we will get response from greenpeace. been with less than a month before donald trump takes office, the obama administration dismantles a registry used to track some arabs and muslims in an attempt to prevent trump from creating a broader database , in addition of trump campaigned on. -- an initiative trump campaigned on. a lotump: we should have of systems. today you can do it. but we have to have a border. we have to have a wall. we cannot let what is happening to this country happen. amy: into the case of imprisoned puerto rican independence activist oscar lopez rivera. >> i think the fact i was charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government of united states for itself, but the charge in reference to puerto rico -- amy: more than 100,000 people have addition president obama to pardon oscar lopez rivera who has been held for 35 years. we will speak to oscar's brother and the speaker of the new york city council. all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm

amy: greenpeace, a group called the greenpeace 30 several years ago, were arrested by russia as he tried to stop drilling in the arctic. can you talk about trump's relationship with putin -- it looks like together they may escalate a nuclear arms race, and what that work means now? arctic 30.was the 30 of my colleagues from greenpeace whohoere very courageously trying to stop drilling in the russian arctic. the arctic is such anan importat ecosysystem, home to polar bears and whales and it is so important we e protect it for tt ecosystem and for the climate. my colleagues were doing peaceful protests. they were arrested brutally, thrown into a russian jail, faced with 30 years in prison for peacefully protesting arctic drilling that friends unity. that is the kind of leader that while the arctic 30 were in jail facing the prospect of decades in jail, there are pictures of trump shaking hands with vladimir putin. is is doubly kind of c colleague we want to have, the kind of relationship we want to have with the government like that. we w want a president and secretary of they that is prot

. >> environmental concerns about spills in the arctic led greenpeace activists aboard the go 0 on cnrise to owned -- m of >> does not present any threat to safety and security of any person. or property. or the marine enenvironment. and unacceptable risk to the arctic environment. both in russia and globally. >> the first thing we have to do is to stop the hosing, stop the hosing because they're in position, it becomes unstable and may fall 15 meters on the foot of the platform. so we have to stop hosing so we can entertain the situation of the activists. over. we propose you evacuate all personnel because we will start our -- so we thinknk that more people will be injured. >> in the end, russian authorities arrested all 30 members aboarard including two indedependent journalists. and imprisoned them for three months. this group of activists is known as the arctic 30. they were eventually granted pardon and released. >> it was a v very strong russi reaction. i think that also was telling us that rusussia is a asserting sovereignty in thehe arctic. and people who cross that sovereign

greenpeace east asia says this is ‘worst air pollution of 2016'.. and look at this. it's a website called worldwide air quality. this is beijing — a reading of 25 is deemed safe. most readings are above 400. this is china as a whole — the high levels of pollution are marked in red and purple, yellow and green are lower. by comparison — this is europe. a lot more yellow and green. and this is north america. not that pollution isn't an issue in these regions — but there is far less red and purple. stephen mcdonnell is based in beijing for the bbc. this is what he recorded when he went out on the streets. despite this oppressive blanket of smoke, life must go on in beijing. it's especially tough on those who work outside, breathing in the pollution all day. in years gone by, people weren't that worried about this issue. but now there's a high level of public awareness, and a fair bit of concern. and yet there are those not as worried as everyone else. you don't have to be completely outdoors to face major impacts from this pollution. there are lots of

greenpeace says almost half a billion people are affected, with air quality 16 times above the internationally accepted danger level. global news, 24 hours again, powered by journalists and analysts. yvonne: thanks. has filed ahairman lawsuit against the conglomerate. been tracking this boardroom saga. it is developing from a boardroom saga to the courtroom. -- heda: filing a lawsuit filed and according to a statement. he did not have any comments to make. he said earlier he was going to take his fight for that are transparency. india's biggest conglomerate, to the courtroom. trying to work out what that might be. part of that is the legal part of it. he did not give any more details on what the other details might be for him. he did say he will contest allegations. deep animosity. another person took over as interim chairman. it has been nearly two months ago. there has been a lot of public fighting between the two. search tell us about the for the new chairman. or what about the search? they are leaving the charge, along with four other prominent indian businessmen. they formed a panel to tr

he probably thinks greenpeace is a lawn fertilizer, or the sierra club is a sandwich. leo's got to be crushed. guess it's back to models and colonics. i guess whatever gore said to trump went over as well as his diet plan. poor al, he got out of bed, he saved, he plucked the nose hair. he even put on a clean pair of sweats before he came over. the one that still has the drawstring. and donald gave him one massive orange head fake. but not just him, earlier, donald also saw rahm emanuel. wow! uh agree, he's the worst mayor since this guy. ♪ your body is a wonderland >> pretty bad. make no mistake, rahm sucks. with 600 murders in chicago, lead poisoning is now airborne. so how did this meeting with donald go? >> i was clear about where i stood and other mayors stood on immigrants, that we welcome them, that are striving for the american dream. >> i wonder how donald received them. >> get out of here, you [ bleep ]! >> let her go, tom. the other one's coming. >> that never loses. so why would donald meet with him anyway. it seems kind of weird. you know rahm didn't mind.

