administration as assistant to the secretary of state. welcome to the programme. for the first time since brexit took effect in january 2020, the british prime minister was in europe today for a summit, the first meeting of the european political community. not an eu construct, not an eu alternative, said liz truss, but an opportunity to discuss wider interests relating to ukraine, energy and security. russia s war demands cooperation beyond the eu s 27 member states. in all, 44 countries were represented in prague today, including countries like alabania and azerbaijan, who are currently in a state of conlict. but the seating plan was hardly the most difficult issue. after last month s sabotage of the two pipelines in the baltic sea and the 0pec+ decision wedneday to cut daily oil production by 2 million barrels, europe is staring at a winter energy crisis. the national grid warned today that households in the uk could face three hour power cuts this winter in a cold snap
because beijing itself believes that there needs to be reunification between taiwan and china, and that taiwan is a part of course of the chinese nation. so it is a meeting, which is high in symbolism, but it also has had, as a result, some more significant moments. we have seen military manoeuvres, both by the chinese and american vessels being sent into the region as well. low level, in terms of that military operation, and it is not engagement, it is just operations in and around the seeds of around taiwan. but nonetheless, it has ratcheted up nonetheless, it has ratcheted up further the very difficult relations that currently exist between beijing and washington. it has been an awkward scenario for the white house because they do not have control over nancy pelosi, there were some effort to persuade her not to make this journey, effort to persuade her not to make thisjourney, but effort to persuade her not to make this journey, but it has been made and they will stand sup
coming after contraception. whether it was gay rights or contraception, you also have an arizona, blake masters running for senator who believes that you should overturned griswold v connecticut, the case that gave a right to contraception. we re seeing that there is an attorney general candidate in michigan who compared emergency contra preston to fit in all. contraception to fentanyl. only about a third of americans believed that their rights would be rolled back this way. texas had band abortion and people thought it would stay in texas, and only a third of people thought this could happen to me. it s very much on the ballot and it s very much a people s mind. let me ut it s very much a people s mind. let me put the it s very much a people s mind. let me put the opposing view. there are lots people who welcome this
mentioned either band abortion or they will be moving to ban it out right, and so kansas is very much a bellwether, and there was a huge expectation it would vote to remove vote to pass this amendment to remove the constitutional right to abortion, this is a state donald trump one very easily twice, just to quote the people here i have been talking to, they were quite cautious about it, they didn t think that would go their way, but their view is that this is now galvanising voters this is not a theoretical thing anymore it s the way they are seeing it, if people here in kansas the vast majority according to this projection had moved to protect abortion rights that can theoretically happen for other states and it will now become a big issue going into the mid term elections in november. the mid-term elections in november. the mid-term elections in november. . ~ , . november. thank you very much ou can november. thank you very much you can see november. thank you very much you can se
mentioned it just a few moments ago, these trigger laws. while roe v. wade was the law of the land, state could not violate it. that band abortion, that made it illegal, that made it a crime. if roe v. wade is gone, that frees the landscape. just as we are seeing in places like louisiana, mississippi, kentucky. texas, all these places. there were laws on the books in 1973 when roe v. wade was decided. that had to be invalidated. they stayed on the books. here in michigan we ve got one of those. this decision, once it is issued. that will automatically revert to being a law that bans abortion in the state of michigan. there are other states that have passed which you ve just referred to as trigger laws. which is that in the event that roe versus wade s overturned, then this will become our law in our state which will ban abortion. more than half of the states have laws that will make abortion illegal in their state if and when this decision is issued. must i want to go to page