Democracy Now! 2024-11-20 Wednesday
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🗓️ 20 November 2024
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Headlines for November 20, 2024; Colombian Environment Min. Susana Muhamad on Trump, Banning Coal to Israel & Phasing Out Fossil Fuels; Democracy Now! Asks Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister: When Will Jailed Reporters & Activists Be Freed?; Azerbaijani Journalist Speaks from Exile After Six Colleagues Jailed Ahead of Climate Talks; Trump Nominates Wrestling CEO Linda McMahon as Education Secretary Amid Push to Abolish Dept. of Ed.; Dr. Mehmet Oz Wants to Privatize Medicare. Trump Just Picked the TV Star to Head Medicare Agency
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| 0:00.0 | From the UN Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:22.9 | Hi, I'm Amy Govind from Democracy Now News. |
| 0:28.7 | Thank you so much for making the COP presidency available to the press. |
| 0:34.8 | Many journalists and climate activists have been arrested here in Azerbaijan in the lead-up to the |
| 0:40.8 | cop. My question is, will they, among many other arrests in this lead-up to the cop, be freed? |
| 0:50.9 | We'll bring you the response of Azerbaijan's deputy foreign minister, who is also COP 29 lead negotiator. |
| 0:59.6 | And we'll speak with the acting editor of the independent media outlet Abbas here in Azerbaijan. |
| 1:05.8 | She's in exile. |
| 1:07.4 | Six of her journalists were arrested in the lead-up to the summit. |
| 1:12.4 | But first we go to Susanna-amed, Colombia's Environment Minister. She chairs Colombia's delegation here at COP 29. |
| 1:19.2 | We'll ask her about Colombia's decision to become the first major oil-producing nation to join |
| 1:23.9 | the Fossil-N-Proliferation Treaty Coalition, and we'll ask her about Colombia's coal embargo on Israel over Gaza. |
| 1:32.7 | Mohamed is a Colombian of Palestinian descent. |
| 1:35.9 | We'll also get her response to Trump's re-election. |
| 1:40.0 | It's a big call. |
| 1:41.3 | It's a big call of progressives everywhere. |
| 1:48.7 | That neoliberal economics is actually creating a bigger monster. |
| 1:55.4 | And that we have to create an alternative model that really, really includes and improve the quality of life of the most vulnerable. |
| 2:03.0 | And we'll look at President Trump's pick for Secretary of Education. That's President Elect Trump. Yes, the Secretary of Education that he has chosen, the billionaire former |
| 2:10.4 | head of World Wrestling Entertainment, Linda McMahon. Trump has also picked Dr. Mehmetaz, the television doctor, to run the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services. |
| 2:22.3 | Oz is a backer of privatizing Medicare. All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now. Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. We're broadcasting from the UN Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. The United States has shut down its embassy |
| 2:52.3 | in Ukraine's capital and ordered U.S. citizens in Kiev to immediately seek shelter, |
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