After a deadline to reinstate the countrys ousted president expired. West African Regional body ecowas had given the countrys junta a week to reverse its coup, which has seen Mohamed Bazoum placed under house arrest. The bloc threatened military intervention if the demands werent met by sunday. But the deadline has now passed, so far, without action. But a short time ago, nigers junta warned the threat is still there. Translation the planning of this war has been carried out. | free deployment of forces to take part in this war has begun in two Central African countries. Nigers armed forces and all our defence and and security forces, backed by the unfailing support our people, are ready to defend the integrity of our territory and the honour of our homeland. Well, france has suspended all Development Aid to nigers neighbour, burkina faso, after its Military Government said it would see any intervention against the coup leaders a declaration of war. Thousands of people gathered sunday in the main stadium of nigers capital in support of the coup, Chanting Anti French Slogans and waving russian flags. The bbc� s Nkechi Ogbonna has been monitoring developments in neighbouring nigeria. We are yet to hear from the original bloc, ecowas, on what the decision would be concerning niger. The ultimatum has elapsed this evening sunday evening the 7 day ultimatum. We are yet to hear from ecowas but we also know that there are suspected moves in niger in the coming days, the rally this afternoon showing pro coup supporters at a stadium in niamey, the capital city, showed that the people were supporting thejunta, Chanting Anti France Songs and waving pro russia flags in the crowds. Its a mix of feelings. The first part being that a lot of nigeriens believing since 1960 independence, france has had a stronghold on niger, both economically and politically, and they say that france has not helped in any way to curb the islamist and jihadist operations in that part of the sahel region so, they believe it was time for a change, to see if the military would bring the much desired change. But on the flip side of things, Civil Society groups and some other private individuals also believe that they want democracy to continue, as it would offer them a Freedom Of Expression and their human rights would be protected. Rescue teams in Southern Pakistan are continuing to search for the survivors of a Rail Disaster which has killed at least 30 people. Police say 100 passengers were injured when an express train derailed in sindh province, and there are fears the number of casualties will rise. 0ur pakistan correspondent Caroline Davies reports. Twisted, contorted and thrown off the tracks, derailed so violently, some carriages flipped on their side. Inside were passengers travelling from karachi to rawalpindi. Locals arrived before the army and rescue services. Translation iwas sitting in my shop. L suddenly, there was a huge bang. We were all stunned. We immediately thought an accident had taken place. We started running and when we arrived here, we saw the Train Accident had happened. We pulled out bodies and wounded people from the wreckage. Passers by clambered over wreckage, carefully guiding survivors out through windows and down over mangled metal. Other passengers did not walk away. Local hospitals declared an emergency as Tens Of Injured began arriving. Some were treated outside and the dead began to be counted. Losing the light, the rescue teams began moving the train from the tracks, the cause of this disaster is not yet clear. Translation based | on initial investigation, it doesnt seem like the the incident was caused by sabotage or terrorism. Its more likely that it was due to a technical problem which the railway will look into thoroughly to prevent similar accidents in the future. Local police have told the bbc that this was not due to flooding on the tracks, contrary to local media reports, leaving the question what caused this disaster and could such a loss of life have been avoided . Caroline davies, bbc news, islamabad. Talks hosted by saudi arabia on finding a way to end the war between russia and ukraine have ended with no sign of concrete action. A Closing Statement committed only to more peace discussions. Russia was not invited to the talks. But china, which has maintained close ties with moscow, sent a delegation. Meanwhile a russian installed official says Ukrainian Forces have damaged two bridges linking the occupied region of kherson to crimea. Pictures posted to telegram show huge holes in the chonhar bridge. To the us now, and former Vice President mike pence says he wont rule out testifying against his former president if donald trump goes to trial on charges of undermining the results of the 2020 president ial election. Heres mr pence speaking to cbs news. People can be confident well obey the law, well respond to the call of the law if it comes and welljust tell the truth. President trump was wrong. He was wrong then, hes wrong now. I had no right to overturn the election. Well, also on sunday, Donald Trumps attorney john lauro told cbs news that if called to testify, mr pence would actually be Donald Trumps best witness. The reason why Vice President pence will be so important to the defence is the following. Number one, he agrees that john eastman, who gave legal advice to president trump, was an esteemed legal scholar. Number two, he agrees that there were election irregularities, fraud, unlawful actions at the state level. All of that will eviscerate any allegation of criminal intent on the part of president trump. Meanwhile, legalarguments are already playing out publicly in the former president s Election Fraud case. Donald trump says hell be asking the judge to step aside, claiming he wont get a fair trial unless she does. Well, mr trump attacked judge Tanya Chutkan on his social media platform, also saying hell be asking to move the trial out of washington, dc. 0ur correspondent sean dilley joined me earlier to help break this all down. Sean, thanks so much for being with