for future generations the brush fire nearing future energy. holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. its role in the war on al jazeera. trailblazing u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has died at the age of 87. letter from kemal santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera president trump and the republican controlled senate are expected to now fast track a replacement for ginsburg as they try to collectively expand the top court's

conservative majority. a democratic presidential contender joe biden says whoever's elected in november should be the one picking a nominee and another news protests against the president in peru but opposition lawmakers fail to win off votes to impeach him for moral incapacity. we begin with news out of the united states where supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has died from complications with pancreatic cancer the 87 year old was a pioneer and a champion of women's rights and was the leader of the court's liberal wing she served there for 27 years and was only the 2nd woman appointed to america's highs the body people have gathered outside the supreme court to mark her passing but president trump and democratic nominee joe biden have made statements as well expressing their sadness but her death does give president try. the chance to

expand the supreme court's conservative majority even with the presidential vote just 6 weeks away it has been revealed that ginsburg herself dictated a statement to her granddaughter not long before her death saying quote my most fervent wish is that i will not be replaced until a new president is installs more on all of that shortly 1st i was your castle looks back at the life and legacy of ribera ginsburg. physically ruth bader ginsburg was diminutive but she loomed large on the u.s. supreme court ginsburg was a blunt talking liberal who often challenge her conservative colleagues on the bench warrant to jewish immigrants in brooklyn new york in 1933 ginsburg was a brilliant student she was one of only 9 women to enroll in harvard university law school in 1956 later transferring to columbia university where she graduated at the top of her class but as ginsburg told one television interviewer no law firms wanted to hire the married mother i had 3 strikes against me what i was jewish

woman but the killer was i was the mother of the 4 you. heard but as the 1960 s. and seventy's launched the women's movement ginsburg found a place in academia then as co-founder of a women's rights project for the american civil liberties union she wrote the 1st supreme court brief on gender discrimination after 12 years as an appeals court judge in washington d.c. president bill clinton appointed ginsburg to the u.s. supreme court in 1993 ginsburg proved to be a consistent liberal voice on the increasingly conservative high court she supported abortion rights and gender equality she also advocated using international laws to shape u.s. laws the outspoken ginsburg was known to verbalize spar with her conservative colleagues and courted controversy over comments she made about president donald trump during the early days of his administration but her candor along with the

biography notorious r b g helped make the supreme court justice something of a cult figure even spawning parodies of her on late night comedy shows still ginsburg took her role and her legacy on the court seriously i would do this. as long as i feel that i can do it ginsburg strive to maintain strong liberal voices on the supreme court to balance the conservative ones now her own voice has been silenced castro al-jazeera. it's midnight now in washington d.c. here is alan fischer at the supreme court and the number of people who've come there tonight allan i guess speaks to just how well regarded ruth bader ginsburg was but also how important this political moment is. exactly they started gathering just minutes after the announcement of her death here on the steps of the supreme court they brought candles they brought flowers if i just step aside you can see some of the candles that have been laid out and

people are taking pictures the numbers have thinned out quite a bit there was several 100 people here just about an hour ago but as you see it's after midnight no so many people heading home but. they've stood in quiet contemplation for a large part of this evening there was a moment where a trump supporter appeared with a megaphone he started to show that the president should make the appointment to the supreme court as soon as possible but he was joined very quickly by people saying go home and all saw are be for the most part though this has been a very quiet vigil people just standing contemplating what ruth bader ginsburg brought to the supreme court but also as you see the political importance of the person that will be appointed to replace her. let's talk about political reaction then to this album or in the middle of a presidential campaign but plenty of reaction already.

it's going to be an interesting moment and american politics and simply because. of all of these protesters to step away. they're chanting on us or wishes of course which is what you've been saying come on that she dictated to her granddaughter just before she died that she would like the bacon see to be held up till after the election back in 2016 a supreme court justice died antonin scalia he was appointed by a republican and mitch mcconnell who was the republican leader of the senate then and is still no said that there couldn't be any steps to replace him joining an election year his argument was that the republicans have been voted in in the midterms to hold barack obama to account and therefore they were going to do that by not approving merrick garland who is put forward by the then president to fill the vacancy what is interesting is that mitch mcconnell is on record several times

as saying that there shouldn't be an appointment to the supreme court in an election year but in the last ode or so has said that he will press ahead with the nominating process if he's given a name by the president and the president in the last week has already named several people who would like to see in the supreme court in a 2nd term but he may get the chance to go into that pool of names before them what is going to be interesting is whether or not he can get a confirmation hearing on the senate floor done before the election that seems unlikely but if he could do it before the inauguration in. january and joe biden is elected president then that would create a constitutional crisis now there are talks about other some republican senators who might say no they don't they wouldn't vote for it lindsey graham is on record as saying there should be no points to the supreme court but there is a constitutional crisis looming over what happens in the next few weeks what does donald trump said about it while he was at

a rally in wisconsin in the last few hours. reporters broke the news to him over speed against bugs death and they he had his reaction and joe biden has also had his in the last couple of hours. i didn't know that i just don't remember the 1st 9 . 11 basically i mean what else can you say she was an amazing moment. or not she was an amazing woman. had an amazing life. actually sadly and then i am. thank you very much. she has been absolutely. consistent and reliable than a voice for for freedom an opportunity for everyone and. you know and she never fails voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the senate to consider. this was the

position of the republican senate took in 2060 when there were almost 10 months to go before the election. well joe biden knows exactly what happened in 2016 because of course he was the vice president why is all this important well at the moment there is a slight republican majority on the supreme court the death of ruth bader ginsburg obviously a greater deficit as far as the democratic voices are concerned and if donald trump where to get a pick and put another nominee on the supreme court that would be 3 in the 1st 4 years of his presidency the republican majority on the supreme court would be 6 to 3 and many questions such as the right to abortion equal rights for gay marriage things like that would come before the supreme court so what we're talking about is

something that could fundamentally change the face of the united states not just for one or 2 election cycles but for a generation and beyond alan fischer outside the supreme court in washington d.c. thank you. so tributes are coming in from across the political divide for ruth bader ginsburg chief the chief justice john roberts announced her death in his statement he also said our nation has lost a justice of historic stature where the supreme court of last a cherished colleague today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember ruth bader ginsburg as we knew her a tireless and resolute champion of justice for us secretary of state and presidential candidate hillary clinton whose husband appointed bader ginsburg to the supreme court said this justice ginsburg paved the way for so many women including me it will never be another like her and former u.s. president george w. bush is also honored ginsburg in his statement he said she dedicated many of her 87

remarkable years to the pursuit of justice and equality and she inspired more than one generation of women and girls justice ginsburg loved our country and the law. now it's not enough for me at u.s. federal prosecutors and attorneys as ginsburg death could now trigger some radical change it is impossible to overstate the implications ruth bader ginsburg's death right now given what happened to the last appointee when in barack obama's turn america are lightened and how the republicans refused to confirm him saying it was too close that it was a year before the election democrats will not stand still while trump inevitably nominate someone and mitch mcconnell says he will try to confirm them i think we're talking about the potential for riots in american streets this it's impossible to overstate. how serious they are ginsburg's death will be

a call to arms this will be on both sides democrats and republicans because the supreme court is so important should somebody be confirmed for her seat should mr trump be able to confirm somebody i think and then biden wins the presidency and the senate is lost by republicans and democrats take over and you will see an effort to expand the supreme court which will inevitably happen and you'll see democrats try to pack the court in the next term so we're talking about a massive upheaval in american life with brute ruth bader ginsburg's death today. more on the passing of ruth bader ginsburg to come also the day's other news and local restrictions are imposed across europe france records the highest number of coronavirus stats in 4 months and months of tick tock and we chatted and in the u.s. from sunday we'll hear if there's still a chance start of a deal for the chinese and.

had a fairly quiet picture across much of the middle east the way things have been lies and they will stabilize again over the next few days not really even much in the way of clouds in the area we'll see some activities across into turkey through southeast and shahs across northern areas they could be quite heavy at times but this is a system here this is known as a medication this is a hearken that is full in the mediterranean very strong hurricane force winds and torrential amounts the right tends to really sit and impact greece for the next couple of days eventually through sunday drops for the south was but those winds could find their way through the eastern end of the med and this could have been moisture calls in his that we could see want to shout into all central and western areas of turkey but no real showers elsewhere maybe just wanted to later the day into the fall south and west of yemen bunch of shots through central africa and lots of cloud as well we've seen a quite

a few showers the last few days into areas of develop again as we go through saturday northern areas but then to the south of there it's actually very warm temperatures well above the average particularly for this time of year but it does stay dry but this is what i mean touches the average in governance 30 celsius it really does begin to come down but even so a few days ahead of that cool off the similar scenario in johannesburg for the next couple of days temperatures in the twenty's but certainly cooler in cape town which showers on sunday. after nearly 2 decades of conflict in afghanistan. the warring parties meet face to face at the negotiating table where watching them now we're in a different phase and wish the afghans can blame the united states the united states also looking at it with urgency it's a blast but i don't see that the more urgent need of the africa some of the key

players of the peace process talked out jazeera. were. the top story on al jazeera this is the passing of u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg she died of complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of $87.00 a champion of women's rights and the leader of the supreme court's liberal wing. tributes are being paid from across the political divide with people gathering outside the supreme court in washington to mark her death both president and democratic nominee joe biden made statements expressing us. what republican senate

majority leader mitch mcconnell has already said that whoever president nominates as bader ginsburg's replacement will receive a vote in the u.s. senate even with the election just 6 weeks away but as you heard earlier that wasn't the case 4 years ago when the president was a democrat in favor of $26.00 and justice anthony died he was $79.00 and had served on the court for 3 decades it just took an hour for mitch mcconnell to say quote this vacancy shouldn't be filled until we have a new president at that stage the election to replace president obama was still 9 months away even so obama nominated merrick garland a moderate to fill scalia's position but the republican led senate refused to hold any hearings or votes and left his nomination to expire after democrat won the election he nominated neil gorsuch a conservative from the still vacant post who was easily confirmed by the senate in april and troubles or went on to nominating confirm another conservative supreme court judge in july 28th that was brett kavanaugh who faced allegations of sexual assault prior to his confirmation. malcolm is

a senior legal fellow at the heritage foundation and explain to us how controversial the process of replacing bader ginsburg is likely to be. we have a republican majority in the senate and a republican president that was not the case in 2016 this is of course the end of. first term president obama was finishing up his 2nd term so we knew for a fact that president obama was not going to be returning to the oval office but look at democrats are going to say that the republicans are being hypocrites and mcconnell will have to work very very hard if he is going to keep all of his republican colleagues or enough of his republican colleagues in line in order to actually go through with the confirmation process in the you know the wake of the fact that we have an election that's imminent so when you'll gorsuch replace antonin scalia you could more or less speak in broad terms say this was a conservative replacing a conservative when anthony kennedy was replaced by brett kavanaugh you could say

we had a conservative leaning justice with a lot of libertarian instincts being replaced by conservatives here we are talking about a liberal icon who did lead a remarkable life and an incredible legacy being replaced by a conservative and we haven't seen that i don't think since thurgood marshall was replaced by clarence thomas and it will certainly be a very contentious confirmation process so as you hear there the compositional of the supreme court now becomes a bigger election issue with the vote just 6 weeks away voting began actually in 4 states on friday over genia south dakota wyoming and minnesota where both president trump and joe biden the fighting for the votes john hendren has been for many outlets. from the shores of its 10000 lakes minnesota looks to serene to be a battleground but joe biden and donald trump are treating it like one billionaires in america are doing is trying to make a major 300 $1000000000.00 if you're

a business said in the middle of a pandemic there left to wonder as a consequence ordinary folks. who's looking out for me biden has even pledged to terminate our travel ban jihadist regions jihadist regions they've already been doing that to opening the floodgates to radical islamic terrorists. long reliably democratic stronghold minnesota hasn't voted for a republican for president in nearly half a century but it came close in 2016 when donald trump did better than expected in rural and suburban areas his campaign says the state remains in play this time around the 1st test of the election came on friday when voters in minnesota and 3 other states cast the 1st in person ballots of the presidential polling. biden's campaign says he will be making a couple stops a week focusing heavily on the early voting states with the polls open both

