Well go jerusalem to speak with nathan thrall, author of the book the only language they understand forcing compromise in israel and palestine. Then to new orleans where the city removes the last of four confederate statues in recent weeks. To literally put the infederacy on a pedestal honor is an inaccurate recitation of our past come is an affront to our present, and abet prescription for our future. Amy white nationalists have staged protests. We will speak with Malcolm Suber , cofounder of take em down nola. In a partial victory for the haitianamerican community, the department of Homeland Security extends temporary protected status for tens of thousands of haitians who fled their country after the devastating 2010 earthquake. Over 50,000 haitians, some who have been living in the u. S. For average of seven and a half builtyears, who have their families and homes and businesses here, are facing deportation to haiti. Is notas we know, equipped and ready to absorb all of these refugees. Amy as haitians a bit extension should be longer, we will speak with new york city councilmember jumaane williams, who represents one of the largest populations of haitians in the United States. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In manchester, england, at least 22 people were killed in a bombing at a concert arena at the end of a performance by american pop star Ariana Grande. Dozens more were wounded in the explosion, which appears to be a suicide attack. This is 19yearold sebastian diaz, who survived the blast. We heard the explosion. We just looked behind us and there was chaos. In front of us, people were screaming. Towere determining whether stay and seek shelter or on and try to get out. People were running and screaming around us and pushing down the stairs to go outside. People were falling down. Girls were crying. We fill these women being treated by paramedics with wounds on the legs. No shoes. It was just chaos. Amy police say they are investigating the explosion as a terrorist incident, and that the alleged attacker died in the explosion. This morning on twitter, isis claimed responsibility for the attack. British Prime Minister theresa may says the police know the identity of the alleged attacker, but he or she has not been named. A second person, who has also not been named, has been arrested in connection to the bombing. Authorities have named the first of the 22 victims, 18yearold Georgina Bethany callander from lancashire. While speaking in the town of bethlehem in the Israelioccupied West Bank today, President Trump condemned the manchester bombing. Pres. Trump i extend my deepest condolences to those so terribly injured in this terrorist attack, and to the many killed and the families so many families of the victims. We stand an absolute solidarity with the people of the united kingdom. So many young, beautiful, innocent People Living and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers in life. Amy that is President Trump speaking after he met with Palestinian LeaderMahmoud Abbas in the west bank today, as part of his twoday trip to israel and palestine. Palestinians across the west bank and gaza launched a general strike monday to protest President Trumps visit and to show solidarity with palestinian prisoners currently on Hunger Strike in israeli jails. This is Rifa Abu Jazar in gaza. This protest comes as a response to the head of terrorism trump stopped and the response to whoever protects the head of terrorism, who describes the resistance of our people to defend their land and resist against the martyrs of their children murderers of their children as terrorism. Amy on monday, President Trump sat down with israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu. While speaking to reporters alongside netanyahu, trump denied naming israel as the source of the highly classified intelligence that he gave to Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian AmbassadorSergey Kislyak earlier this month, even though no one had ever accused him of naming israel directly as the source. Pres. Trump just so you understand, i never mentioned the word or the name israel. Never mentioned it. So you had another story wrong. Never mentioned the word israel. Imply thatalso israel was not located in the middle east. Rex, trump as you know, secretary of state, has done in incredible job. We just got back from the middle east. We just got back from saudi arabia. We were treated incredibly well. Amy as trump made the comment, the israeli ambassador can be seen bearing his head in his hand. Trump became the first sitting u. S. President to visit the western wall in the old city of jerusalem, land that was seized from the palestinians by the Israeli Military during the sixday war in 1967. Tonight, trump is flying to the vatican, where hes slated to meet with pope francis on wednesday. Well have more on trumps visit to israel and palestine after headlines. Cnn is reporting President Trump as the director of National Intelligence dan coats, National Security agency Michael Rodgers, to publicly state President Trumps campaign did not collude with russia to allegedly influence the 2016 election. According to cnn the request , came after former fbi director james comey publicly confirmed in march the fbi was investigating possible collusion between the Trump Campaign and russian