Times of London she's quitting the Conservative Party to hell for last week's expulsion of moderate party lawmakers RUDD A former home secretary said she thinks Boris Johnson isn't serious about striking a new withdrawal deal with E.U. Leaders. Though remains a member of Parliament as do the 21 conservative lawmakers expelled from their party last week so they can still vote and are likely to vote with the opposition and against their prime minister on Bracks related matters For N.P.R. News I'm Vicki Barker in London and this is N.P.R. News. I'm Tammy Trujillo is some of the stories we're following at 7 o 4 crews in Riverside County are dealing with 2 brush fires this morning one a smaller fire in the city of Riverside is nearly 50 percent contained the sick more Canyon fire has burned about 250 acres and the nearly 2000 acre fire burning near variadic is 40 percent contained this morning Cal Fire Captain Fernando Herrera says aerial operations have been rolled back over 800 firefighters working in shifts along the perimeter there's a lot of time on the ground it's turning out soil over you know making sure that a lot of deep pockets whether they're stumps or roots are turned over and. Roads in the area have all been reopened Herrera says even though evacuation orders have been lifted people there are urged to stay vigilant Dorian is no longer a hurricane but still a powerful storm unleashed its wrath on the East Coast of Canada rescue specialists from Los Angeles meanwhile are assisting in Florida which was hard hit by Dorian L.A. County Fire Captain Tony and Brenda says the department is home to one of only 2 international search and rescue teams based in the U.S. These rescue teams have a wide variety of technical rescue experts one of the big components of that also is swift water rescue. And Brenda says the team deployed to Florida with 16 specialists that a lot of rescue equipment watercraft Zodiacs ropes and rigging and override you have different search tools infrared cameras to give us the ability to search for signs of life in areas that are saturated with water and he says L.A. County has a team ready to go in the Bahamas which was also heard hit by the hurricane Support for N.P.R. Comes from N.P.R. Stations other contributors include the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the estate of Joan Kroc whose bequest serves as an enduring investments in the future of public radio and the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Ed Mack founded dot org On the next FRESH AIR weekend Janet Mock her work on the F.X. Series pose and made her the 1st trans woman of color to write and direct an episode of T.V. Talk about her life and work and we'll hear from guitarist James Burton who played with Elvis Sinatra Emmylou Harris he played on Ricky Nelson is hits and his band in the T.V. Series Ozzy and Harriet join us sending. In 9 point the P.C.C. . This is WEEKEND EDITION from N.P.R. News I'm Luke Good morning President Trump tweeted last night that he is cancelling peace negotiations with the Taliban he revealed details of a planned secret meeting at Camp David between U.S. Officials the Afghan government and the Taliban that was supposed to take place this weekend the stated reason for the cancellation a suicide attack that killed multiple people including a U.S. Soldier on Thursday Trump wrote what kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position many things about this announcement are surprising Joining us now from Islamabad is N.P.R.'s Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman who is traveling around the region with the head of Central Command 4 star General Kenneth Frank Mackenzie welcome. I understand the lines are pretty bad so we're going to try and get through this we've known for a while that a deal with the Taliban may have been close but this was an unorthodox way of announcing it to say the least it is surprising that the peace deal is going to be cemented on U.S. Soil what has been the reaction. Well 1st of all the Taliban reaction was they learned about it from some media reports they had no idea it was going to happen and so they kind of all assemble they're going to enter Taliban meetings to decide a response of took a few hours and they basically said the markings will pay for that and so that's been their reaction the Afghan government meanwhile applauded what parts of the trumpet to say about the cancellation and the call for a ceasefire and that's kind of where we are now we don't have a sense of the way ahead at this point separative state my compound has been doing the rounds on cable this morning and here's what he said to Jake Tapper on C.N.N. When asked about the timing and location of this secret meeting if the Taliban don't behave if they don't deliver on the commitments that they've made to us now for weeks and in some cases months president out of states is not going to reduce the pressure we're not going to reduce our support for the Afghan security forces that have fought so hard there in Afghanistan he's essentially saying there that the end would have justified the means how do you expect that that will go over with the different players in Afghanistan now. Well Tom we've been hearing the American military will likely increase strikes in attacks on Taliban locations including leaders and the Taliban could very well responded in time going out to let's say soft target civilian targets and so forth so that's going to be a real concern going forward A Well we've been hearing for months now is that