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will there ever be peace and democracy inin the islamic wor?e have more about human rights and freedom of speech onon our fafacebook page -- dw global society. write to us, and don't forget to follow us, too. this week, our reporters went on the hunt again for tasty snacks, and struck gold in sweden. reporter: stockholm is built on water. there's certainly no shortage of fish here -- herring, in particular. and it's not just the seagulls which find t them tasty. for 30 years now, the ahmed family has been running a fast food stall here. though they have north african roots, they serve up typical swedish food. ahmed: here in sweden, our smashed potatoes are always homemade and always fresh doing it in the morning. reporter: : first, the herrings fried until it's golden-brown. ahmed: herring is a traditional swedish meal, that they always like to eat, you know? reporter: nail ahmed only dishes ththem up when they're really crispy. the snack is then garnished with parsley, and pickled cucumber, red onions, and homemade coleslaw. there's crisp brea

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inin wyoming, yoyou canano to national forest land and trap and starere wolves.you u can kill wolveves howewevu want.. [[gunshot] been signed off by the department of the interior and the state of wyoming. >> a lot of the big fans of yellowstone wolves are following the lives of the actual individuals. they are the attraction. these become the stars of our show. so without them, oh, wow, and then to have them hunted, it is even harder for our guests to understand good they could influence decision about visiting the park in the future. wolf hunting and hunting in gegeneral are both extremelyly important to people in montana. it is interwoven into the traditions we observe, the pathways of our daily lives throughout the year. it is something that we zealously protect. hunting is very important, a very important way in which to put food on the table for many families. a good-sized elk can feed a family of four or more if it is a larger elk throughout the year. that has been the traditional way inin montana from decades ad centnturies, to be sure. , therehe animals

voting inin, we are approval of a fight against communism, corruption and a sell out of american interests. they were not voting for joe mccarthy. i happen to be the recipient of the vote and i appreciate it a great deal. that youher side said were the recipient of a protest vote in wisconsin. senator mccarthy: that may well be. >> senator, i wanted to ask you about mccarthyism. am i right supposing that the first person to use that owenpen lattimore -- was lattimore. communistsarthy: the gathered in new york to decide how they would fight mccarthy and they coined the term mccarthyism. either the daily workers publication or the lattimore testimony. --nator mccarthy: >> i want to ask you about the congressional testimony about the institute of pacific relations. by awas a letter written secretary of the idr to a mr. letter askedthe who they would invite. he writes, someone we might consider is someone from simpson's office. e of theoned on special assistants. 1942,uld he, back in recommended adelaide stephenson --recommend adelaide stephenson? whotor mccarthy: the man recommended out your

. >>>> inin a fistfight m mexico,n there is a low harvest andnd the , we see our poor harvests from mexicoith the board relied on by food from abroad. this hits them hardest. >> for mexicans this means higher prices. >> something nice in the culturur. [speaking foreign language] >> hunter isis n not the real problem here. it has massive impact. we've found that where food prices have risen, families have less frfruit and berry and have far less healthy die.. taking out loans just to be able to afford food, cutting back on expenditures like health care and education, all of which has a much longer-term impact. >> the impact of higher prices is felt throughout the expenditures of mexico and in terms of lower demand for other things. the mexican economy is the real concern because we do not see demand growing fast enough and we c could be e next. >> food speculationon is rampant because ofof deregulation o of e markets. it was seen as big investments, banks moving into commodity markets, w with $100 billion pouring into these markets. markets were overwhelmed, that is why it has become such a

-led mimilitary coalitition is k killing f f moe civivilians inin iraq ththan its acacknowledged. the pentntagon clalaims its s ar against the self-proclaimed islamic state has killed just 89 civilians. but an on-the-ground investigation by reporters azmat khan and anand gopal found the actual civilian death toll may be 31 times higher than the u.s. is admitting. they write -- "in terms of civilian deaths, this may be the least transparent war in recent american history." you will hear the authors of that report on democracy now! next week when we are back in new york. in news from syria, russia has vetoed a united nations security council measure to renew an international inquiry into who is to blame for chemical weapons attacks in syria. zimbabwean president robert mugabe emerged from house arrest today to attend a university graduation in the capital of harare. this marked his first appearance in public since the zimbabwean military launched an apparent coup earlier this week. mugabe has resisted calls by the military to resign. the 93-year-old-old mugabe has ruled zimbabwe sin

