hello, and welcome to bbc world news. millions of women in the us have lost their constitutional right to abortion. we can take you to live pictures at the moment of the supreme court, where pro and anti abortion campaigners have been standing and campaigning for hours now, after the roe v wade ruling was overturned. you have people there, this looks like the anti abortion campaigners, who are demonstrating against that ruling. they have been there in washington for several hours and we will of course bring you “p and we will of course bring you up to date on that story. that is actually our top story, which we will go to now. the supreme court has overturned a longstanding judgement that legalised terminations nationwide. with me is our news reporter shelley phelps. shelley, talk to us about this. which states will enforce these changes first? changes first? simon, this rulin: changes first? simon, this ruling is changes first? simon, this ruling is of changes first?
welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in italy, where president biden and ukraine s leader volodymyr zelensky have signed a ten year security leader volodymyr zelensky have signed a ten year security agreement following the g7 s approval of a plan to use profits from seized russia assets to fund kyiv s war effort. joe biden said it would include intelligence sharing, troop training, adhering to nato standards and investment in ukraine s industrial base to make more weapons. mr zelensky described it as a bridge towards nato membership. the g7 deal sees a loan of $50 billion sent to ukraine. the group leaders agreed it showed moscow that ukraine s allies weren t backing down and president putin couldn t simply sit the war out. the first such agreement with the country in the pacific region. the g7 deal sees a loan of $50 billion sent to ukraine. the group leaders agreed it showed moscow that ukraine s allies weren t backing down
hours to discuss a response if ukraine comes under attack, it also states that washington will support kyiv in the military support through training and cyber security efforts, additionally, the us will help the crane receive compensation for damage caused by russia. here is what president biden and president zelensky said. we have signed the strongest agreement with ukraine and the us since our independence. and this is an agreement on security and thus on the protection of human life. fiur protection of human life. our coal is protection of human life. our goal is to protection of human life. our goal is to change protection of human life. our goal is to change ukraine s crumble goal is to change ukraine s crumble defends for the long term. our lasting peace for ukraine must be underwritten by ukraine on ability underwritten by ukraine on ability to defend itself now and to ability to defend itself now and to deter future aggression anytime and to deter future a
reporter shelley phelps. shelley, talk to us about this. which states will enforce these changes first? changes first? simon, this rulin: changes first? simon, this ruling is changes first? simon, this ruling is of changes first? simon, this ruling is of momentous i ruling is of momentous significance. this means that individual states can now introduce bans on abortion and they can decide what they want to do in each individual state. it is a hugely divisive issue in america and it has been for 50 years. if we look at the map now, we can see 13 states have so called trigger laws in place, ready, which means they can now introduce immediate abortion bounce quite quickly. now, that includes places like mississippi, tennessee and louisiana. abortion bans. faces that are in the south of the country, some of the more religious areas. looking at the map, there are another 13 states which could move quickly to ban or severely limit access. that is according to the pro choice group, t