ah, ah ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. the u. s. supreme court has overturned the landmark roe vs wade. cape's end constitutional protection of the right to an abortion. the decision paved the way for individual states to make laws on abortion, roughly half are expected to ban or severely limit access. also coming up a major retreat. ukraine orders its troops to leave the city of several don't ask after weeks of fighting and relentless attacks by the russians.

ah, i bring cop is good to have you with us in the united states. the constitutional right of a woman to have an abortion is no more to day. the supreme court overturned that landmark. 1973 roe vs wade decision granting and protecting abortion rights across the entire country. today's ruling sins, abortion rights back to the states and some states, such as missouri, have already announced to legislation to ban abortions. to like the u. s. is bracing for nationwide protests and possible bye 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 the justice has ruled 7 to 2 that a woman's right to privacy superseded a states right to ban abortion.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 enlist 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 this commer as many politicians and observers had criticized the supreme court for becoming 2 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. our washington bureau chief in his pole is covering today's ruling. she joined the short while ago from outside the u. s. supreme court. ah, 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 to day that it came out today. so more and more people are coming here. the majority is kind of morning or they are very sad that this is very important, right? to get an important for many of them and very important right, is being taken away. brent, i just want to make clear for our international audience, it's not that abortion is not possible anymore 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 place as far away from stays in which abortionist illegal or they won't be able to get that done if they are in need to it. and in is what we know that pauls 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 today. 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 are 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 are getting prepared for some riots later on today. why? because this is so divisive 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. and give us a sense in his, of just the security situation where you are and you know, there's been images of police in riot gear, walking towards the supreme court in the capitol building. i mean, how concerned are you in people there for your own safety and i'm not concerned about my own safety as for now. so far it's peaceful receive 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 dogwood is going to happen then. but again, 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 are watching the bureau chief in his pull outside of the u. s. supreme court in if they will, the reversal of reverses weight is expected to impact minorities disproportionately

more. i discussed that with lou pe rodriguez, the executive director for the national latina institute for reproductive justice in california. the reaction is that we're angry, we're crushed, and this decision to uphold a be attitude week abortion men, of course, didn't overturn roe vs wade is going to be devastating for for everyone in our country in the us. but particularly for communities that are the most vulnerable here and out my organization represents the latino and like the next community here . and we know that our communities and other communities a car will be the most the package. 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 me than for the la 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 or 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 life time. so to large proportion of our community, and we're 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 love 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, the pe rodriguez. we appreciate your time and your insight. thank you. now to a major retreat in the war in you, great ukrainian voices have been ordered to withdraw from the eastern city of several desk. after weeks of fierce fighting against russian forces,

capturing the city of several don't ask if the don't best area essential to russia's goal of seizing a large section of land and eastern new, great regional authorities to say that fighting is intensifying and that no town in the east is safe for civilians. earlier we spoke to our correspondent connelly, and we asked him about the significance of the retreat from several don't ask. this is obviously a big deal. definitely. this is 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. them distress you will, along as basically been to make the russians pay as high price possible for the smallest possible gains. similar to what we saw and mario will really make them fight for every street for every meter of ground. and hope that basically they exhaust themselves in the situation where of see they still have huge superiority in terms of the weapons available. and we've had different figures, ukrainian government figures talking about 10 times more artillery in the russian

on the russian side, the ukrainian side. so you can really having to choose it's battles carefully and to use what little equipment it has as cleverly as possible. now they've made a decision to withdraw from sort of that's consumed, i guess from this a 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 none controlled and kind of dangerous celtic way. that was the connelly reporting from ukraine. let's take a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines at this hour. thousands of people have rallied in the georgia capital tbilisi to show their support for the former soviet republic, joining the european union. angry at georgia, not being given candidate status like ukraine. they have hold on the government to resign or to implement the 12 points listed by the e. u. for george's application to be reassess. the u. s. senate has passed by pat partisan legislation on gun safety. although is described as modest. this is the

1st significant gun control legislation to pass in 3 decades. it must now go to the house of representatives for approval before becoming war and as a result, the united nation says that israeli security forces fired the bullets that killed al jazeera journalists. serene obs, ugly, you and human rights office, said the palestinian american was not killed by indiscriminate firing from palestinians. a block lay died while covering in israeli army operation in the northern westbank last month. in afghanistan, tell him on official say that they've ended their search for survivors. after wednesday's powerful earthquake, at least a 1000 people were killed. many more injured aftershocks have hit the remote area in the countries east this 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 legs on the land? quake happened suddenly at night. our houses were destroyed. 12 people for my family were killed, one and my purpose were heard. who are the people killed the money to my wife's, my proof as the money, some elders, and one of my sons remodeled gunnery moseto slowly at a creeping pace. in fact, aid is making its way to the areas that are most difficult to reach red, 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 bury parents and elders and parents have very 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, over night rainfall has added to the misery of those who have lost their homes and their loved ones are awful. i sports news with wimbledon just around the corner. all eyes will be on this lady, serena williams, as she returns to the tennis court after being away for a year. the american star will face french debutante harmony tap in the 1st rail. williams was unseated for the tournament which begins on monday, but avoided any of the big names and fridays draw. the 40 year old is targeting and unlikely 24th grand slam title. she lost both the 20182019 wilmington. fine. before we go a quick look at our top stories this our, the u. s. supreme court has overturned the landmarked rovers. is way decision that declared abortion to be

a constitutional right. or decision hands regulation of abortion back to the states in the conservative states have already indicated that they plan to band or heavily restrict access to abortion. it's been a good week restock after several bad ones. daniel winters will have more in the w business after the break. i will see you again, right here on monday, have a good weekend everybody. so i'm skin that i want that tags and in the end is a me, you are not allowed to see you anymore. we will send you back. are you familiar with these snobs? were lions as of the what's your story? i mean when i was women, especially of victims of violence take part and send us.