Court the republican controlled chamber voted 52 to 48 mostly along party lines them across or against the nomination and wanted it to happen after next months president ial election alan fisher is on capitol hill the democrats have tried everything they possibly could divide argued that this is being rushed through one senator saying its going so fast it would make you seen the olympic sprinter jealous that they have tried Public Opinion by saying look this is going when people are voting theres more than 30000000 people that have cast their early votes in the u. S. President ial election and therefore they should wait until the next president comes in they have argued that its going to be a threat to the Affordable Care act because the Supreme Court will be holding a hearing on that one week after the election but the reality is they simply didnt have the power to stop this. The World Health Organization is warning some countries are on a dangerous track in their battles against new
Continues to cast a shadow over the campaigning with nearly half a 1000000 new infections in the past week mike hanna has more from washington d. C. On the Campaign Efforts the 3 states hes visiting in the course of the day he took very easily and 2016 but now all polls indicate that its neck and neck with Joe Biden Biden has shrunk that gap the lead that trump had 4 years ago shrinking a significantly President Trump focusing on the states because they are critical to him if hes going to be able to win the election and more to do with in the white house. It is really a police fired tear gas at protesters over a renewed restrictions to limit the spread of covert 19th a 2nd wave is hitting your apart record new infections are being reported across the continent. The African Union is calling for calm in tanzania ahead of local and National Elections on whether to say police in the semi autonomous zones of our region of denied firing bullets of protesters a Major Opposition Party says 8 p
1000000 people infected theyve had 30000 deaths and has already passed that 1000000 a 1000000 people infected with 28000 deaths both of those countries imposed fairly tight restrictions that have suffered despite that the worst cases the worst country to suffer has been brazil where president both the naro if you may remember called the corona virus nothing worse than the little flu he himself contracted the disease. Well there are growing concerns that people fleeing fighting between armenia and azerbaijan a taking the virus with them doctors in the contested nagornokarabakh region fear that as many as 9 in 10 people are now infected there are no official figures for this but it is thought that crime to bomb shelters are exaggerating the spread the region saw another night of intense shelling on friday. President donald trump has joined millions of other americans and costing an early ballots ahead of the election he went to a voting station in his private resort in West Palm Beach fl
Kenya leads to legal action by human Rights Groups. And were starting with a coronavirus pandemic where colombia is set to surpass 1000000 infections when it does it will become the 8th country in the world to do so in my european leaders really struggling to figure out how to bring down their soaring infection numbers in a moment we will speak to daniel following the situation in latin america but 1st this report on europe from not in baba. In a small town in the heart of europe theyre trying to save a life the intensive care units here in the czech town of key of new bern know is nearly full with covered 19 patients 75 staff at this hospital are off with the virus for their colleagues these are worrying times. The staff are doing everything even at the expense of their personal needs and time even on their days off theyre working to prevent an italian scenario daily infections in the Czech Republic have hit a record high of more than 15000 thats despite tight restrictions including l
Approval. Not quite clear yet whether a Constitutional Assembly will be approved that means. To rewrite. But thats still to come meanwhile the waiting for the final official vote to come out theyre coming here in waves by the thousands. And because of those massive protests. Here and continuing is the reason why. Referendum took place in the 1st place it was one of the key demands of millions of. Security forces in iraq and far tear gas of protesters trying to get into baghdads fortified green zone demonstrators have been marking one year since the beginning of a mass protest movement over government corruption and a lack of jobs at least 600 people have been killed since it began. As a Senior Research fellow at Chatham House he says itll be hard for the government to meet protestors to mountains. These are not the 1st lines weve seen protests in iraq in fact many times since 2003 there have been protests but in the past the elite leaders i mean have been able to kind of either through