that cultures across the. take it will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. this is about power. pure and simple power joe biden challenges president trump's motives for rushing through a replacement for supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. elephant oh harvey when i'm come on santa maria this is the world news from al jazeera. antigovernment protesters in egypt president of the fattah el-sisi step down.

another protest in the belorussian capital with more than 200 people detained under a heavy police presence and some emotional tributes to the lives lost to cope with 19 in brazil a memorial is created in one of the worst affected cities. well in the united states the political battle continues over just who will replace the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg she died on friday now president trump wants to rush through the process of appointing a new judge as soon as possible his democratic rival the prez presidential rival joe biden says this is just an exercise in raw political power with the election coming up timing is everything and official reports from washington d.c. . the supreme court has suddenly become the dominant election issue in the united states donald trump says he's going to move forward with filling

a big can see this week democratic challenger joe biden says with ellie voting already underway that's 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. no i don't believe the people of this nation will stand for. president trump told a rally in south carolina on saturday he's sending his nomination for consideration to the senate this week it will be a woman a very talented very brave if. you average joe's 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 there's barbarella go up a lot and 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 there's 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 there's 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 a nomination we have our options we have arrows and aquiver that i'm not about to discuss right now but the fact is we have a big challenge in afghan tree 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 they're 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 al-jazeera washington also one of the rising stars of the democratic party has had this message for the republican party's leader in the senate to mitch mcconnell we need to tell him that he is playing with fire we need to make sure that this vacancy is protected that our election continues and that the american people have their say on to other news and antigovernment protests taking place across cities in egypt police fired tear gas in just south of the capital cairo demonstrators there are

among those calling for president of the father of sisi to step down. continue into the night in cairo itself as well pictures here of a march through one neighborhood as demonstrators were heard chanting slogans against the military and in egypt's 2nd largest city alexandria there was a heavy police presence security had been heightened across the country after calls for mass gatherings by the exiled opposition figure mohamed ali a former contractor for the egyptian military is calling on protesters to stay out until their demands are met to how most egyptians unite out of love for the egyptian people take back your country again don't leave it in a c.c.s. hands down with the sisi regime down with the sisi regime don't go home do not go if you go home they will detain us don't go home we're in the streets and now we need to stay there. and see from william laurance now former u.s.

diplomat professor of political science and international affairs at the american university explains why most egyptians are reluctant to participate in these demonstrations. well they're not that large not that widespread yet but that's largely because of the actions of the. it were over a 1000 preemptive detentions metro stations bus stations areas like this and there's been a crackdown arrests of intellectuals university students so common citizens all to agree and larger protests i think what's important here is not. their size and the focus that they're happening at all in such a tightly controlled situation and really provoked by nothing as this is just the anniversary of the protests last year now we do have an egyptian citizen die from torture maybe 2 weeks ago we have a large lawsuit with us against the former prime ministers and i think that should

be torture and so all of this is really about shining spotlight on the widespread human rights violations egypt and i expect larger future. where there's continuing humiliation of egyptians by regime officials and of course the living conditions getting steadily worse so act comes together to create a certain how who will all of anger and then each potential protester has a choice do i go out and was being arrested or if i arrested to have my family cracked down upon or am i gonna sort of play it cool and wait for a larger protest iran's president says the united states faces court certain defeat after i made a unilateral move to reimpose un sanctions against her on washington triggered a so-called snap back of the measures which were lifted on to the 2015 iran nuclear deal with the european countries that signed the agreement so the trumpet

instruction there has no legal basis and it's been rejected by every other permanent member on the security council reports now from teheran. sanctions or no sanctions an unprecedented division at the united nations is seen as a diplomatic victory by iran iran's president seemingly mocking the recent us defeats at the security council. in the game today we can say the u.s. policy of next 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 because 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 it's 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 world's oil passing through u.s. warships and water mains are based in the region in an already tense environment iran's 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 to a 2 even withdrawing from the nonproliferation treaty or severing ties with. iran lawmakers have discussed all these ideas it rains already finding it tough living under sanctions. we're working hard from morning to night but we get nothing because these sanctions have disrupted life economy everything it's very tough and that was ok 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 but even if medicine is available if we face more sanctions the lives of

many patients might be at risk iran's leaders are treating the u.s. isolation at the u.n. as a victory while many earing in. suffering koch donald trump's maximum pressure campaign calls iran's currency to use value and stop iran selling its oil all accessing international markets but what iran does next very much depends on how the u.s. decides to implement the 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. to her on fire. tens of thousands of people have again marched through the belorussian capitol on sunday demanding the president's resignation woman 200 of them were detained there have been protests ever since a disputed election in early august so vasant as are all from minsk. the city center of minsk is turning into

