Southern mexico. The parents of the missing students continue to hold out hope that their loved ones are still alive. We will go to guerrero and mexico city for the latest. U. S. , attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch. If i have the honor of being confirmed by the senate, i will wake up every morning with the protection of the American People my first thought. As Senate Democrats consider putting off her confirmation hearing to the shock of many until next year am a when the republicans are in control. We will speak to her former law school classmate, kimberle crenshaw, of the africanamerican policy forum. We will also talk about crenshaws campaign to include girls and women of color in president obamas my brothers keeper initiative. Interesting meeting led by Valerie Jarrett yesterday. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Death toll from the Ebola Outbreak in west africa has topped 5000 with another 14,000 stricken with ebola. The World Health Organization says there are signs infections have slowed overhaul in liberia and guinea, while the outbreak in sierra leone is getting worse. Envoy discussed the mixed picture. Africa,rts of west where the elements are in place, where communities are fully involved in the response, there is a slowing of the outbreak, fewer cases appearing each week. That is a real source of are othern, but there parts of liberia, sierra leone, and guinea, where transmission is still fierce, where there are many new cases emerging each day. Here in the United States, the Obama Administration went before congress on tuesday for approval of 6. 2 billion dollars in emergency funding to contain ebola. Health and Human Services said that theell u. S. Is ramping up training of u. S. Personnel. Than a quarter million personnel have been trained by the cdc and the assistant secretary for her characters and response. We need to continue the training and make sure that it is getting through. The Obama Administration has endorsed a proposal that would give partial debt relief to three countries worst hit by a ball that. In a statement, treasury secretary jack lew said that the imf should forgive around 100 million in debt held by liberia, guinea, and sierra leone, about a third of what they collectively oh. Meanwhile, three countries have lost more money to corporate dodging him tax a then they do to aid. Sierra leone and guinea lost an estimated 286 billion dollars through Corporate Tax dodging in 2011 while spending 37 million on health care. An African Union report earlier this year says it cost the continent 60 billion each year. The family of Thomas Eric Duncan , who became the only person to die of ebola in the United States, has reached a settlement with the hospital that mishandled his care. Duncan, who was uninsured, was despitey sent home suffering from a High Temperature and telling a nurse that he had recently been to west africa. A foundation will be established in his name to support respect for african life and the promotion of better treatment. Deal we reached is outstanding and we have a foundation that needs our support. Everyone here can do your part. Africa and africans are not a virus. Lostde a mistake and we one, but we can save a thousand. That is my goal. I can never replace Thomas Eric Duncan, but i can make sure that everything that happens from here, makes it better for everybody else. The settlement comes as nurses across the country have held a oneday strike to protest what they call the inadequate protection of Health Workers treating patients hospitalized over ebola. National nurses united say hospital still lacked proper equipment and protocols weeks after dallas versus contracting the disease from duncan. The protest included a rally outside of congress in washington. We know that other epidemics may reach our soil. We want to be protected. The best way to protect the community is to protect the nurses. The Un Security Council has met over the situation in ukraine. The separatist stronghold of donetsk has seen its heaviest shelling since prorussian rebels and the government in kiev reached a ceasefire in september. Nato is accusing russia of a Major Military escalation inside ukraine, sending pants, weaponry, and combat troops across the border. Samanthaambassador powers said russia is violating its commitment. Is what we, the International Community, will do. Agreement was brokered under the auspices of the International Community. As such, there must be consequences when russia continues to destabilize its neighbor. The Free Syrian Army has rejected a u. S. Proposal to halt fighting in the city of aleppo. The plan laid out would allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid and a potential launch of water peace talks between the rebels and the regina bashar alassad. They need focusing on the , as threat of terrorism defined by the resolution of the security council. Second, either to reduce violence and i will come back to that one and through the reduction of violence try to reach as many people as possible in syria and outside syria who have been suffering from this ongoing conflict. Theygh that, hopefully, can use that as a bloc in the direction of a Building Block in political solution. Speaking to al jazeera, a commander with the Free Syrian Army rejected the you introduce offer, saying it would only strengthen assad. New figures meanwhile show u. S. Led airstrikes in syria have killed 865 people since they began nearly two months ago. The toll includes nearly 750 Islamic State fighters and 50 civilians. The