[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. russia launch has new air strikes on nev if in western ukraine, the strikes cause power cots in the city that's become a haven for refugees from the countries east. meanwhile, ukrainian fighter sate russian forces have renewed their assaults on the steel plant. the besieged city of mario, also coming up germany's opposition leader, frederick mertz, traveled to ukraine to assess the destruction. but chancellor,

olaf schultz is being criticized for not making the trip. and the united states could soon end the legal right to abortion. the leg documents suggest the supreme court is planning to overturn the landmark ruling, which has guaranteed the right nationwide since 1973. ah and really mohammed walked to the program. ukrainian authorities say russian air strikes or targeting live with, with several bloss cutting power and water supply to parts of the western city. close to the polish border. several railway stations across the center and west of ukraine have also been hit. plumes of smoke rose above the vin, after several explosions were heard, lives, mayor said the strike his electrical substations. the city has so far been spared from the conflict with only a handful of strikes,

hitting severely and military infrastructure. this is the start of russia's invasion. meanwhile, ukrainian fighters say russian forces have launched a renewed assault on the as of salt. feel pont in mario apple. some residents were evacuated during a brief ceasefire that thousands more are still trapped there. faith at last. after weeks, under constant attack, these people have escaped the odds of styles, de bland, ukraine's law stronghold in the besieged city. of mighty or bold. many i even tears recounting stories of porto really would you mind because you can't imagine how scary it is when you sit in the shelter in a wet and damp basement which is bouncing, shaking van viva, able to go outside. i saw the sun for the 2nd diamond 2 months,

but while doesn't have made it to safety. paulson to remain in danger or fight even bunch of bizarre us to hulu. at the moment, while we are here, as a style is being stormed, why are you mad? your boy is still under siege and people could not leave to day. there are tens of thousands of such people. dens of thousands of women, an elderly remain in mud your pal you. they will hold you. russian shelling continued to the day and maggio fall soon after the evacuation was completed. dawes, who remained awed in despair. spanish hunt, you wake up in the morning and you cry, you cry in the evening. i don't know where to go at all that he and yet i am not alone. imagine every thing is destroyed. everything is broken. come your lashonda people go now. relatives of soldiers

still fighting the odds of blonde held valleys in cave to d, demanding the be evacuated to while ukrainian authorities promised to continue the operation. this, the international intervention will be crucial. oh, rather as the leader of germany's opposition conservatives has visited keith becoming the highest ranking german politician to travel to the wars on frederick mats visited her piling as his visit is now piling fresh on germany's chance that olaf schulte who has yet to go to crane since the war started, frederic metz hoped to be germany's next chancellor. on tuesday, he was walking through the ruins of erie pin a town on the outskirts of keys, devastated by russian air strikes. the conservative

opposition leader spoke with senior ukrainian officials the congress arden. i can only say fully respect with great appreciation. i think we in germany thought have an obligation to help this country and especially a city like yours pin. his visits included a one hour meeting with president, followed him. he is a lensky. that makes him the most high profile german politician to meet ukrainian leader since the war broke out. last month, the german president planned to visit ukraine until it was revealed. he wasn't welcoming reportedly due to his previous support for russian gas projects is radical. but i, i was ready for that, but apparently, and i have to admit, again, this was not wanted in keith us in here. mr. goods or humans early a chancellor, all off shalt said he would not be visiting ukraine any time soon. for schoultz, a diplomatic snub to germany's president remains a problem. this is the sawdust. come on this mum on. it can't be that a country that provide you so much, military aid of sophia,

so much financial aid will be financially that is needed to guarantee security of disease. that is important for ukraine's future get is told. the president cannot come $50000.00. desmond on the 3rd president come among his com, ukraine's outspoken ambassador to berlin, accused the german chancellor of taking offence and not being statesman like. which is the image the opposition leader met, sought to project on his ukraine trip. i can tell you from our side, from germany, we love the all the somali we can move military more from what still roger more easy for a building of real sit on the quarterly blue with the boiler kind parting words, but in the end mounts is not the one calling the shots in berlin or his look at some other stories making headlines around the world. police have arrested more than 200 people, an anti government demonstrations in armenian capital, yerevan, and several other provincial cities. protestors i angry over the handling of

a territorial dispute with as it by john opposition. parties are calling for the prime minister to step down. a woman has been rescued after 88 hours after a building collapsed in china's hu non province. she is a 9th person to be pulled out of the rubble. a knife rescue team said the woman repeatedly made knocking signals. the world health organization says obesity has hit epidemic proportions in europe. the un agency says nearly 2 thirds of adults and a 3rd of children are obese or overweight. the problem among adults is bigger than any other region except the americas now to the u. s, where a leak from the supreme court suggests the legal right to abortion could end. the draft opinion indicates justices are looking to overturn the landmark roe vs wade

