amadou shows us around his home.and his family share it with two other families. 15 people live here in four rooms. for amadou the situation is particularly hard. on some days he doesn't know how to feed the family he's 20 and as the oldest son, that's his responsibility. it's also up to him to make sure his younger siblings can go to school, and his mother doesn't have to work so hard. he doesn't want to be a disappointment to them. >> look around. this is not a life. i think he should go and send us money. we are supporting him so he can get out of here. >> amadou's mother wants him to go to europe. the first step on that journey is a meeting with the local 'marabout'. he's a cross between an imam and a witch doctor. nobody here risks the dangerous journey, along the 'backway' to europe, without his blessing. the marabout gives amadou a note with verses from the koran to protect him from falling into the hands of border officials. he also gives him water infused with herbs. >> because if you take this, with the hel

ali amadou's been selling kebabsand french-fries for five years. he'd wanted to learn aprofession but that didn't work out. >>now i'm really passionateabout this. it's a fun thing to be doing.plenty of people come around here.and apart from that, i can also feed my family, and i can bringthe food home for them. chef ali buys five to ten kilosof beef and lamb every day his colleaeagues skewewer them forhim. the french friries are always freshly madehis nephew helps out with that. ali's customers can choosebetween tomatoes, onions, lemons and home made sauce or even thewhole works! a delicious portion like thiscosts around about 1 euro 5. ali feeds students,businesspeople and passers by. kebabs are typical niger fare. >>the meat, well i think meat'ssomething like a staple food here in africa.you can't get fish everywhere, and when you do then it'sexpensive. and that's why we all prprefer thekebabs s instead. they're go. >>hmmm.the hot sauce and especially the pepper. for me, that's typicallyafrican. >>for his regular customers,ali's even happy to del

including a group of mothers of children killed by new york police like katiadou diallo, the mother of amadou diallo. a number of new york police officers walked with erica's coffin out of the church. after the funeral, several dozen black lives matter activists took to the streets. at least one person was arrested. before they marched, i spoke to qb of shut it down nyc, a friend of erica garner. would do a rally weather was nine degrees or 10 degrees, three people were four people, we marched to her father's memorial. we said a few words and that was something that just became a part of our lives.

god bless you. >> the mother of amadou diallo.he died in a hail of 41 police bullets as he put the key in his door. andas coming home from work bronx, new york. she spoken washington, d.c. on saturday and there was a slight interruption in the rally. >> next, we have missed barbara -- president of the lawyers committee. barbara,e our sister but what i have here is ferguson people that want to speak and we need to let them speak. we need to let them speak1 let them speak! >> later in the rally, young woman from ferguson was brought up to speak. when we come back, the millions march in new york. tens of thousands marched here in new york city as well. stay with us. ♪ [music break] the music features been developed over these last few months. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. saturday's actions across the country included millions march that drew tens of thousands to the streets of new york. a massive crowd took over the streets after gathering in washington square park, heading upto

how many more victims were unjustly killed since amadou diallo? we can't begin to count.nt to many funerals. i connected with many families. we're not bitter. -- the fourthen cops who shot my son had done nothing wrong, that it was the fault of my son, i said to you, i say to you now, i said it then, we need change. amadou.com it's too late for him, but we have to prevent it from happening again. when you have tragedies like that, you need to learn what went wrong and correct it and never happen because nationwide, look at it. look at the families here. what happened yet the law enforcement should know we are not against them. we are not against them, we are anti-police brutality. we're not anti-cop because we know some of them are doing good jobs. what we need to root out just to our brutalizing our children for no reason will. >> brothers and sisters, mr. quentin tarantino. >> take him everybody. i've got something to say, but i would like to give my time to the families that want to talk. i want to give my time to the families. however, i also want to say, what am i do

he's also a board member of the amadou diallo foundation. and steven thrasher is a weekly columnist for the guardian u.s. his most recent piece is called, "two nypd cops get killed and 'wartime' police blame the protesters. have we learned nothing?" graham weatherspoon and steven thrasher, welcome to democracy now! let's start with graham weatherspoon. your response to what happened and response of the patrolman's benevolent association to what happened? flashbacks.e had i came into policing during a in new york period city in the mid-1970's when crime was off the hook and guns were found everywhere. and police officers at that time were being killed at the rate of no less than one a month in new york city. i was on the funeral detail with transit police. i attended funerals routinely. we rehearsed at the brooklyn casket company, doing the procedures. my partner was shot in the face in 1978. he was off duty, going out to dinner with his mother. he saw something that didn't look right anyone to check it out. it was a robbery of an elderly wom

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president sall has named former prime minister amadou ba as his pick to succeed him.s the humanitarian crisis worsens in sudan, u.n. officials are urging the sudanese military and rival rapid support forces to immediately allow aid deliveries to save nearly 5 million people from catastrophic hunger in the coming months. nearly 18 million people are already facing acute food insecurity after nearly one year of war. fighting has devastated agricultural production and disrupted trade, destroyed infrastructure, disrupted trade, and has blocked most access to humanitarian aid. unicef warns hundreds of thousands of sudanese children are suffering severe malnutrition. >> the numbers have been acutely malnourished children are rising. the lean season hasn't even begun. nearly 3.7 million children are projected to be acutely malnourished in sudan, including 730,000 who life-saving treatment. the needs for children in khartoum alone are massive but this is also true in darfur where i was last month. the scale and magnitude of need for children across the country are simply stag

