cuts to the. storytelling are the biggest issues but had to do with. al-jazeera. alone can develop this is the news on live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes iran's president mocks us attempts to unilaterally reimpose nuclear sanctions of the un security council members rejected the plan passed. i will be putting forth the nomination next week woke up with. the baton to replace supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg intensifies in the u.s. . immersed in devastation in sudan

grapples with the aftermath of record floods. and former president and opposition leader. calls for civil disobedience in response to ivory coast's president's bid for a 3rd term. and i'm sort of fires all have all the sports liverpool senekal east forward side germany scored twice is the right speech chelsea to know in the english premier league. iran is threatening the united states with a crushing response to efforts to reimpose sanctions the u.s. has triggered a so-called snap back of the sanctions which were lifted in the 2015 iran nuclear deal but every other permanent member of the united nations security council rejects the u.s. plan as said baik reports from tehran. sanctions or no sanctions an

unprecedented division at the united nations is seen as a diplomatic victory by iran iran's president seemingly mocking the recent us defeats at the security council. in the game today we can say the u.s. policy of mixed member less cool and legal pressure against the iranian nation has turned into mex member isolation for the united states. but if the u.s. stops iranian vessels to enforce sanctions this was a warning from iran. if the u.s. wants to use resolution $199.00 to inspect raney and ships based on international laws is considered piracy and will be dealt with and the united states will be held responsible for the consequences. and it's here any response would likely be carried out the strait of hormuz one of the busiest shipping routes in the world with 20 percent of the world's oil passing through u.s. warships and water mains are based in the region in an already tense environment

iran's conservative majority parliament is considering further action against the u.s. if they re impose sanctions. on iran there are various ideas in iran in among lawmakers from abandoning the g c p o 8 to even withdrawing from the nonproliferation treaty or severing ties with. iran you're lawmakers have discussed all these ideas it rains already finding it tough living under sanctions. we're working hard from morning to night but we get nothing because these sanctions have disrupted life economy everything it's very tough and that was so clear to us just as well sanctions have had many impacts for example on patients the price of medicine has gone up to the increasing exchange rate with the dollar that even if medicine is available if we face more sanctions the lives of many patients might be at risk iran's leaders are treating the u.s. isolation at the u.n. as a victory what many iranians. suffering hardship donald trump's maximum pressure campaign

caused iran's currency to use value and stop iran selling its oil accessing international markets but what iran does next very much depends on how the u.s. decides to implement its view that u.n. sanctions are back in place with the u.s. isolated at the u.n. security council and the europeans want to preserve the nuclear deal in this ongoing diplomatic battle between the u.s. and iran iran believes it now has the upper hand so big al jazeera iran. the u.s. also says iran could soon be able to produce a nuclear weapon a senior u.s. official has told reuters news service that iran could have enough material for a weapon by the end of the year ron has also reportedly resumed cooperation with north korea on a long range missile project the official told reuters that the u.s. will now sanction more than 2 dozen people and entities involved in iran's weapons programs. of more on this we're joined by mayor lester in london she is an

international sanctions lawyer brick court chambers thank you for your time. sir the u.s. says it's triggered this snapback the rest of the u.n. security council says no sorry you don't have the right to do that what does the law say well the law says that those who are allowed to trigger this so-called snap back mechanism under the un resolution our participants in the deal now the u.s. says it's a participant state because it's named in the resolution the other permanent members say well no you have pulled out and made yourself expressly not a participant state and therefore you're not allowed to trigger snapback so there's a big legal as well as diplomatic fines about this was there nothing in this agreement that clarified when a country is a is a participant and when it is not i mean that seems like a pretty big oversight. well i mean there is some room for doubt on this and

actually the u.n. . have themselves said that since there is ambiguity on this point they may not themselves put it on the agenda it's the secretary general has said there would appear to be uncertainty on this point i mean certainly the resolution is clear on the participants states and the terms of the j.c. p.o. a define the terms of the conference can states what is less clear is the relationship between somebody est that pulls out and what rights it still has to trigger the snapback so i would say the search a legal point here so mike pompei i mean while u.s. secretary of state is threatening consequences for u.n. member states who don't comply with these sanctions on iran what is the legal grounding there. so the legal grounding there is u.s. law and the u.s. does have significant power in this area because what's happened is having pulled it so president trump obviously always disliked very publicly than the nuclear deal

