Truce between armenia and azerbaijan is pushed to its limits as russia warns turkey will not have a place at the negotiating table. For more and more migrants are risking a dangerous new atlantic route from africa to europe via the Canary Islands. And a planets transformed into an uninhabitable hell a un report says World Leaders are failing in their duty to stop climate disaster. I know we start in the United States where 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 and 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 kicking off 16 days after her formal nomination from the Committee Chair a
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
All report Record Numbers of daily deaths. We are getting set for samsung results. We will find out how the pandemic has hit south korea smartphone makers later in the show. A look at how we are shaping up this thursday session. We will start with u. S. Futures. All eyes really looking at the fed, looking at jay powell. He said this is particularly the biggest economic shock in memory for the u. S. Prospects for further monetary stimulus, just incremental progress when it comes to negotiations, more fiscal stimulus, i should say. Chicago nikkei futures looking unchanged. It is a massive earnings day in japan, expecting results from hitachi, panasonic, as well as waiting on japanese retail sales. Retail sales coming out of hong kong later on. That is expected to be another grim picture. The yen, wonderful 97 is where we are. Steady below that one of five handle, the dollar coming under pressure from that super dovish fed and the dovish comment from fed chair powell. 41. 37, getting that
California and texas record their highest single day tolls and a dream shattered are families still seeking answers about how their teenage son died while in training for the time military. The heads of some of the worlds biggest tech giants have faced a 5 hour grilling on the way they do business Facebook Google amazon and apple are accused of stifling competition and monopolizing the industry is the end of a year long investigation by the u. S. Congress which claims to outline how current laws allow the companies to avoid liabilities alan fischer reports the Ranking Member fittingly the tech giants appeared virtually to face questions the subcommittee chairman making clear he sees a problem their dominance is killing Small Businesses and you factoring in the overall dynamism of the engines the. Merican economy their ability to dictate terms call the shots up and entire sectors and inspire fear represent the powers of a private government this was meant to be an inquiry into Business
Communist run city were its people we subject to the party elites whims said indeed this is already happening Security Forces are already rounding up on callers for doing to speak and think freely through world war has been eviscerated and as always the Chinese Communist party fears its own people more than anything else the u. K. s Prime Minister condemned the new role as a serious breach of the u. K. China agreement on territory that if china continue down this path we would reach introduce a new route for those with british nationals overseas status to enter the u. K. Granting them limited leave to remain with the ability to live and work in the u. K. And thereafter to apply for citizenship and that is precisely what we will do now. Katrina u. Is in beijing and says china is sending a message to the people of hong kong. Chinas Foreign Ministry came out on wednesday afternoon justifying and defending this law explaining that this was crucial to host ability its crucial for its future