Top U.S. & World Headlines — April 25, 2024

[Music] welcome to democracy Now democracynow.org The War and Peace report I'm Amy Goodman President Biden signed the $95 billion military spending package for Ukraine Israel and Taiwan Wednesday after months of congressional wrangling Biden said weapons would flow into Ukraine within hours and declared quote it's a good day for World Peace the spending package includes 26 billion and more funding for Israel which has now killed over 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza in just over 6 months 14,000 of them are children according to official numbers the true toll is likely much higher as thousands remain missing or trapped under Rubble Israel announced Wednesday it's readying two Reserve brigades ahead of its expected ground invasion of Rafa which the US has publicly opposed as Biden signed off on sending more arms to Israel an independent task Force released a report showing Israel's use of us- provided weapons violates International humanitarian law the task force was co-chaired by Palestinian American legal expert nura erot and Josh Paul who resigned from the state department over the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza in Gaza the world food program waren this week widespread famine is approaching amidst the ongoing assault and obstruction of aid we estimate 30% of uh children uh below age of two uh is now acutely malnourished or or or wasted and 70% of the population in the north is f facing catastrophic hunger uh there is reasonable evidence that all three faming thresholds food insecurity malnutrition and mortality uh will be passed in the next 6 weeks this comes as more horrifying details emerge about three Mass Graves found at the decimated Nasser hospital and kanun rescue workers have uncovered nearly 400 bodies including children with some victims appearing to have been executed or buried alive we'll have more on this after headlines amidst fears of a wider Middle East conflict the Norwegian Refugee council's Chief Jan egund is warning Lebanon is quote on the brink of imploding over 90,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in southern Lebanon amidst daily crossborder attacks between hasb and the Israeli Army since October 7th student protests against Israel's war on Gaza are continuing to spread across us campuses despite an intensifying police Crackdown in Los Angeles police and riot gear arrested 93 people after students at the University of Southern California began an occupation of USC's alumni night Park to call for USC to divest from Israel students of other schools have shown incredible incredible bravery incredible incredible strength and continuing their occupations in the face of incredible repression from the universities and we will do the same as well and also more importantly the people of Palestine have Contin the people of Gaza have continued to show incredible incredible determination and strength and resilience in their fight for Liberation against the Israeli regime against the genocide that they are experiencing and so we hope to embody The Same Spirit of resistance the USC protest came a week after the school cancelled the commencement speech by the valorian asna tabasam who'd expressed support for Palestinians USC has since cancelled all outside speakers at this year's ceremonies at the University of Texas Austin school officials called in local and State Police who violently crushed a student attempt to set up an encampment on the University South Mall at least 50 people were arrested including at least one journalist some faculty at UT Austin are going on strike today to protest the student arrests in a statement the teachers wrote quote we have witnessed police punching a female student knocking over a legal Observer dragging a student over a chain link fence and violently arresting students simply for standing at the front of the crowd unquote in Massachusetts police made at least 108 arrests as officers broke up a student encampment at Emerson College in Boston overnight meanwhile students at Harvard University defied School orders and began a tent encampment at Harvard Yard which has been closed since Tuesday and earlier this morning police moved in and started arresting Princeton students as they were setting up their own Gaza solidarity encampment on Wednesday Republican house Speaker Mike Johnson faed heckling and booze when he visited Colombia University Johnson called for Biden to send in the National Guard to bring order to the campus where students set up the Gaza solidarity encampment last week Johnson also called for Colombia president Manu shafik to step down Colombia and barard students criticize Johnson's visit what make us scared or threatened is the president bring NYPD to our campus is the the people like came to see bring the National Guard to the to our campus we don't need that that is the thing make us feel scared and threatened we'll have more on the student protest later in the show the US Supreme Court appeared deeply divided as it heard arguments Wednesday on Idaho's near tootal abortion ban the Biden Administration argues Idaho's law violates the emergency medical treatment and active Labor Act by only providing emergency abortion care when a patient is facing death This Is Us solicitor general Elizabeth progger women in Idaho today are not getting treatment they are getting airlifted out of the state to Salt Lake City into neighboring states where there are Health exceptions in their laws because the doctors are facing mandatory minimum two years in prison loss of their license criminal prosecution the doctors can't provide the care because until they concl can conclude that a prosecutor looking over their shoulder won't second guess that maybe it wasn't really necessary to prevent death the Court's ruling will have major implications for at least half a dozen other states with similar bans as arguments were delivered protesters rallied outside the Supreme Court against the Idaho ban clearly um states that women don't matter that the fetus they carry matters more they're conduits instead of people they're not even given proper access to health treatment and health that they require the Supreme Court is taking up another major case today as it considers Donald Trump's claims of immunity against criminal prosecution in more abortion news the Arizona house on Wednesday repealed the 1864 near total abortion ban just two weeks after Arizona's Supreme Court revived the Civil War era law Democrats were joined by three House Republicans the repeal must now pass the Arizona Senate before Democratic governor Katie Hobbs can sign it which would reinstate Arizona's 2022 law which bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy Yolanda theano chair of the Arizona Democratic party spoke following yesterday's vote the stakes in this election cycle could not be higher and the contrast between our two parties could not be clearer Democrats are fighting for abortion rights we are fighting to protect Arizona values and the Republican party is taking away our rights and are under sole control of Donald Trump in other news from Arizona a grand jury indicted former president Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others for plotting to use fake electors in Arizona to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss meanwhile in Michigan a pre-trial hearing revealed Trump Meadows and Giuliani were unindicted co-conspirators in the Michigan attorney general's case against fake electors prosecutors say all three men directly participated in a plot to replace Michigan's electoral votes for Biden with electoral votes for Trump in Iran a court has sentenced hip hop artist Tage SEI to death for supporting the 20122 popular Uprising in his songs toas SEI who is already serving a six-year jail sentence is appealing the ruling in related news rights groups are sounding the alarm over escalating attacks by Security Forces on women who are out in public without a hijab arrested women have reported physical verbal and sexual attacks by Iranian authorities Tick Tock says it'll challenge legislation signed by President Biden yesterday which forces Tik tok's Chinese parent company bite dance to divest from its us operation or be banned critics have described the ban as a form of censorship fueled by anti-chinese sentiment this is Tik Tock CEO shoi Chu addressing the app's users on Tik Tok as you may have heard Congress passed the bill that the president signed the law that is designed to ban Tik Tok in the United States that will take Tik Tok away from you and 170 million Americans who find community and connection on all platform make no mistake this is a ban a ban on Tik Tok and a ban on you and your voice politicians may say otherwise but don't get confused many who sponsored the bill admit a Tik Tok ban is the ultimate goal and back here in New York 33 climate activists were arrested Wednesday after shutting down City groups Global headquarters to demand the banks stop funding fossil fuels activists blocked every entrance to the building you can see our coverage of the story at democracy now. org and those are some of the headlines this is democracy Now democracynow.org The War and Peace report I'm Amy Goodman and I'm nin sh Welcome to our listeners and viewers across the country and around the world

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Published: Thu Apr 25 2024