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And one time in my life it's all coming up after the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Laurie London u.s. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is congratulating the Syrian people and the u.s. Backed Syrian democratic forces for Defeating ISIS in the Syrian city of Raka N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen reports along with praising the Syrian rebels for their help Tillerson is calling this a critical milestone the u.s. Led coalition has been supporting so-called Syrian democratic forces who have been fighting ISIS and tillers and says he won't forget their accomplishment came at significant cost the State Department says it will support their efforts to reestablish basic security and deliver essential services What's less clear is how much influence Bashar al Assad's government will have in rocka the fighters who defeated ISIS oppose Assad Tillerson statement describes this as the beginning of a new phase in the Syrian conflict he says the u.s. Will work to deescalate violence across Syria Michele Kelemen n.p.r. News the State Department White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is defending the president's chief of staff after he misrepresented the remarks of a Democratic congresswoman yesterday John Kelly called Florida Representative Frederica Wilson an empty barrel General Kelly said he was stunned that Representative Wilson made comments at a building dedication honoring slain f.b.i. Agents about her own actions and Congress including lobbying Former President Obama on legislation as General Kelly pointed out if you're able to make a sacred act like honoring American heroes all about yourself you're an empty barrel if you don't understand that reference I'll put a little more simply as we say in the south all hat no cattle but a video of the Wilson's remarks in 2015 show she didn't make that claim instead she talked about her efforts to name the building after the agents Wilson has been under fire for criticizing the president's condolence call to the widow of a fallen u.s. Soldier today marks one month since Hurricane. In Maria head Puerto Rico there are still widespread water and power outages in the u.s. Territory and N.P.R.'s Liz Baker reports officials have been slow to get a handle on the number of hurricane related deaths for weeks after Maria the official death toll is $49.00 many suspect the actual number will be much higher but each death certificate must be investigated and confirmed by the Institute of Forensic Science in San Juan lack of communication created a backlog of cases after the storm and the pile has only grown as officials look into reports of deaths from diseases the state epidemiologist confirmed one more death from leptospirosis but won't determine an outbreak until all 74 suspected cases of the illness are confirmed his Baker n.p.r. News San Juan on Wall Street stocks surged to a record close the Dow gained 165 points the s. And p. 500 up 15 you were listening to n.p.r. News in Washington and this is 89.3 p.c. See Good afternoon I'm heading at 104 l.a. Sheriff's officials announced today that the Southland couple whose remains were found in Joshua Tree National Park in July died from gunshot wounds they were 22 year old Gilbert or bay so and 20 year old Rachel when the couple's remains were found in an embrace in a remote part of the park the bodies were recovered Monday morning they last been seen July 27th California Republicans will hear from former White House advisor Steve Bannon tonight when they gather in Anaheim for their state parties semi annual convention Stanford political analyst Bill Whalen says Bannon's appearance brings the rift between the conservative and business friendly wings of the California Republican Party front and center what is a California Republican and you see this come from the center in many ways to people who want to run a statewide races are they moderate conservative but then you also see that the convention the question of whether or not Steve Benen should be speaking of. 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World Service coming live from London this is Alan Bennett joins it in a moment we'll hear from our correspondent who was at the front line where Kurdish Peshmerga forces clashed with the Iraqi army also we have Tim Franks discussing the problem of China's relationship with North Korea and a rather unusual place. This restaurant in Beijing this is a particularly 8 unusual exultant feel to it that. It's Korean. But the big tonight is German but the feeling he's going to be Korean It's by young North Korean waitresses in high heels they're on a 3 year tour of duty and he said by North Koreans more from Tim later but we begin with the Iraqi military saying it's taken control of the last district held by Kurdish forces in the oil rich northern province of Kirkuk there have been exchanges of rocket artillery and machine gun fire and video recorded near the scene captured the sounds of the battle. Richard Gelfond is now in Bill but earlier today I went down to Kirkuk what was happening there thankfully we were driving down the road from below the capital of the Kurdish region towards Kirkuk and the road was blocked and we drove basically it's to the front lines where this fighting had erupted and essentially it was pretty heavy both sides were using artillery their rockets going off where we were on the Peshmerga side heavy machine guns and it continued for several hours our understanding is that