Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. T why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporationor public broadcasting. A private corporation funded by the american people. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanyou for joining us. In dueling rallies in hong kong today, prodemocracy and pro government protestors hit the street nearly 50,000 people came out to support the islands government and police accorng to organizers. They braved the rainwaved chinese flags, and held signs that said police force, keep it up. Meanwhile, on the other side of the harbor, thousands of teachers protested what they see as the erosion of the one country, two systems government enshrined after britain handed over hong kong
Members of iraq veterans against the war are pushing the military to do more to help soldiers suffering from postTraumatic Stress syndrome. We will look at the department of Veterans Affairs, how it has paid more than 200 million in wrongful death payments to the families of veterans who died under v. A. Care. They would take a look at the latest u. S. Effort to topple the cuban government. This time from using social media. A new expose reveals usaid securely set up a fake twittermy program and hoped to use to trigger a cuban spring. The Obama Administration defends the program. It was not a Covert Program. It was debated in congress and reviewed by the gao. Those kinds of things dont happen the Covert Programs. It was a program about increasing the level of information the cuban people have and were able to discuss among themselves. And that is part of an effort we undertake not just in cuba, but elsewhere. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, th
The seven for the missing Malaysian Airliner deploys under water scanning equipment in a different part of the southern indian ocean in an effort to find the planes flight recorder. Fears that the ebola virus may have spread to another country in africa, mali. We chart the deadly path of this latest disease. Aaron is here. Aaron, a possible change right at the top for africa. Ill tell you what, watch out, south africa. Nigeria is on the rise. Nigeria releases its Economic Growth numbers. Weve got a special report. Hello and welcome to gmt. Its midday in london, 7 00 a. M. In washington, 3 00 p. M. In afghanistan where nearly 400,000 military personnel are out in force across the country in the runup to tomorrows elections. Security is a major issue. It is a significant period for afghanistan. It will be the first democratic transfer of power in the countrys history. A new generation of young afghans will be able to vote for the first time. Elections will be followed by the final facing
Journalists rule set to resume on thursday. Right now a group of journalists are set to hold a News Conference in new york city. Theyll be joining journalists from around the world and the white house calling for egyptian authorities to release our colleagues. John, everywhere i go people ask what did they do . They do what journalists do when they cover a story from all sides. They certainly did. Thats one of our many mantras here. One of the things that we always pride ourselves on whatever story we do we always give you both sides. None of this onesided journalism that you see on other channels. For us its both sides. The journalists were posted to cairo in the immediate aftermath of coup that no one wishes to call the coup. The army overthrew the morsi they were odds with us, the fact that we called it a coup before other news organizations did. The white house and congress angive egypt money every year, o they are away in a different situation. But our three journalists have been
Individual of 123,000 all the way up to about 3. 5 million if you look at the amounts an individual can contribute to and party,didates committees, combined. A major influx of big money into the political process. Our organization has estimated about 1 billion to political spending in the next election. And is that a good thing, a bad thing, a neutral thing . Think its i think its disaster for our democracy. Why . We already had a system in which the wealthiest few are able to exert so much more elected systemr and our elected representatives than the rest of us and a like this just makes a bad situation worse. Donald mcgahn, do you agree opinion . No, i dont. Why . Upon a fewed assumption that i dont think are necessarily true. First, the idea that theres going to automatically be 1 billion of new money in elections is frankly, with all respect, ridiculous. People in this country can spend on their owney independent of candidates already. This has been the case for years going back to