Of indonesia from the military repression in west papua to discriminatory laws restricting the rights of religious minorities and women. We will speak to john sifton of Human Rights Watch and journalist allan nairn who will also talk about sundays election in guatemala. Been to nobel prizeWinning Economist joe stiglitz on rewriting the rules of the American Economy. Would in some of the problems we face, inequality, global warming, pollution, environment problems, and we need to create jobs. And what i show is we can have a tax reform that does all of those and raise money. Amy the university of mississippi has removed the state flag with the confederate emblem on the schools grounds, and a victory for student activists. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. By the end of this century, areas of the persian gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humid they are intolerable to human. From the burning of the fo
Before his trial. Israel has decided to withhold around 127 million of tax revenue from the Palestinian Authority. Now this comes after the palestinians officially applied to join the International Criminal court. Palestinians rely on this money to run its government and pay civil workers salary. It could effect aid to palestinian authorities. Well bring you more on that later. Lets move on to other top stories. The arab airasia crash indonesiaen Officials Say that airasia was not permitted to fly on that route on that day. Recovery crews found four large pieces of wreckage in the java sea. The weather was a factor in that incident. Only 30 bodies have been recovered so far. 162 people were on on the flight that took off from indonesia and a third of its way on its destination to singapore. Crucial developments in the sea south of borneo in the search for the airasia plane that crashed last supplied, four big chunks of the plane have been detected on the bottom of the on or about in th
Afghanistan. We see the Justice System in action. The indonesia transport minister is threatening to revoke airasias operating license. It said that the airline violated its reasons. The head of the indonesian search search and rescue said parts of the jet has been found in the java sea. 162 passengers and crew were killed when the airbus crashed during severe thunderstorms. Tell us horror our airasia has violated its operating license because it could mean that its grounded all together. Yes, thats correct. Even before before the black box is found and even before we know the reason for the crash last sunday the Prime Minister has said that they had no license to fly on that particular day. They he have no license to fly on sunday. They can only fly on weekdays, and it has been confirmed that theyve been flying every sunday. The Prime Minister has been talking about a big investigation because many questions are being asked how is it possible that an airline without a license can actu
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
Im rob reynolds in arizona where native native americans are protesting a teal that allows a Multi National Mining Corporation to begin digging a copper mine on public land. Thanks for being with us. Europe has granted greece a crucial extension to its massive debt bail out. But that comes at a cost of huge concessions including a commitment to spell out reforms in two days. Greeces leftist government was looking to ditch austerity. Im glad to report that the deal has paid off and weve established common ground. The euro Group Meetings for greece and for europe to turn a page. There were difficult meetings. But in the end we have shown like the negotiation needs compromise, you may have to say no to what you dont have a moral or political right to say yes to. Lets first go to brussels. Give us break down of what has been agreed to today. Tensions continue to rise after news surfaced that had been scheduled early on in the day continued to be set back by one hour and then two hours and