Good evening, I'm Jeff Bennett, I'm the Navaz is away.

On the news hour tonight, from Rome to Tokyo, punishing heat waves break records and disrupt

life across much of the world.

Women and doctors give emotional testimony about pregnancy complications made worse by a

Texas abortion law now being challenged in court.

And the ongoing conflict in Sudan intensifies with millions forced from their homes and alleged

war crimes.

They took us everything, money, food, clothes, and even they killed, you know, the relatives

and the friends.

Welcome to the news hour, the nonstop severe weather across the country has run the

gamut today from heat to hail.

In the west, Phoenix faced a 21st straight day of readings above 110 degrees.

And in the Midwest, strong storms brought reports of hail, the size of ping-pong balls.

Meantime, Western Kentucky tried to recover from severe flooding this week, and in eastern

North Carolina, a pharmaceutical plant lay in ruins after a tornado on Wednesday.

Cities across southern Ukraine counted the casualties in damage today after a third straight

night of heavy Russian bombardment.

The latest air raids, again targeted Odessa and Mikhailaya, sending entire buildings

up in flames.

Two people died and at least 19 were wounded, including a child.

The Chinese consulate in Odessa was among the damaged buildings.

In Iraq, protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, outraged that an Iraqi atheist

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