and when the u.s. pulled out of the deal in 2080 the u.s. reimposed its own u.s. sanctions on iran and so quite apart from this dispute about whether or not united nations sanctions snapback the u.s. has been very aggressively actively re imposing its own sanctions on iran and that is entirely of course up to the united states and its own legal basis that in itself is a very powerful tool of the u.s. the cause part of the sanctions it's imposed a worldwide so even non u.s. persons doing certain kinds of business with iran can be cut off completely from u.s. financial markets if they gauge an activity that the u.s. says is actionable and this of course strikes fear into the hearts of many businesses that want to be able to use the u.s. dollar and that's exactly what the u.s. is now doing so as you say might calm peo has said that anyone that the u.s. regards as now in breach of sanctions including really arms sales to iran in the

most recent statement can be subject to these u.s. sanctions so the u.s. is using its own law as well as trying to trigger international law so how do you foresee of us all playing out will there be some sort of legal showdown. well it's very interesting because what the u.s. has done is try to trigger this mechanism in the united nations and other parties have sent letters there have been legal letters as i understand it flying around the united nations setting out their own position so there's certainly been a lot of legal wrangling within the u.s. and it could be that the u.n. will simply ignore what has happened and not put the u.s. resolution on any kind of agenda in which case it can ignore what the u.s. has done and that seems to me why the u.s. is now ramping up its own sanctions in the meantime while it's waiting to see what the u.n. does but it does seem to me that as with many of these sort of legal radicals the

solution is going to have to be a diplomatic one because this is a very severe sort of falling out of united nations parties it's also worth saying though that this is been a dispute that's not a new one so since president trump pulled out of the nuclear deal the other parties and in particular the european union but also russia and china have been trying to shore up the deal and do everything they can including trying to block the legal effects in europe of these u.s. sanctions so the u.s. has been far apart from many other countries on this issue for some time and of course the u.s. election is coming up soon which which heightens the stakes further and could of course change things significantly depending on who wins iran has scaled back its adherents to the nuclear deal including its stockpile of enriched uranium does that change anything. well if that is of course the reason that the u.s. cites for triggering the so-called snap back the u.s.

has long said iran isn't complying iran has then openly said well we're going to go above our agreed levels under the deal because the u.s. has pulled out of the deal and it's therefore no longer complying and so it certainly is the reason if you like that the u.s. gives for doing exactly this trying to say that the u.n. sanctions snap back into effect but there is under the deal itself a dispute resolution mechanism which is important because the parties to the deal foresaw exactly this happening if iran's levels of enrichment were to go up then there's a mechanism that could be triggered the legal wrangle is the fact that the u.s. instead of trigger trigger a back dispute resolution mechanism as a participant in the deal decided to say we are no longer participating we want out so there's even muddy waters about whether we're in the dispute resolution now under that deal which the u.s.

or sent or whether we're in other territory ok thank you so much for analysis they are lester there in international sanctions lawyer live from london my pleasure a series of government airstrikes in northern afghanistan has killed at least 24 people the afghan defense ministry says 30 taliban fighters died in the attacks witnesses told the a.p. news agency that innocent villagers were killed strikes happened as afghan government and taliban negotiators meet in qatar for peace talks to end the decades long conflict russian warplanes have targeted rebel areas and northwest syria the attack was on a non residential area west of the city if little if the province continues to be controlled by rebels resisting attacks by government forces and their russian allies. u.s. president donald trump says he will announce a nominee to replace supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg as early as next week crowds continue to gather outside the u.s. supreme court 2 on a ginsburg who died on friday the 87 year old was

a pioneer of women's rights tributes have been pouring in from across the political divide but with weeks to go until the presidential election republicans want to cement a conservative majority on the court be putting forth a nominee next week it will be a woman with. 00 how many would you rather have a woman on the supreme court yes woman yes with. tom jealous or. joe would you rather work or would you rather have a man on the supreme court. let's pick now to alan fischer who is live for us in washington d.c. so alan that the political implications the ramifications really continue over this this now supreme court vacancy. exactly and something that joe biden is going to be

