ah, ah ah, this is dw news. why? from berlin? the u. s. supreme court has overturned the landmark roe vs wade ruling, which said, abortion was a constitutional right to the decision paving the way for individual states to make laws on abortion. roughly halfling states are expected to ban or severely limit access to abortions. also coming up tonight, a major retreat. ukraine, ordering its troops to leave the city of several don't ask. after weeks of fighting and relentless attacks by the russians and the aftermath of afghanistan's deadliest

earthquake in decades, response teams with medical aid are now finally arriving in that remote mountainous region. but people say more help is urgently needed. ah, i'm burned. gov. it's good to have you with this on this friday, and we began in the us the constitutional right today of a woman to have an abortion is no more today the u. s. supreme court overturned that landmark. 1973 roe vs wade decision granting and protecting abortion rights across the entire country. today's ruling says that abortion is not a constitutional right. and it's, it's a highly controversial one with feelings high on both sides. ha, the moment they've been waiting for anti abortion activists thrilled by the new ruling

but abortion rights activists are furious, and president joe biden criticized the decision in no uncertain terms. now with ro go must be very clear. the health and life of women, this nation are now at risk. the supreme court 1973 ruling on roe v wade was a landmark decision. effectively legalizing abortion across the united states, the case focused on jane ro, in reality. norma mc canvie, a texas woman seeking an abortion. since state law only allowed in cases where the mother's life was in danger, she was denied. the justice is ruled $7.00 to $2.00 that a woman's right to privacy superseded a states right to ban abortion. that decision set off a fierce legal battle. the republicans added an anti abortion stance to their

platform and effort to unless support from the religious right. oh donald trump's presidency was a major victory for republicans looking to tilt the balance of the supreme court. in just 4 years. he was able to appoint 3 justices, giving the court a $63.00 conservative majority in the dissenting opinion, the 3 liberal justices said the court is putting its legitimacy at risk with sorrow for this court, but more for the many millions of american women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection we dissent. many politicians and observers have criticize the supreme court for becoming too political. in post ro, america, more than half of the 50 states are expected to quickly ban or severely restrict

abortion. that's likely to galvanize democrats who want to keep abortion available across the country. a position recent polls suggest is supported by a strong majority of americans. part. i want to know that our washington bureau chief in his poll, she is standing outside the u. s. supreme court in washington, in his we know, history was made to day inside the building where you are, talk to me about the emotions outside that building. well, as you see there really hundreds of women and men here in front of the supreme court, it only took a couple of minutes before the 1st came after the ruling was out. it wasn't clear that it comes out to more i today that it came out today. so more and more people are coming here. the majority is kind of morning and they are very sad that there's very important right to get an important for many of them. and very important, right, is being taken away brand. i just want to make clear our international audience.

it's not that abortion is not possible any more in the united states, but the protection for this nation wide law is taken away. so now it's up to the states, and this is what some women fear here, that in rural places in places far away from stays in which abortion is still legal . or they won't be able to get that done if they are in need to it. and in, as we know that polls have told us for the last 50 years, there has never been a majority of americans in favor of overturning roe vs wade. not a majority in favor of what happened to day. so how divided then is america really when it comes to abortion? well, this is one of the most devices and probably also one of the most emotional issues here in the united states. and therefore we had just just seeing some law enforcement coming. we just heard from officials that they are really worried that this really might turn into some aggression. they're getting prepared for some

rights later on today. why? because this is so devices and so emotion, emotional, and as you said, friend, the majority of the americans is not against abortion. but the majority in the supreme court right here behind me, it's against abortion. and that probably makes his country even more divided than it already is in give us a sense in his, of just a security situation where you are and you know, there's been images of police in riot gear, walking towards the supreme court and the capital building. i mean, how concerned are you in people there for your own safety? i would say i'm not concerned about my, our own safety as for now. so far it's peaceful. we see once in a while, some classes between the 2 sites because we also have to keep in mind, there are many, many americans who really applaud this decision. but we shall see. the question is always when it's getting dog, what is going to happen then? but again, not the most people who are here,

they're really kind of sad and worried. what will happen to all those women who i needs of an abortion or washington bureau chief in his school, outside of the u. s. supreme court, in his think in for more, nell, i'm joined by loopy rodriguez. she is the executive director for the national latina institute for reproductive justice. she joins me from california. it's good to have you on the show tonight. let me just start by asking what was your reaction when you heard about roe vs wade being overturned thank you for having me. and i, you know, the reaction is that we're angry. we're crushed this decision to uphold a 15 week abortion man. of course to overturn roe vs wade is going to be devastating for, for everyone in our country in the u. s. but particularly for communities that are the most vulnerable here. and my organization represents the latino and let the

