Vaccination fears cause a measle outbreak at disney theme parks . And we begin with the latest developments in france where police have arrested more than 50 people in the last week. Its being called a crackdown on hate speech. The arrests include a controversial muslim french comedian, du donay who condemned terrorism righting i feel like Charlie Coulibaly a reference to the man that led the attacks in a kosher deli an Al Qaeda Group in yemen today claimed responsibility for the attacks on Charlie Hebdo but responsibility for the attack that followed may reach beyond al qaeda. Reporter the details emerging about the violence of terrorists last week are painting a complex picture. Brutal attacks inspired by rival groups. The first last wednesday. 12 were killed at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical french newspaper. Police identified the gunman as brothers said kouachi and cherif kouachi. They had known ties to al qaedas branch in yemen. Reports say one of the brothers had weapo
Nigeria. France is about to rule on the case of a controversial comedian. Hundreds of people gathered in jordan to mourn a pilot who was brutally killed by isil. Many including the pilots father are crying out for revenge and in the early hours of wednesday jordan executed two convicts in retaliation. King abdullah is now back in the country after cutting short his trip to the United States. We have the latest from jordans capitol, amman. Jordan warned of an earthshaking response to isils murder of its pilot muath alkaseasbeh and that response came swiftly. At down on wednesday the authorities executed iraq prisoner sajida alrishawi whom isil had demanded jordan release. She had been on death row for eight years for taking part in a 2005 attack in amman that killed 60 people. Another iraqi prisoner was executed for murdering a jordanian truck driver in iraq. The government confirmed its pilot was killed on january 3, a month before isil released the video, apparently showing him being
Reconciliation in sri lanka. Frances president says his country must show great determination against terrorism. Hollande addressed french troops on the Aircraft Carrier which is sailing off for the indian ocean and may deploy to the middle east. Translator i continue to regret that the International Community did not react to syria on time. France was ready. Orders had been given. But another route was chosen. Jonah hull joins us live from paris. This was hollandes annual address to the french military. He talked a lot about domestic issues, but a lot about International Issues as well. Tell us more about his address. Reporter well i think this was perhaps an opportunity for president hollande to make two coy points the first was to demonstrate what he is doing, and what is being done to protect the homeland so protect french citizens a week after those attacks on the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo last wednesday, and he made the point that 10,000 troops had been deployed in record tim
To watch the pope cannonize. And whats said to be the toughest climb in the world. Welcome to the program. Within the last couple of hours, a video has emerged showing a leader of al qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula saying it was behind last weeks attack behind Charlie Hebdo in paris. Eight people were killed at the satirical magazine. Well in a video posted online what he calls the blessed battle of paris and the prophet of mo mohammad says they chose the target, laid the plan and financed the operation and did it on the orders of al qaedas leader iman bin al zawahiri. This video, talk us through whats in it. Its just over 12 minutes long. It features this one individual talking to the camera for almost the whole of the video giving quite a long speech. In the background these were scenes in paris looked like they were taken off french and International Tv channels and dont appear to be images we havent seen before and then this long lecture he goes into motivations why al qaeda in the
Republican lawmakers to raise taxes on the rich while helping to boost middleclass americans. Loopholes lead to inequality by allowing the top 1 to avoid paying taxes on their accumulated wealth. We can use that money doubt more families pay for childcare and send her kids to college. Joining us to discuss the speech, congressman Keith Ellison of the house progressive caucus, longtime consumer advocate and former president ial candidate ralph nader, phylllis bennis of the institute for policy studies, Pulitzer Prize winnng tax analyst David Cay Johnston, and lisa graves of the center for media democracy. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has delivered his sixth state of the Union Address, outlining his domestic and Foreign Policy agenda for his final two years in office. On the Foreign Policy front, obama defended his decision to begin normalizing relations with cuba, called for congress