this week the, this is dw news lived from berlin, a victory for abortion, rights activist, and mexico. the supreme court makes terminating a pregnancy legal across the country and marks the major shift in a country and a region where the catholic church had long bolstered the band. also coming up a russian to attack kills at least 17 people in eastern ukraine showing strikes the shopping district in a city close to the front line. presidents landscape condemns the attack into the don't the ask region as heinous. evil strikes overshadow is

a surprise visit to key. if i us secretary of state antony, blinking, america's top diplomat announce is more than $1000000000.00 in new aid for ukraine . and also coming up, the rolling stones are back the british rock legends announced their 1st album with new music in 18 years to find out if it was worth the wait the i'm in use. if welcome to the program, mexico supreme court has the criminalized abortion across the country. ruling that laws banning the procedure are unconstitutional. the court said that penalizing abortion violated women's human rights version is already legal and several mexican states. but the ruling will likely pays away from wider access to the procedure.

mexico is just the latest land, latin american country to loose and abortion restrictions of recent years. falling argentina in 2020, and colombia last year. dw correspondent nicole reese in bogota. we've talked to her earlier and asked her what led up to this major change and mexican law. the story is a major chain to change. a historic one is a s, i would put it. and i think it's a human rights activist and abortion rights activists. well celebrating this now because they have played a key role in this whole development. these other people who've been pushing for years, if not decades. so a portion of what to be legal and mexico and also as we just heard in other countries and abortion would be safe for the women who need it. so it's quite a weak victory with some sort of domino effect may be in mexico, a very slow one in 2015. it was mexico cities that's pioneered boost,

that's legalized abortion already. and up to today did was 12 out of $32.00 states would also already be legalizing a portion and the options for it. we get tapped to see of course, how this is being implemented, as we're not talking about just one say put 32. so this will be also a process, but it is a huge victory for human rights from social movements has been on the ground and protesting. also pushing forward these make installations and pressuring also know, make us over the years like and other latin american countries. the catholic church has been a big obstacle to legalizing portion. and is this a sign that the church is losing power there? and mexico, as it may be, one of several signs actually over the past 2 to 3 decades. some survey say that there is a decline of up to 20 percent of people who are saying, but they're not part of the catholic church any more. abortion rights might be one

topic of the topics may be a sex abuse scandals that happened surfacing he and latin america as well other options as for religions. and obviously society is not the same as it was 50 years ago. so that massive mindset changes going on as well. do you not in america and in the whole world? to be honest. now the us, which is mexico's northern neighbor has gone in the opposite direction with the supreme court. this, you're striking down abortion protections. do you think that will see us women traveling to mexico to get the procedure it could be a further increase. i mean, uh since, uh, the us coordinate is a decision that has already been increased. that's one of the 1st things that abortion clinics in mexico and specialist noticed that the more us women trying to get help in their country. and they were wondering about it because usually as of would be the other way around. mexican, when would go to the yes, to get a procedure done to get to portion pills, but now it's just uh,

switched back. it's mexico that people go to because the situation has changed. so you might see another increase. this is already a development is going on and actually this also activists nets and hopes that help these women that do this voluntarily. they try to put them in contact with clinics, with specialists, with moist even so they would feel safe and the, just for the pushing for getting rid of this a stigma about a portion. this is one of the big things up, things that are still out there that need to be done. and as we can see, things can change. also in the us was changed back and now it's the us women coming to mexico seeking for health and maybe now and all the states they can get that helps will search on it. and certainly is a historical shift. nicole reese in bogota for us. thank you. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. mexico's ruling morena party has named for mexican city, merrier mayor claudia stein bomb as its candidate for next year's presidential

election, signed bombs, nomination means next goes almost certain habits. first, female president, next year after the opposition alliance, also chosen one of the to us judge has ordered the state of texas to remove floating barbed barriers placed on its river border with mexico. that's after the bite and administration suit over the barrier saying it violated federal law and raised humanitarian concerns, texas as governor, installed. the bu is complete with sol like blades and netting in july to the deter migrant crossings. japan has launched a rock is carrying a moon lander as it seeks to join the tiny club of countries to successfully carry out a lunar landing after 3 postponements last month. the rocket finally blasted off a small land or is set to try to execute a high present in landing on the moon. on june, the us secretary of state has announced more than $1000000000.00 and extra aid for

