it's the capital of our petro-chemical industry. it has been developed without a lot of care and attention to the issues of flooding. it has been developed wouithout lot of attention to the issues of pollution and certainly the issues of environmental justice. and so a lot of the low income residents of color are going to be hard put to return to homes that may be polluted with petro chemicals. we have an ammonia factory that exploded. there is going to be a lot of careful and difficult cleanup. and some of these problems so many years in the developing, tavis, are going to be years in the solving. >> we'll go to houston in just moments when you and i finish talking to dr. robert bullard, who as you know is the father of environmental justice and get his take. as you know what happened. he wrote a book that i'm fascinated about, he wrote that when the government comes in after disasters often times they do more damage than good, certainly to communities of color. i want to hear what he thinks will happen to the indigent, to the poor

critic of the ukrainian government ultimately distancing himself from his previous ally president petro poroshenko r.t. correspondent kate partridge a look at how the two western darlings who were once the closest of allies swiftly became rivals. remember this guy. the former georgian president turned ukrainian governor has gone from state's man to state less in less than two months the western backed star who'd once led the anti corruption rose revolution in georgia launched an offensive on the former breakaway republic of south ossetia. plus the georgian president chooses over his next move is he we could or stronger than before and even been hillary clinton's nobel peace prize nominee so what had gone wrong. in twenty fourteen he flew to ukraine amid the my down uprising gave up his georgian passports to become ukrainian and set about reforming the city of odessa but it didn't go as planned. ironically it really is opponent is ukrainian president and former friend petro poroshenko another darling of the west who brought saakashvili in to help drive the kind of change that did once ma

. >> the first name written is petros. >> reporter: petros.ics found here now closely guarded by the vatican. can we see the bones? >> we can't see, no. if pope francis decides to open an investigation, this could become a place of worship, a place of great pilgrimage. >> reporter: perhaps these relics of st. peter were hiding in plain sight. a plaque at the entrance says they are here. and tonight many are beginning to believe it. keir simmons, nbc news, rome. >>> you can see more of keir's reporting tomorrow on "today." we appreciate you spending part of your evening with us. that is "nightly news" for this wednesday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. the a )s have picked a ln to build a new ballpark...but will the city of oakland )play ball )? >>> that's awesome. right now the a's have picked a location to build a new ballpark but will the city of oakland play ball? plenty of questions and concerns for the a's o start building. the news at 6:00 starts,000. >> the raiders and warriors wi

. >> the first name written is petros. >> reporter: petros.s found here now closely guarded by the vatican. can we see the bones? >> we can't see, no. >> if pope francis decides to open an investigation, this could become a place of worship, a place of great pilgrimage. >> reporter: perhaps these relics of st. peter were hiding in plain sight. a plaque at the entrance says they are here. and tonight many are beginning to believe it. keir simmons, nbc news, rome. >>> you can see more of keir's reporting tomorrow on "today." we appreciate you spending part of your evening with us. that is "nightly news" for this wednesday for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. watching and good night. >>> i blame donald trump for all the hurricanes in the world. which i did not say. >> so what did jennifer say and what did she mean? >>> who are you going to call? the telethon moments you missed and are those picture us of the twins? >>> who's your daddy and mommy? the famous parents of these young fashion week

mind boggling that republicans in order to maintain the good graces of the koch network and other petro billionaires . i get it that the koch brothers network literally has more employees more money more offices than the entire republican party but they are more powerful when it comes to republican members of congress they're the ones who can who can primary somebody they're the ones who can destroy or build careers they're doing this from the federal level all the way down to the local level with their states projects and alec and everything else you know i get all that but we're talking i mean fifty people died last week you know many more people may die next week billions of dollars in property damage also that koch industries an exxon mobil on a couple of dozen other fossil fuel companies can make an extra billion dollars and we only first of all i do not do not accept the precisely that anything scientifically inaccurate well they're not beholden they're they're damn beholden donald trump is not beholden to the koch brothers coarsely no it's not he's absolutely not they didn't supp

