and fire when they go africa direct on al jazeera, there are some of the media stories, a critical look at the global news media spread on al jazeera government shuttle access to social media. ah. the u. s. supreme court launches an investigation vance after a late document reveal justices is considering scrapping. a landmark abortion hello, i'm emily. ang, when this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up, women, children, and the elderly arrive in the ukrainian controlled city of separation. after spending almost 2 months trapped under ground at the besieged steel works in marion

home. it's about good versus evil. that is why ukraine must wit britton's prime minister video links with members of parliament in ukraine and pledges $375000000.00 in military aid to help to fate. russia fighting between hindus and muslims in india. kirk is imposed in charge per and the internet is cut off as religious tension oil sofa. ah, we begin with the threat to remove the rise of an american woman to have an abortion. the u. s. chief justice has confirmed a late draft decision about abortion rights is authentic, and he's ordered an investigation. document suggests the where supreme court will

scrap rosie wayne's u. s. president has urged congress to pass legislation protecting abortion rights. joe biden says, a woman's right to choose is fundamental. you know, if this decision whole is really quite a radical decision, it basically says all the decisions in your private life who, you know, whether or not you decide to conceive the child or not, whether not the voice in range of other decision whether or not how you raise your child, what is your school? does this mean that in florida they can decide they're going to pass a law in that same sex marriage is not permissible to against the law and learn a whole one to know? sure. and american truth from washington, paddy calhane hands move i thought it was very interesting the way he's trying to broaden out the coalition of people who could be against this decision. he's saying

basically, it's not just about abortion rights. this would open the floodgates for states to ban all sorts of things that are protected under the particular clause that just as a leader cited in his decision. so he saying could they ban gay marriage? could they then ban contraception that this open the floodgates? so what he's trying to do from a political perspective is really brought in the coalition of people who are going to come out to protest against this. he also said that he thinks that makes sense to codify this into law. that's going to be very difficult, right? now, because democrats is such a slim majority in the house and the senate, but that would in fact overturn the supreme court. overturning of roe v wade. that's something that they will look to do. but again, it's not clear if they could be able to do that without lifting the filibuster, so they have to have republicans on board. and that seems really unlikely for the political ramifications. this could be huge. polls show the majority of americans believe there should be some access to abortion within limits. democrats,

we're looking at a lot of headwinds in the mid terms. this is an issue that people on both sides care very deeply about. they will get, they will take to the streets, they will get to voter drives. this could help not, not certain, but it could help democrats retain power. and the president didn't say that when he was speaking of the press but in his state. and he said, this is why we need to elect pro choice candidates. so what is wrong? this is why and why does it matter so much in the us. let's take a look. rosie wade was a 973 supreme court ruling. it was the end point of a case brought in texas by a woman known by the student in rome, who wanted an abortion there, as with most other states, the time it was illegal, she sued the dallas county district attorney. henry wade, the case went through all the legal levels before the supreme court decided that women have the right to make their own medical decisions, including terminating a pregnancy that took precedence or the individual states laws. laura briggs is

a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, and regularly writes about reproductive politics. she says the push to restrict abortions was set in motion long ago. and nixon thought of the idea of politicizing the question of abortion in this way. and in order to win republican vote, but it's also clear that whoever leads this draft dissension intended that people should mobilize either to stark oil medication for medical portion or to get into the streets and, and get on the pages of the editorial pages of news magazine to newspapers and let the court know that the majority of american support, the outcome of roe v wade and legal abortion and the kind of bodily autonomy for pregnant people that represents what we know from the texas bounty law is the 90

percent of the people who are seeking abortions, got them anyway. so they cross state lines or they turned to medication abortion so they could do their own homes. and so what this car will do, what this particular ruling will do, is turn the question back to the state and about a dozen states across the south and midwest. her trigger was that will immediately set out to criminalize abortion. well, other states, like i'm here in massachusetts will protect the right and possibly even expand the right to abortion. ah, more than 100 people evacuated from the besieged city of mariposa several days ago have arrived safely in ukrainian how territory. thank load women and children have been hold up in the cities as of steel factory for several weeks and

