i want to know how did minneapolis fear and this time what happened to racial bias to police patrols he had about police reform going to talk to the police and talk to city council and to collect large medical costs see this story on g.w. news. millions of americans are standing in line waiting their turn in early voting among them and hardly ever notice to the european election observers every 4 years the u.s. invites teams to observe american democracy in action but this year they're watching for signs of a democracy in crisis donald trump is the 1st u.s. president to condemn an election calling it fraudulent and rigged it worries observers but it hasn't scared away the voters compared to 2016 early voting totals are already at 90 percent and there are still 12 days to go in this unprecedented

american election season i'm bringing off in berlin this is the day. i love this particular state but i might never come here so well and i've been all over your state you've got to let me which fi hope he's going to come prepared to talk about what he's for let's not think it that the president of the united states at that last debate on a stage in front of 70000000 americans and openly encourages oppression of the full 13 days from now and you see what's going on in new jersey. our democracy is not going to work if the people who are supposed to be our leaders. block everything will deliver optimism opportunity and hope the president needs to show that he is that he is a leader he gets

a leg that is what we need. also coming up next monday the u.s. senate is set to vote and approve the nomination of amy kone berets to the u.s. supreme court republicans call it there when democrats call it a sham this moments like this where you can tell young conservative women. there's a place at the table for you the american people know what's going on there not. they know this process is a sham and make it out. to our viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day as donald trump and joe biden prepare to go head to head in their final debate before the november 3rd presidential election the eyes of america and the world will be watching and expecting the unexpected tonight and with good reason the 2020

election season is unlike any that has come before the president has already predicted the election will be rigged falsely claiming that millions of mail in ballots will be faked millions of americans are casting their votes early this year so many that a record turnout now looks likely as for the presidential debates 3 words can sum them up chaos coronavirus and cancellation u.s. president trump's performance in the 1st debate was so extreme that it has already been called that debate has been called the worst presidential debate in u.s. history the 2nd debate was called off after trump came down with coke at 19 despite the health risks trump refused to debate biden virtually and that brings us to tonight's debate joe biden enjoys a 10 percent lead in the polls his challenge will be to do nothing that could diminish that lead for donald trump this debate could be his last chance to

redefine the narrative in real time with the nation watching tonight's debate comes with new rules designed to prevent out of order outburst donald trump could become the 1st u.s. president to be silenced with a mute button. hello philadelphia. home the film a u.s. president barack obama. at a drive in rally as he hit the campaign trail for joe biden democratic nominee and his former vice president even though many opinion polls show biden in the lead obama raised the specter of the 2016 election and urged supporters to turn out we can't be complacent i don't care about the polls they're all bunch of polls last or didn't work out because all those folks stayed home and got lazy and complacent not this time not in this election. in some places that has been

easier said than done as early voting started many people stood in line for hours and some counties reported blackouts at voting sites or faulty mail in ballots still a record 42000000 americans have cost early ballots already according to the u.s. elections project that's a campaign event in the battleground states of north carolina president trump rallied his supporters and painted a disputed him picture of the u.s. on the biden sleepy joe barton is headed control of his party overture socialist communist marches and left wing extremists. and they're filled with hatred venom and rage. most folks his have already made up their mind but the 2nd and last presidential debate tonight is the last chance to win over the undecided it earlier on wednesday president trump criticized the choice of topics for debate and the decision to mute microphones to avoid interruptions after

a fast chaotic debate well i think it is very. and i think it's very bad that they're not talking about foreign affairs this is about foreign affairs and i think that he is a very biased person her parents are very by. from comments perhaps setting the tone for his final sparring match with his challenger . arrives and we have a simple day bipartisan do with this evening to preview tonight's debate and to discuss where trump biden and the u.s. are with just 12 days until the election from the left tonight is the filmmaker and democrat activist our room challenger he is here in berlin and from los angeles on the right is republican strategist chris faulkner chris welcome to the show gentlemen it's good to have both of you here tonight it has a shakespearean feel to it to mute or not to mute that is the question are one or

