2 this is d.w.i. from ballet in a fury at america's most restrictive abortion battle the men's rights advocates in the u.s. state of alabama have been protesting against new legislation that criminalizes of caution in almost all circumstances will make does that make they want to overturn limited reproductive rights across the country we'll hear live from one of the bill's supporters also on the program. sudan's army of the opposition to agree on a 3 year transition to democracy civilian government house peter king demanded

protesters after toppling a form of president obama out by shia last month. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. pro-choice groups in the united states have been protesting after lawmakers in the state of alabama approve the country's toughest abortion law the state senate voted $25.00 to $6.00 to outlaw abortion at any point and under any circumstances including rape and incest the only exception would be if the mother's life is in danger the controversial bill will now go to the state governor for signature. emotions were running high both outside the alabama legislature with pro-choice activists rallying against the bill and inside the state senate where lawmakers in gauged in fierce

debate why you are want to control our bodies. were never ever know. and i know that many of you have daughters mr wagner republican senators say this isn't about alabama's abortion law they want to see abortion banned nishan why. what this bill is designed to do is to go to the supreme court and challenge the particular precedents that. in 1703 that abortion is a legal. essential anytime anywhere for any reason the bill bans abortions at every stage of pregnancy unless a woman's life is in danger an amendment to allow exceptions in cases of rape and incest was voted down doctors performing procedure could face up to 99 years in jail it's the latest in a wave of attempts by states to impose new abortion restrictions last week georgia

governor brian kemp followed kentucky mississippi and ohio signing a bill that criminalizes abortions after 6 weeks. with republicans in control of most state legislatures and an increasingly conservative judiciary pro-choice activists face an uphill battle to maintain abortion rights one nearly 50 years ago . say from one of the bill supporters jonathan alexander represents the u.s. national pro-life center he joins us from washington welcome to day it will be feeling very pleased with this decision. thank you for having me i think it's a decision that reflects the citizens of alabama asking and answering the question when does life begin and if life begins at conception what legal steps need to be done to protect that life and what critics say that you are effectively with this bill trying to. significantly limits women's rights to talk to me how do you

respond well there is 2 patients there during an abortion procedure 2 patients there when a woman availed herself to the procedure of an abortion and now we have a law in alabama that recognizes that there is a life in the womb that the life that began at conception also deserves legal protection it's a young girl inside of that womb then that young girls demands and shall receive under the alabama law that legal protection so that life can be carried to term and the birth into this world and you see the difference whether the pregnancy happens because of rape or incest once again when we focus on the fact that there is a life inside of the womb you know it's atrocious as the circumstances leading to that life being produced are we certainly do not want to try to right that wrong and we can't remedy that wrong by punishing the innocent child that comes to birth

as a result of even as atrocious as that wrong will be the alabama law does recognize as technology and science has led us to understand that there is in fact a life in that room at conception at conception and the alabama law does well to protect that life so will this legislation old so provide support for mothers who find themselves forced to have children they cannot and don't want to support. you know that's certainly a question that we can answer and that's certainly what the alabama legislature will and to do we have adoption services you know the backlog on adoptions in alabama are very long and larger but they are at the same time many willing families that are able and willing to adopt that child into their life of course social services will be called on to intervene when that life is actually brought into this world but make no mistake it is a life in the womb and the alabama legislature simply asked the question what do we

do if there is an innocent life there and i think the answer of the right way and protecting that life so you took that about looking after the baby once it is the what about the mother of a mother who perhaps has been traumatized by being bright who then has to carry that child to ok the child is given up for adoption does this legislation. contain provisions to look after the mother. you know the the alabama legislature wanted to answer the question that i think the 1973 decision in roe v wade failed to critically determine science maybe wasn't available at the time what do we do for that wife that is if you give me i'm going to sort of you i asked you for the time what provisions being made for the mother in the circumstances. certainly there can be compassionate caring

solutions that alabama legislature religious leaders all across the country can come in and intervene in order to help that mother but finds herself in that very difficult situation the united states has 20 to one facilities that enable and help women's health that don't perform abortions and ok number again a good serious road you just 1st because time is tight you say there can be provision but as far as you're aware there is no provision in this legislation to look after mothers in this who are forced to carry a child to your your this legislation is all about the baby i think knows the mother while it pays attention to the baby concerts will be weighed did $97034.00 of the 1st times in the country we are focusing on that child in the womb recognizing that science and technology is indisputable to understand the fact that there is a child alive now inside of the womb and what protections or legal rights that

child has within the woman so the focus of this bill certainly is on the child it will make its way hopefully up to the supreme court where we can revisit roe v wade and place into law places or jurisprudence of the united states understanding that science and technology has been clear about that there is in fact the life in the womb that life ought to be protected there ought to be legal. against an individual that seeks to terminate that life and that's why the law targets abortion providers it does not ok i think we understand what he was is against. with a national pro-life stance thank you so much thank you for having me. sudan's ministry leaders have breached a power sharing agreement with the opposition groups it allows for a fully civilian government after a 3 year transition period the ministry to seize power last month after toppling longtime president bashir the process that led to his downfall have continued with

demonstrators demanding that the military give power to the people step toward civilian government yes or a member of the military council announced a power sharing agreement with civil society groups foremost among them the declaration of freedom and change forces or d f c f an opposition bloc headed by madani. and. there will be 3 power structures an executive council shaped in agreement with the military council and the d f c f a ministerial council and a legislative council. make nice. both sides agreed that nearly 70 percent of the parliamentary seats would go to the d f c f. the rest to other political groups. it has also been agreed that the transitional period that should last 3 years.

after that the agreement foresees a lections for a parliament and government building blocks towards a civil society. clashes have broken out between palestinian demonstrators and israeli soldiers along the border fence separating east and gaza and israel palestinian helpful forces say at least 60 people have been injured during violence become the us. now it's the arabic word for catastrophe palestinians use it to refer to the founding of the state of israel in $1948.00 and market with mass protests every year on the 15th of march. but here's a schmidt police director of the un relief and works agency for palestine refugees in the near east normally based in gaza he joins us today from brussels welcome to day to you can we start with your reaction to today's of violence in gaza please. well water i've heard so far is that it is relatively corn corn strained you

know we where some of us are fearing the worst in terms of high numbers of people killed or injured and in compact sadly income paris into what we've seen over the recent months and the last year it is so far not particularly dramatic in comparison so that's good news and we hope it stays that way and deescalate further and in general terms what are conditions like for ordinary palestinians in gaza. increasingly difficult i would say and the reason i'm saying this is on the one hand if you look at indicators that describe a society like on employment or employment this is at 53 percent and rising among young people below the age of 30 unemployment is at 70 percent if you look at poverty the way we define it 80 percent of the $1300000.00 plus refugees that we take care of live below the poverty line so for from my perspective for many gazans

including the refugees we care for the places and unlivable place you have to then add to that the escalations that happen from time to time we briefly spoke about what happened today in comparison what we saw on the 4th and 5th of may we call solar goal saturday sunday that was war we had 48 hours of war on average at least 300 missiles and rockets flying back and forth you know 25 people were killed on the palestinian side for 7 on the israeli side not for me the biggest impact of this is not just the destroyed buildings and destroyed lives in terms of people killed and injured it's psychological i could hear i was on the spot when this happened i could hear through those 48 hours whenever there was an explosion skill children screaming elderly people screaming all the traumas that people have experienced and that have accumulated over 3 wars where all of

a sudden back in the open and my biggest worry is the science think gaza is slowly but fawley surely getting into a deep cycle traumatic crisis ok so you described a traumatizing unliveable experience you're in brussels at the moment of trying to plug a $60000000.00 funding gap left by the trumpet ministrations decision to cut funding to palestinian refugee aid the president of the united states the president says that the u.s. and received no appreciation or respect for their money so he took it back months ago and this is why you are not in brussels. what effect of those cuts hot on your operations. now let me 1st of all say that it is just simply nonsense to say that there was no gratitude i meet people in gaza all the time who are grateful for the international support including that of the united states we run 274 schools in

gaza that are frequented 528-0000 children and i visited many of these schools i've seen several schools that have at the entrance of pluck that's express his gratitude to the united states for making the school in the school possible the impact of the funding cuts have so far mostly hit us in our so-called humanitarian work we are sadly forced to provide food to all over 1000000 people half of gaza's population depends on food aid from us and that was entirely financed until the end of 2017 by the united states so we are having to scramble to find the resources it costs us 80000000 a year and current we lack 60 so the main impact is there we've also had to reduce our mental health support by by moving with 300 counselors to process that really far as the main impartially a very damaging and boring situation thank you so much for joining us much years director. in gaza thank you thank you for your interest.

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