Of 350. Org about the latest of elements in the upcoming peoples climate march in new york. His burger king becoming a tax dodging whopper . We look at the fast food giants plans to move its headquarters from the u. S. To canada after it merges with tim hortons. An activist guide to archiving video. Once again, Police Beating up on people. As more videos of Police Brutality to continue to make headlines, we will speak with yvonne ng of witness, group that trains and supports people using video in a fight for human rights. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. And ukrainian governments are accusing russia of launching a new crossborder operation to back separatist rebels in eastern ukraine. On wednesday, officials in washington and kiev said Russian Forces had moved across the border for the third time this week. Effectively, opening a third front ukraines battle with the rebels. The state Department Spokesperson said russia has launched a counteroffensive against ukrainian troops. These incursions indicate a russian directed counteroffensive is likely that is oflearly, deep concern to us. I will also note that we are im not sure many of you have seen this, but were also concerned by the russian governments unwillingness to tell the truth even as it soldiers are found 30 miles inside ukraine. Russia is sending its young men into ukraine better but are not telling them where theyre going. The apparent Russian Operations have helped separatist forces make several advances, including on the town zovsk earlier today. Global Health Officials are warning the Ebola Outbreak in western africa continues to escalate and could get far worse. The World Health Organization says the death toll in liberia, sierra leone, guinea and nigeria has reached 1552. More than 40 have occurred in the past three weeks. The World Health Organization says the total could eventually exceed 20,000 cases. Speaking in liberia, Doctors Without Borders said aid workers are overwhelmed in trying to contain a worsening crisis. It is all areas, all districts of the city. People are dying and getting sick every day. The population has turned. There are now afraid. There are asking for help. They dont know how to respond to this. Nobody will come and pick them up because the system is completely overstretched. There are too many and the response is to week. There facing a humanitarian crisis and it is evolving in front of our eyes and getting worse every day. The outbreak has forced the suspension of major flight routes to the affected countries. On wednesday, the african nk warned thea outbreak has caused Enormous Economic damage. The mother of an american journalist held by the Islamic State has issued a Public Appeal for his release. Steven sotloff was kidnapped last year. He can be seen in the video Islamic State released this jamesat the beheading of foley. In a taped message, Shirley Sotloff data directly to the head of Islamic State. Since stevens capture, ive learned a lot about islam. I have learned that islam teaches no individual should be held responsible for the sins of others. Steven has no control over the actions of the u. S. Government. He is an innocent journalist. I have always learned that you can grant amnesty. I asked you to please release my child. As a mother, i ask your justice to be merciful and not punish my son for matters he has no control over. Curriculum comes as freed journalist Peter Theo Curtis has after his return to the u. S. For nearly two years by another militant group, the Al Qaeda Linked nusra front. Curtis thanked his supporters. Following my release on sunday, ive learned bit by bit there have been hundreds of people, brave, determined people all over the world working for my release. You have been working for two years on this. That so much effort was being expended on my behalf. Having found out, i am overwhelmed with emotion. To all those people i say, a huge thank you from my heart, from the bottom of my heart. A new United Nations probe is accusing brought the Syrian Government and Islamic State insurgents of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in their fight against the other. A u. N. Panel on the civil war in syria said the Islamic State is recruiting him children for its bloody campaign. Among the most disturbing findings in this report are accounts of large Training Camps where children, mostly boys, from the age of 14, are recruited and trained to fight in the ranks of isis along with adults. Report, itd in the indicates members of isis have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in aleppo including acts of torture, murder, forcible displacement. The probe also faults the Syrian Government for continued killings, torture, and other war crimes including multiple barrel bombings laced with chlorine gas since april. The Libyan Government is warning of a fullscale war. On sunday, islamist militias claimed control of the libyan capital tripoli after taking over the main airport. On wednesday, the libyan ambassador told the Un Security Council his country was descending into fullblown civil war if were not very