start with you is this mute function the silencing possibility is it a blessing or a curse for this debate. i think it's a bit of a curse because it's sort of a false sense of system and so yes maybe you protect you know the sanctity of this one or 2 minute opening statement but then you're basically saying it's your job to interrupt in the rest of it because you're a lab you know we hope we do the things that we're allowed to do so i feel like this sanctions and everything other than a very sort of top level rehearsed line is going to be part of this huge back and forth churn so i don't think it's going to provide a much different debate than the 1st debate at the end of the day chris what do you say about this this mute function. it's really really unfortunate because the assumes the americans can make up their minds based on what they see you know present troubles very aggressive in that 1st debate and. we have

every reason to believe you'll be himself and be aggressive on the facts in this in this on last debate here and if people don't like that they're going to vote they get to decide letting the moderators in the presidential commission decide these things i think it's ridiculous you know chris that trump is down in the polls right now i think biden has a 10 percent lead according to the latest polls what does the president what does he have to do tonight to reverse that course. well certainly brought your where the national polls really don't mean very much united states compares our electoral college system there's really several battleground states where rick things really matter and all of the almost every single one of those valid rounds the numbers are within your margin you're just outside the president so the race is a lot closer think and you know you heard former president obama encouraging her to go vote i mean he wouldn't be doing that in such strong terms of he wasn't concerned about this and we've seen the polls be wrong in almost every election

here in the last several cycles for the president to continue to be victorious. clear contrasts a bright hope for the future and for america which the president does pretty much every time he speaks compared to what you. have to offer nothing to present will do that very forcefully what do you say joe biden what should he do tonight or better . what should he not do tonight. you know he shouldn't get pulled into any kind of huge argument he shouldn't sort of let himself get heated i definitely think he needs to kind of try to appear to be calm in control present a lot of leadership but i do agree with chris that things are going to be a lot closer than we think in a lot of places and so i think you're going to see biden coming in really encouraging trying to do the things need to do to make sure that those people who still have the ballot and it's all filled out that they haven't nailed it in that

sitting on the counter to make sure that they do that and trump counters that actually would be well served to try to mix have some of those people who maybe are going to be voting against him some older folks are on the fence decide not to vote rather than just switch the vote like this is actually one of the ways that he can catch up in the margin and i think one of the key things that we'll see him try to do tonight let me ask you guys about the campaign and the coronavirus chris you know you helped revolutionize to get out the vote programs of the republican party about 20 years ago what has the coronavirus and social media what have they done to get out the. well we've seen basically the transformation in the way that we talk to each other society but definitely you know campaigns are nothing but a mirror of how society behaves and says fleiss trying to find. what you see with today's get out the vote operations is they they're less intensive on geographic masses in terms of necessarily door knocking although we are doing millions of

doors knocked and phone calls being made one voter to another not paid by a phone bank somewhere but actual real voters in north carolina talking to real voters in north carolina social media certainly is a blessing and a curse sometimes but it allows people share those opinions sometimes to the chagrin of their family or their friends but a lot of people share those opinions and we should the reason why they're supporting particular candidate or another and i think the president trump definitely the 1st president really mastered the use of social media in terms of twitter and the way he communicates directly to voters and bypasses traditional filters that we have come to come to recognize in american politics what would you say the pandemic social distancing as it worked and biden's favor. it's i think in some ways it has worked in his favor in that it has highlighted something that has been a real challenge to president trump in dealing with a policy and for a ministry to perspective and the pandemic always keeping itself in the news is

a counterbalance to trump who's one of his big talents is always keeping himself in the news but we have a really exciting opportunity in exactly what we what you're describing now which is to see what happens when you get out the vote effort one of them is almost entirely on line and one of them is online and offline to see what happens i mean donald trump in that way it was a really interesting candidate in 2016 where he very much under invested in television spending versus hillary clinton invested much more in you tube and we got to see that that actually was something that you could do and become president so i think there's very few times where we actually get to compare apples to apples and campaigning and so i think if you're chris and you're me or anyone who's a nerd about this stuff there is an underlying sort of laboratory excitement about this pandemic election in terms of really isolating what makes people go in and out of that polling yeah and we really won't know what john people have decided or how the pending because influenced people's decisions until after election day let me

ask you guys a question about that chris what happens after the election if trump loses what will happen to the republican party. or i think you know obviously election is on november 3rd the weighted corner virus impacted the logistics of our voting process and in some states dramatically increasing the mail in ballot process which is continuing to take place and now ballots in some states aren't actually allowed to be counted until of that election day so there are literally rooms full of ballots just waiting to be counted and so that logistically is going to cause a delay in your actual results this will not be one of those elections where you can stay up till midnight or 3 o'clock in the morning you know the winner is i would be quite frankly surprised if we know within the 1st several days who the definitive winner is based on election returns are probably trailing from states like pennsylvania but let's assume he doesn't lose yeah but assume trump does lose what does it mean for the g.o.p.

