Defended it and declared a state of emergency. The government demands the Political Leadership of the brotherhood to stop incitements to violence which threaten National Security. Holds thesent leaders will responsible for any blood shed and of all acts of riots. Well speak with Sharif Abdel Kouddous in cairo and others on the crisis in egypt. Bradley manning apologizes to a military judge days before his sentencing. We will speak with reporter alexa obrien who has been in the courtroom since the beginning. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Egypts political crisis is growing after the countrys deadliest file and sends the egyptian revolution broke out in chocolate thousand 11. At least five people were killed and over 3500 wounded in government rates on protesting catchments. Usede and troops bulldozers, tear gas and live ammunition to clear out the sit ins. Makeshift clinics were overrun with the dead and wounded area did members of the Muslim Brotherhood responded by storming and torching police stations. 43 Police Officers were reportedly killed. Four journalists also died. Egypts army installed government has declared a month long state of emergency and imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the capital of cairo and 10 other provinces. The move came shortly after it installed 25 provincial governors, including 19 military generalists. Peaced elbaradei, nobel laureate, resigned hours after wednesdays crackdown began, saying the conflict couldve been resolved by peaceful means. The Muslim Brotherhood has called for new rallies in cairo today. A senior Muslim Brotherhood leader who lost his daughter in wednesdays violence, urged supporters to protest egypts military. I swear to god that if people , they willprotesting drag this country no more troubles. He will drive this nation into civil war so he can escape the death penalty. Be aware, egyptian people, go into the streets now to announce the end of the arme3d forces political life. John kerry condemn the violence, but the Obama Administration announced no new moves to cut aid to the Egyptian Military. Todays events are deplorable and run counter to peace, inclusion, in general and democracy and genuine democracy. Egyptians inside and outside of the government need to take a step back. They need to calm the situation and avoid further loss of life. We also strongly oppose a return to a state of emergency law. And we call on the government to respect basic human rights, including freedom, Peaceful Assembly and due process under the law. We will have more from egypt after the headlines. Defense attorneys from a private Bradley Manning have rested their case at the convicted whistleblower sentencing hearing. On wednesday, manning spoke publicly for the first time in months in a statement apologizing for leaking classified documents to wikileaks. Manning said an Army Psychologist to analyze manning while he served in iraq also testified wednesday, along with a clinical psychologist who spent 21 hours examining manning after his arrest. Manning sister and aunt also both took the stand to deliver emotional testimony about his childhood. Manning faces up to 90 years in prison after being convicted last month on 20 counts for leaking troves of secret documents to wikileaks. We will have more on Bradley Mannings sentencing hearing with journalist alexa obrien later in the broadcast. In a rack, at least 33 people were killed today when a series of car bombs exploded in baghdad. More than 100 were winded. State forces and bahrain have crackdown on prodemocracy rallies challenging the u. S. Backed monarchy. On wednesday, a rainy police fired tear gas and birdshot at a number of protest in shiite villages around the capital. Bahraini opposition activists say more than 60 rallies were organized across the country. The u. S. Embassy closed down for the day after activists planned a rally outside. The bahraini monarchy is a key u. S. Government ally, hosting the navys fifth fleet. Is warning anions unstable political environment in a growing humanitarian crisis are she Central African repuof t collapse. Conditions have worsened since seleka rubbles ousted president bozize four months ago. In a briefing to the Security Council, talk you and officials warned that International Support is direly needed. The country runs the risk of descending [indiscernible] are Police Officers reporting it is unsafe to walk. Much more International Support is needed to meet growing needs. Critical sector such as water, sanitation, and hygiene have received less than 10 of the funding required. The African Union peacekeeping force for the Central African republic has asked the u. N. For greater assistance to fulfill its mandate. The Group Doctors without borders has announced dangerous conditions are forcing it to cease operations in somalia after 22 years. In a statement, the group cited extreme attacks on our staff in an environment that condones the killing, salting and abducting a few miniature and aid workers. The move will mean lower loss of Healthcare Services for hundreds of thousands of people read the pentagon has announced it will start providing benefits to samesex military families beginning next month in response to the Supreme Court decision in june that struck down the defense of marriage act, which barred federal recognition of samesex marriages. Married samesex couples in the military