this is bbc world news. i'm rich preston. our top stories: thousands much for abortion rights across the united states as pro—choice supporters via the supreme court could impose further restrictions.— further restrictions. nobody wakes up — further restrictions. nobody wakes up in _ further restrictions. nobody wakes up in the _ further restrictions. nobody wakes up in the morning . further restrictions. nobody | wakes up in the morning and says, i want to get an abortion today, it is the hardest decision a woman will have to make in her entire life and we should trust women to make that decision for themselves. hundreds forced to evacuate a resort island in honduras is fire destroys dozens of homes. thousands demonstrated across was ill as president —— across presentjair was ill as president —— across present jair bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic. after days of giving at petrol stations, the army will begin delivering fuel across the uk on monday. and this is the live

scene on the palmer, were two new streams of lava threaten further destruction from the erupting volcano. —— on la palma. hello, and welcome to the programme. tens of thousands of women's rights activists have an holding demonstrations across the us. they are opposed to a new law in texas which severely limits access to abortions in the state. there are also widerfears abortions in the state. there are also wider fears the supreme court may soon rule abortions nationwide are illegal. our correspondence barbara plett—usher sent this report from washington. roe versus wade has got to stay, ho—ho! hey—hey! activists are sounding the alarm. this is the moment when abortion rights face their most significant challenge in nearly half a century from conservative lawmakers and judges. i am very worried.

i think it's time for a course correction. we have been doing this for more than 50 years. now we're back here again and it'sjust like, when is this going to end, you know? but they are going to keep putting out attacks and we are going to keep fighting them. nobody wakes up in the morning and decides, "i want to get- an abortion today. " it's the hardest decision that a woman will have to make i in her entire life and we - should trust women to make that decision for themselves. women's rights! in texas especially, protesters have been fired up by a strict new abortion law. applause. it bans the procedure after only six weeks of pregnancy. millions of innocent children lose their right to life every year because of abortion. in texas, we want to save those lives. the supreme court allowed the extreme texas law to go into effect, a sign to protesters that the balance of power on the bench has shifted — conservative control strengthened by donald trump's judicial appointments — and they will take up a challenge to national abortion rights

in just a few months. organisers are hoping this will help them recruit new activists for the fight ahead and it's a deeply political one, perhaps more than any other issue in american law, divided along bitterly partisan battle lines. a confrontation just outside the supreme court but the future of abortion rights will be decided inside. barbara plett usher, bbc news, washington. she gave me her reaction to what is happening in texas. earlier i spoke to camilla vale, reproductivejustice organiser in new york who attended the rally today. it's just horrific. six—week abortion ban — just to get a sense of what that actually means is 85—90% of people who choose to get abortions do so after six weeks. and by six weeks most people don't even know that they�* re pregnant. so it is, in effect, a near total ban on abortion in texas, with many states in the south of the united states poised to lobby for copycat bills, and the most recent development of a decades—long trend of chipping away at our reproductive rights in this country.

tell us more about those other states. are there any particular areas you're concerned about? the south in particular but, for example, six states already have only one abortion clinic in them so things like cost of travel, lodging, childcare, economic hardship, all of these things are prohibitions on people to access their reproductive care and in december, the supreme court is going to hear another case from mississippi in their 15 week ban and if the supreme court keeps refusing to block these laws then we can essentially see an overturning of roe v wade in this country. you were at the rally in new york, east coast, fairly liberal. how easy it is at for a woman in new york to get an abortion? there's still a lot of difficulties. the primary one is economic,

particularly because public insurance, federal funds are not allowed to go to abortion services due to something called the hyde amendment which for the first time ever was not included in this year's budget. but until then, if you were on medicaid, for example, you were not covered for your insurance in order to get abortions. what's your take on the response to all of this by the biden administration? the biden administration has made important steps such as not including the hyde amendment in this year's budget. but that was not biden�*s position as of last year, for example. so i think his recommendation to the supreme court to block these draconian abortion restrictions is laudable, but we will have to see how it really plays out. taking a step back and looking at the global picture, abortion seems to be making it more into the headlines