a continuous rush and bombardment. that concerns are going for hundreds more civilians left behind. as ne backup reports they've been 3 weeks of untold. horace. in the bunkers and tunnels of the as of style still works and very awful. this is the 1st group of evacuees to make the perilous journey from russian controlled territory to the ukrainian controlled city of parisha. in the red cross united nations convoy. when you, when you might think, i know you don't understand how terrible it was. you fish in the bomb shelter in a wet basement and everything is shaking like that. and then when we could go up to the surface, i saw it for the 2nd time in a month, a huge crater, 15 meters wide. and who knows how deep i in the yes, the military did share things with our suppose it was the hours of battalion. so you can imagine what they said. we were told that nobody needed us. we felt

abandoned that we were nothing for the past month, supplies of food and water have been severely rational. adults going hungry for days to keep their children fed. this is a moment of huge relief. russia said some of icu ease have been taken to a village, controlled by moscow back separatists who would be allowed to travel to ukrainian held territory if they wanted. but fears a growing for those left behind in the confines of the steel works. soon after the departure of the 1st evacuated russian back forces resume their assault, firing rockets towards the plant, the mayor of mario pool says $200.00 civilians still remain trapped inside, including several dozen small children. as the last remaining area of the city, not under russian control, and the last refuge for hundreds of ukrainian troops who refused to surrender. the

rest of my reopen is in ruins. but around a 100000 people remain living amongst the rubble. he thought you come on when you lose me. the other 2 of us, tatiana push loan of are no longer flinches at the sound of exploding shells. lutheran tangible. you wake up in the morning and you cry, ye cry any evening. i don't know where to go. i am not alone here. imagine everything is destroyed. why should the people go now? here they are sitting with small kids. yes. my in the west of ukraine rushes launch renewed attacks on the port city of odessa, where ukrainian officials say a missile had a children's dormitory killing a 14 year old boy. missiles also struck a logistic center used to deliver foreign weaponry. russia so far failed to land troops in the city by sea,

but seizing odessa would give russia control of the whole of ukraine's black sea coast. need parker, i'll jazeera fighting is continuing it further. east of zapper is year where roches, assault is slow, it is slowly grinding forward. charles stratford is in back moat in easton, ukraine. we've been around the city of lissy chance today, a city that is suffering. an incredible bombardment of shelling this afternoon. indeed. drive up to all jay's horizon at $180.00 degrees. we could see various points where smoke was rising. an indication of villages and towns right the way across that region. suffering russian shilling. we know that there is close contact fighting in a number of these towns, notably, puzzler. we've been speaking to volunteer evacuation drivers in around that area. they have now stopped their evacuation efforts from plaza that follows the what we understand is the killing of one driver. and the kidnapping of another

. we're also getting reports from the town of the f that's close to done it. sc pro russian separate is controlled, donnette sk. there are reports of at least 10 people killed and 15 other injured after a shells landed on a coke plugged close to that city. now these coketown is considered to be the largest in europe. it employs thousands of people we were in that area yesterday. we were told that the coke plant was not operating to 100 percent capacity. it has stopped because of the war, not because of shelling, but we know that there were hundreds of people working there still to day and the source. she's saying that those casualty figures are expected to rise. we are also hearing reports from the military administration of new gangs province, that there are many towns and villages, right,

the way across the region where there is no electricity, no gas, unlimited running water, which of course, is a huge problem for the thousands of people either trapped inside these towns and villages, or who are still refusing to leave. britain's prime minister, meanwhile, has received a standing ovation from ukrainian members of parliament after telling them that the war with russia will be one forest. johnson also pledged to further $375000000.00 in military aid. he's the 1st world leader to video link with parliamentarians there. since the war began. your children and your grandchildren will say that ukrainians taught the world that the brute force of an aggressor counts for nothing against the moral force of the people determined to be free. they will say that ukrainians proved by their tenacity and sacrifice,