ruling, which legalized abortion. nationwide. in 1973, president joe biden opposes the expected ruling saying the right to access safe and legal abortions is fundamental. the court is expected to publish his decision in late june or early july. ah, the bomb show league set off a firestorm of fury in the u. s. capital. as pro choice protestors gathered outside the supreme court. they are not going to get away with this. let me said, i don't care what i have to do, but they're not going to do this, the dc, and they're not going to do this to america. there's more than it is of them. and we are want to fight. though in the draft, it's the strongest evidence yet that a majority of the supreme court is preparing to overturn the right to abortion. a right established nearly half a century ago in the 1973 landmark ruling roe vs wade. the opinion

penned by justice salmonella, later and backed by other conservative justices, goes further than many had expected. the $98.00 page long document calls ro, egregiously wrong from the start, and would leave the fate of a woman's right to choose in the hands of lawmakers in individual states for anti abortion activists. it would mark a victory decades in the making or now that we have the science and technology in ultrasound technology to know that babies in the womb or human beings, we should be protecting them in law. there's no excuse any more. the likely decision to overturn roe v wade would not have been possible without former president donald trump. his 3 appointments to the supreme court tilted the balance in conservatives favor. but for millions of women, the ruling would come at a high cost. as many seeking in abortion would have to travel to other states to get one, a tall critic se would hit those already struggling emotionally and financially the

hardest. currently, 26 of 50 states, a set to ban or restrict abortion. many worry it would deepen the divide in an already polarized country, where the democrats currently predicted to lose control of congress in the mid term elections. this november, progressive lawmakers, a calling on the party to fight back before it's too late. in a tweet, sen, bernie sanders urged his colleagues to pass legislation securing the right to abortion with the controversial issue now old, but short to dominate the coming months. america could be headed for a highly divisive mid term election. military me now is michelle goodwin. she's chance is professor of law at the university of california. she'll so says on the executive committee of the american civil liberties union is great to have you with

us here on dw news. what were your thoughts on the st draft opinion? i, i should say that i was just, ah, an executive committee member of the a c l. u, i've been now step down from that, but it's one alarming in that such things never happen. we don't have leaked opinions coming from the united states supreme court, so that is a story. but a stephen black had said that story itself is the content of this craft opinion from justice, a leader. and it is an alarming opinion for many different reasons. one is the scurrilous attack on the court itself. and then secondly, in terms of what it means in not only gutting or chipping away, and ro, the opinion, calls for the complete reversal of roe v wade and also planned parenthood. casey, the 2 cases that substantively have ensconced abortion protections in the united states. now, well, this is a draw to we're expecting that official decision to take place late to the summer.

how likely are we to see any variation in that opinion, from what we saw in the draft? well, potentially there will be changes typically there happen, there have been times over the course of american judicial history, where the court has reversed itself before a final opinion. that's unlikely with the justices that have signed on to this opinion. these are justices who even before coming on to the supreme court, had shown that they were very conservative, even hostile to reproductive rights in the united states in lower court ruling. so it's unlikely that these justices would actually beer from the position that at least they've preliminarily taken with regard to this mississippi abortion law. and the complete overturn of roe v wade. so then what would this mean for the

states? how quickly would they be implementing abortion bands? well, they already are. so once it's such a decision like this, if it were to go into a factor or what are called twitter laws, laws that are just simply waiting to go into effect. if the ruling is as it is in this current draft opinion, but let's also be clear that opinions like this send messages, they send signals to states. and so even after the supreme court failed to intervene, really after that, texas enacted, it's anti abortion law. and then essentially after intervention allowed the law to stay in place that sent a signal to other states that then basically an act, it copy cat legislation ready to go into effect and with the ability to go into effect. because the supreme court had essentially sanctioned taxes creating an anti ro landscape for that state. okay, michelle goodwin,

thank you very much indeed for your time. thank you for having me. well, his remind me of our top story. russia has launched new strikes against the city of the viv in west and ukraine is that he is mer, says explosions knocked out power in some areas and injured to people. meanwhile, ukrainian fighter say russia has launched a new assault on the seal, talked in the besieged city of mario pole. and germany's conservative opposition lead up, frederick matt has travelled to ukraine to assess the destruction and meet the ukrainian president and other politicians. check the japanese chance that olaf shelters are facing criticism for refusing to go there off to ukraine, rejected a visit. i was watching t w. news live from berlin. coming up next is all the latest business. and reminder, you can find much more news analysis and video on

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