My style of governance, which would be to be strong and compassionate. The battle between a democrat known as mayor 1 , rahm emanuel and a host of challengers has reached a fever pitch in chicago ahead of tuesdays mayoral election. We will speak with Rick Perlstein chicagobased reporter, author of how to sell off a city. Then this weekend memorials are the 50th anniversary of the assassination of malcolm x. We will speak with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. The history of unpunished violence against our people indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent racist mob. And now with so many injustices happening, with people saying, yes black lives matter too, we get to revisit oh, here was this man who actually reacted to the violence that was perpetrated against his people. And he wasnt a man of violence. By far, he was a man of integrity, a man of courage impeccable integrity. Malcolm xs daughter Il
Reached a fever pitch in chicago ahead of tuesdays mayoral election. We will speak with Rick Perlstein chicagobased reporter, author of how to sell off a city. Then this weekend memorials are the 50th anniversary of the assassination of malcolm x. We will speak with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. The history of unpunished violence against our people indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent racist mob. And now with so many injustices happening, with people saying, yes black lives matter too, we get to revisit oh, here was this man who actually reacted to the violence that was perpetrated against his people. And he wasnt a man of violence. By far, he was a man of integrity, a man of courage impeccable integrity. Malcolm xs daughter Ilyasah Shabazz will join us in studio. Her oped in the New York Times headlined, what would malcolm x think . All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now
Rural south to the industrial poor. And, of course aaron is here with business. Well look at the possible impact that a lifting of sanctions could have on iran. Yeah, those talks between six world powers and iran continues. So well look at the enormous possibilities and potential for that economy. In fact, it is the 60 billion a year opportunity the Business World imagines after sanctions on iran are removed. Its midday here in london 11 00 p. M. On russias east coast, and 2 00 in kenya. And there al shabaab militants have stormed a University Campus and are currently holding a number of hostages. Details are still emerging with but we know at least 15 people were killed in the initial gun attack. Security forces have surrounded the hospital at University College in garissa, where the hostages are being held. But access is incredibly difficult, because snipers are shooting at them from the roof. Well al shabaab has spoken to the bbc, its told us that once inside, it separated the musli
Reporting from india, where social workers estimate over 70,000 children work in these coals mines. First, the u. S. Secretary of state, john kerry says syrias president assad could take the credit for starting the process of destroying chemical weapons so quickly. Mr. Kerry thanked his counte counterpart sergei lavrov. Kerry said the fact that work had already started should be welcomed. I think its mrs. Credit to the assad regime for complying rapidly as they are supposed to. Now we hope that will continue. Im not going to vouch today for what happens months down the road. But its a good beginning. And we should welcome a good beginning. Scott heidler is live for us. John kerry saying the syrian president can take the credit. This is a definite olive branch isnt it . Definitely. You never thought thought you would hear that from the secretary of state over the syrian president. Thats taking vehicles and things and crushing devices and taking some of the weapons, the dloifer delivery
People without food on madagascar. First there were the embarrassing disclosures from the former intelligence officer, edward snowden. Then, the embarrassin embarrassa merkel phone tapping. Barack obama is ordering a,. Trying to get some answers. Theyve said that trust needs to be rebuilt. But in a few hours time the director of National Intelligence and the director of the nsa will face congressional grilling. We will talk with our correspondent in washington after this story by bernard smith. This could be about to end. In an interview, president Barack Obama Says that National Security operations generally have one purpose to make sure the American People are safe. But im initiating now a review to make sure what theyre able to do doesnt necessarily mean what they should be doing. This has partly been prompted by reports in germany that president obama was briefed on the surveillance of chancellor Angela Merkels phone in 2010. Officials say thats not true and the white house only di