And to keep playing hardball 77 doctors have now been fired and hundreds of their colleagues who are also on strike awaiting to hear their fate it seems unthinkable that they can all be fired because the impact on the already struggling health service would be disastrous due to the rampant inflation the real value of a doctor's salary has plummeted to the equivalent of less than $100.00 u.s. Dollars a month with members of the Civil Service to take to the streets on Wednesday the pressure is building on President Emerson and God where every day this economic crisis is making life harder and harder for Zimbabweans Well knees from the b.b.c. . The prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau has announced that China is to resume imports of Canadian beef and pork some 4 months after Beijing suspended shipments in a Twitter post missed a true date Sancta the country's meat industry for working to reopen what he described as this important market for Canada's meat producers. Donald Trump has said the United States is ready to help Mexico wage war on drug cartels after at least 9 members of an American Mormon family were killed in an ambush in northern Mexico the Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador So the families vehicle convoy might have been mistaken by the attackers for a rival gang His will grant a video of the aftermath of the attack filmed and posted online by a distraught family member shows a burnt out car containing challenged human remains as the victims were u.s. Citizens President Trump said via Twitter that if Mexico needs all requests helping cleaning out these monsters the United States stands ready willing and able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively in response the Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would speak to President Trump the didn't need foreign intervention in the battle against the cartels thousands of policemen in India have joined a protest after several officers were injured in a fight with a group of lawyers over a court parking space the demonstrators marched on the police headquarters in Delhi holding signs reading we are not punching bags and calling for the swift prosecution of those who'd attacked their colleagues. Russian border officers have detained a woman trying to smuggle in gold from China after they noticed her walking strangely the officials at a Siberian border post saw the Russian woman placing heavy steps and looking nervous a metal detector revealed that she had 8 gold discs taped to her feet b.b.c. News. Support for the world comes from Babble a language at the teaches real life conversations in a new language including Spanish French or German Babble's 10 to 15 minute lessons are available in the app store or online at Babble b. a B. B. e L. Dot com. I'm Marco Werman this is the world good to have you with us today the u.s. And Mexico are looking for common ground after a brutal episode last night at least 9 members of a family of dual u.s. Mexican citizens were gunned down in an ambush in northern Mexico President Trump said it's time for the u.s. To help Mexico wage war on drug cartels Mexico's president under aged man well Lopez Obrador thanked him for his willingness to help. But Lopez Obrador also added that Mexico's sovereignty must be preserved last night's attack was grisly even by the standards of organized crime in Mexico the victims 3 women and 6 children of the Lebaron family Angela Concerta is a reporter in El Paso and has previously reported on the family what do we know about the specifics of the attack Angela but we know that these 3 vehicles driven by women with children or came under some sort of attack or ambush and it's unclear if they exploded because there was gunfire that hit a guest in or some other way were set on fire is it known whether the family was targeted in this attack we don't know that and it's a very preliminary investigation these are kind of lawless pockets of northern Mexico that they were traveling through it was a caravan with 3 vehicles large S.U.V.s sometimes or Hughes very often by narco groups so could have been mistaken identity then again it would be pure speculation we don't know why this this family unit shoulder came under attack so the Lebaron family. Has a presence in this region of northern Mexico you reported on a previous violent attack against them what is the history of this family so this family moved from the u.s. To Mexico in the late 18 hundreds few years ago when violence I kept in the region in this border state of Chihuahua they too suffered 1st a kidnapping for ransom of a 16 year old boy in the town that teenager was returned unharmed but later a group of armed men came to a family gathering and pulled 2 of the Lebaron family men out of the home and shot and killed them that sparked a huge outcry from the community they took up arms and started patrolling their own town trying to protect themselves from what they called cartel violence if the Lebaron family was so outspoken against the cartels doesn't the mistaken identity theory kind of lose some plausibility we really don't know it's purely speculation they could easily have been targeted now the leaders of the Lebaron family have been outspoken free for years I mean dating back to 2 presidents ago so this is not something new but they are very outspoken right now they're furious the headline a lot of people I heard this morning was Mormon family attacked what was their religion have to do with all of this it really has nothing to do with the Mormons have existed in Mexico for generations the Lebaron family they did not stand out there very well integrated in Mexico accepted members of the community they've been in state government federal government so they are very much it's fully Mexicans said a sense but also dual nationals u.s. Citizen sicko back and forth and have strong ties on false sides of the border so there's no reason to believe that religion had anything to do with this attack so Angela's he said the Lebaron family has criticized state and federal governments. For not doing enough to restore law and order in parts of