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he's also a board member of the amadou diallo foundation. us marc lamont hill rejoins from morehouse college in atlanta. yes just written a new book called "nobody: casualties of america's war on the vulnerable from ferguson to flint and beyond." we welcome you both to democracy now! graham weatherspoon, let's begin with you. your reaction to the four that unfolded last night, carrying on for hours and dallas, just as this peaceful anti-police brutality protest was wrapping up, snipers opening fire on dallas police. >> the last three days have been mbing in this country. we are at a pivotal apex in terms of where this country is heading and where it will wiwind up v very shortly. casketsarried the during my tenure. i have stood over people that i knew laying on the ground. my partner was shot in the face and i've had people try to kill me numumerous times. but what we saw last night, and i'm did not know this until i woke up this morning around 6:00, it took me back to a conversation i had with ray kelly of years ago and i said, do you want

in 2018, she said she will step down when her current government leaves office amadou to happen nextremains on -- office, due to happen next year. russia is trying t to clean up a major f fuel spill in northern siberia. environmentalists say it is the worsrst accident in the arctic n the ecosystem will need a decade to fullyly recover. president putin has ordered a state of emergency. so far, one person has been arrested in connection with the accident. a u.s. navy veteran detained in iran for two years has been released as part of an agreement involving an iranian american prosecuted by the justice department, and followed months of negotiations over prisoners. a landslide in a norwegian town has swept eight homes into the sea. the resident who filmedd these pictures says he ran for his life when he realized what was happening. his house was among those lost. several minor landslides followed. no one was injured. amazing no one was injured. it is the biggest stimulus package in germany's postwar history. the measures agreed to last night but the government after marathon talks shoul

this time republicans amadou as your question -- republicans, to answer your question, or following donaldtrump and listening to what he was saying. maybe next time when it comes to russia, they may say we are not going to follow you, donald trump. sarah: really briefly, republicans control both houses and the executive branch. what is going to be top of their agenda? think we are going to see, first of all, the repeal of obamacare. i'm not sure whether they have a plan how to replace obamacare. they will try to get rid of all , and of regulations course, new tax reform is something that is very important to republicans. sarah: health care and tax reform. thanks. we are going to take a short break here on "dw news." when we come back, a shock resignation. bridget -- britain's ambassador to the eu quits months before brexit negotiations are to start. we will go to brussels to find out about the likely impact. stay with us. back in a flash. sarah: welcome back. you are watching "dw news." our top story -- turkish police have made multiple arrests in connection with the gun attack on in istan

. >> translator: i'm realllly amad to see how much time and care go into production. that was an eye opener. >> translator: i hope some of them will work in ehime immediately after graduate or after working for a while. then we'll have more young people here. >> reporter: the program s integrates other residents. >> translator: stay for three years and you'll develop ties here. they say jobs are scarce, but many people share information about work. >> translator: i have a sense now that the relaxed way of life here is nice. it openedd my mind to a new alternative. >> reporter: once their working holiday is over, the students will return to life in the city. the organizers are doing their best to make a lasting impression. >>> soyou can catch our report again online together with a full transcript. just look for nhk world and business wrap. that's a look at business news. i'm going to leave you with the markets. >>> businesses in japan are using more and more drones, so firms that make them are showing off their latest models in hopes of boosting sales. about 120 drone

they include ten chinese workers and the wife of cameroon's vice prime minister amadou ali. but the officials did not disclose details of how they were released. boko haram has been carrying out attacks mainly in northern nigeria. the group is trying to expand its influence in neighboring cameroon. its militants took the girls from a school in northern nigeria in april. they're still being held captive despite an international campaign for their release. >>> people in brazil will choose their next president later this month in a runoff election. they're looking for someone who will turn around the economy. they're being told the 2016 olympic games in rio de janeiro will give the country a boost. but they were told the same thing about this year's world cup. nhk world's fabio fleury reports from sao paulo. >> reporter: this stage was used in the world cup finals. it cost around $225 million to build. many local teams have been using this world cup stadium as their home field, but this is a third division match, not many people have come today. originally, various local events

latest on this fluid situation, new that a cease-fire has been agreed to between israel and hamas amadouake effect at 2:00 a.m. local time. thank you. berlin is due to see demonstrations in the coming days for groups wanting to show there's a port or is rabies in palestinians. several hundred people gathered at the brandenburg gate and call for solidarity with israel. an alliance of parties head cold for the rally. speakers included orloff schulz. our reporter was also there. correspondent: concerned about the conflict in the middle east has reached the streets of germany. pro-palestinian protests have happened in several cities, sometimes accompanied by anti-semitic words and the burning of israeli flags. people at this demonstration say they are worried about growing anti-semitism and want the government to do more to combat it. they also feel european governments could work harder to cut off hamas from its sources of funding. politicians and civil society representatives are telling this crowd that germany stands with israel and there will be zero tolerance for anti-semitism. in the c

