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This is one a happy Friday I'm Joshua Johnson in Washington for a change this week's biggest international news is not just the sole domain of presidents and prime ministers though we'll get to that millions of people from Sydney to Manila from Dhaka to London and New York have taken to the streets to urge immediate action on climate change there's also lots of news this week from the Middle East Saudi Arabia under attack Iran on the defensive and Israel facing a future that does not include Benjamin Netanyahu plenty of questions to answer in today's Friday news roundup joining us in studio to help us with that are Rosalyn Jordan state and special correspondent for Al-Jazeera State Department correspondent Roslyn Welcome back thanks so much Tom Goodman is Washington correspondent for Israeli public t.v. Now Tom welcome thanks for having And Peter Bergen c.n.n. National security analyst vice president and director of the International Security Program at New America and the author of the United States of jihad Peter good to have you back thank you Josh also good to include your questions and thoughts about this week's top stories from around the world so e-mail us one a at am you dot org comment on our Facebook page or tweet us at one a let's begin in Saudi Arabia where last Saturday morning explosions rocked the Saudi oil processing plant as well as an oil field to the south u.s. Satellite images showed at least. 17 points of impact Pentagon officials have reported that they have images of Iranian forces preparing for an attack in advance of the oil refinery airstrike but they have yet to release that evidence Peter let me start with you what do we know about the airstrikes at this point do we know anything for sure is it all still just kind of he said she said I don't think it's he said she said I mean look the who the rebels which are supported by Iran and Yemen claim the attack I don't put much credence in that the who these if launched something like 200 drones and missiles into Saudi Arabia in the past several years most of those attacks have been totally ineffective this attack was highly effective Also it seems from the satellite imagery but the missiles and drones that carried out the attack came from the northwest not from the south where the northwest is either Iraq which is said that it didn't come from Iraq or from Iran and the administration says it's come from Iran now the problem for the administration is when you've had a president say $12000.00 full swords or things that aren't entirely true according to The Washington Post they're going to have a problem with kind of making the case we saw with the Iraq war w m d case in 2003 you can make a case which seems somewhat credible and then it isn't so but in this case you know who else has the capacity to do this I mean look at the attack by I've seen 17 missiles with drones 25 missiles with drones they flew at very low altitude this is not some sort of ragtag militia this is a state and there are very few states with the Capet capability and intent to carry this out in the sanctions are really hurting the Iranians and they are making the calculation that can do something plausibly deniable that can really up the stakes for for the United States and for the Saudis well to that point Peter you mentioned sanctions the president announced new sanctions on Iran this Wednesday speak speaking today this. Morning about sanctions on Iran's National Bank Roslyn Here's part of what Secretary of State Mike Pompei o said during a visit to meet this week with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin solemn on they were discussing next steps and here's part of what Secretary Pompei o said about the airstrikes there were no Americans killed in this attack but any time you have an active war of this nature there's always the risk that could happen and Secretary of State Mike Pompei was speaking this week and act of war Roslin kind of is that it odds with what the president said earlier this week this is an escalation I mean referring to a strike on another country as an act of war a country do a lot of business with it's got to mean something well 1st I think everyone who has been watching the trumpet ministration knows that the president will say one thing and his his cabinet leaders will say something else you know that they contradict each other that's not a surprise what I think is interesting is that there is a $951.00 Mutual Assured defense agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia now does this attack on the comic and the code of the field rise to the level of being an attack that is an act of war does the u.s. Now have a legal obligation to actually step in but at the same time let's recall the context of the past couple of weeks the national security adviser John Bolton who was widely known to be someone with a taste for war for conflict was pushed out of the plight house mainly because the president himself said he didn't like being goaded into doing something that he didn't think would actually be useful and could possibly lead to civilian lives there are people living around these oil fields in these processing plants and so you do have the risk of civilian you know death if you did have some sort of attack to respond on Iran that. Said There is also the president looking toward the United Nations Security Council to try to build international pressure to add to the administration's maximum pressure campaign on Iran to change its behavior the president campaigned back in 2016 a not getting into any more wars in the Middle East and if he were to listen to his secretary of state who I might point out has Donald backed his own rhetoric we could already be in a war with Iran but you do see the president trying to put the brakes on this trying to focus on more diplomatic engagements rather than just immediately invoke the 1951 treaty and say Ok We're going to put our forces in the Middle East in the Persian Gulf on the very highest alert and Roslyn just to clarify is this 951 deal between the u.s. And cite your treaty between the u.s. And Saudi Arabia kind of the same spirit is that NATO Article 5 an attack on one is an attack on all kind of thing or is this different it's basically the same sort of thing but what's important to note is that Saudi Arabia is not a major non NATO ally where you do have a higher expectation of response the kind of response that the u.s. Would be prepared to follow through on with Japan or with Israel or with South Korea it doesn't have that it has not given that status to Saudi Arabia and so there's a question of whether the u.s. Should be jumping that quickly now with regards to Iran perspective on this Natanz Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif also talked about the prospect of war he was interviewed on c n N's new Davis weeks part of what he said what would be the consequence of an American or Saudi military strike on Iran now an all out war you make a very serious thing. But I make a very serious statement about defending our country it was Iran's foreign ministers