talking about he was due to start speaking about no but we've just been told that event has been delayed till half past the hour he is going to make the point that if donald trump gets the supreme court he wants then the affordable health care act and particularly preexisting conditions and the protection of those is very much under threat and the democrats believe that that is a winning argument as they approach the election that they will continue to hammer this idea that although donald trump on the campaign trail has said look we will protect preexisting conditions the reality is a number of republicans have taken court action to try and end the protections for preexisting conditions the department of justice supports them and that is headed for the supreme court a week after the election and there has been disciplined messaging from the democrats from chuck schumer in the senate to nancy pelosi in the house to anyone who's been appearing on the normal sunday talk shows that this is a threat because they think that health care is

a winning thing for them as for donald trump he thinks talking about the supreme court is good politics for him he can point to the fact that he said 2 supreme court justices confirmed the number of lore level justices have secured a conservative majority in many of those courts and of course if you continue to talk about the supreme court and conservative justices you're not talking about the impact of corporate more than 200000 deaths in the united states no you're not talking about an unemployment rate that's more than 8 percent and of course you're also not talking about health care so you can see why joe biden is saying look don't trump should not be allowed to come forward with a nominee at this point he thinks it's dangerous for people's health that is the message he will hammer but he will also say that constitutionally the republicans have particularly 4 years ago said there should be no nomination and an election year it should be up to the people to decide he wants that to happen come the

election on november 3rd ok so that's the argument that biden will likely make that really seems that all signs point to it being all systems gars as far as donald trump and the republicans against that. well there's certainly a couple ways you can look at it don't trump says he's going to make his announcement for a nomination at some point in the next week mitch mcconnell who is the leader of the republicans in the senate will then start the hearings will he get it done by the election there's a possibility that he wants it takes on average $68.00 days to get a nomination through the senate and confirmed and a place on the supreme court and there are $44.00 days to the election so what happens well mitch mcconnell starts the hearings and that galvanises the base it encourages people to come out and vote for donald trump saying look we've got to get this nomination over the line you will help us by voting for donald trump at some point on november the 3rd so please go out and vote but there is the possibility that this lays the foundation of

a constitutional crisis will he get the vote through by november 3rd it's unlikely so what happens then the period between the election on november the 3rd and inauguration and the new senate coming in on january the 1st is known as the lame duck session if mitch mcconnell pushes through on the lame duck session to confirm a conservative justice on the supreme court after joe biden for example has won the election then you can see that there is going to be a problem and joe biden will come under pressure in the very early days of his presidency to do what they call packing the court which means appointing a lot more just the sister of the supreme court there's nothing that says the supreme court has to be just one justices it could be 11 it could be $21.00 so he will come under pressure from democrats to do just that to build in a democratic majority on the supreme court that then leads to all sorts of other questions so you see the basis of

a constitutional crisis is being laid however we've still got to get through this week donald trump who will be name while there's at least 2 names in the frame that we know about but he will make that nomination and that starts the gun on the. process which will go beyond november the 3rd possibly even january the 20th there's a lot of politics to cover in the next few weeks here in the united states ok for now thank you i'm sure we'll be checking back in with you as we hear from joe by but more ahead on the news all including. turning out of force protesters keep up the pressure on the president develops despite the threat of violent arrests. and we'll take you to the island to visit since thousands of refugees settle into a new town they say is not good enough. and it's course it's advantage dallas in the series that will decide who wins stan.

sydney's authorities are grappling with the devastation wrought by record breaking floods more than 120 people have died and 100000 homes damaged or destroyed the government also says more than 700000 people have been affected by the rising waters and the trouble is far from over $100.00 has this update from. latest is that the government has revised the numbers upwards up 270-0000 people have been affected in 17 or 18 states that's done is composed of ses the government and people put in many parts of the country. with how slow the recession of the flood waters have been mainly due to heavy rains pounding not only saddam but also the highlands of ethiopia where lect the source of the blue nile is for the pushing

