Top U.S. & World Headlines June 23, 2023

[Music] welcome to democracy Now democracynow.org The War and Peace report I'm Amy Goodman Russia's militaries withdrawn troops and tanks from the streets of Moscow after the head of the Wagner mercenary group called off short-lived R Mutiny he launched Friday Wagner Fighters stopped their Advance on the outskirts of Moscow late Saturday after officials reached a deal that guaranteed their safety they also withdrew from the southern Russian

city of rostov which they had seized and returned to their bases as part of the deal of the Wagner Chief Evgeni pagosian agreed to go into Exile in Belarus the Kremlin also said he and his Fighters would avoid criminal charges despite the revolt on Saturday Putin made a brief National address in which he refrained from mentioning progression by name but denounced his actions as treason we

will protect both our people and our statehood from any threats including internal betrayal and what we are facing is precisely betrayal excessive Ambitions invested interests have led to treason the trail of the country its people and the cause for which the soldiers and commanders of the Wagner group had fought and died for side by side with our other units Ukrainian President Vladimir zielinsky said the Revolt

by Wagner mercenaries had exposed chaos in Russia after headlines will go to Moscow and kiev for the latest and Sudan Fighters with the paramilitary rapid support forces stormed the headquarters of a heavily armed police unit in cartoon Sunday seizing stockpiles of weapons and ammunition since Saturday there have been reports of intense airstrikes and artillery fire across Sudan's capital in the western Darfur region Witnesses say fighting

killed at least a dozen civilians Sunday Witnesses say rsf Fighters have joined our militias in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Darfur UNICEF reports fighting in Sudan has now displaced two and a half million people with at least 330 children among the Dead in Syria at least nine people were killed and dozens more injured Sunday as Russian warplanes attacked rebajo parts of the Northwestern province of

idlib in the bloodiest attack a Russian fighter jet bombed a vegetable market crowded with shoppers Guatemala's presidential election is headed to a runoff after no candidate received over 50 percent of votes needed to claim victory Sunday former vice president and first lady Sandra Torres of the Centrist party National Unity of Hope appeared to be in the lead Toyota's previously ran for president twice and has been

accused of corruption and campaign Finance violations congressmember Bernardo aravalo of the Progressive Movement Samia party placed second surprising many he's the son of the former president Juan Jose Arevalo who pushed for revolutionary social reforms when he was in office from 1945 to 1951. Samia has promoted the protection of human and Indigenous rights press freedom and policies combating the climate crisis among other measures in Sierra Leone

outside the party's headquarters and the capital Freetown one woman was severely wounded by the Crackdown a party representative spoke to reporters as heavily armed soldiers forced people from the building just here on the press conference and then the next day we knew we started here in firing and our whole office is surrounded by police and army all of the vehicles around have been damaged including that

belonging to our presidential candidates he is also upstairs we were all tear gas in Greece the conservative prime minister kiriakos mitsotakis is celebrating re-election after his new Democracy party when over 40 percent of votes in Sunday's runoff vote the leftist opposition party cedisa came in a distant second with just 20 percent of the vote a newly created far-right party known as the Spartans took almost five

percent surpassing the three percent threshold to enter Parliament mitsutakis came to power in 2019 after an anti-immigrant hate campaign in which he pledged to block the arrival of Asylum Seekers on Greek Shores northern China suffered weekend of record temperatures with highs in the capital Beijing topping 40 degrees Celsius or 104 degrees Fahrenheit for three consecutive days authorities are warning of more dangerous heat in the forecast

and recommend people limit their time Outdoors this is a 28 year old Beijing resident I'm definitely worried but I think I'm still young and can handle it but I hope the older people will go out as little as possible these days and just stay at home the temperature outside is just too hot if your physical strength is not good or you have high blood pressure it

is easy to get heat stroke scientists are sounding the alarm over an extreme ocean heat wave in the North Atlantic where surface temperatures are as much as 5 degrees Celsius or 9 degrees Fahrenheit above normal marine biologists have described the unprecedented warming as a marine wildfire that threatens a mass die off of fish oysters and other wildlife and Panama authorities are preparing to reduce the number

of ships allowed through the Panama Canal and are considering new weight restrictions on vessels making the transit a severe drought has led to a shortage of water needed for locks that help move container ships across the Panama Canal here in the United States high humidity and extreme temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit are forecast to continue in Texas for much of the week parts of Southwest Texas

hit 119 degrees Fahrenheit Friday just one degree shy of Texas's all-time highest temperature recorded three decades ago in Paris dozens of heads of state racked up a two-day Summit on climate Finance Friday without an agreement to tax greenhouse gas emissions produced from international shipping U.S treasury secretary Janet Yellen said the Biden Administration would consider the proposal which was Advanced by the French President Emmanuel macron the

climate Action Group oil change International noted leaders of wealthy nations are largely absent from the meeting saying they missed a critical opportunity to redirect billions of dollars from fossil fuels debt and the ultra-rich to address the climate crisis this is Mitzi tan a climate activist from the Philippines who joined protests on the sidelines of the talks will experience it a lot worse but we all have

to band together to demand for justice the demand for no more fossil fuel finance and for the demand for debt cancellation because that is what we need to ensure that communities and marginalized people across the world are able to access this finance and actually adapt mitigate and live in this climate crisis hundreds of abortion supporters rallied in Washington D.C over the weekend marking the first anniversary

of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn abortion rights under the 1973 ruling Roe v Wade this is one of the protesters Nadine Saylor we need to be engaged if we don't show up and if we don't participate we get what we get and what we get is our right taken away the protest came as anti-choice activists also rallied in Washington D.C former vice president 2024 Republican

Presidential hopeful Mike Pence told a gathering of Christian conservatives the Supreme Court's decision overturning row was a historic Victory but said it didn't go far enough and called for a nationwide 15-week abortion ban because of your work and because of your prayers the Supreme Court of the United States sent Roe versus Wade to the ash heap of History where it belongs and gave America A New

Beginning for life we'll have more on the fight over Reproductive Rights in the U.S later in the broadcast with abortion access correspondent of the nation Amy Littlefield millions of lgbtqia people and supporters took to the streets around the world to celebrate Pride over the weekend in Turkey Advocates LED rallies in Istanbul defying a ban by the conservative government of President erdogan who's been condemned by human

rights groups for violently targeting lgbtqia people with hate speech and discriminatory policies last Sunday a trans Pride March was also attacked by Turkish police after activists gathered across Istanbul despite a ban facing repression from security forces that fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators in Mexico City dozens of lgbtqia couples held Mass wedding ceremonies Friday to kick off Pride celebrations this is Edgar Mendoza who

married his partner of a decade I feel very happy because we've been together for 10 years and with this marriage we got to take another step that we wanted which is to become a more stable family I think this document is very important Beyond being a paper or a marriage symbol it's the security I can bring to my family and in the U.S Millions participated in

Pride marches in hundreds of cities around the country including New York City Chicago Houston San Francisco to urge supporters to unite and continue fighting in the face of intensifying attacks against the lgbtqia community and those are some of the headlines that says democracy Now democracynow.org The War and Peace report