the Taliban the political leadership is not unified there are differences of opinion on the CO shooting table that there is some Taliban or more but stay conservative and not really willing to have a deal you also have the military commanders in Afghanistan the Taliban military commanders who may not agree to a deal so they could continue fighting that's been the problem although on the Taliban it's a good organization. So when likely see more Taliban attacks in law note attacks on the Taliban a story about that over the past few months as you mentioned the Taliban has been launching multiple suicide attacks including and especially her 5th one on a wedding they have used this as leverage throughout the negotiating process so I guess the question is Was there something different about this attack that might have prompted this response from the president. As a couple of things no no I think 1st of all that they had started a few days after this horrific attacks or to protect the children people including American soldiers from Puerto Rico that. We did hear you know yes they expect you know they expected that have talks and they the United console too was killed I think at least part of that and that's what the concern for mentioning this tweet so that was a big part of their sergeant you can Americans soldier wants to know and P.R.'s Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman from Islam that thank you very much. You're welcome. To New Hampshire now and Democratic voters there 3 years ago many of them wanted more options besides Hillary Clinton so they went with him on Senator Bernie Sanders this campaign cycle there are plenty of candidates to choose from 19 presidential hopefuls showed up to speak at the New Hampshire Democratic convention yesterday and P.R.'s followed reports the state convention felt like a high school pep rally when I got there around 8 am Hundreds of party activists were already waiting in line to get inside New Hampshire Democratic officials say this was the largest political convention they've ever held some 9000 people bought tickets just outside the main arena and I met Kathleen a local Democratic leader she told me she's still torn between 2 candidates former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren Biden is like stayed with true movies and Mary's done that across the board experience in foreign fields domestic and I love Elizabeth Warren she's got the fire he's got the enthusiasm she's got the new play and political analysts don't think of Warren in Biden is being on the same ideological plane but for voters like Seems instincts and personality matter more than where particular candidate fits on the ideological spectrum warring and see Ender's have the advantage of being neighbors to New Hampshire and in presidential primaries here neighbors always seem to do well Sanders still has some goodwill from 2016 but it's more an who is resonating more this year she's seen as the ultimate insider outsider candidate she speaks in Sanders language but it peels to Clinton supporters like Donna Margaret kicks I met her and she grabbed popcorn from the concession stands she had a go blue sticker on her cheek that was hard to miss going too far to the left. I don't think is something that's sustainable and for that reason Mom Bridget does not have Sanders on her short list but she does in. Lou during even though the 2 have nearly identical policies market admits that on some issues like Medicare for all or in is further left than where she is but she thinks the Massachusetts senator is really and seems like a pragmatist I am thinking that her message may modify over a period of time if crowd choose can be a metric for anything then more in support was more enthusiastic than any of the other 8000 candidates on stage her supporters beat those inflatable thunder sticks sold loudly as she walked on stage the applause continued for a solid 2 minutes before she could begin speaking and when she did she made an appeal that many could have interpreted as a reference to Joe Biden I get it I get it there is all lot at stake and people are just scared but we can't choose a candidate we don't believe in because fiscal year but in general the convention had a friendly festival by supporters didn't just cheer for their own candidate they gave standing ovations to lines they liked regardless of who spoke them and there were still some loyal Bernie Sanders supporters in the arena I noticed Heather Baldwin buying a Sanders T. Shirt and so I asked her if she has already decided who she's voting for oh I definitely would vote for Bernie but if I don't get to vote for Bernie as president after the primary I will vote Democratic because we've got to get rid of what's. Festering in the way and that urgency for unity is a fundamentally different tone than 2016. N.P.R. News. There is an election today in Moscow one that's been disputed for weeks opponents of President Vladimir Putin were barred from running for city council setting off a summer of anti-government protests and mass arrests but even without any candidates of their own Putin's enemies are still trying to spoil the vote for the Kremlin we have N.P.R.'s Kim on the line from Moscow Good morning good morning Lola how is it that a local election has become such a test for Vladimir Putin's regime Well you have to remember that Russia is a super centralized country and in American context Moscow plays the role of New York Washington and Los Angeles combined And so what happens here really determines the way