lencan people like berta membreÑo became the leader of copinh after the recent assassination of berta caceres dear friend. welcome for the first time to democracy now!, tomas gomez membreÑo. first, condolences on the death of berta. can you respond to what comes member hank johnson has just announced, the introduction of a bill to stop all u.s. military aid to honduras? thank you very much for the opportunity to be on this program for the first time. i think it is very important for us at copinh and the lenca bille to learn about a that is aimed at clarifying the assassination of our colleague berta caceres. this is one of the points we have been demand in, that here that thereed states might be a bill here in the united states to pressure the with thet of honduras inter-american commission on human rights, which we think is suretant in order to make in the wassidence -- congress. it is very important to know a bill that has to do with several analyzing,ave been but our goal is to clear up what happened in the assassination of our colleague berta caceres. i think it has to do primarily with t

slain indigenous and environmental leader berta caceres. in march, she was murdered in her home in la esperanza, honduras. for a decade, she led the struggle against the agua zarca dam planned along a river sacred to the lenca people. honduran authorities have charged five people in connection with her death, including a honduran army major and employees of desa, the company behind the dam.

first sergeant rodrigo cruz told the guardian he was 100% certain that berta caceres was killed by the ararmy. caceres was an indigenous lenca leader who won the prestigious goldman environmental prize for her fight against the agua zarca dam. she was shot to death on march 3 at her home in la esperanza, honduras. cruz said caceres' name was on a list distributed to a military police unit in the inter-institutional security force, or fusina, which received training from 300 u.s. marines and fbi agents last year. five people have been arrested includingres' murder, hundred major. last year was the deadliest on record for environmentntalists. the group global w witness says 185 environmental activists were killed last t year, a 60% incree over the previous year. 50 of them were killed just in brazil alone where the summer , olympics are set to take place in august. the israeli military says its soldiers shot and killed a 15-year-old palestininian boy ad wounded four other people by mistake. mahmoud rafat baderan was killed while he and his family were driving home from a swimming pool. t

first sergeant rodrigo cruz told the guardian his 100% % certain that berta caceres was killed by the army. state department press secretary john kirby responded to questions wednesday about the new reports. >> we have seen media reports alleleging the existence of a honduran activist hit list, as you have described it. the us government has not previously heard a any credible allegations of hit list of deaths or by the military and do not have any information which would substantiate this report. >> you have not heard of these kill lists? >> that is what i i said. informationve any that would substantiate this report. >> one human rights professor called this smoking gun evidence. what is credible evidence? >> we have not seen, in our view, credible evidence to back up these allegations. if we do, we will take it seriously. is introducedson a bill to stop all u.s. military fundnding to honduraras. meanwhile, in new york city, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the mexican consulate and marched to times square to denounce sunday's deadly police attack on protesting teachers in oa

honduran military, following allegations by a former honduran soldier that murdered environmentalist berta caceresppeared on a hit list distributed to u.s.trained -- u.s.-trained special forces before her assassination. georgia congressman hank johnson has inododuced a new bill to stop allll u.s. mililitary funng to honduduras. in denver, a woman has been shot and killed inside the alliance center by her estranged husband, -- by her estranged husband. 53-year-old cara russell was the executive director of the colorado association for recycling, and former mayor of one of the still, colorado. she was shocked by her ex-husband from whom she had , recently filed for divorce.. her murder comes after the massacre of 49 people in orlando by omar mateen, who also had a history of domestic violence. meanwhile, "the orlando sentinel" is reporting that the fbi has asked d law enforcement agenencies to withholdld public rerecords in the wake of the pue nightclub massacre. in a june 20 letter, the fbi asks other law enforcement agencies to quote "immediately notify the fbi of any requests your agency receives