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Well what comes next with just 6 weeks to go before the president ial election republican date is want to fill her vacant seat with a conservative replacement lets go live to ellen fisher who is outside the Supreme Court so allan democrats obviously want to wait until after the election to appoint a replacement to the republicans ok to push this all through how then is this all going to plan. Well youve got to go back to 2016 and at that point we were 10 months away from the election just this by the name of Antonin Scalia had been put in place by a republican president died Mitch Mcconnell who is the leader of the senate at that point a republican said theres absolutely no way that they were going to hold a vote in an Election Year that that would be wrong fast forward 4 years here brooke bigger ginsburg dying just 6 weeks before the election Mitch Mcconnell who is again the republican leader of the senate saying that he is going to push ahead if the president gives a name and just in the last hour donald trump has tweeted saying that they have to move on this and they have to do it quickly that creates the possibility of some sort of constitutional crisis here in the u. S. And this is why 1st of all there is the possibility that Mitch Mcconnell might be able to get a vote through the Judiciary Committee in the senate 1st of all and then on the floor of the house the sort of the senate that the republicans have a majority of the be able to push through a suitable nominee when he can do that thats the question can he do it before the election that seems unlikely but it is possible if he doesnt manage to do that for the election he could possibly do it before the inauguration january the 20th and of joe biden wednesday that is when you create a constitutional crisis because joe biden more than walk into a Supreme Court remember 9 members on the Supreme Court 6 will be appointed by republicans 3 by democrats how do you address that balance well if the opinion polls are right and the democrats are vote to win the senate you change the rules and you make the Supreme Court a much bigger body you pack the court youre going to get a lot of that over. In the next couple of weeks so that is why there is the potential for a constitutional crisis here in the United States and ill just remind our Internet International viewers if you would of why the balance of power in the u. S. Supreme court is so important whats at stake. So often you get a laws that are passed and the end up in the Supreme Court to decide whether or not the constitutional prime example of that the Affordable Care act that was known as obamacare it went to the Supreme Court a number of times and survived a number of republican challenges let me give you another example when it came to Marriage Equality they allowed to gay people to marry here in the United States that was approved by the Supreme Court even though there were many in the house in the senate who objected to that theres also a difficulty here as well because at the moment the court is balance for 4 if the election is contested if there is a real big problem with the election in november it will inevitably end up in the Supreme Court remember what happened in 2000 and so theyre saying you cant have a balanced court because you wont get an answer or leave him america in limbo the has to be a majority on one side or the other heres the other thing to consider as well if donald trump loses the election there is the real possibility that he will face some sort of criminal action for some of the things that hes done in office where will that end up and never to go through the Court Process but end up here in the Supreme Court and you could have a 9 member Supreme Court where 3 of those justices have been appointed by donald trump that is why the Supreme Court is so important here in the United States so is a lot at stake thank you for that alan fischer live for us in washington d. C. Republicans and democrats are now fighting a battle on 2 fronts the president ial election and the naming of a new Supreme Court justice which could have consequences as ellen mentioned for decades to come thats why republicans want to proceed immediately with the nomination while democrats say it must wait until after the new president takes office Supreme Court judges have been appointed in past Election Years but never so close to the vote in 2016 republicans refuse to even hold confirmation hearings for obama nominee merrick government reacting to Ruth Bader Ginsburgs day obama said republicans invented the principle that an open seat should be few filled before a new president is sworn in and that will must now be fairly applied or for more on this its bring in joe civ he is a professor at texas a and m. Universitys doha campus where he specializes in the u. S. Supreme court thank you for your time how do you foresee this playing out will the republicans listen to this reasoning that the principle bay created about appointing a replacement waiting until after an election must be fairly applied. Well the leadership of the Republican Party of the last 4 years or any got to be as aggressive as possible and using the product it was of their office to move forward with a nomination from the white house and confirmation from the senate but of course not all republicans are in the same political circumstances and not all of them are equally on board with the president and his agenda so i think the large majority of republicans will be eager to fill the seat and hold a confirmation hearing with a vote but it would take only a small number of defections of republicans who are in a facing difficult reelections or have principled objections to ignoring the rule that they are core so recently in 2016 and that might derail a Quick Response to Justice Ginsburg asking what can the democrats actually do what options do they have. Very little by the theres not a democrat in the white house they dont hold the majority in the senate so aside from your campaigning on the issue both in the president ial election and in the Senatorial Campaign that are ongoing and trying to use public pressure to peel off the little Republican Voters in the senate theres very little they can do the question becomes if the president is successful in building the seat and if you lose the election what will the democrats do and in the next term to try to undermine trumps your midnight judges the senate is of course republican controlled that republican senators who might be under pressure to wait until after the election. For sure there are a number of republican senators and they like arizona in iowa or in very competitive races where in an effort to hear more even handed and to appeal to moderate voters. Those candidates the real action might not be eager to jump into the middle of a contentious Supreme Court nomination by and therefore be willing to to. Work with democrats to postpone the nomination for the election there are also republican senators mitt romney brings to not mind people who have the voice concerns about the president and his handling of a variety of important issues and who have spoken up in favor of the institution in American National government who might be persuaded to oppose a quick nomination process for the sake of preserving the Public Confidence and the judiciary what do you think this might do to the elections and terms of how low his might respond both if an appointee is rushed through or if its you know if they decide to wake up and if it turns out that they do indeed wait until after the elections how do you think the voters might respond. You know its this is an unusual period in american in American History i think were at a deeply polarized moment i think most