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there are so many people who need protests outside the u. s. supreme court in washington after friday's ruling, that's struck down a women's constitutional right to have an abortion. ah, you're watching, i'll just hear a lie from a headquarters and 5 jenny navigate also ahead. ukraine's military says its troops have withdrawn from the strategic frontline city of verizon. yet as russia intensifies its defensive in the plains carrying age from pakistan and cause har arrive in august on to help those affected by wednesdays, devastating earthquake and a multi 1000000000 dollar bridge opened in bangladesh after years of the liaison allegations of corruption. ah, hello, we begin in the united states where protests are and away for
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a 2nd day across the nation. that's after the supreme court overturned a landmark ruling on friday that allowed abortion for nearly 50 years. this is the scene right now outside the supreme court in washington d. c. that's where a pro and anti abortion rights activists have gathered. a number of states have already moved to ban or severely restrict access to abortion services. after that ruling in 1973 roe vs wade guaranteed a women's rights to terminate a pregnancy. within the 1st 12 weeks. president joe biden has condemned the court's decision. june, i know painful and devastating decision is for so many americans. i mean, so many americans and decision is implemented by states i ministration is going to focus on how they administer and whether or not they violate other laws. i've decided to not allow people across state lines to get public health services. and then we're going to take action to protect women's rights and reproductive health.
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let's cross live to heidi so cast, or she's joining us from outside the supreme court in washington d. c. where the protests are taking place. as we can see behind, you just set the scene for us. heidi tell us what you've been seeing and hearing now more than 24 hours since that device is supreme court decision that took away the right to access the washing in the us. and we are still seeing the chaos and that decision unfold here on the street in front of the u. s. supreme court. i'm surrounded by the wording, act, renting the shock waves that are wailing through this early days. but we're just talking about one day i vision with it already. at least one of us today ban aboard this morning. and within 30 days time,
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that will be true. some, some of this country how the majority here are in the us. 71 percent of people have said that they find it to the woman or a doctor to side whether or not germany a pregnancy. here we just didn't, that came out of the 3 majority of the civil court yesterday was there while the popular something that people are still struggling digest. here's the thing id for those that have come out and they're protesting against this decision. what are they hoping that their protest will practically achieve? but i don't care about the right thing. we're actually has a last word. it's the 3rd arm of the government. but the only thing that can be done and you've heard from president, why did you mark for congress to change law for the state legislature? that's why everyone is on the upcoming november election. when congress and many
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stake governorship will be free, and democrats are hoping that no one for the party is a moment to activate their voters, them to get them to go to them. or tentatively a bizarre vote in leadership. i mean, more than the congress chambers, but that is a long time we know during the all the long haul and you are absolutely right in plenty. this is something that the very difficult to come back from. and that is why we need to know exactly what purpose the people are. emotion sean went to the door. okay, thank you so much. hi. this is a customer reporting from outside the supreme court for us in washington d. c. we will stay with the u. s. and tell you about significant gun control legislation that has been signed into law for the 1st time in 3 decades. president joe biden says, while the bipartisan bill doesn't do everything that he wanted,
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it will save lives. the legislation toughened background checks for young gun buyers and help states put in place so called red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to remove weapons from people who are dean dangerous. joe biden says the bill is finally responds to demands from families of the victims of gun violence. their message to us was do something. how many times we heard that just do something. for god sake, just do something or today we did all this bill doesn't do everything i want does include actions long call for that are going to save lives. it funds crisis intervention, including red flag laws. it keeps guns out of the hands of people or a danger to themselves and to others. and finally closes what is known as a boyfriend loophole. so if you saw your boyfriend or girlfriend, you can't buy a gun or own
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a gun. the ukranian troops are withdrawn from the strategic eastern city, austria, verizon. yes. after the order was given to pull back on friday, the russian forces are moving to surround a 2nd city in the hands. creech and russia has been bombings to verizon. yes. unless chance, which lies just across the river, much of the fire power is concentrated on the assaults chemical plants where hundreds of civilians and ukrainian forces have been sheltering. charles stratford is joining us live from key for an update on what exactly is happening on the ground a particularly charles in chaverra, don't you ask? yeah, that's right. there's a statement that has been made in the last hour or so by a spokesperson for the ukrainian military saying that sir, after the withdrawal of ukrainian troops in units the enemy, russia has consolidated in sever,
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then ask and this is of huge significance of course, because of the netscape is one of the only 2 cities still in elegance province that russia doesn't fully control. there have been huge concerns for reportedly hundreds of civilians that are still inside that city. interestingly, in the last hour or so, russian media has started showing what it says is video footage of civilians from that adult steel plant. that was that giant. great soviet build still plant that so many civilians have been hired again. the russians saying now that they are moving no civilians out into a russian controlled territory. ukrainians are saying that this move, this withdrawal is all about saving lives. and it's basically saying that this is a withdrawal that will give them the opportunity to consolidate, withdraw to
