argentinean politicians now really vote to change strict abortion laws after a bitter debate that's divided a country heavily influenced by the catholic church. the logs the roman you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes all eyes on moscow the first football world cup to take place in eastern europe kicks off in less than an hour. touring asian capitals america's top diplomat warns of risks to peace efforts with north korea unless they maintain sanctions pressure. and more turbulence for british engine maker rolls royce says it cut almost five thousand jobs.

of the program politicians in argentina's congress have approved by a handful of votes to allow women to choose to have an abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy from. the measure passed to the lower house by one hundred thirty one votes for two one hundred twenty three against it faced huge resistance from the catholic church in what the homeland which is the homeland of pope francis the legislation now goes to the senate currently argentina only allows abortion in cases of rape or risks to a woman's health our correspondent to research is actually following events horse farm boy and as i raise she's outside congress right now a hugely significant decision for argentina.

it's a shame because it's the first time that are going on congress to say for sure not to falsify the legal i think it can be criminalizing abortion because this is a country where a woman could have before you did in fact you know having had a course and i think. we have seen women flying outside congress putting together their silly shows that something like this has happened we still have to wait to see what happens in the senate which is going to be a much bigger battle because many of the senators opposed that legalizing abortion but this is exactly the same thing i mean that we thought we want to go when pressed and now do you feel markey all right conflict started baiting this issue and then over seven hundred people started expressing their view about abortion and that it's been many of the lawmakers that initially would have voted against well that's exactly what happened i mean they voted in favor and actually for now i can

find congress has voted to legalize abortion they still think back of the head that's what women's rights are saying here on the street in terms of the debate to riza how divisive has it been in the weeks and months leading up to this debate whether it be between men and women families liberals and conservatives believe as of the face of a not. twenty two in a very divisive issue because this is a catholic country and what we have seen is mostly the catholic church also taking to the streets trying to compare young people we have to for example the preacher said we're. talking to people to poor people come they think them take to the streets and this not forget this is brand country this is where the whole could come so the pressure has been even higher we have heard some great saying that they do not want to upset the pope and that's why they did it again legalizing abortion

in the congress both in a very divisive issue but you know it's also accomplished some incredible way to unite different parties different political parties in what they call the which was basically to legalize abortion in a country what happened millions can decide of options are carried out everywhere for when i die because of who i do the wrong places kindly i would say they're not hygenic or safe and got off the topic because they also have the risk of being in prison because if they're if you are having had an abortion or for them i will leave the trees and wait for more reaction certainly from across the social spectrum there in argentina on the significant decision to really legalize abortion within the first fourteen weeks thank you.

thanks. the wait is almost over for millions of fans will be watching all over the world less than an hour from now the twenty eight thousand feet for world cup begins in russia these are live pictures coming in from moscow the opening match will see the host nation russia face saudi arabia a battle between two of the lowest ranked teams in the told him and it's also a chance for fever and president putin to turn a new page after years of corruption and doping charges levied at russia as well as its deteriorating relations with many western countries that's cross over to our sports correspondent lee wellings in moscow politics perhaps aside the atmosphere must be amazing there at the moment. less than an hour from kickoff now so they say is the time of highest exciting the wife of a side many years that is now years have been blighted by the politics how did the

world cup arrive in basra in the first place you go back to two thousand and ten and the controversial faith amazing with a corrupt executive committee and out of that cops. did in the past the guys to russia that's finally taken place seven and a half years later and now it's finally about the people here and how excited and proud and finally it will be about the football but still this tournament while the focus on the people enjoying it will certainly have its critics russia will have its critics in many different areas whether it's sports and doug payne of course was something there's been a mention of what happened in such in four years ago whether it's directed internationally there will be critics and bori chalons has moments i tell a. the fans are arriving at football chancer reverberating around city squares one of the biggest sporting parties in the world is upon us once again.

