when we come back, we go to steven donziger, the environmental lawyer who sued chevron for ecologicaltation in the ecuadorian amazon after chevron was ordered to pay billions of dollars, chevron went after him personally. donziger has spent nearly 600 days under house arrest. we will speak to him at his house. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to what's been described as the amazon's chernobyl -- 1700 square miles of land in the ecuadorian amazon devastated by decades of reckless oil drilling. 10 years ago, ecuador's supreme court ordered chevron to pay $18 billion for dumping over 70 billion liters of oil and toxic waste into the amazon. the ruling came in a lawsuit brought on behalf of 30,000 amazonian indigenous people who had been suffering since the mid 1960's when texaco began drilling on their ancestral land. chevron bought texaco in 2000. the landmark ruling was seen as a major victory for the environment and corporate accountability. but chevron refused to pay or clean up the land.

here in new york, human rights lawyer steven donziger is waiting to hear if he will be freed afr nearly days of house arrest after an appeals court last week threw out a key contpt finding against him donzig won a historic settleme for $9.5 billn against chevron in eador for dumping oil and toxic waste in the amazon, but he has been facing contempt charges fr a private law firm which hasies to chevron and the oil industry. chevron s yet to pay compensation or clean up after the catastrophic damage it created. last month, amnesty usa and a dozen other groups sent a letter to merrick garland asking him to review donziger's case. and today marks 10 years since japan's trouble disaster when a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami and a nuclear meltdown at fukushima power plant. nearly 20,000 people were killed. japan marked the day with a moment of silence, prayers, and anti-nuclear protests. ahead of today's remembrance, anti-nuclear protesters rallied in front of japan's parliament. >> no matter how nuclear plans are stapled, they're inappropriate as power generation becaus