amy: we will speak with award-winning virgin islands writer tiphanie yanique. then to south asia, where more than 1300 people have died and more thahan 40 millionon have bn impacted in some of the worst flooding to hit the region in decades. >> if our demands are not fulfilled, what should we do gekko we have to speak in the side of the road, die on the side of the road, we have nothing. we don't have a house. nothing to you. we don't have food to eat. everything was swept away by the floods. amy: we will go to kathmandu, nepal. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to demococracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. north korea fired a ballllistic missile across nororthern japan friday, just days after the u.n. security council approved a new round of sanctions against the north kokorean regime. the intermediate-range missile triggered air raid sirens across the island of hokkaido, drawing condemnation from japanese prime minister shinzo abe, who called it totally unacceptable. in response to the test, south korea conducted a m