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Bloodiest days of violence since the antigovernment protests erupted in early october it was just over a year ago that abdul mahdi was appointed Prime Minister as a consensus candidate between iraq political blogs. Throughout the streets on friday cheering singing even dancing optimism on full display oh shut up to dave iraqi people are happy but we only consider this as a 1st step we demand the resignation of all lawmakers and we call on the judiciary to put them on trial immediately. The protesters making it clear that cosmetic changes will not suffice they are after a complete overhaul of the political system in iraq the mood here a dire square has turned celebrates worry but all around us there are stronger reminders of those who have lost their lives during these protests here you see people who are praying for the memories of antigovernment demonstrators who were killed by Security Forces most College Students told me he and his fellow protesters are more encouraged than ever to keep coming out on to the streets and risk their lives if youre going to do that now theres no doubt of that problem isnt only adela doing my d. S. Just to cover. He wants to topple the whole regime and its been a corrupt system for the last 16 years a corrupt system that negatively Impact Society and politics the economy and its even had a psychological impact on us not for certainly not all nor brought her whole family so they could all witness a historic moment together. To show our day today we have to come and participate because this iraq is our iraq this country is our country and this pain is our pain the youth who have been demonstrating our like all our children they have to take their rights because corruption wont last forever. Inspiring words that may help transcend the deep pain felt by so many in iraq these praying constantly not just for the dead but also the living. But that. A man has killed 2 people in a my fatah can Central London police shot dead the suspect on London Bridge 28 year old khan was released from prison just under a year ago after serving time for terrorism related offenses for thousands of people across the world have taken part in rallies demanding more action on Climate Change the day of Global Action has been spurred on by students who skipped school to make their voices heard. Preliminary negotiations between the u. S. And the Afghan Taliban have resumed the taliban confirmed the informal talks as u. S. President donald trump made an unannounced visit to afghanistan talks were canceled by trump in september after a u. S. Soldier was killed in the Taliban Attack algerians have again been out in large numbers protesting for the 41st friday in a row demanding political change campaigning for next months president ial election began last sunday but demonstrators in the socalled hereat movement are rejecting the vote all 5 candidates have links to former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced out by mass protests and april protesters are demanding a complete change in the political classes. And the president of the south American Country of syria now has been sentenced to 20 years in prison a panel of 3 judges convicted desi batarfi for the killing of 15 political opponents in 1902 when he became the de facto leader following a coup that incision was announced on friday during his official trip to china its not immediately clear if he will be extradited those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after death by design stage and dance of watching. Im attached to my phone my computer my tablet. Indeed amazes me how in just 20 years theyve completely changed the way i live and communicate. Our devices are sleek and elegant. We store our lives in a beautiful child. Land. And i started making this film to explore the impact of our digital revolution. And then secrets the industry tried to hide for years began to spill out. Leds in. Our electronics are made and unmade is dirty and dangerous i love its a global story of damaged lives environmental destruction and devices that are designed to die. Elin 11. Man. Industrialization ive put a huge pressure on our ecosystem and on the environment. When it comes to i t. Industry many people think. Its green or natural its rain or some people think its even think its virtual but in our investigation we find its not like that. This pollution is having different consequences but i think that the impact of the biggest impact is on this Public Health we have nearly 300000000 who are residents who dont have access to sufficient safe drinking water. Going to see what they all share the how to show how many but not. The kind that your show should get them to check. The over they get it its time. To just its as if you hold womans invented it was shot then the ultimate. I keep thinking about the moment when i face all those environmental and social damage. River you know which carries all the ways to lake beside the river and place old ladies suddenly down done on their knees in front of me. At the young i know im not the only. One i dont have any sort of government administrative power and dont have much Financial Resources to do with this but i told myself at that moment in front of those ladies i told myself that. At least i need to bring the message out. I need to make sure that all the users of all those gadgets they need to be informed about this. I moved to this area in 1969 to go to law school because i said i wanted to help people who didnt have the means to represent themselves. It was a time when most people are not heard of the semiconductor industry. But within a few years people started seeing the the birth of what has become the you know Global Electronics industry. Top names were companies Hewlett Packard apple intel vance micro devices. The virtually the whos who of the Electronics Industry. And of course the granddaddy of them all was i. B. M. When i got a card and i. B. M. That was