Rememberer this . Pres. Trump i was elected to represent the citizens of its berg, not paris. Amy that was donald trump months ago. We will speak with pittsburgh s there is one city that the president can point to that would represent with that city is, it is pittsburgh. We have exceeded w what we have promised in the Paris Agreement and that is been happening throughout this country, throughout the United States. Amy and we will talk with Virginia Governor terry mcauliffe. I am here because we need to send a message to the world. Or yet would donald trump says, that were sererious about clime change. Im the governor of virginia and went trump moved out of the paris climate agreement allows the first governor to come out and say were going to do it ourselves. Amy Virginia GovernorTim Mcauliffe about the climate and the Political Climate in his regime and socialist a transgender woman have just one race is or public office. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In zimbabwe, longtime leader Robert Mugabe has stunned Party Leaders and opposition groups by refusing to resign as president. The announcement by the 93yearold mugabe came days after zimbabwes military seized government buildings acrcross te capital l harare, placing mugabe under housuse arrestst. On sunday evening, mugabe gave a televised address acknknowledgig the countrys problems, but did not mention steppiping down. Whatever the pros and cons of the way they went about the i,istering those concerns, as the president of zimbabwe, and ththe commanderinchief, do acknowledgdge the issues they he drawn my attention to and do believe that these were raised in the spirit of honestyty and t of deep and patriotic concern for the stability of our nation. Amy president mugabes announcement came after zimbabwes ruling party, zanuppf, has stripped him of s office undnder threat of impeachment and removed him from the party. Other members of the party, including first lady grace mugabe, were also expelled. Well have more on the crisis in zimbabwe after headlines. In washington, d. C. , thousands of people rallied on the National Mall sunday, calling for justice for puerto rico two months after Hurricane Maria made landfall. The protesters called on fema to act quickly to restore services and for the cancellation of puerto ricos debt. They also demanded congress permanently waive shipping restrictions under the jones act. Half of puerto rico remains without power and hundreds of thousands of residents still have no access to clean Drinking Water. Hollywywood actor Jeffrey Tambor said sunday hes leaving the hit amazon series transparent after two transgender women accused him of unwanted sexual contact. In one allegation, actress van barnes says tambor sexually harassed and groped her. In another, tambors costar trace lysette says he pushed his body against her between takes on the set of transparentnt tambor has denied the allegations. He plays a trans star. Meanwhile, music mogul and activist Russell Simmons is denying allegations of rape and Sexual Assault after Model Keri Claussen Khalighi says simmons coerced her to perform oral sex before raping her in a shower in when she was just 17 years old. 1991 khalighi says filmmaker brett ratner looked on during the assault and ignored her pleas for help. Ratner himself faces accusations from at least six women, including one account that he overpowered a woman and forced her to perform oral sex on him when she was 19 years old. At least five people say they were sexually harassed or groped at a ted talks conference in vancouver last april. Among those reporting abuse is ted talks own general counsel, who said in an email she was touched d inappropriately, and that executives at the nonprofit speakers sereries werent doing enough to combat sexual harassment. The u. S. Congress office of compliance says it has paid out more than 17 million to settle cases of sexual harassment, as well a as discrimination based n race, religion, and disability. The cases were paid out of a special fund operated by the treasury department, rather than by members of congress or their staffers who were accused of the discrimination or harassment. The disclosure comes as a number of female Congress Members have come forward to say theyve been victims of sexual harassment. Meananwhile, minnesota democrarc senator al franken says he will not resign following accusations by radio broadcaster that he groped her while she slept and forced her to kiss him in 2006. Last week, she posted a photo showing al franken appearing to place his hand on her breast est wash kevlar v was sleeping on a plane back tour they both had participated in. Al franken was a comedian at the time. He says he supports a full investigation by congress. President trump said sunday he should have allowed three College Basketball players from ucla to remain in a chinese jail after they were arrested on shoplifting charges. Trumps comment came as he took credit for negotiating the release of the players who were accused of stealing designer sunglasses from a highend store after the father of one of the players downplayed trumps role in securing the release of the players. Trump tweeted in iraq,q, forces say they have u. S. Backed Iraqi Forces Say they have retaken the town of rawa from isis, one of thehe lat urban areas s held by the group. Meananwhile, syrias army s sayt took control of alalbu kamal ovr the weekend, the last town in syria held by isis. The fight against isis larargely destroyed whole cities, including raqqa and mosul, leaving tens of thousands dead and dispsplacing hundreds of