Will look at corporate conquistadors the many ways multinationals both drive and profit from climate destruction. Then, its gender day here at the climate talks. We will hear from a Group IndigenousWomen Leaders on the front lines of defending the earth from exploitation by fossil fuel companies. They may not be coming after us with their bayonets and rifles, they are coming at us with nuclear waste, with fracking, coming at us with pipelines that are caring that filled from the tar sands where theyre killing my relatives up there. And theyre bringing it to you. And as the high level talks begin here in lima, we will speak to pablo solon, bolivias former chief climate negotiator. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from lima, peru. First, the headlines. The u. S. Senate Intelligence Committee is releasing today portions of its longawaited report on the cia torture and Extraordinary Rendition Program under president george w. Bush. The report will mark the first public account of how the cia abused foreign prisoners at secret prisons overseas. The u. S. Has heightened security at embassies nationwide in anticipation of a blowback over the reports findings. On monday, White House Press secretary josh earnest said despite the security fears, the Obama Administration supports the reports release. There are some indications that the release of the report could lead to a greater risk that is posed to u. S. Facilities and individuals all around the world. So the administration has taken a prudent steps to ensure the proper security precautions are in place at u. S. Facilities around the globe. Said, and this is the last key part, that said, the administration strongly supports the release of this declassified summary of the report. Report out today summarizes the investigations findings in 480 heavilyredacted pages. The full 6,200page report remains classified. The conclusions include finding the cia issued incorrect claims about how many prisoners it held and subjected to torture, actively avoided or impeded oversight congressional and federal oversight, including by lying, ignored internal critiques, and misled the public on the extent of its abuses and the intelligence gained as a result. The report also exposes previously undisclosed torture tactics, including repeatedly dunking prisoners and tanks of ice water and threatening them in one case with a buzzing power drill and in another with a broom stick to be used for Sexual Assault. The report concludes the torture techniques provided no major intelligence gains. New York Attorney general Eric Schneiderman has asked for the authority to probe all Police Killings of unarmed civilians. He cited public outcry following the recent grand jury decision not to indict the officers involved in both the deaths of Michael Brown in missouri and eric garner in new york. A last week after learning grand jury declined to indict anyone involved in her husband step, garner was recorded as saying, oh, my god, are you serious . Sense of reflect a many new yorkers and Many Americans that are just are Justice System does not provide equal justice for everyone, especially people of color killed during encounters with law enforcement. That erosion of trust and confidence must be addressed and must be addressed now. Im calling on the governor to immediately issue a temporary Standing Order authorizing my office to investigate the circumstances surrounding cases in which unarmed civilians are killed as a result of the actions of a Police Officer or peace officer. Talks attorney general schneidermans call comes amidst continued protests over the grand jury decision not to indict a new york city Police Officer for the death of eric garner. Monday began with a sitin on the verazano bridge that blocked morning rushhour traffic between brooklyn and staten island. Protesters carried signs reading , eric garner, mike brown, and black lives matter. Later in the day, dozens of people, including city councilmembers, staged a diein on the steps of city hall. And at night, hundreds of people gathered outside an nba basketball game at the Barclays Center in brooklyn, blocking traffic and marching for several hours. I think we just reached a Tipping Point where people are [blee] for the most part, they are peaceful and organized in a powerful way. I think it is very heartening to me to see it. Im out here in solidarity with these people. It is the same as it is in st. Louis. A lot of us came down because it is just like people from new york came to st. Louis. We standing together with the people. And the sports world, basketball stars, including Cleveland Cavaliers forward lebron james, join the protest by wearing shirts emblazoned with i cant breathe. Watching the nba basketball game, Prince William as well as his wife kate. Saidasketball league chief the players should be wearing the approved basketball gear, and that gear is advertising adidas. Part in thes taking ongoing protest monday included berkeley, california, where over 1000 people marched in the streets and shut down a highway. A group of protesters also blocked an amtrak train after marching on a railroad track. , following the eric garner decision, speaking to the network bet, reference to his recent meeting with ferguson activists to say deeply rooted racism will take a long time to defeat. When i told the young people i met with him a we are going to have more conversations like this over the