more water into these should be of the nile which has been mainly disposable for the flooding we've seen in the past weeks and months so what we see goes to a shop where they also stagnant water supplying around almost everywhere in those 17 states and their sons the could be outbreaks of diseases like malaria chicken fever all of them caused by the mosquito as well as diseases like cholera and dysentery because of thousands of put latrines being destroyed during the floods and emptying their contents into the floods that still lingering in most parts of sudan. well dr off is the secretary general of the sea don red crescent society she explained that a priority now is making sure people who have fled flooded areas say. now you

finish what we said or phasing out the crap you want from the immediate response to go to the post immediately to lead to you call it a recovery recovery well that we talk about helping people in getting proper sanitation facilities but talking about victor control we're talking about the city getting mosquito net blankets cause they support women and children in particular and were talking about community activists because right now they are the most of the people they lost their houses right now have more than 2 to come in have 2 and one come in since i was to see the united left to be eating food because right now people still need to get food while we are getting back to normal so whenever they're back to go over with the rest yourself also doing the sanitation and house for the communal things and also we do our work with living poor that

many people look to get malaria not a good mosquitoes and we're going to do to engage them in the number of campaigns we're going to launch in 7 instead because our a target is there anything in that part of the total number. pretty similar says to his detaining protesters have been gathering in the capital minsk rallies are getting underway across the country demonstrators a demanding the resignation of president alexander look at banco following last month's disputed elections there's a large police presence in minsk and the internet has been shut down so fast and is that the protesters in minsk and sent us this after. this march it's called a march for justice they are saying that look attractive should be brought to court who are tribunals for torture and the things that have happened in the last couple of weeks that they were also trying to get his followers to be independent ballots one of his residences because all the roads were blocked so the groups are. 'd

increasingly difficult piece to gather together today and there are rallies also kreindler computer club anonymous at least there are there are running all clo on go in right now it's clear that a proxy clerk were flashing plastics in fact on the protesters but i have to trust that the people who are swear on the street low fairly well that they could be detained any minute police and army is in full force across the city i'm across the country in other places as well there's a complete overload of for the french and serve right now more than a 1000 people have been detained nearly every week now so yesterday it was funny to hear that silly talk modern of the sanctity it doesn't even feel the pain all the women but i have to go back and forth undisturbed work that police actually use in public buses now like real normal public transport to our detain people so at the

moment they think this rally is too large for them to intervene but police will always wait until there's a smaller group and then they started telling people. refugees on the greek island of lesbos have described the conditions of a new campus horrible thousands of arrived at the new settlement they were displaced almost 2 weeks ago after the morea camp burnt down many refugees to don't want to go to a new camp demanding to be taken to the greek mainland instead and a rally in support of the refugees on those balls is taking place in germany's capital berlin protesters are calling for the immediate evacuation of all greek refugee camps after the fires at moria stephanie decker is at the nou camp and this passed. we've been watching some of the people being able to happen even able to leave the camp today in the morning they were allowed to leave then we're being told that at some point there was an order to close the gates down and being allowed to leave again so it's very much a fluid situation but we've seen some of the managed to get mattresses and wheeling

them back in you know the garbage cans that have wheels and wheeling them back into the tent because the tides at the moment are just basically a sand bottom yes they're being handed those thin blankets so it's a very basic infrastructure when it comes to this count and of course there was a lot of pressure to get people off the streets and been sleeping on the streets for 10 days off to the firebird more account so i think it's a work in progress certainly the refugees and migrants we've been speaking to saying the conditions are terrible particularly lack of running water showers sanitation you know the toilets are terrible we've seen videos of that so i think it's taking some time to get on its feet as various n.g.o.s in there are helping the greek government the army that is running this count but of course you're talking a 1000 thousands of people by 1000 people that came into this capital very short period of time so that is the situation at the moment i think interesting me tomorrow the asylum process is going to restart the paperwork processing that had

been put on hold since that fire that's been a very lengthy process this is why a lot of these people have been here for over a year and i think interesting the 3rd thing it forward europe is going to be debating their migrant policies many people will tell you that moria and this now is a symbol of the failure of europe's migration policies of allowing these people to fester so long and these kinds of terrible conditions tens of thousands of times protesters have ended a new round of demonstrations by presenting instead to mom's to the monarchy calls for the king's poet to be limited and you constitution and elections criticism of monarchy is illegal in time that demonstrators placed a plug next to the grand palace bangkok declaring the nation belongs to the people . more process the plan for thursday at the general strike next month when he has more from bangkok. with the significance 1st of all is the location where the protest was held tens of thousands of people turning out on saturday and where this park has been play some of the wiring which is the part that you mentioned just

