Impact on the legal and political world. She was a champion of human rights, womens rights in particular, throughout her long and shatterbarring career. I had three strikes against me. One, i was jewish, two, i was a woman, but the killer was that i was the mother of a 4yearold child. Reporter so how did she rise to the highest court in the country . Coming up this sunday morning, the notorious r. B. G. , Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Pauley from that sad night, it is on to raising the curtain on the new season in entertainment and the arts. A new season so different from those past, you might as well call it the new, new season. From the challenge of safely reopening art museums to the release of firstrun movies on television, to pop music stars not performing their new work live on stage, this new season bears little resemblance to the new seasons of old, as well be showing you throughout the morning. And speaking of pop music stars, lee cowan will be talking with lady gaga, who says she rele
Reporter good afternoon to you, melissa. Lets look at the market as theyre settling out. The dow looks like it is finishing down by 524 points. You mentioned the s p 500, that is important too, down 8 1 2 from the record high on september 2nd. 3580. You see the s p closed to 3236. You mention what dragged us down, it was selloff in tech late in the day. Well get to that in a moment. There was optimism early on in the session with respect to coronavirus vaccines, Johnson Johnson entering the latestage three trial that was a little bit positive for investors to get their heads around but again look at these dow losers here. Sales force. Chevron. Apple was one of the big ones, amex and boeing. On nasdaq, losers, fedex, amazon, netflix, align and liberty global. It was a rough day when it came to some of these stocks. It was sort of stock specific and then dragging all the indices down together. Remember this has been choppy for the last couple weeks right now as were heading in and gettin
A 22 year old american who had the worlds first face and hands transplant talks about his surgery, saying he feels grateful for a Second Chance at life. And hundreds of players and officials at the Australian Open Tennis Championship go into isolation after a worker at one of the events hotels tests positive for the coronavirus. Event s hotels. A warm welcome to the programme. In myanmar, police have filed criminal charges against the civilian leaders who were deposed in a military this week. There s been no word on the whereabouts of either Aung San Suu Kyi, or deposed president win myint, since monday. The United Nations said the charges just compounded the undermining of the rule of law in myanmar, and the democratic process, and they called for the Immediate Release of the leaders. For a second day , protesters banged pots and sounded car horns in the country s largest city. Our reporter Nyein Chan Aye filed this report from yangon. Pots banging people are showing their frustration
Coing pot were also coming up here in germany the trial begins in an unprecedented online pedophile case alongside the defendant more than 150 suspects have been identified and prosecutors say theyre investigating thousands of leads. Plus the Virtual Convention us democrats kick off a week long Political Party to nominate joe biden to take on donald trump in november but this pandemic means that this years convention will be very unconventional. Im burnt off its good to have you with us we start tonight in bill roofs where president Alexander Lukashenko was sending mixed messages about new elections on sunday he said that protesters would have to kill him before any new vote is a while today the president said that he may. Be open to new elections but only after a constitutional referendum this would mark a reversal for lucas shingo who for 26 years has resisted any challenge to his power tonight calls for him to resign are louder than ever lucas says that he won reelection last week b
November but the time to make means this years convention as an almost entirely virtual affair. And here in germany the trial begins in an unprecedented online paedophile case alongside the defendant more than 150. 00 suspects have been identified and prosecutors say theyre investigating tens of thousands of leads. Im going to have you with us. And belarus president. Sending mixed messages about his willingness to hand over power on sunday the authoritarian leader said protestors would have to kill him before any new vote is allowed now he says he may be open to new elections but only after a constitutional referendum thats what mark a reversal for 26 years has resisted any challenge to his power but calls for him to resign are louder than ever says he won reelection last week but many inside and outside of say the vote was raked. There are red and white flag of the opposition has been raised once more on the streets of minsk this time by the workers of bell averse who gathered outside