On the tunnel Harbor Bridge and main thoroughfare out of the city a leak of internal Chinese Communist Party documents has revealed for the 1st time how a mass detention campaign of Chinese Muslims was carried out N.P.R.'s Emily thing reports the lake is the most significant cash of party documents released since 2001 the 403 pages of documents were obtained and published by The New York Times they detail how President Xi Jinping himself ordered a crackdown on Islam across the western region after a series of rudimentary attacks by Leader militants killed dozens among the documents leaked risk by she later used by regional officials to justify a sweeping detention campaign of up to 1.5 leader Muslims in other Muslim ethnic groups though the exact number remains a state secret other documents instruct officials how to mollify distraught leaders students who discovered their parents had been disappeared they were told their relatives had been quote infected by the virus of Islamic radicalism. N.p.r. News Beijing protests continued today in Iraq demonstrators occupied part of the main bridge in central Baghdad yesterday where security forces had pushed them back a week ago more than 300 people have been killed during protests that began last month this is n.p.r. News. The acrimonious relationship between calling Cavanagh and the n.f.l. Continued this weekend as a male Moffatt from member station reports the controversial quarterback skipped a workout organized by the n.f.l. And held one of his own in front of scouts and cameras at a high school football field Kaepernick sued the league or earlier this year claiming all $32.00 teams were colluding to keep him off the field he hasn't played a game since early twenty's 17 the same season he began protesting police violence against African-Americans by kneeling during the national anthem the n.f.l. Offered to host a workout for camper Nick Saturday at the Atlanta Falcons practice facility but capper Nick and his agents barked at the conditions proposed by the league including a restriction on media coverage Abeyta stay with everything today was making sure we had transparency of what went on we were getting that elsewhere so we came out here is important here the n.f.l. Says it's disappointed by Kaepernick decision but that it wouldn't affect his ability to sign with any team for n.p.r. News I'm of Moffitt in Atlanta leaders of the House and Senate have agreed in principle on a compromise bill to crack down on robo calls it's expected to require phone companies to block calls at no cost to customers and verify phone numbers are real it also gives government agencies more ability to go after scammers It's the latest effort in a crackdown building on steps by state attorneys general and the Federal Communications Commission as well as phone companies I'm Winsor Johnston n.p.r. News from Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include roadside attractions presenting the warrior queen of John c. Based on the true story of India's Rani of John c. Who led an army against the British Empire and became a feminist symbol of resistance now playing in theaters. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News and little Garcia Navarro good morning there's been more violence this weekend in Bolivia. Weeks of protests forced its president Elmore Alice to step down a week ago he's in exile in Mexico now there are mass protests calling for him to return Police in central Bolivia opened fire on a crowd of protesting coca farmers who are a key part of morality his political base at least 8 people were killed dozens more injured and N.P.R.'s Philip Reeves is in the capital of bass and he joins me now welcome I So let's hear about the scene there and that deadly protest in particular what happened well the scene is tense and it's angry and it's fearful mandalas still has a sizable number of fiercely loyal supporters especially amongst the indigenous population and that shooting of the film is in Cochabamba which is in central Bolivia Coast real outrage it's causing real outrage but I itself has called it a massacre it's igniting more protests in support of his return the military have used jets to crowds of protesters and they've also started firing tear gas into peaceful crowds in the bits of all of this you've got concerns now here in up as about shortages of fuel food and medicine and partly because there's so many barricades around the city that supplies can't be delivered and shops of course most of them are shouted. As forced out after evidence of fraud surfaced in last month's election there's currently an interim government is that government capable of handling this are they in control is the military control is going well it's really struggling to establish its legitimacy the interim president is Yemeni and yes she's a conservative she was a senator she had. He's got a dialogue going with some in the Socialist Party of Evo Morales but she has a big credibility problem I mean she faces allegations that she bent the rules in the manner in which she self-proclaimed us of president and she's also supposed to be in the role of a caretaker a kind of neutral government that is guiding Bolivia towards elections but she severed relations with Nicolas windows government in Venezuela she's kicked out hundreds of Cuban doctors so they are going beyond the line if you challenge the there are supposed to be new elections right in 3 months is that going to be possible do you think with all this going on it's going to be very hard for them and it really is dependent on whether they can establish a secure foothold they certainly haven't done that yet Firstly the new interim president has to come down the violence that's going to be very difficult she's going to appoint a new electoral authority both houses of Congress remember are controlled by what out of his Socialist Party and meanwhile But Alice is still out there engaging in this and he's putting out tweets that on one hand support dialogue and on the other hand rally support against what he describes as a coup against him so it's very hard to see a clear path out of this and further just briefly what are people telling you. Well you know people are very worried I mean very polarized violence and fear of making things worse. Piece of the capacity to cope. People on the street shouting slogans. So we have a very dangerous situation here that's N.P.R.'s Philip Reeves in the Field thank you so much You're welcome. On Capitol Hill