fact is the associate professor of law at the university of detroit mercy school of law joining us via skype from detroit michigan good to have you with us why is gun control such an issue in the u.s. all right apologies i think we're having issues connecting to. do and we'll try and get him back a little later on we'll move on and donald trump plans to travel to las vegas on wednesday that's after he flies to puerto rico to see for himself we have a caused by hurricane maria so he's on his way to the u.s. territory right now and should land within the hour trump will be meeting with the scenes like this a country that's nowhere near being back on track since it was pummeled by. the storm wiped out the power grid there is little phone signal and fewer than half of puerto ricans have access to fresh water the pictures you're looking at is trump flying into puerto rico now trump will be keen to smooth over tensions between himself and local leaders who he were rated when they criticized the u.s. his response to the disaster well we live to san juan in a moment after a.j. plus looks at the stan

professor of international development and global studies at the university of ottawa he's joining us via skype from montreal on the very good to have you with us on al-jazeera is a thursday's vote going to be free and fair do you think. i mean this is this is definitely the question and. then attention yes. i think the vote is not necessarily going to be here in the big and. we're going to see a spectacle i think tomorrow. more of a surreal election i think is going through the motions of democracy. certainly in the government that you believe stronghold areas. there will be a lot of emphasis on trying to get people turned out. very dissatisfied. have been even paying or subsidizing sending buses ferry people or constituencies people have to vote in their homes. so those you'll see long lines of people showing up to vote and absolutely. i don't expect to see violence and i don't expect to see any sort of incident at the time. of an election but i think it's going to be very questionable whether that's actually. you say that you don't expect to see why then so you're not worried then about the

david wagle "washington post" reporter joins us via skype. >> thanks for having us. thanks for having me. >> we see polls all over the place. one ralph northham 14 point ahead and other one point difference. why are democrats concerned about this particular race. >> average poll northham up by 6 and he's been up by anything from four to seven through whole campaign. they're not papicing about the race. they're more nervous. the democratic national committee out fundraiseed a lot by the national republican commit tee up investigated in july and it's been early that they'll try a bunch of new things in terms of data and vote he's and invests heavily in the race because they needed win by end of year and one. >> and we've soon a lot of those local state house races elsewhere across the country and smaller victories for democrats. when you look at the big picture and talk about special eye legislations from congress it was republican, republican, republican, win. let's go back to alleged trump effect. as irwin stelzer mentioned president trump is not republican in the se

and i'm really happy to say, right now, live, we have daly with us via skype. >> hi, everybody. >> have had other discoveries since we saw your story. >> some of the other kids have turned up other matches on these dna findings groups so there are four more. >> daly, are you my daddy? >> at some point, as your wife said, we might have to pump the brakes on this. >> no, when we were dating, early on, i said, there's this thing that might happen in a few years, that you should know about. she's like, oh, great. sounds fine to me. we'll embrace them as family. that's been her approach. >> what do your kidds say about the other siblings you have with your wife? >> cassidy was lucky enough to have her tenth birthday with ten sisters in mexico. >> have other fathers reached out the you and asked, how do you get somebody to embrace what you've done in the past? >> this story just shows that it can be perfectly normal to use a donor to have kids. >> besides their looks, anything that reminds you? >> the karaoke part. three-quarters of them can really sing. >> was there every a moment in mexico,

washington post fact check reporter joins us via skype. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> did i read that number correctly, 1,318 false or misleading claims? >> you did. >> well, many of them are repeated claims he often talks about obamacare, often talks about creating jobs that he a lot of times doesn't have anything to do with, those two are some of the most repeated claims that we've seen. and we started this project on day one of his presidency. and now he's averaged about five claims per day. >> so we mention this, there has been a lot of fact checking, media been doing and i think there still seems to be blow back whether you point out thing, let's go back to one of the most famous things, looking at a rally. they said all along mexico would pay for the border wall yet in this situation now where the debate is he's saying okay, congress will pay for it, so there is a lot of people out there saying the media is coming after the president, not listening to what saying, but some miss truths out that plane to see