great that was the company to work for at the time i could go any place where he worked i. B. M. I dont need an id you just write a check. It was that easy i. B. M. Had that much clout i was the 1st marker processor buyer for i. B. M. In the early eightys the idea of a personal computer which was was on oxymoron right i mean personal computer what and what would you use it for anyway but it got legs when we started the p. C. Business the 1st year they shipped 50000 units and so we went from a 1000 a week 240008 week and at that point the p. C. Was launched. From almost the very beginning you heard electronics and Semiconductor Production it was a clean industry they said it was as clean as a hospital but what they werent telling people was that it was really a chemical and lay industry and that the magic of making these microcircuits relied on the use of hundreds if not thousands of very toxic chemicals and thats why they have clean rooms thats why they have bunny suits to try to protect the chips it was never designed to protect the workers it was always designed to protect the product itself over i got those of a lot of different chemicals they built the disk drives we had to strip them out and then would have to dip im in severe gases and with a sponge and just with armed with security i didnt know what it was is i just knew it stunk really bad and you couldnt get it on your skin because it would burn you like nobodys business. Well what happened was people started getting sick was very strange kinds of illnesses things that didnt seem to make a lot of sense didnt seem to hang together but increasingly as this happened more and more there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the Chemical Exposure on the job. One put music on yeah right i want to turn on the music for mom put some good music on today. Right there. Because i mean theres a thing a chart. In the. 1975 i was 18 years old and i started working in the Electronics Field i went to a specter of physics and they just hired me just like. I was making the end of the laser and i would have to mix up this chemical in i used to call it green go. And get the consistency and then put into a spray gun and i would have to heat that up after a glued on together that was just all the way that i did. Yvette in know the material she was using turns out to be probably in the vicinity of 50 percent lead oxide she didnt know she was exposed to lead in tell her that i got pregnant with mark in 1079 and that was full term my months and were just really happy about it. That he doesnt even know to cross the street and not know a car is coming to stop going to the restroom you know i have to go with him in there so i have to system with everything. Number one. Youd better know it. If i knew what i know now how to read out a spec or physics at the time it was unnecessary it just. Breaks my heart that i could avoid it this. Oh were filing this lawsuit against your employer and its a lawsuit for his son who was born with severe Developmental Disabilities and is a suit concealment of systemic chemical poisoning and case of a vet and for the direct injuries to mark. Marks condition isnt like a cold take antibiotics and youre going to be fine in 5 days this is life. Your love just overrides all that and you do what you gotta do to stay i still do that im sorry getting. And. I discovered i. B. M. Had a corporate how to. Which they kept for 30 years and it kept track of the causes of death of their lloyds the most dramatic findings were about cancer for the company as a whole this was 33000. 00 deaths that were in this corporate mortality file so included people who had worked all over the u. S. But then when you look at specific plants like the i. B. M. Plant in san jose there was some extraordinary excess costs of deaths one was brain cancer the other was not hodgkinson foma another was melanoma of the skin and in the women Breast Cancer was 3 and 4 fold higher than expected. That was the heart of this center was a lawsuit. In a santa clara courtroom today the 1st trial out of more than 200. 00 similar lawsuits filed against i. B. M. Former i. B. M. Workers jim bore and a lighter hernandez say they developed cancer from exposure to toxic chemicals at i. B. M. San jose facility in the late seventys or early ninetys i mean literally tried to prevent the results of the tally analysis from ever seeing the light of day in fact they went to the judge and said this cant be used in this case a lot of hernandez is not dead shes going to be in the courtroom and not only was it not relevant the judge said it it might prejudice the jury if they saw what these excess costs deaths were and so he denied the use of it in the court many of the brands will respond to questions by saying no one has ever proved to me that a Single Person has died from exposure to these chemicals either within inside their factories or outside of the factories and of discussion. But thats not the way that we approach environmental or Occupational Health in the world. We are not flying blind here at all especially on the chemicals at issue here in the Electronics Industry actually and most of the common chemical used in all industrial manufacturing weve been at this work for 40 years. If you look at the publicising generated by i. B. M. You would think that we lost everything and thats simply not coming. After the trial i. B. M. Matters were resolved for hundreds of people whose claims did not go to trial. What can you tell us about the settlements. Im not going to be able to talk about any of the resolutions of the cases and. Can you give any details at all did you have to agree not to reveal the details as part of the settlements all i can say is that the matters were resolved thats what im allowed to say. And. Here in Silicon Valley Chip Companies in the other Electronics Production Companies Used hundreds if not thousands of toxic chemicals and the most of the chemicals once theyre used in making the components