the u.s. election result suffers more setbacks this time in pennsylvania and michigan. not backing down thousands of people protest in thailand. does the government has to have proposed amendments to the constitution? and the sports in men s cricketers and ansell returned to play in pakistan for the 1st time in 16 years. welcome to the new u.s. drugmaker. pfizer plans to request emergency approval for its covert 1000 vaccine in the coming days. this after results from its trial show that it s safe and around 95 percent effective in all age groups that seem developed with german partner has shown consistent results across the demographics with no major side effects. let s get the very latest from our correspondent, joe castro, who is live for us in wilmington, delaware, really encouraging noises coming out from pfizer for the back of companies like madonna saying there that seem to it has a very high success rate. that s right, so this is very encouraging news, but the irony i
president juan orlando hernandez against opposition candidate salvador nasralla. massive protests erupted after the government-controlled electoral commission stopped tallying votes when the count showed nasralla ahead. we ll speak with former honduran president manuel zelaya, was ousted in a 2009 u.s.-backed coup. he now heads the opposition libre party, part of the coalition, alliance against the dictatorship. so democracy here. we are suffering repression. people are being persecuted. is no duethere process. there is nothing. , thenthe coup d etat changed all of the laws. amy: president zelaya in a democracy now! exclusive. then, the dangerous case of donald trump: psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president. we will speak with forensic lee,iatrist dr. brandy organizer of the yale duty to warn conference. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. in california, nearly 200,000 peopl
spelman college president emeritus, beverly tatum discusses race relations in america. that is just a handful of the programs airing this weekend on book tv on c-span2. for complete schedule, visit booktv.org. okay. thank you everyone for being here. book culture on columbus is so pleased to host this conversation tonight. for first, a round of applause for our guest. thank you. we are also so lucky to have michael gerard here tonight in conversation. maybe a quick show of hands of this is your first time to book culture on columbus. welcome. some of you may remember this space. 20 years ago. we will be three this november and we are so pleased to be part of the upper west side and to be a place to celebrate great important new work. in order to keep us here on the upper west side, i would encourage you to pick up a copy or two or three of tonight s book so we can continue bringing great authors and to be a stronghold for important work. you may have noticed that bo
amy: a as president trump threatenens to withdraraw fedel rerelief workersrs from puerto , home to 3.5 million u.s. citizens, residents of the island and their supporters responond with outrarage and disbelief. san juan mayor carmen yulin cruz called trump the hater-in-chief. we ll get response from congressman luis gutierrez on puerto rico as well as from smooth to stop paying billions of dollars in federal subsidies doubt cover for people s health care to help cover poor people s health care. in the renownened psychiatrist robert jay lifton on president trump. quite trump is on record for demanding something like 10 times the number of nuclear weapons and that is what i call extreme nuclear resume, a kind a race of the weapons to do everything they can still using nuclear weapons can do is destroy countries, cities, destroy human beings. amy: robert jay lifton on what he calls the apocalyptic twins, nuclear and climate threats. the ultimate absurdity, the ultimate abs
san juan mayor carmen yulin cruz called trump the hater-in-chief. we ll get response from congressman luis gutierrez on puerto rico as well as from smooth tstop paying billions of dollars in federal subsidies doubt cover for people s health care to help cover poor people s health care. in the renowned psychiatrist robert jay lifton on president trump. quite trump is on record for demanding something like 10 times the number of nuclear weapons and that is what i call extreme nuclear resume, a kind a race of the weapons to do everything they can still using nuclear weapons can do is destroy countries, cities, destroy human beings. amy: robert jay lifton on what he calls the apocalyptic twins, nuclear and climate threats. the ultimate absurdity, the ultimate absurdity that if we do nothing but what we re doing now, and it is what i mean by malignant normality, going on using fossil fuels, we will do ourselves in as a civilization, pretty much by the end of the century. not