnd seek asylum. they are not here trying to get in illegally. they do not want to remainn undocumented. no one does. was longria luiselli listed for the 2019 women's prize for fiction. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a federal judge in virginia has sentenced donald trump's former campaign chair paul manafort thursday to 47 months in prison for eight counts of bank fraud and tax evasion, far less than the 19-to-24-year prison term recommended by federal sentencing guidelines. u.s. district judge t.s. ellis, who was nominated to the bench by president ronald reagan, cal

yeah big statements a lot of ramifications let's cross live to go through some of them with gideon levy a columnist at the israeli daily how to read friend of the program good to see it getting firstly what are the chances do you think that the u.s. will officially recognize the golan heights as sovereign israeli territory. i really don't know i mean it's about to happen if a president sais that why no or so why no but is it really important i doubt it very much. lots of reaction to this russia has said for instance that trumps comments risk seriously destabilizing the region how would you assess. look it's very transparent gifts to these early elections to mean that and you know it's. a harsh intervention in the elections i don't think it has i mean one should not over estimated because by the end of the day when the day will come and israel and syria will be serious about negotiating peace the golan will be returned to syria because syria if the united states like it to an old just on point to israel is just weeks away from an election what sort of impact will it have within the count