Hi podcast listeners, a big moment for climate activists, the British Parliament has become the first in the world to declare a climate state of emergency.

Of course that follows all the protests that snarled up London by young people demanding their

government take action. Will it spread? Will it get to the United States? I ask the

new California Governor Gavin Newsom. He has made climate a big big plank in his

platform. And then I speak to John Sopko. He's a special investigator

ombudsman into what the United States is doing and paying in its longest war in Afghanistan.

He tells me that hubris and mendacity is what's caused the U.S. to fail there so far,

and that the U.S. needs to listen. And Walter Isaac's... to

listen and that the US needs to listen.

And Walter Isixon speaks to the great jazz musician

Winton Marsales.

And we get to hear in plays trumpet as well.

He's talking about a new film that he's scoring and

executive producing. Enjoy the show. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London and the British Parliament is now the first in the world to declare an environmental and climate emergency. It follows mass demonstrations and disruptions around London by the activist group Extinction

Rebellion and it comes a week after the teenage climate leader Greta Thunberg addressed MPs

in the House of Commons to demand dramatic new action on climate.

While the Emergency Declaration needs a clear definition,

the symbolism is of course unequivocal,

and it shows how the language of urgency on the streets

is now seeping into the corridors of power. Just today the US House of

Representatives passed its first major legislation on climate a bill to prevent the US from

leaving the Paris climate agreement as the president has pledged to do. It has

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