of God serif being interviewed on c.n.n. This week how likely is military conflict calling it an act of war as. One thing but actually going to war or not that's a whole other situation I think if there's one thing though we know about President Trump by now is that he's very averse to military action he sees it as a as a last resort he sees it as a waste of money it definitely is a verse to the idea of sending u.s. Troops to the Middle East and we can even see that in the exchange that he had this this week with this Senator Lindsey Graham who was basically saying look the Iranians don't get subtleties they don't understand the sanctions they are doing it's not changing their behavior you need to show military force and just went back and said Well what about the Iraq war you stood proud of that so basically that's the Trump defining moment they rock war the billions that he sees that America in his opinion wasted in the Middle East and for that cause he sees the Middle East as everything from North Africa to Afghanistan and that's why he's not likely to take military action there's also another factor here if Trump stopped the planes in the air before responding after a u.s. Drone was shot down by the Iranians directly it would be kind of hard to explain why you are responding now militarily when it's not the u.s. That's been attacked by the Saudis Peter with regards to what we know or don't know what a number of people on Twitter and Facebook have been asking what we know about the drones particularly where they were made the u.s. Russia China France do we know anything about the drones that were used in this attack. I mean there was circuit boards have been recovered at the site I mean there and there's an investigation that's going on. I think the Saudis the Saudis have been pretty clear Well actually the Saudis have been a little ambiguous about what what they think happened United States has not. I just think in the universe of potential places this might have come from it points to Iran to make to make got a definitive I mean you know we have the United Nations General Assembly next week every. Year you know the Iranians may or may not be faeces to get to get there but every important kind of ally the United States will be there my guess is we'll have a pretty definitive sense that the United States officials can explain but you know as I said earlier it's highly unlikely it is from Yemen. The rebels that just don't have the capability Mike emailed What evidence is there that Iran is not the source of this attack Peter if any Well it's hard to prove a negative so but. So right you start with the factual Yeah but nothing is emerge that would kind of rule out Iran say oh this isn't the kind of you know I think that's right I mean look the brawny of the Saudis be fighting a proxy war in the Middle East for many years this is Scott that he just went up you know this is now much more direct state on state conflict when Rozlyn with regard to that feed it's also affecting world oil prices which surged on Monday dropped again on Tuesday because the Saudis assured the world that oil production would get back to normal in a few weeks this is not just some oil field this is a critical part of the world's oil supply talking 5 to 6 percent of the global oil supply that comes from and you might say well the United States is energy independent that still 5 percent of the world's oil supply in the u.s. Does rely on that wind when the president says I'm ready to tap into our strategic petroleum reserve in order to stabilize oil prices then you know that is a concern but that doesn't matter to the markets any time there's something unpredictable happening such as an interruption in international oil supplies they're going to gen up the price and there are really concerns that oil prices for gasoline prices here in the United States could go up $0.25 a gallon if this crisis isn't resolved quickly James wanted to ask Peter if they are ragtag why hasn't Saudi Arabia destroyed them I think a little more clarity on who these rebels are would be helpful when we continue with Peter Bergen of c.n.n. That sound good none of us really public t.v. And Roslyn Jordan of Al-Jazeera We'll get to some more of your questions and thoughts about world affairs one a x.w. Am you war I'm Joshua Johnson You're listening to one from w.a.m. You and n.p.r. . 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This is one a I'm Joshua Johnson it's the Friday news round up with Rosalyn Jordan Aton Goodman and Peter Bergen we welcome your questions and thoughts about what's going on around the world this week comments on our Facebook page tweet us at one way or e-mail one day at am you dot org We've got some more details from the Treasury Department about the sanctions that were announced today while I give Roslyn a chance to read through that a little bit longer Peter let me come back to the question that James asked James wants to know if they are ragtag why hasn't Saudi Arabia it destroyed them maybe a little more clarity about who them is and about the nature of that force Yemen as having been in various kinds of civil war since the early sixty's and the who these are essentially Shia Ziad group in the north they are fighting on their own territory the Saudis haven't really put ground troops in it's been a war you know what what what both this attack on the Saudi oil facilities and the Yemeni war say about Saudi Arabia is pretty interesting this is one of the world's largest importers of weaponry Mohammed bin some of the effective leader of the country is the defense minister he was the guy who launched this very ineffective war in Yemen which has created one of the West humanitarian catastrophes in the world hasn't won against the who the rebels who are lightly armed supported by Iran and then you have to ask yourself how is it that the crown jewel decide to Cape Coral facility the most important facility they have because their colonies still remains totally dependent on oil How did that get attacked and get taken out when they've spent all this money why is it that they've been so ineffective We should also be clear in terms of Saudi Arabia destroying them I mean Yemen and Saudi Arabia share a North-South border Yemen is just south of the southeastern southwestern corner Saudi Arabia but Saudi Arabia is not really at war with the rebels Saudi Arabia is backing someone who is at war with rebels Well I mean that bombing and every day I mean they've killed I mean tens of 1000 civilians have I mean a supporting proxy force. As on the ground in Yemen the roadside bombing from yeah frequently Roslyn could we get a little bit more detail on the sanctions that the Treasury Department announced today particularly the rationale that has to do with some of Iranians fighting forces like the Revolutionary Guard and so forth Ok so basically what the trumpet ministration has now done it is now impose sanctions under Executive Order $132.00 to $4.00 which is a counterterrorism sanctions order against the National Bank of Iran against a sovereign wealth fund that has been processing revenues from oil