people in the interest of people across the world. and for us in africa with our with a very low level of responsibility in terms of a chelated emissions historically and we're already paying the most brutal price, there is a deep sense of not just shock, but a sense of unreality that ,he united states and the bush the last eight years, and now we're going back -- people need to bear in mind that the paris climate agreement is far from a perfect agreement. people like mike and myself 54 much more ambitious agreement -- fought for a much more ambitious grimmett. it is a five year review so the ambition levels can be picked up. so even this compromise agreement, for it to be 3:00mined this way, if at today he were to say we're pulling out of the paris climate agreement, people need to understand from a global perspective, people in the so-called developing world, we would see that as donald trump issuing a suicide note for the rest of the world, including, ultimately, for the people of the united states. amy: specifically, africa. kumi naidoo, what does this mean? you are critical

disastrous both for the planet and its people. amy: i want to turn to south africa right now. , chair of kumi naidoo africans rising for justice is and dignity, we talked to you about the imminent announcement. we were not sure what was going to happen. p.m.rday just after 3:00 eastern time, president trump take to the rose garden, speaking to his supporters and announced the u.s. withdrawal from the climate deal. now, fromnse right your position in johannesburg, south africa, what this means for the african continent? asad and myself who did not think this deal was as ambitious as it needed to be, it is quite interesting situation because yesterday after i was interviewed by democracy now!, some right-wing publication i thi said come all of the critics of the paris agreement announcing, oh, dear, such a bad thing that donald trump has pulled out. this is cognitive dissident at its worst. where there is denial that they are close to the climate -- as one newspaper put it, donald trump's message to the world, the front page said "message to the world: drop dead." that is how it is bein

africa and the middle east saw temperatures top 122 degrees fahrenheit this week. palm springs, california, tied that mark, setting an all-time high. meanwhile in paris, france, highs reached 100 degrees thursday. in bolivia, scientists a they are in a race to sample ice from meltinggreg sugars -- glaciers before global warming erases thousands of years' worth of records on earth's climate. glaciologists with the ice memory project took ice cores from the illimani mountain in bolivia's andes, noting the glacier was almost a full degree warmer than a previous sample. this is scientist patrick ginot. >> we can prove the temperature of the glaciers risen .7 degrees centigrade in 18 years. this glacier, and 6500 meters above sea level, will heat of bit by bit and with global warming, it will lose all of the information that we're going to take from these ice samples. that is why we cannot wait 10 more years. amy: worldwide, at least 200 million people depend on glaciers for drinking water and are at risk of being left without water due to melting ice. and those are some of the head

countries and subnationals throughout the world whether it is the pacific rim, africa, europe, eastern europe. we need to move ford because we have no other choice. this is not a scientific issue. all of the climate science -- scientific researchers have clearly said this is not sustainable. this is a political issue. it is a leadership issue. it is a lack of leadership from washington. we have no choice but to step up and move forward. amy: kevin de leon, thank you to speaking to us from sacrament no, as governor brown is in china. kevin de leon is president pro tem of the california state senate. that does it for our broadcast. if you want to read the transcript or get video of the podcast, go to democracynow.org. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] -today on "america's test kitchen"... bridget and julia make perfect chicken marsala. adam reviews manual citrus juicers w

by force. it is the same charge nelson mandela faced in south africa. 's firstlopez rivera visit to new york city since his release and his first global broadcast interview well here. it coincides with new york's longtime puerto rican parade. this year's organizers chose to honor lopez rivera as the parade's first "national freedom hero." but after a boycott campaign was organized by a right-wing group funded by donors close to both president trump and to breitbart news, the city's police chief and several corporate sponsors said they would boycott the event. oscar lopez rivera says he will still march, but not as an official honoree, but a humble puerto rican and a grandfather. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. former fbi director james comey will tell a senate panel today that president trump repeatedly demanded his loyalty and pressured comey to end a probe into former national security adviser michael flynn. comey, who was fired by president trump last month amid a growing fbi investigation into

. >> hillary clinton, the clinton family, the harm they have done to our people in haiti, in africa, in libya, in honduras, right here in the united states, the 1996 crime bill criminalizing, incarcerating -- mass incarceration of our youth, that she called super predators. we said, whatever donald trump can do, whatever harm he can do, it cannot be worse than what the clintons have already done to our people. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show in the united kingdom, where british prime minister theresa may has suffered a major setback thursday in a snap election that saw her conservative party lose its majority in parliament less than two weeks before the country is scheduled to begin talks over exiting the european union. may called the snap election three years early, expecting to win a large mandate to negotiate with european leaders over the of the so-called brexit. at thursday's election left the conservatives without a clear majority and a hung parliament. and it's ag