intervening. a federal judge ruled yesterday that arkansas s ban on these horrific procedures l. thenstitutiona so now we have the state sanctioned mutilation of children because that s exactly what our founders intended. this truly unfathomable, unfathomable ruling comes as texas governor greg abbott, he signed a bill banningr abbott oriented performances and the presence of minors otherwise peo known as drag shows for kids. but the left, they are doubling downr . npr celebrated san francisco s appointment of a so-called drag laureate. when you win a nobel priz e, you become a nobel laureate. the country also has a poet laureate. many states have poet laureates, and now there is a le drag laureate. npr s chloe veltman recently joinedat the country s first drag laureate on her inaugural public appearance, unfurling a pride flag outside san francisco city hall, rancis getting d arcy drawings ready for hecor first officialpearance appearance as san francisco drag laureate is
for children but courts are intervening. a federal judge ruled yesterday arkansas ban on these horrific procedures is unconstitutional. so now we have the state sanctioned mutilation of children because that s what our founders intended. this truly unbelievable ruling comes as texas governor abbott signed a bill banning sexual oriented performances for minors, otherwise known as drag shows for kids. p.r. celebrated san francisco s appointment of a so-called drag laureate. when you win a nobel prize you become a laureate. chloe recently joined the first drag laureate on her inaugural public appearance unfurling a pride flag outside san francisco city hall. first official appearance at san francisco drag laureate is a production. i do need to get nails on. wedged into white pattern stilletos breed says one of the selling points as a candidate for the job was her track record as a spreader of sparkle. drag is activism. drag is joy. drag is instrumental to bringing peop
as a western perception that the african female is a downtrodden wretch . but when you look around the african continent today girls abducted in nigeria, polygamy re introduced in kenya, child marriages and the prevalence of gender based violence how much is there to celebrate about being female in africa? ama ata aidoo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zainab. there s a lot of political issues and social affairs in your writings. how much do you see yourself as a writer with a mission? well, now, in retrospect, i suppose i could describe myself as a writer with a mission. but i never was aware that i had a mission when i started to write, you see. it didn t work it doesn t work like that. i maen, i don t sit at my desk and say, now i ve got to depict this, and depict that. no. first of all, i was rather young when i started writing, so i didn t even have any notion of where my would be read, or how, and stuff like that. so it wasn t a conscious decision, but
one of the nhs s most busy periods. 0ur health correspondent sharon barbour has the story. hospitals across england, already struggling with the pressures that winter brings, are bracing themselves, as tens of thousands ofjunior doctors walk out for three days. whose nhs? 0ur nhs! dr greenhlagh is a surgical registrar. he s already qualified to undertake major knee and hip surgery. every time that i go and see a patient in the accident and emergency department, and i can t examine them in a room because there s no space, and so they re on a trolley in the corridor, it s not right. and when you see how little it seems the government values us, again that is a real blow to many doctors morale. we re not asking for a huge pay rise. what we re asking for is our pay to stop being cut and to reverse the pay cuts we ve already suffered. have you thought about leaving? i think alljunior doctors, to be honest, i think most have thought about leaving. the strike action will mean the c
got to be some sort of video component to this. i guess a part of the drama of the announcement, no one knows what this thing is going to look like or sound like. we will be interviewing ron desantis and he quite an announcement to make. it will be the first time that something like this is happening on social media and with real time questions and answers. not scripted. jesse: not scripted. okay. this is obviously a nontraditional way to announce. usually candidates have a big rally with a huge crowd behind them holding up signs, clapping. you capture the raw energy of supporters live and then it s distributed everywhere. it s possible desantis didn t want to compete with the trump rally phenomenon. you don t want to get into a crowd measuring contest with the former president. trump also isn t on twitter he is on his own social media deal truth social so that could be a factor here. we are wondering how the event is going to be editing and distributed throughout the med