And hurrican zita slams into the u. S. State of louisiana the 5th major storm to hit the region this year. Tough new measures are being imposed across europe and fears hospitals are about to be overwhelmed by a growing number of coronavirus patients geminis imposing restrictions to last a month its closing restaurants and bars but keeping schools open in italy dining out after 6 pm is now banned and theaters and gyms are shot its a similar situation in spain which is declared an 11 pm curfew and limited gatherings and in the last few hours french president emanuel as announced a 2nd National Lockdown that will last until the 1st of december all nonessential businesses will have to shut that schools. Factories will be allowed to remain open bottle reports from paris. In a soviet t. V. Address french president emanuel said a new lockdown was necessary because frances Health Situation had deteriorated rapidly. Because of what we learned in the spring down will be adapted schools will stay
Im told me on the article glad to have you with us top story of the moment the vacancy on the u. S. Supreme court and the intense political fight surrounding it president all trump is about to name his choice for that seat media reports say he will nominate Amy Kone Barrett she would replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last week and al barrett currently serves as a federal Appeals Court judge and is known for her conservative religious views. On friday he had made up his mind but he refused to confirm the speculation ahead of an official announcement on saturday. With me now here in the studio is an. Associate fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations and. In washington our bureau chief in home lets start with. If you were in washington what do we know. About. Well if she will get picked donald trump would have hardly found anybody who is such in the poem and of the late ruth gaiter Bader Ginsburg a pioneer of womens rights she was for abortion rights she faults the discrimina
Disappeared in mexico new arrest warrants issued for members of the mexican military. And we look at the state election thats delivered a boost from malaysias beleaguered Prime Minister. Im side of all the latest sports news including and its caused an injury time penalty to down brighton and Manchester United their 1st me when of the season. We begin in washington this hour where the u. S. President donald trump will soon nominate the person he wants to replace the late Supremes Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg its widely expected that he will nominate judge amy carney barretts a favorite among religious conservatives and if confirmed her appointment would cement a solid conservative majority on the court potentially for decades to come so lets go live now to the white house and al jazeera can really help it so this is the formal announcement were about to get from President Trump but it wont be a big reveal kimberly. And we expect that we already know that it will be judge kone barr
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Worth 123 billion. Hes up 6 billion overnight. Look at apple, it posted the best quarterly profit of any company in history, it now has the largest cash pile in history. 285. 1 billion. That. 1 is a hundred million dollars. Apple is now down two bucks. How about that . Next case, 200,000 new jobs in january, i will call it solid. Listen to this, wages up nearly 3 in the last year. Thats a definite improvement. This comes after a remarkable forecast from the Federal Reserve bank in atlanta. It expects Economic Growth at annual rate of 5. 4 . Yeah. Deep breath, ashley. How about that . Politics dominated by the memo. We are waiting for it. When its released, here is what to look for. Simple question, was a document paid for by the clinton president ial campaign used as excuse to spy on the president ial campaign of donald trump, thats what its all about. That question will be answered, we think, by the end of the day, yes, it is a very big day. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart al