They will be accompanied by jets, bombers, and drones. We will speak with kathy kelly of voices for creative nonviolence, just back from afghanistan and with journalist matt aikins. His recent piece is headlined, afghanistan the making of a narco state. The country produced about 90 of the worlds supply of opium in 2014. Then, back in new york some 20,000 Police Officers attended one of the Largest Police funerals in new york history. To honor one of two officers murdered in the last weeks. Hundreds of police turned their back outside the church as mayor de blasio delivered his eulogy inside. We will speak with the Police Officer who says those officers with their backs turned on the present the feelings of many police. I guess the main question is where do we go from now . Where does police and community decide to come together to see how were going to move forward after this tragedy . We will speak with adhyl polanco. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracy
11,000 troops in afghanistan and last month, president obama took really extended the u. S. Role in afghanistan that ensures u. S. Troops will continue to fight. They will be accompanied by jets, bombers, and drones. We will speak with kathy kelly of voices for creative nonviolence, just back from afghanistan and with journalist matt aikins. His recent piece is headlined, afghanistan the making of a narco state. The country produced about 90 of the worlds supply of opium in 2014. Then, back in new york some 20,000 Police Officers attended one of the Largest Police funerals in new york history. To honor one of two officers murdered in the last weeks. Hundreds of police turned their back outside the church as mayor de blasio delivered his eulogy inside. We will speak with the Police Officer who says those officers with their backs turned on the present the feelings of many police. I guess the main question is where do we go from now . Where does police and community decide to come togeth
Sombre anniversary. We cant act quickly enough looking at the horror of the rwandan genocide and the failure of the community lashing out greeks lash out as germany rejects a claim by greece for war horrors. Horror at sea. The vessel may have been sinking it may have been deliberate good evening, im antonio mora. We begin in yemen, where the u. S. Is stepping up its involved providing weapons to the saudi arabialed coalition. U. S. Representatives spoke loud and clear about the coalitions effort to defeat the rebels. Saudi arabia is sending a strong message to houthis and allies that they cannot overrun yemen by force. In support of that effort we have expedited weapons delivers increased intelligence sharing and established a joint coordination and planning cell in the saudi Operation Center the red cross is calling for a 24 hour ceasefire to bring in medical supplies to people in need. Yemeni officials point fingers at saudi arabia saying air strikes hit a school killing three studen
The debate offer the u. S. Drone program in the region. Also b, is this the first time an american citizen has been killed by a drone attack outside of Anwar Al Awlaki who was an american who became a terrorist and taken out by a u. S. Drone strike. To be clear white house statement says counterterror operation. They do not specify that it was a drone strike. So we should hear from the white house and im reaching out now to specify what kind of operation this was. Was a drone strike aircraft or elements on the ground involved. Thats one thing we have to look into. Keep in mind all those things have inherent risks. Drone strikes killed civilians before. You mentioned al awlaki strike the one previous weve known before pesifying drone specifically. Keep in mind there was another operation on the ground in somalia with Ground Forces that killed not an american but an International Hostage from south africa. So all these options at the president s hands, all of them are risky in these cont
Anger boiling over on the streets of baltimore. A major confrontation between police and protesters a moment ago. Our own brian todd was caught in the middle of it all and let me show you. Lets go over here. Watch out. Watch out. Here they just got another man. Were being easy guys. Were being pushed. If you can see whats going on, when they try to arrest someone, they are being swarmed by the protesters. Okay. Okay. Thank you. And some as you can see this obviously a violent confrontation there between police and protesters. That was moments ago. It comes after days of mostly peaceful demonstrations. I want to show you the live pictures at this moment. Protesters are gathering at city haul and the Police Station again. It has been 11 days since freddie grays arrest. Heres what we dont know. What led to his arrest what happened to him in the police van, why has his autopsy not been released and why have we heard nothing from the arresting officers even though five of the six have given