Amy basim razzo lost his family in a u. S. Airstrike in 2015 in mosul, iraq. The strikeideo shows hit with military precision. Today we speak with basim and the coauthors of the uncounted that reveals u. S. Air strikes against islamic militants in iraq have killed far more civilians than anyone has acknowledged. Survivors are left to wonder why their families were targeted. We went to the sites of more than 103 airstrikes in different areas of iraq, parts that were formally held by isis, and cased each to figure out where every airstrike happened. We found one and five resulted in a civilian death. This is 31 times higher than the figures the government uses. Amy we will speak with reporters azmat khan and anand gopal, coauthors of the New York Times investigation. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Cbs news has suspended charlie rose and pbs and bloomberg tv have stopped airing the charlie rose show after eight women accused the famous tv broadcaster of Sexual Harassment, including groping them, making lewd phone calls, and Walking Around naked or in an untethered bathrobe. One former intern for charlie the Washington Post that rose repeatedly walked around naked in front of her and repeatedly groped her, including one time when he grabbed me by my hair, holding a fist of it at the base of my scalp. Another time, she says they were traveling on a small private plane when he got out of his seat and lay on top of her, pressing his body into hers. Other women accused rose of forcefully touching or trying to touch them without their consent. One woman describes being in the midst of a job hiring process with charlie rose, having a ready been told salary and job title when he took her out to afterng Island Estate sitting by the pool later night with her computer return naked in an open bathrobe and forced his hands down her pants. According to the Washington Post expose, a number of people at the charlie rose show knew about roses alleged Sexual Harassment, including the longtime producer yvette vega. The post spoke to over 20 people for the article, and at least a dozen more women have come forward to the post since the article was published yesterday. In response to the investigation, charlie rose said i deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. This is gayle king, coanchor of cbs this morning. Im struggling. How do you what do you say when someone you deeply care about has done something that is so horrible . How do you wrap your brain around that . I am really grappling with that. That said, charlie does not get a pass here, he doesnt get a pass from anyone here. Amy that was gayle king, coanchor of cbs this morning. It is the latest of a series of Sexual Harassment to of been political worlds and media in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal who is now being criminally investigated after dozens of women came forward to , assault, andrape Sexual Harassment. The New York Times has suspended prominent Investigative Reporter glenn thrush after multiple women told the website vox that thrush had forcibly touched them or kissed them without their consent. A second woman has accused minnesota senator al franken of groping her, saying franken grabbed her buttock at the Minnesota State fair in 2010, two years after franken was elected to the senate. And in breaking news, michigan congressman john conyers settled a Sexual Harassment complaint in 2015, paying out 27,000 to a woman who alleged she was fired from his washington staff because she rejected his sexual advances. A topssman conyers is democrat on the house judiciary committee. Hundreds of farm workers and their supporters rallied monday night outside the manhattan offices of wendys Board Chairman nelson peltz to protest Sexual Harassment, assault, and violence in the tomato fields. The coalition of immokalee workers are demanding wendys sign on to the Fair Food Program aimed at protecting farm workers rights, including the right to work without Sexual Harassment and assault, which has been pervasive in the agricultural industry. This is farm worker lupe gonzalo. We are demanding that wendys sign an agreement to guarantee human rights for farmworkers, in particular the rights of women working in the fields. For the first time in history, we as Farmworker Women are living a new day, an opportunity to work in the fields free from Sexual Harassment. Wendys has but decided to move its tomato purchases to mexico, where violence is endemic. Amy the white house is continuing to endorse Alabama Republican Senate candidate roy moore, despite the fact that nine women have accused moore of sexual harassing or assaulting them when they were teenagers. The new yorker magazine reports moore was banned from a local mall and a ymca in alabama because he repeatedly badgered teenage girls, in some cases soliciting sex from young girls. This is senior white house aide Kellyanne Conway bashing moores opponent, doug jones, in an interview with fox news. Jones and alabama, folks, dont be fooled. He will be a vote against tax cuts. He is weak on crime and borders. He is strong on raising your taxes. He is terrible for property owners. He is not saying anything and why the media are trying to boost him. For vote roy moore . We want the votes in the senate to get this tax bill through. Amy that is Kellyanne Conway, trump aide, speaking