the petro you want deal if you want to call it that oil is going to be priced in chinese yuan but the yuan is not particularly desirable currency in china saying no problem with back it up with go well that's reflection of the fact that china spent the last ten years quadruple in the gold reserves you couldn't do that you couldn't stand up to the market and say bring in your you want we'll give you gold unless you have some gold and china's reserves have gone from about six hundred tons in two thousand and six to officially one thousand eight hundred tonnes but that's a bogus figure this every reasonably that china has closer to five thousand tonnes perhaps more that's a little bit of detective work i do some of it others have worked on this problem but we know chinese mining output of four and fifty tonnes a year we know chinese imports to honk on we know swiss exports to china we have enough data and we know they operate through military channels by the way my contacts in the gold dealing community china confirmed that for me when i was there in shanghai not long ago i said commutes

. >> the first name written is petros. >> reporter: petros.s found here now closely guarded by the vatican. can we see the bones? >> we can see not. >> when pope francis decides to open an investigation, this could become a place of worship, a place of great pilgrimage. >> reporter: perhaps these relics of st. peter were hiding in plain sight. a plaque at the entrance says they are here. and tonight many are beginning to believe it. keir simmons, nbc news, rome. >>> you can see more of keir's reporting tomorrow on "today." we appreciate you spending part of your evening with us. that is "nightly news" for this wednesday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. >>> the selfie cam with jamie foxx. oprah's video sneak attack on the stars. >> stevie wonder backstage. >> the candid moments, the star collisions you didn't see on the a-list telethon now on "extra." ♪ extra extra >> sofia planting her face in oprah's hair. julia posing with gwen. renee behind the scenes as george, leo, cher, justin help

and it's an amazing interview and he you guys talk about china and china basically destroying the petro dollar so at this sort of moment in time i think it's quite important that the u.s. starts to take care of itself and figure out how to stop destroying itself how to stop committing economic monetary and financial suicide and yet the rampage that private equity the entire economy from the corporate sector to the private sector to the public sector is all hollowing out everything and it goes down to as you talked about being a little child a little child now what destroying all the hopes and dreams and fun of little richard just in the in the second half rickard question alone people he tells a story about the cia gift shop the less about eight minutes you can get through that entire no i find it very interesting because he got me an amazing gift from there are not allowed to tell you what it is whole story i was in some place in langley by kids who was there a lot of people were there what we did what we talked about but trust me it was interesting it has a helicopter and like well th

back to energy free says you know i see a republican party that is completely beholden to a couple petro billionaires the koch brothers and other big fossil fuel interests massey and exxon mobil and what not and therefore they're willing to lie about science on this the fact of the matter is nobody is disputing this the temperature in the atmosphere temperature worldwide is nine tenths of a degree celsius about a degree one point three degrees fahrenheit warmer than it was the year that ronald reagan was inaugurated there's six percent more moisture in the atmosphere the gulf of mexico was between two and seven degrees depending on where you measure in the gulf warmer than it has ever been measured in all the time that humans have been measuring temperatures in north america and these are and that is the fuel for hurricanes and these are those. these are the signals of global warming and these are the things that make it worse and i just find it mind boggling that republicans in order to maintain the good graces of the koch network and other petro billionaires i get it that the koch brot

you know, we're the -- it's the largest petro chemical refining capacity in the united states. port arthur is where most of the aviation fuel moves through. we've got to protect this area for the people who live here and for the safety and security of the nation. >> congressman, in the past few minutes, there's been some news made on daca. perhaps you've heard. president trump says he's going to have a decision if not this afternoon, then certainly this weekend. you'll recall back in february this president promised that his plan would show, quote, great heart. according to pew research, there are roughly 120,000 folks in texas covered by daca. second only to california. what would you advise president trump to do? >> well, first thing i want to be sure is i'm confident msnbc has reported that president trump made a $1 million personal donation. >> we have -- >> to the hurricane victims of harvey. have you guys reported that? >> we have been reporting it all morning. >> that's great. that's great. because we're all americans in this fight. we all of us respect the rule of law.

