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I'm Marco Werman this is the world nearly 2 weeks after Hurricane Dorian ripped through the Bahamas 1300 people are still missing rescue teams are hard at work now there's a new storm brewing and that's complicating their efforts as 15000 residents remain without shelter Daniel guy ASCII is in Marsh Harbor the biggest town in the Arbuckle Islands an area of the Bahamas pummeled by the storm is a rescue squad officer dispatched from Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department in Virginia they're part of the U.S. Agency for International developments response team I know with the storm coming up where start put plastic sheeting all over houses and get them prepped and ready since obviously having gone through such a significant storm and another one brewing and we're trying to take precautions and see if we can at least from the community and get them ready for a possible other storm that it moves through here so that's currently what we're doing now and it was I'm working with the local government every day water kind of sorts of different areas talking to the locals trying out what their humanitarian needs are while also trying to you know the rescue effort as well moving to a lot of debris trying to find any live special live victims Yeah I mean that must be really grim job I mean what does that entail a lot of hard work you know who are out there every day every morning all day just trying to move through different areas and just try to cover the most ground we can if we come across to any human remains our job is to go ahead and to mark the area and to go ahead and push that information back to the local government name when you're going around the eye because I mean what does it look like in some of the neighborhoods you were in today. If you go somebody areas here in Marsh Harbor were completely flattened all you see is a pile of sticks other areas you know homes are just standing in the walls are still intact the most part was just some small roof damage. You're meeting people I imagine who are looking for loved ones or friends and neighbors I mean what do you tell them you know it's hard I'm we're all human beings you know I'm a father a lot of the individuals on our team that are mothers and daughters fathers sons so it's difficult we all want to try to do as much as we can and sometimes you feel like it's just not enough but all we can do is go out there and try to give as much sympathy to them as we can. Try to listen to what their needs and their concerns are and you know try to go ahead and push their local government so that we can go ahead and get the proper resources and help that they need no doubt one of the concerns Daniel is this new storm that's expected to come through the Bahamas What is the forecast for how big and intense it's going to be I know that we're monitoring the storm currently I know that it's slowly building but I know that we're continuing to monitor and any sense of when it's supposed to arrive sometime tonight from my understanding so the official statistics for the number of missing people has dropped by nearly half from 2500 to about 1300 how reliable are those numbers though I'll say is pretty reliable we have a lot of people on ground we currently have a team of 57 that we split put out there I am guessing that if you were undocumented and living in the Bahamas say you're from Haiti and without documents you wouldn't necessarily want to step forward and say Here I am and you know if you were swept away in the storm and undocumented there might be no record that you'd be even living in the Bahamas who knows how many are really unaccounted for and that's a good question and the local government here has identified that as well I don't have an answer for that all we can do is again with the goods on the ground so what you've seen in the Bahamas of the last 9 days is this the worst you've experienced on any of these missions you've taken I was in Puerto Rico I want from Harvey to Erma to Maria I was in all 3 of them basically back to back to back I could say that this is every bit if not worse that's what we saw in Puerto Rico then your guy ASCII in Marsh Harbor that's the biggest town in the article islands in the Bahamas He's a rescue squad officer dispatched from Virginia's Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department Daniel thank you very much for speaking with us and good luck in the days ahead thank you Stephanie. Here's something that many opposition activists in Russia heard this week. The sound of police they conducted huge raids often breaking down doors targeting allies and supporters of the country's most prominent opposition leader Alexina Vonnie reporter Charles Maynes joins us on the line from Moscow so what's going on here what why these raids CHARLES Well the Russian government says this has to do with the money laundering case that they've brought against these anti corruption Foundation which most Russians called by its acronym F B K The timing of these raids that we're seeing which are in theory linked to this investigation is awfully suspicious though it comes just a week after Kremlin candidates suffered pretty heavy losses in local elections here in Moscow and some in other regional races because of a smart voting tactic pushed by Nepal me right so just remind us briefly what that smart voting tactic was all about the idea was this with opposition politicians really banned from the elections nearly on mass over questionable technicalities on a volley called for smart voting a strategy the crowd votes behind whatever candidate didn't