this is d.w. news live from berlin lawmakers pass america's most restrictive abortion ban the state of alabama outlaws abortion and almost all circumstances including in cases of rape and incest politicians there admit the crackdown as part of a bid to overturn women's reproductive rights. also coming up the u.s. pulls embassy staff out of iraq on the tensions with neighboring iran that's despite reassurances from secretary of state pale he says the u.s. is not ready for war with iraq. and ukraine women working as surrogate mothers

earned thousands of euros to give birth for couples in western europe including germany. and critics say it's a song contest in name only saturday's euro vision competition in israel is said to be one of the most political in the history of the yearly event calls to boycott the event in solidarity with the palestinians are growing we'll take you to television to find out what the fans think. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us. lawmakers in the u.s. state of alabama have approved the nation's toughest abortion law the state senate voted 25 to 6 to outlaw abortion at any point during a woman's pregnancy except when a woman's life is in danger the bill must still go to the state governor for his signature but it is already polarized opinion.

emotions were running high both outside the alabama legislature with pro-abortion activists rallying against the bill and inside the state senate where lawmakers engaged in fierce debate. why you are want to control our bodies. our will never ever know and i know that many of you have daughters are republican senators say this is about alabama's abortion law they want their bill to change u.s. legislation what this bill is designed to do is to go to the supreme court and challenge the particular procedure. that in 1703 that abortion is a legal. essential anytime anywhere for any reason the bill downs abortions at

every stage of pregnancy unless a woman's life is in danger an amendment to allow exceptions in cases of rape and incest was voted down doctors who perform the procedure could be charged with felonies and face up to 99 years in jail it's the latest in a wave of attempts by states to impose new abortion restrictions just last week georgia governor brian kemp followed kentucky mississippi and ohio signing a bill that criminalizes abortions performed after 6 weeks of pregnancy abortion has long been one of the us is most divisive political issues pro-choice activists are determined to maintain the right to abortion one nearly 50 years ago but republicans control most state legislatures and they're hoping to overturn existing laws with help from an increasingly conservative judiciary. our washington correspondent alexandra phenomena has been following the story for us and she joins us for more hi alex sandra good to see you so we see the alabama state legislature passed this legislation and now it's headed to the governor's desk will she sign it

. well she has that 1st of all she has to review the final version of the bill and then after that she will decide we have to say that he. is someone who has been an outspoken pro live supporter and in the past he has supported temps to ban abortion with only a few exceptions so she seems to be likely to sign this bill into law of course she can you know decide otherwise looking at this fierce debate going on all over the bill not only in alabama but also across the united states yeah xander tell us more about this fierce debate that it's kicked off not just in the state as you said but really across the country and online. yes 1st of all we have to stress that alabama really now would have the most restrictive restrictive abortion laws in the country

. and people who have drafted this bill are saying that they consider abortion a murder and that's why there are convinced that it is a felony that dr lawrence should be charged with a felony and facing up to 99 years in prison for performing performing this procedure that people politicians and activists who drafted this bill also are saying that women can be prosecuted because as i said they regard abortion murder. and they feel emboldened by a president and his words he has said repeatedly that he is pro-life president that he is trying to appoint only pro-life justices for the supreme court on the other hand we have to say that pro abortion rights activists are arguing and saying that this bill in alabama is unconstitutional because of the lead to mark

ruling legalizing abortion in the united states. versus wait yeah outstanding this really does go far beyond alabama doesn't it we've seen a series of states now including georgia as we heard that have passed laws restricting abortion rights is this going to end up in front of the supreme court. well i think that we can expect that eventually disappear in court has to deal with that and actually that is something that one of activists supporting the bill in alabama has said he has that it would be a waste of opportunity not to challenge the current rulings in the you asked not to try to pass such a restrictive abortion law given the fact that there is a conservative majority of the supreme court so the pro-life activists are hoping that eventually of the supreme court in the future can overturn roe versus wade

however that is of course something that remains to be seen if that's going to happen but eventually the supreme court will deal with that alexander phenomena reporting for us from washington thank you. now as the tensions with iran run high the u.s. state department is ordering all non-emergency government staff in iraq to leave the country germany is also suspending a military training mission although the government german government says it is not a response to any specific threat the u.s. pull out cover staff at the u.s. embassy in baghdad and the consulate in arable the capital of iraq's kurdish region normal decent processing of both posts will be temporarily suspended last week washington said it had to tack good substantive threats from iran and its proxy forces targeting americans and u.s. interests in both areas. well washington sent warships and bombers to the gulf in

response to those urgent but unspecified threats from iranian forces and tehran for its part in part to cause concern last week when it said it would withdraw from some of its commitments in the 2015 nuclear deal unless the other signatories provided quick relief from u.s. sanctions now all of this has heightened tensions in an already fragile right region in the last few days a number of incidents have been reported in which ships were targeted by unknown attackers fueling fears of further escalation and escalation that both sides say they do not wish to see let's hear from u.s. and iranian leaders 1st u.s. secretary of state mike pump ale. we're looking for iran to be of like a normal country and that's our ask and we have applied pressure to the leadership of the islamic republic of iran to achieve that we we fundamentally do not see a war with iran now mode neither nor are we seeking war nor is it to their benefit