it was eight years ago that fever announced the two thousand and eighteen host would be russia amid allegations of corruption in the world cup bidding process nevertheless by the mayor putin was pleased enough to accept with a rare speech in english been ordered to leave in the east and when fine. you can make it work. when you will come but eventually we'll get. to that it is still. world cup moments is now here russian business news site had a big car estimates the full cost fourteen point two billion dollars and for that gets a chance to generate some much needed goodwill for the country because internationally russia has something of a reputation problem the annexation of crimea and the war in eastern ukraine the sports doping scandal allegations a russian interference in the foreign elections the poisoning of

a former spy and his daughter in england all these and more the list of perceived transgressions is long enough that political analyst under a kolesnikov suspects any world cup image boost will be limited to the home front. it's extremely important to to make such a gift to a domestic audience but for foreign audience russia will not change its image as a toxic toxic paul or toxic country. because there were so many events of other kinds that even the good organization of. can change its income sure. but as he spoke at the feet of congress on wednesday putin made it clear hosting the world cup isn't just about pleasing russians or international politics it's about giving visit is the best impression of russia to. gold is that

all our guests from football stars to simple fans feel the hospitality in cordiality about people that they learn the authentic multinational culture and unique nature of russia and that they would like to come back to us again it's something he's tried before four years ago russia hosted the winter olympics in sochi the region was flooded with cash to smarten it up for all the visitors for the world cup that's been done on a much wider scale in total eleven world cup cities have received investment money from the huge metropolises of moscow and st petersburg the smaller cities like. and some model the aim is to get fans and money to parts of the country far off the usual tourist trail. making sure visitors get a russian experience is something that's filtered into the choice of this year's official world cup instrument see these. and there are not dates on the plate in traditional russian folk music the sound of a full stadium banging these together. it's something you're going to hear

a lot of in the weeks to come. but for visitors to have the best possible time here of course involves keeping them safe at the european championship two years ago in france violent clashes between english and russian fans were broadcast around the world since then russian police have come down hard on local hooligans they want no repeat of such violence here and you're a security measures such as a strictly controlled id system are in place to prevent bombs and other attacks for among the eyes of the world will be on russia everything has to go smoothly rory chalons al jazeera. well of course the eyes of the world are certainly on russia but they're also poland who might be the favorite sport i'm always quite a fan of the underdog as well who do you think is going to do well. but i love a story covering the world cup in brazil four years ago who really could have

predicted that costa rica who in such a tough break could have not only got through that group but went over the wire through and so the calls upon is that i lost on penalty kicks the netherlands who's going to do that this time you know one day i'm going to stick my neck out again i don't think it will be iceland the smallest team in the tournament that many a population of three hundred thirty thousand but i don't think they're going to do it this time if they do i should be delighted to be proved wrong i've got more. disruptive in a group with spine in portugal i think one of. my no. expected so you ways look at the big days and this is going to be winning that's all about seems like brazil spine despite all that this option about them i suppose you call this so germany will be deprived of that. so difficult to make friends and i mean how belgium because they've got all the talent in the world but i haven't really proven it yet on the biggest stage will this be by. talk about qualified to say

well leave just broken my heart because i actually pulled out iceland out of the house here in the news room so i did the i can never speak to you again maybe tomorrow instead thanks a lot but. be willing to moscow for a weather check now is next and then the saudi led coalition keeps up its assault on yemen's largest sport to head off a un meeting and leave their girl behind the new initiative to ensure teen moms continue their education across africa to stay with us here and i'll just. have further flooding concerns into the southeast of china was seems a very yappy right into guangdong province phone from last week's tropical storm

and you save some more very very wet and windy weather piling in here over the last twenty four hours or so and there will be further spells of rain as we go on through the next twenty four hours you see the flooding conditions for some really nasty set out there as said there is for the rain to come large hail as well mixed in here with the foundry downpours. responsible for it we have the potential for another tropical system developing in the south china seas and then just on the other side of taiwan to the east of taiwan we have another tropical storm before make its way further north was the two well they do kind of join up you can see this line a very heavy rain in across the region further heavy downpours here then and you can start to see a circulation developing as well know the puzzle the philippines will see some very heavy rain hopefully as we go into saturday dust had a little drier into the southeastern corner of china y.b. rain continuing into the funnel thing east of india me and ma still seeing some big down pause as

a situation across northeastern india and the rains are set to continue in the coming days.

