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Involvement of saudi arabia and can stop the Bombing Campaign tomorrow if they decided to withdraw the support, but they choooose not to. Crisis isanitarian intensifying. Unicef says one child is dying every 10 minutes in yemen. We will speak with awardwinning journalist iona craig. Then we look at Donald Trumps proposal to build a registry of muslims living in the United States. We did it in world war ii with the japanese. Call it what you will youre not proposing we go back to the days of internment camps, i hope. Amy he e will speakak with dedemocratic c commerce member e hondaa of c california who lived in a jajapanese american ininternment camps as a a child. And we will lookok at a new yok times investigation looking at how the poor can often not afford the metaphysical programs which could lead to the criminal records being cleared. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynowow. Org, the wawar ad pepeace report. Im amy goodman. In syria, the chaotic evacuation of eastern aleppo continues amidst ongoing fighting punctuated by a series of shortlived ceasefires. This morning, the syrian civil defense, known as the white helmets, say a civilian evacuation convoy was atattacked by syryrian government fororces, killg one persrson and woundndig at least four r more, includinga medical wororker. On wednesday, the syrian army and its russian ally resumed shelling and airstrikes againint eastern aleppo, despite a ceasefire. This is a spokesperson for the uns secretarygeneral. Concerned. Is deeply about reports of fighting in aleppo despite the announcement of a ceasefire agreement last night. Any continued fighting leaves thousands in the didirect line f fire. The safety and security of tens of thousands of them in, women, and children still trapped in eastern aleppo remains precarious. We urgently call for a pause in fighting to allow people who for to leave safely destinatation of tirir choice. E. Amy the ongoing fall of aleppo is considered a a decisive batte in the syrian civil war. It comes after eastern aleppo has been besieged and bombardedd by goverernment and military forces. Antigovernment activists have called the fall of aleppo doomsdayay, while russia h has described it as a victory against terrorists and jihadiststs. The bale hasas bn mamarked by polarized coverage by propaganda on both sides. On wednesday gone the syrian amambassador to the united natis was accused of lying to the Un Security Council during a recent emergency meeting by showing a photo he falsely claimed depicted a syrian soldier helping a fefemale civilian n in aleppo. In fact, the photo was taken in fallujah and shows an iraqi soldier helping iraqi womoman in june of f 2016. Memeanwhile in sarajevo,o, hunds of survivors of f the yearsold siegege of thehe city in the 1s gaththered wednesdsday in solidy with the civilians of aleppo. E we know howow it feels to abandoned and forgotten. N. We remember how it is when there are no replies to the screams for help. Today we stand united with a lelevelsyria, and all other s werere people suffer. Amy morore than 10,000 pepeople died during a 1400day siege of sarajevo. It was the longest siege in modern history. In the United States, Donald Trumps Transition Team is now attempting to distance itself from a 74part questionnaire at the department of energy requesting the names of employees working on climaterelated projects and the names of employees who have attended climate talks over the last five years. Many have denounced the move as the creation of an enemies list. The Energy Department said earlier this week it would not turn over the names. Following the widespread pushback by both the department and environmental groups, an official with trtrumps transitn team said this morning the questionnaire was not authorized or part of our standard protocol. President elect donald trump met with a slew of Technology Leaders at trump tower in wednesday, including amazons jeff bezos, apples tim cook, facebooks sheryl sandberg, and others. The meeting was organized by trump Transition Team member billionaire peter thiel, who famously drove the news website gawker out of business by secretly bankrollingng a controversial lawsuit by wrestler hulk hogan against gawker media earlier this year. Trumps Adult Children donald jr. , ivanka, and eric were also at the meeting. Trumps inclusion of his children in political meetings has sparked increasising concer. The topics discussed during the 90minute e meeting were reportedly immigration, education, and tradede with chi. There are few details about the convnversation, howewever, becae journaliststs were forced to lee the meeting after only a few minutes. Donald trump has not giviven a press conference for 140 days now, or over four months. His last News Conference was when he called on russia to hack Hillary Clintons email servers. Trump was slated to give his first News Conference as president elect today on whether and how he would disentangle himself from his vast Business Empire before taking office, but his spokesperson earlier this said earlier this week he is postponing it for sometime in january. A handful of republicans have said they made block john bolton from being c confirmed as deputy secretetary of state, if trump picks him. M. Kentucky republican senator rand paul has already said he would block john boltons potential