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it's more up to date than ever. obama go village and it's passion centers, sports july, 3rd on dw. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, the u. s. supreme court strikes down the constitutional right to an abortion justices overturned. the landmark roe vs wade. position triggering immediate abortion bands and several states. we look at what the ruling means for millions of women in america. also coming up
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a major retreat ukrainian troops leave the city of several don yet after weeks of fighting and relentless attacks by the russians. and protesters in ecuador clash with police for the 12 consecutive day. soaring food and fuel prices have pushed tensions to boiling point. as the violence escalades the president accuses protesters often attempted to call. ah, monica jones, welcome to the program. it's been described as a constitutional earthquake. the u. s. supreme court has ended 50 years of federal abortion rights. in a 6 to 3 ruling, the court overturned the landmark 1973 roe vs wade. a decision that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion you are states now have the power to set their own abortion laws. and next, i've already closed and several,
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at republican run states that had anticipated the ruling. the decision triggered emotional reactions on both sides. i then march in defiance nationwide, and americans have taken to the streets to protest the supreme court's decision. overton ruby weighed with this ruling, american women will no longer have the constitutional right to an abortion. i know what they're doing and they know that what they're doing it with my body. braylin's activeness. take it different stones to them this day is a cause for celebration. ah, several states across the u. s. have already enacted immediate bands on the
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procedure as of this morning and abortions performed in oklahoma or solicited in oklahoma are illegal. this is not only a victory for unborn children. this is a victory for everybody who believes in our system of government. one of right on the other side of the lead is a 3 west coast states. california, oregon and washington have promised to fight for a bush. and roy, why california oregon and washington are building the west coast of tech patients access to it will work with their legislators with our providers, with a patient evidence we will continue to protect patients from any state who come to our state of washing here in just one day, the u. s. supreme court has ended protections that stood in any half a century. now the battle begins to reinstate, but the one calls
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a basic human rights. jim robin alt is a lawyer and a u. s. presidential historian, we asked if the u. s. supreme court is looking at rolling back even more rights, while the majority opinion written by justice leaders said that they're not doing anything but addressing abortion in a concurring opinion. justice thomas said no, no, no. i want to look at other things like other rights that have been established like the right to same sex marriage in. 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 want 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
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legitimacy. and this is really being called into question with this opinion. today, the supreme court decision in the united states has drawn a lot of international criticism, canadian prime minister justin trudeau tweeting the news coming out of the u. s. is horrific. my heart goes out to the millions of american women who are now set to lose the legal right to an abortion. french president in manuel macklin said, abortion is a fundamental right for all women. it must be protected. and to scotland 1st minister nicholas sturgeon said friday ruling mark to one of the darkest days for women's rights in her life. time moving back to europe. ukrainian troops are retreating from the eastern city office. several on yet, after weeks of fighting against invading russian forces, a regional official said, ukraine's units would move to stronger positions. reason days i've seen russia make significant gains around the strategic eastern city rushes,
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trying to and circle ukrainian forces and sees the entire don bus region. local ukrainian officials say the fighting is intensifying and nowhere in the east a safe anymore for residence. so is the withdrawal from several don yet in admission of defeat? earlier, i put that question to our correspondent in key of nic connelly. i think it's definitely an acceptance that 70 minutes was not a city that ukraine could hold on to with acceptable losses for any longer. these got stormy there. how long ukraine has stayed in control? the city experts been talking about the city being taken by the russians for basically the best part a month now. and ukrainian just kept on holding on, kept on forcing the russians to basically lose huge numbers of soldiers to invest a huge amount of firepower pulling away or weapons and resources from other parts of the front lines. just to gain a couple of streets at a time. and now in a situation where, so this is basically the only ukranian stronghold on the northern side of that
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civil gibbon. it's river where the bridges behind them have been blown up. ukraine has now said that they are going to try and pull people out how they're going to get them out without bridges, without a situation where they're pontoons. we don't know, but that seems to be the plan now. and yeah, it's a blow, but i think it's a situation where you created basically tried to do the same as it did with mary paul to turn this into a pyrrhic victory for the russians. a hollow victory where they basically invested more resources than that city is worth. but they obviously are desperate for some kind of victory, some kind of game because of rule. now, in our 5th month of war, the russians have pretty little to show, given the huge resources and given a huge, a security in fire power to show for all their efforts. d, w. next connelly, their reporting from kia. thank you so much. let's take a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the organizers of the oslo pride festival have cancelled their parade and to all
