gwen carr, speaking outside police headquarters. gwen: i'm still out here and out here for the long run. you come out here against me, i'm out here. and you cannot scare me away. yeah, pantaleo, you may have st your job but i lost a son january -- i'm sorry, july 17, 2014. i lost my son. you cannot replace that. you can get another job. amy: we'll be joined by eric garner's youngest daughter emerald garner after headlines. planned parenthood has withdrawn from title 10, the federal program that funds family planning services for millions of low income people as they refuse to comply with trump administration ban on abortion referrals. planned parenthood received $60 million per year on title 10 and the move could exactly 1.5 million a year who access birth control and other health services through the organization. in some states planned parenthood serves all or nearly low income patients who benefit from title 10. the so-called trump administration gag order is being legally challenged by planned parenthood in over 20 states. a federal court ruled last month the change can still take effect while the lawsuits are pending. acting president of planned parenthood alexis johnson said in a statement, congress must act now, it's time for the u.s. senate to pass a spending bill that will reverse the harmful rule and restore access to birth control, s.t.d. testing and other services to people of low incomes, people's lives depend on it, she said. the united states has tested a ground launch medium range cruise missile weeks after trump formally withdrew from the i.n.f. treaty. such a test would have been banned under the i.n.f. russia today condemned the test and said the u.s. is increasing, quote, the destabilizing potential of the situation. meanwhile, an international arms control official said four russssian nuclear monitoring stations went silent following a mysterious blast almost two weeks ago off russia's northern coast. u.s. experts suspect i it was a test o of a nuclear powered cruise missile. seven people, mostly nuclear scientists, are believed to have died in the explosion which caused a radiation spike in the surrounding area and possibly as far as scandinavia, fueling concerns over renewed nuclear arms race between the u.s. and russia. deposed sudanese president omar al bash ir's trial started monday and he received $90 million from saudi arabia which included $25 million from crown bin salmand. he is accused of accepting gifts. the disgraced president admitted accepting the money from the saudi royal family but could not remember details how it was exchanged or spent. in addition to his corruption trial bashir is charged with ordering the killing of people and war crimes. it started two days after the transition military council of the opposition signed a power sharing deal which paves the way for democratic elections in a transition to civilian government. omar bashir was asked in april after months of popular protests. in el salvador, a 21-year-old rape survivor who is being retried on aggravated homicide charges after having a still born in 2016 has been acquitted. in el salvador abortion is illegal and the court sentenced evelyn hernandez 30 years in prison in 2017 and the conviction was later annulled before heading back to trial earlier this month. this is evelyn hernandez speaking after her acquittal. >> i know it's been tough all this time being in the courtroom and seeing how i was being accused of something i was innocent of. and i also ask there are many women who are stilll locked up and i call for them to be freed soon, too. amy: twitter and facacebook removed close to 1,000 accccoun that were believed to be linked to the chinese government and spreading misinformation, quote, selling political discord around protests in hong kong. twitter will no longer publish ads from state controlled media outlets in order to protectct healthy discourse and open conversation. nine 2020 presidential candidates are in sioux city, iowa to participate in the first presidential forum on native american issues. on monday senator elizabethth warren issued an apology to native american communities. elizabeth: i know that i have made mistakes. i am sorry for harm i have caused. i have listened and i i have leararned a lot, and i am grateful for the many conversations that we've had together. it is a great honor to be able to partner with indian country, and t that's what i've tried to do as a senator and that's what i promise i will do as president ofof the united state of america. amy: senator e ezabeth warren came under fire last year after she releasased the results of a d.n.a. test as evidence of her native american ancestry. ahead of the forum, she unveiled her honoring and empowering tribal nations and indigenous peoples plan, including expanding housing and health care in indigenous communities, expanding broadband access, strengthening voting rights and restoring tribal jurisdiction over crimes committed on naval land and a pledge to vote the keystone and dakota pipeline permits. more 2020 presidential candidates including bernie sanders, kamla harris and julian castro who last month introduced the own plan to bolster indigenous rights are appearing in the forum today. the standing rock sioux tribe asked a federal court in washington, d.c. friday to halt operations of the dakota access pipeline until a full environmental assessment is completed. the army corps of e engineers issued an easement in 2017 allowing for the construction of dapl despite widespread protested that garnered international support. the court found the easement violated the law and remanded the issue back to the army corps which the sioux tribe said conducted a sham process in order to go ahead with construction. meanwhile the company behind the pipeline dakota access llc owned by energy transfer partner is planning to expand the operations doubling the amount of oil it transports from 570,000 to 1.1 million barrels per day. the standing rock sioux tribe is calling on the officials to hold a public hearing and properly evaluate the risk of the e pipeline expansision to t tribe and enenvironment. vermont senator bernie sanders unveiled his plan to help with the racial and broken justice system sunday. the 2020 hopeful wants to end profiteeeering in the criminal justice system and plans to ban cash bail and legalize marijuana and apolish the death penalty, boost funding for public defenders, increase accountability f for law enforcement, stop criminalization of homelessness and addiction and allow prisoners and 240es with felony convictionons to vote among man measasures. he announced t the p plan while cacampaigning in south carolina. congressman omar r and