confirmation, saying there is something to be said for one of the top diplomats in the country being diplomatic. Bolton was the former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations under george w. Bush, during which time bolton famously talked about lopping off the top 10 stories of the United Nations headquarters. Trumps pick for secretary of state, exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson, has also sparked concern and pushback from both Senate Democrats and republicans, many of whom arare concerned about tillersons close ties to russia. Newlwly released documents have revealed retired army general michael flynn, whom trump has chosen as National Security adviser, shared classified military information without authorization while he was the u. S. Military intelligence chief in afghanistan. A secret 2010 military investigation concluded flynn inappropriately shared classified information with british and australian officials, including secret information about the cia. General flynn was not disciplined for the intelligence breach, and it is not known the extent of the information shared, because the investigation itself remains classified. New york city mayor bill dee blasio hasas endorsed minnesotoa Congress Member Keith Ellison as the next chair of the Democratic National committee, adding to a chorus of voices supporting ellison as the future head of the party. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has also backed ellison, who is the cochair of the congressional progressive caucus, and the first muslim elected to congress. Ellison has said hell step down from congress if elected dnc so he canebruary devote all of his time to the job. Labor secretary tom perez has also announced hes running for head of the dnc, and is expected to have the support of the white house. According to nbc unnamed u. S. , intelligence officials have said russian president Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the effort to meddle in the 2016 u. S. President ial election to help donald trump win. The cia has accused russia of intervening, and president obama has ordered a review of russias role. President elect donald trump has called the claims ridiculous. This comes as a New York Times investigation has revealed the of the was aware a dnc computer had been hacked as early as september 2015, allegedly by a team known as the dukes, which the fbi says is linked to the russian government. Thehe New York Times investigation goes on to report an fbi agent called the dnc repeatedly to inform them of the security breach, but that thee partys techsupport contractor did almost nothing with the information, believing it might simply be a prank call. The times also reports the hackers used a relatively lowtech means of infiltrating the emails of top targets, including Hillary Clintons Campaign Chair john podesta, whose emails were successfully hacked and then leaked over the summer, generating a slew of negative coverage of the clinton campaign. The tactic is known as phishing, sending an email to a user asking them to change their password or click on link in order to gain access to their entire account. John podesta in fact did change his password after receiving one of those emails after being advised to do so by one of his aides. Meanwhile, yahoo has admitted as many as 1 billion accounts were hacked in 2013. Yahoo sasays the hack involved private user information, including names, phone numbers, birthdates, passwords and , security questions. In september, yahoo also admitted that 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014. These two hacks are the largest known Security Breaches of a Single Company in history. Yahoo says its not known who is behind the newly disclosed hack. Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has boasted that he personally carried out extrajudicial killings w while e was the mayor of davao. Speaking on monday night, he said id go around in davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and i would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble also. I was really looking for a confrontation soso i could kill president duterte has long bee accused of overseeing death squads in davao, prompting Human Rights Watch to call him the death squad mayor. As president , hes launched a brutal socalled war on drugs that has seen thousands of People Killed by police and vivigilantes since this s summe. In news on standing rock, the justicice Department Says it wil not comply with north dakotas request to send 100 federal officers to aid in the Ongoing Police crackdown against native American Water protectors fighting the 3. 