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. we are going to start with the us supreme court.
mps consider fresh attempts to force him from power. a third day of strike action on the uk s rail network only a fifth of train services are expected to run. now it s time for dateline with kasia madera. 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 boris johnson and his government, and we re also going to investigate allegations that russia is deporting captured ukrainians, including children. today for dateline london, we re joined by the uk s veteran political commentator, steve richards, also joining us, ned temko from the christian science monitor and we welcome vera
let s start here in the uk, where prime minister borisjohnson has won the backing of a majority of tory mps in a confidence vote despite a significant revolt against his leadership. mrjohnson won 59% of the vote, meaning he is now immune from a conservative leadership challenge for a year. in total, 211 tory mps voted they had confidence in the prime minister s leadership, while11i8 voted against him. mrjohnson described his confidence vote win as decisive . i think this is a very good result for politics in the country. i think it is a convincing result and a decisive result, and what it means is that as a government, we can move on and focus on the stuff that really matters to people. joining me now is giles coghlan, who s the chief currency analyst at hycm. has it caused concern? perhaps surprisingly. has it caused concern? perhaps surprisingly. it has it caused concern? perhaps surprisingly, it hasn t. - has it caused concern? perhaps surprisingly, it hasn t. the - s
cultural center. that s the ex-motion you saw a few moments ago actually seeing it right now. president zelenskyy calling this absolute evil. also, ukraine s last stand in mariupol appears to be over. the remaining fighters at the steal steel plant surrendered. it would be putin s biggest win yet in this brutal war. russians dropped insend dare munitions on a village near kharkiv. reporter: putin would choke the light and life out of here. we are driving into the smoke of an incendiary munitions attack, we re told here, against this civilian village. homes, fields, even the air itself torched. vera says she saw it staurling from the sky and her neighbor hit. reporter: the incendiary munition which burns hot through everything in its path came after heavy normal shelling which makes you question, like so much here, exactly why russia needed to heat fire on top of heavy explosive. it hit just ten minutes ago, this man said, pointing the way. some left bewildered. others i
that facility serving as a backdrop for biden s broader message. that robust u.s. alliances with its asian allies is key to a thriving global economy and security. so much of the future of the world is going to be written here in the indo-pacific over the next several decades. we re standing at an inflection point in history where the decisions we made today will have far reaching impacts on the world we leave to our children tomorrow. the five-day trip through south korea, then next japan, also aimed at trying to counter china s growing influence in the region. we think putting that on display over four days bilaterally with the rok and japan through the quad, through the indo-pacific economic framework, it will send a powerful message. we think that message will be heard everywhere. we think it will be heard in beijing. even in asia, vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine remaining top of mind for president biden. putin s brutal and unprovoked war in ukraine has f