Getting out of and most wars the Pentagon chief said the plan is still in the discussion phase and has not yet been presented it Trump who has repeatedly said the Islamic State has been defeated this withdrawal will take weeks not days until that time our forces will remain in the towns that are located near the oil fields the purpose of those forces a purpose of those forces working with the s.d.f. Is to deny access to those oil fields by ISIS and others who may benefit from their revenues that could be earned esper emphasise the proposal to leave a small number of troops in eastern Syria was intended to give the president maneuver room and wasn't final the acting defense secretary spoke at a news conference in Afghanistan before heading to Saudi Arabia saying there had been no decisions with regards to numbers or anything like that still the fact that such a plan was under consideration was another sign the administration was still reversing as much as possible of Trump's decision to get out of Syria amid fears criticism of the president's abrupt pullback of u.s. Forces which essentially cleared the way for Turkey's military invasion into the border region to push back the American allied Kurdish forces and White House officials said that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham had raised the issue of keeping u.s. Forces in eastern Syria to protect the oil fields and that trump supported the idea at the White House today Trump said that he still wants to get all u.s. Troops out of Syria but needs to secure the oil in one part of the country while Israel and Jordan had asked him to keep some forces in another part. We secured the oil and here remember I didn't want to go into Iraq I was a civilian so I had a power over it but I always was thinking against going into Iraq was. Going to say . But I would say if you're going to keep the. Same thing if you feel you want to keep. And we'll work something out that occurred so that they have some money they have some cash flow made one get one of our big oil companies to go in and do it properly. Secretary Defense espers said the main goal of leaving some troops around the oil fields would be to make sure the Islamic state doesn't gain control of the revenue they generate As percent American troops around Kabbani are withdrawing and that the u.s. Is maintaining combat air patrol over u.s. Forces in Syria as the withdrawal goes on he said the u.s. Is using overhead surveillance to try to monitor the recently negotiated cease fire as best we can while Trump is it says that he's bringing home Americans from endless wars in the Mideast esper said all u.s. Troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the American military will continue operations against the Islamic state and support told reporters over the weekend that the fight in Syria against the Islamic state one spearheaded by American allied Syrian Kurds who have been cast aside by Trump Trump declared this past week that Washington had no stake in defending the Kurdish fighters who died by the thousands as America's partners fight against it in Syria against extremists he repeated that view in a cabinet meeting today we have the courage and we never gave the courage a commitment that we'd stay for the 400 years of protection and they've been fighting with the Turks for 300 years that people know of. And nobody ever committed Gee if you do this we're going to do that we're going to stay with you for. Nobody ever said that Trump's pull out largely abandons America's Kurdish allies who have fought the eye as alongside u.s. Troops for several years between 20300 u.s. Troops will remain at the southern Syria out POI's out 10th but it's not the 1st time that the United States instead of the Kurds in the bank president Woodrow Wilson was among the world leaders who promised the Kurds and national home following the break up of the Ottoman Turkish Empire at the end of World War One instead the Kurds were divided in between Iran and Iraq and Turkey and Syria then in 1991 President George w. Bush offered military support for the Kurds in Iraq if they rose up against Saddam Hussein before reneging on that deal one cold as the Mideast scholar at the University of Michigan where he's a professor of history he spoke with Philip malty at the Sunday show where we're seeing this as you say over and over what's occurred and goes back beyond Bush Sr to Nixon and Kissinger mobilized the Kurds in northern Iraq against the government in Baghdad and the early seventy's and then when and deployed to Iraq and also to get the Kurdish insurrection support when Iraq and Iran made a agreement with one another and settled their differences for a while in $1705.00 at all clear Kissinger wrote a letter which expressed regret but they were just going to have to drop the Kurds . So you know this is something has happened over and over again I Kurds. In a crucial nationalists. Really have no friends because fish fish keep their aspirations they would break up 5 countries and virtually nobody wants. I would have to say that Kurdish Nash. Was also have a little bit of an unrealistic view of reality 1st of all they're never you know they were there wasn't really a Kurdish state and they were already. Here on and so for them had been ruled by by Tehran and Baghdad for a very long time and so it wasn't that their country was taken away from them but they aspire to a country which really hasn't existed they have. In Syria the most egregious thing is that the Arab nationalist government. Early sixty's took away citizenship from the Kurds because they're not Arabs and. So they were living in Syria but they were not just 2nd class citizens many of them were not citizens at all. And so it's not surprising that in 2011 but. The Syrian revolution started the Kurds just drew up themselves into an autonomous self-governed region and they put into practice the prince of post that they had adopted from Brooklyn social clearest an ecologist Murray book. Trying to fight capitalism by establishing from the ground up cooperatives that were crowded out so. Last that government went to the. Summer of 2011 and said no we want you back we'll give you citizenship