Trump's Cabinet Picks, UN Femicide Report, COP29 Deal
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President like Donald d trumps picks for cabinet nominees keep rolling in.

He's got a new choice for a tourney general, and he's made elections for everything from the department of treasury to labor with his nominee's sale through a republican controlled senate.

I'm raph z. That's little a fatal, and this is up first from P. R. news. Last year, a woman or girl was killed every ten minutes.

This is a ward against women that's .

according to a new U. N. Report on micio around the world. Why are women and girls homes often the most dangerous places?

And negotiators struck a deal at cop twenty nine to tripple the amount of climate financing for developing nations, but for poor countries dealing with the effects of climate change.

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His political team has taught military leaders to understand who they are, what they believe. Hello, govern, listen. The trump terms from M P R president .

elections ald trump has announced more choices for who he wants to serve in his cabinet.

He is feeling top positions for everything from the department of treasury and labor to who will head up the cdc and fda. A republican controlled senate is expected to consider these nominees early next year.

N. P, R. Congressional correspondent data walls joins us now with more on what's the head of money data? Good morning. So let's start with his pic for attorney general in bondi, who was named just hours after mac gates dropped out last week. Now he seems to be getting a much Better reaction.

right? definitely. A senate republicans point out her experience. SHE was a prosecutor eight years as float. As attorney general.

Like my gage, she's viewed as a strong trump loyalist. SHE defended him as part of his impeachment team defensive back in twenty nineteen. Bandy just doesn't have the same kind of political baggage that gate had.

A house ethics committee investigated him for allegations of sex trafficking that just made his nomination and appeal battle from the day he was picked. In terms of the justice department, pam bondi is likely to pursue the same kind of agenda trump campaign on. Gates was promising reforms at the department and retribution against trump political opponents.

Now are there some nominees that could face chAllenges in the senate from republicans as well as democrats?

There is already more attention on pete egg eth trumps pictures. The pentagon is a former fox news host who served in the army national guard. He was accused of sexual assault in twenty seventeen.

A, M, P, R has seen the police report from the monitary, california police. A hacks argued he was cleared. There were no charges filed in.

His lawyer confirmed to N, P, R that hegseth settled with the accuser to prevent her from filing any lawsuit. He already has some significant support. A senior republicans on the armed services committee in the new number to A G op leader generoso has endorsed ed him.

Trumps pick for director of national intelligence tosa gabbard, she's a former democratic congresswoman from hawaii, is another nominee facing some scrutiny, uh, oklahoma republican senator g. Blank ford, who sits on the intelligence committee, said on CNN yesterday, there are lots of questions for games board. He pointed to a trip he took back in twenty seventeen when he was serving ing in congress to syria, where he met with the syrian president. But are all assad. All these nominees are expected to go through some background checks in some form, and barrasso said there onna start hearings on january third, and he expects some votes on nominees on inauguration day.

Now, as we mentioned, republicans will control the senate with fifty three seats. And for cabinet ominous to be approved, they just need a simple majority that fifty one vote. Does this make IT likely that most of the president's pix will get through?

I expect most will. I mean, even if three republicans break and vote against nominee vice president J. D. Vans, who will also be serving as president of the senate, can break a tie. If four republicans oppose on omy, they will fail.

There are a group of senators were keeping an eye on, uh, who have raised questions about nominees and want to see more information. People like using Collins of main lemark ski from alaska coming you utah senator john curtis, who replaces mitt romney and mitch mcconnell, stepped down from leadership but is still in the senate. All we've the senate or same the same thing the president gets to nominate who we want, but it's the senate job to advice and consent. Some nominees will have bipartisan support. Florida senator marco rubio, who is up for secretary of state as well known, and some democrats I talked to say they could see voting for him.

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A woman or girl was killed every ten minutes in twenty twenty three that according to a new report release today by the united nations.

the report looks at femicide or gender related killings and IT finds that the vast city of killings were perpetrated by a partner or close relative N.

P, R global health core respond bot meta is is here to tell us more. Good morning, fortuna.

Good morning, lily.

So what's the big take away from this report?

The key takeaway is that femicide is happening at a high rate and IT is universal. Last year, the report says that a total of eighty five thousand women and girls were intentionally killed. Now sixty percent of those people were killed by their partners, husbands, boyfriends or family members.

In some regions like africa and asia, we saw the highest numbers. I spoke with calliope man, jero. She's the U.

