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 sort of revolution taking place in the united states. i know the united states constitution is this glorious kind of, apparently elegant mix of checks and balances of power, but i sometimes think it s all over the place. so, this is donald trump s supreme court in effect rendering the new president unable to do anything about this extraordinary change so that s really, just watching from a distance, the practical measures, there are states where abortion
hello and a very warm welcome to dateline london. i m kasia madera. it s very good of you to be with us today. this week, we re discussing the us supreme court overturning a 50 year old ruling that legalised abortion nationwide, and look at its implication for millions of american women. we ll also be discussing the aftermath of the recent by elections here in the uk 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.
boris johnson is a hero i in ukraine and everything he does towards ukraine, it triggers the different i feelings and emotions, - so that s why i m the wrong person because each time he stands nextl to mr zelensky, it - makes him even bigger. he popped up in kyiv, didn t he? we ll talk about ukraine in a moment, but going back to what ned was saying, what do you reckon about change, steve? there is a tide against this government. remember, it has been in power for 12 years. this is its fourth term and it will be looking for a fifth, but there isn t the same tidal shift towards labour that there was in the build up to 1997.
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 your publication has written. the draft was leaked. we are not really surprised, but as your publication, the christian science monitor, has said, this decision was unthinkablejust a few years ago. we are seeing a monumental change across the united states. it s almost impossible to overstate the significance and there have been periods of judicial activism by the supreme court in the past, most famously in the late 19505, 60s, 70s over civil rights
basically if this drags on for a long time, will the west s attention span wane? will the economic problems and the fact that winter is coming mean it is harder to keep a coalition together for months on end? will that cause western unity to flag? if that happens, one can only expect there will be many, many more people spirited out of ukraine and into parts of russia. exactly, as ned picked up, steve, you ve got one sentence to speak about this, but borisjohnson described the concerns about fatigue when it comes to this war. yes, and it will be reflected notjust in leaders, but in voters worried about the impact on energy prices, food prices and the longer it goes on, the more that word fatigue