With the struggle of the people here to protect their water and to protect their land. Amy were just back from north to go to where judge John Grinsteiner dismissed a misdemeanor riot charge againsnt me. We will brbring you the scene fm outside the courthouse were other people also had charges dropped. Then as people across the world have come to join the resistance against the Dakota Access pipeline, the encampment has become one of the largest gatherings of native a americans and their supporters in decades. People have set up multiple kitchens, a school that teaches lakota languages, radical services to care for those who have come to fight the pipeline. As the first baby is born in the main resistance camp in cannon ball, north dakota, i speak with women and midwives about the importance of Reproductive Health care on native american reservations. One dr. Comes and he schedules the womens birth based on his schedule and induces them. So i would say at least 90 of the women will have babies are scheduled on his schedule, and that is not right for our children to be born that way. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amamy goodmaman. The pentagon has confirmed u. S. Special forces are on the ground in iraq and taking part in the battle to retake mosul, iraqs second largest city which fell to isis two years ago. Despite president obamas pledge against having boots on the ground, the pentagon said u. S. Special forces are on the front lines and finding targets for u. S. Airstrikes. The offensive to take mosul is expected to take weeks, if not months. Iraqi forces reportedly captured 20 isisheld villages on monday. Aid groups fear the fighting will force over residents of one million mosul to flee. Courtney lare works with the Norwegian Refugee Council in the iraqi city of erbil. Massisis prepeparing for waves of displacement coming out of mosul. We are e expecting up to 200,00 indidividual a and around 7 7000 totall fling i in the coming months. This miniature and committed is desperately trying to prepare but this any people is extremely challenging. Amy in news from syria, russia and syria have temporarily halted airstrikes on the besieged city of aleppo in what russia described as a humanitarian pause. A new round of talks are expected to begin tomorrow in geneva. In campaign news, the guardian is reporting donald trump has hired mike roman the former head of the Koch Brothers intelligence gathering operation to run an Election Protection effort. For weeks trump has been claiming the election would be rigged at the voting booth. On trump claimed dead people and monday, undocumented immigrants are voting. Mr. Trump they even want to try to rig the election at the polling booths believe me, theres a lot going on. They say theres nothing going on. People that have died 10 years ago are still voting. Illegal immigrants are voting. I mean, where are the streetsmarts of some of these politicians . They dont have any. Mr. Trump they dont have any, thats right. Voter fraud is very, very common. Amy experts claim cases of voting fraud are very rare. One study by Loyola Law School found 31 instances involving allegations of voter impersonation out of 1 billion votes cast in u. S. Elections between 2000 and 2014. Trumps claims of a rigged election have been widely criticized by members of both parties. Ohio secretary of state jon husted said trump was wrong and engaging in irresponsible rhetoric. In other campaign news, Melania Trump has come to her husbands defense following the release of a 2005 video in which he bragged in which trtrump is heard bragging about sexually assaulting women. Melania described his comments as boy y talk and accused tv host billy bush of egging donald trump on. She e spoke with c cnns andersn cooper. Those words, they were offensive to me and they were inappropriate. And he apologized to me. And i accept his apology. We are moving on. From a womans perspective, what were your thoughts when you are those tapes . This is nonot the man ththati know. Amy in related newsws, nbc has fired billy bush from his job as host at the today show following the release of the trump tape. Meanwhile, a transcript has been published of a 1994 interview trump did on abcs primetime live. During the interview trump said, i dont want to sound like a chauvinist, but when i come home at night and dinners not ready i go through the roof. Trump also said i tell friends , who treat their wives magnificently get treated like crap in return, be rougher and youll see a different relationship. meanwhile, republicans are calling for state Department OfficialPatrick Kennedy to resign after newly released fbi documents suggest he pressured the agency last year to downgrade the classification of emails found on Hillary Clintons private server. According to the fbi documents, kennedy offered to allow the fbi to place more agents in iraq in exchange for declassifying the email. The fbi and the state department have denied that a quid pro quo ever existed. A retired fourstar marine corps general has plead guilty to making false statements to the fbi during an investigation into leaks of classified information. James cartwright, who was known as president obamas favorite general, admitted he lied to the fbi during an investigation into who leaked classified information to the New York Times about stuxnet, a secret u. S. Cyberwarfare operation against iran. According to yahoo news, cartwright is the 10th person to be criminally charged under president obama in a case related to classified disclosures more by far than were brought by any president before him. In news from guantanamo, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been released back to his home country of mauritania after being held at guantanamo since 2002 without charge or trial. Slahi wrote the bestselling memoir guantanamo diary in which he describes being severely tortured by u. S. Guards. In climate news, nasa is reporting last month was the warmest september on record. 