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this crisis is all unfolding in suu kyi's new democracy. nobel peace prize for her principled stance against tyranny. >> -- fundamental human rights are not only necessary, but possible for our society. >> reporter: but her silence now in the face of these atrocities has astonished her admirers in the west. her helicopter just landed -- >> reporter: our interview request went unanswered. we try to ask her a question at the airport. >> i just want to see the arrival. can i take a video of it? >> no photo. >> reporter: in myanmar, answers are hard to come by. news outlets are highly censored. most people get their news via facebook. judging by what people have told us, they are not getting the whole picture. can we ask about the rohingya issue? >> translator: what i know is i see them as terrorists who attacked the rakhine state, not rohingyas, they are terrorists. >> translator: i could gather information from facebook. >> what does facebook say about them? >> translator: they want to occupy our land and our people. >> reporter: that sentime

new. democracy dies in darkness but max keiser dies the light was. oh these are you that you think he was on fire and you know everybody your little you got to look at him. you have to move into the darkness so that you're in that anyway it's time to wrap it up anyway we actually have to go say goodbye and and tell the guest where they can find us so go into the worst the camera right there well that's going to do it so this. is a report with me max kaiser and station herbert like this like our guest herbert generate a song twitter it's called is a report until next to. the coalition that it has been has been basically destroying human killing. civilians and now it's just a. common. international talk. show these are not refrain from even coming babies. indiscriminate bombardment of civilian areas in yemen for the past thirty months. i was very telling the cyclist was one of the best climbers in the world in my age group. of people have been trying to increase the moments by by using various substances. and i've been doing exactly the same. i may hav

. >> given new democracy is falling well, a private mr.tion, what happens to greek financial markets? in a that were to happen surprise which we do not think will happen anytime really soon but sometimes next year, in the time continuing of market, next year is in attorney but in 12 months you will see 12 -- elections called and the market will go up 20%, 30%. >> in a single day? >> in a week, close. >> an immediate reevaluation of stocks?n general, bank >> the greek market in general, yes. shery: kyle bass speaking to erik schatzker in october. nejra: time for the bloomberg business flash, a look at the biggest business stories in the news right now. they recently passed u.s. tax overhaul will cost barclays a one-time charge of $1.3 billion, it is requiring some companies to be exactly the tax assets that have accumulated on the balance sheets. the british lender said it expects to benefit from the bill long-term and its ultimate impact is still under review. south korean prosecutors want a samsung heir apparent to spend an additional sev

anything unless it's corruption or something like that, you're getting back to developing brand new democracytuff, that i just think really has no place if you're in the united states. and it's just -- you know, the whole thing is concerning. and it just really rubs me the wrong way to see our democracy, and i think it might have been jim clapper who said a while back, democracy is something you really have to work at to maintain that sort of level, the high level of a truly independent democracy with rule of law. and it feels like that is slipping when you see comments like this coming out of the chief executive. the idea of a deep state, by the way, anybody who's worked in the federal government for more than a couple of months, you know, knows that oftentimes we struggle to figure out who's using what conference room. the idea that we would be able to -- some senior or even mid-level people in the federal government can somehow figure out an internal secret opposition, i mean it's ridiculous. and claims like that should be treated as such. >> susan in an interview with "the wall street jou

frankly unless it's corruption or something like that again you get back to sort of developing brand-new democracytuff that i just think has really has no place here in the united states. and it's just -- it's you know the whole thing -- the whole ning thing is concernsing. and rubbing me the wrong way to see our democracy -- it might have been jim clapper who said a while back democracy is something you have to work at to maintain that level, the high level of a truly independent democracy with rule of law. and it feels like that is slipping when you see comments coming like this out of the -- out of the chief executive. the idea of a deep state by the way anybody worked in the federal government more than a couple of months knows often times we struggle to figure out who is using what conference room. the idea that we would be able to -- some senior or mid-level people in the federal government can figure out an internal secret opposition -- i mean it's ridiculous. and it should be -- claims like that should be treated as such. >> susan, in an interview with the "wall street journal" president t