matter the persuasion could be communists could be a nationalist whichever candidate was most likely to beat Kremlin back to ponens affiliated with the United Russia party so affiliated with Lattimer Putin and this according to volley caused Lattimer Putin to quote get angry and stamp his little feet. Or just a little lost to me so I'm only saying here that this time Putin got really upset because the smart vote defeated what he called Putin's favorite offspring of the United Russia party and that the United Russia party had been defeated not only in Moscow but in the regions and this is what caused him to quote stomp his little feet. So for example in the US to be a risk a guy named Sergei Boyko He's the head of the colonies operations out there and he posted this video where police are taking an axe to his door that actually took some time for them to knock down the door so he. Has the opportunity to finally use a drone to ferry out critical hard drives an S.D. Card and the drones goes through the screen and he posted this of course on You Tube signed off on their 1st date by Egypt in this video he says the most important thing in Russian politics is a well made door obviously keeping a sense of humor under unpleasant circumstances yeah I'll say Charles people involved with the opposition and within the volley they get targeted all the time was this operation any different but it's true they get targeted we just had a summer where opposition politicians spent most of that frankly in jail but what's different about this was the scope in fact I reached out to the Vollies chief strategist Volk of reached him in London actually and asked him if he was surprised by these raids we expected something nice to happen to me only thing that happened I'm expected that it was very well orchestrated and still there was no like. It was e-zine very 1st was late she goals. Possible maximum damage because these raids were conducted in 41 cities in hundreds of locations we had police raiding not only the affiliated offices but also the homes of the headquarters and the relatives as well so a few months ago Charles you and I were in the city of Nizhny Novgorod a few hours from Moscow reporting on a volley and the opposition's work there have you spoken with any of the people we met there where they also targeted you right you know you remember our host at the nominees headquarters nation of God was a guy named Demetrius a live one chick I reached out to him when I heard about these raids and he said the police had 1st come to his mother's place then made their way to his apartment of course they were also at the headquarters where you and I were and they proceeded basically to turn that place upside down yet silly about. It. So Dimitri here is saying that there were 2 goals in his mind it was 1st of all an act intended to see. Care everybody that also to paralyze the work of the organization he points out that they took all the equipment for example they took the new tools phone his car puter and he just said you know look this is not pleasant but it was definitely intended to back him a date and also create problems for everyone there financially. So what do you think all of this tells us about how the Russian government is taking in the election results from last weekend I mean Moscow is kind of a humiliation for Putin Well if you believe Volcker he says that the Kremlin has studied the math of the Moscow vote and they don't like what they see you know smart voting was a trial balloon here it was really heavily debated a lot of people didn't like the idea of voting for candidates that they don't actually approve of but ultimately it proved pretty effective in terms of the actual results so focus point is that if you expand the effort into the regions if you expand the number of people who actually participate in the strategy the numbers kind of work their own magic and that's really important when you look at upcoming elections in 2020 nother more regional elections and then the big Duma lections that's for the parliament here in 2021 so that raises the prospect anyway of basically programming candidates being beaten across the country. The opposition in Russia looking to the future reporter Charles Maynes in Moscow thanks as always thank you. If you joined us here often you might be accustomed to a regular dose of Brecht's it coverage so for you lovers of all things breaks it don't worry we got your back yesterday we told you about the news of the Yellow Hammer report a government study that outlined some pretty bleak scenarios if the U.K. Leaves the European Union without a deal things like riots spikes on food prices and shortages of medicine it's been all the talk in the U.K. Especially on talk radio David let me go through to Jacob respond David your cool Good morning. Good morning take it been wanting to take a brace Mog senior member in Prime Minister Barak's Johnson's cabinet and David in Birmingham that's David Nicol a neurologist who helped draft the Yellow Hammer report calling in to London radio station L B C A My question to you really how do you think of Holden right in terms of mitigation having whistleblowing set out to run SAS level of mortality rates are you willing to accept in the light of the new direction. But I don't think that there's any reason to suppose the NATO breaks it should lead to a hotel here I think this is the worst excess of project there and I'm surprised that a doctor in your position would be famine going in this way on public radio and from British radio to our own Now we've got Dr David Nicol on the line with us Dr Nicol you are being accused of fear mongering