Raid wars freight and the reform of the better than trade was trade. Recession while trade boost the economy not to mention the fact that trade among. Us. Roading the already weakened trust among us at the same time to ski is promising retaliation against the US If President Trump carries out his threat to impose tariffs on French wine in response to a French plan to tax American Internet companies the trumpet ministrations plan to detain migrant children and their parents indefinitely while they await asylum hearings is facing pushback from some faith groups N.P.R.'s Tom Gjelten reports faith leaders one the policy will cause trauma for migrant families opposition to the new detention policy comes from a variety of progressive faith groups World Relief a Christian humanitarian organization that supports refugees wants no change in the existing policy that limits children's detention to 20 days C.E.O. Tim Breen says his group upholds a Biblical view that the family unit has Paramount children belong with their parents and not in jail like detention facilities he said Jennifer Butler who leads the non-denominational faith and Public Life Organization says the proposed rule change is symbolic of white supremacist ideology another interfaith group faith in action is leading a 4 state solidarity walk for Immigrant Justice that will end at a detention center Tom Gjelten N.P.R. News Washington this is N.P.R. . Brazil's president. Is deploying the country's armed forces to fight the fires consuming the Amazon rain forest he's also authorizing the military to stop farmers from lighting fires to clear brush it's a reversal for balsa Naro and comes after mounting international pressure an Iranian oil tanker wanted by the US has changed course to a port in Turkey as N.P.R.'s Joanna Kiss' reports from Istanbul the US has tried to seize that tanker ever since Great Britain and Gibraltar released it earlier this month the Adrian Daria one appears set to arrive in the Turkish port of Mer sin on August 31st according to court minutes on the navigational site Marine Traffic dot com Marcin has an oil terminal but oil trade experts told N.P.R. That the port is too shallow to hold such a huge tank or which is carrying $2000000.00 barrels of Iranian crude oil it could anchor off shore where sin is about 125 miles northwest of an oil refinery in Banja Syria British royal marines held the Iranian tanker off the coast of to broth or for a month because they claimed its cargo was headed to Syria in violation of E.U. Sanctions the ship was initially on course for Greece Joanna N.P.R. News is Stan Boll British Airways pilots are going on strike for 3 days next month the announcement has already led to several days of cancellations for hundreds of thousands of travelers I'm Barbara Kline N.P.R. News in Washington Support for N.P.R. Comes from N.P.R. Stations other contributors include the foundation expanding opportunities in America's cities through red making and social investing. Org and the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Ed Mack founded dot org. 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And P. $500.00 fell for the 4th week in a row and after the market closed Mr Trump announced he's ratcheting up tariffs N.P.R.'s chief economic correspondent Scott Horsley joins us Scott thanks for being with us good to with you what seemed to set off the tweet storm from the president China announced early yesterday that it is slapping tariffs on more U.S. Exports some $75000000000.00 worth including automobiles so that was another escalation in the trade war but to be clear China was reacting to the president's tariffs which Trump announced earlier this month this is not the 1st time the administration has launched a protectionist volley and then seem both surprised and hurt when a trading partner like China pushes back that's when Trump angrily tweeted our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China and it was about that time that the stock market went off the edge and just to repeat the president can't order a company to do anything like that right I think you would search long and hard in Article 2 of the Constitution to find any authority for the president to dictate private supply chains now overnight President Trump was tweeting about the authority he has under the Emergency Economic Powers Act and that authority is pretty sweeping but it's also subject to congressional review so that could be an interesting test James by the cuckoos who's an economic analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Newt says the kind of water the president issued yesterday is unusual coming from the leader of a party that bills itself as the champions of capitalism Bill there's been a lot of debate about socialism of where Republicans have been accusing Democrats of being socialist but a president at state presuming order the American private sector to leave one country go to another country so you expect you know a command and control economy and it's really have nothing to do with capitalism or free market economics and Scott the president also took on the Federal Reserve chairman Paul not the 1st time he's done so tell us about their differences this is becoming a very routine thing drum Pal has tried hard not to get into a war of words with the president but the insults have been flying in one direction Powell was at a conference of central bankers in Wyoming yesterday and he said the Fed is facing some