welcome back you're watching over there is news and our whole robert these are our top stories politicians. web server approved by handful of votes to allow women to choose to have an abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy it faced huge resistance from the catholic church in what is the home loan of pope francis the legislation now goes to the senate. is a live shots coming out of moscow russia where the way to be able for millions of fans will be watching all over the world in forty five minutes the twenty eight hundred for world cup begins in russia the opening match will see the host nation russia face saudi arabia. and the u.s. secretary of state says china has reaffirmed its commitment to sanctions on north korea following the singapore summit between donald trump and kim jong on my pump is in beijing and he's discussing the details of cheese day summit with chinese

president xi jinping china which is north korea's largest trading partner signed up to un sanctions against pyongyang last year after a series of nuclear and missile tests on choose day it hinted those sanctions could be eased following the trump kim talks japan the republic of korea and china have all acknowledged that we have turned the corner that we've begun a process away from the threat of war and towards peace on the peninsula. each of those three countries to as acknowledge the importance of the work the president trump is undertaking and the commitments that chairman kim has made towards that very and to achieve that denuclearization from slowly has more from beijing. the trumpet ministrations position is they believe it was the tougher sanctions that forced north korea to the negotiating table and getting north china support in

enforcing these sanctions is going to be crucial when it comes to denuclearize ation but as we've seen there might be a slight divergence in views and also we've also seen the chinese foreign ministry saying on the same day that the summit took place that perhaps this was time to reconsider sanctions relief on north korea suggesting that the two may not be on the same page when it comes to this that might from pale was very quick to say that the chinese chinese however have reaffirmed their commitment to denuclearize asian and that they have agreed that these sanctions may be revisited at an appropriate time but that but the u.s. considers the appropriate time to be when there is complete denuclearization on the korean peninsula well earlier was in solver he was keen to straight not only who have disagreements and confusion among america's key asian allies follows donald trump's pledge to joint military exercises along the korean peninsula as when he reports. after the hype of the summit with the sworn enemy came the explanation to

the allies america's top diplomat mike pompei i met with south korean president in seoul before a trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of south korea and japan which provided an opportunity to show unity on the issue of north korea the u.s. alliances with these two countries are absolutely ironclad the declaration signed by u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un in singapore was vague there was no detail about how denuclearization will be achieved north korean state media suggested that the two leaders had agreed to similar taney s actions suggesting pyongyang could be rewarded along the way michael says that's not the case thanks and you cannot take place until such time as we have demonstrated that north korea has been completely immune of course despite not being told in advance south korea's foreign minister says donald trump's decision to unilaterally end

joint military exercises wasn't discussed in detail in thursday's meeting north korea believes the drills are a rehearsal for an invasion but the united states and its allies have always said that defense of japan says it's been assured by the u.s. that they suspend is contingent on progress on denuclearization but tokyo is still concerned about the possible implications chris earning us are ok exercise we believe about japan u.s. alliance as well as. deterrence based on them play an essential role in security in the norse used ajor south korean seem to be generally positive about what they saw in singapore they believe it's a step in the right direction but with something is significant is joint military exercises with the u.s. being given up soon want to know what north korea will do in return at the moment that seems to be very little if anything at all. while the diplomats were meeting

old adverse reis walked side by side in the demilitarized zone separating the two koreas this was the first high level meeting between the militaries in more than ten years in a sign that practical progress is being made but until concrete changes see north of the border doubts will remain about the commitment to keep promises that have been broken so many times before when hey al-jazeera seoul the un security council's to hold an emergency session on yemen where the biggest battle in the three year long war is underway a military offensive by government forces and a saudi ever r.t. coalition threatens to worsen a humanitarian crisis troops loyal to present that are bomb and so had the and coalition warplanes and ships are targeting positions south of the port of her data it's part of an operation to take the city from here to rebels who have controlled it since twenty fourteen the red sea port is an important point of entry for aid now the u.s.

