this is a problem but i. will fight for. a confirmation of significantly shift the balance of the court to the rocks also on the program. dozens of civilians killed and injured. supposed to have. and i survived. coronavirus. europe

sees a surge of new infections in the spanish capital madrid. that's the warning from scientists from the extradition to study. the north. welcome to the. united states senator has begun the process to fill the vacant seat on the country's top court and cement a conservative majority before november's presidential election republicans are rushing to confirm president a trump's nominee i mean can you hear about it or to go for days of watching him positions on health care abortion gun rights to nomination spark

a better parties than fight over silicon valley consume priem court seats in election years if approved and you heard about it would be president trump's 3rd appointment to the court i think at $48.00 to judge amy carney barrett could shape the supreme court for many decades to come 3 years ago trump appointed the staunch conservative to the federal court of appeals in chicago she has indicated support for gun rights trumps immigration policies and restrictions on abortion and l g b t rights group called her quote an absolute threat feminists fear she may move to restrict abortion rights in 2013 as a professor at the university of notre dame she was quoted as saying life begins at conception senate democrats grilled her on her religious views during the 27000 appeals court confirmation hearings and in california senator dianne feinstein was even accused of anti-catholic bigotry i think your case

professor. when you read your speeches. the conclusion one draws is that the dog lives loudly within you barrett has said repeatedly that her faith would not interfere with her judicial decisions if they were just confirmed to be for election day on of them a 3rd one of the 1st case this in front of her will be about the fate of the a floatable care act known as obamacare trump wants to invalidate the law which provides health care to millions of americans. if you take a closer look at this with william blue cross from do you know news the us election to welcome william so what sort of start of these hearings go to often well so far a respectful one at least on the surface republicans that run this committee because they are the majority in the senate are saying you know this is a highly qualified appointee she absolute deserves to be on the court and they want

to have a respectful 4 days of hearings to let you know the world but america get to know who this potential new supreme court nominee will be and democrats are walking that fine line not to attack her personally but to say that she's completely out of step with what a many americans find important especially when it comes to health care which with the backdrop of coronavirus is something that they're really trying to make a big election issue it's pretty clear that democrats know they're not really going to win this battle they're not really going to keep keep her off of the court and keep republicans from confirming her both out of this committee and then after that from the full senate this is very much an election pitch there speaking to americans to try to remind them what is at stake which is 1st and foremost the affordable care act otherwise known as obamacare which is something that republicans are trying to dismantle for years now democrats have been defending many american support and will be coming up in the next you know supreme court period which could be very decisive in putting

a final nail in that in the coffin of that health care. the way you've summed it up this is almost as though we're talking about a politician rather than a judge while these choices so controversial i mean this one specifically because we are so close to an election it is fairly unprecedented to be going through this kind of nomination process these hearings so close to an election and polls show that some americans or a slim majority of americans would prefer to wait till after the election for the next president to choose this pick but there is nothing unconstitutional about what republicans and what donald trump has done it is fully in their right to do what they're doing many people are saying this because they have the right is it right but to step back every supreme court nominee is a controversial topic and a controversial issue as the as us politics have become more and more partisan as congress has been able to seemingly get less and less done is put more responsibility and more focus on the court specifically the supreme court to get stuff done actually doing things not really supposed to do the courts are not

supposed to legislate are not supposed to create law that is the job of congress and the courts are supposed to decide if things are constitutional or not if laws can stand or not but in the absence of congress the of one turning more towards the courts which makes these picks all the more important and with a 54 split in favor of conservatives democrats are looking at a possible 63 split in favor of conservatives which could you know determine the the course of american history american politics for decades to come willing to cross from d.w. section to thank you. a new foreign minister's meeting in luxembourg are considering sanctions against individual russians suspected of involvement in the poisoning of kremlin critic alexina valmy the sanctions were proposed by germany and france after independent the barges found that mist in the valley had been poisoned with the founder's soviet era nerve agent foreign ministers are also considering sanctions against the russian leader on income the. over the crisis in his country. we've got the latest from

brussels from deja vu correspondent barbara who is that welcome barbara so what decisions what what's on the table in brussels. what's on the table is 2 sets of sanctions as you mentioned the 1st and the more important ones at the moment because it is not the big step is the same against russia because of the poison attack the novacek attack as we know against opposition leader on the scene of dull need and it was remarkably quick there was a political agreement to the proposal that germany and france had put on the table saying russia had a chance to explain they haven't taken that chance they have give new logical or credible explanation for what happened there where this no of each of these prohibited chemical weapons substance is could otherwise have been coming from