this is the beginning of the petro metro. this goes on for 30 plus miles all the way to galveston bay. it even wraps around galveston to to texas city and then baytown and onwards to port arthur, beaumont. amy: can you talk about what has happened to this industry in the midst of harvey? >> yeah, so a lot of these plans had to go into emergency shutdown prior to the storm coming. that is a precautionary move, but it is one that they know is going to happen, particularly if a hurricane is coming. over the years, they have done nothing to prevent the toxic release of the chemicals that are sent out while these shutdowns are happening. amy: this area did not get flooded? >> i don't believe this area got flooded. it was ok. but the smells from all of the burn off from many, many refineries is something that they had to contend with. it is something i could smell even two miles from here. this is westway. these are storage tanks. i am the sure what they have in here, you know? a lot of times it is really hard to know what these fa

was once a close ally of ukraine's president but they fell out last year after saakashvili accused petro poroshenko of blocking efforts to tackle corruption he has also made plenty of enemies in his homeland georgia and also here in russia as well here's a quick reminder of mr saakashvili divisive career. or. she. told us. all of. it was a. complete shock it's. coming . political commentator martin summers told us saakashvili dealings with ukraine it show the deep chaos gripping a country. is wanted for corruption in joules it was as we know of course the danger of him coming back this is that the full net with the most experience in but it's still just a face. so the second bit of a risk by trying to come back into the country is very old that he's a play such a big role in ukrainian politics and seasoned ukrainian and being given the governorship of the adesa region which is a very keen region especially because it's cold as russian population or he was parachuted in really by by the west and palace i think what's going on is just shows how to. train in politics all the you know the re

who became known as the man who saved the world has died at the age of seventy seven son of stuff petro of was in charge of the soviet union's early warning radar bunker on september twenty sixth one thousand nine hundred eighty three when computers indicated that missiles had been launched towards russia from the us our procedure required him to immediately retaliate with nuclear weapons but petrof held back correctly believing it to be an error. well still ahead in this news hour at long last mr president here is your enemy thank all it takes to take center stage at the emmy awards with former white house press secretary sean spicer making a surprise appearance plus. this is a bomb. this is if you. look back at some of the u.n. general assembly his most memorable moments over the past seventeen years and three months after the war pipeline though championships in seoul north korea are holding their own version of the. business update brought to you by they always going places together. business update brought to you by they always going places together. the united states has celebrate

ironically really is opponent is ukrainian president and former friend petro poroshenko another darling of the west who brought saakashvili in to help drive the kind of change that had once made him such a hit in georgia but the two have clearly fallen out of love. so . apparently saakashvili lied while applying for citizenship and bar shanker has since renounced that citizenship of his university powell while the latter was visiting his own call in new york. both men were backed by washington both raised to power on the wings of popular uprisings and both are now all but failing so i can't believe seems a spent force he's without a state wanted by his native georgia and not wanted by his adopted ukraine maybe it's time for another period of u.s. exile while poroshenko zone popularity is in tatters the latest poll says only two percent of ukrainians still support him the revolutionary idealism that brought him to power amid the flames on the my done has descended into disillusionment. perhaps the chosen leaders of popular uprisings are always vulnerable to having the various support tha

we meet petro from germany, he runs a beach bar here.e ask him how much he pays his 18 employees. >> the job machine works brilliantly. if you worked in athens 8 hours a day, you'd get 25 euros a day, that's net. social security payments are on top of that, like in germany. here the daily wage starts at 40 euros - so if a waiter earns 40 euros plus 40 to 50 euros in tips, that's 90 euros a day, which is quite a lot of money even for germany, right? >> but is 90 euros a day really a lot for a seasonal job, when you have to pay to live in an expensive place like santorini? we meet tenia again after work. she says the problem of where to live is indeed a huge challenge. >> the owners prefer to sell their places to tourists, like for some amount of money per day, and that doesn't work for them if someone wants to stay there and pay a rent for a month. >> one thing is clear, not all employers in santorini are bad and exploit their employees. we visit andreas patiniotis. he employs 130 people in his hotels, which are all luxury establishments.

