The cost summary reflects absolutely no pressure or conditionality president Selenski vocalize no concerns with the subject matters discussed there is no indication of bribery store sion or other illegal conduct on the Cole and this is Daniel Goldman the House send telegenic committee lawyer who led the Ukraine inquiry testifying to the evidence for impeachment as President Trump directed a months long campaign to solicit foreign help in his 2020 reelection efforts withholding official acts from the government of Ukraine in order to coerce and secure political assistance and interference in our domestic affairs as part of this scheme President Trump applied increasing pressure on the president of Ukraine to publicly announce 2 investigations helpful to his personal reelection efforts. If you applied this pressure himself and through these agents working within and outside of the u.s. Government. All this comes as the Justice Department's independent inspector general Michael Horowitz released a long awaited report that concludes the f.b.i. Acted without political bias when it opened the investigation into links between Trump's 2016 campaign in Russia the report debunks Trump's often repeated claims that he was targeted by a politicized conspiracy but the report did find serious and systematic problems with the F.B.I.'s wiretapping a former campaign adviser Carter page the American Civil Liberties Union said quote The concerns the inspector general identifies apply to intrusive investigations of others including especially Muslims and for better safeguards against abuse are necessary quote. The modern day Pentagon Papers that's how people are describing a confidential trove of documents obtained by The Washington Post revealing how senior u.s. Officials have lied throughout the 18 year u.s. War in Afghanistan the longest war in u.s. History the 1st installation of the explosive report published Monday it's headlined at war with the truth it documents how u.s. Officials repeatedly lied about the war's progress while hiding. That also shows how 3 successive presidents President George w. Bush President Obama and President Trump have bungled the war in Afghanistan despite deploying 775000 u.s. Troops since 2001 more than 2000 u.s. Soldiers have died in Afghanistan and 20000 have been wounded the papers also reveal how u.s. Officials tried to hide the truth about the war from the American public in one interview revealed in the papers Douglas Lute a 3 star Army general who served as the White House's Afghan war czar during both Bush and Obama administration said quote. We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of how Coniston we didn't know what we were doing if the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction unquote the 2000 pages of secret documents contain 400 interviews with generals diplomats aid workers Afghan officials and others who played a direct role in the war the Washington Post one access to the documents after a 3 year legal battle. The explosive Afghanistan papers comes from Ont independent Senator Bernie Sanders and California Democratic Congress members are urging fellow lawmakers to vote against the $738000000000.00 national defense authorization act in a joint statement the 2 lawmakers said quote Congress should have used this National Defense Authorization Act to stop our endless wars Instead this bill does nothing to rein in out of control military spending prevent unconstitutional war against Iran limit the poisoning of Americans drinking water or and the obscenity of innocent children and young men being killed by us unquote. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's president followed a mere Selenski. Then in Paris Monday and agree to a full and comprehensive cease fire in eastern Ukraine by the end of this year the ceasefire aims to end 5 and a half years of fighting that's killed at least 13000 people Russia and Ukraine agreed to release all conflict related detainees by the end of the year and to resolve a dispute about Russian gas exports to be of pipelines that cross Ukraine the 2 countries still disagree on that withdrawal of Russian backed troops and elections in areas of Ukraine controlled by Russian backed rebels and India protests have erupted across parts of the country as the lower house of parliament passed legislation that represents a major step in the official marginalization of India's 200000000 Muslims the citizenship amendment bill would establish a religious test for people who wish to become citizens and provide a path to citizenship for all of South Asia's major religions except Islam the legislation now heads to the upper house of parliament where it's expected to pass the bill as part of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's new nationalist agenda. Here in Madrid Spain protests continue as part of cop 25 the un climate summit this morning indigenous women protested outside the us embassy to demand action to address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls across North America Madrid police shut down the protest within minutes this is money after the Oro from Guam I see that my struggle is to protect my lands and waters from military Zeeshan and from the expansion of us imperialism in my waters and in the whole region of the Micronesian is very much connected to the violence and the assault on the women across North and South America on Monday engage in this climate leaders also gathered outside the Canadian embassy in Madrid to protest the Canadian government support of the overt of Tarsus. And so extraction and mine and pipeline infrastructure this is to kind of Blaney the mean nation we're here is stand against destruction because it directly impacts violence against the land it's violence against innocent people