a number of mayors and governors , sayingng wee in b bonnm are e still inin. >> we are still i in as governo, university presidentnt from ngo, and d others that are committedo meeting america's obligations under the paris agreement. amy: we will speak with 350.org founder bill mckibben about the future of the climate accord, the latest catastrophes, and we will talk to him about his new first novel, "radio free vermont: a fable of resistance." all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war anand peace report. i'm amy goodman. at least four women have accused roy moore, the republican nominee in alabama for a u.s. senate seat, of making sexual advances on them while they were teenagers, including one woman who says moore forced himself on her when she was 14 years old and he was 32. leigh corfman says moore removed her shirt and pants, and then touched her over her bra and underwear. she recalls thinking, "i wanted it over with -- i wanted out. please just get this over with. whatever this is, just get it over." roy moore is a former state supreme c

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first the idea of inin care. just material, what are the things that have been handed down to us. and what are the silences we have been hearing or the silences that we talked about. and when we interrogate that we will be able to do mindself of what we change passing forward. and e we are all connected to each other and we are connected to history. we are not the separate threads. we are all weaving the same narrative. you don't really you are conn t connected to the past and the people around you. >> i never thought of it that way. i love doing the show and i learn something from the people i talk to. i hadn't thought about that. inherit stories and also silence. the undoing of the stories we're trying to right. >> absolutely and that is where his stiffness creeps in, the voice in our narrative. >> what do you home to take away? >> i don't people to empath eye and i want them to feel however you want to feel but know you have a close to feel that way. everything is about choices. you see a lot of choices in the

they're working that are w inin. >> it's okay sweetie. [ meowing ] >> the cat will wait until three hours iniffished and it will grab it and go all the way down by itself. >> you see zion there and as they get close, oli, you're kind of correct but as you can see, this one can't get far away. they've got her surrounded. >> it's okay, baby. >> it's not exactly okay once they get the net out. she's not down with this. [ meowing ] >> i am never going outside again! >> two nets they have to catch her in case she gets away. they have to work at it. [ meowing ] >> oh! >> hold on. don't pull. don't pull. >> they finally get her and they slowly lower themselves and the cat down. the cat is like this is humiliating. she's rescued, okay, returned to her family. now look at her. >> maxin' and relaxin'. >> zion is now happily ever after. >>> top athletes, riders, drivers, things like that, when they're doing something amazing they'll talk about being in the flow, the rhythm of what's going on. that's what you need to be doing if you want to take part in red bull straight rhythm. sean cantrell around

officials now revaili inin inin he wore a face mask with a skull on it.a survivor speaking out. >> you could see his feet. >> we'll have the latest from texas this morning. >>> breaking overnight, president trump arrives in south korea, amid escalatine ining te with its neighbor to the north. >> north korea is a world war threat, that

faith in god is one thing, faith inin modern medicine another.he large sign on the facade of the avicenna infertility clinic belies the fact that ivf is not widely talked about in the islamic republic, even though supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei issued a fatwa providing religious sanction for the process a few years ago. the clinic serves around 12,000 couples every year. there are such 70 clinics throughout the islamic republic. for more and more iranians, ivf is the only way to have a child. professor mehdi akhondi is the directctor of the institute. it's e estimated that t around o 15% ofof coupleses worldwide e unable to have children. in iran, it's more than 20%. >> unfortutunately, infertilitys very high h in iran. there arare several rereasonsr this, environmental pollllutn, lifestyle, poor nutritn.n. and of coursrse there hahas bea ineasese in e e numberf pepeople marryiying later and dececidino have children later in life and that also affects fertility. correspondent: of all the couples we spoke to, not one had told their families

. >> but bpa remains widely used inin many consumer products, from electronics to medical equipment. and it's in the resin of can linings and in plastic bottles, where it can leach into the food or liquid contents inside. the food and drug administration, which has jurisdiction over food packaging, says bpa is safe at the low doses that occur in food. but many research and health organizations remain concerned about bpa's impact on human health at current levels of exposure. over 1.5 million tons of flame retardants are used worldwide each year. they're added to consumer products to meet flammability standards, though their effectiveness remains questionable. >> any furniture that you have that has polyurethane foam in it, which is most of o our furniture, may cocontain toxic flame retardants. and those flame retardants don't stay put in that foam. they leech out and they end up in the dust in our house, where we're all exposed and particularly kids who are on the ground low, picking things up, putting their hands in their mouths, they're exposed to that dust, wwhich is gonna have fl