my, was that a great honor in the new democracy that these republicans are providing for america. in that conference committee, the chairman of the conference committee refused to entertain a single motion or a single amendment. he told us not to worry. after we adopt this conference report behind closed doors and agree to it, you can look at it. you can read it over the weekend before you vote on it at the beginning of the next week. you just can't change it in any way. you cannot study it in any way. you cannot share it with anybody in any way because we're only interested in sharing it with those lobbyists with whom we have special connections and operating in secrecy behind closed doors. and, of course, one of the many sad things about this particular bill is that it lost its name in the senate and in this -- what we're considering this morning. in fact, if you turn to the bill, which is a big old thick stack that i left lying around over here -- do you have another couple minutes? ms. slaughter: how about two? mr. doggett: you see short title, etc., and it stops. it's nameles

we called a special trade arrangement to the philippines becoming a new democracy and actually like turkey building up capacity. a special trade instrument where the country is moves, speeding up and having less taxes to pay. this is linked to the human rights question. i made clear as a member of the european parliament that this is now under evaluation. we are not looking towards actually to continue trading like that as member of the parliament. that is going to be challenged by next year. this is an important factor to stop the special trading. which became positive development as we know the base trading partner to the philippines. the commission is resilient. but the forward human rights to us. and therefore i will say as a member i'm staying for that. this is because of the putting up a what philippines. he called in the european ambassador saying leave the country in the next 24 hours because i put the point on the trading instrument of the union. foreign office called me. and i was just telling them what i said and actually what is in the contract. so we have to be very keen parti

democracy now!'s 20th anniversary at the riverside church in new york. this is democracy now!democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we return to my public conversation with noam chomsky, the acclaimed linguist and dissident, professor emeritus at the massachusetts institute of technology. we recorded this in april at the first parish church in cambridge, massachusetts. hundreds of people packed into the church. i last interviewed you on april 4, just a few weeks ago, on democracy now! it was the 50th anniversary of dr. king giving his "beyond vietnam" speech, why he opposed the war in vietnam, where he called the u.s. "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world." and i wanted to turn from north korea and iran to syria. it was the day of the gas attack in syria, so we didn't get to talk about it very much. and i'm wondering your thoughts on what you think happened, and then the ensuing u.s. bombing that president trump would later talk about, saying he was having chocolate cake with the chinese president -- very, very good chocolate cake -- when the

we would do well to remember that this issue is hardly new democracies and in particular, our democracy. i can remember well as a young harvard student observing the visit of secretary of defense robert mcnamara to our campus at the beginning of the vietnam controversy when his car on, andy was pointed physcially by his brother in the streets teargas and --sical retaliation diversity involves differences in differences of opinion can lead to disagreements, which in turn, can plelead to physical contact. what we celebrate on this committe is the rule of law, lines, likeishes at town hall. super dramatic. ite of law, yes here and!!!!! that is the main point to want to make,, respect for the rule of law. disrespect for the rule of law we have seen all too often outside of the university's, as well as in. universities are not aberrant. of altercations cou ld be designed to provoke violence. we should be mindful of our own duties to be respectful of the law, and to make sure that we ly protect the first amendment, as senator feinstein quoted so well. that some of our justices or judges says

my, was that a great honor in the new democracy that these republicans are providing for america. in that conference committee, the chairman of the conference committee refused to entertain a single motion or a single amendment. he told us not to worry. after we adopt this conference report behind closed doors and agree to it, you can look at it. you can read it over the weekend before you vote on it at the beginning of the next week. you just can't change it in any way. you cannot study it in any way. you cannot share it with anybody in any way because we're only interested in sharing it with those lobbyists with whom we have special connections and operating in secrecy behind closed doors. and, of course, one of the many sad things about this particular bill is that it lost its name in the senate and in this -- what we're considering this morning. in fact, if you turn to the bill, which is a big old thick stack that i left lying around over here -- do you have another couple minutes? ms. slaughter: how about two? mr. doggett: you see short title, etc., and it stops. it's nameles

