From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Today, the U.S. in the Appartnership is a cornerstone of a free and open Indo-Pacific.

In our deepening bond show how technological innovation and growing military cooperation

between two great powers can be a force for global good.

As the U.S. moves to deepen military ties with India, President Biden is hosting a state dinner tonight for Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

who will also address a joint session of Congress.

Several progressive Democrats plan to boycott Modi's speech over his human rights record.

We'll go to Mumbai, India for the latest.

Then to China, as President Biden calls Xi Jinping a dictator shortly after Secretary of State Tony Blinken meets with Xi in Beijing.

China's blasted Biden's comments saying it's an open political provocation.

Plus, we look at the debate over regulating artificial intelligence technology.

My administration has committed, has committed to safeguarding America's rights and safety,

from protecting privacy, to addressing bias and disinformation, to making sure A.I. systems are safe before they are released.

We'll speak with Dr. Joy Bolamwini, the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League.

She met with President Biden this week in San Francisco to discuss the dangers of A.I. All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warrant Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman, a Spanish charity.

It says as many as 39 asylum seekers have drowned, including four women and a baby after their boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands.

It's the latest in a deadly series of shipwrecks involving asylum seekers along the Atlantic route to Spain,

where last year at least 45 shipwrecks and over 500 deaths were reported.

Meanwhile, police in Pakistan have arrested seven people accused of sharing responsibility for the deaths of as many as 700 migrants who died last week, drowning after their overcrowded fishing vessel sank off the coast of Greece.

Israel's military has killed three Palestinians in the first targeted assassination, airstrike in the occupied West Bank in nearly two decades.

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