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
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
Among the traders this morning, lets take a look where we are. Have you noticed . I noticed that the open said this, all the major indices opened on the upside. The dow industrials and transports, you love this, sue, dow theorists, new highs, both together, thats a good sign. S p 500 touching an intraday high. The russell 2,000 small cap indices doing well. The nasdaq doing well. Why are we rallying . There is where the little humor goes in. Just put up the full screen and ill show you something here. The most logical reason we are rallying at this point is because hedges are being unwound after the fed meeting. So traders went out and bought protection in case the fed got hawkish yesterday. They didnt. And today theyre covering. Thats the logical reason were up. On top of that, theres a big options and futures exploration tonight and tomorrow. That may be playing into that. Thats having some synergistic effect. But finally, and this is what sue and i were laughing about, many traders
Of the ceasefire at 8 00 a. M. Hamas launched an attack on an israeli unit that was working to destroy, to dismantle, some of these crossborder underground tunnels. Now, during that attack at least two Israeli Soldiers were killed. Another one captured by hamas. The Israeli Ministry of defense saying it was Second Lieutenant hadar goldin. He has been taken by hamas, according to the israelis. Although hamas political wing has denied it. And theres no word tonight yet from the military wing, although a hamas leader in gaza in cairo rather, has sort of essentially admitted to taking this Second Lieutenant. Now, the Israeli Military saying they will do everything they can to get him back, to recover him. What that means exactly isnt clear. It may mean from what were hearing right now a massive push into the southern part of gaza where he reportedly went missing earlier today. We are hearing of an expanded military operation in Southern Gaza right now. Now, both the u. S. And the u. N. Hav
Of the ceasefire at 8 00 a. M. Hamas launched an attack on an israeli unit that was working to destroy, to dismantle, some of these crossborder underground tunnels. Now, during that attack at least two Israeli Soldiers were killed. Another one captured by hamas. The Israeli Ministry of defense saying it was Second Lieutenant hadar goldin. He has been taken by hamas, according to the israelis. Although hamas political wing has denied it. And theres no word tonight yet from the military wing, although a hamas leader in gaza in cairo rather, has sort of essentially admitted to taking this Second Lieutenant. Now, the Israeli Military saying they will do everything they can to get him back, to recover him. What that means exactly isnt clear. It may mean from what were hearing right now a massive push into the southern part of gaza where he reportedly went missing earlier today. We are hearing of an expanded military operation in Southern Gaza right now. Now, both the u. S. And the u. N. Hav