recently. you've got countries like poland, very roman catholic, which has effectively banned abortion. at the same time countries like argentina, also very roman catholic, have now legalised abortion. why do you think it's entering national discourse so much in certain parts of the world? i think the answer — one is the economic crises in these countries. i'm argentinian, for example, and the mass movements that have been associated and really galvanised by the question of abortion and what anti—abortion laws really do to a whole society. for example in latin america it is the second highest cause of death for women — is illegal unsafe abortions. so that kind of effect of really your lives depending on these laws and fighting for them, ithink, is really the only thing is pushing the change. i think that's also true for the biden administration. biden�*s personal position of first supporting the hyde amendment and having to reverse his position was because of people really

holding him accountable. fire has ravaged the honduran resort island of guanaja. it took hours to control the inferno. the full extent of the damages yet to be determined, but remarkably there has been no of life reported. scenes of panic and desperation. an island paradise up desperation. an island paradise up in flames. desperation. an island paradise up in flames— desperation. an island paradise up in flames. this morning when we woke up _ up in flames. this morning when we woke up at — up in flames. this morning when we woke up at the _ up in flames. this morning when we woke up at the pictures - up in flames. this morning when we woke up at the pictures and l we woke up at the pictures and videos of what was happening, we just started crying, videos of what was happening, wejust started crying, because wejust started crying, because we have been there many times and we know the only place that the people could go to save themselves was the ocean. figs themselves was the ocean. as day broke, the inferno continued to range —— rage. known as the venice of the caribbean, guanaja's canals made it increasingly difficult to battle the blaze. hundreds were forced to flee to safety.

the honduran air force attacking from above. we tell the pepulation _ attacking from above. we tell the population that _ attacking from above. we tell the population that rescue . the population that rescue teams and firefighters are working in the area. we will not rest until the fire is under control. at the same time, the teams will provide humanitarian aid to affected people. it is believed more than 100 homes and businesses were destroyed, with a number of people injured. it is of people in'ured. it is reauy. _ of people in'ured. it is reauy. |_ of people injured. it is really, ithink- of people injured. it is really, i think of- of people injured. it is really, i think of the l of people injured. it is - really, i think of the worst they have gone through, because even with the hurricane �*s, they had choppers, they could move up to the mountain, to the hills, but the fire, it was just, i think the worst. people were running in panic. last year on the mainland, wejust didn't know what to do. the focus now is in providing aid, with further assessments of the

extent of the damage expected on sunday. tanya david reynolds, bbc news. thousands have been demonstrating in brazil calling for presidentjair bolsonaro's removal. 0pposition parties and trade unions heralded one year ahead of the election. he is lagging behind his socialist rival in opinion polls. mark lobel reports. the call from the thousands in the streets across the country was forjair bolsonaro's impeachment and for him to go, with exactly a year until the next presidential election. translation: we have - a president who does not invest in the health system, does not care about the population that is going hungry, and we can no longer stand this government. holding aloft their preferred successor, jair bolsonaro's left—wing rival luiz inacio lula da silva. their former president ahead in the opinion polls as well as their affections, now released from prison after serving time

for corruption. the country is reeling after almost 600,000 people have so far died of coronavirus here, the second—highest country death toll worldwide. many brazilians blame it on president bolsonaro's handling of the outbreak. translation: i am here today for all of the family members l and friends who could not be present and who unfortunately died. meanwhile, brazil's most vulnerable have suffered from rising prices. translation: inflation has. caused some changes in food consumption in my home. i am replacing some of the red meat with white beans and eggs. i see a big difference in my electricity bill, as well. but the bullish president is armed with self—confidence, projecting the image of a strongman seemingly kids' play for him during his first 1,000 days of government. translation: 1,000 days of many achievements. - 1,000 difficult days in the pandemic, but also 1,000

