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World Service,12 Oct 2020,53 mins

Trump's Supreme Court candidate to face Senate questioning

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Amy Coney Barrett will senators that she will judge legal cases impartially "whatever my own preferences might be". A court in India hears about police failures in the handling of the case of a teenage rape victim. The young woman died from her injuries, but left behind video evidence naming her attacker. And Pride House Tokyo opens - the Japanese city's first major community hub for LGBTQ people. So why is this being seen as such a landmark moment?

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