the whole country goes of course the Moscow city council has practically no real power but the Kremlin couldn't face the idea of outright critics of Putin winning elected office it would have given them a bully pulpit to talk to the whole country and more importantly I think it would have given the opposition legitimacy and sort of set a precedent for other regions in Russia would put his opponents barred from the election though aren't the results a foregone conclusion. Well I think it's interesting that despite the Kremlin's tight control over the political system here elections do matter in the past there have been lots of documented instances of vote rigging but the government also understands that if there are mass violations in a city like Moscow that could spark even more protests Putin on the whole is still very popular but the ruling party which is called United Russia is absolutely not in fact Putin has abandoned the party so has the Moscow mayor and now all of the candidates for United Russia and Moscow are hiding their party affiliation and running as independents what makes the Kremlin especially nervous is that you have opposition leader Alexina Vali telling his supporters not to boycott the election but instead to go out and use their ballots to vote against against those pro-government candidates looking ahead once these elections are done what is the opposition's strategy if they don't have an event to rally around. Good question 1st of all the opposition has just shown how it can turn a supposedly meaningless city council election into a rallying cry for mass protests there really is a lot of pent up frustration right now which mostly has to do with the stagnating economy but many Russians are also unhappy and and just plain scared to see people go to jail just for something they tweeted or for attending a protest the opposition to Putin is still relatively small and it's divided internally they're certainly encouraged by the protests this summer because nobody expected them but on the other hand if the Kremlin can get through these elections there won't be a national election for another 2 years and so it's still going to be a very long uphill battle for the opposition That's N.P.R.'s listen Kam in Moscow Listen thank you so much thanks for that. You're listening to N.P.R. News and this is 89.3 P.C. See I'm Tammy Trujillo at noon on FRESH AIR with Terry Gross today guitarist James Burton he played with Elvis Costello and Elvis Presley Sinatra Merle Haggard Ricky Nelson and Emmylou Harris That's coming up at noon today on fresh air in the forecast quiet a bit cooler today temperatures more where they should be for this time of year beaches will be in the mid seventy's mid eighty's and learned the San Fernando Santa Clarita and San Gabriel Valley is in the upper eighty's Coachella Valley hitting 10 for cooler weather lasting through mid week we heat up again on Thursday and this week's On the media a media storm around the gun debate yesterday Wal-Mart announced that it is now taking sides in the gun debate also an actual debate you tweeted Donald Trump believes climate change is a hoax. Business when I say that and in actual storms it is getting so all close to land it's all on this week's media from N.Y.C. Sunday morning to tan on 89.3 K. P.C.C. Joel Snyder with these headlines the president of Afghanistan says real peace is only possible when the Taliban stops the violence and holds direct talks with his government President Ostroff Gandhi issued a statement after president trying to eat it that he canceled peace talks at Camp David after the Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack last week that killed 12 people including an American soldier protesters in Hong Kong seeking support from the United States thousands demonstrators peacefully marched to the U.S. Consulate today later police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the Causeway Bay shopping district and the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog agency is in Iran today the day after Tehran announced a further breach of the limits set by the 2015 nuclear deal on trial Snyder N.P.R. News from Washington. Support for N.P.R. 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I can do it no more I mean I'll do anything just to get off I don't want to be a moment travelling on the Paradise which is the name of the boat was W L R N reporter than yesterday Vettel Welcome to the program thanks for having me you posted a picture on twitter of a large crowd waiting in Freeport the main city on Grand Bahama which was hit so badly by hurrican Torreon they were waiting to get on the ship who was a lot on board there was a lot of Americans are still on the island were unable to get off so the ship was letting those American passport holders on but that was a minority the majority of the people that were waiting were behavior and residents who would stick the storm and in many cases lost everything they had and they many of them had visas so they were able to immediately go to the port once the ship started running the ship I was on was there actually the 1st passenger ship that was offering rides off the island the island is right now 100 percent without power there's basically no water service right now also a lot of people are just really in desperation and they were packed like sardines waiting to get in the line and wait hoping that they would be one of the ones that received a ticket as he traveled to Florida with a group I imagine they had some many stories to tell