Roger al jazeera reporters. We will go to egypt to speak with democracy now s Sharif Abdel Kouddous as well as the treaty to protect journalists. Two thirds of the journalists killed this year were in the middle east. The deadliest country is syria. Then on the last day of 2013, we will look at 10 hopeful things that happened in 2013 to get you inspired for whats to come. We will speak with sarah van gelder, editor in chief of yes magazine. Then we will go to germany. Among them spoke was Julian Assange. Therell be no person and has not been exposed to this ideology of transparency in keepstanding of what is to the internet free. This is the last regeneration. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Iraq is capping off its worst year of violence since the height of u. S. Occupation. According to the United Nations, civilians and 950 Security Forces have been killed this year, the highest annual total since 200
Suspending some nuclear activities. The negotiations are set to resume next week in geneva. John kerry is meeting with Senate Banking Committee Members today in a bid to delay a sanctions vote. On tuesday, White House Press secretary jay carney said congress should give the talks a chance rather than leave u. S. Lead the u. S. On a march to war. Box this administration has imposed the most crippling sanctions in history against iran. We appreciate the leverage the sanctions have given us and we appreciate the partnership that congress has given us. In that effort. But this is a decision to support diplomacy and a possible peaceful resolution to this issue. The American People, justifiably and understandably, prefer a peaceful solution to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. In this agreement, if achieved, has the potential to do that. The American People do not want to march to war. Box the Israeli Government has frozen one of its most controversial settlement projects while s
Kouddous. We will also get an update on Abdullah Elshamy. [indiscernible] my responsibility if anything ever happens to me. We will speak with his brother Mohammed Elshamy. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Iraq is in crisis as sunni militants seized more towns and now set their sights on the capital baghdad. In the past few days, Al Qaedalinked rebels have seized control of mosul, iraqs second largest city, as well as tikrit. The sunni militants now control a territory that stretches from the eastern edge to fallujah and now the Northern City of mosul. Their advanced has cost a humanitarian catastrophe, displacing some 500,000 people in mosul alone. Mosul fell in part because u. S. Trained iraqi forces abandoned their posts. Maliki has reportedly urged the u. S. To carry out airstrikes in recent months, but the Obama Administration has declined request so far. We will have more on the crisis in iraq aft
Prisoner dying of a heart attack 40 minutes into the idea ordeal. Then, senator Patrick Leahy blocks military aid to egypt while denouncing the sentencing of 683 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to death in what he called a sham trial. Nobody, nobody can justify this. It does not show democracy. It shows a dictatorship run amok. We will go to cairo to speak with democracy now correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous and to a member of the Muslim Brotherhood living in exile in england. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. An oklahoma death row prisoner has died of a heart attack after a botched execution tuesday night. Clayton lockett was injected elite with lethal drugs. Doctors halted the killing 13 minutes and when discovering he was still conscious and trying to speak. Dr. Say he suffered a ruptured vein interrupting the flow of the drugs. He died of a heart attack when the drugs had spread through his bo
It was quite cold. They left me there for 12 hours in the condition. Today, in a democracy now global broadcast exclusive, we spend the hour with one of egypts most prominent dissidents, alaa abd elfattah, speaking in his first extended interview after nearly four months behind bars. An open internet and political activist, alaa has been at the forefront of the struggle for change in egypt for many years and has the distinction of having been actively persecuted for the past four successive rulers in egypt. He could be sent back to prison very soon. He talks about the future of egypt and the ongoing crackdown on activists. There are a couple of cases where citizens are given 14 years, 17 years, 11 years and so on. Frenzy. On a sentencing if it is a war on a whole generation. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The uns top climate body is warning human driven Climate Change is impacted every corner of the g