. republican party has been around alarming donald trump and will be around a lot longer than donald trump or any other individual republican politicians the republican party has in the parliamentary system that many european countries enjoy sometimes will offer as many 789 different choices for people to vote for in the united states we have all those different factions we just lump them into 2 big groups those republicans will beat each other up again in another primary and figure out who our nominee is going to be if that's the case i got about 30 minutes i get that last question to you what about the all of these republicans for biden that we're seeing right now what will they mean to the democratic camp after election day if joe biden wins. i hope very little i think this is a very singular event where there is a personality clash some of them are people from the national security establishment who i think are actually legitimately angry with donald trump's foreign policy in withdrawing troops but i think the real danger in democrats is

allowing people like the lincoln project you have so much data they've gotten from this election about voters moderate democratic voters in places like georgia and texas that we're hoping to flip i think these places we very easy to flip back if we continue to allow republicans up close and the opposition our opposition into the house and so i think this is been a tactical error and i hope one that doesn't have a huge consequences in transition and then in the by ministration that we hope and expect come what we will find out for sure in the next coming weeks and months democrat activists are in charge and republican strategist chris for those of you gentlemen thanks very much remember there's always a mute button there take care. the next monday's she will most likely become the newest justice on the u.s. supreme court today the senate judiciary committee voted to advance a.b.

kone barrett's nomination to the full senate for a vote republicans on the committee voted unanimously for president trump's nomination to the supreme court democrats on the committee boycotted the meeting calling the nomination process a sham we'll get reaction from the u.s. in just a moment but 1st this report. from the moment president donald trump presented his supreme court nominee amy kearney paris has been one of the u.s. elections main figures the 48 year old catholic and from a law professor has publicly opposed abortion and says the constitution shouldn't be reinterpreted. but at senate confirmation hearings kone barrett said she believed judges should stay out of politics. judges can't just wake up one day and say i have an agenda i like guns i hate guns i like abortion and i hate abortion and walk in like a royal queen and impose their will on the world you have to wait for cases and controversies such as the language of the constitution to wind their way through

the process democrats worry kone barrett would rule against the affordable care act their signature health insurance reform and that she could hand trump another term if the supreme court decides the election but under questioning by senators kone barack refused to reveal her views on major issues and you believe that climate change is happening and it's threatening the air we breathe and the water we drink and i will not do that it will not express a view on a matter of public policy especially one that is politically controversial because that's inconsistent with the judicial role as i have explained. opponents argued that a justice shouldn't be appointed to an election. this vacancy should not be filled vento we have a new president progressives have been fired up by kone barrett's nomination worried it could skew the supreme court in a conservative direction for years. which is exactly what her conservative

supporters hope for republicans have already filled 5 of the supreme court's 9 lifetime held seats if appointed kone barrett will continue to influence us politics for years to come. and for more on this i want to bring it in mary ziegler she's a professor of law at florida state university she's also written about a very controversial subject in the united states she's the author of abortion and the wall in america roe versus wade to the president and she joins us tonight from santa rosa the chief good to have you on the day what did we learn at the end of the day from all of the questioning of a.b. kone barrett and she didn't give much away did she know she didn't the best we can do is really to try to read between the lines she avoided a pretty essential as lee saying that roe v wade or decision on same sex marriage

over and over says hodges were settled law which is tipping her hand in a way that she at least thinks there's a legitimate challenge that could be brought to those things she wouldn't even say that griswold versus connecticut which is a case of the birth control was rightly decided so you can read something into that in the sense that she doesn't see much as settled but you also could just conclude that she was going out of her way to answer as little as possible yeah and since we do have to read so much between the lines what about her previous writings in the cases that she's presided over how much importance should we give to them. well those are probably more indicative we have it's reasonable to assume that she'll be at least as conservative on the supreme court as she was when she was a judge on the 7th circuit court of appeals likely more so because of course when you're on the supreme court you're not going to be overturned by the u.s. supreme court you know where the buck stops so we know that in the past for example