and violence against the land is violence and its future generations. So we're here to bring back the ability to not just that disagree but also. Bring visibility to indigenous climates offenders also on Monday chalet and activists gathered outside the cop $25.00 the un climate summit to protest the right wing government of President Sebastian Pinera and to denounce the summit being relocated to Madrid amidst massive anti austerity protests in Chile this is July and feminist activists Christine. You're no Spain cannot welcome a murderous government because the government of Sebastian Pinera is murdering its wounding and purposely mutilating our people with the armed forces and the police it's a deliberate attack they perfectly know what they're doing they're violating protocol so it has been confirmed by the Human Rights Watch that there are human rights violations and that the state just denying it it's a state that negates what is happening protocols are not being followed and human rights are being violated in Chile. The u.n. Climate summit is being run by even though the Chilean government canceled it in Santiago limits these massive anti austerity protests there and then the u.n. Moved the cop to Madrid and yet another protest Monday people walked out of a forum on carbon markets promoted by oil companies including b.p. Chevron and Shell the activists covered their ears and walked out the show vice president Duncan van Burgen began speaking they later confronted him as he left the forum. Are you willing to do what's there to do. Nobody's asked anything Ok What is clear is that there. To be completely to completely withdraw from fossil fuels. Oh yeah very. Much like that but. With everybody. Denmark has passed historic legally binding climate legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent by 2030 Denmark's climate Act also commits current 10 future climate ministers to achieve net 0 emissions by 2050 at the latest in Australia at least 6 people have been killed and over 5000000 acres have been scorched and it's just really is worst fire season on record at least 100 different fires are burning across the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria they're expected to worsen today as the temperature soars to above 100 degrees Fahrenheit prompting some residents to flee their homes and it's the climate fuelled wildfires in Iraq the Committee to Protect Journalists is calling for the release of freelance journalist Ziad Mohammad. Who was abducted from his home in Baghdad December 6 after covering anti-government protests in Tahrir Square his abduction came the same day unidentified gunmen shot and killed photographer. While he was covering protests in Baghdad security forces and militias have killed over $400.00 protesters since the massive anti-government demonstrations broke out across the rock on October 1st Burma's de facto leader Aung Sun Suu tree is arriving at the International Court of Justice at The Hague today where she'll try to defend Burma against accusations that Burma is military has committed genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims Gambia brought the genocide case to the International Court accusing Burma of trying to quote destroy the world as a group in whole or in part by the use of mass murder. Rape and other forms of sexual violence on international aid groups say thousands of have been murdered and a quarter of a 1000000 have been forced to flee into neighboring Bangladesh this is one thing that refugee children lead to big I'm speaking from Bangladesh. When 3 military personnel raped me they detained hundreds of our will hit the women and rape them in front of their children and husbands we have the demanding justice for all of this now we demand the trial for. In front of the world community on Sun City she is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent years fighting against the Burma is military which she is now defending at The Hague. The Us Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to a Kentucky law that requires doctors perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before they can perform abortions the refusal to hear the American Civil Liberties Union Scipio on behalf of Kentucky's only abortion clinic means the anti abortion law remains in place pro-choice advocates argue the law has no medical basis whatsoever and that its only aim to coerce women enter not having an abortion . In Houston Texas Police Chief Art Acevedo slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Texas Republican senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz for not real authorizing the Violence Against Women Act after a Houston police sergeant was killed while responding to a domestic violence call. One of the biggest reasons the Senate Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and have in committee with the house and getting the balance Women's Act It's because the n.r.a. Doesn't like the fact that we want to take. Out all the hands oh boy friends that abuse. The great French and. Boyfriend abusing his great friend. Here in Spain peace activists gathered at the saga and Co 4 in the region of Valencia early Tuesday morning to protest against the docking of a Saudi vessel that may be carrying weapons to be sent to Yemen the vessel arrived in the port early this morning as a group of 7 activists rallied with signs that read stop the war and the war begins here the war in Yemen has killed over 100000 people and created the world's worst humanitarian crisis and those are some of the headlines This is Democracy Now and Democracy Now dot org The War and Peace Report I mainly Goodman Yes we're broadcasting from inside the u.n. Climate change conference here in Madrid Spain that's the u.n. Climate summit where representatives