Mexico controlled by these cartels today we saw President Trump tweeting that quote If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these monsters the United States stands ready willing and able to get involved because he continues sometimes you need an army to defeat an army do you think military action will be taken in this case and Mexico's president said it welcome So we'll talk to President Trump about this but Mexico has its own military fighting this fight there's lots of cooperation when it comes to organized crime address trafficking but not actual troops crossing into Mexico to hunt down drug cartel members in towns like Le Baron Have you seen any reaction from anybody in the Lebaron family about Trump's tweet yes one of the Lebaron patriarchs responded directly and said as far as help focus on lowering drug consumption in the u.s. And stop gun law loopholes from injecting high powered assault weapons into Mexico so we're real concerned about concrete item actions that can be taken on the part of the u.s. That is much more than just offering to send troops to go after a very elusive drug trafficking members reporter Angela Concerta in El Paso Texas thanks very much for your time good to speak with him thank you Michael. 500 miles west from where the Lebaron family was attacked is to wanna it's also a violent part of Mexico and it's a hub for migrants waiting to enter the u.s. There are shelters into one of the tried to provide refuge for them. Walk up a winding narrow street to the top of a steep hill and you'll find one of the shelters these days it's home mostly to Mexicans who are fleeing cartel violence elsewhere. In their country as k.q.e.d. Sasha Coco reports it's also the 1st shelter into wanna to team up with American school teachers the want to open a preschool for the youngest children waiting at the border. I don't doubt I will go. Most of them Ok but these yet and then this everybody calls or doing I let the is little ing out beans on to paper plates she runs this Catholic shelter which on this day is housing more than 150 people crammed in 3 rooms and 2 makeshift spaces outside sharing 4 bathrooms one washing machine entire families on a single mattress. But across the street it's a different scene in a light filled house children are painting while listening to classical music building with colorful magnetic blocks wooden toys Krantz organized by color in rows of glass jars It's spacious and orderly and beautiful for disputing that into the tragic lives of of a migrant or refugee but. All the more reason for beauty because everyone needs beauty in their life and there sure are not getting it this is Elise Schaefer i.v. She ran a private Early Childhood Education Center in Santa Monica for decades before creating this informal preschool called the Nast a lot of these children are in a state of suspended childhood but like their child it just ended on that day when suddenly mom or dad just said you know we're we're leaving. She's watching a 3 year old named Kevin playing with colorful silk scarves he's waving them over a clear plastic tube attached to a fan so the pieces of silk shoot up into the air. Again again he shrieks. Kevin and his mom arrived at dawn yell at the shelter here 2 months ago from the truck on a violent cartel was extraordinary. Reading people for money kidnapping and killing . So Kevin's mom that we're not using her real name for safety reasons got on the bus for $21.00 Kevin arrived shaken and angry we had the says he had a hard time at the shelter he would hit other kids and yell at them yeah Don't make sure you're not been laid. On the right must close in a new house will pay and when you have the says since the next open in September Kevin's learn to listen better she doesn't have to grab him so he pays attention. To research shows kids who have a hard time adjusting socially before the age of 5 have a lot of trouble catching up Elise says if kids like Kevin can play away from the crowded shelter it could give him some sense of stability but this isn't a Band-Aid solution it isn't this isn't strengthening the day of a child whom might be stuck on a mattress in a shelter I mean yes of course were sweeping the day of a child but it's so much more than that this is about really setting a trajectory that will have an impact the whole idea of the Nast started with a trip Elise took to greet she happened to meet a relief worker there who invited her to visit a refugee camp then home to mostly Syrian Afghan migrants they're digging in the dirt for a protein that's nails in their pockets and old cigarette lighters that they had found when there was nothing for children back in Los Angeles Elise raised enough cash to set up an education program for those kids in Greece and eventually one in the Congo while building these nests around the world Elise was painfully aware of migrant families at the border not far from her home in l.a. When she visited Danielle at the shelter in t one the 2 women clicked nothing as an episodic resolution that is in their living just had a moment in us of just that the mother gave way again because if it's a good thing then let the had already. Set up a makeshift elementary school next to her shelter in an old bus but she had nothing for younger kids she says they were just playing on their parents' phones most of the day. In new Gambia Now let the Says she's really seen the kids change a lot you can see it in their faces bleed them in them in the evening you know inability he let the Annalise make an unlikely pair at least doesn't speak a word of Spanish and was raised Jewish let the is a devout Catholic who sees a lease coming to set up the school across the street as a blessing that you know that was seen as a growing up I thought you know if you don't get married I'm gonna be oh let these here is to shoveled as she scrambles to carry boxes of donated milk and cereal up the steep stairs to the shelter she used to focus a lot more on her appearance she owned a beauty salon traveled the world lived in upper class life here in Tijuana but one day everything changed her son was killed in a