the Iran Iranian oil industry as well as in other private business basically for sending billions of dollars to the i.r.g.c. Which is the elite paramilitary branch of the Iranian government and it's a branch that is incredibly incredibly powerful it's affiliate is known as the codes force it also supports Hezbollah which is the group in southern Lebanon which has been a disable izing force in that country for decades now what this sanction means is that all property all assets that these 3 entities have here in the United States are now frozen they cannot access those funds it further basically outlaws u.s. Persons whether you're a citizen or a resident from doing any business with the National Bank with this sovereign wealth fund and with this private company otherwise you could find yourself in trouble with the u.s. Justice Department if you're not a u.s. Person you could find yourself being sanctioned as well people are asking well how is this any different from any other sanctions well remember earlier this year the u.s. Did something that had not been done before which is it targeted an actual part of another country's government which was the I r g c and by extension the Quds Force. To go after part of an operating government is really unprecedented this simply expands the u.s. Is ability to continue what it calls its maximum pressure campaign if the Iranians had argued before that the Us is trying to economically cripple this country I would argue they have more of an argument to make the trumpet ministrations view I would submit is that we have to stop Iran's malign behavior however we can and if they're spending billions of dollars in order to go after our interests and those of our allies and partners that's what we will do none Aton zooming out for us will thank you for the context Rosalind zooming out from that a little bit we've got this maximum pressure campaign that has now kind of kicked up to a new level in this kind of unprecedented way you've also got other nations that do business with Iran that are trying to kind of mend fences is the wrong term but trying to kind of calm things down especially with the nuclear deal nations that still do business with Iran including for oil add to that there's a new national security adviser here in the u.s. His name is Robert O'Brian the president named him on Wednesday Here's a quick clip of Mr O'Brien speaking after that announcement Well it's hard to do another year and a half apiece or strength with that tremendous foreign policy successes under present from his leadership I expect us to continue O'Brian replaces John Bolton who left last week or who was forced out last week what do we expect all this to mean going forward John Bolton's out there's a new guy Mr O'Brian we've got these new tighter sanctions on Iran Iran was one of John Bolton's you know he was the white whale for John Bolton in some ways so what happens now what if we look at the reports leading up to John Bolton's resignation or firing him basically the breaking point was this meeting at the White House in which President Trump spoke about easing some of the sanctions in order to facilitate a meeting with him. And the Iranian president Rouhani So definitely Bolton was the force within the White House pushing for a stronger sanctions and for a possible military action down the road. O'Brien we know less about him because he definitely doesn't have the character of. Bolton he's not a single issue guy and he's not focused on the Iranian issue but he is probably as hawkish though we should keep in mind that it with a lower profile who probably have less influence on the president then Bolton had basically were shifting the power probably towards the secretary Pompano who was who was previously on the Iran hawk but somehow managed to change his views after joining the trumpet ministration and John Bolton was also very vocal about his views on Iran and everything else so be interesting to see how much of a public persona Mr O'Brien has compared to John Bolton let me stick with you Natanz as we move away from Iran and again the story is just moving today keeping air out on your n.p.r. Member station to npr dot org In terms of the reaction from the administration from Iran from the international community that still playing out so n.p.r. News will have that much story as a story materializes through the day another story that's materializing is in Israel and the power struggle after this week's election there it could end Benjamin Netanyahu is run as Israel's longest serving prime minister Benny gotz and his centrist party the blue and white party will come out of the election with more parliamentary seats than Netanyahu is party of the Likud Party Netanyahu rejected the idea of forming a unity government with blue and white through the campaign now he's lost that edge says he's open to a coalition with God's got says that door has kind of closed so it's not time I'm not sure the prime minister is going to be like you would think Ok we've got 2 more seats than you than we get to pick the prime minister but it's a little more complex than that yeah it definitely is and we won't know for a while who the next prime minister is going to be. Right now where the very very early stages of trying to feel out the situation and form future coalitions the 1st step would be. Convincing the Israeli president who usually holds only a formal position one of his if you rules is to choose the politician who will be tasked with their forming the next government based on whoever has the best chances of doing so so in the next week we'll see him interviewing heads of all the parties that got into the Knesset the Israeli parliament some of them will recommend into the l. Some will recommend guns and the president would have to make a decision there it's a tough decision to make as none of them have the magic number of 61 so one of them will get this mandates to try and form a coalition of the have $42.00 days to do that. But it's hard to see anything happening within that time frame it would probably have to wait for the next guy to get it basically the forces going on here are. Reality it would force a national unity government between Likud and blue and white maybe with of the. Secular kind of hawkish former defense minister who seems to be holding the balance right now a lot of people have referred to him as kind of a kingmaker right he's a kingmaker right now the only problem is that guns as piety and Lieberman for that matter are conditioning and the coalition with the Likud with their the fact that Bibi needs to step down and to Nathaniel there he's facing criminal investigations probably possible indictments very soon a coalition with the Likud but without it and you know right now and you know is holding on to his seat his party is behind him just have to wait to see how long that holds the corruption charges could become official like 2 weeks from now is it looking likely no probably like a year from now or you're in the process of a hearing which is the last stage before official indictments is starting right now but as we know this can drag on