but takei is used to breaking barriers.riers. >> ready to leave orbit, captain. >> reporter: when "star trek" began in 1966, he was one of the first asians to star on american tv. for years, takei spoke publicly about his internment, but the idea for "allegiance" did not occur until he discussed it with composer jay kuo in 2008. you yourself have been very outspoken, going around the country to speak about the internment. why is that? >> people i consider well informed people are shocked when i tell them about my childhood. it's a vital part of american history, and americans don't know it. and we have to know our history to learn from it. >> reporter: and takei says the internment needs to be remembered so it is never repeated. >> sreenivasan: hear more from george takei, including his views on how the japanese- american internment during world war ii remains relevant today. visit us on facebook at facebook.com/newshour. >> this is pbs newshour weekend, saturday. >> sreenivasan: cancer researchers are optimistic about an e

takei has become an internet sensation. he is bringing his talents to broadway.nfluenced by his experience of being sent to internment can -- camps during the second world war. his story is central stage area and -- stage. >> i have very real memories of the internment camp. i remember the barbed wire fences, the sentry towers come a and i remember going to school in black tar paper barracks and we began the school day with the pledge of allegiance. i can see those words where fences right outside my schoolhouse window as i recited the words, with liberty and justice for all. >> we're setting a standard for the rest of the world in the treatment of people who may have loyalties to an enemy nation. >> it was outrageous to put the government to think that we have an inborn, genetic loyalty to the emperor of japan simply because of this face. we are americans. was stripped of everything except for his family. in the middle of his life, lost his business, our home, his freedom, and so it has been my mission in life to bring this issue of the incarceration of japanese

. >> and actor george takei boldly goes where he hasn't gone before -- broadway. >> jukebox musicals are usually based on a hit songbook, but there's often a compelling personal story, as well. >> that is certainly the case with "on your feet!", which tells the tale of gloria and emilio estefan's journey from cuba to international stardom. >> come on, shake your body, baby, do the conga i know you can't control yourself any longer feel the rhythm of the music getting stronger don't you fight it till you tried it, do the conga beat >> it's a love story between somebody and their music. it's a love story between somebody and their culture. it's a celebration of that culture. it's a celebration of the traditions that make you who you are. get on your feet get up and make it happen there are concert moments and there are those moments of audience interaction. and it's amazing to kind of share that, 'cause it's never gonna be the same. it's always gonna be like a [ laughs ] >> and she kills those concert moments, by the way. i'm not lying to you. i will stand offstage, in the wings, and w

joining me now is actor and activist george takei. good to see you again. >> good to be with you.his play, for this musical. >> well, as you said, i spent four years of my childhood in three internment camps. one was the horse stalls of santa anita racetrack. and then from there, we were sent to the swamps of southeastern arkansas. a camp called roar. and there the loyalty questionnaire came down, a year after imprisonment, and my parents said they took our business, they took our home. they took our freedom. the one thing we're not going to give them is our dignity. we are not going to grovel before this government. and they answered no on that loyalty questionnaire. and for that, we were sent to a hard -- much more severe camp in northern california. >> walk this back a little bit. what happened was people's businesses were taken away, their property was confiscated. >> bank accounts were frozen. we were -- everything was taken from us. >> and so then the government comes to you and asks you what? asked your parents what? what's the loyalty oath? >> that came after we were in pr

but rather than seeing who is whynot takeis good, a step back and say do i need this thing i am aboutbuy? this is why we launched campaign because it was lucy seg al, the journalist and broadcaster who said, if only people could just stop for a second when they buy something and think, will i wear it a minimum of 30 times? this is the problem today that fast fashion and fast food. fast fashion has addicted us to a cycle of buying. we don't even think about it when we buy now. we don't. francine: especially if it is on the internet. because we need to spur economies but livia make some great points. what a pleasure to have you on "the pulse". manus: indeed. so you're going to be moderating the panel. up next, russian defense ministry of knowledge is that crashed injets has turkey. turkey said it shot down the aircraft after policy ignored warnings it was violating turkish airspace. we break the story down after this very short break. ♪ let's talk more about the shooting down of a russian jet by turkey. the video shows the moment the plane was had. ignored repeated warnings that it was

takeie: so they will not the behavior.here anything we can do to get them to change their behavior. let's i think of all the often be very careful about lifting theons to ensure that actions they are supposed to have taken they had taken. i worry that if we ignore the little things that we will end up ignoring the big. when thean by that is head of the guard went to moscow, that is a violation of the u.s. security council resolution and yet we said and did not. york elites ofew the first broken windows. when you ignore the little stuff -- the little problems the big problem seemed, more often. i think we have to be rigorous holding the iranians to be agreement that they may in terms of the un security council resolution and not let sanctions until the early have done what they have pledged to do. that is one thing we need to do. then i think we need to just be here that we are not going to give them open field running in that region. we will not off for a relationship with iran in place of the relationship with our sunni f

