What is needed. What is needed is intense focus on rebuilding the economy, on making sure Public Services are rebuilt as well, and dealing with the pandemic. The damaging effect on pubs a nd restau ra nts forced to change the way they serve, and closing at 10pm from tomorrow. Plans to bring back spectators at live sporting events next month are also on hold. The us pays tribute to Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. She will lie in repose on the front steps of the Supreme Court where she served for 27 years. Queues of 7,000 lorries in kent and two day waits. The government warning to hauliers if they dont get ready for brexit. A desperate race against time to save a group of pilot whales stranded off the coast of tasmania. Nearly 400 have already died. Good afternoon. The chancellor, rishi sunak, will update mps tomorrow on plans to protectjobs through the winter. 0pposition parties have been calling for urgent action to replace the treasurys Job Retention scheme which ends next month, after
Justice ginsburgs death comes only 46 days before election day. A crucial, president ial election. And the crucial questions will be, will the president try to put a third justice on the high court, with time running out before the election . Will leader Mitch Mcconnell be able to get it through for him . And will enough Senate Republicans join in join in lockstep, i should say, to do what they do and block president Barack Obamas from another Justice Antonin Scalia when he died before the president ial election. If he loses the election during what would be his final months in office and what happens if a close election goes to the Supreme Court like it did in 2000 . So many, many questions. And more breaking news, now. The former president barack obama just released a statement about the death of ruth bader gi ginsburg and what he thinks should come next and i want to read it to you. Says Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end through her cancer with unwavering faith in our democracy
Halfstaff at the capitol and Supreme Court. She leaves behind a legacy there on the court, and of course, that seat, 45 days out from an already heated president ial election, it is clear this race has now been intensified. More now on the political fights that have already started. In just a moment, but first, a look at juices ginsburgs life and the zbrit and tenacity she was known for earning her the name the notorious rbg. Reporter ginsburgs rise from humble neighborhood to the Supreme Court is a classical story. What is the difference between a bookkeeper and new yorks district as a Supreme Court justice just as one generation my mothers life and my bear witness where else in america would that happen. Reporter she was smarted tied for first in her columbia law school. There were three strikes against her. First, she was a woman, first she was jewish, third, she had a young child. Very much with the model of the naacp defense fund led by thurgood marshall, she had this idea you had
Good. You have done a service to the intellectual life of america by writing a biography of Thomas Sowell and ill begin in an odd way. How do you explain si think i know the answer but nevertheless i want your answer. How do you explain that one of the finest minds of the last half century is unknown to have america. Well, i guess to use todays parlance, thomas soul was canceled long time ago. Hes a conservative. Hes a black conservative. And way back in the 1970s when he began writing about t racial controversies, he got in trouble with a lot of his fellow intellectuals and in the academy. And in the media and hes never really sure that. I think its something that has cost him professionally in terms of notoriety and its probably the main reason a lot of people today known names like Tanehisi Coates but not Thomas Sowell notwithstanding the fact that hes written circles around those folks. Maybe all ofthem combined. And not only in terms of brett of his work but also the rigor of the
Is on his way home. Fighting continues in ukraine, russia is proposing a humanitarian corridor to help people on the east. And [shouting] indians celebration the creation of telangana but its not okay for everyone. But first helicopter ships have been firing on hallsha fires in the libya city of benghazi. At least 7 people have been killed during this between alshari and hasta and the fighting is along a main highway on the west of the city which is surrounded by residential areas and residents saying the fighting there is the worst they have seen since march 2011 and that is when forces loyal to the late libyan leader gadhafi tried to enter the city and we go live to the capitol tripoli and go to stephanie. From where you are, what can you tell us about what is happening so many kilometers to the east . Reporter well, i have been speaking to people in benghazi that started in the morning around 3 30, libyan time and going on for 8 hours and its still on going now and when i spoke to h