candidates are campaigning in the northern mining area known as the iron range once a democratic stronghold more recently the site of a pro trump rebellion biden wants to hold on to a traditionally democratic state for trump if he can win here in minnesota he can lose in one of the other swing states he won last time and still have a path to victory. the death of george floyd in minneapolis fueled anti-racism demonstrations across the country and trump's call for law and order when the far left riders rampage across minneapolis and they rampage across your stayed how about your police department let's just run for your lives at the south their fault they were told to do you have a good police to pop and you have good police but they're not allowed to do their job the campaign stops on friday showcase the 2 men's views on the pandemic biden's cautious crowd was socially distance mast and sparse while trump supporters were

largely masculist close and crowded trump has given up and even for tended to do is jump. almost 200000 lives lost in the last 6 months polls show biden ahead here as they showed hillary clinton ahead in 2016 but trump is confidently telling voters to ignore the polls in cast their ballots for him this time in minnesota is well john hendren elgin's era minneapolis minnesota on to some other news in peru's president has survived an impeachment vote that's happened in congress and his car i have been accused of corruption but he denies interfering in investigation into government contracts awarded to a musician he was a friend of his by then a son says is in lima with the latest. so the congress has. rejected the impeachment but now many questions begin to rise how is it possible that only last

week just one week ago the opposition congress passed a majority of them passed a motion to impeach the president and now they voted against it so what happened during this week or what exactly did they where are they thinking when they decided to impeach president. the question is was there a conspiracy to oust the president and that will soon of course be revealed many people are already talking what happens with president martin discover now it's very difficult that he will have a very difficult time governing until july of next year with this. were there's a lot of animosity in congress his image has been very affected and the image of congress as well very affected after this past week of having begun this political

crisis in the middle of the worst health and economic crisis in the country in more than 100 years so a lot of questions to ask however there's already been a reaction from the justice minister who wants to put things in a positive mode and she has said that there is a victory this is been a victory for the people and a victory for democracy. in corona virus cases has forced several governments to reimpose some of their restrictions infections worldwide have not topped 13000000 spain is limiting movement in and around the capital madrid british prime ministers want a 2nd wave is inevitable. early on in the pandemic spain was hit just about as hard as anywhere in europe now in the capital madrid the health system is under a new pressure with covered 19 cases rising one in 5 hospital beds in the region is now taken up by someone with corona virus. we're set you're

a good with people who need health care and patients that need care we're doing the best we can but we need more health workers we need more resources. spain's one of many european nations now bringing in localized lockdowns worried about a 2nd wave of covered over winter months for this bus driver bringing his son in for a test it's the right approach and i understand that we need to save the economy and move forward the health is the most important thing without health we don't have money in the czech republic there were more than 3000 new cases on thursday adjusted for population only spain and france within the european union have seen a bigger jump in the last 2 weeks now bars are having their opening hours reduced and in prague people will have to wear a face covering it outdoor events with more than 100 attending in the u.k. covered cases have doubled in a week and health officials are worried about rises in infections and hospital admissions among all ages next week people in more regions will be told not to mix

with other households just like nearly 2000000 in the north east of england have i think it's a fuss because and one hand she's got people going honey do this if the papers here can go into james if the papers that we're going to restaurants in pope's up to 10 o'clock at night but you can't have your own family tree house i mean i don't understand as well as the sense in western logic of the other that if we aren't going to willingly all people that are being checked more nor. we wouldn't be in the position i would be so they don't know along the u.k. government's considering warnings from its scientific advisors that restrictions may have to be imposed across england next month to drive down transmission we are not seeing. second wave coming in we soon see it in france you see spain of course across europe it's been absolutely i'm afraid inevitable you would see it in this country in scotland the 1st ministers calling this the most decisive moment since

march we may not be on a 10 airlie or a stage or a similar path to that that has been taken in recent weeks by france so our task is to make sure if we can interrupt that and we don't end up we're the hour now here in london the mayor city can is warning that the city is about 2 weeks behind those regions of england already under local lockdown he's also hit out at problems experienced by londoners needing a cobbett test citing government incompetence across europe governments are having to act fast winters approaching and with it predictable pressures on public health facilities but persuading the public to abide by new curbs on their freedom could prove a tough challenge the dean barber al-jazeera london well people in the us won't be able to download the social media apps to talk or we chat from sunday night's president not in terms banning them over national security concerns tick tocks