next community here. and we know that our communities and other communities of color will be the most effected. and what will that look like? we know that this decision means that the states can now decide whether or not to restrict access to abortion band abortions, or to do nothing. what's that going to mean for the look tina community? well, for community, the latino community that already faces a lot of barriers to access to care. so, you know, i want to make clear that even before this decision to overturn roe vs wade, our communities already faced very steep barriers to be able to have access to care in this country. our health care system also does not necessarily provide us adequate health care coverage in general. and so you know what these bands do is for, for those of us who are already marginalized, who already lack access, it will make things much worse. you know, one of the things that we know is that 20 percent of let the has in this country

will have an abortion in their lifetime. so to large proportion of our community and are also some of the most likely or the least likely to have access to health care coverage insurance coverage are also some of the most likely to have jobs through which we get our health care coverage that don't offer paid time off, they don't offer sometimes health care coverage. and so, you know, this will just exacerbate a lot of issues that we've already been facing. and one last point i'll make is that our community is particularly worried about the criminalization element of this. you know, the removal of this protection many states including the senate, minority leader, mitchell connell, have said that they want to pass federal law restricting abortion and, and they, they want to criminalize abortion. and we know that communities of color and the latino left next community, black communities are already criminalized at high rates here in this country. and

this is just another excuse for the state to criminalize our communities. and with that in mind is rodriguez. what does that mean been for the upcoming mid term elections? if, if i were a member of one of these communities in the us seeing what happened today, i would say we have to go out and vote. but is that going to happen in november? absolutely, and in fact, our communities have already been voting. our communities have been fighting really hard for being able to have access to care and the dignity that we deserve. i think what, what's next for us is holding our existing elected officials accountable to us to be able to protect our rights. i think it means absolutely continuing to mobilize in upcoming elections to ensure that we get out the vote for,

for policies that are protective of every piece. rodriguez and other than that, let me just interrupt you then just so you know, you know, in the past, in mid term elections, it is not the minority communities that show up. i mean, usually have even lower voter turnout. minority voting is even lower then. what makes you think that this midterm is going to be any different? well, we know that there are larger investments that are going into the community and that should be going into the community for this to happen. you know, it's true that, that in mid term elections, in general, not just the minority communities, but all communities have lower turner rates in the u. s. and so i think that that's an important distinction to make. but you know, we know that folks are moved by this. you know, one of the, one of the points i didn't make earlier is that again, despite the fact that this is going to affect us disproportionately. and there are a lot of myths about the latino community and where we stand on abortion research shows that we are actually supportive of the right to abortion. the majority of the

country is, and we know, and because of the organizing that we've been doing on the ground, is that folks are mobilized by this issue. they recognize how integral access to abortionist for everything else that we face in our lives. socioeconomics, you know, where to live, you know, where we go to school, where we work, all these things are tied to this, our ability to make choices around this. and so this is a mobilizing issue for folks and, and, and that's why i think we're going to be coming out and, and certainly organizations like mine and others are going to be working to ensure that folks come out in elections. and i want to ask you this, rodriguez. cultural influences religious influences, a large number of latino in the united states or catholics today. the catholic church, the roman catholic church, the vatican released of statement supporting today's supreme court decision. are you concerned about the impact that's going to have not necessarily, you know,

as i mentioned, a poll after poll study after study in the u. s. of of latinos in the u. s. shows that our communities are supportive of a safe and legal abortion access. the majority of our community is that even if we would not have an abortion ourselves because of religious convictions, that we would support our community members, our sisters are our neighbors in being able to have that access to care. and so, you know, the church has had its, its position on this for a long time. but we know the reality is that folks, folks know how important this is for ability to, to live full lives and, and are supportive of abortion rights. what do you make of the opinion published of like of the chief justice clarence thomas today, where he basically said that this may be just the beginning. there are other cases that will be overturned. one of them would be a case that has guaranteed access to contraception. across the country,

