al jazeera. and. the loss of a powerful liberal voice a political battle brewing of a cool take ruth bader ginsburg's place in america's highest court. again i'm adrian finnegan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up back on his face but poisoned russian opposition leader alexina valmy says his recovery will take a long time. cramming into a camp thousands of refugees

a reader kate on the greek island of less they've more health concerns. and eager beavers for the revival of these animals is so important to the english countryside . she spent a pillar of the fight for women's rights of the powerful liberal voice in the u.s. now the death of a long serving supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is poised to trigger a significant political battle just weeks ahead of the presidential election even as the 87 year old was dying from pancreatic cancer she passed on a plea that there should be no rush to fill the vacancy at america's highest course i was there as alan fischer looks at ginsburg's legacy. they started to gather on the steps of the supreme court in washington his use of ruth bader ginsburg's death broke it brought flowers and candles the number swelled people marking

a loss they felt personally. ruth bader ginsburg was physically small but her presence loomed large on the court she was a blunt talking liberal who often challenge her conservative colleagues on the bench born to jewish immigrants in brooklyn new york in 1033 ginsburg was a brilliant student she was one of only one woman to enroll in harvard university law school in 1956 later transferring to columbia university where she graduated at the top of her class the skin's book told one television interviewer no law firms wanted to hire a married mother i had 3 strikes against me when i was due to our. 4 year old. but as the sixty'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 there spoke in ginsburg for several battles with cancer her dying wish was the vacancy her passing creates will not be filled until after the election. outside the court one trump supporter with a megaphone urged the president to move quickly he was joined by the chants of others. the president has already unveiled a list of people he wants to put on the court if he wins a 2nd term but leaving a rally he only praised the justice ginsburg. days you're like. what else can you say she was an amazing moment. in time she was an amazing woman. to me.

and 2016 justice antonin scalia a republican choice passed before the presidential election the senate refused to confirm a democrat successor named by president obama democratic candidate this time drug joe biden says there must be no decision until the election has passed 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. there were almost 10 months to go before the election that's the position the state senate must take today ginsburg strive to maintain strong liberal voices on the supreme court to balance the conservative ones now her own voice has been silenced that balance under threat and alan joins us now live from outside the supreme court

in washington. as the country began to mourn the loss of a powerful liberal voice than the political battle begins to brew what could happen next. well it really mitch mcconnell will take his lead from the president if the president decides and it's almost certainly he will put forward a nomination mitch mcconnell who's the republican leader in the senate would then help to organize judiciary committee hearings and the nominee would go in front of the committee would be asked questions if they get through that and with a republican majority you expect they would it would then go to the floor of the senate for a full vote can that happen before the election that might be different don't trump certainly has names of people he would like to put on the supreme court has already unveiled the list he would like to work his way through if he was given a 2nd term so you could easily pick one of the names from that list the question is

can you get it done before the election on november the 3rd that might be a very tight time scale however there is the possibility that it could be done before the inauguration on january 20th so why is that a problem why does that create a constitutional crisis because of this the democrats say that the vacancy should be left open mitch mcconnell in 2016 when antonin scalia died said that there was no way that he was going to a decision about who was in the supreme court until the people had spoken no he says well there's a republican president and a republican senate therefore they're absolutely within their rights to consider any possible nominee that the president puts forward that will anger and upset them and democrats also will perhaps upset ruth bader ginsburg's family as well so if mitch mcconnell moves forward with this plan and say joe biden wins the election you can see why there is a constitutional crisis joe biden could then walk into

a supreme court where there is a 60 majority in favor republicans and that could change the face of the judiciary here in the united states not just for one or 2 election cycles but perhaps for an entire generation and how what are his actions of hypocrisy play among republican senators and voters. hard to judge although i suspect that given that one of the big pluses for donald trump 4 years ago was his determination to change the face of the judiciary in the united states it might not be a drawback that you think it would be as for mitch mcconnell he said in 2060 no you can't put someone on the supreme court until the elections be held this time around he's already made his justification the difficulties court is marshalling the votes no there's a number of republican senators who are in very tight races is there the possibility that they would want to cast a vote before the election yeah that could always happen who we're talking about

