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19 December 2024
This week, the commander of Ukraine's drone forces revealed that they possess a laser weapon that can shoot down airborne targets more than 2 kilometres away. According to experts, such a weapon could be effective against low-flying drones like the Iranian Shahed-136 that Russia uses in its war against Ukraine.
21 December 2024
A car barrelled through a Christmas market crowd in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday December 20.
The suspect of the the incident is thought to be a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006. Our correspondent Nick Holdsworth tells us more.
20 December 2024
THIS is the powerful moment a British journalist bravely challenges Vladimir Putin and labels him as a "weaker leader" than Donald Trump. Fearless Keir Simmons launched the rare full-frontal attack on the mad despot at his bizarre annual call-in event with Vlad left red-faced with rage.
ЭТО мощный момент, когда британский журналист смело бросает вызов Владимиру Путину и называет его «более слабым лидером», чем Дональд Трамп. Бесстрашный Кир Симмонс начал редкую лобовую атаку на безумного деспота на его странном ежегодном мероприятии, в ходе которого Влад остался с красным от ярости лицом.
21 December 2024
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19 December 2024
November 14, 2022: Nine months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Professor Timothy Snyder laid out Russia's clear intent to commit genocide in Ukraine. Professor Snyder argued that both Russia's crimes in Ukraine and the intent of Russia's leadership to commit genocide against Ukrainians are not in dispute. Full hearing: https://youtube.com/live/pPQCpl9O034 Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. A scholar of history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust, Snyder speaks five and reads ten European languages, has written 16 books, including six on Ukraine, and co-edited two. His work, published in forty languages, has inspired political demonstrations, sculpture, posters, punk rock, rap, film, theater, opera, and earned him six state orders and decorations from Austria, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland, four honorary doctorates, and numerous prizes and awards. Snyder writes and speaks in the international press on Ukraine, American politics, strategies for averting authoritarianism, digital politics, health, and education, also appearing in documentaries, on network television, in major films, and as an expert witness to Congress. He is a United 24 ambassador where he launched the Safe Skies fund for military defense of Ukraine. Snyder leads 90 scholars in the Ukrainian History Global Initiative, a charitable foundation for research on prehistory of Ukrainian lands, the spread of Indo-European languages, international relations, nation building, and imperialism.
21 December 2024
After a day of upheaval and chaos triggered by a random outburst from Elon Musk, echoed by Donald Trump, that led to the humiliation of the Republican Party and its supposed leader in the House, Mike Johnson, Democrats once again stepped in to supply enough votes to pass a spending bill, but not a the debt ceiling increase that Trump and Musk demanded.
Rep. Becca Balint talks with Alex Wagner about the challenge of negotiating with the fickle Republican Party, and how Democrats remained unified by adhering to their values.
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20 December 2024
“It was like they’d just woken up to the fact that this annual budget was upon them.” Elon Musk and Donald Trump have blocked the passing of America’s annual budget bill decrying it as a “betrayal of the country,” says The Times’s David Charter.
20 December 2024
Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been charged with first-degree murder and second-degree murder as an act of terrorism. Thompson's assassination has brought renewed attention to the practices of the health industry and especially UnitedHealth Group, which reported $22 billion in profits last year.
For more, we speak with Kevin Dwyer, who has firsthand experience with UnitedHealthcare denying him lifesaving medication for cystic fibrosis. "The thought of getting this medication that could stop my decline was everything to me. And it was devastating when I got the denial," says Dwyer, who only got approved after his case became a national news story.
"It shouldn't take this, but unfortunately it does," says Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York and co-founder of the Health Care for All New York campaign. 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
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