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for mamany young peoeople here, europe stitill has an allure. despite the odds, they hope they can make it big there. but as more and more migrants return, a different story is being told. senegal is hearing from a new generatition; a generation thas learned d from bitter experiene -- and is warning people to stay. >> and now to britain, where it's evident that europe is anything but a paradise. a fifth of the country's population is considered poor -- that's 13.5 million people. rents are so high that there's barely anything left for other expenses. low earners often spend as much as two-thirds of their income on housing. many can't even afford to heat their homes. the socially-deprived say the chasm between rich and poor is growing too wide to bridge. >> the royal borough of kensington is one of the wealthiest areas in britain. famed for its pristine streets lined with upscale bars, bistros and boutiques. residents here earn almost four times the national average -- and have the country's highest life expectancy. but next door is the other sid

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around the world peoeople take o the streets. ♪ music momar: they use tear gas, electric batons, plastic. it was a very, very hard day. narrator: protests like these in dakar and senegal spread to many other cities. there were similar riots in egypt and in india. in haiti the president was overthrown. the reason? high food prices. one of the major causes: climate change. villagers are leaving their homes simply to survive.

james -- theink the peoeople question people are asking is what is the impact on humans of this hurricanend there are substantial impacts on sea level , the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere and therefore the amount of rainfall, and also the strength of stotorms. humans are already impacting all of those to a substantial degree. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in texas and louisiana, at least 30 people have died, more than 17,000 people are in shelters, hundreds of thousands are under evacuation orders, and all past u.s. rainfall records have been shattered as tropical storm harvey continues to wreak climate chaos in houston, the fourth largest city in the united states. around 4:00 a.m. this morning, harvey made landfall for a second time, just west of cameron, louisiana. in texas, a third of harris county -- which encompasses houston -- is currently underwater. houston officials have imposed a mandatory curfew between midnight and 5:00 a.m. exxonmobil says harvey has damageged at least t two

local news reports that tens of thousands of peoeople are expecd to turn out to p protest against trump's campmpaign-style rally t the phoenix convention center. there's widespread speculation he may pardon the notorious sheriff joe arpaio today, who has been convicted of contempt of court for defying a court order to stop his deputies from racially profiling people and then detaining them on suspicion of being undocumented. arpaio is a major supporter ofof trump, whose policies have included detaining immigrants in a scorching outdoor jail which arpaio once referred to as his own concentration camp. in ohio, the father of a steubenville high school player convicted of rape in 2013 shot and wounded a county judge near steubenville courthouse monday. as joseph survived the shooting, and the suspected shooter is the father of a boy who served 10 months after begin the could of raping a 16-year-old girl. the judge was not the one who handled the rate case and authorities are still looking for possible connections or a motive. in bristol, rhode island, members of the pokanoket nation have lau

he has talked to me about how he and i and my peoeople and his people should team upup becausee are bothting against the same establishment of the same globalisists. i say to them, you believe in racial separation. i believe in r reparation. there is a similarity. thinknd lots of nazazis they're fighting against the establishment, but racism is the establishment. capitalism is built on racism from the ground up. when you have this worldview that kind of looks at everything upside down and backwkwards, i just don't know how to reach him and how to prevent him from doing the things that he says he's going to do. amy: christian picciolini, when you hearr peter speak, jacob uncle, what are your thoughts? >> from what i heard from the clip from peter and what i heard from jacob is that what peter is saying is straight out of the manual. he is repeating all of the things he has been taught. i just want to give the viewers a little bit of hope. when jacob says he is too far gone, i don't t believe anybodys ever too far gonone. i i have workedd with grand dras of the kkk who have been in for 40