ah ah ah ah, there is dw news live from berlin. the u. s. supreme court preserves access to a widely used abortion health. america's highest court rejected a lower court ruling which imposed restrictions on the drug. decision ensures continue to broad access to the hill. also coming up

a major donor conference in germany, more than 50 countries pledge to continue their military support for you crate. the us says, ukraine's partners stand united in providing weapons for as long as it takes the class as ramadan. and a fragile truce begins and sit down, but witnesses, this se, there's no let up in the fighting. well then 400 people have now been killed as the army battles, paramilitary ra. ah . i'm all on soccer. it's good to have you with us. the u. s. supreme court has decided to preserve access to a popular abortion pill. the decision means that the drug with a prestone will continue to be broadly available in the united states. a conservative judge and texas suspended approval of the commonly used drug on the

7th of april, questioning its safety. the justice department of the bi administration filed an emergency appeal, asking the supreme court to block the lower court ruling. w. washington correspondent, i mean as if explained what this decision means. the supreme court basically ruled today that access to this pill that is important for many women to terminate pregnancies will remain unhindered. they were responding to a case from a texas judge, a federal judge appointed by form president donald trump, a conservative and appealing to anti abortion advocates. and he essentially wanted to stop access to this drug, mr. prestone. based on his assessment that the f d a, the food and drug administration which approves medications had not done a proper job and approving this pill. this went onto an appeals court, which said,

we're going to help this decision, but we're going to add restrictions to it and make it unavailable for women who want to order it through the mail and make it only available through dr. prescription and the supreme court looked at that and for the past week they've been postponing the decision. but they found this. but what does the, what is the state of the boston rights in the us in general right now? well, a lot of women are worried that's because this decision is only temporary. the supreme court was only responding to this appeals court decision to pause the ban on this drug while they look at it. that case will continue in may. so we don't know yet what the future of this one drug will be used. i will be. and as i said, it's used in 50 percent abortions across the country. that's particularly because last summer, the supreme court overturned roe vs wade. and if you're not familiar, this is the landmark lawsuit that enshrined women's rights to an abortion that was

overturned last summer. and a lot of women are turning to other options like abortion pills, which even in states where abortion is banned, they can order this through the mail. they can get basically access to it through health care providers that are not doctors. and it's a way to have an abortion that isn't surround by stigma that you wouldn't have to travel outside of a state where portion is banned as 13 states and united states including. and then in addition, 5, where abortion access is limited based on the how lot far long woman is in her pregnancy for a lot of women, this decision today does send a good signal. it says that the supreme court isn't going to basically allow any kind of case to get through unimpeded, that restricts women's access to abortion. and, but it's also obviously a disappointment for anti abortion activists who wants to make it impossible for women in the united states to get a legal and safe abortion. i mean,

as if they're in washington dc. thank you. i mean, ukraine's western allies habit meeting at an airbase hair and gemini, the most senior u. s. defense officials have repeated pledges to stand behind ukraine for as long as it takes. and they promised that american tanks do for delivery later this year will make a difference on the battlefield. a show of solidarity for ukraine from its western allies as the war continues to rage. us defense secretary lloyd austin praised the groups efforts so far for announcing washington's latest contribution. we've also expedited our m one abrams timelines to supply ukraine with more armor capability in the coming march. and the amounts of ukrainians will use for training. arrive here in germany in the next few weeks and all of this is huge progress

for their part, germany and poland announced the creation of a tank maintenance hub. it's location just over the polish ukrainian border. would enable tanks to return to the frontline more quickly after repair it is mostly our lossy, every piece of equipment that is supplied in this war, where the tank, so combat support tanks and other equipment such as how it says or patriot systems is subject to wear and tear, especially when they are in continuous use in combat or dim. so i am very pleased that together with my polish and ukranian colleagues, i was able to sign a memorandum of understanding will set up a joint maintenance hub in poland for the entire leopard to fleet who to get them to leo, lifelong ministers and nato secretary general yeah, and stockton burg reiterated support for ukraine's future nato membership. but the focus for now they say, is on helping ukrainian forces defend the country against continued russian aggression. for ukraine's perspective on this meeting in ramstein,

we asked the w as roman con franco and keith. if this is what ukraine was hoping for. well, yes and i am not quite so because for ukraine, when we, when we remember what was said before, that meeting in ramstein fo, cringe was extremely important to hear. that the people come more ammunition for its anti aircraft systems, long range ammunitions for its aircraft systems of ukraine was also hoping for a signal to finally become green light. for, for you, a fighter jets like f, 16 years made a fighter jets or that didn't happen and we still don't know how much ammunition for the chron at defenses the west will deliver. but on the other hand, the biggest good news for ukraine is probably the announcement or by the united states to soon deliver 1st abrams and one tanks for ukrainian soldiers to train in

