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Today's lead stories:
More US Bombings in Iraq
Get Out of Jail; Free?: Hamdi is Freed
A Super Database Proposed by GOP
Part 1: Colombia’s Indigenous in Danger of Extinction?
Fair Trade Tea in Tanzania
FSRN Headlines
The international price of crude oil went up to 50 US dollars
a barrel today. The record breaking prices are partly attributed
to conflict in Nigeria over the oil rich Niger Delta region.
Some foreign oil workers are leaving the area by Friday this
week. Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos.
The fourth largest gas and electricity company in the US,
Xcel Energy, is proposing to build a $1.3 billion coal burning
plant in Pueblo Colorado. But many residetns say the plant
is not welcome. Maeve Conran reports from Boulder.
29 italian police officers including Italy's Anti Terror
Cheif are on trial in Genoa this week for conduct at the 2001
G8 protests. Diletta Varlese reports.
Today in southern Mexico, a candidate for public office was
assasignated, just days before state-wide mayoral elections
in Oaxaca. Vladimir Flores reports from Oaxaca City.
And In Haiti, a public health crisis has unfolded from Hurricane
Jeanne flooding, drawing in relief workers from the UN, Argentina,
Uruguay and China. Hospitals are without electricity or running
water while doctors perform amputations and treat wounds inflicted
during looting over scarce food. Officials may evacuate the
city of Gonaive to control outbreaks of tetanus and diarrhea
and an estimated 200,000 Haitians are homelesss from the crisis.
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More US Bombings in Iraq - 3:16
Iraq’s overthrown president Saddam Hussein, who was
arrested by US forces last December, has told a Danish newspaper
through his lawyer that he plans to run as a candidate in
the Iraqi elections scheduled for January 2005. Lawyer for
the jailed president, Giovanni di Stefano said that there
was no law that prevented Saddam from appearing on the ballot,
adding that Saddam hoped to regain his presidency and palaces
via the democratic process. Meanwhile in Fallujah today the
US began air strikes, following similar bombings in Baghdad’s
Sadr City last night. Eman Khammas, director of Occupation
Watch in Baghdad speaks with FSRN host, Deepa Fernandes.
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Get Out of Jail; Free?: Hamdi is Freed -
4:00
Yaser Hamdi, an American citizen caught on the battlefield
in Afghanistan and held in solitary confinement for nearly
three years without charges, was scheduled to be released
and flown to Saudi Arabia today. Jenny Johnson has our story.
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A Super Database Proposed by GOP - 4:07
Families of 9/11 victims and 9/11 Commissioners returned
to Capitol Hill urging lawmakers to pass legislation to reform
the nation's intelligence and national security systems. However,
lawmakers are divided over a GOP backed measure, which critics
contend is rife with anti immigration and civil liberty provisions,
and a bi-partisan Senate measure that is considered to be
more moderate. Yet some civil libertarians are concerned over
the Senate version as well, as it entails a provision that
would create a so called super data base network, giving authorities
unprecedented access to commercial records on private citizens.
Mitch Jeserich has more from Capitol Hill.
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Part 1: Colombia’s Indigenous in Danger of
Extinction? - 4:31
During the last year and a half, more than 150 indigenous
leaders have been killed in Colombia as a result of the country’s
40-year armed conflict. Nearly all these crimes remain unpunished.
This climate of violence and impunity, is what the National
Indigenous Organization of Colombia says is causing 35 of
the country’s 84 indigenous groups to be in danger of
extinction. In this first segment of a two part series focusing
on indigenous groups caught in Colombia’s conflict,
Nicole Karsin reports on the Kankuamo Indian communities in
northern Colombia that are stuck between paramilitary groups
that control the lower areas in and around the city of Valledupar
and the guerilla groups, based high up in the world’s
highest coastal mountain range of the Sierra Nevada de Santa
Marta.
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Fair Trade Tea in Tanzania - 4:27
In recent years, prices of cash crops from the developing
world, like tea and coffee, have declined precipitously in
price. This has had catastrophic impact on millions of small-scale
farmers and their families throughout the world. But today
in Tanzania small-holders and fair trade tea companies are
paving a progressive way forward. Rupert Cook reports
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