on gun rights or on abortion she's been to the right of many conservative judges an issue some willingness to ignore precedent when it doesn't suit her which of course would be significant on issues from the affordable care act to abortion to same sex marriage you know we know that she was appointed the president has said this to to be a reliable conservative on the court is that what she is and it certainly seems that way in the united states people often will refer to her as the female antonin scalia antonin scalia of course was her mentor and he was not only a consistent conservative he was an outspoken conservative a sort of unapologetic conservative who didn't really seem concerned about popular backlash that might accompany some of the supreme court's decisions so at least based on what we've seen so far from any county barrett she might well live up to that billing happens we heard the terms in this hearing contentious public debate

settled law a star a deceased translate those force if you could for the lay person you may not be familiar with the what particularly for story to see 6. sister decisis is the doctor in that the court generally is reluctant to overturn its own past decisions framed so the idea is that you shouldn't if you're a court and not a political body you shouldn't just change the law or your interpretation of the law every time you people show up on the court so generally the court is supposed to be reluctant to overturn past decisions and of course in the county barrett paid some lip service to that but unsurprisingly the supreme court routinely does overturn its past decisions so usually the idea is that a decision can just be wrong that there has to be more to it than that and any going to bear it hinted at various points that her sense of when a decision was sort of beyond question was when it was not contentious political right when people in america all agreed that something was right of course that

isn't true of abortion which is significant it isn't true of o.g.t.t. rights it isn't true of lots of things that although i wonder if there would apply that in a kind of selective way to favor conservative causes and disfavor progressive once yeah obviously brings us to the part of the hearings where abortion came up this on the road v wade ruling which in shrine the woman's right to abortion in the u.s. take a listen do you agree with justice scalia's view that roe was wrongly decided. senator i completely understand why you're asking the question but again i can't pre-commit or say yes i'm going in with sam it's and because i'm not i don't have any agenda i have no agenda to try to overrule casey and i have an agenda to stick to the rule of law and decide cases as they come. some ziegler what do you think of

how soon could the supreme court be faced with a macone barrett be faced with a case affecting roe v wade really soon on the court actually has a case now that it could decide here mississippi has banned abortion at 15 weeks and that case is currently on appeal to the supreme court so they can decide shortly after election day that they want to hear that case of course if they don't want to hear that case there's no shortage of other options when it comes to portion restrictions everything from bans of abortion at fertilization to laws banning specific methods of abortion to laws regulating the reasons people can get abortions so really whatever the court does with this case on the supreme court with any honey bear it on it will have ample opportunity to reconsider oh and probably will do just that she has a trump pick for the court and the election is very close what about recusal should

bear it recuse herself from a hearing if the away action has to be decided by the supreme court you know something like 2000 do you think that she would recuse herself. i don't think she will. part of the reason is that recusal law in the united states is pretty vague and nebulous so there's lots of wiggle room for judges who don't want to recuse themselves she acknowledged that if she didn't recuse yourself it would create a kind of appearance of impropriety that it would seem as if she had been placed on the court to hand the election to donald trump and if that's in fact what the supreme court ended up doing it would certainly not you know enhance her reputation but there's no really cut and dry rule about when you need to recuse yourself and i think that would probably open the door to her staying put when it comes to challenges to the election of which there are many we've got less than a minute missing but i want to ask you joe biden has said that if he becomes

president he'll put together a commission to study the supreme court reforming it which means maybe stacking the court adding justices what would you tell a president biden should he stacked the court well i'm hoping that this commission would find options other than court packing in particular things like term limits or making sure there's an equal number of republican and democratic nominees because the court has become unquestionably a partisan institution in ways that are damaging the courts legitimacy and its ability to kind of create the idea that there is a rule of law independent of politics i don't think packing is the way to do that but i'm hopeful that if joe biden this elected that they'll be a better alternative that the commission comes up with mary ziegler the. we were miller professor at florida state university college of the wall physio we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you thanks for having me. well the day is almost done the conversation continues online go find us on twitter