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a safer position, to put up a defensive defensive positions there and keep fighting. what we do know though, is that several then ask, is separated with its twin city list a chance to the south by a river, all the bridges that connect you, those 2 cities were blown up in the last couple of weeks. also, we are now hearing reports that there is a consolidated effort by russian force is pushing up from the south towards lucy chance, which we understand is where the majority of the civilians are. a lot of the civilians and a lot of the ukrainian military have withdrawn to despite the challenges of hammons across that river. it really seems now as if the ukrainians are basically facing the greatest kind of military defeat that they've had since this war began on 24th of february since mary opal which was of course about a month and a half ago. so of huge significance here. but according to the ukrainians,
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as i say, they are moving back into what they describe as safer positions in order to mount another defense. all right, thank you so much. ross ratford reporting from keith police in norway say they're now treating a shooting outside a gay night. club in oslo as an act of terrorism, 2 people were killed in the attack and 14 were injured. the norwegian security service has raised its terror alerts to the highest level, victoria gate and b reports. police officers collect evidence outside the night club where a gunman opened fire during all slaves. pride festival elizabeth does that have been with and saw the suspect is charged with murder, attempted murder, and acts of terrorism. the terror charge is based on the number of wounded and killed the number of crime scenes and our overall assessment that his intention was to spread severe fear among the general population. it was just after 1 am on saturday morning when the 1st shot rang out at the london pop,
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a popular gay nightclub in the city center. it was packed with people enjoying a night out. well, i eckleman impulse, as of every one started running and there was a lot of screaming to me than i thought there was a fight outside. but then i heard that it was a shooting and that there was some one with the sub machine gun offices arrested a 42 year old man at the scene. they say he acted alone. realistic for the saw. the accused is a norwegian citizen, originally from iran, he's known to the place, but not the big things, minor convictions compared to what he's accused of today. also those pride parade was due to take place on saturday, but organizers have now canceled the event tuft from sharon wilson. it's tough for the queer movement to experience this. we encourage everyone to stand together, take care of each other. we'll be back later on, proud, visible so, but right now, it's not time for party. this is a community in city united in outrage and grief. and while many questions remain
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about how and why this happened as low as focused on those, he lost their lives and those seriously injured victoria gate and be al jazeera, still ahead on al jazeera, a warm welcome. after years of tense relations that america far has paid a visit to cairo will have an update. and ecuador is president excuses professors of trying to stage a coup. ah, now of the monsoon winds and therefore rain drops into windy, we catch the edge of it in a month. and that's particularly true when you see sunstone stuff developed in the mountains, for example, the mas, gatson and, and this was a high boob, which is of i slow sans, stole from the down burst in
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a thunderstorm. these gusts were effectively a 150 kilometers per hour. really kicked up to sand. that looks like we've seen the end of those thunderstorms. they will come back in the next few days and mostly be talking about a hot and dry picture. elsewhere in the re b and peninsula billet breeze pick up again by sunday i think will feel more of a shame on it's still a hot one. so tension on the high side for dough heart, 47, and a man at 49 with some dust in the air, but hot and dry. the story here. not so in turkey. once again, we got significant rain on its way just paul turkey. possibly again, flash that's in ankara, it's dry nicer, anti ran still hot into iran and tempted to recover to normal in the car bull. it's jumped sacks to try and bring some good news. i'm trying. yes, a few showers in somalia and kenya an e. c o p, but not that many. the dragged continues. unfortunately, there are big chows, but they are further west, particularly in nigeria. ah
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lot of the top stories on al jazeera, several us states are moving to ban or restrict abortion after the supreme court reversed the ruling that allowed the procedure. if people are out for testing or celebrating the decision for the 2nd day in cities across the country, also in the u. s. significant gun control legislation has been signed into law for the 1st time in 3 decades. it's tough and background checks and help states put in place laws and make it easier to remove weapons from people who are deem dangerous . ukrainian troops are withdrawn from the strategic eastern city of arrow done. yes . it's come under sustained, russian bombardment. much of the fire power has been concentrated on the assault chemical plant where hundreds of civilians, ukrainian forces. i've been sheltering. i've gone, astonish, taliban government has promised not to interfere with a distribution after the worst earthquake there. in decades, at least 1100 people were killed and entire villages destroyed. people and remote regions are still desperate for food,
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shelter and drinking water. taliban has been accused in the past of diverting aid to supporters or taking control of distribution cargo planes of supplies from both pakistan and cats are landed in afghanistan on saturday. let's see if he has more from the airport and host. normally this room would be the baggage claim at the host airport, but in recent days, as you can see, it's been transformed. it's not people, luggage in here today. instead, it's the contents of flights that have been coming in from all over the world all day from the, from the united arab emirates, from talks on the world food program, the united nation. they're all dropping off basic supplies to the survivors of last week's earthquake that killed more than 1100 people. and most importantly, in this time of sanctions and a cut back. it's a reminder to the avalon people that the world has not forgotten about them. and that they are countries and organizations that still want to provide assistance to the people who are honest on leaders of commonwealth countries are wrapping up
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a meeting in rwanda. but the host government has come under scrutiny for its human rights record and a migrant deal with the u. k. has threatened to overshadow the meeting, malcolm lab reports from p. golly. the commonwealth ceremonial head, the queen of the united kingdom. he's in town. the meeting and rwanda's capital kick ali, she's represented by her son, prince charles instead. days before he flew to wonder prince charles had said the case deal with rwandan president pul cami to deport asylum seekers here was appalling. the u. k. paid companies government about a $150000000.00 to receive deportees. but none of arrived yet because of legal challenges. british prime minister boris johnson defended the deal, has been widely criticized by british political opposition rights groups and the un . i'm confident that we will be able to, to go ahead and build, develop
