Do you. Getting information on a political opponent I have news for everybody get over it there's going to be political influence. Through the week. Finished. And Willem Dafoe in a new movie about to. Storm in it's no light comedy 1st we have our newscast it Saturday October 19th 2009. From n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Joyal Snyder British lawmakers have decided to delay holding a vote on the BRICs a deal their prime minister board Saunderson reach with European leaders this week they've decided to accept what's known as the let one amendment meaning that Johnson will have to ask the European Union for a break so the delay N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt is in London there's opposition to this deal inside and outside Britain's House of Commons thousands are marching through London demanding another referendum to go back Johnson's controversial deal or vote to stay in the European Union. And couldn't vote in the 2016 Bracks referendum she says Bracks it is far worse than campaigns portrayed at the time this is 3 and a hockey is off the 1st night and so much has changed we know so much more and I think we really need to have an updated say Johnson has political momentum after striking a surprise deal with you this week in Brussels Frank Langfitt n.p.r. News London Turkey's president says of Kurdish militia men don't withdraw from the border as agreed on Thursday its military operation will resume with what he calls to terminations N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon says the ceasefire in northern Syria though is largely holding there were reports of shelling near Russell line Friday but the ceasefire agreed by Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish president range of tapered one has mostly been maintained here to one says if Kurdish militants don't withdraw from an area Turkey wants for a safe zone the attack will resume the Kurdish Red Crescent says 44 Syrian civilians have been killed universals are being held today in eastern Afghanistan where yesterday's bombing of a village mosque killed more than 60 people searchers are still looking for victims in the rubble tropical storm Nestor is spreading over the Florida Panhandle bringing heavy rain and concern about storm surge but forecasters at the National Hurricane Center say Nasr is losing steam as it heads toward landfall this morning the latest advisory says Mr gradually losing its tropical characteristics with top sustained winds. 50 mph the United Auto Workers Union will meet with members today to explain a tentative 4 year contract with General Motors from member station w k r Scott pull reports at the rank and file will have until the end of next week to vote on the proposal General Motors and union leaders are touting pay hikes in ratification bonuses in the deal Brenda Kaczynski as a 22 year g.m. Worker at one of 2 plants in Lansing Michigan she's most focused on the company's agreement to speed up the path to full time employment for temporary workers and would like it to be even faster she started as a temper self and I believe this is our future because they are our future and it's very important that they are equal the ratification vote runs through next Friday until then g.m. Plants will remain closed and union members will stay on the picket lines for n.p.r. News I'm Scott poll in East Lansing and you're listening to n.p.r. News. To Spain now the Catalonia region pro independence protests are escalating Lucio Benevides reports that hundreds of people have been injured in scores arrested in week long demonstrations that turned violent last night protesters have been taking to the streets in the thousands across various Scotland cities every day since Monday they continue to reject long prison sentences handed down to that island separatist leaders by day peaceful protests have centered on the longtime bid for independence and liberty for the prisoners but by night the mood has turned into a general anger towards the Spanish state student protesters have been burning trash bins and barricades as police shoot back with rubber bullets and tear gas on Friday night police in Barcelona used a water cannon for the 1st time but said honest mayor condemns the violence and insisted that it can't go on like this more protests are planned in the coming days for n.p.r. News I'm Lucy Evan I read this and bought a set on a city of Hong Kong was preparing for another weekend of protests pro-democracy leaders they are calling for an end to government March tomorrow organizers say they are moving forward with the March even though police rejected it as legal authorities cited public safety concerns the New York Yankees World Series hopes are still alive the Yankees beat the Houston Astros last night cutting the Astros' lead in the best hopes of an American League series 3 games to 2 the Yankees will seek to even the series and Game 6 tonight on trial Snider this is n.p.r. News from Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the estate of Joan Kroc whose bequest it serves as an enduring investments in the future of public radio and the John d. And Catherine team MacArthur Foundation Ed Mack founded dot org. If you're getting rid of the whole car consider donating it to the 9 you have free towing and member benefits information as a caveat p.r. Dot org or 855-277-2346 good morning at 7 o 6 I'm Mark Thomas you are listening to Weekend Edition Saturday Scott Simon is hosting from n.p.r. And of course this is Valley Public Radio f.m. 89. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon it was like a record scratch moment at the White House Press Briefing Room President trouble his allies have insisted for weeks there was no quid pro quo in holding up military aid to Ukraine but acting chief of staff Nick Belvin he said at the podium the White House sealed behind him cameras rolling there was Mr Mulvaney immediately attempted to wreak Eric derisive statements Speaker Pelosi called them a confession Ron Elving joins us Ron good morning good to be with you Scott what do you make of that moment Florida Republican congressman Francis Rooney tells n.p.r. Pretty like a bolt out of the sky just imagine how that bolt done to the president's most loyal defenders on Capitol Hill guys like Republican Congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina suddenly confronted with what moving he had said they were dumbfounded Scott and who can blame them weeks and weeks of their strategy in messaging had been blown away in seconds and many of the rest till struggling to find a new place to stand let me ask you about how the president has defended that decision to abandon the Kurds and his language he said this week of the Kurds they're not angels of the fighting after with the drawl it's not our problem they've got a lot of sand over there a lot of sand they can play with they also said it's sort of natural for them they fight as the way president trumps recent phraseology in the letter to President Erika one where he said Don't be a fool shaken up people and shaken people on all sides of this crisis think of how it sounds to people in the region not just the president's comment about sand but the language used in that letter to everyone you mention it may have been tough by American standards but beyond insulting by Turkish standards the word fool being explosive in particular so now the Kurds have been abandoned and the Turks are having their way with. President Trump is Speaking of them being cleaned out perhaps not remembering how the term cleansing has been applied in ethnic conflicts in the past and so long time allies of the us elsewhere are forced to re-evaluate the life insurance they thought they had as allies of the u.s. 2 thirds of House Republicans voted for that resolution against troop withdrawal resolution didn't make it through the Senate but Senator Mitt Romney if you talk called the abandonment of the Kurds a blood stain is Trump shredding his congressional support just as impeachment is at hand you know Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell did block that House resolution to speak up as he usually blocks whatever the House and over but the surprise in this case was that he said he wanted to substitute something tougher something more harsh in its place but with this Congress ever or or even vote to prevent president from from holding the g. 7 meeting at his own resort in Florida you know how that's a curveball that breaks the other way on that issue and on impeachment at this point the Republicans in Congress may feel safer reflecting the attitude of their constituents and polls still tell us that Republicans are still supportive of the president Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland died this week at the age of 68 or lie in state this week a man of character a conviction be undisputed I think Trey Gowdy Republican a trump Republican from South Carolina said quote a larger Cummings was one of the most powerful beautiful and compelling voices in American politics the power and the beauty came from his authenticity his conviction this and Sarah he with which he held his beliefs yes a man who will be remembered as a friend to his congressional colleagues transcending their politics a relentless fighter those caught for his district a civil rights figure a man who never forgot to connect with others even his greatest adversaries as people fellow humans. One to One N.P.R.'s Ron Elving thanks so much for being with us thank you Scott President Trump says he likes the deal the u.s. Struck with Turkey for a 5 day ceasefire in Syria he tweeted quote Millions of lives will be saved Congratulations to all but not all fire ceased and there are reports of more deaths in the commander of the Syrian Kurdish forces is now telling n.p.r. That Trump's deal is a bad one N.P.R.'s Daniel Estrin is on the line from Iraq's border with Syria Daniel thanks for being with us it's a pleasure you just spoke with the commander of the Syrian Kurdish forces what did he tell you. Yes His name is Muslim call by me he's the top commander of the s.d.f. Which is the Kurdish led force that had partnered with the u.s. To fight ISIS and these are the same forces now feeling abandoned by the u.s. As the u.s. Withdraws troops and leaves these forces to face off a Turkish attack against them this commander told us the ceasefire deal is really terrible and he spoke to n.p.r. In Arabic Take a listen. So he spoke to us he said the deal is really terrible we look at the conditions and it's a deal that includes the demographic changes removing Kurds from their areas and replacing them with others now the us Turkey ceasefire statement that was put out does not spell out in writing anything about demographic change but everyone told us reporters and foreign reporters that he intends to move some of the millions of Syrian refugees in his country to the area where Kurdish forces are being asked to leave and this is what the Kurdish commander means by demographic change flooding Kurdish areas with Syrian refugees and the Kurds feel that such resettled refugees could be hostile to them he said he is committed to a temporary pause in fighting and he says his forces will retreat from a small area that's at the center of the fighting but not from the entire Turkey the entire territory that Turkey wants and this commander says you've been speaking with President Trump border to tell you about the. He has been speaking with Trump and he said that he asked Trump's help to facilitate a cease fire deal and in recent days and that trumpet promise that he would speak to the Turks and now though the commander of the Kurdish commander tells us he has a message for President Trump let me know. But. He tell you what he said he said I would like to tell trump that he promised to protect the Kurds he said if the the Turks threaten the Kurdish people he would make all efforts to protect them and the commander told us it's his duty trumps duty to keep his promises as commander in chief of the United States he also said he wanted to thank the American people and Congressman military figures who stood in solidarity with the Kurds he said he would like to ask them to pressure Trump to reverse the deal with the Turks and also to reverse the u.s. Troop withdrawal from northern Syria he says he's committed to the cease fire is over as it doesn't seem to be holding. He says Turkey is the one that is not abiding by the agreement President Trump did acknowledge that he said he spoke to Turkish president everyone everyone said there was quote minor sniper and mortar fire that was clipped quickly eliminated and Kurdish forces are saying yes attacks have slowed and today as of now there is no renewed fighting but that there had been artillery and drone attacks and gunfire by