car accident if he had given way to me said Mr Levy even. Given what a fella can only one of the. Absolute done in the knows that she says nothing seemed important anymore a priest urged her to channel her pain into helping people one day a friend asked her to help pass out food to homeless migrants the envious of us have Cuomo when they were motivated to do was said but out and but then they don't look us up but I let the was so moved by what she saw she connected with a Catholic charity and found a space for a shelter across the street at the nest Elise notices that one of the silk scarves little Kevin floated up into the air has caught on a ceiling fan way above his head Kevin you can't reach what should we do at the least encourages cabin and some other kids to log in a heavy latter then figure out where to position it to climb up and get the scarf down I wonder if the latter if that would be. Hopeful. Though this is the kind of autonomous decision making kids need she says especially migrant kids who haven't had much choice in what's happened so far in their young lives at the end of the day Elise welcomes a dozen parents staying at the shelter to an orientation she introduces a teacher from California the nest is staffed by teachers from the u.s. Who use their vacation time to come and volunteer Where's the wine and nonalcoholic beverages as well Elise serves wine and cheese on little plates just like at her high end preschool in Santa Monica and there's discussion of brain science and why memorizing A.B.C.'s and numbers isn't enough Elise encourages the parents to try out the magnetic wall the light table the clay and then like the preschoolers do each day the parents act in a short play they write. That. This one is by Kevin's mom who really at them and it's a take on Little Red Riding Hood she pretends to be a grandmother walking hunched over to meet a wolf. Take. A listen let these say it's the 1st time they've seen who smile then the sits down at a child size easel and paints a picture of a building that looks like a home if the heart of the burial ground is that your house or the shelter I ask her. For it's the nest she says a place where she and her son finally feel safe for the world Sasha Koka Mexico. Just ahead Iran steps further away from a nuclear agreement and closer to a nuclear weapon you're listening to the world. It's. 91.3. In the Valley tonight. 78 to. 47 and partly cloudy tonight. Over the next couple days to get support from. A brand new and unique retirement community in Rockland independent living. Memory . And we get support from. The state planning team to state tax and business advice what makes a family unique they understand. With understanding a family. 21 . I'm Marco Werman You're with the world Iran is pulling further away from the 2015 nuclear deal President Trump abandoned the agreement last year as you recall and now Iran says it will begin injecting gas into centrifuges to enrich uranium that can be used to make reactor fuel or nuclear weapons Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said the step is reversible if other nations up all their commitments are on top of it is a political analyst with the Rand Corporation and joins us from Washington Iran help us understand what this means how big of a deal are these latest moves by terror on. Well this to the 4th step that Iran has announced a bit over the past few months further distancing itself from commitments that it had undertaken and there to be a clear deal these steps have become progressively more challenging for their national community the u.s. And Europe specifically and this latest one is a big political deal so today the announcement means that we are walking back toward Iran being able to enrich uranium there and so in that sense it is quite a departure from Iran's implementation of that So what can Iran actually do today that they could not do a week ago so what Iran is essentially saying that it will start doing as of tomorrow is that it will be injecting u.s. 6 into a number of centrifuges that it is currently spinning and forto and you have 6 What is that the uranium gas that will enrich the uranium that they're currently spinning out on the centrifuges All right so that's part of the deal Iraq was still able to have a number of centrifuges there but it wasn't going to use them for at Richmond purposes and so Iran is now taking steps toward walking back from the facility being a research and development facility and actually using get for nuclear activity so I guess what many listeners want to know what I want to know. Does this mean Iran is getting closer to a bomb and how close how soon well eventually if Iran continues to take more and more steps in the direction that we've seen so far that yes it will be able to get closer to acquiring enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon but we shouldn't be jumping to conclusions today because what Iran has announced is actually not that significant in terms of a technical capability to get closer to a nuclear weapon so Iran still has quite some way to go we're not facing an existential crisis quite yet but the developments are certainly very far from ideal when does the existential crisis begin. It's hard to say because we don't really know what Iran's next steps are going to be you know there are a few things that could indicate that we are walking into that crisis for example if Iran decides it's part of its next step to kick International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors if it decides to sort of revoke access to facilities from them and to kick them out then we will have a much more concerning situation before us Similarly if Iran decides to just coal out of the deal altogether as the United States did a year and a half ago then we will be facing a much more problematic situation so Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gave the e.u. Another 2 month deadline to try and salvage the deal and he warned of additional steps to break away from the deal of Europe did not help and supporting the Iranian economy so what is Rouhani looking for in terms of