days without corruption. his supporters as committed as ever, backing his latest stance against vaccination passports. translation: we are fighting for a better brazil - _ a more prosperous, morejust brazil. but protesters are turning up the heat on the president, whose approval rating is at an all—time low, with dozens of outstanding requests to parliament to impeach him and several supreme court—backed investigations into his behaviour now underway. let's get some of the day's other stories now. nato forces in kosovo have been temporarily deployed to border crossing points with serbia to defuse a dispute about car numberplates that's seen some of the worst tensions in years. kosovo special police units have also been withdrawn and vehicles blocking the route now moved under an eu

brokered interim agreement. kosovo's refusal to recognise serbian vehicle numberplates had caused outrage among ethnic serbs. there have been chaotic scenes in the chilean capital santiago as police try to control rival marches for and against migration from venezuela and haiti. several people were injured as protesters threw stones when the two marchers converged in the city centre. authorities in oman have urged people in northern coastal areas to evacuate their homes as a cyclone is due to make landfall in the next 2a hours. cyclone shaheen is advancing towards the northern omani coast with winds up to 150km/h. it's expected to bring heavy rain and high waves. after very successful covid—19 immunisation programmes using vaccines from the likes of

pfizer and moderna, some richer countries already rolling out booster shots. but at the same time many lower income nations have been forced to turn providers, including some not approved by the world health organization. this professor is ahead of a research group, the doherty institute, in melbourne and he told me about the key issues. access to supplies the most important. the international initiative covax signed up to by many governments to put vaccines in an international pool is an important step in making vaccines available to poorer countries around the world. firstly, i think everyone should take a cold shower about the differences between the vaccines. by and large, they are all doing a very good job of controlling covid, especially the original wuhan strain but even with their delta strain, they are still doing

a good job. there are questions of availability and certainty of that in some of the vaccines, for example, some of the chinese and cuban vaccines and others, whether it is still not enough transparency in the data and either clinical trial data or either data within the population to be certain that they are as effective as other but the suspicion is that that they, —— that they are. so that is an issue and countries, assisted by the who, need to make sure that if they are procuring vaccines that they do the job as promised and the who has significant responsibility for this. you are watching bbc news. the latest headlines: thousands are marching for abortion rights across the united states as pro—choice supporters fear the supreme court could

impose further restrictions. and fire has ravaged the honduran resort island of guanaja, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate their homes. here in the uk, the fuel crisis continues with the situation in london in the south—east critical according to some filling stations. but the petrol retailers' association says elsewhere the situation is easing, thanks to the restraint of drivers. the military is due to help delivering fuel from monday. this report from our business correspondent katy austin. there were more queues to fill up this morning. this was in south—east london. this is the first time i'm queueing up, because my boy normally gets it for me. but today — oh, my gosh, it's like christmas came early. these drivers in newcastle, though, weren't having issues. no problems at all. i've just put £100 in the van to keep us going for the week. well, a few days ago - it was very hard, but i think it's starting to pick up a little bit now. j the body representing independent forecourts says availability across the country has improved. it thinks about two thirds

of sites now have petrol and diesel, while16% have run dry, but it has labelled the situation in london and the south—east as critical. the prioritisation for deliveries must now go to london and the south—east, and to the independent forecourts, which make up 65% of all forecourts across the uk. 200 military personnel, including 100 drivers, have been called in to help boost supplies. they're being trained and will start on monday. amid a shortage of hgv drivers across the economy, 5,000 visas for foreign workers had already been announced, lasting until christmas eve. that includes 300 fuel tanker drivers. now we know they will be able to start immediately, and the length of time they can stay for has been extended until the end of march. 11,700 of the visas are for food lorry drivers. they won't be able to start until later this month,