our friend cabot phillips joins us via skype. you you shared this on social media over the weekend. this is something that i thought was pretty interesting. we have colleges age campuses are making sure people aren't being offended. this year a student run magazine put out a flow chart to help you you pick out your halloween costume. this is if you're white you have a separa s what you can be, what gender you are. a different set of standards. is your costume political. go for it, any other political custom you you should reconsider. if your kows tomorrow has anything to do with the continent you're not from you you need to be sure you're not wearing it and really it just kind of paints a picture of a broader problem we see at college campuses or something many people view as a problem of this high beer sensitive culture we've created. there is a line, obviously there are some things you don't dress up asment when it comes to halloween we see people banning som \bear\bare oh kows toms and cowboys and indians. average customs that kids have been dressing up as. now all of a sudden it

of a foreign policy analyst at the russian international affairs council and in delaware in the us via skype lawrence korb a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense good to have your with us so nicholas circle let me let me start with you then how significant is this visit for russia is it a recognition of their place now in the middle east. well you have described the situation correctly it is a breakthrough and it's a recognition by the so at least by the so what is of the new russian role in the region so it's it's a very important step because now russia will be treated as an equal partner and an important player in the region so that was the case and besides that we have very interesting deals very important deals in economy and arms trade so all things are very important but i think the most important issue will be of course mutual understanding about syria because without so any help it won't be easy to or it won't be even possible to reach a political solution which is certainly necessary lawrence korb how is the u.s. going to be looking at this given that given the state of relat

sofie he's the president of the muslim association of hawaii joining us via skype from honolulu itself tell us why you're pleased with this ruling and why it was important for hawaii. yes hi thank you for having me this travel ban that discriminates against an entire population of over one hundred million men women children and just based on the nation of letters in relation it's certainly an american and unacceptable so this is a huge victory again we want to first when we took a quarter of the muslim band version one and version two this is that their version because quite frankly just in north korea and in them as well that's not changed if this is a clear discrimination against people when no other reason than being born in that country and that stinks i believe that you were speaking on behalf of the muslim association of hawaii right now but tell us why you think this is important for how why itself well why is a multicultural beautiful place to which people this is going to affect travel this kind of fact students coming to our university is going to. folks that are here for bus

engine second shut down and say i don't want to give away the secrets but with having you come to us via skype how do you do that now i'm in the u.k. right now ok all right let me just ask you this about cameron's anglophone crisis and we were asking our community economic deprivation is about language is it a cultural issue this is what office says all military at all the trainings in cameroon a most official documents are done in france no one cares about the angle of it's still the issue or has it changed in the past or. and that hasn't really changed i mean the government has created something they're calling a multicultural commission liberalism and multicultural commission which she is intended to address issues like this i'll bet at this point we still see a lot of communication coming out of government offices in french it's interesting to note that the language of command in the country military is french which means that forms of years must take office and present and so it's things like this that have caused many and reforms to feel that there is a systematic attempt to raise the id

the president taking his notice, jean joins us via skype from north dakota to tell us more about thegetting. you are a hero to a lot of people because of what you did. >> to some, maybe not, a lot of fun. heather: you have done this before with other messages. how do you do it? >> i have done several over the years. gop get your act together, thank you veterans, a lot of things like that. heather: you take your tractor, is that how you take your tractor through the field, don't use gps or anything? >> no, just a 135 massey open seat with no, no gps, a disk on the back, in the beanfield, count the number of roles for the length and width of the letter, just estimate. >> you count the number of rows manually. >> each letter is approximately 50 x 125' so it gets pretty big. heather: you go up in your plane and take a picture. >> i have a home built plane, i take a picture. if it works out i put it on facebook and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. heather: the people love it. are you a fan of the nfl? >> not a great football fan but i watch it once in a while. heather: you don

. >> neil: thank you very much the former new york police department commissioner joining us via skype. it does show to the commissioner 's point that isis is still interested flicking some harm in fact isis wanted to take a bow for what happened in las vegas so far authorities there say there's no reason to think isis was behind it and it might have been paddock acting on his own he could have had help preparing for it but not isis related help. way too early to say this much is not we have to be vigilant former cia analyst what does that mean? you and i talk about this a lot about being vigilant about being aware of what isis wants to do that still want to inflict a great deal of damage that want to recruit people to inflict that damage. how do we stay on top of that? >> sure it means not just being vigilant in terms of law enforcement and intelligence check efforts which nypd and police and the fbi all around the country are doing on a daily basis but everybody has a role to play and in many of these cases where we see radicalization occur, whether that's online radicalization, whet