and not just by Jacob Riis Mark how do you respond. Well that was last week when a lot of orders going to the bridge since then the East London man that was the commons and then I went down to London and stood outside the house come up with a very large megaphone which I don't know on the Commons and said repeat that outside and also you know and he done apologized So remind us what your role was exactly in writing the Yellow Hammer report what I ate I don't overact this because I feel like a very small cog going to very large piece of work I'm a consultant are only just going back to January they're all called to positions which is not a campaigning group it's a charity was approached by the Department of Health to advise plans of mitigation for no direction and I volunteered because in sense somebody had to do it I mean since you started consulting what's changed for you about your concerns of a no deal Bracks and since then I've checked nothing's changed and actually better than my exam he's gone up because it has become better informed about other areas nothing to do with neurology one particular issues of concern is that for technical reasons the type of flu that respecting this year it's taken longer to get used to flu vaccine and Sanofi one of the manufacture of the flu vaccine reporter NEWSNIGHT last month that there are problems of stockpiling flu vaccine this year and now if we get hit with a big clue I break this it's all them and we've got no depression there is a really very serious risk and that's just flu vaccine OK talked about all of the drugs there's also a term so I'm sorry to be soon fighting about this but I'm fed up with people to spend this when I helped write the documents same question than I challenge you can result is still true today which is what level of harm are you willing to accept and there event of a no deal breaks it in other words you're asking politicians how many how many people are you willing to let die before you kind of frankly yes they do need to be asked that it's pretty tense to this but I keep going back to think it's a consummate report OK you may not you may disagree with a. Reports but you may disagree with those expert advisors but you are the one you know if you asked an expert advice to give a candid opinion and you don't like the advice OK you need to be touched Ignace confidence which goes back to my question what level of all are you willing to accept David Nicol is a neurologist in the U.K. He advised the U.K. Government on the recent Yellow Hammer report that outlines the worst possible scenarios of a no deal that medically speaking Dr Nicol thanks for speaking with us thank you very much. For. Coming up an undocumented immigrant strikes a deal with the F.B.I. To spy on his fellow Muslims then wants out you're with the world. 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I'm Marco Werman this is the world imagine you're an undocumented immigrant and you're Muslim and the F.B.I. Offers you a deal you can remain in the country but only if you'll spy for them do you take the deal W N Y C S a rune event or go Paul has a story of one man who faced that choice there are certain things we can't tell you about the subject of this story like his real name so we'll just call him Bilawal bill is from was Becky Stein he's in his thirty's and came to this country in 2012 and overstayed his tourist visa he 1st started working in a Russian newspaper then at a barbecue joint in Brooklyn one night at around 3 o'clock there was a knock on the door pilots the immigration. Bill is he said immigration ICE officers were at the door F.B.I. And police to about 25 people and all they asked 1st passport in handcuffed him he was taken in and questioned by 5 F.B.I. Agents but also they asked him all sorts of questions about his faith was he Sunni or Shia The approve of certain acts of extremism they should have pictures of people and asked if he knew them and then cycle of the world it was a clue it was that that wouldn't mind it's the he said they asked him to spy for them to help catch criminals the law said he didn't want to spy but Reluctantly he agreed to become an F.B.I. Informant in return he got papers to live in the U.S. He showed me a letter he got from ice it said he could remain here and tell the government determined quote the need for this type of action is no longer warranted he'd also need to report to a case agent or officer and so he did but he was ambivalent debt 1st. Again that US I'm not on that it should be he said agents would show him pictures including of people below all new people he said were not terrorists this was in 2017 around the time a man drove a truck down a bike path in New York City and killed 8 people the suspect in that case was also from Uzbekistan like below so he was sent on an endless fishing expedition randomly chatting up members of the community at mosques asking for their stance on hot button political issues like say Syria and reporting back to his F.B.I. Handlers this arrangement has been common for Muslims since 911 FISON Patel is a national security expert at New York University she said this type of fishing is problematic and that creates a lot of distrust particularly Muslim community because people are always looking at the guy next to them and saying oh isn't he an informant as time wore on became more reluctant about working for the F.B.I. Occasionally he said his handlers didn't think he was doing his best a few months ago Bloss out a way out of this arrangement and connected with the lawyer runs a custom He's a professor at the City University of New York who directs a project there called