From n.p.r. News in Washington d.c. This is Weekend Edition. And little guy Sienna borrow Good morning Ben as well as opposition says today could spell the end of democracy we'll have a report from Caracas on a vote that could see President Nicolas Maduro consolidate his power there have been clashes on the streets and it's been a good week for the Democrats will talk to House Democratic even Geoffrey's on what the party's new economic plan says about their direction also atomic blonde was directed by a former stunt man and sees Charlene's Theron fight her way through 989 Berlin the spy flick reimagined in the hands of David Leach it's Sunday July 30th news is coming up next. Live from n.p.r. News had Washington on trial Snyder the u.s. Is responding to North Korea's latest launch of a long range missile the u.s. Sent to supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula as a show of force as g Hey Lee reports a b. One b. Bombers made a low pass over the oath an airbase and Seoul and were accompanied by South Korean and Japanese aircraft before but turning to the Anderson base in Guam this comes after the South Korean president when Jane announced plans to proceed with a delay deployment of a controversial u.s. Anti-missile defense system on the peninsula defense ministers had also announced to demonstrate the strategic capabilities of the u.s. South Korean joint forces a joint military drill is planned for next month meanwhile North Korea has been really think footage of its latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch on state media for n.p.r. News I'm Julie in Seoul President Trump says China's just talk when it comes to North Korea you posed it a couple of tweets critical of China this weekend saying Beijing could easily solve the problem President Trump is keeping up the pressure on Republican senators to pass a health care bill he posted his latest tweet on the matter this morning earlier this week in the renewed a threat to end required payments to insurance companies unless lawmakers Act subsidies required under the Affordable Care Act are estimated at $7000000000.00 a year and help reduce costs for people with low incomes voters are going to the polls in Venezuela today the election is aimed at creating a new assembling to rewrite the constitution N.P.R.'s Philip Reeves reports President Nicolas Maduro some moving ahead with the vote despite widespread international condemnation hours before the election began Matilda appeared on t.v. And urged his supporters to vote on mass Venezuelan opposition parties who are boycotting the election predict that he and the ruling Socialist Party will use the new assembly to destroy democratic institutions and establish a dictatorship. Makoto said the assembly will be what he called a super power a power beyond and above every other that will strip members of the opposition controlled parliament of their immunity to prosecution but you know said the assembly will be operational within a week as voting gets underway the opposition are planning street protests in defiance of a government ban on demonstrations many thousands of security forces including the army are deployed on the streets where tensions are high Philip Reeves n.p.r. 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Good morning we begin this hour in Venezuela where there is a crucial vote today a few facts about this election it's being called by President Nicolas Maduro to create a new governing body that will have the power to rewrite the constitution and dissolve state institutions none of the $6000.00 plus candidates are from the opposition protests have been banned in advance of the referendum and there have been violent crackdowns against demonstrators that have left at least 4 people dead in recent days the opposition says this is an attempt to circumvent the country's congress so that could hold on to power amid increasing unrest and dire shortages of food and medicine joining us now from good access is Alexander Omar Venezuela correspondent for Reuters Welcome to the program thanks so much for having me so how does feel this weekend there been weeks of tension and violence there have been people have been blocking the streets and we've seen youths crashing with National Guard day in day out and frankly I've spoken to many people who are just nervous and scared have been trying to stock up on food despite the shortages and are kind of holing up in their home waiting to see what happens now the opposition has called for more protests today in a final push to make a move look at legitimate and we're expecting tens of 1000 people to take to the highways and what is the government saying the government says the opposition is secretly looking for a coup with the implicit backing of the United States who has said time and time again that he's facing an armed insurrection hence why they've banned protests we've seen thousands of people arrested and hundreds and hundreds of injuries so he says they are not a democratic opposition but rather a group of business leaders who want to get their hands back on the on the country's big oil reserves. So give us a little bit of context what exactly is a selection about today so much who has called for the creation of this new body known as the constituent assembly it will be made up of 500 members and as you say will be all powerful now he says is the only way to bring peace back to the country the opposition says it's a total scam and is boycotting the vote the vote itself is strange because it's about 2 thirds made up of municipal votes but in in which the rule areas will have particular