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this is g.w. news why going from berlin tonight the final face off donald trump and joe biden gear up for their last t.v. presidential debate less than 2 weeks to go before the election the u.s. president is trailing his democratic challenger in the polls we'll find out just what is at stake in tonight's showdown also coming up europe's coded 19 crisis deepens as countries across the gun did set fresh records for new infections governments are imposing strict lockdowns to slope the spread of the virus also

along the shoreline bellary souring manhattan's crying. poor girl since. i last saw atlanta she had a star yeah what she thinks about the future of the bilal hussein opposition movements on this day when she. received europe's top human rights over. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us tonight we begin in the united states where president donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden are set to face off in just a few hours for their 2nd and final presidential debate now both men will face questions from 6 topics and we'll go through those those topics include fighting could 19 they'll be asked about the state of american families another topic will

be race in america climate change national security and last but not least leadership now with election day only 12 days away this debate could be crucial for any of those last few undecided voters trumping biden they have both arrived in nashville tennessee where the stage is set for tonight's debate and a new rule for the evening microphones will be muted when a candidate is not supposed to speak that of course hoping to prevent the debate debacle we saw last month. i know someone who does remember that's my colleague over saudi joins us now from washington good evening to you all of the beat got the topics for the debates we had the mute button in place what else can we expect tonight. i remember a very well brendan that's exactly also the question that millions of american voters are asking themselves tonight how is this going to look like because as you

mentioned the 1st debate ended in chaos there was the worst in history in fact the president trying to constantly interrupting joe biden in the 2nd debate wasn't even a debate it was rather a do you willing town hall format that was by the way very beneficial for joe biden try not looking very good in that kind of format the moderator continuously exposed sort of misinformation that president trump wanted to spread there and tonight will that in fact be the last chance for donald trump to turn the tide he's trailing behind in polls as you know and he's usually also feeding from that kind of chaos but the microphones will be muted tonight so that will bring some sort of normalcy back to that form of to the debate to the presidential debate and it will be very interesting to see how president will respond to that and how that new format is going to go down with american voters and viewers you remember last time all of you with the 1st debate the moderator was blamed for part of the chaos this time the

moderators already under attack from donald trump what's the story there. now that's right chris wallace at the 1st debate had a very hard time controlling the situation this time will be different in law in part because of the new rules in place but trump generally speaking has a problem with the mainstream news as he calls them he believes thereby is there against him trying to damage his campaign is what he says and that we could see very well in in india in an interview format that was published today by president trump before it was even aired 60 minutes an interview with that where he walked away after a half of the actual interview time he really cannot stand critical questions and that is exactly what might happen again tonight with the difference that he kind of walk away but with regard to tonight's debate you already lashed out against the host kristen welker of n.b.c. news he called her a radical democrat and that's exactly the kind of rhetoric we've known him for he's always trying to show himself as the underdog him against the establishment and

that's what his voters also like him for briefly over early voting how is that going in the u.s. . and we've seen long lines in many states like on election day almost we're nearing record turnout in fact but with the difference of course that we're 2 weeks ahead of election day now what data suggests here is that the democratic voters are currently outnumbering the republicans in early voting but that doesn't have to say to mean a lot because republicans are still hoping for a large turnout on election day. the story for us in washington all of you thank you very much. and we will have full coverage of the debate right here on the w. news you can catch all the action live right here starting in just 90 minutes from now. well here in europe governments are struggling to contain a huge surge in corona virus cases here in germany the country reporting more than

a love and 1000 new cases in the last 24 hours that is an all time high and it is a similar situation across the continent with many countries setting fresh records for new infections faced with a spiralling crisis governments are now tightening restrictions and imposing new lockdown it's. another sad record in france when more than 41000 corona virus infections were reported on thursday in some cities intensive care units are already reaching capacity a public health crisis looms large. the government has responded by extending curfews already in effect in the capital paris to a total of $38.00 regions. france is set to become the 2nd european country to exceed 1000000 cases. after spain reached this grim milestone earlier in the week with an infection rate 3 times the national average the region of nevada has resorted to drastic measures. it has banned most travel into and out of the

