in madrid, spain, we are joined by saleemul huq, climate scientist and the director of the international centeror climate change and development in bangladesh. advising the bloc of least developed countries in the climate negotiations. we welcome you both to democracy now! begin withq, let's you. you have, as so many have said, the climate emergencies taking place around the world right now. you have got the wildfires in australia. you have got the floods. you have the droughts. you have got climate i gratian at a level -- migration at a level we have not seen. what is happening here? is this a copout? and what role is the u.s. playing? -- 2019nk the year 29th in hindsight will be seen as the tipping point when human induced climate change became a reality. we can attribute many of the things you just said, the magnitude of them being the over anything we've seen before. and that cannot be attributed to the fact we have already increased global temperature by well over what degree centigrade and that is already having an impact. and we are headed for three degrees and nowhere near the 1.5 degre

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good morning for the 5th of december live from the out international center here in moscow we hear from. stick around too for next $25.00 but it was done in this 1st russia's foreign ministry says the expulsion of 2 embassy employees from germany's unfriendly and unjustified claims there's evidence to link to the murder of a georgian national in the german capital several months ago chancellor angela merkel is also accused russia of not sufficiently cooperating with an investigation into the shooting. it is a muslim and we took this measure because we did not see russia supporting us in clarifying this murder and in context of course he also talked about this with allies we consider this move unjustified and friendly a politicized approach to their investigation is unacceptable we are forced to implement an integrated response but more of the story here the 40 year old victim was an asylum seeker of chechen descent he was targeted in a berlin park on the way to a mosque with witnesses it was shot in the head and chest by a man on a bike with more details on the case is our correspondent

morning just 10 10 am here in moscow this wednesday the 4th of december live from the arts international center is kevin only within the half hour of 1st the trump impeachment saga than steps up a gear in washington today where the u.s. house intelligence committees delivered a damning report detailing how trump allegedly abused his office for personal gain . examines the document in more detail. well the report from the house intelligence committee democrats essentially alleges 2 things about donald trump 1st it alleges that he conditioned military aid to ukraine on an announcement that would have been beneficial to his reelection campaign and secondly it alleges that he obstructed the house of representatives impeachment inquiry investigation now adam schiff representing democrats came forward and painted a pretty grim pricks here donald trump and his activities this is adam schiff this report chronicles a scheme by the president i'd states to coerce an ally ukraine that is at war with an adversary russia into doing the pleasure of the president's political dirty work and he was willing to sa

they're welcome to the program this 24th of december live from the arts international world news center is kevin though in here with the update thanks choosing its 1st then u.n. officials and rights groups have denounced saudi arabia's punishment of those involved in the murder of journalist your saying it makes a mockery of justice 5 people have been sentenced to death and 3 others to jail time over the killing but a un appointed rights investigated believes the people actually behind the german this cruel murder have been left untouched while the spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general is also stressed the importance of further probe the secretary general continues to stress the need for an independent and impartial investigation into the murder torture for examination of any accountability for human rights violations committed in the case. jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi conscious in istanbul in turkey in october 28th when he was murdered a un report said his death was almost certainly a state planned execution but the saudis insist it was the result of a rogue o

but during the work week most things take their usual capitalist course in this international finance center. hong kong streets tell a different story on sundays. hundreds of thousands of hong kong citizens are turning out in mass displays of civil disobedience. at the beginning of this wave of protest in early june the masses were demanding the withdrawal of an extradition bill which would have allowed hong kong to deport criminal suspects to china the. the outrage over the proposal took lawmakers completely by surprise. kong kongs pro chinese chief executive carrie lamb seen here at her inauguration 2 years ago in beijing underestimated the extent of the citizens anger for far too long. the people's wrath grew ever more threatening with each confrontation between activists and the police. and the angry citizens of hong kong feared that the law would expose them to china's arbitrary legal system. as carrie lamb retracted the controversial bill at 1st reluctantly but then more resolutely she had long lost control of the situation. carlos and often this is going to withdraw the bill from the

their first stop is usually the international center of kentucky, which has helped resettle refugees since 1981. albert mbanfu is the executive director. >> when i moved to bowling green, my thought was, 'well, i'm coming to this little small city and i don't thinke'll have up to 10 refugees.' >> yang: between october 2018 and this september alone, more than 460 refugees came to bowling green. now, though, president trump's migration policies are creating uncertainty for those seeking refuge here. this fall, the administration set the cap on refugees at 18,000 for the year that began in october. that's the lowest level since the official u.s. resettlement program began in 1980. and bowling green, the seat of warren county, which the president won with almt 60 percent of the vote in 2016, felt the change immediately. in october, mbanfu's agency didn't resettle a single refugee, the first time that's happened in his six years as director. what would you say if you had the opportunity to sit down with president trump?n >> our heart. search your soul. the united states is theio greatest

coming from our international news center here in moscow every day this is our team welcome to the program. are being over the credibility of the international chemical weapons watchdog. says more leaked emails published by wiki leaks reveal concerns from yet another member of the team which proved the alleged attack in the syrian city of last year he says the final report into the incident misrepresents their findings. the fact finding mission report does not reflect the views of all the team members that deployed to doom or only one fact finding mission team member a paramedic of the so-called fact finding mission core team was in duma we are not insisting on being right in our assertions but we are demanding to be heard we have been stonewalled throughout by obfuscation exclusion and even thuggish and bullying behavior. the alleged chemical attack in earlier for a last year with glee killed dozens of civilians you know the states and its nato allies france and the u.k. were quick to jump 1st strikes against syrian military targets the biggest western military action of the 80 year war y

military presence in space with sara flounders from the antiwar international action center. here isn't really a star wars on steroids you could say being proposed by. president trump new legislation. part of the largest u.s. military budget and when you look at trump statements it's not only to place weapons in space in is to dominate. this is a direct threat and so dangerous act there is an escalation and deliberate intentional as culmination of a threat against china a new enemy has created a new threat when you could compare the nation's space 800 u.s. bases around the world no one country has been to the aircraft carriers or global no one or country has. and now to the place weapons. israel's ambassador to the united nations has launched a scathing attack on the international criminal court accusing it of a diplomatic terror it's after the organizations chief prosecutor announced plans to investigate alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories. i am satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation into the situation in palestine war crime

satellites used for communication and surveillance but sara flounders from the antiwar international action center says it's more about washington weapon i think space. here is really a star wars on steroids you could say that's being proposed by. president trump in this new legislation he part of the largest u.s. military budget and when you look at trump statements it's not only to place weapons in space in his to domineer. this is a direct threat and so dangerous act there is an escalation and deliberate intentional escalation of threats against china a new enemy has created a new threat when you could compare the militarization of space in the 800 u.s. bases around the world no one country house auction going to the aircraft carriers or glow no wonder our country has gone and now to the place more weapons and space funding for the space force was confirmed on friday when president trump signed off the $738000000000.00 annual u.s. military budget that is what in the hawks are to follow the money trail. we spend more than the next 7 countries come and that includes trying to rush of north korea

international center of multi generational legacies of,. thequestion i have, ultimate decision-makers in terms of future thomas. -- traumas. futureways invoke generations, right? the hope for future generations. decisionsany of the are very immediate for the next four or eight years. about the give a damn impact of those decisions on next generations. i would like your views on that. it's not only presidents. it's many decision-makers. that's because of the political system. i would like your views on that. ran hitler's man, -- hitler , he was considered an idiot by some and not taken seriously. we know the multi generational effect of that. >> jackson? >> that's a tricky one. that's a serious and difficult question. i agree with you that residents do always -- presidents always talk about future generations. reagan is a good example of a isd of genial demagogue who talking the kind of game that gets everybody feeling good. good about america is back and what he meant by america was, turbo capitalism. guess what i think you are getting at i

auburn has an international center for climate and global change research, and university of alabama does climate change research at its earth system science center. iowa state, all by itself, is responsible for 117 papers on climate change. on agriculture, corn, grazing lands, yields, on weather, precipitation, drought, temperature, even on beliefs and behavior related to climate change. last but certainly not least among e.p.w. republican states is indiana, home to two world-class universities doing extremely impressive work on climate change. indiana university and purdue combined for 289 papers. they are also home to the center for the study of global change at indiana university and perdue's -- and purdue's climate change research center. now, i hope it goes without saying that universities who study climate change and who publish scientific papers on climate change also teach climate change in their course work. maybe we should spend a week here in the senate getting a refresher on the home state climate change science. it might do us some good. but we don't. we waste week after