ambassador to the united nations in geneva says there are ships on standby to supply your data after their military operation and. we have this in the plant did it in when we liberated the advent and then is population. then the data. being very will and even. just. see with ink so. we have very we're very well organized and we are ready to do. every as is the nz. did you know a. visiting fellow at brookings doha center she says yemenis outside the country and western powers need to speak up if a political solution is to be found to end the war. it's highly unlikely that the battle for her. will draw the war closer to an end and it's because supposing that

there will be a successful sort of military takeover of data many questions remain what will happen to other parts of the country you know what will happen to who will run her data what will happen to you know the deep divides among among yemenis i think that you know it's important to recognize that who sees as as a political actor as they were back in two thousand and thirteen fourteen it's crucial as a port for aid. but you know the these have demonstrated in the past that they know how to bounce back and so i am skeptical that the battle for his data will be decided as decisive as as the actors say and as we've seen there have been conflicting sort of statements coming for example of the u.s. secretary of state might prompt a oh apparently with martin griffiths the u.n. special envoy just last month said that they agreed you know to push for the escalation and a political solution but i doubt that this battle for had they done would have went ahead without support from the u.s. and u.k.

and so on and so there needs to be a unified a more unified political solution presented by yemenis themselves but also by these international actors who are who have been largely complicit. the u.n. here him and rights chief has called for an international inquiry into the region of kashmir over alleged violations over the last two years divided between india and pakistan both countries claim it's in full victoria gay can be explains. in indian administrate kashmir soldier is a combing the area for separatist fighters who they say shot and killed their colleague last week. it's the latest military operation in a dispute that's lasted more than seventy years and twice ended in war. during the last two years the un has investigated allegations of human rights abuses in kashmir and found fault on both sides. of the un human rights chief

ziad rod how hussein says india has used excessive force in response to anti india protests and accuses pakistan of misusing its anti terror legislation to quash dissent now he's calling for an investigation into allegations mass graves have been found in the kashmir valley this report is the first ever issued by the un on the human rights situation in. pakistan administered kashmir details rights violations and abuses on both sides of the line of control and it highlights a situation of chronic impunity for violations committed by security forces. pakistan says it welcomes the un's proposal for an international inquiry into human rights abuses but a spokesman for the indian ministry of external affairs said in a statement india rejects the report it is fallacious tendentious and motivated would question the intent in bringing out such

a report. the un human rights chief says he met with representatives of both governments when there was an increase in violence in july twenty sixth that was triggered. by the death of rebel leader. neither government agreed to the un's request for unconditional access to kashmir so the un began remote monitoring of the region that ended a few months ago and the final report makes uncomfortable reading for both india and pakistan. victoria gay to be out there to african our tens of thousands of pregnant girls and teenage mothers across the continent often denied banned and even discouraged from going to school human rights watch is calling on governments to impose policies that allow students to stay in school while the pregnant return after giving birth i am a judge and reports though from kenya's capital nairobi. when angela found out she

was pregnant her father said there was no need for her to continue her education but the twenty year old mother from western kenya as mcgorry county says she was determined to stay in school. i would run back home to feed my son during lunch break and then come back to school to study encouraged by her principal and her mother angela didn't quit. these these two men with their children then they grew up in for one level not rejected by society other young mothers in the gory county weren't nearly as lucky. so i did not go back to school because no one gave me any advice and then when my mother told me there was no more money to pay for my school fees side have to stay a time a report from human rights watch says laws attitudes and cultural values in some african countries can keep pregnant girls and adolescent mothers from continuing their education what we're calling on all the african union governments to do is to adopt reentry policies to ensure that pregnant girls i know that the mothers can go