us. Now, donald trump says that he doesnt believe that the judge in this trial, with regards to january sixth, will give him a fair trial. Is there any evidence to support that . Look, these things are very subjective. Theyre the views of the defendants, arent they . You have to put Donald Trumps view and public statements into the context that he doesnt see any of this process as being legitimate at all. One thing hes picking up on is that the fact that this judge was appointed by one of his predecessor president s, president 0bama, in the same way he personally appointed thejudge whos hearing his florida classified documents case. So, you know, that in and of itself judges are supposed to be impartial. However, what he and his legal team would certainly be likely to pick up on is that this judge has sentenced many of the january six attackers and shes been known to give sentences that are actually longer than the Department Ofjustice have asked for but in this casem what he appears to be have asked for but in this case, what he appears to be upset about is the judges refusal to grant the defence more time to respond to a prosecution request to limit what donald trump can say about the evidence once it is disclosed to him. The former president also says he wants this trial to be moved out of washington. He says that its anti trump. Whats the likelihood of these kind of requests succeeding . Again, he would say that because he thinks its all twisted against him. Look its very common in different parts of America For A Change Of Venue when a small community, for instance, knows the defendants or victim of a crime really well and you cant get a fair trial. His argument is because, essentially, like 95 of people in washington, dc voted forjoe biden, he is arguing that it is stacked up against him and he cant get a fair trial. What he would like to do is to move it to fairly nearby West Virginia but, you know, again, theres not a massive surprise here because its not the first time hes been asking for this. Of course, sean, this is the third indictment in some four months. Its completely unprecedented for the united states. But now, all eyes are on georgia, arent they . Yeah, � unprecedented again seems like a trite word but there is no other word for it, is there . If you think that it is the first time in history that someone has been running as a candidate for president if they could conceivably end up in the white house and they dont know if they could conceivably end up in the white house or even a federal prison. The issue around georgia, you are quite right Fulton County expected to issue its own indictment related to this case around claims of election interference. Of january 2, 2021. Donald trump described that as a perfect call it was released to the media and hed asked the Secretary Of State in georgia if he could find 11,780 votes because it was Donald Trumps assertion at that time that there were thousands of people voting who werent even alive. But there was no evidence he was able to produce there. Just one point to leave you with Donald Trumps lawyer speaking to us networks on sunday, picking up on the point that the First Amendment does protect free speech. They are arguing it that that include actions and they were saying that donald trump was then allowed to lobby people. Ultimately, the conclusion of their thesis is this they say the prosecution, or they put it, joe biden� s administration, but we know what they mean by that, is not going to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that donald trump didnt honestly believe he won the 2020 election. And just briefly, if you dont mind, sean, all of these legal cases stacking up how is that impacting his race for the republican nomination . You know, if were being totally honest, you never actually know. At the moment, it doesnt look like its impacting him badly because there are two hurdles, if you think about it. Theres the Republican Party race to become the nominee to run for president and hes way ahead of any of his other candidates. The nearest rival, ron desantis, is 30 points behind him, so it looks at the moment as though he will win that Republican Party nomination. Of course, anything can change. Bear in mind, hes presumed innocent. If he was convicted of an offence or imprisoned, that could change things, and there are some polls suggest that could be of concern to Republican Voters. But if he is running as the Republican Party candidate, those polls seem slightly less believable because the alternative would then have to be that Republican Voters would have to vote either forjoe biden or not vote at all. Thats pretty much unthinkable. 0ur North America correspondent sean dilley there. Sean, thank you very much. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. 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Butjust hours after that decision, the states attorney general filed an appeal with the texas supreme court, blocking the judges order from taking effect. Well, in march, 15 women, the Center For Reproductive Rights and their physicians filed a lawsuit against texas, claiming the abortion law put their lives in jeopardy. Heres what polling tells us about attitudes in the us towards abortion. 26 of texans believe abortion should always be legal without any restrictions, according to a joint University Of Houston sta nford poll. 28 believe that there should be at least some minor restrictions. 33 say it should only be allowed in special circumstances, like when the mothers life is at risk. And 13 of texans believe abortion should be completely illegal. Nationwide, 64 of us adults believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a june survey. Earlier, i spoke to lead plaintiff in the texas lawsuit, amanda zurawski. Thank you so much for taking the time to be with us on the programme today. To begin with, if you would, tell us what happened to you because of the Abortion Laws currently in place in texas. Thank you so much for having me, it is a pleasure to be here, despite the circumst