dominance in the region both era flounders the head of the international action center calls american punitive measures pure terrorism. the united states uses a number of rationales for its actions in the middle east which are largely driven by balance of power desire for to preserve its position and gemini in the middle east one of those is human rights democracy promotion restricting weapons of mass destruction upholding international norms these are the standard accusations for intervention in places like syria iraq sanctions on iran whether it's sudan and other places i think it's about iranian power in the middle east which challenges america's allies it's about america's position in the middle east and its dominance over the persian gulf that's what the united states is doing it's trying to pin back iran weaken it force it out of places like yemen syria iraq so it's going to escalate and that's why the united states is sending more troops the gulf and taking more measures to try to put pressure on iran but the death strategy is only going to make iran strike back iran has very l

from our international news center here in moscow this is our to your world welcome to the program my name's unanimity. after a series of her injuries against protesters it's come to light that french authorities were warned of the dangers of using tear gas grenades against demonstrators as far back as january last year. the company that makes the military grade devices wrote to the french interior ministry about the safety risks all of its grenades being used by riot police. the blast a fact of the devices produced by an expose of substance a likely to maim or mortally injured an individual well those within 10 sound effects can cause irreversible hearing damage the resumption of production is impossible without completely reviewing the production process well in a letter leaked to the french investigative news website media part the money fucks for a warns the defects in the grenades were identified but not resolved france is the only european country where riot police use the weapon despite the warnings they're still used on occasion been known to simply explode when being the gasc

monday night just to hear more of the 23rd of december welcome to this live update from the international news center with me kevin owen and 1st the nurse mentioned the renewed concerns in the u.k. over the state of the national health service after a woman died in hospital of cardiac arrest fallingwater family say was a 6 hour wait for an ambulance i mean broken a foot outside a home in south wales donna gilby was left lying on a freezing pavement until help eventually arrived the ambulance services apologized for the lengthy delay but also emphasized too that the n.h.s. is under enormous strain. we are sorry that our response took longer than we would have liked on this occasion lengthy waits for an ambulance or a sign of pressures across the whole unscheduled care system not just in wales but across the u.k. our t. shirt it was dusty next takes a close look tonight at the tragedy and the raft of challenges faced by the n.h.s. well we're hearing story upon story of the state of the n.h.s. and the crisis within it but this one really has shocked the nation after a woman died after waiting for 6 hour

take a closer look at this with france's kayla's he's a senior research at the bus lane a center for international affairs and he joins us now from barcelona france's let's start with the tell out the election commission put it at just 33 percent 2 hours before polls closed so millions really voted for another process here by refusing to cast ballots. well the 1st thing one must say is that nobody has any idea of what the real figure of algerians implied put to vote is officially it's 24000000 but there's been no independent assessment secondly of the electoral roll was updated in the last few months but we have no idea whether all those are all jurors entitle to vote have had their names put on or more on the electoral roll thirdly it was announced a few days ago that anybody could turn up in a polling station and with his identity card and if its name happened to be on the list he could vote this is the 1st point the 2nd point is that a number of people have been voting are very funny people in algiers you had queues of younger people who were in their twenty's no older people no women and some

cutting edge of policy making joining me and i'm sure gets out as executive director of the international trade center what the chief executive of helps of what other alley our laid out party is the chief executive of the investment promotion agency here in qatar and i was lehmann is the regional director for the g.c.c. at the world bank welcome to you all thank you for joining us today. i want to start with what could only be described as a threat to globalization this trade war between the united states and china presidents president trumps threats to our plan the post-war liberal order including attacks on allies and institutions like the world trade organization foreign direct investment into emerging markets as a whole fell last year to its lowest level since the 1990 s. according to the international institute rather for international finance and that populist call from trump for companies to repatriate money and reassure production back to the u.s. appears to have resonated i want to get your thoughts in particular on that but ali let's start with you we can you had a up an agency that's that's

