From New York, this is Democracy Now.

I state clearly as Prime Minister of this great country

that the United Kingdom formally recognises the state of Palestine.

Effective today, Sunday, the 21st of September, 2025,

the Commonwealth of Australia recogn recognizes the state of Palestine.

In a historic move, Britain, Australia, Canada and Portugal

formally declare their recognition of a Palestinian state.

At least five more countries are expected to join this week as the United Nations General Assembly

begins in New York.

We'll speak with British Parliament member Jeremy Corbyn in London, Israeli peace activist

Jonathan Zygin in Tel Aviv, whose mother, Vivian Silver, was killed in the October

2023 Hamas attack. He's one of thousands of Israelis who've signed a petition to the UN

supporting Palestinian statehood. We'll also go to Ramallah to get response from Dr.

Mustafa Barguti, General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative.

Then, after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Trump expands his attack on free speech in the First Amendment.

They'll take a great story and they'll make it bad.

See, I think that's really illegal personally.

We'll speak with Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

The government is using all of the tools at its disposal to silence critics, to suppress dissent.

It's a wave of suppression, I think, on a scale we haven't seen in the modern history of this country.

All that and more coming up.

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