you're going to say goodbye to that and tony i want to is the last in america analyst he joins us via skype from miami and city good to have you with us what do you think donald trump meant by that i mean really is going to wipe out both rica's debt. you know with the you never know what he actually means as you've probably heard the whole thing about the certain people take him seriously but not literally others take him literally but not seriously and this case i think we probably have to take him seriously but not not literally i my my gas is that he's not talking about somehow pushing for a full pardon of that debt but that was already you know the target has been defaulting on its obligations for a couple of years have been operating under a law called which is as a qualified bankruptcy law that was specific to puerto rico so already it was pretty clear that most of the banks that had. standing puerto rican debt were never going to get paid in full that they would probably have to and that debt would be paid at some sort of a discount now with this complete and utter catastrophe in pue

is the spokeswoman at the council on american islamic relations and she's joining us via skype from baltimore maryland thank you very much indeed for your time give us an indication just for context of please the kind of feelings that refugees have as they're going through this process to try to get into the u.s. . you know it's a very exhaustive effort just for them to be able to not only have to endure the circumstances that are forcing them to flee their homes but also have to go through this scrutiny of having to prove themselves being worthy of being resettled in other countries including the united states and now with this talk of excessive vetting or its excesses scrutiny that's being you know waged on many of these refugees unfortunately for many muslim majority countries specifically it's ends a message that you know they can go through the most difficult of circumstances they can endure incredible hardships and still be faced with this blanket kind of suspicion that they have to prove that they're worthy of being resettled and they deserve to be safe and secure and it's just deeply

nichols is national affairs correspondent of the liberal weekly magazine the nation he joins us live via skype from madison wisconsin. it was metaphor who got all the headlines today to what extent though is papadopoulos the bigger story here. i think papadopoulos is the bigger story by any measure and that is because while man of ford is a known figure and certainly has been hit with a lot of very major charges along with gates it's papadopoulos who has acknowledged lying to the f.b.i. and that acknowledgement appears if we believe what we're being told odd to relate to efforts to connect the trunk campaign to the russians and so suddenly and very unexpectedly we have evidence that the miller investigation has gone much further much deeper into the truck campaign and much deeper into the most challenging issues for the trunk campaign and i think most people expected so how close does this bring president trump to this russia inquiry charges well there's a picture circulating today of papadopoulos sitting next to president struck out a at a meeting we know that president trump referred to him.

joining us now via skype is professor alfredo pastor, former spanish economy minister and board member of spain's central bank. he now teaches at iese business school in navarra. professor, thank you forjoining us on world business report. what do you think is going to happen? well, in the very short—term, in the next few weeks, it almost unpredictable. what will happen before the end of the year is that we are going to have elections and the governing body, which will probably be the end of the current episode. what is the feeling? you are in barcelona, what is the feeling on the street? are people worried? yes, they are. we have had those figures showing that tourism is down, businesses are moving. is this what people who voted for independence, is this what they expected? i don't know that this is what they expected. this is not what they said. they did say that nothing would happen. history has been different. the spanish government in madrid, they hold the constitutional power. what can catalonia really do? excuse me? the spanish government in madrid have the constitutional power

.>> joining us via skype is the spokesman from cal fire. cal fire lost a driver today earlier when his truck lost control and can you tell me anything about his identity or what happened? >> it is definitely a very sad day as this is the 41st death. the california highway patrol has been brought in, and they are investigating exactly what happened. we know that this individual was assigned to the nuns fire, and was driving in napa county. the driver was a private contractor that we was using to bring water to the fire lines. the circumstances still being investigated, but it is still a very sad day. >> daniel, tell us about the big picture and where we stand overall. where are we at on this? >> we are making very good progress despite the fact that the temperature was higher today and we saw lower humidity that what we saw yesterday. the winds has not been as strong as it was on nighty night and saturday morning or seven days ago when the fires broke out. that is really given us an opportunity to continue our efforts. a lot of high numbers

referendum and a leg in hove is a senior researcher at the institute of european studies he joins us via skype thank you very much for joining us do you think that there has been particularly leading up to this a robust enough discussion about what the economic impact of something like this might be that it seems to me. this has been overlooked going to people who are in favor who separate this and that is that. right. companies are moving their. chairs around to cut the lawn. so economic effect might be quite dramatic. can catalonia sustain itself without the rest of spain. well economically yes i mean states going all sizes and catalonia is not that small so it it would really be able to survive from an economic point on top of it as you said the economy is doing quite well it until now so it has all the possibilities of striving but the problem is not here economics it's politics it's that survival of catalonia as an independent state is only possible through a recognition by other stinks and at this moment there are no reasons to believe that any european union member states or any other s