but the length of their stay has also been extended until up to the end of february. visiting leeds general infirmary today, the prime minister didn't rule out any further relaxation of the visa rules. what we have now is a system that allows us to control immigration, and that gives us flexibility. we can open up our markets if we need to, and of course we'll keep everything under review. ministers insist the fuel situation will continue to improve if people only buy what they need. even when supply levels return to normal, motorists are being told they should expect to pay more at the pump as wholesale prices rise. katy austin, bbc news. human rights watch says taliban authorities have imposed wide ranging restrictions on the media in afghanistan. it comes a day after the taliban released the afghan freelance photographer morteza samadi after 23 days in detention. he was arrested along

with a number of activists earlier this month at a protest in western herat. after being detained for three weeks, morteza samadi, a freelance photographer, has been released. he was arrested by the taliban during a protest in western herat province. the taliban accused him of activities that threatened national security and of using his social media platforms to provoke people against them. this is the moment morteza samadi was arrested. he was separated from the crowd and pushed into a government building. during an anti—taliban and anti—pakistan protest on september 7. the peaceful demonstration was dispersed by the local forces. at least two men were

killed and seven wounded. morteza was there to cover the gathering, an event he also supported on his facebook page. his family couldn't see him while he was in detention. we didn't get anything from taliban to understand why he is morteza there. after three weeks, why we are not allowed to see him. i asked the taliban chief of information and culture for herat why they are imprisoning journalists and activists. this alone has sent an alarming message to otherjournalists who want to cover stories like this. what's your reaction to that?

shortly after our interview, morteza and and activist were released as a gesture of good will, but these two journalists have not been so lucky. they were arrested while covering a protest in kabul. both were lashed and tortured and they are still recovering. media watchdog and human rights organisations have warned of a crackdown of freedom of speech, while around 154 media outlets have stopped operating since the return of the taliban. the volcano that has been erupting on the spanish island of la palma is spewing out two

new streams of lava, threatening further destruction. these are life pictures we can show you now showing red hot lava. many crops have been destroyed. hundreds of people have been forced to evacuate, since the eruption first began last month. our correspondent dan johnson is there. it seems like every day this volcano is producing more and more lava. there are more vents opening up, new ways for the lava to escape, and that means even more lava flowing downhill, putting even more homes and villages at risk. more than 1,000 properties have been destroyed now. and this is an area that has been evacuated, so there are homes here where people haven't been able to get back for more than a week now, people wondering whether they'll ever be able to come back and live here, because nobody knows how long this volcano will keep erupting. you can see the sort of ash that has spread right across this area. it's really thick, coarse stuff

that covers absolutely everything. at times you can feel it in the air, you can taste it. but it all depends on the changing wind direction, which areas are under threat and which areas are taking the gases that are escaping from there and also down at the sea as well. because when the lava hits the water there is another potential for toxic gases and lava. you can see how powerful that volcano is, how much lava and smoke is continually being produced. day and night this has gone on, and people are wondering how much more is there to come. the experts think this could last for weeks or potentially months more. a man is building a gothic castle and gradually he is master work is emerging from

the hills. hugh schofield went to see it. this is my dad. i am don. donald — this is my dad. i am don. donald sometimes. - this is my dad. i am don. donald sometimes. and i this is my dad. i am don. - donald sometimes. and people ask ou donald sometimes. and people ask you what — donald sometimes. and people ask you what you _ donald sometimes. and people ask you what you are _ donald sometimes. and people ask you what you are building, | ask you what you are building, what do you say? i ask you what you are building, what do you say?— what do you say? i tell them what do you say? i tell them what it is, — what do you say? i tell them what it is, honestly, - what do you say? i tell them what it is, honestly, it's - what do you say? i tell them what it is, honestly, it's an l what it is, honestly, it's an art project and we are having fun making something beautiful. one day, it will be a jewel in the valley. we are finishing up the valley. we are finishing up the ground floor, i mean, the basement, which is below the ground floor. it is sort of a conglomeration of gothic art pieces that my dad has carved, things that pleased him, that he was attracted to and he

wanted to make and ended up in the edifice. the way they are designed, they support all the weight on top and in doing so, they get compressed and when they get compressed and when they get compressed they get stronger, so they become stabilised that way. so they become stabilised that wa . , , ., , so they become stabilised that wa. ,, way. this is the last rock i have two _ way. this is the last rock i have two carve, _ way. this is the last rock i have two carve, so - way. this is the last rock i have two carve, so i - way. this is the last rock i l have two carve, so i cannot waste — have two carve, so i cannot waste it. — ——to carve. no, it wasn't difficult at all.

