Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 18, 2023

welcome to democracynowdemocracynow.org the war and Peach report I'm Amy Goodman the United Nations has warned Russia's decision to terminate the Black Sea grain deal which allowed for the safe export of food and fertilizer from Ukrainian ports will lead to Soaring food prices and worsening hunger across the globe the U.N Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez spoke Monday after the Kremlin said it would refuse to extend the agreement ultimately participation in these agreements is a choice but struggling people everywhere and developing countries don't have a choice hundreds of millions of people face hunger and consumers are confronting a global cost of living crisis and they will pay the price this comes just a week after Russia vetoed the extension of a key un humanitarian Aid delivery route from Turkey into Syria on Monday the U.N rejected restrictions placed by the Syrian government on the life-saving deliveries through the Baba Hawa border crossing Syrian officials condition the shipments on the un's full cooperation and coordination with Syria's government among other rules denounced by U.N officials is unacceptable Russia's military launched an early morning drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian port city of Odessa a day after the Kremlin walked away from the Black Sea agreement Ukraine's military says one person was injured by debris after it shot down all six missiles and 25 drones fired at Odessa the attack came just hours after Russian President Putin accused Ukraine of launching what he called a cruel and senseless attack Monday on a key bridge connecting the Russian Mainland to the Russian annexed Crimean peninsula what has happened is yet another terrorist act by the regime in Kiev this crime is senseless from a military standpoint because the Crimean Bridge has not been used for military logistics for a long time it is also cruelty because innocent civilians have been killed of course there will be a response from the Russian side in Belarus a large Convoy of Wagner mercenary forces arrived at a military field Camp Monday the first redeployment of the mercenary group's Fighters since their failed Mutiny in late June on Friday the Belarus Ministry of Defense at Wagner troops are training some of its Security Forces tens of thousands of people in Vietnam and Southern China evacuated their homes as typhoon talim made landfall in China's Guangdong Province the storm brought heavy winds and rainforcing the cancellation of hundreds of trains and flights its arrival came as China like much of the northern hemisphere saw temperature records Shattered by unrelenting summer heat here in the United States more than 88 million people are under excessive heat warnings and advisories again today smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires is triggering unhealthy air quality alerts across New England and as far south as Atlanta Georgia and Birmingham Alabama today Phoenix Arizona's forecast to record its 18th consecutive day of over 110 degrees Fahrenheit with no respite in sight a recent study found a loss of the power grid in Phoenix during a heat wave would cause at least twelve thousand deaths with hundreds of thousands more needing treatment for heat related illnesses White House climate Envoy John Kerry is in Beijing to re-establish discussions on the climate crisis between the U.S and China the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases Kerry arrived in Beijing Sunday as a weather station in western China logged an all-time high temperature record of 126 degrees Fahrenheit Kerry's visit came just days after he ruled out reparations to other countries harmed by the climate crisis Kerry made the remark during testimony last Thursday at a house Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing as he was questioned by Republican congressmember Brian Mastiff Florida are you planning to commit America to climate reparations that is to say we have to pay some other country because they had a flood or they had a hurricane or a typhoon for a while under no circumstances very good I'm glad to hear you say that those remarks were condemned by climate action groups including 350.org which said in a statement quote U.S climate Envoy John Kerry's words are just the latest example of Kerry and the U.S refusing to back up their vague claims for U.S support in global climate progress with real substantive action they said a ship dispatched by the United Nations has arrived off the coast of Yemen to begin pumping over a million barrels of oil from a decaying super tanker anchored in the Red Sea the ship was abandoned off the coast of Yemen in 2015 at the start of the U.S backed saudi-led war against houthi Rebels it contains four times the amount of oil spilled off the coast of Alaska during 1989's Exxon Valdez disaster on Monday U.N humanitarian coordinator David Gresley said Engineers had secured the rusting ship against a potential catastrophic Spiller explosion the structure of the episode suffer even though it is a decaying vessel the hull is still very secure which means that the transfer of the oil will be relatively low risk in Iowa abortions at up to 20 weeks of pregnancy are once again legal after a district judge put Iowa's strict six-week abortion ban on hold Polk County Judge Joseph seidlin said Monday Planned Parenthood the ACLU and other plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their lawsuit which contends the bills signed by Republican Governor Kim Reynolds Friday violates Iowa's Constitution 14 States currently have abortion bans in effect