in the course I was 'd too late so they they had genuine grievances and Syria many people say that they were treated worse than Palestinian refugees in Syria. And so it's no surprise that they took this course and then when I saw the rows in eastern Syria it was predatory towards them it kept. Actually there territory as wretched in Goodell's because they were left because they're not going far right wing Muslims. And I think you know it has to be said that they're willing to take on ice so to get us or in doing so not completely out of the list they were at threat of being cleansed by. Many scholars professor one called the University of Michigan author of many books including engaging the Muslim world and Mohammad prophet of peace and Myriad the claims of empires. The group Save the Children says 70000 children have been displaced since the start of the Turkish cross border offensive against the Kurds in northeastern Syria the United Nations is said more than 176000 people in all have been uprooted a senior Kurdish official said his forces are complying with the u.s. Brokered pause in the fighting and are completing withdrawal of Kurdish forces from along a section of the Syrian border with Turkey the official call for an international mechanism to protect Kurdish residents who want to stay in their towns after Kurdish fighters withdraw most civilians have fled fearing revenge or repression from Turkish backed forces Turkey said it wants to return Syrian refugees to the evacuated areas that raises concerns over changing the demographic demographic makeup of the area Turkish president recip Tayyip Erdogan responded angrily to widespread criticism of Turkey's cross border offensive you see them so I think. We have paused our offensive in northern parts of Syria for 120 hours that's why this isn't a crucial time those 120 hours are nearly over tomorrow I will travel to associate to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks and. After that will take the necessary steps. Erwan is on his way to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the next steps after the u.s. Brokered cease fire is scheduled to expire Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov but those political theater on which the dialogue is necessary between the Kurds and Damascus supports and of course dialogue between Turkey and Syria is necessary and which we are also prepared to play a role playing kerching such direct contacts. Russia intends to play a mediating role in the crisis President Trump dropped plans to hold the international g. 7 summit is as Florida's gulf resort acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Fox News that trump realized it looks Lansley to steer business to his own property but he wanted to put. On the absolute best show at the end of the day you know he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business and he saw an opportunity to take the biggest leaders from around the world he want to put on the absolute best show the best visit that he possibly could he was very come from doing that drown and I think we're all surprised the level of pushback. Trump backtracked after facing accusations that he was using the presidency to enrich himself by hosting the international summit at the private resort owned by his family Trump tweeted that is reversal was based on quote both media and Democrat crazed and irrational hostility the New York Times reported that the reversal came after a group of Republican lawmakers meeting with move any told him Trump should abandon the plan that was a deal when doors by former Republican New Jersey governor and longtime Trump friend Chris Christie he spoke to a.b.c. They should have been on the 1st place and could move to get out of it and get that out of the papers and off the news as lots of other things that the present is me focused on and I know he loves his properties and he loves having people to his properties and he loves showing off those properties I understand all that but this just was an unforced error and I'm glad that they fixed it they got to move on that speaking during during a cabinet meeting today Trump said it would have been the greatest g. 7 ever have held it is Durrell resort outside Miami calling constitutional concerns about his profiting from his office phony. It would have been great but the Democrats one crazy even I would have done a free save the country a lot of money then they say Oh but you'll get promotion kid you don't think I get enough from Russia I get more from Russian than any human being that's ever lived. I don't think you people are just phony of my human flaws and by the way. I would say that it's cost me anywhere from $2.00 to $5000000000.00 Today President and that's Ok between what I lose and what I could have that I would have made a fortune if I just ran my business I was doing it really well on the House floor Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen who serves on the Judiciary Committee and is a long time supporter of and peaching Trump rebuked him for his remarks about the Emoluments Clause of the Us Constitution I take umbrage at his remarks there's nothing funny about you Miles cause impeachments cause article one Congress has powers or separation of of the different branches to 3 branches of government I respect the Constitution I wish the president would as well Tennessee Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen here listening to the evening isn't k.p.s. They Brickley K.V.'s Caylus Angeles K.F.C.'s Fresno online at k p f a dot org broadcasting from k p f a and Berkeley and Mark Americal with next Pringle former Ohio governor who ran against John Casey that is who ran against President Trump in the 2016 Republican primary says he does support he supports impeaching the president but he said he isn't quite ready yet to call for his removal from office case except he decided to back impeachment after hearing Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged last week that Trump's decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine was linked to his demand that Ukraine investigate the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 u.s. Presidential campaign