A president s judicial nominee but it created a new rule of the mcconnell rule absolutely no hearing or no vote for a nominee in Election Year period no coffee 7 outs and Many Republican senators agreed with him including the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who at the time said quote verbatim heres what he said quote i want you to use my words against me if theres a republican president in 2060. And a vacancy occurs in the last year of the 1st term you can say Lindsey Graham said lets let the next president whoever it might be make the nomination continue to quote and you could use my words against me and youd be absolutely right and of quote. Well in our other top stories irans president has warned of a crushing response to the u. S. After it made a unilateral move to reimpose sanctions has an rouhani vowed never to yield to american bullying claiming that washingtons latest move to pressure to iran has left it isolated from need to
More advanced weapons we have no intention of letting that happen the president s executive order announced today gives us a new and powerful tool to enforce the u. N. Arms embargo and hold those who seek to evade u. N. Sanctions accountable today i will take the 1st action under this new executive order by sanctioning the are a ministry of defense and Armed Forces Logistics and irans Defense Industries organization and its director. Beggin terrine explain the internal political divisions over how iran should respond. We had foreign minister javadoc the reefs say that these new sanctions are nothing new that the intention of the United States was to bring the population to its knees and they have failed but what the real question is how iran will respond to the United States and how the United States decides to impose the these u. N. Sanctions as they see it now within iran this lots of political differences president Hassan Rouhani and his reformists are defending the deal domesticall
Our fight for democratic. Step vasant has more from minsk. The pressure is for sure its been a delicate balancing act until now in the past 6 weeks since the start of the political crisis both the opposition and europe have been very careful not to alinea. Russia because they were worried that belarus and look at shanghai would be much further pushed towards russia than already is the case but now patience is. Meeting between look at shanghai and put in last week resulted in a stronger bond between the 2 leaders put in has reiterated his support again for the embattled well russian leader has promised money one and a half 1000000000 u. S. Dollars so now the opposition but also europe is feeling that russia cant be engaged in a dialogue any longer so they are now putting up the pressure the European Parliament has also adopted a resolution saying they wont accept look at the formal president or any longer after the 5th of november thats when his term officially finishes the u. N. Says N
Lets start with the Military Coup in myanmar. Police have filed several charges against the elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. She hasnt been seen since her arrest on monday and remains in custody. The charges she faces are unexpected. First, shes charged with breaching the countrys strict import and export laws. Shes also accused of possessing Unlawful Communications devices, and we know that is related to six walky talkies used by her Security Guards and which the Authorities Say were found in Aung San Suu Kyis residence. Heres our South East Asia correspondentjonathan head. Any Walkie Talkies in her home would have been used by Security Guards. Everyone will know that is a device. Its a way of trying to neutralise. Just think about this. The military lots there too because she has one every election by really significant margins. If the military is to fulfil its promise on holding another election, it has to find a way to get out of the election. Thats what they will use to do that. A
Lifting restrictions too quickly could lead to a deadly resurgence the way down can be as dangerous as the way if not money properly the u. S. News half a 1000000 confirmed coronavirus cases with more than 18000 deaths its on track to overtake italy which has the highest number of fatalities so far john hendren is in chicago and he says President Trump believes the u. S. Death toll will be lower than the projections of experts. He cant pushing to open the economy in his words very very soon and by open i mean end to the restrictions that require people to stay home and begin allowing those businesses the nonessential businesses to reopen throughout the United States he said that on a day in which the death toll worldwide crossed 100000 he said he hoped to keep the u. S. Death toll below that number and he was talking about numbers like 5265000 dead ideally in his words those are horrific numbers more than all of the americans who have died in all of the wars since the since korea in th