. >> elections always mean a new start in democracy, the opportunity to start a new episode.ful that a new era based on dialogue, not confrontation, will beginning catalonia time of operation and , a not imposition, a time for plurality and not unilateralism. the government of spain would like to offer all its cooperation for constructive, open, and realistic dialogue, but always within the rule of law. russian president vladimir putin says the u.s. has violated a cold war era nuclear arms pact. washington denies the claim , saying russia is developing a new cruise missile which would also break the 1987 treaty. the first visit to moscow by a u.k. diplomat in five years took a contentious turn today. that is after the worst johnson addressed allegations of russian meddling in the u.k. referendum. >> you should recognize that russian attempts to interfere in our elections and our referendums, whatever they may have been, they have not successful, so you can reassure yourself on that point. that is an important consideration, because had it been successful, that would have been

the new battle for democracy is being fought. the prime minister has rightfully challenged putin's russia. routeter what diplomatic we find to do it, we cannot simply rollout a red carpet and give a platform for the president of the united states to also sow discord in our communities. to dow he will continue this and keep spreading extremism. plaquesknow, from the behind us and history, where the spread of extremism leads. unless enough of us are prepared to stand up and say no. .> we do stand up to extremism we stand up to it in our own communities and, as the prime and easter has, what she criticized the president. in terms of trying to clean up the online community, the honorable lady is right, online is where the battle takes place. why our relationship with the u.s. is so important. after the first terror attack in march, we got u.k. representatives coming. only with the support of the u.s. did we get the global set up. they are in san francisco and able to work with the higher ups in our u.s. friends. i would urge her to b

values are not supposed to be the same but it's certainly felt when they want to have these new issues that democracy is not just a facade in the united states. so i would say we go it's a fraud just as a second question let's go to the second question what is the future with ukraine is there a russian plan or shall some parts of ukraine be like somalia work yeah well there's a lot of discussion that putin had a cunning plan at one point but i don't know if it's been so cutting what we have is a frozen conflict and i think we may see some some escalation you know we see a frozen conflict there were four hundred fifty two civilian deaths in the last year and and i'm sure that wasn't. just about the so you can see here that was but unfortunately the russian government probably should have acted more proactively when this west back porch first overthrew the government and seized power i warn about at the time they did not now there is really no military solution and that the kremlin is basically hoping that over time the corruption the unpopularity of this regime helps bring it down to the market becaus

district judge for the southern district of new york or she served 22 years. this is democracy now! back with her, then we will be speaking with the first latino city council speaker of new york city who is ending her term. we will try to also find out where she is headed, melissa mark-viverito. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: the groups longtime dj hip-hop high near -- high near died last friday the age of 51. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. our guest is the former district shira scheindlin is a former is district judge. i wanted ask about something else. in january 2014, bill de blasio announced the city would drop its appeal of a ruling by a u.s. district court that found the controversial police policy of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional and settle an ongoing lawsuit. mayor de blasio delivered the news at a community center in brownsville, brooklyn, a predominantly african-american community that's had more stop-and-frisks than any other part of the city. >> we begin -- believe in ending the stop and frisk

i have said that i will hand over my presidential sash to home every selective democracy is democracy. the news was welcomed by the markets the billionaire businessman victory boosted the chilean currency and the local stock exchange on the other at santiago's fruit and vegetable market most say it's pena has close ties to big business to convince them to vote for him when i'm running. as he says the better times ahead business have been stagnant these last four years so a change is good. but not everyone believes that will put their interests first. how could people have voted for thing for a man who governed by the whims of big business. back at home the president elect also receives the national and foreign press while his foreign policy will differ a little his domestic priority will be to halt many of structural and social reforms he said if we are going to recover the leadership and dynamism of our economy and that starts by restoring growth and reestablishing investor confidence which used to grow by more than ten percent a year when i was last president he then went in to receive more c

forces so many people did a great work on stop listening to a new country based on democracy based on human rights based on doing the floor we did the great work in the transitional period we gathered only in many parties even with the militia for who's the even with that without any solace in one table and we did a great national dialogue outcomes and we wrote a great draft of can a situation we were just steps forward making putting this constitution for a friend but the cool have bent the killers have been so the coup that kill us the order isn't the result of the peaceful revolution is the result of the counter revolution and it is the result of conflict that is you know conflict so it is not our fault but still we are in our revolution and we will you know that continue i wonder where and dream for change and we will know when absolutely no you have blamed the hearses for this crisis. amongst others who are and they're fighting for one side in this yemeni conflict but you also speaking against the saudis who are fighting the who says for the sake of president hadi is there anyone