while many later claimed his remarks were misconstrued it marked a reversal for cases who previously said he hadn't seen evidence of a quid pro quo on Trump's part Casey told c.n.n. That Trump's recent behavior is impeachable the issue of impeachment is really big to me. And what I heard what Mulvaney said the chief of staff the president to push push me really are across the Rubicon and I'll tell you why withholding military aid vital military aid to a nation like Ukraine which has Russian troops inside its territory that's threatened all the time that withholding it so that a political operation can take place investigate this thing around the server that we're going to withhold the aid until you do that to me it's it's totally inappropriate it's an abuse of power and another sign of the predicament facing President Trump his long time ally South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said in an interview that aired Sunday night that he could not rule out the possibility of impeachment if new evidence emerges authorities in southern California say a supporter of Donald Trump was arrested after spring bear Republican small crowd protesting the president at the Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica Police say pro and anti Trump demonstrators were shouting at each other on Saturday when a scuffle broke out a video posted online shows a man wearing a Make America Great Again hat circling the ground and then unleashing a torrent of spray from a canister officials say nobody was seriously hurt by the Republic which is the Millers the pepper sprays used by police the Los Angeles Times reports that there were these arrests that a man who could face charges including violating the terms of his parole from a previous weapons a violation. A new report says federal employees overseeing u.s. Public lands were assaulted or threatened at least $360.00 times over a 5 year period marked by heightened tensions when anti-government groups report. Includes the 6 week armed occupation of the federal wildlife refuge in Oregon in 2016 and another standoff with armed protesters in Montana and Nevada the g.a.o. a Government Accountability Office report catalogued incidents ranging from threatening phone calls to the stabbing of a Bureau of Land Management worker outside a federal building some of the assaults triggered f.b.i. Domestic terrorism investigations although the precise number was not disclosed because it's considered sensitive information the security review was requested by the Democratic chair of the u.s. House Natural Resources Committee Representative Raul Grijalva Raul the said the findings underscore growing concerns over the safety of government workers on public lands the Arizona Democrat also criticized the trumpet ministrations appointment of Bureau of Land Management acting director William Perry Pendley who has expressed support for Nevada rancher Clive Bundy Bundy's family played central roles in a 2014 standoff over grazing fees and a value on the 26000 occupation of Oregon's Mellish here National Wildlife Refuge making a fall here a lot of Bundy has set a dangerous precedent Graal the said and ease is building around William Perry penned leads role as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management Eric take it off as that story Penley has been under fire for advocating the federal sell off of public lands as recently as in a 2016 are bad and his part in the land seizure movement touted by the Bundy family and others now he's human is an Idaho ambassador for Artemis an initiative to promote women as hunters anglers and conservationists considering Penley is in charge of one 3rd of the country's public lands human sees him as a threat to the Western way of life you've heard a lot of analogous about it but. You know even started a picnic back here right now. We basically put a person in charge of a public land entity that it is completely against everything that it's about and it's a huge conflict of interest Penley has been a temporary b.l.m. Director says August and has yet to go before the Senate to be confirmed for the position raising legal questions about his role in his defense at an environmental journalism conference this month Penley says his personal views are irrelevant and that he serves the president and his boss interior secretary David Bernhardt Bernhardt is a former oil and gas lobbyist human things Penley has long list of refusals make it hard for him to do his job at all and as an attorney Penley has recused himself from matters related to nearly 60 former clients many of them extraction companies with stakes in laws and regulations on public lands Penley also is overseeing the reorganization and headquarters relocation of the b.l.m. a Move human and many environmental groups see as a way to weaken the agency they're going to during the b.l.m. And make it look like shit all and that it's not working and they're going to get that and the justification plant and then everybody who use of them or rich whatever are not going to have that act anymore that we've always had and that's really unfortunate because that's one of the things that make America a unique the Idaho Wildlife Federation joined others in sending a letter to Congress demanding that Penley be removed and oversight hearings be held on the b.l.s. Restructuring the trial that ministration has extended families contracts through the end of the year after nearly 3 years in office Trump is yet to nominate a permanent director for the agency for public news service I'm Eric take it off. Britain faced another week of grinding political gridlock after lawmakers denied prime minister Boris Johnson a chance today to schedule a vote on his breakfast divorce bill with just 10 days before Britain's scheduled departure date Johnson's government had sought a straight up and down vote on the agreement he struck last week with the 27 other even nations over the terms of Britain's exit but the speaker of the House of Commons John Burke refused to allow it because lawmakers voted to delay approving the Bracks deal on Saturday and parliamentary rules bar the same measure from being considered a 2nd time during a session