for a while probably a year period wonder what your senses of what all this means for Israel in a larger sense you know Benjamin Netanyahu has to say that he's loomed large over Israel is the ultimate understatement now that he's on his way out possibly you know what do you think that this means for Israel in a larger sense. Well one thing I'm curious about is the generic question a peace plan which was supposedly delayed which was delayed by their own account till this election was over now judging from the Times comments lection isn't over for a while because they're still kind of horse trading about who's actually got bigger and become prime minister but I'm waiting for a baby with bated breath to hear what the Krishna peace plan is which really seems to be effectively the death knell of any kind of 2 state solution and didn't see it it's like oh you know there was this conference in Bahrain the job put together no Palestinians showed up. You know it seems that this thing has just crashed and burned and it's interesting what he wrote to Brian saying all the great successes of the Trump administration foreign policy was I count it Israel Palestine Peace is Dad Chinese negotiations on trade are at an impasse the Iran thing pulling out of the deal has created the situation we just talked about just now. You know the u.s. Trade with Mexico deal is sort of stuck in Congress I mean this is not a record of huge accomplishment do we have any sense Rosalyn of what Benny Gantz might be like diplomatically compared to Netanyahu in terms of dealing with all these big issues or is it kind of too soon to know it's too soon to know but there's already been chatter about whether a 2 state solution might yet survive there are questions about whether he might actually bring in some of the political parties that represent Israeli Arabs and whether that would have an impact on the the peace process there is the question of the long term relationship with the door Lieberman who many in the West know and it does affect how do they proceed in terms of trying to build feel alliances with other countries in the Middle East they have peace treaties with Jordan and with Egypt there had been this tacit engagement with Gulf countries does. That continue under a Benny Gantz relationship the there's this rubric that someone coming from the military is much more realistic about building these alliances with countries in the region than someone who's acting purely from idiology I'm Joshua Johnson and you're listening to one essay. Before we move on from Israel Natanz What's the mood like right now I mean you've got these corruption charges hang over Netanyahu you've got this parliamentary election that was too close to call for a while and now it's still inconclusive. How are Israelis doing with all this as there is arc are concerned and frankly annoyed by the political situation it's the 2nd election within 5 months once again no conclusion they didn't understand why they had to go to elections again just because Netanyahu couldn't form a coalition last time. And this. Situation right now where nothing is clear even after the elections and after a very tough election campaign that they're drawing a lot of hate and a lot of anger is ready as are annoyed at the system that the now isn't a very popular figure outside the Likud Party. And I think Israelis what they would like to see more more than all more than anything else is just for all this to be over and that's why a national unity government could be a good good solution not only based on the electoral map but also in terms of what the country needs now to somehow heal from this political divide much more to talk about as we continue including what's happening in Canada a fascinating court case in the u.k. We'll talk about the global climate strike in a minute and we welcome your questions one a at a.m.u. Dot org But let's shift gears to Canada where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the middle of a very intense reelection campaign that just got more complicated now he's in the midst of a scandal with a little more than a month to go before Election Day Here is a clip of Justin Trudeau at a press conference addressing this scandal I have worked all my life to try and create opportunities for people to fight against racism and intolerance and I can just stand here and say that I made a mistake when I was younger and I wish I hadn't I should have known better then but I didn't and I did it and I am deeply sorry for Roslyn Jordan what was it. That Justin Trudeau says he should have known better about when he was younger. In 2001 anyone over the age of 10 should have known that putting on very dark brown makeup on one scan and dressing up as a figure a Latin apparently just isn't done and that is what he dead. It has now come out that there have been at least 3 such instances of his wearing what they're calling a Canada brown face what we in the u.s. Would call black face it has called into question his commitment to multiculturalism it has made some in Canada question whether he really is as progressive as he has built his political career on there are other Canadians who say this is not been happening in the same context as it would be if it were here in the United States because of the history of black face as both an entertainment and a way of culturally denigrating African-Americans starting in the mid 19th century there are people who are willing to give him a chance but this couldn't come at a worse time he is up for reelection in several weeks time he was already dealing with a political corruption scandal involving the attempt to prosecute or not prosecute a major party funder in montréal because of its bad behavior and it was alleged that he had put pressure on the country's top prosecutor not to go after this company so it's a real dent in his reputation but again this is Canada they may be willing to give Justin Trudeau another chance to rehabilitate himself whereas here in the u.s. We're very quick to say that person must go yes except perhaps in the case of Virginia's Ralph Northam because he had a very similar political scandal and well used to of well you know you think well I think because he's not up for reelection it's simply said Well you know what. You can probably kiss the rest of your political career goodbye but you can't run for reelection in Virginia Anyway it's one term and you're done running also be interested when we continue to talk more about the reaction from Canada because the put the diversity in Canada is different from in the u.s. But Canada also has one of the largest Caribbean populations outside of the Caribbean I think the largest in the Toronto area a very large politically powerful 1st Nations community or indigenous peoples want to talk more about that as we continue with Roslyn Jordan Aton Goodman and Peter Bergen Still to come Britain is having a very unique legal challenge it's fairly new Supreme Court it's only 10 years old for a country that's existed basically since water was what we'll get to that in just a minute and we also want to talk about another story out