officials. Both dan coats and Michael Rodgers refused to comply with trumps demand, which they reportedly found inappropriate. Meanwhile, former National Security advisor Michael Flynn says hell invoke his fifth amendment rights rather than comply with a subpoena compelling him to testify to the Senate Intelligence committee as part of an investigation into whether Trump Campaign officials colluded with russia to allegedly influence the 2016 election. Top Committee Lawmakers say they may hold flynn in contempt of congress if he pleads the fifth, which protects citizens from being forced to incriminate themselves. During the campaign trail, donald trump blasted people who plead the fifth. Mr. Trump if youre innocent, what are you taking the fifth amendment . Amy meanwhile, Top Democrats on the House Oversight committee have accused flynn of lying to pentagon investigators last year when he applied for a renewal of his security clearances. In a letter released monday, the lawmakers say flynn told the pentagon he had not received any money from foreign companies, only two months earlier he had received more , than 45,000 in speaking fees from the Russian Television network rt. Its a felony to lie to federal investigators. Flynns also been accused of not properly registering as a lobbyist for the turkish government last year which is , another felony. President trump is unveiling a 4. 1 trillion budget today. The plan includes massive cuts to social programs will calling for historic increases in military spending. The budget proposes to slash 800 billion from medicaid, nearly 200 billion from nutritional assistance programs such as food stamps and meals on wheels, and more than 72 billion from disability benefits. The plan would also completely eliminate some student loan programs. It would ban undocumented immigrants from receiving support through programs for families with children, including the child care tax credit. In a rare proposed benefit for families, the budget allocates 19 billion for six weeks of paid parental leave for new families, a project that has been spearheaded by his daughter and senior white house adviser, ivanka trump. The budget also calls for a historic 10 increase in military spending and another 2. 6 billion to further militarize the u. S. Mexico border, including 1. 6 billion to build trumps border wall. The budget projects 3 economic growth, which economists say is widely unrealistic. Unlike previous president s, trump is unveiling his proposed budget while he is abroad, currently spending the day in israel and palestine before he heads to the vatican tonight. David stockman, former budget director for president ronald reagan, said this budget is dead before arrival, so he might as well be out of town. In a partial victory for the haitianamerican community, the department of Homeland Security announced monday it has extended haitians temporary protected status, or tps. Tens of thousands of haitians were given tps after an earthquake devastated their country in 2010. The new extension will allow them to continue to legally reside and work in the u. S. For the time being. Immigrant rights advocates cautiously welcomed the decision, but voiced concern the dhs failed to extend tps for the usual 18month increment, leading some to wonder if this is a precursor to mass deportations. Well have more on haitians temporary protected status later in the broadcast. In kashmir, protests erupted today amid news that an Indian Military officer has received an award from the indian army, after the officer reportedly ordered his soldiers to tie a kashmiri civilian to an Indian Army Jeep and parade his body through the streets the last month. Viral video of the incident shows Farooq Ahmad Dar strapped to the front of the moving jeep. Army officials says the military officer decided to use the civilians body as a human shield against kashmiris who were throwing stones. The video has sparked widespread protests against the Indian Military and demands for independence. In colombia, major protests and strikes continue for a seventhstraight day in the port city of buenaventura as residents demonstrate against widespread violence in the region and a lack of basic services. The government has launched an increasingly violent crackdown against protesters, killing at least one person and injuring dozens more, including children. Despite the crackdown, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of buenaventura over the weekend. The National Afrocolombian Peace Council says residents of the region are living through a humanitarian crisis with assassinations, kidnappings, threats, torture, the targeted killing of community leaders, and mass displacement by extraction projects in the territory. In mexico, journalists protested monday in the state of michoacan to demand authorities do more to investigate the disappearance of one of their colleagues salvador , adame pardo, who was kidnapped by gunmen five days ago. Hes been a journalist for more than two decades and is currently the director of the television station 6tv. His kidnapping comes amid a wave of murders of mexican journalists. Back in the United States, the Supreme Court has ruled North Carolina lawmakers unconstitutionally gerrymandered two congressional districts in order to strip voting power from the African American