power and that's where the government has more supporters so capital Caracas for instance will have fewer votes in some of the far flung provinces and there's no opposition members who are candidates for this election as a right exactly there are none the opposition does control the traditional Congress here after they swept a victory about a year and a half ago but the government has completely ignored ignored them and it is presume it will seek to supersede that Congress once the constituent assembly is in power can you just give us a sense right now of what the situation is like for Venezuelans in the country I mean we've heard stories of hunger shortages of just basic necessities. I really can't exaggerate the scale of the economic crisis here we're talking about inflation in the hundreds percent food shortages and a 4th year of recession so I have people going through my garbage in the morning every place you walk to every bakery has someone basically begging in front of them this is something we hadn't even seen last year. So this poor people are suffering the most because any food products are cruelly out of reach because they're imported and that makes them you know sometimes a pack of rice can cost about half a Among plea a monthly wage but the middle class is also really hard hit because they can't afford to buy basics anymore and that is the root of Venezuela's deep deep anger against the glass mantle Venezuela correspondent for Reuters Alexander Almer thank you so much for joining us thanks so much really. This is the call in and today we're looking at business and immigration the trumpet ministration has taken a hard line on illegal immigration it says it wants American businesses to employ American citizens and residents but there are many industries where demand for workers outstrips supply Oh my name is Dan and I am a landscaper I live in Kentucky Dan called in to talk about his experience yes is not to use his last name so he can speak openly about how many in his industry employ immigrants in this country illegally it's a sad truth that. Most people in this business face that a lot of people go towards the undocumented workers because they are reliable they show up and they want to work Dan's company used to employ mostly immigrants but it became more difficult over the past few years he tried for time to get foreign born workers through a visa program but it was complicated and costly now he hires American born workers he checks everyone's documentation through a federal database but he says it's not been easy to replace the immigrant workforce it's hard work it's long hours and by and large it's hard to find Americans to do that labor at the price point that the market will bear it's not unheard of in this industry for those inches of all positions to have 100 to 200 percent turnover rates depending where you are in the country and that's just very difficult to run a business and so was that left to you in terms of the situation that your business finds itself and I think a good example would be I did a little bit of research and our employees that we had that were. Hispanic had an average tenure of about 2 years and our average tenure for an American was about 140 days. And so when you're looking at replacing a person on average every 6 months versus every 2 years there's just a different level of investment as far as recruitment and training but also in productivity a person that's been here for a year or 2 years can perform at a much higher level they're more competent and they do a better job and so the high turnover rates the lack of qualified returning workforce definitely cuts into you know being able to run a business efficiently What would you like to see happen I would love to see undocumented laborers get some way to be able to work legally. They are by and large a very dependable hardworking group of people that do a great job and definitely we are at a competitive disadvantage not being able to use them so I would love to see this willing able work force be made available to everybody it's not only landscaping that's dealing with a labor shortage many industries across the United States rely on immigrant labor restaurants hotels eldercare and agriculture. Is with Bloomberg and she's been covering immigrations impact on the economy President Trump says he wants to see the American economy grow by at least 3 percent a year Jim Riscoe says that will require tough choices in order to boost growth over time we're going to need one of 2 things at least a higher priority rate or a bigger population by product of any means just how much some worker gets done yet how much out of it exactly output per hour so we've seen pretty pretty bad numbers on that front so then you go to population you look at. You know how many people are coming into the country how many people are being born we know we have fairly low fertility rates and we have an aging population so immigration becomes this kind of x. Factor and a lot of people including economists are looking at this and saying well if you're going to cut off immigration then you need to be more realistic about what the growth prospects are going to be in the in the years to come because we're not really seeing too many other growth the growth factors that could change the numbers that we've seen over the past several years in g.d.p. So there is a need for workers to come in and sort of boost the economy right and if you go back to looking at the industry level I mean when you're looking at a new industry like health care over the next 10 years that is an Israel that is expected to just explode in general because demand for caring for baby boomers and others at home care is going to be very high because of the aging population exactly right and since typically these jobs are filled by foreign born workers any restrictions on that sort of immigration will will put pressure on that workforce what about what critics say is this sort of drain on the local economy in some senses specifically services on the hospitals and schools the flipside of that is that you know the population once they are insured and know hopefully if if they are insured the population numbers actually do help retain those services in those areas so actually in Kansas you know I was in a lot of small towns in southwestern Kansas that really relied on the population numbers to kind of at least stay steady and I spoke with some who were in charge of this one farm and they said you know look we've the 3 of us have lived here all our lives is that we really fear crack down on immigration not just because of what it means for the workers but also because if they leave we're losing our where with all the have a hospital close by or a school close by you know the locality is won't see the need for it so you know it's certainly you do see that kind of strange especially if you're bringing. When if people have come in illegally certainly that can weigh on the local population but a lot of times even these farmers who said they suspected some of their workers might be illegal they produce documentation they send that documentation of the government and as one farmer explained to me those people would be paying into someone's Social Security because they had a social security number but it just might not be their own so they were they ended up paying taxes in some way and giving back but were not necessarily documented and not getting the benefits and selves right Exactly Michel John Riscoe reports on the economy for Bloomberg thanks so much thank you. Next week on the call and we want to talk about fertility and technology Last week it was reported that a team of researchers in Oregon where the 1st u.s. 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News I'm Luke Garcia Navarro if you're following the seesaw that is our politics these days last week was good for the Democrats Republicans failed to replace Obamacare and the White House has been in disarray with personnel changes and infighting but the Democratic Party is still in the minority and struggling to connect with voters ahead of the 28000 elections so enter the rebranding this past week Democrats revealed their new economic message called the better deal with promises of better jobs lower prices for prescription drugs and tougher stances on corporate monopolies and in a not so subtle nod to winning back white voters they launched their plan in a small rural Virginia town we've asked Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York to join us to talk about how the economic plan is going to help Democrats win back their party and rally their base he joins us now welcome wanted it seems all the top leaders of the Democratic Party troop down to bury Ville Virginia last week a town that won for Donald Trump last election is winning the white vote now vital to the party Well we want to win every possible vote in urban America suburban America as well as rural America certainly there are places where coming out of 26000 election we can afford to do better what we came clear to us is that there are a lot of voters throughout America who don't understand what the Democrats represent with the exception of opposition to Donald Trump right in the wake of this though I have seen African-American leaders say hey we are the bedrock of the party African-American women for example voted over 95 percent for Hillary Clinton but we've seen fewer of them showing up at the polls on Election Day Could this wooing of white voters alienate black voters Well the only one that seems to be talking about the wing of white voters all the pundits this is a powerful economic message an agenda that is designed to deliver for the American people from a. But America all the way through to rural America that is what the Democratic better deal agenda is all about that's Are you not concerned about African-American turnout we have seen a dip was certainly representing a district that is majority African American and Caribbean American will always remain focused as my colleagues on issues of importance to the African-American community we continue even in this difficult Congress in Washington to work on things such as criminal justice reform trying to strengthen the Voting Rights Act that Supreme Court them is a few years ago combating the issue of police brutality and the excessive use of force well so you don't necessarily have to convince me I mean it was actually African-American leaders who seemed slightly perplexed by the choice of launching this agenda in a small rural Virginia town it seemed to suggest that white voters were the priority of the Democratic Party at this point yeah I'm a little bit perplexed by that suggestion in fact I've said several African-American leaders that an economic agenda is consistent with what our civil rights leaders have suggested we should deliver for African-Americans and all Americans going all the way back to the 1963 March on Washington which of course its full title was the March on Washington who poured jobs and freedom so I think that a democratic economic agenda focused on raising the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour would be an important step forward for all Americans certainly African-Americans