greenpeace,ws from trump's top energy advisor in cr the largest fracking company, 2013hair of pruitt's reelection campaign for attorney gegeneral in o oklahoma, more recently made newews as a propoponent to the dakota access pipeline. it is his company's practice oil that would have flown -- flow through the pipeline if it had been completed. wenonah hauter, if you could talk about this. donald trump has vowed, says he supports the dakota access pipeline, not their how much he personally has invested in the pipeline. last we knew between $500,000 and $1 million. one of his spokespeople said he has sold that and there is his investment in phillips 66 that would also profit. for trumphis means when he becomes president, scott pruitt if he becomes the head of the epa, what it means for the dakota access pipeline. the army corps of engineers at this point says it will not grant final permit to drill under the missouri river. advisoras also been an on energy issues to the trump campaign. and they have been associated for the last several years. so we can see that when trump comes into offic

greenpeace says have a billion people are affected, 15 times above internationally accepted danger levelscientists in the u.s. have set up an anonymous oceanicat the administration to report interference from climate change deniers. scientists are during each recently concerned. recently employees were asked which works on climate projects. news in more than 120 countries, this is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: with china's efforts to doinghe yuan's decline is little to sway the bears. rishaad: tell us about this. there is a lot of stress. just how bad are things to get? the bears are out on a charge. forhe bears have been quiet 2 or 3 months. i think the jack-in-the-box was donald trump's surprising victory. the difference in for 2 or 3 months. january this year and the difference now is that in january, there was little weight of protecting what would happen. predicting what would happen. trade suggests that the yuan has more to fall. handledng to see a 7.0 by the first quarter? robin: he forecast from analysts is for the currency to drop to 7 in the first quarter of 2017. 0.7% awayeady about from

let's avoid the greenpeace narrative. it's never worked and it's not realistic. another broad policy recommendation is to focus on paulaprivate diplomacy is strengthening mechanisms. we know public statements don't work well in this region. when the united states makes a statement for whatever reason in india pak 10 and have to be cautious about what we say if it's on twitter or elsewhere. the public narrative can hurt us in many ways. thinking critically about what kind of private narrative we want with both countries and who delivered that message. as for the role of diplomacy is important, the state department using ambassadors in the region, connecting the u.s. foreign service officers in dali and islamabad in making sure they have conversations on these issues is really important and have a modest goals. do they look at kind of india, afghanistan, pakistan concerns a little bit? we know india is not going to leave afghanistan. that's another area we can have some modest improvements in the issues. finally i was sad as opposing point we have it mentioned and

greenpeace. trout unlimited that had a huge participation of fishermen, recreational fishermen. environmental entrepreneurs. these are actually business leaders in this country who care about what we do, and they say -- and i'll read a little bit of the trout unlimited letter. trout unlimited is opposed to the drought provision that has been added to the wrda bill being considered by the house as it undermines an otherwise salutary water resources development act bill, developed in a bipartisan manner by the house and senate. what a beautiful opening sentence. they get it. trout unlimited, they're not liberals or conservatives. they just like to go and have a good time with recreational fishing. there won't be a fishery left because of a bill that was dropped from the ceiling in midnight because somebody wanted to take water away from the salmon fishery and give it to agribusiness. disgraceful. why don't we work together on getting more water. this is not a drought bill. it's called the california drought bill. it's ridiculous. it has nothing to do with increasing the water. all

if this was -- if members of the dnc were getting death threats or greenpeace or black lives matter ar sierra club, there would be a doj investigation, there would be a special prosecutor. there would be right now over on msnbc a town hall on this topic. >> i love this is an astroturf campaign. this is not a grassroots, up from the boot straps campaign. >> great point. it is. there's an organized -- >> this is organized. i wouldn't be surprised if george soros -- >> as he always does, donald trump cut through the noise on this and pointed out what needs to be pointed ou. he tweeted yesterday. if my many supporters acted and threatened people like those who lost the election are doing, they would be scorned and called terrible names. if you watch other networks and coverage, they say it's pressure on the electors and scrutiny. if it was the other way around, it would be harassment and -- >> you're right. >> one of the people talking about this is scott baio. he was on justice with jeanine over the weekend. he said something pretty simple, plain spoken. >> i should not be put in a positi

. >> jay christian, if for instance greenpeace was intimidated or something like that or black livester and there were death threats against them, don't you think the department of justice would investigate that? >> particularly black lives matter. imagine if hillary won this election and all of these alleged white supremacists on the at right were threatening, we know what would happen and what should happen because the system has to be preserved. you must have a system where people can vote according to the rule of law. not according to the chaos that the left wants to impose on america. >> we had the guy we heard from in that sound bite was on our program about 24 hours ago. he called on the president to tell people to stop with the intimidation. we're better than that essentially is what he said. it would have been nice to hear from the president. to your point about it being political, i guess we wouldn't hear from him, would we? >> remember ferguson? remember what happened after that police officer used legitimate deadly force? you had the president, the attorney general all of

that in mind, about two years ago on c-span's "washington journal" there, you all have the head of greenpeaceon your show, and he made the following statement -- he said "if the earth's temperature rises another 3.5 degrees, it is over. 98% of all service-dwelling species are going to die -- surface-dwelling species are going to die. that includes us." the main elephant in the room is global warming. if we do not stop global warming, there are no jobs on a dead planet. host: all right, arnold, in tennessee. guest: i am concerned about global warming. i would say i think manufacturing is part of the solution. it is one of the reasons we want to invest in manufacturing here. our produces are much more efficient in terms of their pollution output, carbon output, then a lot of other places in the world. i think our policy should recognize that as well because there are externalities no one will pay for now, but we will all pay for later. i'm hoping we can make progress on that. i think it is important to note the climate goals that have been laid out over the last decade have been met and exceede