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a solution the i think whose time has come. the commonwealth doesn't sign binding treaties or make trade deals. it does say its members should be democratic and follow the rule of law. right. great, have also called on the british government and the commonwealth to engage the rwandan government, the host of the meeting, hearing kigali on its own human rights record. the british government was among several un members that criticized it last year, calling for an end to torture. and investigations into 4th disappearance is an extra judicial killings. there's no sign that any of that being disgust. at least not in public and human rights have been discussed in some of the side bar meetings which are open to delegates from commonwealth countries. they include a form for women and the people's forum. rwandan opposition, politician vic, 12 and get be re applied to both,
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but wasn't allowed to attend. she spent 8 years in jail on terrorism charges after she tried to run against president kick. i'm a new one. does election in 2010. she says she's worried that the commonwealth stated values are being sacrificed. it's not good for the order today because everybody is looking at the business. looking to the virus, the human rights, and cannot have development. we fight democracy all respect of we monday nights. the purpose and direction of the commonwealth has often been questioned. many left wondering where it's headed now. malcolm web al jazeera, kigali, rwanda moroccan authorities say 18 migrants have been killed while storming the border. a separating the spanish enclave of melia from morocco. spain said about 130 people succeeded in breaching the fence afternoon early. 2000 made the attempt . dozens of people, including police officers,
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were injured. spanish prime minister, blame the incident on people, traffickers, join you. but i don't miss that. he said i have expressed my solidarity and vindicated the extraordinary work being done by the state security forces of our country. some of them were injured because of this violence of salt. i want to highlight the violent and organized assault by mouth is trafficking human beings to a city on spanish territory. therefore, it was an attack on the territorial integrity of our country in a violent manner. with ferrara, tarianna is a professor political science at the competency university of madrid. she says people will continue to seek a better life. existing policies don't help. one of the day they should have the european union migration policies that structure, to some extent, they show management of migration in the neighboring countries, have the case for morocco and turkey for you. go to the european union,
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laid hands both these countries which are known to countries by the way, the management of migration flows. and as to that, to those countries get some money, they get a corporate buy, let's what corporation we can, you can union and also get that they get money for managing the migration close. also, i should say that in this case it has been the period of high tension between moral on space over the last year. i got, i wanted to remember you that the crisis i opened in the last may 2021 in the, when the moral authority is open up the orders among the spain. and moreover, lately the. ringback people get into it to say that this time, what we see is ale to action, which means the document are you from oracle?
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it's just a pushing back, migrants trying to get through this into, into maliyah. and they goes it with a piece for tally. this poly sober, i should say, is the best or least 8 people katara me or her visited egypt for talks of president for his c c. she has to mean been hundreds, and fanny was greeted in cairo by thinking they've discuss, normalize in size and investment on cooperation, especially in the energy and agricultural sector. egyptian category relations deteriorated in 2013. when egypt military remove president bahama mercy was backed by car. tanya, the author is the director of the gulf international forum. she says this visit is an important moment for the region from others perspective. having fully normalized relations with egypt is an important milestone after
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a 4 year long blockade and marks an important turning point for regional politics. and this solidifies a really important aspect of the agreement which was signed in 2021 in january of 2021 from egypt perspective. if they really suffered economically, their economy has wreaked havoc from a long pandemic and high energy prices with high food prices. due to the ukraine war and they're seeking more investments and trade to boost their economy. they are indian for ministers. as to hon is ready to resume talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear geo. he's been hosting the european union stop diploma. joseph morales that go stations have installed because of differences
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between the u. s. and iran. earlier this month, iran remove $27.00 un security cameras from its nuclear facilities for borrow says he's confident the stalemate will be broken and talks involving the u. s. will begin in the coming days as happy as the minister has said, and thank you for that minister that we will resume their dogs on a, on the coming days. the coming days means the coming days. i mean, quickly, immediately the president of ecuador has accused, indigenous leaders are seeking to overthrow his government. there been days a protest led by indigenous groups or demanding cuts to fuel prices or latin america editor luciana in reports of yeah, this is which left of the military convoy that was attacked in the town of san antonio for 17 soldiers were injured no longer madonna, earlier,
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a civilian was killed allegedly by the army, as if the noise give wisdom or effect is not the convoy was attacked for nothing, isn't the army was shooting, pallets and tear gas and killing people all along the road. this area is called the middle of the world because it's right on the equator. it's a place where tourists usually come. but as you can see, it's the epicenter of the latest acts of violence here in ecuador. the question now is, who provoke this? army says the kindly was attacked without provocation on its way to the capitol. we're good residents who said they witnessed the event have a different version. they got on the noted military military robbed and attacked us without warning. they began shooting tear gas canisters from a helicopter, and one of them killed a resident that caused outrage noted by all accounts, nearly 2 weeks after a nationwide strike began violence in ecuador has become difficult to contain.