would benefit you mention something which I think is at the heart of the difficulties of the Democrats face they are facing criticism for not having a cohesive economic message but at the same time their base wants them to still champion issues like transgender inclusion the environment diversity. Are you stepping away from those issues which could be seen as polarizing is that the strategy I don't know I think will run toward though this is this is an overall agenda laying out every single plank upon which House Democrats or Senate Democrats will stand this is an economic agenda develop for the American people you know to lead to higher pay lower costs and providing people with the ability to advance themselves and their families in 21st century that's Congressman Jeffries co-chair of the House Democratic policy and communications Committee thank you so much thank you so much we're going to turn now to a major policy reversal that was revealed by a series of tweets by President Trump last week the took even his own military leaders by surprise President Trump appears to be endorsing a new ban on transgender troops but history last year the Obama administration made a historic decision to officially allow transgender troops including for combat and even pay for medical treatment plans now it's unclear what will happen the Pentagon's top u.s. General General Joseph Dunford said for now there will be no changes without further guidance from the secretary of defense but that's of little comfort to those active military who are transgender including army drill sergeant can sergeant came out as transgender 2 years ago and wears the male regulation dress uniform and p.r. For spoke with him last year sergeant a child Welcome back I thank you. So where were you when you 1st heard the news about the president's tweets this past Wednesday and what was your 1st reaction I was actually getting ready to attend a graduation ceremony for a leadership course that I had been attending in Arizona at the time I felt my stomach drop but I literally had 10 minutes to be out the door to where I needed to go so I had to compartmentalize everything that I should have felt in that immediate moment and just I made a choice to try to deal with it later the trumpet ministration as costs because of the medical treatments unit cohesion are the reasons for this potential policy shift now that you've had time to think about the new policy possibly What do you what is your reaction to be honest I'm I'm just going to continue to do my job as I would any other day to the best of my ability until I am ordered to not put my boots on anymore I am interested in how the last year has gone for you we spoke to you when the Obama administration made its announcement How has the past year gone. I'll say that I you know put my boots on just like everybody else in the morning but over the last year I've been a little bit more excited about doing it not to say that I ever regretted ever being in the military I've always been very proud of what I do. But I put my boots on every morning now with an increased sense of urgency because I I don't feel like I have to hide anything what is it like to have to hide something it was just exhausting I can't really articulate it anymore I guess simply. To have to pretend to be 2 different people and one of which is not who you are at all I was putting a lot of energy into maintaining it so I wouldn't I guess. Be found out or whatever when they discuss unit cohesion your Sergeant can you explain to me what it is that means and what your response to that particular issue is. For me unit cohesion implies that everybody is always all in on the same team always putting the mission 1st regardless of my identity whether I was preaching or post transition I have always done that I've always put the mission 1st and myself 2nd you always get to know the people that are always on your team and before I transitioned I had a very hard time with that because I had to pretend to be somebody else. And now that I'm able to be myself I don't have to hide and use that extra energy to be somebody else anymore people who. Support having transgender people in the military say that the military is actually the biggest employer of transgender people in in the United States is there a large community within the military and how do you think that this could affect them I guess large is a relative term I guess I'll put it this way I know many more people who are transit or in the military versus those who are transgender and not in the military and have you reached out to each other we have and what are they saying just offering support everything will be fine just continue to operate as normal and that's pretty much just been the just in the basics of what we've conveyed to each other that's army drill sergeant Ken based out of South Carolina thank you so much for joining us today thank you for having me. If you've ever dreamed of moving to an idyllic vacation spot Maine's coastal islands offer a cautionary tale the jobs are limited to lobstering boat building and caretaking of summer residences and lousy Internet service makes telecommuting difficult to impossible but now some Maine lobster men and would be telecommuters are banding together to pay for a costly infrastructure they hope will help preserve a threatened way of life from Maine Public Radio Fred Beaver reports. Summertime in the cranberry Isles a couple miles seaward from Acadia National Park feels pretty idyllic in the. Sunshine bounces from the water and back lights the lobster boats and ferries that shuttle reality. The constant water