hello from the bbc sport centre. hello i m chetan pathak with your latest sports news we start at afcon the 34th edition of the africa cup of nations has reached the semi final stage with both matches on wednesday. the hosts ivory coast play the democratic republic of congo but before that it s the other heavyweights nigeria. who play south africa. and they ve been given a massive boost with striker victor osimhen declared fit to play who had been a doubt with an abdominal problem. it s a rematch of the 2000 afcon semi final which nigeria won and was the last time south africa reached the last four. this time their coach is hoping they can go one step further: i think for many people it was unexpected. but we did it, and that means that south africa became a good team. it s also more than 20 years ago that south africa played the semifinal, even more that we play the final. that means that we ve got a lot of motivation. meanwhile, ivory coast have never won the competit
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in for harris today on the faulkner focus. john roberts writing in the majority opinion, this court has never drawn the line the secretary suggests and for good reason. among congress s most important authorities is its control of the purse. justice kagan with dissent writing the majority overrides the combined judgment of the legislative and executive branches with the consequence of eliminating loan forgiveness for 43 million americans. i respectfully dissent from that decision. white house says we ll hear from the president directly on this ruling later today. in the meantime let s bring in shannon bream, fox news chief legal correspondent. a lot of political back and forthing now in washington responding to this decision but at the end of the day as you pointed out last hour, the court was not ruling on whether this was a good policy or fair policy. the court was ruling on whether the president had the constitutional authority to issue this directive in the first place.