back to school like governments to reinforce the fact that girls have a right to education that you know a school official can discriminate against martinez tells us kenya is among a group of twenty six african countries. it does have school reentry policies for young mothers in place but says those policies are not implemented in the same way that often a lot of school officials are not aware of these policies others do accommodate girls in schools out of the goodwill of well but when talking about the policy a lot of our partners and other going to stations that actually there is fair little awareness according to the report barriers remain in all countries while some countries are making progress human rights watch says there are others like tanzania sierra leone equitorial guinea that still banned pregnant girls in teenage mothers from attending public schools how much improvement is it iraq. rolls royce has announced it will cut nearly four thousand six hundred jobs mostly in the united kingdom and its latest effort to save money the british engine maker expects

the cars to free up more than five hundred million dollars a year by the end of twenty twenty but it's a tricky time for rolls royce it's been having problems with the jet engines it makes for boeing seven hundred seventeen liner this has forced planes to be grounded for inspections angering lines five thousand jobs were previously slashed after a series of profit warnings in twenty fourteen paul brennan has more from the rolls royce office in london. in some ways this is a natural progression from january's restructuring announcement in which the chief executive warren east said he was changing rolls royce from five distinct business units down to three and the job losses that he is expecting to make over the next two years reflect the cutting of middle management he says it's necessary to provide a more streamlined and more efficient rolls royce and to remove the kind of duplication the other thing is a potential casualty could be the building behind me which is rolls royces corporate headquarters in central london warren east wants to do is devolve

a lot of the decision making powers out to those three new business units and potentially move from this headquarters to a smaller more cost effective headquarters somewhere in north london as far as the reaction goes with the city reaction has been quite positive rolls royce shares bounced ninety three percent up on the news of the restructuring the unions though they're concerned they are worried that the cuts when they come may be too deep and that's expertise may be lost but that said they are reassured by a deal that was done last june. a deal with rolls royce that said there would be no engineering job losses and that promise was made by warren east in his statement to shareholders today he said there would be no compulsory redundancies among the uni . that. india's prime minister has released a you tube exercise video which he hopes will help reduce obesity there and remote he described his morning routine of yoga poses brisk walking and stretching as

refreshing and rejuvenating the sixty seven year old vegetarian also championed meditation and breathing exercises. your geology is there i'm still raman these are our top stories in argentina's congress approved by a handful of votes to allow women to choose to have an abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy it faced huge resistance from the catholic church in what the is the homeland of pope francis the legislation now goes to the senate. also they have been several nouvel russia's football world cup has just begun in moscow fans are cheering on the streets as you can see from these live pictures and billions more watching all over the globe the first match in under thirty minutes will be between the home side and saudi arabia. the u.s.

secretary of state says china has reaffirmed its commitment to sanctions on north korea following the singapore summit between donald trump and kim jong un like pompei it is in beijing where he'll discuss the details of cheese day summit with chinese president xi jinping china which is north korea's largest trading partner signed up to un sanctions against pyongyang last year after a series of nuclear missile tests on tuesday it hinted those sanctions could be eased following the trouble kim talks. japan and the republic of korea now china have all acknowledged that we have turned the corner that we have begun a process away from the threat of war and towards peace on the peninsula. each of those three countries to as acknowledge the importance of the work the president trump is undertaken and the commitments that chairman kim has made towards that very and to achieve that denuclearization. meanwhile the two koreas of hell the

first time level military talks in more than a decade it happened in the northern side of the border. the un security council's told an emergency session on yemen where the biggest battle in the three year long war is underway a military offensive by government forces and a saudi and the rotty coalition threatens to worsen a humanitarian crisis troops loyal to president of the rebel and so had the and coalition warplanes as well as ships are talking positions south of the port of the data it's part of an operation to take the city from who the rebels who've controlled it since twenty fourteen those were the headlines the stream is next to stay with us. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures of course of the world . so no matter where you call home i'll just bring you the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera.

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