Turkish back militia which killed 5 civilians and at least 13 Kurdish fighters in Syria and Turkish president spoke reporters what did he say about that could strike. Right the Turkish president denied there are any classes in the area he said Kurdish forces have begun to withdraw from the area of conflict but that Turkish forces would not leave the area and if the forces don't fully retreat within 5 days Turkey will resume attacks and he also said he's going to be meeting with the Russian president next week so the u.s. Is retreating as Russia becomes a major power broker N.P.R.'s Daniel Estrin on the line with us from the Iraqi Syrian border Daniel thanks so much for being with us you're welcome. The World Series begins next week the Washington Nationals against the Astros or Yankees when was the last World Series with a team from Washington d.c. Well like most everything in the town these days it's a matter of debate 933 is one answer the Washington Senators one of the charter franchises of the American League lost the World Series that year the team had some fine players over the decades but mostly led the league in players with entertaining names like go Scotland money rule and. The senators finish so far down so often sportswriters said Washington 1st in war 1st in peace and last in the American League the homestead grays of the old Negro Leagues were probably the best baseball team to ever call Washington d.c. Home with lineups that included buck Leonard Cole Papa Bell and Josh Gibson they won the Negro League World Series in 1948 but Major League Baseball had begun to integrate the grays and the Negro league soon disbanded the Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1961 and became the twins after leaving the nation's capital for America's lutefisk capital the team that used to be Washington's won the World Series in 19071901 a new edition of Washington Senators was created in 1961 aptly to avoid an anti-trust lawsuit they never reached the World Series but after those senators moved to earn. Inten Texas in 1972 and became the Texas Rangers they reached the World Series in 201-2011 baseball returned to d.c. In 2005 when the Montreal Expos became the Washington Nationals but for years Washington fans had a reputation for small quiet crowds and button down shirts who missed home runs because they were always looking down at their Black Berrys an executive with another team once told me they called a fan who stood up to leave in the 7th inning because they wanted to hear n.p.r. The next day a d.c. Standing No but today's Washington Nationals now seem to have fans as devoted loud and loutish as any other winning team. I believe the last time a World Series came to Washington was 1955 a musical opened on Broadway or an agent of the Devil appears to a despondent middle aged senator's fan to offer him a chance to become Joe Hardy a strapping young home run hitter who can help Washington finally beat those damn yankees Allison let me go guys this game of baseball is only one half skill the other half a something else something bigger. When . We. Win the short. Ball or not. As it. Is the original cast You're listening to n.p.r. News local funding for every maybe 9 provided by Granville Holmes announcing their newest community now open a Copper River Ranch with 5 model homes details of g.b. Homes dot com. I'm Christopher Campbell from the street radio this week we take a look at the personal side of Rachel Ray from talk show mishaps to an almost fatal dinner with Tony Bennett who are fighting love of hard work plus we explore the 10000000 dollar launch of a new Apple the cosmic crisp and we talk about chocolate and Health with Dr Eric Carroll coming up this week a mystery radio from hearings. Today at 10 on Valley Public Radio. I'm Joel Snyder with these headlines but as lawmakers have delayed voting on the brakes a deal that Prime Minister Boris Johnson worked out with the European Union they've approved an amendment that forces Johnson to ask the e.u. For a delay Johnson remains to finance saying he will try to take the u.k. Out of the u. By October 31st turkey is urging us to ensure Kurdish militia forces leave the border area northern Syria where Turkey wants to establish a safe zone the Kurds are to withdraw from the border under an agreement reached with the us on Thursday if they don't Turkey says they will resume its military operation and Chile's president has declared a state of emergency in the capital there have been violent demonstrations in Santiago sparked by an increase in the cost of subway tickets a government blames surprise Cyc on increased energy costs on trial Snyder n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Weston hotels and resorts offering a range of wellness options for guests including their Eat well menu on demand fitness gear lending program and signature Heavenly Bed learn more at Weston dot com a member of Marriott bon voyage and from new offering a personalized weight loss program that uses psychology and small goals to change habits with a goal of losing weight and keeping it off for good learn more at noon and o.o.m. Dot com This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon what a president trying to get the information that he hoped would discredit Joe Biden Hunter Biden and Robert Muller's investigation according to reporting by time and others that political dirt came from a former Ukrainian prosecutor and was passed on to trump allies by a Ukrainian oligarch who is under u.s. Indictment. Demitra fear Tasha's been living in Vienna for the past 5 years fighting extradition to Chicago where the u.s. Attorney's office has charged him in a bribery scheme we're joined now by Time correspondent Simon Schuster who's been reporting on the story he joins us from New York thanks so much for being with us thank you 1st how did Dimitri affair trash become so rich anyway well he became a billionaire about 15 years ago in the mid 2000 as a partner to the Kremlin in the European gas trade his company somehow got exclusive rights to buy gas in Russia and resell it in Ukraine and on from there to Western Europe and that's a very lucrative middleman role that he got with the approval of President Vladimir Putin what role do you think you might play in what I'll call Ukraine gate Well the information on that is still coming out but what we know for sure is that some of the key documents that Rudy