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🗓️ 29 December 2025
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Headlines for December 29, 2025; What’s Behind Trump’s Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base?; “Witch Hunt”: Jailed U.K. Palestine Action Activists Continue Hunger Strike Despite Health Risks; Cover-Up? New HBO Film Examines 2010 Immigrant Death Under Trump’s Current Border Commissioner
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:16.8 | They said hit him on Christmas Day. |
| 0:19.1 | It'll be a Christmas present. |
| 0:21.3 | The U.S. strikes Nigeria on Christmas Day. It'll be a Christmas present. The U.S. strikes Nigeria on Christmas Day. |
| 0:25.7 | As President Trump falsely claims, a Christian genocide is taking place in Nigeria. |
| 0:32.7 | We'll get the latest. |
| 0:34.4 | Then, UN experts are raising grave concern over treatment of Palestine action-linked hunger |
| 0:42.2 | strikers in the UK. We'll speak with Francesca Naden, spokesperson for prisoners for Palestine. |
| 0:50.2 | She herself faces charges over protests against Barclays and J.P. Morgan for investing in Israel's biggest weapons producer, Elbit Systems. |
| 1:01.4 | There are eight people in prison around the country in Britain right now on a collective hunger strike. |
| 1:07.6 | They have five demands related to justice for themselves for freedom, for the |
| 1:14.5 | right to a fair trial, to shut down the arms factories that are operating in this country |
| 1:19.1 | for the liberation of Palestine. They are locked up without a trial or a conviction and they have |
| 1:25.9 | no other way to get justice for themselves. |
| 1:29.3 | Then, as CBS cancels a 60-minute segment on US deportations, |
| 1:35.3 | an HBO documentary is premiering today called Critical Incident, Death at the Border. |
| 1:43.3 | It looks at the alleged cover-up of the murder of an undocumented |
| 1:47.4 | Mexican immigrant who died in custody at the border years ago under the watch of a man who's now |
| 1:54.4 | head of Customs and Border Patrol under President Trump. Somebody was on life support. |
| 2:01.6 | I'm Mr. Anastasio Hernandez. |
| 2:04.6 | Normally in a regular homicide investigation, usually there's a briefing that occurs right after the event. |
| 2:11.6 | Once they know that the death has occurred or death is imminent, then the homicide unit will come out. But in this case, the Border Patrol didn't tell us about it. |
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