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The pipeline. Well go to Standing Rock to speak with Standing Rock sioux chair Dave Archambault and with attorney Jan Hasselman, who brought the tribes case to federal court. Well also hear more voices from longtime native American Land and water protectors, including lakota grandmother debra white plume, on why they are fighting the Dakota Access pipeline. The presses wishes us over and on the desecration of mother. Arth next which asia amy and last thursday, the state of north dakota issued an arrest want for me for criminal trespassing. This after a democracy now special broadcast showed the Dakota Access pipelines guards unleashing dogs and pepper spray against native americans attempting to protect a sacred tribal burial site from being bulldozed. These people are threatening us with these dogs. That woman over there, she was charging them right in the face. Amy the dog has blood in its nose and mouth. Quite she is Still Standing here threatening. Amy why are you letting her dog go after all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration has ordered a halt to construction, part of the 3. 8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock sioux tribe and hundreds of other tribes from across the United States and canada. In what is being described as the largest unification of native american tribes in decades. In a dramatic series of moves late friday afternoon, a federal judge rejected the Standing Rock sioux tribes request for an injunction against the u. S. Government over the pipeline. Then the army, department of justice, and department of the interior responded with an announcement that the army corps will not issue permits for Dakota Access to drill under the Missouri River until the army corps reconsiders its previously issued permits. The news was welcomed by the protesters who have gathered along the Cannonball River by the Standing Rock sioux reservation to resist the pipelines construction. This is francine garreau hall of the Cheyenne River sioux tribe. Grateful because in our government to government relationship, the federal government is bound by treaty law to protect our interests. And im glad they stepped up to the plate today and did that. Amy the agencies also asked Dakota Access to voluntarily cease construction 20 miles ease and west of the dam. In other Dakota Access pipeline news, last week, there was an arrest warrant issued for me. The charge criminal trespass, a misdemeanor offense. s stems from democracy now coverage in north dakota over Labor Day Weekend of the native americanled protests against the Dakota Access pipeline. On saturday, september 3, democracy now filmed security guards working for the Dakota Access Pipeline Company using dogs and pepper spray to attack protesters. These people are threatening us with these dogs. That woman over there, she was charging them right in my face. Amy the dog has blood in its as an mouth. And she is Still Standing here threatening amy why are you letting her dog go after protesters . Reportcy now has video went viral online. Our footage was rebroadcast on many outlets, including cbs, nbc, npr. Org, cnn, msnbc and huffington post. Also charged was cody hall for his alleged presence at the september 3 land defense action and for a subsequent protest on september 6. Hall is considered a lead organizer in the movement against the Dakota Access pipeline and was arrested at one of the checkpoints that have been erected by north dakota authorities to restrict access to the Standing Rock sioux reservation and the growing pipeline opposition camps. Hall was denied bail and remained in jail throughout the weekend. Halls attorneys and several others we spoke to confirmed that it is highly unusual for a defendant charged with misdemeanor trespass to be jailed and denied bail. According to the complaint, the charges are based on a viewing of democracy now s video report of the incident, conducted by the north Dakota Bureau of criminal investigation. Special agent lindsey wohls sworn affadavit states that i was there as a journalist. Wohl wrote amy goodman can be seen on the video identifying herself and interviewing protestors about their involvement in the protest. The criminal complaint was approved by assistant states attorney for Morton County, gabrielle j. Goter. To date, none of the private security personnel shown in the video both assaulting protesters and commanding their dogs to attack them have been charged or arrested. Democracy now is consulting with attorneys in north dakota as well as at the center for constitutional rights. Ccr legal director baher azmy said this is clearly a violation of the first amendment, an attempt to repress this important Political Movement by silencing media coverage. Well have more on the Dakota Access pipeline after headlines. In news from the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton canceled plans to visit california today after falling ill with what her doctor described as pneumonia and dehydration. On sunday, clinton