President castro. We will speak with latin American History professor Miguel Tinker Salas an economist Mark Weisbrot. In an exclusive, we speak to the father of one of the 43 students missing from the mexican state of guerrero since late september. He is calling on the Obama Administration to end its multibilliondollar aid program to fund the war on drugs in mexico. What i would tell to president obama is to stop supporting the weapons, the arms, with those weapons that are supposedly supporting the war against drugs those arms are being used to annihilate our students. Amy an explosive new report reveals the federal government secretly tracked billions of u. S. Phone calls years before the 9 11 attacks starting in 1992. This is the earliest example we have seen of u. S. Government collecting data on americans in bulk without suspicion that you are linked to a particular crime. They provided a sort of legal blueprint for the much broader telephone Surveillance Program the nsa launched after september 11. Amy we will speak with usa today reporter who broke the story, brad heath. From the infirmary and a pennsylvania prison, we will hear Mumia Abujamal commenting on the Police Killing of walter scott in South Carolina. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. U. N. Secretary general ban kimoon has warned of a epic humanitarian catastrophe in a Palestinian Refugee camp invaded by the selfproclaimed Islamic State in syria. Speaking thursday, ban said yarmouk resembles a death camp. The refugee camp is the deepest circle of hell. After more than two years 18,000 posting palestine refugees are being held. The refugee cap is beginning to resemble a death camp. The residents of yarmouk including 3500 children, are being turned into a human shield. They face a doubleedged sword. Amy palestinian officials have rejected the possibility of joining with the Syrian Government to oust the isil militants. The statement from the Palestine Liberation Organization contradicts an earlier statement from the plos envoy to syria suggesting the palestinians join in military action. Irans Supreme LeaderAyatollah Khamenei has said there is no guarantee of a final nuclear deal after iran and world powers reached a historic Framework Agreement last week. In his first comments since the agreement was reached, khamenei declared all economic sanctions on iran must be lifted on the day any final deal is signed and that foreign inspectors would not be allowed into military sites. If you ask me if i support or oppose the Nuclear Agreement i neither supported nor oppose it, because nothings happened yet. Nothing has been done yet. The whole issue lies in the details that theyre meant to discuss one by one. Amy Ayatollah Khameneis remarks may be designed to placate hardliners opposed to the nuclear deal. Negotiators will seek to reach a final agreement before a june 30 deadline. In the u. S. , massive tornadoes have torn through illinois and other swaths of the midwest, destroying homes and leaving heaps of debris in the street. At least one person was reportedly killed in illinois, were most of the towns buildings were damaged. South carolina authorities have released footage from a Police Dashboard camera from the day North CharlestonPolice OfficerMichael Slager fatally shot walter scott. Slager is charged with murder after a bystanders cell phone video showed him shooting scott in the back as he fled. The dash cam video did not capture the shooting but does show slager approaching scotts vehicle after pulling him over for a broken brake light. The two conversed in after slager returns to his cruiser scott gets against iran. His family has said he may have fled because he was behind on his Child Support payments. Meanwhile, activists in North Charleston are calling for a citizen review board for police and city officials, saying the shooting is evidence of a longstanding pattern of racial bias. Walter scotts Brother Anthony said the pattern applies to people of color and the poor. I wouldnt just say it is an africanamerican thing, it could also be a minority thing. It would be a racial profiling type of thing. In the city of North Charleston. If you are an hispanic or if you are, i would say, low income white american, they would be affected just as well. As an africanamerican. But i do think they stereotype in the city of North Charleston. Amy that is the brother of walter scott who was killed by Police OfficerMichael Slager. Municipal courts in st. Louis county, missouri have agreed to adopt a uniform standard for fines and court costs. The move is part of an overhaul following the Fatal Police Shooting of Michael Brown in ferguson and a Justice Department report which accused police of acting as a Collection Agency to run the city off exorbitant fines. The Municipal Court in ferguson issued over 10,000 more arrest warrants in 2013 than there are people in the city, mostly for drivingrelated offenses. In mississippi, two young, white women have been sentenced to prison for their role in the 2011 murder of an africanamerican man. Shelbie brook richards and sarah adelia graves admitted to recruiting fellow teenagers to travel around the mississippi capital