the real culprits, the masterminds, those responsible for the assassination of president jovenel moiseill be brought to justice and punished for their as. reporter: moise was shot to death when assassins stormed his residential compound. dozens have been arrested in the wake of the raid, including 18 former colombian soldiers and two haitian americans. but several key suspects remain at large, including a former senator, and a fugitive former employee of the justice ministry's anticorruption unit, whom henry has defended. prosecutors say the prime minister spoke with that suspect twice on the right of moise's assassination. they asked henry to report for questioning, and asked immigration services not to let him leave the country. but under haitian law, only the president can authorize the interrogation of the sitting prime minister, and since moise 's death, haiti doesn't have one. tom: the u.s. secretary has been -- u.s. secretary of state has been in the hot seat once again, answering questions about the withdrawal from afghanistan in the house of representatives' foreign affairs co

amy: i want to ask jacqueline charles about the latest news of the assassination of the jovenel moÏserecent miami herald article yourrecent miami herald article titled "grenade-dropping drones, a paranoid president, guards who ran: latest on haiti assassination." you write -- night moÏse was "the night moÏse was shot was actually the second time in a span of weeks that his life was in danger, according to testimony from one of the colombians in custody, and one of the haitian americans. two weeks earlier, a plan to arrest moÏse, using a bogus arrest warrant, upon his return from a trip to turkey was thwarted when a signal to act was never given, jheyner alberto carmona florez, an ex-colombian solider now in custody, told police. another plan to employ disgruntled, masked haitian police officers known as fantÔm 509 to grab the president was also aborted, according to solages. according to the report, what is fantÔ509, who is joseph felix badio, and what role may badio have played in the assassination of president moise? is there a warrant for his arrest? >> fantÔm 509 to seven are acti

its support for ariel henry as prime minister, following the assassination of haitian president jovenel moÏsein july. foote wrote -- "this cycle of international political interventions in haiti has consistently produced catastrophic results." foote's resignation came just days after u.s. border patrol agents on horseback were filmed chasing, grabbing, and whipping haitian asylum seekers who had gathered in a makeshift camp in del rio, texas. on thursday, the department of homeland security banned the use of horses in the area but deportations are continuing despite growing criticism from human rights advocates. "the new york times" reports the biden administration has now deported nearly 2000 haitians since last week. about 3000 haitians remain in the makeshift camps in del rio. thousands of others have been allowed to stay in the united states. immigrant justice activists held demonstrations across the united states yesterday to demand the closure of all immigration and customs enforcement jails, an end to deportations, and the release of all imprisoned asylum seekers and immigrants. the "c

amy: as haitians cope with the earthquake's aftermath and the assassination of president jovenel moÏsea coalition of over 300 rights groups in the u.s. sent a letter monday to the biden administration urging it to halt all deportations to haiti and expand tps, tempora protected status. they say more haitians have been deported since biden took office than during all of fiscal year 2020. we go now to guerline jozef, co-founder and executive director of haitian bridge alliance. welcome back to democracy now! these are very, very dire times in haiti. can you explain what is happening? arpeople actually being derted to haiti right n? >> good morning, amy. thank you fo having us back. we are getng a lot of calls fr our clients in imgration detention saying they're being to to pack the things because they're getting ready to deport them. it is extremelylarming ven thfact, as you mentioned earlier, we are barely starting recoverrom the earthake. and the hurcane that litally ravaged the untry to ask a followed -- to ask ago followed by the assasnation of jovenel moÏse back i j july. we are ext

so says the chief prosecutor, who claims he s firm evidence from the night of jovenel moise he's assassination puts ariel henry in the frame. the u.s. secretary of state response to senators' questions, with