ukraine. top diplomat, anthony, blinking gave details on the new a during a surprise visit to kid hours earlier, a russian attack on a busy shopping area in eastern ukraine killed at least 17 people, president, for a lot of years lensky condemned to strike as heinous. evil. you have another attack on ukraine city this time on a crowded market in kentucky. underneath it, the 17 people were killed here by a russian missile says he crane among them. the child on this, the deadly backdrop to us, secretary of state entity blankets, 4th visit the keeps ends to start of rushes invasion. ukraine's counter offensive was at the top of the agenda. last week. he rejected us media report suggesting progress on the front lines was too slow, but there were no signs of tension during blankets visit ukraine's president, instead of striking a grateful town long.

this usual rate around lincoln also met with prime minister denise to me, house and foreign minister at the mutual coordinate team to show where united front, the praise that you create an effort to push the russians back. we see the progress of the counter offensive, very hard. we want to make sure that the frame has what it needs, not only to succeed in the counter sensitive but as what it needs for the long to make sure that it has a strong turn. strong defense capacity is blinking announced a new aid package worth over $1000000000.00. the us has delivered or pledge more than $43000000000.00 to ukraine and military aid including air defense systems. wednesdays, brutal attack is just how important the support is agreeable. let's see if we can visit was the highest level visit by us officials since february,

when president joe biden made a trip to, to you. i asked the w, washington correspondent to know them alone. what might be behind the timing of a visit? well, there are a variety of reasons, and as you just pointed out, the last time was in february with joe biden, and that's already quite a while back. washington has clearly made it a priority to support ukraine on the ground with the with visits, if not so regularly event, at least consistence consistently. and this is of course, also an opportunity for and to be blink, and to be able to get an on the ground picture of the counter offensive as it is, all right, and it's 4th month. this is, this visit is also a chance for keith and washington not to get on the same page head of the un general assembly to be held here in the us later this month. but chief, of course, of the aims of this visit is for and to be blinking. to be able to announce this a $1000000000.00 assistance package that is going to ukraine. to tell,

tell us more about this $1000000000.00 aid package that he announced there. where's this aid supposed to end up? well, this package includes, among other things, the air defense components, anti tank missiles, artillery, ammunition depleted uranium ammunition, as well as a mine resistant armor de protection vehicles that are we going to go to the 1st time to ukraine's on board or forces. now these are all pentagon stop piles that are meant to help, but ukrainian so break through russian defences as the counter offensive gets held up by mines and trenches. and that's even as antony blinking says that since the start of the invasion, ukraine has managed to crop, kept to recapture half of the territories seized by russia. since the start of the

invasion. now, of course, predictably the counter offensive. how is very difficult and us weapons will remain instrumental in the successes about ukraine would house. let's go back to the weapons that you said were included in this package. you mentioned depleted uranium weapons, these are controversial. can you tell us more about that? well, what they basically allow you to do is pierce armor, right? they're very dense, they're done through the armor. basically they penetrate the armored plane to painting and then they self ignite. now they are controversial because there's an ongoing debate as to whether they might be linked to health risk. so you have the likes of the international coalition to buy and not you ran your weapons, saying that in hailing uranium dos could be linked to birth defects or to cancer. but earlier today, i was out a briefing by a national security council official,

and he pushed back strongly against this controversy, saying that so defeated munition weapons are not carcinogenic or radioactive and that there is no controversy to be had here. only what russia would make of it. all right, janelle, do milan dw washington correspondent? thank you. or the rolling stones are rolling out some new tunes, the rock legends assembled in london to launch a new album, the original material, and sure to the reputation it was a noisy affair. loading stones took to the stage at hackney and pi say it's a to right, so i suppose direction performance. we're here to promote me, diamonds. the bands, 1st 1000, featuring original music in 18 years. taking questions from us took care of hers to me, solid and it's also the 1st time mick jagger keith richards and ronnie wood came together

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