it has now died down it's gone quiet but this was a major clash between the 2 sides and obviously the big fear is this. Incidents like this could ultimately trigger some kind of think civil war between the Kurdish fighters the Peshmerga and the Iraqi armed forces which of course includes the Shiite militia it seemed that all this was being managed without fighting how come this this violence did break errant. Well I mean I think it's essentially from the Peshmerga point of view that's saying it's because the Iraqi armed forces were pushing forward out of Kirkuk having already the Iraqi forces having already taken care cook and in a suite with and pushing forward the road which ultimately leads hits the bills the Peshmerga say they were compelled to open fire as the Iraqi armed forces came towards them it's not the 1st clash that I'm at the beginning of this minute she operation ordered by the Iraqi prime minister Hietala body the beginning of this week. There was some clashes then as the Iraqi forces moved in into the kick Cook area and eventually took the whole city there was some fighting but this does seem to be another serious incident and essentially what the Iraqi armed forces have now achieved just pretty much to have control of all the areas the disputed areas around the autonomy this region into which the Kurdish regional governments had moved as a result of the vacuum left in 2014 as so-called Islamic states rampage through northern Iraq I've heard once back to where they were in 2014 does that mean that's the end of it you know that the Iraqi army will not be satisfied. I do not really good question it's difficult to tell at the moment I mean there are 2 separate things I mean maybe the Iraqi army might be satisfied but I think there's another question about the Shiite militias that there have been some very bad occur with talk from the militias in recent days talk about very much for that but at the moment they are thing no they're not going to go further and that bail for example the capital of the Kurdish region is not a target it's not something they want to try and move on say Richard Galpin reporting there will this referendum the Kurdish referendum to come at a charge time one of the giants of Kurdish politics to allow Talabani a former Iraqi president was on his deathbed now he opposed the referendum and feared that it would bring much of what has come to pass and his son befell Taliban a shed is where is a must read to him a short while ago as he reflects on this setback of withdrawing from Kirkuk I asked him how big a blow was that for the Kurds this is a huge setback for the Kurds and the sad thing is it's an unnecessary setback for the Kurds. There was a potential deal in place with his Excellency prime minister a body in which one base would become a hub of the international coalition against ISIS there would be u.s. Troops that there would be British troops that there would be other coalition troops there and there would be some conventional and I must stress consensual Iraqi forces that unfortunately the Kurdish leadership were not able to respond correctly to this request you're talking when you say the Kurdish leadership about your father's old ally really and longtime partner in the Kurdish leadership Mr Karzai I think it's a little unfair perhaps to blame all of the issues on Mr Bowers on Eat there was a meeting of 2. Martini's and there was meetings of 3 parties I think as a whole a lot of the Kurdish leadership from a certain generation seem to be losing track of frankly of reality but the fundamental error in your view was to hold the referendum knows I'd like to be really clear on this matter the fundamental error was not accepting the Us led alternative to the referendum the referendum was a good way to attract attention to the plight of the Kurdish people the referendum was never the end goal the end goal was to improve the lives of the Kurds and at the very last moment the United States came forward with a document a document backed by Great Britain and backed by the international community as a whole and the u.n. And this document offered us 2 years to negotiate with back that and at the end of these 2 years if we didn't reach an honorable compromise the United States would have supported the need for a referendum now for 2 years my question is why did we take this that's a colossal error the colossal error is not taking this opportunity why do you believe it wasn't taken it just came too late. You know I've been asked this question I don't know much about football and sports like that but my understanding is it's never too late to win you can score a goal in the last 2nd of the match and you'll still the winner and we had one with this document we had one we had and we could eat it. So I don't think it was tonight's No because it's never too late to win have you put that point of view to Mr Barzani I think I'm pretty sure Mr Bush that he knows that point of view himself there's no need for me to make that point change the withdrawal from current Coke was seen by many as a humiliation for the Kurds you did that why did you do that well 1st of all I hope when you say you you don't mean me I am not the commander of the Peshmerga forces the Peshmerga forces historically have defended her coop very well we have lost our greatest military leaders and bravest Peshmerga defending current kook especially recently against ISIS us militia recent offensive. Faced It's amount to pull odds vastly superior firepower we've lost until now between 84 and 100 men I have men missing