unusual challenges because of all the uncertainty surrounding trade policy and last night the White House added to that uncertainty the president announced that he's raising the tariff rates on Chinese imports tears that were 10 percent going to go to 15 those over 25 percent are going to go to 30 and that news came after the market close had it come earlier the sell off and on Wall Street might have been even worse and of course this comes after a week of mixed signals I think it's fair to say from the White House on the strength of the U.S. Economy and how they might respond. Yeah the White House messaging has been all over the map they've said the economy is great they said the economy needs an emergency rescue they've said they're considering a tax cut they said of tax cuts off the table rather Kuka says there's very little in the last week that suggests any kind of long term strategy from this White House yet a lot of president supporters you know they have to think this is all a strategic chaos the president knows WAY TO ANY keeping these enemy Doc belts while it's awful to be keeping investors and consumers and business off balance I mean that's up with signs the U.S. Economy is slowing down the president and his economic team are really being tested for the 1st time in the 2 and a half years that Donald Trump's been in office and so far the markets are not terribly impressed with the way the White House has been handling the stress test N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley thanks so much for being with us you're welcome and the top administration is moving to detain migrant families seeking asylum all their cases play out numerous immigration courts that would put children in jail like settings for months or years doctors psychologists and advocates have been adamant that detention is extremely harmful to children and as N.P.R.'s Joel Rose reports that attention centers currently holding families for short term stays have a troubled history when Yasmeen Juarez reached the US Mexico border last year she says her 17 month old daughter Mari 8 was happy and healthy they had fled Guatemala to seek asylum in the U.S. And were sent to a detention center for migrant families in Dili Texas I looked at him for me it was the worst experience of my life my daughter got sick so suddenly and so quickly while we were in detention and they didn't have adequate treatment for her it was a horrible horrible experience says she tried repeatedly to get medical care for Mario but she says she was sent away with Tylenol and honey and then ignored was hospitalized shortly after they were released from Delhi and died 6 weeks later from a respiratory infection Juarez is suing the federal government which has not commented on her case she says. She's shocked anyone would propose holding children in family detention centers like Dili their own mail room and really really is no place for children I think president trumps decision is cruel and inhumane let me just tell you very much I have the children on my mind that's President Trump outside the White House defending the new regulations his administration unveiled this week they would make it possible for migrant children to be detained with their parents indefinitely migrant families are arriving in record numbers more than 400000 family members since October many of them fleeing violence in Central America right now they're often released into the U.S. To wait for their day in immigration court to ask for asylum by detaining them the president hopes to discourage other migrants they won't come and many people will be saved but doctors and immigrant advocates say the president is putting migrant children at risk in order to send that message 7 children have died since last year either in custody or after being detained by immigration authorities Katie Shepherd has worked as a lawyer with families held in Delhi She's now at the American Immigration Council in Washington I'm really angry because in the past 2 years we've seen an unprecedentedly high number of immigrant children dying and now the government is proposing that they eliminate protections for children and what is going to happen as are we going to continue to see children perish behind bars for years the government has been required to release children from family detention centers as quickly as possible generally within 20 days that's because of a longstanding legal agreement called the Flores settlement now the trumpet ministration is trying to replace Flores with new regulations that would remove the time limit acting homeland security secretary Kevin McElwain and says the regulations would also protect migrant children all children in the government's care will be universally treated with dignity respect and special concern the facilities that we will be using to temporally how. As families under this rule are campus life settings with appropriate medical educational recreational dining and private housing facilities McLean and describe the detention centers in glowing terms as places with big screen T.V.'s and cushioned couches and access to doctors and therapists but medical professionals including some of the government's own advisers are appalled I think this policy is reckless endangerment the proper course would be to not traumatize child in the 1st course Scott Allen knows these family detention centers from his work as an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security he's also a