Amy in philadelphia, a black mother who was attacked with her family in october by a horde of Police Officers is speaking out about the harrowing experience. Rickia young was driving an suv with her twoyearold son and teenage nephew when officers descended on the vehicle, broke all its windows, assaulted and arrested young, pulled her 16yearold nephew frothe car, and grabbed her child. We will he rickia her own wordand speato her aorney. Then we look at how the ridehailing Companies Uber and lyft scored a major victory against Worker Rights with the passage of proposition 22 in california. Theyre now pushing similar measures in other states. With this passage, this will basicivers like me from protections afforded to most in the state. These companies are promising to roll out this model tionwide. It foretells a grim future for gig workers across the country. Amy we will look at other Ballot Initiatives around the country. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democr
Welcome, everybody, to our hearing. Both those in the room and those that arent in the room. Before we start, i think its important, again, to note whats going on all around us, and that is the acknowledgement of Racial Injustice that has gone on for far too long in our country. I certainly support those who are speaking out and making their voices heard in a peaceful manner to bring about change. While change does not always come easily, i want to remind those watching this hearing today that change is possible. In december 2018, the first step that i first introduced became law. And i worked in partnership with several republican and democrat senators. Senator durbin was the lead person for the democrats. This law is the most significant criminal Justice Reform in a generation. A lot of people didnt think it was possible but we did it by working together, in a bipartisan way. But also working together in other ways to address racial disparities. Such as in health care, the c. A. R. E
24 hour news. This is your r. T. International pleasure your company my name is you neal. Its being quite the light in the u. K. The conservative party secured an outright majority in the general election with leader Boris Johnson declaring braggs it can finally happen as for the opposition pretty much disastrous all rather and labor suffered humiliating defeats in areas long regarded as their loyal liberal democrats who called i pride for another referendum on e. U. Membership saw their leader embarrassingly lose her seat well lets find out more and cross to r t u k theyve got all the stories from across britain because weve got our special continuing election coverage live from our studios in r. T. E. In westminster. Just while we wait to go to that one other issue to bring you as well the s. And p. Winning 5559 scottish seats pretty incredible weve got kates standing by with bill lets cross over. Just made in time. That if he. Said the 2 oclock. Just go into your brain and all right
Comments that we heard from the attorney general who heads up the Justice Department william barr in recent weeks something thats been echoed by Donald Trumps campaign and that is that they believe that Donald Trumps campaign had been spied upon that they believe the Justice Department under the Obama Administration had been weaponized and well there is pushback on the investigation further investigation into the president what they do support is investigation of whether or not his campaign had been spied upon somewhat unlawfully so whats again it does appear that the political gridlock that has gripped this country for years is set to continue or as i can be held at the White House Committee thank you its beginning to think its time to the director of the sense of the ethics the rule of law at the university of Pennsylvania Law School and joins us live from philadelphia pled good to have you back on the Program President trump tweeted theres no change the mother report is the end of t
Option if he doesnt get a coalition the next few minutes is to get a law enacted to dissolve the knesset and have another round of elections in 3 months time that would be unprecedented in israeli history and he also needs to convince members of his own party the ones who only just scraped into this knesset by the skin of their teeth and might feel that given a another round of elections they may well not get in he has to convince them to vote for dissolving the knesset anyway and with their 1st piece of legislation potentially rule themselves out of a job so its an extremely difficult situation that he finds himself in thank you very much for lesters them harry for set. Well now iranian president Hassan Rouhani has suggested talks with the u. S. Might be possible if washington lift sanctions imposed of attack Irans Nuclear program it comes after the u. S. National security adviser blamed Iranian Naval mines for damaging oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates earlier thi