Through the greatest steps in the history of our world the trumpet ministry will stop the jobs from leaving them and tried leaving North Carolina. Trump received 67 percent of the brutality and 73 percent Caldwell County record levels of support for the republican president ial candidates trump was saying stuff like bring manufacturing back they care about the Little People support for trump and the stars are for americas past where Evan Invalides and near his classic car cruise in on friday night i think trust to a great people or whatever but his policies are working for your average american i think a lot of people were looking for a big change and trump is not a politician he doesnt look at things the way he typically called politicians look at things you think people in this area support President Trump in terms of his policy on immigration in america i think so id say the percent most of the people here or what you call locals they grew up and everything was literally white and thats where they want to be a country without borders is not a country. I mean if you look at it heaven has a wall and strict immigration policy elders not if you want to be here then you need to come in the correct white why do you think President Trump did so well in this area in the 2016 election truck comments that lets make America Great again can almost get our industry going lets get our main break we need to be making babies. When donald trump talks about american carnage as he did in his inaugural speech he is talking about places like Caldwell County and lenore that resonates with those people because theres been an ending out of this a faction drops that youre seeing a whole decline in the whole Senate Culture thats going on there thats why you have these these really deep seated problems like increases in suicide and opioid use and out of wedlock births and its not just those areas but all royal North Carolina and a lot of rural merican. The appeal of right wing populism in small town rural areas left behind by economic change plays a major role in the hyper partisanship in America Today but there is also a critical cultural dimension that became clear an elk in a town just an hour up the road we like small town values and we certainly appreciate in the cold with the bible these things are still very important and we dont want. That to change Stephen Harris was born and raised in elkan and is now a columnist at the town newspaper so this is an area where evangelical christianity is very strong. Yes President Trump supports or appears to support the traditional American Values or so important here you know were seeing things that our parents would never dream of would happen in america such as abortion and same sex marriage. White even jellicoe christians represent 26 percent of the american electorate their troops most loyal block of support he has advanced their agenda on relations with israel judges abortion. Rights folks on the other side think that not taking action on Climate Change is immoral that not allowing people to choose who they want to marry you know is immoral do you respect that they feel that theyre standing on moral ground to do but if we do fall of the bible and its teachings that would be the best path to go and i would disagree that Climate Change is a moral issue its an economic issue its a battle over government control and taxes but its a moral issue if it affects our children if the planet becomes uninhabitable i dont believe that will happen its a big bet though its a big bet if we dont do anything and its a problem it is but you know we know that god is in control and will trust him for our future. The divide between white democrats and republicans is is really now between christians and people who are not religious at all in her book on civil agreement Liliana Mason argues that the sorting of the parties along religious lines also from his extreme partisanship in the us and the eightys and ninetys we saw the religious right become involved in politics and they chose to unite with the Republican Party which means that now we wraps religion into partisanship as well and evangelical christians havent really been involved in politics before many a new group of people from heresies Community Felt religion was at the root of the visions in america theres a huge divide in urban areas and rule and a lot of it is based on religion you have great prayer in your schools its like when i went to school you did the pledge of allegiance 1st line you cant do that anymore nobody respects the flag you know theyve taken god out of their sign. Nomic message also resonated in elkan which was the textile mill that was the linchpin of the local economy you know he made promises of bringing jobs back everybody sorta equated him with me you heard Different Things coming in. Monitoring this and being things come around my own lets bring some tourists to help but i dont think its going to completely. Rule america struggles the president stokes partisan tensions with misleading claims about democratic support for Illegal Immigrants the democrat was so. Free with Free Education for the right to vote there it was you know. Not time like what is ours what we have and i think there should be a very stringent awesome process to you. Keep the young from taking i am great sources are you concerned about the divisions in the country today. Its probably good workshop. But the day why is that people just keep digging in deeper into their positions its just youre a democrat or youre republican and theyre going to vote for that no matter what is or who are running there is a division one year to happen and you will continue to have you have your economic classes you have your races its the different religions can everybody believe in is them our way down and. I dont believe any president in history of this nation has been attacked more than donald trump. An evangelical leader who has been a vocal critic of democrats is the reverend Franklin Graham son of the adventurous billy graham who participated in President Trumps inauguration we met with him at the North Carolina headquarters of the Christian Relief organization he heads how concerned are you about the social and political divisions in America Today on burden cerned it is ripping some sections of our country almost apart and it shouldnt be i dont think where it was divided as we were in the civil war when the nation was ripped apart. And i hope that never happens again but it could who knows and you suggested that President Trump one because of divine intervention in unison that it was part of gods plan i believe that how its going to explain that he won the election everybody was against him dont you think mixing religion and politics like that can fuel polarization in the country to suggest that a president was chosen by god well i dont think its divisive i think its just a fact and if you think this is divisive take it up with god why do you feel that you can give President Trump a pass when he committed adultery when it was like i mean why did you give the President Trump a pass on the 1st thats not something that is current in his life thats not since hes been