was seen abruptly leaving a ceremony in Lower Manhattan commemorating the 9 11 attacks. Video showed her stumbling as secret Service Agents helped her into a van. Clinton was taken to the manhattan apartment of her daughter chelsea and emerged about 90 minutes later waving to reporters. Are you feeling . Mrs. Clinton great. What happened . Mrs. Clinton it is a Beautiful Day in new york. Amy Hillary Clintons dr. Doctor later said in a statement the candidate was being treated with antibiotics and was rehydrated and recovering nicely. Her Campaign Says she will rest at her home in chappaqua, new york. Clinton canceled fundraising events planned for los angeles and san francisco, as well as a scheduled appearance on the Ellen Degeneres show. The illness follows weeks of speculation and conspiracy theories about clintons health put forward by donald trump and other clinton opponents. In august, Trump National spokeswoman Katrina Pierson claimed, without evidence, that clinton was suffering from dysphasia, a form of brain injury. Hillary clintons illness came less than two days after she suggested half of Donald Trumps supporters are bigoted. Clinton made the comments friday during a fundraiser at an lgbtq event in new york. Mrs. Clinton we are living ina volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly general a stick, you could put half of trumps supporters and to what i call the basket of deplorables. Right . Rapist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamaphobic, you name it. Amy Donald Trumps campaign seized on clintons comment. This is trumps running mate, governor mike pence. Mr. Pence i campaign on a regular basis with donald trump. I campaign all across this country for donald trump. Hillary clintons low opinion of the people that support this campaign should be denounced the strongest possible terms. Amy Hillary Clinton said in a statement on saturday she regretted calling half of Trump Supporters bigots, but added whats really deplorable is that donald trump hired a major vocate for the socalled altright movement to run his campaign and that david duke and other White Supremacists see him as a champion of their values. Rudolph giuliani is defending Donald Trumps Statement Last week that the u. S. Should have taken iraqs oil as part of the spoils of war. The former new york city mayor, who is a top adviser to trump, made the remarks sunday on abcs this week. He said leave a forced back there and take it. Leave a forced back there and take it and make sure it is distributed in a proper way. That is not illegal, is it . Of course its legal. It is war. Amy governor mike pence 2015 tax returns on friday, showing the Vice President ial candidate and his wife took in 113,000 last year. Hillary clintons 2015 tax returns show she and bill clinton earned 10. 6 million in 2015, down from nearly 28 million the year before. Donald trump has refused to make his tax returns public. In international news, the u. S. And russia say warring factions in syria are set to begin a tendays hes fire ceasefire at sundown tonight. Secretary of state john kerry said he reached the deal during talks in geneva with his russian counterpart, sergei lavrov. Today the United States and russia are announcing a plan which we hope will reduce violence, ease suffering, and resume Movement Towards a negotiated peace and a political transition in syria. , aswe believe that the plan it is set forth, if implemented if followed, has the ability to provide a turning point, a moment of change. Amy scores were killed in heavy fighting after news of the ceasefire broke. Witnesses said at least 61 died and over 100 were wounded after a warplane bombed a market in idlib. The syrian observatory for human rights said another 30 people were killed in aleppo province. The ceasefire calls for syrias government to stop bombing cities and allow humanitarian aid corridors. Russia will cease bombing all targets except for isis, and the u. S. Will force the rebel groups it arms to break allegiance with a group that has pledged support for alqaeda. The u. S. And russia may also begin joint bombing campaigns. Several previous ceasefires in syria have collapsed. In new york city on sunday, bells rang out at 8 46 a. M. To mark the moment fifteen years ago that the first of two hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center. Thousands gathered in Lower Manhattan for a solemn ceremony marking the anniversary. Memorials were also held at the pentagon and at the site in western pennsylvania where a hijacked plane crashed on september 11, 2001. The bush administrations former top environmental official has apologized for telling the public the air in Lower Manhattan was safe to breathe after the 9 11 attacks. Christine todd whitman was head of the Environmental Protection agency in 2001. In the days after the World Trade Center towers collapsed, whitman repeatedly stated there was no threat of toxic air pollution. Everything we have tested for, which includes asbestos, lead, and vocs of them below any level of concern. Amy speaking to