parent company but dance is still trying though to finalize a deal to sell its american operations white house correspondent kimberly how has more from washington. a stir rebuke from the u.s. president we're not going to do anything to jeopardize security. the white house alleges the popular chinese based apps to talk and we chat are stealing american users' private information and handing it to the government in beijing on friday the u.s. commerce department announced we chat will be banned in the u.s. starting sunday well new restrictions on tic toc will also go into place a full ban on tick-tock could come into effect in november after weeks of bidding tech giant oracle submitted a proposal to run the apps in the united states but before was approved the u.s. government moved ahead with the ban we have some great options. people have the security that we need we have to have the total security for. us social media

apps like facebook and instagram are banned in china but tick-tock officials say this decision could affect the entire industry there vallon to fight the new restrictions in the courts vanessa papas tick tocks general manager in the us is inviting facebook and instagram to publicly join our challenge and support our litigation this is a moment to put aside our competition and focus on core principles like freedom of expression and due process of law we chat has more than $1200000000.00 active users but less than 2 percent are from the united states. the biggest impact could be on u.s. companies like wal-mart starbucks nike and amazon they all use we chat e-commerce platform in china to conduct business this week's move is part of a bigger fight the trump administration continues to wage with beijing recent weeks

the u.s. has taken multiple actions including rejecting chinese sovereignty over disputed parts of the south china sea. listing china's largest tech company while way and canceling the visas of thousands of chinese grad students and researchers in the united states one analyst argues the move by the trump administration could have unintended consequences one of the principles there in the cold war is we tried to get as much information in to communist countries as we could we dropped leaflets radio and now we're cutting off one of them made mechanisms we have are telling people about democracy in the rest of the world this latest fight with china is a risky one for trump with just weeks until the u.s. election 20 percent of tik tok users will vote for the 1st time in november and trump's move is likely to be unpopular kimberly how good al-jazeera washington.

funny story from remain here where police have recovered rare books which was stolen in a sophisticated heist in london back in 2017 the books are worth over $3000000.00 they include 1st editions of works by galileo galilei and isaac newton and had just been buried in the floor of a house in rumania. half past the hour on al-jazeera these are the top stories u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has died of complications from pancreatic cancer yes the 7 year old had been a champion of women's rights and the leader of the supreme court's liberal wing there are tributes coming in from across the political divide people have been gathering outside the supreme court in washington to mark her passing and both president trump and his democratic rival joe biden have made statements expressing this this alan fischer has more from outside the supreme court. with her passing

that of course challenges the democratic minority and they could become an even bigger minority it could be a $63.00 split on the one person supreme court here in the u.s. they started together just after news of her death broke you can see the hundreds of people here on the steps of the supreme court where the very small ruth bader ginsburg loom very large over proceedings here in fact the route in front of the supreme court has no being closed the flags flying at half staff people have been lighting candles and quietly talking their headlines peru's president survived an impeachment vote that's taken place in congress and his car had been accused of corruption but he denies interfering in an investigation into government contracts awarded to a musician who was also a friend of his. spain's capital madrid is going back into lockdown after a rise in corona virus cases in the u.k.

the prime minister says a 2nd wave is inevitable and that another lockdown might be necessary there and israel's imposed a nationwide lockdown for the 2nd time comes at the height of the jewish holiday season which is a blow to an already struggling business sector israel currently has one of the highest infection rates in the world and many shop owners say their businesses are unlikely to survive this 2nd closure. and britain france and germany say u.n. sanctions relief for iran will continue beyond september the 20th which is when the u.s. wants all measures to be reimposed last month washington triggered a 30 day process of the u.n. security council pressing for a return of u.n. sanctions on iran by saturday however the u.s. the iran nuclear deal and 2018 and in a letter to the 15 member body britain france germany warned the u.s. action would not have any legal effect as your headlines talk to al-jazeera is next . counting the cost an aging population soaring debts and recession and japan's

new prime minister fix the economy famine property an uprising says the pandemic wipes out a decade of economic growth plus pakistan's asia's best performing stock markets counting the cost. it is rule to be a group a seat. on the previous episode of talk to al-jazeera. i hope the afghans are paying attention learning the lesson that period we are in the everywhere in the us. and that's why we've started this peace process a lot of that state we're watching them we're going to monitor these negotiations and we'll help with that help when needed but ultimately now we're in a different phase and wish the afghans of in the end and the sea they can't blame the united states they can't blame other. after nearly 2 decades of conflict

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