britishbased syrian observatory for human rights says the actual number could be much higher. Round has approved a new of the illegal settlement construction in east jerusalem. The Israeli Government authorized the building of 200 new homes in the area neighborhood. The move comes amid continued unrest in the west bank. In washington, the state Department Spokesperson said the u. S. Is deeply concerned by the decision. Concerned byply this decision, particularly given the tense situation in jerusalem, as well as the unequivocal and unanimous decision of the u. S. And others in the International Community opposing such constructions in jerusalem. These decisions have the potential to exacerbate this difficult situation on the ground and will not contribute to efforts to reduce the tension. Is in burma obama today, the second stop of his asia tour. His visit comes amidst a renewed crackdown by the ruling junta on journalists and dissidents and continued oppression of muslims. Six of the Worlds Largest banks have been find a collective 4. 3 billion for manipulating a foreignexchange market. Hsbc, royal bank of scotland, j. P. Morgan chase, citigroup, ubs ag, and bank of america were proud to be negligent in traders collusion to run global currencies. The British Financial Conduct Authority unveil the penalties. They put their own interest ahead of their customers, they manipulated the market and abused the trust, i think, of the public, certainly, plus as regulators. The banks failure to establish adequate controls is what allowed the traders to manipulate the fixed rates around the world, and failings like this seriously undermine confidence in the market and undermine the intent to perform banking culture. New figures show u. S. Police forces were responsible for the highest number of shooting deaths in 20 years. According to the fbi, Police Across the United States fatally shot 461 people last year. The news comes as the family of Michael Brown appears before a u. N. Panel in geneva investigating the u. S. Record on torture. The family attorney called for reforming u. S. Law enforcement toward community policing. We are here to say that Michael Brown junior deserves justice, number one. Number two, that Michael Brown juniors life mattered. Number three, that there has to be something done to make people listing in our country, a serious look at it. That process is starting and i want to encourage the government to take the stance that they continue to be for proper community policing. Maybe a Police Commission to make sure that we have the proper things taking place. Meanwhile in missouri, the grand jury in the Michael Brown case will hear testimony today from the forensic pathologist who performed a private autopsy on the teenagers body. Found that brown was shot at least six times, including twice in the head. Two generic drug manufacturers have been subpoenaed in a federal probe into price hikes. The Justice Department is seeking information from the two firms on their interactions with competitors. Generic drugs have seen a major price jump in the past year. A medication for congestive heart failure, digoxin, now costs over one dollar a pill, up from . 11 two years ago. Independent senator Bernie Sanders of vermont has submitted questions to 14 pharmaceutical companies ahead of a Senate Hearing on generic drug pricing next week. The British Group reprieve has revealed the u. S. Has made secret compensation payments to the families of two yemeni civilians mistakenly killed in a drone strike. A relative of the victim, faisal bin ali jaber, was given a bag containing 100,000 in a meeting with yemeni officials. The u. S. Made the payments despite never confirming its responsibility for the killing, nor issuing an apology. Former deathand row prisoner darby tillis has died of an apparent aneurysm. Tillis was sent to death in illinois in 1979 for the murder of a hotdog stand employee. He was freed in 1987 after new and 14 yearsged later became one of the first death row prisoners to be exonerated. 2011, hours 20 1, before the execution of troy anthony davis, darby tillis came on democracy now to talk about his commitment to abolishing the death penalty. I was released from death row, but i will never be free from it. It lives within the. I will always continue, as long as there is a man anywhere on death row, to fight for the abolishment. Darby tillis died in a chicago hospital over the weekend. Those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Im there mean shaikh. Welcome to our listeners around the world. We begin in mexico where protesters in the Southern State of guerrero have set fire to government buildings including the state legislature as outrage spreads over the disappearance of 43 students. The student from Ayotzinapa Teachers College have been this missing for over seven weeks. The initial series of attacks killed six people, one of whom was found with the skin of his face peeled off. Unrest has intensified since the mexican attorney general Jesus Murillo karam announced that suspects in the case admitted to killing the students and incinerating their bodies at a trash dump, leading investigators to the remains. He says the mayor ordered the attack with police who then turned the students over to local drug gangs. Tens of thousands have taken to the streets in peaceful protests by groups of demonstrators have laid siege to government buildings, burned cars, blocked highways across mexico. On wednesday, students blocked access to an airport and took over highways in the Southern States of oaxaca and