we have an international center of multi generational legacies of trauma. the question i have -- presidents are the ultimate decision makers in terms of future traumas. they always start by invoking future generations, right? the hope for future generations. in fact, many of the decisions are very immediate for the next four or eight years. they don't give a damn about the impact of those decisions on next generations. i would like your views on that. it's not only presidents. it's many decision-makers. that's because of the political system. i would like your views on that. don't you remember, when hitler ran, he was considered an idiot by some and not taken seriously. his country went totally behind him. we know the multi generational effect of that. >> jackson? >> that's a tricky one. that's a serious and difficult question. i agree with you that presidents always talk about future generations. i think reagan is a good example of a kind of genial demagogue who is talking the kind of game that gets everybody feeling good. about america is back and what he

but clearly they want to market hong kong as an international center to get back some of that tourismthe conferences that were canceled. whether an advertising campaign can do that, especially if we continue to see large protests, that is a question. clearly, they want to promote that image. it interesting that came out this week as carrie lam was meeting with officials in beijing and getting their full support. clearly a message they are trying to send to the world. paul: senior international editor jodi schneider in hong kong, thank you so much. still to come, growing speculation the dollar could lose its currency crown next year. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: this is "bloomberg daybreak: asia." i'm shery and in new york paul: and i'm a paul allen in sydney. there's growing speculation that the dollar could lose its currency crown in 2020. joining us now from singapore is mayank mishra, standard chartered global strategist. this week, strategists were saying they see the u.s. dollar getting knocked off of its throne thanks to the persistent deficits. what are your thoughts on that? de

prior to this she has been a fellow at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and she also held numerous other positions as researcher and she was a staff at the house committee on financial services. then we have eli whitney, he's currently a partner at a law firm. but prior to this position, he served as an executive director of the world bank from 2007 to '10. he has extensive experience in major international financial transactions in the capital markets and functions at the forefront of trade liberalization advising with respect to world trade organization, panel procedures. earlier this month he served as a witness on the u.s. house committee on financial services hearing on multilateral development institutions. third we have blaze mishtoh he's a fellow, and lemost recently served on a congressionally mandated project convened by the u.s. institute of peace. prior to that he was director of the by partisan security center program where we researched policy recommendations concerning a variety of national security issues including iran and its nuclear program, u.s./tu

had colonial masters for a time but one the riddance left hong kong the left a pretty international financial center judicial structure. when portuguese left macau, essentially it was still a gaming enclave. it was dominated by one person, one country. it did open up the game industry in 2002 and their economy really took off. but politically macau has been much more stable than hong kong. it is going to have its third chief executive today. it is fairly stable in comparison to hong kong which has seen a succession of chief executives, some of whom were very unpopular with the public. also a slightly different structure in that its political part has been different. a much stronger pro-beijing force in macau. demographically there has been a huge influx of people from mainland china to work and live here compared to hong kong, where the influx of people coming in from china has been much smaller in comparison. economically, they rely on macau for gaming. already dependent on huge part for china because the mac a nice government gets 80% of its revenue from gaming. that means it has been keen to embr

to this, she had been a fellow at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and she also held numerous other positions as she worked as staff at the house committee of financial services. duboise have eli whitney who is currently at the law firm but prior to this decision coming he served as executive director for the world bank from 2000 seven until 2010. mr. dubois has extensive experience in major international transactions. with respect to wto's and proceedings and regional trade integration. earlier this month on the 13th of november, he served as a witness at the u.s. house committee on the financial hearing on multilateral institutions. misztal. have blaise a fellow here at hudson. most recently, he served as the executive director of a transcript -- of a task force on fragile states which is a congressionally mandated project . prior to that come he was bipartisan the policy center's security program where he managed a team responsible for researching and developing policy recommendations concerning a variety of national security issues including a ron and it -- iran a

joining us it's better conley from the center for strategic and international studies.n talk about the lead narrowing, but does that really mean we blend up with a surprise friday morning -- we will and up with a surprise friday morning? heather: we don't know. even a hung parliament is certainly within the statistical margin of error of that most recent poll. three outcomes. one, there could be a significantly larger conservative majority. the smaller one seems to be where the polls are heading or in fact they don't receive a majority. so much of this building will depend on turnout. over 3.5 million voters registered right at the very end. in this tactical voting, which means that individuals are not voting for the party that they want, they are just making sure the party they don't want our successful. a hungt's say there is parliament because, in a way, that is the interesting outcome. a conservative majority, we can expect brexit to move forward. what could we be looking at theoretically with a hung parliament? how does the prospect of a brexit look there? you coul