N. Women's chief of ending violence against women. And here's how SHE put IT.

This is a world against women. The number we have there is even bigger than pathetic that we SHE been recorded in the war. He says that for many .

women and girls around the world, their home is not a safe place, and that the people they trust the most can be the most dangerous in their lives are now little. Many countries have laws meant to prevent this kind of violence, but despite that, the report shows even those countries are seeing high rates of femicide. I mean.

the number is just shocking, right? Every ten minutes. But if there are laws in place to prevent femicide, why are the customers still so high?

Researchers say it's a lack of enforcement. In many countries, women are reporting violence from their partners, but often you see they are dismissed by police or referred to social services instead. Beats Garcia ice is a researcher in ecuador. SHE leads the gender based violence project for the Wilson center, is a non party think tank in in washington.

Here's how he explained IT in mexico, between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty ninety three percent of known femicide cases were not prosecuted. That's insane and mexico has some of the best loss on femicide engine er based by it's one of the most violent countries for women and SHE says the .

importunity has LED to women being discussed of the system in mexico and many don't report incidents to police anymore. I want to bring up another country, south africa again. IT has the laws, but IT has one of the highest rates of femicide.

I spoke to ono cook Moore. She's with the local organza called gender rights in tech. SHE works with friends and family of femicide victims to help get them justice. And before that, he worked with survivors of gender based violence.

I can tell you how many times when the perpetrator would get bail. The survivor was basically told by the prosecute. It's got a lot to do with the capacity in the holding cells and in the prisons and that that's more of the consideration in the survival is actual safety.

So when the system fails to protect survivors, IT leads than being killed.

Now is there any good news? Any reason to be hopeful?

There is um you know in ecuador, they're creating safe space shelters for women who are at risk. In columbia, government branches are coordinating a social services as working with the judicial system to respond. But expert t said that there is a lot of work to be done so at social, cultural and especially family levels, the way children are being raised and whether they're taught equality and mutual respect when IT .

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The number twenty nine climate conference ended with an agreement on sunday, which didn't always look likely.

Now at one point, allegations from some of the most affected nation staged to walk out, but in the end, negotiators struck a deal to provide climate financing to developing nations to help cope with the effects of climate change.

Michael copy from npr climate desk is here with me in studio to explain the deal. Good morning, Michael. So the focus at this year's conference was money. So remind us what was the big goal for countries coming into the meeting?

So the conflict is always that, the fact that wealthy countries are responsible for a lot of the climate pollution, that raising global temperatures, but its poor countries there are suffer of the worst impacts, like more extreme heat waves and floods. So years ago, wealthy countries agreed to help developing countries pay for subject renewable energy, protecting themselves.

It's acknowledged that the poor countries didn't cause the problem, and they can't pay to deal with IT on their own. So the goal this year was come up with a new funding target on sunday. They did that. They agree to three hundred billion dollars year, but people still left ally unhappy.

Now, the meeting went on more than a day longer than I was supposed to. What were people so upset about is .

really that the money, the country's promise, wasn't nearly enough. Uh, researchers estimate the developing countries will need more than a trillion dollars a year for climate change. One of the people who spoke at the closing meeting was a delegate from nigeria. Inquire moda kz, and you'll hear you .

got a big applause. Hundred billions dollars to twenty saffed is a joke and is not something we should take. Like you, I not think, is something we should cut my hand and force us to take IT.

It's such as the amount of money, you know, it's not do until twenty thirty five. And what developing countries had said they need is more grant funding, not loans. So they don't add to the already high dead burdens. They didn't get any commitment around that.

So Michael, I can hear how upset some countries are or were why they agreed to the deal.

They don't really have a lot of options they can afford protect themselves. And so they're kind of stuck taking what's offered. And rich countries say they can't afford to foot bill on their own.

They say that they're working with private investors and groups like the world bank to get more money flowing in the developing countries to the work now is to try to actually do that. Simon steals the U. N. climate. He, if he said the deal that was agreed to an other bijan is a step in the right direction.

This deal will keep the clean energy boom growing, helping all countries to share in its huge benefits, more jobs, stronger growth, cheaper and cleaner energy. The big question .

now is whether wealthy countries make good on their promise. They were slow to deliver money on their last commitment. So poor countries are in a position of relying on unreliable neighbors.

And just before I let you go, I mean, this conference was held a few weeks after president trump was chosen in here in the U. S. Trump pulled the U.

S. Out of the paris agreement, the key international agreement underlying these talks. What does this mean? And for these talks going forward.

IT is really inside right. A trump is expected pull the U. S.

Out of paris again, which could really diminish the U. S. Role in these kinds of talks.

But I think it's really important to remember that other countries are working on this issue, and so are states and cities in the us. As well as companies. So what the trump administration does is really important. But they aren't the only player .

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