11 of the past 12 months have now broken records. Scientists say 2 2016 is almost certain to be the year the the w warmest year ever brbreaking last t years record. , this comes as itit still feels like summer though out much of the east coaoast and midstst toy many cities s expected to set dozens of records. And dr. City, kansas the , temperature reached 101 degrees fahrenheit on monday. In other climate n news, a new study by the United Nations has found Climate Change c could dre 122 million more people into extreme poverty in the next 15 years in part due to the impact it is already having on smallscale farmers. The guardian is reporting exxon mobil has asked a federal court in texas to throw out a subpoena from new york state that would force the oil company to hand over decades of documents as part of a wideranging inquiry into whether it misled investors about Climate Change risks. Last year Insideclimate News and Timeslos Angeles revealed beginning in 1977, exxon concealed its own findings that fossil fuels cause global warming. The nations Largest Police organization, the International Association of chiefs of police has issued a formal apology for , the historical mistreatment of communities of color. The organization represents 18,000 members. Alicia garza, a cofounder of the black lives matter movement, told thinkprogress the admission is a positive step toward justice, reconciliation and healing but doesnt go far , enough to address modernday problems. Garza said if the last three years has shown us anything, its that these deplorable actions are still happening today. Black people are dying at the hands of police at the rate of one every 28 hours. In media news, a britishstate owned bank has reportedly cut ties to the russianbacked broadcaster rt. The station, which relies on state funds from moscow decried , the momove as a form of a political censorship. Margarita simonyan i is rts editor in chief. For us it is absolutely obvious it is politically motivated and this is yet another step, a serious one by britain, to shut us up so we stop telling what were telling so that the orchestrated choir, mainstream media, which pushehes personal narrative, will not be interrupted and viewers will not get distracted and wont listen to another point of view. Amy meanwhile wikileaks has , accused ecuador of cutting off Julian AssangesInternet Access on saturday. Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in london for more than four years. Over the past week wikileaks has , published thousands of emails from the account of john podesta, the chair of Hillary Clintons president ial campaign. Amnesty international has accused australia of turning the isisland of nauru into an open r prison to house refugees and asylum seekers. Amnesty said the conditions on the tiny South Pacific island amounts to torture. This is nina keistat of amnesty. What i found was shocking. The level of mental trauma, the level of physical illness, the daily assaults and complete failure ofof the authohorities f the police to do anything about this. The daily humiliation and abuse they are subjected to. Amy in education news, the naacp board of directors has voted to back a call for a moratorium on the growth of Charter Schools. Naacp chair roslyn brock said we are moving forward to require that Charter Schools receive the same level of oversight, civil rights protections and provide the same level of transparency, and we require the same of traditional public schools. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are just back from north dakota where on monday, hundreds i appeared in court were just back from north dakota where on monday i was supposed to appppear in couourt to face a riot c charge for democracy now reporting on an attack against antipipeline protesters. We filmed security guards working for the Dakota Access pipeline attacking protesters. The report showed guards unleashing dogs and using pepper spray and featured people with bite injuries and a dog with blood dripping from its nose and mouth. Democracy now s report went viral online and was viewed more than 14 million times on facebook and was rebroadcast on cbs,outlets, including nbc, npr, cnn, msnbc, and the huffington post. Days after democracy now published the video, Morton County issued an arrest warrant for me. I was initially charged with criminal trespassing. On friday, as i flew into north dakota, that charge was dropped for lack of evidence. But it was replaced by a charge of writing. On monday, north dakota history judge John Grinsteiner refused to authorize the riot charges after the decision was announced, my attorneys spoke out side the courthouse where hundreds gathered to show support for more than half dozen water protectors who were facing charges related to the ongoing resistance to the 3. 