professor of medicine at U.C. Riverside Allan was so alarmed by what he saw at Dealy and other detention centers that he went public as a whistleblower last year we've been internally a voice in our concerns and very clear terms that children should not be detained and it basically been ignored and the discouraging thing is we're now seeing an escalation a doubling down on this harmful practice a federal judge would have to sign off on the new rules before they take effect immigration lawyers will begin mounting their legal challenge next week Joel Rose N.P.R. News Washington the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals says the state of Idaho must provide sex reassignment surgery also known as gender confirmation surgery to transgender inmate ADRIAN No Amanda Peacher of the Mountain West News Bureau reports that Ed Miller is now slated to be the 1st transgender woman in the nation to receive the operation through record order and a brief warning the story includes a mention of self harm Adrian Edmodo is a transgender woman who has been housed in an all male prison since 2012 she twice attempted to castrate herself with a razor unsuccessfully her lawyers say those attempts are clear signs that at most medical treatment is in adequate now the prison will have to provide the gender confirmation surgery Edna has been requesting for years he was excited and happy to hear the news. Really just experiencing a tremendous sense of relief that's Laurie Rifkind at most lead attorney she says prison officials denied Edmodo treatment for gender dysphoria that's when someone's physical body doesn't match their gender identity and it can cause debilitating distress what this to take anything for is a basic principle of our constitution it's a bit of value of our country that we treat all people including those in prison with basic decency and dignity and we do not ignore their suffering the 9th Circuit agreed that denying Edmodo the surgery constituted cruel and unusual punishment in the opinion the judges wrote that quote responsible prison officials were deliberately indifferent to at most gender dysphoria in violation of the 8th Amendment the ruling could have a ripple effect in other states as prison officials grapple with the rights of transgender inmates and their medical needs in a statement Governor Brad little called the ruling extremely disappointing and says the state will appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court the High Court takes up very few of the cases that are filed by law professor Michael Michelin from Peace University says it could happen here because other circuit courts have ruled differently on this issue they have an argument for the Supreme Court to review the case because now there is a clear square circles as of now the timeline for Ed most surgery would be set during a status conference in mid September with the Idaho judge who initially ruled in her favor For N.P.R. 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With these headlines president has arrived and be a Ritz France for the annual G. 7 Summit European Council president French president and Britain's prime minister Johnson are already warning against a global trade war pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong of largely dispersed after clashing with police today in the 12th week of protests demonstrators called on authorities to remove smart lamp posts which of raise concerns about surveillance by Beijing British Airways pilots are going on strike for 3 days next month the announcement has already led to several days of cancellations for hundreds of thousands of travelers. Support for N.P.R. Comes from this station and from the all timers Association working toward a vision of a world without all timers providing care and support to all those facing the disease with a commitment to advancing critical research more at a L.Z. Dot org And from Weston hotels and resorts offering a range of wellness options for guests including their Eat well menu on demand fitness gear lending program and signature Heavenly Bed learn more at Weston dot com a member of Marriott bon voyage. This is WEEKEND EDITION from N.P.R. News I'm Scott Simon China and the U.S. Have added more heat to the trade war President Trump announced the U.S. Would increase tariffs on 2 classes of goods from China an additional 5 percent that's in response to $75000000000.00 worth of tariffs that China live in here earlier this week that priest is president and C.E.O. Of the footwear distributors and retailers of America Mr Priest thanks so much for being with us Hey Scott thanks for having me really appreciate it I gather you have regular Friday calls with your members what was yesterday's call like yeah we do we do every other Friday calls with our members and they are designed to help our members navigate the incoming or upcoming tariffs that the president announced that he's implementing and so it's a lot about what how will customs treat the goods coming across the border will exactly how much will be added on top of the $3000000000.00 We are already paying duties on footwear and so as you can imagine we've had a very active summer since the president announces a desire to put tariffs on to spot every single good that comes with it to the U.S. From China how much will it raise prices can you project Well our 1st projection at 10 percent was $3000000000.00 in added goods on footwear net as we're going to 15 percent we could