Special interest. Amy in their first oneonone debate, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and vermont senator Bernie Sanders repeatedly sparred last night days ahead of tuesdays primary. They debated over a money and politics, what it means to be a progressive, and their opposing views on the iraq war. Then the United Nations rules in favor of wikileaks founder Julian Assange. It should be brought to an end. Amy as a United Nations panel rules assange should be allowed to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in london, we will hear assange s response. Being detained now without charge in this country, the United Kingdom, for 5. 5 years. Toda that detenon witho arge haseen found by the ghest organization in the United Nations to be unlawful. Amy in addition to Julian Assange and his lawyers, we will speak to a former human repertoire on arbitrary tention. L of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Democratic presid
Additionalness or any potential victims to come forward. The school learned of the alleged inappropriate relationship between 35yearold san Jose Gonzalez and the 17yearold student on friday. The interim principal was arrested and the school placed hill on paid leave. Police say the incident with the female student took place at gonzalez san jose home in july or august. He is the girls varsity volleyball coach and baseball coach. This is some concern that there could be more victims. He had access to a lost students and the ability to have a position of trust. Leadership. And authority. School leaders sent this letter him to are paens and they are providing Counseling Services for fact u and students here at the high school. Thank you. Breaking news now, wikileaks founder Julia Assange said he will leave the ecuador guess tomorrow morning and allow police to arrest him if he loses his case before the u. N. The u. N. Now is weighing whether his three career refuge as the embassy constitu
Ben rolling along the waterfront between brooklyn and queens. We have details on this proposal. Soon in terms of City Infrastructure projects. Ben good morning, everyone. I am ben simmoneau. Teresa i am teresa priolo. Making our way through the first four weeks. Ben it feels like mary. That will change pretty quickly. Mike it doesnt look so bad. It is my old. Not everybody is giving it. Central and eastern sections of long island. They are heading out to the east. Temperatures came down just 1 degrees. Fortythree in monticello. Your temperatures will be doing this up and down thing just a little bit. Again, mainly for the central and eastern sections of long island. A lot more cold air to our west. It is really being pulled and tonight into tomorrow. The second one looks like it could be printing in some snow. Really, really poor. Northeastern sections of new jersey in the metro area. You are looking at a coaching to 2 inches. Just go ahead and put that in of it tomorrow morning. The r
Welcome to countdown. London on thisin wednesday morning. Also coming up today, cell phones made from diamonds are closer than you think. We meet the company developing it. Ity entertainment announced will release its new film the interview tomorrow in a number of theaters across america. Sony entertainment chief executive said we are excited our movie will be in a number of theaters on Christmas Day. We are continuing our efforts to secure more platforms and more movie reachesis the largest possible audience. The two best friends stared each other in the eye. They knew this might be the end of the long row. Smaller chains are willing to screen the film, despite threats of filings from cyberattacks. The show very much goes on. 300, we understand, will be airing it as of Christmas Day. Whenhad to diverge course these threats of attacks started to leak out by the cyber bigckers and suddenly the four pulled out. We understand that a coalition of independent theaters signed a petition and
Sharply lower than what had been expected in april. Also lowering its growth forecast for 2015. The main reason, according to the International Monetary fund, geopolitical risks. They cite risks coming out of the middle east and coming out of the tensions between russia and ukraine. On the up side, the imf revised the u. S. Outlook higher. Growth for the United States set to be 3. 5 for the second half of 2014. 3. 8 in 2015, but the u. S. Is certainly a bright spot in what is otherwise a down beat picture. Europe, japan and the emerging markets all taken lower. Of the emerging markets, i thought it was interesting that brazil was actually cut in terms of the growth forecast the most. Some quotes to highlight from the International Monetary report, mediocre is the word. We heard this from lagarde last week. It sets the tone between finance ministers. Theyll be gathering in washington. Theyll be there to discuss the new mediocre which is what the imf is calling it. Flag warnings about th