tlaib he a news conference in st. paul, minnesota to address israel decision to bar them from enteriring the country. israel later granted permissssi for tlaib to visisit her family on humanitarian grounds but we geneticed the offer to include the position she notot boycott the sanctionss movement. congress member omar blasted netanyahu for trying to suppress oppositition to the israeli occupation as well as the duties to perform their job. this is congress member tlaib speaking about h her 90-year-ol grandmother who lives in the west bank. >> all i can do a as her granddaughter isis help humaniz her and the palestinian people's plight. i know t that when wee can fina see them as deserving of human dignity, everyone who lives there will be able to live in peace. it is unfnfortunate thahat prim mininister netanyahuhu has apparently takenen a page out o trumump's book, even direction from trump to deny this opportunity. amy: in immigration news, the ninth circuit court of appeals friday partially rolled back an injucks blocking the trump administration's ban on most asylum seekers seeeeking refuge at the u.s.-mexico border. the court determined u.s. district judge john tigar applied an overly broad injucks last month by blocking the pollinationwide. the new ruling means that trump'p's ban canan now go ahea the border states of new mexico and texas, which are outside of the ninth circuit jurisdiction. the ruling upholds the injunction in california and arizona, dissenting jage wallace said the majority decision will create confusion in the border and the courts, writing, quote, should asylum law be administered differently in texas than in california? new york prosecutors on monday moved to dismiss the sex trafficking charges against jeffrey epstein following his death but vowed to continue seeking justice for survivors of his abuse by investigating his co-conspirators. this came as attorney general william barr removed the nation's top prison official hugh hurwitz. meanwhile, newport documents show epstein signed a will two days before his death. e left behind a $577 million estate but details have been -- details of the beneficiaries are not known. new york city's medical examiner confirmed friday jeffrey epstein's cause of death was suicide by hanging. the trump administration asked the supreme court friday to legalize the firing of transgender workers. the justice department argued the civil rights act only protects employees from discrimination based on their biological sex. the legal brief was introduced as part of a lawsuit in which a transgender woman was fired from a michigan funeral home after she announced plans to transition after six years of employment. the supreme court will hear oral arguments on this and two other cases involving anti-lbgtq workplace discrimination on october 8. aclu attorney chase strangio realized the stakes aren't just to the lbgtq communities but every person who departs from sex stereotypes, women who want to wear pants in the workplace and men who want more childbearing responsibilities. those protections are also in peril, strangio said. tracy single, a 22-year-old transgender woman is believed to be the 15th transgender person and 16th transgender woman killed this year. she was found july 30th in texas but authorities only identified her last week. human rights campaign called for justice for tracy single and said, quote, we will continue to hold the trump administration and all elected officials who fuel the flames of hate accountable at the ballot box. this epidemic of violence that targets particularly black transgender women must seek. those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!. democracy now.org, the war and peace report, i'm amy goodman. daniel pantaleo, the police officer who killed eric garner in 2014 by using an illegal chokehold was fired monday and stripped of his pension benefits. the decision came more than five years after pantaleo held garner, an unarmed african-american man, in a chokehold until he dropped to the ground, gasping "i can't breathe" 11 times. despite outcry from the family, pantaleo had remained on the police force on desk duty since the killing. in a dramatic news conference, new york police commissioner james o'neilill announced his decision to finally fire pantaleo. >> in this case t the unintende consequence of mr. garner's death must have a consequence of its own. therefore, i agree with the deputy commissioner of trialal' legal finding and rerecommendations and clear tha daniel pantaleo no longer can effectively serve as a new york city police officer. in carrying out the court's verdict in this case, i take no pleasure. i know that many will disagree with this decision and that is their right. there are absolutely no victors here today, not the garner family, not the community at large and certaininly not the courageous men and women of the police d department who put the own lives on the line every singlele day in service to the people of this grereat city. amy: police commissioner o'neill's firing of pantaleo comes two weeks after an administrative judge found him guilty of violating a department ban on chokeholds. until monday pantaleo remained on the police force on desk jury and the judge decided not to charge e him, last month on the fifth anniversary of garner's death, the justice department declined to charge pantaleo with a crime despite calls by the garner family and their supporters that the city punish him and other officers involved. over the years, garner's case helped drive the black lives matter movement for police accountability. at a rally outside police headquarters, eric garner's mother gwenarr vowed to fight appeals stewart london plans to file and called on the new york city police department to fire the other officers involved in garner's case. >> it's just disheartening to go through this. like we said, we're not finishshed. we havave other offfficers we h to goo afterer. you haveve heard the names. we know the wrongdoing that they have done. show the pictures, say the name, do the roll call because they all need to lose their jobs. new york is not safe with officers out here like that. amy: that was eric garner's mother speaking monday. for more we're joined by his youngest daughter, emerald garner. welcome to democracy now!. emerald: good morning. amy: it can never be said enough, our condolences on the death of your dad. emerald: thank you. amy: your response to what happened yesterday the firing of pantaleo? emerald: it somewhat puts our family at ease though it took five years. it's like, you know, it should have happened a long time ago but we're grateful it has
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