unfortunately, the investigation into the assassination of president jovenel moise has been politicisedas been, since the very beginning and now we're seeing raw politics where people are not even pretending any more. the opposition parties, they don't want ariel henry as prime minister and they are lobbying accusations without evidence against him. we don't know what the evidence is, they are not releasing what they are claiming to ask for his arrest, if you will, because that is basically what it is. it is an arrest. you can't travel, you are restricted from travelling out of the country. so basically he was. henry retaliated by firing him, because he has the authority to do so. so here we are playing tete—a—tete. that is an interesting point. he does have that authority, does he? because it would appear that the chief prosecutor is ignoring the dismissal, effectively? well, yeah. it is going to be interesting but i don't think that chief prosecutor has that much power in the scheme of things. in fact, early on, there were a lot of issues to get a prosecutor on the case, most people w

latest - development that we have, the latest major development was the assassination of president jovenel moise official residence in haiti, at the beginning of july. there was a power struggle to see who would succeed him. eventually it ariel henry was appointed as the prime minister. and there's still the mystery over how the president was killed and who ordered his assassination. and what we heard 3—4 days ago was the chief prosecutor accusing the chief prosecutor accusing the current prime minister of being involved in the inset —— assassination. he said there were reckless phone calls between ariel henry and one of the key suspects of ordering the key suspects of ordering the killing just hours after the killing just hours after the assassination. and that's where we came to today, with the chief prosecutor banning the chief prosecutor banning the prime ministerfrom leaving the prime ministerfrom leaving the country and taking charge of the situation. that's the chart like situation we have. now we have this world where the prime minister of announcing the sacking of that chief prosecutor,

alleges the prime minister received a phone call from a key suspect in the hours after president jovenel moise killed. moise was gunned down during an attack on his home in early july. since then, dozens of suspects have been arrested, but investigators have yet to identify a mastermind or motive behind that attack. >>> residents in houston, texas, are being urged to stay home as the city deals with the aftermath of hurricane nicholas, which has now weakened to a tropical depression. authorities say dangerous conditions still exist, including downed power lines. nicholas made landfall as a category 1 hurricane early tuesday and is expected to move very slowly across louisiana over the next 48 hours. flash flood watches are in effect for more than 6 million people along the gulf coast. >>> covid-19 has now claimed the lives of 1 in 500 americans. that is according to cnn analysis of data from johns hopkins university and the u.s. census bureau. officials are pushing for more people to get vaccinated to prevent more deaths. the cdc says 54% of americans are now fully vaccinated, still shy of wha

said he was seeking charges against prime minister henry over the july assassination of president jovenel moÏse prosecutor bed-ford claude said henri had communicated with a key suspect on the night moise was killed. meanwhile, many haitians are still struggling to recover from the devastation wrought by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck one month ago. >> as you can observe, we have not received help from anyone. my house was destroyed. we have not received help. people who live here are helping us to rebuild this church. amy: tensions are ratcheting up on the korean peninsula as south korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile earlier today, in response to a ballistic missile test by north korea just hours earlier -- its first since march and a breach of u.n. sanctions. two days earlier, pygyang tested aong-range uise miile. present biden eviously sd he was open to diplomacy with north korea but denuclearization talks between the two countries have not resumed since negotiations between trump and kim jong-un broke down in 2019. back in the united states, the justice department c

who sought to charge the prime minister in connection with the july assassination of president jovenel moÏse the prosecutor, who also sought to prevent henry from leaving haiti, said the prime minister had communicated with a key suspect on the night moÏse was killed. on wednesday, the head of haiti's council of ministers resigned in response to the prosecutor's firing. a federal judge in washington, d.c., has blocked the biden administration from enforcing title 42, a trump-era policy that allows immigration authorities to expel asylum seekers at the u.s.-mexico border without due process, citing the pandemic as justification. the court's order takes effect in 14 days. it's a landmark victory for the american civil liberties union and several immigrant rights groups who condemned title 42 as cruel and lawless. the world meteorological organization warns in a new report that governments are falling far short of the paris climate agreement's goal of limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees celsius. the u.n. weather agency says only immediate, large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions c