Of this morning, 4 million women in this state woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms than they had last night. This is the new reality under a trump abortion ban. Starting this morning, medical professionals like this doctor could be sent to prison for up to five years for providing reproductive care, even earlier in pregnancy. Reality under a trump abortion ban. Starting this morning, women in florida became subject to an abortion ban sub extreme, it applies before many women even know they are pregnant. Which, by the way, tells us the extremists who wrote this ban either dont know how a womans body works or they simply dont care. Trump says he wants to leave abortion up to the states, he says, up to the states. All right. So heres how that works out. Today, one in three women of reproductive age live in a state with a trump abortion ban. Many with no exception for rape or incest. Now, on that topic, as many of you know, i started my career as a prosecutor, specialising in crimes a
The un has warned that more than 70 of the population faces catastrophic levels of hunger. Israels opening of the Erez Crossing follows sustained international pressure. The move has long been called for by aid agencies. The us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken met the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu injerusalem and urged him to ensure that more humanitarian aid gets in to gaza. Mr blinken also called on hamas to accept the terms of a Ceasefire Deal that would see a pause in fighting and the release of israeli hostages. Our special correspondent fergal keane reports from the Erez Crossing. A gate towards the war. Where israels army today showcased how it planned to boost aid reaching gaza. This is the Erez Crossing in the north of the gaza strip, with gaza devastated on the other side. The plan is to get 500 trucks a day into gaza from here. The un wants many more to avert what it calls a man made famine. The optics, designed to convey an israel listening to america and other
The best thing since sliced bread palab ghosh, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Heres darren bett. Good afternoon. Most of the mistiness this morning is lifted but across some parts of Eastern Scotland it is still quite great and cool scotland it is still quite great and cool. If you have the sunshine it is feeling quite warm with temperatures at 20 degrees across east anglia. There are still some cloud around producing some showers and we have thick cloud moving up from france that eventually will bring some rain. That is heading into Eastern Scotland bringing some showers. But across southern parts of england in the midlands we start to see the Rain Gathering and that develops a little more widely this evening moving into wales and affecting Northern Ireland for a while. Then some real downpours later on in the south. Further north any cloud developing more widely overnight. Some lively weather by the early hours of the morning across Southern England and south wales, thunde
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. In search of the secret recipe for growth, how governments productivity, for growth, how governments in the United States they productivity, in the United States they found the answer. So what can they found the answer. So what can the rest of us and learn from the american example . As of today, abortion in florida is banned after six weeks of pregnancy. And the New York Times published an investigation today on what that will mean, for women those living in the south. Three years ago, abortion was legal in every state in america, the average American Woman lived less than 25 miles from a clinic. But this is a map the times has created which shows how the picture evolved up to march this year. The deeper the shading the further to travel. You can see that florida, North Carolina and virginia were the only states in the south, offering abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Ans for 6. 4 million women, their nearest cli