of parliament unless something is changed because ruling plunged the torturous torturous Breck's it process back into grimly familiar territory government must now try to implement its plan b. Attempt to pass a Bracks implementing bill through Britain's fractious Parliament before the country is scheduled October 31st departure date on Saturday Parliament's 1st weekend sitting since the 1982 faultlines war lawmakers voted to make support for the Bracks a deal conditional on passing the legislation to implemented chance and Conservative government will now try to do that the government published the $115.00 page bill late Monday and it will hold the 1st vote on it tomorrow and hopes to have it become law by October 31st but it's unclear whether Johnson hands either the time or the numbers to make that happen reporter Natalie Powell has more from London instead of a straightforward yes or no vote on the breaks that deal bars Johnson secured with the e.u. The prime minister is now likely to have to bring for debate something called the withdrawal agreement a bill which is a package of all the laws the u.k. Needs to bring in to exit the e.u. Their own concerns the contents of this bill could lose far as Johnson support. This M.P.'s could try to attach amendments to it which could then change the course of his breaks that deal and possibly make it a softer breaks it all even that M.P.'s could try to attach a confirmatory referendum to the deal all of this because parliamentary rules state a motion cannot be brought back twice and it was ruled that that motion had been brought on Saturday despite the votes being thwarted by an amendment that rendered it meaningless in the words of the government not only Powell London Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced he would support early elections of protesters want them there were a spoken to the Lebanese cabinet approved sweeping reforms that leaders hope will appease hundreds of thousands of people who have been protesting for days calling on Hariri Rees government to resign Hariri acknowledged the protesters marred that's awful written by a McCarthy or the cabinet approved the 2020 budget with a deficit of 0.6 percent with no new taxes the salaries of top officials including legislators and members of parliament will be cut in half as part of the economic reform package the Central Bank and the banking sector will help in reducing the deficit by about 3400000000 the decisions that we have taken might not to fill your demands but they fulfill what I have been calling for I will not allow anyone to scare you and it's the government's duty to protect your peaceful demands. Curry told reporters after an emergency government meeting the cabinet approved the 2020 budget with no new taxes he said that the salaries of top officials including lawmakers and members of parliament would be cut in half the cabinet also approved abolishing several state institutions including the Ministry of Information in the government will also give millions of dollars to families living in poverty as well as. $160000000.00 as housing loans many protesters say they don't trust any plan by the current government they have called on the 30 member cabinet to resign and to be replaced by a smaller one made up of technocrats instead of members of political factions based on religion protesters spoke to Al Jazeera people of no faith. And they are I have no faith and no one got to have. A minister and on Even easily live together I think that's fascinating. Earlier protesters closed a major roads around Lebanon ahead of the emergency cabinet meeting demonstrators place barriers across major intersections and Beirut as well as other cities and towns across the country schools universities banks and government institutions remained shuttered as the country's gripped by the largest protests since the so-called Cedar Revolution nearly 15 years ago amid the under arrest Lebanese troops or deployed on the main road to the palace today to clear the way for Hariri and government ministers. More protests continue to roil Chile today despite a gun. Curfew against the demonstrations that have killed at least 11 people in the South American nation police used tear gas and water cannon to break up the March by hundreds of students and union members on one of the Capitol Santiago's main streets but protesters later recruit elsewhere several business does closed over a weekend in which dozens of stores were looted or burned some 2000000 students were forced to stay home from classes and many people were unable to reach jobs conservative president Sebastiaan Pinera said Sunday night that the country is quote at war with people willing to use violence he didn't identify a specific enemy the un Rast was triggered by a relatively minor increase in subway fares of less than 4 percent but analysts said the protests are fed by frustration from a long building sense by many Chileans economic inequality is increasing the. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau face the threat of being knocked from power after one term as the nation held parliamentary elections today the 47 year old tradition of the star power of his father the liberal icon and late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau when he won in 2015 but a combination of scandal and high expectations that damaged his prospects polls indicate Trudeau's Liberal party could lose to the rival conservatives or perhaps win but still failed to get a majority of seats in parliament and have to rely on an opposition party to remain in power in 84 years as the 1st term Canadian prime minister with a parliamentary majority lost a bid for reelection Rachel Silverman reports that both camps are bitter contests dominated by scandal and personal attacks polls show Justin Trudeau the Liberal Party in a dead heat away. Andrew shares conservatives if neither party wins a parliamentary majority the next Canadian government will need the support of smaller 3rd parties like the new Democratic Party or the Bloc came back Chua to stay in power Rachel's Overman San Francisco Justin Trudeau reasserted liberalism in 2015 after almost 10 years of Conservative Party