Their school by the taliban. One of the worst attacks in taliban for years. Pakistan needs a strategy against all jihadi groups. Thousands of yazidi trapped in the sinjar mountain in need of urgent humanitarian aid. They are cold and hungry, desperate to get off the mountain. Plunging oil prices and economy. Russians cant see the bottom. Jed bush will explore a president ial run. People model their lives on their parents. If your parents worked in politics, you know the rest u iment we are called on to decide what we need. That. I know what i believe. Flowerladen memorials by the attack. These two heroes were willing to lay down their lives so others might live we begin with the barbaric massacre of 133 children and nine Staff Members at a public military school in the city of peshawar. Survivors described how seven pakistani gunmen, some strapped with explosives stormed the school aring moving from classroom to classroom. They starting desperately anxious parents waited outside the sc
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Violent crime. Infatuation with extremism, and mental instability. We know that he sent offensive letters to the families of australian soldiers killed in afghanistan. And was found guilty of offenses related to this. Here at home it was Police Officers under attack as demonstrators took to the street in new york city, washington, d. C. , and boston to protests the deaths of Michael Brown in missouri and eric garner in new york. The march billed, as a million march but just over 20,000 people showed up in all three cities. And in new york, protesters actually called for the deaths of Police Officers. Dead cops. When do we want them. Now. Dead cops. Lou well taking all of that up on wall street. Stocks falling after markets worst week in more than three years. Todays 100 point plunge on the dow, as crude oil prices continued their sixmonth selloff. A global crash that has seen the price of crude cut by almost half. Well analyze whats behind that tonight. But we begin with the hostage cr
Allegations the American Psychological association, the largest association of psychologists in the world, secretly colluded with the cia in the torture program. Then we speak to former senator mike gravel. The people must know the full story of what has occurred over the past 20 years within their government. The story is a terrible one. It is replete with duplicity against the public and public officials. I know of nothing in our history to equal it for extensive failure and extensive loss in all aspects of the term. In 1971, alaska senator mike gravel entered 4000 pages of the classified pentagon papers into the congressional record. Now hes urging outgoing senator mark udall of colorado to make the full sinnot intelligence committees torture report public. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. More than 100 people have been killed in pakistan after taliban gunmen attacked a militaryrun school in peshawar
And morally treasonous, heavyweight aaron sorkin weighs in live today, tuesday, december 16th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Were starting to get details from pakistan and an attack out there. And the details are shocking. It is our top story. Unthinkable attack of the taliban on school. Students and teachers shot one by one as gunmen went through classrooms. Nbcs katy tur has the latest on this. Good morning to you. Good morning, matt. 126 killed, mostly children. Were told the gunmen went in, wearing suicide vests and, as you said, shot some kids one by one. There are also more than 150 injured. These numbers keep going up as the attacks are still ongoing. They are going through each room of the school to make sure. This made only more complicated by reports of booby traps. Ambulances and police rush to a military school as at least six ta