as an ati has a non resident fellow at the brookings institute and an expert on libya she joins us via skype from milan thanks for being with us so it's pretty serious isn't it living conditions for people to drill through pavements to get to water how has it got to the stage do you think of this situation the cowles and this is given to five there is no government well we have a government but it's not strong enough and completely divided and there are not public services as you said in flash inflation is growing. never been any sort of state is completely fried if we can see then we we have a state and what about all of the efforts to try and bring about a stable government in libya what progress has been made a lot recently. well politically something is moving i think. not hardly internally to the country but also and this is one of the most important as seen. on the regional actors so something is moving but still is not is not enough and the point is there until now the international community has always worked on the top in my opinion. talking we're the politicians are leaders and so

who is a public affairs coordinator for the national council of canadian muslims and she joins us via skype from montreal in quebec thank you for talking to us what do you make then of this law what's your response to this law. good evening. first of all this is the first time in north america lore like these are being put into effect it is a real trail capacious and it's and first jesus to mattie's ation of muslim woman. shifted into the context in back with their rise up to muslim sentiment but the government says that this is not deliberately targeting muslims the government says this is a way to foster social cohesion to to make sure that everybody looks the same. yes for sure and also. diminished her valleys. and is good for sure so shall our money you know but you understand that to compute you know true. good show shall our money was your by and part of woman to do society. i mean what about really the accommodation i mean there does seem to be. a certain amount of wiggle room. a woman could also for an accommodation to receive government services whilst wearing the veil. yeah and if

florida he specializes in spain and has russian several books on spanish history and he's joining us via skype from gainesville florida mr as and while it's great to have you with us on al-jazeera as our correspondent mentioned there are so many questions let's try to address some of them just how quickly and how forcefully do you think the central government will try to impose direct role here. that's a difficult question to answer with any accuracy because i think that there's supposed to be a series of deliberations that goes on in this vote which is. which steps are measures will be taken precisely by the government and this is something again that if you knew too quickly and this very volatile atmosphere it could really produce a much worse outcome and one might so i think it's it's it's really up to this fantasy government to step back a little bit and to get better a greater sense of the timeline here that might follow and how important is it for the spanish government that direct rule that it's not going to be messy all violent you know given the brutality by spanish forces on the firs

officially released i came as a political analyst and editor in chief of the yemen post he joins us now via skype from sana so does this that the findings in this report does it does it ring true based on the reporting that you all of that you have done. it's it's a bit too late i mean two years to realty right now as of now all these two thousand three hundred children have been killed by study that airstrikes and not only on civilian homes but also in the attacks on hospitals and schools so these investigations should have happened months ago or. i think we just lost our guest there mr smart can you hear me ok we lost him we will try to effort that to get him back to emphasize an important discussion to have. mr massara can you hear me yes well i can hear you ok great our apologies for that little technical glitch there but you were saying that that the timing in your opinion of this report and his findings you think this is too little too late is a bit too late two years too late because right now two thousand children were killed by saudi that airstrikes not only on air strikes on homes on ci

european council on foreign relations and specializes in west african security affairs he's joining us now via skype from senegal capital de kock very good to have you with us on al-jazeera we haven't heard a lot about americans in ground combat in this region is it new what is the scope of the involvement here well it's not only that there are. you dreaming or if you. were there are other american servicemen. i do apologize we have lost connection with our guest and. yet we have lost that connection so let's move on. to the u.s. people still trying to make sense of the deadliest mass shooting in modern history in the country police have described the los vegas gunman as a disturbed and dangerous man but many who knew him say his actions came without warning and vesta gave a still don't know why a stephen paddick killed fifty eight people and injured hundreds more at a concert on sunday cost reports from las vegas police say if anyone had knowledge of the gunman's motive the woman he lived with would but after returning from the philippines choose de mary lou danley had little to say to explain her