of England an eyebrow raising request and a reaction that would even make the Dowager Countess of Downton Abbey Proud We'll get to that and your questions ahead stay close. Swedish teenager gratitude Byrd wanted more to be done about climate change I just felt like things were too slow and so I decided to try something new and that's when I started planning the school strike millions around the world are expected to join her in a youth led climate strike ahead of the u.n. Climate Action summit I'm Audie Cornish that story this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. The politics of climate change have been playing out in Washington and on the campaign trail like never before this will be the 1st election in my memory where an environmental issue was actually discussed much less becomes a major subject of discussion in a presidential campaign but what's really happening with the trumpet ministrations environmental world backs That's next time on the takeaways politics with Amy Walter from n.y.c. N.p.r. Right today at 11 am on 91.5 k. Or c c Southern Colorado's n.p.r. Station. Programing on 91.5 k. R.c.c. 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Roslyn I wonder what your senses of what happens now and granted this just happened a few days ago but Justin Trudeau is very well liked in a lot of circles what he did what came out in these pictures he has said he doesn't remember it but he's owned it for the most part it's clearly highly highly highly offensive but I wonder what your sense is of whether he can overcome the scandal or if it sinks his reelection chances upon her certainly I think that he can but I don't know this feels like it's so on the bubble like something else will happen to tip the scale but to me it's leaving like he might survive it he might survive it and again I think it goes back to the question of context you didn't have the same experience with racism in the u.s. That you had in Canada I'm not Canadian by the way so I'm welcome to everyone's critique on what I'm about to say but I think it is important to note that when as we were discussing during the break that you have perhaps the largest English speaking Caribbean Afro Caribbean community in Canada outside of the region and outside of the u.k. Proper which had a very different experience with the slave trade and with independence. People look at these things in a very different way from the way that someone who is from the United States whose ancestors were from the United States look at these measures so there could be a sense of look he has been doing all of this work on trying to improve equity for women for trying to improve access for blacks and other people of color for trying to recognize the struggle of 1st Nations Peoples in the country we should give him a chance to redeem himself however because of that previous political corruption scandal that ended up with the attorney general on getting her title wrong quitting because she felt that she was being pressured by the prime minister and by his aides to not go hard on a key political donor. If something like that comes up I think that is something that Canadians would hold more against him than this incident Thomas writes We in Canada use the term black face to refer to dressing as African and brown face refers to characters such as Aladdin or any South Asian thank you for the context be interested to hear from anyone else who lives in or is from or works in Canada about what your senses of how this scandal might affect Justin Trudeau email us 1 am a w a n u dot org tweet us at one a or comment on our Facebook page let's keep moving few more stories I'd like to get to before we head out for the weekend let's move to Britain the legal system there grew out of the Norman Conquest back in the year 1066 remember that but Britain has only had a Supreme Court since 2009 and this week that court faced probably its toughest test yet it is considering whether bars Johnson abused his powers as prime minister whether he lied to the Queen about why he chose to suspend parliament weeks before the country is due to leave the European Union Peter Bergen I'd like to get your sense of this you've got Barra's Johnson for getting also some flak from former Conservative Prime Minister John Major the president of the u.k. Supreme Court lady Hale laid out a timetable for the final decision and was very clear that there's a lot at stake it is not a simple question and we will now consider carefully all the arguments that have been presented to us and we hope to be able to publish a decision early next week so you've got former prime minister John Major charming and former Prime Minister David Cameron is also making his voice heard Briggs it is coming up the u.k. Parliament was suspended in a very noisy session of parliament that made for some entertaining conversation last week where this go from here while no one knows or to the bars Johnson I mean David Cameron and Boris Johnson both twenty's and they both went talks. Will go down history is through the was prime minister's. In the last century because there was David Cameron's brilliant idea to go to have this vote which he thought the public would vote against Bragg's it and that didn't happen and that the public didn't even really know what they were voting for and then you have bars Johnson who's changes mind 57 different times about this who now says you know he's willing to take the country into a hot brags that well heartbreaks it would basically be one of the worst things is time to being Mr Conte to me since the Great Depression. And right now we don't know I mean we have no idea what the outcome is and of course if you I'm very interested in exchange rates between the dollar and the pound as somebody who grew up in England and sometimes goes back there and if you're an American citizen getting the right now it is pretty good deal it didn't used to be a good deal because the the pound is also about 20 percent of its value against the dollar since the brags that if we had heartbreaks it it would lose about another 20 percent so this is you know. One thing that we do you know I don't have a 35 so I could be something pretty catastrophic Roslan this seems to be this keeps reminding me of that scene in the crown where the Queen looks at I forget which Prime Minister was but basically says that you know I've seen strong men like you cut basically saying I've seen prime ministers come and go This seems to be the political scandal that she was referring to that just kind of eats prime ministers alive right David Cameron gambled on it lost his job to reason may came and said I can get this done lost her job Boris Johnson comes in now he's before the Supreme Court it's like this was designed to almost break parliament. Well he certainly has already said that if the High Court came back and said that his desire to dissolve parliament until October 15th was illegal He's already said he will do it again which means he's going to be right back before someone's high court and then ultimately back before the Supreme Court and as Peter said Hala Wayne it could be catastrophic