You're going to. From New York, this is Democracy Now.

There is nowhere in the Middle East

Israel cannot reach.

There is nowhere we will not go to protect our people and

protect our country. As Israel continues to bomb Lebanon, Israel's also claiming it

has sent in ground troops, but Hezbollah in UN peacekeepers deny an Israeli

invasion has begun.

This comes following two weeks of Israeli attacks on Lebanon that have killed over

a thousand people.

We'll go to Beirut for the latest.

Then shipping ports from Maine to Texas shut down at midnight as 45,000 dock workers launched their first strike in almost half a century.

We went on strike in 1977 for three months for 80 cents. Fast forward. Back then the companies were lucky to make they made

millions of dollars to 10 million five million million. Today, they make billions and billions of dollars.

Then to Mexico, where Cloudia Shanebaum,

is being sworn in today becoming Mexico's first female president.

We'll look at the legacy of Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador,

whose six-year term ends today.

And WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has broken his silent, making his first public

remarks addressing the Council of Europe since being released from a British prison.

I want to be totally clear. since being released from a British person.

I want to be totally clear.

I am not free today because the system worked.

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