A place at the negotiating table. When more and more migrants are risking a dangerous new atlantic route from africa to europe via the Canary Islands. And a planet transformed into an uninhabitable hell a un report says World Leaders are failing in their duty to stop climate disaster. We start in the United States where a divided senate is pressing ahead with the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Kearney Barrett just 3 weeks before the president ial election she was nominated by President Trump and her confirmation would increase the conservative majority in the Supreme Court alan fisher has been following events on capitol hill in washington d. C. The goal to have amy quiney bennett on the u. S. Supreme court before the president ial election the 1st step the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Hearing 16 days after her formal nomination from the Committee Chair a lament that politics plays such a big part in nominations now the bottom line is Justice Ginsberg when asked about this several years ago said that a president serves 4 years not 3. Theres nothing unconstitutional about this process this is a vacancy this occurred 4 years ago republicans refused to even hold hearings for judge Merrick Garland nominee did to fill a vacancy caused by the death of a conservative justice no hearings in an Election Year he insisted judge amy corny by its nomination will almost certainly imagine from the Committee Even if democrats boycott the final vote that will send it to the fill senate for confirmation and thats where the democrats are going to do what they can to stop this going through 2 republican senators have already said they would vote to confirm the democrats are hoping they can use public pressure to flip to others to block a vote in the fool senate and theyre using what they see as a threat to the Affordable Health care act due to go to the court one week after the Election HealthCare Coverage for millions of americans is at stake with this nomination republicans finally realized also on the committee the democratic Vice President ial nominee kamel harness who insisted the senate should be dealing with more pressing issues than the Supreme Court. May be Crystal Clear that rushing a Supreme Court nominee. Is more important than helping and supporting the American People who are suffering from a deadly pandemic at a devastating economic crisis and nothing but the truth so help you god and then it was time to hear from amy Cooney Bennett herself she said quote cant right every wrong i chose to accept the nomination because i believe deeply in the rule of law and the place of the Supreme Court and our nation. I believe americans of all backgrounds deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets our constitution and laws as they are written so no the lines are drawn for the Committee Republicans believe they have the votes democrats believe they have public support the next 2 days will be contentious contrary and politically divisive as the Supreme Court becomes a political battleground in the president ial election alan fischer aljazeera washington. She had. Protests were held as the. Very small but determined group of protesters both for and against the nomination confirmation of i me here outside the Supreme Court. Theres a game to go to make next interesting and white house suits one of the many objections they have to the proceedings is that no one was required to have a curve a test before the hearings took place and this article im talking to one of the organizers here but all in love with us. Whats at stake for you during this confirmation hearing. Right now the focus is on a confirmation hearing when it should be about the American People i see about people who live in america we need to make sure you have a relief package that includes health care. For people who have lost their jobs that supports businesses that supports child care so your point is they should be here and people are suffering they should the focus should be on them on people who live in america not a court but what about the confirmation itself. And what about that yes is this not the right person i think we need to make sure that. Worry about going to be on the Supreme Court versus that thinking about all of the needs of the people and we need to be fair if you can look at her record her record has not been fair shes been very. Conservative in all of her rulings so now with this going to make it more conservative im concerned about the a. C. L. U. Theres millions of people who are on if it is unconstitutional people will not have coverage. Preexisting conditions will not have coverage he says obamacare the health care thing but is there a sense that youve lost this battle there that she will be confirmed well its not over until its over its not over yet no vote has happened and were going to continue to resist and as long as there is resistance you have to define or when we are standing up for what we believe in and that we are putting people 1st we need to be an example of what needs to happen in america. People need to be before politics and we need to make sure that people who live in america are taking care of us continue to fight like you very much and there is that sense that perhaps the republicans do have the votes this confirmation will go through but theres also a sense that the democrats didnt fight as hard as the republicans might have if they were in the same position all the various democrats immediately met with amy carney about for