also making news today: hong kong democracy activists joshua wong and lester shum are to be sentencedtest umbrella movement prosecution. they were among 20 activists found guilty by the high court of criminal contempt, for refusing to clear moan kok district during the 2014 0ccu py protest. wong, shum and nine others pleaded guilty in october, while nine more pleaded not guilty. president putin says he will allow russian athletes compete under a neutral flag. the russian athletes compete under a neutralflag. the international 0lympic neutralflag. the international olympic committee accused russia of unprecedented systematic manipulation of the anti— doping system. he commented on the allegations. translation: i have never set a task, for example, for the minister of sport or other organisations all the narration is to win at the olympics. there was no such tasks. the super task was to prepare for the sochi olympics, for athletes, sport friends and for those who love sport all around the world.. time news magazine has awarded its annual person of the year to the people around the world

and it has in some way the most new motto under ownership. democracy dies in darkness. not going to war, we're going to work. this is not some sort of #struggleforhim. this is first principles, living up to your mission. it's a great approach. >> there's not one way to do journalism. what he does, and what she does, and that's -- >> i think a general rule as a reporter, if you've become the story, clearly something is out of whack. readers turn to journalists not for who we are, it's what we do. and i think journalists should always remember that. >> if we look that the balance though, if we're talking about what's out of whack by and large, the president has made the media the issue, and the media -- it's almost internally in response to it. so those who might lean in too much to the combat, jeff's administration at times at cnn has issued public statements that seem, surprised -- snarky, tough. they're figuring out how to navigate this world too. commercially and journalistically took into consideration. >> on the other side, you have the fox news's, the sinclairs, th

is this the end of rosie or the beginning of a new form of democracy.is groundbreaking and creative or deplorable? >> it's beautiful. the best response would be to pocket the bribe then vote against they are wishes. do the willy brown of california old school. we talked about this earlier in the show. there is baked in mierp bowl in democratic discourse. there isn't a wolf. but you have need to say wolf when one is coming, not when you modify the fcc's net neutrality rules. this doesn't mean millions are going to die. and it's not armageddon as nancy pelosi says. i need you people to be right next year when he does something truly crazy. kennedy: to their credit nancy pelosi and chuck schumer do try to tamp down the impeachment rhetoric. jessica: to your point about it being hyperbole. everyone should read the atlantic profile of mike pence. i read 75% of it. republicans guilty, too. we are going to turn to venezuela. you need a certain set of circumstances to turn into venezuela. >> when bernie started running i did start learning spanish just in case.

elections they're considered to be the final step in the transition to a federal democracy voters say they want their newleaders to focus on rebuilding or i'd have to say those are the latest headlines from us here at out is their time now to go to this. yes. we hear from two miles from the north of the central african republic he recounts his observations concerning a new muslim rebellion cool celica that has broken out it's spreading across the country like wildfire he writes at first there were very few but more supporters of jumping on the bandwagon with every mile they're leaving behind a swathe of destruction. on route we saw hardly any campfires not a good sign he writes entire strips of land of depopulated the rebels for a cause i created the famine. one has to worry that the people will not be the same because no one believes in the harvest and. this morning the first date supplies arrive the best option for anyone suffering from hunger is to move towards conflict areas it's easy to survive. too much. from within and if you look and you're pathetic he done the deed. but. he didn't. give you the.

man named gorbachev from sentences we are going to change the system by bringing in a new form of spirit of democracy and a new spirit of openness. we're going to become more western. but we are not going to lose her soviet and communist identities. we know the ultimate and it ends up leading to the ultimate demise. that was not his plan. the plan was to save the soviet union and then to do something that was great critical. he began to talk about a common european hope best to say, we know we cannot keep up with the west, they might be bothering us but that doesn't change what we are ready new. we will try to save military spending for better things like infrastructure and were trying to lower tensions so we can justify decreasing military spending. he said we could finally remove the barriers that separate us east and west. the iron curtain. find a fusion of soviet socialism and western european socialism in which will take care of the individual to be more successful at it. all i wanted to show how good and positive and positively european we are so ultimately will be asked to join europe. which i