traffic keeps the island's physically connected . But residents of the great cranberry Island Country Store worry about a different kind of connection internet connection if you credibly slow Samuel Donald manages a local boat yard to Internet companies provide service to great cranberry and 2 aisles for next door but Donald says the technology is so outdated the bandwidth is so narrow that it best service hovers of a glacial speed of one megabit per 2nd and it's weather dependent so if there's Fargo rain or you know it's dark out or whatever it's just doesn't work because the . Internet companies haven't been keen to make costly improvements for remote locations like this so now cranberry Islanders are ready to dig deep for new fiber optic lines and a microwave system that will being data around the archipelago a true broadband speeds the upgrade can't come soon enough for Kelly sample and she wants try telecommuting from her house out on the island said. As a medical transcriptionist her daughter Jessica's online homework sometimes took a back seat when it was just me on the internet it was pretty fast but on more than one of us was using it it went pretty funny what happens when I want to work on the computer she takes all of the Internet she has plugs it unplugs it into our computer. I turn up all I do so no one else gets upset and when summer people compete for the island's limited bandwidth connections slow to us sub crawl when that buffering we'll look deaf the period on her screen Sanborn says she saw dollars beaming away she gave up medical transcription. But workarounds can be found in my life sitting in front of the computer Rosalee Celt administrators for an international service mission is one of several islanders who routinely set up laptops on the local library's porch to tap into its Internet wife's phone which is the fastest on the island kills been a leader in the effort to bring all the aisles households up to speed it's about lifestyle and culture and preserving cultures. In a way that would not happen if we don't keep up with the 21st century at the turn of the 20th century there were $200.00 main islands with year round residents that's dwindled to 15 now the Internet Project is one of several efforts to boost numbers on the cranberries where it was a big deal this spring when 3 students graduated from 8th grade it was the most in 20 years. It doesn't hurt that Maine's lobster industry is booming. I quit ferry right over the aisles for it's had a lot of cold ones faith generation lobstermen a catalog shoveling herring inside work shed on his 4 year old son I visit on a draft site and that's the limit for the state of Maine. Internet service here had live notes is even worse than on great cranberry so he supports the $1200000.00 bond voters approved to get the project moving is hoping that a big grant application succeeds letting property tax payers off the hook if they do have to go to the well head lock says it's justified keeps them on the islands other than going off on a ferry back and forth and helps out actually you know raising kids and stuff and you know mother bands can stay at home and do their job or eat from there it's a necessity he serves and if all goes well most homes on the cranberry aisles should have high speed Internet within the year for n.p.r. News I'm Fred Bever in Portland Maine. News. You're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. We've been checking in from time to time with Dan Kois Sue spending a year moving around the world with his wife and 2 daughters in a quest to find out from various cultures what makes a family he joins us now to tell us what he discovered from his recent stay in the Netherlands Hey Dan hello thank you for having me back pleasure to have you back you spent time in New Zealand when we talked to you and you just recently left the Netherlands what makes a Dutch family clik. Well the most obvious thing as biking Of course everything everyone bikes we were really amazed at how quickly our family picked it up when you are in a society that privileges biking over other forms of transportation and makes a completely safe fun and easy to bike everywhere everyone does it there are all these studies that declare Dutch children the happiest in the world is this true we found them quite happy yes and one reason that we found them to be so is they really seem to have a great deal of independence one reason they have that independence is because of the biking you don't have to beg your parents for rides everywhere you can just set off on your bike in your parents feel like it's safe as it is really safe but we also found that Dutch kids and Dutch families really seem to include children in their decision making so they feel like they have a real voice and say in what the family is doing how does that work there's like a term for it that Dutch families use that also is quite popular with and Dutch businesses and Dutch organizations it's the Polder model and it's named for the Polders which are the tracts of land in the Netherlands that have been reclaimed from the c.v.s. Dikes and levees and dams but in order to do that you have to have a whole community working together in agreeing on how the water management system is going to work if one person doesn't do their job everyone's land is under water so this is evolved into a decision making structure that many Dutch organizations including Dutch families are here to call the Polder model which simply means everyone discusses every big decision everyone comes to a consensus no matter how long it takes everyone that follows that decision so how does