in action and I have injured behind enemy lines the commanders made a very very difficult decision to withdraw strategically from the front this was to avoid the last of the massive loss of Peshmerga life this was to avoid civilian casualties and collateral damage to the Iranians ask you to leave. No the reins it not ask us to leave Mr r. Body asked us to leave and when he office to leave even then he offered us the other solution the solution of the joint alterations hub in the military base k one that is the only agreement that I am aware of that is the only agreement that I and 38 members of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan 50 leadership supported but I'm fortune clean again the Kurdish leaders were not able to resolve this situation properly and now we are in this calamity How will you get out of a dialogue dialogue dialogue we need negotiation with Baghdad we need a unified Kurdish voice I think this hurling of insults back and forth between the relevant parties this attribution of blame I think is incorrect I think these are the old things that used to split the cuts I'd like to Kurdish people to stand united in the face of adversity and together head down to Baghdad reengage the international community to a fish this reach a peaceful resolution before we're dragged and further into a terrible terrible place how long will it be before the Kurds once again control Kirkuk. We lost her cool militarily we have to think of winning back with diplomacy and we can win back our troops with diplomacy the cuts a very very experience but if there's one thing history has taught me is that we are only successful when we are together so I condemn these different Kurdish groups that rather than promoting unity trying to cause divisions in the cuts this is the real treachery that's being talked about this is the real treachery no doubt unity Kurdish unity is important to your coals but the fact is you've just given up the city and you want to win it back by talking when you please said we didn't give up the city the city was taken from us and I think that you can win it back by talking or you can win it back in an acceptable way by chalking and also Mr about these a respecter of the Constitution and we have Article 140 and we should look forward to implementing article 140. Just one last question to say there was no rainy and hand behind these these things that have happened in cocoa can recent days in just in general terms yes how concerned are you about the role and the extent of the influence of Iran in Iraq I think you know we have a huge border with Iran and their influence is going to be knowledge but I think that's if you don't mind me saying so it's oversimplifying the problem Iran wasn't against the referendum every faulty was the United States the United Kingdom the United Nations Iran Turkey Iraq everybody was the guy the referendum that's why we worked so hard on this alternative agreement this paper that was presented to us fi the United States because this paper guaranteed us the right to do a referendum but it gave us 2 years to negotiate with back that and if you look at the situation we're in. Now the men we've lost the situation with a population which one was better obviously the leaders of Kurdistan made a colossal error and that was the assessment the town of Bani very outspoken some of the former Iraqi president Jalal Talabani Madam moonlights are in use or in a certain house would look ahead to the Japanese elections it's been a cold and rainy October here in Tokyo and as the evening rush hour commences a political candidate is calling out to commute his begging them to turn out on Sunday to vote back many of them will not if ever and who can blame them Japanese politics is dull Well not so dull I have referred to gives an interesting report he will be in the 2nd half of news are. Katie c.z. Supporters include a 24th presenting the killing of a sacred deer a suburban revenge thriller from the director of the lobster starring Nicole Kidman and Collin Farrow playing at a landmark and Hollywood programming on 89.3 k. P.c.c. 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Through which President Xi will steer the Communist Party and therefore the country to greater wealth and greater glory what there isn't though in all the columns of praise is mention of East Asia is most pressing problem what to do about North Korea and its nuclear ambitions China after all is North Korea's main historical ally and certainly the country the most economic leverage over its neighbor so no discussion in the state media but it's not too difficult to venture out into Beijing and find the diplomatic temperature plummeting. This restaurant in Beijing doesn't have a particularly. Exotic feel to it that he believes. It's North Korea the beer Well the beer tonight is German but that is going to be Korean It's by young North Korean waitresses in high heels they're on a 50 year tour of duty and it's owned by North Koreans it's also unusual because it's about to be closed down or least it's supposed to be and that's because the Chinese government is awarded that it along with all other North Korean businesses in China be shut down by the end of January the announcement came from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and it followed the latest u.n. Resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea but it also followed the missile test that Pyongyang. And carried out while President Xi was hosting a summit here in China according to Chinese observers in Beijing Mr she