Top US Court to hear case on 15-week abortion ban

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi's 15-week ban on abortion in a major case that will be closely watched across the US. The verdict could upend the legal right to abortion laid out in the court's 1973 landmark Roe v Wade ruling. Our correspondent in Washington explains the significance of the development.

As Israel continues air strikes on Gaza and Palestinian militants fire rockets at Israeli cities, we run the first of our conversations this week with people affected by the conflict. Two Palestinian women describe what life is like for people in Gaza a week since the air strikes began. Also, our correspondent in Egypt explains the efforts to broker a truce between the two sides.

Professor Manfred Green, a medical doctor and professor of epidemiology in the school of public health at the University of Haifa in Israel, gives the latest information on the global pandemic.

(Photo: The United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 13, 2021. Credit: Andrew Kelly/Reuters)