a conflict zone on sunday afternoons. tens of thousands of peaceful protesters space in large police and military presence. despite a show of force a large crowd managed to march through the city 2 hours later than planned to your . protest and again is the one that is happening in our public that is very important for i want all political prisoners released filched then a new election because they want to be that was not to do to. their rally comes less than a week since president alexander look i shan't come up with his russian counterpart vladimir putin in russia the embattled by the russian leader has been in power for 26 years tried to convince his most important ally that the protests were under control his main strategy has been to brutally detain people also today people were picked up even before the rally started in the past 6 weeks more than 10000 people

were taken to police stations and detention centers most of them have been released tens of political prisoners including most of the opposition leaders are still behind bars every single one of the people here marching today on the streets of men is risking arrest and they know it's. almost like teaching occasions here are. the way to freedom square is completely blocked by armed police and also to the independence square the palace was also. been circling around the city and they are shouting they say you're helping this dictator you should. stop helping. you kill and rape our men who pays for this with look i shan't go refusing to step down and rejecting calls for new elections to stand between peaceful protesters on the one hand and security forces on the other will continue step class and

al-jazeera. at least 8 people have died in a building collapse in the indian city of tire and just outside of mumbai it is feared 25 people remain trapped in the rubble another 25 for have been rescued with children among them it is not yet known why this 3 story building came down. also farmers in northern india are protesting against government plans to allow more competition in the farming sector has been anger after india's parliament passed 2 bills on sunday to loosen regulation most opposition parties are against the legislation as well as some close allies of prime minister narendra modi we'll take a break here and then when we come back immersed in devastation sudan grapples with the aftermath of record floods and the u.n. general assembly in the news lately an event where diplomatic deals are made and world leaders make headlines maybe not this year.

but. we're looking at some very nasty weather into the deep south of the u.s. right now we have got tropical storm beta making its way towards texas long line of play out there across the southeast of the u.s. to the north of that it is generally fine and dry for little on the cool side for some temperatures at around 17 or 18 there into that is the side of canada or 19 celsius there for new york back down towards the south there we go with that wetter weather started to push its way in with some heavy downpours there will be widespread flooding from this really is a rainmaker may well get close to hurricane force as we go on through the next a day or so but it will weaken of course as it makes landfall i think it's going to be more about the rain than about the wind and that wetter weather actually

stretches all the way across a good part of louisiana could see some showers too just around the mountain states they would towards the rockies we need the rain across the western side of the u.s. and there's not too much of that in the forecast we have got some wet weather just around the far northwest that western side of canada but otherwise no help as far as the wildfires are concerned down to the caribbean want to. we are keeping our eye on bay so there we have got plenty of showers across that western side of the caribbean the showers further east. rewind returns. with updates on the pants down to see this documentary. to. remind continues with uncomfortably this is gospel central challenge and this is the section where they're holding prisoners on one charge users and dealers here is

120 of them in 3 different sounds on al-jazeera. the top stories this hour on al-jazeera u.s. democratic presidential nominee joe biden says don't trump's plan to replace the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg before the election is quote an exercise in political power. there are anti-government protests taking place across egypt police fired tear gas in the city of giza just south of cairo demonstrators there are among those calling for president out the fact that sisi to step down and tens of thousands of people have again marched in minsk for the better russian

capital on sunday demanding the president's resignation more than 200 were detained . and ivory coast opposition leaders calling for nationwide civil disobedience in protest at president on the water as attempt to secure a 3rd term the former president on the economy betty is challenging his rival and incumbent in the october 31st election or was cleared by the constitutional court to stand again despite serving his maximum of 2 terms news from sudan now a delegation is visiting the united arab emirates to discuss taking the country off a u.s. list of state sponsors of terror they'll be meeting with u.s. officials in abu dhabi sudan says inclusion on that list as hinted its ability to rebuild its economy last month sedan urged the u.s. not to link its removal to the normalizing relations with israel meanwhile sudan's

government aid agencies and volunteers are in a race against time to stop outbreaks of disease after record breaking floods they fear the spread of water borne illnesses more than 120 people have died already and 100000 homes have been either damaged or destroyed the government says more than 700000 people or have been affected by the rising waters motto as more from khartoum. well the latest is that the government has revised the numbers upwards up 270-0000 people have been affected in 17 or 18 states that sudan is composed of says the government and people put in many parts of the country. how slow the recession of the flood waters have been mainly due to heavy rains pounding not only sudan but also the highlands of ethiopia where lect the source of the blue nile is for the pushing more water into these should be of the nile which has been