are you fearful that that is also going to be true? yes, absolutely. we, we always knew, you know, those of us who have been doing work in the reproductive rights movement for a long time. always knew that, you know, this is just to start that, but many of these attacks on reproductive rights in abortion, specifically at this point, i have an end game in, in, in taking away all access to reproductive health care for women in this country are for pregnant people in this country and so that is not a surprise, and i think it's important to for the community for the u. s. a few people in the u . s. know that is good for the world to know that because you know, this is this, this is a slippery slope toward a place where many other rates are going to be curtailed to pay rodriguez with the national latina institute for reproductive justice. we appreciate your time and

your insights tonight. thank you. now to the war in you, great to day ukraine ordered the withdrawal of its troops from the eastern city of several don esque after weeks of fierce fighting against the russians. and that according to the regional governor, they are. and what we're hearing is that capture several don't ask in the don't, bass area is central to rushes, pushed to seize a larger suite of land in eastern ukraine. regional authorities say that fighting is intensifying and no town in the eastern region is safe for residence. civilian evacuations are increasing. earlier we spoke to our correspondent economy. we asked him about the significance of the ukrainian retreat from several . don't ask. this is obviously a big deal. definitely. this is talk news here in ukraine, but it's not an expected ukraine. government has prepared public opinion and world

opinion even for this 4 weeks now and distress you will, to long as basically been to make the russians pay as high price possible for the smallest possible gains. similar to what we saw in mario really make and fight for every street for every meter of ground. and hope that basically they exhaust themselves in the situation where obviously they still have huge superiority in terms of the weapons develops. and we've had different figures. ukrainian government figures talking about 10 times more artillery in the russian on the russian side that on the ukrainian side. so you can really having to choose its battles carefully and to use for little equipment. it has as cleverly as possible. now they've made a decision to withdraw from sort of that's going soon, i guess from this chance to, in the hope that they will minimize losses to their own forces. and really they give themselves a chance of continuing this battle without losing in uncontrolled and kind of dangerous, chaotic way. that was nick connelly. they're reporting from ukraine, where the war in ukraine has led to rising food prices and shortages around the

world, especially in countries that were already struggling to feed their populations. today you a secretary of state entity, blink. and he was here in berlin for talks on how to tackle the looming food crisis . and he put the blame squarely on russia for making the situation worse. nicholas, russia itself has been playing terrible games with its own food. i'm imposing its own export controls on itself. i'm putting photos on deciding when and where it's saw. it's going to make food available for political reasons. as i said before, there is nothing preventing the export of food food products, fertilizer from russia, except russia itself. and the only thing that is preventing the export of food from ukraine, the bread basket of europe, is russia. european union leaders today wrapped up a today summit in brussels,

where they took that historic decision to grant ukraine candidate status to one day joined the. but the support of you grant means trouble ahead for member states, not least in the form of soaring energy prices. des christine manuel has more. by the time the used 27 heads of government began day one of their summit, it was all about certain that they would announced the decision to grant ukraine candidate status for e u membership. a 1st step in a long process that puts kids on the road to brussels. the importance of this decision for ukraine cannot be overstated. it is the european union saying to the battled country we want to with us. just imagine how much of a boost that is to the ukrainians fighting on the front lights. but it was also important for the use of leadership who desperately needed a show of unity and to send a message to moscow that they ins high a. you was still strongly in support of ukraine and it's aspiration to join the

west. but there is economic trouble in the west and that dominated day 2 of the summits agenda in solution is to measure concerned for all of us. russia, swafford russians. pushing of the pros of energy, foods, intermodal tease, and all of these are so dirt impact on us citizens and business. the e u has sought to isolate russia for its invasion of ukraine. and since the war broke out, the block has delivered 6 rounds of sanctions targeted at rushes economy. e u leaders say moscow is retaliating by restricting gas supply to the e. u. by now it's 12 member states that either have been totally cut off the russian gas or partially, and therefore the best is always hope for the best prepare for the worst. that's what we're doing right now. the worst case scenario is russia completely cutting off all of its gas supply to europe. the impact of that would be devastating for

member states like germany and others whose economies depend on russia's energy or let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world . the u. s. senate has passed bipartisan legislation on gun control safety, although it's described as modest. it's the 1st significant gun control legislation to pass in 3 decades. it must now go to the house of representatives for approval before becoming law. the united nations have that israeli security forces fired the bullets that killed al jazeera journalist, sharina of ugly, the un human rights office said the palestinian american was not killed by indiscriminate, fiery from palestinians. a blackly died while covering and israeli army operation. in the northern westbank last month, morocco says that 5 migrants died in an attempted mass crossing from its territory into the north african spanish enclave of malea. around 2000 migrants tried to breach the border. malia is

