we are joined by mustafa ali, formally with hip-hop caucus. for years with the environmental protection agency. now he is vice president of the national wildlife federation and he will be c co-moderating the form tonight with me. yes, democracy now! is here and we will be live streaming this forum tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern standard time around the world. many stations, radio and television stations, will also be broadcasting this forum so we hope you do tune in at democracynow.org or on your local station. this is democracy now! we will be back in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from south carolina state university here in orangeburg unaware tonight on this very stage, the first ever presidential forum on environmental justice will be held. democracy now! we'll be broadcasting and live streaming beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern. i will be co-moderating with former epa official mustafa ali, who is still with us, former epa official, formally

mustafa: let me just follow up real quickly on that. appreciate what you are sharing with us, but the reality is that there are some statetes that have not had the best relationship with our most vulnerable communities. so if we have e $1 trillion, $3 trillion on the federal level, how will we ensure at the state level that they do the right things to address the impacts happening in our communities? [applause] sen. w warren: good question. so let me do this both ways. in the federal dollars, they don't have to go to the state. you can make the federal dollars go straight to the communities, so the communities have the ability to say, here is our problem, we qualify for federal funding, so o you don't have a governor or state legislature in between sucking up that money. that comes in buckets and ends up being distributed to communities with an eyedropper. that is part one. but the second part i think is, you are right. we need states to have their own environmental laws. we should do this at the fededel level, but we need environmental

mustafa is also a journalist and former member of parliament. mustafa, let me start with you.are ukrainians thinking to the extent that you want to represent them about what they are hearing in washington? >> actually, first of all, we don't want to, in any way, interfere with what's going on in united states politics. from that aside, the support of the united states is very important for us, for a country which is in state of war in russia. it's very sad situation when our enemies, those who are looking for any chance to hurt ukraine or our relationship with united states are now happy with this situation. >> svetlana, what did you think when the transcript of president trump and president zelensky was released? must have surprised all of you. >> it's not helpful, i have to say. and it's not helpful because of the fact that i feel that, you know, the house is on fire. i mean, our democratic world we live in and as ukraine we're in the center of this fire. there's war going on. at the same time we feel that there is a deterioration with our extra tee our strategic partner. i

>> reporter: when one night he >> it's mustafa ali!fan, ali decided he'd had enough. >> it was a young boy, maybe six, seven years old, jumps out of his chair, and he puts both of his fists up and it hit me like a ton of bricks right there. i go, "you just taught this kid to hate people that look like you." i never felt more disgusted with myself. >> reporter: he had to start all over again, trying to convince promoters in a post-9/11 america that muslim "good guy" could work. >> ali! >> you have to have a certain x factor to make it as a w.w.e. super star, and ali had it in spades. >> reporter: stephanie mcmahon, the brand manager for the w.w.e., pro wrestling's most successful organization, says ali's success tells us something about where we are as a country. historically, professional wrestling has cast villains. they're always the enemy of the country. >> i think in the '80s that was definitely true. we're evolving as a company and hopefully, do the right thing. n> reporter: maybe, but in a errld that's hardly a liberal hotbed, al

mustafa ali began the questioning.ustafa: so we know that currently come our federal agencies have withdrawn themselves from addressing environmental injustices that are going on. can you talk about what your administration will do to fix that problem? >> i'm smiling because he asked me questions we know we talked about. first and foremost, what he means by the federal agencies pulling back is the epa, they are at half the level they were in 2010 on inspections right now. the money they're collecting from corporate polluters is at like a 15 year low. we have a federal government that right now is saying we are going to let corporate polluters do what they want to do. and we are in a time of grover norquist. this era where republican legislators sign this pledge new taxes. this has been going on for a long time, which means a lot of the mechanisms we had before to clean upup these environmental sites, the federal government is no longer pulling in the resources, the taxes necessary to clean it up. one great example is t

in turkey this is the fate of many comments of the government among those detained is mustafa humas his wife has been trying for months to find him she is fighting for his release for something. he still in my. next d.w.i. . selling sex as a. pink is for guns and blue and so far industry makes lots of money with gender stereotypes. the women and men are saying that. some business is. conformity. made in germany in 60 minutes. and i don't need to keep a debate on the people both for the over the fence and home the force i'm for the most recently that we can look for that means the bottom of the valley is at the last dragon this one has called the home to use. books on. the adventures of the famous naturalist and explorer. to celebrate alexander from the bullets from 250. 4 again on the floor each of discovery. expedition one boy. hello and welcome to focus on europe i'm lara baba lola thanks for joining us turkey's a military offensive in syria has shown just how resolute the president and a want is attacking his opponents and he is also cracking down on.

