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and they're doing it. >> i really see in these veterans not just farmers but leaders of thehe farmers, leades of this next generation of farmers. they're articulate, they're focused, they're extremely entrepreneurial. they've taken on the mimilitary, anand they're taking g on agriculture. ththe'e taking on the two hardedest things in o our societyty, and they'y're not even 30 y years o. thehey're a amazing yououng mend women. >> i'm in such a bebetter mood. i f feel as thohough i have a g. there's light at the enend of te tutunnel. i've come to the conclusion that that''s exaxact it. i've sort of fofound some p peae and d contentment, a and it's en so long since i've had it that it felelt foreign to me, youou ? >> and a hundrered years from n, we look back at these times, there's gonna be someme profound things thahat are saidid about americans s living rigight now. and hopefully they say good things. a and that's-- i want to be e part of f that. >> at this point, maybe i've brainwashed myself, but at this point, i can't even imagine anything more important than growing fofood. >> thi

he was one of thehe firo recognize the link between the supply of elephants for the tourism industry and elephant hunting in the wild. >> we've beenen jumpingng up and down sasaying, if y you buy ann elephant,t, you're probabably tg another elelephant outut of the wild. we realized very early on that buying elephants was causing a problem a and hurting the wildld popatioion or at lelt the bururmese population. >> the hunting of wild elephants is ilillegal in thailand, b but eerts claim the practice is widespread in neighboring burma, and it threatens t the last healalthy populalations of asian elephants that reside there. baby elephants are particularly sought after. >> it's very attrtractive to tourists or thai p people, so everybody wants bababy elephant, and they are worth a lot of money. yoyou don't need any documents, no microchip, so it's susuper easy. you go iinto the jungle, you u catch an elephant, you train n them, andd a month later you can n get like 600,000 baht, and if you can imagine how much m money this s is in thaiad and how easy it isis to do.... >> teams of hunter

in thehe u.s., an opioid epidec is sweeping the country.illioions are addicted toto hn and prescription painkillers, but help for addicts is hard to come by. first we go to mexico, where one state is trying to tackle corruption with a female-only traffic unit. more than six billion people live in a country with a serious corruption problem. this costs developing nations an estimated $1 trillion u.s. per year. but the global fight against corruption is gathering pace. in russia, young people hahave been t taking to thehe streets. in south korea, public demonstrations helped topple the president, who's now standing trial on graft charges. there's also growing unrest in morocco, where thousands have been protesting government corruption and abuse of power. for months now, people in brazil have been demonstrating in support of a police probe into high-level embezzlement and bribery. in mexico, meanwhile, corruption is part and parcel of everyday life. reporter: it's 6:30 in the morning and time for the boss to be picked up. 400 traffic police o

correspondenent: thehe earthquae was also felt in other parts of the aegean.ple have left their accommodations, fearing aftershocks and are spendnding e night on theeaeach as wellll. the e rina seasiside resort was not spared. the tsunami damaged dozens of boats. brent: some of the other stories making headlines around the world, opponents of poland's ruling law and justice party have been protesting against a controversial bill that would allow politicians to appoint supreme court judges. many demonstrators massed outside the supreme court as the upper house of parliament debated the law. same-sex marriage will take effect in the autumn, gay people in germany have been able to enter civil partnerships since 2001 but have had to wait into one out to be granted full marital rights. cycling news, the tour de france completed if the 19th of 21 stages on friday. a long, flat course heading southwest into provence. , in the race to take the yellow jersey from the commending -- from the defending champion chris fram. a snap decision late in the race made all the dif

. >> this is an operation by the state, were the agents of thehe utilized ourte have resources, our taxes, our money to commit serious crimes. and make a we will look at how the mexican government used an israeli made spy software to surveil a team of international investigators who had been dispatched to mexico to investigate the high-profile disappearance of 43 students in 2014. we will look at some recent major news from the united nations that has received little attention.n. 12122 countrtries have approveda global treaty toto ban thehe popossession and use of nuclear weapons, despite the u.s. leading the opposition to the treaty. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the white house is in crisis mode following revelations t tht donald trump's own son openly embraced an effort by the russian government to peddle information incriminating hillary clinton in an attempt to help trump win thehe election. on tuesday, donald trump jr. personally released a series of emails dealing with a meeting he had in june 2