easily see how that will push us upwards of $4000000000.00 on an added goods on footwear but you know as your listeners should understand we already pay exorbitant duties on footwear and we've been paying them since 1930 and so our duty bill alone last year was $3000000000.00 Even before any of these new terror of took effect So let's let's say there's a it will make it easy $100.00 pair of shoes how much might they cost because of tariffs I mean we could easily see an additional $25.00 U.S. Dollars on top of that because those prices are assessed at the border and those goods have the tariff added to them as they come across the border they get sold to a distributor that gets sold to a retailer than alternately gets put on the shelf for the consumer so each time that those pairs. Choose exchange hands the price gets jacked up even more and so that's why I just the simple 15 percent tax on top of what we already pay at the border and tariffs will have more than a potentially have more than a 15 percent price increase for the consumer so family let's say $3.00 kids who all need new new shoes for school that that could be quite a cost increase could that's right yeah particular children because what's really interesting is most children's footwear is predominately China based and so when you look at children particularly than their shoes they're more at risk than anything or anybody or any segment of the population because of the fact that most shoes sold most kids shoes sold us come from China and so yeah I have 3 kids myself all within school age and their feet are constantly changing and it's going to cost quite a bit more money just to sell those types of shoes to American consumers so the minute we have left Mr Priest The president says that you know manufacture not to come back to the United States or that it that at least us man or U.S. Retailers ought to move to have more shoes and made in let's say Vietnam and Bangladesh if not New Hampshire he you know unfortunately we're kind of the poster child for the fact the duties don't bring manufacturing back where you have exorbitant duties in place for nearly 90 years and production still left the U.S. And there's just not the capacity in the skill here in the U.S. In the materials that are needed to make shoes and then the consumer will not take on the price that shoe will cost because of the labor component based here in the U.S. So even if you could make shoes here in the U.S. You think it will be what do you say in your business a price point that American consumers won't accept That's right exactly right and so we bring in almost 2500000000 pairs of shoes every year Scott The question is where those shoes going to go and it's going to be scattered to other Southeast Asian Nations and then the question becomes will how will the president feel about having a higher trade deficit with those countries moving forward that's a no. Another concern Matt priest who heads the footwear distributors and retailers of America thanks so much Mr Priest Thank you Scott This weekend marks 400 years since an slave Africans abducted from what is now in Goma arrived in the colony of Virginia several events are underway across Virginia to recognize the significant role that free and slave black people have played in building the Commonwealth and the country. Yes major drama with member station V.P. Reports on the shore of Jamestown Island people gathered this month to pay tribute to the Africans who arrived in Virginia and 1619. Dancers of all ages performed traditional African dances and were accompanied by drummers. This event 161000 fest is one of many to honor the history of Africans and African-Americans. To learn more about the 1st Africans the Jamestown rediscovery Foundation and the National Park Service began excavations archaeologists lemak he said the most significant finds are 3 carry shells Those are actual pieces that would have been on their Person B. Says the shells may have been the only objects from home carried by the enslaved Africans he says the artifacts are a direct trace of African presence on the island as we dig we find pieces of that story of the enslavement here from 1619 till the end of the Civil War We have something in our hands fit people can develop empathy for through archeology they hope to learn about early Africans lives and shed light on the intersection of English and Angolan cultures commemorations for the 400 year anniversary are at Fort Monroe this weekend what mother role is in a lot of ways is America Terry Brown is superintendent of Fort Monroe has racism and has class as a minute has all time isms you can find it in this little space historically this used to be Point Comfort and it's where the 1st documented Africans landed in the Virginia colony Fort Monroe was built by enslaved people like many structures at the time including the White House I think when you learn about African-American history you begin humanize that culture all of that you begin to. Nah D.M. As most of Fort Monroe's visitors are white so Brown says he's focused on engaging more people of color especially youth the Ford is also building a new education center to tell more complete history about indigenous peoples the arrival of Africans and the white colonists one exhibit shares the story of Antony and Isabella who are on the 1st ship and their son William Tucker my name is Benson Tucker and the president William Tucker 1624 Society Vincent Tucker is a descendant