a popular crossing point for migrants from sub saharan africa trying to get to europe in afghanistan, tele beneficial say that they've ended their search for survivors. after wednesday's powerful earthquake, at least a 1000 people were killed. many more injured. fresh trimmers struck the same remote area in the countries east earlier on friday, killing 5 people. a groups are now rushing to get food, tents and medical supplies to the reach. up to a rockman has seen so much in his life. but the pain after the earthquake, i said, but it is almost too much. yeah. this is what's left of his home. is virgin like the love quake happened suddenly at night. our houses were destroyed . 12 people for my family were killed one and my purpose will hurt her. who are the people killed the money to my wife's. my profess letterman and some eldest and one

of my sons removal gunnery was i slowly at a creeping pace. in fact, aid is making its way to the areas that are most difficult to reach. read, waiting for that aid children like najia and her brother sitting on the rubble of what was their home. they lost their mother and 2 sisters. untold numbers of children have helped berry parents and elders and parents have buried children who abdulla abed last 13 members of his family, including children who were afghan helicopters can land food, water and medicine have already arrived. also importantly, tense, overnight rainfall has added to the misery of those who have lost their homes and their loved ones. uh, police in ecuador is capital quito fired tear gas protesters if they tried to enter

the congress building there today, it's the latest escalation, more than a week of nationwide demonstrations. the rallies are being led by indigenous people demanding that the government cut fuel prices, tackle the high cost of living and spend more on education or correspond. johan ramirez says, this report, ah, downtown quito. on the 11th consecutive day of a general strike in ecuador, a standoff between the indigenous community and the government that is intensifying, neither side willing to talk to the other, to help bring this conflict to an end. violence broke hanson the afternoon with police 5 and t gossip. protestors who responded by throwing stones a peaceful protest storing it into violence one according to indigenous people. they were provoked by members of the security forces aversion that the police have

denied in any case clashes. what inevitable title came out today in the most peaceful way to protest for our right. and we got all the police surrounding us and shooting at us. but there are many wounded. 7 back in the head either or, you know, no, the police throw munitions at us and when people pick them up to throw them back, they explode in their hands. let it several people hurry been wounded, was that? is it either? anything longer, want mr. lasso, ruling ecuador, we want him to leave. he is murdering our comrades, our children, and our husbands. oh, while clashes were happening in the streets of the capitol, representatives from the indigenous community held in assembly to agree on a path forward. speaking to d, w,

the leader of demonstrations denied for protests. i aimed at ousting the president . he said he was open to dialogue, to find solutions to the crisis mean thrust by some of the of mazda more days that go. by the more, the indignation grows, the position that we guarantee a piece, but in order to keep the peace, we need to progress on the fundamental topics of change. we will the simple them of my studies. i don't find a way out among the protests will continue. and even if we're controlling the peaceful character of the rallies, or that is why it's necessary for the government to give real answers so that people can calm down and biskin and tell me what i'm finance. that is to provide the cautious became more intense convened of a day one man died, the 4th person to lose their life. during these protests, demonstrators say he was killed by police, fire, or authorities say they will investigate our sports news now and with wimbleton just around the corner. all eyes are on this lady right behind me. serena williams,

as she returns to the tennis court after being away for a year, the american star will face french deb, utah, harmony time. in the 1st round, williams was unseated for the tournament which begins on monday, but avoided any of the big names in friday's draw. the 40 year old is targeting an unlikely 24th grand slam title. williams lost both the 20182019 wimbleton finance bar. before we go here to look at our top story, yet again, the u. s. supreme court has overturned the landmark rover, says wait decision that the cleared of abortion to be a constitutional right. the decision hands regulation of abortion back to the states. many conservative states have already indicated that they will band or heavily restrict abortions. and he usually is wrapped up their summit in brussels at germans. his r o f showed welcoming the historic decision to grant ukraine and moldova candidate status. but said it was time for negotiations to start so that western vulcan

states can also join the european you're watching the w news. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day to night exclusive coverage of today's decision. at the u. s. supreme court to see you then ah ah, with

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we ask why? because life is diversity. to make up your own mind. d. w, lead for mine's a 4 months now and millions of tons of grain have been stuck in ukraine sports because of the ongoing war food that he's desperately needed. he and africa, given the war and the climate crisis. anything we can do to improve our own food supplies as going to be good.