♪ >> it is 10:00 in paris and these are the headlines. u.s. senator's grill supreme court justice nominee amy coney barrett on day two of senate hearings. the judge refuses to give her opinion on major social issues like gay rigights and abortion. the european union gets ready to impose sanctions on belarusian him as the eu tried to push the embattled leader to enter talks with opposition members. as of jean and armenia accuse

each other of violating a cease-fire as violence continues to erupt in the disputed region. ♪ >> it is good to have you with us. it is day two of the senate hearing for amy coney barrett. she spent the day answering questions from senators on the judiciary committee. democrats asking specific questions about what she thought of supreme court rulings on issues like gay rights and abortion. amy coney barrett refused to specify whether she believed those rulinghad been p properly decided. >> if i express a view under president one way or another, whether state -- whether i say i love it or hate it, it signals i might tilde one way or another in a pending case. >> joining us live from

washington, d.c., kid yvonne -- a few specific questions from senators on the committee. it is obvious amy coney barrett at her best to avoid answering them. >> her strategy was one she held throughout those hearings so far which was to stay away f from saying how shehe would rule on a specific casee or on a hypothetical case. we heard that was the case on roe v. wade, the landmark ruling on abortion rights. she said the same thing on health care. this is going to be the first big case that will come up in front of the supreme court if she is confirmed to the supreme court. she had the same strategy when she was asked how w she would re if there was a disputed eleltion. the nonovember 3 eleionn is aroundhehe corner and d donald trump has repeatedly said that

is one of the main reasons he wanted to have a judge confirm quickly before the election becaususe he said he needed nine judges. of course, a conservative majority t thinking that would possibly help them. she did somethingng that a lot f nominees before her have done which is try to stay away from putting your cards out and sing anything of what you would do in a specific situation. two mill justices, one is elena says i want to give a thumbs-up or thumumbs down to any specific ruling. the other is the woman whose sheet she is possibly about to fill, ruth bader ginsburg, citing the ginsburg rule which is no hints, no previous, no forecasts. she has stopped that line. >> i it is three weeks until election day, both candidates

are holding rallies this tuesday. . donald trump -- >> donald trump is in pennsylvania while biden is in florida where the president was yesterday. this is a big week for campaiaigning,lost time after bn by the coronavirirus. his back on the campaign trail. next he will be going to iowa then in north carolina. all of those states have in common that they are battleground states and ststates that could decide the election and states mostly aware the race is pretty tight with his rival joe biden. the gap in pennsylvania is a little bigger. donald trump knows that pennsylvania can make or break

his election chances. is why he is campaigning heavily there and has pushed his dates in order to make up for lost time and to make up for lost ground on his rival. he knows and feels that is where he is the most effective, when he is in front of his supporters doing those rallies and repeating his speech and all the thinings he has bebeen campaigig on for the p past few months. joe biden is sticking toto his campaign. very few guests, trying to keep the social distancing. he has one main trump card which is reportedly going to come up very soon. that is, the former president barack obama. both biden's campaign and people post-barack obama reporting that he will probably join the campaign trail and helping out

his former vice president leading up to the election. >> the latest from washington. the european union says it is getting ready to impose sanctions on belarusian president alexander lukashenko and other officials if the embattled leader is not enter talks with members of the opposition. the country continues to see unrest following the reelection of lukashenko which the eu has diffused to recogninize after opposition members called on the vote -- called the vote "fraudulent." what exactly would those sections entail? >> the sanctions that were originally agreeeed by eu u prie minister's target 40 government officials who were either involvlved with that election in august or the violent crackdown agaiainst protests about that election. they lefeft lukashenko off of te

list, several leaders including the french president emmanuel macron without it would be better to hold off sanctioning lukashenko to motivate him to corporate with national -- what we saw over this past weekend was an escalation in the violent crackdown's when the government and even statements from the government indicating the worst was yet to come in terms of the crackdown. what we have had is a move by eu foreign ministers to go ahead and add lukashenko himself to this list. joseph burrell stress this will take time to add lukashenko to this list. in the meantimime, he still hasa chance to start to cooperate and maybe they would not put these sanctions on him. the problem is that lukashenko has -- before. sanctionons only ended in 2016. they were also not democratic

norms and the ended in two to 16 because it was thought that the government was making some proper reforms. what they saw is that the sanctions didn't have a huge effect then. it is not clear they would have a huge effect now. ththe threat of sanctions does't seem to have changed his behavior. >> we know the eu is not the only player. there is pushback on pressure which is a big supporter of lukashenko. what kind of leverage does the eu have in this? >> the eu has tried to have a caret-stick approach. foreign ministers said ththey would start pulling back eu money, any type of eu funds that go to the belarusian government and go to opposition figures. poland has floated this plan by which the eu would agree to give belarus big developed funundingf

it agreed to hold a free and fair election to take measures like that. this soft power can sometimes result in hard power. we saw that in ukraine. you came's -- ukraine's attempted agreement with the eu is what kicked off what eventually led to a civil war in ukraine. that is the theory here, that the eu does what to look at the soft power approach. belarus shares a common history with two eu member states, lithuania and poland. belarus has been very isolated or closely aligned with preresse over the past 30 years -- with russia over the past 30 years. the eu has money to try to coax lukashenko into having democratic norms in the country.