Clear short for creating law enforcement accountability and responsibility custom says that when they 1st met the law was going through a spiritual crisis used to feel good to go to the mosque to be with his community to worship together and doing what he's been doing for the F.B.I. Has turned what used to be a very positive and affirming feeling for him something that was really central to his spiritual social life into something that he'd rather avoid doing that he didn't have a conscience the clear team had represented others who wanted to break away from informant deals but in the last situation they tried something to happen before customs said Normally the F.B.I. Relies on 2 elements in dealing with informants secrecy. In fear and so we start to think that the antidote naturally and that arse are our strategy to counters who fear should be sunlight public scrutiny the community organizing. And so they prepare for the laws next check in with the F.B.I. He was told to meet on a street in Manhattan normally he'd show up alone but this time he was accompanied by his legal team as well as several sympathetic members of the activist community and me before the agents showed up the attorney Romsey cousin held the blogs phone in his hands and drafted a text on his behalf as I watched I saw him about to send the starts message that says I'm here with my attorneys on the northwest corner just to let them know he's not alone. And why. Because we're dealing with on and off the I agents and we don't want there to be any surprises below is quietly taking it all in he's decided to break up with the F.B.I. Right here in plain sight in the middle of Manhattan and I ask him through. What he thinks of his F.B.I. Contacts I don't. Know yet if that was a. Subject. He says he feels bad when he talks to them because whenever they can we take his words and twist them attribute a different meaning than the one he intended before long a vehicle with dark tinted windows strikes by this gets the laws attention but the car doesn't stop. Hello hello a few minutes later the F.B.I. And the last team are on the phone with one another well here's retained us as his counsel and our understanding is that you are with the F.B.I. And you're interested in working with him is that correct the woman on the other end doesn't confirm or deny. That she's with the F.B.I. She simply says the law has voluntarily been providing information OK Well let me just make some things clear here Mr is not going to be working with you all anymore and if you have any questions or concerns about that please contact us we were law says he feels a little better as for where things will go from here he says that's in God's hands we reached out to the F.B.I. And ice to learn how these arrangements work with informants like the law but we never heard back a few days later but was contacted again by the F.B.I. This time the agents wanted to meet him at their office in Manhattan it's also where immigration agents work cost him the attorney wasn't worried really what they're doing they're just rolling the guts there to seeing if they still go along Bill and his attorneys skip the appointment in the weeks since they haven't heard anything else still it seems unlikely that the F.B.I. Is going to disappear and that worries bill that he'll be deported or outed as someone who spied for the F.B.I. . But this isn't only about one man has been approaching the various communities upon which he spied and confessing to his deception. Was pretty shocking. The Allah and SAR Center in Brooklyn he'd gotten to know Bill all over time and thought he was just another worshipper but this wasn't the 1st time the mosque had been spied upon the N.Y.P.D. Did the same thing to the revelations had a profound impact on the congregation by the mom's estimate attendance at the mosque fell sharply I mean no one likes to be watched. Specially when we're there's nothing in a moment there's nothing wrong we're not doing anything wrong we are we are doing just about everything that everyone our other factions are doing and we are but the man has accepted the last confession and apology and since then the law has returned to the mosque several times no longer spy merely a man of faith for the world or reinvent Gopal New York. Is it possible that art could actually change your perception of the world by sailing higher it won't world hunger or war but it can provoke people to you critically think hopefully that's exactly the show's about and then he invited the right person I actually can magnify ideas about how art can change us that's next time on the TED Radio Hour from N.P.R. Saturday at 1 pm Sunday at 9 am M K P.B.S. P.B.S. 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I'm Marco Werman You're with the world where a co-production of the B.B.C. World Service W G.B.H. Boston P.R.I. N.P.R. X. 6 months ago New Zealand was stunned by the worst massacre in that nation's modern history a lone gunman a white supremacist opened fire at 2 mosques in the city of Christchurch 51 people were killed the government acted quickly New Zealand implemented new laws banning military style semi automatic weapons there are also 6 weeks into a mandatory gun buyback program and today New Zealand's prime minister just sent a dern announced new funding for mental health services this funding will go into supporting treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and other serious issues for community mental health and addiction support cultural competency training for cheap pays allowing Eckstein the G.P. Consultations for those directly affected by the attacks and also initiatives to