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it doesn't end inin your body--maybe one dy you might excrete these elemenents, but you might not-- and that the food chain remains contaminated for hundreds or thousands of years. and we'll start seeing lung cancer and leukemia i think 2 to 5 years from now, and then solid cancers will start appearing 15 to 16, 17 years later. so the ace up the sleeve is--of the nuclear industryry is the incubation tie for cancer. it takes a lg time for cancersrs to develolop onceu have inhaled or been exposed to these radioactive elements, and no cancer identifies its origin. and so there is already a level of cancer in society, but it's going to increase dramatically. >> what do people neneed to know about nuclear power in the united states that thehey are nt being told? >> everything. it t just makes e fefeel nauseated d to think thae industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars s saying tht nuclear p power is clean, green, sustainable, and cheap, and all of those are lies. and i-- you know, i get very sick of scientists or people who lie about scicience. if i lied about medicicine, i wouldl

inin itself a prime minisisr whwho was assassinated in to thousand five. the merkel even him to take a step back into his role if hezbollah lebanon's iran bots movements respected lebanon's policy of staying out of regional conflicts. the sony politician and businessman said he wants his resignation to be a wakeup call for lebanon. and sat as a positive shock a tactic that seems to be working. as the country unites in the hope of that prime ministers return i want him to come back in any case he's our prime minister in the mideast pro hello he said he's coming back and were waiting for him. whatever he decides we are all with him. his arrival back in lebanon on the possible stock to the formal resignation process may happen in the next few days. saudi arabia has agreed to react in some polls in yemen off to shutting down all of the country's borders last week the crackdown came off to yemen's who's the rebels. fired a ballistic missile of the saudi capital aid agencies have been warning that the blockade. was taking its toll on an already desperate situati

we told you on friday that was turning tout be t inin ining ou airport day. i talked to a girlfriend of mine at the oakland airport, she said it was a breeze, no lines at all. this time of year, take serious strategic planning. reporting live from oakland, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> i'm not going anywhere, i'm going to sit in this chair for the whole holiday. you know where to find me. i wouldn't mind if you brought me some turkey. >>> furniture tipping over an children, very serious issue. coming up, ikea takes new action to stop this from happening again. >>> also the justice department is stepping in to block at&t's proposed merger with time warner. is this politically motivated? >>> also a bold prediction from goldman sachs. what the banking company thinks will happen to the job market in just a couple of years. >>> bold prediction if i said we had a chance of record highs today, tomorrow and possibly thursday to a lesser extent. let's take a look outside right now. open the weather window. see the hazy sunshine. not a spare the air day. we're 8 to 12

activists ththat begn workg for open carry in locking down the street ofof our cacapital cicity here inin austn carrying their ar-15's and having parades, etc. our legislature is f free much inflfluenced b by what i would l anan extremist movement that bebelieves in n no gun ownership restrictions whatsoever. and they do have pull the legislature and with our governor. it is pretty manning and shocking to see, but our toanization is working hard have a conversation in the other direction. and we realize what we're up against year, but we are having a conversation.. we are getting in the doors of the legislature and talking with folks. progress is measuredand we rea'p against year, but we here. we are forcing them to have the conversation. so that is where we stand. amy: trump in february s signed off on legislation that would make it easier for people who are mentally ill to purchase guns. can you talk about what is the history of dealing with mental illness around guns in this issue we have been talking with sarah tofte about people who have abused their family members, being able to get

inin other news: are chocolate candies the new vegetable?ded? did someone change this copy?, the today show has highlighted the life-saving work of st. jude children's research hospital. and meeting the kids from st. jude is a holiday tradition we love, join st. jude's fight against childhood cancer. watch st. jude on the today show all thanksgiving week. >>> great travel weather for this thanksgiving. but how about for black friday? you may have some travel trouble spots to contend with, especially toward the east and maybe even into the northwest. florida's one place we're going to be dealing with rain. so watch out for downpours there today and tomorrow, especially in south florida look for rain all the way i would say from ft. lauderdale to naples. frances? >> bonnie, thank you. >>> some of you up early cooking. still ahead we've got the list of favorite thanksgiving day side dishes you may be making right now. so did yours make the cut? >>> and also, the spice that's being called a fat-burning champion. we'll have more next. happy thanks for giving! thanks for giving