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news that. indices advance of. detail democracy advance democracy but actually what's happened is that i think. in a rather like a large family that's criticized from outside if you put sanctions that are right and everybody within russia pulls together so diverse if it. increasing modernization is increasing the infrastructure is being built more quickly that might otherwise have been also got a lot to do that a lower all price of course doesn't give you that budget headroom. to relax but you know that relaxation is not necessarily a good thing if you want to build if you want to make economy economic progress quickly because the political climate given the kind of statements coming from tourism a little in the in folks and others learn on labor has been generally thornberry mean that they appeared to be considering russia something akin to apartheid is it ethical to even do business with russia given the as far as the government here seems to be saying the human rights abuses on a colossal scale and only by russia that doesn't ha

new parliament in catalunya. this is a key mechanism of democracy and they say the goal of the new government is to govern for the next four years without chaos and really helping the region and the country return to normalcy. genie: it is a big day for the french president. he turns 40 today. all-powerful 40. that's what the right-wing french paper says. the president says it could have been his weakness but he has used it as a key tool of his communication. his adversary singing happy birthday mr. president. all of them dressed up like marilyn monroe. that's the right-wing paper. they have actually written an article talking about things they would like to offer the french president as a gift for his birthday including a christmas sweater from his .avorite football club they also suggested a weekend camping trip to diffuse tensions over that birthday party he had in a french chateau. they set a camping trip might be more palatable to french voters. results what dictionary to help him speak the linkage of youngsters now that he is hitting the 40. he might be losing touch with the youth. the best gift is coming f

mugabe's old friends it is unclear how the country will move forward the new government is promising free elections and democracy but it will also need a functioning economy. well the a huge largest economy may be known for its high quality and dependable tradespeople is a problem the president of the german confederation of skilled trades is one that not enough people to choosing to learn a trade he says that could endanger the nation's economic growth. benyamin klotz owns a plumbing company in berlin and he can't complain there's enough work and he has contracts into june of next year but he still sees tougher times coming. finding apprentices is getting harder and harder no one is applying and the applicants that we do get are not qualified for the job. when. klutzes tried out a few things to find good apprentices but with little success he thinks the digital generation has the wrong attitude. craftsmen are disappearing of course it's nicer sitting in an office with a cup of coffee and working on a computer than it is on a construction site unclogging a drain or carrying in mounting a radiator. and. overhead

the spanish government has a new opportunity to be here because the european democracy it clear to be and therefore recognize the results of the election that took place under twenty first and in this way to start a political negotiation with the legitimate government of catalonia but then again that's why as president of catalonia i demand that the spanish government and the ones who back them rectify those things that no longer work restore the damage caused and replace everything they have removed without the legal permission of the cattle and people the ballot boxes have spoken the democracy has spoken everyone has been able to express themselves what is really waiting for in order to accept the results to accept the will of the catalan people now liberia's president elect has given his first speech since winning the country's runoff election earlier this week george way will take over from alan johnson said the facade of the first democratic transition of power in liberia from heaven seventeen games where a former world footballer of the year has pledged to fight corruption in th

... >> smith: a new u.s. ambassador, robert ford, was just arriving in damascus. >> democracy taking place in a lot of these countries... >> demanding change, they're fed up... >> smith: at the time, it seemed syria's dictator would be next to fall. >> protesters in tahrir square drove hosni mubarak out of power... >> mubarak actually left power in cairo the weekend after i got there. and in my first meeting with bashar al-assad, i asked him point blank, "looks like kind of a difficult time for authoritarian regimes. what kinds of steps are you thinking of to get ahead of the problem?" and he kind of brushed it aside and said, "it'll never happen here." not three weeks after that meeting, the arab spring started in the haria market in damascus. >> the uprising of the syrian people was a secular one. one of its slogans was, "wahed, wahed, wahed." >> smith: one, one, one? >> one, one, one. "we are united." >> this is an uprising of the syrian people against a dictatorship. >> wahed, wahed, wahed! >> smith: within a matter of weeks, tens of thousands more syrians joined the prote