to go after a war they know that we never start a war and there is not going to be a war this is a confrontation of will. power is stronger the mayors. of the euro those more on the story we have fashioned loman with us he's a foreign policy expert at the german institute for international and security affairs here in berlin sasha thank you for joining us we hear both sides here saying we do not want war what do you make of that does that mean that there will be no war when i think it's true that nobody actually wants war and the question is is this process we're in or at least we're getting in is that controllable and the truth is it hardly is because both sides are operating increasingly on worst case sometimes and scenarios and they in this situation will not be able to kind of perceive signals being sent from either side as intended so for example a move or a step in a direction which is essentially intended to be defensive might be perceived on the

other side as offensive so in this kind of situation and absent official and official communications if we believe news reports it's really it's really hard to communicate and tensions and this increasingly has kind of the effect of creating a really controllable environment yeah these tensions that have been escalating how do you parse the signals coming from the u.s. right now because on the one had to we know that the u.s. is taking a very hard line on iran but also as we just said doesn't want war what does the u.s. what does it want to redeem change a new negotiations with iran well i think as the president has said he waits for a phone call from. iran the question is will he get this phone call or is he able to pick up the phone or maybe this is national security adviser john bolton going to prevent this phone call from happening so we don't really know because the recent postering of troop redeployment and deployment to the persian gulf has been

announced way before it was kind of linked to the current conflict with iran but now it kind of creates an additional military dimension in terms of pressuring iran to kind of fulfill the used to moms so we don't really know where the u.s. is headed with this current line of policies what you're saying we did here mike pompei all say we just want iran to act like a normal country what are we going to actually see from the arabian government here is it going to change its stance well my pump aoe has laid out really a bishop strategy the so-called maximum pressure broach and he also outlined 12 far reaching demands or goals for u.s. policy which called not only for a major behavioral change inside of the ring leadership in terms of the nuclear policy but also in terms of their domestic and regional policy but basically it's at least from an outside perspective but also for you know a more insider's perspective really hard to believe that you bring in leadership is

able to actually fulfill these demands from the outside perspective it looks a lot like the buildup to the war between the u.s. and iraq in 2003 doesn't this rhetoric that we're seeing i think that's the reason why especially the europeans as so carefully trying to deescalate and that's also why you see these recent moves of spain and specially great britain to actually caution against the slippery slope of military escalation but also it's kind of indicating that the united states is trying to be careful with regard to evidence of linking certain groups in the region to the iranian leadership because you have so many. from groups operating and you really have to be careful to actually connect to search your brain and policies which would then be a potential precondition for justifying more military response to possible attacks all right sasha loman an expert at the german institute for international and

security affairs thank you for sharing your analysis with us thank you for having me. to some other stories making news around the world clashes have broken up between palestinian demonstrators and israeli soldiers along the border of the gaza strip and israel the skirmishes took place at rallies for not 5 day when palestinians marked the founding of the state of israel in 1988. new zealand's prime minister just joined other world leaders and technology leaders in paris to explore ways to fight the spread of hate speech and violent online content the initiative is called the christ church appeal ahead of the meeting facebook announced it would tighten access to its live streaming feature. san francisco's board of supervisors has banned police and other municipal authorities from using facial recognition technology it's the 1st us city to do to pass such a measure but the ban does not apply to private businesses and federally controlled facilities like the city's airport the technology is used to identify people from

video footage or still photos and germany has managed to avoid recession official figures show a commie grew by 0.4 percent in the 1st quarter consumer spending and a boom in the construction sector helped drive fast growth of the german government and leading economic institutes recently scaled back their growth forecasts for the year as a whole. pope francis has given aged children a chance to join him for a ride around vatican city in his famous popemobile the children who have recently arrived from libya are being hosted in a catholic shelter near rome the pontiff has repeatedly called on the international community to do more for refugees who have fled war poverty and persecution and here in germany the debate over children born to german citizens who fought for the so-called islamic state has become a controversial issue one lawyer is fighting to bring 2 orphaned girls from syria so they can live in safety. these children aged one and 4 are being held in

a syrian refugee camp their mother a former member of the so-called islamic state is dead according to german politician and lawyer dick soon the children should be brought to germany as quickly as possible he's representing the children's grandparents netta barnes and i tell you she's excited that fans are visiting this year's host nation israel a common calendar is even more political than usual. but 1st a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a child for other parents this is the concept of circusy have led countries like thailand india and they call to ban commercial surrogacy but now other countries are soaking up the demand like ukraine connelly has more. rooms whenever the baby moves i speak to it at night when i read my children

stories it's for the baby to the phone because. the tally is 8 months pregnant it's a go but it's not. the tahlia is a surrogate the baby's parents live in germany. such a happy moment when you hold your baby in your arms for the 1st time i'll be happy for them. to tell his own children only with her for the day for the final months of the pregnancy she's moved to be closer to the clinic and you know talia took the decision to become a surrogate to help family finances so that her kids would have it better she tells us her partner earns just $200.00 euros a month working full time. this clinic on the outskirts of hard to attract childless couples from around the world among them the german couple whose daughter an italian is carrying they were unwilling to be interviewed even

