this hour. right now election battles are underway in two of the biggest states. these are really important primaries happening today in new york and in florida. they are out voting. reporters are fanned out in each of those states. bryan llenas is here in new york city. phil keating is on board in florida this afternoon in the sunshine state. brian, what s going on in new york? martha, good afternoon. all eyes are on new york s we drawn 12th congressional district which pits two democratic leaders against one another and what has been a personal and nasty clash between once friends. representative carolyn maloney going against jerry nadler. now, maloney has questioned whether sadler is senile. maloney says she s the female candidate needed to protect abortion rights. nadler has called her gullible and cowardly for voting for the iraq war and patriot act. i m the principled progressive. i cast hard votes, unpopular votes that have proven right like voting against the war
we are following breaking news, kate cox, the pregnant woman from texas who asked the court to allow an emergency abortion has left the state to obtain the procedure, that s according to a statement from her attorney. her faded that s my fetus has a fatal condition and doctors told her continuing her pregnancy threatens her ability to have more children. the texas supreme court has blocked her from terminating the pregnancy. ed, what are we learning about her decision to leave? reporter: well her lawyers say that because she has been caught in this legal limbo for specifically the last several days and much of the last week, because of that, she has decided to leave texas, and get the abortion elsewhere. her lawyers are not saying exactly where she s going but in a statement they did say that she had offers of help from places in colorado, kansas, even canada as well. let s get to some of the statements that her lawyers released, where they said that her health is on the li
arriving in north east scotland later. details throughout the programme. good morning. it s monday, the 20th of november. our main story. it s the start of a big week for the covid inquiry, which will hear evidence from the high profile doctors and scientists who helped to shape and explain the government s response to the pandemic. the former chief scientific adviser, sir patrick vallance, whose diaries from that time accused boris johnson of chaotic leadership, will appear today, followed by professor sir chris whitty, jonathan van tam and damejenny harries over the coming days. our health reporter jim reed reports. patrick, over to you. thank you very much. numbers are increasing and they re increasing across europe and in the uk. sir patrick vallance was up there at the downing street podium in some of the darkest days of the pandemic. we re also recommending increased social distancing. that s the phrase that you hear. already the inquiry has heard extracts from his priv
will allow some investigations, ongoing investigations into the nuclear material at various sites to continue. why should we think that this will prevent them from getting closer to a nuclear weapon when we are not guaranteed any time anywhere inspections? if we have to agree with them, we re coming in tuesday to take a look around, how is that going to work? we re talking about reentering the deal that was approved back in 2015, martha. it incorporates the most extensive, most strenuous inspections regime martha: but they re not any time, anywhere inspections, right? they re the most rigorous and strenuous inspections of any arms deal that we negotiated in the past. that would put iran in that regime should we get a deal here. so if iran cheats, martha martha: they ve always cheated. they always cheated.
violated with the president s announcement in may of last year. we have to underscore that america violated that. iran didn t. iran now has. but let s go back, i think you make an interesting point. let s go back to when the deal was being negotiated. the inspections regime was really important, the international atomic agency has been able to go in there, and one of the reasons we know iran hadn t breached the deal is because they were affirming this on a very regular bloasis. the ten years prior to that in which these negotiations were taking place, this was a hard point. getting in there to be able to verify what iran is or isn t doing was a very, very big win in the jcpoa in the iran deal. absolutely. and it s not only the obvious things about having inspectors visiting plants, having cameras, you know, 24/7 and the like. there is all of that, and that s very important. but there are even novel