president like bill clinton but you criticize president clinton for the lying at the time and now President Trump of course seems to lie regularly i dont i dont agree with you im not sure what youre talking about to be honest with you well i mean theres been Fact Checking about a lot of the president s comments what website who fact checks the media and the media gives far more lives than what youre accusing the president of the line which when youre talking about fox or others im talking about all have a problem in this country are you concerned that Many Americans see President Trump as a divider rather than a united i dont think is a divide i think he has a you and i in or he has certainly unite. And millions of people by name i mean people on both sides feel strongly that their moral positions are valid and that the other side is imposing on them how do you bridge that divide only god can do this i think of with all of us democrats and republicans what would what turn our faces back to god and ask for his help i think we can we can we can come through these problems very easily we have a constitution too in the constitution talks about freedom sure and has a moral foundation are you saying that the only morality that matters is the more audi of the bible yes. But not everyone interprets the bible the same way that a false mom narrative of religious nationalism and white evangelical is that seeks to make things ok as long as youre against gay people to get pretty for principle against womens right to choose for god what tax cut they say to you all right molly reverend barber who launched the moral monday movement in North Carolina is now spearheading the Poor Peoples Campaign a National Call for a moral revival youve got 62000000. 00 people working for less than 15. 00 an hour some have to get food stamps a living color because they work every day and they dont make a living wage Something Like their me people our health care a country cannot achieve to stand with that kind of gross any quality so were santas time for us to come together to fight for the heart and soul of this democracy. The extreme partisan environment in the us as people in charlotte are in that hosting the Republican Convention next year will be much different than when democrats gathered here in 2012 are you concerned that the political divisions today could lead to violence it did well. Know that it will we are concerned its going to bring something totally different totally different temperatures of america from 2012 to 202020 different temperatures of america. Theres even worry that President Trump will contest the election if he loses in 2020 i think its a serious concern because he will think that he can intimidate his way into staying in the white house as he was and he will be surrounded by a conspiracy to you that democrats stole the election from him do you think america may be so divided today that its no longer capable of safeguard in democracy by impeaching a corrupt president as envisioned by the founders i dont think Richard Nixon would be impeached in the days in the army i think people would socially rally around nixon you know along partisan lines im optimistic that these times are straightened out and and america will be only on an upward course in the future. Stephen harriss grandfather 5 generations back was gravesite was recently discovered was in the personal guard of the American Revolutionary war hero George Washington the 1st u. S. President do you think that President Trump loses the election that hell leave the white house. Sure yes of course they will everyone has before including George Washington and he will which of the politicians be doing to try to overcome this vicious partisanship. Start talking about whats good for the country and not talk about winning. At every hearing that weve seen so far the Republican House members defend tromp the mechanism of impeachment only works if people on the president s party are willing to condemn him. And to vote to remove him which is what happened with nixon i havent seen any evidence that republicans are willing to do that today. 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Breakout of the yemeni city of aden between separatist fighters and progovernment forces. U. S. President donald trump visits. By recent mash shootings but protests to say he isnt welcome and puerto rico swears and its a 3rd government and. After weeks of demonstrations a new legal wrangling over the candidate. The political crisis over the disputed territory of kashmir is escalating with pakistan expelling the indian ambassador downgrading diplomatic relations and suspending trade with india Indian Security forces are imposing a clamp down and did administered kashmir 3 days after new delhi took away the regions autonomy there and to that has been caught curfews over in force and local politicians remain detained they have been small. The tests for the streets are mostly filled with troops or people across the line of control in pakistan administered kashmir have been protesting against and his decision theyve also been demonstrations and the indian capital this one organized by left wing groups the United States has called for calm and restraint and said it would support dialogue india and certainly doesnt want us mediation the build split in the region and 2 it was approved by new delhi is parliament with a huge majority we have reports from both sides of the disputed region 1st aljazeera has obtained exclusive pictures from sri lanka and they are administered kashmir which is under tight military control has priyanka got. Street arguer a ghost town troops on every corner barricades everywhere in the largest city in the indeed administered kashmir indias government says recent troop force winds are to ensure security. Order as you see the effects of the significant changes to their autonomy and statehood. They didnt tell us anything and we walked article to all the phone lines are down trains are not working we havent seen anything like this in kashmir in our lives. Migrant workers who hope to find employment here happen stranded for days. Internet is down we cant access cash machines one is listening to no one cares about us liberals. In new delhi this public filmmaker is worried about his elderly parents and she dogger he questions the timing of the governments decision to revoke the states autonomy are divided into 2 federally administered territories the one thing about the timing of this decision is very seems awfully time. And so then one is forced to wonder as to why this would have happened and crudely yes the story has pushed the impending economic crisis off the front pages for this week and who knows you know until the next round of elections legal challenges are already being planned the 1st public interested again against the governments decision has been filed and they are expected some constitutional experts say that there are some legal loopholes that the judges may consider the process is a certain amount of scut constitutional skullduggery which i expect. The Supreme Court or any other Constitutional Court will look at very closely constitutions do not work on the