other than from russian laboratories so we hold the russia responsible for this attack it's a breach of the convention that prohibits the use of those particularly chemical weapons and so therefore we have to respond and do what this shows really is a hardening off european policy towards russia if we remembered 2018 when these solves for is some attack happened also it was not a chalk in the united kingdom it took european foreign ministers almost a year off sort of moving up and down and back and forth. were in place now this time it's just a good 2 months since the event and it seems they're really fed up with russia in this barbara vogel in brussels for them thank you. well the russia brokered ceasefire in the disputed region of the corner kind of back has been broken as a by john and armenia blame each other for breaking the truce and escalating 2

weeks of deadly clashes shelling has killed several civilians and wounded dozens more of this latest flare up unarmed to hostilities is just the those 2 weeks old the conflict between the 2 former soviet republics that dates back to the 1990 s. . out for an evening walk on the streets of ganja azerbaijan 2nd largest city taking comfort in a strained ceasefire. a safe spot that hasn't held following shelling in a residential area of ganja locals described a night of terror. in the were sleeping it was around 2 in the morning we heard an explosion and after that our house blew up it was possible. that in that he didn't go to much to not strong fell on my face. i opened my eyes and another rocket hit. i said to myself what is this all i can see was

clouds of dust. as if by john also ignored the cease fire releasing this footage of as strikes on alleged i mean in military positions. on the ground the brutality of war strikes time meaning mourners trying to come to terms with the loss of a family member. but. a prisoner exchange meant to take place sunday was also part of the ceasefire the leader of the so proclaimed meaning republic of nagorno-karabakh says azerbaijan is not living up to its part of the deal. according to the agreement this process was supposed to take place today with the support of the red cross. there are hundreds of dead bodies lying there and the government is indifferent to their. needs.

as a by john says it's a mania that is acting in bad faith. that it seems that the armenian side continues to use the ceasefire to its advantage their attacks on the civilian population of azerbaijan these events where. also covered by foreign journalists in our country. it's now been 2 weeks of fighting inflaming old hatreds. that decades of negotiations have failed to put to rest. we can turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world this year's nobel economics prior's and with it nearly a $1000000.00 has been awarded to 2 americans paul milgram and robert wilson specialize in for option theory and work helps in trading everything from landing slots to buying and selling goods on line. price at least $21.00 people have died in central vietnam after torrential rains flooded large parts of the country about

$50000.00 people had to leave the affected areas as all sorts of more rain to come they bring in laos and cambodia have also been hit. large parts of india's financial hub mumbai have been hit by a massive power outage traffic lights on key intersections failed in several train lines were suspended bring in much of the city to a halt hospitals on the international airport remained functional blackouts on such a mosque around are rare in mumbai. and more european countries are very imposing coronavirus restrictions as the continent grapples with rising infection rates spain has europe's highest caseload of more than 868000 the central government has declared a state of emergency in the capital madrid where doctors are telling d w how preparing for the worst. the lineups continue to get longer in front of moderates health care centers. the workday should already be

over for dr manu garo but she's making time for a quick interview outside her clinic the authorities have banned doctors from talking to the media however she won't be silenced and she remembers only too well the disastrous weeks back in march when madrid's health care system collapsed. does not get him or do not want to experience that again the government has to do its homework and must keep its promises and more personnel that's the only way we'll be able to master the situation and protect the population. the number of those testing positive in madrid has been increasing dramatically for weeks but instead of dealing with it the conservative regional government got in broiled in a dispute with spain's ruling center left government. epidemiologists under gothia together with $600.00 health care experts released a report accusing decision makers of not having learned from what's happened in

recent months. that actions are simply negligent and they aren't intervening the pandemic has worsened again since the end of july and they are apparently hoping that the problem will go away by itself. after 1st declining to deal with the accusations that the brits deputy minister of health is ready to state his case despite about 10000 people having died so far from the disease in the spanish capital he sees no reason to be self-critical. so without magic it is a safe city it has a fantastic health care system we already saw that in spring and considering all measures taken we certainly should not disregard the possible social or economic consequences for citizens in the last friday the central government. imposed a temporary state of emergency in madrid effectively powering their regional government since then strict rules have been imposed again local. to leave the city

in exceptional cases the virus would be less destructive politicians actually did their job it's a sentence that you hear more and more on the streets people. political system in which seem more important than pragmatic crisis management and they hardly see any sign of improvement. she takes a short coffee break 3 hours after her shift was supposed to end and will tend to more patients she's worried that the coming days will even be longer for her and her colleagues. well german authorities are introduced to new restrictions as infection. in the southern city of munich classed as a virus hotspot public gatherings that limited to 10 people with 25 big events and.