for the British economy and it was like before the queen saying hey could you do this work. Time for me right and now with the questions about whether he went to her under false pretenses. Well do you do you really want to speak to the Queen with that hanging over your head but you know more seriously the Irish to shock or Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has already said that while he is in New York this coming week for the u.n. General Assembly he hopes to pull Johnson aside so that he can try to negotiate some way of not having a hard Brock's it affected his country in a negative way you know there's a fear about a physical wall going up between Northern Ireland which is part of the u.k. And Ireland there are fears about economic flows intellectual flows you know families being able to was to come across the border with you know and see each other without any real any real barriers there is a real panic and well Boris. I don't know what to say yeah and the Queen does not like being pulled into political controversies there's I want to post to stay above these controversial exactly by design and she she did we've learned a little bit more about some of the political controversies she's been pulled into We'll get to that near the end of the program but I want to continue and move on to the Middle East and some stories some other stories in other parts the world rather we move on to Afghanistan where there was a series of violent attacks this week dozens of people are dead hundreds more wounded on Tuesday there was a suicide bombing near an election rally were Afghan president gone he was expected to speak at least 26 people died then yesterday a Taliban truck bomb killed at least 20 people after exploding near a hospital in southern Afghanistan that morning a u.s. Airstrike aimed at Islamic state fighters killed 9 civilians now the Taliban has been vocal about its attempts to disrupt the elections that are scheduled for next Sunday next Saturday a Taliban commander quoted anonymously in Reuters said quote We have conveyed it to all the Afghans to stay away from their polling stations unless they would be responsible for their losses unquote Now Peter ever since the u.s. Taliban peace talks fell through 2 weeks ago there's been this wave of violence they're bracing themselves for more ahead of next week's election how does all of this shake out. Well look I mean this will be the 4th presidential election since the fall of the Taliban President Johnnie's I think very likely to win a fatty some substantial way the turnout is likely to be low because a lot of polling stations are closed because of violence the Taliban are clearly going to try and kill people go I mean what this really is straights Josh is that you know the Taliban will kill you if you vote in a democratic election I mean that's part of their project and they they certainly will try and disrupt this but I think it you know I hope that it underlines their real nature for the Afghan people I think it will the time do you get a sense of how the the peace talks the u.s. Taliban peace talks or the collapse talks mean play into all of this well for a while at least if the focus was on these talks with the Taliban while all the time the Taliban is carrying out these attacks and there's a staggering number of more than 1300 civilians killed in the past 6 months so definitely this was going on all the time of the focus was on the talks that masterfully is that it was conducting with the Taliban now that these talks are over and as President Trump said the whole negotiation is dead and it's never going to come back again if it does kind of change the focus to Afghanistan's internal problems now we know that Afghan government wasn't that pleased with the deal that the United States was trying to reach with their the Taliban so now that that's off the table basically the Taliban feels free to do whatever they want and that Afghan people will have to choose how they want their politics go ahead from now we did want to make some time before time is up to talk about this global climate strike the 1st of 2 that are planned this month kicked off today millions of students plan to walk out of their classrooms with millions of adults joining them some of the 1st protests were in Australia reportedly more than 300000. People took to the streets in more than 100 cities across Australia businesses are protesting been in Jerry's will close for part of the day websites like injure will go dark in the lead up to this Greenwich the 16 year old Swedish activist who inspired today's protest testified before Congress this week and I loved what she had to say I have not come to offer any prepared remarks at this hearing I am instead attaching my testimony it is the i.p.c.c. Special report on global warming a $1.00 degrees Celsius the s r $1.00 which was released on October 8th 2018 I am submitting this report as my testimony because I don't want you to listen to me I want you to listen to the scientists and I want you to unite behind of science and then I want you to take real action that was granted to Burke testifying before Congress this week I'm Joshua Johnson and you're listening to one and. I wonder what our sense is of the impact that this global climate strike might have this quite a broad scope of the protest we're bracing for some serious protests in d.c. Both this weekend and on Monday plenty of protesters in New York but no time does this make a difference or is this just a day for us to feel good because we took to the streets I don't think we can ignore the magnitude of these protests I mean the fact of the matter is that millions of people around the world are going to have their voice heard reminds me a little bit of the gun control that demonstrations that also came from the youth that after Parkland. And if we go back to that example did they have an impact a little bit but they didn't really change policy. I think it's more important to look at the fact that this is resonating with businesses maybe not with governments but with businesses the fact that. In a kind of a preemptive move trying to say that they'll be carbon neutral and in several years . The fact that other businesses are allowing especially big tech companies are allowing that their workers are encouraging their workers to join and maybe that would be the change I don't see it changing policy definitely not in the White House right now but I don't think we should ignore it and Peter is fascinating that young people around the world have made such strides with this not surprising because I think social media has made it easier for young people to coalesce young people have driven pretty much every social justice movement in human history really but I wonder if we see the same kind of response as the young people in the us that we see in the u.k. That we see in various other parts of the world who may or may not be as much on board about doing something about climate change well the I mean the people who are going to have to live with extreme climate change and extreme climate one thing that fascinates me is President