of a backlash at the polls against those who have been militating for this change for years. president biden came out quickly to talk about this and he sounded upset, he sounded angry and very emotive. he was talking about this idea of helping women reach the states, travel to states where they can potentially access, but it s not easy, as easy as that. i thought it was an impressive response, because the anger was genuine it sort of energised him, but i found it so interesting to watch an energised president, the supposedly mighty president of the united states, utterly impotent to do anything about what ned has suggested is a kind of revolution taking place in the united states.
when you have this victory. from my experience of politics, there are some who just love campaigning, going to meetings, getting very angry, who, when they actually win, run a mile. let s see what happens. maybe they re all feeling euphoric at the moment. but when stories emerge, as president biden said in his response, what happens if someone is a victim of incest and so on? these stories are vivid, if they emerge, and that is when i think the backlash could be wider than some of those who have been campaigning for this had contemplated while they were enjoying the anger and passion of the campaign. we ll see that backlash. as ned was saying, the consequences. vera, when it comes to what russia is looking at,
ned, i ll come back to you on that. vera, when we witness protest against abortion rights in poland for example, we witness the tens of thousands of women going out on the streets in warsaw in different towns and cities across poland, it s fascinating to see it from that kind of perspective as to what is happening in such an influential country, in the united states. it s speechless for me. today i felt that i am | a second class citizen because i feel so because my rights not mine because i m not american - but women s rights were taken. it s nonsense. speechless. absolute. when we talk about the consequences, and i think a lot of people are making their feelings very, very vocal and many,
and will be asking what the losses for the conservative party mean for the future of borisjohnson and his government, and we re also going to investigate allegations that russia is deporting captured ukrainians, including children. today for dateline london, we rejoined by the uk s veteran political commentator, steve richards, also joining us, ned temko from the christian science monitor and we welcome vera krichevskaya, the founder of moscow s tv channel rain tv that is actually banned by president putin. welcome to you all, it s really great to have you all here. we are going to start with the us supreme court. it has voted to overturn the landmark ruling that legalised abortion almost 50 years ago. it struck down the roe v. wade decision weeks after a leaked document suggested that it favoured doing so. this decision paves the way for half the country to severely restrict or completely ban terminations. ned, it makes sense to start with you. i want to pick up on something
he? we were expecting him somewhere else in the uk. yeah, eah. we ll talk about ukraine in a moment, but going back to what ned was saying, steve. so, change? what do you reckon? there is a tide against this government. there is enough evidence of that it has been in power for 12 years. this is its fourth term and it will be looking for a fifth. but ned is right there isn t the same tidal shift towards a labour that there was in the build to 97 but you wrongly called me a veteran i m still rocking and very young! but i m told there are many times in british politics when it s like this that there isn t an obvious enthusiasm for one party or another and it may be that britain is staggering towards a hung parliament, but if that is the case, there will be a labour government because the smaller parties would back a change of government and not give this lot another term, so it