From New York, this is Democracy Now.

I'm here to mourn, and I'm mourning the life of this young man, my son.

Mental illness should not be your ticket to death.

Seven sheriff's deputies and three hospital workers in Virginia have been indicted on murder charges

for killing a shackle black man named Bibo Ochano by piling on him and pinning him to the ground

for 11 minutes inside a mental health hospital in Virginia.

We'll speak with the family attorney Ben Crump. Then we continue to look back at the US invasion of Iraq 20 years later.

Major combat operations in Iraq have ended in the Battle of Iraq. The United States and our allies have prevailed.

Those were the words of George W. Bush two months after the US invasion.

20 years later, Iraq remains a shattered nation. We'll speak with Ray Abdul Ahad.

20 years ago, he was an architect in Iraq. After the invasion, he began working as a journalist become one of the most noted reporters in the Middle East.

He'll join us today to talk about his new book, A Stranger in Your Own City.

Travels in the Middle East long war. All that and more coming up.

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The United Nations warns in a new report to billion people or a quarter of humanity lack access to safe drinking water

and nearly half the global population has no access to basic sanitation.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced the findings Wednesday as the UN Water Conference opened three days of meetings the first such event in nearly half a century.

Water is a human rights and the common development denominator to shape a better future. But water is in deep trouble.

We are draining humanity's lifeblood through vampiric overconsumption and unsustainable use and evaporating it through global eating.

In Santiago Chile, protesters marked World Water Day Wednesday with a March demanding access to safe drinking water and sanitation.

Chile is in the grips of a 13 year mega drought with more than half the nation's population suffering from severe water scarcity.

This is journalist and social activist Lucía Sepolvita.

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