republicans in washington, and republicans in tallahassee who have dealt with him, and i hear the same thing, he s a really personally, he s a very stiff awkward guy. in tallahassee, he s got an extraordinary amount of control in that town with overwhelming republican legislatures, you know, holds a couple of press conferences, he loves attacking the media, especially younger women reporters. loves going after them, and he has this routine down, which helps him raise a lot of money, helps him be the anti-woke candidate. but mark leibovich, i ll bring you in, i keep hearing the same thing, two words always attached to him as a political candidate if he goes out on the national stage, those two words, glass jaw, a boxing term to say this guy, once he gets out on the big stage won t be able to take a
question of women and why it is important to have women reporters and why it is important to focus on women when you are trying to tell stories it s that women fundamentally are the ones, often, who are the caretakers and the people who have responsibility for the bodies of their children. and there were so many women that i talk to who said, i didn t want to leave, i would not have left. but i had to be responsible for my daughter. and for that reason i could not stay in kharkiv. i had to take the chance to take this trip. but it is like, well, my head is here trying to be safe in the train station. but my heart is still there. they were very, very resolute that this was not something that they thought was permanent. it was not something that they were going to leave and then come back when everything was over. it is sadly, a theme, i, think in a lot of conflict zones.
and why it is important to focus on women when you are trying to tell stories it s that women fundamentally are the ones, often, who are the caretakers and the people who have responsibility for the bodies of their children. and there were so many women that i talk to who said, i didn t want to leave, i would not have left. but i had to be responsible for my daughter. and for that reason i could not stay in kharkiv. i had to take the chance to take this trip. but it is like, well, my head is here trying to be safe in the train station. but my heart is still there. they were very, very resolute that this was not something that they thought was permanent. it was not something that they were going to leave and then come back when everything was over. it is sadly, a theme, i, think in a lot of conflict zones. when you are a refugee you often don t think it is just for a week.
a storyteller silenced. shireen abu akleh was a household name to millions, one of the best known women reporters, explaining the conflict and occupation to a generation of viewers. and this morning, she got ready to cover an arrest raid by israeli troops. at the hospital, there is disbelief among those who were with her when the shooting started. translation: we could not provide first aid to shireen. l the youth who were trying to pull her out were also shot at. whenever anyone moved forward, they were shot at. the israeli army says, when it went in, there was indiscriminate shooting from palestinian gunmen, claiming shireen abu akleh may have been hit by them. but at least two reporters with her say the gunfire came from the soldiers an account backed by her network.
the middle east based broadcaster al jazeera has accused the israeli military of deliberately targeting journalists after one of its best known correspondents was shot dead in the occupied west bank. shireen abu akleh died from a bullet wound to the head, while covering an israeli army raid on a refugee camp. israel s prime minister has denied thatjournalists were targeted, and accused palestinians of firing the fatal shot. 0ur middle east correspondent tom bateman reports from the west bank. gunfire. dawn injenin refugee camp. and the depressingly familiar echo of gunfire. and yet another death. this time, that of a well known palestinian journalist. a storyteller silenced. shireen abu akleh was a household name to millions, one of the best known women reporters, explaining the conflict and occupation to a