careful. The outgoing u. N. Envoy to libya said over 100,000 people have been displaced since the conflict escalated last month. The threat from the spread of terrorist groups has become real. Their presence and activities in a number of libyan cities are known to all. At present, the toxic security situation and the very limited capacity of the government to counter the threat may well have created a Fertile Ground for a mounting danger in libya and beyond. Protesters have gathered in dayton, ohio to call for federal probe into the Fatal Police Shooting of an africanamerican man in a beavercreek walmart. Police say John Crawford ignored commands to drop a gun, which turned out later to be a bb gun he had picked up from a shelf. But an attorney for the family of John Crawford says surveillance video, which has not been released publicly, shows crawford was leaning on the light of the gun while talking on a cellphone when he was shot on sight. Hasuse attorney general assigned a special prosecutor to investigate the case. In chicago, hundreds of people have marched to protest the shooting of a man shot dead on sunday after police say he pointed a gun in the direction of an officer. Residents, including macintosh his mother, ramsey was on his knees surrendering and he was shot. According to the chicago tribune, Chicago Police shot 36 people last year, 26 of them black man. So far this year, that shot more than 30 people including another africanamerican man killed a say not as macintosh. In a separate case, Chicago Police commander glyn evans has been charged with abrogated aggravated battery. Jay nixon has nominated former st. Louis police chief daniel isom to the states top Law Enforcement position, heading the department of public safety. If confirmed, he would be the lone africanamerican member of next ands cabinet. His nomination comes in the aftermath of this month Police Shooting of Michael Brown. Police in omaha, nebraska have actually shot and killed a camera operator filming their operations for the longrunning Television Show cops. Bryce dion was part of a crew embedded with officers as they confronted a robbery suspect inside a Fast Food Restaurant when he was shot by police bullet. The omaha police chief described the incident and said yet authorized the filming because he wanted to repair the Police Department sternest reputation after an incident last year. When they encounter the suspect in the gunfire ensued, and it is a very dramatic video, when the gunfire ensued, at some point, mr. Washington started exiting his way out as you can see in the bottom picture. He is on his way out. Officers are returning fire. By a round. Truck i dont regret it in one sense because i wanted to be transparent for the community. Personally, i will live with this forever. If i had known this would happen, of course bryce dion, the killed cops staffer was a sound operator. It is comes amiss reports about a nineyearold girl who accidentally shot an instructor who is teaching her to use an uzi submachine gun. The National Rifle association tweeted an account with th handle an array women tweeted that link and later deleted it. Closing arguments have wrapped in the trial of four blackwater operatives. The suspects are charged for the deaths of 14 of the 17 iraqi civilians who died when their blackwater unit indiscriminate lee opened fire. The case has lacked for years with prosecutors accused of dragging her feet in the lower courts dismissal of the charges in 2009. The trial featured testimony of those who survived the attack and sullivans gun down. Prosecutors have blackwater guards had shot fleeing civilians and boasted of taking their lives. Jury deliberations are set to begin next week. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. President obama is reportedly seeking a nonbinding climate accord in lieu of a binding global treaty to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. The New York Times reports u. S. Negotiators are crafting a proposal that would not require congressional approval and instead would see pledges from countries to cut emissions on a voluntary basis. Earlier this year, obama voiced his frustration with members of congress who refused to accept the reality of Climate Change. Some parts of the country, whether weighted weatherrelated disasters will get harsher and costlier. Todays congresses full of hopes stubbornly and automatically evidencee scientific of Climate Change and will play who it is a hoax or a fad. One member of Congress Actually says the world is cooling. Meanwhile, new draft of the United Nations report warns Climate Change could become irreversible if Greenhouse Gas emissions go unchecked. The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change obtained by Media Outlets says human driven warming has already fueled extreme heat and torrential rains, estimators have risen 1. 5 degrees fahrenheit since preindustrial times. The report says it gets to be possible to cap warming at the globally agreed upon limit of 3. 