shut down, in some cases, doctors stopped performing what had been routine medical care out of fear of litigation or imprisonment, leaving some women with life altering conditions and scarring, both physical and emotional. on the broad end, more than 25 million women of child bearing age from 14 to 44 live in states where it is hard or impossible to get full reproductive care. millions more say those restrictions and bans go too far. by more than a two to one ratio, voters say abortion access across the country has become too difficult, rather than too easy. when put directly to the people, abortion access has largely been a winning issue. we ve seen it time and time again. but when left to state lawmakers, buffeted by the safety of their gerrymandered districts, that access has been rolled back systematically. do those truths hold? how long will abortion be a motivating issue. and are those districts really all that safe when the vast majority of women and most men say lawma
hello, and a warm welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. i m azadeh moshiri. we begin here in the uk where the new year starts with renewed strikes. only 20% of train services are expected to run this week because of walk outs by rmt and aslef union members. that means many areas won t be seeing any trains at all. this is the latest in a series of strikes across the rail network, which have caused major disruptions. and that s on top of ambulance drivers, nurses, driving examiners, highway workers and postal workers all going on strike in recent weeks. so, how does this affect the uk economy? let s ask susannah streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at hargreaves lansdown. so, susanna, of course this affects people s day to day lives, but how does it affect the uk economy as a whole? essentially what will happen this week is there will be a delay to the return to work for millions of people who will be forced to try and work from home if they can, but a
tonight with the context, ron christie former adviser to george w bush and ayesha hazarika journalist and former labour adviser. welcome to the programme. it s the first day of the new us congress and it s already one full of drama. the new us congress and it s after the swearing in of the new members, the new house of representatives is stuck at the very first hurdle, choosing a new speaker of the house. we ve already had rounds of votes. the latest kevin mccarthy received. short of the 218 majority. this is the scene live in the house now another round of voting is under way. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is elected, so this could go on for hours or perhaps even days until someone is chosen. we ll go live to our correspondent will grant on capitol hill for us in a moment. but first, let s rewind back to the days and weeks before the midterm elections. all the polls pointed to a resounding republican victory in the house, a red wave that would have meant today w
Permanently disabled. A taxi driver from khan younis, released without charge after weeks of interrogation. His return soured by sadness. Translation my leg got infected and turned blue l and soft as a sponge. After seven days they took me to the military hospital. They operated twice to clean the wound but it didnt work. Afterwards they took me to a Public Hospital where the doctor gave me two options my leg or my life. Neither israels army nor Health Ministry has responded to these allegations. There is growing concern over the medical care of gazan detainees in israel. Cast as unlawful combatants even before interrogation, doctors say they are kept shackled and blindfolded, including during hospital treatment. Allegations have centred on a new Field Hospital at the state imam military base. One senior medic there says patients are kept blindfolded and in nappies, with all four limbs handcuffed to the bed. They are the army, not me, they create the patient to be depending 100 on you
Correspondent, nick beake in kalamata in greece. Dramatic news from the court this morning. Yes, absolutely. There were loud cheers when the protesters who were outside the court heard this news, when the verdict of the three judges filtered through to people outside. Basically what has happened here is that the judges have looked at this case and they have thrown it out, and that means that these nine egyptian men, who have been in custody for the best part of a year, we anticipate that they will be freed. They have just been taken back to the prison where they have been detained for 11 months, but the expectation is that they will be free men. How did we get to this point . This trial started early this morning, and the Defence Lawyers were saying that because this boat sank in international waters, the court he had nojurisdiction, so basically no legal basis to try these nine men. The threejudges considered this and the prosecutor, who for the past 11 months has been building a case