after it was shelled this week. they say moscow s actions are increasing the risk of a terrible accident. # we re locking in the air. # we re walking in the air. and the author and illustrator raymond briggs, best known for the children s book the snowman, has died at the age of 88. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we start in the us, where donald trump has declined to answer questions under oath as part of an investigation into his family s business practices. mr trump described the inquiry by the new york attorney general, letitia james, as a witch hunt. ms james is looking into whether the trump organization tried to acquire loans and avoid taxes by misleading the authorities. the former president s deposition comes just days after the fbi carried out an unprecedented search at his florida home as part of a separate investigation. shortly after his visit to the ne
his formal resignation is expected to be announced at some point today. the bbc understands the president s military jet has landed in male, the capital of the maldives. he had been in hiding after protestors stormed his residence on saturday. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from colombo. many sri lankans feel that leaving is their only option, in a crisis defined by endless waits. hundreds queue for passports. a chance to leave their troubled homeland in search of something better. many trying to make it to the middle east, like vasana, whose hoping she ll find work as a cleaner to support her six year old. how do you feel about wanting to leave sri lanka? your heart is in sri lanka? she says she s going because she s struggling to even get food and that s one of the reasons why she s trying to find work in kuwait. me, i m planning to go to uk. we don t see any future. so that s basically we want to move on this country for our kids, not for
respond. says why beat your head around it? it could be horrible stuff. i couldn t fathom this. how much can one family bear this much? how do you contain horror? if this happened to you, where would you put it? in a box? would you carry with you everywhere? an anchor? chain to your soul? the box is full of demons. would you live in dread of the day you knew you d have the pride open and look inside. i m box full of ghost of my past, to confront it goes like that you have to be ready. where would you put it off, would you wait till next year? i move from state to state, and that box followed me with me. it followed me. of course it did it was his past. inside a box. and now, here he was prying it open, will he ever be the same ones he looks in there? it s a story, it s a story of a family. and this case is the story of my family. here, more or less, is where the whole thing takes off, garvey montana, deep in the veteran valley, the town conceived
in reproductive rights in america, despite the majority of americans supporting abortion rights with a combined 60% of americans saying that it should be legal always or most of the time according to an nbc most recent question poll. the population this country is not being told that their bodily autonomy is no longer being protected by the federal. government it is not a small thing. this is women and many trans men and nonbinary folks to, being told that they can now be subjected to force childbirth by the state. if you can get pregnant, you cannot be forced by the state to carry the pregnancy to term, or, let s say you want to become pregnant and you have a miscarriage, as many as 26% of all pregnancies and in miscarriage, according to the college of obstetricians missed. in the post roe world, world, they can be viewed as a crime. the supreme court is not doing anything this radical. they are simply returning to the question of its fortune back to the states. let s look a