Putin Softens Russia's Pension Reforms

We go to Russia to hear about the news that President Vladimir Putin has rowed back on plans to make women wait until they're sixty-three to get the state pension, softening a measure that's drastically cut his approval rating.The initial proposal led protests across the country.
Also today, a court in Israel has ruled for the first time that a settlement built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank can be recognised as legal. And, why are doctors in South Korea refusing to carry out abortions?

(Photo: An elderly man in Moscow. Credit: Artyom Geodakyan /TASS/Getty Images)