from almost 200 countries have gathered to negotiate solutions to the climate crisis the climate summit known as cop 25 for a conference of parties over the last 25 years offers a rare opportunity for all countries to have an equal say in negotiations the Madrid summit comes 4 years after the 2015 parish agreement to limit global temperature rise to Will below 2 degrees Celsius that's 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit but as the summit heads into its final days representatives from the global south say the United States and other rich countries are obstructing the talks and trying to avoid their obligation to assist poor countries already facing the worst effects of the climate crisis we're joined in a minute by hard saying climate change specialist at Action Aid from New Delhi India but 1st we want to turn to a clip from his speech here at the top cop 25. This process was designed to deliver global justice this is a place where a little is as powerful as European Union or United States. But the constant bullying of these big countries are making this process worse than useless their bullying hasn't stopped they're not letting us make any progress in this space. It is no substitute for action and what rich countries are doing creating an illusion of action by just talking when we demand action. Reports when we demand money. For shops that is not going to help people who are suffering right now. Harjeet saying joins us now along with Raymond executive director of War on Want He has worked on climate change issues for over a decade we welcome you both back to Democracy Now it seems every u.n. Climate summit we get to speak to each of you Harjeet you were speaking here at the climate summit on Monday and I think for people to understand around the world what is taking place especially as in the United States people understand that the u.s. The president is pulling the u.s. Out of the Paris climate accord that they may think they have nothing to do with these negotiations but in fact isn't it true that they are central to these negotiations absolutely So at this very moment what negotiators are discussing is how to deal with climate emergency and what we call a climate emergency on the outside is basically defined as loss and damage as a lot of climate action and this is a very crucial moment where they are putting concrete proposals on the be able to help people who are suffering climate crisis as we sit what the 5000000 people in Africa are facing the wrath of climate change and that is the reality women and children are far more and are facing food. Starvation situation at this very moment and the drought the bill facing is worst in 35 years this system United Nations system on climate change is broken has not been. Able to help these people and this particular cop is about creating that system for that money starts flowing again and United States which is not yet out of but is that it meant so in obvious solving the notice period is abstract thing any progress that we could have made hill in fixing that broken system it's not allowing any process that can take us closer to mobilizing money to help people who are facing climate emergency. According to the climate news source he did the United States is circulating a loss and damages proposal here at camp that would make it even more difficult for poor countries to receive financial support to recover from droughts floods and other climate emergencies What exactly is the Us proposing the proposal that us is I not only sharing with heads of delegation and not putting it formally is a very arm twist developing countries that if you want any decision on loss and damage process which can help people. You have to agree that we will continue to have a seat at the table even when we are out of bed is that what he meant and even more worse is that you'll have to make sure that the liability revert is extended to the United States and its polluting industries this is worst I've seen in the last 10 years of me attending negotiations it can get worse than that it's a sting and bullying at the highest level where United States which is not meeting its emission targets it's not giving any money to green climate fund and not now even letting a system to be created that can help people who face climate emergency now when you look at the order asked at the u. Of the United States the way they are behaving in these negotiations earlier this year Mozambique. Struck by 2 Cyclons a day and can it over a 1000 people were killed millions displaced this was the 1st time in recorded history the country which had by 2 powerful tropical cyclones in the same season cycle and can it was the strongest storm ever to make landfall in Mozambique in the wake of the day the International Monetary Fund loan Mozambique a $118000000.00 for reconstruction Sara Jane Clifton director of Jubilee Debt campaign blasted the international community for forcing Mozambique to borrow money to cope with a disaster brought on by climate change she told climate Home News quote what's happening to Mozambique is going to happen to other places more frequently unless there's a more systematic approach for tackling debt problems of poor countries there's going to be a climate debt trap spiralling out of control a climate debt trap hard to explain absolutely let's let's look at what happens when you're hit by a climate crisis one incident can buy development gains over the last decades they don't have money to invest into development because all their money gets diverted in providing the beef so they will and then they're forced to take a loan from the same system that is sponsible for the climate crisis so they would all visit a man in debt look people who've been reaping that Goldman Sachs forced to pig