Espionage act and other charges. He now faces up to 136 years in prison. Julian assange will join us from the Ecuadorian Embassy in london where he has been living for more than a year. Then we go to fort meade, maryland, where the sentencing hearing begins today. Obrien,peak to alexa who has been reporting from their everyday. We are not talking about the trial, as important as it is. We are talking about setting legal precedent for National Security and whistleblowers, and beyond that, people using the internet, communicating in legallyprotected speech. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. For brentcing hearing a man and begins today following his acquittal on the most serious charge he faced, aiding the enemy, but conviction and 20 accounts. On tuesday, manning was found guilty of violating the espionage act and other charges for leaking documents to wikileaks. He avoids an automatic life sentence but st
Espionage act and other charges. He now faces up to 136 years in prison. Julian assange will join us from the Ecuadorian Embassy in london where he has been living for more than a year. Then we go to fort meade, maryland, where the sentencing hearing begins today. Obrien,peak to alexa who has been reporting from their everyday. We are not talking about the trial, as important as it is. We are talking about setting legal precedent for National Security and whistleblowers, and beyond that, people using the internet, communicating in legallyprotected speech. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. For brentcing hearing a man and begins today following his acquittal on the most serious charge he faced, aiding the enemy, but conviction and 20 accounts. On tuesday, manning was found guilty of violating the espionage act and other charges for leaking documents to wikileaks. He avoids an automatic life sentence but st
Adegbile because he was head of the Naacp Legal Defense Fund which represented Mumia Abujamal on a constitutional issue involving his death sentence. But backers of Debo Adegbile say the attacks are new form of Willie Horton politics and race baiting. In fact, his willingness to represent an unpopular defendant in an emotionally charged case, to mistreat his appreciation as well as his respect for the criminal Justice System. Then we speak with renowned author, educator, and political activist angela davis. Abolition involves so much more than the abolition of slavery. Abolition involves so much more than the abolition of imprisonment. As the dominant mode of punishment. It involves the reconfiguration of the social, political, Economic Conditions that render prison such a necessary institution. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Lawmakers in the ukrainian province of crimea have voted to join russia and
Mostly green arrows across wall street today as we near the 1500 mark on the s p 500. And a 0. 1 contraction is expected for the German Economy in the Fourth Quarter. Those figures will be out in just under 30 minutes. The governors of the banks of italy trade in siena. And imfs Christine Legarde tells us that Central Bank Stimulus is still needed. We have the central bank on the one hand which have done quite a lot, which have been the fireman, in a way. And you have the policymakers on the other hand particularly in the eurozone who have made some progress and need to keep the momentum. Now, any minute now, were expecting the results from germanys ifo institute. January Business Climate index survey is expected to rise to a reading of 103 from 102. 4 in december. This, of course, follows an increase in expectations in the dew survey earlier this week. Weve seen an increase in the pmi surveys for germany over the last couple of months. As the German Economy particularly looking to cli
Ties with swiss land after vote is there on eu michaels. Im in heiti where people are recovering from catastrophes and we will show you a Mental Health some in desperate need of money and resources. Another chance or the last chance. The Syrian Government and the opposition is said to start the second round of peace talks in geneva, the international brahimi has the difficult task of mediating between both sides and there was little to show after the first round of talks last month but agreed on a threeday cease fire in the city of homs and hundreds considered the most vulnerable did manage to leave the rebelheld city on sunday and the truce is extended for three days to allow more aid to get in and to allow more people to get out. And we are in the beirut studio with james base is in geneva and first of all the three extra days presumably will allow people to do some of what they wanted to do in the first place was get more help and more people out. Absolutely, david. We were just spe