you — no, it wasn't difficult at all. you just— no, it wasn't difficult at all. you just take a piece of rock and — you just take a piece of rock and make _ you just take a piece of rock and make the rock look like something you had in mind. this fellow_ something you had in mind. this fellow here is the nephew, and he will— fellow here is the nephew, and he will he _ fellow here is the nephew, and he will be put up on the staircase in the tower. i think we will— staircase in the tower. i think we will have to get another five — we will have to get another five years because i am already. _ five years because i am already, 94, and in five more years. — already, 94, and in five more years. i'm _ already, 94, and in five more years, i'm not sure i can go much— years, i'm not sure i can go much farther. we will see. incredible! before we go, you may have heard of the phrase goat, the greatest of all time, and a parade has been held in honour of tom brady, where he was

voted as the most valuable player. he returns to his team the tampa bay buccaneers on monday. that is it from me. see you on monday. hello. saturday was a soaker where you are. sunday will be a much brighter day. there'll still be showers around, it's still going to be windy, but there will also be some spells of sunshine to be had as well. of course, low pressure responsible for the soaking rain, which affected some parts of the uk on saturday. for sunday it's close to northern scotland. this is where we'll start the day with the strongest winds, in the northern isles, especially shetland, gusting 60—70 mph. starting temperatures and coldest areas will be across the north of mainland scotland, some spots close to freezing as the day begins. most of the early showers are going to be in western areas. they will travel gradually further east as we go on through the day, and by the afternoon many of the showers are going to be reasonably hit and miss, though a longer spell of rain pushing back across northern

scotland and the northern isles. these are average wind speeds. there'll be gusts up to around 35—45 mph. those very strong winds in the northern isles ease a little but it remains very windy here, with gales. and as for temperatures, mostly in the range of around 12 or 13 to 17 celsius. as for the london marathon, it looks like there'll be plenty of sunshine around during the morning. into the afternoon, increasing cloud, and there will be the chance of catching a shower moving through for those who take a little longer, perhaps, to complete the course. now, as we go on into the evening the showers will continue, particularly across western areas. overnight and into monday morning there'll be a few more pushing in across south wales and southern parts of england. and as for temperatures, we may just start the day on monday a degree or so higher than on sunday morning. and monday will be another day of sunshine and showers. whilst many will be focused across western areas, some again will travel further east during the day. but it's across eastern parts you're most likely to stay dry, with some sunshine. rain gathering to the south—west as monday comes to an end, a bit of uncertainty

about how quickly it's wanting to move in. but that's tied in with more weather fronts and another area of low pressure. something to play for in the detail and the position of this going into tuesday, but it's likely to bring another spell of heavy rain and strong winds, particular into wales and england. although maybe some towards the west and the south—west clear up as the day goes on, there'll still be some strong winds and gales around. northern ireland may miss most of it. some of the rain could well push in towards the south—east of scotland. yet more wet and windy weather on the way.

this is bbc news. the headlines: tens of thousands of women's rights activists have been holding demonstrations across the united states. they are opposed to a new law in texas which severely limits access to abortions in the state. there are also wider fears the supreme court may soon rule abortions nationwide are illegal. a fire has destroyed more than 200 homes on the resort island of guanaja in honduras. hundreds were forced to evacuate, with the honduras air force and to help contain the fire. at least seven people were injured before it was brought under control. in demonstrations against brazilian president jair bolsonaro taking place in dozens of towns and cities across the country. many brazilians are unhappy with the right wing's handling of the pandemic, which has killed nearly 600,000 people in brazil. —— right—wing president's handling. those are your latest headlines from bbc news.