Passes to deliver aid to the people affected sometimes and bringing items from outside is also based challenging and time condition. Missions said in sanaa joining us from oxfam thank you so much. Thank you Argentinas Senate has rejected a bill to legalize abortion by a margin of thirty eight to thirty one the bill would have allowed abortion up to the fourteenth week of pregnancy the issue has proved deeply divisive in argentina its the homeland of pope francis and the Roman Catholic church campaigned strongly against the proposed law. The Marathon Session in the Argentinean Senate ended shortly before three am as the news broke opponents of the bill erupted in Celebration Abortion remains a centrally illegal yet we came from the country and we are here to protect the
rights of the unborn child i thank god and the senate has. Already. Prior to the Decision Thousands of prochoice demonstrators had gathered outside the Senate Building and the cold and rain the majority of them came here to protest that abortions must be regulated they find any alternative just too unbearable. That i was there in the senate theyre the ones responsible for all those women who have died during an illegal abortion they are murderers. A slim majority of argentinian senators eventually rejected the bill that would have legalized abortion. The decision came after heavy pressure from the argentinian Catholic Church which lobbied hard against the bill. Now at the recent polls suggest that most option times back legalizing abortion the votes left many frustrated and disappointed needing to violent protests in some areas. But more on this now we are
joined by lucy he she is a journalist in buenos itis welcome to you tell us a little bit more about the reaction there so the senate because i mean we just saw violence scenes there on The Streets Of Buenos whats the mood. Thats right it was a very long day yesterday that debate started at nine thirty am people were lining up in the last hour of the congress the main they before and after fifteen hours of debate the vote finally took place at around three am and even though it was widely expected that the bill wasnt going to pass their reaction of course from everyone that was still there out there on the streets was very emotional people were crying hugging on the side on the blue side of the lines which is the prolife side people were throwing fireworks and unfortunately some of these emotions turned into violent demonstrations mainly from the pro abortion side of the lying demonstrators
a million women that under will and legal abortions in the country so the options havent changed much it is widely known that private hospitals in our indian up practice abortion too but the woman that go to those hospitals and are able to afford the screening mens are woman usually in the middle upper class but then the women that cant afford that financially are the ones that usually soft suffer the most complications have to go through clandestine clinics or unsafe abortion conditions those are the women who are according to the latest data we have there have been about Forty Seven Thousand women who were hospitalized for complications in the last year i am misty also calculates that there have been Three Thousand women that have died over the last twenty five years as a result of unsafe abortion so there are options havent changed that some people think. Its odd that some people can go to europe got were lied to pursue abortion
because these legal there seems to thousand and twelve but again there woman that cant even afford to pay for treatment in a private hospital here in argentina are very unlikely to be able to afford to go get an abortion in your right either. He and brain of scientists thank you so much. Lets get more now on this issue im joined here in the studio by very own martin gak he is our Ethics Correspondent hes also from argentina welcome to you martin we know the country is very divided i mean we we saw it there with those illustrations what do you think there is this divided mean is this a question of religion a question of ethics a question of politics i think that there are many many parts to this bus one of the most certainly is religion and its not just a couple of churches have been Jellicoe Churches that have been a lot of to retore a lot of to rain throughout Latin America over the last couple of years that put a lot of pressure into the political system but at the very same time i think that
argentina has a very conflicted story with pregnancy and they do you need in the lift if you will find women on the left that are actually opposed to abortion of both the beale part of this has to do with the fact that many women had disappeared during the military government break and many of these disappeared britons these reappeared into the National Scene and became very prominent figures in politics etc for their region in mindset i think generally its quite difficult to simply think of a pregnancy yes something that is pure this both of the mother of the mother which goes to say that the baby became a lot more textured a lot more complex and a lot broader conservative and progressivism do clearly play a role but not the only one and its interesting because we know that the Catholic Church for example very active in campaigning for it the opposition to the legalization of abortion but you know our report suggests that the majority of argentineans support it indeed how do you square that well you know in some sense i
mean process of political delegation i mean senator not really just there to voice exactly what he said the people want i mean sometimes theyre also a check on what the general population wants and of course a country that has a very strong religious background takes these figures senators and representatives and executive. The the voice of the moral of the moral intuition of the country even beyond what people want and that being said is quite clear that there he said hes going there but the disconnect i think its actually a very fertile disconnect because the matter of fact this is an issue that now has been put squarely in the middle of the political discussion in this is itself a very good thing where do you see that debate going from here i think that this will become an important part of next year president ial election process and very likely its the progressive voters which have sort of you know pro gay rights broad Trends Sexual Rights Intuitions that had been governed by the current government
that is center right that are going to start broglie moving back towards the lift this is the big political danger that this Government Faces at this correspondent martin jack thank you so much my pleasure. Now is going to a check of some other stories that have been making news Around The World a senior zimbabwean Opposition Figure has appeared in court accused of inciting public violence and publicizing unofficial or fake president ial Election Results tendai biti have unsuccessfully tried to seek asylum in Neighboring Zambia the un has expressed its Grave Concern at reports that zambia had forcibly returned in defiance of a Court Order Moscow says that it is considering how to retaliate against fresh sanctions from washington the u. S. State department announced the punitive measures in connection with the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Scriptable and his daughter Yulia In Britain the u. S. And the u. K. Say that russia was responsible which the kremlin denies. And authorities in