that guns and tanks cannot suppress a nation fighting for its independence. and that is why i believe, and i know that ukraine will, when you've proved the old say it's not, it's not the size of the dog in the fight. it's the size of the fight in the dog. and which is an old english saying i didn't really how well that translates into ukrainian, but you get what i'm trying to say. and as you turned the russian army back from the gates of kid, you not only accomplished one of the greatest feats of arms of the 20th century 21st century. you achieve something deeper and perhaps equally significant. you exposed the historic folly that putin has made. as nadine babble reports,

that speech went down extremely well with the crowning parliament. was very warmly received by the ukrainian parliament and president vladimir lensky who was also present in the chambers. he appeared on the screen via video link, there was a standing ovation, and some parliamentarians actually had british flags which they were holding up. and his message was, was a jewel one really firstly, it was the expected announcement of a further $375000000.00 or so in military aid, on top of around $250000000.00 of weaponry and so on. that's already been supplied . this is things like radar systems which can detect missiles and artillery projectiles. there are also special drones being provided that can actually carry supplies to ukrainian forces. and at least 13 ahmed vehicles,

which are going to be used to help in some places evacuate civilians who are on the front line or. busy stuck in places such as we've seen in mario polls. so this was an expected announcement, but new detail. beyond that though, the real thrust of it was boring. johnson expressing solidarity with the ukranian people comparing their plight to the plight of the british during the 2nd world. war saying that their resistance was heroic still ahead on al jazeera, local elections in the u. k. we look at how there will be the 1st major test for the prime minister. ah. hot and dusty still degree describes weather out of north east africa into the

middle east and the levant, but the hot and dusty stuff gets replaced by refreshes stuff as the wind changes around. so in gauss, of example, 32 degrees above the average on tuesday. we'll see the west is coming. i think later on today we're down to 22. so 10 degree drop by tommy get down to the more so that his tomorrow's picture more typically the hot and dusty is through southern egypt. saudi arabia, southern iraq as well now could well be dust storms that then the freshest off comes in. the heart is all moving slowly south. the winds aren't necessary that strong, but the dust is still hanging in the air. so while she get a shower or 2 running on the coast to the east and met, it's just blue sky elsewhere, but white, orange sky moving down towards bark. rain and cat are 42 degrees in doha, that's quite halt. it does cool down a little bit, the average being $36.00 as the breeze comes in offer. i like humid gulf. tommy gets to saturday. some good news for you as we watch the slow developed what eventually be the monsoon range for india. you see,

1st of all the winds turn around on this east coast of africa that signals wet season for kenya and somali ne theo pierre, frequent and welcomed showers. ah frank assessments, what are the political risks of batting russian oil? a gas for western leaders will sanctions on russian energy exports. us harrison was informed opinions, france is not abandoning to fight against yet, is still, or is a media yet going to be acting from nisha and from chad critical debate. could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera? oh

the me. hello, are you watching? oh, just 0. i'm emily angry. he's a reminder event of stories. this allen, women, children, and the elderly who were allowed to leave the besieged works in mary paul on sunday, and finally made it to relative safety in ukrainian controlled territory. the 200 others remained trapped along with hundreds of ukrainian soldiers who are under renewed russian attack. and the u. s. chief justice has confirmed to lakes and documents about were the abortion blinds is authentic. it says, a majority of supreme court justices could voice to the landmark wrote the way no president joe biden has urged congress to pass legislation, protecting abortion. brian. but fran andre gillespie,