because there is no system that exists that recognizes that climate crisis is making it worse for these people who have not been this for this emergency situation and the money that should have gone to education to health to better their infrastructure is now going to provide food is no going to provide relief and you can still build homes over and over again so these poor countries will never be able to come out of it drop. That they are what does this have to do with the United States explain I mean in the past the United States was running all sorts of side panels here now there is almost no obvious presence even in terms of that to the outside public but explain what it is they're doing behind the scenes and then next year well I think it's a day after Election Day The u.s. Is formally out we'll see who will be the president then but they won't be president yet which means next year in Glasgow cop 26 will the u.s. Not be present at all and would you say that's better than what they're doing right now absolutely listen I know you ice us isn't all streams of discussion that are happening beat finance be loss and damage be adaptation they're everywhere and everywhere op struck being and not allowing any progress to happen and particularly on finance we're going to talk about this system that should provide money to climate sort of they don't want that system to be created and this demand is not a new demand $1.00 world 2 on behalf of small island states made that demand for the 1st time in 1991 it took us 22 years to set up a mechanism called water for international mechanism for loss and damage involved in 2013 which had a very clear function to mobilize finance and help these countries last 6 years constant bullying and blocking by United States joined by Australia and even European Union did not allow even a group to be created that can discuss what the needs are what the gap is how money can be mobilized and bad bullying continues at this very moment so this year it is important that body was found last a mechanism is being reviewed there is a critical opportunity to look at but that it is fit for purpose does. The last of that we are facing is because of one degree Celsius temperature rise and we are going to work through to getting this does not mean 3 times the impact the impacts are going to be much more is this body fit for purpose is it able to help people for people who are suffering climate I wouldn't see right now in Mozambique and other parts of Africa No it's not so how do you look at this body how do you bring in finance which is much more needed for these communities but us is busy doing the interest of its own administration and polluting industries so that they can never be held liable for the crisis they have caused and u.s. Is the biggest historical emitter so which means the largest contributor sponsible for this crisis finally and hard Article 6 explain what this is I think so often the jargon here prevents people from having access or understanding the very real consequences of climate catastrophe in the world to put it simply Article 6 is about how to get private sector involved and how markets are going to play in reducing emissions this is the only piece that is hanging from the pad is rule book that was finalized last year to the interest of developed countries is mobilize money from private sector in a manner of where they don't have to invest money but from developing can decide it's really important to see much more public financing coming in and the rules that are set for private companies are robust enough so that there is no leakage or loopholes and there is a big of these emission reduction targets being double counted if we don't put that i rules in place and there's also a bigger challenge of human rights and that today is a Human Rights Day and we see how these companies have been counted. Asli while eating human rights so really have to make sure that people's human rights are not while it aired by these private companies for them the sole motive remains making profit and we have seen how these corporations have ruined the planet that they always have profit over the planet so it's really important to make sure that the so called carbon markets of carbon trading is fair. I said Raymond say more about these carbon markets as you said often we talk about all of these terms of there's a lot of jargon so let's break it down very very simply we know what the climate scientists have told us we now see it with our eyes about what's happening around the world that's all happening at one degree climate scientists have told us we can't reach the $1.00 degree guardrail they said that there's a certain mind to carbon that's left is that we're allowed to pollute actually if you look at the Climate Science report it says really there's about 5 years of budget left right if you want to prevent the breach 10 years if we want to be generous and what's happening here now is rich developed countries not just the United States but Australia China debunked by the European Union not only don't want to cut their own emissions not only don't want to provide finance that the problem is not only don't want to help the most impacted people but now I want to get our jail card and this is what Article 6 the carbon markets were up because what it basically says is I would have to cut my emissions but I can pay somebody else and you cut your admission and I will count it as if I cut my emissions as if there is a neverending magic box of carbon pollution that we're allowed to do it's not possible if a country like for example the United Kingdom all the United States their fair share of effort would be at something like minus 200 by 2030 there is simply no carbon that you can use for an offset and that's taking away the