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before the south carolina primary. also campaign finance is a key components of democrat bernie sanders speeches. tonight a deeper look at money spent so far. how it s raised and how it is spent. and tha in brazil, the governmet launch a war on the zika virus. we begin tonight with the death of a conservative giant on the supreme court. justice antonin scalia has side at the age of 79. a authorities believe he died of not causes. over his three decade tenure on the bench. justice scalia expressed strong opposition to abortion rights, same-sex marriage and affirmative action. his passing leaves washington with questions over what s next for the supreme court. political leaders around the country have paid tribute to justice scalia today. even those that didn t see eye-to-eye white sox voice. tonight we honor his extraordinary service to our nation. and remember one of the towering legal figures of our time. al jazeera s erica pit see has more on the justice s ....
and criticizes the country s rich elite. plus. reporter: i am phil lavelle in london where it is british film s big night. it s the bafta s 2016. and i have all the day s sports, leicester city s unlikely push to win the english premier league has suffered a setback. they have been beaten 2-1 by title rivals arsenal. who are now just two points off the top. hello. the turkish prime minister has told the german chancellor angela merkel his country will continue to strike back at kurdish fighters in northern syria. turkey wants the syrian-kurdish y.p.g. fighter to withdraw in areas they have captured in northern aleppo. but the y.p.g., who have the support of the u.s., are refuse to go give up their gains and say they will push back any advance from isil. the syrian government has now called on the u.n. security council to intervene and stop turkey shelling from northern syria. al jazeera s zeina khodr reports from the turkey-syria border. reporter: the battle ....
welcome to your world this morning i m stephanie sy. i m del walters and flags flying half state in washington in honor of scalia. preparations underway for his funeral and his body is back in virginia after his death in texas and sparked a partisan battle on who may take his place on the supreme court and vowing to block the nomination and vibing vikara begins the coverage. reporter: took america and congress by surprise the death of justice scalia after being on the bench since 1996 appointed by ronald regan and hot button of the cultural war the battles fought for decades now handled by the supreme court that this has already become such a volatile issue and consider the docket for the balance of the supreme court term, cases involving affirmative action, involving abortion, involving po s executive actions on immigration and whether or not they are going to be legal. these are vital issues not only to americans in general but in an election year to the base of ....
[inaudible conversations] welcome. my name is a gene healy. i m a vice president here at the cato institute and i ll be your moderator today. thank you all for coming out to the first cato event of 2016. today, we are going to spread the new year s cheer and take the chill out of your bones with an in depth look at remote-controlled executions, the creeping surveillance state, and the seeming permanence of the imperial presidency. so merry new year. our focus today is the extraordinary new book by charlie savage, power wars: inside obama s post-9/11 presidency. charlie has been with the new york times since 2008, and he has been the indispensable reporter on executive power issues since well before that. in 2007 while with the boston globe he won the pulitzer prize for his work on the bush administrations signing statements. is 2007 book, takeover, the return of the imperial presidency, was named one of the best books of the year by the washington post, slate ....
at first, my publisher, editor, and i were thinking should we just call it scalia but we wanted something larger because he is larger. it talks about his italian ba background. and the originalism is him looking back at what they founders wanted in the document and how it should be interpreted today. it was the committee, the title of the original, reflecting him as an original, and a first generation and a proponent of the originalism theory. there is no one like him ever on the supreme court. is that what you thought about? so many people are intrigued by my choice. the first biography i did was justice o connor but for people that don t know the court he is one of the nine, a conservative, and outspoken but why focus on him? he is an original. you know firsthand and have been following him and close to him for decades. he is so distinctive in style but he is distinctive among his career as well. you mention the opera. i think of justice scalia as someone who ....