who's an associate professor of political science at emory university. she joins us live from atlanta in the us state of georgia. andrea, thanks so much for being on the program. let's write this down. firstly, just how extraordinary is it that this lake has occurred in the 1st place? how much does this undermine the supreme court's reputation? this is highly irregular and it shouldn't happen that i'm actually really uncomfortable having to do interviews about this. the supreme court decisions are a deliberative process with my understanding that the draft that got lead was from february. i don't expect this decision to actually be rendered until the end of june, and until a decision is rendered, it is subject to negotiation. the subject or vision is subject to persuasion. so even though this may be where the justice is, were in february, they may be in a different place now and they may be in a different place next mock. and unfortunately, by sort of opening the pandora's box, letting people see what this decision look like in the way,

this is actually now opening the court up to a type of persuasion that they are institutionally supposed to be immune from. they're supposed to be making decisions based on their interpretation of the law. they don't need all of us weighing in, and they certainly don't need their employees breaching confidence, is breaching confidentiality to reveal decisions before they've been fully hatched . very so now let's look at these dr. decision which the chief justice has confirmed is authentic. it's obviously sent shock waves through capitol hill. talk us through the political ramifications from a national perspective. well, you know, in some ways, it's not surprising. i think many people thought given the composition of the court in the fact that there were 6 conservative justices, that there was very likely to be some type of curtailing of roe vs wade. i wait to see what the final decision is to see what that looks like. but we expected that this court might actually be more willing to put the responsibility for defining abortion rights in the hands of states, as opposed to the federal government,

the national government. and so what that means is that you're probably going to end up being a patchwork of abortion law. so they're going to be some places around the country where it's going to be relatively easy to get an abortion. and they're going to be places where it's going to be very hard if not impossible, to be able to get into an abortion. so it's really going to be contingent on what's going on in a state legislatures and with governorships around the country. so what we're going to see is a very uneven access there. currently, even with rober late is very uneven access to abortion in the united states. and so it's just going to sort of kind of find that in a way that is going to make this a continual issue. and it's probably going to activate democrats a lot more kind of in the next few years than it is activated. republicans for the last 50 years, just on that patchwork type system that may or may not come into place. i mean, how does that impact women in america, particularly those who come from, say, poor backgrounds or minority backgrounds,

who don't necessarily have the mains to say, jump over to the state next door to, to get the abortion that they, they want. well, this is already true and in places that have largely outlined or regulated abortions the back to the point that it's difficult to get it in some states. if you live in a place where you don't have access to an abortion clinic, you're more likely to keep your pregnancy. you might have to drive hundreds of miles in order to be able to, to get an abortion on. so, you know, these things are going to continue. why it might do is actually going to increase the radius by which people in states that don't support abortion rights are going to have to travel in order to be able to find access to at abortion clinic. and this disproportionately affects people who don't have the means to be able to travel long distances to be able to afford airfare and hotel stays and the like

under we have to leave it there unfortunately because of time issues. but we appreciate your insights under gillespie, a presser of political science. thanks for your time. thank you. the un secretary general has warned attacks in this a hell region of africa and no longer a regional issue, but a global threat. and turning a good terrorist called for resources to help and the violence. he made the remarks while initiate one of the 3 west african countries he's visiting. good chair is also a short laid, is that the un top priority is to say peace and stability in the area. home ela. mellie is a consulting fellow with the africa program at chase them house. there is another crisis in the cell which is still going on, which has got worse, which shows no trial, no sign of retreating. in fact, the figures for humanitarian deprivation either because of poor weather or because of the violence in the sal is here,

are reaching an unprecedented level. there are suggestions that close to 40000000 people could be in food crisis in the next, in the coming months. and so he's really stressing that you can't just focus on other crises, the so hell really, hugely matters. and the fact that he has gone there pretty much straight from ukraine is an indication of that. but there's also a message which is addressed. i think more to west african level, particularly those governments where soldiers have taken power in, in molly, in particular, and to a lesser extent in burkina faso and in guinea. and the molly and juncture is currently pretty much buying it's traditional part of the country's traditional partners in europe. yesterday. it broke off all of its military cooperation agreements with france and with other european countries, and is now building

