This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Thursday the 27th of June, these are our main stories.

Reports from Bolivia say there's been a military coup attempt in

the city of La Paz, but later the president was able to make an address on

social media from inside a palace. Women across the US may win the right to have an abortion in a medical emergency

as a result of a Supreme Court ruling.

And President Ruto of Kenya has abandoned planned tax rises in response to deadly protests on Tuesday.

Also in this podcast, there are a couple of issues that they're looking at,

helium leak being one, and thruster issues being the other.

With such problems will two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station

returned to Planet Earth.

We begin in Bolivia. The scenes on Wednesday in the city of La Paz were for a number of hours

reminiscent of earlier moments in Latin America's

history, tanks surrounding government buildings, men in uniform apparently facing off against

those who were elected, the government denouncing an attempted coup d'etat.

As we record this podcast, it's still hard to work out what exactly is happening in Bolivia,

but we know that Army units had surrounded government buildings in

La Paz.

At one stage, witnesses told the Reuters News Agency that an armored vehicle had driven through

the entrance of the Presidential Palace.

During the events on Wednesday, the government spokesman,

Minister Maria Nella Prada, seemed to suggest they were under siege.

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