Lives lost to cope at 19 in brazil a memorial is created in one of the worst affected cities. The u. S. Democratic president ial nominee joe biden has called plans by donald trump to rush through a vote for a new Supreme Court judge and exercise and rule political power trumper said he will announce a nominee to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg as early as next week but biden wants Senate Republicans to delay a confirmation vote until after the president ial election helen fisher reports now from washington d. C. The Supreme Court has suddenly become the dominant election issue in the United States donald trump says hes going to move forward with filling a b. Can see this week democratic challenger joe biden says with early voting already under way that simply wrong the people of this nation are choosing their future right now as they vote to jam this nomination through the senate is just an exercise in the wrong political power. No i dont believe the people of this nation will sta
Live from moscow youre watching our International Media all kyndes wherever you are today thanks for joining us on the program. A russia is furious at the way its being treated by germany on the Global Chemical weapons watchdog over the number case after 2 requests for evidence were ignored by berlin it was told to appeal to the opi c. W. Which in turn we directed moscow back to germany with their excuses are completely contrived germany says it cant tell us anything in direct to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons weve been to the c. W. Several times and they say talk to. We are ready to talk to anyone but not when in the absence of facts we are pressured into giving an account of ourselves on the basis of specific clearly formulated concerns we are always ready to have a professional conversation. Well russia insists that its doctors found no traces of novice shock wore any other poison what alexina valley was in their care and it stressed its willingness to coop
A new home thousands of refugees in greece move into their camp but there are growing concerns about conditions that. Cause the u. S. Steps up its tech war with china banning the download of tick tock and we chat. About a new surgeon coronavirus cases has forced several governments to bring back tough restrictions the number of infections world wide has now topped 38000000. 00 in spain richmond in and around the capital in the dritte will be limited thats going to affect over 850000 people hospitals there are reaching capacity and Health Officials are making public pleas for more support a more quick and. We are saturated with people who need health care and patients that need care who are doing the best we can but we need more Health Workers we need more. Sources and in the u. K. Official estimates now show the number of new daily cases in england has nearly doubled to around 6000 in just the past week and leaders there are warning there could be another full scale lockdown if the sit
Im michael okun welcome to the program at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protests against the governments decision to postpone Elections Police fired pepper balls at prodemocracy campaigner protesters are angry that authorities will hold elections to the citys Legislature Next july instead of this sunday authorities have blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the delay antigovernment protesters have been held across since june last year. And correspondent phebe kong joins us now from hong kong by phone phebe hundreds of people are protesting there today against the press boning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. Yeah i have been writing that sos has all i said all afternoon in hong kong today and all this week with her protests so kind of like give me back my clothes and i want to kind of like those guys on the street so today i originally on this is just an election day one of the most important election in a city. Like this and so it acts like a st
Launching legal action against u. K. Dozens of people arrested in hong kong as thousands of police try to stop prodemocracy protests on Chinas National Day. So we start with azerbaijan where they azerbaijan and the media are defying International Calls for a cease fire to the fighting in a go to car back the president of france russia the United States of issued a joint statement deploying the loss of life in the disputed territory and called for the warring parties to regime talks on account of her backers internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but controlled by armenian separatists a flare up in fighting over the past week is the deadliest in decades both russia and france say they have evidence that syrian masteries have gone through turkey to join the fight on behalf of azerbaijan turkey denies the claims peace do a place you dont we havent. Mation today that is very clear that indicates that fighters from syria have lifted their then members of jihadist groups and they t