Trump a said a number of things about climate change including initially in 2012 simply denying it's happening what I'm puzzled by is he could say look I don't believe the science that is caused by human activity. Even though the current consensus is overwhelming but he could say look this is happening and I'm concerned about Manhattan which is going to have you know face storm surges of significant size in the next 2030 years I'm concerned about southern Florida right also live you know if c. Rise is going to be 2 feet by 2060 in Palm Beach but he said he sort of ignored it completely and so even if you don't accept the science which is you know would be unusual you could still say I believe this is happening we should do infrastructure to basically mitigate this but he hasn't on that only an a resort on a barrier island on the Atlantic Ocean that he has a responsibility to protect by the town of Palm Beach because it's a historic structure Rosalyn I wonder with that with regard to that politically do we see politicos around the world joining in on this I mean New York City public schools are letting kids protest today with letting it be an excused absence but are there other political leaders around the world who are signing on or is it just kind of the voice of the people well Germany hound Friday has put out a new effort to make certain that it goes. Emissions in the next 12 years or so you're trying to make that target date of 2030 the Climate Action summit which is being sponsored by the u.n. Secretary General Antonio good data show on Monday is only going to let those countries those companies on the stage with detailed plans on how they're going to cut their reliance on fossil fuels he has explicitly said several times in recent months I'm not letting anyone come up just to say something as Natanz said just for a feel good moment I actually want to see what is your plan to you know say convert your your official government fleet from gasoline to electric What are you doing to make your boat your buildings you know meet 0 emissions standards how are you changing the way that you produce it in you know your goods this is something that he's a very Siri. Yes about because there is a growing I don't want to say panic but it's getting there that if something isn't done in the next 12 years we may see a real loss of life one last story to tell you about we mention that the Queen does not like getting pulled into political matters well former Prime Minister David Cameron says he asked the queen if she could in his words raise an eyebrow during the 24000 Scottish independence referendum that request was soon followed by Queen Elizabeth making a rare public comment on British politics at the time Cameron was worried about what it would mean for Scotland to leave the u.k. He asked the queen's private secretary for help before the vote and I'm quoting from the b.b.c. Documentary just a raising of the eyebrows even you know a quarter of an inch we thought would make a difference he said a Buckingham Palace source told the b.b.c. That the former prime minister's comments prompted an amount of displeasure. Rozlyn Jordan state a special correspondent for Al-Jazeera we are very pleased to have had you here thank you Rosalind my Ana always pleased to have the time Goodman Washington correspondent from Israeli public t.v. Thanks to Tom thank you and Peter Bergen c.n.n. National security analyst and the author of the United States of jihad Thanks Peter just until we meet again I'm Joshua Johnson thank you so much for listening and I hope you do have a piecing weekend this is one. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Alliance for lifetime income educating Americans about annuities and protected lifetime income online and across America as sponsor of the Rolling Stones $21000.00 u.s. Tour at Alliance for lifetime income dot org And from Boston Beer Company brewing Samuel Adams Boston Lager since 1904 with hops from the Stengel Meyer farm in the Bavaria region of Germany Boston Beer Company Boston Mass promoting responsible drinking. Graphic Novel has been called it took about 20 years to produce He's at the pinnacle of an expanding genre but what's next. And the popularity of the. Climate change. And so I decided. And that. Millions around the world are expected to join. The u.n. Climate Action I'm Audie Cornish that story. Today at 3 30 pm on Monday 1.5. Hey there it's just the host of one this is Terry Gross the host of Fresh Air I'm Tim. Is marketplace. Discussion. This is southern. Colorado Springs. For many younger people climate change. We examine what the Trump administration has. On environmental regulation. For thousands of. Americans and. Former Republican e.p.a. Administrator we don't want the politics to determine the policy plus a visit to Pennsylvania. Officials. Politics with Amy Walter on the right after these headlines. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying the u.s. China trade dispute looms over President Trump's meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison whose country counts China as one of its largest trading partners in a joint news conference at the White House a short time ago Trump was asked if he'd be willing to cut an interim deal with China we're looking for a complete deal I'm not looking for a partial deal China has been starting to buy our agricultural product if you noticed over the last week and actually some very big purchases but that's not what I'm looking for we're looking for the big deal Trump also suggests he feels no pressure to reach a complete deal before next year's presidential election the president is denying any wrongdoing in his conversations with foreign leaders N.P.R.'s Ron Lucas reports of presidents to now follow whistleblower complaint they reportedly relates to an inappropriate conversation the president had with a foreign leader news outlets report that the Intelligence Community Whistleblower flight concerns about an allegedly inappropriate conversation that the president had with a foreign leader speaking to reporters at the White House alongside Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison truck dismissed the whistleblowers complaint as a quote ridiculous story I've had conversations with many leaders that always appropriate instruction to always appropriate at the highest level always appropriate the president also called the whistleblower a partisan but he then admitted that he does not know the individuals identity that was so blowers complaint meanwhile has become the subject of the latest standoff between Congressional Democrats and the administration Ryan Lucas n.p.r. News Washington thousands of registered nurses nationwide are on strike they're pressuring Tenet Health hospitals in California Arizona Florida to pay them more money and provide better working conditions overall nurses are expected to return to work tomorrow Massachusetts regulators are investigating mit for allegedly dumping nitrogen waste water at its facility on the state's north shore according to a test commissioned by pride. The research university the water contain