needed to be disposed of as waste the companies ended up storing them in underground storage tanks all over the valley. But what the brilliant people who were designing these systems didnt quite think through all the way was that the solvent swer really good at dissolving things and so when you put them into a tank eventually theyre going to eat their way through the tank. Solvents that the Electronics Industry used in production in Silicon Valley in the seventys and eightys are now on in the groundwater and if you think about putting a drop of ink in a bathtub. That spreads really quickly and its really hard to get that dropping back thats what were dealing with except were dealing with multiples of gallons of the stuff that is in the groundwater. In the late 1981 there were over 100 families in one little neighborhood who had Serious Problems and the state Health Department discovered that the families that were drinking the most heavily contaminated water had significantly higher rates of miscarriages and birth defects then did people in other neighborhoods with the Chemical Industry will often say if i had not a dime for every time i heard this but even water can kill you the most non toxic thing of course it can but only if you stick your face down in the bathtub or fall into you know fall into a large body of water. So that has the traditional approach to toxicology is that the more stuff youre exposed to the more harm it causes you but what were seeing in particularly around cancer and around hormone disrupting chemicals is that its when youre exposed to it the time of exposure so if youre in 3rd trimester and you get even a perp or 1000000000 or part for truly an exposure it can actually cause significant damage. We formed this Silicon Valley tuxes coalition and we did a summer organizing project getting people to sign petitions asking the e. P. A. Step in with their authority in the Superfund Program yesterday. Yes. Yes. And i went to a meeting in washington and presented these thousands of petitions saying we need e. P. A. To come in its time for e. P. A. To exercise your authority and to everybodys great surprise they agreed to do that. So Hewlett Packard became a superfund site intel became a superfund Site National Semiconductor Advanced micro devices i. B. M. You name it they were there and they were all superfund sites. The cost of cleanup for i. B. M. As well as all the other companies has been tremendous its an enormously slow and tedious process. If you look right over here also this is a major residential neighborhood just directly across the street from this industrial site. Most of the People Living here today are unaware of this huge toxic plume. And those same chemicals that are still right under where were standing are now beginning to seep back up out of the groundwater through the soil and are actually coming into the offices of these Software Engineers a google. And this is the one that e. P. A. Said might take 300 years to clean up. This is so complicated the devastation is so enormous that were really talking centuries of cleanup not just years or decades. The problem is that it just keeps reoccur. At least when companies started moving away from Silicon Valley to china i think that they were the only too happy to have the government off their backs. A Chinese Government made an offer to multinational corporations that they couldnt refuse. You need a land and you need money and you need government approval and you need lots of people to put it all together will they have all of that in china. Just. Please please. Please one of the primary purposes of outsourcing is to enable Companies Like apple to make what are essentially an reasonable demands on manufacturers that they wouldnt and couldnt make if they actually had to employ the workers directly apple doesnt have to worry about what it means to workers when they insist on a tripling of the pace of i phone production. And sons of those who. Come in the new. Ball. Anyway focused on this is. Now. You can see as you go by the one you dont we see you know some of the. I. Feel. I am a single example. Here in. This one dance here the stuff. You see that played into. This was news and will. Come to him. As you do want. To live it will not. Be out. So we have. To move. To texas on the way and having to fill it out you know we would like to. Do they will sit in touch with you. To do such a thing how much. Dont let me go boom another you go and see the evil. 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To conserving the worlds dwindling wetlands 3 of the aids worlds global bird migration of life richer sex right where we are the basic discovered a treasure trove it is one of the most special low clouds on the plate after ice ecosystems and that oh now to syria we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well that is something that were trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an International Network for months to be able to do it United Nations peacekeepers have to blow it im tired and old. We are challenging the forces were challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going. Kenyan journalists in pursuit of press freedom and justice. Investigating government corruption and the National Health care system they turn. To. Africa uncensored and publish those things that people dont want to even if it doesnt mean that the us truth is it anyway on aljazeera. In jordan and that could come out of the headlines on 0 weeks of deadly antigovernment protests could finally force a Major Political change in iraq Prime Minister. Has announced he intends to resign and follows a call from leadership changed by a top cleric after antigovernment protests left more than 400 people dead. The parliament from which this current government is drawn is asked to reconsider its choice in this regard and to act according to iraqs interest and preserve the blood of its children to prevent the country from slipping into violence chaos