this is the petro chemical oil area of the country. there are many, many of these plants in this storm and the issues raised not only with the flooding but with the power and everything that comes with these storms is being looked at by many, many agencies right now that the environmental protection agency watching very carefully what's happening here. but this, unfortunately, is oftentimes what happens in these sort of major disasters where you have water rising over many, many days and it can be a slow, sort of unfolding disaster. this may be just one of many days that we see of this. erin? >> all right. thank you very much. as we get more, we'll go back to miguel here on the scene. i want to go to one of the top officials here. it includes houston and the fire at the plant you are looking at right now. the sheriff is back with me. and let me get to the breaking news here. obviously, we see that black, thick smoke coming from that chemical plant. there was a fire yesterday. this one of course is much bigger than that one. you have cr

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but it‘s interesting that nobody it seems in the west and certainly not petro poroshenko, the ukrainianent putin says those un peacekeepers should only be on the line of conflict, not throughout the disputed territory and certainly not on the russian border. this proposal isn‘t going to fly unless putin gets real about what those peacekeepers should be doing. do you accept that? this is a wrong description of the russian initiative. yes, the peacekeepers should have one complete mission to protect the 0sce observers according to the mandate given to them by the 0sce and the mission of the 0sce is to observe, it‘s not about taking part or keeping peace, it‘s not about forcing any part of the conflict to peace. any peacekeeping or peace enforcement mission should be accepted by both conflicting parties. these both conflicting parties are inside of the ukraine, not outside. in in case the leadership of donbass or luhansk would accept the presence of un peacekeepers elsewhere, let‘s do it. but for me the most important thing is not about where peacekeepers would be deployed. the most import

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ukraine is mr saakashvili's adopted homeland but he was stripped of citizenship after accusing president petro minister of the indian capital, delhi, has ordered an inquiry into the alleged rape of a five—year—old girl at school. arvind kejriwal made the announcement during a second day of protests about the authorities' handling of a separate case in which a seven—year—old boy was murdered at school. he was killed apparently after an attempted sexual assault by a bus conductor. italy is also experiencing flooding at least six people have been killed in flooding and landslides caused by a torrential downpour in the italian city of livorno, including four members of one family when their basement home was flooded. pictures of the city's streets show debris and wrecked cars lifted and dumped by the force of the floods. experimenting with robotics can be expensive and because of this some of the latest technology is only available to those with lots of resources. but one research team in georgia is hoping to solve that problem by offering access to their swarm of small robots to anyone with a goo

ukraine is mr saakashvili's adopted homeland but he was stripped of citizenship after accusing president petroruption. italy is also experiencing flooding at least six people have been killed in flooding and landslides caused by a torrential downpour in the italian city of livorno — including four members of one family when their basement home was flooded. pictures of the city's streets show debris and wrecked cars lifted and dumped by the force of the floods. the foreign minister of bangladesh has described myanmar‘s treatment a new conversation regarding north korea's sanctions will be held on thursday afternoon. they faced condemnation and a un resolution needs nine votes in favour and no vetoes by any major countries involved in order to pass. the foreign minister of bangladesh has described myanmar‘s treatment of its rohingya muslim community as "genocide". violence and persecution inside myanmar — formerly known as burma — have caused large numbers to flee in the last two weeks, with nearly 300 thousand now on bangladeshi territory. the cause was a major military crackdown, sparked by ro

dollar this is a tweet from jim rickards who has been warning about this for years our ip petro dollar russia will sell oil for you on swap you on for gold weirds the u.s. dollar and all of this nowhere and this is based on the story we'll get into which is that china is launching a yuan based priced crude oil contract which you can. buy for you on but convert immediately to gold yeah this is massive you know few countries have tried this before remember saddam hussein tried to trade oil in your o.c. was assassinated a member of moammar gadhafi try to trade oil in your own he was assassinated then your third guy was also was yet a guy anyway countries have been trying to get out of the dollar for quite some time and trade oil in something other than the dollar the world reserve currency because of course any time you buy oil you have to buy dollars first besar keep the dollar up but now china has taken the bold step here in the twenty first century and after they've built our economy on the backs of all american jobs all the american jobs went to china and the created a middle class ou

guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have petro he is a professor of political science at university of rhode island and we.

guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have petro he is a professor of political science at university of rhode island and we have to me he is a political analyst we spoke to international all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it professor let me go to you first here. where are we in this relationship right now we talked about this earlier edition of bullhorns. what does each country want to achieve in this spiraling downward effect it wants to embarrass the other side yeah that's tit for tat and it's like to bullies in a schoolyard i guess they they have to keep sniping at each other so it's a prestigious you right now more than anything else particularly on the issue of the expulsion of diplomats in the closing of these diplomatic missions the interesting question that we were talking about before before cameras came on was the issue of rules and are there still rules that apply and i think what we're seeing now is the erosion of rules which is neither the

is mr saakashvili's adopted homeland, but he was stripped of citizenship after accusing president petroht corruption. the chief minister of the indian capital, delhi, has ordered an inquiry into the alleged rape of a 5—year—old girl at school. arvind kejriwal made the announcement during a second day of protests about how authorities handled a separate case in which a 7—year—old boy was murdered at school. in mexico, hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless by an earthquake in the south of the country. the number of people killed by thursday's quake has also risen sharply to 90. hundreds of families have reportedly been camping in the streets, afraid of more aftershocks. rescuers say there is no hope of finding any more survivors under the rubble. no, it is no longer a search for people. it is now more a support for the community. we're recuperating belongings, whatever can be retrieved. we're assessing the damages and helping the wounded. pope francis has had a minor accident while driving through the streets of cartagena in colombia. he lost balance and hit his head aga

years ago and that is to me the oil yes the oil is a factor especially middle eastern because of the petro dollars but i think i think in the case of russia here you have a very important day a political interest in in building a new. wall between russia and and the western allies in order to keep them the western allies firmly under u.s. control indeed so would you say that the that the rhetoric around the danger of putin's russia the rhetoric that essentially putin is that is a tremendous threat to the west. in the world would you say this is ultimately just rhetoric coming from our record do you think that there is any threat posed to western europe and the united states well i think this is a total fiction and what it what is absolutely astounding to me and to number of other people is how you never missed this story is being managed is being protected the whole the entire. us media followed. by my german media. the french are a little more skeptical but the the this this and the french private they don't believe it for two minutes. and the german business class doesn't believe this ei

on that basis courage and determination we salute you and another meeting with ukrainian president petro poroshenko he said ukraine is coming along pretty well and express the two countries are working together on both security and economic matters we spent some time recently in the white house and i know you've made good progress since then a lot of progress actually. and i would say it's the easiest place right now to live but you're making it better and better on a daily basis meanwhile the president of yemen told the united nations today that iran into quote destabilize the region and said his government hopes for peace with the shiite who the rebels but emphasize the problem in yemen is quote not a political difference that cannot be managed around negotiation tables alone and then iraq could i emphasize from here i would renew it willingness to stop the war on achieve peace we are not war mongers we desire for peace and i was and will remain extending my hand for sustained and responsibility for all citizens of the m.m. states and other news the united nations security council unan

the basis of courage and determination we salute you and another meeting with ukrainian president petro poroshenko he said ukraine is coming along pretty well and expressed the two countries are working together on both security and economic matters we spent some time recently in the white house and i know you've made good progress since then a lot of progress actually. and i would say it's the easiest place right now to live but you're making it better and better on a daily basis meanwhile the president of yemen told the united nations today that iran and to quote destabilize the region and that his government hopes for peace with the shiite who the rebels but emphasize the problem in yemen is quote not a political difference that cannot be managed around negotiation tables alone and then iraq our emphasize from here i would renew the willingness to destroy the war on achieve peace we are not war mongers we desire peace and i was and will remain extending my hand. and responsibility for all citizens of the m. and a and other news the united nations security council unanimously passed a