[000:00:00;00] ah ah this is it every news? why from berlin? major gains. ukraine claims key victories on the eastern front line troops re taking villages near harkey, find a trail of russia destruction. meanwhile, moscow takes the 1st steps toward annexation of care, saw also coming up shooting the messenger, palestinian american al jazeera journalists killed, covering, and is really read on a refugee camp. sharina i was in the occupied west bank,

the broadcaster says the veteran reporter was targeted by israeli forces. israel's military chief maintains it's unclear who killed her. law says the abortion battle in the united states heats up. we'll meet one woman who has a personal stake in the issue ahead of a likely supreme court ruling to roll back pro choice stripes. ah, hi everyone. i am layla, iraq. thank you so much for joining us. we begin in ukraine where present vollmer zalinski says his country's forces are making gains against russian troops and have retaken several villages around the country. second biggest city har keith in the east. meanwhile, in the south, russian and sold officials in her san said,

they planned to ask moscow to annex the territory ukraine hope's more u. s. military funding will help it. we claim occupied regions, ukrainian forces taking back control and villages on the outskirts of hockey. as units crest forward, they encountered trail of wreckage from russia's invasion. ukrainian soldiers say russian forces fired on civilian convoys as they were trying to flee the fighting in frontline areas like here. destruction to by ukrainian fighters. this russian tank, one of many blown up by state of the art weapons delivered by nato countries, goes along the per mile. the weapons are helping us a lot, especially the anti tank ones, l'm. i wish we could get more of them and be sure that signature we use the weapons for specific target, little regional, and here you see the result. concret meant if we had more weapon citizens,

but we would get more results with those blowing. it will, they should be sh, it is the wish, the u. s. is only too happy to oblige americans. on tuesday, the house of representatives emphatically approved of $40000000000.00 aid package for ukraine paving the way for more weapon deliveries. on this vote, the a's are 368, the names are 57. the bill is past that house speaker, nancy pelosi affirmed us commitment to ukraine's war effort. it's about democracy versus a dictatorship. democracy must prevail. the ukrainian people are fighting the fight for their democracy, and in doing so, for ours is well russian forces have not given up their push into ukraine's don bus region. but a progress is incremental at best. as western weapons continued to point to ukraine,

meant and could soon begin to shift. i spoke to the w correspondence, amanda, safe in the 5th, and asked him about ukrainian gains in the east of the country. while these, again, under the control of ukrainian forces, having pushed a russian artillery out of the area that would add to for more. so 8 since early last week have been reclaimed by a ukrainian forces around har keith. and now what we know is that russian forces have not completely left the region. so a lot of hopes that this will become another kind of a miracle pushed back like what we saw and key of where russia decided to no longer to attempt to take the capital city. but to move further east, it seems that we still have to wait to see if that's what we're seeing. hearing harkey, which is the 2nd largest city in ukraine. zelinski said that despite these recent victories that are ukrainians should not put any moral pressure on the ukrainian military to have a victory every day,

every week that the victories were going to become a slower as russia gaines, a firm hold in the east of ukraine. but he said essentially to remain patient that a ukraine is in this for the long haul and it doesn't matter how long it takes. they'll liberate their country from the russian invasion. layla. amena can you share with us what you've learned about reports that we're getting from the south that the moscow appointed and leaders of the occupied region, of course on plan to ask president putin to annex the territory at this point later, there is no am a date set for what zalinski is calling a fake referendum, a bogus referendum like where we saw in what he claims we saw in crimea, where the territory voted to be annexed by russia. after russia already exerted its military might over the crimean peninsula in ukraine, and that became part of russia. so that is what

a lot of people think we're seeing an unfair sun, which has been um, occupied by russian military since april. so it's been a, quite a long time. the city has adapted somewhat to the russian occupation, or we've seen russian flags go up in the city. we've seen a ukrainians cooperating with the russian officials there. and now that seems that they're asking to be part of russia. but the lensky said that if that happens of a referendum were to happen that would basically wipe the slate, clean of all the negotiations they've done. since the beginning to find a peaceful scituate a solution to this conflict, which is essentially based on a russia only claiming only being pushed back to the territories that had already had since the 2014 invasion. not since the most recent invasion layla. so this would really be a setback in terms of peace talks. if this were to go through and her son, i mean information raised of hope for ukrainians in the north said backs in the south. how do ukrainians feel about the prospects of winning this war?

