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to the senate's efforts for the association bill. plus, the ripple effects of the kansas bill to protect abortion rights. what it could signal for the midterms. and, what goes around, comes around. alex jones has been ordered to pay more than $49 million to the parents of a sandy hook shooting victim. let's get started. tonight, we begin with breaking news. the senate is in a rare, saturday night session, as democrats work to advance their sweeping health care, and climate bill, towards final passage. passage that could come as soon as this weekend. the bill, and the inflation reduct...

a major energy and health care bill that could breathe new life in his agenda. he urged congress to act quickly and pass it. >> the fact is that my message to congress is this. this is the strongest bill you can pass to low eriner inflatio tackle costs, and promote energy security, all the time while reducing the burdens facing working class and middle class families. >> manu raju is on capitol hill for us. manu, how did this come together? >> reporter: over the last few days, these negotiations between joe manchin and chuck schumer have picked up behind the scenes. in mid-july, the ...

41 people were killed, many of them children. they blamed the blaze on an electrical fault in the air—conditioning system. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isn't driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ideologies. my guest today has a prominent voice in that debate. shon faye is trans, a writer and a former lawyer....

was a 65% increase of homelessness in new york city. the streets not surprisingly got visibly dirtier. the smell got much stronger. been there this month? public was criminalized by bill de blasio and many people took advantage of their new freedoms and it was a lot more crime. after local politicians plan to cut to law enforcement by a billion dollars a year, many cops decided it was not worth enforcing the law, too much risk, not enough award. so it declined by 19%. so would have been a burglar? jumped 30%, car steps by 40%, shootings doubled. so what would it be like to live in a ...

and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here, thank you for having me. it's great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. it's described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months since you published it, the transgender story, as we put it, the issues around transgender rights has consistently been prominent in the political debate. would it be r...