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authorities concede they no longer control the amazonian city of boil is pamela, but in big own group, we are facing a group of delinquents were on the front line, putting the lives of police at risk. i think the minister said international criminal organizations, presumably, mexican drug cartels, active in ecuador, are also involved. the police claim they've infiltrated the confederation of indigenous nations who are leading the strike. the confederations leader agrees outsiders are infiltrating their ranks to speak, violence, and vandalism. the amount of done, but he told me they're mainly members of the police wanting to discredit their cause. but i mean, i've been here before the rest of a couple of our medical purchases next to me kept an urge me to plug a highway. i could been sending them to come down, they turned out to be the very same to agents who, when they arrested me, i'm in the chaos president get more less or has announced to use all the means of
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his disposal to crush unrest. north throw had a minor, we'd be hannah, indigenous brothers, and farmers who have been tricked into coming to quito to ask you to return to your communities for your safety and that of your families. the hours later, the police came out in full force to show the president means business. lucy and human al jazeera, kito, ecuador, food, and water is running low on humanitarian aid is slow to reach, flood victims in northern india, 3 and a half 1000000 children are an urgent need of clean drinking water. that's according to agencies. at least 200 people were killed in floods and landslide and millions more have been displaced across india, a neighboring bangladesh, bangladesh as officially opened its longest bridge though, linking the capitol, dr. and the southwest. the $3600000000.00 projects suffered cost overruns on delays
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after the world bank pulled funding during a corruption scandal. the bridge was eventually funded domestically and then built by china. time year child re reports from our it is the biggest and most challenging project bangladesh have ever seen. the pot, the bridge stretching more than 6 kilometers, is now ready to connect the capital to the south western region home to about 30000000 people. it will also allow unprecedented upgrades to improve communication, trade, and the economy. tens of thousands of people showed up to express their support. what could you all have? join me together on this festive occasion of the opening ceremony of but my bitch, for this i am grateful to you all for master rana, it has been frustrating. wait for the bridge to open. he commute several times a week on his bike and take sometimes perilous ferry journey from deca to his home . on the other side asked him a look for him. i have been waiting in the ferry terminal system this morning.
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inspect noon, now i am still waiting to cross the river. if the bridge was already there, i would be at home by now resting. after having my lunch truck driver mohammed absolve is excited and sees a future opportunity. at with the opening of peddler bridge means will not only save us a lot of commuting time that make the journey more efficient and bit of business was very hard for us to cross the river by theory. the bridge cost more than $3000000000.00 is the country's largest infrastructure project. the part, the bridge will not only significantly reduce the travel time and connect the country southwest region with the capital, but is expected to initiate an economic boom in the area. many transport owners hope the bridge will make their job easier. i don't have to hear complaints from the passengers any more about the delays. passengers won't get irritated. the trips are going to be much more simple. i'll go straight, drop them and come back. professor selim ryan says the bridge will also contribute
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to great original connectivity and trade among asian countries as part of the larger asian highway network, whatever it is going to be the kind of a catalyst for future developing validus. but lot of things need to be done to big this catalyst realty specially different supporting programs seem to be that many businesses have grown near the fe terminals, and most of them will now have to shut down glucose. hopefully you got it on the we have been doing business here for a long time. our livelihood is dependent on this. yes, the bridge will hurt our business. we have no choice but to look for new business or shift our location. there was some initial controversy after the world bank brought corruption allegation regarding its funding, which was later dismissed by a canadian code. but many here are proud bangladesh has built a bridge of this size using its own resources. they say it's a landmark achievement sandwich. audrey al jazeera ma, up bangladesh. oh.
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