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Stephanie here are the latest headlines the United Nation top court in the hague ordered israel today to stop military operations in the southern gazan city of rafa, but the ruling from the International Court of justice did not require a full cease fire. It is unlikely israel will follow the ruling, but the action does add to mounting pressure on israel just days after three European Countries said they would recognize a palestinian state. South africa had brought the case, calling for israel to halt its military operation in rafah and accusing the country of genocide. Israels government today called the charges false, outrageous, and morally repugnant. In its ruling, the Court Expressed doubt that israel is doing all it can to minimize civilian harm and death. The court is not convinced that evacuation efforts and related efforts israel affirms to have undertaken to enhance the security of civilians in the gaza strip and in particular, those [indiscernible] are sufficient. Stephanie the israeli army said it recovered the bodies of three more hostages during an overnight military operation in the northern gazan city of generally a. Officials say three were killed during the october 7 hamas attack and their bodies taken to gaza. Israel says someone hundred 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 was shot and killed by gang members last night in haitis capital. A third haitian victim who worked with the couple also died in the attack in northern portauprince. The two missionaries were young married couple davey and natalie lloyd. Natalies father is a Missouri State representative. A Police Official and the organization missions in haiti founded by david lords parents say they were leaving a church when they were killed. More than 100 people in par 4 new guinea are feared dead after a landslide last night more than 100 people in pop what new guinea in papua new guinea. Video today showed that giving way. A Community Leader said the entire village was flattened and hundreds are missing. People, they cannot cry over they cannot do anything. Its difficult for them. Such a situation has never happened in history. People right now are speechless. A former c. I. A. Officer accused of spying for china for at least a decade pleaded guilty today in a federal court. He passed classified information about cia sources, assets, and International Operations to chinese agents. The plea deal calls for a 10year sentence, but a judge will have the final say during sentencing in september. Families of 19 victims of the your Baltic School shooting are suing multiple companies that they say played a role in the governments actions families of 19 victims of the Uvalde School shooting. They say meta, facebooks parent company, colluded with call of duty, conditioning the gunmen to believe the gun was the solution to solve his problems and training him to use it. Two highranking Democratic Senators are calling on Justice Samuel alito to recuse himself in cases related to the 2020 election. This comes after a pair of New York Times reports about two instances when flags carried back january 6 rioters were flown outside his property. In a letter to chief justice john roberts, the senator said that by displaying the flags, alito created reasonable doubt about his impartiality and ability to fairly discharge his duties in cases related to the 2020 president ial election and january 6 attack on the capital. U. S. Defense secretary lloyd austin is undergoing a medical procedure this evening and will temporarily hand over power 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, the press secretary 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 that he had failed to disclose his initial cancer diagnosis. And a passing of note documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has died from complications of cancer in new york. Spurlock was best known for his oscarnominated 2004 film supersize me. As part of the movie, he it mcdonalds for 30 Straight Days to highlight the effects of fast food on the body. His career and 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 on the newshour, david brooks and Jonathan Capehart weigh in on the weeks political headlines. And and 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 diversity. I a historic first, the ncaa and nations power five conferences have reached a deal to pay their athletes. They 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 how schools will pay athletes, if payment 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. Its great to have you here. I think it is safe to say the days of the amateur student athlete, college athlete, are over. Help us understand how significant this moment is. This is the death of amateurs, which has basically been on the boards forever in College Athletics. It is 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, but this is a major acceleration from that. This provides, as you noted, back damages to 4 years worth of College Athletes who are no longer in their sports and also a framework to pay for a decade going forward, so this is a lot of money being transferred from the traditional coffers of the athletic administration, coaches, athletic directors, facility usage directly into the hands of the players and it being done by the schools themselves. Thats the real change here. How soon could we see these payments start going out to student athletes . I think it will be about 14 months from now, 15 months to get to the 20252026 academic year. That is what the target is right now. Theres still a million loose ends to this, so theres a lot of work to be done on the details, but that is the target date for when you will start seeing major sumsf money going directly from institutions to the athletes. How are schools thinking about compensating athletes in the sports that generate a lot of revenue versus those that dont . Say a star football player, the star basketball player versus the star polevault or . How this actually will be divided up is going to be one of the great sources of curiosity and ultimately controversy, i would imagine. As it stands now, it seems like the preponderance of thought is to make this an institution by institution decision. This will not be a nationally mandated pay scale. There will not probably be conferences dictating how much will go to which athletes or which sports. It will be up to each school to decide if they can afford a full 21 million, 22 million a year in revenue for the athletes or if they want to pay something less than that, and then how that is divided up. I usually, the football players, the mens basketball players, and probably increasingly Womens Basketball players will get the majority of this, but even within the team, what sort of parameters are put on in terms of performance or recruiting star power or experience as far as who gets what, that will all have to be sussed out at the institution level, and i think it will be quite a process to get to those liberations. To the point about womens sports, how does title ix factor into the financial calculus . Thats going to be another