this decision is a victory supporters of abortion rights, as it defends broad access to this pill and for the biden administration. president biden has responded: with me is our correspondent, jess parker. this ruling essentially keeps access to mifepristone as it was, open access to mifepristone. what happens now? it is a status quo ruling for now. as you say, access to mifepristone as it was remains, that means women can use it to ten weeks of pregnancy. a lower court ruling had looked at reducing that to seven and women will continue to be able to use medicines, three consultations get the drug order by mail. it is a drug thatis order by mail. it is a drug that is used by many women in the us and over half of abortions. it is seen as a very significant decision by the supreme court stopped but it is a temporary decision by the supreme court. picking it back to a lower court will now hear it over the coming months and it over the coming months and it could end up back with
local officials have issued an extreme heat warning for friday, with temperatures expected to climb as high as sit degrees celsius or 129 degrees fahrenheit. this is happening across south east asia. laos recorded 42.7 degrees celsius nearly 109 degrees fahrenheit believed to be the highest ever. six cities in north and east india saw temps above tilt degrees celsius, that s 111 degrees fahrenheit. and the bangladeshi capital dhaka soared above lio degrees celsius 104 degrees fahrenheit, the hottest day there in 58 years. the bbc sjoao da silva has more. in recent days we have been seeing scorching heat in parts of china as well as many parts of south and southeast asia. april and may are usually the hottest months of the year in this region, before monsoon rains begin and really bring some relief, but the fact is it s unusually hot right