can you recount some of them unfortunately a common denominator was people just telling me Look I lost everything the walls literally collapsed in people's houses I heard from several people that. There are stuck hiding in their attics for 30 hours or so until the flood started to recede and then now they don't have anything and even people that do have homes they told me that's not good enough my business my work my means of making anything of myself was destroyed so people are finding themselves really in positions where they don't know what to do. What do people tell you about how they actually weathered that storm and what happened to them so the island had never flooded in this way people have built homes over the years in places where they never expected even under a bad storm that it would flood in these places and you know we should keep in mind Grand Bahamas seen many hurricanes over the years this is not the 1st rodeo they were naive going into this so people thought that he could ride it out in their homes and as the floodwaters started to rise as the winds were kicking people had to swim and try to find something to float on from place to place I talked to one family that had to evacuate 3 separate times because it everywhere they were going it wasn't high enough in the water kept getting to them the devastation on parts of the Bahama Islands are substantial as you mentioned are people worried they might not be able to return that's absolutely a worry of people and it's for some people is not even quite a worry they say a matter of factually that they say look the island is done as it is right now so I need to leave and get out of here because there is no hope on this island I heard lifelong residents telling me that and one thing to keep in mind is Freeport in Grand Bahamas 60 miles off the coast of West Palm Beach so it's the communities are actually very very close there's already existing trade relationships family relationships so most people I talked to they have family they have some kind of support structure in the United States in the state of Florida in particular so they're looking in this time of need to say look I need to get off this island. I need to go to Florida where I know I least I have a support network I can take a hot shower I can get water when I need it it's more of a reality than a worry for a lot of people. Thank you so much thanks for having me. Early Saturday India tried to do something that had never been attempted before its space program tried to land an unmanned rover near the moon's south pole but mission control lost contact with the lander craft as it made its final approach now there are reports that the space agency has located the lander on the moon's surface but doesn't know what condition it and P.R.'s Lauren Frayer is in Mumbai at 1st all went according to plan Mission Control narrated as India's Vic crown Lander detached from an unmanned orbiter to go in for a soft landing on the moon anticipation and excitement filled the command center in the southern Indian city of Bengal who've become blind but I have successfully completed the making space but then the whole room went eerily silent Prime Minister Narendra Modi was there watching from a glass mezzanine above dozens of schoolchildren were there as well all wearing matching space program T. Shirts and baseball caps everyone waited and I was just waiting for the confirmation the to space got out and waited some more and then scientists huddled in quiet conversation their body language revealed it before Mission Control did. Oh. OK finally the director of India's space agency walked up stairs to brief the prime minister they've lost contact with the victim lunar lander the last signal came in when it was a little over a mile above the moon's surface the school children rubbing their eyes packed up and went home it was past 3 o'clock in the morning one of the last few of us that died of the nation by the way Prime Minister Modi tried to comfort the disappointed scientists at mission control some of them in tears this was supposed to be a celebration he spoke in front of a huge sign that read the sky is no longer the limit for our pride victim bloody nose but we really need to cover more ground and the fires to cover. Every Indian. It is with us Fareed to right as well that's confidence India's moon craft would have become the 1st to land at the moon's unexplored South Pole scientists are analyzing what went wrong when they lost contact with the lander they may now have located it and are trying to establish communication and see what condition it's in Lauren Frayer N.P.R. News Mumbai. And tomorrow on MORNING EDITION there's health news to start your week new research on the role of exercise as a treatment for chronic pain plus the labels on all the nitrate free trickier putting in your kids' lunch not exactly correct tune in tomorrow morning by asking your smarts because you play N.P.R. Or your member station find it. The militant group ISIS the Islamic State has lost much of the territory it held when it was as reporter as a day move any says running a kind of killing spree in Iraq and Syria but many of the young women and girls that left their homes to join ISIS viewed the group differently the story I wanted to tell is how it unfolded in the lives of so many young woman as as kind of and in a very perverse way an empowerment project move in his new book is called guest house for young widows the women of ISIS it follows some of the girls who left their families in Tunisia