Of a crushing response to u. S. Efforts to reimpose u. N. Sanctions. United and defiant protesters in belarus gala in their thousands to keep up the pressure on president Alexander Lukashenko. And we look at the aftermath of sudans at worst floods the government and aid agencies battle to repair the damage and prevent disease. I am site of hideouts and i have the latest sports ever for senegalese forward sides or im on a schools twice as the red speak Chelsea Sunil in the English Premier League. Hello welcome to the program our top story democratic president ial nominee joe biden has Senate Republicans to do what is right after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking at a Campaign Event in pennsylvania he also said the late u. S. Supreme Court Justices wish not to be replaced until after the election should be on it president onil trump has said he will announce a nominee to replace a early as next week alan fischer reports now from washington. The Supreme Court has suddenly become the dominant election issue in the United States donald trump says hes going to move forward with filling a big can see this week democratic challenger joe biden says with early voting already under way that simply wrong 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 the wrong political power. Now i dont believe the people of this nation will stand for. President trump told a rally in South Carolina on saturday hes sending his nomination for consideration to the senate this week it will be a woman a very talented very brave if. You average joe is in yet but we have numerous women on the list that are thought to be 2 leading candidates amy corny but it is an Appeals Court judge a favorite of conservatives and has been considered for earlier vacancies and theres barbarella go up a lot to move in from florida which would be the more Political Choice but the white house might not be able to push through any nomination before the election in the last 45 years the process has taken on average 68 days the election is just over 40 days away and theres questions about the president even making a nomination before november the 3rd is texas republican senator ted cruz is in no doubt that in order for a Supreme Court nomination to go forward you have to have the president and the senate in this instance the American People voted they elected donald trump but theres potential for the court to become the center of a constitutional crisis if republicans can push through a nomination before the election let me try to do it before the inauguration on january 20th but if joe biden wins that election that could cause problems the democratic leader of the house says the of ways to delay the nomination we have our options we have arrows an aquifer that im not about to discuss right now but the fact is we have a big challenge in our country republicans see the vacancy as an opportunity to change the face of the Supreme Court securing a conservative majority for years to come and they also believe it could galvanize support around donald trump both know and on election day and of people are talking about this theyre not talking about the u. S. Reaction to covert about unemployment or about health care all big issues before the death of a Supreme Court justice. Alan fischer. Washington well john hendren joins us live now and of course we know that President Trump and the republicans are going to try to move at breakneck speed to try and get the republican nominee through to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg but how likely is it that even if they get through confirmation hearings and all of that that it will actually get to a vote before election day. Well it would be near record time for them to do that the average amount of time between nomination and actual approval of a Supreme Court justice is Something Like 6570. 00 days they have less than that Ruth Bader Ginsburg died with 46 days to go but theres really no obstacle between the republicans actually confirming someone except for their own party the divide between the parties in the senate which is the only body that has to confirm this nomination is 53 to 47 so they can afford to lose 4 people and thats because the Vice President mike pence can be the tiebreaker in that. But this is its definitely going to be a bit of a challenge because we have a couple of republican senator Susan Collins of maine and Lisa Murkowski of alaska both of whom have said they dont believe that a nomination should go forward before the election however each of those people has left room for the possibility that they would go ahead and vote for the candidate anyway theyre simply saying it shouldnt happen in the case of Brett Kavanaugh the last Supreme Court justice to be confirmed also nominated by President Trump. Collins voted in favor and murkowski voted present which earned her a lot of criticism from people who wanted to take cavanaugh out of that nomination so bottom line is the senate can do whatever it wants Mitch Mcconnell the republican majority leader of the senate has suggested that he will go forward with this president has made it clear that that nomination will be made so unless there is ignorant affection among republicans or some outbreak of moral outrage theres really no reason to believe that this nomination would go forward the one thing that is potentially affecting that is that there are 6 very tight races where republicans are struggling for their scenes. And in one of those arizona if mark kelly the husband of Gabby Giffords who was a member of congress if he were to win in that race he could be in office by the end of november so that could change the vote dynamic a little bit but bottom line is theres an excellent chance of the republicans will be able to push this through of course john we know that both candidates donald trump and joe biden are using this to galvanize support says how do the majority of americans feel about whether a success its a really bad against but should be nominated before or after the election. Well there are mixed results on those polls but. The democrats are raising enormous amounts of money on this 1. 00 suspects the republicans will be able to as well and thats largely because whoever is appointed to the Supreme Court at this point could change the 5 to 4 vote that weve had until recently on abortion has been legal since 19 in 1970 s. In trump has made it clear that he would appoint someone who is in favor of prolife judges so therefore that could actually change the roe versus wade ruling that allowed abortion to happen americans are very much divided but what were seeing is that they are energized more than ever a huge number of people in recent polls suggest that they are very actively interested not just in the Supreme Court nomination but in the elections so we expect this to bring a lot of people to the polls this there should be relatively high turnout democrats certainly are energized and raising a lot of money but republicans are also energized by the prospect of overturning that roe versus wade ruling that would end abortion in the United States thanks very much john hendren. Or adding to our other top story the sound now irans president is saying the u. S. Faces certain defeat after it made a unilateral move to reimpose sanctions as an rouhani vowed never to yield to american bullying claiming that washingtons latest move to pressure iran has left it isolated from the International Community the u. S. Says the sweeping measures are consequence of violations of the 2050 nuclear deal which donald trump withdrew from in 2018 but in a sign of rising tensions between the United States and the all the world powers members of the u. N. Security Council France germany and person argue that the u. S. Doesnt have the Legal Authority to claim iran has violated the agreement nonetheless the u. S. Secretary of state might bomb bio is threatening consequences for any other nations that dont comply with further details expected from washington on monday as a breakout is the latest reaction now from tehran. Sanctions or no sanctions an Unprecedented Division at the United Nations is seen as a diplomatic victory by iran irans president seemingly mocking the recent us defeats at the security council. In the game today we can say the u. S. Policy of mix 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 got all recover what if the u. S. Wants to use resolution 199 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 its 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 worlds oil passing through u. S. Warships and water mains are based in the region in an already tense environment irans 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 youre lawmakers have discussed all these ideas it rains already finding it tough living under sanctions but lets not rush out and were working hard from morning to night but we get nothing because these sanctions have disrupted life economy everything its 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 irans leaders are treating the u. S. Isolation at the u. N. As a victory. Many iranians are suffering culch Donald Trumps maximum Pressure Campaign calls irans currency to use value and stop iran selling its oil or accessing International Markets to 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 wanted to preserve the nuclear deal in this ongoing diplomatic battle between the u. S. And iran iran believes it now has the upper hand. Aljazeera the iran. Well france germany and the United Kingdom have denied to us that they have the u. S. Has the right to impose sanctions on iran of course now they say they know that the u. S. Ceased to be a participant of the j c p o a thats the Nuclear Agreement following that withdrawal they continue to state that the United States the u. S. Move is incapable of having any legal effect and say flows from this that any decisions and actions would also be incapable of having any legal effect or trita parsi is the executive Vice President at the Quincy Institute joins me now over skype from washington d. C. Seems to be this brewing clash of interest then between washington and the other signatories to the chase e. P. O. The iranian the agreement what are you expecting to hear van from. Peo tomorrow. Well thank you sir from pale will continue to do exactly what hes done so far which is to completely disregard International Opinion as well as the verdict of the vast majority of states and the u. N. Security council he will continue to claim that the us has this right and as a result these u. N. Sanctions have been reimposed virtually no one else in the world will agree with them with the exception of israel saudi arabia u. A. E. And the Dominican Republic so we are now actually really deep into this Twilight Zone that the trumpet restriction has created for the last 2 and a half years the u. S. Has actually punished countries for abiding by a Un Security Council resolution which is the one that embodies that j. C. Iran the now the us is going to be punishing countries with violating sanctions that actually do not exist how is that going to last well i think the way it will work is that the u. S. Will likely start intercepting iranian ships or not iranian ships that it will make use of going to iran or coming from iran on that a pretext that it wants to search them for weapons these are likely going to become violent clashes and in theres a significant risk that it will lead to a much broader confrontation but the mere fact that the risk of this is out there will likely cause a lot of countries to stop trading with iran so even though these sanctions do not exist a lot of countries are likely to abide by these nonexisting sanctions that heres a trade the really dangerous situation which is that there are some reasons to believe that the trump and mr may actually want to have a confrontation with iran because of the way that they may calculate it affecting the u. S. President ial elections in which trump is not doing particularly well and right now. We had a great deal about the arms embargo on iran in the last few months to leave and of course this measure this mechanism within the deal to snap back sanctions in the event of violations and obviously we know that there are differing interpretations of that with the European Countries now saying theyre in the legal grounds just not entity that whatever happens in the next couple of months before the election will the trump of ministration have succeeded in making it very difficult if not impossible for joe biden should he be elected try to try and resurrect the agreement there certainly seems to be an intent that at a minimum these measures will make it even more difficult for joe biden to be able to resurrect that on the key thing is if the iranians react and respond to some of these interceptions or if the as a result of this decide to walk out of the j. C. If you weigh them without a doubt the trumpet misprision has managed to do probably long lasting damage that will make it extremely difficult for biden to be able to resurrect it but if the iranians remain restrained as they have been and do not walk out of the way then by then well have a short window between the inauguration in january and the iranian elections later in the spring to be able to do something to realign the United States with a j c b a which means that it would start respecting all of those decisions and lift all of the sanctions that the trumpet ministration have reimposed or imposed as new sanctions im showing discussing this again not long from now trita parsi thank you. Thank you probably did you all with the news hour live from london still ahead migrants whose camp and down in greece say they are being housed in another facility but theyre concerned about the conditions. Disharmony in chile the indigenous might put people in boiled in a land dispute thats getting more dangerous and in sport its advantage dallas in this series that will decide who wins hockey stanley cup. Security forces have been deployed across egypt following calls for mass protests by exiled opposition figure im hamad ali a former contract to for the Egyptian Military is behind that call to action has become well known for revealing details of corruption previous protests were prevented by the Security Forces through the arrest of political activists. Some news from afghanistan a series of government as strikes in the northern part of the country has killed at least 24 people the Afghan DefenseMinistry Says 30 taliban fighters died in the attacks but witnesses told the Associated Press news agency that civilians were actually killed instead strikes happened as Afghan Government and taliban negotiate as a meeting in catch up a peace talks to try to end the decades long conflict. And now the latest developments from belarus where tens of thousands of people have been marching through the capital on sunday demanding a change in the government war than 200 people were detained weeks of smaller demonstrations of all culminated in these mass marches which take place on weekends particularly sundays says the disputed election last month for president Alexander Lukashen