arguing in front of the fifth circuit court of appeals in new orleans, laying out a case of why the fda approved abortion bill should remain on the market. what we know about the panel of judges we have to convince, we re not just watching louisiana, the republican super majority in north carolina voted to override the democratic governor s detail, making abortion illegal after 12 weeks of pregnancy. governor cooper argues in practice, the law might act like a total ban. we are on the ground in rally with what happened right before and after that vote. in nebraska, republicans are revising their failed six-week abortion pill ban to i m sorry, abortion bill ban to 12 weeks to remember the six-week ban was sunk by a single republican holdout. does his vote change to a yes for a 12-week ban? in south carolina, after three republican women refused to sign on to a total ban, the party is now weighing a new option, banning abortion after a fetal heart beat is detected. typically
out of texas to halt the approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. in a statement, he said:. the justice department strongly disagrees with the decision of the district court and will be appealing the court s decision and seeking a stay pending appeal. adding separately, the justice department is reviewing the decision of the district court for the eastern district of washington. well that ruling out of washington state is seperate and contradictory to the one in texas, but was handed down at the same time. and in a partialand preliminary injunction, the washingtonjudge has prohibited the fda from immediately pulling the drug off shelves. let s take a closer look at the medication. the district court in the abortion medication decision came down today. i have not read it yet, so i m going to do an analysis of it, but as a general matter, i will say that there is no question that the president and i will stand with the women of america and do everything we can to ensure tha
jokes with him alongside a budget proposal while he was in philadelphia yesterday. his plan has little chance of passing the republican-controlled house, making this more about campaign messaging than the actual numbers. meanwhile, there are significant developments this morning out of the manhattan d.a. s office that signal criminal charges could be coming for donald trump. we ll get into the details of why. also ahead, a lackluster debut for the subcommittee on so-called weaponization of the federal government has some republicans frustrated now with congressman jim jor t jordan an game plan. we ll be joined by the writer of the piece in a moment. good morning to morning joe. we have jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington post, eugene washington. and special correspondent for bbc news, the great katty kay. good morning to you all. as i mentioned, we re going to begin with the new york times report that the manhattan district attorney
and we will find you. joy and relief for some but on gcse results day, there are major regional differences in how pupils performed. and back from extinction the blue butterfly has its best summer for 150 years. and coming up on the bbc news channel: james anderson proves life very much begins at a0. he s among the wickets, as england seek revenge against south africa. good evening. pressure is growing on the government for action to be taken to help households and businesses cope with soaring energy costs, with calls from a think tank for a universal 30% cut in bills and businesses saying ministers should bring in covid style emergency grants to help firms. the upper limit of what suppliers can charge per unit of energy in england, scotland and wales called the energy price cap is set to be announced tomorrow. take a look at how things have changed injust 12 months. less than a year ago, a typical annual home energy bill was about £1,200. it s now about £2,000 an
ambassador is arrested on the same day the uk announces new sanctions against the military regime. more calls for the government to step in as the cap on energy prices is set to triple, compared to a year ago. and we ll hear from a french politican who says britain is threatening france s coastal waters, by dumping raw sewage into the sea. we start in ukraine, where there are growing fears of a nuclear accident at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant which is held by russian forces. in the past few hours the nuclear plant has been temporarily disconnected from ukraine s electricity grid for the first time ever, because of a fire. the zaporizhzhia plant is the biggest in europe. it sits on the south bank of the dnieper river in the country s east, on the front line of the war. russian forces took the site just after the invasion of ukraine began. since then, it s been under moscow s control but run by a team of ukrainian staff. there are reports up to 9,000 ukrainians work