was left. With. That reported disdain didn't come out of nowhere Max Baucus You may have heard him on the program a couple of days ago he was the u.s. Ambassador in Beijing until earlier this year he recalls the only time he had the Chinese leader use diplomatic language I have. Only heard President speak derogatorily about a person once and we did so it was a fairly strong terms and that was when he was quite critical a couple years ago Kim Jong un he does not like him going and it is very clear that having said that he telegraphed the difficulty she had in drawing and also difficult with the time has in trying to figure out what its policy toward North Korea is. This is the spacious light man sued a gallery in Beijing art quarter it's art is entirely North Korean vases statues and paintings plenty of paintings there are landscapes there are portrayed there are a lot of scenes with planning political resonance There's a picture here of a North Korean books and getting a gold medal he's on top of the podium next to him there's a grinning silver medalist in Cuba and the bronze medalist is a glaring sulky chap from the United States. The gallery owner. He didn't want us to record an interview with him but he was happy to tell us that since opening the gallery 10 years ago sales have tracked politics these are his words why have Chinese people like North Korea art because a connection they felt between the 2 companies countries but business isn't good at the moment for the last 2 years the relationship between our 2 countries has been strained where might that strain lead will frequently in the West we've heard frustration expressed over why China hasn't just somehow sorted out its smaller neighbor given its status as North Korea's only apparent ally. Well if that was the reckoning it sounds like it's wearing thin very thin we don't get interviews with members of the Chinese government but listen to this view of the peril North Korea has put itself in it comes from an academic with a deep understanding of China's defense and foreign affairs establishment he's Chung show her associate professor of international relations its room in University here in Beijing and once again his analysis is that last month's decision to restrict trade with North Korea doesn't just follow the u.n. Sanctions resolution but President she's very personal affront I think of that was a direct response to North Korea has nuclear provide cations on the eve of the break summit China hosted believe China's government got mad and chance a top leader got mad so that's the they rocked the country measures China to come and adopted the Ponce North Korea so you don't think the fact that both regimes a communist the fact that 6070 years ago China 4 to war on the side of North Korea you don't think the historic links carry the same weight today China was had a special relationship weighs softly Uni But Tana had war with other countries China had a special relationship with Vienna and but 2 countries for war in 1989 and I think the relationship between China and North Korea is that the ones between Chan under former Soviet Union and China and that we are now. Hearing you say that suggests that the possibility that there could be a military confrontation green China or North Korea is is there oh and I just want to make a k. . But no prominent friends no permanent enemies the relationship to logic and so be determined by the national interests now transnationally interest is a stable and a security non-nuclear Crippen's Are you think there is a real possibility that the Korean Peninsula could be denuclearized because a lot of people say that ship has sailed so yes and the hope for. Corruption and solar has been greatly deemed hopelessly linger on North Korea now or in the very awkward situation not countries on the earth has come to such a kind of tough sanctions if North Korea does not do any things and just sit there and this country and this regime will sit to us but they've not square was there to take a full military provocation nuclear test as a b.m. Test and I think that North Korea will seek to tie you think one more nuclear test could be the breaking point I think of the now North Korea's is standing on the age of deep cleave and Wang like Brillo could push this country off the cliff. Professor Chung her he also told me that the if the Chinese government has a clear red lines which Kim Jong un must not cross then it needs to tell him now and very explicitly Professor Chung's is not a lone voice among the observers and regional specialists here but it is just worth reflecting on that view that simply because you've been an ideological ally in the past doesn't necessarily prevent a military confrontation in the future that the sanctions as currently imposed on North Korea will leave Pyongyang doesn't change course squeeze the life out of the regime and also a very clear warning that if Pyongyang dare to engage in another military provocation a nuclear test or an i.c.b.m. Test then as you put it North Korea will seek to die. 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Again she collected information this represents information from the 8 largest insurers Dick rating insurance you know these fires Jones called the numbers chilling in addition to the thousands of homes destroyed nearly as many were damaged a few 1000 vehicles were destroyed then there is the damage to commercial properties and farm equipment at least $42.00 people died in those fires which started October 8th and touched 7 counties 3 people were ordered today to stand trial on capital murder charges in connection with an arson fire at a West Lake area apartment building in $199310.00 people died in that fire including a pregnant woman prosecutors will decide later if they'll seek the death penalty against the 3 who are due back in court November 3rd for arraignment from a baby tiger cub to monitor lizards animal call authorities have seized dozens of animals and filed charges against sick. 