government in Canada but he is one of the few remaining progress of leaders left in the world he's been viewed as the beacon for liberals in the Trump era even appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine under the headline Why can't he be our president perhaps sensing truth I was in trouble Barack Obama made an unprecedented endorsement by a former American president and urging Canadians to reelect Trudeau saying The world needs his progressive leadership now a Canadian pollster Nick Mann us is calling today's parliamentary election a coin toss or from reporters Simon marks prime minister Justin Trudeau is fighting for his political life after his campaign was Polacks to few weeks ago by the so-called black face scandal previously undisclosed images of a young Justin Trudeau wearing blackface were made public and his liberal policy has struggled to write the campaign ever since his opponent is Conservative Party leader Andrew Shia analyst Jim Lin's a with the Council on Foreign Relations says it's been a brutal campaign to see how it shakes out but obviously things don't look optimistic for Prime Minister should out his opponent Mr shares run a campaign that has been surprisingly personal and in recent debate candidates here said something let me quote here directly he said quote Justin Trudeau only pretends to stand up for Canada you know he's very good at pretending things he can't even remember how many times he put black. He saw it because of the fact of the matter is he's always wearing a mask he then turned to the prime minister and said quote You are a phony and you are a fraud and you not deserve to govern this country let me give you some sense of the tenor of the election all 337 seats in the Canadian parliament are up for grabs in a 1st past the post-election modeled on the British political system with fs and spotlight I'm Simon Vox Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today he has ended his quest to form a new governing coalition it's a step that pushes the country into a new political uncertainty Netanyahu fell short of securing a 61 seat parliamentary majority in last month's election but President Ruben Rivlin gave Netanyahu the 1st opportunity to form a government because with 55 seats he had more support than any other candidate Rivlin says he will now give Netanyahu who's chief rival former military chief Benny Gantz chance to form a government there Gantz does not appear to have enough support either Afghans fails Israel could hold its 3rd election and less than one year. You're listening to the evening news on k p f a Berkeley k p f k Los Angeles K.F.C.'s Fresno online at keeping a dot org This is an hour long news cast without commercial interruption sprog as each night at 6 is half hour edition of the evening news on the weekends and you can listen to the newscast whenever you like for as long as you like it's archived online at k p f a dot org And Mark Maracle with Max Pringle broadcasting from k p f a in Berkeley California the trumpet ministration is proposing a rule to collect d.n.a. From immigrants in federal custody immigrants rights. Civil liberties advocates are blasting the move but one bioethicist says the rule might not really mark a big change from current law Christopher Martinez reports the trumpet ministration is about to publish a new rule that could dramatically expand the collection of d.n.a. From Anna Grant detainees what the proposal would really mean in practice is up for debate I think it's largely a political stunt Hank Greely is a law professor at Stanford where he directs the Stanford Center for Law and the Bio Sciences He says Congress gave the federal government the power to collect d.n.a. From immigrants detained in the u.s. Back in 2005 but it also gave the option to not collected d.n.a. If it was not cost effective neither the Bush administration or the Obama administration ever wanted to apply that to people detained at the border because it wasn't cost effective very few of them would actually have had any criminal record in the u.s. Or any criminal behavior in the u.s. Or have even been in the u.s. And so just wasn't worth it I think a cost benefit issues haven't changed into the trap administration but this is something relatively easy for the administration to do to say see we're get into whatever gets the earlier law gave the secretary of homeland security the ability to create an exemption if d.n.a. Collection is not operationally feasible or because of limited resources so new rule would take that power from the d.h. As secretary and give it to the attorney general clearly does not see that is a big change if the administration wanted to do this all they had to do was to instruct the secretary of homeland security not to ask for the opt out. As far as I can tell there's no need to pass this regulation other than to be evidence that were plain tough on immigrants the proposed rule has sparked opposition from many advocacy groups and in a written statement a.c.l.u. Attorney Vera item and wrote this kind of mass collection alters the purpose of d.n.a. Collection from one of criminal investigation to population surveillance which is contrary to our basic notions of freedom and autonomy the science journal Nature has published an article on the subject under the title scientists concerned over u.s. Plans to collect d.n.a. From immigrants Professor Greeley says that issue has come up before any time that you're collecting d.n.a. Dedication information it raises a ticklish issues of autonomy about privacy and so on. Every extension has done that it was originally done only for people convicted of rape and murder and then people convicted of all felonies and then people convicted of some misdemeanors and now it's people churched with all felonies and most states and at the federal level. Every extension has infringed on the freedoms of the people. There is I think no good clean line of how far is too for under the new rule d.n.a. Would be collected from and they're going to Cheney's and sent to the F.B.I.'s d.n.a. Database the combined index data system commonly known as codice the d.n.a. Samples would include information that could be used to