Washingtonas considers working with tehran to shore up their iraqi regime. We will speak with political analyst raed jarrar. Then to the world cup in brazil. When you see a stadium being built for 500 million and there is no food on the table, there is no health care, and education has gotten worse, than a brief the kind of anger youre seeing right now. Brazils dance with the devil the world cup the olympics and the fight for democracy. We will go to Rio De Janeiro to speak with dave zirin. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration is reportedly considering the direct talks with iran over ways to resolve the crisis in iraq. Where sunni militants have continued to gain new ground. Over the weekend, militants from the Islamic State of iraq and syria seized the northern town. Isis also claim to have massacred 1700 shiites soldiers in tikrit, but the number could not be verified. The United
Columbian presidency in a tight race. We look at the controversy over the Death Penalty. Its good to have you with us. We begin in iraq where there is intense fighting between Government Forces and sunni muslim rebels. The government says its fighting back and recaptured two towns north of the capital. It hit baghdad. A series of explosions killed 15 people. Witnesses report rebels from i. S. I. L. Are pushing north. We have the latest from baghdad. A defiant Prime Minister and a promise to foil what he described as a terrorist matter against his nation. There are thousands like you, all iraqi people, raise up, v volunteer, and we will have space and advance to all space to coush our enemies. Earlier Iraqi Military helicopters in action. It is part of a campaign that the government sis is reversing the tide against the advance of sunni rebels. The Defence Ministry says the Cockpit Video shows multiple air strikes. The government says hundreds of rebels have been killed clearing towns a
Tough at the football world cup in brazil. First we start in pakistan, where the Army Launched a series of air strikes targetting foreign fighters in the north of the country. 50 fighters have been killed in north waziristan, many believed to be uz becks. Fighters say they carried out the assault which killed 30 people at least. Our correspondent kamal hyder in peshawar says the taliban is vowing reprisals. They are saying theres a number of civilian casualties, that the military went on a bombing ampain and there would be re campaign, and there would be reprisals. The military is saying there are credible reports, a large number of fighters were present at the tomb of the attack, which took place at 1 30am local time. And most of the fighters killed on the ground belonged to the uz beck community from the Islamic Movement of uzbekistan. The military says they are precision strikes and they are trying to avoid casualties. Uz beck fighters are being used by the local taliban because the
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