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N. s top court at the hague ordered israel today to stop its military operations in the southern gazan city of rafah. But the ruling from the International Court of justice does not require a full cease fire. It is unlikely that israel will follow the icjs ruling. But the action adds to mounting pressure on israel after three European Countries said they would recognize a palestinian state. South africa called the case calling for israel to halt the military operation in rafah and accusing the country of genocide. Israels government called the charges outrageous and morally repugnant. In its ruling, the Court Expressed doubt israel is doing all they can to minimize civilian harm and deaths. The court is not convinced that the evacuation efforts and related measures israel affirms to have undertaken to enhance the security of civilians in the gaza strip and in particular those recently displaced are sufficient. Hamas leaders welcomed the icjs decision and call for the security counsel to enforce the ruling. The israeli army said it recovered the bodies of three more hostages during an overnight military operation in the northern city. Officials say the victims were killed during the october 7 hamas attack and their bodies were taken there. Some 100 hostages remain captive in gaza along with at least 39 that are presumed dead. 17 bodies have been recovered so far. An american missionary couple were shot and killed by gang members last night in haitis capital. A third victim, jude montes, who worked with the couple, also died in the attack in northern portauprince. The missionaries were a young married couple, davey and natalie lloyd, according to a Facebook Post from natalies father. A Police Official and the religious group said the religious group where the three worked said they were leading a local church when they were attacked leaving a local church when they were attacked. More than 100 people in papa new guinea are feared dead after a massive landslide overnight in a remote village nearly 400 miles northwest of the islands capital of fort mosby. The side of the mountain collapsed around 3 a. M. Video today showed more of it giving way. A Community Leader said the entire village was flattened and hundreds are missing under the. Missing under the debris. People cannot do anything because it is difficult for them. This situation has never happened in history. We are seeking assistance from people around, because people right now are speechless. The countrys Prime Minister is sending disaster officials to help the area to help with the relief and recovery effort. The Australian Government has also offered to help. Families of 19 victims of the Uvalde School shooting are suing three companies that they say played a role in the gunmans actions, meta platforms, the maker of the call of duty video game and the maker of the weapon used in the shooting. They claim they trained him to use it. The loss of comes two years to the day when the teenage gunman burst into the Elementary School killing students and teachers. Two highranking Democratic Senators are calling on Justice Samuel alito to recuse himself in cases related to the 2020 election after a pair of New York Times reports about two instances when flags carried by january 6 writers were flown outside his properties. In a letter to chief Justice Ron Roberts john roberts, alito created an reasonable doubt about his impartiality and ability to fairly discharge his duties. U. S. Defense secretary lloyd austin is undergoing a medical procedure this evening and will temporarily hand overpowered to his deputy. The pentagon says he is still dealing with bladder issues that arose in december following his treatment for prostate cancer. In a statement, pat reiter said the procedure is elective and minimally invasive and is not related to his cancer diagnosis. The 70yearold sparked a political uproar in january after it was revealed he failed to disclose his initial cancer diagnosis. On wall street today, stocks ended the week on steady footing after sharp declines thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial average, with a gain of four points, closing at 39,069 points. The nasdaq ended the week on a new record gaining 184 points. The s p 500 added 36. A passing of note documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has died from complications of cancer in new york. He was best known for his oscarnominated 2004 film, supersize me. As part of the movie, he ate mcdonalds for 30 Straight Days to highlight the effects of fast food on the body. His career veered off course during the height of the metoo movement, when he revealed his own history of sexual misconduct. Morgan spurlock was 53 years old. Still to come on the newshour, david brooks and Jonathan Capehart weigh in on the weeks political headlines. The Airline Industry efforts to secure enough sustainable fuel to power a Carbon Neutral future. And a look at why the Great British pub has become an endangered establishment. This is the pbs newshour, from weta studios in washington and in the west from the Walter Cronkite school of journalism at Arizona State university. In an historic first, the ncaa and nations power five conferences have reached a deal to pay their athletes. The acc big ten, big 12, sec and pac12 accepted the general terms of a settlement that will see the ncaa pay nearly 2. 