identify a person but not information about other traits like health status and other d.n.a. Database itself when it's limited to identifying information is not inherently a bad thing if you can trust those limits to be kept at the Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency or ice has already used a pilot d.n.a. Collection program called Operation Double Helix to try to ferret out alleged. False claims of family relationships among immigrants at the border critics of the new rule fair massive d.n.a. Program for all immigrant detainees could lead to a math trove of biometric data that could be misused and there could well be a legal challenge to the proposal but clearly says the challenge might not be easy there could be a constitutional challenge. I think it would be a difficult challenge to make it would've been a difficult challenge to make 5 years ago with the current composition of the court I think the challenge has probably gotten even harder the proposed rule is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register Tuesday followed by a 20 day comment period Meanwhile President Donald Trump is considering how to fill the vacant position of secretary of Homeland Security an appointment that will be his 5th d.h. As secretary in 3 years reporting for Pacifica Radio news Kate p.f.a. Christopher Martinez California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he's pardoning 3 more immigrants facing possible deportation isn't latest move continues the string of such actions that challenge the trouble but as straight as crackdown on immigrants who committed crimes in some cases decades ago as teenagers who swims office said the 3 facing deportation made bad decisions while breaking the law as teens or young adults but they served their sentences and transformed their lives His office said deporting them now would be an unjust collateral consequence harming their families and communities the 3 are from Iran El Salvador and Cambodia all now live in Los Angeles County. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was at u.c. Berkeley's law school today to discuss her career and several important issues in the country Ginsburg came to honor the memory of her friend and former Berkeley Law School Professor Herman Hill Kay who passed away 2 years ago Ginsburg was in conversation. With u.c. Berkeley Law Professor Amanda Tyler Tyler started by asking Ginsburg the question on everyone's mind her health now as everyone knows you have recently had your 4th bout with cancer so I have to ask how are you compared to how I was 6 months ago there. On the. Ginsburg is 86 and has beaten cancer 4 times in fact she was treated for pancreatic cancer just a few months ago today's events as part of a nationwide a university tour by Ginsburg some of her supporters fear for her longevity if she leaves the Supreme Court before the next elections President Trump in the Republican controlled Senate would have the opportunity to fill her see Ginsburg is only the 2nd woman to be appointed to supreme the Supreme Court after Sandra Day O'Connor Ginsburg is well known for her advocacy for gender equality issues in this 70. Mission was to get me to be explicit can be the case. And it's hard to get that. Is one time she's fine. More than 1600 students and faculty were reportedly in attendance. As the Gas and Electric says it will consider imposing another power outage for wildfire prevention purposes this week last night p.g. Niece said it had activated its emergency operation center to monitor what it describes as they potentially strong and dry offshore wind event on Wednesday and Thursday b. Cheney said its meteorological an operations teams will actively monitor the weather system that could affect portions of the Sierra foothills and the North Bay p.g. And e. Said portions of 17th year foothills the North Bay counties could be affected including Lake Moran Mendocino Napa Solano and Sun gnomic counties p.g. And e. Said if it proceeds with a power outage the affected area would be significantly smaller than the estimated 2000000 people affected 2 weeks ago today was the deadline for Californians The file a claim against p.g. And e. For damages suffered in previous wildfires attorneys filed court papers on Friday to ask the bankruptcy judge to extend the deadline p.g. And E.'s in bankruptcy court they said as many as $70000.00 wild fire survivors weren't aware of their rights to file a claim attorney said renters and low income people were simply too exhausted by their day to day circumstances to deal with it. Oh hi Owens who want voters to decide the future of nuclear power in the state will soon know if their efforts were fewer fruitful today is the deadline for opponents of House Bill 6 to submit the signatures needed to get a referendum on Ohio's a new clean energy law on the November 2020 ballot Mary Sherman reports the controversial law was signed into law in July and includes new fees and electric bills that would keep 2 1st Energy Nuclear plants open Melissa English with an opposition group Ohio consumers power alliance says petitioner's spent the weekend in an all out blitz to reach as many voters as possible informed and engaged citizens are the best possible hedges of abuses of government corporate power and that's what this is about this has been a long ugly fight program of course is understand that the Iowans get a chance to vote on it they're going to vote it down opponents still are awaiting a federal court decision on their request for an additional 90 days to collect signatures they contend it took too long for the Ohio attorney general's office to approve petition language and that a pre-registration requirement allowed pro bailout groups to target petitioners Meanwhile 1st Energy Solutions is asking the Supreme Court to block the referendum claiming that because it is a tax it cannot be legally overturned through referendum the referendum campaign spurred an all out war between opposing sides prob a lot of groups ran t.v. Ads claiming the Chinese government is behind the referendum and allegedly circulated an alternative informal petition English contends there's even been physical intimidation blockers