more than 20 times the amount of nitrogen permitted by state authorities this we have more details on this report and on documents obtained by Pro Publica and Max Larkin with member station the documents show that an agricultural research team repeatedly dumped water with high levels of nitrogen into an underground Well in 2018 excess nitrogen can cause harmful algae blooms and it can be toxic to infants but it's not clear whether the contaminated water wound up in water supplies former lab research . Says he tried to stop the dumping and alert mit safety officials I wanted to address this as soon as possible unfortunately I was faced with resistance instead of corp mit officials say they're temporarily pausing all of the labs to work at the site as they seek a solution with the state that smacks Larkin reporting this is n.p.r. Young people around the world are taking a stand for the preservation of this planet ahead of the 1st un Youth Climate Summit this weekend in New York they are moved by what many rebuke as a weak response by the Globe's leaders to collectively work toward addressing the adverse effects of climate change students skip school to March in cities on virtually every continent the youth led movement is inspired in part by the Swedish teenage climate activists re attune Berg who has implored elected leaders in this and other countries to unite behind the science on climate change and to do something about it. You know Afghanistan officials have updated their death toll from a u.s. Backed airstrike targeting ISIS fighters they now say that at least 32 people have been killed many of them civilians N.P.R.'s the hoody has the latest from Islamabad but. The spokesman for the provincial governor provided the updated casualty toll as more residents reported family members killed or injured in the strike that took place overnight Wednesday it struck farmers who were resting off the harvesting pine knots in eastern Afghanistan Reuters reported that village elders had even written to provincial authorities to let them know that farmers would be in the area because ISIS is also active there a spokesman for u.s. Forces said they believe they struck militants of the Islamic state but said they were working with local officials to determine what happened the u.n. Estimates that nearly 400 civilians were killed in the 1st 6 months of this year in Afghanistan from similar aerial strikes did aid n.p.r. News Islam about the Dow is up 51 points since the open This is n.p.r. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include a.d.p. And h.r. Partner committed to designing a better way to work with h.r. Talent Time benefits and payroll informed by data and designed for people learn more at design dot a.d.p. Dot com. There's going to be winners and losers it's not a merit based system it's whoever is 1st and has the most money finding a place to live without fear of discrimination is a civil right so not having stable housing that that affects everything everybody is going to be a party to negotiate he still has to go home and sell it into a really difficult. Support the number one radio news source in southern Colorado make a pledge online today to your c.c. Dot org. Is politics and Amy Walter from the takeaway all this week on the takeaway you've heard stories about climate change or coverage as part of a collaboration with 250 other media organizations called covering climate now today you guessed it it's about the politics of climate change scientists have painted a bleak picture of the future if we fail to curb emissions but we've already started to witness the fallout from a warming planet. Fires across California are wreaking havoc and devastating communities but desperate situation in the Bahamas the death toll from Hurricane Dorian is rising tens of thousands of people in North Carolina are starting to tally the damage from Hurricane Florence early estimates show this storm caused as much as $22000000000.00 with a b. And destruction Barry is packing winds of up to 65 miles per hour to rent joy rains and flash flooding remain a major problem. The increase of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere will cause sea levels to rise heat waves to become more extreme allergies to become more severe plants will go extinct floods will destroy homes and people will be displaced the implications of a warming planet are severe climate change has long been an issue of importance to progressives and environmentalist but recently we've seen it morph into a potent political issue people who are economically disadvantaged and people of color many times they're the ones left behind a strong. I believe this is a fight against powerful interest they don't get to make our kids sick they don't get to shorten wife spans because it increases their profitability we're all the most powerful country on earth we should be leading the womb to i global energy transition and you have a president who thinks that Islam will. Burn is not wrong Donald Trump swept into office promising to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and curb climate regulations in favor of business but before we get to the specific policies and the politics of these policies let's take a look at the scale of the problem help us do that is Rachel Cletus She's a policy director with the climate and energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists science based advocacy organization. Are a human caused a missions from burning fossil fuels and cutting down tropical forests are creating the missions heat trapping a mission setter accumulating in the atmosphere and as a human late in the atmosphere they are causing the planet to warm we've already seen about a degree of warming already on global average temperatures going up since the Industrial Revolution because of these heat trapping emissions and unfortunately emissions are continuing to rise and because of that a lot of the impacts related to warming temperatures are worsening and those include things ranging from worsening heat waves routes extreme weather events being intensified like extreme storms to extreme precipitation rising sea levels worsening wildfires seasons a range of impacts like this that are having profound effects on people's lives already and that will continue to worsen if we fail to curtail these heat trapping emissions we're no longer waiting to see the ramifications of what it's like to release greenhouse gases the shock is here. Climate change is already here and now it's already affecting people's lives through worsening flooding events and wildfires and crowds and heat waves it is being driven by rising he trapping emissions from human activities there is no doubt about that and what they lay out is a picture where we've already seen an increase in for example extreme precipitation events all around the country we've seen temperature increases all around the country and its impact won't be distributed evenly the thing that concerns me the most is that while climate change is affecting us all and will affect us all there are some.

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