19 Feb 2019

MoveOn US protests over wall, & Oscar pressure

From Nine To Noon, 9:49 am on 19 February 2019
Parts of the US-Mexico border are already sealed off by a wall. A family is pictured standing on the Mexican side of the wall in 2017.

Photo: AFP

From the US, Washington bureau chief of The Guardian, David Smith talks to Kathryn about the progressive group MoveOn, which has organised hundreds of protests on Monday against the Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency so he can pursue funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border. Also the controversy surrounding this weekend's Oscars.