that play out I mean did you try the Polder model we did it turns out we're really bad. As that American family we are more we're parents and we like to be autocrats and so it was really hard to adapt to this to this model in which we are meant to include our children in the sort of big decisions of our family to give me an example so like many American families we struggle with the issue of our kids and screen time. So we decided the way a Dutch family would handle this is they would try and set rules that are not just what the parents think screen time should be but that incorporate what the kids think screen time should be and we should negotiate these rules at great and torture a slave to the point that we want to pull our hair out but the kids feel like there are 3 have more say in the process it did to yield results in the end which are that the kids got well the result was that the kids got way more screen time than we thought they should have but it did after this like 2 our negotiating session was like those old like NATO negotiations where 1st you have to agree on the shape of the table but we did eventually come to a resolution that felt on satisfactory to us but more satisfactory to the kids and I guess if that happens in like every major family decision of course the kids are happy or yeah even if d.c. To go on this journey to discover if there was a better way to parent because you said you felt in a major metropolitan city in United States like d.c. You were all over stretched so are you learning things that you can apply when you get back I hope so I mean I do think the Polder model as annoying as it was to us should be something that influences us as we go out and especially as our kids get older and as unpleasant as that may be for natural born autocrats like us it's something we should be doing and want to get better at Dan Kois She's a writer travelling for his project how to be a family thanks so much thanks. This is n.p.r. 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On Joel Snyder with these headlines a car bomb blast in Somalia's capital today authorities say at least 5 people are dead and more than a dozen wounded the bomb went off near a police station but the exact target remains unclear the 4 Arab countries to cut ties to Qatar say they are open to dialogue to resolve the dispute but at a joint press conference in Dubai today the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Egypt and Bahrain say they will keep current measures in place a coup is Qatar of supporting extremism and police in Australia say they have foiled plans for a bomb attack on an aircraft they mounted counterterrorism raids around Sydney today federal police say 4 men are in custody and that the raids on cover material that could be used to make an improvised explosive device. I'm Joel Snyder n.p.r. News from Washington. To. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working with others to build a culture of health for all on the web at our w j f dot org from c 3 i.o.t. Enabling corporate and industrial digital transformation with artificial intelligence cloud computing and Io t. Big data software solutions learn more at c 3 i.o.t. Dot com and from the John s. And James l. Knight Foundation helping n.p.r. Advance journalistic excellence in the digital age. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Luke. Port-Au Prince Haiti is one of the largest cities in the world without a central sewage system most of the more than $3000000.00 residents use out houses and rely on workers with some of the worst jobs in the world hauling away human excrement by hand one bucket at a time the men are called for Yoko and they work in the dark by candlelight Rebecca her sure spent a night with a group of them. As soon as we arrived you can smell it it's a heavy earthy stench like rotten eggs and grocers things cause an estimated one in 5 patients don't have access to any kind of wintry and those who do have outhouses generally higher by a coup to clean them out tonight a team of 4 by a coup are emptying one out house one of the guys Gabrielle Toto is sitting on the edge of the hole his bare feet in a brown suit below the wing a big stick for the stick measures about 15 feet deep tonight with a foreign reporter around Gabriel is wearing new length pants and gloves Usually he works naked. If they come back. They don't usually give us these gloves and things when you're not here he grabs a bucket lights a cigarette and steps into the hole it's 9 30 pm and that is it that no you're going. To. Have our local run of the menu joke as they were every so often they dump out a bucket and finds me weird dangerous that sticks rocks trash razor blades at one point the photographer with me freaks out say oh if only I. Say I don't know there's a gun or. They look a gun over determine it doesn't. And move on it takes about 3 hours for Gabriel to empty the whole idea and he's sweating and covered in human waste his gloves or wrist. Been injured all over the world who must. Have been injured many pieces like my fingers my eyes and even. Stitches in my legs on my feet in the same situation I even lost one of my one day when I was working later another by a coup pulls me aside to show me his eyes red and pasta filled with an infection he says he's had for years most Byakuya teams dump their waste wherever they can about 53000 gallons of human waste makes its way into city canals and roadside ditches every day in Port au Prince it's bread's disease Haiti is still in the midst of a cholera epidemic it catches fire during rain storms the contents of your outhouse might just show