come take a tour of the world's best and worst places to be a mom in this new rereport from "save thehe children" and viewchange.org. man: "viewchange" is about people making g real progress in tackling the world's toughest issues. can a story change the world? see for yourself in "viewchange, the mothers index." narrator: you've heard the term lottttery of b birth. more often t than not, children born in rich countries win it, while those in poor countries lose. a child's life expectancy, health, education and so much more hinges on where he or she happens to enter the world. but there's also a lottery of motherhood, and expectant moms in developing countries are facing the toughest odds. every year more than 350,000 women die from c complications of pregnancy and childbirth, most simply because they don't have access to basic delivery care. and the riripple effect is d dramatic. whwhen a mother dies, her children arere more likely t toe poor, more likely to die before the age of five, or to drop out of school if they survive. but private aid groups and governments are working hard to

but to let me tell you, this is as bad as it was in thehe final days of watergate with richard nixon. though tremendous hostility of the press, the media, any of those press conference looking like things were in the forum, and i think the real problem here is that the president senses that the 80 you are the enemy, and i think the media if you watch all three networks and the major networks of the press,

russian government to peddle information incriminating hillary clinton in an attempt to help trump win thehe election. on tuesday, donald trump jr. personally released a series of emails dealing with a meeting he had in june 202016 at trump towr with chaired kushner and paul manafort and a person described to trump jr. as a "russian government attttorney." the meeting has been the focus of a series of articles in recent days by the "new york times." trump jr. released the emails shortly after the times told him they were about to publish the content of the emails. the explosive emails begin with a message from music publicist rob goldstone about how the crown prosecutor of russia had offered to provide the trump campaign with "some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary." goldstone went on to say -- "this is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump." minutes later trump jr. replied, "if it's what you say i love it especially later in the summer." within a week, on june 9, trump jr. met with

can you read thehe cards i in sh korea for us? why are they making this offerer now?he has a single five-year tete. he is very much committed to the former sunshine policy. the u.s. have tataken an interet in korea for a while. from 20 years ago to 10 years ago, s sth korea had two liberal presidents. he basically believed in being nice to north korea, eveven one sidedly nice in the hope it would get a dialogue going. some of these o oer issues s wod get sosolved later. 10 y years of coconservatism followed, and currentlyly there are no contacts, a and moon n is basically hoping to get kim jong-un to pickukup the phone. he had a number of proposals and suggestitis, all kininds of stuf is on offer to n north korea.. bubut kim jonong-un with raththt go on testing business sells --his m missiles. it is s something that kim m jon himself or post year ago, military talks. brent: not everyone wants this offer to be made. japan wants more sanctions. even the eu says it is considering more sanctions. as you were just saying, the sanctions have had a rather modest record in th

that information was confirmed and confirmed by the german mililiry and thehe german minisr of defense. the chain -- the german pilots were on board the helicopter that crashed, preliminary informationn says that because was a tetechnical f failure. investigations are underway to find out more details about exactly what happened. the news is that it has been confirmed the pilots have died. >> what do we know about the german peacekeeping mission? what are its priorities? >> it is a dangerous mission. german soldiers are part of the mission in mali, there are 15 thousand soldiers all to gather. -- altogether. it was approved by the german parliament in january. this mission is described as the most dangerous active u.n. miss and -- mission, because of different rebel groups and the difficult conditions in that country, weather conditions and so on. it is certainly a mission being followed very closely in germany and berlin also in different political groups. that is probably why the news of the two soldiers that died full be considered in berlin by different political figures. >> all ri

reassure those of us who are watching and our viewers who are basically supportive, i think, of thehe administration, that things are not as chaotic as they seem sometimes. >> vice president pence: we're making incredible progress, 860,000 new jobs, isis is on the run in iraq and in syria. the largest increase in defense spending in more than ten years. the president signed legislation rolling back an avalanche of red tape that came out of the last administration. and confirmed justice neil gorsuch to the supremee court, they are all part of the first six months of this administration. as we speak, congress is working to repeal and replace obamacare before the year is out. we'll be on to passing the largest tax cut in american history.r it is a time of great focus here at the white house. great promise for the country. it's all going to the leadership and tenacity of president donald trump. >> tucker: given that there is so much else going on, why would the president again tweet an attack his attorney general? why not call attorney general jeff sessions, bring him into the office,at w

this is tolelerated on thehe es of the serenengeti, inrdrder o avavoid alienating locals.hey administer these areas themselves, and income from toururism is ploughed directly into thehe villages. the edges s of the park k are s spectacular ththan its cenentert a growing number of vivisitors e findintheieir y herere, too. relations between villagers and conservationists are less tense than they used to be. sospeter: yes, we need more money, we need more money frfrm tourists. but also we need the people, we need to serve the people. documentary written and direrecd byby bernhard grzimek. ththe academy award-winning g m helped make the e park world-famous. nearlyly 60 years later, it's me topical than ever. rian: sometimemes it's difficut for us who come in from the outside, who has to tranansfer w ideas to the tanzanian team here, to really get the message over. we as frankfurt zoological society stand a little bit away and look at the whole picture from afar, and then we can see shortcomings in certain places where we feel well with experience we have, because we work inter

