I can remember one time when we were racing the atlanta 500 and he was sick and he needed an operation. I said, daddy, we dont have to rest a day. He whispered to me and said, lived my legs up and put me in the car. He drove 500 miles that day. Nermeen well talk to dave isay about storycorps, his new book, and the recent death of freed death row prisoner maurice bickham. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im nermeen shaikh. The United States and russia have reached a deal to extend a fragile ceasefire to the embattled syrian city of aleppo. A surge in fighting between rebels and the Syrian Regime has guilt about 300 people over the past two weeks. The city now appears relatively calm. Jeffrey feldman condemned the recent attacks on area hospitals. Ever more shocking reports from the aleppo city in the past two weeks. You have all seen the horrifying images of on hospitals in both government and opposition Held Neighborho
Ship wreck gets ready for its final voyage. International monitors in east ukraine are going to try again to inspect the wreckage of malaysian passenger plane. Translator whoever crosses the line and doesnt comply with my records will face the consequences. Observers from the osce say prorussia separatists limited their access to the site on friday, warning shots were fired in to the eras the Monitoring Team was asked to leave. They have been trying to set up a corridor for investigators to get to the scene. The u. S. Says the aircraft was shot down by a missile fired from a rebelheld area. All 298 passengers on board the plane were killed when it came down near the village. Thats about 50kilometers away from the russia border. Wreckage is strewn across at least 15 square kilometers of farmlands. Scott heidler is at the scene for us, and, scott, tell us whats happening there today. Are the monitors going to be returning . Reporter yes, we are hearing, we are getting world that we will
Yet he hasnt come out and said. Nything to poroshenko host thank you for your call and comment. This is from the denver post. This is from the miami herald. And from the state newspaper. Lets go to glenn in tallahassee, florida. I just wanted to pay a compliment to cspan. If you want gossip go to the regular tv programs. If you want to be exposed to the fact is, listen to cspan. Knows what the facts are this time . I dont blame obama because we just dont know. It seems like 95 of the black black folks in calling and always defend him regardless of the issue. I dont understand that. Why dont they have a mind of their own and consider history a little deeper rather than kneejerk support just because the president is black . Good luck to cspan. This is from the washington times. The headline raul actually we will go to john next in maryland. Good morning. Everyone seems to fail to miss the point that short of us actually talking about it there is nothing we can do. Republicans and democra
Hamas ty government, minister declared, and i quote, that the whistling bullets, the sound of bombs and missiles exploding and the capture of Israeli Soldiers was music to our ears. By supporting the agreement youre giving hamas the opportunity to weave incitement, violence and terror into the basic fabric, just as it did in gaza. Mr. President , the citizens of israel want to live in peace. We want to see our children without d grow old running for a bomb shelter or utting on an army uniform. I hope someday we will read about attacks on jewish people in history books rather than newspapers. But that day has not yet come. For now we are forced to wage war against a terrorist group ommitted to our destruction. As we speak, night has fallen on israel. Rather than sleeping soundly in their beds, our sons and daughters are out there in the darkness standing guard over rael and the people of scrawl. In the book of psalms king david says [speaking foreign language] too long have i lived amon
They are so fully integrated economically, etc. So you dont have youth who feel that they are alienated, marginalized, dont have a job, etc. , in the way you can have it in areas of europe which can concede disaffection. The last question on the issue of isis competitors. Ill just say that one of the sometimes there are really bad ideas in policy debates. I think one of them, and it really takes your breath away, is this notion suggested by some even in the administration that if we kind of take a step back and let isis and other extremists fight it out with the assad regime and hezbollah and the youreian backers that both sides would end up weakened and i remember when i first heard this and said ok, but cant imagine anything thats turned out more long. The opposite is true and both were strengthened tremendously. This was their Training Ground fighting each other and became much better fighters over the course of that. And this is sort of the sarah palin position, let it all sort it