6 degrees fahrenheit, it warns a continued rise in emissions could eventually cause an eight degree fahrenheit rise. That could prompt mass extinction of plants and animals and catastrophic floods. If Global Warming is to be adequately contained, the report says, at least three quarters of known fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground. Asthe new report comes activists are gearing up for what might be the largest rally for Climate Action ever, the peoples climate march on september 21. Organizers are hoping more than 100,000 people will take to the streets of new york city. More than 700 groups have endorsed the event, including 20 labor unions. The rally is scheduled to take place two days before Global Leaders convene at the Climate Summit at the United Nations headquarters. For all that and more were joined by video stream by bill mckibben, cofounder and director of 350. Org them author of many books including, eaarth making a life on a tough new planet. Welcome back to democracy now can you talk about the latest u. N. Report and then what president obama according to the New York Times in his frontpage piece is planning to do . New u. N. Report is more of the same in a sense, the Scientific Community to the Intergovernmental PanelClimate Change telling us what they been telling us for two decades, that Global Warming is out of control and the biggest threat the human beings of ever faced. Theyre using what was described as more forceful language. Theres really not much more that the Scientific Community could be doing to warn us. Our Early Warning systems have functioned. The alarm has gone off. All of our satellites and sensors and supercomputers have produced information that we need to know. The question is, will we act on it . No. Answer so far is, it has been no in congress, for sure. There is no hope of a treaty that will get ratified by two thirds of the senate. That is the complication at the moment in international negotiations. Ofcant reach any kind binding treaty. The story about the new obama approach is pretty old news. Everyone has known for years theres not going to be a tr treaty ratified. Everyone is looking for work around. It would involve some kind of different voluntary commitments by Different Countries but done publicly so one could keep track of them. If this all sounds a little dubious to you, it will sound even more dubious to all the countries that are watching themselves disappear beneath the waves, so on and so forth, as Global Warming accelerates. Less thequestion is form of the agreement than the content. Heres where we will find out in the next few one whether the Obama Administration is actually serious or not. If were going to do anything about the problem on the scale the scientists describe it, then were going to need far, far more ambitious attempts in the Obama Administration has put forward so far. Yes, they have put a cap on coalfired power plants. That is good. At the same time, they have helped expedite the rise in the United States to become the biggest coal and gas producer in the world, asking after the saudis and the russians. They watched coal exports steadily grow. That is not compatible with what the scientists tell us, that we need to keep 75 or 80 of the fossil fuels we know about underground. So the Obama Administration, which likes to poke fun at congressman, hasnt been really slowing things down. The rest of the world can see that. The only way we can change any of these equations here or elsewhere is by building a big movement. That is why september 21 in new york, which all these groups are coordinating, such an important day. Bill, given the failure of the United States congress in any way to act, what do you think president obama could do . Some of the specifics of a more progressive policy on Climate Change would be. President obama could have said for great the just said three years ago or four years ago, we are not going to build the key stone pipeline. That wouldve been a signal to the rest of the world because it wouldve been the first summer World Leaders said, heres a massive project were not building because of its effect on climate. Instead, he has delayed and passed along from one election to the next and try to avoid any political pain. There are many other things he could be doing, including pushing hard for serious price on carbon. Which is not necessarily a political impossibility. The is an editorial in cap and dividend proposals that. Ould put a big tax on carbon it is the kind of thing that would might strike a quarter pushed hard. Hardould be working figuring out how at every turn to expedite and speed up the deployment of renewable energy. The president made a big point of how he was expediting the process to do things like build the southern half of the Keystone Pipeline across texas and oklahoma. There hasnt been the same kind of work need up, say, the cape wind project off massachusetts coast. We need to be doing what the germans have done. There were days this summer when the germans were getting 75 of their power from solar panels within theirorders. That is the kind of effort we need. I dont think we yet at 1 in this country. Bill mckibben, when president oba