people who will actually show up and vote in the election have made up their minds i think for the reminder about the stakes of the president ial election for the Supreme Court and what a pivotal action the next Supreme Court nomination and confirmation will be will increase the intensity of peoples feelings but im not sure that it will move the needle very much in terms of whether people support joe biden or donald trump and especially now this close to the election again i think most people who will actually show up and be voters that in the 2025 can have made up their mind and so this may be but make them your like their vote is more meaningful or more important but im not sure its actually going to convince anybody to do something differently than they were going to yesterday ok well have to leave it there for time thanks for that Professor Joseph youre a. Female protest as a bell or as the back on the streets following last weekends mass arrests and Security Forces have again been in action making further arrests in the capital minsk protest as arent backing down in their demands for the resignation of president Alexander Lukashenko following his reelection last month which many say was rigged lets go live update now from step basant who is in minsk step just bring us up to speed whats been happening. Well in the last hour around 200. 00 women have been detained after this a peaceful rally of around a 1000 women that was going around the city center its the weekly a womens march that has been happening since the Election Results came out and look at claims 80 percent of an election victory a lot of people of course went then to the streets and have been crossed protesting ever since women have been always at the forefront of these protests the 3 Opposition Leaders were also women 2 of them have been forced to leave the country one is detained saudis women have kept up these protests even though there were massive tensions also on last saturday this saturday again tens of mass policemen came with tons of for detention vehicles they picked them all up there was a lot of emotion aggression as well some women were screaming some were for it were crying there was also an ambulance because one of them was in shock and she was in a very bad physical state theyre now all have been taken to a police. d stations and they will also go to these these Detention Centers around the city where they normally will have to spend a couple of nights since the election on believe it was august the 9th and the protests that followed when i heard so many stories of beijings torture there has been increasing pressure and scrutiny from the International Community on president Alexander Lukashenko but nothing seems to be deterring him from from responding in this way. No exactly especially this last week a lot of reports have come out and now the International Community is putting a lot more pressure on lookers shanker than in the last couple of weeks so hes really responding to this one of these responses that important human rights they found there was detained also yesterday and now also this repression against women has completely been stepped up because women always had a sort of for immunity they thought that these policemen were not going to beat them as much as men and they wouldnt be as aggressive as against men but that definitely has changed showed a strategy now that seems to be coming from look at the regime is to basically treat everyone as violently as possible making sure that people are so scared and intimidated that they will stop these protests but the opposite is happening and the more they are being detained the more determined they seem to be becoming to actually go back to the streets. Ok thank you for that steadfast ally for us in minsk alexina vali is walking again after emerging from a coma a few days ago the russian Opposition Leader says his recovery is going well but it will take a long time hes being treated in germany his doctors say he was poisoned with the russian nerve agent navi chalk last month the kremlin denies involvement. But more ahead on news all including. Tens of thousands of people rally against the government in thailand as moments of political protests grow louder. Protests on the streets of peru against the president this while opposition politicians failed to win enough boats to impeach him. And his course to n. B. A. Superstar Le Bron James is no happy about a rare 2nd place finish. To the coronavirus now which has infected close to 31000000 people worldwide and killed almost 1000000 so far a 2nd wave of infections is feared in many countries the United States continues to be the worst affected with close to 7000000 infections and nearly 200000 deaths indias added more than 93000 new cases to its total of more than 5000000 germany has recorded its higher stately number of new infections since april and parts of spains capital madrid gehring up for restrictions affecting 850000 spaniards britains Prime MinisterBrown Johnson says a 2nd wave of infections is being seen he says new restrictions might be necessary but he doesnt want a nationwide lockdown. Well for more on the United Kingdoms back and forth lets go live now to sunny gago who is in london for us tonja tell us more about these new restrictions that are being considered for the u. K. You also have to consider that at the moment there are several local lockdowns in the United Kingdom ranging from the northeast of england around the city of new castle as well as all the areas in metropolitan areas around the cities a bunch of stone liverpool saps the south last go as well and around the city of glasgow that there are local lock downs as well as in wales as well but what is being considered by some people is whether the question of another National Lockdown to be put into place now this is a consideration that is for the time being not being over as a proposition by the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson well aware he is the fact of the economic repercussions that it would take but moving forward perhaps it is more a case of having local lock downs around the worst affected areas that would best be implemented but certainly he is being by scientists within his own Scientific Advice Group to take action as quickly as possible has already been a doubling of the rates of infection in the past week in the u. K. So swift action is certainly something that has to be considered it if they are to get ahead of the curve on this 2nd wave. Ok sonia and i believe theres been some issues around testing in the u. K. Tell us about that. With the u. K. Setting at the start of the pandemic it was what he criticised for not having sufficient testing put into place and got on top of that and was the top have the top rates for testing in europe but the problem is not how testing should its really how testing should take place and the fact is that while the testing could take place the trees to process those tests were simply not enough to be able to cope with them though theyre at capacity right now and of course with families returning and people returning from holidays and Children Starting School there has been an uptick in demond of course with that people have been coming down with colds and perhaps the symptoms of which can be similar to coronavirus symptoms but the labs are the ones which are likely behind and this is a problem which the government has had to deal with not least also as well for its track and trace probe the program as well the lack of which has contributed to this in the you case ability to be able to clamp down on new and rising cases so quite a lot of holes really that system of course momentous actions have been taken place to try and put a system in place but really track and trace and putting new l