on twitter @annitabbc. a decision is expected today over whether hundreds of gmb union members working as check in and ground staff at heathrow airport will take strike action. the taliban appeals for international help in afghanistan after a powerful earthquake kills more than 1,000 people. we are desperately trying to work with local partners to get through that rubble and see if there are any survivors that we can administer first aid to get to local hospitals. borisjohnson arrives in rwanda for a meeting of the commonwealth s heads of government with food security, climate change and the government s migrants policy expected to be on the agenda. polls have opened in two parliamentary by elections which are taking place today in wakefield, and tiverton and honiton. eight medical staff who treated the football legend diego maradona in the days before he died are to stand trial for alleged criminal negligence. dat two of glastonbury gets underway. more than 200 thousand fest
it s saturday 25th june. our top story. protests have taken place in the us overnight after a supreme court ruling removed american women s constitutional right to abortion. clinics have already started closing in some parts of the country, with 13 states triggering bans on abortions immediately, as frances reed reports. protest, from kentucky to massachusetts. the decision to overturn roe v wade is seismic. pro choice demonstrators say they are horrified that millions will lose their legal right to abortion. but others celebrate. anti abortion activists gathered outside america s supreme court, happy to see the back of a legal precedent that had been in place for 50 years. we have called for this moment. and this is a heavy responsibility, to make abortion unthinkable and illegal
and clinics begin to close, borisjohnson remains defiant as backbench conservative mps consider fresh attempts to force him from power. a third day of strike action on the uk s rail network begins, with only a fifth of train services expected to run. playing with a new freedom bairstow says he s gone back to young johnny, as he rescues england from likely collapse with a brilliant century against new zealand in the third test. and it s windy here and fresher out there for all of us this weekend. showers in the west but the southern east will stay dry. more details here on breakfast. it s saturday 25th june. protests have taken place in the us overnight after a supreme court ruling removed american women s constitutional right to abortion. clinics have already started closing in some parts of the country,
the dispute overjobs, pay and conditions, but they broke down. the rmt is calling for a pay rise of 7% while employers have offered a maximum of 3%. the government says it is up to the railway companies to negotiate, but mick lynch, general secretary of the rmt, has described the government as a silent partner at the negotiating table. the rmt accused ministers of wrecking talks by refusing to allow network rail to withdraw redundancy threats, a claim denied by the government. transport secretary grant shapps says reforms are desperately needed and the union has chosen strikes over further talks. prime minister borisjohnson has warned that commuters must be ready to stay the course , insisting reforms of the rail sector are in the interests of the travelling public. another strike is planned for saturday 25th june unless agreement is reached beforehand. however, at this late stage, even if action is called off, it will probably be too late