Fighting Resumes, Harris At Climate Summit, Remembering Sandra Day O'Connor
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Fighting resumes between israel and haas.

It's a return to war after a week long pause that saw hostages and prisoners release coming up.

Why the temporary truce ended and the efforts to revive IT.

I must have I shark o and this is up first from imp r news. Dozens of hostages remain held by homos and civilians and gaza are back in the crossfire. We have the latest also.

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First up today, the war in gaza, in southern israel, fighting continue through the night after the week long ceasefire collapsed friday. Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes against hamas targets.

while hamas fired rockets at israel, including an attack on television intercepted by israel's air defense system. International aid groups say there is already a severe humAnitarian cost from the renewed fighting for the more than two million palestinian civilians in gaza. And piers bridman joins us now from televise.

Brian, it's good to have you with us. hi. So to begin, can you tell us about the situation on the ground there?

Yeah, gaz has been hit hard over the last twenty four hours. As real s military said this morning, we've struck over four hundred targets in Operations that continue through the night, including an airstrike against a mosque that israeli officials say was a command post for militants. Israeli officials say they launched more artillery strikes against Thomas today.

In a statement, homos leaders blamed this resumption of fighting on israel and said homos had been willing to prolonging the truth. IT is worth noting, though, that at the same time, homos was also taking credit for and celebrating an attack by palestinian gunman in jerusalem this last week that left three israeli civilian's dead. And brand.

what is israel e's goal as the fighting has resumed? Mean, how is the bombing also affecting? Palestinian civilians have been caught up in the war.

so after the homes attack on israel october seven, that killed roughly two, one hundred israeli prime minister of Benjamin that know who said, this war is going to continue until homos is eliminated, but of course, hiding homos in the densely populated gaza strate means a lot of palestinian civilians are getting hurt and pr producing gaza onus. Babbo was in a hospital in rafa in the southern gaza, as the wounded and dead from these strikes began to arrive.

What in in front of is like a rowdy of people from the time, is that that month, nine bodies from different families. We do have one, two, three children from the. He's describing .

their bodies coming into the hospital and including those of children. This morning, the ministry of health, gaza reported nearly two hundred palestinians killed so far, more than six hundred and fifty injured since the ceasefire ended.

And bryan, you reported yesterday on this situation broadly with gaza hospitals that they are near collapse and the lack of equipment and personnel to help all the sick and wounds if they don't have that. I mean.

what did you learn here? Everyone we spoke to ask my from front line doctors and gaza to world health organza experts said the situations grim. In addition to war trauma, the W.

H. O reports a huge Spike and illness, a lot of IT because of the lack of safe drinking water for palestinians. Speaking before the fighting resumed, dr. Mohamed dia si at the nc medical center in kyung told npr they were already overwhelmed as A R.

I have one one message. We are in a catastrophe, was that. And in a statement to epr.

israeli officials acknowledge the suffering caused by the fighting and the impact on these medical facilities. They blamed hmos, saying hamas fighters have been using these hospitals as cover for military command posts and secret tunnel complexes.

Just briefly, brian, during that pause and fighting, some israeli hostages and palestinian prisoners were freed. What's happening now to those who were not freed during the temporary truths?

Well, there's still being held both in israeli jails and also in gaza by hamas. At least one hundred and thirty seven israeli hostages still held. I will say officials from Carter in the us. Have been trying to negotiate another truth that earlier today, prime minister in now, who's office usual statement saying those talks are now at an impasse .

that's emps of brian, man in television thinks in thank you.

Now to do by that's where vice president here is is today. She's there to represent the united states at the U. S. Annual climate summit known as cop twenty eight.

And while she's there, she's also talking to leaders about the conflict in the least one house correspondent, deeper shivering, is traveling with the vice president and joins us now from dubai. Things were joining us steeper. Hey, asper.

So IT is the vice president's first time at this climate on IT, and she's making announcements on new investments from the united states. Can you fill us in? What are the specific pledges?

yes. So there's a couple things the U. S. Is rolling out while at this climate suit.

And the big one that here is announced is a three billion dollar pledge to the Green climate fund. And that's A U. N. Fund that helps developing nations deal with the effects of climate change. I will know though that this is a pledge and that any new would have to be approved by congress, which, of course, is a pretty tolerant indeed.

indeed. But my understanding is this was not the only announcement the administration made at the club summer today. What else did the by administration say?

right? There is a lot going on at the summit. The E, P, A also announced to new federal rules to curtail mEthane pollution from the oil and gas industry.

There's an intent from the White house to show that they're trying to tackle the climate crisis on a lot of different fronts by taking government actions for one, but also by holding big corporations accountable. And there's also an acknowledged that there is still more to do. Here's what the vice president said .

on the main stage today. Today, we are demonstrating through action how the world can and must meet this crisis. This is a pivotal moment. Our action collectively, or worse, our inaction, will impact billions of people for decades to come. So deep a turning .

back to the political environment here in the united states, climate is a major issue for many Young voters, and they have not been particularly impressed with the bite administration's action or inaction today. How do these politics come in to play for the vice president while she's in dubai?

