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potentially a pivotal moment. a group of swiss women have won their first ever climate case victory in the european court of human rights. here they are. the court found switzerland violated have violated them of their human rights by not taking sufficient action on climate change. switzerland's efforts were called woefully inadequate. this ruling includes the law in 46 other european countries including the u.k. it comes after last month was officially declared the warmest march on record. we will get onto that in a moment. let's start with this report from our climate editor justin donald. >> the swiss women arrived at the european court ready to fight. >> there has been a violation of article eight of the convention. >> and they won, persuading the judges that switzerland's failure to do enough to cut planet warming in missions could create heat waves that could threaten the lives of older people. >> i am so, well, shocked,

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lea: my name is lea. i may look like a normal 20-something. but my life is often consumed by illness. lea: approximately 1,000 people are born every day in africa with sickle cell. i have sickle cell disease. up to 90% of us die before the age of five. our governments do little to help us.

lea: and i'm advocating to those in power to change that. lea: even in our own communities, people with sickle cell are often treated like outcasts because of the misconception and stigma surrounding the disease. lea: i'm putting my life on the line to fight this deadly disease. and to dispel the myths that surround it. ♪

♪ lea (over phone): hi, beautiful people, this is lea, you can see my jaundice it is on, damn. the abnormal, sickle-shaped red blood cells in my body affect my oxygen levels. one of the biggest problems with sickle cell is oxygen. like if you don't have sufficient oxygen, so you can only push your body fat for a good number of days before you need to really rest. now he's telling people, "this girl has sickle cell," and they don't even know i have sickle cell. i've been raising awareness about the devastating impact of sickle cell on patients and families for years. some of us have accepted sickle cell.

and subscribe. and we'll have this conversation again. thank you. i try to help my fellow survivors. fresh green, leafy vegetables for people living with sickle cell, like myself. and advocate to the authorities to act. it's also a way for the government, the ministry, to see that these people are forgotten demographic in this country and they need to set up help and support infrastructure to be able to manage the disease. ♪ paul: when i was younger, i never knew what sickle cell was. i just knew, like, sometimes my sisters would just wake up in pain at night. lea: throughout my battle with sickle cell, my brother paul has always been my rock.

now he's at my side again and i take on my biggest challenge yet. lea: with my brother's help, i plan to fight through my illness and run the nairobi half marathon. paul: when it comes to sickle cell, they're encouraged against getting tired. ah, nice. i also knew that when she bites into something, she doesn't let go. (speaking in native language).

lea: the marathon idea came, came into my mind when i was like, "i need to do something." i need to do something to, to physically show that i can, i can do it like someone with sickle cell can do it. my doctor has cautioned against running the marathon. it could trigger a crisis and bring on severe complications. but i am determined to do it, not just for me. ♪ 80 million of us suffer with this disease across africa. we have to believe. the other day was telling one of my sickle cell advocates in nigeria that i am doing the marathon. but she was like she was like she was very, very upset.

she was like, "no, no, sickle cell patients have this thing of saying they can do this. you cannot do a marathon, lea, please, you cannot." so of course i can, of course i can, and i will. so yeah, i want to do that, not to show her because yes, i have a chip on my shoulder but, i want to live a normal life. i want to do these things that i want to do. i want to see where my body can, can, can stretch to, yeah, without snapping, of course. ♪ for my training, i'm going back to my hometown, taveta. it's also the place where i think i can make the biggest difference for thousands of people living with the disease.

♪ in taveta, almost a quarter of the population have the sickle cell gene, but those living with the disease receive very little support. (speaking in native language). i join a local group as they prepare to march on a nearby hospital and demand better services for sickle cell patients. we go to the local hospital to protest.

lea: albert is the leader of this group. like so many other parents of children with sickle cell, he has suffered from the stigma and poverty that surrounds the disease. but he is determined to find a solution. ♪ (singing in native language) ♪ ♪ (singing in native language) ♪ albert was one of the first people i met, and he was one of the few who really spoke to me. like the passion, like this was one of the parents

that i saw who did not feel the shame or the stigma of sickle cell. ♪ (singing in native language) ♪

lea: i know how destructive the myths surrounding sickle cell can be, especially in rural areas. a lot of communities we attribute sickle cell to ancestral curses, witchcraft. this is okay. this is a situation for any unknown thing in a community. people form their own stories around them. so i had to go and tell people that sickle cell is, is not, witchcraft is not, it's not ancestral curses. it's something that we can solve.

(speaking in native language). but slowly things are beginning to change. i organized a meeting hoping the community might come out. i needn't have worried. (birds chirping). (speaking in native language).

(speaking in native language). lea: with the community behind us, albert and i decide to join forces and up our game. ♪

lea: albert and i scour the community, finding more and more people that have sickle cell in their families. many of them in dire need of medicine. i soon realized the true scale of the problem and how desperately that people in taveta need access to quality, affordable care. majority of people who earn less than $1 a day or $2 a day will not sacrifice the meal of the home to buy this expensive medicine. it's either the meal or the medicine.

geoff: good evening. i'm gef bennett. amna: and i'm amna nawaz. on the newshour tonight. arizona's supreme court upholds a civil war-era abortion law, effectively banning the procedure in the state. geoff: congressman mike johnson fights to remain house speaker among a divided republican party. amna: and reconciliation and il