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Today's lead stories:
Millions Protest Pending War
Turks Delay Vote
Venezuelans Debate Media Law
Part 1: OIL and Imperialism: Colombia
Millions Protest Pending War
French President Jacques Chirac said today that at this
point, France would oppose any effort to draft a new U.N.
resolution to explicitly authorize war against Iraq. This
comes on the heels of massive anti-war protests worldwide
this past weekend. In over six hundred cities across the world,
protesters came out to tell their governments that a war with
Iraq was not justified. People from all walks of life, following
diverse persuasions and speaking different languages came
together in one voice saying, no war on Iraq.
We begin our coverage with Ian Forrest in New York (2:32)
then Anastasia Kershaw takes us onto the streets of London.
(1:46))
Meanwhile, this past weekend in Baghdad a group of Japanese
artists for Peace gave a concert calling for Peace while in
the streets of Tokyo, more than 25,000 people rallied against
a war in Iraq Friday night in downtown Tokyo. Miles Ashdown
reports. (2:19)
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Turks Delay Vote (3:57)
The Turkish Parliament will put off a vote authorizing the
United States military to use the country as a staging ground
for a northern front for a war on Iraq. The vote had been
scheduled for tomorrow. Free Speech Radio News Reporter Aaron
Glantz explains why the vote was post-poned.
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Venezuelans Debate Media Law (3:49)
The Media Content Law, which has been before the Venezuelan
Constituent assembly for the past 2 years, last Thursday passed
it’s first round of discussions. The Content Law aims
to eliminate the aggressive misuse of the media during general
viewing hours of content like sex and violence. While laws
like these exist in many countries, including the US, Venezuela
has had laws to regulate content on television, but the penalties
have been so small that there has been no impediment to broadcasters.
And as Johnny Moreno & Yajaira Hernandez report from Caracas,
people have been mobilizing to have their voices heard as
this Law is debated. Reading the English translation is Christopher
Martinez.
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Part 1: OIL and Imperialism: Colombia (4:28)
Last week, when the US government plane that was presumably
on an intelligence mission, crashed in deep in guerrilla-controlled
territory in Southern Colombia, it served as another sign
of US’s escalating involvement in the Colombian conflict.
Colombia is a part of the American campaign to secure oil
resources and while purporting to end terrorism. In January,
70 US Special Forces arrived in the state Arauca to train
the Colombian army to help protect an oil pipeline. The black
gold that keeps four guerrilla fronts, two paramilitary fronts
and the army and police intensely engaged in conflict in the
northeastern state of Arauca was discovered in 1983. The Cano
Limon-Covenas pipeline, co-owned by Los Angeles-based Occidental
Petroleum and Colombia's national oil company Ecopetrol, was
built in 1986. Since then, the 480 mile-long tube has been
the strategic target in Colombia's 39-year civil war for the
guerilla groups who have bombed it more than 900 times. In
the first segment of a two-part report, Nicole Karsin takes
us to the oil-rich, war-torn state of Aruaca.
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