Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius has been released under house arrest after serving less than a year in jail for fatally shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp through a locked , bathroom door. Pistorius claimed he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder. Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide, but prosecutors are appealing, saying he should be convicted of murder. A british journalist has been found dead in turkey under mysterious circumstances and her colleagues are calling for an international investigation. Jacqueline sutton, a former bbc journalist and iraq country director for the institute for war and peace reporting, was reportedly found dead in the bathroom at ataturk airport in istanbul over the weekend, where she was supposed to board a flight to iraq. Turkish media reported her death as a suicide but her colleagues are questioning that account. Her predecessor at the institute for war and peace reporting was killed in a car bomb attack in iraq in may. Texas has become the latest state to announce its cutting off medicaid funding to planned parenthood in the wake of highly edited videos that show planned parenthood officials discussing the donation of fetal tissue to medical researchers. Multiple state and congressional investigations have found no wrongdoing by planned parenthood. Texas said it was removing all plan from the clinics, even those which provide hiv testing and cancer screening. The move came just hours after a federal court blocked louisiana from cutting off medicaid funds to planned parenthood. The European Center for constitutional and human rights has filed a criminal complaint against alfreda frances bikowsky, a top cia official accused of participating in the torture of khaled el masri. El masri is a german citizen who was seized in macedonia in 2003 as part of the cias secret extraordinary rendition program. He was beaten, sodomized and held in a secret prison in afghanistan for months before being abandoned by the cia on a hillside in albania. The u. S. Would later say it was a case of mistaken identity. U. S. Officials are investigating claims that High School Students hacked cia director John Brennans personal email account. The hackers released a spreadsheet showing the names, Contact Information and social , security numbers of more than 20 alleged cia employees, which the hackers said brennan was storing Sensitive Information in his personal aol account. A teenager who told the New York Post he was the hacker and said he was motivated by opposition to u. S. Foreign policy and support for palestine. Ohio is delaying all executions until at least 2017 as it struggles to renew its supply of lethal injection drugs. Ohio ran out of execution drugs and has been unable to obtain more after european pharmaceutical Companies Began blocking the use of the drugs for u. S. Executions. The Student Government at the university of mississippi will vote today on whether to seek removal of the Mississippi State flag from campus grounds. The flag features the confederate battle symbol in its upper left corner, making it the only state flag in the country that continues to use the confederate battle flag in its design. Its the latest public confederate symbol to face possible removal since a white supremacist who embraced the flag killed nine africanamerican worshippers in charleston, South Carolina four months ago. Meanwhile, commissioners in greene county, tennessee have voted against a proposal to fly the Confederate Flag over their courthouse for the first time. Greene county never flew the Confederate Flag during the civil war because of its close ties with the union. We will go to oxford, mississippi, to the university of mississippi to talk with two of the students were leading the effort to pull down the flight that contains the Confederate Flag rum campus grounds. Flag from campus grounds. In missouri, officials are investigating a spate of arson attacks on predominantly black churches in the st. Louis area. Over the course of less than two weeks, six churches have been damaged after their front doors were set alight. In maryland an africanamerican , transgender women has been murdered in what police say may be a hate crime. 21 euro old 21 euro old zella ziona was shot in the head in Montgomery Village thursday night. Her friend, jasmine black, spoke to the local nbc station. Embrace her life. She wanted to show the world how to be transgender. She helped people. She inspired someone else named chris to come out and be himself because it is hard for people to be themselves. Amy zella ziona was the 22nd transgender or gender nonconforming person murdered this year, the highest number ever recorded. And in pawtucket, rhode island, city and state police say they will investigate a School Resource officers tackling of a 14yearold high school student. Eight teenagers and two adults were arrested thursday after gathering to protest the tackling. Cell phone video shows one student lying facedown on the floor as the officer grabs a second student around the neck and slams him down. Meanwhile in nearby providence, protesters continue to show solidarity with a Dunkin Donuts worker who faced calls for her firing when she wrote black lives matter on a Police Officers cup. On friday, activists gathered outside the Police Station and offered free coffee in cups marked black lives matter to about 30 officers only one officer accepted the coffee. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We begin in canada, where voters have unseated rightwing Prime MinisterStephen Harper after nearly a decade in office. In a surprise result following the closest Election Campaign in recent history, the centrist liberals jumped from third place to a parliamentary majority. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will become canadas next Prime Minister. He is the son of the late pierre trudeau, who served in the same post for 16 years until 1984. Justin trudeau celebrated his win monday night. My friends, we beat fear with hope. We beat cynicism with hard work. We beat negative divisive politics with a positive vision that brings canadians together. Most of all, we defeated the idea that canadians should be satisfied with less, that good enough is good enough, and that better just isnt possible. Well, my friends, this is canada. And in canada, better is always possible thank you. Thank you very much. Merci. Amico Justin Trudeau host of Stephen Harpers loss ends a tenure that saw him take three elections despite his conservative party never winning more than 40 of the vote. Harper addressed supporters monday night. Ask our country is one of the most enduring democracies in the world today. And today, for the 42nd time in 148 years, canadians have chosen a national parliament. Tonights result is certainly the people are never wrong. Canadians have accepted a liberal elected a liberal government, result we accept without hesitation. I have spoken, friends, to mr. Trudeau and offered him my congratulations, all of our congratulations on his successful campaign. [applause] and i have assured him of my full cooperation during a process of transition in the coming days. Amy a recent headline in the guardian dubbed him the last remnant of george w. Bush in north america. Under Stephen Harper canada , became the only country to withdraw from the kyoto protocol, the International Agreement setting reduction targets on carbon emissions. Harper slashed the funding of environmental canada and scores of environmental programs. Federal scientists were barred from speaking publicly without permission, an edict that especially muzzled discussions of Climate Change. A series of water laws were gutted as the government heavily promoted the expansion of carbonintensive energy pipelines, including the keystone xl that would deliver Alberta Tar Sands Oil to the United States. The harper government was also riddled by corruption scandals, voter fraud allegations, a struggling economy, and accusations of racebaiting. Harper made a Campaign Issue out of banning muslim women from covering their faces with the niqab, or veil, while taking their Canadian Citizenship oath. The actual number of cases where this happened was just two. Harper was also criticized for his handling of First Nations issues, including his staunch opposition to an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous Women. Mondays result is also a major loss for the traditionally leftist new democratic party, the ndp, which fell from holding official opposition status to third place. The ndp led the polls early in august, but lost momentum as its leadership drifted toward the middle. Areas, the ndp leader adopted a more rightwing stance than the liberals, including on ruling out deficit spending to stimulate the economy and fund jobs. In a reversal of harper policies, trudeau has pledged to end canadas antiisis combat missions in syria and iraq while restoring ties to iran. But he also backs some of harpers most controversial initiatives, including canadas patriot act and the keystone xl pipeline, the fate of which remains in the hands of president obama. For more we are joined by two guests. Pamela palmater is a lawyer and member of the eel river bar first nation in new brunswick. She teaches indigenous law, politics and governance at Ryerson University and heads their centre for indigenous governance. And judy rebick, canadian activist and writer. Founder of rabble. Ca, one of canadas leading independent news websites. We welcome you both to democracy now judy rebick, your assessment of this upset victory . Did you predict that Justin Trudeau would win . And tell us who he is actually, i did. I wrote a column on saturday and i kind of warned that this liberal rise that we just saw happen very quickly, as you pointed out, the three parties were very, very close until about two weeks ago, and then we started to see a slow rise and in the last week, we saw a rapid rise, especially in quebec for the liberals have not one in quebec in 20 years. In fact, justins father won there. Liberally did warn majority. The reason i say that, although we are all happy to see the back end of harper really, kind of giddy about this morning nevertheless, the liberals have a long history of running on the left and governing from the right. So i would have preferred to see a minority liberal government. Now who trudeau is, as we all know, he is the son of year trudeau and we dont really know much about him except that he ran of magnificent campaign. Even his opponent admits that the liberal campaign was quite brilliant the way they stepped in, when the ndp, which seems to have this illness of