assaulting Titian or and probe a lot of forces in the lockers were actually offering to poor people to not turn in their petition and to leave the state never seen the like in 30 years of organizing generation now a group that hired petition bloggers released a statement saying it would not tolerate a legal tactics and noted one staffer was fired after documented misbehavior. Attorney General Dave Yost is investigating reports of intimidation around the campaign and encourages any such behavior to be reported for a public news service I nary Sherman this story was produced in association with me in the public interest and funded in part by the Georgetown foundation. Here listening to the Pacifica evening news broadcasting from k p f a in Berkeley also on k f c f in Fresno k p s k in Los Angeles with Max Pringle and Mark Merkel. Everyone this is Brian I were to take that on cat Burke's weekday mornings we host up front 2 hours a conversation about what's in the news and what should be politics technology presence police what's happening in city hall and at the State House in Washington and in the streets that's starting at 7 am right after Democracy Now on up for. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors a land use committee is debating a new affordable housing ordinance at this hour that would fund affordable housing programs by increasing a fee on new development Scott Barber reports lawmakers affordable housing advocates and city residents gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Monday in advance of a vote before the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee in support of the so-called housing our workers legislation the ordinance sponsored by supervisor Matt Haney aims to generate $500000000.00 for new affordable housing by increasing the impact fees assessed on construction of large scale office buildings Fernando Marques he is the co-director of the Council of community housing organisations a nonprofit coalition of affordable housing advocates he says very little of new housing in the city benefits middle and low income residents what we've found is that at least a 3rd of the workers in the new jobs that are being created in San Francisco cannot afford the most. Basic housing in the city so basically it's it's a fee that would go to building more affordable housing for those workers San Francisco already charges developers a fee to mitigate large scale impacts of new construction projects that includes things like be increased burden that may be created by a new office building on the city's transit or utility systems this ordinance would update the impact fee to charge office building developers an impact fee based on how much increased housing burden the offices would put on the city if it goes into effect the ordinance would raise the current fee for most new commercial spaces from around $30.00 per square foot to almost $70.00 per square foot supervisor Haney says his proposed ordinance is an important step in the fight to keep San Francisco affordable we are here with a very simple message which is that San Francisco should be for everyone if you work here you should be over the live here or even if you're a you're retired or you're a senior or you're not able to work you should also be able to live here and the legislation that we've put forward today I'm with my co-sponsors supervisors my. Ronin Paskin And Walton would take a huge step in order to ensure that's the case and he says that it is just common sense to tie housing development to commercial construction at the end of the day this is just good planning this just makes sense if you are going to build lots of new developments office developments if you're going to create a ton of new jobs let's make sure we are investing in the housing for people who need to live here people are going to be impacted by those developments and that's what we're doing here he says that in the past decade San Francisco has only built one unit of housing for every 8.5 jobs created. A recent City analysts report says that a vast majority of that new housing has been high in the market rate units. The Board of Supervisors budget and legislative analyst. Also said that for almost every job paying $118000.00 per year or more created in this city an equal number of lower middle income positions were generated supervisor Gordon Morris said that the number of high in development in the city outweighed the amount of middle and lower income developments in the city was suffering as a result even though low wage job growth goes hand in hand with high income job growth in our city we're seeing a lot of in working class households in San Francisco Nearly 25 percent decline in the last decade we are seeing increased traffic congestion and lower quality of life as working class households are displaced further further from their communities and places of work we need to address our increasingly severe shortage of housing that is affordable to the growing workforce of low and moderate income workers the status quo is not working if passed in the Land Use Committee the ordinance will go before the full board sometime in the coming weeks. In San Francisco I'm Scott Pacifica Radio Ok p.f.a. . Proponents may start collecting signatures this week on a split roll property tax and initiative to appear on next year's state November ballot the measure would reform a key provision of Proposition 13 the landmark 1978 and they should've kept property taxes slashing state revenues and saddling school districts was shrinking budgets California's schools and communities 1st ballot initiative would maintain the current property tax system for homeowners but hike property taxes for large businesses supporters of the new initiative estimate that more than $11000000000.00 a year would be restored for public schools community colleges health clinics and other vital services supporters of the measure say that since the passage of Proposition 13 the proportion of property taxes paid by. Homeowners has risen dramatically the reporting paid by commercial property has declined as because individual homes change hands more frequently and commercial owners in some cases are able