help build community resilience gun reform advocates here in the US have been watching these reforms closely Alexander jealous be teaches law at the University of Waikato in New Zealand the idea is that the government created a list of prohibited military style firearms the government in office a C.M. Lock right for the by Bank of the firearms in the past that had firearms and mistakes but we've never put money on the table to the idea now is that since firearms owners are losing something which they lost weight they say is it it's only correct that they get a good amount of compensation so far about $20000.00 have been handed in and destroyed. So 20000 do you know how many guns might still be out there this debate because although New Zealand has a record of what firearms have been imported since 1903 these again before 900 $83.00 we don't have a firearms rate to stat except for the most military style firearms so the police would he want to rule is the MET of about $240000.00 but there's a lot of discrepancy and debate around the exact number because we don't have strong figures won't even know whether we have a good degree of compliance or not. So this kind of buyback programs hugely controversial in the US has the program there New Zealand gotten resistance from gun owners. That there has been some resistance but he says that in some support he will have to deal with not only the legal firearms owners but also the illegal firearms on his like the gangs and some gang members have said there's no I don't hate that they're going to hand over what they already possess the public mood however has been that it is necessary and there's been strong cross party support throughout our Parliament for this action the great difficulty will be the 2nd tranche of gun law reform which will come up in a couple of months the government is I mean for Ridge's tree. So that means that the police will not at all times all of the firearms which are in the community are there any privacy concerns about this gun registry there was a universal agreement for the buybacks gain but once we have the registry the 2 main political parties are splitting right down the middle the can soon is patently about privacy and not being nice to Siri You must remember we don't have a right to own firearms we have a privileged and Firearms. Alexander I'm curious do you know anybody who owns a gun and who has handed it in have they told you why they feel it's important much to much for into the gun as hunters and so they're not the type of people who desire military style firearms most of my friends or hunters tend to have a dozen or you off people who require more than one shot to kill an animal and so I think what's the point of getting these other firearms off the street because I don't see them as having in the legitimate purpose and hunting community you may get a few outliers but I don't think that would be anywhere near a significant amount I see there's a time limit on this buyback program of December 20th why limit it. Well the idea is otherwise it could go on and. What we've learned from overseas practice such as in a straight is that days as sit at the beginning allow in the middle and then there's another suit at the end but even in a beast case scenario you never get a 100 the scene to the fire that a number had to get out of the community it takes a long period for that to happen but the prohibited firearms are no longer coming into the country that is strong support for the prime minister in the way she's hand with this but the issue has not just been about gun control it's been about trying to control hatred online and so he's been a package of response to what happened in Christchurch at the moment compared to other countries we seem to be making progress Alexander be a professor at the University of Waikato in New Zealand thanks for your time you're welcome. Flavored isa may be getting their last drag in the U.S. We have a problem in our country it's a new problem it's a problem of nobody really thought about too much. A few years ago and it's called vaporing President Trump announced a plan this week to ban them with strong backing from Health and Human Services leader Alex A's are currently about 8000000 adults use the cigarettes but 5000000 children are using the cigarettes in the U.S. At least 6 deaths have been blamed on a cigarette use and more than 400 people have contracted pneumonia from vaporing in the U.K. It's a different story we're seeing experimentation but we're not seeing regular use except amongst young teenagers who are already smoking Deborah are not directly nonprofit Action on Smoking in health or ash in the U.K. It's a nonprofit advocacy group that's heavily involved in tobacco policy and I think one of the differences is there's a sort of moral panic going on in America which to be honest I think actually encourages young people to take a baking whereas here it's being promoted only as something for I don't smoke has to do to quit so our public health agency rather than producing worrying and alarmist pictures of young people they think if it shows they ping it sort of middle aged men with gray hair they paying to switch from smoking saying it doesn't come across as cool and why do you think that is that it's not cool among kids because my kid comes home from school high school and you know she's talking about kids they've been in the bathroom and if you're not doing it you're not cool. They ping has been. Seen by our medicines authority by our ministry of health by our public health agencies and by medical organizations like our College of Physicians in the British Medical Association