mainly disposable for the flooding we've seen in the past weeks and months so what we're seeing us to ition where there are also stagnant water sliding around almost everywhere in those 17 states and their sons that there could be outbreaks of diseases like malaria chicken fever all of them caused by the mosquito as well as colette and is untrue because of thousands of put latrines being destroyed during the floods and emptying their contents into the floods that are still lingering in most parts of sudan thousands of people arriving at a new refugee camp on the great content of les false of describe the conditions there is awful they were displaced almost 2 weeks ago when the maria cam europe's largest. in refugees didn't want to go to this new camp and demanded they be taken to the greek mainland instead. india's taj mahal has reopened its gates to visit is

despite nationwide coronavirus cases soaring has been closed for 6 months but will now allow a maximum of $5000.00 visitors each day india has the 2nd highest number of covert 1000 cases in the world reporting around 100000 new infections and over a 1000 deaths every day. a monument dedicated to those who have died from coronaviruses been unveiled in brazil's capital the architect of the infinity memorial said she wanted to provide families with a symbol of their loss brazil has the 2nd highest death rate in the world monica you're not yet reports from rio de janeiro she said they sold lost her father to the novel coronavirus 4 months ago her family among the hundreds of thousands who have lost a loved one now their names are recorded on a memorial for 1000 victims. the 39 neider long monument weighing almost

2000 kilos is the 1st of its kind in brazil. months. seeing his name here has given me closure i feel the memorial has immortalized him he is no longer just a number in the long list of people killed by the pandemic now i feel this as my 2nd home. zed his father died last may and his body placed in the family tomb for safety measures prevented the family having a proper wake or funeral. even those who have not been buried or cremated here have a right to be a part of this memorial there are 30 names that have already been engraved on the medal but as you can see there's space for $4000.00 in total. it's a small fraction of the total of brazil's kovan $1000.00 related deaths more than

136000 have died in the pandemic making the country the world's 3rd largest hotspot and the numbers are still growing architect santos says she has been working in 7 tears for the last 10 years but never witnessed so much pain she decided to create a memorial to help families move on. the virus took us by surprise and put our lives on standby more so for those who lost loved ones and were unable to say a proper goodbye to sculpture in the shape of waves is meant to show us that life goes on that's why i called it infinity how. the pandemic also seems without end claiming thousands of lives every day in brazil but zandi says the memorial is a chance for people to stand together in difficult times and to honor and remember those they've lost monica and not give all just sirrah rio de janeiro. well centuries old conflict over land and discrimination is escalating in southern chile

the dispute is between the indigenous people the government and private landowners younger which have now begun arming themselves to expel the people they view as foreigners a predicament is given exclusive access to a latin america it is the sea in yemen this is the 1st of her 2 special reports. this vast landscape is just part of what many call my rock in the land of the indigenous. rich for tile region stretching south of the beale beale river to 400 kilometers today it's part of chile but as these mapuche of flags indicate some of the land is being reclaimed increasingly by force. in the last 4 months they've been nearly daily arson attacks on trains trucks and forestry companies that now own the lion's share of the land but also against farms in homes owned by ordinary

chileans and people on both sides of the conflict are being killed. outside of a jail in angola i put your community leaders announced will fight by any means necessary for the release of those they call political prisoners of chile accused of carrying out attacks. we are being persecuted and imprisoned for demanding our land for many years we were repressed but now we've learned to organize and defend ourselves with them up what you would gain or spokesman says new deployments of chilean special forces units to the region are escalating to confrontation it's getting dark hair and well and we're starting to swim out military trucks passing by this is right below ground level of course the gaza strip and we're also seeing here trees that have been chopped down to try to block the roads so the cars can pass and it will get worse as the night goes on as it becomes. because it's part of

an ongoing campaign a sabotage on the part of those who say that they have to spell the political obvious up their land for hundreds of years neither the spaniards nor the subsequent chilean state was able to conquer the comeback of my bullshit but by 880 chile's army succeeded in driving them off most of their land destroying their rural economy and plunging them into deep poverty that persists to this day. but now many communities are trying to take back what they lost like this property owned by chile's largest forestry company. but they say it's also about countering 140 years of humiliation today they've gathered for a game of palin and incest or a sport played between 2 communities in order to reinforce their ethnic and cultural bonds 32 year old susannah suttle says that like many more pushes her grandparents took up spanish names to try to offset deep racism and discrimination