a military relationship with russia. and in his choice of countries, the secretary general has as it were, center, a really strong message saying the us, he can't, of course, because molly or cain of us are guinea. they are all members of the united nations . but in effect, he stressing the value of countries that work within the system, senegal, nish, air, and nigeria, they are all democracies. they all have constitutional rule. they all work very closely with international partners and are trying to tackle this crisis if you like, in the long standing collaborative way. a care of you has been declared in the indian city of john per following, fighting between hindus and muslims. internet connection there has been cut, the unrest began on monday night during religious festivals in both communities and continued on tuesday. me, elizabeth problem is in new delhi with moon, very heavy. please press now and around an area called agility gate off the city of

georgia pool following more clashes more fighting between him booth and muslims. on tuesday, local media is saying that at least 10 people have been injured and one person has been taken to hospital. now these altercations began on monday night when him, through the muslim, started arguing over hoisting religious flags. muslim, listen to celebrating the end of rums on its ead in india on tuesday. and hindus was celebrating a festival called should j empty. both groups wanted to voice their flags in the area. now that led to violence between the groups police trying to disperse the crowd using battens and using his gas the crowd than attacking a police post and injuring offices. that things had come down by tuesday. they were very much on the control e. prayers and the area took place peacefully,

but following the prayers. they were more clashes and 5 different areas around the gate. so what authorities have done now is imposed a curfew and 10 areas around the gate till midnight on tuesday, the internet to remain suspended. internet is often suspended in india and times of tension. a short gaylord, he's the state leader. he sent his home secretary of senior officials to the area from rogers state that george flores and from roger capital j port. make sure that the violence here does not escalate. were in preparing the local elections in the 1st major test, full prime minister barak johnson. since the war in ukraine began, is also under pressure due to the cost of living and so called party game scandals . during the pandemic journal, how looks ahead berry is one of the so called red wall towns across the midlands in the north of england. the traditionally voted labor,

but in 2019 swung to the conservatives labors working class har plans turned blue, delivering bars. johnson and overwhelming majority and inside number 10, that support seems to be holding up stephan case then. incredible. so not many other people for the lead and drag the country in the way it's been driven through the pandemic, turned upon them. so you guys place the tourist very happy to see things pretty much continuous. yeah. but elsewhere, things are changing and 2019 seems a lifetime ago before covert 19 of the lock downs that this coffee shop was lucky to survive. many didn't before the war in ukraine and the cost of living crisis before the parties in downing street and the prime minister who wants to live at breakfast. but who many now feel is liability. i did 1st and then you know, when i did to you know,

to be elected. so at the moment i'm just not sure he's made a few mistakes, particularly with his behavior overcoat. and i don't think i'll be voting conservative on the campaign trail. the conservatives are keen to keep the conversation strictly local. the problem. it's just not the person who will be filling the pothole on that street. and the media might want to talk about down as to what we're focused on is vast street. ok, right. labor party activists. those are only 2 to exploit their opponents was what do you think about the current conservative govern? yup. i want to save my life. ok. who's got lack of trust in government because they see some people getting away with that. so, you know, with the tax, whether that's party and people, not obeying the law,

you get to appoint them when people are saying to know, i'm just so sick of it. and that's what we got in at the moment on the doorstep. municipal council elections despite their obvious focus on local issues, can often be a useful indicator of where national politics a heading. so if opinion polls predicting major conservative losses are correct, especially across these former red wool areas. well that could be a sign that the blue defense may not hold when the next national election comes around. which is why these elections could spell trouble for boris johnson. here on a visit to very last week, a bad set of results could be the trigger for a vote of confidence in the prime minister. he's already facing the possibility of more police fines for those locked down rule breaking parties and an inquiry into whether he lied about them to parliament. jonah hall al jazeera barry. ah,

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