the vice president mike pencnce had to break thehe tie to advane the repeal bill.president donald trump heleld the resultlts shortly after the vote took placee, he's been applying huge pressure to get obamacare repealed but it's unclear whether there are enough votes to do so. a short while later in the white house rose garden, trump commented on the vote. he was hosting the president of lebanon. pres. trump: i'm very hapappy to announce that with zero of the democrats' votes, the motion to proceed on health care has just passed and now we e move forward towards truly great health care for the american people. we look k forward to that. this was a b big step. i want to thank senator john mccain. very brave m man. hehe made a tough trip to get he and vote. we want to thank senator mccain and all of the republicans. we passed it without one democrat vote. and, that's a shame but that's the way it is straight it's very unfortunate. but i want to congratulate american people because we are going to give you great health care. louise: -- brent: that was the u.s. preside

amy: thehe new south kororean president isis also oppopose tte thaad missile system a and last month orordered an investigation after learning thafour morore missssile launchers had beenen brought into s south korea. in poland, presisident trump sad in a major speech today the future of western civilization is at stake as he won against the threats of terrorism and extremism. thep spoke near the site of 1944 warsaw uprising agagainst e nazis. trump repeated his recent attacks on cnn, calling the network fate news. trump also said russia probably meddled in the 2016 u.s. elelection, along with others. pres. trump: mistakes have been made. i agree. i think it was russia, but i think was probably other people and/or countries, and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nobodydy really knows. nobody really knows for sure. amy: president trump will next travel to hamburg, germamany, or he will join other leaders of the world's top economies at the g20 summit, including his first meeting as president with his russian counterpart, vladimir putin. ahead of t the talks, thousandsf people co

if it's your business in the fullest sensnse of thehe word, you have more. then he e gave another example. he says, "you know, we are rooted in the communinity. when somethingng is wrong at the factctory, every worker goes and tries to figure out whether the neighborhood they lived, there's somebody who knows something about that who can maybe solve that problem, or someone who's had a similar problem in their line of work. we bring in the entire community because it's alll of us. wewe're not--toto use a a moder, we're not alienated from the workplace the way a worker in capitalism is, and so we have a whole raft of these advantages that give us a chance to out-compete a capitalist on many occasions." and mondragon is, again, a paradigm case. they are the seventh-biggest corpoporation in spain. . they have out-competed all kinds of capitalist enterprises. by the way, just to give e you an idea that might surprise you, mondragon has partners, people--enterprises in other countries that admire what they do in certain areas and partner with them. they have labs

kikill thehe bill!" " >> kill these bill! kill this bill! restoreant of arms will order in the chamber. >> shame! shame! amy: reporters say they were ordered by capitol police to delete photos and videos of the arrests of the activists from their phones. senate lawmakers will resume debate today. president trump is continuing go publiclyly humiliate his own attorney geneneral jeff sessssi, telling reporters tuesdaday he thininks it's unfair sessionons recusesed himself from the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 election. pres. trump: i am disappointeted in t the attorney general. he should not have recused afterf almost immediately he took ofoffice. and if he wawas going to recusee hihimself, he should have to mee prioto takining office and i would have, q quite simply, picd somebody else. so i think that isis a bad thin, not for the presidentnt, but for the presidency. i think it is unfair to the presididency. that is the way i feel. amy: trump's comments tuesday are the latest in a string of intensifying attacks again

amy: b but on monday, the high case, jointissed thehe condemnation from human rights watch and other international groups. human rights watch has documented over 80 apparently unlawful saudi-led coalition attacks in yemen that have hit schools, markets, homes, hospitals. the bombing andnd saudi naval blockade has alslso devaststatee -- yemenen's healalth, water, ad sanitation systems, sparking a massive cholera outbreak that has now infected 300,000 people, with an estimated 7000 new cases every single day. "the new york times" is reporting eric grants of blackwater and billionaire stephen feinberg, owner of the military contractor dyncorp, developed proposals for the trump administration to use more private military contractors in afghanistan rather than deploy thousands more u.s. troops as the pentagon has requested. prince, the brother of education secretary betsy devos and feinberg, developed it at the request of jared kushner and stephenhief strategist bannon. a represents an obvious conflict of interest given both print and feinberg profit off the use of private military contra