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If we were of rape or would pitch in Australia my friend sometimes we go it thought of a religious doctrine and I say so did your father have one now and he was a full it man we had 4 was the great black coat of you know straight isn't Catholic Protestant any kind of religious thing was a way but wouldn't hold him and leave it for like what kind of a person how to fold and what kind of a person how to hold and well because of a favorite connection obviously the fury of people with the poor but we left at the if the 1st Falcon used in Australia in the early think the complete with all that any dog bite because it could not cope with the strain roads in those days especially in roads because of a series of loosely connected monic canyons and they would strongly committed weekly built vehicles you know so I'm getting a sense of it neither Holden was for the rugged dollar Australian and the food was for the a feat city man or a little wild and for it caught up with what happened with all of. These running back along that would be beefed up strengthened to cope with roads and weather extremes that's about as well and that's what of course lead to I guess the cult of hold it in a way to this day there are people with Holden Texas. When you don't have a box all tattoo or a tattoo or a right tattoo that's not really the star in the u.k. It I've never seen anyone with any of those to your right and so tell us about. The demise of Holden I mean it is you know people said I guess this is a generational thing if you're over 50 and you grew up with all them and you grew up with a strain in automobile manufacturing yes people devastated if you're under $25.00 not so much I mean if you told a millennial that Samsung was out of business or that they were the big dog would be bathed in Australia then you'd see devastation but for Old Australians Yes all that was very important and when Holden was introduced to the Australian market for the I you know the 1st really strong in might in Australian design a vehicle for Australians in the struggling condition it was kind of like a model t. Ford enjoys the market mobilize people who otherwise couldn't afford imported cars it won a lot of hops it's important to make this distinction because there will still be the Holden badge but they're being made in Germany right now be made a lot of the place bodies from Germany engines from Malaysia from Mexico the Kamarck now go Well one of the most unfortunate things about it because situation and you know it put the loss of jobs at the top of that but Holden's in the last 10 he's had a world class vehicles that they actually want for camphor pound the best value for money because you probably get and there were losing them for some of the locks driving the tour of the set and that on the Holden was journalist Tim Black. You're listening to news 72 people have been killed in 2 separate suicide attacks on mosques in Afghanistan during Friday prayers and one of these attacks was in Kabul I asked the B.B.C.'s earlier a trophy to tell us what happened and I witnessed told the b.b.c. That that tech. Had come and was hiding inside the mosque and detonated his explosives and himself once people were busy of praying they Nation reports were that it was a small magnetic bomb this was a Shia mosque and in the Shia mosques that quite often women and children go to pray alongside men so far no one has claimed officially responsibility but in the past it has been I guess that has targeted share minorities in Afghanistan and the 2nd suicide bombing where I was not in the central ward province again a suicide bomber exploding inside a mosque killing 10 people there tell us that the target was a local militia commander who was loyal to the government and tell us just how does this fit in with what's happening in Afghanistan generally does it feel like the central government is losing control or how does it feel well. It has had to fill the vacuum left from the thousands off NATO forces since 2014 the Taliban were doing really good taking more and more territory and then the government tried to counter that by using Air Force and train extent stopped that Taliban advance alongside that there is on so I asked now that the government has to put up with although I say is not targeting one security forces. As much as Taliban do nonetheless it's causing mayhem in Kabul mostly by at tacking Jihad minorities can you just give us some impression of the relative strength of the Taliban and so-called Islamic states in Afghanistan how many fighters with the 2 groups have would you say roughly difficult to put a number on them Taliban the stronger group. The new growing group and Taliban are in a way a frightened of them because once the Taliban were the new young arrival there with the mobility and young people switching to them and similar thing is happening to ice now there are rumors in the north that I cease paying better young educated Avalon's these are the religious educated youngsters think that say I can bring about a proper Islamic state and Afghanistan and that the