in spain now we'll speak to stephen rigney he's lived in barcelona for sixteen years is joining us via skype thanks for talking to us on the news greg just your reaction to the developments over the past few hours yeah well it's. quite worrying as a business owner here in barcelona i ran a guest house and the last month kind of noticed a lot of worried people writing to me is a reservation to a consulate should we. should is it safe to come to the city so now you know it's i mean it's so far it's been. it's still safe but i think people are just quite worried about what what it means for them and people living here like. yes just a little bit on an important point i think which is business and economy so let's just look at that for a moment and in fact we are getting a question via facebook from marco asking do they meaning barcelona do they have an economy to support themselves since you're saying that you're a business owner what do you think of that. i mean as you've seen a lot of the big companies already started to say that they're going to they're going to leave catalina their main off

assaults he was inspired to take action and we actually spoke with him earlier today and he told us via skype why he decided to speak out. when we learned that because it was in the. phone these most of these. most beautiful still sound. you would welcome a flood of our. letter to get authority should it be. good to look at those among the you know you would be should go for it what you should is a lot of ways and. it was a. really cool campaign there really powerful activist you know the hope is that this at least sparks a conversation now in india about the remnants of the cast a system about the treatment of delegates and it's getting a lot of attention in india it's trending online as well so an interesting campaign maybe we'll start seeing a few more mustaches popping up in every there's lots here. thank you so much greatly appreciate it karl are we still have a lot more to tell you about or here's what's coming up. british novelist could sue ishiguro has won the twenty seven thousand nobel prize in literature while the nobel committee praised him for writing novels of great emotional fo

thank you all off one quest is a spokesman for the asia division at amnesty international he joins us via skype from london and thank you for your time is the this the talk about repatriation is it is it too hasty is it too soon when quite frankly there are still people crossing the border and the issues that caused this have not been dealt with. yeah i think your correspondents just made some valid points about a number of red flags with the talk of the petraeus and i think for us a little bit is closer to the two governments are talking about returning to their home such would be the ultimate goal as long as this campaign of ethnic cleansing it's unfolding in iraq can stay that. it's much too early to talk about something people back without having to conditions in place on the ground for it to be safe and secure it's not the key point to think about the areas that are this a historical precedent area of the month in my case and out of two thousand tens of thousands of very interesting g.'s who are trying to do this to me and more many of them were essentially forcibly pushed out they were co

joining us via skype. two quick take-aways, all but 53 have been identified. better than 150 still being treated. about half of those in critical condition. "the five" is now. >> dana: hello, everyone. i am dana, it is at 5:00 in new york city, and at this "the five" ." the las vegas police department had just wrapping up a press conference, the sheriff saying they still don't have a motive, with the investigation is still very much ongoing. they have collected 19 firearms come along with explosives, several thousand rounds of ammunition, and electronic devices, including several pounds of ammonium nitrate found in his car. the sheriff is clearly getting frustrated over video and images that have been leaks. one of those images you see

sanchez was joining us via skype and even in the middle of our conversation, the power oant out. >> we had a problem with power here as we speak about power. >> sreenivasan: i think we're set here. how much is this going to cost and is there enough money to fix it? >> there's a question in terms of how much it's going to cost. we're installing at the same time we're repairing. we don't have time to plan and design. we're going at it as fast as we can. so as we're doing repairs, we're seeing what the burn rates of the materials are and at the same time we're seeing the speed we can fix this. so i think as we go into about a third of the way of the repairs, we'll probably have a better idea of what the overall cost is going to be. we already are in the hundreds of millions of dollars. we awarded a # $40 million contract already plus last night we awarded a $40 million contract on that. we already put an order for $148 million of materials. so we have already been in the e range. >> sreenivasan: is the army corps of engineers charged to rebuild the infrastructure as it was or can you impr

the result kusa research at the university of texas strategy and security institute and joins us via skype from exeter welcome to the program and it's a very confused position very confused situation what do you make of where we're at right now. well of course we have to divide obviously between the various kurdish groups i mean the kurds in iraq and the setbacks that they have suffered recently are entirely different and separate from the kurds who are in syria and in iraq are in fact they actually sometimes in opposite camps so the kurds who are model to cut its president must order but as an iraq are actually at loggerheads with the p.k. k. and y p g affiliated kurds in syria so while they gaining in syria they have to bear in mind that the united states who backed them in syria also backed the chaos in iraq and that still hasn't necessarily help them it's all a matter of the interests of the great powers in the region and how that will then balance out in the future right and as far as the iraq is concerned iraqi forces as we've just been discussing have a rest that have wrested contro