anonymously the fear of being recognised is just too great. it's a different story with this woman from germany we're calling her and she's in her early forty's and has 6 failed attempts to get pregnant by idea behind her adoption wasn't something she has been willing to consider so surrogacy in exile donation was the only option remaining. a procedure that's illegal in germany anna says that is pure hypocrisy. surrogacy is illegal in germany but you see celebrities and those who can afford it doing it's all the same it's when you get back to germany that social services treat you like a criminal. surrogacy is big business and one that's growing in this clinic in how to give couples pay upwards of 30000 euros for a package i think ludes the surrogacy and egg cell donation there are no official

statistics but insiders estimate that many hundreds of children are born to surrogates every year in ukraine. it's a month since we last met natalia now she's back with her partner and children the child she carried for the past 9 months has been with its new german family since it was born it was there all the way it was a bit confusing emotionally after the baby was born on the one hand you understand that it's not your baby but you still want to know everything about it you've carried that child for 9 months but i wouldn't call it a maternal instinct you feel very clearly that it's not yours. the baby's new parents say they want to stay in touch with talia but what does natalia take from it would she do it again for now she won't rule it out but one thing is clear the demand is there and it's growing. now

a top boxer who suddenly kissed a reporter on the lips during an interview has been suspended from fighting in california until july all gary and co broad pool of attended a special hearing where further allegations were outlined against him. so this was the moment in march which shamed boxing pullover just won a fight and then did this. reporter jennifer avello said she had not given consent 2 months later was ordered before the california state athletic commission. ravello was there too and she detailed over allegations against the bulgarian boxer yes well as i was grabbing my backpack he reached and grabbed both of my buttocks and laughed. and how did that make you feel humiliated i describe my stuff and laughed. it's really upsetting. live

so what would you i do not want him to kiss me from with his bulgarian pop star girlfriend watching on who lives punishment was handed down you suspended until late july and has to attend a sexual harassment prevention class a 2nd incident with will prompt a life in california he is sorry for any upset that he calls and he certainly acknowledges that he made a mistake but he never meant any harm in the context of this very informal interview just minutes after a huge fight a very important victory and he said he was euphoric he didn't have his wits about him he now has to wait to see if his ban is extended worldwide. in tennis there's been an upset at the italian. open and roam world number 5 alexander has been knocked out in the round of 32 by rome native mateo better team set of reach the final last year but has been in a slump the season winning only 6 matches in his last 8 tournaments but

a teeny bit the german 7575 much to the delight of the home crowd. now to the euro vision song contest once again politics are overshadowing the tournament the final takes place on saturday in tel aviv among the finalists this year of the czech republic and marino iceland and australia which is represented by classically trained soprano kate miller and her song 0 gravity the 2nd round plays takes place on thursday before the big event this weekend now activists have urged artists and visitors to boycott the euro vision in solidarity with the palestinian cause are israel correspondent tanya kramer went to tel aviv to gauge the mood. beach sun and music as the ears see as it's known to its legions of followers hits tel of beef on the beach a mix of tourists and fans with such a day's grand finale with anticipation. this city when it's it's always.

and when people from the whole europe come here to see something i think it will become more fun it's always. to. go in the big stage here. i am happy to represent my counter of banya and read this there they go. israel is hosting this year's year edition song contest because of this single nit about silly who won in lisp and last year she will perform her new single man a banana at the final on sunday. making people come here and see how amazing israel is giving us a chance to show how how how big of a party we can make and how amazing and genuine it can be energy wise. wow. $41.00 nations are competing to win europe's oldest song contest it's

the 3rd time is well it's hosted it security has been beefed up along the beach promenade but the ever glitzy event has not escaped the country of the sea. the event has been highly politicized from the beginning there have been some calls to boycott the event because of israel's military occupation of the palestinian territories. international palestinian and israeli artists signed petitions to urge of this just a way from the event now that it's arrived they still want to highlight what they see as the political reality. let's stop for a 2nd try to look at reality for a higher perspective not only this you know the speech is a really beautiful and everybody is happy and smiling in the beer is the state. but just a few kilometers from here really. crazy things are happening here at the eurovision

press enter politics couldn't be further away the organizer of the contest the european broadcasting union has said strict rules spending politics from the stage among bloggers and journalists covering the event it's all about who is going to win this year's contest the dutch entry is one of the favorites lawrence duncan with kind of a cheesy nice ballad isn't 1st place but my favorite and my bad hopefully is below for sunny the french singer 19 years old muslim gay and he's now climbed up to 4th place and the odds hopefully he'll win sweden with john ludwick is 2nd place so it's weird in france holland that's the big battle fewer foreign visitors than expected have turned up but this pop icon madonna making a guest appearance the final on saturday is still sold out. all right coming up on w.

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