across the road from the grand palace it's a historic site it's been the scene of many royal ceremonies for centuries and it used to be a place that was open to the general public to use during the day as well but in recent years that's not been the case it's being off limits to the public so the protest leaders made it clear that that was one of their targets they wanted to retake this park for the people and that's exactly what they did and in the early hours of sunday morning they dug up 6 of the concrete. live to philadelphia where democratic presidential hopeful joe biden is speaking at a rally expected to address the moves to replace late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg let's listen in. the nation lost to her on an icon. they also lost a mother or grandmother in the matriarch. we know how hard that is to watch p.c. to soul absorb the cruelty and the pain of the dreadful disease of cancer.

i spoke to her daughter her granddaughter last night expressing my whole family i mean my whole family's sorrow to claim my grown granddaughters one of whom was a student of ruth bader ginsburg's daughter of columbia. they made it clear to me daughter and granddaughter until the very end justice ginsburg displayed the character and courage really expected her she said she held her hand and gave them strength and purpose to carry on. it's been noted that she passed away in russia seana. by tradition a person who dies during the jewish new year is considered a soul of great righteousness that was ruth bader ginsburg or

a righteous soul. and was my great honor when i was in the senate and chairman of the judiciary committee to preside over her confirmation hearings and strongly support her session to the supreme court bench justice ginsburg achieved to stand a few justices have or ever will she became a presence in the lives of so many americans and a part of our culture. i agree with others have said that she did as much to advance the constitutional rights opportunities and justice for women. as justice marshall did for african-americans yes her humor and mentions of the notorious r b g and her impressive exercise routines but there was so much more. she was to use an overused word a trailblazer a role model on a source of hope and

a powerful voice for justice she was proof proof that courage and conviction and moral clarity can change not only the law can change our culture can change the world and i believe in the days the months and years ahead but to use me as you will continue to inspire millions of americans all across this country and together we can and we will. continue to be a voice for justice in her name her granddaughter said yesterday and said publicly that her dying words were quote my most fervent wish. as in a not be replaced until a new president is installed. as a nation we should heed her final call to us not as

a personal service to her but as a service to the country our country at a crossroads there's so much at stake the right to health care care clean air clean water the environment equal pay for equal work the rights of voters immigrants women workers. and right now our country faces a choice a choice about whether we will come back from the brink that's what i like to talk with you about for a few minutes today within an hour of news of her passing senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said president trump's nominee to replace justice can berg will receive a vote in the senate within an hour for passing the exact opposite. of what he said when president obama nominated merrick garland to replace justice scalia in 2060 at that time out

majority mcconnell made up a rule based on the fiction that i somehow believe there should be no nomination of the court in election year. it's ridiculous. the only rule i've ever followed relating to the supreme court nomination was the constitution's obligation for senators to provide their advice and their consent to a president's judicial nominee but he created a new rule of the mcconnell rule. absolutely no hearing or no vote for a nominee in election year period no coffee 7 outs. and many republican senators agreed with him including then chairman of the judiciary committee chuck grassley of iowa. including the current chairman of the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham of south carolina who at the time said and i'll quote verbatim

here's what he said quote i want you to use my words against me if there's a republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs or in the last year of the 1st term you can say lindsey graham said let's let the next president whoever it might be make the nomination continue to quote and you could use my words against me and you'd be absolutely right and of quote as a republican said when justice scalia passed away about 9 months before election day that year now i mean last justice ginsburg less than 7 weeks before election this year after americans have already been begun to

cast their vote it's estimated that up to 40 percent of americans will have voted by october 1st at least 30 percent ten's of millions and you can't unring that bell having made this their standard going to serve their interest they cannot just 4 years later change course when it doesn't serve there and says look i'm not being naive. i'm not speaking the president trump will do it every once i'm not speaking to mitch mcconnell and do what he wants and he does. i'm speaking to those republicans out there senate republicans who know deep down what is right for the country and consistent with the constitution as i stay here in the stand here in the constitution center not just what's best for their party