as well as advocacy organizations like ASH and something really which is there for adult smokers it's not being it's not been hyped and for the last 3 years we've had strict controls on advertising so what does advertising look like for cigarettes in the U.K. . Our Advertising Standards Authority regulates what there is and what there is is basically only on billboards or bus shelters or buses or a point of sale and it can show anyone they ping who looks under 25 you know I'm not saying it's perfect but when I look at for example how blue is and times tear compared to how it sometimes in America or how it was at the times before the advertising restrictions came in here it's the other side of the world so jewel enter the U.S. Market in 2015 this past week the F.D.A. Issued a warning to the company the biggest maker of E. Cigarettes here for mis marketing the devices to young adults especially through social media last year jewel enter the U.K. Market what's been the impact there is when he said you're in some usage but it's not taking all quite as rapidly as it has done in us and clearly we want to carry on monitoring it that's why we do a survey 3 year but what we're seeing is that for example in U.K. That 15 percent 11 to 18 year olds and that includes 18 year olds who are adults you can legally Bay and that's actually down from last year when it was 16 and now that's not to say that they paying isn't something that young people experiment with they do but we're not seeing large numbers of them going on to become regular vapors What about flavors of a cigarette because I think there's a sense here in the United States that you know flavors like strawberries and cream or bubble gum are kind of like a direct line to young smokers or would be vapors do you encounter any of that I don't quite understand why this is such an obsession about flavors being the way it may be in the US but we're not really seeing it here. I here in the U.S. Health officials a very way from promoting a cigarette as a healthier substitute for regular conventional cigarettes I'm just wondering how does the U.K. See that well both population levels surveys of adults an adult smokers quitting behavior shows that the cigarettes are the most popular and the most effective quitting aid the news turned away Deborah how does regulation play into this I'm wondering you know how does that contain the problem in the U.K. And are you worried about what could mean for all of us. Not really because actually we tend to have more stringent anti smoking rules in the U.K. Than they do in the rest of Europe so this is not something where there's going to be a race to the bottom and I think it's quite interesting that the F.D.A. Has been trying to put regulation of these cigarettes into effect for a number of years and they set the bar so high they haven't been able to implement it the E.U. Came out with a more pragmatic approach with since the early simple standards about the level of nicotine that you can have and how big the refill tanks are and that all devices have to be temporary written so that if they've been opened it's obvious. Deborah are not directly nonprofit ash that's Action on Smoking and Health in the U.K. Deborah thanks very much thank you. Did you watch the debate last night no not that debate I'm talking about the debate up north in Canada Canadian federal elections are coming up in October prime minister Justin Trudeau is trying to hold onto his job polls show the race is pretty tight last night the main candidates for prime minister squared off over taxes indigenous rights and the environment boilerplate campaign stuff but the debate was most notable for what it was lacking the world Sarah Birnbaum reports the debate last night got mean and not Canadian mean like actually mean tax cuts to the teller to know it doesn't seem to get into the hands I mean to certain left out there to listen to but they reserve their real venom for incumbent prime minister Justin Trudeau Justin Trudeau is afraid of his record and that's just natural promised that the budget would be balanced is it that the budget would balance itself you know as a consideration to answer that that Mr Trudeau certainly hasn't done it he hasn't shown up for 4 years for people up the law he is the only prime minister that has ever been ever been convicted of breaking the law and he lied about it and here's what you don't have to say. That's right nothing because he wasn't there there was just an empty podium where he would have stood candidates Jag meet saying and Andrew Scheer had a skeptical interpretation of why Trudeau wasn't there this is Judo hasn't showed up for 4 years he's not showing up to this debate if I were him I'd be afraid of showing up as well it's too bad but I think a chance for him to into that a prime minister is afraid of his record do they though Canada has 3 official debates and if she didn't show up for one of those that would look bad but this debate is an extra and not that many Canadians tuned in so Trudeau had to make a political calculation of whether or not to attend says Toby Berkovitz a political communications professor at Boston University a candidate has to figure do I just debate in order to do better in the polls or are there a lot of issues that could in fact be detrimental to my campaign more that those are aired the worst it's going to be for me in the campaign and there are some issues Trudeau would prefer not to dwell on like the S.N.C. Level and scandal that involves bribery corruption and funneling tens of millions of dollars to the family of ex Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi today was accused of trying to shield S. And C. The engineering firm at the center of the scandal from prosecution so instead of standing on a stage and being attacked about that yesterday Trudeau was doing more feel good kinds of things like announcing help for 1st time homebuyers owning a house should be a realistic life goal when he was pressed by reporters about his debate no show Joe said there would be lots of other chances I look forward to the opportunity to debate against my fellow leaders in the 3 occasions that will be will be doing in this campaign so sooner or later Trudeau will have to face his opponents for the world I'm Sarah Burton. 