coming months, is this isnt going to be solved overnight. This is something that is deeply rooted in our society, deeply rooted in our history. When youre dealing with something as deeply rooted as society, bias in any you have to have vigilance, but you have to recognize it is going to take some time and you just have to be steady so that you dont develop give up when we dont get all the way the family of slain 12yearold tamir rice has filed a federal civil rights suit against the city of cleveland and the two officers involved in his death. Tamir was playing inside a park with a plague on that had the playstrict removed gun that have the Plastic Strip removed. Within seconds, officers opened fire and killed him. On monday, his mother spoke out along with the family attorney benjamin crump. Child. R was a bright. E at a promising future he was very talented in all sports soccer, basketball, football. He played drums, hed true, he played video games. He was a great swimmer. The humidity love tim. He was a helper at school and the rec. Everybody just loved him. This scenario cannot happen again in america. We cannot have children playing cops and robbers on the playground and Police Officers coming and claiming their lives because they are not equipped to deal with an encounter with a kid in a toy gun. Theyre supposed to deescalate, not escalate the situation. Thatverything you see in video, escalated the situation. The rice family says the officers did not administer first aid on tamir after he was shot and his 14 euros sister was tackled and handcuffed after she arrived at the scene. The family wants the case to go ofaight to trial instead before grand jury. The United Nations has launched record appealed to meet the needs of tens of millions of people in humanitarian emergencies worldwide. The human humanitarian chief valerie amos unveiled the more than 16 billion request. In the plans were launching today, a combined 78 Million People are considered in need of humanitarian assistance. And we aim to respond to the urgent needs of 57 million of them. This does not include the nine where we will launch in february. We require 16. 4 billion dollars to meet the need and the appeals were launching today. The number of people in dire need during 2014 has nearly doubled to record 102 million from 54 million last year. The appeal comes as a group of eight organizations have called on rich nations to offer refuge to at least 5 of syria pressed syrias refugees. The u. S. Will keep an additional 1000 troops in afghanistan on top of the nearly 10,000 already committed to remain beyond this year. Outgoing defense secretary chuck hagel announced the move during a visit to afghanistan. President obama has provided u. S. Military commanders the flexibility, the flexibility to manage any temporary for shortfalls that we might experience for a few months as we allow for Coalition Troops to arrive in theater. This will mean a delayed withdrawal of up to 1000 u. S. Troops. So that up to 10,000 10,800 troops, rather than 9800, could remain in afghanistan through the end of this year and for the first few weeks of next year. Defense secretary chuck hagel says the change is temporary and will not change the longterm timeline for withdrawing troops. The announcement comes amidst a surge taliban attacks over the past several months. Rolling stone magazine has walked back a report about a pattern of Sexual Assault and impunity at the university of virginia. The article focuses on a student named jackie who was says she was gangraped at a fraternity and ignored by school officials. On friday, Rolling Stone issued a statement acknowledging discrepancies in the story and raising questions about its source, saying our trust in her was misplaced. After receiving criticism for appearing to blame a rape accuser, Rolling Stone revised its statement to say the mistakes were its own. The magazine says it did not try to interview the alleged rapists out of respect for jackies wishes. While several Details Remain unsubstantiated, the fraternity itself has not denied a Sexual Assault took place. Jackies former roommate, emily clark, has spoken out in her defense, writing while i cannot say what happened that night, and i cannot prove the validity of every tiny aspect of her story to you, i can tell you that this story is not a hoax. Something terrible happened to jackie at the hands of several men who have yet to receive any repercussions. And those are some of the headlines this is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting live from lima, peru at the United NationsClimate Change conference known as cop20. It is the 20th annual conference of the parties to the 1992 United NationsFramework Convention on Climate Change. The summit is being held at the Peruvian Army headquarters known as el pentagonito. It is a site with a dark history. It was built in 1975 by the dictator juan velasco alvarado. The army under Alberto Fujimori later used the base to torture and interrogate political prisons including members of the shining path. This week the base is being used to host representatives from 190 nations attending the Climate Change conference. Secretary of state john kerry is expected to arrive here on thursday. The last time a u. S. Secretary of state attended the summit was Hillary Clinton in 2009 in copenhagen. On monday, the peoples summit on Climate Change kicked off in lima in a city park miles from the