thouousas of p people. In turkey, the governor of ankara province home to the turkeys capital has banned all events by lgbtq groups, including parades, protests, films, theater performances, and art exhibitions. In a statement, ankaras government said such events were likely to provoke reactions within certain segments of society, adding that terrorists might target pride events. In response, the organization of pride week said it would defy the ban and proceed with a planned march. The groups president said the government should protect us, the group that is being threatened, not nationalist fundamentalist groups. I believe the ban is about not accepting our Sexual Orientation and it is a reaction to the Movement Getting stronger. In libya, human Rights Groups are accusing the government of looking the other way as migrants are sold at auction in a modernday slave trade. New video obtained by cnn shows men at an unknown location in libya auctioning off enslaved subsaharan african migrants. One grainy cellphone video shows two enslaved men sold for 1200 libyan dinars, or about 800, as a man offscreen promises big strong boys for farm work. The cnn investigation comes afafter the United Nations warnd the European Union over its support for libyas coast guard, as it turns back migrants trying to cross the mediterranean and forces them into migrant camps where they face appalling conditions. In germany, Angela Merkels position as chancellor is uncertain afafter talks aimed at forming a Coalition Government collapsed monday. Merkel had been trying to form a new government after inconclusive e elections in september. Observers say the turmoil coulud benefit the farright alternative for democracy party, which made record gains in this years elections. In mexico city, trade delegates from the u. S. , mexico, and canada have opened formal talks aimed at renegotiating nafta, the north American Free trade agreement. President trump is pressing canada and mexico for concessions, claiming nafta is tilted against the United States. As talks opened friday, mexican farmers and workers protested outside. This is activist hector cruz. We are demanding the voices of society, simple society, farmers and citizens, be heard in these negotiations. For us, does clear that after 23 years, the north American Free trade agreement has only been a great economic and social disaster for our country. Now were threaten at what is bebeing negotiated insidide wile even worse. Amy in arizona, immigrants rights protesters targeted Breitbart News editor and President Trumps former chief strategist steve bannon as he gave a keynote address saturday to a u. S. Border patrolaffiliated group. Outside, scores of protesters were confined by police to an area blocks from the brian terry foundations awards banquet, but one person was able to slip inside to personally confront bannon. This is cell phone video shot by protester bryan sanders. I am from tucson. I am bryan. Know, i couldu to not have you c come to tucson ad not hear that. What youre proroposing o out te you . It is driving the country apart. I know that you know this. Now that you know you are youre about to have an orange jumpsuit. Say treason. Get him out. Amy a new study finds black men continue to be sentenced to far longer prison terms than white men committing similar crimes. The study by the u. S. Sentencing Commission FoundAfrican American men receive sentences 20 longer, and that the sentencicing disparity has increased over the last two 20 years. In jacksonvilllle, floridada, students and antifascist activists are planning a counter protest at the university of north florida today, as neonazis plan to rally on behalf of a student who was suspended after posting a threatening photo on social media. The photograph shows Political Science student ken parker shirtless, posing with a semiautomatic assault rifle, a swastika tattooed on his chest. Parker posted it to a black lives matteraligned student groups facebook page, along with a threat against the Group Students for a democratic society. President trump said sunday hes reversing his administrations plan to allow elephant trophies trophy hunters to import thee bodies of elephants they kill in zambiaia and zimbabwe. E. In a tweet, trump wrote sonsdent trumps two adult are longtime trophy hunters. A 2012 picture of donald trump, jr. In zimbabwe shows him standing in front of the corpse of an African Elephant holdidi a knife in o one hand and a severd tail of the elephanant in the other. In nebraska, about 100 protesters rallied at the capital in lincoln on sunday, calling on their state to deny a permit allowing the Company Transcanada to build the keystone xl pipelinene. The protest came ahead of aa crucial meeting today at nebraskas Public Utilities commission on whether to allow construction of the expanded keystone pipeline, which opponents say threatens to pollute nebraskas oglala aquifer while driving Greenhouse Gas emissions from oil extracted in canadas tar sands region. And youth activists around the country have buried 50year time capsules containing their hopes and fears for the planets future after President Trump moved to withdraw the u. S. From the paris climate accord. Members of the climate legacy time capsule project say theyre working to kick out politicians at all levels of government who are putting fossil fuel billionaires ahead of future generations. In new york city, dozens of youth placed handwritten letters and artwork in a metal cylinder and buried it Washington Square park. This is 16yearold activist shaza huhussein. For t the next 50 yearsrs, ie to seeee elected officials are changing the tide andnd shifting toward protecting the earth and making sure we do things like protecting native American Communities and measuring the cultural impact, moving toward renewable energy, just moving toward clean energy and formulating a Better Future and a futurure better for future generations. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We begin todays show with zimbabwe, where longtime leader Robert Mugabe is refusing to resign as president among a political crisis in zimbabwe. Members of zimbabwes ruling paparty are preparing to m meeto discuss mugabes impeachment after r the deadline f for him o resigngn came and went this morning. On sunday, mugabe gave a televised d address acknowledgig the countrys problemsms, but dd not mention stepping down. Whatever the pros and cons of the way they went about , i asering those concerns as president of zimbabwe and their commanderinchief, do it knowledge the issues do acknowledge the issues they have drawn my a attention to and do believe that these were raised in the spirit of honesty and out concernand patririotic for ththe stability of our nati. Of greater concern to our commanders are the wellfounded ands that the lack of unity cocoonness off purpose in both party and government was ofnslating into perceptions inattentiveness to the economy. Betweenublic spurts highranking officials in thee party and government exacerbated by multiple confliction , majorting messages criticisms leveled at us. Amy zimbabwes ruling party, zanupf, has expelled mugabe and first lady grace mugabe from the party. Mugabe had been working to hand over power to his wife grace. The impeachment proceedings against mugabe may now begin as soon as tuesday. Last week mugabe was placed under house arrest a after zimbabwes military seizedd parliament, coururts, government offices, and the main airport in the capital harare. The apparent coup came a week after president mugabe ousted his Vice President , emmerson mnangagwa. The military says it has appointed him as interim president of zimbabwe. After a week of relative calm, residents in harare took to the streets to celebrate the expected announcement of mugabes resignation, only to be disappointed by his refusal to step down. We were expecting the president to say, i have heard your concerns yesterday. This is not what we were expecting, to hear a long speech without any result for us. The results were simple. I am stepping down. Im handing over the country to someone else. Amy Robert Mugabe has held popower sisince zimbab d declard inindependence 37 7 years ago. Well, for more, were joined by glen mpani, mason fellow at the Kennedy School of government at harvard university. He is a democracy and governance practitioner who has worked for the last 15 years in africa. His recent oped in the New York Times is titled, for zimbabwe, a coup isnt the answer. Glen mpani, welcome to democracy now can you talk about the latest in zimbabwe and give us the background on hohow to understad it will stop looks it is good to be on your show. Zimbabwe has been confronted with an economic and political crisis for the last 20 years. The crisis has been largely due to bad governance, centralization of power, and the inability of the government to be able to provide solutions to address the economy crisisis. The crisis has resulted in and people fleeing the country to go to other countries to be able to earn a living. If you look at some of t the key things that have been a major challenge for daytoday zimbabwe, unemployment iss at 98 . There are shortages of water and electricity within the country. These are some of the Major Economic issues that have been a problem. But of major concern the last three or four years, dealing with secession. Majorhave been two factions that have been trying to show they can be able to succeed secede glen mpani. President. The former the other faction was led by the first lady grace mcgarvey which the president is alleged to have been part of. It reached fever pitch a couple of weeks ago when there was the expulsion of thehe vice presidet of the country, as the reresult who is promoting factionalism. , [indiscernible] took placece. Themselves to ensure that can restore him. On the other side, the faction aligned the first lady was lineng to assure they are them with the faction of the first lady. What we are confronted with here is factional issues were intraparty disagreements within zanupf that is led to an international crisis. Unfortunately, theres been a convergence of issues with the general public, tired of the leadership of zanupf and have been saying it for many years. Now we have one individual who is an agreement they should go. [indiscernible] the nuances are as follows. Thisaction pushing for probably intensive purposes is not sincere in terms of economic recovery and democratization of zimbabab. Theyre d doing simply because they want to install one of ththeir own. The people rallying with them are using it as an opportunity for them to be up to gain legitimacy, for them to o be ofo sanitize themselves as a protomacro probe democratic union. Amy so talk about, for people to are not familiar with zimbabwes history, 30 seven years ago gaining independence from england, used to be called rhodesia. A leadingabe independence activist as was his Vice President , who has just been appointed president. Give us the history of zimbabwe in africa. Zimbabwe achieved independence in 1980 and offered a lot of hope for the continent. I think if y you look at the largelyin zimbabwe, able to produce commoditi