8 billion in damages over 10 years to nearly 14,000 athletes, dating from 2016 to now. It also creates a new system that allows schools to use up to 21 million a year to pay student athletes in any sport starting in 2025. The agreement was proposed to resolve a series of lawsuits challenging the ncaa which may have had to pay billions more. It still needs to be accepted by a judge and many details need to be worked out including high school was will pay athletes, whether payments will be equitable by gender and what it means for different sports. For more on this landmark deal, we are joined by the Senior Writer for sports illustrated, cap forwarding. Great to have you here pat f. Great to have you here. Help us understand how significant this moment is. This is the death of amateurism which has been on the books forever and College Athletics. Its a significant milestone. The castle walls of amateurism had been eroding for years, most specifically starting three years ago when name, image and likeness payments were first approved. This is a major acceleration from that. This provides back damages to four years worth of College Athletes who are no longer in their sports. And also a framework to pay for a decade going forward. This is a lot of money being transferred from the traditional ocffers of the athletic coffers of the athletic administration, coaches and athletic directors, facilities, directly into the hands of the players and it being done by the schools themselves is the real change here. How soon could we see the payments start going out to athletes . I think itll be about 1415 months from now heading into the 20252026 academic year. There are still a one million loose ends, a lot of work to be done on the details. But that is the target date for when you will start seeing major sums of money going directly from institutions to the athletes. How are schools thinking about compensating athletes and the sports that generate a lot of revenue versus those that dont, say, the star football, basketball player versus the star pulled pole vaulter . This will be one of the great sources of curiosity and controversy i would imagine. As it stands now, it seems the preponderance of thoughts is to make this an institution by institution the season, not a nationally mandated pay scale. There will not be conferences dictating how much is going to go to which athletes, which sports. It will be up to each school to decide whether they can afford a full 2122 one Million Dollars a year for the athletes or less than that 21 million, 22 million a year for the athletes or less than that. And operably increasingly probably increasingly, female players will get a portion of this. In terms of recruiting star power, and experience, as far as who gets what, that will have to be sussed out at the institution level. It will be a process to get to those deliberations. How does title ix factor into the financial calculus here . That will be another fascinating element of this. Obviously title ix has really changed the game, in terms of allowing females equal opportunity or near equal opportunity to the men. But is it the same asequal compensation . So far, it has not been. Most nil dollars have gone to mens basketball and football players. Does this ruling have an effect on that and say, women have to be compensated in a similar manner in terms of the actual outlay of money or just may be the number of female athletes has to be commensurate of or proportional to the men . I think that is going to be a major flashpoint of this. We will be hearing a lot about that in the next year plus. One flashpoint is, how do the colleges and universities go about paying the student athletes without classifying them as employees . What about that question . That is an attempt to thread the needle by the ncaa and College Athletics. I have been playing that game these people probably are employees in a business setting but they dont want to be classified as such and they dont want to face antitrust legislation along those grounds. So what they are hoping is for the Significant Movement here to get the attention and the motivation of congress to help come up with some antitrust exemption for College Athletics to protect them from further lawsuits and have a system where athletes are sharing in revenue and being compensated but they are not necessarily considered employees of the university. Lastly, at, pat, this does not replace the nil, the image, likeness opportunities. No, that is still going to be an ongoing fact of life. Itll be fascinating to see how much money is still in an nil sort of pool versus what is now going into a Straight University reimbursement pool. If donors are necessarily less inclined to give nil money now through a collective or otherwise because they are already seeing athletes getting paid by the school itself. But nil will still be part of the dynamic and there will be schools that want to spend more than the 1 million caps, they will turn to donors, can you help us out with this star quarterback over here . We would like to give him more money. The nil is changing but not going away. Pat, thanks so much. Thank you. A controversial bill that would restrict access to Abortion Pills has now been signed into law in louisiana. The bill reclassified Abortion Pills as a controlled substance, grouping it with xanax and valium. Possession of the pills without a prescription from a specially license doctor could be a specially licensed doctor could be punishable by up to five years in prison. Where joined by dr. Jennifer a. The director of the new Orleans Health department and emergency medicine physician. This free classifieds two abortion