the guardian, whitman acknowledged for the first time that her statements put peoples lives in jeopardy. She said im very sorry that people are sick. Im very sorry that people are dying and if the epa and i in any way contributed to that, im sorry. Whitmans apology came as the guardian reported the death toll among those sickened by the toxic fallout of ground zero will soon exceed the number of People Killed on the day of the 9 11 attacks. In chiles capital santiago, thousands marched to the citys Main Cemetery on sunday to mourn victims of the former dictatorship. On september 11, 1973, democratically elected president Salvador Allende died in the palace in a u. S. Backed coup, ushering in 17 years of brutal dictatorship under augusto pinochet. Imprisoned Army Whistleblower Chelsea Manning has begun a Hunger Strike to protest her prison conditions. In a statement, manning said she would only consume water and medication until shes provided minimum standards of dignity, respect, and humanity. Shes demanding a written promise from the army that she will receive medically prescribed recommendations for her gender dysphoria. Manning is serving a 35year sentence at fort leavenworth, kansas. And in new york, students at the brooklyn campus of Long Island University plan to walk out of classes at noon today to protest a lockout that has seen everything a professor kicked off payroll and replaced. Over Labor Day Weekend, just before the start of fall classes, all 400 faculty members sawiys for clean campus the Health Insurance cut in the email accounts frozen. They have been warned they could be permanently replaced. This is liu professor, larry banks. Ive been at the university for 15 years. Theoutside the gate because administration has locked us out. This is the first time this has happened in the country. And i feel horrible. There has never, ever been the a administration saying, teachers cant teach, we wont allow it. That is never happen. Never happened before in the history of education in this country. Amy last week, Long Island University Faculty Union voted 226 to 10 against a labor contract that sought to slash pay for adjunct professors and failed to provide salaries comparable to those earned by colleagues at a satellite campus. The Faculty Senate overwhelmingly approved a no confidence measure against liu president kimberly r. Cline. To see our full coverage of the liu walkouts, you can go to democracynow. Org. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We begin todays show with Major Updates in the fight by native americans to stop the proposed 3. 8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude a day from the bakken oilfields of north dakota through south dakota, iowa, and into illinois. The project has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock sioux tribe and members of hundreds of other tribes from across the United States and canada who flocked to north dakota in what is being described as the largest unification of native american tribes in decades. In a dramatic series of moves late friday afternoon, a federal judge rejected the Standing Rock sioux tribes request for an injunction against the u. S. Government over the Dakota Access pipeline. Then the army, department of justice and department of the , interior responded with an announcement that the army corps will not issue permits for Dakota Access to drill under the Missouri River until the army corps reconsiders its previously issued permits. In a statement, the department of justice said construction of the pipeline on army corps land bordering or under lake oahe will not go forward at this time. The federal agencies also asked the Dakota Access Pipeline Company to voluntarily cease construction 20 miles east and west of lake oahe. The governments intervention was welcomed by the thousands of native americans who have gathered along the Cannonball River by the Standing Rock sioux reservation to resist the pipelines construction. Here are some of their reactions. I am with the Cheyenne River sioux tribe. I am very grateful because in our government to government relationship, the federal government is bound by treaty interests. Ect our and im glad they stepped up to the plate today and did that. People all the american need to recognize and they need to realize that this isnt a racial deal. This is something that impacts all of us. We all as children of god have a clean water. And that is what this fight is about. It is about recognizing that water is life. And without it, we all die. And so we are protecting water for the future generations. I had to be here because i wanted it was my time to be accountable. Seven generations from now, i want my grandkids and their stood soto say, she that we could have clean water. Im a member of the Cheyenne River sioux tribe. Like everyone else, i think im pretty happy with the decision for them to step in. I know maybe it is not the end of the battle, but at least today, you know, we celebrate a small victory. You know, there are still things to be considered. I think, at