Israel-Gaza Latest, Poland Border Blockade, Georgia Map Ruling
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New air strikes and more evacuation waters in gaza. One of those strikes yesterday killed at least twenty one people.

Almost two million people have already been displaced, israel says. He seeks to destroy hook, whether IT is.

I mean, Martinis. That's Michelle Martin. And this is a first for M P. R. news. There's a line of trucks twenty miles long at the border between poland and ukraine, a black hair by polis truckers, has drivers waiting weeks, delivered goods into ukraine, had a relations between the two countries get so bad.

And a judge in georgia has ruled that new congressional maps are legal under the voting right act. This is a win for republicans at a time when control of congress is on the line in twenty twenty four. Stay with us, we will give you the notion. Need to start your day.

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Israel's offensive in gaza continues with new airstrikes and more evacuation orders. Israel says he seeks to destroy hamas wherever IT is this, in response to the october seventh attack that killed about twelve hundred people, a mass continues to hold more than one hundred hostages. In yesterday.

an air strike at home in the southern city of rafa, killing at least twenty one people, according to health officials and witnesses. This is the region of gaza where israeli officials have told palestinians to go for safety, and the exchange of fire across israel's northern border with lamda has heated up to, as well as fears of a widely war empire.

Carry kon is in television, and she's here with us to bring us up today. Good morning Carry.

Good morning, Michelle.

So I understand that israel has ordered more evacuations in gaza. What can you tell us, IT about that .

the war is not slowing down? Israel says IT is engaging an intense combat with hamas militants in northern central gaza. IT continues the issue.

Evacuation orders from those areas. Eighty five percent of the population in gaza now has been displaced. That's about two million people. macho. One israeli american hostage of seven year old woman died in gaza, according to her family, a president by invent condolences to her loved ones.

So, and what have you learned about this latest strike in the southern city of, rather.

a home was hit in a rough neighborhood, rocket fire. The casualty count is high. Epr, seeking comment from the military mp s.

Producer in gaza, annas baba, went to the kuwait hospital where the injured and dead were taken after the strike, and he narrow to us what he saw him. Mr, I just wanna warn listeners. What he describes are disturbing images.

the casualties and the wounded of keep reaching the E. R. np. The majority of children and small babies, one of them was a pregnant woman, and he was begging the doctor to check on her baby inside of her belly. The doctor told her, my priority is you now, not your baby. A woman with the role of our faces just cover dust, White dust playing and in the wall and just crying the bodies all over the place.

IT was a very chaotic s scene there. Last night, I went to give you a quick update from earlier reporting about israeli airstrike. In a statement, israeli military officials adress two strikes that happened on december twenty forth that killed more than one hundred people, according to the associated depressed, the military said in a statement, quote, IT regrets the harm to uninvolved individuals and is working to draw lessons from the incident. The death toll in gaza, according to health of visual there, now tops twenty one thousand palestinians.

So in recent days, the militant group hezbollah rael have exchanged fire. A target to cross the border is they're concerned that this is opening another front in this war.

Yes, they've been firing at each other every day this week, including several times this morning. Former defense minister in a member of israel's war cabinet beneath sent this .

in to hesba's again, said a time for a diplomatic .

solution with hezbollah running out. IT wants as Bella forces to retreat further north, farther away from the israeli border. And if not, he said, israel will act tens of thousands of israelis that live close to the border. The northern border there have been relocated.

That is in his kick. Intelligent kerry. Thank you.

You're welcome.

Polish truckers and transport business others are blocking border traffic at the border between poland and ukraine. They are protesting the removal of limits on how many ukrainian drivers and businesses can come to poland and eu.

After more than a year of essentially free movement into poland, police drivers are struggling to compete, and this protest is showing a once extremely supportive neighborly relationship between the two countries.

The new polish prime minister is planning a trip to keep and says, this blocked will be on the agenda. We're turning down to a listen nd warney, who is at one of these blocked border cross. Good morning a lisa. Good morning myself. So could you just start by telling us exactly where you are and what you've been seeing there?

So I met the door who is border crossing between ukraine and poland. It's one of a handful of border crossings that process these big trucks. And protesters here are limiting the number of trucks that can cross an hour.

IT ranges from one to five, kind of depending on the day and the mood. Uh, there are some exceptions that we've been able to see. Military and humAnitary arian aid are getting to pass through, but the rest they have to wait. And that means the line here of ukrainian trucks is about a thousand at the moment. It's just, as far as the I can see, banked up more than twenty miles and drivers, we weeks about a thousand .

trucks waiting to cross and something. So what's specifically, do these protesters want the polish protesters? What do they want?

But before the war, there was a permit system for drivers, and poland and ukraine got equal numbers. After russia invaded ukraine, the E. U.

Suspended that permit system to help ukraine keep the economy of flow. And the number of trucks shot up. Of course, with most of those drivers being ukrainian and the polls, they want that permit system back.

So remember, poland is ukraine's main connection to europe. There are no flights in out of ukraine, the black sea's mind. So this landed order is essential.

