And extreme weather warning the u. N. Says the number of climate related natural disasters has doubled in 20 years and cost the world trillions of dollars. Hello thanks for joining us a divided u. S. Senate is pressing ahead with confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court nominee any tony barrett just 3 weeks from the president ial election so republicans are trying to rapidly confirm her and expand the courts conservative majority Supreme Court positions are Lifetime Appointments so judges are expected to serve for decades as the 1st hearing gets underway protesters both for and against barretts confirmation have been chanting outside the courts that see became vacant after the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg her dying wish was for her replacements to be chosen after the president. Election of Lindsey Graham is the republican chair of the Senate Judiciary committee and he defended the timing of barretts nomination though the Republican Majority Senate 4 years ago refused to consider Barack Obamas nominee in a similar situation in an Election Year what will happen is that my democratic colleagues will say this is never been done in their right in this regard nobodys i thinks ever been confirmed in Election Year past july the bottom line is Justice Ginsburg when asked about this several years ago said that her present serves 4 years not 3 theres nothing unconstitutional about this process this is a vacancy this is a tragic loss of a great woman and were going to feel that they could see with another great woman Dianne Feinstein as the senior most democrat in the Senate Judiciary committee she focused on a macone barretts past statements and ruling suggesting opposition to the Affordable Care act signed into law by barack obama and the court is set to hear arguments on the constitutionality off thought law on november 10th thats a week after the election. The stakes are extraordinarily high for the American People both in the short term and for decades to come most importantly Health Care Coverage for millions of americans is at stake with this nomination so over the course of these hearings my colleagues and i will focus on that subject we will examine the consequent if and thats a big if republicans succeed in rushing this nomination through the senate before the next president takes office alan firster is joining us from capitol hill and we do expect to hear from a macone barrett herself sorte lee allen. It will be a while that theyre on break at the moment from lunch theyre back in about 30 minutes then there are 7 more senators who have a 10 minute Opening Statement so that will take is 2 beyond the hour and then at that point in the call me about it will be introduced to the committee among those speaking after the lunch break carla harris who of course is the democratic Vice President ial nominee but also an important member of the Judiciary Committee it think Lindsey Graham has realized the real politic of the moment as well he understands that democrats are very angry they point to the fact that Merrick Garland wasnt confirmed 4 years ago when barack obama announced his nomination in the final months of his presidency at that point the republicans say no its an Election Year we couldnt possibly do that weve got to let the people have their say and of course this time around they were more than happy to do it their argument is its a republican president its a Republican Senate therefore they have every right to push ahead with this because a president for 4 years there may be questions on whether or not they can continue to push it through theres going to be a question too about the tone of the democrats questioning that will happen on tuesday and wednesday that is when we are likely to see. The committee at its most part designed its morse vocal its most vociferously we will hear from all of the senators who sit on the committee its likely the democrats will steer away from equally by its feet she is a catholic shes very clear that she has made several rulings that people believe are in line with her faith theres no political win in the democrats going that way but what they will do and we had that from Dianne Feinstein is say look if you vote for me look at our past writings then there is a potential that the Affordable Health care act also known as obamacare could be at risk when it comes up in court on november the 10th one week after the election because at that point theyll be talking about preexisting conditions of the straight down the law then 23000000 people may well lose their coverage which includes preexisting conditions the argument that the democrats are making the understand they cant maybe change republican votes in the room but we know that 2 democrats 2 republicans have said that they will not vote for the nomination before the election if the democrats can make a Strong Enough case to the American People they hope people will pick up their phone call the Republican Center and say do not vote or you will lose my vote because i will lose my create existing condition so its not about changing the rules in the room its about putting public pressure on republicans outside the room to change their bill so that when it goes to the full senate there is the possibility that the republicans might not have enough troops to carry it through the moment the republicans seem to think that they do ok alan so if the democrats are some of them rather are saying that they will stay away from the Committee Vote next week if that were to happen can then not stop the nomination from going through. Its a really interesting point if you start to look through senate rules to can what it says is there has to be a quorum has to be a number of people there from the Opposition Party senate rules can also be ignored but what its clear is that no nomination can go to the senate floor unless a majority of the members are in paris and so that would mean on this committee where theres 12 republicans and 10 democrats