belarus have arrested a number of journalists on suspicion of illegally accessing information from the Countrys State Run news agency among those detained is paul york but kosky a correspondent for d. W. I. Russian service his apartment in minsk was searched for two hours by police d. W. Has lodged a protest with the ambassador of bellaver us in berlin is a rest followed police raids on some of the countrys largest independent Media Outlets local Rights Groups say that the tensions are part of a Government Drive to muzzle the press and were joined now by may have. Who is an editor at the Russia Service hes been following the story for us welcome to you and i just like to ask you because the bell of russian authorities they have not spelled out why our colleague and several other journalists were taken into custody so what more can you tell us what do you gather from the situation where
else are they actually did the starting point was the fact that someone must have you legally revenues from the paid segment of a State News Agency and this was the starting point of the correct own more than ten join the list now from five different belorussian Media Outlets have been either questioned or detained or all together in the recent three days and stealing these news doesnt make any sense were told this is what the journalist in minsk i was talking to told me they say the pay will only last fifteen minutes and then the complete news feed is available for everyone but the investigators came yesterday to our man Paul Luko Pottle because his wife later told us that they took all gadgets they only couldnt even from their daughter so today the crackdown continued to chief editor of one of the bill Russian Outlets Peloton was detained altogether six persons are now in custody ok so i think its fair to say this this was basically a sweep pierre of all of these journalists what do you make of the timing why now. Nobody really knows why but there might be some Beauty Explanation if this wave of detentions Doesnt Make Sense from criminal Point Of View because it may be just a you know you know normal feat it makes a lot of sense from a political Point Of View because next year there might be prescheduled president ial elections and look i think hes obviously preparing for them now he already did that all the media in belarus that somehow get financial backing from the state now have by law to keep talk to pick up topics given by the state so and by organizing the crackdown the calculation might be that the independent journalist will be made b. D. And as long as these cases open well we thank you so much for joining us to tell us about the situation there in belarus and also to remind everyone you know our colleague is currently in detention there may have and we know that you worked with him you know him personally so we thank you so much for joining us to tell us a little bit more when i germany is making it more difficult to snap up some
domestic and his interest off or has that story on a Business Front that is right there are with one target in particular and that target is china for Years Beijing has been on a mission to buy companies that fit its strategy to develop into an even bigger economic power mostly market leaders in ten different key Industry Sectors like robotics or pharmaceuticals now that strategy involves takeovers of Foreign Companies as a result countries such as germany and the United States see their industrial advantages and risk and are now tightening regulation if they move china wont occur twenty five the new regulations come after berlin effectively blocked a Chinese Company from buying a twenty percent share in Electricity Grid Operator fifty hurts chinese Trade Representatives claim live being singled out however the sudden surge in chinese purchases is striking. Well the volume of chinese transactions in germany
was comparable low in the years before twenty sixteen its accelerated quickly since then a sudden surge to twelve point Six Billion Dollars in twenty sixteen was followed by a new peak of thirteen point Seven Billion dollars in twenty seventeen. And its not only the size of the investments that are ringing alarm bells in berlin. Many of them are focused on certain sectors. Those ten key industrial sectors president z. Wants china to become world leader in the acquisition of Robot Manufacture a cougar for four and a half billion euros last year falls into that category. And this year lease to food c. E. O. Of chinese carmakers easily acquired ten percent in germanys dima now germany is slamming on the brakes by planning tighter scrutiny of Foreign Investments but
german Industry Representatives fear the government stricter controls could deter chinese investors and thats not necessarily good news after all investors also provide capital and create jobs German Pharmaceuticals maker cabby is suing to stop a planned execution in the United States state of nebraska and says the state illegally acquired two of its drugs for use in the states first ever these Injection Master Plans to use an untested lethal cocktail of four drugs to kill a convicted murderer the company says its reputation would be damaged if its products are used for Capital Punishment similar lawsuit last month temporarily halted an execution in nevada. So lets get the view from frankfurt on this with Conrad Bosun Standing by conor at a company suing to stop an execution because the drugs are said to have been acquired illegally what do traders make of the story today. Well craziness is right this is very bad for the reputation of the Company Investors dont like it when the company they invest in gets involved in an ethical business and they dont like it when the company gets involved in conflicts legal conflicts in the United States the share price of news and the day down about about two percent today in terms of the outcome of this legal case well theres little hope here on the Trading Floors that because insurers will be able to convince the judge in the us despite the fact that the company has tried to control the distribution of its medications in the u. S. With contracts explicitly for bidding the use for the death penalty. But you know obviously the state of nebraska has the opinion that its law is above those contracts and imagine a court in the United States where the Point Of View of an american state is being
discussed in contrary to the Point Of View of a German Company its likely that the american position will prevail and comment briefly in a few cases Pharma Companies did manage to get more control over whether their products were used in executions or not whats the difference here. Well in those cases the medications were very specific the Companies Involved in those cases found it much easier to control their distribution in the case of those medications of cuisine use a Muscle Relaxer and a chemical that can stop the heart function. They are widely used in the u. S. In many clinics and the state of nebraska can get them quite easily contribution in frankfurt thank you. No a group of b. M. W. Owners in south korea has filed a criminal complaint against a german carmaker over alleged delays in recalling more than one hundred thousand
cars that after over thirty b. M. W. Vehicles caught fire this year in south korea now the german carmaker apologized on monday blaming a faulty component for customers i agree and say the firm should have issued the recall sooner the timing of recall which was issued last month is already the subject of a government program. And spec to sarah now and the latest on the continuing fights in gaza absolutely thank you so much christophe the uns middle east envoy says that he is quote deeply alarmed about the latest escalation of hostilities in the gaza strip between israel and hamas three palestinians died an extended exchange of more dollars and airstrikes overnight the funeral for two of the victims a pregnant woman and her one year old daughter was held in gaza this afternoon Authorities Say that a hamas fighter was also killed the u. N. Envoy warned of devastating consequences if the current escalation is not contained
and there are reports of renewed fighting in recent hours. This exchange of fire in gaza comes at a time when it is becoming increasingly difficult for gazans to live their daily lives thats in part due to cuts in u. S. Funding for the