through research in preservation his family's nonprofit aims to share an overlooked history we have survived 400 years of hatred and slavery and a lot of injustice so to come forth and remember those times and talk about those times and share the stories with many folks even in that region and throughout the United States is pretty significant for us to do Tucker says he doesn't want the country's attention on African-Americans to fade after this weekend the enchants this is not fair but you have to keep press forward you have to keep moving forward Tucker says his family's organization hopes to carry the conversation forward about a painful but honest history of Africans and African-Americans over the last 400 years for N.P.R. News I'm yes mean drama. And time now for sports. $78.00 game winning streak comes to an end football season about to begin Will it include Carli Lloyd of U.S. Women's soccer on the field and new calls over again years on the gridiron N.P.R.'s Tom Goldman joins us. Morning Tom Good morning Scott and down under the Australian national basketball team defeated the U.S. Men's basketball team 98 to 94 last night the spirit of Luke longly a barge Now Lou this is this is the 1st U.S. Boston's to 60 warm up game but some of the best basketball players in the world these days are from outside the U.S. So we can we can no longer assume U.S. Head Genom head you know what I mean can we goodness. We can not hey some exhibition Scott 52000 people were at the game in Melbourne How about that 1st time Australia beat the U.S. In men's basketball and this was a warm up for the upcoming World Cup A lot of the top N.B.A. Stars have pulled out of the competition this is a huge N.B.A. Season coming up as you know with everyone assuming the league is wide open with all the crazy player movement and Golden State finally being vulnerable so a lot of the top stars want to get their rest and be ready but Scott no excuse Australia beat us fair and square and yet the World Cup victory is not a walk going to be fun to watch official beginning of division one college football season today Clemson Bama blah blah blah and what about Boise State. Your mighty Broncos and their blue turf they haven't cracked the top 25 in the preseason polls but notice those are preseason polls and at the end they may be in the thick of things most likely though it will be blah blah blah Clemson Alabama throw Georgia in the mix too and what is a certainty count on fans who are sick of the usual Sox sussed to clamor once again for more than 14 years in the season ending playoff curly LLOYD One of the stars the U.S. Women's soccer team drilled a 55 yard field goal this week in a video that went viral. Can the N.F.L. Ignore someone who can kick a 55 yard field goal well it should I mean. You know Lloyd obviously has a live right leg she's proved that over and over for the U.S. Women's national team now nailing a 55 yarder in practice certainly is different from having a bunch of huge people screaming toward you trying to block the kick during a game but and you pointed this out earlier Scott she knows pressure Yes seen it all in pressure is such an enemy of place kickers in the N.F.L. This week Robert Cantu is a neurosurgeon and Mark Hyman a professor of sports management wrote an op ed in The Washington Post that urges the U.S. Surgeon general to issue a warning about the dangers of tackle football for youngsters I read this at your recommendation a very compelling and important piece and I thought. Very much so a reminder as football season gets underway that it's still dangerous for younger kids to play tackle because the repeated hits to the head can too and hymen know football and all sports have gotten safer due to the increased awareness about head injuries but they cite study showing the earlier kids play tackle and start getting those smaller sub concussive head hits that add up over a career the earlier the onset of cognitive and mood in behavioral problems for the ones who are affected not all football players are affected obviously now while the authors say high school football is still very popular and there is evidence that youth participation is declining in an interesting note Scott new numbers by the sports and fitness industry association say participation by kids in baseball and softball went up by nearly 3000000 between 201328 baseball Tom Goldman thanks so much you're welcome there's a new mural in Indianapolis of Larry Bird Indiana basketball legend you know kind of a fun sassy image of Larry as a very young man back when he played for Indiana state but something was off court and induced our reporter Dave Lindquist there was a spider web tattoo on one of his shoulders a Boston Celtics shamrock on his bicep on his forearm is the script Indiana Larry's name is on his fingers a basketball on his palm a cardinal on his face and for some reason on his arm to bunnies these are the mating bunnies with one smoking a cigarette I've been working for like 30 years painting every day so keep producing became kind of my logo and the bunnies symbolize that that's Marilyn muck from Venice California she signs her work Mark rock Ms muck has been painting Merrill's across Indianapolis this summer some citizens complain. And she just doesn't get Indiana erhu Zhorzh And then Larry Bird saw the miracle actually the 1st time anyone's ever reached out to me about a portrait of them and said they didn't like it and could I please change it to HC