the world health organization says as many as 5000 yemenis are being infected every day and that thehe disease will l only spread further as the rarainy seasonon begins. the cholera outbreak comes as more than two years of u.s.-bacacked saudi-led bombingn yemen hahas devastated the country's health, water, and sanitation systems. this is u.n. human rights agency spokesman rupert colville. >> the fighting hugely exacerbating the ability to stop this epidemic of cholera and of disintegration of the health system in yemen as a result of the conflict at the time of cholera is a lethal combination. amy: we will go to o yemen for rere on the cholera epidemic and the u u.s.-backed bombingng camn later in the broadcast. in the united states in texas, at least nine have people died from h heat exposure and asphyxiation after they and 30 others were crammed into the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer as part of their journey to enter the united states from mexico. when the group of migrants were discovered in a walmart parking lot in san antonio, eight men were already dead. one more man died

they do not begin with putinin d certainly y not with thehe 2016 cacampaign.y begin witith long-standinig fifinanciall linkages that trump has s going backck to the 1990', even eararlier, to rusussian oligigarchs who have been popoug money y in his r real estaate ad his s casino business for quite some time. amy: layout exactly, and if you can talk about how perhaps this relates to who was in the room with donald trump, jr., donald and kushner,t son, his son-in-law, as well as paul manafort him his campaign manager at the time when they had this meeting that they will all have to be speaking before the senate committee about next week. >> sure. small to say, this is not change from russia, despite what donald trump says. this has been hundreds of millions of dollars. donald trump son, donald junior, said, almost a decade ago, he said that russians make up a disproportionate number of our investors. we of money pouring in from russia. that is a direct quote. he is been a sort of perfect vehicle for russian investments. if you look at the people who were in the

police used d water cannons, ter gas, and stun grenades to disperse thehe protests. according to the police, 29 people were arrested and more than 75 officers and dozens of protesters were injured. key issues on the g20 agenda include climate change, trade, north korea, and migration. protesters say the g20 has failed to solve many issues that threaten world peace, including climate change and worsening inequality. this is ststeve price-thomas of oxfam. >> we live in n a world wheree t eight men have the same wealth as the poorest half of the world population. that is 3.6 6 billion people. where one in 10 people live on less than two dollars s a day, where almost 800 million people go to bed hungry every night. that situation is completelyly unacceptable. we are here at the g20 in hamburg and it is essential that g20 but the quality number one on their agenda. amy: earlier today brazil, russia, india and china -- the so-called brics countries -- called on the g20 to push for implementation of the paris climate deal despite trump's decision to pull the united states o

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economy has been largely flat and has not been growing in part because the penalty and mandates and thehe regulations associated with obamacare. more not only has it made obamacare more expensive taking away choices but compounded problems with safety net programs like medicaid. i want to share a story from an emergency room employee at lake grangd bury texas and alarmed me because fewer and fewer physicians will see a medicaidt, patient, she seen influx of these medicaid patients who have coverage coming to the emergency room. or their primary care, as she points out this is not a good situation for patients and hospitals. and my state, according to latest survey at the texas medical association i've seen only 31% of doctors in texas will see a new medicaid patient that may sound crazy but let me explain why because medicaid basically pays physician about half of what private insurance pays when it comes to see a patient many of them simply say well i can't afford to see a lot of medicaid patients so i need to balance that or at least make sure i see enough private insurance patients to

when he was in congress and they wanted to have a federal constitutional amendment that would bar thehe distribution of funds to religion and ministers. it was very broad. thirty-eight states decided whatever happened in congress it would make up their own mind. when they do that they protect the money in the treasury and the conscious conscience of people.say we they say look, we don't want to pay for the playground that is going to be used to convert students. make no mistake about it. this is a christian worldview school, directly connected to a church.are they are people who say we don't want this.in we don't want to pay for this. saul protects the integrity of cap conscience for everyone who lives there. >> what does this mean for the 38 states that have a prison vision. >> they had the opportunity to negate all those state constitutions. they chose not to go that far. this would not have been a 72 decision had they decided to take up this issue. >> this was cap to a narrow decision. >> there's even a footnote that said this is specifically about government paying for playgrounds.

