violence in el salvador has lowered crime, but it s believed thousands of innocent people are still stuck behind bars more than a year later. hello. i m tadhg enright. g7 leaders are starting their summit in hiroshima, with promises of new sanctions against russia over its war in ukraine. leaders including president biden met the japanese prime minister, fumio kishida, at the city s peace park, and others. the new sanctions are expected to target individuals and entities across europe, the middle east and asia. britain and the eu have indicated they want to restrict trade in russian diamonds. the british prime minister, rishi sunak, also announced a ban on imports of russian copper, aluminium and nickel. live now to the bbc s nick marsh in hiroshima. thanks forjoining us. it s an event really rich in symbolism stop we ve seen leaders posed together in hiroshima, the site of the bomb. russia was expeued of the bomb. russia was expelled from the group had now it s top of their
we start tonight with a special bbc report. for more than a year, el salvador has been living under an emergency measure called a state of exception , in which several constitutional rights were suspended in a national crackdown on the country s powerful street gangs. the police have arrested a staggering 66,000 people and el salvador s murder rate has fallen. but human rights organisations say thousands of people with no link to the gangs have been unjustly detained. 0ur correspondent will grant is covering this story for us. what have you learned? if we think about el salvador s nan- problem, the countries gang problem, the countries really synonymous with two main rival gangs. the ms13 and the 18 street gangs. they did rule all swathes of the country to a reign of terror, intimidation, violence and extortion. that is being exhausting for ordinary people as you can imagine, having to deal with that every day in their communities, fearful about the well being of their child
we start injapan, where the g7 summit is getting under way. leaders of seven of the world s most powerful democracies are gathering in hiroshima. you see these pictures here? that is the french president emmanuel macron who has just met the japanese prime minister kishida who has been welcoming everyone to the memorial piece garden there in hiroshima. this meeting is expected to get under way shortly but what the japanese prime minister has been doing is welcoming all the leaders of the g7 nations as they have been arriving just a moment ago. the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau also arriving at this meeting. there is plenty on the agenda, we know the leaders will be discussing the war in ukraine for one, certainly china s presence in the region stop either has already been a flurry of news in the lead up to this summit,, a us official saying there would be new steps to economically isolate moscow and we can its ability to wage war. we are looking at the hiroshima memori
out of texas to halt the approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. in a statement, he said:. the justice department strongly disagrees with the decision of the district court and will be appealing the court s decision and seeking a stay pending appeal. adding separately, the justice department is reviewing the decision of the district court for the eastern district of washington. well that ruling out of washington state is seperate and contradictory to the one in texas, but was handed down at the same time. and in a partialand preliminary injunction, the washingtonjudge has prohibited the fda from immediately pulling the drug off shelves. let s take a closer look at the medication. the district court in the abortion medication decision came down today. i have not read it yet, so i m going to do an analysis of it, but as a general matter, i will say that there is no question that the president and i will stand with the women of america and do everything we can to ensure tha