so we immediately began to do ththat work. and i mention it because oftentimes we don't get to see the history, the trajectory that makes it possible to engage in certain kinds of political actions, 20, 30, 40 years later. and so i think that we were helping to lay the foundation for movements against racist police violence today. as a a matter of facact, we had a caucus whin ththe organizazatn that was very specifically concerned with stopping police violence.e. amy: 47 years ago, george jackson was killed. and on the 47th anniversary, this year, 2018, the prison strike lasted three weeks from the gunning down of george jackson to the attica uprising. and prisoners around the country once again in this year rose up. at great possibility of retribution against them. went on hunger strike. wewent on work strikes. angela: yeah. that national prisoners strike was so important. we often don't recognize the degree to w which the historical memory that i was talking about bebefore please such an imimport part in the lives of prisone

they increase the possibility ththat we lose a bababy. they change the activy ofof our horormones, our sex h hormones, in a variety y of different way. >> wewe're seseeing children starting g puberty at y younger ages. so there are many little girls that have, for example, breast buds by the age of 7 in the african american community anand 8 in the white community. thihis is toooo young for our children. >> 980 endocrine disrupting chemicals have now been identified. among the most ubiquitous are a class of compounds called phthalates, bisphenol a, and flame retardants, including pbdes, chemicals so common that almost all of us have them inside our bodies. >> so you may have vinyl floors, you may have vinyl shower curtains, you may have vinyl toys that your kids are ussing. those, if it's soft a and pliabe plastic, it's leaching pthalates, which are known to be toxic, into the enenvironment where y you get exposed. >> pthalates are in many common products, including food packaging, building materials, and pharmaceuticals. they're in our c

we w wld hope ththat countrieses wowould understand that. and thatat they would d fully bk this repor and define a rulebook that would implement the paris agreement. if we do not do o that, we wilil not sururvive. that wouldld not be an apppprope ararchive for a anybody. phil: george marshall is the founder of climate outreach. he is just back in london from that conference. welcome to dw.. why is this proving so difficult ? george: it is unprecedented, the nature of the i issue. therere are some verery powerful vested intertsts. economic and national interests. governments have failed over the last 30 years to deliver. we have to recognize that most governrnments in democratic countries can only go o so far when there is a popular and public mandate. the truth is they have not been given that mandate. this is not a key issue in electitions. it is beholden on us as members of civil society to get out there e and demand t that sometg happens. or we will j just go round and round in circles forever on this. phil: scientists are clear about hoh

the lessons i've learned in the last few years have made me realize ththat many of the human trageds that we regularly witness around the world, the floods, mudslides, droughts and famines, are not inevitable. here on the loessss plateau i've witnessed that people can lift themselves out of poverty. they can radically improve their environment. and by doing so, reduce the threat of climate change. >> [singing] >> when i first came to the loess plateau, i was astounded by the degree of poverty and degradation. anand i wondered, "how could the c chinese people, thehe largest ethnic group on the planet, and d my fathers, ananmy own ancestors come from a place that was this barren?" china's loess plateau is a region that stretches for 640,000 square kilometers across north cenentral china. unspoiled valleys in neighboring s sichuan show us how it mightht once have looked. it's the sort of natural abundance that is necessary to support an emerging civilization. how could a landscape with such potentitial have been reduced toto this? when chinese scientists and civil engineers began to sur

obobously, thehe results might cause trouble inin this country, all the canandates are e convind ththat theare gogoing to win.. one of the opposition leaders already pointed out soso irregularitieses in the voting yesterday. on s sunday he said that many of his observers for example work kick out of polling statioions right before counting. he even said that in some polling stations in some prprinces of t the congo when yu typed number four into ththe voting machihines, wch w was his , the majoritity turned outut onon the screen. according to him there were irregularities and we will have to keep an eye on what happens on monday and tuesday and the next following days as s the reresults are anannounced. >> now, the bangladeshi prime minister has won a record third consecutive term. our taking about the 200 and 88 parliamentary seats after the 300 contested seats. election was marred by violence, with 17 people killed in clashes on sunday. brian quinn has more. the landslide victory for ruling party, the election committee congratulating on a third term in office. abroad know that electi

