Democracy Now! 2023-05-16 Tuesday
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🗓️ 16 May 2023
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Headlines for May 16, 2023; “Deplorable”: Former Sen. Doug Jones Slams Tuberville for Defending White Nationalists in Military; A Neo-Nazi Working in Congress: Aide to Rep. Gosar Pledged Loyalty to White Supremacist Nick Fuentes; Report from U.S.-Mexico Border as Title 42 Ends: Human Rights Violations, Funerals & Makeshift Camps
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| 0:56.0 | You mentioned the Biden administration trying to prevent white nationalist from being in the military. Do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military? |
| 1:08.0 | Well, they call them Americans. |
| 1:15.0 | Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville is under fire for supporting white nationalists in the US military. |
| 1:22.0 | We'll speak to former Alabama Senator Doug Jones who once prosecuted Ku Klux Klan members for blowing up the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963 killing four young girls. |
| 1:36.0 | We'll look at extremism in the military and in the offices of Congress. Then we get an update from Human Rights Advocates just back from the US Mexico border as the Trump era Title 42 policy ends. |
| 1:52.0 | We are seeing thousands of people coming to the border with the hope of crossing, confusing information and the announcement of an even stricter prohibition on asylum has increased fears and anxieties, causing people to lose hope of a life without violence and reuniting with their family on the other side. |
| 2:09.0 | We'll speak to Amnesty International, the Haitian Bridge Alliance and I'll open all of that in more coming up. |
| 2:23.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now dot org the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman in Sudan military forces unleashed air strikes near a hospital in the Capitol, Khartoum on Monday targeting paramilitary rivals as fighting between the warring parties enters a second month. |
| 2:41.0 | We're reported in other cities and recent days, including intense battles in the western region of Darfur and in the cities of Bahri and Audra Man. |
| 2:49.0 | The UN estimates some 200,000 people have fled Sudan to neighboring countries since the war erupted in April. The vast majority of those displaced being women children, many of whom are malnourished. |
| 3:01.0 | Hundreds of people who've escaped the violence in the Capitol to relatively safe cities like Port Sudan now face shortages of food, water and shelter as extreme heat hits the region. |
| 3:20.0 | Over 600 people have reportedly died since the beginning of the conflict, though the death toll is expected to be much higher. |
| 3:29.0 | The prominent Sudanese singer Shade in Gardoud was killed in crossfire between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary rapid support forces in Audra Man City Friday, despite an agreement between the two sides to protect civilians. |
| 3:43.0 | Meanwhile, there's been multiple reports of women and girls being sexually assaulted by armed groups. In Somalia, the United Nations says some 450,000 people in the central here on region have been displaced by flash flooding caused by torrential rains. |
| 3:58.0 | At least 22 people have died. This comes after a record drought in Somalia left millions of Somalis on the brink of famine. |
| 4:05.0 | China's government has issued heat advisories in the capital Beijing and other major cities as temperatures reach record highs for the date. |
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