8 billion dakota accessss pipeline. E. Ththe justice e departmentnt ha, howevever, that itits gigiven training and technhnical assistance to local l Law Enforcement officers who have been sued for excessive use ofof force, including firiring rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, and water r cannons inin freezig temperatures at the water protectors, injuring g hundredsf pepeople. In more news on standing rock, water protector red fawn fallis isis still in n custody and hada preliminary hearing monday on a fedederal charge of poesession f a weapapon by a fefelony. She had originally faced charges of attempted murder of a Police Officer chaharges that werere later drdropped by mororton couy reportedly for lack of evidence. Shees be i imprisoned d since october 27, when hundreds of police raided a frontline resistance camp. A video from that day shows nearly a dozen officers pinning her to the ground and arresting her. The video does not show red fawn fallllis with a gun. You can hear the sound of three pops in the video. In North Carolina, republican legislators called a surprise special session wednesday with the aim of restricting some of Incoming Democratic gogovernor y coopers power following a contentious and close election between him and outgoing republican governor pat mccrory. Democratic lawmakers protested the surprise session, calling it unconstitutional. The North Carolina repepublican lawmakers are e attempting to impose measures to require state Senate Approval for all of the governors cabinet picks, as well as measurures to strip himf the power to appoint university of North Carolina trustees. Another effort by republican lawmakers to back the North Carolina Supreme Court appears to have been defeated. Republicans were threatening to try to add two more justices to the court afteter the democratic africanamerican judge mike morgan defeated a republican incumbent inin the november election, tilting the court forthree to the democrats. The North Carolina Supreme Court has seven judges for the past 80 years. In wesest virginia, a govevernmt worker whose art outrage after calling Michelle Obama an ape in heels is slated to get her job back, after being removed over the racist comments. Pamela Ramsey Taylor was the director of the Clay County Development corp. She made the comments in a post in november after Donald Trumps election victory. The mayor of clay, beverly whaling, also resigned after responding to the post jusust made my day pam. And peru h has launcnched its ft Daily National news broadcast in the indigenous language of quechua for the first time in peruvian history. Millions of people in peru and many more in e ecuador, bolivia, colombia, argentina, and chile speak fluent quechua, which was the dominant language of the vast inca empire that ruled the region befefore the spanish coconquest. The broadcast is part of an effort to combat centuries of oppression against indigenous peruvians and d their languages. This is a clip of the first broadcast. How are you today, brothers, sisters, and fellow citizens a pleasant heart . I hope this is a good day for all of you. With a lot of joy, were here to spread the news. We are joyful and we thank you with all of our hearts. The warm welcome our program has received. I hope it is a good day for all of you. I am happy because i am here at the beginning of this news program. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Nermeen welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. At least one child dies every 10 minutes in yemen. Thats the conclusion of a report just published by the u. N. Childrens agency, unicef. The report also found that there has been a 200 increase since 2014 in the children suffering from severe acute malnutrition, with almost half a million affected. Nearly 2. 2 millilion childldrene in need of u urgent care. This comes as the countrys Health System is on the verge of collapse in part due to the ongoing u. S. Backed saudi bombmbg of yemenen. Since the bombing began in march 2015, more than 10,000 people have died and 3 million have been displaceded in the confnfl. Saudi arabiaauaunched itss offensive to target Houthi Rebels loyal to the former president ali abdullah saleh. Saudi arabia and the United States accuse iran of susupplyig weapons to the houthis. The u. S. Has been a mamajor bacr of saudi arabias Bombing Campaign. In 2015 alonone, the united stas approved more than 20 billion in military sales to s saudi arabia. S. Made munitions haveve rerepeatedlyeen n found atat the scene of saudidiled bombings where cicivilians haveve been killeded. Facing mountining pressure from human Rights Groups, the obama administraration announceded ear this week that the u. S. Would halt the sale of some weapons to saudi arabia. White House Press Secretary josh earnest spoke about yemen on tuesday. Some pretty significant concerns about the high rate of civilian casualties in yemen. Many of those casualties have been, asas a result of operatios carried out by the Saudiled Coalition in the region. Not alall of them. Therere have beenen civilian casualties a as a result of operations carried out by their adversaries as well. And of course, the u. S. Is playing a role in supporting the saudi led coalition. In light of the high rate of civilian casualties, the president ordered a review of the kind of assistance thahat te united statetes provides to the saudis as a undertake this effort. That review is ongoing, but there are a couple of steps that the United States is prepared to to change some of the assiststance that we prorovide. That includesefocusing g our efforts to support ththe saudis when it comes to e enhancicing r Border Security and or territorial integrity. Amy josh earnest speaking tuesesday. While washington is halting the sale of some weapons to saudi arabia, the u. S. Will continue to refuel Coalition Aircraft and provide inintelligence to saudi arabia. Human Rights Groups are calling for a more comprehensive ban in u. S. Assistance. To talk more about the situation , were joined by iona craig, a journalist who was based in sanaa from 2010 to 2015 as the yemen correspondent fo