Democracy Now! 2024-06-04 Tuesday
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Headlines for June 04, 2024; A Setback for the “Cult of Modi”? Indian Opposition Faring Surprisingly Well in Early Election Count; El Salvador’s “Coolest Dictator” Bukele Begins Controversial Second Term with Backing from Biden & Trump; “More Than a Symbolic Victory”: Mexican Women’s Movement Paved Way for Election of 1st Female President; “The Trauma Is Unimaginable”: Save the Children CEO Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza, More Focus on Congo
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | I want to thank you all as well, because for the first time in the 200 years of the Republic, I will become the first woman |
| 0:26.6 | president of Mexico. Mexico makes history by electing its first woman present |
| 0:36.2 | president Claudia Schainbaum a climate scientist who served as the mayor of Mexico City |
| 0:42.3 | we'll go to Mexico for the latest who served as the mayor of Mexico City. |
| 0:42.6 | We'll go to Mexico for the latest. |
| 0:45.2 | But we start in India, where the world's largest election ever has just ended. |
| 0:51.2 | In a surprising setback, Prime Minister Nurendra Modi's Hindu Nationalist |
| 0:56.2 | B.J. P. Party may lose a significant number of seats in Parliament. Then to El Salvador, to the weekend inauguration of Naeiboukelli, |
| 1:06.0 | who's described himself as the world's coolest dictator. |
| 1:11.0 | Those who attended the ceremony included U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro |
| 1:16.6 | Mayorkas, as well as Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Jr. |
| 1:21.6 | Plus we speak to the head of Save the Children about Israel's war on |
| 1:25.8 | Gaza that's killed over 15,000 children. More children have been killed in |
| 1:31.9 | this conflict and have been killed in all armed conflicts globally every year over the past four years. |
| 1:38.0 | All that and more coming up. I'm Amy Goodman. The US is urging the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution in support of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal outlined by President Biden. |
| 2:01.0 | Israel and Hamas have not yet agreed to the deal. Israel continues to |
| 2:05.4 | pummel the Gaza Strip where the official death toll has exceeded 36,500 with over 82,000 people injured. |
| 2:16.4 | Israel's killed at least 15,000 Palestinian children since October 7th. |
| 2:22.8 | In Han Yunus, relatives searched on Monday for loved ones after another Israeli |
| 2:28.4 | airstrike. |
| 2:29.4 | I am shocked. |
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