up unannounced in your living room but tonight the drums are being trucked to a safer more official place the only sewage treatment plant in Haiti because tonight these Byakuya are working for one of the 2 big sanitation companies and Port au Prince the company has a private company we make sure that they are going the right place they love the drums into a truck and it's our driver floor Du Bois is the financial director at Jet Co She in the company's operations manager really review say one way to make Haiti sanitation system better is to professionalize the buy a coup business patients to them are in pain for something that is just one missed him to get it for example judge who has been advertising the dangers of raw sewage if people are afraid maybe they'll pay to have a trucked away rather than dumped into an open can now the obvious upside for the company is more customers and more money. Back at the sewage treatment plant it's 2 30 in the morning and the by a coup are blasting tunes out of the truck while they unload the nights are. Your thoughts about Gabrielle is standing in the parking lot shirtless and wet from a bucket bath in the back of the truck of the $175.00 that dad got from tonight's client Gabrial will take home $4.00 the company doesn't provide showers health care or even water for guys to drink on the job the $4.00 isn't enough to feed Gabriel's 3 kids and buy a coup and their families are stigmatized and even ostracized it's one of the reasons they only work in the dark I'm seeing him when. He wants us on the mean time use I've been mediated by doing that I'm doing you see what I've done some people will never stand close to me by talking to me the same way that you're thinking to me as true as I was your like they always away from me he says getting people to pay to have their sewage chucked out of the city isn't enough to change the culture around sanitation in Haiti people also need to respect those who do the dirty work which starts with better pay and basic health care known less in. The 1st people who should give it to doors that were doing many of those people do come in. And you know when to see you know under desk in d.c. You don't care they don't take care of us so if they don't give value to what we are doing. We'll get there but he's not holding his breath for things to change he says his dream is to get his driver's license God willing he says his children will never do this work. For n.p.r. News I'm Rebecca her shirt in Port au Prince this story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Do you still have old Polaroid pictures stashed away are they all washed out and faded N.P.R.'s Neda Ulaby visited a museum exhibition of Polaroid photographs taken some 35 years ago that look as though they had just slipped out of a camera yesterday I was not the only person at the gate. Marveling at how beautifully these Polaroid had aged dozens of artists. Showing up right in the swimming pool and. My Polaroids don't look like this they don't look like using the sitter says her Polaroids looks like mine faded bleached out messy you know throw away kind of condition of course photography is inherently an unstable medium no one knows that better than Sarah Freeman she's one of the 2 full time for talk of the conservators here at the Getty even they were impressed when they pulled these David Hockney Polaroids out of the box we were a little bit surprised to have to say colors are very vibrant artist David Hockney rarely displays these Polaroids that's why they look so great they're part of his personal collection and he stores them away from the 3 major things that destroy them light and Freeman has worked on Polaroids taken by Andy Warhol Robert Mablethorpe and other famous artists the Getty keeps them in a room or like a refrigerator than the places you and I probably stash our photos your attic or your basement. The other location for your pictures is your living room she says they are the enemy is direct sunlight it's challenging because oil like to have our family pictures out the time. Freeman takes me to the conservation lab it's a. Studio brimming with speakers and microscopes the most delicate paint brushes and the. Tools used for repairing photographs but Freeman says once a Polaroid has lost its color there's nothing you can do he can't change dating thing is permanent when something has shifted it's changed forever it's ultraviolet light that breaks out the emotion and instead film the same kind of light Friedman says that damages our skin so she says keep those Polaroid someplace cool dry and dark and by the way wear sunscreen now Libby n.p.r. News in the new film atomic blonde a British agent played by Charlene Ferran shows up in 1989 Berlin just before the wall comes down and she gets a very violent reception you remember Mr Brehm a bitch don't you. Course you do. Or he's very curious what you're doing here in Berlin. There are the sounds of fighting and there is a lot of it in the film as characters punch and stab their way through the murky world of Cold War espionage that's not exactly surprising because the man who directed atomic bomb is former stunt man David leech He's worked in films with Brad Pitt among many many others before jumping into the director's chair and he joins us now from Los Angeles good morning good morning I think the challenge for you give us a quick synopsis of the plot and see if you don't give anything away. It is. Well let me just give you more about it's a punk rock 5 thriller with a lot of action and I'm really interesting central character with a nexus natural crisis how about that that