from French Lick because Larry Bird is called a 12 time all star and Hall of Fame player does not like the tattoos one of my things is well I'm not going to just remove all the tattoos can I don't think it's an interesting mural was able to work out a deal the spider web tattoo gone the Shamrock done the busybodies benched but he's keeping the one of his forearm Indiana Mark is ready to move on and Dave Lynn Chris says just in time too for these past few days just the resoundingly pulls of the community has been enough already it's probably time for her to leave town the artist is back in residence in Southern California maybe she'll return to Indiana one day and painted Miral of B.J. Lederman grads are the music. You're listening to WEEKEND EDITION from N.P.R. News. Where crews in Virginia are preparing for that state's largest construction project but they have an unusual obstacle 25000 sea birds her nest you know on their staging area for member station W.V. T.F. Sandy Hausman reports that bird lovers have a surprising solution and much. On many summer days there's a 6 mile backup waiting to cross the Hampton Roads bridge and tunnel that link coastal cities and the nation's largest naval base we have 100000 vehicles going through the tunnel along this corridor or on a daily basis during peak travel periods Paula Miller's with the Virginia Department of Transportation the agency supervising construction of a new tunnel to new bridges and a wider road there's just one problem. The island where construction crews must begin work parking equipment and digging up an area the size of a football field is home to a massive colony of goals and turns according to Virginia Tech professor Jim Fraser It's by far the largest colonial she bird nesting colony in Virginia we estimate somewhere between 16020000 birds nesting there and then when those protect chicks are running around the could be as many as 25000 birds on that little tiny island. On route to visit a colony Virginia Tech professor Sara carpenter explains the birds feel safe on islands isolated from predators like reckons and foxes taking thing out hundreds of mass in a night or 2 they got to the eggs the babies all the died. And the 17 acre island is surrounded by waters rich in fish that feed the birds and their hatches this fall the goals and turns will migrate to Central and South America but when they return in the spring Fraser says they may find construction workers and heavy equipment everywhere and he worries they'll end up in traffic a problem already occurring I keep. There was that 10 accidents in one year because of birds landing on the road and then people hit the brakes at 65 miles an hour and the next thing you know you've got to buy a lot more of you probably in the traffic out there when they're trying to figure out what to do it when you're no longer have a there to hold nothing sight there's been so much development on the East Coast that there aren't many suitable areas left for the birds and carpentry says their numbers are already falling the turn is actually the. Endangered Species Act also species called the Royal turn. Can't they just fly south to North Carolina or South Carolina there are areas further south along the coast to coast large colonies. Colonies are at their capacity. And can only hold so many birds so the state asked Virginia Tech what to do and the 2 professors suggested Virginia built the birds their own island in North Carolina has been building out islands for birds for decades and so when we were faced with this problem we said what's the best way to solve this and we looked and looked and looked for a suitable island down near the Hampton Roads bridge tunnel and there are none so if there are none you know they'll use them the obvious solution is to build and they figure it would cost several $1000000.00 compared to the total project cost of $3800000000.00 under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act The Regional Transit Authority building this project would have been told to replace lost habitat but the trumpet administration says it won't enforce penalties in cases like this As for the state of Virginia its regulators say they don't have the authority to make anyone build an island for bird For N.P.R. 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News I'm Scott Simon thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong formed human change yesterday saying they were inspired by a similar protest against the Soviet Union exactly 30 years earlier that human chain was called the Baltic way it involved some 2000000 people who joined hands across Lithuania lot for you and a stone you to demand independence from the Kremlin Here's N.P.R.'s Lucien Kim from Moscow August 23rd is a double anniversary for the 3 Baltic nations a day of mourning and a day of pride mourning because on that date 80 years ago the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a treaty that put much of Eastern Europe under the Kremlin's control but it's also a day of pride because on August 23rd 1909 ordinary Lithuanians Latvians in a stone eons formed a human chain demonstrated their yearning for freedom. On Friday evening people from the Baltics and Russia attended a jazz concert in the Lithuanian embassy in Moscow to remember that fateful day. Margus library the ambassador of a stone you told the crowd he spent the 1st half of his life living in an occupied country and he will never forget the awful feeling he said