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other events as shooting at a gay by night club. in the end of each in capital or slow, at least 2 people were killed and police are treating. the incident is a terrorist attack, a suspect was arrested at the scene. us lawmakers have approved bipartisan legislation on gun safety. they're the 1st significant federal laws to be passed and decades. the reforms will make it harder for young people to buy weapons. the measures come in the wake of a space of massive shootings including one at her school in texas. that left $21.00 dead thousands of table have rallied in the george and capital tbilisi to show their support for the former soviet republic joining the european union. protesters are angry that you lead us this week, refused to grant georgia candidate status. they're calling on the georgia government to resign or implement the 12 points listed by the you for its application to be reassessed. morocco says 18 people died and an attempt at
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mass crossing from its territory into the north african spanish enclave of mila. around 2000 migrants try to bridge the border. melinda is a popular crossing point for migrants from sub saharan africa trying to get into europe. germany is preparing to house leaders from the group of 7 wealthy countries at a summit that opens in bavaria on sunday. the g 7 includes the most advanced economies, the u. s. canada, the u. k, france, germany, italy, and japan. their home to 10 percent of the world's population, but account for a 3rd of global economic output. germany holds the rotating presidency of the group . of this meeting will be dominated by a daunting set of crises with russia's war and ukraine and climate change. talking the agenda, but as dw richard walker reports, these issues are nothing new for the g 7. germany's baltic sea coast,
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2007. our gl immacule hosting, one of the 1st major summits of her career is chancellor. it's name the g h. that's right, back then it was still the g 8, a group of 7 rich liberal democracies plus russia also on board. vladimir putin was there and some of the photos even made it look quite friendly. seen from to day, it looks like a parallel universe. and yet all was not, well, putin was angry about us plans for a missile defense system would be just a year later he would invade georgia. but other challenges were mounting to the ga promised to tackle climate change. or at least it sort of did. in this final declaration, it promised to consider cutting emissions by half by 2050, fast forward to 2015. and this time michael hosted in the mountains. the g 8 was
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now the g 7. again. putin was gone. the group threw him out over the annexation of crimea. this became the signature image. he had suggested a meeting of minds in a group now coming closer together without the russians around. and yet russia loomed over things as the final declaration made clear. it condemned the annexation of crimea and said that russia must respect ukraine sovereignty. and there was a growing sense of time running out on climate change with calls for urgent and concrete action. fast forward again to today. and russia's war in ukraine will totally dominate this year's summit. a war destabilizing europe, and potentially the whole world. the g 7 will try to underscore west in unity in the face of all of this. and it will also try to tackle some of the fall out of the
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war like the food crisis and the energy crunch. and with forest fires already hitting near berlin this year. the climate crisis will be back on the agenda again . the new german chancellor ala schultz will use his debut as host to push a plan called the climate club, that he says could make a difference of it. so looking back again at those photos from 2007, they may seem like they're from a parallel universe. but when you think about it, the challenges of then have become the crises of now. we'll have to see of schoultz and his fellow g 7 leaders can do anything meaningful about them. to ecuador now, who are protestors and police have clashed for a 12 consecutive day as a nationwide strike turns increasingly violent. indigenous groups are leading the demonstrations triggered by soaring fuel prices and the high cost of living, and with tensions at boiling point ecuador president,
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as accused of the protest leader of trying to stage a coup. ah, police and protesters square off in ecuador, his capital quito. several protesters have died in scores on both sides have been injured. the economy has taken a massive hit all while the country citizens struggle to feed their families. yoga iron minimum wage, a full $125.00 a month. and i have 4 children and it's not enough, but another food prices have sword. even basics, like cooking oil in december, it cost $2.00 and we sold 3 bottles for $5.00. now it cost $4.40 to find purple turnbull. what do you think the protest began over fuel prices, but have grown to include a number of demands for economic relief, ecuador, his president, who has offered some concessions, but now says the unrest is
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a threat to his government. a 2nd, but allow, it has been proven that the true intention of those who were violent is to generate a cou, a port is off. and that is why we call on the international community or not to warn against this attempt to destabilize democracy in ecuador, that lisa law, they will garcia inequality the monkeys yet, but lay only thus isa been the indigenous organizer who called the protests, says he's not interested in toppling the president, he wants solutions for ecuador is poor little thing. the mean booking people you will have the element this. it really is a harsh reality. what is happening phillips? but that's why at this moment the ecuadorian population has risen up. it's not because of madmen or vandals, i want you to understand its poverty. right now. many of our young people are being recruited by drug traffickers and hired assassins working because they're offering economic opportunities. frustration has reached a boiling point. what began as
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a protest movement has turned ugly as protesters fight with police. several embassies, including germany and the u. s. i have asked both sides to negotiate before the situation deteriorates. any further. you watching d. w news up next we have a documentary looking at snip disorders and how to get a good night's rest. and you can always find out more on our website. that is d w dot com. i'm monica jones for me and the team of the land. thanks to watching season we're all set to go beyond the obvious citizenship a man we're all in. as we take on the we're full about the stories that matter to you.

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