ah, ah, ah ah, this is dw, live from berlin, the u. s. supreme court has struck down the constitutional rights to an abortion justices overturned. the landmark roe vs wade decision. triggering immediate abortion bands and several stains will look at what the ruling means. the millions of women in america also coming up a major retreat ukraine orders its troops to leave the city of sarah dynette after weeks of fighting and relentless attacks by the russians.

ah no, i am told me laddie. well, it's good to have you with us. the u. s. supreme court has ended constitutional protections for abortion. in a 6 to 3 ruling, the court overturned the landmark 973 roe vs wade decision and shining a woman's right to an abortion of that leaves it to the u. s. states to set their own abortion laws around half of them and now expected to restrict access to abortions. some have already announced outright bads. 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 the justice is ruled $7.00 to $2.00 that a woman's right to privacy superseded a states right to ban abortion.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 this cause. many politicians and observers have criticized the supreme court for becoming 2 political and post ro, america. more than half of the 50 states are expected to quickly ban or severely restrict abortion. that's likely to galvanized democrats who want to keep abortion available

across the country. a position recent polls suggest is supported by a strong majority of americans. jim ronald is a lawyer at a u. s. presidential historian, i spoke to him earlier and asked what this supreme court ruling means for women in the united states. well, thank you for having me. it is a radical decision. this is a complete change of law that has existed for 50 years. given women the right to choose how they deal with the pregnancy, and so this has enormous consequences. it also has consequences well beyond abortion as now attacks will come against same sex marriage in all sorts of other issues that fall under constitutional protection. so make no mistake, this is a radical decision. polls suggest that the majority of americans support

the right to abortion. so is this the final word now all can americans, for example, lobby their lawmakers to adjust or to amend the constitution? it's not the final word. congress could pass a law that recognizes ro, or some version of ro, i would argue that they should recognize a version that draws the line, maybe in about 15 weeks. and as the, as the line beyond which a state can prohibit abortion, but congress can pass such a law. now the problem is you're going to need a pretty big majority of democrats in the senate. right now. they're deadlocked, almost 5050 in unless things change in this upcoming election. it's not going to be possible to pass that sort of legislation. in fact, if the republicans gain the majority of the senate, the senate may want to do just the opposite, which is to be an abortions in all states. even those that currently allow it right

now, despite this court. and the supreme court has a majority of conservative judges, i'm guessing from your earlier comments, you expect them to continue along these lines with future rulings. yes, and in fact, while the majority opinion written by justice leaders said that they're not doing anything but addressing abortion. and concurring opinion, justice thomas said no, no, no. i want to look at other things like other rights have been established like the right to same sex marriage. and, and i think it is a real slippery slope right now that we've got a 5 person majority that can run things in one of the people who's sitting there should be married. garland obama's nominee who is blocked for almost a year and a half. so you've not only got a problem of the court that is doing things that the majority do not one in this country. but there's a real question about whether it's a legitimate court, and that's

a really awful situation to be in because courts are only as good as their legitimacy. and this is really being called into question with this opinion today. right, jim ronald, thank you for speaking to us. thank you very much. thanks for having me. now, the supreme court decision in the united states is drawing a lot of international criticism. canadian prime minister, just introduce tweeting the news, coming out of the u. s. as rick, my heart goes out to the millions of american women who are now said to lose the legal right to an abortion french president mental cross saying abortion is a fundamental right for all women. it must be protected. and in scotland, 1st minister nicola sturgeon said, friday is willing marked one of the darkest days for women's rights in her lifetime . now to a major retreat in the war, in ukraine, ukrainian forces have been ordered to withdraw from the eastern city of severity.

next, after weeks of fierce fighting against russian forces, capturing the city of the virgin in the dawn bass area is central to russia's goal of seizing a part of east and ukraine. regional authorities, a fighting is intensifying and no town in the east is safe for residence. dw correspondent economy is in ukraine and told us more about the significance of the retreat from the very next. this is obviously a big deal. definitely. this is talk news here in ukraine, but it's sort of expected. and ukraine government has prepared public opinion and world opinion even for this 4 weeks now. and 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 variable really make them 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 available. and we've heard different figures. ukrainian government figures talking about 10 times more artillery in the russian on the russian side, on the ukrainian side. so you can really having to choose its battles carefully and to use what little equipment it has as cleverly as possible. now they've made the decision to withdraw from sort of next consumer, i guess, from this a chance to in the hope that they will minimize losses to their own forces and really give themselves a chance of continuing this battle without losing in non controlled and kind of dangerous celtic way. this week the european union took the historic decision of granting ukraine candidate status, which opens the way for the country to join the e u. but supporting ukraine will come at a cost for europe in the form of soaring energy prices. the ws christine modern reports. by the time the use 27 heads of government began day one of their summit, it was all but certain that they would announce 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 hugh with us. just imagine how much of a boost that is to the ukrainians fighting on the front lines. 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 its aspiration to join the west . but there is economic trouble in the west and that dominated date 2 of the summits agenda. inflation is her measure concerned for all of us. russia, swafford russians pushing of the price of energy, foot intermodal tease, and all of this has a direct impact on us citizens and businesses. 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 russia's 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. let's take a quick look at some of the stories making headlines of this. our thousands of people of rallied in the georgia capital tbilisi to show their support for the former soviet republic joining that european union. protesters are angry that unlike ukraine,

georgia was not being given candidate status. they calling on the georgia government to resign or implement the 12 points listed by the you for the application to be reassessed. protesters have clashed with police in ecuador capital, quito for the 12th day in a row. thousands of indigenous ecuadorian have taken to the streets in response to a hike in fuel prices. and the soaring cost of living. at least 3 people have died in the unrest. morocco says 18 people died in an attempt at mass crossing from its territory in the north african spanish, into the north african spanish enclave of malea. around 2000 migrants tried to breach the border. maria is a popular crossing point for migrants from sub saharan africa trying to get into europe. now the war of the iraq war of 2003 and the sectarian violence that followed. change the lives of countless iraqis forever,

including football players. some have their careers cut short after suffering rift . injuries in the many bombings and attacks are next. story is about one amputee who thought he'd never play again, but found a way back to the game. giving it another shot. ali cassim lost his left leg in a baghdad carbon in 26. then aged just 22. he thought his football career was over, but the iraqi amputee team has given him back his pride. knowing that about what i'm married with 4 children, my family are the ones who pack my sports bag. they tell me, daddy, go and train. my morale is totally lifted. whiteley's on the team was founded last year by mohammed alma shaw, who was made aware of the portsmouth amputee team while studying in england. and decided to take the idea to iraq. he wasn't short of applications for men whose

lives have been scarred by war. and on one of our that in our mission has become to restore morale and activity to amputees. yes. yes. why. as we made sacrifices in the past, you, this in law will continue to do so for the success of the sport highway and to raise iraq's profile is doing. doing so has not been easy. a lack of official recognition from iraqi sporting bodies means no funding. so for transport and equipment, the team must depend on donations, hadn't really gone to hell. no good. so far they've not given us official recognition, even though our team represents iraq and has achieved many things up on that. so unfortunately, they did not give us any local recognition so that we can ask for support. we have also not received any budget from the government. the amendment lookin' a jacqueline yet, but improvising in the face of adversity is what these men do. and the team has given them the camaraderie that al nasha says has helped. many of them recover from

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