Me, iis sort of, trust know it im doing. But time and again, we see incidents where large numbers of civilians are being killed and there seems to be no public accounting. Amy today Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald for the hour on the governments secret drone warfare program, the death of font father Daniel Berrigan, and more. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Honduran authorities have arrested four men in connection with the murder of environmentalist Berta Caceres. Caceres was gunned down in her hometown of la esperanza last month. For a decade, she led the struggle against the agua zarca dam, planned along a river sacred to her people, the lenca. Last year she won the prestigious goldman environmental prize. She had faced repeated threats. The honduran president hailed the arrests. The authorities have captured four suspects in the death of our fellow citizen berta cacer es. We said this was a hit
Breaking story throughout the evening here on 7news. Also a now 30, lawyers for bill cosby in a Massachusetts Court today. Theyre trying to keep some potentially damaging documents out of the public eye. Those dewpoints could include details of his alleged caught ands. 7s Jonathan Hall live for us in worcester with more on what happened in court today, john. Yeah, good afternoon. Bill cosby is free on a Million Dollars cash bail as he awaits trial and criminal charges in montgomerie county, pennsylvania. He also faces a slew of civil lawsuits including one right here in massachusetts where he has a home in shellborn falls. There was a hearing on secrecy here this morning. A federal magistrate here in worcester today denied bll cosbys request that all evidence in the civil suit be sealed and secret instead of compromise. The court will consider requests for confidential daily on a casebycase basis. Either side may ask that certain information be kept private and then the judge will deci
The zika forest in uganda in the 1940s, is linked to serious birth defects. Dr. Jon lapook has the latest. The zika virus. Reporter today the World Health Organization sounded an alarm about the zika outbreak. Director margaret chan. Questions abound. We need to get some answers quickly. Reporter the organization will convene an emergency meeting monday to plan its response. The zika virus, which is linked to children being born with small heads, poses several challenges. Right now diagnostic tests arent perfect. Theres in treatment, and theres in vaccine. Dr. Anthony fauci, head of the Infectious Diseases branch of the nih, says the outbreak is a pandemic. You have multiple down fris in south america and the caribbean, so by anybodys definition, that would be considered a pandemic. Reporter theres concern the virus will eventually be found in mosquitoes in the u. S. South america and in the caribbean, sooner or later were going to see a local transmission. Reporter fauci says controll
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Says the zika virus is spreading explosively through the western hemisphere hemisphere. It is carried through mosquitos and can make Healthy People sick with fever and rash and for pregnant women, could lead to miscarriage or severe birth defects, ten cases already this month come from people who travelled to caribbean or latin america. We spoke to dr. Jon lapook. We now have over 4,000 suspected cases of babies born with brain defects in brazil, the question everyone is asking is could this effect the United States. We do not believe that there will be a major outbreak of zika in the United States, we dont want to be cavalier about it. We want to take it very seriously but if zika acts like the other types of viruses that had experience with, we will see little mini outbreaks like in florida or texas that can be wellcontrolled with mosquito vector control. Hopefully we will not see anything worse than that. But we have to be very vigil ant. Again we dont expect a major outbreak in the