economic support and if he gets it will he stay in the deal Well the Iranians have long said that what they're actually looking for is a few things they understand that Europeans can't really circumvent u.s. Sanctions they can't provide Iran but the economic recovery that it had initially. Hoped for so what their run ins have said they want to see now is one the ability to sell their oil and b access to financial infrastructure that any country needs in order to be able to do business from my perspective I think that you know it's going to be difficult for the Europeans so actually move forward in any significant way and that we may be looking at an additional set of steps in the next few months. I'll be on top of her by with the Rand Corporation speaking with us from Washington thanks so much for your time. Thanks for having me Ok maybe you saw this headline today cannibal ants escape nuclear bunker Wow I mean that's like a real life insect version of shark NATO but the world's just got your Masaki is here to say you can officially relax Let's get one thing out of the way yes a 1000000 and who had previously dabbled in cannibalism did in fact escape from an abandoned bunker in Poland but instead of being scared lots of people were really intrigued to see for years some scientists in Poland have been really into this one group of wood ants so much so that they just published their 2nd paper on the colony the answer in question were found to be living right on top of an abandoned nuclear bunker everything would have been fine except for a pesky ventilation pipe episodes of entail a sham type those sensors falling down into the bunker and they can't get out how metry ghost chorale is one of the researchers who's been following the answer living in the bunker and that's the key word living despite cold temps and a totally barren ecosystem the ants below ground were surviving How are they surviving Corey Monroe is the director of the Cornell University insect collection she says a lot of the ants in the bunker were worker ants so as those workers were falling down the air ventilation tunnel and landing in the bunker they are essentially we're just going about their business they were still interacting probably with the same number of workers trying to find food probably having to scavenge a little bit of debt in sex and other debt and they're just gathering food and sharing it with the colony probably completely unaware that they're entirely detached from the rest of the colony Yes they ate their dead friends while parts of them history goes peral again they were making small hauling to a man and eating what this inside mainly proteins but you also have so many creates cannibalism Among Ants isn't he. So the fact that they would turn to it in order to survive was one big finding the scientists also wanted to see whether given the opportunity the answer what escape so they installed a wooden plank like a board walk coming out of the pipe just to take suppress right to go out for not and behold the answer marching one by one up and out of their nuclear prison now not all of them escaped and the whole above ground was still wide open so even as some gained their freedom others were still falling but morose says the fact that many did choose to leave makes a lot of sense even though these ants were surviving and they were pretty resilient as soon as they had the opportunity to go to a place where there was you know a much better life awaiting for them right more resources more diversity of food sources they immediately fled that bunker Brazillian Yes but given the chance they'll escape their bunker and really who could blame them for the world I'm Jessica Yassky right now our newsroom is awash with leftover howling candy chocolates gummy bears you name it we've been both repelled by it and inhaling it which made this next story jump out at us a New Zealand woman who was adrift at sea for 2 days surviving on Hard Candy here's what happened because Sheila Stein was hired to move a yacht from Turkey to Athens during a stop she decided to row a dinghy to shore but she lost an oar and the wind swept her out to sea 40 hours later the Greek coast guard found her 55 nautical miles from where she started her Stein after her rescue a single company. Has gone up blown away by the light and I think I'm going to Stein did not have fresh water but she rationed the handful of hard candy she happened to have with her she still had one left when she was rescued so the lesson always grab a little candy when it's offered You're listening to the world. Cinnamon nutmeg cloves individually each of these spices are strong on their own right but combined they make up something bigger pumpkin spice did you know that every day n.p.r. News combines the latest news with in-depth reporting stories that stick with you local perspectives and it gets you something else greater than the sum of all its parts It's called Morning Edition listen every morning weekdays until 9 on capper 90.9 Sacramento streaming it caps radio dot org to get support from the Mondavi center u.c. Davis presenting the Merce Cunningham Centennial and the chamber orchestra performing 4 Seasons details and tickets at. Its 230. B.b.c. News with Debbie Ross a senior American diplomat has acknowledged telling a top Ukrainian official that u.s. Military aid depended on key of launching an investigation implicating Donald Trump's presidential rival Joe Biden Gordon Sandland who's the u.s. Ambassador to the e.u. Said pressure from Mr Trump's lawyer for Ukraine to investigate a firm that employed Mr Biden son was insidious and improper. Brazil's mining regulators says a tragedy at a dam in which nearly 300 people died could have been prevented if its owner valley had reported defects in the dam to the authorities the dam used to store mining waste collapsed in January in the town of Ramadi new in the. State. The government of Iraq has decided to lift the overnight curfew in the capital Baghdad to placate the increasingly angry anti-government protests the curfew in place for over a week has imposed to contain demonstrations which are now in