on fox news. In its latest immigration crackdown, the Trump Administration has announced it will revoke a special Immigration Program for nearly 60,000 haitians, including many who came to the u. S. After the devastating 2010 earthquake in haiti. The Trump Administration now says their temporary protected status, or tps, will end in july of 2019. This is marleine bastien, executive director of haitian women of miami, speaking on democracy now earlier this year. , it is in the best interest the National Interest of the u. S. For the 58,000 plus haitians to remain here, contribute socially, financially, and otherwise and keep it flowing so people will not risk their lives to come these waysesult of of deportation. Amy you can see the full interview at democracynow. Org. Meanwhile, a federal judge in california has blocked President Trumps executive order to withhold funding from socalled sanctuary cities. District judge William Orrick ordered the injunction after ruling the Trump Administrations attempts to force cities to mobilize local police to cooperate with the federal governments mass deportation plans was. The Trump Administration has asked the u. S. Supreme court to allow trumps latest travel ban to take affect following an Appeals Court ruling last week that blocked part of it from being enacted. This latest travel ban removes sedan from the original list and added the countries of chad and government, and some officials from venezuela. The latest order also includes restrictions on citizens from iraq as well as all citizens of a rant, libya, syria, yemen, and somalia. Nebraska regulators have approved the controversial keystone xl pipeline, dealing a major blow to the nearly decadelong battle to stop the project. On monday, regulators rejected transcanadas preferred route but approved an alternative path for the pipeline, which would link up with an existing network of pipelines to carry oil from canadas tar sands region in alberta to refineries as far away as the gulf of mexico. Opponents say the keystone xl pipeline threatens to pollute nebraskas Ogallala Aquifer while accelerating Greenhouse Gas emissions from oil extracted in canadas tar sands region. Mondays approval comes only days after in south dakota, transcanada was forced to shut part of its keystone 1 pipeline after a massive rupture spilled 210,000 gallons of oil into a nearby field. President trump has officially designated north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, escalating the rising tensions between the two countries. Other countries on the list are sudan, syria, and iran. The diplomatic move comes amid an escalating threat of nuclear war, with trump repeatedly threatening to totally destroy north korea and to unleash fire and fury on the nation of 25 million people. This is secretary of state rex tillerson. I call it the piece for pressure campaign. The president calls at the maximum pressure campaign. They are one and the same. I think it is to hold north korea accountable for a number of actions that they have taken. Amy in news on the u. S. War in afghanistan, the u. S. Air force is on track to triple the number of bombs dropped this year, compared with last year. The major increase in bombing comes as the Trump Administration has deployed thousands more u. S. Troops to afghanistan in recent months. By early 2018, there are slated to be about 16,000 u. S. Troops there. The ongoing u. S. War in afghanistan is the longest war in u. S. History. Meanwhile, the u. S. Military has also sharply increased bombing in somalia in recent days. The New York Times reports the u. S. Has carried out at least five drone strikes since november 9, killing at least 40 people. From the pentagon claims are militants with our shabab. This comes as a new report from Brown Universitys costs of war project estimates that the u. S. Wars since the 9 11 attacks in 2001 will cost up to 8 trillion in Interest Payments alone over the coming decades. Their report says the u. S. Has already spent 4. 3 trillion on the wars and that the u. S. Will be paying trillions of dollars in interest on the war debt for decades to come. In nigeria, a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northeast has killed up to 50 people. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, though local officials blamed it on boko haram. In zimbabwe, longtime leader Robert Mugabe is continuing to refuse to resign amid an escalating political standoff in the country. Zimbabwes ruling party is expected to begin impeachment proceedings today. Last week, mugabe was placed under house arrest after zimbabwes military seized parliament, courts, government offices, and the capitals main airport in an apparent coup. Robert mugabe has held power since zimbabwe declared independence from britain 37 years ago. On monday, students went on strike, boycotting their exams and calling for mugabe to step down. [indiscernible] amy back in the United States, the head of puerto ricos electric power agency, known as prepa, has resigned, as half the island still has no electricity two months after hurricane maria. Ricardo ramos had faced widespread outrage for signing a 300 Million Contract with the tiny montanabased company whitefish, named after the hometown of interior secretary ryan zinke. Whitefish is now threatening to claiming the Power Authority owes the