by chileans in my wildest dream only one that you know some of us may not have the pushing names anymore but we still have blood and we aren't ashamed of it we are from a new generation that has the strength to rise up again. more than 12 percent of chileans identify as much to change yet chile's constitution does not recognize their existence as indigenous people for a supermarket owner delafield size says he too belongs here he takes us to see the remains of his family's country home just hours after it was burnt to the ground by unidentified armed men wear the same sort of simple. i feel nostalgic anger knowing they burned down something the belong to us nearly 100 years we country build our memories but i'm going to rebuild the house right here because no one can throw us off or isn't. those resorting to violence are a minority it simply will not let me get until melech jail says they're part of

a larger and stronger conflict that the chilean state is refusing to address except with force. that's a military plane with state of the technology to intercept telephone and radio signals over flies day and night when you see things like this who can deny that this territory is being militarized impossible. which also become obvious is that there's no easy solution to a complex dispute to which most chileans were oblivious until now that it's become impossible to ignore or you see in human al-jazeera chile and as that conflict escalates some are hoping a new constitution could lay the groundwork for maybe some peace and reconciliation on monday we will have part 2 of the sea is report from southern chile. finally the united nations in turn 75 this year the on your general assembly was meant to be

especially big but what is usually a packed event with world leaders from around the globe will look much different this tuesday because of the coronavirus pandemic of course our diplomatic editor james bond is reports from a subdued u.n. headquarters in new york. the u.n. is marking its 75th birthday but there's a little mood for celebration normally leaders travel from around the world to new york this year none are coming it's all being done remotely. the general assembly hall is often packed to normal years this time it will look like this a strict limit of just one delegate per country i have the immense privilege of addressing you today president trump seen here last year had toyed with an in person visit again but he decided against it probably because of the lackluster atmosphere. this year like all the other leaders will be on the big screen only was speeches played on video. much of the real diplomatic work is normally done join

countless face to face meetings but this year the normally bustling corridors are empty we'll do several virtual meetings with heads of state in different areas that are very relevant for us but we will miss that contact that personal contact that i believe is very important for the promise it to be fact when we look at the ambassador christophe hoy's going is one of germany's most senior diplomats he was chancellor merkel's foreign affairs advisor and now serves on the un security council ambassador we're speaking face to face suitably distance of course in your world diplomacy most of the meetings now are virtual meetings what's lost when you don't do things in your world face to face diplomacy is about finding solutions finding compromise and you don't get that you know virtually you need to talk to. you know to the people that have different opinions you have to be able to sort out

compromise you have to find out where the red lines and you cannot do that sitting back home and go on on screen you need these personal meetings there's one place the lack of world leaders this is general assembly will be celebrated and that's among the population of this city it means they'll be no closed roads and no traffic jams with calm voice on the city's streets james baker is out at the united nations. running through the headlines now on al-jazeera u.s. democratic presidential nominee joe biden says donald trump's plan to replace the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg before the election is quote an exercise in broader political power he wants senate republicans to delay a confirmation vote until after november the 3rd to jam this nomination through the

senate is just an exercise in raw political power please follow your conscience don't vote to confirm any were nominated to the circumstances president trump consumer economy created don't go there and pull your constitutional duty your conscience let the people speak. in other news antigovernment protests are taking place across egypt demonstrators one president at the thought of sisi to step down security was heightened after calls for protests from the exiled opposition figure mohamed ali he is a former contractor for the egyptian military. well how do most egyptians unite out of love for the egyptian people take back your country again don't leave it in a hands down with the c.c. regime down with the c.c. regime don't go home do not go if you go home they will detain us don't go

home we're in the streets and now we need to stay there. iran's president says the u.s. faces certain defeat after it made a unilateral move to reimpose u.n. sanctions against iran it's already been rejected by countries that signed the 2015 you play deal tens of thousands of people have again marched in the bella russian capital on sunday demanding the president's resignation more than 200 of them detained. an ivory coast opposition leader is calling for nationwide civil disobedience to protest against president alassane ouattara his quest for a 3rd term the former president on the economy betty is challenging whether in the coming election the constitutional court cleared what's about to run again even though he's reached a 2 term limits though the headlines on al-jazeera rewind is next. i am sequences i put these days it's hard to filter out the newly single track of what's really important in the bottom line tackles the big issues this is shaping the

united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. hello and welcome again to remind i'm elizabeth purana since we don't want to al-jazeera english over a decade ago we haven't been afraid of tackling difficult and sensitive stories through a powerful award winning documentary today we rewinding to 2010 and a film that examines an unintended consequence of the continuing israeli blockade of gaza.