Giuliani has been using to defend President Trump and to attack the perceived enemies of President Trump have come from Demetrius here does his legal team in Vienna and these documents Giuliani has taken them on t.v. And presented them as evidence or for his claims of wrongdoing by Robert Mueller and Joe Biden now how does got his hands on these documents is an open question and an even more important question I think is what fear types stands to gain from providing these documents to Giuliani well which suggests the next question but what would be his motive to come up with material that could compromise the Bidens perhaps the Obama administration it's not clear his lawyers you know I've been asking them that question since September they have consistently refused to answer you know whether they've been promised anything by Giuliani or others perhaps close to the u.s. Administration but he. You know in like washing the indictment in Chicago or something like that yeah that seems like a clear possibility of something that he would want you know as you said at the top of this conversation he has been fighting extradition to the United States for 5 years his key priority is to avoid being extradited and put on trial in Chicago where he faces these corruption charges but we don't know at this point whether he's been promised anything related to that prosecutor and what weight what kind of association does he have with Mr Giuliani Well the connection goes through a couple of Giuliani's close associates these 2 lawyers and t.v. Personalities that would be familiar to any frequent viewer of Fox News Victoria Toensing and Joe Di Genova these 2 lawyers have been reportedly helping Giuliani in his kind of global search for dirt on Joe Biden and his efforts to discredit the investigation now in July Toensing and agenda we're officially hired as lawyers for Dimitri fair to us so they now formally work for him and they represent him and again they are close allies and associates of Giuliani So in July those 2 teams effectively were linked or even merged in their various efforts fear talks on his side trying to avoid extradition and Giuliani trying to dig up dirt on Trump's enemies do we know of any direct connection between Rudy Giuliani and to me to Affair Tasha I mean but they know each other if they walk into a diner at the same time well as part of my reporting I of course ran all of this by Giuliani and in a text message to me he said 2 things he said I have never met Mr fear to us and I do not represent Mr fair test now of course you know none of my reporting suggests either of those things but he did not address the relationship that he has with Mr Fair Tosh through his 2 associates tones and agenda and the Fair Tax legal team has been extremely quiet and cautious in address. Their relationship with Giuliani they basically have declined to comment on these connections Time magazine reporter Simon Shuster thanks so much thank you. President Davao Morales of Bolivia is running for a 4th consecutive term in tomorrow's election his main rival is Carlos Mesa who briefly served as president to decade and a half ago Morales is the front runner Maisha is appealing to voters by painting the president as a budding the Thora Tarion reporter John notice has more. Or less may set takes the stage at a packed campaign rally in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz the opposition candidate then leads the crowd in a chant. Yes. Yes Spanish they're saying enough already that's a reference to the nearly 14 years that has held the presidency he'll get another 5 years in office if he's reelected on Sunday could it was at the. Back of his hotel Mr tells n.p.r. If this is an authoritarian government remains in power Bolivia will be moving towards dictatorship Marley's his socialist party controls all branches of government and much of the news media he also ignored the results of the 2016 referendum in which voters rejected his bid to change the constitution so he could run for a 4th term instead appealed to the nation's highest court which critics contend is packed with his allies the judges abolished term limits allowing his candidacy to go forward this is. More for the misses says the strong arm tactics to show how far the president is willing to go to remain in power many Bolivians who voted against Morales in the referendum agree with this I would. Most of those who you don't know what I was is with masking the whim of the people and I was this veterinarian Pastore he plans to cast his ballot for Mesa but Mesa a 66 year old historian and centrist politician has his own baggage he was elected vice president in 2002 and became president the next year when his predecessor was forced to resign but may select supporting Congress and faced nationwide protests from people demanding that he nationalize Bolivia's natural gas industry helped lead the demonstrations against Mesa. And. I don't think a lot of with a country paralyzed announced in a televised address that he was resigning after just 18 months in office reminded me of what his presidency was like it was short. Unstable he was unable to manage the company that's Bolivian political analyst going solemn and yet the I think it's remembered he does about government. By contrast what Ali's has brought stability and steady economic growth to Bolivia poverty has been cut by about half since he 1st took office in 2006 and I am our Indian model is also enjoys wide support among the countries indigenous groups who make up more than 40 percent of Bolivia's population will never. Admit that what Alice has done good things for Bolivia and that as the country's 1st indigenous head of state his presidency has been historic Still he insists that rescuing democracy must now be the country's top priority polls show ahead of Mesa his closest rival in a 9 candidate race but to win outright victory in Sunday's 1st round election must garner at least 40 percent of the vote and be Mesa by at least 10 points if not the winner will be decided in a December runoff. For n.p.r. News I'm John Otis in Santa Cruz Bolivia. When Mark Morris was a 6 year old in Seattle he'd stuff his feet into Tupperware juice cups so he could walk on point I guess it worked. He grew up to be a celebrated dancer choreographer director and creator he founded his own company in his twenty's then took over the theater to Monet in Brussels and has gone on to