Hello and welcome everybody, its 5 30 p. M. Here in the iranian capital at tehrani watching press tvs world news. Our top story for this half hour, its election day in iran and uh people are heading to the polls to of cast their ballots for parliament and assembly of experts. Voters are taking part in the parliamentary election to choose 290 members of the legislative body from over 15,000 candidates, selected members will serve for a term of four years in the. Parliament in another election which is being held simultaneously, participants are voting of for 88 members of the assembly of experts deliberative body elected for eight years. This is the 12th parliamentary election and the sixth voting for the assembly of experts since the victory of irans Islamic Revolution, more than 61 Million People are eligible to vote for both elections. Iranian voters have expressed their unwavering support for the Islamic Revolution by actively participating in the ongoing elections, iranians say the
And they are given government services. The count the martyrs of the zionist air attack on two houses in rafah increased to 17 people. Dozens of other palestinians were injured in this attack. Two palestinian citizens were martyred in the Zionist Attack on the nusirat camp in the center of the gaza strip. At the same time , alaqsa tv channel reported that the bodies of 11 martyrs of the recent attacks by the zionist forces on khan yunus in the gaza strip were pulled out from under the rubble. According to the Palestinian Ministry of health , 124 palestinians were martyred and 21 others were injured in the attacks of the zionist regime on gaza in the last 24 hours. Zionist soldiers killed 55 palestinians in the ba bank. Board of Prisoners Affairs the palestinian announced that including these people , the zionist regime has arrested 7,400 palestinian citizens in the past five months since the start of the alaqsa storm operation. Zionist soldiers also martyred a palestinian teenager in r
Drops from the sky. The us military delivering 38,000 meals for gazans in dire need. The un says famine will be inevitable, the mission and ongoing effort to get more aid into gaza through land, sea and air. But it drops like these are not enough. Access through the land routes, say us officials, is crucial. 0n officials, is crucial. On friday, President Biden said america is insisting the israelis allow more Aid Trucks Into Gaza. Israelis allow more Aid Trucks Into Gaza into gaza. Innocent lives on the line and into gaza. Innocent lives on the line and childrens into gaza. Innocent lives on the line and childrens lives| the line and childrens lives on the line. We will not stand by until we get more aid in there. We should be getting hundreds of trucks in, notjust several. Hundreds of trucks in, not ust several. ,. , several. Signs of hope as well for dozens several. Signs of hope as well for dozens of several. Signs of hope as well for dozens of hostages several. Signs of hope as wel
Claiming it successfully hacked into the iphone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, we will speak with fillets are prizewinning journalist Glenn Greenwald about the fight over encryption. Do you think there should be yway for human beings to communicate without u. S. Government being able to access that . That is the critical question we face. Amy and the state of North Carolina is sued over its sweeping new antigay and antitransgender law. Were asking the court to overturn house bill 2 because it because ittutional, violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th amendment, because it discriminates on the basis of sex and sexual orientation, and because it is an invasion of privacy for transgender men and transgender women. Amy we will go to North Carolina to speak with one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, transgender student Payton Mcgarry as well as chase strangio, staff attorney at the aclu. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow
340 others were injured. A Splinter Group of the taliban has claimed responsibility. We will speak with author and activist tariq ali. Then as the fbi drops its lawsuit against apple after claiming it successfully hacked into the iphone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, we will speak with fillets are prizewinning journalist Glenn Greenwald about the fight over encryption. Do you think there should be anyway for human beings to communicate without u. S. Government being able to access that . That is the critical question we face. Amy and the state of North Carolina is sued over its sweeping new antigay and antitransgender law. Were asking the court to overturn house bill 2 because it because ittutional, violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th amendment, because it discriminates on the basis of sex and sexual orientation, and because it is an invasion of prprivacy for transgender men ad transgender women. Amy we will go to North Carolina to speak with one o