the use of to the full of the fun in november 9th. the, this is the deadline is live from berlin, spring counts the costs after this week's devastating floods. thousands of volunteers joined the clean up of spain's worst natural disaster in decades with over $200.00 dead official spear. there are still more bodies to be found. also on the program with just days left until the us presidential election. we take a look at one of the key issues driving voters to the polls, abortion, and the battle for reproductive rights. the . hi melissa chan,

welcome to the program. emergency services in spain are searching for bodies following this week's devastating floods. more than 200 people have now been confirmed dead in the valencia region, where the de loose hit dozens are still missing. the defense minister says more bodies may still be trapped in vehicles caught in the flood. the 2 normally like seams, have drawn thousands of people from all over the country to help with a cleanup and to distribute aid to stranded residents. emergency workers such are flooded. call parking valencia. the victims of the recent floods rescue work is turning into recovery efforts as the hopes of finding people trapped to life have dimmed above ground. 5 fi to the removing the cause that would tossed into waterways and piled up in the streets by the freshest flood waters. to the extensive damage his daily life to

a halt. good overall portfolio bill. we haven't been through the worst part yet. done. nothing can come through. no food equal nothing. the only thing that comes of the rescue trucks that can maybe bring a bit of food, but you need to walk 15 to 20 kilometers to buy some bridge metals. by up on the pipe. the that was no warning, w. w knows that i think in the end it was too much for everyone. it's true that they should have been warned, but in those circumstances, i don't think anyone could have done anything. it was something extraordinary. never seen before a mind. oh, my parents lifetime, i get your, your love these 5 years. now the experts say that climate change is to blame for heavy storms and flooding, becoming more common. but they will say point to the failures and the local warning system for not keeping residents in these high risk areas in valencia safe

. the fact that we didn't hear those going to be so people in the grants like they haven't received the warnings in time, and they were already neck deep in malta, when they got those alerts on their cell phones. you know, not suggest something's going very wrong. that with the boating system, spain's prime minister petro sanchez, met with me to relo, to collect spots and emergency workers in the region to discuss the flood damage as residents question, if more could have been done to wound them for more journalists kindly velez, cuz joins me from valencia. hi me. what's the latest where you are? morning. well, as you can see here in the decisive so need i thought i one of the most effective, the areas that the landscape looks really l m. c,

compared to last friday with thousands of volunteers came here to try to help with the clean up and also to bring groceries of water and supplies to the rest of the day and say here, and this is what because the government, the regional government has ruled as some kind of locked down the movements as being restricted to get in and out of that the faster so. so uh, the emergency service is gonna work and, and in a better way they are, bring it in trucks. they are bringing heavy machinery and a lot of the person of that as well. the soul of yours and also more on the a, sorry, come in, need to try to remove these bad and also remove the cards and especially new for the people that are using for 48 hours at the l. so which is once these area clean and you know,

the empty of people so they can work and find out the missing people that are still in the car. so now many people are pretty angry. blaming the high death toll on the lack of a timely alert. what are officials saying to that anger? this exact does a lot of anger here. i see people start to remove the mud and find the dead bodies of some of the relatives and loved ones. they'll sort to say that they already warns they had warned that population even a week ahead. but the truth is that it was not as something like old. i use the population, didn't take it that seriously. this warnings were not that serious. as for example, it happened see the united states when a hurricane come in for it, say's that people were not really prepared. but now the problem here is what,

what people are wondering here is why it's not coming, not in tears, not coming back, said they, i said, so where is the emergency services who is very good, the groceries and find our loved ones. that might be the very empty result behind you. yes. yeah. journalist hi may velasquez in valencia in spain. thank you. as to the u. s. now. and the last weekend before tuesdays presidential election, the top 2 candidates are chris coughing. the country, primarily heading, swing states that are considered too close to call. republican donald trump and democrats, connell, a harris held him doing rallies in wisconsin, the state and voted democrat in 2020 republican in 2016 with a portion a key issue in both the election. but this is the 1st presidential vote since the

supreme court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in the us back in 2022. trump appointed judges were t in that decision. now, harris has made restoring women's reproductive freedoms. a central part of her campaign, dw, in his pull reports nancy davis has 2 daughters, summer who is 3 in baby star who's just 5 months. so big a gap between them. and she had planned by the pregnancy between the 2 girls turned into a nice in june 2022. she was a 10 weeks and the teachers who was carrying was diagnosed with crania of title mind. so i remember vividly standing in a co hospital room here in baton rouge, louisiana. my doctor walked in and he said this is the worst case scenario. they normally die in utah world. but if he or she makes 50 birth and he or she would die

within minutes. so he recommended an abortion to alternately protect my health. however, due to louisiana's restrictive abortion laws, i was denied the cure that i desperately need the men. steven public was their situation and got funding with the help of the bridge of the lines. an organization which offer as practical support for people who need an abortion. she traveled 1400 miles to a clinic in manhattan, new york for the procedure you know, having to leave your kids, leaving your family behind, just to access fund of mental health care and going to a foreign place where i don't know anybody you know like it was one of the scariest things of my life, and i was in motion and the entire time, like on a plane. at the clinic. she stablished the foundation in her own name to support others facing similar situations. or we leave louisiana on the deep

south and test for hi here in the midwest, access to abortion has been sharply limited since the supreme court decision. but it's still possible people like this come outside this clinic and dates and wanting to persuade women to not pass football oceans actually right now the clinic even has security because of people protesting outside numbers. so what as the election comes, you'll see more and more people doing that. doctor's catherine, romano's has been carrying out abortions here in ohio since 2013 analysis, many people coming from other states. i think that's the intention of a lot of these laws so that people will be confused that people will be scared and that there will be less abortions. we see patients from georgia, alabama,

arkansas, texas crossing state lines to get health care is incredibly stigmatizing. an abortion is a lonely decision as it is. so i think people who might have told a friend or a family member, if they were staying at home for their care, maybe are less likely to do so if they're traveling because it feels like they're doing something wrong. yes. the oscar about the election kind as a hearing, right? i think it's not good news for anyone with the uterus or who anyone who enjoys bodily autonomy. if donald trump is elected, i think she's been really cagey about his own opinions, but i think the people around him are very clear that they want abortion to be inaccessible. c c you are more that's attention to future

maurice, nancy davis. good boards. when when i think about my children going through the same thing, that id or like my daughters going through the same thing that i do. it makes me angry. it makes me scary. i'm scared of what they looks like and it is very frustrating and there's one on a reduced advocate, very, very hard to supervisee my children and going through it to prevent your kids from going through it a future generations to come from going through the same thing for nancy's daughter is the choice of what they can do with their bodies may be decided on the election day. let's bring in will include kraft. he's a u. s. analyst, an deputy editor for parliament magazine, joining us from brussels. william,

this is the 1st presidential election since the supreme court overturn to the landmark robi way decision back in 2022. and that ruling had protected the right to an abortion for almost 50 years. how big is this issue in terms of driving voter turnout as well? democrats and hoping passes pro lot because they do very well that so early in 2022, largely on the back of this dramatic decision of the supreme court that essentially ended roadway. as you just pointed out that some democratic consultants and posters want to see you, harris campaign pushing harder on issues of reproductive rights of bodily sovereignty and protection for the board here because basically they do very, very well. but this is something and if you see polls, this is not just the democratic issue. there is a broad support in the united states for some kind of protection to abortion, right? so this is really something that for a long time now,

the harris campaign is seen is their strength. and really a weakness for the trump. it'll be very interesting to see what republican women decide to do in this situation. a democratic presidential candidate, connell harris said a few days ago, her 1st priority as president is to quote, stop this pain. as a result of these abortion bands, what does she actually intend to do as well? that is always the good question, right? it's, it's not that clear and it's not very clear what kind of the harris if she wins could actually do. because this is all about legislation and that comes down to congress. so if you're interested in what the us government could do to protect the women's rights to help access your needs to be looking at how congress is going to perform on election day, not who's going to become the president. if it's a republican house incentive, it's gonna be very hard for a harris presidency to push anything through at the federal level. remember,

because roby weight is gone now, states can make your own decisions. unlike women in many cases and what they want to do, it unfortunately was, and right, the president at the federal level can't meddling with the space. so it's very, very, very hard no matter how much a wheel there is to change something within very quickly, 7 battleground states will pretty much decide who wins. one thing you're seeing among those battle grounds is going to be close. we can probably put it in the back. all right, william, blue cross. can us analyst and deputy editor for parliament magazine. thank you very much. i and you are up to date, but to stay with us up next in sports life, you'll meet the mexican women's softball team last amazon us. i. melissa chad, thanks for watching. the delete the,

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