A new contest to become britains next Prime Minister of fuel speculation of a comeback. Forbores johnson list trust promises a replacement within a week after leaving storage on the economy. And her nations politics in turmoil. Flooding in nigeria has killed 600 people and made more than a 1000000 homes. Now farmers say the water is washing away any hope. They have a growing food and hunger loops. Ah. A michael ok. Its good to have you with us. Ukrainian president of lot him is zalinski, has accused russia of planning to blow up a hydro electric dam. In the her son region, he said, Russian Troops had mine the kafka power plant on the denito river to trigger what zalinski called a catastrophe on a grand scale. His comments add to growing concern about russian attacks against energy infrastructure. There were reports this morning of glass in hockey, and zap parisha monuments destroyed windows of homes blown in residence of the southern ukrainian city. Of nikolai, of our once again, picki
Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. And as we continue our series on the communicators talking with some of the Telecommunications Associations headquartered here in washington, week were joined by Shirley Bloomfield who is the head of the ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Shes here to talk about some of the legislative and policy issues that her association faces. Ms. Medical bloomfield, what ise ntca, first of all . Guest a National Trade association, and we represent 90 small local providers that are in pretty much every state in this country who provide what used to be, you know, just basic telephone service. Theyre now broadband providers. Theyve also become kind of the onestop shop Tech Service Providers for tear communities. They do video, wireless, data centers, they do whatever Technology Needs their communities actually require. So they actually represent their interests here in washington d.
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It doesnt want to antagonize republicans. We will get reaction from Pablo Alvarado of the National Day Laborers organizing network, and speak with Aviva Chomsky, author of the new book, undocumented how immigration became illegal. Then part two of our interview with the famed essayist Tanehisi Coates about his explosive new atlantic magazine essay, the case for reparations. It is being credited for rekindling a National Debate on reparations for american slavery and institutional racism. To the myth lie that africanamericans who act right, who are respectable, you know, are somehow therefore immune to the plunder that is symptomatic of White Supremacy in this country. It does not matter. There is no bettering yourself that will get you out of it. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The nsa has released an email sent by Edward Snowden to its office of general counsel claiming it is the only email snowden se
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