create and collaborate with most of the world's great dancers and companies on signature works that include Gloria Dido anemia as a controversial Nutcracker and falling down stairs with Yo-Yo Ma Mark Morris has written a memoir about dance identity and ingenuity hits flops and Goosen mescaline holiday dinners with Mikhail Baryshnikov off his memoir out loud written with Wesley Stace Mark Morris joins us from New York thanks so much for being with us Oh you bet I'm happy to be here I have to say there's a chilling section in this book when you talk about gym class and. Yeah this is the test oh yeah I have to tell you a very good friend of mine my best friend Isaac Mizrahi I said something a long time ago which was true I told him that you know if it weren't for bullies how would I know I was a sissy but I wasn't interested in sports and I was dancing already from a very young age so to me it was just kind of degrading a little bit humiliating not much fun and you know I didn't like that kind of competition I was an other as people call now but you know everybody's other than everybody else you put this in do your dance junior high didn't you yes I used what was called the sissy test and you know look at your fingernails if you do it a certain way you're a but you're a fan but it turned into a little bit of a look back when I made up a dance based on the quotidian humiliations of junior high school that age that degree of development and that sort of confusion and annoyance that happens. You don't have as you note in the book just just about the most horrible single year. I think could be imagined right. That must have been the fire in our house in a car accident not long after that my father died so that was a lot of horrible things I imagined every airplane flying over head would crash into me directly you know it's like well what about the other 300 people on the plane that didn't occur to me it was just that here I am walking down the street and there's a plane that's it that's my death warrant I wonder and I say this is someone who lost. His father when I was 16 didn't wind up making you really want to make a mark in life. Let's see so of course my father wanted me to go to college and I had no intention of doing that because I was already dancing and I was already a real smarty pants and so you know he wanted me to know how to type to have something to fall back on which everybody wishes for his child so I very very reluctantly learned how to do that but I also learned how to cook and how to very badly sight read playing the piano and how to read and write bad juvenile poetry so I was like I was as opposed to the other kind of juvenile poetry I was always doing sort of what we would term creative ventures you know so I wasn't told that I was not qualified for something or that I wasn't good enough to do it it was like You go ahead and see how it goes and be sure to learn how to type . Are you storing what amounts to a repository of dances that will outlive you oh my yes dances for the future is my answer to the big question of legacy. I choreograph all the time I choreograph whether I have someplace to debut a piece or not so I'm making up dances like I always do which is in the studio with the dancers there notated filmed recorded designed and taught to other people through the age old dance tradition of training younger people and teaching them the moves and so when you leave the company you teach your part to somebody we really rehearsed it but no one sees the finished piece until it's time so I'm hoping to release one a year or so posthumously I imagine for a long time what satisfying about preparing dances you'll never get to see I guess once I finish a dance and release it to the public and we're performing it I'm kind of done for the enjoyment in the creation Yeah when I love watching it like I love watching other people's work too if it's really good any interesting but you know the most exciting part is also very often the most frustrating part trying to finish something or get it just right or get across something that I'm not sure what it is until it happens Mark Morris his memoir. Thanks so much for being with us thanks a lot. You're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. Sexual abuse especially of children is notoriously under reported and experts say that without help survivors can fall into patterns of behavior that land them behind bars one survivor in Nashville is talking about his experiences in the hopes he'll help others. Samantha max of member station p.l.o.n. Accompanied him to a juvenile detention center where he mentors change. Every week Daniel Westbrook's walks through a metal detector and several mock tours to visit teens at Nashville's juvenile detention center we've seen the shuffle of boys in matching polo shirts and slim wants needles joking and chatting like you have no there wasn't anything here for a rare Westbrook's was locked up for a range of minor and serious crimes on and off over the course of nearly 2 decades all the while he was hauling in painful secrets from his past when he was released from jail for the last time in 2015 Westbrook's decided to devote his next chapter to mentoring kids at risk of traveling down the same path I want to believe. You know. God when we all both. Live on the dumb stuff to get through. Westbrook's knows many of the teens in detention have experienced trauma just like he did as a kid he was sexually abused by a close family member that's probably lost or you know slipped. Japanese in my share in a lot of ways what happened to Westbrook's wasn't unique and estimated one in 10 children are sexually abused before their 18th birthday and like Westbrook's 90 percent of them are abused by someone they know evidence suggests that childhood sexual abuse is less common among boys even with heightened awareness about the issue experts say current data likely underestimates the scope of the problem it becomes more complicated for male victims that's Bonnie Bonnie key of Tennessee's Department of Children Services we don't get as many reports for bail victims because often the offender is a male and so if I didn't fight him off if I didn't do what boys are supposed to do . Then everybody's going to think I'm weak you know so later on I'm going to prove that I'm not weak I want people to feel a fear that I used to feel and I know someone big this is overpowered you have