susan collins of maine perhaps even mitt romney who's not facing a challenge this time around but has been an outspoken opponent of donald trump and then there is the case of lindsey graham someone who in 2016 said there was no way he would for a president in an election year and so they've still got to negotiate that so there's still a lot of ground to cover but you can see the can say on the basis for a constitutional crisis already been created at the moment. live outside the supreme court in washington many thanks allen. but then arrests and better russa's people continue to protest against president alexander lukashenko. and. hundreds of people cannot sing through the city calling for luka shankar to step down protests were sparked by a disputed election last month a demonstration show no sign of slowing despite increasingly violent crackdowns by the police and thousands of arrests let's go live now to the serious stuff is that

what's happening behind you with. in the past 3020 minutes or so hundreds of women who are participating in this peaceful march have been detained by tens of policeman they didn't even have enough for detention vehicles to put all these women into so behind me i step out of the frame you can see the backs of these policemen they all are away ringmaster women have for often try to reveal their faces by pulling away these masks lots of women were very much upset they were screaming there were people crying out there was one also in the total shock so an ambulance had to come it was quite aggressive and of course very intimidating people are now clapping because there's an opposition flag flying over or had that so far something police also it's not very keen to see as you can hear

disparate despite all this aggression and intimidation and these mass detentions is still high here among the people who are still not being detained 6 police this time not taken any journalist at least not so far and they are seem to be leaving right now they've been here for yeah nice 20 minutes they rounded up the complete rally we saw around a 1000 women participating they made ground in the city they were scant and they were shouting look at shanghai has to resign they said they were defiant and they will continue to go to the streets and then some the police came and picked them all up so what's happened the running now is that it it's over until that point that a lot of people out on the streets. absolutely yeah the rally is i think over a mile because there are only a handful of people left some of them managed to actually really escape they ran away many of them are now hiding also behind these restaurants and shops here in

this area but these people who have been detained down there are people women from above 70 years old so we know that a very very famous demonstrator 73 year old woman nina barking sky is also being detained she is inside of one of these so vehicles here so people are women from all ages are now being detained and driven to the attention santos police stations and they're probably going to be there for a couple of days at least the right step for the moment many thanks indeed some fast reporting live from minsk election of only is walking again after a merge in from a coma a few days ago the russian opposition leader says that his recovery is going well but that it will take a long time he's being treated in germany has talked to say that he was poisoned with the russian nerve agent nor the chalk last month the carbon denies involvement and extent off a specialist on russia at

a lecture in modern european history at queen's university belfast he says the vileness recovery work necessarily mean that he'll return to his previous level of political activity. if he returns and he resumes he is there with don't like the we've got much less room for them to do anything about it because they'll be so it's so much more. international attention paid to whatever they do of the content him on the regular basis as they used to the cons of wishing to jail in certain of the countries and him again if it was then we did it but at the same time. in the long run of on the itself he has to try to very careful line in a sense that he doesn't want to be appealed to on pity or tick in russian the russian public and its various westen calls for sanctions imposed on russia and individuals but also on. the gas pipeline which is being built and so forth really make make his situation within russia

a little bit more precarious as well i would say with the public as well as the thirty's full of the northeast but if you're korea is will be just but as i think what we can say for sure is that it's not going to be the same as it was before because for all the factors because of the poisoning because of the international pressure and sanctions. and because of the him and other do the 3rd just can't treat him as as they used to treat him before so it's a difficult one and i'm still not 100 percent sure that it would actually let him return to russia the could be a pressure for him just to stay away. we're going to weather update next here on our 0 then tens of thousands of people rallying against the government in thailand as months of political protests grow louder. so why. are you putting. not quite on track we look at the progress being made on kenya and goals that were

aimed at making people's lives better. hello we've got some dry weather now making its way towards japan we have got this band of cloud and right it's making its way out of eastern parts of china just pulsing through still a chance to somewhat to weather for a time but it will grow just not your way temperatures in take at around 23 celsius showers there to the eastern side of japan is it just pulls out into the open waters brightest guys across the korean peninsula. parts of northern china away from the far northeast but you can see the central areas still looking pretty wet that wet weather coming right down into the southeast hong kong seeing some live fish i was over the next couple of days next pulse of heavy rain slides across central parts of china towards will hand that will continue to nudge

a little further east with what you can say for japan on monday does that last you find in try a pleasant sunshine coming through at this stage a lot of wet weather continuing meanwhile across western areas of india plenty of cloud showing up here down towards the south and that's why the cloud right through the bengal pushing up towards myanmar very heavy rain coming in we could see some flooding as a result of this it runs right up to wards the delta there some heavy showers longer spells of rain into what west bengal into bed making the way for the west. hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question to ask these days it's hard to filter out the noise in keep track of what's really important each the bottom line tackles the big issues this issue stakes its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on the right. i've been calling all of latin

america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why. the. game this is al jazeera so much of the main news this hour a liberal u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has died at the age of $87.00 republican leaders want president trump to decide on her successor the democrats say the choice should be made by the winner of november's election. hundreds of women have been arrested in bed a rooster in another week of anti-government protests hundreds of people were rallying through the city on saturday calling for president alexander lukashenko to

step down following last month's disputed election. russian opposition figure alexina volley is walking again after emerging from a coma a few days ago his doctors say that he was poisoned with a russian version novacek the kremlin denies involvement. tens of thousands of people are rallying into the rise against the thai government in the capital bangkok it's the latest in months of student protests and it's one of the largest demonstrations since the $24.00 team cool people are calling for a new election the constitution to be written and for the monarchy to be reforms of a serious way hey i was at the demonstration. it's very much a festive atmosphere at the moment this is the largest political gathering we've seen in thailand since a military coup in 2014 this movement was started by students and certainly they are still at the center of it but it's gone way beyond just a student protest and certainly this crowd is the most diverse that we have seen in

recent months there are reasons for that the dumond's that the students have been making for political change in thailand for political reform are resonating in many different sectors of thai society and this is also the end of 3 all the military coup in 2006 that saw the democratically elected government led by former prime minister thaksin shinawatra removed from office and many supporters of him and his government have come out to join this protest that started at tomah thought university across the road even though the university said that they couldn't gather they have the gate for eventually open and they were able to go into the university grounds and now they have spread their protest across the road here to. it's a historic site used by many royal ceremonies over the centuries but in recent years it's been off limits to the public it's been the protest leaders say they want to take it back for the people and that's exactly what. for a 2nd day taiwan says that it scrambled jets in response to an approach made by

chinese aircraft taiwan's defense ministry says the aircraft crossed the mid line of the taiwan straits and their defense missile system was deployed the military tension coincides with a visit by a senior u.s. official to taiwan. a growing number of coronavirus cases among refugees on the greek out of less bosses causing concern at least 214 infections have been confirmed that's 9000 refugees have been moved into a new camp the previous one which was europe's largest but down 10 days ago al-jazeera stephanie deca reports now from less boss. it's a very windy day here on the island and the elements are a concern when it comes to this new camp you can see it's right on the water's edge open to the wind the sea the rain that might come in the winter a lot of people were concerned about entering this camp we understand around 9000 people have entered in the last couple of days as

a result of that police operation they were concerned about the conditions they were concerned that they would be locked inside describing it potentially as a jail but certainly what we've seen this morning we've seen people walking along this road from the camp towards one of the main supermarkets and we're told by the authorities running the camp that people are allowed to leave up until 8 pm in the evening and to go and do shopping so this will be a welcome relief it is still a very fluid situation this emergency camp just having been set up in the last couple of days we understand it's being divided along ethnic city as well most of the people here from afghanistan they will be held in certain areas housing certain areas people from arab countries in other areas and people from the african countries again in separate areas but the bigger question is this when are these people going to be left off the island many of them have already been here for over a year yes the burning down of moriah camp has put this back into the international spotlight the european union is going to be debating their migration policy but