and destruction we confirm again that attacks against Peaceful Protesters are forbidden as well as them being prevented from having the right to demand reforms we also confirm that attacking private and public property is forbidden and that property should not be left to be attacked by infiltrators and their allies. A man who has killed 2 people in a knife attack in Central London according to police the suspect 28 year old khan was also shot dead join the incident was released from prison just under a year ago after serving time for terrorism related offenses. People around the world of taken part in rallies demanding more action on Climate Change the uns major conference on the issue is set to begin in madrid next week earlier negotiations between the u. S. And the Afghan Taliban have resumed the taliban confirmed informal talks as u. S. President donald trump made an unannounced visit to afghanistan they were cancelled by trump in september after a u. S. Soldier was killed in a Taliban Attack algerians have again been out in large numbers protesting for the 41st friday in a row demanding political change campaigning for next months president ial election began last sunday but demonstrators in the socalled iraq movement are rejecting the vote all 5 candidates have links to the former president abdul aziz but it was forced out by mass protests in april. And the president of the south American Country of syria has been sentenced to 20 years in prison a panel of 3 judges convicted deceived literacy for the killing of 15 political opponents in 182 when he became the de facto leader following a coup the decision was announced on friday during his official trip to china its not clear if he will be extradited. Those are the headlines the news continues here on his era after death by design stage and thats a watch and i thought. To myself i mean thats legal for companies in the fall down season is obviously youngest of us to do it has died and 15 others were injured after an explosion at a foxconn factory in chengdu southwest china the details here 802 subtle from john king but you know you just i dont hold a day or 2 that occurred at around 7 pm in a polishing workshop it appears to have been triggered by an explosion of combustible dust in a duct. No one would be surprised that aluminum dust if its in a high enough concentration and there is an ignition source it will produce explosion and fire this is a hazard which is extremely well known. So the fact that apple suppliers have an explosion in chengdu in the plant means that they had very poor housekeeping very poor production processes thats terrible. Whats completely unacceptable is that 5 months later at another plant within the apple supply chain they had another explosion and fire. And so outrageously inexcusable that they had a 2nd 15 months later. They set up these supply chains exactly the way to want them they monitor these chains with exacting scrutiny so they know exactly whats going into their products at every point along the way. We have a town hall i fix it i began said will show you how this type of a plan. And stood. So i have an i phone 5 here and im at show you a little bit about whats inside what makes it tick and some of the Design Choices that apple made putting it together to the 1st thing out paul has on the bottom is 2 proprietary penta loeb screws this is a security screw that apple designed to keep people out of the phone once you get the phone open we can start to see the guts. This isnt really a phone its pretty much a full blown computer that can make your phone last for 8 hours or you need a really big battery. Batteries and phones last about 400 charges every cell phone i have ever had just popped the back off you can pull the battery out swap a new battery and every year or 2 you have to replace the battery apple has decided with the i pod and now the i phone that they dont like that model so what they are doing is building the batteries in the phone and using proprietary screws on their in the temp to limit the lifespan of the phone to about 18 months which is around the time when they have a new phone and they want you to buy a new one anyway. I fix is a company that wants to see everything get fixed so we show people how to fix things and provide the parts tools and guides to enable them to do so helping everyone fix everything so thats the challenge its a big challenge because theres millions of devices out there and luke and i are reluctant capitalists we get excited selling screwdrivers even though thats seems like a boring product because were selling people a capability with able to do something that they wouldnt have otherwise we want to make it simple and easy for me to repair their own stuff. The amount of Raw Materials that go into the products that we use are stagnant over 500. 00 pounds around material go into making in a down south. So heres an example of a Circuit Board in this you waste bin this is out of apple laptop from a few years ago even if you make this Circuit Board in the most environmentally friendly way its still going to use a ton of water a ton of money probably literally a ton of water lots and lots of materials. Books when we know so far this is a boat that you know. Nothing is different. Electronics Industries Close the ways that through this the american manufacturers are. Theyre selling a thing and theyre saying well you have it but you dont really own it. Theres no way were ever going to be a. Ford would never sell you a car were not going to make tires available to keep your car running after 30000 miles you have an entire ecosystem an entire industry thats built on secrecy and were one organization thats trying to pry open the show people whats inside. And weve kind of been conditioned by manufacturers and brands to leave yourself on the outside dont worry about the details we make this product we give it to you and you just use this product and when it stops working you go buy a new one. When we originally