station, national public radio positively urging trans people to buy guns, if necessary to use them. the world is dangerous, explained one trans gun owner, you have to be dangerous back. and that seemed strange to us, is united states really a dangerous place for trans people. west baltimore is dangerous, you could easily get murdered there. if you are trans in this country obviously there are many down sides there appear to be some benefits, it s easier to get into harvard. it s easier to get in to citi bank. transgender pentagon will make you an f-35 pilot. identifying as trans again whatever its down sides does convey status in this country which is why so many young people do. not a lot of 19 year olds are preend iting to be car mechanics or linemen for a power company in eastern ohio. prep tee of college freshmen, why wouldn t they? the people in charge despise working class whites but venerate the trans community. people are responding to incentives, it s rationale in
my guest today is kenneth roth, just retired after 30 years leading the campaign group human rights watch. he s been banned in a host of countries. is it time to acknowledge his brand of human rights campaigning isn t working? kenneth roth in cambridge, massachusetts. welcome to hardtalk. great to be back, stephen. it s good to be with you. it s good to have you on the show. it is indeed quite something, leading one of the world s highest profile human rights advocacy groups for some three decades. did you leave thatjob with a sense of defeat? no, not at all. infact, i mean, maybe i should start with your introduction, because, you know, your introduction was the common wisdom. you know, that democracy is in decline, that autocracy is ascendant. in fact, i think it s a bit more complicated than that. i mean, we are seeing the rise of autocratic voices, you know, the trumps of the world, in western democracies. but if you look at the leading autocratic countries and you put yo
this decision is a victory supporters of abortion rights, as it defends broad access to this pill, and for the biden administration. president biden has responded: with me is our correspondentjess parker. she has been looking into the story for us. what does this ruling mean? story for us. what does this ruling mean? access continues as it did before ruling mean? access continues as it did before two as it did before two mifepristone which, as you are saying, is widely used in america as part of a two drug regimen for abortion. just colbeck a little bit, there was a judge in texas who said that actually approval should be halted for the time being and then an appeals court basically ruled that went too far but looked to restrict access to mifepristone so you can only take it up to seven weeks of pregnancy, you couldn t ordered by mail, you had to go for an in person appointment. the supreme court has ruled for now none of those things will happen, axis remains as it was,
law enforcement preparing for a possible trump indictment. agencies looking at this, several taking steps in case an indictment comes down. who is involved?n new york rath say, georgia the agencies include people and police that protect the new york court buildings, nypd and then this most interestingly, the u.s. secret service is involved in these preparations they protect former presidents, no matter he s what s happening they are discussing these plans. all of this is a response to the reports we have seen, like that new york times bombshell about a likely indictment. it s a response to the way trump s team has prepared for charges, attacking the d.a donald trump s lawyer is saying he will follow normal procedures if they get to the point of surrendering there will be no standoff at mar-a-lago here is what this means. the u.s. government is preparing for the possibility of the first indictment of a former president, a step that wasn t taken after the accusations that