Taliban have gone mild but the Taliban are pressing them hard into making sure that they don't grow disproportionate if they can't eliminate them all together and reporting for us from Kabul that was a traffic. The chief executive of Kenya's electoral commission as Richard is going on holiday meaning he will miss next week's rerun presidential election quite a time to take a few days off and interesting take on the normal way of handling these things a convenient illness well Dickens all a way presents b.b.c. Africa's Kenyan election watch poll cast do we know where the chief executive is getting on his holiday we don't know is going on what we know is that he's not going to be in charge of next week's election right and so just give us the background. So this is as Richie Loba who is the chief electro. Electoral Commission so he was basically in charge of the administrators wing of the commission and essentially pretty much in charge of all the logistics as far as the election is concerned when the election was a knowledge of the opposition alleged that Mr to know about was walking with the governing Jubilee party and he was essentially. Was in charge as Actually of all the other processes that went wrong and therefore they wanted him to be socked but they're not going to take part anyway so I'm a bit confused by this because normally if you've got someone who is with the state if you like they wouldn't just because the opposition asked them to no I mean according to Mr Chalabi he in fact he was saying that he had the election that was just a knowledge he was happy of about his job he was confident that he's team had delivered an election and they were just some I do instructive challenges that because they do not follow the law on the Constitution to the letter that's why the Supreme Court a knowledge of the election exactly why is it going on holiday which we take to be a political act so what what happened I mean what's happened this week is that so that 7 commissioners in the electoral commissions or one of them fled the country and resigned and they're saying surely call into question the professionalism of the Constitution called into question its independence its preparedness for the for next week election and because of that it was a big blow it was a bombshell I think the discussion we should be having right now is is the next week election going to be credible already one commissioner has say that it is not going to be credible the chairman us as well yesterday when he was giving his statement also called into question as to whether the election would be credible so I think. It's looks. Kenya will have an election for the sake of an election but not necessarily meet the credibility standard I we are absolutely certain that the main opposition candidate Mr Odinga won't run and he said he won't mighty change his mind. But it looks like he will not run in fact just just before I came in I got a message I asked the communications officer for a commission whether Mr Odinga is on the ballot and he said yes all the 8 presidential candidates who remain in August are in the ballots I'm sure his name is that he's name is there and the reason for that is because Mr Odinga wrote a letter to the commission and say that he will not take part because he doesn't think that the election will be credible by the commission sayed that Mr Dingell had to fill this form but Mr Dingell say that he who not so it looks like the commission has essentially stuck to his guns and Mr Dingell is on the ballot right so that could create quite a bit of confusion because some people will probably vote for him even though he's not running well exec you know you have a situation where you know President Hu looking out he's basically has while the other presidential candidates goal is to go to less than one percent in the August election so basically he's going in this repeat Alexion with no challenger so it would be interesting to see how many people vote for Mr didn't get anyway but what we know for sure is that he has been rallying his supporters not to take part and that was to Kim's on my way host of p.c. Africa's Kenyan election watch punk cost. Japan's prime minister Shinzo abaya looks like he is heading to victory in some base not general election he called it last month more than a year earlier than they have to and if you does win a 4th term that would be unprecedented in post-war Japanese politics Rupert Winfield Hayes reports. That it's been a cold and rainy October here in Tokyo and as the evening rush hour commences a political candidate is calling out to commuters begging them to turn out on Sunday to vote and have many of them will not get that over and who can blame them Japanese politics is dull the same policy the l.d.p. Has ruled here for 56 of the last 62 years and it looks like it is about to do so again. I go for it and I think that will make this man Shinzo abbé the longest serving Japanese prime minister in post-war history that Mr will not win because Japanese people love him my God my God that. Last week 3000 people took part in this anti abbé protest in central Tokyo a survey this week found 51 percent of Japanese people won't read if their prime minister. One of them is jihad Takano a 24 year old graduate student who is about to enter the job market it's a very very severe condition right now for especially young people to job hunt the average human saying that people have more jobs now but irregular jobs have more openings now but regular jobs are getting less and less so why will Mr Abbey win