no control that's Westbrook's Oh no like what good you get a control if you get a power saw I want to hurt people something changed during his last stint behind bars Westbrook's realized he could use his power to help people after he was released instead of hurting them last winter he was invited to speak at a middle school after he shared his story 2 kids came forward with their own experiences of sexual abuse hearing from an adult survivor can be intensely powerful for a child says Gwen bushy of darkness to light it's a national group that fights child sexual abuse just because you were abused as a child does not doom you to a future that is negatively impacted in some way with evidence based therapy and a caring support system but she says victims can move past their trauma Westbrook's wants to do just that by working with kids in need I need to go back and give me what I had you know I'm saying try to catch some of these kids before it's too late Westbrook says his abuse is still difficult to talk about but to help others he's trying to let himself be vulnerable for n.p.r. News I'm Samantha Manx in Nashville. This is n.p.r. News. She was just 16 years old when she was sentenced to life in prison for killing a much older man who had bought her for sex but a filmmaker activists and celebrities rallied to her defense announcing Toyah Brown is free and telling her story I had always believed that I would be free someday Brown in her own words that and the latest on impeachment and Brax it on the next All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. And that is this afternoon advice I support forever I made a 9 come from Lanny Larson inviting everyone St Paul Catholic Newman center is international food and crafts festival tomorrow a.t.m. 2 pm on Barstow Avenue from bulldog stadium in Fresno festival offers food from 5 continents homemade crabs children's activities entertainment and more information on line at c.s.u. F. Newman dot com Joyal Snyder with these headlines Union leaders are holding meetings today giving striking General Motors workers details of the tentative contract reached this week a vote that could in the strike against g.m. As the to be held to the end of next week tropical storm Nestor is spreading over the Florida panhandle today for cancer's at the National Hurricane Center say Mr is losing strength but heavy rain and storm surge remain a concern duster is expected to move into the Atlantic off North Carolina by late tomorrow and the New York Yankees have extended the American League Championship Series they beat the Houston Astros last night the Astros however still hold a 3 games to 2 edge heading into today's game 6. I'm trial Snider n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Log Me In featuring go to sponsor of the how I built this entrepreneur summit this October in San Francisco go to unified communications and collaboration software brought together more it go to dot com from American Jewish World Service working together for more than 30 years to build a more just and equitable world learn more at a.j. Ws dot au r.j. And from the listeners who support this n.p.r. Station this is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon George r.r. Martin has sold more than 90000000 books around the world he's written all kinds but of course is best known for his ethical fantasy series Song of Ice and Fire which was adapted into H.B.O.'s Game of Thrones his fans are impatient and even demanding for him to finish the next installment of the most recent Dance with Dragons appeared more than 8 years ago. Because he doesn't like to be asked when the next volume will appear George r.r. Martin doesn't do a lot of interviews but I got to speak with him last week on stage when he received the Chicago Public Library Foundation's Carl Sandburg Literary Award Hello Scott hello lead to be here glad to be with you Mr Martin. I want to ask you about your time in in Chicago is that where you learned about. Warren Gein estates and an icy apocalypse. Well the icy apocalypse actually I think had its root in. My freshman year at Northwestern up in Evanston. And I got there in the fall of the 66 think it was early in 67 and they had this incredible snowstorm and a snow was so thick I got lost on this campus that walk every day you can see you can see the buildings you can see 5 feet in front of you the snow was just coming down so heavily and by the time results from Stop that I was on the 1st floor of the windows were completely covered then it froze and it didn't melt for days weeks months it might have been months out remember and they you know we would we would go out to them and Tori and we would be in a trench with walls above our head of of snow when I was like a transform woman and I think that got its fingers into my memory somehow and may have had some influence when I started writing about the war when was for 07 and the men of the Knights one could cry characters that began in a Song of Ice and Fire people have counted 9 became 31 by a Dance with Dragons lips. That contre I don't know I haven't counted them well then how do you keep track of them with increasing difficulty. I often say that there are 2 types of writers architects and gardeners we had an architect. Here who was one of the authors who came up I'm sure that he plans all of his buildings well in advance before you start building them he draws a blueprint and he knows what they're going to be made of and how many stories are going to be where the bathrooms will be and how they'll be heated and what the roof will be made of everything before they even bigger foundation that's the way the architect writers work they plan the novels out in advance what's going to be everywhere every turn every twist and every everything they they have these very detailed outlines and then they're at a gardeners who dig a hole and they plant the seed and they water it in a case of writers with their blood and their tears and their sweat and they hope that something comes up and they have a general idea they know whether they planted an acorn or a tomato plants but there is lots of surprises a budget doesn't come up at all or it comes up and dies sometimes it gets very while and that's me I'm much more a gardener than an architect in a way I'm like Jr Tolkien and others so it's not the most efficient method of writing frequently the characters are Mr sons of bitches