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hours from prime minister theresa may? we will talk to the headteacher, a farmer and health campaigner who crossed the open border between north and south each to see how they feel about changes that could affect every aspect of their lives. hello. welcome to the programme, we re live until ”am this morning. we are going to hear resham khan s story. that s after 10am. she had acid thrown in herface by a stranger and suffered life changing injuries and has gone on to campaign for a change in the law on selling acid. quite a remarkable woman. that is a photograph taken much more recently. do watch the interview after 10am. she describes how she pities her attacker. also today. we would like to hear from you about how long you have waited in the a&e. new figures suggesting waiting times have doubled in the last few years. we will talk about that after 9:30am. our top story today. mahmoud abbas has called for an intifada. the us decision has been wildly criticised around ....
things are happening rapidly in places like syria and as we ve seen in the news today, ukraine. if this escalates, i don t know if we have the will. shannon, comment? especially if you can tailer the holistic view of things. back to the removal of the expatriates, i think we spent a lot of time focusing on the message that that conveyed and i couldn t help but wonder what that had to have felt like, almost encapsulating the points we touched upon earlier which basically speak to the fact that the western world was saying you don t matter, we ll take out the people who do . even if these are the people that raised you as orphans early in life, we re going to separate. one of the things we ve said in here in other classes, in earlier classes this xhsemester is that genocide undoes, things fall apart with genocide. the ties that bind people together, jep side genocide is fundamentally about breaking apart things like family structure and communities. yet the failure ....
we are going to hear from ian heating, high school senior suffered us of your head injury, across game in the sophomore year. despite his impressive recovery, later identified as his third head injury, left him with a limited ability to enjoy the activities many high school students and classmates take for granted. his story should serve as a reminder youth sports injuries could have a devastating and lasting consequences. and we will also hear on this panel from brianna scoury, an olympic soccer cup champion, goalie force from the field after a career and traumatic brain injury. chris struggle to overcome the cognitive, physical and psychological injuries illustrate even our sports heroes are vulnerable to the worst sports injuries. they should be commended for their courage in their recoveries and their willingness to testify on this critical issue. dave brewerson, a member of the chicago bears tragically committed suicide just over three years ago. in doing so ....
as we re settling in this is unintended [inaudible] part of our hearing today where we re dealing with neuroscience b and medical research and physics. well, physics when dr. gay gets arrives. so panel two, i will introduce you from mr. cleland on down. mr. cleland is the assistant director, division of advertising practices at the federal trade commission. we have ian heaten, student ambassador for the national council on youth sports safety. and if i might editorialize, i think jan did a great job of juxtaposing a face of tbi and concussions on each panel. and each, as a high school lacrosse player, is that face for the more scientific-based panel. so thank you, ian, for taking your day away from school. i know how tough it is to be pulled out of school and come testify before congress. just like a normal high school student. [laughter] then dr. robert graham, chair committee on sports-related concussion in youth at the institutes of medicine. dennis molfese, ph ....
college athlete and then went on to play in the nfl and has strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently that we have problems out there as mr. miller pointed out that need to be addressed. what brought this hearing together was the action of a regional director of the national labor board who suggested these athletes are employees and therefore could, if they chose, vote to join a union. so we explored some of the possible downsides of that issue. we heard from witnesses here that talked about how would this deal with class attendance and practice times, attending games, how many games, what about walk-on players, or universities that are public and don t fall under the national labors act and a host of potential problems. i appreciate the testimony of the witness today as we start to explore that. i don t think there is a person on this committee that doesn t agree we need to address the issues we talked about. the question is: i ....