vim of a few people alone no matter how high the in the constitutional structure indias government led by the party to the party of the hindu nationalists the special status was discriminatory and with a change of status to be open divestment jobs for now the shops in st our girls are closed and no one knows for how long. Aljazeera the delhi. How many and the administered kashmir believe the government wants to change the makeup of the regions muslim majority of estimate has more now from hindu majority. This is one of the many displacement camps for hundreds of thousands of hindus who fled religious violence in the krishna valley back in 1909 and the early 1990 s. Many of them ended up here in germany which is the hindu majority area of india to mr mir and as you can see the camp has become a lot more permanent over the years as hopes of returning home have slowly faded but now that the Indian Government has revoked the autonomy for the region and has passed legislation to split the region into 2 federally run territories hopes here have been rekindled that some of these people or their descendants may be able to return to their homes in the neighboring Kashmir Valley many people here were against autonomy they say that they believe that kept out development and investment and now theres economic potential for them and everyone else but the issues of india to mr kashmir wont be resolved by the simple stroke of a pen to shut down remains in the valley and even here in germany public assemblies have been banned as a measure to control rioting as well many hindus are questioning the realities of going back to their homes who will guarantee their lives and livelihoods who will ensure their safety and will be welcomed by their muslim neighbors given the tensions that still remain here in the region lets take a closer look now at the map of kashmir this is what andrea considers to be its sovereign territory but it is more complicated on the ground and the administer as part of the disputed region the other china also administers part of the tree india and pakistan administered a separated by the internationally recognized line of control well the conflict over the Kashmir Valley has forced thousands of families to be separated and many who now live in refugee camps on the pakistani side of the divided region say they fear for their relatives on the other side of the line of control asama been jobs reports from the refugee camp in pakistan administered kashmir. Locking me in that of there is a look at the woman of the body maybe safina moved from indian administered kashmir in the 1990 s. To this refugee camp her family has lived through the highs and lows of relations between india and pakistan but says this time its different i didnt then. One for 10 its been 3 days since we have heard from my sister and her family i heard rumors that 40 to 50 people have been killed we dont know anything even the internet is shut other even alive her husband says they escaped when he was tortured and had his fingers and toes broken by Indian Forces occupying their lands hundreds are. All we want to freedom for god sake is there anyone listening any muslims all over the world the un god will ask him on the day of judgment. The conflict over kashmir has separated many families for years with the 35000 people live in refugee camps on the pakistani side of the divided region most people in a war camp are from indian administered kashmir although temporary structures have been turned into concrete homes but almost every household has family or relatives still on the other side they fear the worst as the Indian Government crackdown continues. There are about hearty came here when she was just over a year old she went to school in the camp and now teaches at a college for refugees one of her brothers was killed before they moved and her mother says Indian Forces have killed other relatives in their fight for freedom its an emotional issue when she talks about not being able to contact her extended family because phone lines and the internet remains cut off but that wasnt. What if they were burned alive what if they were killed we dont know anything about whats happening in our cash me or whats happening to my brothers sisters and children theres anyone care at the girls school in the camp children discuss politics as parents in most homes talk about a freakish near. A few weeks before the latest escalation 3 refer relatives asked them not to call anymore because they fear harassment by Indian Security forces. They say if we talk to them they will be detained so we havent spoken to them for many days we are very worried and weve seen on t. V. That people are being persecuted in kashmir even the children here know about how tensions are flared since constitutional changes by india to the status of kashmir kashmiris here say india is holding 12000000 of their people hostage and are calling on pakistani government leaders to do more than the usual rhetoric some of the job it does as they are. I guess on administered kashmir were going to get more on all of this were joined now by more now by associate professor of anthropology and afford maxwell professor of south Asian Studies at Syracuse University and says joining us live from syracuse new york very good to have you with us on aljazeera weve heard today from the International Commission of jurists they released a statement condemning the Indian Governments actions calling the conditions and made draconian new restrictions on freedom of expression assembly and travel how long can the Indian Government keep these in the dark here. Well thats a question that is still up in the air theres a lot of uncertainty are surrounding that question i do want to iterate the fact that its an active military occupation but right now what india has done by abrogating unilaterally abrogating article 370 and 30. 4 states will are on an entire population of our people who are always resisted our Indian Occupation our community and right now our will do whatever it takes to also all resist this force and if they should and with the indian in the nation are now the International Commission of jurists has absolutely as you mentioned clearly held accountable to all up hold of the right of selfdetermination that it is protected under International Law it is awaiting the Supreme Courts decision and has said that all eyes and ears are on the indian judiciary now are to decide and to function truthfully to sustain our midnight to. Their their constitution now having said that i also want to make it very clear that focus meetings autonomy is not necessarily the big question the question really and that as i see it it has raised that the central question is that of Self Determination and thats a right that has to be upheld by the International Community by the United NationsSecurity Council right now its incredibly hard to see how we can even have a conversation about selfdetermination when the autonomy that they were promised on the constitution has been avoided away over the years we do have legal challenges that are going to be presented in india but what about internationally are you hopeful that this decision