and they leave me down some garden path and I suddenly realize I'm at a dead end what it's worth for me all my life so I'm probably going to keep continuing doing it that when you were a conscientious objector during the war in Vietnam I once spent 2 years working here at the county Legal Assistance Foundation as a Vista volunteer after so much violence committed your books like Tolkien like many of the great fantasy stories at heart a Song of Ice and Fire is a war story and I think if you're going to write about war. Whether you're writing about a fictional war for the Iron Throne of West Roche or a struggle against Sauron to preserve the free peoples of Middle Earth or you're writing about World War 2 or you're reading about the American Civil War you already read everything you're not honest if you don't include sex and violence I grew up in a time in the fifty's of fundamentally dishonest presentations of violence on television you know I thought like gun fights in the Old West people grew and then one guy fell down and was dead you know I had no idea of the actual impact will it and do women enter someone's skull or someone's chest. If you're going to write about violence and killing them I think you could present that honestly with all the gore and people screaming for their mother as they die with their entry and spiraling out in the mud so pretty it up and the same thing is true of the sexual violence which is one thing that my books have been sometimes criticized for I've read a lot of history that was my minor in college one journalism with my major. As far as I know every war in human history has included rape just because you include dragons doesn't mean the whole thing should be removed from our human experience that we know about is it difficult to have 90000000 people waiting for your next word yes. Especially because a certain portion of them are really impatient and snarky about it. You know you can get one person who posts 150 messages in 3 days all of which is where is wins a winter. If any would go home and post on your Twitter account hey I was just at the Chicago Public Library Sandburg award dinner and George r.r. Martin was there you know by the 3rd message someone will say well what the hell is he doing there where's Windsor winter. Oh you know at this point it is what it is and you know I should probably leave right now and go back reading when she went. But the fact is I'm if you never wrote another word you'd still be one of the most successful authors in history. In certain by certain parameters Yes but it's it's very important me to finish a Song of Ice and Fire I want to I want to finish it and I still have 2 more books to do and I want to finish it strong so people look at it and say you know this entire thing you say is an important work not a half finished or broken work I know it's some of the more cynical people out there don't believe that but it is true. Thank you very much for being here tonight and. On behalf of 90000000 people get the hell back to work. All right Mr Sri guy George r.r. Martin interviews and thank you so much. We're dedicated to reporting on the arts here at Weekend Edition Here's a taste of tomorrow's coverage they need. Bald. Character Now that's not least respired tune into Weekend Edition Sunday tomorrow to hear about a popular Christian Children's t.v. Series that went bust and is now being brought back to t.v. You can ask your smart speakers to play n.p.r. Or your member station by name. The lighthouse may be a good film for the weekend of a nor'easter it's filled with wind rain and rawness cold coal fire black and white Robert Pattinson or Willem Defoe was to light house keepers who struggle to give storms isolation and maybe their own nightmares later last year. There was. The night. He sure did Robert Eggers directed the film from a script that he wrote with his brother Max Willem Dafoe joins us now from the studios of n.p.r. West thanks so much for being with us. Yes I think at this point in your career you could probably do a James Bond film in Monaco. Well you want to make this film on a cold spit of land in Nova Scotia Oh God that's part of the pleasure I mean. Listen I saw Robert Iger his 1st film The Witch and I thought wow the thing that I responded to some much in the which was his ability to not only capture a period film without pointing at it without overstating it but also he creates a world that's so. Complete and I know he would do it with this juicy lighthouse location. Thomas wait the senior lighthouse keeper you play him he's been whiskered cranky and if I may flatulent and you know who hasn't Well you're right or course but this plays a central role in getting to know your character let me put it that way all right you told us choir Thomas week is me if I was Thomas wake. Right how do I understand that that has a little double talk basically the idea that inside us are all characters and I could be Thomas way it's just if my life would have taken a different path than a different time yeah so these 2 light housekeepers are brought together for 4 weeks of rotten weather and with regard to your character not very bracing food we'll get to that. Ok I was about to. Defend your cooking exactly. But it's like a marriage with nothing going for. There's something. Yeah what happens I mean without giving too much away they don't get relieved you know so basically they're stuck with each other and u.c. All the strategies that people take when they're you know they're kind of stripped of a future and they're challenged by each other and things don't go so well and then you take food away from them and then you start to drink and then the weather gets even worse and interesting things happen but there are lots of moments in the film or a viewer might wonder if it's a real nightmare madness or what. I wonder if you had to know to play your character. Not really characters or video through action and you've got to be there and have things happen to you and try to make things happen what it means for an audience will be many different things and from an actor's point of view if you try to control that too much I think it stifles impulse that stifles your ability to find true behavior and that it makes you somewhere deeply showboat and self-conscious you've got to be free from from that I think and particularly when you're dealing with language that's very elevated when the a big