issue around the environmental integrity because 10 years ago we had an argument in these very negotiations about carbon markets a developing countries and civil society absolutely rejected them they said they do not deliver emissions reductions they lead to huge human rights violations profit for private companies to ordinary people but what's most pernicious here is a as the United States of all the developed countries block any progress on the finance conversation on the help on loss and damage what they say into developing countries is if. If you agree to the carbon markets maybe in that will give you some share of the profit and so what the developing countries are left with is that is the only thing that's left on the table they know it will deliver emissions reductions that no it will be devastated the planet but for much need to finance that's the carrots be that's been done gold it is an absolutely outrageous decision by ministers as they're meeting here will hold developing countries to hostage because they will say we will all be alive conversations about what's needed a lot of damage if you allow was to have the carbon markets decision go through. We're going to break then come back to our discussion I said Raman is executive director of War on Want usually in London saying global lead on Climate Change Action Aid You usually in New Delhi India when we come back acid rain and we'll also talk about the explosive Washington Post series on the history of the u.s. War in Afghanistan and we'll talk more about what's happening here and what's happening in Britain the elections come on Thursday there and we'll find out what's happening and also the major players there the candidates what position on the climate crisis Stay with us. a. Witch Hunter by a stick in a stone This is Democracy Now Democracy Now dot org The War and Peace Report We're broadcasting from the un climate summit in Madrid Spain I mean the Goodman as we speak outside the plenary holes of this summit here in Madrid in the background we can see the enormous hands of a sculpture pressed against the edifice of a street scene and Venice Italy the piece was created by the Italian sculptor Lorenzo Quinn son of the Oscar winning actor Anthony Quinn and inscription at its base reads in part Venice the floating city of art and culture that's inspired humanity for centuries is threatened by climate change and time decay and is in need of the support of our generation and future ones unquote the hands are those of a child representing Venice's present and future supporting life and culture. In November nearly 90 percent of Venice was flooded amidst high tides and heavy rains causing over a $1000000000.00 worth of damage to historic buildings Venice as mayor called the flooding apocalyptic and said climate change is to blame still with us aside Raman executive director of War on Want worked on climate change issues for over a decade. We just finished up with hard to and you talking about what's happening here but I'm wondering if you can talk about what's happening right now in Britain and I hope to come back to you at the end of the week when you'll be in London could your elections are Thursday but the significance of what's happening there what is at stake. So there's but a stake I mean of course it's it's a huge. Election from a climate related point of view it's going to be a big debate about whether the u.k. Adopts what's called I would green new deal with really ambitious targets of trying to reduce our emissions by 2030 or calls to by 2030 with a massive investment in terms of new green jobs and tuck legal stare a t. And delivering both climate justice for people domestically and also recognizing the U.K.'s footprint globally earlier this year the British House of Commons became the 1st parliament in the world to declare a climate emergency this is Labor Party leader Jeremy Corben we have no time to waste we are living in a climate crisis that will spiral dangerously out of control unless we take rapid and dramatic action now this is no longer about a distant future. We're talking about nothing less than the irreversible destruction of the environment with in our lifetimes of members of this. Resolution came on the heels of April 16th rebellion uprising in London that saw police arrest more than a 1000 protesters many of whom superglue themselves to buildings trains and sidewalks and nonviolent direction action campaign so the position of the prime minister now Boris Johnson who the 2 top candidates essentially are Labor leader germy Corben and Boris Johnson Yes it's often called that we're in a climate election and to put it starkly we have environmental organizations who rated everybody's manifesto at this moment they're saying that the Labor Party is the strongest manifesto on tackling the climate crisis the offer that people buy on the table by the conservative party we seem to be the weakest as a much longer target of net 0 by $2050.00. Pos ways to hire we would even achieve but to put it into context the u.k. Is important because next year the u.k. Will be the president of the cup as $26.00 moves to the u.k. So if the club if the u.k. Showing real climate leadership it could help block the real need for ambition both in terms of emission reduction by rich developed countries but also of countries accepting that they have an obligation to pay that climate by nuns but many of us who have been inside this space we know about the reality of mobilizations around the world now with millions of people on the street needs to change I would our government home so that they come here with a mandate to actually adopt action otherwise it feels like Groundhog Day here where governments continue to talk but actual follow very very little action and finally I wanted