company 83 million. The Justice Department has sued to block a proposed 85 billion merger between at t and time warner, setting the stage for one of the biggest antitrust lawsuits in decades. The merger would give at t control over warner bros. Film and television studios, along with cnn, tnt, hbo and many other brands. Many say the Justice Department lawsuit could be politically motivated as it comes after President Trump has spent months threatening and disparaging cnn, which is owned by time warner. The federal Communications Commissions chairman ajit pai is expected to announce today a sweeping plan to repeal all Net Neutrality rules. The rules were adopted in 2015 to keep the internet open and prevent Corporate Service providers from blocking access to websites, slowing down content, or providing paid fast lanes for internet service. The new plan to scrap those rules is expected to be voted on during a december meeting of fcc commissioners. And people gathered in cities across the United States and the world on monday for the annual transgender day of remembrance. At least 25 transgender people have an murdered so far this year in the United States. The majority of whom were black and black trans women. Across the world, more than 300 trans people have been reported murdered so far this year. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and im juan gonzalez. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Today we spend the hour looking at a damning new report that reveals how u. S. Led airstrikes against Islamic State militants in iraq have killed far more civilians than officials have of knowledge. The pentagon claims its air war against the selfproclaimed Islamic State has killed just 89 civilians. But an ontheground investigation by the New York Times found the actual civilian death toll may be 31 times higher than the u. S. Is admitting. Their report reveals that as many as 1 in 5 Coalition Airstrikes on isis targets in iraq resulted in civilian deaths. Through porters the reporters write in terms of civilian deaths, this may be the least transparent war in recent american history. The investigation comes as u. S. Military Officials Say the bombing in mosul was precise in hitting its targets. This is army lt. General stephen j. Townsend. Thatreject any notion coalition fires were in any way targeted, unlawful, or civilians. I would argue, i believe, the most precise campaign in history of warfare. We have gone to extraordinary measures to safeguard civilian lives. Amy but the New York Times investigation reveals many of the americanled airstrikes against Islamic State militants actually killed civilians. One of the survivors interviewed, basim razzo, described an airstrike on his home in mosul, iraq, in 2015 in which his wife, daughter, brother, and nephew were killed. Video of the strike on his home shows a target hit with military precision. Well, today we are joined from iraq by basim razzo. We are also joined in our new york studio by the two reporters who coauthored this New York Times investigation headlined the uncounted. Azmat khan is an investigative journalist and a future of war fellow at new america and Arizona State university. And anand gopal is an assistant Research Professor at Arizona State university and the author of no good men among the living. I want to start off in iraq with basim razzo. Basim, that is not actually your longtime home. You lived in mosul until 2015. Can you describe what happened on that fateful night when your home was fit by a u. S. Airstrike . Good morning, amy. Thank you for having me on your program. That night, as i said in my story, i went to bed around 1 00. Daughtert checked my to see if she was asleep. And i lied down. Then i woke up to a devastating explosion. Did not realize what had happened. I felt that i was in a nightmare felt that something had happened because i looked up to the skies and i could see the stars. There was a terrible smell in the air. Feeling mystarted legs, pinching myself. I thought i was in a dream or nightmare, but it was reality. I looked to the left of my wife and all i could see was debris. I started shouting her name. She did not answer me. I started shouting at my daughter. No answer. And then i started shouting at my brothers house, but i could not hear a sound. Minutes later, i could hear a sound from far away. It seems it was the groundskeeper that we have, his house was about 500 meters from my house. Minutes later, he started shouting at me. , i amd uncle basim coming, but i need to get a ladder so i can climb up. Are you ok . I said, please, help me, i think i am very hurt and something is broken. I cannot move. I tried to stand up, but i fell down. I reached my back because i felt it was warm. I touched my back and i felt something in my left arm, something was warm. It was blood. My back had been injured. My left foot had broken. , whichwas in a vshape resulted in a break to my hip. I tried to move just a little bit but i could not move at all. Hearnutes later, i could her groundskeeper climbing up to me. And then he came to me and he said are you ok . I said, i am badly hurt. What has happened to the other house . I could i dont know hear a few mill south. What i started shouting, it was my sisterinlaw. She said everybody is gone. But i could not see anything. It was very dark. The street was dark