started i fix it it was just a way to provide people with some solution to fix broken devices. And over time weve realized both the manufacturing and the environmental problems are all huge concern. Over the last few years ive been to china on a regular basis a lot of that related to our tool manufacturing. And. Were looking at getting some Circuit Boards manufactured. This is the big Rechargeable Battery and this is the main Circuit Board in here so considering its just a flashlight you can see its surprisingly complex Circuit Board and ive got these basic schematic the sort of board once we decided well leave them with them and. Finding this supplier that is environmentally friendly has good quality and has reasonable pricing all 3 of those at once is probably going to be a challenge. For next photo. Visiting factories weve found it surprisingly effective to show up on short notice. In general any factory and its not willing to let you see the factory is an immediate red flag at least for someone that we dont want to do business with. This is the big lie and. The factory said this is where theyre edging it bringing all these nasty acids and other chemicals in. Youve got a little bit of acid believe you can see acid on the outside in the machine. I walked over to where there were some storage tanks and it was basically acid all over the floor and the moment i looked over that they told me get back away from here and this isnt giving me a good feeling. As far as making sure everythings done correctly environmentally it doesnt seem like thats a priority for them. And they go about the most who ever. The fact that it was so dear to you is the price you have to pay for the last 30 years of development you. Dont buy from them. What do the somebody. You know about incentives to. What not to buy for down. 1. 100 or. So since it will be so so i say she brings my sense that the time to buy them just. As what the idea what thats like the model of model hope. That it. Doesnt you know about fox you know by now you seem to. And you to. Do it so you suddenly and so when you push you. Do its a typical high problem. For them. But to get dont you think you. Do you see. You constantly changing. Them all of those. You. Spend a lot of time travel. Agents and. This is definitely the most professional of factories visited. The fact that were being taken through this Water Treatment facility is a really promising sign. You start out with incredibly yucky water and it goes through a progressive series of filters and other processes and eventually you end up with hopefully acceptably clean water. The coolest thing when the water is coming through the Treatment Facility some of the water comes out and dumps into this thing and they have fished in here in the factory owner said well they know the Water Treatment is working ok as long as the fish are still alive a little unfortunate for the fish because if something breaks maybe the fish die but its clear to me that this would definitely be a factory to buy from up the one we visited. From the institute of public and Environmental Affairs module. Thank you ladies and gentlemen im truly honored and humbled to be the 1st chinese citizen to receive the scole award i was thank i set up this institute of public on your bar medal affairs ip and our 1st project is to to butte a National Water pollution database. Though this records comes from the government sources the public can access the information by click on the locations on the map because people want to know you know who should be held responsible for such a bat what a pollution situation and so far we got some more than 110000 records of violations in our database. April 2010 we filed letters to 2990. 00 brands to check with them whether those polluting factories whether they are their suppliers. All of them responded to except the one that is an apple. Apple just give us one statement that is we have a long term policy not to disclose our supply chain or. Not to. My june contacted me and we began to Work Together to apply additional pressure to a company with headquarters here in the United States might join singled out a number of facilities that he believed were in apple so that it had a very heavy Environmental Impact in their locality and when he level of those charges apple was shocked and sort of in denial that this type of problem out to this extent could really exist in their supply chain. I think its important to understand that this is not just about apple you know this is about the id industry. They all share a printed Circuit Board manufacturers they all share chip manufacturer is you know despite their audit protocols there is a lot more talk than walk on Environmental Impacts in the supply chain you say to yourself how could they not know about any of these problems but you know its its always you ask and its all you look for so if you are there and you have a checklist of what you need then you need it now and that checklist does not include whats going on at the end of the pipe of your wasteWater Treatment plant its actually conceivable that you know exactly where its being made you just dont know exactly how its being made and what the impact is. Thats whats going on not just with apple but with all of these companies. 40 years of operating the Environmental Protection agency in this country these are american based companies hard to believe. We still have this industry which is discharging so much waste not just normal waste a Hazardous Waste. In just one supplier and generate more than 100000. 