to just get a quick comment from you we're going to do this much more extensively in the days to come but on what many are calling the new Pentagon papers The Washington Post revealing a confidential trove of documents that reveal how senior u.s. Officials have lied throughout the 18 year war in Afghanistan the longest war in u.s. History the 1st installation of the explosive report published Monday headlined at war with truth documenting how u.s. Officials repeatedly lied about the war's progress while hiding evidence the war had become unwinnable it shows how 3 successive presidents George w. Bush President Obama President have bungled the war in Afghanistan despite 3 quarters of a 1000000 u.s. Troops there since 2001 the papers also revealing how u.s. Officials tried to hide the truth about the war from the American public you have long worked on what not only climate issues and they are connected but the issue of war can you talk about what you have read so far yes. I mean indictment and of course see it validates what menu is of long saved during both the war in Afghanistan and he says equally applicable to the military interventions that taken place in Iraq could lose. We've always said that the trillion dollars that for example has been spent on this misguided war would not deliver any progress progress for the people and the fact that the military and the government lied to their own people and said actually progress was made was being made I think is absolutely shocking the reality on the ground is Afghanistan is still a more dangerous place this is not genuine peace building peace building or the barrel of a gun and democracy does not come at the barrel of the gun if the governments were serious about wanting to tackle the military conflicts the 1st step would be to stop the weapons that fuel these conflicts the 2nd will be stop supporting military dictatorships these regimes which commit rights violations and thirdly would actually support the Afghan people and genuine peace building. That were existing that it did none of those things and it's leaving Afghanistan you know in a much more horrific and a much more broad couldn't place than it was we will certainly continue to cover this explosive series. Or. Executive Director of War on Want thank you so much for joining us when we come back we'll look at indigenous resistance here at the un climate conference from Pipeline politics the Amazon Stay with us. We are by Anneke true this is democracy now Democracy Now dot org The War and Peace Report I'm Amy good lower broadcasting from inside the un climate change conference the un climate summit here in Madrid Spain I mean the good thing on Monday indigenous activists from the Brazilian and Ecuador and Amazon rallied outside this cop 25 venue to protest the assassination of indigenous forest protectors and they just struction of their lands known as the Long Knives of the year their protests came just 2 days after 2 indigenous chiefs are mean Oprah should be watching Giada and Reymundo were gunned down in a drive by shooting Saturday and Purcell. See . I am well set off from the beating of just even. In this little you know Muslims I am here to support the Brazilian the litigation that is the now and seeing. The legion of people that just passed away well this was a judgment on the whole this is that both Fernando is Brazil doing in Brazil you know we are here to now and seeing the Paul this is because it will not only bad for Brasil books without is bad for the whole world will go from it because the people in former zeal I'm going to go there to Brazil call them in Venezuela and when you were here the climate conference. Extinction rebellion group and many other 1 climate justice movements pleading for the survival. In the support to indigenous peoples are the gardens of the forests the 1st ones to be at this moment of genocide. As we are leaving one of the countries that kills the most of. Nature protectors and. Activists in the ward. Our indigenous nations because our territories are those that protect more than 80 percent of by their very city the war my neighbors when I was 17 years old and I'm from. So my community has been fighting Boyle citizens for ever as long as I can remember and I grew up during this process. And my people have been fighting this fire for such a long time and and that has made me part of this move man and I think that it's my responsibility as a young person and as an indigenous youth to make the people of the Amazon their voices and. Spaces like this. You. Could you explain what's happening right now we're just finished their press conference and we're going to take action now we're doing the civil disobedience. From the north the south here you can see there's lines of activists from extinction rebellion from the Global no are and they have said that they're putting their bodies on the line that they're risking arrest in order to be in solidarity with indigenous people who put their bodies on the line every day we spoke to many of these extension rebellion activists earlier while they were blocking the road right next to the press conference at this Brazilian indigenous activist My name is Elaine I'm from execs rebellion Belgium we are friends now in front of the cup $25.00 where it is all happening sitting down on the roads blocking the traffic that's what we are doing especially to support the indigenous people in need I'm a. So men are suffering a lot from the way that we live that we all live family that needs to change that don't I'm from. Fighting for Life because we're seeing that the biodiversity is being lost that. We are losing more than 200 species of any one pounds every day and the reason is that the next one will be us I'm Alex I'm from California we're here sacrificing our