chiapas. Guerrero, alterable mass graves have been uncovered by authorities, searching for the students. But a team of argentine Forensic Experts have said none of the remains they have examined so far matched the students. The most recent set of remains found in trash bags, which Authorities Say were burned at a garbage dump, have yet to be analyzed. The missingts of students distrust the authorities account and continue to hold out hope their loved ones are alive. On wednesday, the family announced they will be traveling across the country in caravans to demand their loved ones return. The father of a missing student and a spoke person for the families announced a caravan. We demand punishment for the material and intellectual assessment and the disappearance of our boys. More than 45 days have passed and we do not know anything about them. Yesterday, our argentinian friends gave us some hope, some ussh air, when they informed that 30 bodies that they took from the clandestine graves buried by the police, not one of the students belongs to ayotzinapa. They took them alive and we want them alive. The disappearance is among the worst human rights crisis to hit the country since 1968 when there was a student massacre, but it is not an isolated incident. At least eight soldiers have been detained for an alleged massacre of 22 people. The army claimed the victims were suspected gang members who died in a firefight, but it appeared they surrendered. Last month, three american siblings were found in the northern border states after witnesses saw them taken away by a local police unit. For the latest on the missing 43 students from the rural Teachers College, and the roots of the violence in mexico, we go to chilpancingo, the capital of guerrero state, where we are joined by john gibler, author, independent journalist, who has been interviewing the survivors of the police attacks. He is the author of mexico unconquered chronicles of power and more recently, to die in mexico dispatches from inside the drug war. Welcome back. Layout for us what is happening where you are in guerrero. Good morning and thanks for having me. I am here in chilpancingo. Far,u have outlined so there has been a massive upsurge in protests since the attorney generals announcement of their version of the events, their theory that the students were murdered and their remains burned at a trash jump dump. You heard the representatives of the kids saying they do not accept that. After they made that announcement, i attended a highway blockade here in chilpancingo, where one of the mothers of one of the students said to me, these are theatrics that the government is mounting to distract us. Even though we are humble and poor, we are capable of understanding what is going on. They took our students alive and may want them alive. At every stage of the protest, at least here in guerrero, the parents themselves participate, as well as the classmates of the students. It is the reiteration of the demand that they were taken alive, so it is the polices responsibility to return them alive. There have been blockades, destruction of buildings, setting cars on fire. Attack theple, they Government Palace in chilpancingo. Across the highway there is a very large federal auditorium administered by the government, entirely built by glass. They have never thrown a single rock at that theater. Across the street, they make the seat of government their target. You say there is reason to doubt what the government has said occurred. What are the people saying on the ground . First off, in terms of what into the night, the 43 disappeared students, the government is basing all of their theories and actions on the confessions of people they have detained. These diversions that the students were burned is now the third round of supposedly trustworthy confessions made by people. We should recall come initially on october 4, there was a discovery of mass graves in the outskirts of a city. State prosecutors later said that they had direct purchase testimony describing how they took the students there, murdered them, doug graves, and then burned them with the diesel in the graves. Now it turns out that the argentine forensic anthropology specialist confirmed that 24 of the remains found were confirmed not to be the students who are missing. Pattern of thea government saying we have credible witnesses in custody who have described what they did, and then two weeks later, the scenario they described turns out not to be true. The statement that they had been murdered and their bodies found in plastic bags in a river outside of a trash dump in cocula should be met with this a suspicion. I was there the other day and was a little unable to find anyone in the area who could describe having seen unusual smoke or an unusual amount of traffic on the very desolate, isolated roads. It should also be recalled that on the evening of the 26th, two the morning of the 27th of september, when the events occurred, it was raining consistently. Numerous testimonies of people arriving from chilpancingo and local journalists describing the rain that night, which has also meteorologicalby institutions, which makes it hard to believe that 43 human beings were murdered and their bodies were completely obliterated through a massive expiredng diesel and tires, considering it was raining all night. We are going to come back to this discussion and hear from a First Year Student at the Teachers College who survived the initial attack. It is astounding what youre describing. It reminds me of the early 1960s wh