i'm speaking for a minute as americans out there who already have voted and continue to vote and will have many more of voted by the time. this process is finished minutes americans were voting because they know their health care hangs in the balance in the middle of the worst global health crisis in living memory donald trump is before the supreme court trying to strip health care coverage away from tens of millions of families to strip away the peace of mind of more than 100000000 americans with preexisting conditions if he succeeds in insurance could once again discriminate or drop coverage completely for people living with preexisting conditions like asthma diabetes cancer and so many other problems and perhaps most cruelly of all if down chump has

his way the complications from covert 19 which are well beyond. what they should be it's estimated that 200000000 people have died probably by the time i finish this talk but the complications of covert 19 like lung scarring and heart damage could become the next novel preexisting condition for over 6000000 americans who've already contract the disease. millions of americans are also voting because they don't want nearly half a century of legal precedent overturned lose the right to choose millions of americans who are at risk of losing their right to vote millions of dreamers who are at risk of being expelled from the only country they have ever known. methods

of workers union workers who are at risk of losing their right to collectively bargain millions of americans who are demanding that their voices be heard or that equal justice be a guarantee for all not just sob they know we all know what should happen now the voters of this country should be heard as i said voting has already begun by the time we get to the middle of october there will be millions and millions and millions of already voted. in just a few weeks all votes in this nation will be heard they're the ones. who the constitution vision should decide who has the power to make disappointment this appointment isn't about the past it's about the future and the people of this

nation and the people of this nation are choosing their future right now as they vote to jam this nomination through the senate is just an exercise in raw political power and i don't believe the people of this nation will stand for it president chompers already made it clear this is about power pure and simple power or the voters should make it clear on this issue and so many others the power in this nation resides with them the american people the voters. and even if troubling a good president trump wants to put forward a name now the senate should not act until after the american people select their next president their next congress their next senate if donald trump wins the

election then the senate should move on his selection and weigh the nominee he chooses fairly but if i were in the selection president's trump nominee should be withdrawn as a new president i should be the one who nominate justice ginsburg successor a nominee who should get a fair harriet in the senate before confirmation hearings before confirmation vote i should say after confirmation hearing we're in the middle of a pandemic like i said as i speak or probably passing 200000 deaths the last of those fires tens of millions of americans unemployed health care in this country hangs in the balance before the court and now in iraq political move this president in the republican leader have decided to jam

a lifetime appointment to the supreme court through the united states senate and selassie we needed this moment as i said voters have already begun casting their votes in the millions. and in just a few weeks we're going to know who the voters of this nation and chosen as the next president of the united states constitution is designed to give voters one chance one chance to have their verdict voice heard and who serves on the court and by the way there's no court session between now. and the end of this election that moment is now for the voters to get a chance to be heard and their voice should be here and i believe voters are going to make it clear they will not stand for this abuse of power this constitutional abuse. there's no discussion about what happens if the senate confirms on the eve

of the election or no way murdoch after donald trump loses a successor to justice ginsburg what happens but that discussion assumes that we lose this effort to prevent the grave wrong a trumpet mcconnell are pursuing here i'm not going to assume failure at this point i believe the voices of american people should be heard and will be heard this fall this fight this nomination will not be over until the senate votes if it does vote . winning that vote if it happens is everything action and reaction anger and more anger sorrow in frustration of the way things are in this country now politically that's the cycle of republican senators will

continue to perpetuate if they go down this dangerous path that they put us on. we need to deescalate not escalate that's why i appeal to those few senate republicans the fact handful who really will decide what happens please follow your conscience don't vote to confirm anyone nominated in the circumstances president trump and senator mcconnell have created don't go there appalled your constitutional duty your conscience let the people speak. cool the flames that have been engulfed in our country we can't keep rewriting history scrambly norm's ignoring our cherished system of checks and balances that includes this whole business of releasing a list of potential nominees that i would put forward now same after they after

