the housing in the migration policy starts november 9th on dw, the this is dw news live from berlin, spain sans thousands, more soldiers to help deal with devastating floods. the prime minister's promise of more health follows the country's worse natural disaster in decades. thousands of volunteers meantime filled with gaff, offering support officials tier. there are still more bodies to be found. also coming up with just days left until the us presidential election. we take a look at one of the key issues driving voters to the polls. a battle for reproductive right, the

marietta evans, dean. it's good to have you with us. spain's a prime minister pedro sanchez is deploying 10000 more troops and police officers to help recovery efforts in the parts of valencia hit by. what he says was europe's 2nd deadliest flooding its century. a years worth of rain fell in the region within a matter of hours, speed sweeping away homes and cars. more than 200 people are known to have died of bonds. the death toll is expected to rise with dozens of people still missing. local authorities have come under fire for non warning residents of the incoming flood waters until it was too late. and for more i'm joined in the studio by dw corresponding nicole reese, who is usually reporting for us from spain. nicole really great to have you here in berlin to talk about what's been happening there. so 10000 troops have now being sent to flood hid valencia. but the spanish prime minister has been saying,

he knows this is actually not even enough on his property rights. because we might very be a very easily be looking at one of the biggest climate catastrophes in recent history. in europe. we've seen lots of extreme weather events in these past years also this year. but nothing like so that needs to more help and they need throughout that pond. at the moment we see the launch is deployment of military and security forces in times of peace. we might also see some international involvement in the close of future. there are office on the table, but spain at the moment as pulling people from his own regions to go into the practice areas. and in a few days that will also be a declaration of catastrophe zones. the affected areas will be made catastrophe zones. that means that the local government actually can access easily fees to help funds that they really need. and in the meantime, the spanish government also needs to make sure that this unity on the political level because we've seen the blame game and just have tuesdays. everybody's looking

for the party that is responsible also because the warning system apparently didn't work as well as it should have worked. but uh, be able to sense as a prime minister of spain is currently trying to get everybody together and that they're not political differences. but everybody's just focusing on this prices, which will be there not only for a few days, but weeks and months. i think you, you mentioned that spain has never seen a natural disaster of this kind. do we know now the scale of, of what has happened? i think we have an impression of that scale, but it's too early to really decide how big of an impact this we're looking at is something that in the future probably will be a wound in spanish society mentally. economically, historically, people are just trying to solve to fan necessities right now. they're used to torrential rains, but if not, what happens there? so they're trying to sort out where are the missing people?

is my, my beloved point still alive or somewhere trapped? food, water, shelter, the main necessities of life. and this is crisis mode right now. this is naked survival really. and only in the, in the longer future, i think we will learn how big of a catastrophe is there, is because we building needs to be done as well. and it's not going to be from one day to another or from one here to another. it's very complex poll cities have been devastated businesses as well. this will also be issued economic impact, but at the moment it's really finding those people was field trapped and making sure that they're healthy and fine. and it's getting more difficult by the day. of course, that was the w is nicole risk. thank you so much. nicole for all of your reporting to the us now where it's the last weekend before tuesdays presidential election. the 2 candidates are criss crossing the country and focusing on swing states that are considered to close to call before heading for rallies in atlanta. in charlotte,

north carolina, democratic kind of law harris criticized. how speaker mike johnson, for suggesting that republicans might cut subsidies for chip manufacturing. donald trump is also expected to visit north carolina, which is marking is last day of early voting. this is the 1st presidential vote since the us supreme court overturn the constitutional rights to abortion. in 2022, trump appointed judges were key in that decision. now harris has made restoring women's reproductive freedoms. a central part of her campaign to double use in this pull has this report. a nancy davis says 2 daughters summer who is 3 in baby starr who's just 5 months. so they go gab 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

a 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 loss, i was denied the carrier that i desperately need. and then 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 clinic in manhattan, new york for the procedure. you know, having to leave your kids, leaving your family behind just to access fundamental health care and going to

a foreign place where i don't know anybody. um you know like it was one of the scariest things of my life. and i was emotional higher times like on a plane at the clinic. she stablished the foundation in her own name to support others facing similar situations. we leave louisiana on the deep south and head for hi. here in the midwest, access to abortion has been sharply limited since the supreme court decision, but it's still positive. people like this kemp outside this clinic and dates and wanting to persuade women to not pass football oceans actually right now the clinic even has security. and because of people protesting outside numbers. so what as election comes, you'll see more and more people doing that. dr. catherine romano has,

