From New York, this is democracy now.

This incident between US reprodrone and Russian fighter jet is a public manifestation of

a secret that is barely concealed and that is that the US and NATO are engaged in a proxy

war with Russia that could very quickly snowball into a full-blown hot war with nuclear consequences.

And when you set this against the backdrop of the very serious question of who blew up

the Nord Stream pipeline, you understand how high the stakes are right now for the world.

US surveillance drone crashes Tuesday into the Black Sea about 75 miles off the coast of Crimea.

The US has accused Russian warplanes of intersecting and damaging the drone, but Russia says the United

States provoked the incident.

We'll speak to investigative journalist Jeremy Stahill about the drone crash, the war in Ukraine,

the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines and more.

Then we look at the fight to protect reproductive rights here in the United States as a Trump

appointed judge in Texas is deciding whether to ban the abortion pill methepristone across the United States.

We're talking about a judge in Texas who any day now could upend access to a pill that's part of the most popular method of abortion nationwide,

impacting patients and states from California to New York.

If nothing else, this case should put to rest any claims by the anti-abortion movement that this was ever about states rights.

It's always been about banning abortion nationwide through whatever means possible.

And as news of Americans kidnapped and killed in Mexico makes headlines,

we look at a story that's received far less attention, the tens of thousands of Mexicans who remain missing in Mexico,

and we'll look at the latest on the IOTANAPA 43.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the war in peace report.

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