ruth bader ginsburg passed away they said biden should release his list it's no wonder the trump campaign asked that i release the list only after she passed away . it's a game for them. it's a play to gin up emotions and anger there is reason why no presidential candidate other than donald trump has ever done such a thing 1st put it a judge's name on a list like that could influence that person's decision making as a judge and that would be wrong or at least create the perception that would have an influence 2nd anyone put a list like that under these circumstances will be subject to unrelenting political attacks because any nominee i would select would not get a hearing until 2021 at the earliest she would endure those attacks for months on end without being able to defend herself and thirdly and finally perhaps most

importantly if i win i'll make my choice for the suit should from court not based on a part partisan election campaign but on what prior presidents have done republican and democrats and i've served with many of them only after consulting democrats and republicans in the united states senate and seeking their advice and asking for their consent it says advise and consent the senate the president is the person who gets to name someone propose the senate disposes as everyone knows i made it clear that my 1st choice of the supreme court will make history as the 1st african-american woman justice but i'll consult with senators from both parties about that as well as the legal and civil leaders in our country in the

end the choice will be mine and mine alone which i will consult but will be the product of a process that restores our finest traditions not the extension of one that's torn this country apart the last years so let me conclude with this. as i said in this campaign we're in the battle for the soul of this country we face a storage we face a story crises once in a generation pandemic a devastating economic recession. the rise of white supremacy that b. i direct has warned us against unseen since the sixty's and a reckoning on race that's long overdue. a challenging climate a changing climate that is ravaging our nation and the world as we speak

the supreme court decisions. with touch every part of these crises every part of our lives and our future. the last thing we need is to add a constitutional crisis and a plunges us deeper into the abyss deeper into the darkness if we go down this path. i predict it will cause irreversible damage the infection this president has a least on our democracy can be failed anough anough anough we must come together as a nation democrats republicans independents liberals conservatives everybody. i mean it is of course democratic presidential hopeful joe biden speaking there in philadelphia pennsylvania speaking about the moves to

replace the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg he started by talking about the legacy of justice ginsburg calling her a trailblazer a role model a powerful force to justice then moved on of course into the moves to to replace. he is about the hypocrisy of republicans and wanting now to move quickly to fill the vacancy on the supreme court versus what happened back in 2016. he spoke directly to senate republicans calling on them to do what's right for the country he turned the conversation really back to the to the pandemic back to the affordable care act back to issues of climate change to racial justice. he said he didn't want to name his his own picks for the replacement of the supreme court but did say that he would nominate the 1st african-american woman justice and

that role let's bring in now alan fischer who joins us live from washington d.c. alan what stood out for you with what joe biden had to say. i think the most startling thing is he says that the idea of pushing through a nominee at this point would be just to shore of raw political power mitch mcconnell knows there is a republican president in place that the republicans have the majority in the senate and he believes he has enough votes to confirm any nominee that donald trump puts forward donald trump has said he will submit a name by the end of the week. just on that point raw political power comes as a consequence of winning elections donald trump won the presidential election 4 years ago the republican senate is there because of elections in 201-420-1620 extension 18 winning elections gives you raw political power mitch

mcconnell says that although in 2016 there shouldn't have been a vote that was because there was a democratic president and the republicans were put in place in the senate to act as a check and balance on obama's final years in office it stands thing on the head of a pin according to some critics but it's certainly an argument that the republicans have been putting forward and will continue to put forward it's interesting that joe biden appealed that directly to those senators who say this shouldn't be a vote we already know that susan collins from maine and lisa murkowski from alaska have said that absolutely there should not be a vote those are 2 republican voices there are others as well like chuck grassley who as he says was the chairman of the judiciary committee 4 years ago that didn't consider merrick garland nomination and there are others to her in tight political fights to retain their seat and may think that by coming out and saying yes there

should be a vote would mean that a lot of undecideds would move away from them and they would lose there's also the very special situation 2 of. which could well factor into any vote. after the election because that is a special election and the senator who wins there will take up their seat before january the 1st which is when the new senate is sworn in this is joe biden lingo the case is well that people have already started to vote in their millions we have seen lines that early voting centers in virginia just across the border here from washington d.c. and in other places so he's saying it's not fair know that the election is actually under way that the voices should be ignored so very strong comments from joe biden will it make any difference well as he said he wasn't speaking to mitch mcconnell and he wasn't speaking to donald trump because he knows the path that they're already on so we watch to see what happens next particularly when it comes