jackson looking for black people to assault. Both were in a pickup truck when the driver ran over james craig anderson, killing him. Richards admitted she yelled a racial slur and encouraged the driver to beat and run over anderson. The driver was previously sentenced to 50 years in prison, and five other white men received lesser terms. On thursday, richards was sentenced to eight years and graves to five years. Here in new york, ramsey orta, who filmed the Police Chokehold death of eric garner in Staten Island, will spend another weekend at Rikers Island jail after a prosecutor demanded scrutiny of donations used to pay for his bail. Ortas supporters raised nearly 40,000 to pay for his bail bond so he could be released from rikers, where is being held on a drug charge. But ortas lawyers say the District Attorney demanded a bail source hearing to determine if the funds were obtained illegally, even though they were publicly raised through the website gofundme. Orta and his family say police have targeted them over ortas filming of garners death. To see our interview with ramsey ortas attorneys and his aunt you can go to democracynow. Org. In sacramento, california, an africanamerican activist is facing up to four years in prison for lynching, after she allegedly tried to pull a fellow protester away from police. Under a 1933 California Law designed to protect black people from white mobs, the act of attempting to free someone from Police Custody is defined as lynching, a felony offense. The law has been used repeatedly against activists, including maile hampton, who was arrested for her actions at a black lives matter protest against a propolice rally. On thursday, protesters packed a Court Hearing to support hampton, who returns to court april 30. Following an outcry, local and state officials have vowed to remove the word lynching from the law. President obama has arrived in panama to attend the summit of the americas along with other leaders from canada, central america, south america, the caribbean, and for the first time, cuba. Obama and cuban president raul castro are reportedly due to meet informally at the summit, marking the first time president s from the two countries have sat down since meanwhile, on thursday, obama 1956. Announced the state department has finished its review of whether cuba shoulbe removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, but said he would wait to act until receiving final recommendations white house advisors. As you know, there is a process involved in reviewing whether or not a country should be on the statesponsored terrorism list. That review has been completed at the state department. It is now forwarded to the white house. Our Interagency Team will go through the entire thing in the present it to me with a recommendation. That hasnt happened yet. Amy fights broke out ahead of the summit wednesday when anticastro cuban demonstrators tried to lay flowers at a bust of cuban patriarch jose marti near the Cuban Embassy in panama city, and were confronted by a group of procastro activists. Cuban delegates also protested over reports that former ciabacked paramilitary officer felix rodriguez, who was sent to kill guevara in bolivia in 1967, was meeting with opposition groups in panama city. Well have more on the summit after headlines. An immigrant rights activist who was deported six months ago after warning he could be killed if he returned home to mexico, has been fatally shot in the mexican state of guerrero. Constantino morales reportedly served as a Police Officer in mexico and denounced Drug Trafficking before coming to United States, fearing for his life. He was deported in september after being denied asylum twice. He leaves behind six children. Morales former group, iowa citizens for Community Improvement called on congress to pass Immigration Reform saying there are too many of these preventable stories. Hillary clinton is poised to announce her candidacy for the democratic president ial nomination as soon as this weekend. The move comes as a new investigation has revealed clintons close ties to a Canadian Oil Company with a history of alleged violence in colombia. The International Business times reports while clinton was secretary of state, she backed a colombian free trade pact she previously opposed over concerns about labor rights, after the founder of oil giant Pacific Rubiales pledged millions of dollars to the clinton foundation. The founder, frank giustra, now serves on the foundations board. Labor leaders say clinton ignored accounts of attacks on Union Organizers in colombia instead, backing the trade pact which benefited guistra and other foreign investors. The former governor of rhode island has announced he is exploring a run against clinton for the democratic president ial nomination. Lincoln chafee served in the senate as a republican and later became governor as an independent. He became a democrat in 2013. He has criticized clinton over her support for the iraq war. His father also served as a senator and governor of rhode island as well as secretary of the navy. Georgia has agreed to end its blanket ban on hormone treatment for transgender prisoners after the