by then, the nationalist movement, under the leadership of mustafa kemal pasaha and later the movement gained a an increasingly nationalist change with an anti christian change. is engaged in a policy of and mixing the empires. this policy of course ultimately sought to create new ethnographic realities on the ground. to make it practically impossible for greek and our media to claim territorial sovereignty based on any part of an a chillier as a democratic majority. the next three years, between 1920 and 22, would be characterized by massacres, pillage, violence, and forced deportation of the ottoman non muslims. it's not specific to the turkish nation in this period. the greeks in a significant portion of western and utterly out were doing the same thing. they were creating new democratic realities on the ground. they were expelling turks, committing massacres just to terrorize them, so they engaged in policies with similar if not more disastrous consequences for the impose muslims. that was the period between 1918 and 1922 in and was equally disastrous, if not more disastrous than t

in turkey this is the fate of many comments of the government among those detained is mustafa you'll not see his wife has been trying for months to find him she is fighting for his release for a sign that he's still alive. 90 minutes on d w. d to know that 77 percent of applicants are younger than 6 of fox. that's me and me and you. and you know what time of voices was part. of the 77 percent we talk about be issues. this is where because of. the 77 percent this weekend on d w. last. block last. played. place. after the fall of the berlin november night 2 took. place. to place. this is v.w. news live from birth plan the impeachment process gathers steam u.s. lawmakers voting to make the inquiry official democrats in the house of representatives passed a resolution without a single republican vote so what does this mean for the president to go to washington to find out also coming up the last day at work for the voice of authority in the press it depends. 6 on what. the speaker of the british parliament john's.

in turkey this is the fate of many comments of the government among those detained is mustafa knew months his wife has been trying for months to find him she is fighting for his release for something that is still in my. 30 minute spondee w. . bush selling sex as a. think is for girls and blue is for farms industry makes lots of money with gender stereotypes because more and more women and men are saying that states. so some businesses are now looking young conformity. made in germany 90 minutes on the double. you fronts dear antone and here's a see here. my 3 grandchildren sleep on troubles when i was in france is ages germany was split in 2 and remain divided for decades when your mother was born in 1969 the war was already 8 years old and you know my grandchildren were born after the war film born to me trying to name 3 generations one family on a journey through recent german history. starts nov 6th on d. w. . this is news and these are our top stories the u.s. house of representatives has voted to formally proceed with the impeachment process against president saleh trump the resolut

police connected torspin's owners, mohammed mustafa, janah and nuristani with other stores.v uristani were granted american citizenship for their work as u.s. interpreters during the war in afghanistan. >> they would sell those products and bulk them out. we're talking about thousands and thousands of phones. >> easy. easy. >> detectives understood the in, but they wanted to know where the pipeline suspended. that meant getting into business with torspin, selling phones and watching where they were activated. >> devices we had sold were ending up all over the world. >> a global operation that led to dozens of places on multiple continents, russia, dubai, kazakhstan, china, and singapore among others. two weeks ago game the big takedown. under cover cops set up a deal too sweet to resist. 900 brand new iphone 11s. goods worth $1.3 million. police say the big fish had been hooked. officers for multiple agencies raided torspin and seven other properties. arresting the store's three owners, seizing 350k in cash along with a bounty of firearms cops say were legally bought. the ad

. >> my name is mustafa, and i am a midfielder, but right now, i am trying to play as a goalkeeper, becauseed a goalkeeper. >> soccer u.s.a. is a nonprofessional organization. we use sports, soccer in particular to engage communities that can benefit from quality programs in order to lift people up, helping to regain a sense of control in one's life. >> the san francisco recreation and park department and street soccer u.s.a. have been partners now for nearly a decade. street soccer shares our mission in using sport as a vehicle for youth development and for reaching people of all ages. rec and park has a team. >> i'm been playing soccer all my life. soccer is my life. >> i played in the streets when i was a kid. and i loved soccer back home. i joined street soccer here. it was the best club to join. it helps me out. >> the tenderloin soccer club started in the summer of 2016. we put one of our mini soccer pitches in one of our facilities there. the kids who kpriez the club team came out to utilize that space, and it was beautiful because they used it as an opportunity to express themselves

and she says mustafa nayem? and he says, i'm sorry i'm not ukrainian. and she says, neither am i. odd. what was he trying to do there? >> well, we can look into some more nefarious motives. i think americans are not necessarily familiar with a very common practice in the eastern europe part of the world. what have you. this is how people refer to each other in that part of the world. but he was perhaps -- i mean i think think i know what you're getting at. perhaps suggest that your allegiances aren't with the united states. and the only reason we would reach that conclusion -- by tv commentators we should say. this was not adopted by the -- but nevertheless, probably because that approach was tested on cable news, landed with a spectacular thud, and nobody adopted it. this does smell like that. but i'm hesitant to -- to say that that's what this was because it is so crass. >> noah, nick, and zelena, you guys are sticking around. don't go anywhere. up next, new reporting that one of those indicted ukrainian americans with ties to rudy giuliani is willing to cooperate with the impea