you know jobs is to root it not to make a show out of it to really find the beautiful images and use them as normal speech so that's really the challenge so I'm not thinking of these different modes or these different perceptions that the audience is going to have for me it's all happening perhaps the director has to think of that but I'm not frightening at the Army animal in the French. A lot of people might think your 1st movie was Streets of Fire. But no right well you know I made some little downtown movies before that in this far as a real feature that played in theaters the 1st one was the loveless which was Kathryn Bigelow's 1st feature Cademy Award winning director and we've heard of her now right down but I had been involved in movies among them playing a glorified extra in heaven skate but and I thought I was going to ask you about. Well do I get one question about Heaven's Gate Yes you can you can do 10 if you think that's interesting for you. I wouldn't go that far but I you know it you know I'm I'm sure it's not deserved but it's often considered just about the biggest flop in Hollywood history it's not deserved and I know you had a role that didn't even make it to the screen. That's what I'd like to know that's not quite true yeah so if I were to if I were to download Heaven's Gate I could find you yeah if you had my mother sitting next to you thank you. We're just going to happen because she's been dead for a while. I like to think our mothers are up there together watching Ok on a loop. That's. All my gosh I've heard is are we sure it's heaven if they're over there watching this film over and over although I remember my mother was not a very good woman. So what did you learn from being and have a good. Many things I mean it's hard to say you know I got fired from having to skate for laughing during a lighting setup and its caffeine during a lighting set. We were sitting for 8 hours in a lighting set up and things were very tense because already the movie was running way over and executives who were coming in last thing to me you know you know pick up the pace and not spend so much money and all that so I was very tactile to mean it was the director Yes and we were sitting in the lighting set up and someone next to me told me a joke and I laughed out loud sorry Well yeah. And that's exactly what it was and he was under a lot of pressure he turned around said well I'm stepped out and then once he did that you know I think you heard this on a boat. From all my colleagues and they just said Ok you're finished and I said what happened they said nothing your character is finished. So what did you learn aside from Don't know don't laugh during the life. That's probably the most important thing I learned it was a wake up to studio film I can which I've had good experiences with. Do you know that there is one line you what are in this film that's old already halfway to being iconic. I think I might know it doesn't have to do with cooking Yes Ok. Yes it's pretty good it's good but I guess we shouldn't be people should have to pay the price of admission to hear it absolutely . So I can't get you to say here no I can't that. You do it all right but let me try to Ok yeah yeah I find I'm a lobster. All right I think a job. Well I did my best all right you did well and I didn't I didn't laughter in the lady. Well I'm defo he stars alongside Robert Pattinson in the lighthouse Hey thanks very much for being with us thank you very much for being with us Mr tie. Up me a. Little over to. Me. Make. Me a. Hole there and that's. Me hearties This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Drexel University recognizing 100 years of a cooperative education program that prepares students to address the challenges of a changing world more at Drexel dot edu slash ambition can't wait and from Weston hotels and resorts offering a range of wellness options for guests including their well menu on demand fitness gear lending program and signature Heavenly Bed learn more at Weston dot com a member of Marriott Bon boy. 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Troops from Syria has been contained Barbara publicans and Democrats are Democrats running for president have different foreign policy ideas also is Russia already rolling into the Middle East the World Series the Washington Nationals will have to wait a little longer to find out who they play and is Britain wrestled with Bragg's it one of our most eminent writers has a new novel that touches that nerve John Le Carre my great concern at the moment is that the 27 nations of Europe will lose then. As we come up to the deadline for BRICs and 1st our news cast of Saturday October 19th 2019. From n.p.r. News in Washington Barbara Kline British Prime Minister bars Johnson's revised brags that deal that he reached with the e.u. This week is in limbo the British parliament today failed to approve it passing instead an amendment that requires Johnson to go back to the e.u. And ask for a 3 month delay to avoid a no deal Brax it Johnson denies the law requires him to do that and he's insisting he won't the United Auto Workers union is holding member meetings today to answer questions about a tentative contract agreement with General Motors Scott poll of member station. Reports g.m. And u.a.w. Leaders say the tentative 4 year contract calls for bonuses of $11000.00 to go to fully vested employees when the contract is ratified temporary workers would get $4500.00 bonuses the deal also calls for 4 percent lump sum payments in years one and 3 and 3 percent pay hikes in the other years the ratification vote will run through October 25th the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are holding their annual meetings this weekend Steve Bechler reports members are trying to bridge differences over the impact of trade wars uppermost on the minds of the world's economic policy makers will be the trade frictions that have been roiling financial markets and dimming the global economic outlook Minissha has been in the forefront of u.s. Efforts to reduce its huge trade deficit with China and will likely bear the brunt of criticism of trade policy toward China and other i.m.f. Member countries his consistent retort has been that China needs to open its markets and respect intellectual property rights but meanwhile the i.m.f. Has slashed its forecast of global growth largely because tariff wars every day.