it was. But he said for the 2nd half of his life he's been thrilled to live in a free country. And $39.00 treaty between dictators out off Hitler and Joseph Stalin sealed the fate of a stone and its neighbors for decades to come as they were and expire the Soviet Union it came with a steep human cost. And he presented they had a lot in embassies consular section the she lost half her family in mass a pretensions to Siberia these people's desire for independence never faded and then herself attended the Baltic way human train as a teenager be up all night that's it at the beginning she says she can still recall her parents' fear because even though the protest was peaceful nobody knew how the Soviet authorities would react. When everyone joined hands she says she felt that energy of 2000000 people flow through her body that epic demonstration was followed by mass protests in East Germany and Czechoslovakia in the fall of the Berlin Wall and independence for the Baltic nations the infamous Hitler Stalin pact seemed like history in recent years though the Russian government has tried to justify the treaty but Russian historian Nicholas to needs and also at the embassy says there is no justification. He hopes one day Russians will also appreciate the Baltic way as an expression of freedom. Lucien Kim N.P.R. News Moscow. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists is giving back money the organization is returning more than $16000.00 because it's from Fox News and A.J. President Hugo bolt announced the decision and joins us now thanks so much for being with us thank you very much for having me Fox News nation's most watch cable news network as they say all the time and it has been a sponsor of N H J for years why is there money suddenly no good well good decision really isn't about one particular instance although I would say the words by Fox Nation Todd Starnes were the tip of the iceberg but really what were those words I'm sorry to interrupt you but we should know that how short he. Last week likened the immigrants coming to the United States to Nazi Germany and invading Western Europe but it's not just about that particular categorization of migrants but it's also that no one at Fox News management is checking in and really holding people accountable what about the response Fox has made for a number of years now that they have solid honest reporters who do a good job on the news side and what you're talking about is their personality driven talk shows. Opinion and commentary is an extension of the news department so it's still under the management the leadership the editorial focus of that news entity we're not saying that it's in N.H. Jay's. Place to tell Fox or any other media. To either move to the left or to the right liberal conservative we're saying Have to discussion have the debate but let it be on a foundation of facts and truth and the example that I used with Fox when we met this week and when we've met previously is I cannot tell you at 12 o'clock Eastern Time in New York that night is day and day is night and say that is the truth because it is my opinion when you could be factually proven that I'm incorrect but was that meeting like Mr Baltar you know that meeting. Was uncomfortable. A lot of heads nodding and note no writing but disingenuous because we've had those types of meetings before and unfortunately after afterwards nothing nothing happens but in that meeting also it was this concerning to learn for the 1st time. That S B J N R T D N A were not accepting my invitation to join and H.J. In rescinding. The invitation for Fox News to be a sponsor that was the Society of Professional Journalists and radio T.V. News Directors Association they're still taking money from Fox and you question that that's correct and and and I found out for the 1st time at that meeting in front of Fox News management does your decision represent a call for other associations or professional journalists to at least question any contribution they get from Fox News. Well I think there's multiple conversations that are being had but the at the core of the principal conversation is fairness and accuracy what I'm looking at in listening which media are very one dimensional narratives about a very complex situation and let's unpack that and get to at the core and the need for more Latinos in news more representation of a cut of a community at the bull's eye of an administration for the last 2 and a half years and will definitely be as he looks at another 4 years in 2020 who go bald is president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists thanks so much for being with us sir thank you very much for your time and we should know the response from Fox News in the statement they say they are committed to foster a new diverse workplace quote We are proud of our inclusive team and their achievements in journalism. It's about the troubles and a political sense but also about my own troubles in a personal sense that's a character from the critically acclaimed comedy Jerry girls now streaming on Netflix The show follows 5 Catholic teenagers in the Northern Irish city of London during the violence of the early 1990. Derry girls is a huge hit Northern Ireland because it is more personal than political as N.P.R.'s kisses found. The day to a visit Gary there's a parade by Protestants waving British flags there's not much trouble today and nothing violent community worker Donna McCluskey jokes that maybe it's because