>> dana: it was in thehe 1990s, republicans ran on it.ho the balanced budget amendment was a big thing. bill clinton was even like oh, i'm kind of for that. it's really hard. one of the things -- to go out into the community, several different cities, you can sign up. my dad actually did one of these inom denver. basically, let's say there were ten tables of five people. you were given a number saying this is the number we need to get to. how would you balance this budget? the five of them would try to work it out. they would try to come up with solutions. basically -- they were confirmed citizens and wanted to participate. >> greg: now with the internet, you can essentially crowd sourced data and find an algorithm to create financial product which is what health insurance companies want. my problem is, we no longer have small government versus big government. the dems create a program and the republicans stir the pot until the dems are back in power. we don't have a small government party anymore. we need a third way. >> juan: it seems to me that there is a division within the republi

so far we only have a meeting that went nowhere, and suggest a certain level of naivete at least on theheart of young mr. trump, who should have known if he gets an approach from what appears to be the putin government, he should be careful to take the meeting. wouldn't you love to hear what the campaign campaign manager has to say? he was in the meeting. jared kushner was there too. he got up and left. palmetto fort was on his telephone the whole time, and not paying attention. nevertheless, he has been around a long time. he would know that what might be an approach from a foreign government is something you have to be careful with. which mr. trump did not realize. >> tucker: there's a lot of foreign influence on u.s. government policy going on in washington all the time. everyone i know has taken money from foreign governmentsfr it seems like. russia is on thee top ten list. obviously ambassadors are over here as we are inun their countries for the purpose of protecting interests and affecting policies of those governments. the russian ambassador has been a man in washington, and the o

meanwhile, thehe identity of an eighth person present at a meeting in 2016 between a russian lawyer and top trump campaign officials has been revealed. ike kavelaladze, a soviet-born u.s. citizen, attended as a representative of the father-and-son russian developers who asked for the meeting. in 2000, the u.s. government accused kaveladze of helping launder $1.4 billion of russian and eastern european money through u.s. banks, though he was never charged with a crime. the meeting in june of last year was organized after president trump's oldest son, donald trump junior -- donald trump jr., embraced an apparent effffort by the russian government to peddle information incriminating hillary clinton in an attempt to help trump win the presidency. secretary of state rex tillerson has moved to close the state department's office tasked with holding war criminals accountable. this week, the head of the office of global criminal justice told his staff he was being reassigned elsewhere and that the office's work would be rolled into another part of the state department. david scheffer, who was t

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over, thehe rain is weather story switches over to the windy weather.r hour wind gusts in southern maryland. as you get further south and east, that is where the brees has been strongest. even reagan national 32, and children's hospital at 31. a breezy day, and that is why we have the issue with trees coming down, because it rained so much that you do not need that strong of a wind gust to cause issues. down and power outages. the wind speed around 29 miles per hour. through the overnight, the storm starts to move out and the wind should get quite a bit lighter. some areas where we are watching for flooding creeks and streams is towards berkeley and jefferson counties. upper marlboro still has a flood warning in place. of the areasst where we had the high water have started to subside. 77 degrees at reagan national. the dew point dropping into the 50's. it will be really less human overnight into -- less humid overnight into tomorrow, sunday a beautiful day. aroundfew showers dunkirk, dropping into charles county and st. mary's county. a little bit of w

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at thehe same time, , they havet really com upp with any new demands or any further sanctions, which is what was expected initially, so they will reconvene in a couple of days and probably come up with further sanctions or some sort of reaction. they said they were not happy with qatar's reply. we have to see what actually will come out of it. >> it sounds like empty threats. they have extended the deadline. now the deadline has passed and nothing is happening. as youou said, we're bacack whee were four weeks ago. >> rightht. i think k what we see here is te end of a missed strategic calculation. it really seems these four countries d did not a and stillo not have a strategy on whahat ty want andnd how to popotentially acachieve it. initially,y, they thohought they wowould have the fulull supportf the e trunk adadministrationon e unitited states wowould back thn ththis pressssure againstst qatt unfortunately oror fortunately, the e trunk admininistration --e trumpp administrtration has been quite ambiguous about whatt they wawant to hapen.n. theyey itiallyly said thehey wat qatar to

reporter: warsaw claims thehe logging campaign was part of a bid to protect the forest from an invasionedles and -- of beetles. environmentalists say the majority of trees were not affected by the beetles. they say the logging is part of an effort to inject new growth into the economy. the eu has warned it could find poland 4 million euros for defying the order and 300,000 euros per day until it complies. daniel: it's back to gerhart now for sports. gerhart: cristiano ronaldo, one of football's most marketable players, has a feared in court in madrid -- has appeard in court in madrid on tax charges. he has denied accusations. reporter: the media gathered outside thcocourt in madridd where people were there. he has believed to instead arrived through an underground entrance, avoiding the crowd. he is here in the court. the prosecutor has accused rinaldo of using shell companies outside spain to avoid 14.7 million euros from taxes made -- in 2016, a barcelona star and his father were found guilty on three counts of tax fraud. ronaldo's appearance was short-lived and he was thought to have