let's bring in rosalind jordan, she's joining us from washington dc. so rosalind, what was the take away message for you from what secretary blinking was saying just a few moments ago. well, essentially, this is a reiteration of the bind administration's view that russia is making plans to do something nefarious to ukraine. the fear here in washington is that russia's planning, another invasion of ukrainian territory to try to capture what it considers historically russian territory, particularly in the eastern part of ukraine. the message that we heard from actually blank and is that the u. s. is simply not going to stand for it, but he would not answer ob, reporters questions about whether this would include some sort of military response . that certainly would be a grave escalation because both the us and russia are nuclear power states. and so this is a something that top perhaps, has not been envisioned in decades. but certainly the idea that the u. s. would of even entertain any such thing, such as a providing military of support in defense of ukr

shit from washington. rosalind jordan, the u. s. supreme court has ruled abortion. providers in texas can challenge a state law which bonds the procedure off to 6 weeks, but the court refused to block the bond while legal challenges are in place. the law which came into effect in september is america strictest. it bars the procedure at a time when many women don't even know that pregnant and makes no exceptions for rape or incest, it also gives individual citizens the right to sue anyone who helps a woman access an abortion. severe flooding in the wake of storm burrow has killed at least one person in northern spain, rivers bus that banks in of our region where the regional government has declared an emergency. the rain has also cause landslides in the village of some mia, while a hospital and the small bosque town of men. darrow has also been cut off. more rain is expected on saturday. now the winners of this year's nobel peace prize calling for better protection. for jan lester, in the face of authoritarian government, journali

hiking the price of a life saving drug from $17.00, a tablet to a whopping $750.00 onto cirrus rosalind jordan reports. martin scrambling will always be known as pharma, bro. the brash young hedge fund investor, who shot to infamy by selling like saving medicines at stratospheric prices at this price. their premise still actually on the low end of what orphan drugs costs, all of this attention, and doctors and patient group saying they can access this drug or egan, and change the price. now the u. s. government says squarely went too far. on tuesday, he goes on trial on charges. he raised the price of a common h i v drug by 4000 percent and then try to block competitors from offering a cheaper version to patients. federal regulators have just reached a $40000000.00 settlement with his former companies involved in the sky. surely is already in federal prison, convicted in 2017 of using his hedge funds to steal millions from investors. he was unrepentant after the guilty verdict. it, this was a which haunt of, of epic proportions, and maybe they found one or 2 groups next. but at the end of the

has warned nearly 9000000 afghans of facing famine this winter. rosalind jordan is following this story from washington day say the fact that some 9000000 people are facing the prospect of famine, which is of the most serious level in a country that is suffering from food insecurity, is very much the impetus. but this decision, by the us treasury department, is a very narrowly crafted decision. people here in the united states can send money to individuals in afghanistan. and they can do so through us banks, which then may be engaging with financial institutions controlled by the tall bond, or the ha connie network for the express purpose of putting that cache in the hands of individuals inside afghanistan. the money can't be used for ra, nonprofit organizations, humanitarian a, our charity groups, for example. it also cannot be used to give to people who were trying to set up businesses. this is strictly to give people the ability to buy food and medicine to acquire of fuel to heat their homes as winter is closing in, in afghanistan. i'm and sham. my. he b is the founder of rise to pac

even in america, there are limit to being a capitalist. rosalind jordan al jazeera washington haitian authorities say more than 40 people have been killed after a petrol trunk exploded. a blast happened in the city of compassion. dozens of houses were also report to be set on fire as a result of the explosion. columbian police say a series of bombings of killed 3 people in the countries north. this was near an airport in co kuta, near the venezuelan border. police say obama died in the 1st explosion, and 2 policemen were killed in a 2nd. last. should i have 2 remaining presidential candidates to take part in their final tv debate before sundays run off election? conservative candidate jose antonio cast. it's promising to be tough on crime, and immigration left to gabriel bowditch wants to raise taxes on the wealthy and expand social services. costs came up so on top after the 1st round of voting independence. i mean, while you, in fact reported san colombian, police were responsible for 11 deaths during protest last year at to rallies against police brutality. all but one of the offic