Well go to tegucigalpa to speak with the spokesperson of the alliance against the dictatorship. Then to President Trumps tax plan. Pres. Trump this is going to be one of the great gifts to the middle income people of this country that theyve ever gotten for christmas. Amy a Christmas Gift for the middle class or for President Trumps family and the lawmakers whose votes he was courting . Well look at how tennessee senator bob corkers abruptly changed his mind and announced his support for trumps tax plan after the addition of a lastminute provision that would personally enrich him. Then after the fcc votes to repeal the landmark Net Neutrality rules, what is next in the fight for a free and open internet . All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Republicancontrolled Congress is poised to pass a massive rewrite of the u. S. Tax code after Tennessee Republican senator bob corker abruptly reversed his positio
Today. New Research Reveals the u. S. Led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from have led to ten times more civilian deaths than was initially planned. Here in the russian capital on time christmas as well as i have a christmas from the whole team here at all to international and. Being with us this hour. All tension over jerusalem again dominated the news this week on thursday the u. S. Was strongly rebuked by members of the United Nations over its unilateral recognition of the city as israels capital one hundred twenty eight states rejected the president trumps thoughts on the divided city despite pressure and threats from u. S. Officials. When we make a decision about where to locate our embassy we dont expect those weve helped to target turns on thursday theyll be a vote criticizing our choice the u. S. Will be taking names. They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us while were watching those votes where the vote
Election. Towards obama youre watching aljazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up countdown to catalonia has a big announcement to the regional leader arrives at parliament to make an important speech on the future of the region. And i see relationship grows even colder turkeys president calls for a battle meetings with the u. S. Ambassador as tension grows between the two countries. With the wind driven event this fire change behavior very rapidly is moving throughout the area turned at one hundred people missing on twenty thousand evacuated as wildfires spread in the u. S. State of california. Well lets just begin with the breaking news coming out of kenya its Opposition Leader. Has withdrawn from the president ial election due to be run later this month rather had been numerous protests since the electoral body announced the incumbent president who rican yet or as the winner of the august eighth election lets get more on this with our correspondent term have of the d
How low will they go. And wakeup call, a tiny nasa space probe gets ready to make history. We begin tonight with the bebait over cia interrogation techniques and the fear that a new report from the senate could spark a violent backlash over seas. The report is expected tomorrow. It is already causing controversy. It is expected to condemn the cias brutal use of techniques after september 11th. Tonight the u. S. Military has put thousands of soldiers on alert. The president believes on principle it is important to release the report so people understand exactly what transpired. Reporter the report is the result of a 40 million investigation by the democraticlead Senate Intelligence committee. The Committee Plans to release a declassified, 480page summary. It is expected to reveal new details about the cias use of torture on alqaeda prisoners after 9 11. The socalled enhanced interrogation techniques included sleep deprivation, confinement in small places, and water boarding. Anticipatin
Ussr to rush at the beginning. No one knows. There is a lot of love and hate. Cubans have one of the highest awareness is of u. S. Brands in the world and one of the highest preferences in the world so if u. S. Companies launching into cuba comes with less cost than some other marketplace that makes it attractive so and thats because the folks do have, the people of cuba many of them have access. We saw what no one expected with fidel. Most people, most of the modeling done in the u. S. Government was fidels speaking, he drops dead worries in his office and people drop dead and people know where they dont know but no one expected a succession and then a transition from brother to brother. I would say dont expect raul dies and its a switch. Its going to be more of a wave. Thank you. Bill lane. Good morning. Bill lane with caterpillar and first of all i want to thank you for a Great Program and great timing particularly the fact that this is two days away from the big anniversary. Some o