Last night, lisa k. Static was manning the blockade. He's a polish business, older, holding up ukrainian drivers. And he's been here at night in the cold for months. He says this is a fight .

for his existence.

He owns a small company with the son. They are five trucks, and business has really suffered.

he says. He says, ukrainian drivers.

they drive around like their members of the E. U. Like us. And they take away our bread. They take away our work. He says, waiting for a weeks at a border crossing catch just the job of a trucker. And he's done that plenty, he says, in his decades of being a driver himself.

So what are the ukrainian drivers telling you?

Well, you know, the ones that the front of the line have been here for almost two weeks, and many of them can believe that this is happening right now. While ukraine is at war, imports to ukraine our way down. And that impacts taxes.

And ultimately, the more effort, because everything is connected. We talked to the man nevers love waiting to cross. He said, ukrainian truck driver, he's got a loads of furniture and he's been here at this bora for fourteen days.

running out of water, food and money. He say, if the .

polls are striking, don't let us come into poland. But why are you not letting me go home? You know, other drivers told a similar sentiments.

One said, good block the parliament in warsaw. Leave us here at the border out of IT. Of course, protesters actually did that back in the spring shell, and IT didn't work. So they started the protest here.

Well, is there a strategy for bringing this to an end? Well.

pollin does have a new government, so there's a chance they're na work with ukrainean officials in the u to figure out a compromise to try keep both sides happy. Protesters are telling us they're gonna here for the long ukrainian truckers are saying we're actually gna keep coming back despite the .

way that is a looks in mad one issues at the border between poland and ukraine. Thanks, lisa.

you.

A federal judge has approved Georgeous newly revised to political maps.

Republican lawmakers drew new districts for congress and the state legislature after the judge found the old ones illegally diluted the power of voters, but the rights and religious groups who suit over the maps say the new ones still violate the voting rights act. W, A.

B, C, Green glass has been following this story. Force from atlantic. Sam, good morning. emco. So first, would you would you mind just reminding us of how .

we got here this fall? us. District judge Steve Jones ordered Georgeous republican controlled legislature to create one new majority black congressional district. Now many people thought that meant democrats would gain a seat in congress, like what happened next door and alabama, where the courts ordered that map redrawn. But instead, republicans have managed to preserve their nine, five advantage in congress by dismantling a democratic voting coalition tion district in suburban abana. This was a district where black lino and asian american voters together formed a majority, and now they are split up.

So I imagine that democrats are frustrated by this ruling, to put IT mildly.

Yeah, democrats say they are deeply disappointed and called IT a missed opportunity. And for many of them, this fight has been very personal. At the state capital earlier this month's, state representative teddy rees talked about his grandmother, who was born three decades before the voting rights act.

and he said to my son, I clean floor, oh, my hands and at me, so that you could stand on a house floor of the state capital. But that is not possible if our people not given opportunity to elect those that looked like them. We will not all IT back here by the Jones to maintain the status quo. We will order IT here to change Georgeous map so that they reflect the inevitable shift in George's population.

a population, Michelle, that is diversifying and making georgia elections more competitive. But the judge disagreed.

I had take IT that he said that republicans did the job of adding a black congressional district.

That's right. A judge Jones and obama appointed concluded that lawmakers followed his order. Now as for whether al coalition tion districts are protected by the voting rights act, Jones declined to weigh in. He said this case only ever considered black voters, and any other questions should be argued. In another case, republicans, they cheered that decision and said the judge affirmed what they have been saying all along that their new maps comply with the voting.

So before you go describe how the fight in georgia fits in with all these redistricting cases in the courts right now.

this is a moment when conservatives are testing the bounds of the voting rights act. I talked with northwestern university law professor Michael king, and he says conservatives see an opportunity to narrow the act at a time. And I really should be read more expensively like to protect these multi racial districts, such as the one that's been dismantled in georgia.

I think we're in a moment of change for the voting rights and for race. In american politics, we're seeing an increasingly multiracial democracy, that the voting rights law that we have wasn't really built to handle very well.

But more immediately, which party controls the next congress is on the line and with margins. Soap, Michelle, the shape of every district matters.

That is W A B E M. Green lass, sam. Thank you.

Thanks, Michelle.

One more thing before we go in, mae, the secretary of states, says former president down trump is not qualified to appear on the stage primary ballot next year.

The decision is based on his attempts to overturn the twenty twenty election. The ruling sites the so called interaction clause of the fourteenth amendment, disqualifying those who have engaged in interaction or rebellion against the united states from holding office. IT was originally written post civil war to prevent confederate rebels from holding elected office. Colorado and michigan have also ruled on this issue, and there are similar cases still pending in other states.

The drum p campaign called the decision quote atrocious and said IT would appeal. Meanwhile, in california, in the latest of these chAllenges, the secretary state declined to remove former president from from the state's republic public and primary baLance.

We ll have more of this story on our radio show morning edition and an npr dot org. And that's up first for friday, december twenty nine. I am Michelle .

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