region and closed all restaurants and bars. the capital madrid has been under a similar lockdown for the past 2 weeks to stem a spiraling caseload. italy was the 1st european country to be hit hard by the coronavirus. prime minister as you septic kaante has appealed to tally ends to adhere to curfews imposed in italy's 3 biggest cities the country is desperate to avoid the massive casualties and overflowing hospitals witnessed earlier this year . the case load is exploding in the czech republic a record 15000 new infections on thursday prompted the government to impose a hard lockdown. prime minister. said the health system would collapse by early next month. a shop sheltered in the capital prague. beat amin

is going to set up a field hospital. a lockdown is also in effect an island over the next 6 weeks households are not allowed to mingle and people have to stay within 5 kilometers of their homes non-essential shops have been closed and restaurants are restricted to take away services. the parliament has named bell ruses democratic opposition the winner of its top human rights aboard this freedom of thought process now the recipients include the exiled bill the roost in opposition leader. mass protests attracting tens of thousands have rocked the country since the presidential election in august and that is despite police threats to open fire the opposition accuses longtime leader alexander lukashenko of rigging the book. well i'm joined now by. scalia she is the leader of the.

opposition. welcome to the show let me start by saying congratulations to you and your fellow activists in the opposition how are you feeling dizzy. and hello everyone it's. really horrible cost the bank these awards and their sense. of freedom and the credit and the others and i have to say thank you to who ever been a recent arrest and for the disappearing in this moment thank you for what you know as recent what it was it's important or it was and the right to freedom you say it has a symbolic meeting what will this prize be able to do to you and your fellow activists opposition members who are trying to bring change to build the groups even we have taken into consideration maturity hide these what is going to be

given to. i think what they initiate teves they have to really. be honest because the pressure to allow the arms race so really to be a look around. who. kristie will be go europe's how do you feel about europe's efforts to help you moving forward once all of the attention has subsided. fashion tension international society is the haircut who will rent the grossest after receiving interest. internationally yes and out there and we get to different kind of that are at it different conference play squash or students. of different. programs oh right

right and all of us will our own strengths not our different kind of are not good enough. and you get are you getting enough from your enough help. not easy. because the business my country and people are very busy on repeating me can't make it and. all the men in congress aren't enough to not let me out rate who will everything be i believe yes it is up to every concert how many planned help and really interested in any kind of our friend run our earth foundation is and we exterminate what reverse in fact are we know you fled the country after the election in august for your safety the safety of your children. are you safe tonight is your family safe

tonight do you still worry that forces from inside bill ruse are a threat to your life. you know i mean that she's angry i feel 3 who. you know right sour and that heart is crying and or with problems that who is going to tour the earth and. when we again offer our congratulations to you for winning this prize and we wish you and everyone involved in this efforts all the best tonight slick lunna to the recipients of this year's secor of freedom of thought prize mysti of the scalia we appreciate your time tonight thank you all the best or well here thanks in the german city of austin a new exhibition opens tomorrow focusing on the wife of one of europe's most

powerful ruler charles the 5th 500 years ago the hapsburg leader was crowned in favor of a dominion that included large parts of europe and the americas but his rise to power could not have been completed without a great deal of insider dealing here's a closer look. he was already one of the most powerful rulers of his time but charles the 5th wanted the title of holy roman emperor or the science of his empire brought with it a number of obstacles in the middle of europe the church was divided the ottomans threatened his empire from the east and other powerful european competitors were vying for the same title so he turned to merchant forgot for help he borrowed 600000 guilders with which he bribed the selection committee if. it was customary for a certain agos the ation to take place when a king was being appointed or sums of money changed hands good changed hands because political promises were made on both sides of the table but for it to have

happened on such a large scale was unprecedented royal the bribe worked and charles the 5th was appointed now his current nation mantle and a copy of his crown are on show in an exhibition in the german city of our one. you know by now it isn't a shock the coronation almost didn't happen at least doesn't often because the plague was raging day we got but then charles the face insisted that he wanted to receive the crown at the constitutionally determined place being a 100 party. the exhibition kicks off on friday on the 500th anniversary of charles the fifths coronation. water might not be the 1st thing that you think of when you hear the word dubai but a fountain bayer has just broken the guinness book of world records for being the biggest in the world like a bit of stick with a title from one just around the corner the palm sound is equipped with jets capable of blasting water more than 100 meters into the air and 3000 multicolored

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