this week the impeachment inquiry was brought into public view Democrats and top u.s. Diplomats painted a picture of a president who used taxpayer dollars as leverage for his own political gain but there was another theme they kept coming back to that the trust and security of Ukraine which is relied on the u.s. For support was also threatened his former ambassador to Ukraine Marie of out of it on Friday our leadership depends on the power of our example and the consistency of our purpose both have now opened to question and. With the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America the advocate for stronger u.s. Ukraine Relations and he joins me now from New York welcome to the program thank you I was really struck by the tenor of urgency in the testimony of the diplomats this past week as ambassador Bill Taylor put it in his opening statement and I'm quoting here Ukraine is right at this moment while we sit in this room and for the last 5 years under armed attack from Russia while we're seeing this impeachment hearing here in the United States what's happening in Ukraine and Ukraine there is live fire going against Ukrainian positions on a daily basis going back to 2015 when the 1st peace process was put into place. That ceasefire has not kept longer than a week at best. How would you describe the state of u.s. Ukraine relations at the moment. Brand new phase the previous administration thrown for a loop. As the rest of the world was with the election of Donald Trump and did everything possible to strengthen that relationship to the extent that the United States started handing over lethal weapons to Ukraine for the 1st time as well as Ukraine was able to purchase several Coast Guard cutters to increase its navy now however we are in a brand new situation with a brand new president a novice president that being the one in Ukraine not the novice president in the United States were hoping that they too can get into a room and maybe start working closer together but at this point everything centers around this impeachment investigation and we've seen reporting that really because of this impeachment investigation we really don't have a lot of high u.s. Level contact with Ukraine that's true in both directions So currently there is no appointed and accepted embassador from the United States to Ukraine neither do we have a special representative of the opposition as far as we are being told by the White House will not be field again and from the other side Ukraine dismissed most of these investors throughout the world after the election of President Selenski and they too have not appointed an ambassador that's been confirmed to the United States so what does that mean for Ukraine in December there will be the 1st peace talks with Germany France Russia and Ukraine So right now there is nobody really from the United States who is saying please let us into this peace process so we can advocate on behalf of Ukraine currently the governments of France and Germany have very strongly indicated that they would like to take the side of Russia and this peace negotiation is a worry that Ukraine is sort of become talks in a way the United States and there might just be a complete disengagement and there's always that worry you crane has had throughout the entire 20th century where at times there was enormous support for freeing Ukraine all to disappear with a change in attitude by the United States however what is still very clear is there is a norm. Bipartisan support and currently in the Congress you should also look at the fact that since 2015 numerous National Guard but have visited Ukraine and trained Ukrainian Guardsmen on an ongoing basis and that exchange is going to benefit Ukraine in the long run that's Andy the b.n.c. Of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America thank you very much have a good day the open hearings in the House impeachment inquiry have introduced the country to a new face Republican congresswoman Elise stiff onic who represents a district in northern New York she was once seen as a moderate who kept President Trump at arm's length now stiff onic has emerged as one of his fiercest most high profile defenders North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann tells us more in a list of on the 1st one her seat in 2014 she was just 30 years old at the time the youngest woman ever elected to Congress she promised bipartisanship and focus on policy and I don't work with anyone regardless of their party affiliation to get it done Republicans Democrats independents and he's upon it was appointed to the House Intelligence Committee she already had a deep resume she's a Harvard grad worked in the Bush White House and was a close ally of former House speaker Paul Ryan after President Trump selections to fund it criticized many of his signature policies opposing the border wall blasting his trade tariffs and most recently condemning Trump's decision to withdraw u.s. Troops from Syria I think it was misguided I think it was the wrong approach and I think it's our national security at risk at times to phonic use startling language to describe the president calling his actions inappropriate offensive and quote contrary to our American ideals but when the Ukraine scandal broke stuff on it pivoted sending fundraising letters to potential donors promising to stand up for President Trump and telling reporters the probe is a political smear this is a very very serious matter and I have not seen evidence of high crimes in this. Demeanors I'm proud to support President and I oppose impeachment during public hearings this weeks to phonic did just that condemning the process at every opportunity clashing with the Democrat who chairs the Intelligence Committee out of shifts and asked Are you not on the bench thank you for being able to use is a gentlewoman was suspended What is the instruction for this time it is our time in facts to phonic was violated procedural rules established for the hearing but combative moments like that quickly elevated her profile tweets about her performance were shared repeatedly by President Trump and her own Twitter following exploded she's drawing praise from conservative media write for The Wall Street Journal and National Review and also made a coveted appearance on Fox News where she again blasted Democrats who she's now taken to describing as socialist and radical the American public was watching renegade waiting for a silver bullet and they didn't have