department of justice intervened on behalf of a transgender woman denied hormones for three years. The Justice Department voiced support for ashley diamonds lawsuit over deprivation of the hormones she took for 17 years before her imprisonment. State Officials Say diamond is now receiving the treatments. Nineteen people have been arrested at Yale University in connecticut for their role in a sitin to call for the school purge its nearly 24 billion endowment from fossil fuel corporations. The students want School Officials to reopen the discussion after deciding not to divest in august. \yales endowment is the Third Largest in the country. Students there join a growing number across the country who are demanding divestment from companies that drive global warming. The Massachusetts Institute of technology hosted a debate on divestment thursday. Student activists covered the windows of a University Building with colored paper spelling out the word divest. Harvard feet week against on monday. That is the divestment efforts of students and professors at Harvard University in cambridge massachusetts. Imprisoned journalist and former black panther Mumia Abujamal has spoken out from behind bars about the Police Killing of walter stt in h caroli. He rose from his infirmary bed to record the commentary after a fellow prisoner wheeled in a tv so he could watch coverage of the shooting. In a democracy now exclusive he discussed his reaction. Remember the young man who allegedly shot, not killed, two cops in ferguson several weeks ago . Every politician in america leapt at the chance to call the kid a punk an thug. What do you call slager . Even though he has been fired, he is called officer or mr. Slager. He killed a man for traffic citation. The ca punk, a predator or apig . This is Mumia Abujamal. Amy special thanks to Noelle Hanrahan at prison radio for that recording. His supporters say the remains civil say he remains severely ill. Today his supporters have called a national day of action to demand he be allowed to see a diabetes specialist. Hes in prison for the murder of daniel faulkner, but always maintained his innocence. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Juan welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Amy the news about South Carolina just continues with the release of the cam video. You wrote your commentary today in the new york daily news. Juan i think one of the things that i tried to stress in my column is that how many more of these heartbreaking videos are we going to be exposed to across the country before change occurs in policing in the country. I think the critical thing to understand is not only the videos of the actual encounters were africanamerican males are killed by police, but also what happens in the moments afterward. Weve now seen several of theset. Tamir rice video where the 12yearold boy is shot by a policeman who arrives within two seconds of his getting out of the car. But then for four minutes after as the boy lying on the ground three Police Officers justine around, walk around, no one provides him any kind of aid until an fbi agent, who happens to be in the neighborhood, comes along and he begins to administer cpr to tamir rice. Amy and when his sister comes running over juan he gets she gets ankle. They prevent her from getting to her brother. Then you have the situation with eric garner in the Staten Island video. Or not only half a dozen Police Officer stand around as eric garner is gasping for breath but then even when the ems, the paramedics arrived, they waste four crucial minutes while the e Walking Around not treating him. Those four paramedics were eventually suspended for their actions on that day. Then of course, now we have the South Carolina situation where once again, after officers leg or officer slager shoots scott, another officer arrives and they stand around. They check the ones. They talk on the radios and discuss, where is my vehicle but they dont administer any kind of aid to walter scott. And then people wonder why the black lives Matter Movement has grown and spread so rapidly across the country, when people are seeing these videos were people were shot are not even given immediate aid. Amy and police use their force to prevent bystanders from administering aid. When you look at ramsey orta who remains in Rikers Island the only person arrested around the eric garner case, though in an unrelated charge, he is the one who video. When you look at that video and listen, bystander saying, help him, helped him. The police use their authority to prevent anyone to help him. Juan the people wonder why there are such anger spreading across the country. A we will continue to follow this story and link to your column at democracynow. Org. Juan president obama has arrived in panama to attend the summit of the americas along with other leaders from canada central america, south america the caribbean, and for the first time, cuba. Obama and cuban president raul castro are reportedly due to meet informally at the summit, marking the first time president s from the two countries have sat down since president eisenhower met with cuban president batista. Castro. Meanwhile,