their 2nd month the prime minister Abdul Mahdi has rejected calls for his resignation the government of Zimbabwe has fired $77.00 doctors who've been taking part in a 2 month strike ever pay Zimbabwe is in the midst of an economic crisis with high inflation and doctors are currently ending the equivalent of less than $100.00 u.s. Dollars a month a climate study endorsed by Levon 1000 scientists warns they'll be untold human suffering without deep and lasting changes the report calls on governments businesses and the public to support policies that curb population growth meat production and end the use of fossil fuels. Russian border officers have detained a woman trying to smuggle in gold from China after they noticed her walking strangely a metal detector revealed that she had 8 gold discs worth nearly $80000.00 taped to the soles of her feet b.b.c. Nice. The. Support for the world comes from Babel teaching new languages with the space repetition method daily 10 to 15 minute lessons using simulated conversations that are voiced by native speakers are available online at Babel be a b b e l dot com. I'm Marco Werman And you're with the world where co-production of the b.b.c. World Service w g b h Boston p.r.i. And p.r. X. Another batch is out house impeachment investigators today released 2 more transcripts from recent closed door testimonies these latest documents include the testimony of 2 key witnesses in the impeachment choir a u.s. Ambassador to the e.u. Gordon Sunland and the Trump administration special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker here to help us take a deeper dive into these documents is The World's Matthew Bell We're also joined by p.j. Crowley who is the u.s. Assistant secretary of state for public affairs for President Barack Obama Matthew what caught your eye starting with the testimony of u.s. Ambassador to the e.u. Gordon sun today right so just before his testimony came out and that is a big document 379 pages I think it was just before that was released there were 4 pages of additional testimony released just today from Sunland and this gets very interesting because someone says after he heard some of the testimony read the opening statements of previous witnesses at the house his memory was jogged and he's come out here with these several points and the bottom line here is that really talks more explicitly about a quid pro quo linking u.s. Military aid from the trumpet ministration with a promise from the Ukrainian president Selenski to investigate corruption including Boris mother company that Hunter Biden was on the board and also to have a White House meeting so I think the headline here is that this quid pro quo that we've been talking about for weeks becomes more clear in those few pages. Then I've seen before p.j. Crowley son's memory got jogged How normal is that kind of statement. Well I think what struck me about the deposition is that initially he thought he was just trying to help organize a meeting between you know President Selenski and President Trump but over time he came to understand that that this was a bigger challenge that in essence the entire relationship between Ukraine and the United States under the Trump administration hinged on getting president Selenski to commit publicly you know to these investigations what else did out for you p.j. Crowley and Masterson ones testimony. This is going to be very difficult for defenders of President Trump to refute you remember yesterday with the release of testimony by Were you fond of that the Embassador former ambassador to Ukraine there was some suggestion that she's an Obama holdover while. She was appointed ambassador to Kyrgyzstan or to Armenia under President Bush but Gordon song Lyndon House will talk about Kurt Volker are both Trump appointees they're both rock solid Republicans and both of them are telling us that yeah there was this quid pro quo Matthew Bell The phrase I do not recall comes up pretty frequently in ambassadors on this testimony right it does there's a lot of details here though to go through and I think it's pretty clear you know that something may be in some trouble himself I mean 1st of all the statements are taken under oath but as p.j. Said he was clearly an actor in all of this he along with Rick Perry the energy secretary and Kurt Volker the special envoy for Ukraine a call themselves the 3 amigos and they were out there doing the work of the White House let's turn to the testimony of Kurt Volker p.j. Crowley what did we learn today from what we read there I think most can. Telling to me he was the direct conversations that Kurt Volker an extraordinarily experienced American diplomat was having directly with Rudy Giuliani saying that you know these former prosecutors their stories were not credible and yet as we hear in a meeting that he was a part of in the Oval Office they had a profound impact in terms of the perception of the president toured Ukraine in general and the relationship it took him to Republicans have a point when they say any president is empowered to pursue a foreign policy agenda Orthodox or unorthodox than the White House has the fair amount of leeway to devise a policy of course they do absolutely but as we have heard and I think we'll get a greater understanding when we get the full testimonials of the sharp day at the embassy in Chios William Taylor is how this back channel for Rudy Giuliani was pursuing a separate policy than the one indorsed throughout the government up to and including you know the secretary of state you know Mike on Peo I think the other dimension here is that you know it is not unusual to have a special presidential envoy who sometimes can cut through bureaucracy and try to create opportunities for breakthroughs but what we hear particularly in Kurt Volker explanation and Gordon Solomon himself confirm this with an eye roll with Secretary of State. Is how Giuliani's involvement was actually complicating the formulation and execution of American policy towards Ukraine and understanding that that's highly problematic since you know Ukraine is a front line state actively resisting Russian aggression and yet we seem to be undermining that effort with what Giuliani in particular on behalf of the president was trying to achieve Matthew Bell look ahead for us what's come. Next house investigators are continuing to invite witnesses the White House continues to say it's not going to cooperate with this impeachment inquiry process just today the House said that they want to have Mick Mulvaney the acting chief of staff from the White House come in and they say that he played a key role and might have had firsthand knowledge and information that's directly relevant to what they see as a linkage between the u.s. Military aid and the investigating of Donald Trump's political rivals here you can expect Mulvaney won't show up but the Democrats are saying that's just going to be added to the list of what they see as obstruction more to come The World's Matthew Bell as well as p.j. Crowley the u.s. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under President Barack Obama thank you both very much thanks you're welcome the self-proclaimed dirty tricks there went on trial today that would be Roger Stone a political operator close to President Trump stone is charged with lying to Congress obstruction of justice and witness tampering Stone's personal mantra deny everything so this might not come as a huge surprise his plea today not guilty during the 2016 election stone presented himself to the Trump campaign as a conduit to Wiki Leaks which was releasing hacked documents damaging to the Democrats and Hillary Clinton stone later denied a Wiki Leaks connection John Chandler is a former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer briefly who is Roger Stone John Rogers known as a self-proclaimed essentially lifelong political trickster from the Republican Party who's had a shadowy an up and down career and not only became a household name because of his involvement with Donald Trump initially 16 campaign he and the Donald have been friends for many many years along with all manner of work and other notables in this strange story Roger Snow has got the same I think you always want so what is Stone's alleged connection to Wiki Leaks map it out for us. Well the u.s. Government believes that he serves as a channel communications between truck campaign and Wiki Leaks And keep in mind that a low they don't listen to so many words the u.s. Intelligence community believes that would be leagues a cut out for Russian intelligence and u.s. Intelligence community as chairman that Russia Democratic e-mails and 2016 and they somehow wanted in the hands of Wiki Leaks Julian Assange can explain how that happened obviously the u.s. Government believes they were passed from the Kremlin to Wiki Leaks through through some medicine and Wiki Leaks coming on the United course changed u.s. Political history. Right now one of the biggest Wiki Leaks dumps of the 26 election came just hours after this Russia if you're listening I hope you're able to find the 30000 e-mails that are missing I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press so John Chandler ever Robert Mueller the investigation found insufficient evidence to charge the trunk campaign for criminally conspiring with Wiki Leaks or the Russians what do you think might emerge and Roger stand trial I think we may get a firmer sense of what relationship at least was between stone and therefore the trial campaign and Wiki Leaks and the Psalms those 2 terms degrees changed here and that that alone would be a big starts were not our understanding what really were the connections in stone wanted people to believe he had a direct link to Wiki Leaks Now of course he denies that what is the truth of the story I mean it was Roger Stone you can't put it past them they really was making a lot of things up to make himself look important and valuable that we need in this crowd to find out what was he making up what was real and what was he hiding so you've argued for years that Wiki Leaks is a Russian asset What is your evidence I think the evidence is pretty clear if you look at it surely they were deeply involved in getting Edward Snowden from Hong Kong to Russia it was an employee who literally escorted in Moscow in June of 2013 they're going deeply involved in that operation and several others. I've heard u.s. Intelligence and u.s. Government and. The bias is pro Russian anti American I have the us government certainly has evidence which may or may not come out at trial and how secret showing that with us in fact yet again is actually winning out for Russian intelligence and has been since at least 20 certain perhaps. So there are plenty of journalists and activists who argue that despite the various dramas that join a sound is caught up and Wiki Leaks is a virtuous cause reveals truths that should not be hidden how do you respond Well I have no problem if they were even handed the issues with you Leaks has always driven to reveal the secrets of law based Western democracies especially United States France China is engaging in something like genocide against minorities they don't talk about that much Russia has occasional or crimes against its own people in Chechnya and elsewhere whereas Wiki Leaks discussion of that if they are seeking to reveal the secrets of governments want to start with governments that already have no accountability as their own citizens and abuse their own populations that would be a good start for me I was there in shacks standing up for the tourists and citizens rights not taking one side in effect in Russia struggle against the West John Chandler columnist and former Counter Intelligence Officer thank you very much my pleasure. Nigeria's 1st ever submission for an Oscar for Best International Film has been disqualified the Academy Award Organizers say the movie Lionheart includes too much English language the world's richest annoy has more. The biggest legacy I would be for the skirt is you were both of the main characters father says that in the movie Lion Heart but when he gets sick the father bypasses his daughter and chooses a man to run his business his reasons of nothing to do with