access, is america exceptional? we will look at reproductive rights. all that with two top journalists. then president biden is in germany today for the meeting of the g7. will the world s advanced economies ramp up pressure on russia? will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the
will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the court s decisions this week are not conservative. they are radical. one of the time honored conservative doctrines has been a respect for precedent. and yet in two days the court swept aside a right that for half a century american jur
Step against hamas at this hour. The idf confirms one of its Tank Brigades has taken control of the gaza side of the rafah border crossing. It connects the war torn territory to egypt. This is new video showing the tanks moving in. Officials say the operation was very precise and very limited. They also say it was only in specific areas of eastern rafah. The crossing is one of the main Supply Routes for humanitarian aid into gaza. And we are told all movement there has stopped at least for now. 20 hamas militants were reportedly killed during todays sees. Three Terror Shafts were also apparently found in that area. This is one of the first significant Military Actions israel has taken in part of the enclave, where more than a million palestinians are taking refuge. Before today, the idf mainly hit targets with airstrikes in rafah. Israel claims the gaza side of the crossing was being used for terror activity. The idf says hamas fired mortars toward israels border from the area of the c
Politics can be a high wire act, and scotlands First Minister lost his footing today. If msps cant agree a successor to humza yousaf, scotland is heading for Scottish Parliament elections. And have smartphones and social media really led to a rise in teenage Mental Illness . Well be joined by the Snp Deputy Leader and ask his former Coalition Partner from the Scottish Greens, can they make up . And the leader of the scottish tories, and asking have his actions paved the way for labour gains and tory pain . Also tonight the play based childhood we have had for thousands of years basically ended around 2010. It was replaced by a phone based childhood. Thats the New York Times and sunday times best selling author whose new book argues that time spent on smartphones and social media is behind an epidemic of teenage Mental Illness. Well talk live to professor jonathan haidt, who says under 16s shouldnt have access to smartphones or social media. What he says is controversial. Plus, esther g
Tornado on the ground near hillsdale, oklahoma. It is lesson 75 people about 100 miles north of where we are right now. All of this is on the heels of the outbreak we just described yesterday for the north. Nebraskas at the heart of it. There are stunning images of homes leveled, foundations exposed. We heard from a man who described sheltered in place with his family, unsure of what was coming next. I could see the storm way out to the west here, coming out 204th and i pulled into the neighborhood and you can see the tornado about half a mile away. I thought it was going west, but it hit us straight on. My wife and kids were already in the basement. Like i said, we made it through. Reporter you just moved in here . Two weeks ago. Reporter we also heard a report about a building in nebraska with 70 people sheltering inside. Despite the numbers of reported injuries that we have heard, several reports, weve heard no reports of any deaths. In terms of what people in the region should be e