Democracy Now! 2024-07-08 Monday
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🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for July 08, 2024; As Labour Wins in U.K., Party’s Ex-Leader Jeremy Corbyn Wins as Independent in Revolt over Gaza Policy; “Wide But Thin Mandate”: Why U.K. Labour Party’s Landslide Is on Shaky Ground; “The Whole Country of France Has Won”: Far Right Blocked from Power as Left Surges; Iran’s New Reformist President Promises More Freedom, Better Relations with the West
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. In France, victory for the left's new popular |
| 0:23.4 | in France. |
| 0:24.4 | All of the yes. |
| 0:27.0 | In France, victory for the left's new popular front keeps the far right from gaining power |
| 0:36.8 | in the final round of snap elections. |
| 0:39.8 | We'll go to Paris and get response from the French Iranian writer Marjan Satrappy, author of Persepolis |
| 0:46.5 | and Women Life Freedom. |
| 0:49.4 | We'll also talk to her about Tehran for an update on the Iranian elections where voters chose |
| 0:55.4 | a reformist candidate who's criticized a mandatory hijab law for women and |
| 1:00.7 | promised to disband Iran's morality police. |
| 1:04.6 | I consider your vote as a heavy responsibility on my shoulders |
| 1:09.7 | and I pledge to continue to be a listening ear for your words and a voice for the |
| 1:13.7 | voiceless and rejected. But first to Britain where the Labor Party has won power for the first time in 14 years. |
| 1:22.9 | As Labor Party leader Kirstarma becomes Prime Minister, |
| 1:26.8 | tens of thousands March Saturday in London |
| 1:29.8 | for an immediate Gaza ceasefire, |
| 1:31.8 | including the former labor leader Jeremy Corbyn |
| 1:36.0 | who easily kept his long-standing seat after running as an independent against labor. |
| 1:43.0 | Stop the arms trade with this road immediately. |
| 1:46.0 | Stop the use of area. |
| 1:48.0 | The area is a base of each arm for taking here |
| 1:51.0 | and use their position immediately |
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