So i imagine after this i would be this big not unconditionally accept their piece of them that they once again want to show. They are capable of inflicting harm. And then again in fly a prisoner swap and peaceful well i mean they occupy some of the capital of yemen and so they describe themselves as the old government of yemen right now in competition or swith president the will is in solidarity again militarily they have close to 100000. Men to the heart of the soldiers and they have demonstrated their power and square. And we have plenty more have this news hour including and haiti antigovernment demonstrators and demonstrations bring more chaos to the streets will be live in Port Au Prince. Zimbabwes founding leader is laid to rest Robert Mugabe is buried in his home village after a dispute between his family and the government. And in sports christian common as the prince king of joe how we will have the action from the world athletics championships. Syrias deputy Prime Minister h
In an effort to end the 17 year war those talks recently broke down. Harken is an adjunct scholar in the defense and Foreign Policy department at the Cato Institute and she joins us from Arlington Virginia good to get you on the program as we as we outlined there the u. S. Did have a big role in what we know of afghanistan now and what is that stake for washington in these elections particularly given that what weve seen a repeat of the elections 5 almost a repeat of the elections 5 years ago and possibly very low turnout. Well i think for the United States something that. Is a really hard to do a sham and the trumpet ministration especially when president trumpets campaigning here said that one of the main things he wants to do is still the u. S. Troops from the highest and it seemed at the still about the beginning of september that might actually be happening so the fact that the talks 7 hours actively died at least some of us and that the elections that are occurring now in a plan
A message across to the song and with the flags and theyre all dressed up and no doubt theyll be a few more spots to come and as you said prodemocracy groups are also planning a gathering today what do we expect from them. There is another rally planned to soften to prague up a pro democracy and antigovernment rallies planned full course by by now this will be a much from causeway by a couple of kilometers back to where we were last night on saturday night which is admiralty which is where the government headquarters is located now this particular rally that have sought permission to go ahead with this rally on other occasions they have sought permission but the mission hasnt been granted so at this rally we do expect large numbers at the shops and the stores the big retail outlets around those areas because its a very busy area theyre already closing in preparation for those large numbers together and this of course is one of many rallies planned over the next couple of guys tomorrow
Kilometers so they tried to break them up at the very beginning that was an unsuccessful by the police and then so hundreds of thousands of people marched all the way through there were confrontations along the route but the biggest was what their final destination and that was the government complex as you mentioned thats what we saw the blue dye chemically laden water cannon being used we saw petrol bombs being thrown by the protesters bricks being thrown by the protesters and then obviously volleys of tear gas coming back at them what does this mean moving forward obviously this is a big clash today something we havent seen for several days what are we going to be seeing over the next few days as you alluded there you know the 75th anniversary the founding the peoples republic of china is on tuesday october 1st obviously the protesters have said that they want to counter that in some way we dont know exactly whats going to happen one thing you can be certain of the Security Forces h
The rule of law and you must face impeachment proceedings. Impeachment of the president will be cosmetic. In fact, probably exacerbate e e very antagonisms and divisions that are running apart the country. Amy we will speak with journalist chris hedges. His latest article the problem with impeachment and john , one of the organizations calling for trumps impeachment. Then we turned to the water crisis in newark with mayor ras baraka. The plan is never altered. Restlan now and we wont until every lead service line in the city is completely replaced. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. House democrats have subpoenaed president Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani seeking documents related to his work in the ukraine. Last week, giuliani admitted on television that he had urged the Ukrainian Government to investigate trumps political rival joe biden. This comes as House Democrats continue to build