and in news from egypt, the imprisoned egyptian activist alaa abd el-fattah is approaching his 11th week on hunger strike to protest the harsh conditions he is held under at cairo's tora prison. earlier this week, one of alaa's sisters, saana seif, described her brother's dire situation. >> i brother is slowly dying in a prison cell, but he wants to live. heisses his job, misses his son, and on sunday, my sister visited him in prison. when she saw him, she was shocked. she has not been able to eat since. the effect was such she decided to hunger strike in solidarity. she told me, i have to use my bo to show what is happening. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. u.k. home secretary priti patel has approved the extradition of wikileaks founder julian assange to the united states. assange faces up to 175 years in prison here in the u.s. if convicted of violating the espionage act for publishing classified documents exposing u.s. war crimes in iraq and afghanistan. wikileaks has announced that assange