the rest -- there is reticence, people are shaken up by the expense in ukraine, what that led to without properly consulting russia. some sites needlessly antagonizing russia. no one wants a repeat of that. russia is belarus's strongest ally. anytime the eu is thinking about how to deal with belarus, russia looms large. >> thank you, dave. to mali, 12 citizens were killed -- it fell into a military ambush. two soldiers were also killed in the attack. this follows a separate attack on a military base on monday night into tuesday. militants rated the outpost and killed nine soldiers -- rated

the outpost and killed nine soldiers. the standoff continues between armenia and as a bridge on as both violated a cease-fire. that cease-fire was brokered by russia. armenian posters shelved some of its regions well -- also jean -- as a bridgee on -- as a bridge n >> the cease-fire doesn't seem to have brouought some,, especially to the capital which was not shelled today t though sirens take off a few times i am told. prisonerers that the cease-fire was meant to facilitate under the provisionon of the red cros, they have nott been able to stat because clashes are still ongogoing at varariousoints. in particular, with was to seem to be an attempt to take the

town of hundred. it is important to know which territories azerbaijan has taken control of. ththe armenians announced they have pushed back the azerbaijan forces. it is hard to know exactly what is going on on the ground. people in armenia don't seem to think this relative truth is going to last very long. as a bridge on -- azerbaijan has agreed to -- in the work 1990 -- in the war of 1990. both countries have hardened significantly. armenia doesn't want to consider getting back territories it took duduring that war of the 1990'sn which a locator between armenia proper and whahat appears onon r maps. on most ararnian maps, it

doesn't look like that. all the territories and between are marked as being part of what armenians call -- momost armenians don't want to even contemplate giving back those extra territories. one woman i spoke to o on the phone today said the reason they couldn't get back those territitories is because they jt can'n't trust azerbaijan. and her words, if we gave them any of those lands, they would want to take -- >> the possibility of an posing news rejections as covid-19 cases continue to rise. one of the options is to impose local overnight curfews. if the country decides to go that road, it would join other countries or cities that have already done so. >> the german capital has joined lebanon, tunisia, oman, and belgium in imposing nighttime

curfews to curb the spread of the coronavirus. in berlin, it is t the first tie in 70 years there has been such a time limit. the city is reporting more infections that it did during the peak of the first wave in march. authorities are cleaning the city's bustling nighthtfe. after midnight come outdoor gatherings are limited to five people or members of two households. reactions have beenn mixed. >> i i think this is for the benefit of the community. i i believe in that. i am against that>> in china an,

curfews were used too shorten lockdown times and prevent spikes. the prime minister of the netherlands and out of the country would be moving towards a partial lockdown this wednesday. he said he ordered all restaurantnts and bars to close for a time of four weeks. public gatherings of more than four people and alcohol sales after 8:00 p.m. will be banned. schools will remain open. the netherlands had relied on voluntary measures rather than mandatory restrictions.

the number of new covid-19 cases has surged in recent weeks with the country now home to one of the highest per capita infection rates worldwide. time for busininess. kate, hello. >>

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>> that is good to change the social network as we know it. turning our attention to media watch. the big turnout for early voting in the u.s. and a social media. >> early voting started yesterday and the southern state of georgia. we have reactions to voters' experiences on social media today. voters in a particular county in georgia waited more than five hours to cast ballots. some people were okay with it, saying it doesn't matter how long it takes. with a different reaction from this twitter user saying yes she is inspired by the enthusiasm, the turnout, but she is saying someone should be waiting hours in line to put a spate in democracy. this person had the same reaction noting that as night fell, people had and up waiting up to 12 hours to vote, almost an entire day.

this has led to several calls about concerns of voter suppression, the well-known journalist jen -- dan rather saying it should not be a story of voter enthusiasm and a story of voter suppression. why is that? in the u.s., as this article in nbc points out, race is one of the strongest predictors of how long a person waits in line to vote with black voters waiting in the average of 45% longer than white footers. people view this as an extension of jim crow era restrictions on a voter's color. >> have to been any other abnormalities. after mounties -- abnormalities? >> virginia -- a person in virginia saying a cut cable because the entire voter restriction system to go down on the last day voters had to register. that prevented people from being able to register on the last day of the deadline.

this person saying it is quite the coincidence that voter registration systems keep collapsing at the worst possible moments. he is adjusting that republicans who depend on voter suppression might have something to do with it. there is no evidence for that right now. this person to say the same thing happened in two to 16 in the same state -- in 2016 in the same state. it doesn't stop there. in texas, harsh ruling of late last night before polls opened with the fifth circuit court upholding an order that limits counties to one male in drdropbx location. that led to massive lines because locationsns that have hundreds of ththousands of votes only had o one place to drdropff balance. you have before the polls even open, this long line. this all in the midst of a pandemic. and entire system down across this county in texas.

this voter saying that it is voter suppression. the judge is disappointed with the technical glitches and those responsible will be held accountablble in an area where voter suppression is will, i will authorize an instigation. >> we are looking at the ongoing protests in nigeria against police fire ants -- police violence. >> we have tens of thousands of nigerians protesting across thte country, the most populous country in africa. and cities all over, you can see protesters blocking a highway. there protesting against a special police force which was originally created to stop robbery. that said, the mostly young protesters say this force is responsible for corruption, extortion, and extrajudicial killings. this article does a good job explaining why it is mostly young people. that is because the millions of

youth in nigeria say they have either had direct experience is with this police force or know people who have and they are tired of it. >> what are the protesters asking for? >> it is a decentralized movement, but they do have a list of demands. those of these five demands. they're asking for the immediate release of all protesters, justice for the victims of police brutality, setting up an independent body to oversee the investigations on police officers accused of brutality. some good news coming in because a couple of hours ago the nigerian government said they approved the protesters' demands. these protests has piled into asking for much more than that. this local official saying this not be satisfied with that announcement. nigerianans support the total reform of the police and finally, this person saying dish should move beyond placer

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