00 tons of Hazardous Waste in one year. How could we dispose stuff you know in a safe way so how much a time bomb this industry is gonna create. In electronics at this moment of time i believe were in the dinosaur age. Were using too many resources too many Raw Materials and the life of a computer is typically 3 to 4 years. For a Small Company in r. And. A mission is to produce a fair trade computer. In the early days i repaired this component levels on the computers on the one imports. From i noticed that there was huge amount of waste in the computer industry. So we started designing and building a database of graven reusable computers. This is my fathers environmental drill and all my trusty Just Announced thats just. How can you build a computer would have to ask how could you build a computer without lead mercury p. V. C. s brominated flame returns and all the other heavy metals. That was our gold the material we use is wood so its technology of 100 years ago but its perfectly good our computers will last 7 to 10 years because home users nontechnical people can repair and replace im never place in the memory you can extend the life of it by upgradability. Today is is there a major launch in europe. Weve lots of invites sent out to people. We were awarded the worlds 1st european. For integration Desktop Computers it was the worlds 1st ever achieve some wart at that time i thought wow the the gates. Are just so flooded in for us that was not the case maybe a little bit of naive essay on my part its hard out there like Government Agencies some people like that there is no room for environmental they are totally just bottom line. Im looking at it now its one little step at a time the what we need to do is it work harder build more computers. Get people to join us. Americans toss out a lot of gadgets every day. If we look at the 3000000. 00 or so tons of electronic waste that gets generated in United States every year probably 15 percent of that gets recycled. And some percent of that gets recycled in a responsible fashion. Part 2 will crumble she says t. V. The good density a movie about all get that idea of the wind. Or. The movie all that you want so more see on the far. Side of the woods. And your characters who you are and. We agreed that they were many try to hide your show and. Come out dishes she goes with their dogs and. Then the fate hunting down. Al queda hides a. Shit dont lose your shit. The one who has a pretty girl. So nice which is what she and tommy. Does someone. So sound happy that he will hide. Those a shell hooey. Now you can see me. Use a male voice here that has a k. G. B. And shield up there. We think ok well send our you ways to china let them burn it let them have the pollution but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe. That pollution is getting lost into the atmosphere and coming right back to us. Metals a metal is a metal you know and its theres no other form for it to convert to you can convert it from being in the soil to being in the water to being in the air but you still have a metal. In our work we fly through clouds and we sample the cloud droplets. And we measure the chemistry of each one very fast as youre flying through a cloud. Theyre flashing as fast as you can imagine on a screen and we collect all that information and what we get is whats a chemical fingerprint. In california with getting rid of lead in gasoline weve reduced the amount of lead we have and so when lead shows up that is one of the tracers that we say this could be from elsewhere and we can trace it back in time and say you know 4 days ago this air was over asia. And you have more pollution you have more aerosols those go into the cloud and so you have so many that they cant get big enough to fall and lead to rain. And its giving you these extremes of either not enough water in some places and way too much water in other places. What happens if we push it too far. Well start to see more of these extreme events things like flooding and hurricanes. These are what people often refer to as tipping points and not so thats what were very concerned about happening. My attachment to my devices is more complicated now. Its hard to get excited about the next new model or upgrade knowing what they really cost to make. The industry in its constant search for cheaper workers and land is moving on to new countries with few government safeguards or inspections. We all have a share in this problem. But we can use our voices and our buying power to demand real labor safety and greater Environmental Protections. The digital revolution has improved our lives in so many ways. We need to make sure it doesnt rob us of our health and our planet. Hello dana welcome back were here cross United States this weekend the travel is going to be quite high across many of those major cities as people come back home after the big holiday were going to be seeing a big weather story here across much of the central and also east United States 1st of all is starting out here towards the southwest we do have an area of low pressure thats really begin to develop as we go through the next couple of days as we go towards saturday though look at all the snow we do expect to see across the Northern Plains as well as the midwest down here towards the southeast it is going to be the thunderstorms and up here across the ohio river valley expect to see. A lot of rain as well as probably some icing across much of the area going from saturday as well as into sunday a lot of that snow makes its way across much of the great lakes a lot of rain across the east coast so those major cities for new york washington as well as philadelphia expect to see delays in your forecast minneapolis also a big city for travel there were going to be seeing a lot of mixi mixed weather here on saturday as we go towards sunday it is going to be very heavy snow in your forecast and by the time we get towards monday things approved but is going to be cooler with a temperature there of minus 2 degrees and then here across much of Central America as well as into the caribbean we are looking at mostly cloudy conditions for kingston with the temperature of 31. 00 degrees. A chinese casino empire is transforming cambodia greenbank Rapid Development and criminology when i went to a few bits to gauge the winners and losers in cambodia to see notes. On aljazeera. 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