to take advantage of loopholes to avoid reassessment when their property changes hands and China is asking the World Trade Organization for the right to impose $2400000000.00 in annual penalties on the United States and a case over Chinese subsidies that date back years a document published today showed China has called for the matter to be considered by the World Trade Organizations dispute settlement body next Monday the matter would be referred to a w.t.f. Arbitrator if the Us objects to the amount China proposes to request him from a July w t o appellate decision in a case dating to before the Trump administration and unrelated to the tariffs it slapped on Chinese goods Washington criticized that decision which had said recognizes that China uses state owned enterprises to subsidize and distort account to me but contends the u.s. Most use what it called distorted Chinese prices to measure subsidies Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange has appeared in a British court to fight extradition to the u.s. On espionage charges he lost a bid to delay proceedings so that is a legal team would have more time to prepare his case as funds raised a fist as the porters are jammed the public gallery the full extradition still set for a 5 day hearing in late February Asuncion said today he didn't understand the events in court he said the case is not equitable because the us government has unlimited resources while he doesn't have easy access to his lawyers or to documents while he is confined to prison on the outskirts of London his lawyer told the judge that more time was needed to prepare a defense. Because the case has many facets quoting the very rare use of espionage charges against a journalist. About 4000 environmental advocates attended the 30th annual by any risk conference held this weekend in San Rafael and his Carla West reports creating a greener and more just world was the theme you know Simon says pioneers co-founder and chief relationship strategist she calls Pioneers a convergence of people to strategize a new world with ideas inspired by nature Simon says the convergence has always had strong participation from youth and to Genesis and international activists but it has increased over the years this year is the 30th anniversary and Simon says women's leadership is most important right now women and I deep feminine are what has the greatest capacity to lead us through the cave and as women are shedding our own voices of limitation and conditions keeping ourselves small boy are coming out and I tremendous way and our connections to the earth and each other are what strengthens us. And what I think clearly has the capacity to help made our movements together and help change these trying patterns that seem intractable or not if we are determined enough and fierce enough and passionate and I believe we are one of the keynote speakers at Bioneers with Lopez who is the executive director of Amazon Watch She says there is no solution to the climate crisis if we destroy the Amazon and other large 4 as what she calls the lungs of the earth Salazar Lopez says corporations have been burning the Amazon for cattle grazing and to grow soya and corn to feed animals it's agribusiness traders trading commodities like so. Corn and the primary reason to grow those commodities is to feed animals for animal feed and the majority of those commodities are used in Brazil to feed these animals and or they are shipped to erupt India and China and what the indigenous movement of prison is saying is these are high risk commodities that should not be should not be treated and any company and any country that is doing that will be targeted last week indigenous people from Brazil went to Europe on a 6 week tour there set to visit 20 countries to lobby corporations and governments to not trade and hire commodities such as grains grown for animal feed another speaker have I in yours Julian brave noise cat many hats He is director of green strategy at the think tank data for progress and his narrative change director for the Natural History Museum artist and activist collective He was one of the organizers of the 50th anniversary commemoration of the occupation of Alcatraz which took place on Monday October 14th Indigenous Peoples Day He said the 1969 occupation achieved a major shift in u.s. Government engagement with indigenous people the Alcatraz occupation played a significant role in the shift of United States official Indian policy from a paradigm of terminations relocation and assimilation to one of self-determination so before Alcatraz the United States was working to assimilate native peoples after Alcatraz the United States has worked to recognize the distinct rights and sovereignty of native peoples in broad strokes and the occupation of played a major role in that shift. Commemoration is set to continue with a 4 part Speaker Series and detail. As can be found on Canoe Journey 200-1000. Members of the Indigenous community are also editing a special issue of open space a magazine called Alcatraz is not an island with new essays published every Monday and San Rafael and Carlo West Pacifica Radio. And the nation's 3 biggest drug distributors and a major drug maker agreed to an 11th hour 260000000 dollars settlement today over the toll taken by opioids in 2 counties in Ohio the decision averts the 1st federal trial over the crisis the trial involving Cleveland's Cuyahoga County Akron Summit County was seen as a critical test case that could give gauge the strength of the opposing sides arguments and prodded the industry and its foes toward a nationwide settlement of nearly all the lawsuits over the opioid crisis. Sunny tomorrow in the San Francisco Bay Area with highs from the low to mid seventy's around the bay up to the mid eighty's inland in the central San Joaquin Valley 2 miles sunny with highs in the mid eighty's Los Angeles sunny with highs in the mid ninety's that's it for the evening news tonight from Pacifica broadcasting from k.b. Of a in Berkeley with Max Pringle and. Good evening you are listening to see Santa Cruz stay tune for cause of free radio coming right up. 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