Has been abducted. Will the Yemeni Government be overthrown in a coup . We will speak to journalists iona craig and Jeremy Scahill. Then to guatemala. In a major victory for human righ activists, a former Guatemalan Police chief has been found guilty for ordering the Spanish Embassy to be set on fire in 1980. 37 peasant activists and student organizers died in the fire. We will speak to Nobel Peace Prizewinner Rigoberta Menchu. Her father died in the massacre. We have been denied the truth for 35 years and today, the responsibility for mr. Garcia is clear and also that of all of the people that remained in the hearing, many of whom have already died, but also responsibility of the state. I think this is what makes us the most happy and due process makes us happy, too, because we have the patience to reach this moment and we are really excited. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Islamic state militants ha
In paris for the events marking the victims of last weeks violent islamic extremism. One of the places where the terrorists took hostages and killed some of them was a Kosher Grocery store in eastern paris. The president of france joined Benjamin Netanyahu at the grand synagogue in paris just a short time ago. Cnns arwa damon was there earlier today. Arwa Prime Minister netanyahu spoke inside that synagogue this evening. He got a roaring, resounding welcome. What was his message to jews and others gathered there . It was both a message of unity and it was at the same time a message of resilience. He was also talking about the fact that as he put it at least israel had been facing a terrorist threat for decades, he was reiterating the message that israel would welcome any french jew that was perhaps considering moving there. This is something he has extended in the past as well. However, the french government very keen to try to reassure its jewish minority that at this stage they are s
Law enforcement. Almost 2,000 personnel will be on duty for todays march. Preparations well under way for that. Issa suarez has been there all day. What is planned . Reporter good morning, robyn. Its going to be quite a march and it will be a show of defiance. Many people seeing the unity that well see on the street as the biggest weapons against the capital that paris has seen all week. A map and a sense of the distance. Its a route that will begin at place de la republicque and ends at place de la nation. What weve been told is that along that route, the family members of those who died both at the Charlie Hebdo attack on wednesday and those four people who died at the kosher store on friday they will be leading the march followed a bench else. On my way in i saw security a lot of police on the streets. By that time it was still very dark and i saw a lot of preparations already under way to give you a real sense of how important this is for the french people. Weve also seen the last
Terrible attack at the kosher supermarket in east paris that left four hostages dead and police after police stormed the supermarket, the four hostages, it is believed killed by the hostage taker and terrorist Amedy Coulibaly, whose girlfriend now is believed to have left france a week before the attacks. Lets quickly sum up what Benjamin Netanyahu had to say much he was talking about the values of france he saw reaffirmed on the streets of paris today and he also equated what happened in paris over the last week with what he says his country has faced for years in terms much terrorism, saying for years weve been fighting terror and the pains of terrorism. Arwa damon is outside the grande synagogue in paris with more on the reaction of the Jewish Community on whats going on inside. Its not just Benjamin Netanyahu, it was the president of france the expresident of france and leaders of the muslim and catholic communities as well. Reporter thats right, hala. Although they did leave befor
Never win. We are all french. And, of course the familiar je suis charlie, i am charlie. More than 40 World Leaders, european, middle eastern and from the arab world appeared together locking arms today in paris. United states was represented by the u. S. Ambassador to france. Neither the president , the Vice President or secretary of state was in paris today. Thats right. Certainly eric holder the attorney general was, although, jim, it was noteworthy he did not appear to be at the rally. He was there for separate meetings. And you saw there in those pictures that you were talking about the leaders of germany, israel the uk were there. Lets take a look. This is london. Turned blue white, and red. The colors of the french flag. Londons tribute to the paris victims was timed to happen at the same time as the marches in france. Washington d. C. Today, american flags and french flags flying over a silent march led by frances ambassador to the United States. Also today, people rallied in b