. >> the ivory coast is mourning the p president as he announced the death of the prime amadou 61-year-old coulibaly died after falling ill after a cabinet meeting and had just returned f from heart treatment here inn frarance. france 24's mark perlman joins me now. mark, can you tell us more about the prime minister and reactions s in the i ivory coas his deatath. mark: the prime minister was a candidate for his p party and w the clear favororite for the elections slated on octobober 3 he w was sick. he had a heart problem back in 2012 and he was in paris for two months after saying he would only stay for a few days and so there was clearly some worry about his health and whether he could run the campaign and eventually become president. however, he came back on july 2 to the ivory coast and people thought he seems to be ok and then he had this health problem and he could not recover from yesterday from the cabinet meeting and was a big shock because people thought he was out of the woods essentially so you have heard on this very rare occasion all parties, some in the oppositition and ev

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this is niger army spokesman colonel major amadou adraman. >> the security disruptions planned by the french forces came to discredit and create a rapture with the people who supported -- create the feeling of a generalized insecurity. amy: meanwhile, sanctions and power cuts imposed on niger have hampered delivery of humanitarian aid to over 4 million people in need of assistance according to the u.n. african officers trained by the u.s. military have now taken part in 11 coups and west africa since 2008, including and burkina faso and mali. for more, we turn to horace campbell, professor of african american studies and political science at syracuse university and activist and chairperson of the global pan african movement, north american delegation. he's also the author of "global nato and the catastrophic failure in libya." professor campbell, we welcome you back to democracy now! can you talk about what is happening as we speak, then meeting in nigeria, the most populous country in africa, of the ecowas leaders who set a deadline of this past sunday saying if the president was not

and also i remember amadou diallo, shot by the police 40 times, not because he was the one suspected-- it was somebody else -- but he was a convenient black target. so when i got to yale and to beinecke and -- i have this memory of entering this very plush, comfortable, air-conditioned library in july of 2010 to look for a manuscript to publish. and i saw the long version of "the man who lived underground." it leapt out at me as -- i don't know what to say. a time bomb? a time machine? something that had to be published yesterday. i was so driven about it that i took it back to paris and approached library of america by -- well, in those days, it was still fax. and that's how the idea began. amy: and talk about -- talk about the book. talk about the descriptions of police violence. talk about the man who went underground, who lived in the sewer system. again, it was published as short story but not as a book, because the publishers didn't want those graphic descriptions. >> the publishers, who were white -- it was controlled, white-controlled -- did not want those descriptions of whi

her son amadou diallo was killed in 1999 when police fired 41 bullets at him - striking him 19 timeshe reached for his wallet outside of his apartment. the officers were acquitted of murder charges. both diallo and baez have been supporting eric garner's family since his death. we're also joined by lawyer, norman siegel. he was director of the new york civil liberties union for 15 years. now in private practice he's representing debra goodman, a retired legal secretary who filed a lawsuit against the city of new york after she was arrested for filming as police officers watched emergency medical technicians speak with a woman in a wheelchair. welcome all of you to democracy now! they had a very different story in the report. they said that they never mentioned chokehold. they said he was in no distress. but this video shows something very different. this young man, ramzi orta, just stood there, filming, and it shows the entire encounter. this is what has led to an outcry across this country. he, after the homicide ruling, is then arrested. talk about the significance of this. of bein

. ♪♪ [music break] amy: blind malian musical duo amadou & mariam performing "femmes du monde" here incracy now! studio. they met at a school for the blind. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. as the u.s. death toll from covid-19 tops 465,000, we look now at the devastating impact the pandemic has had on disabled people. many states have failed to prioritize giving vaccines to people with serious physical or developmental disabilities even though studies have shown disabled people are two to three times more likely to die from covid. california has faced intense criticism for recently switching to a largely age-based vaccine rollout, leaving out many younger disabled residents with serious medical conditions. there is also confusion in many states over what medical conditions qualify for prioritized access to the vaccines. on the international front, the united nations high commissioner for human rights, michelle bachelet, recently appeared on al jazeera and spoke out about the pandemic's impact on the disabled. >> we kno

♪ [music break] amy: american skin, "41 shots," by bruce springsteen, written about, do diablo -- amadouallo. we look at all the people who will not be able to principate thise democratic process election season. almost 6 million people across the country are prohibited from promoting as a result of state felony, disenfranchisement laws, that prevent those with felony convictions to vote. three quarters of those prevented from voting have been released from prison and have completed their sentences or are living on parole. florida has the highest number of disenfranchised voters. over 10% of adults in the state cannot vote because they have felony convictions. nearly one in four black adults is disenfranchised. this is not true all over the country. in places like vermont and maine, prisoners can vote from jail. how will this impact the primary and the race for the presidency? to find out more about these implications, we speak with desmond meade, chair of floridians for a fair democracy. was previously homeless and is still disenfranchised. welcome to democracy now! can you ever vote ag