Activists industry. Im phil gale welcome to the program. Worldwide protests or demand action on Climate Change is continuing with huge crowds taking to the streets on every continent a movement that started with children skipping school on friday says grown to become a global force uniting young and old the day of action to protect the planet began in australia. Around the world in just 24 hours the largest condit process the world has ever seen thats what organizers have been calling todays wave of strikes for the planets. Was student demonstrators have been turning out in them millions some of the 1st runnings kicks off in australia i think very run the front lines i mean change you know its already happening its not waiting for it to happen or you know a matter of time if its already yes this is the 1st time adults have joined the climate strikes on such a significant scale like here in hong kong where parents have also been taking part. In thailand hundreds of young protest a stron
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Us. Breaking news to start this hour. The president is expected to hold a press conference. Lets go to my colleague Josh Lederman, following this in washington, d. C. What do we know about this shall josh . Reporter alex, we knew from President Trump last night that he was looking to sign something within a week to take executive action, to take some of the steps that congress so far has failed to take. What we did not expect was that an executive order could come as soon as today. Now, to be clear, the white house is not specifying at this point in time exactly what the president is going to do or say when he takes to the podium just about a few hours from now in bedminster, new jersey. All signs point to the possibility that he may go ahead and sign something to follow up on what he said last night. This all coming amid real pessimism on capitol hill about the status of those negotiations. Take a listen to how senator Chuck Schumer described the current state of affairs. It was a dis
Wade. From that House Oversight and Reform Committee this one is just over three hours. The president is a very engaged, we are all hopeful. Todays hearing, is the fourth i have held in to just to investigate the decades long effort to bulldoze abortion rights by republican politicians. Since the Supreme Court decision in dobbs versus jackson, republicanled states have pushed to impose draconian abortion bands that take away in bans that take away womens rights. With more bands taking effect nearly every week. Just last friday, a abortion ban in arizona that was originally passed in 1901. A law banning abortion from more than a century ago, before women won the right to vote is now back in effect. Republicans are now turning back the clock on womens rights. Back to a time when women were not viewed as equal citizens, and when they had no control over their own bodies. More than 33 million women of reproductive age live in states hostile to abortion. Most of these states, abortion is se
Wade. From that House Oversight and Reform Committee this one is just over three hours. The president is a very engaged, we are all hopeful. Todays hearing, is the fourth i have held in to just to investigate the decades long effort to bulldoze abortion rights by republican politicians. Since the Supreme Court decision in dobbs versus jackson, republicanled states have pushed to impose draconian abortion bands that take away in bans that take away womens rights. With more bands taking effect nearly every week. Just last friday, a abortion ban in arizona that was originally passed in 1901. A law banning abortion from more than a century ago, before women won the right to vote is now back in effect. Republicans are now turning back the clock on womens rights. Back to a time when women were not viewed as equal citizens, and when they had no control over their own bodies. More than 33 million women of reproductive age live in states hostile to abortion. Most of these states, abortion is se