noel white said the price increase is probably the first time african swine fever has significantly affectedusiness briefing this hour 100 extra army personnel will be deployed to south yorkshire today to help the recovery effort in areas hit by flooding. the government has announced a support package including compensation for small and medium—sized businesses which aren't covered by insurance. it follows the evacuation of more than 1,000 properties. ben ando reports. emergency supplies reaching the flooded householders wish lake in south yorkshire. james is typing it out, now six days in, surviving on no heating and a single lightbulb. two dogs, a god talk kenneth eric to ta ke two dogs, a god talk kenneth eric to take care of, he says evacuation is not an option. everything is wet, it's destroyed. but the big picture is that these bloods have swelled into an election issue. jeremy corbyn visited the area yesterday and described the government's response is woeful. the lid gems have a similar message. we cannot leave people living in this awful sense of fear. it is wrong but it seems to be

noel ignatiev has died at the age of 78. he was the co-founder of the new abolitionist society and co-editor of the journal race traitor, whose slogan was: "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity." noel ignatiev spent decades theorizing about white privilege and calling for the abolition of "whiteness," saying -- "the white race consists of those who partake of the privileges of white skin." he was also the author of book "how the irish became white." he died on saturday at his home in tucson, arizona. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i'm juan gonzalez. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. televised impeachment hearings begin today in the inquiry into whether president trump withheld military aid from ukraine to pressure the ukrainian president to investigate his political rival joe biden and his son. two witnesses are testifying today before the house intelligence committee -- george kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, and william taylor, a former ambassador and the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine.