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♪ i'm caitríona perry in washington and this is "bbc world news america." the u.s. signs a security pact with ukraine as european leaders agree to use frozen russian assets to fund ukrainian defense. the u.s. supreme court rejects the removal of approval for metro tone. donald trump goes to capital --mifepristone. donald trump goes to capitol hill the first time since his supporters rioted on january 6, 2021. ♪ caitríona: hello, welcome to "world news america." we started in italy, where the u.s. in ukraine have signed a ten-year security deal.

the pact will include intelligence sharing and investment in the industrial base to make more weapons. the g7 itself approved a $50 billion loan plan to fund the repelling of the russian invasion. the loan is secured on interest $300 billion on frozen central bank assets. russia says the decision violates international law, calling it a theft. the g7 is sending a message that they are determined to find a way to support ukraine. on the sidelines of the summit, the ukrainian president is meeting with world leaders to continue to try to shore up support for his cash-strapped country. ukraine has just received a vital financial lifeline, and the country has need of more security assistance and is looking for assurances from the most powerful leaders in the world. here is what joe biden and his ukrainian counterpart set about their new pack. >> our goal is to increase the

ukrainian defense deterrence capabilities for the long-term. the lasting peace for ukraine must be underwritten by their own ability to defend themselves now and future aggression anytime in the future. the united states can help ensure that ukraine can do both. not by sending american troops to fight their, but by providing weapons. >> thank you, mr. president, for your leadership in the g7 decision on the loan for ukraine . it is a vital step forward in providing sustainable support for ukraine and in winning this war. caitríona: a diplomatic correspondent, james landau, sent this update. james: many of the g7 leaders are facing electoral troubles at home. no guarantee they will all be here next year. today they try to agree on a package of measures of support for ukraine that will last for the long-term term.

potentially after they are out of office. now, the center of that was this idea of using frozen russian assets to try to generate a loan for ukraine worth as much as $50 billion using the interest that all of those russian assets are generating to pay off the new loan in a technical, complicated deal. of course, there are problems with this. the detail on the russian assets , still not entirely clear who is going to bear the risk. still not entirely clear where the loans will be generated. so, there is a bit more detail to be negotiated and some officials say it is still not entirely clear when the cash will actually reach ukraine. caitríona: here in washington, donald trump visited capitol hill to meet with lawmakers to discuss his agenda for a second term if he wins the election in november. it is first trip back to the hill since his supporters

attacked the capital january 6, 2021. speaking at a press conference earlier, the presumptive nominee vowed to address border insecurity if reelected. >> what's happening to the country is of great concern to the group of people standing alongside of me and i just wanted to say that we have great unity, great common sense, uh, a lot of smart people, and a lot of people that love our country. they love our country beyond just about all else. caitríona: responding to the visit, nancy pelosi said donald trump comes to capitol hill with the same mission of dismantling democracy. he has created shame and our hollow halls. >> telus a bit about the atmosphere was like at the meeting.

donald trump said there was great unity in the room, but we have seen attacks on the speaker from others within your party in recent weeks and months. >> yes, he said to marjorie that it was all fun and games. then he went on to say what a great job she had been doing and how she would show up at events for him across the country and how the crowd just loved her and the great work she was doing. i heard from different members of the media about that. i was in the room. i didn't feel that there were any attacks. it was a unified message. the president and i asked a question and he called me by my name. tim, you could hear the presidents voice. you do a great job telling us what's wrong in the world and in the country. $600 more. $600 more out of the pocket

under joe biden we are building a wall. we are stopping the mexican government from dumping their prisons into our country and he did a great job of articulating what have to happen there. he had that under control. the price of fuel. just on and on. in the back of my mind i'm thinking here is the left and the left media saying there are more oil wells permitted under biden than at any time in history. i don't know if that is true or not, but the problem is they won't permit the delivery system, the pipelines if you will, for drinking out of it. this will stick close to a fire hose because of our consumption of energy. the president never goes on any script. his memory is beyond reproach as

far as naming names and times and dates. he would pick out just random members and he would stop and say -- you remember such and such? it was very trumpesque. i was pleased to be there and i felt positive about the meeting. caitríona: this was the first time that the former president had been back around capitol hill since the insurrection of january 6, 2021. you were there that day, one of the last people out of the chamber. he has said that he would consider pardoning all of those involved that day. do you think they should be pardoned? >> he was considering it and some of them i do. you had the black lives matter is riots across the country. millions of dollars destroyed. police cars overturned. lives ended. federal courthouses literally ransacked but no convictions whatsoever. yet you see these people --

yeah, they were bad people in the bunch and some that got caught up in the moment. the left, january 6 is their only issue. honestly, do you think that some guy with buffalo horns was going to take over the united states? i doubt that. caitríona: today we had the supreme court ruling throwing out the case of those challenging access to the abortion pill mifepristone. did mr. trump address that ruling? afterwards he said that we agree on just about everything, but was there a discussion about what the agreed-upon republican position should be on abortion heading into the elections? >> he talked about the abortion and roe v. wade was not a good -- good written law or unanimous when passed by the supreme court many decades ago. so, he talked about exceptions, whether it be rape, incest, or the life of the mother, and he

talked about that personally, like you have your own conscience and that's the way you should go. he also said, and it was correct, when they overturned roe v. wade and sent it back to the states, that was one of the sermons of the left. when they did, they all started hollering that the states are deciding and it's wrong, should be federal. you can't have it both ways. they got these groups. it's just like the term limits game. i've never even been called by a term limits lobbyists. i've seen these newsletters and they say send me $50. again, it sort of like the tv show finding big. if they found bigfoot, there would be a tv show. caitríona: there was agreement from the former president and yourself about what the official republican platform should be?

>> well, he has his position and i have mine. i believe life begins at conception. the supreme court ruling on the medication, it's not medicine, it's just a way to end a life, actually. i think that the supreme court, it's wrong. it's a medicine or a drug used to end a life. i don't see that being any shape, form, or fashion what the pharmaceutical industry should be in. caitríona: we have heard from medical professionals that the drug has other uses as well. in milwaukee, there will be a convention to formally declare him as the nominee and it has been reported that in the meeting trump described

milwaukee has a horrible city. what did you hear him say? >> he talked about crime in major cities and that's what he was alluding to, various crimes in these large democrat-controlled cities and it needs to be called out. look at chicago. we worry about ukraine? we should be worried about our own backyard, these big cities. that's exactly what he was calling out. caitríona: u.s. supreme court justices have unanimously refused a bid to restrict access to the abortion drug mifepristone. the most common method of terminating pregnancies in the united states. the court decided that the plaintiffs, the group of antiabortion doctors and activists did not have the right to sue. it doesn't change the status that medical abortion remains illegal in 14 states with near-total bands on abortion. here's the reaction from vice president kamala harris. >> this is not a cause for

celebration. the reality of certain things is still not going to change. we are looking at the fact that two thirds of women of reproductive age in north big -- nor america live in a state with a trump abortion ban. this ruling is not going to change that. it won't change the fact that trump's allies have a plan that, if all else fails, to a limited medication abortion through executive action. so, we must remain clear eyed about the threats to reproductive freedom in america and we must remain vigilant. caitríona: to discuss just what the supreme court decided today, i'm joined by amy, our supreme court reporter. essentially, the supreme court throughout the case, saying the parties had no standing. how did they come to that conclusion? amy: so, standing is a legal right to sue and to bring a legal suit in the united states

you have to be injured by the thing you are complaining about and you have to be able to trace the injury to the defendant. brett kavanaugh writing for the court said that the plaintiffs in the case couldn't make that showing. they had a couple of different arguments for why they had a right to sue and they were complicated arguments. the main was although they were not required as doctors to prescribe it to anyone, some of them worked in the emergency room and they might be required to treat women who had obtained mifepristone from someone else, suffered complications that are extremely rare, and then come into the emergency room seeking treatment and they would have to provide treatment like an abortion to these women, even though it would violate their conscience. justice kavanaugh said, writing for the court, that this was just too attenuated a sequence of events. the defendants had not went into a circumstance in which it had happened and in particular there

were federal laws protecting doctors opposed to abortions from having to provide them in situations like this. caitríona: this was a unanimous decision, pretty rare in the supreme court, particularly on anything that has to do with abortion or reproductive rights. it's not because they didn't get into the substance of the issue at hand should mark amy: -- at hand? amy: exactly right. it sort of kicks the can down the road. for the liberal justices it preserves the access to mifepristone already in place. for the conservative justices if you look at it cynically, it kicks the can down the road in an election year in which reproductive rights are such an important focus of presidential campaigns. particularly when there is the possibility that the issue could come back to the supreme court or mifepristone access could be rolled back and some other way.

there are a couple of states -- idaho, kansas, missouri, that have sought to join the case. they would be able to perhaps assert infant injuries, say that they have standing even if the plaintiffs did not. and then as the vice president said, in a trump administration, the second one, perhaps the fda or president trump could take action to restrict it. caitríona: speaking of political matters, there were some pointed comments in the judgment regarding how people are taking cases and looking for issues to bring before the court. caitríona: yes -- amy: yes, this was a case brought to judge kaczmarek in texas, the trial judge, the only one in amarillo. the plaintiffs in this case filed the case there knowing that he would be the judge who would almost certainly review the case. and then when he actually not

only ruled that the fda was wrong to rollback the access to mifepristone, he ruled that they were wrong to approve it in the first place. and then the case went to the federal appeals court in louisiana, the conservative court that agreed with judge kaczmarek on rolling back the access. so, that is why the court agreed to weigh in. caitríona: ok, lots of interesting material there and lots more supreme court cases to come. i'm sure that we will be talking to you again and not too long. thanks for joining us. amy: thanks for having me. caitríona: has bala long -- hezbollah launched a new rocket attack towards israel, saying they are targeting military sites. it's the second major branch launched in 24 hours in retaliation for their killing of a senior has bala commander.

israel says that most of the rocket syndromes were intercepted by air defenses, though some hit open areas, igniting fires. a spokesperson hinted that further escalation in the region could be imminent. >> whether through diplomatic efforts or otherwise, israel will restore security on our northern border. israel will respond with force to all aggressions by has bala. lebanon and has bala under the guidance of iran bear full responsibility to the deterioration of the security situation in the north. caitríona: speaking in italy, president biden said that he is not confident a cease-fire deal will be reached but that he hasn't lost hope and added that hamas has to move. this comes after antony blinken said that some proposals are not

workable and hamas official said those changes included the ability to select a list of palestinians, 100, to be released from israeli prisons. the un security council called for an immediate and to fighting in northstar for in avis used city. the sudanese civil war has led to the mass displacement of civilians, driving 9 million from their homes in just over one year. a record 120 million people globally have been forced to leave their homes this year because of violence or persecution according to the u.n. refugee agency. syria remains the largest displacement isis in the world, with nearly 14 million people they are unable to return home. u.n. says refugee numbers have tripled from a decade ago and 40% of the refugees into thousand 23 were children, most of them displaced by conflict and violence. >> we see a record number of displaced people largely due to

the 10 million in sudan. talk to us a bit about the circumstances forcing people to flee their homes. >> the overall numbers are 100 20 million people forcibly displaced globally. that's a huge number. to put it in context, it's around the size or the equivalent of the size of the population of japan. if you consider that that is the number displaced, why is it happening? it's happening because there are long-standing wars that remain unresolved and have been going on in many cases for decades. and then there are more recent conflicts and densification's of those conflicts. on top of that, we have climate change, which is an exacerbating factor. when you put those things together and you have the failure by the international community to create the conditions for peacemaking, that has really, in short that's the

reason you have had this increase and we have had those increases for 12 straight years. so, it is becoming upsetting the regular. caitríona: based on what you are saying, these conflicts are so long-running, unfortunately, with climate change factors continuing. would you expect the numbers to rise again over the next year? >> it's quite possible. if you take the situation in sudan, it has created over 10 million displaced people. if we take that conflict to the side, we would probably be more or less unchanged from a couple of years, 18 months ago. if you can make peace in certain situations and get people to return home who are displaced, you have a chance of bringing the numbers down. when you look at the big crises in places like afghanistan, syria, yemen, venezuela, sudan, democratic republic of the

congo, myanmar, so on, peace in those countries would have a good chance of bringing the numbers down. however, we are not there and we are not even close. looking at ukraine, syria, sudan, going on for so long now, none of these are close to seeing significant returns of refugees. you can see temporary movement, sometimes people go back for a short while and have to flee again. unfortunately, we are not there yet and until that happens, sadly the numbers will he prizing. caitríona: that's an important point. many of these people are displaced for several years. it's not a short-term situation. is there a prospect, do you think, for people to ever return home? >> well, people do return home. this last year there were 6 million people who return home. what's unfortunate is that when you look at the number of people displaced, that far outstrips those numbers.

netted out, there is net forced displacement. you do see situations sometimes in africa, parts of latin america, where they go home and some numbers. unfortunately in the last year, many of the returns have actually not been safe returns. you have seen some returns within ukraine. but we all know that the situation there is extremely volatile. it's not safe. you have seen the returns of those from within sudan and it's not a safe return. these people would not have returned if they didn't have to. so, what we would like to see and work with with partners is to create the conditions in different regions for that prospect, those conditions for people to be able to return safely. that means stability and security, the potential for a future and the potential for a livelihood. caitríona: what role do you see

the various governments or indeed the entire international community having to do to make a better situation for people? >> first of all, it's about creating the conditions for peace to bring them together around the table in places like sudan, because of course, ukraine. it's very important to make efforts to try to do that. some efforts are ongoing and other situations are much less out. what else is important is to address the root causes of why people move. because refugees move because of the conflict of war and migrants move to get a better life for themselves, it's a complicated situation. they often move together in tandem and that can create problems and concerns for countries. those keen to work with those countries, the host countries where the refugees and migrants move across continents to be there at the different places where they are to provide assistance and options, either

to restart their lives in certain situations or be able to return home or help other countries with asylum-seekers. asylum-seekers have become backlogged. to speed the process, all along the chain you can see much more could be done to try to alleviate this problem. caitríona: that was matthew saltmarsh, global spokesperson for the u.n. refugee agency, speaking to me earlier. an incredibly rare white bison calf and the birth of a white flow is a sacred event for many native american tribes who see it as a religious prophecy heralding major change. the event to celebrate the arrival is planned in west yellowstone for later on this month. you can keep up to date with all of today's news on our website, bbc.com/news, or check us out on your favorite social

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♪ geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. amna: and i'm amna nawaz. on the “newshour” tonight, in a win for reproductive rights advocates, the supreme court unanimously votes to protect access to the abortion pill mifepristone. geoff: the latest on the war in