Germany and England to join the Caliphate We begin with the story of the Bethnal Green teenagers these were a group of young high school students they were 15 they went to school in a very urban dense neighborhood of London they were straight A students they were popular in school these were not girls who you would think would be really susceptible but a lot of them also had absent fathers you know at that time I think we forget now there was a lot of Islamophobia and racism they were kind of waking up to politics you know ISIS was on social media ISIS was on Facebook and there were people in person and networks that they met at a mosque they met at a religious groups and they were kind of persuaded that their families were brawl in moral and that they could join this kind of utopian project that they could live freely as young Muslims and so one went and then the other 3 started to plot may hit it from their families and they hid it from their teachers. And it kind of became a chain of disappearances and in the end you know the police had to take away the passports of dozens of girls in London because so many were being lured by what seems so attractive to them at the time there are some common threads on what drove them to go to the Caliphate I think and this is important to be aware of you know ISIS change messaging over time and so that there was women. At different times Ruth responding to different aspects of that appeal but I think a big part of the history that we have to remember is in the Middle East you know ISIS unfold in in the wake of the collapse of the Arab Spring and women were really central to those uprisings to those protests they didn't have a lot of so there was not a lot of space for women and a lot of the repressive orders in those countries before the 2011 revolutions you know one by one those collapsed into civil war and to greater repression I think in the aftermath of that ISIS emerged and for some young women in those societies it was it was the that just order those kind of dosh hopes were exploited and part of the appeal of Isis I think in those early days in countries like Tunisia and for girls like nor was that there was no other way to be politically active to be a feminist of any kind it was the only door that was open I was about to mention the story of nor. She was a high school dropout from Tunisia and you make the point in the book that she was sort of rebelling against a secular state and it was her way of expressing her female identity exactly so nor grew up in in a Tunisia that was a highly authoritarian but secular So you know it was religious she wanted to cover her hair she went to school wearing a headscarf and she with the one out of high school for that because the headscarf was banned in public spaces like that in Tunisia before the 2011 uprisings you describe the shocking scene where she's actually attacked by her teacher she was a teacher slapped her she was thrown out of class she was suspended she had she tried to go back but it was just too humiliating for her she felt like it was a betrayal of what she felt her religion demanded of her and so she left society there was no space for new and not Tunisia so after 2011 the revolution kind of created space and should be. Came very active and was taking part in charity drives and there was suddenly a kind of rush of I guess social participation for young women like you know or. Whatever the reasons were their experience under the Caliphate it wasn't what they had hoped for. You know I mean almost all of them uniformly on of the women whose stories that I followed girls some of them because they got their name they were married before they were even 16 some of them they very often became victims of the order that they thought was going to bring them some kind of some kind of empowerment and if their husbands were fighters they usually died after a few months and they were expected to remarry again and again and when they said no they were punished you know even worse if women tried to escape their had their children taken away from them the role of women in ISIS as sort of been badly documented or ignored by journalists or fetishist on the other side why did you want to tell these stories. I think we're only coming into some kind of understanding of women and militancy how women at the same time can be perpetrators and victims you know I think we have to arrive at a much more nuanced understanding and I think through the stories we can see if that women can organize it can recruit people into these kind of militant groups because they're women they can very quickly also suffer violence at the hands of such groups and it's a very tricky understanding what is their culpability do you have an answer to that question after hearing all these stories some would say even though you write with great empathy should they not be judged by their actions they absolutely have to be judged and I think many of them know that you know I was just in Syria a couple of months ago in one of the camps where hundreds of these women are held and they didn't go you know they they saw what they were a part of you know some of them are still quite devout they're loyalists I think it's important not to view them as a big monolithic kind of group that you know they're all evil many of them also suffered very badly and and by giving them you know the chance to be prosecuted to be treated you know fairly as citizens who committed crimes you know I think that we reduce the chance that there will be more radicalization