at london s hyde park delighted. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. president biden has promised the federal government will act to protect women s rights if us states seek to prevent them travelling to get an abortion. speaking at a virtual meeting with democratic state governors, mr biden said he believed some states would attempt to arrest women who crossed state lines for abortion access. he warned only democratic victories in the mid term elections would give congress the power to restore federal abortion rights. i think people are going to be shocked when the first state, the first state that tries to arrest a woman for crossing a state line to get health services. and i don t think people believe that s going to happen. but it s going to happen and it s going to it s going to telegraph to the whole country that this is, this is a gigantic deal that goes beyond i mean, it affects all your basic rights. if extremist governors try to bloc
fires are continuing to burn out of control, as parts of europe endure record breaking temperatures. in france, thousands of people remain evacuated from their homes, almost a week after the first blazes broke out. in portugal the entire country has been put on alert. the leader of britain s biggest private sector trade union is warning of a summer of discontent with widespread strike action. sharon graham of the union unite says that workers, and particularly those who got us through the pandemic, should not now be paying the price of inflation. the government says action like strikes on the railways are only creating misery for passengers across the uk. our economics editor faisal islam reports. injune, thousands of rail workers walked out in a national strike now more announced for july and august. and rail isn t the only industry affected by strike action. workers are increasingly willing to walk out to help push up they pay in tough times, says the chief of the bigge
hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. i m ben boulos. we start here in the uk, where our screens have been full of pictures of miles of traffic queues as thousands of holiday makers have been stuck trying to make their way across the channel to france in recent days. the latest reports say the situation is easing, with the gridlock seen at the port of dover and the eurotunnel entrance at folkestone beginning to move more normally. but for many, the experience has been one of high stress and exhaustion not really how you want to start your family getaway. now blame has been thrown around, with the uk blaming french border staff and france pointing to the effects of brexit. butjust how damaging is all this? to help me through all this, with me is the independent s travel correspondent simon calder. do you think this will put people off, long term taking that holiday? people off, long-term taking that holiday? people off, long-term taking that holida
of the young thai footballers rescued from a cave our correspondent revisits the people who saved them. when i first walked up here four years ago and saw the row of bicycles up against these railings, belonging to boys the same age as my own sons, i remember the heavy feeling i had then, how unlikely it was they would ever come out alive. hello and welcome to the programme. pope francis will visit a former residential school in canada later on monday, where he is expected to make a historic personal apology to indigenous survivors of abuse. it s believed more than 150 thousand children were taken from their families and mistreated in catholic run institutions. but the detail and extent of the pontiff s apology is proving controversial as mark lobel reports. preparing to confront his flock s terrible past in canada but not everyone appears as pleased as canada s governor general, seen here welcoming the pontiff with the pope s agenda this week. that is part of the probl
and the long wait is over for millions of lord of the rings fans.as a tv pre quel is launched at comic con . a landmark agreement to allow the export of grain, from the ukrainian port of odesa has come under threat, after the city was hit by a missile strike, less than 2a hours after the deal was signed. russia had promised not to attack the port or any ships carrying grain out of it. but president zelensky said the strike showed that moscow would always find ways to avoid delivering on its agreements. there has been no direct response from the kremlin. our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, sent this report from odesa. in a war littered with broken promises and especially devastating betrayal, two missiles launched from the black sea hitting odesa s port. two others were taken out by air defence systems. for coffee vendor sergei, there is only one thing to do. translation: i saw black smoke after the missiles hit, so i knew i had to run to a bomb shelter and hid