after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade Last Summer here in New York pressure is mounting for the federal government to take over the troubled Rikers Island jail complex Manhattan U.S attorney Damian Williams Monday said the crisis at Rikers is quote a collective failure with deep roots spanning multiple mayoral administrations eight years ago New York City agreed to a multi-million dollar effort to reform Rikers but conditions have only worsened leading to the deaths of several prisoners and growing reports of brutal violence and inhumane treatment meanwhile mayor Eric Adams has appointed new leadership to the New York Police Department Edward caban will be the first Latino to serve as NYPD commissioner his rise to power comes after the abrupt departure of the former commissioner kichon Sewell who was the first black woman in the role caban spoke alongside mayor Adams at City Hall Monday now it's not lost on me that today's announcement is also a first give it how many great leaders of Hispanic dissent have come before me in the NYPD to be the first Hispanic Police Commissioner is in honor of the highest measure in medical news an experimental new drug called anonymab has slowed the progression of Alzheimer's disease in patients by about 35 percent when used in the early stages of the disease that makes the drug at least as effective as La can be another monoclonal antibody treatment against Alzheimer's that one FDA approval earlier this month drug maker Eli Lilly hasn't said how much the nanabab will cost if it wins regulatory approval but a Year's treatment of lakendi has been priced at more than 26 thousand dollars in the United States Democratic presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has been condemned for racist and anti-semitic remarks after he said covid-19 was targeted to certain ethnicities RFK Jr was making the comments while speaking at a dinner in Manhattan last week a recording was published by the New York Post covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and and black people the people who proposed to men are asking Jews and uh and Chinese the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese Robert F Kennedy Jr said on Monday his sister Carrie Kennedy who heads the Robert F Kennedy human rights organization strongly condemned what she called her brothers deplorable and untruthful remarks she said quote his statements do not represent what I believe or what Robert F Kennedy human rights stand for with our 50-plus year track record of protecting rights and standing against racism in all forms of discrimination unquote Rolling Stone reports that RFK Jr who's running for the Democratic party's presidential nomination has been raking in cash from dozens of major Republican donors West Virginia Democratic senator Joe manchin has fueled speculation he will run as a third party candidate in the 2024 presidential election Mansion appeared alongside Republican former Utah Governor John Huntsman at an event in New Hampshire Monday arguing U.S voters are frustrated by the growing divide between the two major political parties I'm not here running for president tonight I'm not I'm here trying to basically save the nation Senator manchin is the biggest recipient of fossil fuel money in Congress Monday's event was organized by the billionaire-backed organization No Labels which is exploring whether to run a third party candidate for president the progressive change Campaign Committee wrote on social media quote No Labels is nothing more than a republican front group they're staffed by Republicans bankrolled by Republicans and their third party Gambit will only help elect Maga Republicans like Trump Joe manchin just gives them the patina of bipartisanship they said the shipping giant UPS has begun training non-union employees to fill in for unionized workers after the teamsters voted to authorize a strike over stole contract talks unless there's a breakthrough some 340 000 UPS workers could be on picket lines as soon as August 1st over the weekend New York congressmember Alexandra ocasio-cortez joined other New York lawmakers at a Teamsters rally pledging support for what could become the largest single employer strike in U.S history what we are about to step into requires solidarity from everybody everybody across the city across this country across politics across Union across workers because your fight right here is about being the tip of the spear for dignity for every worker in this country every worker in this country later in the broadcast we'll speak with the legendary historian of the Mexican Revolution and labor organizer professor John Womack Jr about building labor power and solidarity and the Reverend Jesse Jackson stepping down as president of the rainbow push Coalition the Civil Rights group he founded in 1996. Reverend Jackson's Legacy of activism was honored at the coalition's annual convention in Chicago over the weekend with vice president Kamala Harris and other prominent Democrats in attendance in her remarks Harris described Jackson as quote one of America's greatest Patriots someone who deeply believes in the promise of our country unquote the rainbow push Coalition will now be headed by the Reverend Frederick Douglass Haynes III he spoke at the event Sunday the Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson Senior I stand here on his shoulders because no one would sense would try to stand in his shoes his shoes are too large and those are some of the headlines this is democracy Now democracynow.org The War and Peace report

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Published: Tue Jul 18 2023