insulin pentagon employees will be entitled to benefits including health care, housing costs, and survivor benefits. Couples station in states that will bar samesex weddings will be granted leave to get married in states where such unions are legal. The california Supreme Court meanwhile has rejected a new effort to halt samesex marriages in the state. On wednesday, the Court Dismissed of it from supporters of proposition eight to of nor the initial federal court order that struck down the ban. The Supreme Court ruled in june that prop eight supporters dont have legal standing to appeal. New york prosecutors have unveiled charges against two former employees of the banking giant Jpmorgan Chase for the so called london whale trades that cost the bank more than 6 billion and derailed Financial Markets nationwide. A senate probe earlier this year accused Jpmorgan Chase of misleading the public, manipulating documents, and ignoring warnings from within its own ranks as the losses piled up. On wednesday, the u. S. Attorney announce the first charges to stem from the case. The defendants deliberately and repeatedly lied about the fair value of billions of dollars and assets on jpmorgans books in order to coverup massive losses that mounted month after month at the beginning of 2012. Those lies misled investors, regulators, and the public, and they constituted several crimes. As has already been conceded, this was not a tempest in a teapot, but rather a perfect storm of individual misconduct and inadequate internal controls. The two defendants reside in europe and its unclear if they will face extradition. Backing offuse is initial reports that director of National IntelligenceJames Clapper will head a government review of nsa spying. President obama announced an independent review of the nsas operations on friday, but then suggested clapper would be in namee three at clappers immediately sparked outrage following accusations he lied to congress about nsa surveillance earlier this year. A National SecurityCouncil Spokesperson says the white house, not clapper, will choose the review panels members. Ihe military contractor cac international is seeking legal cross from four iraqi prisoners who unsuccessfully sued the company for the portrait abu ghraib. In iraqi farmer alleges he was caged, beaten, threatened with dogs and given electric shocks to wring more than four years in u. S. Detention. But a federal judge dismissed the case in june, citing the recent Supreme Court decision to restrict lawsuits under the alien tort statute against corporations for abuses on foreign soil. Based on that ruling, the website, dreams reports that caci has filed a lawsuit demanding the four iraqis hand over 15,000 to cover the firms legal fees. The top prosecutor in orlando, florida says he plans to review the fbis Fatal Shooting of the unarmed chechen man questioned for his ties to the Boston Marathon bombers in may. Agents were questioning either him todashev at his orlando apartment when he allegedly tried to attack them after multiple anonymous claims that todashev was armed, it later emerged the circumstances were unclear. The state attorney confirmed he has received a perimeter Justice Department report on the shooting. Todashevs father said he wants justice for his son. I hope and pray that no mother and no father will at their have to go through what im going through right now. Will ever have to go through what im going through right now. My son was a very good boy and he was innocent and he was simply killed. The todashev family is considering a civil action against the fbi read a recent expose by the New York Times found that the fbi has cleared its agents in every single shooting incident dating back 20 years. Former Democratic Congress member jesse jackson, jr. Of illinois has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to corruption charges earlier this year. The former congressmember jackson spent more than 750,000 dollars in Campaign Funds on personal items, including music emeryville yet and items for his home. He resigned last year after several monthly to see treatment for bipolar disorder. His wife was also sentenced to 12 months for tax fraud. Those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. Welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Members of egypts Muslim Brotherhood have called on followers to march in protest in cairo today after at least 525 people died when Security Forces itsd to protesting cam filled with supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi. More than 3500 people were injured. The Muslim Brotherhood says the death toll may top 2000. Police and troops used bulldozers, tear gas, and live ammunition to clear out the cairo students. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood responded by storming and torching police stations. 43 Police Officers were reportedly killed. Wednesday marked the third mass killing of islamist demonstrators since morsi was deposed six weeks ago three at egypts army installed government declared a monthlong state of emergency and imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the capital cairo and 10 other provinces. In the interim Vice President hoursd elbaradei resigned after the crackdown began saying the conflict should have been resolved by peaceful means. Said westerny leon allies warned egypts military leaders against using force to crush the protests. Leon said International Response has been mixed. John kerry condemned the violence, but the Obama Administration announced no moves to cut someone cut money to the Egyptian Military. The turkish Prime Minister called on thursday for the un Security Council to convened quickly and act after what he described as a massacre in egypt. Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates expressed support for the crackdown, saying the Egyptian Government had exercised maximum self control. Four journalist died in wednesdays violence including a reporter from the United Arab Emirates. Delazizold habeeba abde work as a journalist for the dubaibased xpress. We go now to cairo, joined by three guests. Democracy now correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous and lina attalah, chief editor and cofounder of the cairobased news website, mada masr. Joining us from washington, Chris Toensing, director of the middle east research and information project read sharif, yesterday morning when this all began, please, describe what happened. Take us through the day. Before i do that, slight correction, three journalists were killed yesterday, the photojournalist was not killed. That was an erroneous report that filtered through the media yesterday. To answer your question, yesterday was a day of violence and chaos and bloodshed, the most violent episode i have witnessed as reporter in egypt for the past 2. 5 years. Walking around the northeastern where ahood in cairo mosque was located, you could hear the crackle of machinegun fire intermittently in the air. In theas teargas thrown city mixed with black smoke rising from cairo. Just to give you a sense of what it was like to get in for protesters, to get in or out, you had to make a perilous run across a stretch of open road that was exposed to sniper fire. When i was leaving once, man running next to me was hit in the head with what appeared to be a shotgun pellets. Many protesters had taken to writing their names in magic marker on their arms and a number of someone to call in case they were killed. Spokenerior industry has for a couple of weeks about the plan to disburse the sit ins that would go in stages and first involved surrounding the protesters and then a gradual escalation. That all of the witness ive spoken to said the attack 6 30 andometime around came in very hard with teargas and the casualty started pouring in. Most of them with live soon after that. The scene inside the main medical facility was extremely tragic. People were being brought in, the dead and winded, every few minutes. The floor was slippery with blood. The windows were closed to prevent teargas from coming in and it was almost unbearably hot. The dead were everywhere for it in one room alone, i counted 24 bodies just strewn on the ground , packed so closely could not even walk in. On another floor, 30. On another floor, 8. Authors were overwhelmed with the casualties. It was a difficult situation. Havene i think will duplications for egypts future not just for years, but for decades to come. Sharif, there were reports the hospital you mentioned that they in fact even fired tear gas within the hospital, the Security Forces . Is that correct . There have been reports of that. I didnt see it myself. What is also important to understand, there was no access for the ambulances to get to the critical he winded, so there winded, so there were a lot of additional lives lost because wounded could not get out. I think it is also important to remember this was a day where we saw so many hundreds killed in the death toll keeps rising. I just came today from the mosque not far from rabaa which is really another massive morgue. It is another hot summer day and family members are bringing in blocks of ice and placing it on the corpses. There are fans everywhere. But the smell of death hung atvy in the mosque three many of the bodies at least 10 that i saw were charged very badly, badly burned read these were bodies in the mosque and in another Field Hospital that were completely burned to the ground when the Security Forces raided sometime around 4 30 or 5 00 p. M. What about the warning before all of this took lace . What about the military saying they gave warning . The witness ive spoken to said they did not have a warning of the attack, that the attack began very hard with teargas and followed quickly by live ammunition. They cleared the sandbags and makeshift worriers they had erected with bulldozers. None of the eyewitnesses i spoke to talked of any warning and no real safe passage for people to escape the violence had they wanted to. Lina attalah, can you describe what you witnessed yesterday . So i arrived to the side of the clashes just outside the area that became completely barricaded by military and police forces. In this area, even though it was supposed to be an area falling outside the scope of the sit in, there was still extremely heavy gunfire, it was everywhere, and teargas being thrown at protesters. Those who managed to exit the sit in. And when i tried to move on to reach the sit in, i was interested to know whether earlier reports of safe exit that was basically said in the ministry of interior statement earlier, if these reports were real. But what we figured is there was really no safe exit outside of the sit in. The city and was heavily surrounded by both military and police and special forces. Was not de str