Prisoner dying of a heart attack 40 minutes into the idea ordeal. Then, senator Patrick Leahy blocks military aid to egypt while denouncing the sentencing of 683 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to death in what he called a sham trial. Nobody, nobody can justify this. It does not show democracy. It shows a dictatorship run amok. We will go to cairo to speak with democracy now correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous and to a member of the Muslim Brotherhood living in exile in england. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. An oklahoma death row prisoner has died of a heart attack after a botched execution tuesday night. Clayton lockett was injected elite with lethal drugs. Doctors halted the killing 13 minutes and when discovering he was still conscious and trying to speak. Dr. Say he suffered a ruptured vein interrupting the flow of the drugs. He died of a heart attack when the drugs had spread through his bo
In pacifica it was jammed. They are not used to the heat. Half moon bay contractor was quitting work at noon. Im my own boss, im able to do that. Too hot. You touch a hammer its too hot to touch. Even a few minutes in a parked car can kill a car. Two weeks ago there was a death in the San Francisco bay area, one thing ive found it does not have to be a really warm day. We caught up with paramedics, for older people this heat can be dangerous. People should be drinking plenty of water, stay hydrated, a lot of residents dont have airconditioning. Some people invaded ways to cope. I opened the windows and went to the basement. When i have time i go to the beach. At the beach cold water and rip currents are potentially deadly hazard. Here three weeks ago a teenager drowned and a surfer rescued two others. Lifeguards are urging anyone thats not experienced to stay out of the water. Reporting live at ocean beach, john fowler. Snoop happening now a salvage operation recovered a small plane th
Its all about battling for the top spot. Absolutely, tim. For 144 years the United States has been the worlds biggest km economy. China is catching up fast. Now a new way of measuring growth backed by the world bank suggests china could overtake the u. S. By the end of this year. We asked is this a real threat or simply some very clever number crunching . Hello. It is midday here in london. 7 00 a. M. In washington. 2 00 p. M. In baghdad where the first parliamentary elections are taking place since the u. S. Pulled their troops out of the country three years ago. Amid a backdrop of the worst violence since 2008, iraqis are going to the polls to decide whether to give Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki a third term in office. More than 150 people have been killed in the past week alone. There will be no voting in two cities in the sunni dominated Anbar Province in fallujah and ramadi where fighting between al qaeda gunmen and iraqi forces prevented polling stations from being set up. Voting
Developments in the east of the country are currently dominating world headlines while the tugofwar over crimea seems to have retreated into the background. The peninsula, which was annexed by russia last month, was not even a topic of discussion at the recent peace talks in geneva. Positions simply differ too much, but the inhabitants of crimea are faced with a lot of uncertainty as far as their everyday lives are concerned. Which schoolbooks will pupils have an future, for example. Which National League will be crimea in football clubs play and . Who will supply the land with electricity . Curators of a museum are concerned about the antique gold treasure, which they lent out to a museum in amsterdam. The precious pieces were supposed to have been returned. They were mysterious people, nomadic horsemen. They had no writing, left no written legacy, but they did leave fabulous treasures, magnificent garments, and skillfully worked vessels for the knowledge is for archaeologists to find
She began writing. Should began during math. Two plus two is four. Marijuana refugees. Over 100 families have uprooted their lives and moved to colorado to obtain special strains of cannabis to help their children suffering from relentless seizures. We will speak with one mother and her nineyearold daughter who moved from virginia to colorado. We will also speak with pulitzer prizewinning reporter Dave Philipps of the Colorado Springs gazette and a leading medical marijuana dr. There. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The United Nations has issued a report on killings and displacement carried out on a massive scale in south sudan. Since violence began between warring factions in december, more than one Million People have fled their homes and thousands have been killed. The report finds civilians have been directly targeted. In one case, more than 300 men from the Nuer Ethnic Group were rounded up and sl