A place at the negotiating table. When more and more migrants are risking a dangerous new atlantic route from africa to europe via the Canary Islands. And a planet transformed into an uninhabitable hell a un report says World Leaders are failing in their duty to stop climate disaster. We start in the United States where a divided senate is pressing ahead with the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Kearney Barrett just 3 weeks before the president ial election she was nominated by President Trump and her confirmation would increase the conservative majority in the Supreme Court alan fisher has been following events on capitol hill in washington d. C. The goal to have amy quiney bennett on the u. S. Supreme court before the president ial election the 1st step the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing 16 days after her formal nomination from the Committee Chair a lament that politics plays such a big part in nominations now the bottom line is Justice Ginsberg when asked abou
90. The high cost of war families mourn loved ones while on the diplomatic front a cease fire between a surprise on and on media. That hunky against argentinas government protesters angry about the worsening economic crisis handling of the pandemic and you dish over for. So u. S. President on a trump has just walked out on stage in florida in his 1st rally since being infected with covert 19 this is a see right now in sanford in florida his speech comes after the white house doctor confirmed he had tested negative but it is. His plans for a new Supremes Court judge that is dominating the policy in american politics republicans have begun pushing ahead with their plans to confirm any a macone barrett as a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last month alone fisher has been following events on capitol hill in washington d. C. The goal to have him equally bonneton the u. S. Supreme court before the president ial election the 1st step the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing 16 days
After being forced to suspend all events after testing positive for cave in 19 trump has been taken the states are just hours after the white house thought to confirm that he tested negative for the virus. Argentinians are protesting in the capital against the government there are unhappy with the handling of the coronavirus pandemic worsening economic crisis and controversial judicial reforms Russias Foreign Ministry says the turkey will not be involved in peace talks over the disputed region of the corner car park and i suppose john are accusing each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire. And funerals have been held in the as a pledge any validity of sham care for the victims of sundays attacks from gaza at least 9 people were killed and 34 others wounded by shelling in the early hours of the morning hundreds have been killed across the region since fighting flared at the end of last month. Health care workers in china have been told to test all 9000000 residents of an entire c
All backgrounds deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets our constitution and laws as they are written and i believe i can serve my country by playing that role helen fisher has more from capitol hill. Shes saying that she will judge the law as its written and that judges should not interpret the law in the way that they would like to see it written she will stick essentially to what is in the constitution she also said that any time she makes a ruling when she writes a very big she does so thinking of how it will impact those who will be in the wrong side of that those who would lose and not just that but how would that impact if it was our son or daughter on the other side that didnt stop both sides making their political points early on a Lindsey Graham who is the republican chairman of the Committee Said he expected the nomination to go through the committee very much on party lines lamenting the fact that in the past someone like Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed by th
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