The people want the fall of the regime. Protests sweep the lebanese capital beirut for a second day. Hello, it is the start of a new week but on the worlds Financial Markets it looks like the same story. Fears of a slow down in the worlds second biggest economy are continuing to spook markets across asia after last weeks big drop. And thats created panic among traitors and investors triggering a global silfverberg sell off a slide in Commodity Prices and currency. The shanghaied composite wiped out its entire gains for the year dropping more than eight on 8 on monday and that had a ripple across the asian markets that saw its biggest fall since 2011. Emerging economies like vietnam have all taken a homering. More than 5 trillion have been wiped off the market since china devalued its currency earlier this month. Oil prices have fallen below 40 a barrel. And the currencies of countries like india, malaysia and indonesia are badly hit. As mentioned, the free falling chinese stocks have l
Then to sarah shourd, the american hiker jailed in iran for 14 months on the Iran Nuclear Deal and her new play about solitary confinement, opening the box. Did we go to Guatemala City where president otto perez is rejecting growing calls to resign. Collects i declare categorically i reject any link to the scandal are receiving money from that defrauding operations. My conscience in that sense is at peace. I reaffirm i will not resign and will fully submit myself to the legal process. Good night and may god bless you. Amy we will speak to investigative journalist allan nairn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. China is calling it black monday. Global stocks are falling as chinas market saw its sharpest daily fall since the Global Financial crisis in 2007. The Shanghai Stock Exchange plunged 8. 5 monday, sending shock waves throughout asian and european markets. Todays fall comes after weeks of decline in
Most expensive president ial campaign in political history, harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig considers joining the race with a single goal removing money from politics. He will join us from boston. Then to sarah shourd, the american hiker jailed in iran for 14 months on the Iran Nuclear Deal and her new play about solitary confinement, opening the box. Did we go to Guatemala City where president otto perez is rejecting growing calls to resign. Collects i declare categorically i reject any link to the scandal are receiving money from that defrauding operations. My conscience in that sense is at peace. I reaffirm i will not resign and will fully submit myself to the legal process. Good night and may god bless you. Amy we will speak to investigative journalist allan nairn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. China is calling it black monday. Global stocks are falling as chinas market saw its sharpest da
Most expensive president ial campaign in political history, harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig considers joining the race with a single goal removing money from politics. He will join us from boston. Then to sarah shourd, the american hiker jailed in iran for 14 months on the Iran Nuclear Deal and her new play about solitary confinement, opening the box. Did we go to Guatemala City where president otto perez is rejecting growing calls to resign. Collects i declare categorically i reject any link to the scandal are receiving money from that defrauding operations. My conscience in that sense is at peace. I reaffirm i will not resign and will fully submit myself to the legal process. Good night and may god bless you. Amy we will speak to investigative journalist allan nairn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. China is calling it black monday. Global stocks are falling as chinas market saw its sharpest da
He created a series treme after the storm. We will discuss his groundbreaking series the wire, his portrayal of what he describes as rock, unencumbered capitalism in his city of baltimore. And we will hear what happened when simon recently met president obama at the white house. Quite at the front end, to tell you im a huge fan of the wire and i think it is one of the greatest not Just Television shows, but pieces of art in the last couple of decades. I am a huge fan. Amy , today david simon for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In news from the campaign trail, republican president ial candidate donald trump has sparked outrage over his decision to remove univision news anchor jorge ramos, one of the nations most influential latino journalists, from a press conference after ramos attempted to ask a question about the trumps plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. [inaudible] next .