germany. so these rules begin very soon, and then those tanks will then come in summer, but for the offensive, a big offensive operation that you can is planning. now, that would probably come to late d. w. roman gunter, anchor in a key of them. now, sedans, army and a rival paramilitary group have agreed a 3 day truce for the end of ramadan. the witnesses say they're still heavy fighting in the capital cartoon. more than 400 people have been killed and thousands more injured since violence erupted a week ago. ah, the cool to pray rings out across this district in her team as worship is gathering site the most to celebrate, eat the end of the holy month of ramadan. they all say praying for peace. a live jani, my law doesn't get it because we don't feel like it's each everything that's happening . walker, i'm about law. it was the same over the last few days of ramadan and humbly learn

a lot. we thank god anyway, we are a little bit gods will welcome little dog was taking place is inevitable since your country ruled by 2 leaders and cannot move forward that often walker. there can't be to army as much over the wherewith the armed forces of the people in the land say are the people also brought to know what's happened with the law. which other fighting between the army and the paramilitary rapid support forces group has continued for a week. all attempts a ceasefire have so far proved short lived for with the airport closed and damaged the e. u. in the 7 member states with missions in sudan including france, germany in italy, miss try to get an estimated 1500 nationals trapped in her toom out safely inside a deutschland disease. but when the number of germans who contact us is growing every day and is currently in the low 3 digit range as of today, friday afternoon,

we inform local germans daily with the so called in compatriot letter on the latest developments going to some of them also currently cut off from all communications i need to find in is in the outside our fun. they are common cartoon up cushioning. but as gunfire resumed in her team shortly after the 2 sites announced to 72 our ceasefire. this latest truth is already crumbling. a buell luella dang is in africa analyst, eh, we asked her what can be expected from this cease fire? women between sedans, army and the rapids, support forces. i think it's clear this far is, is not holding. i spoke today with people in, in the capital, her tone earlier this afternoon in which the heavy gunfire was audible. and i also have just spoken to actually

a relative of mine who is in heart to me who said, no, the street fighting is going on right now. it's quite heavy. and fact, the sudanese armed forces have come out and informed the population that in their opinion, the air operations have been successful and they're now moving to the ground fighting. and according to the ss they said that they have, that they want to move to street fighting in order to flush out the rest asked that they've accused of hiding in, in residential buildings. so if anything, things, things are getting worse, best of luck. now, as some other stories making news around the world, 10 members of the same family have been killed in a mass shooting at a house in south africa. police say they were ambushed by unknown gunman in the eastern city of peace of march. the south africa has one of the world's highest

murder rights work, as it's just got it. airport have joined strikes the 3 of germany's other major airports. industrial action has left tens of thousands of travelers stranded long distance rail staff have joined the county transport unions are demanding higher pay to offset inflation. britton's deputy prime minister dominic rob has resigned a day off. the prime minister soon act received a report on complains of bullying by rob government employees made a formal complaint. rob has denied the claims sheila, the president says, his government will nationalize the lithium industry at the latest challenge to electra carmakers, scrambling to secure supplies of the metal to make battery show that has, that was the biggest lithium reserves and follows mexico and nationalizing the

section to twitter now, which has begun removing many of the blue takes used to verify the platforms, accounts notable people including the pope and donald trump have been affected. twitter owner, illinois mask, says the ticks will be removed from accounts that fail to pay a monthly fee. he also says he personally is paying for some subscriptions, including those of ortho stephen king and basketball star, the bron james but we spoke to matthew finney, his head of tech and innovation at the london based thinktank sense of for policy studies says a lot of fake accounts have already popped up on twitter. we asked him what more we can expect to come. there's been at least 11 issue with a new york state affiliated twitter accounts, dealing with impulses. and this is exactly the kind of problem, but blue take verification and merged to solve which is that the more prominent on

accounts, the more likely impersonators or hoaxes are going to get involved to disrupt the platform and make it more difficult for people to consume genuine news and information, and so i expect that as firms or individuals choose not to pay that we will see more impersonation. and i think that's going to degrade the platform. it is trivial to set up a twitter account. so if you're malicious act and you know that the blue chick verification is no longer stable, it is a prime opportunity, not just for hoaxes, but also criminals and or, and episodes for we go, here's a quick reminder of our top story at this hour, ukraine's western allies have been meeting at the us as her in germany, to both to support for keith in the russian senior us defense official se nato stands with ukraine for the long hold. that's american tanks, june, june. the full will make

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