Floods in Russia and Kazakhstan

The emergencies ministry in Kazakhstan says more than 96,000 people have now been evacuated from their homes due to flooding that's affected the northern part of the country. The rising waters have also submerged parts of Russian regions in the Urals and western Siberia. It has been caused by rapid snow-melt. We hear from our correspondent who has more on this.

The US Supreme Court in Arizona has ruled that the state can enforce a 160 year old abortion ban.
Arizona joins more than a dozen other states where abortions have been largely outlawed since the federal right to get a termination was removed two years ago. We hear from our Washington correspondent on what this law means in practice.

Iceland is one of the many countries with presidential elections this year but one of the candidates running is a little out of the ordinary.
A glacier, called Snæfellsjökull, has entered the presidential race. We hear from Dr Angela Rawlings who founded the campaign and changed her middle name in order for the glacier to appear on the nomination list.

Presenter: James Reynolds

(Photo: Rescuers in Orsk. Credit: Reuters)