and let's bring in josh walker in alexandria virginia and the us via skype to talk about this he's a fellow at the german marshall fund a nonprofit aimed at strengthening cooperation between united states and europe they appreciate your time so this rex tillerson sector state saying you know we need some proof and some evidence of these accusations is that an escalation in your view you know this is the same thing the u.s. government has been saying ever since last year's failed coup attempt in which the mastermind that the church covers accused len who lives in pennsylvania i think the u.s. has been saying this from the beginning the obama administration has said it the trunk ministration has said this is a more pointed way of saying it but it's the same message we've heard for the last year so how would you characterize relations between the u.s. and turkey before this extended thing that's been simmering for so long you know i think that this is been a long time coming i think they're used the right word it's been simmering explode and i think it caught everyone by surprise becaus

a columnist with a lot of our joining us via skype from amman thanks for speaking to us what makes this reconciliation efforts if you can call it that's what will make it stick. what makes it stick if they carry through the promises of people people want better electricity more hours they want the borders to be open and they wanted jobs for their young people the problem is that we had two governments two laws to tax collection fees and now hopefully we'll have one unified situation so i think there is good chances for this reconciliation here's the thing though when it there are still many contentious issues for example there is the issue of security because we understand that hamas will retain its authority over security in the gaza strip but we also know that the palestinian authority cooperates with israel when it comes to security related matters so can this obstacle be overcome while the tea i think is going to be what will happen in terms of the elections we need to have elections to give genuine legitimacy to the governing power i think the security issue can be restrained once

protestor who dressed up as the monopoly man whose name is amanda aka monday stacks and she joins us live via skype tonight. i don't recognize you without your mustache. you'll be seeing rich uncertainty el penny back pretty soon in the future. let me ask, what was thinking behind this? what y did you do the it anchts i dressed up as the monopoly man yesterday to call attention to a republican push to give companies a ex which fax a get out of free card in things like forced arbitration. >> what is forced arbitration. >> it's a practice that a lot of corporations actually use where they bury rip off clauses in the fine print. they basically say when they break the law we can't join together and sue them in a class action you lawsuit. instead we have to go through secret arbitration proceedings where they get to decide who decide the outcome of the case and basically consumers lose. you you wanted to make sure that those of us who were impacted by this breach have some sort of re source to maybe get some sort st back from it. >> let me ask you, what was the reaction from the people in that chamber i

university of life sciences he's written a national babbin is an analyst on the horn of africa he joins us via skype from oslo thanks very much indeed for being with us so what do you think is your hind this apparent rise in attacks in somalia from. the last attack yeah definitively so kind of reply from the share bob to declare ration of war from the somali government against them a couple of. after the. last attack so there's a kind of message here showing that look we can do things that against you even though you declared war upon us and of course they can take advantage of the structural weaknesses of the somali police and the army where you have an army that look you say let's a man that have. once. you have released some similar problems and you have. a lot of disagreement between the regional states and against the government of happy to dialogue with the so and so tense situation where the street or concerning. about but with regards to their relationship. are you so it's a light against a step up but not if you read in the you can wean themselves and the government has announced that it's

tylerg us via skype is cowen. joe: thank you very much for joining us.lain to us -- you argue president trump is fundamentally -- has fundamentally changed the fed. what do you mean? tyler: the selection process has show. like a reality tv little remarks dropped about janet yellen. contests being paraded before the american public. this will take away from the dignity of the fed and limit its economy and independence. joe: go through the last part about the removal of the fed's independence. so far, we haven't seen him tweet about it or criticize rate hikes. do you worry that is coming, or just the nature of the selection process fundamentally changes the fed policy in the future? tyler: i think the very nature of the selection process makes it different. historically, the fed presented itself as a bit mysterious, almost like a high priestly caste. but they are doing is showing the american people that they are part of politics in this is like a contest, like a game show. not that trump necessarily will be twisting the arm of the fed, but when he brings

news he joins us via skype from store in the u.s. state of vermont thank you so much for being with us so what is causing this modern day plague in madagascar. so there couple things here you know it lives on roads and when those those rodents disappear at this time of year during the rice harvest then they start to feast on humans spreading the disease to them so as the minister said there and that a gas car it's a fairly common disease in africa but there are two things that are different and alarming in madagascar are one rather than being in rural populations were snuffed itself out it's in ten big cities which is a real concern and the other is this you know the bubonic plague when it gets into the lungs rather than spreading from a fully one animal and then an animal back to a human because from one human to the other and that is alarming so the symptoms will be sudden onset of fever a cough you have pain in your lymph nodes when they say blue bonnet play the blue bow actually stands for the swelling in the various lymph nodes b

