Seven civilians in an u. S. Airstrike in syria. Then we go to ferguson missouri. I want to say to the brown family, no one was not espresso loss of a child can understand what you are feeling. Im truly sorry for the loss of your son. Im also sorry that it took so long to remove michael from the street. As fergusons police chief issues his first apology to the family of Michael Brown, protests continue against the police force. Tension escalated this weekend when a Police Officer was shot in the arm while responding to a burglary unrelated to the protests. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. U. S. Continues to expand military operations in iraq and syria with new deployments and bombings. Overnight, usled warplanes hit grain silos and other targets in northern and Eastern Syria. The syrian observatory for human rights says the attacks killed a number of civilians, though the toll is unknown. Videos emerged
He and Glenn Greenwald just wrote a piece titled the Khorasan Group anatomy of a fake Terror Threat to justify bombing syria. Then Human Rights Watch calls for a probe into the death of seven civilians in an u. S. Airstrike in syria. Then we go to ferguson missouri. I want to say to the brown family, no one was not espresso loss of a child can understand what you are feeling. Im truly sorry for the loss of your son. Im also sorry that it took so long to remove michael from the street. As fergusons police chief issues his first apology to the family of Michael Brown, protests continue against the police force. Tension escalated this weekend when a Police Officer was shot in the arm while responding to a burglary unrelated to the protests. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. U. S. Continues to expand military operations in iraq and syria with new deployments and bombings. Overnight, usled warplanes hit grain
Food clean water medicines, everything is in short supply in yemen. People are desperate for aid as human train year groups and russia call for a pause in fighting. For 12 days a Saudiled Coalition has been hitting houthi targets all along the country. Head i fighting on the ground is blocking effort to help. Omar saleh reports. Reporter two weeks of air strikes and the humanitarian situation in yemen is only worsening by the day. In the capital sanaa there is a rush to buy food and people are panicking and preparing for the worst this. Long queue is for a sack of being wheat. The price has almost doubled since the war started. Translator the sack of wheat is almost 40 so the poor people cant afford too eat anymore. Translator some people come and buy 20 sacks whereas many others want to get one sack. I have been trying to buy one for the last two days. Reporter the fighting and air strikes have led to fuel shortages too. And people are scared. Translator i have been here since last ni
Together. Faith leaders were together trying to see what they could do to bring the calm to the community. They lined up on bolton avenue which intersects with north avenue and this intersection 34 blocks away is the scene of a lot of violence. The faith leaders lined up and marched into the heart of where a lot of this rioting and looting took place. They start to sing songs, they prayed. As they walked the streets, you can hear the blast under their feet. You can look off to the side. Smoke is rising into the air, and fires burning. People walking down the streets, holding bags of goods that did not appear to belong to them. Folks that had been looting and rioting, and. Leading the charge. Leading it was representative from maryland a leader in the black caucus and he walked right up. There was a couple of hundred officers standing there with the shields, and the congressman walked up to the Police Department member and met and shook hands. The whole line of faith leaders marched up