Alexis tsipras has to get parliament to approve the plan. Here is more of what he has to say. Alexis tsipras the deal is difficult and we have prevented the pursuit of a transfer of public property abroad. We have prevented the plan of financial asphyxiation, and the collapse of the financial system. A plan that was designed up to its last detail, perfectly, and had started to be implemented. Finally, we achieved in this hard fight in these negotiations, restructuring of the debt, resecure financing for the median term. Genie Nathalie Savaricas joins us from athens. The terms of this deal are tougher when it comes to the austerity part than the deal the greek people rejected before the referendum. How is Alexis Tsipras going to get the deal through parliament . Nathalie it is Pretty Simple in the sense that the Opposition Party leaders are well aware that the alternative is grexit. It became clear during the 17 hours during the summit yesterday. So that is what we have. The leader of t
The u. S. Has 5 of the worlds population but 25 of its prisoners. Speaking before the naacp, president obama calls for overhauling the nations criminal Justice System saying too many people have been locked up for nonviolent offenses. This is a cause ringing people in both houses of congress together, created some unlikely bedfellows. Youve got van jones and Newt Gingrich. Youve got americans for tax reform and the aclu, the naacp and the Koch Brothers. Amy today we will be joined by two of those unlikely bed bedfellows criminal activist van jones and mark holden, general counsel of Koch Industries. Plus, we will speak to a Prison Reform activist who spent 19 years locked up. Then to a story about corporate espionage and activism. An employee of the animal theme park seaworld has been exposed for infiltrating peta, people for the ethical treatment of animals. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Congressio
Hernandez was sentenced to life with a parole for nondrug violent for a drug nonviolent offense. His sentence was commuted by president obama in 2013. He was jailed at the federal prison obama visited on thursday. We will also speak to Maya Schenwar, author of locked down, locked out, why prison doesnt work and how we can do better. Then after a twoyear battle federal judge has ordered the release of Police Dashcam footage of a Police Killing of an unarmed man in gardena, california that shows officers ordering Ricardo Diaz Zeferino and two other men to raise their hands in the air, which they do. Three officers then open fire, killing him with eight bullets. We will speak with Sonia Mercado , civil rights attorney representing the family of the victim. Then a gunman opens fire on two separate military sites in chattanooga, tennessee. The rampage left four marines and the gunman dead and at least three people injured. This obviously has been horrible day for chattanooga in a tragic day
Minister, matteo renzi. River in paris starts to receipt after the worst floods in 30 decades pushed it to burst its banks. Other regions around france are still at risk. Also coming up this hour, in business, we will take a closer look at the cost of the flood damage in france that could run into billions of euros. And what did you do for your 90th birthday this year . His 90yearold celebrated the day by jumping out of a plane. More on that on the way. Now our top story, live from paris. Genie the president ial runoff in peru is still too close to call, but it does look like petro publicly since he has a his rivalsw trailing at the moment after being ahead in the polls two days ago. Our correspondent has the latest. She may be behind her rival in the president ial election count, but kate fujimori is not showing any signs of disappointment. Are seeingesults we on tv show a technical time. We are going to wait prudently secause all night long vote will be coming in the region. The daug
So our question here today on quadriga is this crisis in france, how wounded is the grande nation . To discuss that question, im joined here in the studio by three seasoned observers and analysts. Let me introduce them to you. Beginning with pascal thibaut, who is with radio france internationale. He says the trenches of verdun have only now been filled in, but in the rest of france, the rifts are still huge. Each and every reform becomes a battle to end all battles. Also with us is malte lehming of berlins der tagesspiegel newspaper, who believes that frances economy is showing signs of improvement. Francois hollande must stay on course with his reforms and not give in to leftwing demands. And a warm welcome, too, to geraldine schwarz, a french tv journalist and documentary filmmaker who is based here in berlin. Geraldine says the unions are still powerful but fewer and fewer french people support their confrontational cause. They understand that france has to change. So geraldine, id