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nobodydy is ththat naive.e want to stay onon the grounud and d make sure e stability y ce maintained. i think it is fair to say americans will remain on the ground until we have pieces in place to ensure the defeat is enduring. nermeen: phyllis bennis them a that is brett mcgurk speaking last week. do you think first of all that u.s. military strikes, as said earlier, that those strikes are not only likely to continue, but might even intensify so in a certain sense, there will be continuity in u.s. policy there and that this was just a symbolic gesture on trump's part? >> i think that is largely true. i think the politics of it, as we get into the christmas holiday period when trump has been under fire for saying he is leaving the white house for 2.5 weweeks to go play golf, and otr saying, why arere you going arod the world to visit u.s. troops in harms way? he is not doing that. this may be his effort to undermine those attackers. but i think what is clear is that u.s. military and gauge meant is not fully e

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ruggiero: it's wewell understood ththat elephants have a sense of mortality. they understand that a carcass of, say, one of their family memembers has had its trunk cut off and its tusks are no lger there. they will go to an elephant that'dieded. if the tusks are therere, they will remove thehem from the carcass and pass them around equently and cararry them off into the bush, for examplele so they're cognizant. they are communicative. they're sentient. they're extreremely intelligent. they have a great memory. it's not just a a clichÉ. so they suffer. roberts: elephants are hugely matriarcrchal herds.s. you'veve got grandndmothers and daughters, granddaughters, aunts, nieces all living together. the minute y you allow those herds or individuals in those herds to be killed, you're decimating the entire fabric of that elephant society. ruggiero: usually the larger animals are killed for ivovory first. ththe social u unrest, thehe disturbance of their complex sosocial systems is completetely upseset, so even if there are numerically several hundred elephants in

among g the persons ththat joins was an attorney who is continued to be the attorney for the victimsfter i left the center for constitutional rights. juan: it has taken almost 30 years for judgment on whahat happened in panama to come out from international bodies? can you talk about why it took so long to be able to get this? >> when you're going against the most powerful country in the world, they are -- there is going to be pushed back, including the united states at every stage of this case attempted to claim that inter-american commission did not have the competency, that we had not exhausted all remedies as required under international law and the procedures of the commission, and so at every stage, the united states -- and it continues to deny its responsibility. amy: talk about the community, the neighborhood that was hit the hardest. we are talking a bomb every few minutes, massive bombing. >> it was a poor neighboborhood located in panama city. it is also the site of the headquarters of the military. claimed united states is it was doing a surgical strike. it became very ob

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ththat group joined the vienna talks on the second day of the meeting.nder r the current condititis,t is e extremely important for uso send a strong signalal to the markrkets that we are ready to t decisively and inappropriate -- appropriately. this is aimed at stabilizing prices. oil has become steadily cheaper since the beginning of october. those kinds of levels are too low for countries whose economies are highly dependent on exports. when news of the cuts emerged, oil climbed by three dollars a barrel. paul: 1 1.2 million barrels per day? that is not a huge sum. but it should be enough to put a bottom at the price of oil and have it not drop much further. 1.2 million, the u.s. alone has in the past year ranked up its oil production by 2.5 million barrels. so it is not that much. however, considering how much the down -- solution was downplayed yesterday, this was a bit of a surprise to markets. helena: more business to come. first it is over to laila for more on the yellow vests movement in france. laila: we turn our attention to france now, where t

