when sachy goes up to the village. the leper lady when she starts telling him the story her voice come in. i thought to myself, thank god. i could write a section in her voice and not only be in his voice. those things don't come until you need to work them out. that stumped me for awhile and came to with when she and the other villagers who contract lepercy decide to kill themselves to not bring shame to the village. and she can't do it. the man servant who's story that steven slowly finds out rescues her. >> even now i feel the cold waves pushing and pulling against my legs as a stood knee deep in the ocean. there was a flock of birds flying over head. their voices leading us on. as the water lapped around me i saw a man the father of a school friend walk straight into the ocean he never turned back. one moment he was there and in the next he was swaulode by the sea. one woman took a knife and slashed her wrists. i remember how the bloodstreamed down her arms. she turned toward me with a strange smile handed me her k

nigeria the face we because you did next sunday's parliamentary elections are widely seen as a leetle sachi more his fault as it is the first time that voters will go to the polls after he announced that he accepted an invitation to run. presidency in march of the liquid into the most recent polls of the united russia which led to him is largely associated with its number one party with fifty three percent of supposedly support with the voters in other words that's two hundred fifty three potential seats at the state duma the communists would come second with twenty percent of the vote liberal democrats would get twelve percent on just russia would be nine percent if your whole of the party is according to the polls what we want worse and that's less than an entry threshold to the seven percent meanwhile the board is oppositional claims that the united russia's popularity is dropping steadily and becoming a vote has lining up to be one of the party's worst performances have or we should mention that like him or putin also acknowledged last week that problems in the party do exist and we als

i'm joined by jen sachi and sherry jacovis.et back to the voting booth come 2012 and why might support be less than what it was in '08 for president obama? >> well, we're in the early stages of the presidential race here, as you know. but what's important is that every election is a choice. we have not even begun to peel back the onion of the republican platform on women's issues. leading republicans in the field, including mitt romney, support the personhood amendment, which is the most extreme attack on a woman's right to choose in a generation. you can also look no farther than friday when republicans in congress are going to vote on a balanced budget amendment, an issue that republicans running for president support. that means a gut to key programs that are important to women and children across the country, like medicaid. i think we haven't begun to have this conversation yet about what the candidates present for women. and we're looking forward to having that next year. >> among all republican % mitt romney reportedly ge