your vehicle that when the man in charge runs her father's business into the ground the daughter has to pull it back from the break and have. That $900.00 a film was acquired by Netflix It stars and was directed by award winning Nigerian actress Genevieve Nadji She funded the film and was interviewed by c.n.n. About it last year it's provided an environment where I could showcase things that made me proud of our culture our talents of values it was really about that with insisting the 90 minute film has just under 12 minutes of dialogue in the Igbo language of southeastern Nigeria this year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renamed the category of Best Foreign Language Film to best international feature film but the rules for the category haven't changed the cademy still defines an international film as having predominantly non English dialogue so lion hearts then disqualified the reaction to the Academy's decision was swift and it was led by Hollywood director Ava Duvernay she pointed out in a tweet that English is one of the official languages of Nigeria that's a result of it being colonized by the British are you barring this country from ever competing for an Oscar in its official language diversity asked the director not in her own tweet said Lionheart represents the way Nigerians speak we do not choose who colonized us she wrote adding that English acts as a bridge between hundreds of native languages many of Nigeria's biggest film productions have primarily English dialogue this is the reality of Nigeria the digs . This now and the film wasn't created to rectify the realities and the consequences of colonialism Mokhtari Youssef is a Nigerian artist an academic who focuses on Colonial studies it's reflecting a language reality that is very common in Nigeria especially for people of certain classes and I don't see why there should be any punishment for really honestly reflecting not reality but there are those who say that Lionheart doesn't represent Nigeria Well Nigerian would walk in weighing is a social media consultant speak in English are using English it's like you can only image that is not you you're trying to celebrate the people dark or nice you're telling them oh yeah i'm so you know much autumn see the baby and a rule is a rule says Nigerian director obi. He says not je probably made Lion Heart in English to get the biggest possible audience but there are plenty of Nigerian films made and native languages like your upa and Hausa I think to argue that English is official language so we should be allowed to submit a foreign country Grisel if you look at it logically I would also like a 50 mentality you'll find that it doesn't hold much water for its part the Nigerian Oscar selection committee says in a statement that from now on it intends to submit films that are mostly in the native languages not English they're urging Nigerian directors to keep that in mind when making films if they want to be considered for an Oscar for The World I'm a professional way. 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Says Cap radio it's $250.00. I'm Marco Werman And you're with the world nearly 3 weeks ago in Lebanon anti corruption protests and blockades across the country put pressure on the government in Beirut then last week Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned demonstrators say that's not enough they want a new government entirely. These protests are there now I said how am I supposed to get married or raise children nothing is changing it has been 30 years and they haven't done a thing still many in Lebanon support the status quo like our own a member of parliament in the nephew of Lebanon's president when you ask for removing the whole system then you are calling for kill us so that the best way is to go through all the situations and hear the people's voice and go for that before Beirut was once known as the Paris of the Middle East after World War 2 that French influence made Beirut a vibrant center of cultural and intellectual life in the Mideast but downtown Beirut has gone through a lot of changes since the 1970 s. Alex atack took a spin of Lebanon's capital for us he's with our podcast partner in the Middle East kerning cultures when you visit Beirut one of the 1st things you learn is that downtown isn't where people live or hang out of the popular bars in the residential areas in the grocery stores they will full on the side of this very subtle affair and it's just broadly called downtown Beirut it was actually a very soulless place very much driven by because such an effort by thought this is Nicholas cause I'm a topless he's an anthropologist at the American University of Beirut We'll get back to him in a 2nd but 1st the 2nd history lesson when the Civil War ended in Lebanon in 1990 downtown Beirut was unrecognizable and basically uninhabitable It's where much of the fighting happened and divided they were into 2 sides east and west so the prime minister the time refeed Hariri he created this company called solid to take charge of the reconstruction. Downtown Harry by the way was also the founder of solitaire which made it this half probably cost private enterprise Anyway they rebuilt downtown entirely what were the suits before the war is now a shopping mall that could be anywhere in the world that. Prada a ton of high end designer stores that's what Nicholas was talking about a minute ago when he said it made it actually an exclusive place for rich people for tourists like a facade like a shopping mall of sorts and there were focusing strictly and only on profitability through real estate this is. He's Nicholas colleague a lecturer in politics at the American University of Beirut so that's why you have so you see some very fancy private buildings but any space that brings people together and you know creates a public has been delayed intentionally by solely there because they want basically to guarantee profitability so in this very 1st mention here that this feeling that the government prioritize profit over the public good that profit doesn't trickle down to basic infrastructure like public utilities