to holding a vote and whether or not mitch mcconnell can get any vote through the senate before the election on november the 3rd very good point joe biden made there's no supreme court hearings do between 0 and november the 3rd this is all the bow what happens after the election and what happens for generations to come thank you for that alan fischer there live for us in washington d.c. . more weekend protests calling for the resignation of israel's prime minister under way for 13 weeks in a vote thousands have been gathering in front of them to be met yahoo's official residency and west through salem demonstrators accuse him of corruption and mishandling the pandemic causing thousands of job losses netanyahu is on trial on corruption charges links to his previous term in office let's speak now to harry forsett who is in west jerusalem for us harry just bring us up to speed with these

protests what's the latest. well the thing about this weekend's protests is that this is the 1st weekend since the imposition on friday afternoon of the 2nd coronavirus lockdown nationwide and so political protest is exempted from those restrictions but nonetheless there was some questioning and some concern among some quarters within the protest movement as to whether to continue or not usually these protests on a saturday night this time they're happening on sunday because this is now the end of a 2 day jewish new year holiday and so they've come out the police had tried to caps you'll off areas within the protest site people are supposed to gather in capsules of 20 or fewer outdoors the numbers certainly aren't as big as what we've seen in recent weeks or a few 1000 bit more spread out than usual but certainly they don't seem to be

observing the cap shield off areas and there was one unexpected incident where the a car speeding towards that group of protesters and slammed on the brakes at the last minute the driver of that car was dragged up by police and arrested not clear if that was a deliberate act or not but there has been that arrest ok thank you for that have all said live for us in west jerusalem. and i've read caused the opposition the is calling for civil disobedience in response to the president's bid for a 3rd term and former president terry kohn and they're the heir who is running for the office again condemned to the exclusion of certain candidates from the election president to add a son or tara has already served his maximum 2 terms but he's argued that a change to the constitution reset the term limits allowing him to run again that sparked protests let's bring in michael. singh

a visiting fellow. center for africa at the london school of economics and political science he joins us now from kent in the u.k. thanks so much for your time sir i was a game changer is bit is candidacy in this contest where other merriman has the most spots i mean because party has the most support blast but what is currently. disqualified it looks like big here really is the next person with the most votes so it's quite significant he used a significant candidate in this particular election and one of the reasons why what terrorists kind of basically so contentious is actually that he originally didn't really want to leave the sea he deliberately introducing even the fright presidents into this new constitution just so obvious he can plan and redeem method with the

if putin which are the very least he could be the right presidential candidate if you are regional kind of he did not die and so now he's had to put in some of our presidential candidate because the other candidate died ok so given that then it is what are likely to let this election run free lead and fairly. it's not like. you say surely what tara doesn't have enough votes to get my joe t. either in the 1st round or in the 2nd round so we can for a very precarious situation where the only way what our country is likely to read today election and already we are hearing reports that you know we're going to try and strengthen the bottle young's in done in the west corridor in the north block in the center and our gang in the south to try and intimidate the out tamed to protect us are rigging our tents so so we're looking at

a very precarious situation and if your position parties decide to boycott of the election they're basically 100 where the whole thing to work hour or less of a platter so it's going to be a very careful but i think game between now and and their election but essentially big data significant candidates and so it's our feet in guess and if we're terribly science to support him to be he's representative and finally. any candidate is themselves as you said a former president some little bit more about him what was the country like under his rule you know how is he energizing his supporters do you mean by the yes. he he's a lot of really he is actually at the fringes of politics. but at the moment i think the manhunt really need anything but tara the reason why i've

been here is command disappoint in this raid instances because of my joke of the country that no one will turn out to be president any war. began so there's a lot of man and when he was president he really wasn't very that popular so i think at the moment it would appear that it's perhaps a lot of supporters are basically just going to support bibi just because they have to support someone other than betty however i'm really sorry we have to leave it there for time we have completely run out of time i'm so so sorry i have to leave it there michael moore thank you. person's health minister is warning the country is at a tipping point in the fight against the coronavirus that hancock says of people died follow health measures new restrictions could be brought in coronavirus cases in the u.k. have risen sharply in the past few weeks on saturday the government announced fines of up to almost $13000.00 for people court breaking self isolation rules of

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