Automatically qualify, while the third and fourth placed nations will go into the play . Offs. The 12 best ranked teams in league b will face eachother for a place in the final play off round. Scotland are in a group with serbia, slovakia and israel; Northern Ireland were drawn with portugal, Bosnia And Herzegovina and malta; while wales will play croatia, ukrane and kosovo. Qualifying begins in april. Former world number one simona halep has had herfour year ban for doping reduced to nine months by the court of arbitration for sport. The two time grand slam winner tested positive for an anti anaemia drug after the us open in 2022. Cas have since ruled halep did not take it intentionally. Having feared her career was over,s the 32 old can now return to tennis immediately. And thats all the sport for now. Heres the eastern time and gmt time, east coast west coast. Weve got a Night Of Special Coverage Tonight on the bbc, Super Tuesday will be coming from washington, dc, looked across to
there. laura coates, really unbelievable moment there. i hope that that judge is safe tonight. it s unbelievable to think of that. and you hope she is safe. and also reminds you of the danger that many of the judicial branch are facing on a day-to-day basis. not just the supreme court. not just the more high-profile matters but every single day what it s like on the front lines of justice. thank you so much, abby. thank you, laura. thank you. well, donald trump going to the supreme court. but what took him so long? tonight on laura coates live. now, this is the case we ve all been watching and waiting for. some might call it the big kahuna. donald trump asking the united states supreme court, the highest court in all the land, to overturn the colorado state supreme court ruling that took him off of the ballot under the 14th amendment s insurrectionist clause. now, team trump says, one, he s not an insurrectionist. they say what happened at the capitol on january 6th,
investigative counsel marcus childress and also former trump attorney tim parlatore is here as well. gentlemen, let s just take a step back for a moment because this is a very consequential moment. any idea of taking somebody off of the ballot is going to be important, let alone in a presidential election year. it is surprising that maybe trump is just now appealing to the supreme court. but we all know that it was going to end up there at some point anyway. but the fact, tim, that he is saying look, it s not just a matter of me not having been convicted of insurrection, this is a congressional issue, it s up to them to do something about it, does that hold weight for you? i think it does. one of the things i was kind of expecting in this brief, it was addressed in the gop brief a little bit more, is that there was congressional action on this. you know, congress did impeach him for insurrection. he had a trial. he was acquitted. and that is something that i would expect him to argue
you can still get it again and transmit it to others. am i wrong or right on the science? you re absolutely right, sean. listening to governor hochul what she said earlier today, she doesn t wants unvaccinated workers in because she has to protect new yorkers from essentially these healthcare workers coming in and transmitting the virus to the patients, this is political regurgitating of talking points that don t hold weight in this time of the pandemic anymore. i can tell you, sean, no infections or hospital acquired infections, those are a huge problem in our healthcare system. about 100,000 people die from them every year. the cdc said in 2021, with the mask requirements, with the visitor limitations, they still were on the rise. they re not talking about covid. thankfully covid acquired infections in the hospital have been less than 2% before the vaccines and they have remained low even after the vaccines.