i didn't do this i didn't order this murder some somebody else must have done it and he points at keyes country the former chief of staff of joseph most of the prime minister here who live hurriedly left his office last just a week ago and he is sort of the man behind the trone he's the right hand man of the prime minister he has been embroiled in many corruption scandals on the on that this is not the only one that. uncovered it is much more far reaching and is so if as soon. as investigators allowed and given the freedom to investigate to talk to him and figure out what he knows and what he did then it can really start justice can start to be done in malta because so far we've just only lifted like a little edge off the cover here ok barbara just briefly when is to this the european parliament delegation traveling to malta on monday what are they expecting to find. now and they'll see a country in turmoil i mean the the accusation and the official charging off your fan it seems to be like an offering to that delegation look we're doing something we're doing the right thing we're not p

business interests and you're going fanning now will probably everybody expects this here so the point to keyes schembri he was the cabinet chief of the prime minister so it would sort of the affair would go right into his office and that of course increases the pressure on the government we're talking about that pressure on the government reports that the multis prime minister was getting ready to resign do you think he will step down or will he try to write this crisis out. he has been clinging on by his fingernails for 2 days now on friday his own party put out the announcement that his resignation was imminent so we all rushed out and said yes he's going to step down and then fierce power struggle behind the scene as started where most could still try to sort of keep his keep his seat and even his own party and the end this sort of other part of the labor party here in malta has said enough of this we have to get you know we have to get through this we have to sort of step away from this horrible scandal and they are really trying to push him so is he is really being pushed by strong forces

and in new york, long-time wbai producer and journalist dred scott keyes has also died. he won multiple awards from the national federation of community broadcasters for his radio documentaries "the gospel truth: the sam cooke story," "sweet soul music: the roots of southern soul music," and "malcolm x speaks to the midnight ravers." dred scott keys also engineered and mixed the george polk award-winning documentary "drilling and killing: chevron and nigeria's oil dictatorship." you can see that documentary at democracynow.org. at wbai, he was known for mentoring fellow journalists and producers. dred scott keyes died on december 18 at the age of 68. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. federal prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against the man accused of stabbing five people with a machete during a hanukkah celebration at a rarabbi's home in a heavavily ultra-orthodox new york suburb of mononsey. ththey say the suspect, , graftn thomas, kekept journals that had references to adol

prompted many western countries to impose sanctions on russia conservative foreign affairs expert rudresh keyes a battle says the german government will also need to respond so dizzy should it become clear that indeed russian government agencies were involved in this contract killing we must respond especially with sanctions and we need a coordinated european response as we had in the script case of. the russian government denies any involvement in the killing and this so far refusing to cooperate in the investigation. now as the u.n. climate summit in madrid grapples with climate change severe weather and drought in kenya could be hastening the end of the largest species. the number of. its feet percent since the 1970 s. poaching and recent conflicts are to blame the global warming is making things worse for the species. the dry northern plains of kenya used to be a safe haven for the iconic. the species is well suited to the arid conditions but the loss of habitat intense drought and the land degradation is pushing these embryos to the brink this is many. diseases like anthrax have also dimin

prompted many western countries to impose sanctions on russia conservative foreign affairs expert rudresh keyes effect says the german government will also need to respond so dizzy should it become clear that indeed russian government agencies were involved in this contract killing we must respond especially with sanctions and we need a cool ordinated european response as we had in the script case of. the russian government denies any involvement in the killing and has so far refusing to cooperate in the investigation. it would be news live from berlin still to come on the show the traffic jam that's delighting art lovers at miami beach we'll get a preview of art basel one of the world's leading showcases a work contemporary art. but 1st i phone commercially has moved away from the philippines it's weakened into a tropical storm now it's left at least 11 people dead in the philippines cleanup efforts repair works under way some half a 1000000 residents were driza driven from their homes by the typhoon more than 500 flights were canceled at manila international airport authorities are now workin

but i've heard republican actually say that if alan keyes were white, he would have been president of united states. 's as a matter of fact, it's the right was more concerned about the skin color of their candidates than it is the left. >> mark: in the spirit of boxing, i think i will let you get away with that. i will tell you something, the young people are crazy for bernie. he looks like justin bieber to them. you may have a point there. thank you for that, professor. the "home alone" movies have become christmas classics, and famously, in "home alone 2," a certain future united states president makes a brief appearance. ♪ >> excuse me, where is the lobby? >> down the hall into the left. >> thanks. ♪ >> mark: he ran that hotel pretty well, actually come in those days. canadians who tuned into the cbc to watch home alone 2 this year saw a slightly different version of that movie, and in the cbcs cut, donald trump was edited out. according to the cbc, the scene was cut to make more time for commercials. of course, those motives don't exclude each other. if it woke capitalism means an

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