As trumps election victory and early cabinet picks embolden White Supremacists and threreaten rereproductive rights, well speak with katherine franke, director of the center for gender and sexuality law at columbia university. How could a promise of real estate and the authorization of military force be expended under President Trump . We will speak with hina shamsi, director of the American Civil LibertiesUnion National security project. And then the standoff at Standing Rock. I am a medic here. We have seen at least four gunshot wounds, three of them i know to the face and head. Rubber bullets. Were trying to keep people warm. Were trying to get them decontaminated and treating all kinds of wounds. People have been hit with canisters in the leg and that type of thing. Nermeen will get an updpdate from the fatather of Sophia Wilansky, who is in critical contion after reportedly being hit by concussion grenade. As we head into the thanksgiving weekend, we will speaeak withth roxanne d dunbarortiz. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. O. Org, ththe war and pepeace reportrt. Im Nermeen Shaikh. Amy goodman is on assignment and will return on monday. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has reportedly accepted president elect donald trurumps offer to be ambassador to the United Nations, making her the first woman to be picked for his cabinet. The first five appointments were white men. Haley, the daughter of indian immigrants, has almost no Foreign Policy experience. Except for making the trips overseas to discuss economic devevelopment opportunities. During the president ial race, she supported florida senator marco rubio but ter said she vovoted for trump. If cononfirmed by the senate, she would be replalaced by South CarolinaLieutenant Governor henry mcmaster, a major ally of trump. This comes as trumump has repoportedly asked retired neurosurgeon and 2016 republican president ial candidate ben carson to consider taking the position of secretary of housing and urban development. Carson has no government experience and no experience with housing or urban policy. Trump held an ontherecord meeteting with r reporters and editors at the New York Times office tuesdayay after b briey and spontaneously cancnceling the meetineaearlier that morning. In the interview, trump saidid he would not seek to prosecute former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, despite spending months threatening to jail her and inciting crowds to chant lock her up, lock her up during his campaign. At the times building, trump also defended his chief strategist, stephen bannon, claiming he did not think bannon was racist, but instead thought he was a decent guy. Nevada senator harry reid has called bannon a champion of White Supremacists and the Southern Poverty Law Center has called breitbart media, which he headed, a white ethnonationalist propaganda mill. Trump also attempted to distance himself from White Supremacists, who have celebrated his victory, including during a white supremacisist conference over the weekend in which participants used the nazi salute and quoted nazi prpropaganda in the original germanan. Meanwhile, c cnn is under fire over a segment on whitee supremacisist Richard Spencer, in which the lower third on cnns screreen read altright founder questions if jews are people. Spencer has said he has a psychic connection with donald trump. After widespread backlash, prompting cnn to call the caption poor judgment. A member of Donald Trumps transition team, kansas secretary of state kris kobach, has accidentally revealed his proposed Strategic Plan for the dedepartment of homeland securirity, which includes an ideological extreme vetting test for immigrants seeng toto enter t uniteted states and reinstating a regigistry for immigrants from majoritymuslim countries. Kobach was photographed carrying documents outlining g this Strategic Plan into a m meeting with donald trump on sunday. Following 9 11, kobach himself helped design the registry for immigrants from majoritymuslim countries, known as the National Security entryexit registration system, or nseers. Under the program, more than 10,000 people were deported and more than 80,000 people were spied on. The department of Homeland Security abandoned the program in 2011 after deeming itneffectitive. Nearly 200 organizations are now calling on the Obama Administration to rescind the legegal framewok fofor the registry before obama leaeaves office, so trumpmps admiministration cannot reinstatate it. New yorkrk city is spinning more than n one lane dollars a day to protect donald trump and his family at trump towers where the new York Police Department has set up barricades and patrols amid frequent protests. City officiaials say these coststs will continue, even after trumps nitration as his wife melania and their son barron are expected to continue living in trump tower. In wisconsin, a court has ruled legislature engaged in a constitutional gerrymandering to favor the republican paparty when it t redrew the statate assembmbly distrtricts in 201. The case is likely to go to the supreme court. Baggage handlers at Chicagos Ohare International airport have announced plans to go on strike next tuesday, changing their original plan of striking on thanksgiving. The move avoids a strike at one of the worlds busiest airports on one of the years busiest travel days. The Service EmployeesInternational Union is backing the workers who want to raise their wages to 15 an hour. This comes as germanys main airline, lufthansa, cancelled nearly 900 flights today after pilots went on strike to demand a pay raise. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of fastfood workers, home c ca, and chchildcare workers in 340 citities will join the chicago airport workers on tuesday for what theyre calling a national day of disruption. The protest marks the fourth anniversary of the movement to raise wages known as the fightfor15. Hundreds more across t the u. S. Are planning protests on fririd, the day after thanksgiving, which is considered a major shopping day in the United States. In chicago, activist are plannnning a a black friday boycott onon michigagan aven to demand police accountability. Water protectors fighting the Dakota Access pipeline in north dakota have also declared a global day of action on friday, calling for protests at banks financing the pipeline and the offffices of sheriffs dedepartments who have sent deputies to police the ongoing resistance, which is led by the Standing Rock sioux tribe in north dakota. In news from iraq, the United Nations says as many as 68,000 civilians have been displaced from mosul amid the ongoing fight by Iraqi Security foforces backed by the u. S. Special operations soldiers and u. S. Airstrikes. The u. N. Says half of those displaced so far are children, and warns that hundreds of thousands more may be displaced in the coming weeks. This is abu alabed. We fled from the aden neighborhood on footot in the ay transported d is by trucuck and d brought usus year. Thank god. Ththe situtuation is good. Clashes s are stilill going o, but the army will prevail, god willining. Nermeen in yemen, at least 19 people have died in fightingg on the outskirts of taiz, as a 48hour ceasefire expired. The ceasefire never completely halted u. S. Backed saudiled airstrikes, nor offensives by the houthi rebels. Britains high court began hearining a lawsuiuit tuesday filed by more than 40,000 nigerians demanding Oil Giant Shell clean up spills that have contaminated water with cancercausing chemicals, including benzene. The lawsuit was launched by the ogale and bille people, who allege shell has poisoned their water during decades of drilling in the niger river delta. In peru, authorities have declared a state of emergency in seven districts in the north amid raging wildfires. Scscientists say the f fires are fueled by less rainfall due to climate change. The fires are threatening indigenous land and crops in thehe peruvian amazon. This is peruvian prime minister. In the first place, because of the magnitude of the fires reached, the government has declared a state of emergency in the zones affected by the greatest intensity at risk. This will permit the National Government to continue mobilizing people, resources, and diverse agreement in order to confront these fires and attend to the population that has been affected. Nermrmeen pakistan says indiaian armymy shliling into kashmir has killed at least nine civilians and injured nine more after an artillery shell hit a bus wednesday. The pakistani Officials Say the indian army also attacked the ambulance that arrived on site. Fighting between pakistan and india in the disputed kashmir region has been escalating for months. Anand in ohio, a prososecutor says he will reretry white foformer universityy of cincinnatati Police Officer ray tensnsing for murdering 43yyearold d samuel d dubose. Officer tensing shot dubose in the head after pulling him over for having a missing front license plate in 2015. Tensing was wearing a tshirt emblazoned with a confederate battle flag under his uniform when he fatally shot dubose. A judge declared a mistrial in his case earlier this month after the jury was unable to reach a verdict. And those are some of the h headlines. Ththis is democracy now , democracacynow. Org, the e war anpeace reportrt. Im Nermeen Shaikh. Amy goodman is on assignment and will return on monday. We begin today in syria, where the United Nations is warning nearly 1 million syrians are living under siege, double the number lalast year. The vavast majority, 850,00000 people, are being blockaded by the Syrian Government. On monday, the u. N. Human Rights Agency said civilians trapped in eastern aleppo, where the last hospitals have been destroyed by Syrian Government bombing, are facing annihilation. On tuesday, the u. N. Spokesperson Rupert Colville said the attacks on hospitatals, if proven deliberate and as part of a systematic pattern, could amount to war crimes. The situation in eastern aleppo is really so her rent is, i mean, it is beyond words. I think we are struggling to say a anything g new aboutt he cut it is so unremittingly awful, despite the occasional let ups, overall, it is horrendous. The factories hospitals and clinics are continuously hit is a matter of very, very grave concern. Nermeen the wororld Health Organization says the Syrian Governments intense Bombing Campaign against eastern aleppo has damaged and shut down the areas only remaining hospitals, leaving 250,000 people trapped without access to medical care. Doctors warn the damaged hospitalals may not be able to reopen. This comes as Syrian Government forces have surrounded eastern aleppo, which is rapidly running out of food, fuel and water. Meanwhile, on sunday, the Syrian Government said it had rejected a proposal by the u. N. Special envoy for syria, which called for eastern aleppo to be granted autonomy if jihadist