this again indicative a symbol of the failure of those policies and really what is a forgotten people they want their papers to be processed and they want an answer either stay either go but certainly this limbo for them has been a nightmare and the authorities at the moment not giving indication that they will be leaving the island and each time soon perkins government is facing increasing criticism over the lack of testing available for people with covert 19 subsumes many say they're being forced to wait for days because the system can't cope with among the 2nd wave of the virus emerging the government is considering new restrictions in the news is reporting a record daily increase in new coronavirus cases more than 4000 sections were recorded in the last into the sea it has the highest number of covert 19 related fatalities in southeast asia almost 9500 people have died. but in russia new corona virus infections have risen above 6000 a day for the 1st time in 2 months the government says it's increasing production

of its vaccine russia has reported more than 1000000 infections overall guatemala's president has tested positive for covert 964 year old out of hundreds. is now urging his entire cabinet to get tested he's the 4th latin america a match that lets an american leader to contract the coronavirus u.s. marines have been called in to help fight wildfires in california dozens of been trained to help emergency crews are being stretched to the limit on presidents and fires along the west coast at least 25 wildfires are being fought in california alone and in oregon and washington states at least 35 people have died in huge areas of land destroyed saddam's government is being urged to prevent more damage and loss of life from flooding half a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes and more than 100 have died

people living close to the river nile said that authorities must monitor river levels more closely and they're calling on the government to address the poor planning of buildings and roads in flood prone areas subzero morgan reports now from concert. this of course is the worst floods it's been seen in more than a century and the water levels of the nile river is receding. and in the north and in the southern part of the country in the northern part of the country especially river now state however the story is still very much the same the state is still witnessing devastation from the floods the level is still very high and that's because there is another river that is contributing to the nile that also comes from the if you can high lands that's the odd but a river and because of heavy rains on the if you can high lands more water has been flowing down that river downstream to the nile so people there still remain displaced still suffering from the devastating effects of this never before never seen before floods the number of those who've been displaced has risen to 650000

over the past week and the government is warning that there will be more floods as more rains are expected on the if you can highlight so people are saying that they're concerned because they're already seeing rises in the number of of cases of water borne diseases they saying that they're reporting what's very diarrhea they're reporting but they're worried about what would happen when the water goes down and the water inside the villages and towns remain stagnant that's when they're going to see cases of malaria coming up and they say that they are already suffering from the losses of their homes off their properties in a country that is going through a very harsh economic crisis where the currency of the sudanese pound continues to devalue so they're saying that even affording treatment if this crisis continues will be very hard for them so they are urging the government to respond the governing party in ivory coast is holding an election campaign rally ahead of next month's general election potential is running high the judges opposition leaders could jam or sordo laurent gbagbo from running critics say that the constitution

forbids president our son were trotta seeking of a term in office but he says he has no choice following the sudden death of his chosen successor in july. next week marks 5 years since united nations member states committed to a set of targets that were meant to make life better for people around the world but the plan to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030 is way off track and the coronavirus pandemic hasn't helped our diplomatic editor james bay as reports of his special while still socially distance meeting at the un strong words aimed at global leaders from one of the world's youngest yet best known campaigners i believe is their policy of the united nations and the key to being able to give it up and go it was or wasn't the future of millions of people of those who want to go just full of women who fight for gay rights and of young

people who fight well again in the state that i. saw you have not kept up if your lot so i'd like to know what i meant by you can link to that what use of sorry i spoke in support of the sustainable development goals when they were launched 5 years ago an ambitious plan to improve life around the world with to people out of poverty battling illness and disease and fighting the climate crisis but the goals weren't on track before the outbreak of the pandemic and the u.n. deputy secretary general told be coded 19 has made things even harder because make the projections of the millions that are going to be pushed back into poverty it has pushed back access to health services because in weak health systems that the focus has been on how to deal with coded it has also taken kids under school and we've not been able to get them back on lines the head of a group that's been doing research into the progress of the goals tells me they're