doing the same thing over and over again, even though it has failed in the last three elections, they said they were going have a balanced budget, so they stepped into the center or even the center right post up the liberals saw the opening to define themselves as a party of change. This election was about Stephen Harper. The valid question was, how can we defeat Stephen Harper . Is best to defeat Stephen Harper, we are going to vote for. And that was right across the country. The liberals managed to get themselves from not just thirdparty status they only held 30 seats in the last parliament, they were barely present there at all to a majority by answering that question, the liberal party is the party of real change. They succeeded in that. Other than his ability to campaign, we really dont over much about what kind of Prime Minister he is going to be because we have not seen him in a governmental sense at all. He was barely in the house of commons. He spent the last two years traveling the country, and really campaigning for this moment. He was a great campaigner. A High School Drama teacher . Right. s that is his past history. He has been in parliament for a while, but he hasnt you know, Thomas Mulcair, the leader of the ndp, was a very, very good politician, parliamentarian, as we say. He was the one who kept harpers fee to the fire as much as he could. Trudeau had very little role in parliament. Was barely there. So we dont know much about what kind of Prime Minister he will be. Amy trudeau said we are about investing in infrastructure, rejecting austerity politics thats right. He was in the campaign. It as i said, we have had other liberal leaders who campaigned against wage controls and then wagelected and brought in controls. Campaign against free trade and came in and brought in free trade. So i am a little skeptical. Some say is a new generation, and that is true. It reflects a new generation. In a speech he talked a lot about Citizen Engagement and the importance of engaged citizens and how he will be a Prime Minister who listens. I think that is probably true. To describe how canada has changed under Stephen Harper. Internationally, our reputation is shot, but also as a country, we have always been able to pressure our government. Even under conservative government like i said, the one thing i could never forgive Stephen Harper four, he made Brian Mulroney look good. And that was a former conservative Prime Minister that we all hated did in the 1980s. But at least you could pressure him, he could change his mind on things. Harper was very authoritarian. Amy judy rebick, the issue of pulling out of the antiisis coalition that Justin Trudeau says he will be doing. What does that mean . That means we would not have fighting troops in the middle east in that area of the middle east. What he wants to do is just do troop training of the opposition isisyria, the non opposition. It is all very murky, as im sure you know better than i do. Another thing harper is due in best done is create canada as a militarist state. All kinds of statues and big celebrations of wars, this kind of thing that we never had before. His policy in the middle east, even though canada plays a very small role, nevertheless, joining the u. S. s military adventures in the middle east were candidate the past has sort antaken often taken independent role. For example, we do not support bushs war in iraq. Harper did. Amy during his victory speech last night, Justin Trudeau addressed indigenous issues. You want a Prime Minister that knows that a renewed nation to nation relationship with Indigenous People that respects rights and honors [applause] must be the basis for how we work to close the gap and walked forward together. Amy that is the new canadian Prime Minister elect Justin Trudeau. Pamela palmater is also with us, lawyer and member of the eel river bar first nation in new brunswick. Talk about who Justin Trudeau what he represents for you. Talk about his victory and the issues you feel are most important to understand right now. First nations,st there is a collective sigh of relief that harper is gone. I mean, like you said, he has been the worst in terminal disaster, democratic right disaster, and he was the epic and many enemy of First Nations. What you have what Prime Minister trudeau is the possibility for change. He really has an opportunity to be a leader in Environmental Issues and democratic rights and freedoms versus a politician. So he has the opportunity. We have to give him a little time to cv is going to do it. However, he does come from a very problematic liberal legacy. His father was the one who introduced the 1969 white paper, which would essentially have annihilated indians and reserves and treaty rights and all of that, which was what about Massive National protests by first nation leaders. I mean, but to his credit, yes distanced himself from his fathers policies and saying he wants to do it differently. Nation and nation relationship, which is keep her First Nations because First Nations consider themselves to be sovereign with their own laws in jurisdictions. He has an opportunity here to talk about decisionmaking and sharing of lawmaking and things like that. But he also talked about very specific things. For example, the truth and reconciliation commissions an initial report had 94 recommendations. He