u. N. Talks. Meanwhile, inside the talks a number of actions took place. On monday afternoon, activists gathered to protest the Oil Giant Shell. A representative from the company, david hone, shells Climate Change advisor, spoke at a panel inside the United Nations climate conference. Democracy nows mike burke was there when scores of summit delegates attempted to walk into the shell event. In a moment, you will hear one of the protest organizers Pascoe Sabido of the corporate europe observatory. But first, godwin uyi ojo, executive director of environmental Rights Action action friends of the Earth Nigeria. Human rights violations, killing [indiscernible] shell has just destroyed our livelihood. Violence against people, violence against communities. Shell has no place in these negotiations. Right nextdoor, we have shell sponsoring an event. We are now going to calmly and peacefully go over to their event and asked them why they are here. Please, follow us in a calm way. Were going to see if we can interact. Theyre trying to present themselves as part of the climate solution. Shell is one of the biggest polluters in the world. [inaudible] event is sponsored by chevron. These are not players we want to see [inaudible] can you talk about some of the people taking part . People being affected in peru and colombia and people around the world, whether north or south, and solidarity in the impact is corporations are having these corporations are having. We also have lord Nicholas Stern who is supposed to be speaking. He is a wellknown climate economist and respected. Here he is lending his legitimacy to this action even. , yeture he doesnt agree he is putting his name to it. [inaudible] my name is godwin ojo. Were here to condemn the activities of shell at cop 20. Shell is promoting energy as part of the Energy Future of the world. The people you see here, they say, no, it is time for energy tonsformation of the world that of Renewable Energy. In line with the african position of her noble energy, that is why we are here. Shell has caused monumental havoc, destroyed our livelihood. They have destroyed all that people depend on. Time [indiscernible] there are no longer part of the Energy Future of the world. This is why were pushing for Renewable Energy and to say shell has no part in cop20. That was godwin uyi ojo, executive director of environmental Rights Action friends of the Earth Nigeria speaking outside an event at the u. N. Climate change talks where a representative from the Oil Giant Shell spoke. Before that, you heard Pascoe Sabido of the corporate europe observatory. Pascoe joins us now live. We are broadcasting from lima, peru. We are inside the cop20, as it is called right now. Interesting, cop watch in new york to cop watch right now in lima. Cop here is short for conference of parties, and it is the 20 than a verse or if. The corporate europe observatory and two other groups, the Democracy Center and the transnational institute, just published a new report titled, corporate conquistadors the many ways multinationals both drive and profit from climate destruction. Welcome back to democracy now talk about this report. It is our attempt at trying to shine a bit more light on the role destructive companies are playing in the Climate Crisis. We have taken three particular examples of operating in latin america to try to tell a bit more of a story. Repsol,rporations , spanish, glencorexstrata, swiss, and enelendesa, spanish, with large amounts of local resistance to what theyre doing, extracting gas, oil, minerals, as well as building hydro, but then tried to show the other side of it. Theyre not just trashing local communities, also the climate talks. These are some of the Biggest Companies and that means a multibillion dollar, multibillion euro companies have a lot to protect. Their activities are driving Climate Change. Theyre really the ones behind false of fuel extraction. Then any action that moves against this, which is what were trying to do in the talks, ultimately, try number removed also feel extraction, that will cost a lot of money so theyre trying to stop that from happening. About the party crashed yesterday or the sub meeting that you crashed. There was lots and lots of active people there try to protest against the president of the fossil fuel industry here in these talks. Cop20. This is 20 years we have been going without progressing toward some climate deal, fair and business deal that we need. It is because of the aggressive lobbying and here in the talks. Hashtag. A get fossil fuel industry out of this process. Theyre the same ones having the Climate Crisis in the same ones who are stopping us being able to solve it. We need to get them out of this process. That doesnt just mean the u. N. , but, policy in general. So much of this influencing happens at a national level. So many governments come here with their positions already made up because of the likes of shell and chevron have already done their lobbying at home. Australia doing so little here . The lobby groups back home. We need to be clear about this. Talks yesterday, it was lord stern who spoke at the talks. Im not talking about todd stern, the u. S. Climate negotiator, chief negotiator here. Talk about the significance of who he is and why he invited shell to these talks. This was an industry side of it. It was organized by shell, chevron, the trade association. They invited lord stern who in 2006, was