Channel Title: Democracy Now! Channel Description: Democracy Now! is a viewer-supported independent, global weekday news hour anchored by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. The show is broadcast on more than 1,500 TV, radio and internet stations. Stream the show live Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. ET at http://www.democracynow.org. <video> Ronan Farrow: Surveillance is intimidation Description: Journalist Ronan Farrow's latest documentary, "Surveilled," looks at the world of high-tech surveillance and is rooted in his own experience of being tracked by a private intelligence firm during his reporting on Harvey Weinstein. </video> <video> "Assad Is Gone": Writer Yassin al-Haj Saleh on Syria, His 16 Years in Prison & Wife's Disappearance Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt "We needed to turn this page. … We've been under this inhuman condition for 54 years." Following a lightning 12-day offensive, armed opposition groups have overthrown President Bashar al-Assad's regime and his family's five-decade rule in Syria. Assad has fled to Russia, where he has been granted asylum, while tens of thousands of political prisoners have been freed. The uprising was led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, a Turkish-backed group listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and the United Nations. The release of prisoners from conditions of "hunger, humiliation, extreme despair" is a welcome and hopeful sign for the new balance of power in Syria, says the writer, dissident and political prisoner in Syria from 1980 to 1996, Yassin al-Haj Saleh, but it remains to be seen if others who were disappeared during the Syrian civil war, including al-Haj Saleh's wife Samira, will be recovered or their fates identified. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> How Israel builds and test surveillance technologies on Palestinians Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> Amnesty International: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with Full U.S. Support Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Amnesty International has released a landmark report that concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, making it the first major human rights group to do so. The nearly 300-page report examines the first nine months of the Israeli war on Gaza and finds that Israel's actions have caused death, injury and mental harm on a vast scale, as well as conditions intended to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza. Both Israel and the United States have rejected Amnesty's conclusion. Amnesty researcher Budour Hassan, who covers Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, dismisses the criticism and says, if anything, Amnesty's intervention took too long because of how carefully the group gathered and verified its information. "We tried to be absolutely true to the definition of 'genocide' under the Genocide Convention," says Hassan, who urges U.S. officials in particular to do more to stop the bloodshed. "If there is any country that has the capacity, the power and the tools to stop this genocide, it's the United States. Not only has the United States failed to do so, it has consistently awarded Israel. It has consistently continued to flout the United States' own laws in order to continue giving Israel the weapons — the very same weapons that are used by Israel to commit the genocide in Gaza." Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 5, 2024 Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> Chase Strangio, First Out Trans Lawyer to Argue at Supreme Court, on Landmark Trans Healthcare Case Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth after it heard arguments Wednesday in _United States v. Skrmetti_. The Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union argued that the law, which bans hormone therapy for transgender children but not cisgender children, is a form of sex discrimination, but right-wing justices who make up the court's majority appeared to reject that argument. ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, who has now become the first openly transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court, describes the stakes and analyzes the reactions of the justices during the landmark case, which is expected to be decided next year. "It is precisely the role of the courts to step in when the government infringes on the individual constitutional rights of minority groups," says Strangio. "People are suffering. They just want to be able to live their lives, and this law takes those opportunities away from them." Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> "Remarkable Moment": After Fleeing Syria, "For Sama" Director Waad Al-Kateab Celebrates End of Assad Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt "Whatever's coming next, I don't believe at all that [it] would be worse than what we've been through, what we lived through," says Syrian activist and filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab as she celebrates the fall of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship to Syrian opposition groups. Al-Kateab, who was forced to flee her hometown of Aleppo with her family in 2016 and now resides in the United Kingdom, says the end of Assad's rule has reignited the "dream of a free Syria." Her Oscar-nominated documentary film _For Sama_, released in 2019, offered a rare glimpse into Syria's civil war. The devastating personal account was filmed over the course of five years during the uprising in Aleppo and is dedicated to Al-Kateab's daughter Sama. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> Amnesty report: Israel's war on Gaza is a genocide Description: Amnesty International has released a landmark report that finds Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, making it the first major human rights group to do so. Researcher Budour Hassan discusses how the organization reached its conclusion. </video> <video> "Surveilled": Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We discuss the new HBO Original film _Surveilled_ and explore the film's investigation of high-tech spyware firms with journalist Ronan Farrow and director Matthew O'Neill. We focus on the influence of the Israeli military in the development of some of the most widely used versions of these surveillance technologies, which in many cases are first tested on Palestinians and used to enforce Israel's occupation of Palestine, and on the potential expansion of domestic U.S. surveillance under a second Trump administration. Ever-increasing surveillance is "dangerous for democracy," says Farrow. "We're making and selling a weapon that is largely unregulated." As O'Neill emphasizes, "We could all be caught up." Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> Syrians Are Celebrating Fall of Assad, Even as "the Bigger Picture Is Grim": Scholar Bassam Haddad Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The fall of the Assad family's 50-year regime in Syria brings with it "many more questions than answers," says Syrian American scholar and the executive director of the Arab Studies Institute, Bassam Haddad. While the regional and global implications are "not good," as Israel in particular is celebrating the loss of Assad's material support for Palestinian and Lebanese armed resistance, Haddad says the immediate relief of those suffering under Assad's totalitarian regime should not be ignored or invisibilized. Haddad also discusses the political prospects for the rebel forces led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which he says will likely form a coalition with other groups as the future of Syria is determined in the coming days and weeks. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 6, 2024 Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> "All That Remains": As Gaza Faces Child Amputee Crisis, New Film Tells Story of 13-Year-Old Leyan Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Israel's genocidal war on the Palestinian territory since October of last year has killed tens of thousands of people and wounded over 100,000 more, leaving many with life-altering injuries. The United Nations said this week that Gaza now has the highest per-capita rate of child amputees in the world, with many children forced to endure surgery without anesthesia. For more, we look at _All That Remains_, a new film from Al Jazeera's _Fault Lines_ that follows the story of 13-year-old Leyan Abu al-Atta as she recovers from having her leg amputated due to an Israeli airstrike. "It changed the trajectory of her life forever … but it didn't even register on international media's reporting because of all the massacres that were going on," says Rhana Natour, director and producer of _All That Remains_. While Leyan's family was able to raise awareness about her case and secure a medical evacuation out of Gaza to the United States, it did not happen soon enough, and doctors were forced to amputate her leg in order to save her life. Natour says this still represents a better outcome than what is available for most victims in Gaza. "For every Leyan that is able to leave Gaza, there are hundreds, if not thousands, who are not able to leave," she says. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 9, 2024 Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> Political Chaos in France: Macron Refuses to Resign After Hand-Picked PM Ousted by Lawmakers Description: Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt France has been plunged into political chaos after lawmakers from across the political spectrum voted to oust Prime Minister Michel Barnier in a no-confidence vote Wednesday, a major blow to President Emmanuel Macron, who had hand-picked the conservative lawmaker to lead the National Assembly. Macron called a snap election earlier this year to counter the rise of the racist National Rally party of Marine Le Pen, but he then refused to work with the leftist New Popular Front that won the most seats, opting for an establishment pick instead. With the government's collapse, Macron has vowed to name a new prime minister and stay on to finish his own term, which ends in 2027, despite his growing unpopularity. "We're in this unprecedented situation of turmoil," says journalist Cole Stangler in Marseilles. He says Macron's decision to call early elections was "a self-inflicted wound" that ended up empowering the far right and making it virtually impossible for any faction to lead. "We have a mathematical problem. France needs to have a government, and you have three pretty evenly split blocs," says Stangler. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe </video> <video> How Koreans mobilized against martial law declaration Description: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces impeachment as opposition parties push to remove him from office for his declaration of martial law on Tuesday. He rescinded the order just hours later amid widespread mobilization of ordinary Koreans in the streets. </video>

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