the belt meant ththat terraces had to be built to be used for crop planting, and also for trees. the shoes were the dams which we had to build so that the hills could grow back to life, and our economy, as well as ouour lives, could improve.. >> hills and gullies were designated as ecological zones to be protected. farmers were gigiven financial compensation for not farming on them, and keeping their livestock pinned up. when i first filmed mr. ta fuyan and his colleagues back in 1995, i had d no idea this initiatative could achieve such dramatic results. the efeffort that people put into convertingng their slopes into terraces has resultlted in a marked increase in agricultural productivity. the higher yields are directly related to the return of natural vegetation in the surrounding ecological land. now when it rains, the water no longer runs straight off the slopes. trapped by the vegetation, it s sinks into ththe ground, we it is retained in the soil, taking weeks and momonths to o gently seep down andd irrigate the fields and teterraces below. rrestoration has occurredd over

ththat is what we are hearing on the ground. more importantly, they are scared. they are not coming out openly or in protesest of trying to challenge this election and a more open way. this is crucial to why there would be a reelection. back in 96, it was sheikh hasina that pushed through reelection. then she had a massive p powerfl party and the peoeople's moveme. this time you will not see that. helena: thank you, nimisha jaiswal reporting for us. elizabeth warren has taken a key step toward running in 2020. she has formed an exexploratory cocommittee. she e has had several run-ins wh president donald trump. he called her pocahontas. once to the doubts about her native american roots. dozens are m misng following an explosion and an apartmentt building in russia. this blast happened earlier in the morning when many residents were sleep tories believe it was caused by a gas leak. security forces into that have fired at tear gases wewere planning to them mash -- march on the president shall palace. crowds gathered in the capital khartoum, they were confronted by

he lied to hide this larger deal ththat was going on. it sounds like michael cohen has provided a great till 11 in support of that. that is why the mueller prosecutor said he actually should get some consideration in his sentencing. i'm not sure what trump can do to interrupt it. he wants to bring in william barr him of the attorney general, but he, too, is going to have ethical problems because he interviewed to be on trump's defense team. it is not even clear if he does get confirmed quickly that he will be able to help trump in the way that he helped bush years ago in telling me iran contrary years ago. we will see. it may be beyond from's ability to really undercut this investigation anymore. amy: marcy wheeler, thank you remote for being with us, independent journalist who covers national security and civil liberties, runs the website emptywheel.net. we will link to your latest piece "the quid pro quo was even tighter than i imagined." this is democracy now! when we come back, we go to the streets of katowice, poland, were thousands

reporter: ththat's true fofr ochieng, too, who has wiwife and yog daugught to feeded he also o has to pay t the renn their r tiny one-roooom apartm. godwin: itit's hard. we gw w up in ed. of course we don't wt t to be po anymomore. we w want a good l life. but i n't t thinthat t the powewerful will hehelp us. ththey only wantnt to enrich themselves. anwhwhen theve d done at, wewe popoor people hahave to ke o on fifighti for s surval. but if y you don't figight, youl alwaways remain popoor. reporter: godwin ochieng isn't giving up. his most important goal ishahat s dadaughter elianana ll one d d be able to attend school and hahave a better r future thane does.. host: according to the world health organization, 15,000 children under the age of five die every single day. newborns are particulalarly at risk. in m mandevelopingng and emergg economies, there's a shortage of hospitals, doctors, and modern medical equipment. devices like life-saving respirators are crucial on neonatal intensive care wards. but they'r're expensive. and a lack of themem means may babies die unnecessarily. like

possibly in order to try and attempt to five out of the three or hundndred policece forces in strasberg ththat eventually thee inindividual hasas crossed anotr therefore,order and a comic it's the search and complicates the judicial process. >> could something of changed in the recent past, he does he seems to have been a petty criminal from what we know. 27 convictions, he spent time in jail in switzerland. but we have this case which is being handled by the paris prosecutor. the paris prosecutor typically handles prosecute -- terrorist related charges. >> it's true. what you mentioned before, i overheard the discussion with your colleague. the reason why the french authorities are talking about a terrorist situation because this allows the government toto put n knight --into gladys interdisciplinary self. it also allowed the deployment which is a paris-based unit which is typically an anti-gang, anti-organized crime unit. highly mobilile and very effificient, so definitely when you talk about a penny from a ai don't know about you and i don't knknow about the responsibility, but i think that