amongst the women who are left. As a dame of any is the author of guest house for young widows among the women of ISIS thank you very much thank you. You're listening to WEEKEND EDITION from N.P.R. News. For the people of and Tika and Barb you have the images coming out of the Bahamas this week are familiar scenes of destruction in 27000 hurricane lashed the island nation as a Category 5 storm earlier I spoke with Gaston Brown the country's prime minister about that storm and what it takes to recover lucky for us we didn't have a lot of time fatality we only had one fatality a small child but the damage to property was devastating in fact 95 percent of the properties and about either a damage several of them are actually totally demolished and it will take us years to fully recover about you know I think at the time the estimates for rebuilding were in the hundreds of millions $220000000.00 which was a massive amount of money for a country or size and that is the reality of you know the cost associated with the storm the reality of I'm climate change I know your president doesn't believe in climate change but I will be able to and is position because ultimately it is countries in the Caribbean that are already suffering the greater consequences than from the effects of climate change yeah at the time you also said that rich countries should pay for the recovery because they are the ones emitting the greenhouse gases do you think the same should happen with the Bahamas but absolutely I mean they should pay they should compensate these countries in the Caribbean that have to be ready for a 5 star that are literally damaging infrastructure damage and he was private property then literally undermining our development Well who did pay after hurricane Armand 2017 I mean you did accept some help from China which is a big greenhouse gas a matter but I'm curious did the U.S. Not step up. It was so paltry that I don't think it was even regarded as an exaggeration. As I can recall that the public of China made a contribution to a millennial dollars AM Canada $3000000.00 Canadian your opinion and $5000000.00 euros I don't recall that the US made any significant contribution. Obviously the Bahamas are at the very earliest stages of their recovery but what advice do you have for them as they look to rebuild. well you know the recoveries going to be difficult and at a prime minister and sen is gunmen day gonna come in via lot of van criticisms wicca's normally there as it ends garnet venue for immediate recovery it not dig in a concierge in the costs and that the cost generally speaking yeah did a their primitive the example de france at evin pledge by canada by the united kingdom bad ear opinion we have not been able to reveal ozone is are those funds as yet and i'm quite sure they government of the bahamas owes high and i am itself in a similar situation so what does happen and barb you to if you have not been able to get the money you need to rebuild her well we have of this trials 100 properties that were a damage we have rebuilt about 600 of them stars result is still have internally displaced persons her and that is just reality a very scarce resources prime minister as you have mentioned climate change predicts fiercer storms have eased thought about what the teacher might look like in your country which might make an uninhabitable well you know we didn't i take that position and i we in that to look and that their future as when the bleak won we does out to country in to agitate so lads countries a the united states to belittle passage e ed to mitigate and certainly to adapt to climate change made to be better as results of that type of leadership that was gaston brown he is the prime minister antigua and barbuda this is n.p.r. 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Joining us is Will Shortz he's puzzle editor of The New York Times and WEEKEND EDITION's very own puzzle master highly will pay their lives so what was last week's challenge Well you know it was a 2 week challenge from Lee's enough Laffey at Minnesota and it involved a story I said you wake up trapped in a round room with 6 doors a voice over a loudspeaker tells you that 5 of the doors are booby trapped and will bring instant death if you try to open up only one door provides an opening that will get you out safely he said the doors are evenly spaced around the room they look exactly alike your only clue is that on the wall between each pair of doors is a large letter of the alphabet and going clockwise the letters are H. I J. K. L. And M. I asked which is the correct door that will get you out and why and the answer is the door is the one between the M. And the H. If you write the word out between M N H You get the word mouth the puzzle said only one door provides an opening which is what a mouth is and a door without Britain on it will naturally be an exit we received over $599.00 responses and the winner this week is toddler place of Dublin Ohio congratulations thank you so much so how did you figure that out I too could to actually drawing out a diagram of the puzzle that figured there had to be a reason why I am an age where the 2 end now it all just came together so what do you do for a living. I worked as an accountant and did you always want to be an accounting. I actually did not I have a degree in journalism and a degree in cinema studies. Critic and. Just kind of stumbled my way into accounting and. It seems like a like a pretty practical left turn Are you ready to play the puzzle I am all right take