medications. What does the reclassification mean in practical terms . Abortion medications our already illegal are already illegal for elective terminations in louisiana. We have some of the most restrictive laws. What we are talking about is not abortion care, it is all the routine medical uses mifepristone is used for everyday, to induce childbirth and stop uterine hemorrhage, miscarriages. There are several other nonobstetric indications. This is a routine practice of health care that these drugs are being mischaracterized as somehow dangerous drugs of abuse. Tell me who will be most impacted by that. Y u mentioned other uses for the medications you mentioned other uses for the medications but who else is going to be impacted . Unfortunately, louisiana has some of the worst Maternal Health outcomes in the country. We to have really wonderful dedicated providers who are doing their best every day to try and provide best practice evidencebased care. Whenever you place restrictions on a medication that is commonly used for miscarriage, for an example, that means there are multiple barriers that both the provider and the patient now face to get a medication that wouldve been easy to get before. Any barriers means that patient might not get the care thats medically indicated. When you dont get the care thats medically indicated, you have a risk of getting worse. If you are miscarrying, you cannot access the drug, you could continue to bleed, hemorrhage, you could develop sepsis, and up in the Emergency Department end up in the Emergency Department and lead to future problems with future pregnancies. These are unnecessary restrictions on the practice of medicine and routine health care that are definitely going to affect our already poor outcomes. We mentioned briefly there doctors could also be punished as a result of this restriction. Tell me a little bit about what you are hearing from other doctors and what that impact could be on the medical community. The reason why nearly 300 of my physician colleagues and i wrote a letter urging that this amendment be removed is because we know how it is going to affect our ability to practice. In louisiana, we already criminalize physicians who would perform elective abortions. Theres already a Chilling Effect on our providers. Because the law is vague, there is the fear that in the practice of caring for a woman having a miscarriage or who needs to have a termination, to save her life or for her health, that someone will misconstrue that is doing an elective abortion and that physician could face jail time, making this practice of simply providing routine health care more criminalized leads to physicians having to make really terrible choices and ultimately deciding that they might not want to practice in a state like ours. We pulled back the lens of it here, we know according to the reproductive rights think tank, medication abortions to account for the majority of abortions in the u. S. , some 63 last year. Across the country, a number already restrict access to those medications in some form, with allout bans or some requiring a different level of restriction on those medications you see those highlighted in orange. This bill in louisiana will make it the only state to categorize those two medications as controlled dangerous substances, do you see other states following that example . Unfortunately, i do. Im very concerned. In talking to colleagues around the country, they are very concerned this could be coming for them. Again, if elective medication abortion is already illegal, then why would we want to place barriers on health care that is legal . Our concern as it sets a precedent not just to do it in other states but what else could be inappropriately mischaracterized as a drug of abuse, could it be a drug that a lawmaker does not like . Contraception . This is really a dangerous precedent and i think that is why you find so many doctors willing to speak up about it and not just obstetrics. Internal medicine, psychiatry specialists this is something that affects the general practice of medicine in america. That is dr. Jennifer a. , director of new Orleans Health department joining us tonight from louisiana. Thank you for your time. Myanmars civil war has taken a critical turn in recent weeks following a series of defeats from the military junta that reclaims power in 2021. The exiled civilian government deposed in that coup says victory for the resistance is coming soon. But there are fears of a violent struggle as the military attempts to regain lost ground. Neighboring thailand is nervously watching. Thousands of people have spilled over the border in recent weeks to escape the fighting. Correspondent patrick f. Reports. Reporter over the last few weeks, fears gun battles have erupted across myanmar. Rebel fighters have made major advances and forced hundreds of government soldiers to surrender. Its been an intense period for the resistance. Many of the rebels, like this combat fighter and his wife also part of the resistance, are now recuperating in the border town. I rented this place. We live here because we cannot get to the front line all the time. We need to rest and take care of our health. We also need to look after family matters. He comes from central myanmar. He ran a Fitness Center business before the conflict began. He joined the resistance days after the military ousted the countrys democratically elected government. Since then, and has been wrapped by violence. The project which tracks wars globally estimates more than 50,000 people inc