that through weeks of open and closed door hearings to find it has appeared and swayed by detailed testimony from senior career diplomats who allege President Trump politicized u.s. Foreign policy in order to leverage an investigation by Ukraine against Joe by one of his Democratic rivals her stance has drawn criticism including from former allies Washington Post conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin blasted Steffanie going to column this week for quote declaring there's no harm in extorting Ukraine to do trumps political dirty work Nicolle Wallace the m s n b c host who also served in the Bush White House tweeted that stuff on it is one of the occasionally reasonable Republicans who's become a trump shill that kind of high profile pushback may be one more signs defining has moved to the center of the fight over President Trump and impeachment stuff on it was also named this week by Time magazine with 100 Next List of the most influential young leaders in America and then n.p.r. News Westport New York. You're listening to n.p.r. News. Live. I'm Windsor Johnston with these headlines Louisiana governor John Bell Edwards has won reelection he held on to his seat after a tough challenge from Republican Ed. This is the 3rd and final gubernatorial election of 2019 and the 2nd loss for President Trump who campaigned for all 3 candidates pro-democracy demonstrations continue in Hong Kong hundreds of protesters with breaks in makeshift barricades are holding off riot police on the road surrounding a college campus in the central part of the city demonstrations are now in their 6 month officials in Venice a damage from catastrophic flooding it could top $1000000000.00 The city is suffering its 3rd major flooding in less than a week I mentor Johnston n.p.r. News in Washington. With support for n.p.r. 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News I'm Luke Garcia Navarro senior White House advisor Steven Miller is an immigration hardliner that much is clear he's engineered everything from the Trump administration's family separation policy to the travel ban on people from some Muslim majority countries but now Democrats are calling for his resignation after the Southern Poverty Law Center obtained leaked e-mails in which they say Miller encouraged far right website Breitbart to promote white supremacist ideas in one message after a statement released by Pope Francis in 2015 that was sympathetic to refugees Miller references a book of fiction writing quote Someone should point out the parallels to camp of the Saints this novel is a dystopian apocalyptic French novel about a flotilla of migrants from India who overtake a Southern town in France Chelsea Steber is a scholar of French literature at the Catholic University of America and she teaches camp of the saints like key themes are actually white supremacy and the end of white civilization as the West knows it infestation invasion hordes of nameless faceless migrants who come to indeed invade the West and bring about its end that sort of language that we see mirrored in some of the comments today yeah absolutely I mean my interest in this novel was precisely because really with the inaugural address I noticed a language that I was intimately familiar with because I study it because I've worked on far right French nationalism and its literature and language for a long time and I was sort of blown away the alarm bells started going off and I was recognizing a language that was not normal political discourse that I was used to hearing but a discourse that I absolutely knew and you teach this text your students what are their reactions I'm interested in their reactions are sort of to be overwhelmed I mean I write about how the book itself is I mean from a pedagogic point of view very effective because it performs the. Effect of investigation with its language and with its figures of style repetition metaphor and so students feel quite invaded by the language and it is an emotional and visceral reaction and that's his power I suppose Absolutely I mean again to study it is so important to understand how it could quite literally infest a mind a person to believe things and with my students the thing that I do that I think is so important that I would guess encourage anyone who wants to read this book to do is to ground ourselves 1st in humanity and humanism and we agree that we believe in the equality of humanity the dignity of humanity and when you start from that point of view and you read this book and you realise that a central conceit in the novel is that you cannot respect the humanity of all beings that you must create a hierarchy and that the white West is the most human and thus must reject this subhuman group it becomes easier to see how incredibly disturbing and wrong it is Kathleen Blue is also familiar with the book and others like it novels that morph from fiction to reality for white power activists they fill imaginative holes that people can use in organizing and they provide kind of a map of ideology and operations that spur future activity Bellew teaches history at the University of Chicago and wrote a book about the roots of white power movements in the u.s. Called Bring the war home camp of the saints she says mirrors the central belief of white nationalist thinking which is that most political issues of the day are at bottom about the reproduction of the white race and the birth of white children this is why you see people focusing on the birth rate right we see the birth rate appearing and manifestos of violent actors but to people in this movement white reproduction is not just about sort of a peaceful demographic transformation but it's about this feeling of being overrun by immigrants about being threatened with. Forced integration and about the idea that the white race is under attack and I think that sense of emergency that is depicted in works like camp of the saints and the Turner Diaries explains how white nationalism becomes such a captivating and kind of world consuming way of thinking about politics so this book has been referenced by Steve Bannon former advisor to President Trump Republican Iowa Representative Steve King. What does that mean to you you know when we're thinking about the historically ingrained problem of racial inequality and anti immigrant xenophobia in American society there are a number of laws and policies and systems in our country that perpetuate harm to people of color crossing the border and raci