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Or so is that 555 The voices of some of my colleagues at the B.B.C. World Service in London sharing how you tax laughter in Spanish Korean and Thai Here's a novel thought a lot of other languages just write. So you want to miss. This . At least I'm along the line coming up music and fashion were always his passion so that's ahead right here on the world. Was the world is supported in part by new whose yellow green and red approach to categorizing food helps you make better meal choices with the goal of losing weight and keeping it off for good learn more at new and O.O.M. Dot com and from at last in a collaboration software company powering teams around the world committed to providing the tools and practices to help teens plan track build and work better together more at last in dot com. 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I'm Marco Werman You're with the world one of the things I love about The Beatles is how we can interpret and argue about what their lyrics mean what Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds really about what does it mean that Paul is the walrus and where are Strawberry Fields that's a real place and not just the memorial in Central Park the original Strawberry Fields The Beatles wrote about is in Liverpool and John Lennon used to hang out there as a kid here's the B.B.C.'s Colleen Patterson with some big news for Beatles fans. It's estimated that every year more than $60000.00 Beatles fans make the pilgrimage to Strawberry Fields in Liverpool. And if they gaze there is between the everybody sign their name line to be part of history. Tomorrow to wrists will be able to say not only are they going to Strawberry Fields they will also be allowed inside. We're standing in part of the garden Strawbridge field was a Salvation Army children's home which shot in 2005 almost a mall East Jerry Goldman is the curator of the new parents exhibition on the site which tells the tale of how John Lennon lived over the back wall with his Aunt Mimi and his Listen visits to the homes gone and inspired one of the Beatles most famous songs he has to climb over play in the trees and in the words of the song never the US is in his tree I. What he meant was I don't feel the anybody else would like me and he used to escape to the garden here to get peace of mind his own mini me used to tell them you can't go there it's private and he used to say ah that's nothing to get hung about. Jackie Spencer has been the Beatles Guyton looking for 24 years I think it's going to change the hell it's off to what someone. Time and but the fact that people can go inside these gates for the best time it will make it so much more special. The Salvation Army still owns the land and profits will go to their projects helping young people back into work one disappointment though at the opening the brass band couldn't play Strawberry Fields Forever apparently the arrangement is too complicated. That was the B.B.C.'s column Patterson the brass band It shouldn't feel too bad it's not an easy song even the Beatles had to retake their performance a couple of dozen times. All right for all you fashion East as out there the future looks bright literally at New York Fashion Week bold colors were on display including tie dye pants and dresses with a 21st century sensibility if you don't know much about fashion week New Clothes are just part of the glam music is also front and center on the catwalk from Brianna's designer lingerie show to the runway deejays who make their names during New York Fashion Week. Straddles music and fashion he's a designer and a musician and began blurring his 2 passions as a kid in Cameroon and is still doing it today in the U.S. Can tell us where you are right now I am in. Georgia right now at my home where in your house are you inside my clothes that I know so well the time shoes that I just made last moment and what you made with why you did list crimes you know nice how many of the clothes in your closet there are are actually garments that you've designed. I want to count to 123 well quite 6 so one about it right now down with a couple of I do not like Macon I really don't expect it ties you know describe one of your ties. How about it one of my ties was an album called Why it's like I use my groups to rap did not then I kind of like Rap 3 serial back buttons it almost looks like it's going to bed the rubber represents an Afrikaans Bistro going to Africa Afrikaans they're like a kind of bond was like kind of bond a bit it's very I think it really makes a bit of quantum proudest it's really cool I mean you like experimenting with materials also and I cover I've got to mention the suit you're wearing It's seems to be velvet rich yellow gold is that my right yes you're right Michael you're right it's not really beautiful so we'll get to some of your new music in a moment but which came 1st for you fashion or music good question fashion came face because Michael I