but ththat is changing, too.ow, every morning bhanwarlal raika takes camel milk to a dairy founded three years ago by ilse kohler-rollefson's ngo. bhanwarlal: i was about to give up. i'd sold my camels. but then the organization began selling camel milk. so i got my herd back. now i can feed my family with what i earn selling camel milk. if the organization stopped selling milk tomorrow, i'd have to sell the herd again. reporter: last year he even bought more camels, doubling his herd's milk production. the dairy has also turned around tolaram raika's fortunes. when he was a boy, his family sent him to the city to earn a living. he spent 15 years toiling in restaurants, hotels, and teashops. tolaram: i worked in the city for years, and for less money than i'm earning here. i started in the dairy twowo months ago. i know a lot about camel milk. i'm very happy working here. i hope the dairy continues to do well. reporter: camels have a varied diet, eating 36 different types of plants known for their medicinal prope

i really do think ththat my lie isis a lot betteter than my grandpdparents' and d other foln mymy family'silives. my g grandparents worked on a plantation. it wasas realltougugh back i ie days i tend to live in the momentn. i don't realally like to think about ththe future. i knowow it's good to o think t it sometimimes, but i'rarather live in the e moment. host: this week in global ideas, we're ofoff to the republic of moldova. until 1991, the tiny nation was part of the soviet union. and it's still very dependent on russia for g gas. in f fact, gas makakes up a thif moldova's s import coststs. ththe governmentnt is determino ststep up its rereliance on renewawable ergieses, ich in turn is having an influence housing. our repoporter wiebke e feuersr wantnted to find o outore andd spent some time on a rheher ununusuaconstrtrucon site.e. reporter: it's 9:00 a.m. aaa budingng siton thehe ee of thehe moldovan capital chisiu.u. 20 y youngeople e have come frm all l over the world to bud da hohouse getherer. goonon weuste fromom the germn non-n-profit organanization bu& grow expxplains thathe b

ththat had not really y happen befofore. at the very last hearing, we had another very dramatic development. the fraternal order of police, maureen faulconer, and thee original prosecutor inin the cae joe mcgill, were present.t. they were alallowed into the courtroom before anynyone else. alloweden we were finally ininhe courtroroom, includuding mumia abu-jamal's brbrother kekh cook come who served in the military in the united states,, ththe courtroom was filled with white people. jim crorows a completely seating. supupporterers,umia's the majority of whom are blackck and brown, including his family members, were forced to sit in the back of the courtroom. so this is really the atmosphere and the message that thee philadelphia establishmentnt s t , that he shouldld essentiaially be careful about e decision he was about to make. r ruled inge, in f fact, fafavor of justice. and we are demanding that larry krasner live up to that standardrd, the statandard thate promiseded the people of philadelphia -- a city that is known for

and we have to come to whether or not that is acceptable to us as a society to have that alan's -- ththat balance. >> staining, coloring, or everybody wants to be the best in the world. there are a lot here in montana. many have won world titles. hunting is a big heart of our economy out here. and it has gradually gotten bad. we are competing with too many predators now. the wolvlves, the mountain l lis and ththe grizzly y bears. we use to do over a hundred elk a year. nonow we are d down to aroundd . and of lot of t them are e comig to other parts werewolves are not. that many to go around anymore. therere is a place for them, but they need to be regulated like every other animal. i just feel they haven't been. it has gotten way out o of control. our wolf season started 10 years ago. >> it was my interpretation that the states were not thrilled about t having wololves back inn idaho, wyoyoming, and montana. it's kikind of like whyhy did yu pick our s state? why do we have to live with them? our state, to be in while put t them in central park in new york? it is unfair. people tell me tha

