Meeting with putin. Pres. Trump positive thing. Putin is going to what russia and trump is going to want United States. Sometimes you wont get along and sometimes yowill. But we had a good meeting. Amy and we will look at how the intercepts Parent Company First Look Media is helping support the Legal Defense for alleged nasa whistleblower reality winner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In brazil, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da silva was convicted on corruption charges wednesday and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. He will remain free on appeal. Lula was the frontrunner in the 2018 president ial elections and is widely considered one of brazils most popular political figures. The sentencing of lula comes a year after his successor president Dilma Rousseff, also , of the workers party, was impeached by the Brazilian Senate in a move many have denounced as a coup. Lula has been accused
Winning journalist Glenn Greenwald. Plus we speakak with an greenwad about the latest allegations of russia meddling in the 2016 election a and trumps recentnt memeeting with putinin. Pres. Trump positive thing. Putin is going to what russia and trump is going to want United States. Sometimes you wont get along and sometimes you will. But we had a good meeting. Amy and we will look at how the intercepts Parent Company First Look Media is helping support the e Legal Defense for alleged nasa whistleblower reality winner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In brazil, former president Luiz Inacio Lula a da silva was convicted on corruption charges wednesday and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. He will remain free on appeal. Lula was the frontrunner in the 2018 president ial elections and is widely considered one of brazils most popular political figures. The sentencing of lula comes a year after
1 person detained. Second person shooting at the officers from the roof of a neighboring building. This crash happened following a pursuit in berkeley. pam now at 8. Our other top story tonight. Hours before it was to take effect. A federal judge blocks president trumps second attempt at a travel ban. steve the executive order would have limited the issuing of new green cards and visas to travelers from 6 muslim majority countries. It also would have reduced the number of refugees allowed into the country. pam kron 4s Charles Clifford is live for us tonight at sfo with details. Charles. Well, the president s first attempt at a travel ban back in january triggered chaos and protests at airports around the country, including here at sfo. A federal judge in washington eventually blocked that original executive order. Now, the president s second attempt has also been blocked as well but this time it happened before the ban took hold. New tonight, the president is also pushing back against
Great. In fact, they are not even fully known. Relying upon the limited data publicly available to answer the health risks would be negligent on my part. I have identified Significant Health risks in the current data. Could Push Administration that Bush Administration officials be tried . They are being accused of war crimes. A man was held in afghanistan as a at a secret cia prison. And the a blindfold door was closed. I was hit from all sides. I was humiliated. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Top u. S. General in charge of forces fighting the Islamic State in iraq and syria says it would take a minimum of three years to reach a turning point against the group. Speaking to reporters, the Lieutenant General james terry refuse to give a more specific timeline. Inthe first strikes were august. This is december. What is that . Four months. I think we have made significant progress in halting th
The shocking new Senate Investigation of the cias post9 11 Interrogation Program. We will speak to reed brody of Human Rights Watch who has spent a lifetime trying to bring torturers to justice around the world. Should Bush Administration officials be the next ones prosecuted . Then to the u. N. Climate change conference here in lima, peru. As the World Marks International human rights day, we will look at how peru has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for environmentalists. Plus, we will speak to nigerian environmental leader Nnimmo Bassey and to brazilian indigenous leader chief ninawa huni kui. The corporations that are polluting and destroying nature come Indigenous Peoples protect mother earth. We defend our mother because she is our mother, because she gives us food. She gives us the air we breathe. She gives us the amazon. In the amazon is important not just for Indigenous People, it is important for the whole world. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to