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With me. Also ahead. Turkey says its offensive the Northern Syria wants the stablished security zone along the border. As liberia. As president of the challenges facing office and ending the trip. And the fallout from the sex abuse scandal. After holding an open air mass. U. S. President. Talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the visit is being boy palestinians angry at the. Declaration on jerusalem penn says the most senior american official to visit jerusalem since the us announced its decision to move its embassy there the city status is a key point of contention in the middle east Peace Process well this is what pans had to say soon after meeting netanyahu. Was great over. Israels capital jerusalem. Following over the story this is. Where he said we were in the. United states and israel. Introduced but also i would call. For speaking with you here over the river. Corresponding to how we force it now hes joining us live from the knesset and as we wait for the Vice President s
Corruption investigation of south africas president leads police to the home of one of the countrys most influential families. Rebuilding iraq kuwait pledges two billion dollars to help the country republic from years of conflict. Police recommend the israeli Prime Ministers indictment on corruption charges Benjamin Netanyahu says nothing will come of it. In sports sean whites makes snowboarding history of the Winter Olympics the american winning an unprecedented third gold medal in the hot spot events. Police in south africa have raided the home of a prominent business family with times to president jacob zuma three people were arrested and that comes a day after the Ruling African National congress ordered zuma to step down as the nations Leader Police sealed off the roads around the home of the gupta family in johannesburg with the area designated a crime scene president zuma is under investigation over a corruption links to the family. Hes accused of being influenced by the group t
Big three jewish organizations. Siegman was born in 1930 in frankfurt, germany. S to power, his family fled to the United States. His father was a leader of the european Zionist Movement, pushing for the creation of a jewish state. The kind of zionism that exists today, as a jew rejected completely the one that exemplified by jewishness. That leaves me to reject it, to abandon it, to see it as shameful. And as a betrayal of the very vast and most important values of my religious and at the kennedy. Nermeen we will air amy goodmans interview with Henry Siegman. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im Nermeen Shaikh, filling in for amy goodman. Swedish prosecutors have dropped part of their Sexual Assault inquiry against wikileaks founder julian assange, but the most serious part of the probe remains in place. The announcement was made as the statute of limitations ran out on three parts of the investigation. Assange has bee
Today in a democracy now special, we spend the hour with Henry Siegman, the former executive director of the American Jewish congress, long described as one of the nations big three jewish organizations. Siegman was born in 1930 in frankfurt, germany. S to power, his family fled to the United States. His father was a leader of the european Zionist Movement, pushing for the creation of a jewish state. The kind of zionism that exists today, as a jew rejected completely the one that exemplified by jewishness. That leaves me to reject it, to abandon it, to see it as shameful. And as a betrayal of the very vast and most important values of my religious and at the kennedy. Nermeen we will air amy goodmans interview with Henry Siegman. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im Nermeen Shaikh, filling in for amy goodman. Swedish prosecutors have dropped part of their Sexual Assault inquiry against wikileaks founder julian assange, b