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Democracy Now! 2025-04-18 Friday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for April 18, 2025; “Absolute Nonsense”: As Measles Cases Soar & Kids Die, Expert Slams RFK Jr. on Vaccine-Autism Link; Cannes Selects Film on Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona; A Day Later, She’s Killed in Israeli Strike

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:21.7

Where are you now?

0:23.2

This is my neighborhood.

0:26.6

No one live here or here or there.

0:29.1

Or there.

0:31.0

There's no one.

0:33.7

Fatma Hasona, a 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist, was killed with 10 members of her family in an Israeli air strike in Gaza Thursday.

0:45.3

She's the subject of a new documentary just accepted by the Cannes Film Festival.

0:51.3

It's called Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk. We'll speak with the

0:56.9

film's director, Sepida Farsi. But first, HHS Secretary Robert of Kennedy Jr. continues his

1:05.2

mixed messages on vaccines as the measles epidemic surpasses 700 cases in the United States with three deaths.

1:14.4

We'll talk to vaccine expert, Dr. Peter Hotez, author of, Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's

1:21.5

Autism, My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and autism dad.

1:28.8

Our vaccine ecosystem is very fragile because measles is so highly transmissible.

1:33.1

The minute you stop vaccinating and maintain that vigilance of 90, 95% vaccine coverage,

1:39.8

measles comes roaring back, and that's what's happened here in West Texas.

1:43.1

All that and more coming up.

1:49.4

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

1:55.5

In Yemen, Houthi-run media reports U.S. airstrikes starting the Raseaseoil port have killed at least 58 people. Over 125 others were wounded. The U.S. air strikes targeting the Rasa oil port have killed at least 58 people.

2:01.9

Over 125 others were wounded. The U.S. has been systematically attacking Yemen over the past

2:07.5

month after Houthi fighters vowed to continue targeting Red Sea ships tied to Israel's war on Gaza.

2:13.5

U.S. air strikes on Yemen have killed over 180 people since mid-March, including many women and children.

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