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The President's nominee Amy Coney Barrett says she is 'honoured and humbled' to have been chosen by Donald Trump for a place in the US's top court. After the first day of confirmation hearings, we speak to Ilya Shapiro, director at the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies' Cato Institute and author of Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court.
There's been a rise since the pandemic of countries selling so-called 'golden' passports. Tari Best is a Nigerian businessman who tells us why he recently spent $316,000 buying Grenadian citizenship for himself and his family. Veronica Cotdemiey is chief executive of Dubai-based Citizenship Invest which helps its clients buy passports, and explains which citizenships are proving to be most popular. We hear from Les Khan, chief executive of the St Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment Unit, that their programme has enabled the country to diversify its economy. And Laure Brillaud of anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International discusses the potential money laundering risk that the sale of passports can give rise to.
Also in the programme, Australian researchers have found that Covid-19 bacteria can remain on banknotes for up to four weeks. We speak to Debbie Eagles from science agency CSIRO.

(Picture: Amy Coney Barrett. Picture credit: Getty Images.)