Mexicos former defense minister has been arrested in the u. S. Now new details about the charges against him will be live in mexico city. Lets start in thailand where police and antigovernment protesters a force in the center of the capital water cannon was used to break through a barricade set up by demonstrators in bangkok for a 3rd day in a row thousands of people defied the government ban on gatherings calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy scott hide the reports. Face to face in bangkok antigovernment protestors and thai police got into a violent confrontation 3 months in the making. The mostly Peaceful Demonstrations started in july but for the 2nd day thousands ignored the risk of arrest under emergency decree issued the day before. As promised in an announcement just after the violence began taia 30 began using everything at their disposal to stop the protests including water cannon with burning agent laced with water the protesters are demandin
A south African Court away to black men are accused of killing a white farmer. Welcome to the program we begin in thailand where police in antigovernment protest as a fort in the center of the capital city water cannon was used to break through a barricade set up by demonstrators in bangkok for a 3rd day in a row now thousands of people defied a government ban on public gatherings calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and for reforms to the monarchy skyler appoints. Face to face in bangkok antigovernment protestors and thai police got into a violent confrontation 3 months in the making. The mostly Peaceful Demonstrations started in july but for the 2nd day thousands ignored the risk of arrest under emergency decree issued the day before as promised in an announcement just after the violence began tire thors began using everything at their disposal to stop the protest including water cannon with burning agent laced with water. The protesters are demanding a new constitution reform
No freedom at all. They will put this Great Republic on the trash heap of history if they have their way if our government does not act and act immediately. Both facebook and twitter this week censoring the New York Post bombshell reports linking joe biden to his son Hunter Bidens corrupt business dealings in ukraine and china. Facebook censored the stories. Twitter censored the stories. Facebook saying they needed to be fact checked. And twitter called the stories, quote, potentially harmful. Whatever in the world that means. Within minutes both social media platforms had put an end to the free flow of information in this country. The free flow of information that underpins our very democracy. They blocked millions of their users, including myself, to simply slow down the distribution of the New York Post exposes of the bidens. Twitter said their decision to censor the New York Post links fell under what they called their hack materials policy. It is a powell that twitter ceo policy t
For the latest. Im going to look up welcome to the program a teacher in france has been beheaded outside the school where he worked and what president emanuel mccaughan has called in islamised terrorist attack the incident occurred outside paris in the town of call for us all remain police say the victim had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class the suspect was shot dead by police its the 2nd islamist attack in france since the Charlie Charlie hebdo trial opened in september staff at that satirical magazine were murdered by islamist gunmen in 2015 after it published mohammad caricature. At the scene of the attack french president Emmanuel Mckown said france would not be divided by terrorists. You know i call on all our compatriots at this time tonight to be united without any distinction whatsoever. Because we are 1st and foremost Citizens United by the same values and history our fate and. This unity is indispensable much has already been said and i will not add more the sea
In a move that could lead to the cash its breakup. We will speak to law professor zephyhr teachout, author of break em up recovering our freedom from big ag, big tech, and big money. Plus, we will talk about her call for Senate Democrats to use every procedural tool possible to block the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Then to mexico. It is an unequivocal example of the decomposition of the regime, the governmental body was degraded. Amy former Mexican Defense secretary general salvador cienfuegos has been ordered held without bail in the United States after his shocking arrest last week at Los Angeles International airport for working with a Major Drug Cartel while heading mexicos military. We will get the latest and look at what this means for victims of human rights massacres during his time in office. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. We begin headlines with the story that incl