products pulled from the shelves turkey backs a boycott in retaliation for comments about islam. donald trump s pick for the u.s. supreme court has officially been confirmed as the country s newest top judge. the nomination of any county indiana to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. and he s on the ballots appointment was approved in a vote by the republican controlled senate should not be sworn in at the white house the confirmation means the country s highest court now has a conservative majority no nominee has ever been confirmed this close to a presidential election let s go to alan fischer who s live for us in washington d.c. the democrats really did not want this to happen but it didn t seem to matter what they tried the republicans were determined that this was going to go through. 30 days from her nomination until her confirmation not the fastest in supreme court history but very fast particularly when you add in to the fac
to agree on new restrictions under what s been dubbed a lock down lights and that strategy would basically work with 2 tools one would be to continue to have strict lock downs in districts where of the infection rates are skyrocketing currently in germany we have 2 districts in the various that are experiencing that life standing still that because of high infection rates and to nationwide some new restrictions would be implemented in concrete terms pubs and restaurants will close again much like in the spring events would be canceled and opening times for shops will be limited the government has so far always said that they re going to try and avoid to close schools and kindergartens at all cost but of course that remains to be seen as they re already closed in those $2.00 districts in bavaria and of course pub and restaurant owners are already warning that many of them won t survive in the long term if they have to close now and they say that their hygiene concept working t
supreme court nominee i meet tony barrett faces some tough questions from democrats on day 2 of her confirmation hearing the netherlands hits a new record to run a virus cases more than $7000.00 in a day the prime minister is due to speak in the next few hours and an indian jewelry company pulls an ad that caused outrage because it shows interfaith marriage. montana how much now have all the sports. portugal an event is football star christiane or noddle becomes the latest high profile athlete to test positive for coronavirus. so we begin with the undercover al jazeera investigation which has led cyprus to suspend its controversial citizenship for investment program the attorney general is also. to probe into possible criminal offenses following the revelations back in august down to serious investigative unit released the cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the citizen by investment program expose high ranking officials expressing a willingness to help convicted cr
and spikes in covert 19 cases across europe and the u.k. have governments scrambling to figure out how do you bring those numbers back down . now time to how much now have all the sports yes atlanta braves they take it to nothing in the national league championship series. so we re starting with a fight over not going to cut about both on the ground and in words between the 2 sides as well as their allies but the media and as about john continue to accuse each other of ceasefire violations but it is russia that is calling for an immediate end to the fighting moscow wants the dispute settled through diplomatic means its defense minister spoke to both sides and urged them to abide by that cease fire which came into force. on saturday the armenian is a russian ally and has a defense pact with moscow but president vladimir putin says that does not apply to nick on account of our manias prime minister is accusing azerbaijan of not wanting to stop its aggression until it takes over
for safer areas after days of intense fighting this is afghanistan s helmand province heavy rain triggers flash floods and landslides we bring you the latest from both vietnam and cambodia. so let s begin with the coronavirus pandemic as the number of infections continues to surge again across europe many countries seeing their highest levels in months let s run through some of them germany where the daily number of cases is now at its highest level in 6 months chancellor angela merkel is pushing for states to impose tougher local measures france is declaring a public health state of emergency starting from saturday hospital admissions there are at their highest level since june and the u.k. well it s hit nearly 20000 new corona virus infections in a day which is its 2nd highest number so far england has already introduced a new 3 t. . lockdown system to try to curb the worsening outbreak now at the moment the city of liverpool and its surrounding areas are under the toughest