bodies as the bodies of indigenous people have been sacrificed and abused for centuries it's our turn to take a sacrifice that's what everyone needs to do I'm Karen from the u.k. And we're blocking this right to support this people and I'm personally doing it for my children because it's our last chance now this is our last chance and we need to stand up for these people and those people who died to me for our children and how old are your children my children a 4 and 6 years old and on want them to have a future on this planet I want to be livable for them were right behind us we see a delegation from the Brazilian Amazon wave come to denounce the killings of Brazilian activists and leaders particularly in ditches Brazilian activists and leaders in the center you can see Sonia she's a relative indigenous activists from Brazil who were murdered this weekend on Saturday as they were coming back from the meeting of the electrical company and the indigenous Federation demanding their right. To director. Just people's articulation of Brazil. In a moment it's very hard to leave this person for the legal. Certification of. Mining and. Agribusiness is destroying them. In 35 days there have been 3 killings. This is a direct result of both from those direct all this is that I've read their lives in Brazil 3 of your family members have already been murdered are you afraid for your old life. Is threatening all of that was all of our lives that received very no but that doesn't mean that we will dog fighting for their lives. And that it was so new. And degenerates leader from Brazil whose 2 relatives were assassinated on Saturday This is Democracy Now we're broadcasting from Madrid Spain at the un climate summit indigenous people from Canada and the United States are speaking out against extraction pipeline projects the environmental devastation of their territories at this summit on Monday Rose weapon a member of the Sunday Dakoda and and news delegate from sustain us spoke on a panel of youth climate activists I remember the sunshine on my skin as I stood at the head waters of the Mississippi River the drinking source for over 18000000 humans here in many I joined other Indigenous youth to prepare for our month long canoe journey through our stolen and social homelands we paddled to raise awareness of the lime tree tar sands oil pipeline to devastate our communities. We dipped our cupped hands in the river sipping the clean water this is the same secured river in my book called The ancestors have been harvesting our sacred Newman for thousands of years this river is important and sacred not only to my own sister but for my people still to this day. We happily canoe down the sugar for weeks smiling and laughing sharing our dreams for a fossil fuel world. Soon after everything changed. Things were darker the sky the water the air. Our group came underneath the shadow of a factory looming over our lands like and I. Are Sacred waters were sick our whole melting into despair and it was then that we took action. In the historic case against the pipeline we came together as a youth to intervene with 5 other tribes to fight for justice. Although we fought for our river begged them to leave our waters and lands alone to say no to the line for the pipeline. It wasn't in. The pipeline was unanimously approved. We have been to fighting these extractive projects through the Us court system but this colonial institution continuously values corporate profit over indigenous lives. Today this injustice and my hope are the fires that have brought me to this room. How McDuck yuppie girls will be sent to him out there hello my relatives my name is Rose and I am 18 years old. I am attending these global negotiations with the 1st ever sustained as Indigenous you delegation from the United States. We're here to share these stories to share our prayers and bring a frontline fight to the halls of the United Nations our people come from many different lands waters and cultures yet each of us are here together calling on the strength of our ancestors term mind us of our commitments to future generations our movements for the protection of our sacred sites and lands sound like protect. No Shasta Dam raise in California stand with the bears it is in Utah and similar it ties along. Our movements for our water sound like stop Jordan Kovan Oregon same Bristol Bay in Alaska no Keystone x.l. Pipeline to know that will expansion across the Great Plains and especially no line for the pipeline in Minnesota. The climate crisis is more than a discussion about a $1.00 degrees Celsius It also looks like stolen in Cape children at the Us Mexico border it looks like missing and murdered indigenous women. People are dying Indigenous Land defenders are being murdered the climate crisis is a spiritual crisis for our entire world our solutions must we've science with spirituality and traditional ecological knowledge with technology our movements must be bigger than recycling in braver than holding signs. It is up to each and every one of us to build movements that center the rights of indigenous peoples healing and justice for the next 7 generations it is time for us all to reconnect with Mother Earth it is time 8 to remember how to listen to her to guide our climate. Destroying white supremacy as u.s. Indigenous activists Rose Whipple addressed reporters at the un climate summit on Monday and youth. Elders gathered outside as well as indigenous use the Canadian embassy here in Madrid Spain to protest the Canadian government support of the Alberta tar sands extraction in new fossil fuel infrastructure including a pipeline that would cut through Indigenous lands to carry tar sands oil from Alberta to Wisconsin and the United States we're joined now by one of those demonstrators say