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His really security forces started having competitions around who could take the most pictures of the Palestinian to run through the database and see if they could find a match.

And it's been referred to those Facebook for Palestinians. That's profoundly dehumanising to be treated as the fuel part of the video game.

Automated apartheid, we'll talk to Amnesty International about how Israel is using an experimental facial recognition program called Red Wolf to trap Palestinians across the occupied territory.

Then to Afghanistan.

It is difficult to overestimate the gravity of the situation in Afghanistan.

It is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today.

We'll speak to an Afghan women's rights activist who served in the Afghan Parliament, as well as a Greek refugee advocate who's trying to help 82 Afghan families, including a group of Afghan women parliamentarians who've been stuck in the country.

Then in a victory for free speech, Greenpeace USA has defeated a hundred million dollar slap lawsuit by a Canadian logging company that threatened the future of Greenpeace.

While our window to fight the climate crisis continues to shrink, we have to fight these suits head on because the voices of those who protect our planet and our communities can knock you silence.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to democracynowdemocracynow.org, the Warn Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

Ukraine says Russian artillery fire killed at least 23 people in wounded dozens of others in the southern Kharson region Wednesday.

The killings were part of a wave of Russian attacks across Ukraine overnight that came after officials in Moscow accused Ukraine of attempting a drone strike on the Kremlin aimed at assassinating, they said, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

That's a charge Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, denied while speaking Wednesday from Helsinki.

We don't attack Putin or Moscow.

We fight on our territory, we're defending our religious insidious.

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