This is exactly what the protesters in Lebanon are trying to highlight and downtown Beirut was like a perfect metaphor for it because historically as in pre-dawn 975 downtown Beirut was a place for the people a place where people actually lived and where they actually spent their time you had like you know the typical you know Old City style where you had different merchants and there are these 2 buildings that stand out as the contrast between the new song The vision of downtown Beirut and the old pre-war cultural harp downtown Beirut the egg cinema and the Crown Theatre they're both on the same street about a block down from each other on the same side of the road and they both look out over the new Solidaire downtown but they're completely untouched by the id looks like a big and it's a cinema you suppose opposed to be a cinema but of the relic No I mean it's empty you know that area no house to explain what it looks like other than to just ask you to imagine a giant gray concrete egg. Hovering above the ground on pillars somehow as if it's . Hanging in the air in the abstract so grand theory a few blocks down the road I feel like the name says everything you need to know about it it's it's literally a grand theater for 5 stories high giant arch pillars are about overlook spirit is beautiful but both of these buildings are closed off separated from the road by construction fencing and closed off the public access since the 1990 s. I mean it is a present absence in the middle of everything in the middle of this new Beirut downtown it's kind of a haunting presence you know it's like a ghost so when the protests start at the American University of Beirut if you remember that's what Nicholas and Jimmy a work they close their doors until further notice and Jamail Nicholas and a bunch of other lecturers they saw this is their chance to take their lectures outside elsewhere in the city so I realize that some people are coming in. And out of Beirut which was closed in 75 because of the war and people were freely climbing in and out through a gap in the fence so Gilles followed them in and it's like any other or better house in the word is different stories but you see that you know where the scars of the war some graffiti and he's walking about this place seeing how excited people are that they have access to this building for the 1st time so i thought i would are not give them to talk on the site itself so that's what he did that evening he gave a lecture to some visiting students in the ruins of the theater across the street and around the same time early enough 1st week of protests Nicolas went to scope out the other building I was talking about the ag to see if it be possible to host lectures inside it has a good acoustic inside if you still have the stairs and the seating function of their feet the outer of the cinema so it was great actually for teachings you know in terms of the architecture but the same time it was an amazing place practically speaking you know I could honestly speaking but it's a bowl again it was actually also bringing us back to a pretty warm. Beirut where the center was very much populated by everybody you know I mean I should say that these buildings are not safe I mean in the Grand Theater there are these doorways that open now into 2 story drops rickety ladders that you're supposed to climb across to get your knee level and the staircases rumbled you know it's also a bit scary because you don't know are you going to just fall through a hole you know and then with less and his colleagues called the lecture series in the egg that patient throughout the week they hosted a series of talks about capitalism about the future of the protest movement the talk we went to was sort of like an open mike the House would ask open ended question like what's wrong with the country and its audience members had a minute to get up and answer how they liked it was sort of like group therapy. This is the was on time I spoke to Nicholas at the end of the week he was looking at where else in Beirut they could reclaim for more lectures it was like the protests had opened up a store flood gate and now any previously off limits building was open to interpretation he told me the egg had taken a life it's own and that he was happy it been reclaimed by the protests but it's not up to him to say what happens to it next you know why should you actually know it's moving to claiming property that the has been actively stolen from the public you know has been excluding the public from Aids and we're going at least 3 produce a debate about how to think otherwise about this basis hosting lectures in the egg on the ground theatre obviously isn't a long term solution to Beirut's public space issues but parities being able to get inside the spaces and see more of the city's history for themselves is one of the small unexpected ways that these protests in Lebanon have started to bring about change in the country for the world Alex atack Beirut Alex's story came to us from kerning cultures a pod cast telling stories from the Middle East and we've got photos of the egg on our Instagram at p.r.i. 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Economy overall and that's not so great Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman takes a closer look u.s. Agriculture all exports fell hard in September as retaliatory tariffs especially from countries hit hard take apples 95 percent of u.s. Exports come from Washington state says Jim Bair at the u.s. . Apple Association the Chinese New Year is everything so for example if I was coming to visit you I would bring you this perfect apple from the United States as a gesture of good health and prosperity for the coming year there says in China and India they love us grown red delicious and for the last few years sales soared until the u.s. Slapped tariffs on Indian and Chinese imports and they retaliated with 60 to 70 percent tariffs on u.s. Apples we are going to have our 9th largest crop in history but at the same time exports are down about one 3rd close to $200000000.00 which frankly is a lot for the apple growers another.