sounds good that tells me everything and nothing at the same time which is I guess what we're looking for yes. I want to talk a little bit about Charlie's there on 1st she is just amazing in this film you and your team from when you were stunt director apparently assess actors before deciding how much of their own stunts they can do as. And it sounds pretty brutal so can you talk me through that assessment 1st of all we bring them into our facility in Los Angeles and you bring them in we start showing them sort of like choreography fight moves and then you start to build sequences based on their ability and as they grow you can start to adapt the choreography to their ability and how did Charlie's do my mean she's incredible and she's off the charts and it's in the top one percent of all the actors that we've worked with so it was a great collaboration I mean she showed up every day committed to train hard and she's selling every single poncho and I have to say that that's rare I mean people come in with and there's a little lack of confidence see you're intimidated standing in a room full this time people who do it for a living can imagine and she would you know get over that and just and go to work and has an aptitude for it so it was great I read that you taught her to fight like a girl and I mean that in the most lethal way explain how a woman fights differently than a man in the context of fighting for their lives there was a section of the movie we really wanted to ground in some sort of reality where the the consequences felt real and I guess in terms of like having someone her size fight a 6 foot 4230 pound Russian and punching with your fists is not optimal when you know the guy's head is made of granite so it's better to use weapons on your body that are more resilient and that have a stronger force so yeah like taking like she does a refrigerator door and using it to smash someone's head in and stuff like that using the stuff that you've got around you naturally to kill Russians but I thought yeah that's it I mean that's sort of like we call the found object sort of principle in the in the fight choreography world but it also is a real thing like if you had a glass ashtray or if you had a telephone better to hit him with that yeah. This film is based. On a graphic novel and the rights of that were picked up by Shirley's you had to pitch yourself to her what was your vision for the film that sold it to. The other producer on the film Kelly McCormick who was at happens to be my wife had brought me the script and it was based on a graphic novel which was like sort of Cold War you know why are very like the 3rd man dark no water and she sort of popped it in front of me and said I think there's a way that you can add some of your heightened reality to this project take a look at it and so as I read about Berlin in the city and having done 6 movies there I thought about this is nothing like sixty's no war this is $89.00 Berlin and there is rock and roll of there is graffiti if you were a spy there you'd be living in this crazy underworld of clubs and and then music started to jump off the page at me and you know I wanted to infuse into the movie and I said I want to take this sort of stuff you know r. And make it a punk rock fight thriller and I think that's what soldier Well I want to talk about the music it brought me right back to the eighty's it was great an integral part of the film I want to take a little audio tour so people can get a sense of what they're. Like bringing these songs in particular I mean I love infusing music into my work and sort of the visuals and that was definitely the standing orders and how do we make this feel like a contemporary. Version of eighty's music video the whole way through Sharlee is obvious is the central character but we should also mention that there is a very buff James McAvoy film yes very very nicely to me when he took off his shirt I was like yeah wow those think of him in somewhat softer roles and here he's all edge he transforms I mean he's I think one of our greatest living character actors and he melts into this role I mean it was made for him how did he do in your. Stunt challenge I think you know I think he also has that I wish he had a little bit more action I mean maybe down the road we'll do a sequel there's a funny story he was going to come on to the movie after Christmas break and I get a call over the holidays it's like I broke my arm I'm like oh why and so you know there's sort of like some shuffling around and I saw everyone panicking for a 2nd and then I came up with this idea that we make it part of his character so the cast in the movie does play a story point but it's also has a cast in the movie Right exactly yeah and it becomes part of his you know spy craft what kind of spine movie is this for you when we think of spy movies you will always think of I guess James Bond and that entire franchise What were you trying to do here that was different I mean for me it was really just try to take the John era and give it a difference and I feel it needed to be dusted off or at least try to push the boundaries a little bit and I think the infusion of music the infusion of the type of martial arts action you know to get in a different direction and then obviously the female protagonist of it all isn't seen that often and quite frankly needs to be seen more I think we have this opportunity on the heels of Wonder Woman success maybe more films with female protagonists in the action space can enter theaters and can get made in green lit into production. 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