hash tag as i join you screw it we're going to move back to the way story out we have joining us via skype an associate professor of sustainability at the rochester institute of technology lovely to have you with us thanks for joining us so let's talk about responsibility first of all when it comes to waste does it lie with us the consumers first of all does it lie with the company's board or we all have to pitch in here well there's a shared responsibility for managing this growing challenge because the lifecycle of electronics is so complicated the problem doesn't just begin when it enters the waste stream it goes all the way back to the mining of materials upstream the manufacturing process sees the energy that we use in that in the households and we use these products and so there's a great opportunity for coming up with some innovative solutions both for designing products they can have a longer life span and more easily recycled but then also looking at the e.u. a stream as a source for raw materials in view of the circular economy that say you said the idea of making the products di

nonviolent activists in iraq had to expose the atrocities committed there and as you can see he joins us live via skype from berlin thanks so much for being with us on the program and from where you are in berlin what does it feel like to watch those images coming out of rocker and to hear that i saw has been driven out. you know hard for so for sure like me as many people from iraq and we were waiting for at that moment when i saw it be defeated but unfortunately it was not the scenario we were or we hoped or expected so i says what if you did but in the same time the city turned to be completely destroyed city so when i did percent of the city is destroyed i was in the city as being that can be and was not careful arthel. like main goal of the caribbean was only to defeat to isis without caring of the sea the years of being living there about anything so. it turned to be a tragedy that people who were lucky to leave that city were simply they left and they left behind them was it and of the will who had been killed under robel at least they like most of that what they look they lost family members re

he joins us life via skype. thanks for being can us, sir. >> good morning. >> let's start with those bump slide stocks, bump stocks, a lot of different terminology for them. the atf regulates that. why are these devices legal? zbl. >> they're legal because they haven't been deemed to be illegal by our lawmakers. as you know, there are a number of loopholes in the federal gun regulations. this is unfortunately one of them. you can analyze is like we do the drums that hold the ammunition. in some states it's illegal to have clips that contain too many rounds. >> i want to talk about what we found out overnight. 33 guns rupurchased in the past year. when people hear that, that's a lot of guns in a short period of time. should somebody have known he purchased this many weapons? >> it all depends which side of the fence you sit. in my 30 years working in law enforcement, people have hundreds of firearms if nod thousands. in some states there are limitations on how many guns you can buy in a day, week, or a month. but

question as well always good to our viewers questions directly right off we go to better now joining us via skype. who is a non resident fellow at the tucker your institute for middle east policy as i say in beirut but you do spend plenty of time in those kurdish regions of iraq following up on what stephanie was talking about there the fractured nature of kurdish politics at the moment. even though the referendum did go ahead and gave a very clear result you want to how they can act on anything at the moment. you know even even dollar from them was was was a successful moser and it won it one. of our only over ninety ninety percent but in the meantime from the very beginning people were very much suspicious powder from them and also many people including the political parties were opposing holding the referendum and one of the reasons was people were expecting such kind of terrible consequences and also we were very much afraid that the very good days between two thousand and three to two thousand and thirteen are about to end because the internat that the regional countries you know are what ab

this francisco de boer shelah showed us at the european council on foreign relations joining us again via skype from the hague so francisco i'm not sure if you're relistening to all those options that i was laying laying out but this really is unknown territory as such is this a happy day for some people while a really sad day for others oh i think this is. i think we all agree that this is this is not a good day for. this is not a good day for going to learn and it's not a good day for first thing as a whole but there's a there's an important you know that i want to make that the loneliness of the enemy he's not suspended that generally does the exit. applies to countenance that you don't know me you know a little buggers remains so does the continent parliament is not suspended but day there is too there is indeed is direct rule of the political level that means that the government has requested and apparently has obtained consent to do this so the political level that is the sofa you consider and assume or insist i think is that this is a really really important key point that you're making

that's an organization that documents violations in eastern syria and western iraq he's joining us now via skype however for safety reasons we're not going to be revealing his location so you certainly documented the atrocities and the violations committed by i so we've seen some of the videos that have been put out you just heard me reading a list of the violations just tell us your reaction initially to the news of the self declared capitol hill has now been liberated from the group. to be honest we don't believe as people that's right the city has been the great we believe that it's maybe and you'll like it because of course as we're trying to see. this is good enjoy yourself but as the brazier for the city they killed a lot of civilians by their strikes and by observation those last few months there's thousands of civilians have been killed by these you know since i saw there were many guys in and around so this is why we see the forces were trying to capture or should be must be careful about this would be unusual are in this city now there are thousands of mortars and rockets thousands of