everyone is watching reruns of Barry girls at our house we watched every I was. Made it's just fantastic. The show is set at an all girls Catholic school the character Erin wants to become a famous writer Michelle always wears or was into step aerobics. Boy. 2 moms in their early thirty's know them all. But she's definitely. Like Michelle they say I. I yes Michelle. And fearless dropping flaming shots of Sambuca and setting a house on fire. Michelle even thinks a British soldier searching her school bus is high school going on it's new do you think it's high school's homemade an incendiary device and have a look. I talk with some real life girls. They're 14 and super embarrassed that I'm interviewing them in front of some boys they like then clearly get serious. She says a dairy girl stop her about the troubles the past is present here it happened again it was more often where I have at was at the end of my street near Mickey was a young journalist shot during rioting in Derry last April the girls walk away I face an enormous mural of a national assessment gas mask. Up the hill there's another huge mural it's the dairy girls painted on the side of a bar 20 year old. From France poses in front of it. On Google Maps there was a place I wanted to go there and my family their family. Vacation with her parents and brother she began to watch as Derry girls back home very. I like the fact that. Oh we're back grown and they don't even care about. Lives their life as a teenager they care about boys and girls and about money and schools and stuff like that. Inside the bar it's called badgers manager John Collie the mural that. To me. Is the. Change. With her young daughter I think it shows Terry in all its best lights of the people here a funny kind loving and they always have been she says despite the troubles the dairy girls is proof of that Joanna could guess is N.P.R. News in Derry Northern Ireland. Joan Shelley is a musician. Right love so yes it comes with the territory. Yeah everything. And. I don't know what it is because there's so much else to write about but it makes me think that you know something about music something even that the birds are doing the trees has to do with you know it's kind of like you can't get away from it. New album is called like the river loves to see and it's a love letter to her home state of Kentucky. She says she had to leave Kentucky to know just how much she loved I've always since I was a little girl wanted to travel a lot I thought I'd be on a marine biology boat studying you know cute sea creatures and that was going to be my way to get around the world so when I figured out I could travel for music like this is an amazing switch secret room that I found in the universe that I could do this and no one tells you is that it's exhausting. So I came back home and realized every opportunity for me because I'm a had a safe and steady home to go back to everything is there you can find the whole world and your friends and family and dig deeper and go into different communities just. It took a while to realize that you didn't have to go burn you know a bunch of gas and get everywhere else and go somewhere exotic to live a full life. Sparing. Taste of. Skin. And this song and the fading it's about it's the way we see a lot of people taking pictures of broken houses or broken barns and we for a moment and see them as beautiful these days I thought that was interesting and so I applied it to kind of all the things in my life that seem important you know when a room when a relationship is great and that breaks down and shows you so much about what doesn't work and if. I start from the levers and then I go to the river. Banks and. When we get floods and things it's such a disaster but it's also so revealing of things that don't work when we build hard walls they make rivers go faster and more dangerous and they jump the banks and you realize you were relying on the fact that it would never change but Rivers' by their nature change. Has been. Drinkin. Some parts of Kentucky. It's deeply passionate You either go you know to the prohibition era and you see all of the bible thumping and there was passion there you know then you go the opposite there's the race tracks and the Derby and the bourbon and all the moonshine it's just seems like we're soaks stream here sometimes but at the same time there's a humbleness and a sweetness that lives inside of all that. Extremes and sometimes I'm almost afraid of living here and sometimes I'm just so delighted that it's like this beautiful. Lush place that I get to play in and know. Joan Shelley talking about her song fading from her new album like the river loves the sea. This is WEEKEND EDITION from N.P.R. News I'm Scott Simon Support for N.P.R. 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News in Washington I'm Barbara Kline President Trump has arrived in beer it's France for this year's group at 7 summit and has Jakes again no reports as usual demonstrators have arrived as well. My I would be our leads on total security lockdown protesters are marching between the nearby French town of and just across the border in Spain 80 groups and associations organized the March protesters say they denounce world powers that quote perpetuate a system that serves the richest and multinational companies marchers say they want to propose alternative solutions for problems such as climate change and migration local authorities said police arrested 17 people for.