according to Jeff Kingston from Tokyo's Temple University is because Japan's opposition parties are even worse so in the surveys ask supporters of a Why do you support them it's Tina there is no all. Turned of for a few days this month it looked like Mr Abbott was about to face a real challenge about one year has passed since I was given the great responsibility governor in this wonderful city the charismatic and popular governor of Tokyo. Held a dramatic press conference announcing she was forming a new party she called it hope so what does her hope party stand for I don't want to it's candidates talk a tonic why vote for hope instead of the old l.d.p. He has not so brilliant ideas which they can never carry out but that's their problem because. They can only carry out like 10 percent of what they're saying. Not terribly inspiring is it certainly hasn't inspired young voters like she how to Kano quite a was also involved in the alter nationalistic group and Abi is also in that to Prime Minister of a so basically their bodies in that sense they have the same ideology Professor Jeff Kingston concurs candidacy has already fizzled the whole party looks pretty hopeless one of the big promises she made to voters is she's going to limit 8 hay fever she's going to eliminate indoor smoking these are not going to get her over the fence so Mr Abbott is going to win Ok let's go home well no hang on a minute a big victory for the l.d.p. Could have big implications for Japan. The next Abby it will be his final 4 year term and according to Professor Geo Yamaguchi of Tokyo's hosts a university he is determined to use it to leave his mark on Japanese history Japanese people do not agree with the amendment of the constitution especially article line. But it is very likely that after the election Prime Minister will insist that she has clear Monday from Japanese people about the constitutional amendment for Mr Abbey and his right wing supporters it would be the fulfillment of a lifelong quest to finally reach a pan of the American imposed pacifist constitution and that was Rupert Winfield had a reporting and just time to mention that on news hour extra This week we're talking about Japan in particular foreign policy in Japan how does it see its night but China with a long history of tension and animosity that how does it feel about North Korea with missiles flying over Japan what did Japan's foreign minister mean when he said last month Tokyo would now be seeing a greater role in world affairs including a stronger military so we're discussing the changes to the Constitution removing field has was just mentioning that as well so it's all about Japan and that's news hour extra It's on the radio this weekend but there's also the puck us the b.b.c. 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Is global questions this week is coming from Charleston science Carolina and it's presented by Zeynep a dolly why Charleston we went to Charleston because the biggest city in South Carolina voted decisively 55 percent for Donald Trump in the presidential election as the city backed Hillary so it wasn't all that difficult however we did get from South Carolina that in fact for Trump to come in and say we would have a balance and it sounded quite lively and I mean you know quite tricky questions like Is Mr Trump a racist which he had a controversial and let's just hear and get you to comment on it one of your panelists this is pasta Mark Burns rejecting the idea that the president is a racist I don't know what real racism but like it done Chuck has always said he must be the worst places in the tire of all white supremacy because he obviously don't. He should be a good one black people that. He. Did he should be hated I would use he. Should be hated I was there just let me do what white supremacy is every history white friendship had to do. Was to thank you you can't go wrong to the face of America but very passionate and articulate I know I felt more of a kind of referee than I did a moderator to be honest Erin the question comes from the audience and somebody else was Donald Trump a racist Mark Burns is a pastor who has been described as Donald Trump's pastor because he backed him for the presidential election he's an African American Having said that though he did vote for Obama twice an interesting switch up and you had what he said so I would say that this was an issue on which the audience were very very polarized having been to the south there was still a great deal of segregation in South Carolina and other parts of the South in the United States so I think that's why it was something which was very keenly felt and there was an elderly woman in the audience in fact who said you know I have memories of the terrible deeds that went on and so I think that's why people got very very emotional as you can tell just sort of who are here the next clip give us the background on the whole me Langford so we had a question about taken it's called in this is the campaign which was started by some members of the National Football League the n.f.l. Players last year because they wanted to highlight the issue of black young men dying at the hands of policemen in the United States last year 309 black men were killed by police the year before that I'm not sure the number was for that but 99 percent of these deaths did not result in any convictions so you can understand it's a great deal of. Angus said the idea is that the football players when they play the u.s. National anthem at the start of a game they take a knee they kneel down and of