government essentially they want to receive more power this great to talk down and joining us there via skype thanks so much what. i still has all this al-jazeera news hour we made. who escaped mass killings in may and. safety standards under the spotlight after a massive gas explosion kill seven people and then just dozens of others. there's another career milestone for rihanna down the china. first an alliance led by former al qaeda linked fighters is promising a fierce battle against those who enter its territory in syria. released a statement after the free syrian army or say crossed into the area from turkey on saturday they're being backed by turkish soldiers. reports from near the turkish syrian border. turkish artillery shelling. positions inside syria the former al-qaeda affiliated group controlled most of province and this border area is the focal point of what turkish authorities refer to as a serious campaign. and the free syrian army is sending reinforcements to that i had. the starting point for the new cross border campaign. but which has thousands of fighters is vowing to figh

michael magill is out of kansas city, missouri youth and family expert, and joins us via skype this morning absolutely good morning to you d.c. thank you for having me. >> where do you begin when you want to talk about this with your kids? >> you know i spent so many years as school counseling dealing with mediations and conflict and violence when i talk to young people do you trauma that's really what we're talking about it's not just violence, this is traumatic. because when you are expe expec- when you go to places and you realize we're not safe. i tell parents to explain it's okay not to be it's okay to tell the truth and say, i am afraid, i am worried, i am scared. the issue that so many people have they try to avoid these difficult conversations and when these thing happens people don't know what to do. it's okay not to be okay number one to express here's what's happening here. i'm afraid. my main job is to keep you safe, but i just don't know how to do that in a messy world that we live in. it's okay to acknowledge that number one. >> obviously everybody michael on different level w

who's the associate professor of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he joins us now via skype from norman good to have you with us. foreign minister tweeted about the blockade on sunday which he called a seed what do you make of that i mean there's no softening of the rhetoric here is that. no there is no softening of the rhetoric on either side with regard to his statement about the g.c.c. meeting and qatar has a role in the g.c.c. well i think one needs to take that with a little bit of salt there it is in some senses pressure applied on qatar before the next scheduled g.c.c. meeting but it's already been reported in the media that the next g.c.c. meeting might be postponed by six months or so because it certainly wouldn't make any sense to have the parties there are now hurling claims and accusations against twenty against one another and so on with no progress made on this issue right now so what would be the consequences of the freezing out of the g.c.c. . well you know one has to ask about the g.c.c. effectiveness overall certainly the g.c.c. and many of the countries or

. >> to answer some of the questions daniel is joining us "right this minute" via skype. what's happening, brother? >> yeah! [ cheers and applause ] >> daniel, first of all, tell us what happened. what was your accident? >> i was run over by a train. i was train hopping and i fell and it ran me over and i lost both legs below the knee. >> crikey! >> how long ago was that, talk about your recovery and how it got you to this point in skateboarding? >> been an amputee four years and skateboarding as an amputee three and a half. that night was a howl at the moon situation, i was searching for an adrenalin rush and i hopped on the train. i slipped and fell directly onto the tracks. it removed my legs but i've been a skateboarder for all my life and now it's become more of a passion. learning how to adapt is more than just learning how to walk on prosthetics. it's also enjoying the activities and i realized that skateboarding is one of those things that i could do with my prosthetic legs or not. that's the first time i've done downhill without my prosthetics. it was fun. the pro

of a foreign policy analyst at the russian international affairs council and in delaware in the us via skype lawrence korb a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense good to have your with us so nicholas circle let me let me start with you then how significant is this visit for russia is it a recognition of their place now in the middle east. well you've described the situation correctly it is a break through and it's a recognition by the so at least by the so it is of the new russian role in the region so it's a very important step because now russia will be treated as an equal partner and an important play in the region so that was the case and besides we have very interesting deals very important deals in economy and arms trade so all things are very important but i think the most important issue will be of course mutual understanding about syria because without sodhi help it won't be easy to or it won't be even possible to reach a political solution which is certainly necessary. lawrence korb how is the u.s. going to be looking at this given that given the state of relations between. r