Amy is the death toll rises in yemen, a groups warn the country is on the verge of famine. We will speak to yemeni activist Farea Al Muslimi and reporter matt aikens about the u. S. Backed, saudiled attack and the humanitarian crisis. Then we will go to capitol hill to speak with congresswoman barbara lee, coauthor of a new bill to expand Insurance Coverage of abortion and dismantle the nearly 40yearold Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for most abortions. Make no mistake, these lawmakers really do want to ban abortions altogether. Since they cant, they employ the underhanded tactics to push abortion care out of reach for women who are really just struggling to just make ends meet. And that is just wrong. Amy and bp has agreed to pay a 18. 7 billion settlement over the 2010 deepwater horizon explosion. Did bp get off cheaply . We will speak to Antonia Juhasz. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. H
Amy is the death toll rises in yemen, a groups warn the country is on the verge of famine. We will speak to yemeni activist Farea Al Muslimi and reporter matt aikens about the u. S. Backed, saudiled attack and the humanitarian crisis. Then we will go to capitol hill to speak with congresswoman barbara lee, coauthor of a new bill to expand Insurance Coverage of abortion and dismantle the nearly 40yearold Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for most abortions. Make no mistake, these lawmakers really do want to ban abortions altogether. Since they cant, they employ the underhanded tactics to push abortion care out of reach for women who are really just struggling to just make ends meet. And that is just wrong. Amy and bp has agreed to pay a 18. 7 billion settlement over the 2010 deepwater horizon explosion. Did bp get off cheaply . We will speak to Antonia Juhasz. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. H
Practice decriminalized in the u. S. Hello, it appears a historic nukenuclear deal with iran will be announced within the hour. Foreign ministers making their way to the u. N. Building in vienna for a final meeting before the details are announced we are picture a joint state from irans foreign minuter and his e all. Counselor part. We have heard in the fast few minutes from the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency or iaea, he has outlined some of the details of the agencys deal with iran. I have just signed the road map between the Islamic Republic of iran and the iaea for the clarification of past and present outstanding issues, regarding Irans Nuclear program program. The text has been signed on behalf of iran by the countrys Vice President mr. Ali. [ inaudible ] this is a significant step towards clarifying outstanding issues regarding Irans Nuclear program. The road map sets out a process under the november 2013. [ inaudible ] for cooperation to enable the ag
Answers as power lunch from d. C. Begins right now. Welcome to power lunch. Here is what else is on the menu today. So much for d. C. Drama crushing the markets. Investors shaking off the political turmoil for a day. Is it rally on again . And for how long . Plus, for foot locker today, no thrill of victory. Just the agony of defeat. This stock sinking and smelling like an old shoe. Two allbeef patty special sauce pickles onions all sesame seed bun for mcdonalds. The burger boom alive and well on wall street. Brian . Kayla, thank you. And i want you to know im keeping your desk clean. Ive been using it. A one of the wildest weeks we can remember. The president getting ready to depart for his first overseas trip since taking office. Reporter when he talked to white house officials about the trip they used words like historic and words like reset. Both in terms of domestic politics with a tough week in washington, d. C. And in terms of the International Picture and resetting the debate i
Alec ross, why do you open your in the Book Industries of the future toy with a story about vomit. The first sentence of the book is its 3 00 in the morning and im mopping up whiskey smelling puke after a Country Music concert in West Virginia. Not a typical beginning for the book about the future. Want to be clear that the perspective i give is from somebody who grew up in West Virginia and who worked as a midnight janitor. So most people who write books about the future do so from a position of what id call coastal privilege, and i guess part of what i wanted to convey was that there wasnt any blue blood in this body and i wanted to talk about a whole different issues from the perspective of somebody who grew up in West Virginia and worked as a janitor host you rite that people in West Virginia were doing their best to manage a slow descent. Guest i just turned 25 and my beginning was spent West Virginia and i thought it was normal to an inherently difficult situation. And it wasnt r