it away well all right Todd Every answer today is a word name or familiar phrase in which the only consonants are G. And L. Each of which may be repeated any number of times besides G.'s N L's all the other letters are Vols I owe and you for example if I said against the law you would say illegal because the only consonants in that are G N L Here's number one and ice home in the Arctic Well that would be an igloo That's correct number 2 scum on top of a pond. I'm not sure you know this word it's what's had green stuff that's on a pond Oh algae algae is it try this a popular search engine that would be Google How about Russian dramatists to Nicholai but Google Google good bags packed for the airport. Airport luggage luggage is it winemaker Ernest or Julio there I am not much of a wine drinker there is no ride before its time or you go there is a slogan. It is a galley there Gallo Gallo is a on our earliest and Julio Julio Gallo right pioneering astronomer from Pisa I would not be Galileo that's it see where Jesus preached as he were Jeter speech O. Galilee Galilee to assert wrongdoing without proof. 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In Columbus Ohio that's Todd Laplace of Dublin Ohio thank you so much for playing the puzzle and thank you all right Will what's next week's challenge yeah it comes from listener Joseph Young of St Cloud Minnesota name a popular T.V. Personality write the name in all capital letters rotate the last letter 90 degrees and move it forward one spot that is move it in front of the preceding letter and the result will name a famous movie what is it so again a popular T.V. 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The Russian Revolution a doomed love affair Omar Sharif and snow lots of snow when Larry Prescott was born Dr Zhivago was her mother's favorite movie she even named her daughter after the main character so it's not surprising that Larry Prescott had a lifelong interest in the movie and the Boris Pasternak book it's based on but she never thought she'd write a novel about Dr Zhivago until she learned what the CIA did with the. PASTERNAK book and P.R.'s Lynn Neary reports it was about 5 years ago when Leonard Prescott's dad sent her an article in The Washington Post about how the CIA had used doctors of AGOA as a tool propaganda during the Cold War and I had to find out everything about the mission the result is Prescott's debut novel The secrets we kept It's the story of a young woman who became involved with the CIA's plan to get copies of Dr Zhivago into the Soviet Union where it had been banned because of its portrayal of life under communism throughout the book Prescott weaves her spy saga with the story of Boris Pasternak and his real life lover Olga the model for Lara but much of the novel is set in Washington D.C. We're standing in front of 2430 Eastern eager Nabi Hill which was the former headquarters of this before they took me to 961st that story begins here in the secretarial pool at the old CIA headquarters a building still well hidden and protected by guards and gates Prescott says when she began researching the story she became interested in the women who work there in the 1950 S. I was always pulled towards these women because I was researching all these memos and reports and they were all heavily redacted about the Chicago mission and names and places were redacted and I kept thinking about the women who typed these reports and these women who would know the secrets of the secret keepers some of the women had worked as spies Turnbow were to some of them lead Prince resistance fighters at the front lines some of them had planted bombs to sabotage trains and bridges and when the war was over and the CIA was forming they were put in positions behind desks often in record keeping clerical all positions despite all that they had done during the war one of the main characters in the book arena was not a former spy. She needed a job and found one as a typist at the CIA But the spot master saw something in a Rena that made them think she could take on a different route and one of those. Messages. Would pick up packages. To different places in D.C. Never really knowing what was inside the packages but. No one would suspect that this young woman had an important message the CIA begins training arena to work on the commission one of her trainers is Sally a beautiful sophisticated woman who still works as a spy in the post-war world she takes arena to Dumbarton Oaks in D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood and in particular was no as a place where meetings would occur between handlers and their recruits I thought Sally she would take. To the part you enter the park which surrounds the Dumbarton mansion and gardens. We just need to find a park bench yet. It's in this park that arena story takes a turn as she was writing Prescott says a spark between her characters and knew they would fall in love it became her way into writing a love story that parallels the one inductors of ago you can think of doctors not think of the lav story and how these 2 were brought together under extraordinary circumstances but could never be and I knew when I was writing that I wanted to write another love story and it fell upon arena and Sally almost by accident and it was that 1st scene when their endeavor to know was like I think there might be something more here are these characters eventually arena sent to pick up a microfilm of doctors of ago in Russian which will be made into a book that the CIA smuggled into the