course you're supposed to stand with your hand Davie your heart this is what Jamie Harrison had to say when he was asked about whether he supports the taken a and he's a prominent Democratic member people say well kneeling is disrespectful What is how is kneeling just respect when I go to sleep at night and I get on my knees bolt up and I pray to the Lord God that's out of respect when I get on my one knee and asked my wife to marry me that was out of respect these guys did in a silent protest saying that they are injustices in this nation that need to be answered and I was Jamie Harrison Democrats in South Carolina and that additional global questions on the b.b.c. World service tomorrow at $900.00 g.m.t. Repeated midday someday. Police in Brazil say they've arrested 97 people in the biggest operation ever against paedophiles in Latin America the B.B.C.'s America's editor layer now to Russia explains Well they've been investigating for 6 months it's a police in all Brazilian States with the cooperation of American officials the American embassy in Brazil so the European Union they carried out his operation early in the morning. Now the latest update is 108 people have been arrested but we expect the number to be higher because they'll be a no the press another print media conference later the operation is still being unfolded and the investigation old online probably was it was done online and also I think oh it's only today that they went to the actual addresses in seized computers more than $150000.00 files with images of children and teenagers the details as to sit still early information that we have but they seize the computers and then they verify that the people. Oh you know that they were following had those computers then they arrested them and preserved preserves like everywhere else it's taken a while for this issue to become prominent it is and I was surprised that the sentences that these people are facing is 3 to 6 years in jail which I think are quite lenient because in Brazil they're probably just serve one 3rd of that to be in jail for one to 2 years if they are sentenced So give us a bet on public sentiment about that particular fair and up bodies being in jail for a couple of years or some of these people are indeed found guilty well I fear that many people I feel that many people in Brazil are surprised because they're they don't feel a something that has always happened but they associate more with the European There was this scandal in Belgium is a scandal that I saw many people in Brazil say oh that's something that doesn't happen here and all the evidence points to the other way so it's something that Brazilian society hasn't really faced you had some of the people arrested or retired policeman civil servants in many coaches and managers off youth football clubs which is something that everyone knows there is a big problem especially when involved vulnerable imports you'll drink that's the same story all over the world but essentially a perception that they thought it was a European issue argue what does that tell us about the way people look at Europe it is it is an interesting thing because Brazilians can be very critical of the country of themselves but they see the violence they see the drugs but they say well this you know cruelty or stuff like that doesn't happen here and of course in the last say 510 years with the Internet and the spread of information all these things are coming up Baltar people feel they and people being kept hostage in houses and stuff like that and what do you know about the children involved Well they have nothing has been said yet even the names of the victims have been kept quiet in the information about the victims. And there will be a press conference later where hopefully we'll find out more about that I saw some of the footage on Brazil until it is not off the actual images but the amount of material seized in host C.D.'s and computers a huge number. In what the author is are now trying to find out is if they were operating alone in Brazil or in international people feed the ring and that was the big seize America's editor Russia talking about that investigation and into those arrests in Brazil and it brings us an end of this edition of views are stretched very much for listening and from an advantage in London. You don't have to miss a word if your schedule conflicts with your favorite k.p.c. Fi shows just get the k.p.c. Siyad listen whenever you want wherever you are on demand or on a live stream search k.p.c. In the App Store to download it today. Next time on the New York Radio Hour an interview with Chelsea Manning Manning was released from prison recently after serving 7 years for sending classified documents about the Iraq war to Wiki Leaks delete the profoundly embarrassed the u.s. Government just because the staff writer for the receive it far better next time on The New Yorker wrote. Join us Saturday mornings at 10 on 89.3 k p c c. This is 89.3 a p.c.c. Pasadena Los Angeles community service the Pasadena City College named by the Aspen Institute one of the top 10 community colleges in the United States learn more at Pasadena dot edu the Harvey. The effect today on the world. I'm Marco Werman Harvey Weinstein's gone from Hollywood legend to social pariah over allegations of sexual harassment even though he denies that he assaulted women he keeps insisting through a spokesperson that any anything he did was consensual but it's not just Harvey Weinstein and it's not just the u.s. 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