grew up in Cameroon when I was growing up when my mama was a teenager my mom had to sing a mission mine was single mission singer sanctions Yeah I can remember. Age of 7 going out going to trance star and good night America and anything that looks classic to me I come home as a little but I'll quote it on my my so in started I'll go to look in different look I mean so kind I always look different and that's how I started doing. So you made your 1st impact with your fashion going to church people looked at you and said hey that's that's the I've never seen that before yes it's not just so in a creative city my mind growing up as a teenager so Moken some musicians they write songs and then sing them I mean that's what you do as well but musically I got to say you've got attitude you've got a style that feels as intentional as the way you might design a piece of clothing. You destroy. You know. This call me. Am I reading too much into this crossover a fashion and music. No actually I wanted to do it in more because that is my concept of. Music. I also think of you know the famous in Congo and you know who are all about kind of getting dressed up for a musical event but you're kind of sappy and musician all in one yes and to tell you the truth I don't think I'm very very happy. About any minister of yet because I. Was different concept to present my music crush on me it's. Music you know. The name or as a consumer groups. You have to scroll down to rise I Web I'm OK I'm OK So when do we get to see the show in the next 2 months I want to how 3 more years well I know right now by. Mid November I'll be presenting this with the album I want. A true original in fashion and music his new album is missing chapters from the studio if. I'm Marco Werman I'm out for a few days Carol Hills will be in the House next week have a terrifically. The Jones family fund Peter and Katherine Darrow the billy and Dodi Crockett advised fund of the Dallas foundation and water in memory of Paul Atwater Connelly. 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Now there's a lot of traffic southbound obviously too right it's the 76 in Oceanside you hit the brakes and it is on and off all the way down to Manchester expect this through the weekend traffic is supported by San Diego Honda dealers you can find out more S.D. Honda dealers dot com a look at the freeways I'm. A new national security adviser applications are especially welcome if you're already secretary of state from N.P.R. In Washington this is. Today it's the Friday news round up last night in Houston the 3rd 2020 Democratic debate the event clocked in at 3 hours but finally managed to fit everyone on one stage the Supreme Court hands the Trump administration another big immigration win and the White House says it's moving to ban flavored will it work and will be followed through let's answer your questions about the week's top national story email. Comment on our Facebook page or always you can tweet us at one. Live from N.P.R. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer House Judiciary subcommittee is moving ahead in its anti trust probe into 4 tech giants Google Facebook Amazon and Apple N.P.R.'s Audie Shahani has the story a bipartisan group of House represents document requests to the 4 online mega platforms and it's early still the lawmakers are on a fact finding mission triggered in part by the sheer size of these companies 2 of which have hit trillion dollar market caps in a statement House judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler said there is growing evidence that a handful of corporations have come to capture an outsize share of on line commerce and communications the program examine whether these companies are using their market power in ways that have harmed consumers and competitors earlier this week nearly every state attorney general in the U.S. Announced joining an antitrust investigation into Google last week 98 he said they're looking at Facebook aren't they shiny N.P.R. News 14 days in prison that was the sentence handed down today against actress Felicity Huffman for her role in a college admissions cheating scandal the Desperate Housewives stars the 1st parent to be sentenced in a wide ranging scheme she previously pleaded guilty to paying thousands of dollars to inflate her daughter's S.A.T. Scores will also pay a $30000.00 fine and be required to do community service the 56 year old Hoffman is one of more than 50 people charged in the case which exposed wealthy parents using bribery and fraud to get their children into exclusive schools including Yale Stanford the University of Southern California often joined by her husband actor William H. Macy apologized before sentencing retail sales jumped more than forecasters were expecting last month N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley reports robust spending by consumers is proving to be a strong foundation for the U.S. Economy the Commerce Department says retail sales jumped 4 tenths of a percent last month double the pace that forecasters were expect. Thing cars and building materials are among the big sellers but clothing store sought declining sales in August and Americans also dial back spending in bars and restaurants economists keep a close eye on consumer spending because it accounts for more than 2 thirds of overall economic activity so far consumer spending has held up better than business investment and that trend could continue the survey from the University of Michigan says consumer sentiment bounced back this month after a sharp decline in August Scott Horsley N.P.R. News Washington package paper U.P.S.'s agreed to pay.