fascinating element. Obviously, title ix has really changed the game in terms of allowing females equal opportunity or near equal opportunity to play their sports in college to the men, but is equal opportunity the same as equal compensation . So far it has not been. Most in il most nil dollars have gone to mens basketball and football players, so does this ruling have an effect on that, to say women have to be compensated in a similar manner in terms of the actual outlay of money or maybe just the number of female athletes has to be somewhat commensurate or proportional to the men . And then you decide what the money is. That is going to be i think a major flashpoint of this. We will be hearing a lot about that in the next year plus. One flashpoint is how these universities and colleges go about paying student athletes without really classifying them as employees. How are they playing that question . That is an attempt to thread the needle. Once again, they have been playing the that the needle game for time immemorial of these people probably are employees in a business sense, but they dont want to be classified as such, and they dont want to have to face antitrust legislation on those grounds. 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 to have a system where athletes are sharing in revenue, where they are being compensated, but they are not necessarily considered employees of the university. Lastly, this does not replace the name, image, and likeness opportunities for those student athletes that are able to take it vantage of them. It is not, no. Nil will still be an ongoing fact of life. It will be fascinating to see how much money is in the pool versus what is now going into a strict, Straight University reimbursement pool and 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 it will still be part of the dynamic and there will be schools that will want to spend more than the 21 Million Dollars, 22 Million Dollar cap, so they will turn to boosters and collectives and say, can you help us out with this dark quarterback over here . We would like to give him some more money. The nil era is changing but not going away. 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 reclassifies Abortion Pills as a controlled substance, grouping it with xanax and valium. Possession of the pills without a prescription from a specially licensed doctor could be punishable by up to five years in prison. We are joined now from louisiana by the director of the new Orleans Health department and an emergency medicine physician. This reclassifies two abortion medications. What is that reclassification mean in practical terms . Practically, abortion medications are already illegal for elective terminations in louisiana. We have some of the most restrictive laws. What we are really talking about is not abortion care, but all the routine medical uses that are used for every day, things like to induce childbirth, to stop uterine hemorrhage, miscarriages, and there are several other nonobstetric indications, so this is really the routine practice of health care that these drugs are being mischaracterized as somehow dangerous drugs. Tell me about who will be most impacted by that. You mentioned a little bit about some of the other uses for those medications, but based on the patients you see, the community you serve, who will be impacted . Unfortunately, louisiana has some of the worst Maternal Health outcomes in the country. We do have really wonderful, dedicated providers who are doing their best every day to try to provide best practice, evidencebased care. Whenever you place restrictions on a medication that is commonly used for a miscarriage, for example, that means that there are multiple barriers that the provider and patient now face to get a medication that would have been easy to get before. Any barriers means patient might not get the care that is medically indicated, and when you dont get the care that is medically indicated, you have a risk of getting worse. If you are miscarrying and you cannot access medication, you could continue to bleed, hemorrhage, develop sepsis, end up in the emergency department, and experience 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 that doctors could also be punished as a result of this restriction. Tell me a little about what youre hearing from other doctors and what that impact the reason why nearly 300 of my physician colleagues and i wrote a letter urging the amendment to be removed is because we know how it will 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 and theres the fear that in the practice of caring for a woman who is having a miscarriage or who needs to have a termination to save her life or for her health, that someone is going to misconstrue that as doing an elective abortion and that physician could face jail time again, 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. We know according to a reproductive rights think tank that medication abortions do account for the majority of abortions in the u. S. Some 63 last year. A number of states already restrict access to those medications in some form. Some with all out bands, some requiring some different level of restriction on those medications some with all out bans. This bill in louisiana would make it the only state to categorize those legislations as controlled, dangerous substances. Do you see other states following that example . Unfortunately, i do. Im very concerned, and talking to colleagues across the country, they are concerned this could be coming for them. If elective medication abortion is already illegal, why would we want to place barriers on health care that is legal . Our concern is that it sets a precedent not just 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 . Could it be contraception . This is really a dangerous precedent, and i think thats why you find so many doctors willing to speak up about it, and not just obstetrics. This is something that affects the general practice of medicine in america. Thats the director of the new Orleans Health department joining us tonight from louisiana. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Myanmars civil war has taken a critical time in recent weeks following a series of defeats for the military junta that reclaimed power in 2021. The exiled civilian government deposed in that coup says victory for their 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. Our special correspondent reports. Over the last few weeks, fierce gun battles have erected across myanmar. Rebel fighters have main made many advances and forced hundreds of government soldiers to surrender. It has been an intense period for the resistance. Many of the rebels are now recuperating in a thai border town. I rented this place. We live here because we cannot be on the front line all the time. We have to rest and take care of your health. We also need to look after family members. He comes from a region in central myanmar and ran a fitness business before the conflict began. He joined the resistance days after the military ousted the countrys democratically elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi in february 202