she's a member of the Athabaskan Chippewa and 1st nation in the executive director of indigenous Climate Action Ariel Welcome back to Democracy Now it's great to have you with us so we just heard Rose young Indigenous activist who lives in St Paul Minnesota talking about the map of the pipelines and what crisscrosses Indigenous Land take us from there to Canada so great now what's happening is there is a series of pipelines being built I come from a territory in northern Alberta treaty a territory and a community called for Chippewa So if you are looking at West constant there's hundreds and hundreds of miles or kilometers whatever you prefer but we have a pipeline corridor is that our running from our community and for sure well south of courtship one in the heart of the extraction zone just north of Fort McMurray going southward down into Edmonton Alberta where we have pipeline corridors that are shooting out to the west coast of Canada to the eastern Canada in United States and down. Through the south into the United States as well so we have pipeline corridors that are going coast to coast to coast of the continent of North America traversing over critical waterways through the territories of multiple indigenous nations across Canada and the United States where these pipelines are now delivering oil to refineries that and upgraders where they're being processed outside of low income people of color and indigenous communities further exacerbating the pollution as well as the emissions that those communities are faced with at the source you and I went to the break the other day the alternative climate summit in you and other indigenous youth from Canada were really focusing on the tech frontier in mind which might sound to people in the u.s. Like Silicon Valley the tech frontier mine but explain more what that is and kind of cross border organizing that you're doing right now what's happening is there is a company called tech resources they're not a tech firm but rather they've been a mineral Hardrock company so they've been a mining company mainly working in coal they actually have a tremendous human rights abuse record it's not that they're not a very good company but this is their 1st for a foray into the oil sands or the tar sands and they're proposing the largest ever tar sands mine this project will be 29000 hectares of land bigger than the city of Vancouver twice the size of the center of Vancouver or the size of Metro Vancouver this project will produce close to $960000.00 barrels of oil a day it will also create 6 mega tonnes of emissions and crisscross over the habitat of buys in Caribou LNG muskrat as well as the last remaining wild flock of cranes and the adjacent to the river system that is the heart of my own community and 17 kilometers from the boundary of one of our settlements as well as 30 kilometers just south of an. World Heritage site the Wood Buffalo National Park you know people may think that the Canadian government takes more of the light and view when it comes to Indigenous people than in the United States but explain what the Canadian government is doing what you're demanding is you're outside the Canadian embassy yesterday here in Madrid but also to take it home to right here in the horde of the u.n. Climate summit and what you're demanding here we're right outside the plenary which I guess there are now having a concert I guess well you know I think the big issue is this Canada comes to these meetings touting themselves as a global leader in addressing the climate crisis as having great relations with their indigenous peoples but the reality is and Alberto in my territory of treaty 8 not a single project that has ever been proposed in the Alberta tar sands has ever been denied even this project being proposed by tech resources the frontier mine largest mine ever it went through the Canadian environmental assessment agency review process it clearly indicated that it will have irreversible impacts on the environment on ecosystems and indigenous rights yet the project was deemed in the public's interests it's who is the public if Indigenous Peoples aren't included in that which brings us right back to here we are in cop Madrid where we're having conversations about inclusion of human rights within Article 6 which is a market based and not market based mechanism for reducing our emissions where we're arguing whether or not to include human rights and definitely having even more critical challenges including the rights of indigenous peoples but the rights of indigenous peoples are critical to addressing these issues because as we've seen in Canada the rights of indigenous peoples are not even considered part of the public's rights we have to demand better safeguards and protections for our people and we absolutely can't be advocating for more carbon market clearly we have to have more of a discussion we're going to do that in part to post an on line of Democracy Now dot org. Member of the at the basket and 1st nation executive director of indigenous climate action. In Canada this finally headline the Ethiopian prime minister is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in a way today it's International Human Rights Day But the prime minister will not take questions from reporters before the ceremony and he's facing increasing criticism of how many feel the a for the government's crackdown against protests in October in which over 60 people were killed and that doesn't broadcast very happy laving birthday to our very own senior producer Carla Wells Democracy Now. Coming or not with the rainy Santa John Hamilton rabbit parent and a Mystery Train and if you're a tame Maria. Representing by Prince belly pork a see here in Santa Cruz is thank you for listening. The spot. With. The snow. At the.