community. Its the latest ruling by the Supreme Court finding that southern states, including alabama and virginia, have engaged in racial gerrymandering in order to concentrate black voters into fewer districts in cash districts to weaken their voting power. And in denver, colorado, 33yearold Ingrid Encalada latorre has won a temporary stay of deportation after she sought refuge in a Quaker Meeting House to avoid being deported to peru. She is a mother of two u. S. Born children. She has been living in the Quaker Meeting House since last december. This is Ingrid Encalada speaking after leaving the church saturday. I think we need to continue to fight for immigration reform. President trump has said he would work for us. It is time for the rubber the president to work for immigration reform. We need to work locally to ask our governor and mayor hancock to make denver a sanctuary city will stop amy among the suit came out to support ingrid on were Jeanette Vizguerra and saturday arturo hernandezgarcia, two other undocumented denver residents who both sought refugee in churches in recent years. They both won stays of deportation earlier this month. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and im juan gonzalez. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. We begin todays show in new orleans where on friday, the city removed the last of four confederate statues in recent weeks. Hundreds of people gathered to celebrate as the massive bronze statue of confederate general robert e. Lee came down. It was the first of the series of monuments to be removed during daylight. Workers wore bulletproof vests and face coverings to conceal their identities as they used a crane to remove the statue from a 60foothigh pedestal. New orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu said threats and intimidation necessitated the overnight work and extra safety precautions. Afterward, landrieu delivered an address about the citys efforts to remove the monuments that he says celebrate the lost cause of the confederacy. The historic record is clear. Robert e lee, geoff davis, the statues were not directed to just honor these men. But as part of a movement which became known as the cold of the lost cause, this colts had one goal and one goal only, through monuments another means, to rewrite history, to hide the truth, which is that the confederacy was on the wrong side of humanity. Aftererected 166 years the founding of our cities, 19 , thesefter the civil war monuments that we took down were meant to rebrand the history of our city and the ideals of the confederacy. These statues are not just on an metal, not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments celebrate a fictional senate has confederacy, ignoring the death and enslavement and terror that it actually stood for. And after the civil war, these monuments were part of that terrorism, as much as burning a cross on him once on. They work erected us and a strong message to all who walked in the shadows of about who was still in charge in this city. Amy white nationalists have staged a series of protests and issued threats in the leadup to the memorials removals. A car belonging to one of the workers had also been set on fire. Though the four most prominent confederate monuments have been removed, activists are calling for new orleans officials to remove all monuments, school names, and street signs in new orleans dedicated to white supremacists. re joined by Malcolm Suber, cofounder and coordinator with take em down nola. Welcome to democracy now can you talk about the history of the take em down Nola Movement and her reaction to these four statues being taken down . Yes. First of all, take em down nola is a continuation of the decades long struggle of black people in the city to rid ourselves of the presence of these White Supremacy monuments. Take em down nola was founded 2. 5 years ago. Of the brain wake is some taking down the Confederate Flag and South Carolina and the shooting central stem. We thought it was necessary for us to come together and really press the city to step up its efforts were renew our efforts to get rid of these White Supremacy monuments. So just coincidentally, the mayor announced he wanted to get rid of four statues around the same time. From the very beginning, our position was, we are not satisfied with you just saying the mayor saying there would only be four statues removed when we knew that, due to our historical research, there were more than 20 confederate statues , hundreds of street names, and 30 school names. In all, there were 130 140 confederate memorials in the city that needed to be removed. So our position with the mayor has been, if you truly believe that these confederate memorials are here to terrorize and to remind black people about who is in charge in the city, then you should expand your reach. As far as were concerned, we welcome these four being down, but we have plenty of work to do and we are asking the mayor to join us in this effort, rather than ask as to be satisfied with these four. Juan Malcolm Suber, your reaction to of the louisiana house just passed a bill that would make it more difficult remove any monument honoring war heroes, including confederate monuments . Actionsction to those and the threat that of come against the city just for those few monuments that have