Yeah I mean, it's a very top of mind for the vice president while she's here in dubai at top twenty eight. A wait house official told me that the criticism from Younger voters and the Younger generation, you know, coming at the administration actually can be helpful because IT helps pressure and push for the government to make more progress.

Harris has been trying to energize Younger voters around the country because there are really critical bed ford democrats going into twenty twenty four. And it's not just climate policy they're unhappy about right now. It's also the way the administration has responded to .

the israel homos conflict. So I want to about that conflict. The vice president is also having meetings today with regional leaders about that conflict between israel and hamas and the fighting in gaza. Who is he talking to and what are they hoping to achieve?

She's meeting with egypt president cc, and she's meeting with joint k dollar and U A, E. President mohamad densie, who is of course, hosting this climate company here in dubai. These meetings are all coming after israel has resumed attacks on gaza after that pause in the war, and the White house says Harris is looking to restore the pause, but she's also focused on what happens next in gaza after the fighting ends.

That's npr White house correspondent ever shivering thing so much deeply.

Thank you.

And finally, today, on the podcast under day o corner .

of the first woman to serve on the supreme court died friday. Phoenix of complications were related to advance dementia and a respiratory illness .

pr legal affairs correspondent mean a toton burr covered or conner from the day president reagan nominated her in thousand nine hundred and eighty one throw her twenty four years on the court and SHE joins us now. Hi mina .

higher .

isa nina, you said in one of your orbit yesterday that oka was often called the most powerful woman in america. What did you mean by that?

You know, SHE was so often the key player, the deciding vote and the author of historic opinions in cases involving abortion, national security, campaign finance reform, separation of church and state, and of course, the case that decided to two thousand election, bush vers gore, which years later, SHE sort of hinted that he may have regreted.

And while he was viewed as a conservative justice who helps pull the court to the right, SHE was not doctor air. SHE was a real alist. And SHE dealt with each case as I came, not with some sort of grand philosophical overview. The irony, of course, is that her retirement allowed president George w. Bush to appoint a farm more conservative justice Samuel alito in her place, an appointment that SHE privately viewed with some restrained disdain.

We will talk a little bit more about what kind of judge SHE was.

Her approach was looked. Let's just deal with this case before us, make a few sweeping rules as possible, and leave the door open for future changes in different sets of circumstances. So as an example, he succeeded in both preserving the core of rovers, wade, but allowing state's more room to regular abortions as long as those regulations didn't impose, which he called an undo burden on a woman's right to terminate pregNancy. The particular case in which he helped cobble together that decision held that a pensylvania a law requiring women to inform their husband's before having an abortion violated the women's right to make a decision. And the particular point that he made was that the wife or partner of an abusive husband could risk a beating or worse, if he were to inform her husband.

Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mend our own moral code. We reaffirm constitutionally protected liberty of the woman to decide to have an abortion before the fea suta's viability and to obtain IT without undo and interference from the state.

Of course, the man who would replace her, simula lido, took exactly the opposite position on the lower court, and he would later be the author of the decision reversing not just rovers s weight, but okna narrower decisions on reproductive freedom .

for Younger people. I, I, I think that may be hard for them to really wrap their heads around the enormous impact oka had not just on the law, but on the role of women in law, right?

You know, her career, like justice ginsburg span and in truth, provoked huge changes for women. When o. Kiner graduated from stanford law school at almost the top of her class. He was just twenty two and had no no idea how hard IT would be for a woman to get a job as a lawyer. Finally, in desperation, SHE wrote to the sand matteo, california county attorney, with an offer that he hoped he couldn't refuse.

I wrote him a very long letter explaining all the reasons why I thought that I would be helpful to me in the office and offering to work for nothing if that was necessary.

IT was necessary initially, but soon he was put on salary. And when SHE and her husband moved to arizona, SHE continued practicing law, raising three sons, and became a major figure in the state republican party, becoming the state senate majority leader. Eventually, though, he walked away from politics to become a state court trial and middle vel a pallet judge.

And when president reagan appointed her to the supreme court, he was both thrilled and terrified. If I stumbled, he said he would make life much more difficult for women. As IT turns out, of course, okay. Ina's appointment gave a huge boost to women .

in the law the minute I was confirmed and on the court states across the country started putting more women on that i'd ever been the case on their supreme corrects. And IT made a difference in the acceptance of Young women as lawyers IT open doors for them.

IT certainly did that in P.

R. Legal affairs correspondent in a toton burg. Thank you so much for joining in us.

It's been my pleasure.

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