nonow, i know w that a bigger pt of thehem really wts to be i in diomede. they were h here 6 weeks ago, ad they were so happy. i want to be taking care of my parents. but i asked my mom. her tone of voice was she really neeeeds me here. knowing that they prefer native foods, i'm sending in the stuff they enjoy from diomede, 'cause i worry about them. tthese are a a mixture of fofoon oioil. this one is baby walrlru. this one is the breast milk of the walrus. this is oogook intestine. it's really rinsed clean, half-dried and cooked. baby walrus. the walrus skin, plus a little bit of the blubber. it's really y hard to dig in the barrel. your hands freeze going in. the oil is frozen, and you're digging. it's hard. you gotta be rereally tough f fr that. jjoe: yeah. ok. frances: sometimes cabin fever gets to you because diomede is so isolated. those moments i always call my alcatraz time, you know? 80% it is alcatraz, t t 20% it's paradise sometimes i go down this one, pick cabbage along t this side, me up this w way... and then i g go down anonother ridge, spide

amy: from new york, this is democracy nonow!r other explanatition e might become an excellent nation is also that it i is the cover-. the president has been engaged in a cover-up all along. amy: a white house cover-up. a cia whistleblower has accused the trump administration of attempting to "lock down" information about president trump's request for the president of ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election by launching an investigation of

amy: from new york, this is democracy nonow! whateverer other explanatition e might become an excellent nation is also that it is the cover-up. the president has been engaged in a cover-up all along. amy: a white house cover-up. a cia whistleblower has accused the trump administration of attempting to "lock down" information about president trump's request for the president of ukraine to

amy: from new york, this is democracy nonow! whateverer other explanatition e might become an excellent nation is also that it i is the cover-. the president has been engaged in a cover-up all along. amy: a white house cover-up. a cia whistleblower has accused the trump administration of attempting to "lock down" information about president trump's request for the president of ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election by launching an investigation of -- into democratic presidential candidate joe biden and his son hunter. this comes as support for impeachment grows among house democrats. we will speak to pulitzer prizee winning joururnalist james rise. then to egypt, where at least 2000 people have been arrested over the past week as mass protests grow against president's trump favorite -- president trump's favorite dictator abdel fattah el-sisi. >> trump and cc have permitted a close relationship. devoid of any kind of criticism of each other. dangerous, could be that it further embololdens sisi to crackdown even further without

well, breaking the sound barrier today, we are joined by democracy nonow!eo streaming by a climate youth activist from afghanistan who was invited to participate in saturday's first-ever u.n. youth climate summit, but the u.s. just rejected his visa. he is a 12 grade student at the united world colleges tylan international school where he is the leader of local sustainability programs. he is from afghanistan. he just learned this happened. welcome to democracy now! itit is great to have you with . tetell us what happened. onthank you for having me democracy now! d degusust 28, that was the i got my invitation letter f frm the united nations that i was invited to participate in the united nations youth climate summit on october 21. i applied for a visa on september 9. i had my interview and u.s. ambassador in bangkok -- amy: you had to fly to bangkgkok from two cat, tylan, just to apply?y? >> yes, i flew to bangkok with u.s. citizen teacher from my school. he accompanied me to bangkok to apply for the visa, interview appointment was 7:00 a.m., prpretty e ear

he spoke to democracy nonow! in 2014. arere on a sentencing frzyzy. this is s not just aboutut me. it is almost as if it is a war on a whole generation. amy: to see our recent coverage of the crackdown in egypt, visit democracynow.org. houthi rebels in yemen are claiming to have killed 500 saudi soldiers and captured ththousands more during a a majr attack into saudi arabia in august. whilile the houthihis released o of the reported incident on sunday, news o outlets he yet to veverify the claims. the spanish newspaper el pais has revealed the cia worked with a spanish private security company to spy on wikileaks founder julian assange inside the ecuadorian embassy in london where he had sought political asylum. assange lived in the embassy from 2012 until april when he was arrested by british authorities. ecuador had hired the firm undercover global to protect the embassy, but thehe firm reportey also secretltly handed over audo and video to the cia of meetings assange had with his lawyers and others.. the firm installed secret video cameraras inside the embassy and placed microph