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 of portions. 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. we ask her about the election kind of 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 an accessible. c you are more that's the tensional future. maurice, nancy davis. good boy is when i 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 other reduce that i advocate. it's very, very hard to prevent my children from 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

daughters. the choice of what they can do with their bodies, maybe decided on the election day. we can now speak to michelle swerve. she's a professor of american government at georgetown university in falls, church, virginia. and she's also written to books on women and representation. and congress present professor square as welcome to the w just how big of an issue is reproductive rights when it comes to driving, voter turnout in this election? you know, thank you so much for having me as in terms of driving the turn out for the election, there's couple of ways to think about it. certainly it's one of the stronger issues for carmenela harris and she emphasizes it a lot as part of her freedom agenda. there are also several states, 10 of them that have ballot initiatives, which means that the voters can vote to change their state laws where they're trying to either put abortion rights into their states constitution or they're

trying to overturn previous bands. and some of those are in some of what we call the key battleground, states that people think will decide the election of those being arizona and nevada, particularly now we've heard in recent days, from prominent republican nikki haley that donald trump's messaging is turning women off. we heard trump just in the past week, say at a rally that he would protect women, whether they like it or not. do we know where he stands on a woman's right to choose? so president trump has been kind of k g about it because he knows that his position right now is not that popular. so he's talked about the fact that he was support i v f and making that something that was accessible to women. he leans into the idea that the states should decide as so he tries to get away from that issue and, and talk more about this protection idea. gens the women,

particularly in college educated women or women that are most interested in the abortion rights question. and find it most motivating for their vote. and so they would tend to be turned off by that kind of rhetoric. but there are significant number of pro life women that meant that perhaps that appeals to when, meanwhile, kind of le harris said that her 1st priority is present would be to, as she put it stops as pain coming out of abortion bands. but is she in a position to do that? so it would be difficult for her to make changes in law because that has to go to our congress. and it's not likely that either party is going to have a sufficient margin in congress to be able to pass a new law. but as president, you can do a lot of things through executive action. so i can imagine that she would try to make it easier to access, for example, the

a portion kill which if president trump becomes president again, i imagine that he would try to restrict access to it. so when i talk about a national van or restoring roe vs wade, those things are hard to do through law, but there's a lot that they can do for executive action. well, i do want to ask you about the, the overturning of the landmark roe vs wade. decision that was just 2 years ago, and we know, of course, that that ruling have protected the rights to an abortion for nearly 50 years. is there any path to restoring the protections of roe vs wade? and so the parents would have to be through the legislature right now, since everything is, is returned to the states. the other path is to have states that have valid initiatives and not all states allow that. but have those states pass protections

and you have seen that happen in 2022. there were a number of states, the past protections, and there are a number of states that have it on their ballot. now some of those states already allow abortion rights and they're just trying to in trying it in their constitution . but some of those days you would be over turning a ban. so in florida they have a 6 week ban, and you would be changing that to allow abortion until viability, which is around $24.00 weeks. missouri similarly has a band. and so if they pass their portion initiative, it would be overturning that bad. but in terms of a national law, you'd have to do that through congress. and at least the way that congress has been recently were very close margins. it's pretty unlikely, especially because in the center we have something called the filibuster. that requires a super majority. that either party is going to have that super majority to pass a national law that within trying to protections of roe vs wade. that was michelle swears professor of american government in georgetown university. thank you so much

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