not just behind schedule but decades behind. well the good news is that the world is making some progress than is moving forward but the bad news is it's nowhere near fast enough based on our projections on social progress index we're not going to hit the s.t.g. targets until 2852 years too late. so what's needed to get these goals back on track most experts say greater cooperation among world leaders but that speech severely lacking during the period of the pandemic james plays out 0 of the united nations and animal hunted to extinction and england 400 years ago is making a comeback for thriving in the county of devon. discovered they're attracting tourists as well as improving water quality and reducing the risk of flooding. a family of beavers frolicking on the river otter hunted to extinction in the 17th century for the 3rd and meet eurasian beavers were discovered here 12 years ago no

one knows where they came from the when the government threatened to remove them fearing they could carry disease there was local outcry the beavers were allowed to stay for 5 years as long as they were closely study scientists said the benefits they bring obvious there's a whole long list but for many moms are flawed reduction so when the build dams they reduce flooding downstream water quality improvements those same dams capture pollutants research carbon capture within the dams in the vegetation that grows in the sediments behind them and then we see an explosion in the wall of life so much more wetland wildlife than losing it and after the beaver sort of for a columnist. 15 families now live here and the government has sanctioned their reintroduction across the country it's a groundbreaking decision returning a once extinct native species to england but not without problems beavers are brilliant architects cutting down trees to build dams which create deep pools of

water to hide in and store their plant food you can see here free food is created it's funny i believe it and it's a welcome change for this land 1st some landowners a concern that some of the downs could flood their fields conservationists are urging the government to provide funds so that everyone can embrace their return. flooding and managing it is already costing the u.k. $2800000000.00 a year ecologist sikkim to point out that the work they believe is due has real value far outweighing the costs of mine to floods to farmland these beaver dams store water they can slow the flow of water through catchments which can alleviate flooding and create more for resilient landscapes the beavers slow water down as it moves through their territory and that has the impact on the side of an. dropping out of the water and not contract environmental pollution such as phosphate in the trades release of species to be introduced in england back on the river as the

numbers grow so his interest in them attracting tourists and boosting the local economy this female has a spring it will each go out to find that. spreading the benefits across the country. southwest england. it's good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines and i was here a liberal u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has died at the age of 87 republican leaders want president donald trump to decide on her successor but democrats say the choice should be made by the winner of the presidential election which is in 6 weeks' time hundreds of women have been arrested in penna roofs after another week of anti-government protests people have been rallying through the city calling on president alexander lukashenko to step down following last month's disputed

election. witnessed some of those arrests police this time not taken any journalist at least not so far and they are seem to be leaving right now they've been here for 20 minutes they rounded up complete around a 1000 women but there's a baiting they made in the city they were standing they were shouting. resign they said they were defiant and they will continue to go to the streets and the police came and picked them all up russian opposition figure alexina volley is walking again true moshing from a coma a few days ago they stopped to say that he was poisoned with the russian of asian another chalk last month kremlin denies involvement. tens of thousands of people are arriving into the mines against the thai government in the capital bangkok it's the latest in months of student led protests and it's one of the largest

demonstrations since the $24.00 crew people are calling for a new election a rewrite of the constitution and for reform of the monarchy. for a 2nd day taiwan says that it scrambled jets in response to an approach made by chinese aircraft taiwan's defense ministry says the aircraft cross the midline of the taiwan straits the military tension coincides with a visit by a senior u.s. official to taiwan a growing number of coronavirus cases among refugees on the greek island of less boss is causing concern at least 248 infections have been confirmed since 9000 refugees have been moved into a new camp the previous one which was europe's largest burn down 10 days ago and britain's government is facing increasing criticism over the lack of testing available for people with covert 19 symptoms many say they're being forced to wait days there's the headlines more news for you here on al-jazeera after the bottom line next. and counting the cost an aging population soaring debts and recession

can just plans a new prime minister to fix the economy famine the public see an uprising is as the pandemic wipes out a decade of economic growth plus pakistan is asia's best performing stock market counting the cost on al-jazeera hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question are evangelicals giving president trump the votes he needs to win a 2nd term let's get to the bottom line. about a 3rd of americans identify themselves as born again or as evangelical christians and among that group almost all of them voted for donald trump in 2016 and the vast majority say they're going to do it again in a few weeks in return trump has pushed the religious right's agenda with this culture war and socially conservative policies the appointment of conservative judges and support for israel's government but what is this huge group in american society.