Soviet Union Prescott said this scene in one of her favorite places in Washington. The bishop's garden of the National. Press could read that this was a place where CIA handoffs often occurred it's the kind of place where you're in the middle the city but you also feel like you've entered into a whole different world and thinking you know waiting for the handoff of doctors in film form it just appeared in my mind that it was these days it's almost hard to imagine that the CIA would expend so much energy smuggling a work of fiction that became more famous for its love story than its politics I think that was my 1st reaction to. A book be the center of the plot but at the same time of course in this way because they can change the hearts and minds of people we may live in the age of Twitter and fake news. But books remain a powerful tool threatening enough that government still resort to censorship to stop the flow of words and ideas Lynn Neary N.P.R. News Washington. We interview a lot of journalists on our program here's one that's attempting to reach a coveted audience teens Olivia Seltzer is 15 and she's created a daily newsletter that covers the day's top headlines for her peers it's called the cram lady joins us now from Santa Barbara She's founder and editor in chief Olivia It's great to speak with you had so great secrecy to thank you so much for having me so why did you decide to create the cram so pretty much right after the $26000.00 presidential election I noticed that all of my peers at my junior high school the only thing you're talking about was news and politics but what I also noticed was that there is no new source for young people so no one I knew was actually reading or watching the news and turning this interest into anything. We saw you profiled in Teen Vogue which has gotten a lot of attention for its political coverage. How do you write the news that's different than the way that something like N.P.R. Would you know the mainstream media so to speak yeah so I write the crime exactly how I talk to my friends and also everything I write I'm writing it from a young person's perspective and I think that that's really important and I have my top story of the day it's not necessarily going to be the top story at every new source but it is going to be the top story and I said young people so lately there's been a lot going on with faith being and facing is incredibly popular among young people most of the people I know vague that lately there's been an issue where people will be hospitalized because they will have severe respiratory illness after day thing and I think that's something that I've heard young people talking about it at school a lot they haven't necessarily heard adults talking rot unless they're parents and they're concerned for their kids in a world where the phrase fake news is bandied about at the highest levels how are you Fact checking your news do you have an editing process. So I wake up every day at 5 am and I spend about an hour reading over pretty much every news source in existence because I think it's really important that I am giving an unbiased point of view a lot of my friends have political views on both sides of the political spectrum and I don't want to alienate anyone after I'm finished reading the cram and then I give it transparent some of this read over and kind of edit it make sure that everything's good and if it's not and will make it just meant because it's really important to me that everything is the most accurate it can be listened to shows that for the 1st time a majority of kids under 15 are nonwhite and that's something that the mainstream media struggles with to not only to appeal to teens but to appeal to diverse teens do you think about the kinds of stories that might appeal to sort of a different demographic so I actually have an editorial team of teams from all over the world and they actually will research news stories and they'll send a nice stories that they think deserve to be written about and I think that's really important because these are teams that come from a variety of other religions of social classes of backgrounds of of different races not Nestle's And I think that that's really important that that's all being represented in the news because there's a viewpoint I resign but I also want to see if you point of other teams from different backgrounds I have to ask you what do you think traditional news outlets can do to appeal to younger audiences or is it just a lost cause I don't think it's necessarily a lost cause but I think if traditional news sources want to appeal to young people they actually need to bring in young people I think a lot of times there are new sources such as like Scholastic News for kids that are geared towards kids but I think a lot of times it feels like the news is being dumbed down for teens which is not what we want we want the real news but we do want to in a way that speaks to us. 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News in Washington Klein the trumpet ministration is calling off a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan after months of negotiations the U.S. Envoy to the talks is being recalled and President Trump canceled a meeting with Taliban leaders at Camp David today as Jennifer glass reports from Kabul the Taliban say they're ready to continue negotiations and ending them will hurt the U.S. The Taliban say they think the U.S. Will come back to the negotiating table and that cancellation of peace talks will mean more loss of American law.