This president. We should be putting people into guantanamo and should not be releasing these killers who are rejoining the battlefield against the United States. Amy as north korea launches a long range googler test, republican candidates threat to launch primitive strikes against north korea. United states is going to have to get the United States back into the game. If a preemptive strike is necessary to keep us safe, we should do it. Amy than to super bowl 50. We will talk concussions, protests, and beyonces have time homage to the black panthers. We will speak to Sports Writer dave zirin. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Two both have capsized off the coast of turkey killing at least 32 people, including a number of children. More than 400 people have been killed trying to reach europe so far this year amidst the greatest refugee crisis since world war ii. This comes as up to 35,000 syrians have massed along the Turkish Border amidst intensified airstrikes and fighting around the syrian city of aleppo. Turkey has kept the border closed for a fourth day today. The refugees are said to be sleeping in open fields in the cold. Republican president ial contenders faced off saturday night at st. Anselm college in manchester, New Hampshire. Taking part in the debate were new jersey governor chris christie, dr. Ben carson, senator Ted Cruz Donald trump, senator marco rubio former , Florida Governor jeb bush and Ohio Governor john kasich. Abc news excluded former hewlettpackard ceo Carly Fiorina from the debate, despite protests. Much of the debate coverage has focused on marco rubio for repeatedly reciting the same talking points about president obama even after he was called , out by chris christie. Donald trump defended his call to bring back the bushera torture tactic of waterboarding. In the middle east, we have people shopping the heads off christians, we have people chopping the heads off many other people. We have things that we have never seen before as a group. The Medieval Times i mean, we studied Medieval Times will step not since Medieval Times have people seen what is going on. I would bring back waterboarding and i would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding. Amy more on the debate after headlines. New hampshire primaries are tuesday. The Un Security Council has condemned north koreas launch of what it claims was a satellite on sunday. The launch was lightly seen as ballistic technology, a violation of you and sanctions. U. N. Sanctions. Last month, north korea tested what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb. U. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Samantha power vowed to back serious consequences. Each of these illegal actions requires a robust response because of the dprks decisions and actions, we will ensure that the Security Council imposes serious consequences. Dprks latest transgressions require our response to be even firmer. Amy in taiwan, rescuers have continued to pull people from the rubble of an Apartment Building more than 60 hours after it was toppled by an earthquake. At least 38 people were killed in the 6. 4magnitude quake but officials have warned the toll is likely to top 100. Earlier today, an eightyearold girl was among those polled alive from the ruins. Haitian president Michel Martelly has left office at the end of his fiveyear term without a successor in place, following mass protests demanding his ouster. The United States has been criticized for supporting haitis disputed october elections, where the president s handpicked successor, jovenel moise, came in first out of more than 50 candidates, despite being virtually unknown. Last month mass protests , succeeded in postponing a scheduled runoff where moise was the only candidate after his , competitor, jude celestin, refused to take part. Martelly left Office Sunday following a deal to have parliament choose an interim president ahead of elections scheduled for april. His departure came on the 30th anniversary of the departure of haitian dictator jean claude baby doc duvalier, who was flown into exile aboard a u. S. Government jet after a popular uprising. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has apologized after suggesting young women only support democratic president ial Bernie Sanders because the boys are with bernie. Steinem made the comments on real time with bill maher friday night. When youre young, youre thinking, where the boys . The boys are with bernie. Ooh. Now if i said that no, no. You would swat me. No, i wouldnt. I mean, hello. How well do you know me . Amy a recent poll found democratic and independent women between the ages of 18 and 34 prefer sanders by nearly 20 percentage points. After an outcry, steinem apologized for her comments, writing in a case of talkshow interruptus, i misspoke on the bill maher show recently, and apologize for whats been misinterpreted as implying young women arent serious in their politics. Meanwhile, another prominent supporter of Hillary Clinton former secretary of state , madeleine albright, has drawn attention for saying there is a special place in hell for women who dont help each other. Critics have cited albrights past defense of sanctions in iraq, when she said the deaths of 500,000 iraqi children were worth it. Meanwhile, a new Reuters Ipsos poll shows sanders has erased clintons national lead. The poll shows clinton leading sanders just 48 to 45 , putting the two in a dead heat. Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have taken up the water crisis in flint, michigan. Clinton called the poisoning of flints water immoral while sanders called it a humanitarian crisis. The state of michigan meanwhile has fired the head of the department of environmental qualitys Drinking Water unit over the contamination. Liane Shekter Smith is the only state employee fired over the crisis. The lead poisoning in flints water began after an unelected emergency manager appointed by goveor rick yder switched flints water supply to the corrosive flint river. Governor snyder has faced increasing calls to resign. The pentagon has released nearly 200 photos relating to the abuse of prisoners by u. S. Military personnel in iraq and afghanistan. The American Civil Liberties union has been fighting for nearly 12 years to win release of photos related to the bush administrations torture program. The released images include closeups of bruised and lacerated body parts and bound, blindfolded prisoners. The pentagon is still withholding 1800 images which are believed to be far worse. The Washington Post and buzzfeed have identified a second member of the British Cohort within the selfproclaimed Islamic State who oversaw the detention, abuse and beheading of western , hostages in syria. Alexanda kotey, who grew up in west london, is one of the four guards hostages dubbed the beatles because of their british accents. Another member of the group, mohammaed emwazi, known as jihadi john was killed in a drone strike in november. A federal judge has blocked the antichoice center for medical progress from releasing videos they secretly recorded at meetings of abortion providers. Judge William Orrick also dismissed as baseless the groups claims abortion providers are selling fetal tissue. The ruling comes after a jury charged with investigating planned parenthood over the false claims about fetal tissue instead decided to indict the groups leader, david daleiden, and another antichoice activist, sandra merritt. A salvadoran woman who suffered seven seizures while in immigration custody has been released from a forprofit Detention Center in texas after a public outcry. Susana arevalo was detained last month in one of the Obama Administrations raids targeting Central American families seeking asylum. She told democracy now from jail that officials had prevented her from attending her medical appointments for epilepsy. To hear an excerpt of our interview with her you can go to , democracynow. Org. Meanwhile, authorities in el salvador have arrested four former soldiers wanted in spain for the murders of six jesuit priests in 1989. Prosecutors say soldiers killed the priests, their housekeeper , and their daughter to silence the priests criticism of abuses committed by the u. S. Backed military. Five of the priests were spanish. The arrests came after a u. S. Judge paved the way for a former salvadoran colonel to face charges in spain for helping orchestrate the priests killings. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced alarming levels of radiation after water contaminated with radioactive tritium leaked from the Indian Point Nuclear power plant. At one monitoring well, the radiation had spiked 65,000 . The plants owner, entergy corporation, has said the groundwater contamination at the plant does not pose a threat to the public. Environmentalists have called for the closure of indian point, citing aging infrastructure and a history of operational issues. The Chicago Police officer who fatally shot a College Student and an unarmed grandmother in december has filed a lawsuit against the estate of the teenager he killed, saying he suffered extreme emotional trauma. The officer, that is. Officer Robert Rialmo claims Quintonio Legrier swung at him with a baseball bat, causing him to open fire, killing both legrier and an unarmed bystander in the house 55yearold bettie jones. , recently released audio shows Quintonio Legrier called 911 seeking help three times in the minutes before he was shot but was treated dismissively by the Police Dispatchers one of , whom hung up on him. Police were finally dispatched after a fourth call from legriers father saying his son was wielding a bat. In other news from illinois, Political Science professor who wore a hijab in solidarity with muslims has left her post at Wheaton College after she was suspended over her actions. She said she was standing in religious solidarity with muslims who face harassment after Mass Shootings in paris in san bernardino, california. The school said it reached a mutual agreement to part ways with hawkins. Pop legend the on say paid tribute to the black panthers, malcolm x, and the black lives Matter Movement during her halftime show at the super bowl on sunday. Her backup dancers for black panther style berets and posed with their fifth in the air, recalling the black power salute by tommy smith and john carlos at the 1968 olympics in mexico city. Her music video for permission released the day before the super bowl, the vote Hurricane Katrina as well as Police Brutality. By the way, the Denver Broncos be the Carolina Panthers of the super bowl 24 to 10. Laterave more after in the broadcast with dave zirin. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In the final debate before tuesdays primary in New Hampshire, republican president ial contenders battled it out saturday night at st. Anselm college in manchester, New Hampshire. Taking part in the debate were new jersey governor chris christie, dr. Ben carson, senator ted cruz of texas, donald trump, senator marco rubio of florida, former Florida Governor jeb bush, and Ohio Governor john kasich. Abc news excluded former hewlettpackard ceo Carly Fiorina from the debate despite , protests from many republicans. Much of the debate coverage has focused on marco rubio for repeatedly reciting the same talking points about president obama even after he was called , out by chris christie. The section of barack obama doesnt know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he was doing. Lets dispel with this fiction of barack obama doesnt know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. The bottom line, this notion of barack obama doesnt know it is doing. There is. The memorized 25 second speech. There it is, everybody. I think this is an important point. We have to know what we are going through here. Were not facing a president that doesnt know what he knows what he is doing. I think anyone who believes that barack obama isnt doing what he is doing on purpose doesnt understand what were dealing with here. Who is a president trying to change this country. Amy while headlines about robot rubio and marcobot dominated much of the discussion after the debate, a number of other issues came up during saturdays debate including torture, north korea, Police Brutality and eminent , domain. We will look at all of four of these issues and how the candidates responded on todays show. We will begin with the issue of torture raised by debate , moderator david muir of abc news. Onisis here in the war terror because as you know, there is in a debate in this country about how to deal with the enemy and enhanced interrogation techniques. Senator cruz, you said torture is wrong. Civilized nations do not engage in torture. Some of the other candidates say they dont think waterboarding is torture. Mr. Trump has said, i would bring it back. Senator cruz, is waterboarding torture . Under the definition of torture, no, it is not. Under the law, torture is excruciating pain that is equivalent to losing organs and systems. On the definition of torture, it is not. It is enhanced interrogation, and vigorous interrogation, but it does not meet the generally recognized definition of torture. Would you bring it back . I would not bring it back in any sort of widespread use. I would join with senator mccain and legislation that would prohibit line officers from employing a because i think bad things happen when enhanced interrogation is employed at lower levels. But when it comes to keeping this country safe, the commanderinchief has inherent Constitutional Authority to keep this country safe. And so if it were necessary to, say, prevent a city from facing an imminent terrorist attack, you could rest assured that is commanderinchief out would use whatever enhanced interrogation methods we could to keep this country safe. Thank you. You said not only does it work, but you would bring it back. In the middle east, we have people chopping the heads off christians. We have people chopping the heads off many other people. We have things that were never seen before as a group. We have never seen before what is happening right now. The Medieval Times i mean, we studied Medieval Times. Not since Medieval Times of people seeing what is going on. I would bring back waterboarding and i would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding. Mr. Trump, thank you. Governor bush, you said you wont rule out waterboarding. Congress has passed laws banning the use of waterboarding by the military and the cia, as you know. Would you Want Congress to change that . No, i wouldnt. It was used sparingly. Congress has changed the laws and i think where we stand is the appropriate place. What we need to do is to make sure we expand our intelligence capabilities. The idea were going to solve this fight with the drones, killing people somehow is more except double than capturing them, securing the information. This is why closing gntanamo is a comete disaer. Wh we needo do is ke sure we are kept safe by having intelligence give abilities for superior than what we have today. That is how you get a more safe place is by making sure that we are fully engaged. Right now this administration doesnt do that. Senator rubio, i want to ask you, you had said you do not want the telegraph the enemy what you would do as commanderinchief, but for the American People watching tonight who want to know where the next president will and, do you believe waterboarding is torture . Inwhen people talk about targeting terrorists, theyre acting like this is some sort of Law Enforcement function. Law enforcement is about gathering evidence to take someone to trial and convict temples the antiterrorism about finding information to prevent a future attack. The same tactics do not apply. We should not be discussing in a widespread way the exact tactics that were going to use because it allows terrorists and others to practice how to evade us. But the bigger problem with all of this, we not interrogating anybody right now. Byntanamo is being emptied this president. We should be