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. >> actor george takei spent four years in the internment camps and he released a blistering responsethe roanoke mayor's statement. "there never was any proven incident of espionage or sabotage from the suspected enemies then, just as there has been no act of terrorism from any of the 1,854 syrian refugees the u.s. has already accepted. we were judged based on who we looked like, and that is about as un-american as it gets." joining me now, democratic representative mike honda of california, who was sent to an internment camp when he was nine months old and lived there from 1942 to 1945. and representative jerry nadler, a democrat of new york. congressman honda, let me begin with you. what was your response when you saw this statement that was put out by the mayor of roanoke? >> well, i was very, very saddened by what he had said. and the things that he said was very inaccurate. first of all, he called the japanese-americans japanese foreign nationals. and we were actually u.s.-born citizens. 120,000 of us, 2/3 of us were natural-born citizens. and the rest of us could not become natu

k --ember georgia tech takei, the actor who is thatn broadway, saying there was music and baseball teams and other things. there were even boy scouts and girl scouts. they tried to make the best of the terrible situation they were in. susan: we have another video to show you. byis a home movie made another japanese-american internee. he recorded some of the scenes of what life was like. narrator: this is a shot of the evacuees doing the volunteer work of digging. the pipes used to break. crew would road repel the pipes. prepare -- repair the pipes. hit.is a dust storm that everyone had to keep their windows shut tight it was very hot with no air-conditioning. that kept you cooked up inside your barracks. my brother came and he was wearing his u.s. army uniform and he kind to come through our regards to visit his family. susan: what about the men of military age? peter: it was confident his situation. at first the military resisted any involvement by japanese-americans as soldiers. but they finally decided, mostly as a public relations gesture, that they would set up a composed oftalion j

entire country, you know, from congresswoman maloney and congressman king in new york to congressman takeihawaii to congresswoman of arizona. senator gillibrand of new york. senator kirk illinois, senator viler -- vitter in louisiana. i mean, how can you go wrong? bipartisan, all over the country. but then you get into the fact that all of a sudden you've got the head of the judiciary committee in the house who comes outs and says we want to give another five-year bill. >> instead of making it permanent. >> instead of making it permanent. and he himself, congressman goodlatte, has 26 first responders who rely on this bill in his own district. 26 first responders who came and worked the pile in new york who are now sick and who are registered on the bill, rely on the bill and yet the chairman of the judiciary committee under the darkness of night tried to sneak a five-year bill underneath. all of a sudden -- it's so suspect. the timing of the bill is so suspect. it comes at a moment when the senate, as you said, has crossed that filibusterproof line and the house has 240 co-sponsors. how do

in response, japanese-american actor george takei, best known for his role as hikaru sulu on the television series "star trek" wrote -- "my family and i spent 4 years in prison camps because we happened to look like the people who bombed pearl harbor. it is my life's mission to never let such a thing happen again in america." tens of thousands of students at dozens of universities across the united states protested wednesday against racism on campus in a day of action called #studentblackout. the campuses included yale university harvard university, , dixie state university in utah, the university of california berkeley, tufts university, and stanford where students held black balloons, which organizers said symbolize the weight and burden of being voiceless. the day of action was called for by the black liberation collective, which issued a series of demands ahead of the mobilizations, including reparations in the form of free tuition for black and indigenous students and school divestment , from for-profit prison companies. each university also issued a local set of demands, which range f

actions takey seen place in frankfurt and dusseldorf. 100,000 passengers are expected to face disruption be unaffected. lufthansa says they are always ready to resume negotiations. said they mentioned irregularities in volkswagen. the financial fallout of the scandal could be more than $9 billion. the lord -- the world's biggest shipping line said that trade is growing at a slower pace than thought. they say the engine is slowing down and trade is significantly lower than normal. they pointed to the slowdown in weaking markets and commodity prices. sam dos remains in a trading whole. the gas producer was to plug a hole in its finances, cutting its debt. we are in sydney with paul. shareholders will be able to apply for one new share for every 1.7 that they hold, which should raise some money. live will be another placement -- santos will also sell the 35% stake in one of its gas fields in victoria, giving them three point $5 million to pay down debt. things have not been going to well for most companies involved in the energy sector with prices for oil down 40%. santos is off 54% in the

too, takei would say, a look at what that means to smaller countries, someone like malta on the front lines. whenrtionally speaking, you look at the populations, one migrant landing in malta is the equivalent of 750 landing in south florida. when a boat, a smaller rubber raft that is grossly overloaded with 100 migrants, and it's only , that's thet dinghy equivalent of 75,000 migrants landing in the u.s. you have concerns. how are we going to accommodate these folks, make sure they are ok medically, that they have food, water, shelter? that can strap some of these countries quickly. depending on the migrants and if they stay in that country, you can see there's a chance to change some of the culture and fabric of the country. i speak to malta, because i was posted as the coast guard advisor at our embassy there, thealso, i would say migrants, it's a humanitarian crisis, and the european partners and north africans, many of them are doing the best they can to respond. there's also a law enforcement aspect. there's the transnational organized criminal networks that are enabling and are