or there's utmost confidence here in western ukraine that there will be an eventual victory for this country against russian aggression. the question is, how long that will take. i think a lot of people after the beginning of the war, when russia was very slow to make progress, was not able to capture the capital city key. if there was a lot of hope that the conflict would be over a soon. but it seems that russia has settled in to the east and that it's going to be a long slog russia continues to replace soldiers to bring in more artillery. so very few people know how long that's gonna take, but they do believe that it doesn't matter how long it will take layla that they're willing to fight for the country w correspondence that i mean as see for reporting from live in western ukraine. i mean, thank you very much. international news broadcaster al jazeera says, is really troops have shot and killed one of their veteran journalists in the

occupied west bank. shaheen. our lake was covering an israeli military rate in the janine refugee camp al jazeera, so she was fatally shot while wearing a press flak jacket and accuses israeli forces of deliberately targeting her. israel's prime minister says she was probably head by palestinian fire. but the israeli military chief says it's unclear who pull the trigger. he'd have your correspondent, ano kramer, join me earlier from jerusalem, where she gave us the latest on the circumstances of sharyn about his death. why yes, to circumstances i still unclear and details only is slowly coming in, of course. so the news broke this morning that al jazeera correspondence sharina barkley was killed while covering an israeli military rate in the palestinian town of janine,

that's in the north of the occupied west bank. she was there with other colleagues covering this rate in a refugee camp. now the palestinian minister of health that she was hit by a bullet in the head and a shortly died afterwards. a 2nd palestinian journalist also sustained guns suit, gunshot wounds in his back. he is in stable condition now as you said, the cut over based our network al jazeera for whom she brought pulled very long time had issued as har statement, claiming israel. now the israeli military had initially said that she might have most likely been hit by palestinian a gun my at with gunfire by palestinian gunmen and there was a cross fire. and now we're hearing from the chief of staff general co harvey, that at this stage it's not possible to determine which bullet she was hit with and that there, sorry for her death. now posting and colleagues where

a with her this morning or in this location have disputed. the claim said there was this kind of crossfire there also have said that there were clearly marked as price swearing, a blue flag check it with press on it can. you can you tell us who was sure mean i blackening hey, was probably a bit hard to say that in a few words, but as she was a very valid, respected, very well liked and very experienced one of the most experience, i think a journalist here in the region, she basically has been reporting here for almost 2 decades about the conflict, but not just the conflict, but also of the impact it has on people. here she was known locally, of course, and as she worked for al jazeera arabic, she was also known in the region. some of her younger colleagues have sat on social media and they're all of course shocked. and in disbelief or what happened that

that they grew up with her reporting here and she was a role model. there were a lot of reactions, of course, coming in. and i think this highlights again, also how difficult it is to work. as a journalist in the circumstances in this environment, especially also for palestinian journalists with precious, from many different players and sides. and also of course, how dangerous it is because people also said, you know, you shouldn't die of for doing your job as a journalist on yeah, some final thoughts from you. it's not the will to hold whomever is found responsible for her killing to account. well, i mean there's a lot of pressure, of course, and a lot of colds. we just also had a statement by the you. there was a statement by the u. n. a special envoy for the middle east peace process by, by many institutions. many people here as well to, you know, half a solar investigation. we also heard by politicians, obviously, palestinians,

and israelis. but also by the israeli military said to have said of a special investigation team that of course palestinians would say they wouldn't have much faith in the military. i'm investigating itself, but there is the pressure to get to know to, to understand what happened there this morning. that led to the, to the death of 1st serene blackland tanya, prima reporting from jerusalem. thank you very much. tonya democratic lawmakers in the united states are attempting to secure a federal abortion rights by bringing a bill to the senate. the move, however, is largely symbolic because they lack the numbers to ensure is passage. the immigrants are trying to head off a supreme court decision, which is expected to overturn the court land mark 1973 ruling which legalized abortion nation nationwide did when he was met one activist fighting to safeguard

the right to choose days after the supreme court document leak leslie templeton sees her mission more clearly than ever. the reproductive rights activist is getting ready to speak at a rally in front of the supreme court. from hoping to achieve people realize that abortion is life saving healthcare. we're all impacted by it. lives will be lost if rose, overturn for the 25 year old. the right to abortion is personal. she's part of the quarter of us women who live with a disability. her condition makes life threatening pregnancy complications more likely. i felt scared for women like me who have kidney disease. you don't know what to are olds again, it's life or death and died reality for so many people is terrifying. no one wants to die. so we're fighting just to be able to live. i in her fight for disabled women's rights.

leslie's weapon of choice is protest. she also wants to represent those who can physically attend together with young activists from around the country. she's taking the topic to the steps of the supreme court in washington, dc. i no one should be able to force me or anyone else with their lives at risk for fetus . my disabled body isn't anyone's incubator. my leg is important to me. the point to my friends, and it's important to my family with midterm electrons approaching this november, abortion rights will be at the center of a heated debate. leslie wants to make sure disabled people's voices won't fade. ah, here we did over you news life from berlin. we have a lot more headlines coming up for you at the top of the hour. in the meantime,

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