there needs to be 12 republicans in the room voting no why is that important well 2 of them were struck down by cooler didnt recent days tom tillis whos been contributing remotely and mike lee who were told has got his doctors approval to go ahead and actually in the room if there were to be many more bricks of corporate particularly among the Judiciary Committee and they struck down republicans and say they could come and they couldnt vote then there would be a problem that is when it becomes a difficulty of passing that nomination over to the senate for a fool vote but at the moment theres been a call to arms from the Republican Leadership they believe that all 12 including those who are participating remotely today and to morrow will be on in the room on thursday for a vote so even if the democrats dont show up it will still go through and will be left to the full senate to vote what happens at the full senate while the democrats are talking about filibusters and point of order and delaying it for as long as possible but Lindsey Graham the chairman of the Judiciary Committee is pretty clear he thinks that this nomination will get out of committee with a vote on thursday ok allan fessor thank you very much for that update from capitol hill well sabra townsell was outside the Supreme Court thats where protests were held as that hearing kicked off a very small but determined group of protesters both for and against the nomination and confirmation of any turnabout here outside the Supreme Court. Those against the interesting and white house. One of the many objections they have to the proceedings is that no one was required to test before the hearings took place and to one of the organizers but all in love with us. Whats at stake for you during this confirmation hearing. Right now the focus is on a confirmation hearing when it should be about the American People people in america we need to make sure you have a relief package that includes health care. For people who have lost their jobs that supports businesses that supports child care so your point is that should be here and people. Should focus should be on people who live in america not a court but what about the confirmation itself. Of. What about just not the right person. Should make sure that. Im going to be on the Supreme Court versus that thinking about all of the needs of the people and. If you can look at her record her record has not been very. Conservative in all of her rulings so now with this going to make it more conservative im concerned about the. People who are on if it is unconstitutional. Not have coverage preexisting conditions not have coverage he says obamacare the health care thing but is there a sense if youve lost this battle that she will be. Well its not over until its over its not over yet. And were going to continue to resist and as long as there is resistance you have to define our standing up for what we believe in and that we are putting people 1st example of what route to happen in america people need to be before politics and we need to make sure that people who live in america are taking care of us continue to fight i do very much and there is a sense that perhaps the republicans do have the votes that this nation will go through. But theres also a sense that the democrats didnt fight as hard as the republicans might have if they were in the same position and the various democrats immediately met with a mccain about for example whereas when president obama nominated his choice for a chief justice of justice rather the republicans even mentioned so theres a bit of frustration with the democrats for the terminations if i dont anywhere. Russias foreign minister has indicated that turkey will not be involved in peace talks over the disputed region of the gorno care about the Foreign Ministers of armenia and russia have been meeting in moscow while azerbaijan has proposed its ally turkey be involved in discussions but russia surrogate lavrov says there will be no changes to the format for peace talks over the region there was more fighting throughout sunday nights with both sides accusing each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire. When funerals have been held in the azerbaijani village or some care for the victims of sundays attacks on ganja 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 this is the worst violence between the 2 sides in decades but this is the we reached an important agreement on sense today initiated by president putin but we see that this agreement is not being fully complied with and the fighting is continuing we expect that our contacts with you are now as a by johnny neighbors including by our defense ministries will ensure full compliance with the agreements that were reached in a trilateral format. Which since september 27 the full scale aggression against the people of nagornokarabakh has continued meanwhile a military solution is being openly expressed as a solution to the car but conflict as well as the physical extermination of the people of nagornokarabakh the azari armed forces ignored their obligations to not target civilians the absence of military objectives in the area that i was advised on is attacking proves their motives yet again which is equivalent to war crimes and undercover investigation by al jazeera has exposed high ranking officials in cyprus expressing a willingness to aid convicted criminals obtain a us citizenship in august the Investigative Unit released this cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the countrys says a citizen by Investment Program and now as phil reese reports the investigation leads to the highest offices of the cypriot states the cyprus Investment Program allows foreigners to buy european passport for an investment mostly made in property of 2 and a half 1000000. 00 the government insists that applicants need a clean criminal record the holder of a cypriot passport has the right to live and work across the e. 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