Fbi monitored occupy wall street from its earliest days, treating the Nonviolent Movement as a potential terrorism threat. We will speak with mara verheydenhilliard of the partnership for Civil Justice. Then turmoil inside the two party. A former House Majority leader dick armey is attempting a coup than his own party. He is paid 8 million to leave. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama and members of the senate are back in washington today after a short break with just days before the onset of the socalled fiscal cliff. Obama and Republican Leaders remain at a crossroads on reaching a budget deal before the combination of spending cuts and tax hikes kicks in with the new year. On wednesday, treasury secretary Timothy Geithner told congress the u. S. Will reach its federal Borrowing Limit on new years eve, threatening the same default that was narrowly avoided last year. In a letter to lawmak
Fbi monitored occupy wall street from its earliest days, treating the nonviolent moveennt as a potential terrorism threat. We will speak with mara verheydenhilliard of the partnership for Civil Justice. Then turmoil inside the two party. A former House Majority leader dick armey is attempting a coup than his own party. He is paid 8 million to leave. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama and members of the senate are back in washington today after a short break with just days before the onset of the socalled fiscal cliff. Obama and Republican Leaders remain at a crossroads on reaching a budget deal before the combination of spending cuts and tax hikes kicks in with the new year. On wednesday, treasury secretary Timothy Geithner told congress the u. S. Will reach its federal Borrowing Limit on new years eve, threatening the same default that was narrowly avoided last year. In a letter to lawmak
Individual health choonch the doesnt meet the laws minimum standards. Taking up the faith in the philippines, still a struggle to get to the survivors. Thousands remain homeless and desperate. Meantime a cleanup operation to clean up debris and speed up deliveries of relief supplies. Those are the headlines at this hour. America tonight is up next on Al Jazeera America and remember you can always get the latest news on aljazeera. Com, ill see you back here on monday night. Is hacktivist a. Secrecy and opennence. And a bridge over trouble water. Can new technology suspend catastrophe during an earthquake . Good friday evening everyone, im adam may. One week ago supertyphoon haiyan, strongest ever reported, storm shredded villages, leveled towns, destroyed everything in its path including families. Badlbadly needed aide and relief is finally beginning to arrive. While the u. S. Says they have turned a corner new statistics suggest otherwise. Nearly 13 Million People impacted, close to 2
Nine days after typhoon haiyan left parts of the country in ruins. Tens of thousands of victims are starting to get medical care as food and water is being dropped to isolated areas. Lets bring in craig leeson who is in tacloban. Is International Aid finally getting to the hard to reach places. It is starting to trickle through. We are seeing a lot of aid come in here at the air force base in cebu. Its piling in and being distributed to areas in need particularly tacloban in leyte, the epicentre of this disaster. But the challenge has been getting it from tacloban out into the the regions from there that are hard to reach. Many of them are still cut off. There is only power to four of the 30 provinces hit by the typhoon. There are difficulties that aid workers are still seeing that were there from day one. We travelled up to bantayan yesterday with a cargo shift, one of the first aid relief and witnessed the hunger of people as they crowded around the trucks of rice, trying to get food
Where im at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living hard to travel to the exclusion zone the fish in about the government has vowed to make fit for habitation soon applied to some see as hopelessly unrealistic box Russian Police received a militant hideout leading to an intense gunfire with several terrorists dead reportedly including the met orchestra to last most people could ride bus bombing. Its three pm and off white mat as the berry good to be with us our top story this hour a cyber activists by the massive expos am the us private Intelligence Firm that spied for the government has been sentenced to ten years behind bars. Analysts say the case that was anything but clear cut than is being described as a warning shot to whistleblowers but hes honest us teacher can reports after two hours during a packed courtroom in the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan twenty year old activist impacting Jeremy Hammond was sentenced two hundred and twenty months behind bar