fighters linked to alqaeda withdrew and the fighting stopped. Well, for more, were joined by two gueuests. In chicago, drdr. Zaher sahloul isis founder of ththe American Relief coalition for syria and Senior Advisor and former president of the Syrian American medical society. He has visited aleppo fiveve tis since the wawar began. He was a classmate of Bashar Al Assad in medical school. And in washington, d. C. , Bassam Haddad is dirirector of the middle e east and isislamic studies prprogrm at george mason university. He is cofounder of jadaliyya and director of the arab studies institute. He wrote a piece for the nation last month headlined, the debate over syria has reached a dead end. Hes also the author of Business Networks in syria the political economy of authoritarian resilience. Welcome both of you back to democracy now dr. Sahloul, i would like to begin with you, to go over what we said in our introduction, namely, the state of hospitals in easternrn aleppo. According to the world Health Organization, there are no functioning hospitals left in eastern aleppo. You were last on the show in august when you said the situation in aleppo was 10 times worse than hell. Could you tell is what you know of the situation in east aleppo today and in particular, the state of medical facilities . It is even worse than last time. Words at this point do not mean anything. The use of catastrophic or beyond description does not mean anything because were talking about a city that has 300,000 people, among them 100,000 children, who are trapped with no food oror medical for the pastouour mohs. Everyone i is watching with i indifference. Were talking about all hospitals in aleppo right now that have catastrophes of bombings that are destroyed, including the hospital that i was in with my colleagues. Itit was a hospital undergrgrod for protection for the doctors and nurses and it was comompletely destroy. That h hospital useded to perfm 4000 lifesaving surgeries every year. Two days, two more hospitals were destroyed, which are the largest hospitals that are doing taking, patients. Every day there are e massacre. Right now the space for treating these patients is shrinking. Pain medicine, antibodies, sutures, and a shortage of doctors. Every 17 hours right now, in aleppo, ththere is a targeting of healtlth care facilities. Everery 60 hours, theres a targeting and killing of a healthcare worker. In the last 144 days, there were 143 attacks on Health Care Facilities in syria committed by the Syrian Government and its ally, mostly russia, and one third of them have it in aleppo. Right now to be a medical worker in syria is the most dangerous job on earth. Those who want to continue to save lives, but they need to be prototecte. Nermeeeen dr. R. Sahloul, did you u y where people arere going now . You are in touch with medical personnel in a aleppo. Wherere are people goioing now toeek memedical trtreatment . There are still small medical facilities that are open and treating patients. They are semidestroyed or partially destroyed. There are some basements of buildings that arere doctorsre treatingng their patients. When i was in aleppo, i visited seven medical facilities. These are hospitals in aleppo before the crisis. A few of them are very small and they do not have the capacacity to treat the victims of trtraua or v vicmsms ofof chemical weaponons as w we were seeing in the last few days. In spite of that, theyey are opening some of their spaces that are not destroyed to keep accommodating the patients. Healthth care is one essential part that keeps a city going. If you destroy every facility were medical facility, that means youre destroying the neighborhoods, destroying the city. That is why it is crucial to keep anything that will keep providing medical care to the civilians in the city of aleppo. Nermeen i wouldld like to brig in professor Bassam Haddad, director of the middle east and Islamic Studies Program at george masoson university. He is cofounder of jadaliyya. Professor, on the site that you cofounded, you and your colleagues have been developing documenting to violence in aleppo. You point out that in addition to the carnage in east aleppo, there have been repeated attacks on the government controlled side of aleppo, west aleppo. What do you know of the scale of these attacks and who is carrying them out . Thank you. Well, clearly, there has been a slamming of western aleppo by the rebels. The issue here or the point here is these, of course, pale in comparison toto the brutal bombardmentt of eastern aleleppo in the almost tototal destruction n of life. E. The issue is not necessarily want to create any kind of parity, but it reveals a lack of reporting about that k kind of directitn of shelling into western aleppo. The more significant point, as my copanelist, if you will, has just shared, is that whwhat we are witnessing in aleppo today especially in east aleppo, is nothing short of a slaughter. That is, unfortunately, when i was here three weeks ago on the show, i had discussedd that we had not seseen then anything yet compared to what is likely to happen and i fefear this wiwill conti. This viciousnessss will contine until the reregime in russia take over eaststern aleppo because it is s considered a necessary step to prop up their position in anyny future negotiation before, during, or after the takeover or the trump admdministration comes into effect. That is s what needs to happen in order fofor aleppo to fall. The re