8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. This is my attorney tom dickson. On friday afternoon, the criminal trespass charge which was a frivolous criminal charge, was dismissed against amy goodman. At that time [cheers] at that time we work informally informed there would be a second charge fililed against her, engaging in a riot, a class the misdemeanor charge. We were informed she was to appear before a judge at one clinton you today to hear the charge and to get bond set. This morning, we were informed the judge refused to find probable cause for that charge. I i spoke with the m morton couy statates attorneney this aftern. The case against amy goodman is now dismissed. [cheers] let me just say that amy goodman was always a free woman. [cheers] i think when the prosecutor misguidedly decided to file charges against amy goodman, she decided he decided to go after the wrong person. Intimidated. S not in this rejection of the charges is a complete vindication of the right of a journalist to report on the truth and more importantly, the right of the public to know what is happening with the pipeline and with the struggle of the people here to protect their water and to protect their land. Amy it is a great honor to be here today. Rejectges decision to the states attorney Ladd Erickson attempt to prosecute a journalist in this case, me is a great vindication of the First Amendment and of our right to report. That was the scene outside the Morton County courthouse and jail in mandan, north dakota yesterday. ,also on after judge grinsteiner monday rejected multiple riot charges for lack of evidence, including the riot charge against me, Morton County sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said after consulting with the Morton County states attorney, i am assured charges are being considered against these individuals. Let me make this perfectly clear, if you trespass on private property, you will be arrested. Ladd erickson, the states attorney, told the New York Times, i believe they want to do the investigation open and think theres any evidence in the unedited and unpublished videos that we could better detail in an affidavit for the judge. The democracy now video that many have s seen does not have much evidence all you in and. Throughout the day monday, authorities dropped to a rejected multiple felony and misdemeanor charges against water protectors, including a felony charge against marcus frejo little eagle, known by his hiphop artist name quese imc. The state also dropped a felony charge against little eagless nephew, morgan frejo. Misdemeanor charges against water defender cody hall were also dropped. Democracy now was on the ground at the Morton County courthouse and jail throughout monday and bring you this report. By name is ques imc. This water is what brought me here and this water will bring our people back together because this destructive, a Natural Force that is trying to destroy this water is the same force that dismantled our homes back in the day during the indian wars. What we can know as date of people, not just native people that all people, we have to come back to that water. We have to carry that love of the water in our heart. That water will be here long after we are gone, just like sacred rocks. Amy today you would into the courtroom and you were charged with a felony . Yes. Amy what was the felony . Unjust. It was unjust. Amy how long have you been facing these charges for . Was a shock. It was scary. Over a month. Amy how has that affected you . Emotionally, i know everybody who is been at the camp, theyre going to leave with anxiety, leave with ptsd. A lot of things are going to give you anxiety. It is real. I faced those and i had to pray to release myself from those things because it is real. The thing about it, it is a genetic memory that we have is native people. All of these things we are enduring, we remember that through our genetic memory. Our ancestors are with us still. We can make it through the we believe and we strive to live you to full, good lives a be good to ourselves and be good to each other. My name means strong thinker. Im going to walk into the place where im not comfortable at being. Amy youre turning your celfin. Yes. Amy there is an arrest warned for you . There is an arrest warned for Dakota Accesse pipeline security. These are guys that had no badges, no names, no license plates. It is intimidating when you see the guys looking Like Navy Seals when youre traveling, documenting. I came as a filmmaker and a digital storyteller and im leaving now as an environmental journalist. This is a misdemeanor. Amy why did you decide to turn your celfin today . Faith in put our the law. Im of a sovereign nation. Through this fulltime, ive been using my travel id come att whicich they have accepted. Now im going to go in with the same just going to face this is what anyone will do when you get a warrant, you follow through and help the legal system will support that as well and be as honest as you are coming in. Were just journalists documenting the inaccuracies happening here. Im a film maker. Document expecting to the way the bullying was going on, the way people were being ran off the road, things that werent true in the Morton County police department. We counteracted with drill media. Were going to walk into the jail. Looks like i will be serving overnight in the jail. My name is angela. I i am a licenensed attorney in colorado. Have four luminaire hearings on water protectors who are charged with felonies. Regarding circumstances where there alleged to have locked down. We alslso h have five bond hears this afternoon as well for water protectors who were arrested on saturday. One of whom is also charged with a felony. This States Attorneys Office is overcharging at least the felony cases, if not many of the misdemeanor cases as well. I think it is toto creatate more misperceptions of the water protectors as being able to commit felonies, therefore, you know, more violent or dangerous to the community. I think that is flatly wrong. The judge agreed with us today. Our water protectors are unarmed and not dangerous. They are elders and women and children and families at the front lines. This is water that were talking about, not weapons. I am an attorney in kansas city, missouri. I practice about missosouri and kansas. Im the