we will be bringing ththat food and mostly t through the port, d this is why it is s so welcome d so impmportant.. the steps that have to follow, all of this has bebeen looked at the past week. we are anxious for the next round of tatalks to occurur. the fighting has had an enormous civilian t toll. there are e millions of people o have been brought to o the brink of famamine because of this war and this is why it is so urgent that the war stop and stop now. >> this civil war has pushed country to the brink of famine. half the population is facing starvation. malnutrition is widespread. aid agencies say it is all entirely man-made. >> cries of pain like this are commonplace in yemen. 2 million children under five here are severely malnourished. what have these children done that they have to suffer so much? we are all suffering. life is tough year. disease is spreading, children are starving, including disease at school. 400,000 children in yemen will die if they don't get urgent medical care. hospitals are relatively well-equipped like this one are few and fararetween. ououtside the

themselves in the mirror and recognize what they have done to thee world, which is one ofof the things ththatush was doing to the world. and i think that is the main problem. the main problem is, we need to be able to look at ourselves and say, well, what was done there, what was that gesture, that imperial gesture -- which he does like this, snaps his fingers in the air -- and thinks there is impunity in relation to that, he can do it everyone's. we cannot live with a country that does that, because that country ends up having somebody ke trump, which is the -- president bush. amy: ariel dorfman, best-selling author, playwright, poet and teaches at duke university. professor, and jose luis morin is a professor at john jay college of criminal justice. democracy now! is grilli accepting applications for full-time social media manager. details at democracynow.org. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible

. >> in ththat is a real word inl.rucking companies are worried about moving goods back and forth. thanks, samuel. >>> okay. who could forget this from the 1990s? ♪ ♪ it's not unusual to be loved by anyone ♪ >> actor alfonso ribeiro, best known as carlton, from "the fresh prince of bel air." he is now suing the makers of "fortnite." the lawsuit claims the epic games has unfairly profited. ribeiro is suing the makers of nba 2k for similar reasons. and backpack kid suing over use of his signature dance. pickle or floss. no comment yet from epic games? how can they pay these people? they are making $2 million per month. >> that floss -- how many times have you seen your kids do floss? >> in the middle of games. >>> michael cohen had a lot to say at his sentencing last week. what we will learn from michael flynn today. robert mueller with a court filings days before sentencing. >>> lock her up. that's right. that's right. lock her up. >> lock him up. lock him up? michael flynn will be sentenced today for lying to the fbi.

. >> it is really excite, because we have 12 species, and 12 new to science species a ththat wer discoveredsouth america, and so we are auctioning off the right to name those species in celebration of the 30th anniversary and it is the the ultimate gift. >> reporter: if you place the winning bid in this rain forest auction you could name this frog or this orchid or this. >> how many people get to do that? very few i am guessing, so i thought that, wow, this could not be any cooler. >> reporter: james muchmore has been donating to the rain forest for year, so he does not need a new reason, but naming a specie is cool. >> i am interested in the orchids and the ecuadorian frog who has blue eyes. >> i would name it michael finnyis equidorus. >> no, it is more special to name it after someone else. >> reporter: what are the rules? as long as it is not rude or inappropriate, you are good the go >> you are not far off of the track to name it after yourself or maybe michaelai or something like that. >> reporter: but for naming the four frogs or the orchids or the legless amphibian and an ant and a

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outside our parliament or your local government office eveven for just t a short whileo let them know ththatdemand climate action. amy: the words of 15-year-old swedish climate activist greta thunberg, who just left the u.n. that.e summit last her dad driving their electric car through the night so she could sit in front of the swedish parliament once again where she goes every friday in a school strike against climate change. here in katowice, poland, at least 30 local has schools students answered greta's call, walking out of classes today and caring the message here to the cop. they sang and chanted while sitting on the steps of the main conference hall, holding signs that said "12 years left" and #climatestrike. i live next to katowice and i go to school in katowice. i wasn't there today because i want -- i went to support the climate protests and greta and her idea and i want politicians to make a good choice for all of us. >> you said you are inspired by greta thunberg who spoke year at cop. can you talk about her message and why it resonated with you? >> i think what she did was reall