Countless lives in 188. 00 countries and the United States we launched the most aggressive mobilization since the 2nd world war the Fact Checkers in a country that suffered more than most from cope with 19 unlikely to question those claims as the Chinese Ambassador to the un listened in the General Assembly hall the president intensified his attack on china we must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague on to the world china in the early is days of the virus china locked down travel domestically while allowing flights to leave china and infect the world before introducing president xi the Chinese Ambassador made an impromptu intervention complaining about bullying and. China resolutely great acts that baseless accusation against china his president in a clear contrast to President Trump said International Cooperation was the key to combating covert 19. 19 realize that were living in an interconnected Global Village with a common stake all countries are closely connecte
A president s judicial nominee but it created a new rule of the mcconnell rule absolutely no hearing or no vote for a nominee in Election Year period no coffee 7 outs and Many Republican senators agreed with him including the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who at the time said quote verbatim heres what he said quote i want you to use my words against me if theres a republican president in 2060. And a vacancy occurs in the last year of the 1st term you can say Lindsey Graham said lets let the next president whoever it might be make the nomination continue to quote and you could use my words against me and youd be absolutely right and of quote. Well in our other top stories irans president has warned of a crushing response to the u. S. After it made a unilateral move to reimpose sanctions has an rouhani vowed never to yield to american bullying claiming that washingtons latest move to pressure to iran has left it isolated from need to
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More advanced weapons we have no intention of letting that happen the president s executive order announced today gives us a new and powerful tool to enforce the u. N. Arms embargo and hold those who seek to evade u. N. Sanctions accountable today i will take the 1st action under this new executive order by sanctioning the are a ministry of defense and Armed Forces Logistics and irans Defense Industries organization and its director. Beggin terrine explain the internal political divisions over how iran should respond. We had foreign minister javadoc the reefs say that these new sanctions are nothing new that the intention of the United States was to bring the population to its knees and they have failed but what the real question is how iran will respond to the United States and how the United States decides to impose the these u. N. Sanctions as they see it now within iran this lots of political differences president Hassan Rouhani and his reformists are defending the deal domesticall
Our fight for democratic. Step vasant has more from minsk. The pressure is for sure its been a delicate balancing act until now in the past 6 weeks since the start of the political crisis both the opposition and europe have been very careful not to alinea. Russia because they were worried that belarus and look at shanghai would be much further pushed towards russia than already is the case but now patience is. Meeting between look at shanghai and put in last week resulted in a stronger bond between the 2 leaders put in has reiterated his support again for the embattled well russian leader has promised money one and a half 1000000000 u. S. Dollars so now the opposition but also europe is feeling that russia cant be engaged in a dialogue any longer so they are now putting up the pressure the European Parliament has also adopted a resolution saying they wont accept look at the formal president or any longer after the 5th of november thats when his term officially finishes the u. N. Says N