example whereas when president obama nominated his choice for a chief justice of justice rather because even so theres a bit of frustration with the democrats for the time a nation to fight on anyway. When i said joining us now via skype from the us political scientist philip rocco author of the books obamacare wars and the Trump Presidency thanks very much for being with us and i just want to ask you if it will care act that was mentioned that the democrats are going hard on this is as one of their issues during these hearings explain to us why the background as to why the Supreme Court is involved in in the Affordable Care act in the fast pace sure so really since the beginning since the law passed in 2010 opponents of the law primarily republicans conservative attorneys general in the states have been engaged in litigation not only trying to sort of formally repeal the law of the courts but also trying to sort of deal agenda make the law in the eyes of the public and really keep democrats on their back youll spiting the last battle over just preserving this law and so really after case after case theres been numerous Supreme Court challenges to the law were in a case now where. Even a lot of conservative jurists think that the case is sort of wrong we sort of brought forward before the court but the real import is that this case now has implications not only for one provision of the law the individual mandate which is fairly unpopular but has provisions for the rest of the law because of something called severability which is about the relationship between a laws parts and its whole and so the real stakes are the sort of Health Care Coverage for millions of americans and the shape of a sector that represents 17 percent of Gross Domestic Product so one time the democrats are hoping that some public pressure will sway some senators get them to switch how likely is that in reality. I think its not especially likely i think that weve seen 2 senators are sort of already saying that they dont want to go ahead with your rings prior to the election but i think if we were going to see other senators break along these lines we would have already seen it i think essentially republicans can effectively lose 2 more 2 more votes one more comfortably but i dont see those those protests right now having an effect on on those votes now what they might do is send a signal to the court about this or that how how well the public is mobilized on these issues and the sort of political ramifications of making a decision one way or another so might still have an effect in the world even if it doesnt have an effect on these votes and that President Trump has tweeted today republicans misstate louvain kay that we havent provided much Better Health care to much cost get the word out we always protect preexisting conditions but the impression 1. 00 has had recently is that that he has Health Care Plans are not particularly spelled out is that is would that be a fair. Description that this is true if you go back to 2017 and look at what republicans put forward in that session of congress i mean this is something where republicans for years had said we want to repeal d. Replace it with Something Better but when it came to actually thinking about what the contents of that would be im republicans really had invested a lot in the policy expertise necessary to to draft a piece of legislation that wouldnt really just summarily many people off of the benefits that they receive from you and wipe away the protections for preexisting conditions so i think the you know when it comes to the commiseration the real value of talking about the a. C. F. For them is as long as its in the sort of symbolic realm talking about obamacare rather than the act. The practical details of why they do just fine but once the details sort of emerge theres not a lot of investment there and that kind of in that kind of expertise and sort o. Sea crafting knowledge just briefly oh the election is 3 weeks ago away the polls are putting biden in the lead a bit does trump still have a path to victory and if they what is it. I mean i think that from both the fundamentals of the election and the economy and president ial approval and polls when they point in the same direction as strongly as these do would suggest a trump path to victory is incredibly slim that you know essentially even in some swing states the turnout he would need in some key suburbs and rural areas i mean it has to be exceptionally strong but of course you know the one thing that polls cannot and models of the election cannot factor in is the fact that were going to have a major differences in the way that people are voting this election just sizable changes in the ways that people are casting their ballots and i think that the the real question is to what extent and how many of these ballots are going to be contested by republicans by the president and by others in his party and i think the bets that something where theres just certain things that you know you can model as long as youre making the assumption that everybodys ballot is going to be counted but there are real variables here that are hard to to model out they dont necessarily reflect voters preferences 2 but to reflect the sort of fragility of the electoral process in the United States thank you very much indeed fiance thank you thanks to be here. Coming up on i was there at this news hour staying open but only just most of englands bars escaped closure as new virus rules come in that is infections rise how long will that last and its the worlds 3rd largest Food Producer so how can 10000000 people be going hungry in brazil. Russias foreign minister says turkey will not be involved in peace talks over the disputed region of nagornokarabakh the Foreign Ministers of armenia and russia have been meeting in moscow on media and azerbaijan accusing each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire which has left casualties on both sides Bennett Smith reports from gori in armenia. When an armenian missile hit the apartment block where i. Live there was supposed to be a ceasefire. This was another bridge 9 people died in this attack on ganja on sunday as a 2nd largest city here they have no interest in a ceasefire yet. If you let me go to war mom im going im going. To accuse giving azerbaijan its full support and its fight to reassert sovereignty over the Ethnic Armenian on plate of nagornokarabakh an adjacent land occupied by our media now he is very president wants turkey to be involved in talks to find a solution to the conflict but russia isnt interested. Joint statement confirms the unchangeable nature of the negotiation process and its format means to say a group consists of a fairly large number of states of this she says delegate these management of the. Mediation to 3 sharing states russia United States and france. But in almost 30 years the minsk group has failed to find a solution to the status of nagorno karabakh. Talks with his armenian counterpart following a similar meeting with the azeri foreign minister last week. On monday and paradox main town of panic at the air raid sirens were still alerting people to the shelters despite the cease fire the anger here as raw as it is on the other side of the conflict. If one of them would be here next to me i would strangle him i would strangle with as when i have lost my husband and now i could lose my grandchild and relatives lose a son in law could lose a brother. 5 armenians were killed on sunday in handwrote in the south of the going to back as azeri forces attempt to capture the town about 50 kilometers in that direction is the Ethnic Armenian town of how dry it now theres been intense fighting going on there as both sides a seemingly trying to cement their positions while moscow increases the pressure on armenia and azerbaijan to fully implement the humanitarian ceasefire. Bernard smith aljazeera goras in armenia. Nigerian president mohamed do hurry is promising that Police Officers will be held accountable for misconduct it comes after days of protests against Police Brutality culminated in offices opening fire on demonstrators in lagos authorities announced that an elite anti robbery unit would be disbanded after members were accused of murder extortion and disappearances the president says more Extensive Police reforms will follow. Millions of students across 12 african countries are back in class a schools reopened after a 6 month coronavirus lockdown in nigeria nearly 40000000 of them will now have to try to catch up on missed school work but theyre also returned to a new set of rules as the government continues to struggle to stop the virus spreading rapidly dress reports from the capital of richer. Its a new school term like no other students are returning to an environment governed by new safety rules. Their temperature is checked washing in sanitising hands is mandatory. In class social distancing is influenced but its an exciting for freedom. Of. The heaviest of the family environment but a diverse environment for learning to touch and name to dance and name but its mixed emotions for parents. As a parent im actually excited and i dissent and i have mixed feelings of the security and safety of the children in school if students in private schools like this for a better term in the coverage mean to destructions their access to online teaching Internet Connectivity and Computer Technology based its much different from the act of public School Students private schools a better place to strictly enforce safety protocols like the over crowded poorly funded government schools but government schools like in facilities they make up for in an interrupted pay for teachers not for private schools struggling with finances a government pledge to support businesses to peace talks to happen for many. It was difficult. Of cause god couldnt understand if he didnt want to be because. Possibly god made. The world i could make experts are calling for Government Intervention to make up for lost time to begin to invest heavily armed. And of course to develop their. Policies now. Nigeria has more than 26000000 students in primary schools and over 10000000 in secondary schools. And there are more than 10000000 nigerian children who dont go to school thats nearly a 5th of the world white total experts fear the number could rise because of the current 19 Pandemic Committee grease i does iraq. Britains Prime Minister says he wont impose another full coronavirus lockdown but is almost 14000. 00 new day infections were reported 1st johnson warned that the weeks and months ahead will be difficult enough a 3 tier system of local lockdown measures in england including a ban on some households mixing indoors gena how reports from newcastle upon tyne. Parks and bars in Northern England are living on borrowed time in liverpool those not serving food will be forced to close from wednesday night the city falling under the highest risk category of a new 3 tier system of covert 19 restrictions announced by the Prime Minister in recent m