right. washer. this is about power. pure and simple. joe biden challenges president trump's motion for rushing through a replacement for supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. hello i'm come on sons of maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera. antigovernment protesters in egypt to demand president about the fact that sisi stepped down. protests again and the better russian

capital with more than 200 detained under a heavy police presence and some emotional tributes to the lives lost took over 19 in brazil or memorials been 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 died on friday president donald trump wants to rush through the process of appointing a new judge just as possible but as democratic presidential rival joe biden says it's just an exercise in raw political power and with the election coming up timing is everything an official reports from washington. 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 b. can see this week democratic challenger joe biden says with

a leave 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 connie bennett is an appeals court judge a favorite of conservatives and has been considered for earlier vacancies and there's barbara lee grew up a letter moving 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 the 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 one of the rising stars of the democratic party had this message for the republicans 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 government protests have been taking place in cities across egypt. police fired tear gas in giza just south of the capital cairo demonstrators there are among those calling for

president of the federal sisi to step down. but continued in the night in cairo itself these are pictures from a march through one neighborhood where demonstrators were chanting slogans against the military and in egypt 2nd largest city alexandria there was a heavy police presence security had been heightened cross the country after calls for mass gatherings of the exiled opposition leader mohammed alley the 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. william lawrence is a former u.s. diplomat and a professor of political science and international affairs at the american

university and he explains now why most egyptians are reluctant to take part in the 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 tensions that metro stations bus stations in 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 protests 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 china spotlight why speculate rights

violations egypt and i expect larger future. there's a continuing humiliation of egyptians by regime officials and of course the living conditions getting steadily worse so i hope that 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'm 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 u.s. faces certain defeat after it made a unilateral move to reimpose u.n. sanctions against iran washington triggered its so-called snapback of the measures which were lifted in the 2050 nuclear deal but the european countries that signed that deal say the trumpet ministrations move has no legal basis and it has been rejected by every of a permanent member on the security council

a bag with this report into iran. 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 mixed 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 recover 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 the g c p o 8 to even withdrawing from the nonproliferation treaty or severing ties with. iran your 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 so clear 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 hardship 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 its view that u.n. sanctions are back in place with the u.s. isolated at the u.n. security council and the europeans want to preserve the nuclear deal in this ongoing diplomatic battle between the u.s. and iran iran believes it has the upper hand. there is a sudanese delegation visiting the united arab emirates to discuss taking the country off a u.s. list of state sponsors of terror but the meeting with u.s. officials in abu dhabi inclusion on this list has hindered its ability to rebuild the economy last month urged the u.s. not to link its removal on that list to the normalizing of relations with israel so the government meanwhile as well as aid agencies and volunteers are in

a race against time to stop outbreaks of disease after the record breaking floods they fear the spread of water borne illness is now over 120 people have died in 100000 homes have been damaged or destroyed the government says more than 700000 people have been affected by the rising waters may here is muhammad a day with more for touch him. latest is that the government has revised the numbers upwards up 270-0000 people have been affected in 17 or 18 states that's done is composed of ses the government and people put in many parts of the country. with how slow the recession or the floodwaters 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 ease 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 we see us to action where they also stagnant water sliding around almost everywhere in those 17 states and their sons the could be outbreaks of diseases like malaria chicken fever all of them caused by the mosquito as well as diseases like cholera and dysentery because of thousands of put latrines being destroyed during the floods and emptying their contents into the floods that still lingering in most parts of sudan. in the news ahead why a former president and opposition leader in ivory coast is calling for civil disobedience ahead of a presidential election. he'll miss that contacted personal pointer to the u.n. general assembly usually an event with diplomatic deals are made and world leaders make headlines it will be different this year.

but. the weather is looking pretty quiet across the middle east at the moment but the winds will pick up over the next s.s. by the very subtle change to speak of lots of hazy sunshine then we'll see little more with the dust and sand coming out of iraq pushing down towards kuwait edging down towards the gulf states as we go through the next day or so temperatures here in doha it around $36.00 celsius 10 degrees down on that for kuwait up on that's our q.a. and also for baghdad little colder than it has been recently in beirut 29 celsius still plenty warm enough though i'm sure you'll agree they were all into central africa plenty of shallow rolling off the ethiopian highlands punching the way further west was towards the gulf of guinea will see some wet weather coming in

here once again in the shallowest now as they should do started to push their way a little further south was not too far off the economics of course so the shower should be straddling the equator will see plenty of showers there over towards uganda that western side of kenya just around lake victoria pushing a little further south still and we will see some showers pushing across the northern half of angola to the south of that it is generate dry into solemn africa we have got some increasing showers pushing up towards coastal possum as i speak. there's lums of manila home to extraordinary talent who will act that occasion and hard work transform child scavenger jessa into a professional ballerina she has the strength technically she's very strong and mixed martial arts fighter just battled his way from the streets to success in the ring so i could tell you this is your stepping stone. this large on

al-jazeera. all. so these are the top stories this hour on al-jazeera news 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 raw political power. and government protests are taking place across egypt police fired tear gas in the city of deezer just south of the capital demonstrators there are among those calling for president of the father of sisi to step down and surrounds government aid agencies and volunteers they're all

a race against time to stop outbreaks of disease after record breaking floods 120 people have died in 100000 homes have been damaged or destroyed. tens of thousands of people have again marched through minsk the capital of batteries on sunday demanding the president's resignation more than 200 people were detained in protests that have been going on ever since the disputed election in early august state bassam with this report from minsk. the city center of minsk is turning into a conflict zone on sunday afternoons. tens of thousands of peaceful protesters place a large police and military presence. despite a show of force a large crowd managed to march through the city 2 hours later than planned for your film so i am protestant again is the way that has happened in our republic that is very important for me i want all political prisoners released filched then

a new election because they're one of the that was not getting. the 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 belorussian leader has been in power for 26 years to try 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. most strategic locations here are. the way to freedom square is completely blocked by armed police and also to be

independence we are. also. been circling around the city and they are shouting they say your helping this dictator you should stop. when. 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 off between peaceful protesters on the one hand and security forces on the other will continue step lassen al-jazeera minsk. at least 10 people have died in a building collapse in the indian city of 10 just outside of mumbai it is feared 25 people remain trapped in the rubble and another 25 others have been rescued with children among them it's not yet known why the 3 story building came down 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 regulations most opposition parties are against the legislation as well as some close allies of prime minister narendra modi. in ivory coast an opposition leader is calling for nationwide civil disobedience to protest against president allison water as quest for a 3rd term the former president on recon embodies standing as his challenger in the october 31st election the constitutional court already cleared water of a run for a 3rd term even though there is a 2 term limits his michael are more enough from the london school of economics and political science he says as long as whatever runs for office the outcome of this vote will be highly contested. well i mean merriment biddy has the most supports i mean by the ghost party has the most support the last man who is currently. disqualified it looks like a big da really is the next person with the most votes so it's quite significant

he used a significant candidate in this particular election and one of the reasons why what terrorists kind of the city so contentious is actually that he originally didn't really tend to leave the sea he deliberately introduced even the vice presidency into this new questions he shouldn't just salamis he can plan and read different meds with the f. who team sleeps at the very least he couldn't be there vice presidential candidate if you're a regional kind of he did not die and so now he's had to put himself out as a presidential candidate because the other candidate docks well taric doesn't have enough votes to get my gerrity either in a fresh round or in the 2nd round so we're looking for a very precarious situation. where the only way what our country is likely to reveal a election and already we are hearing reports that you know we've got great transcripts

in the bottle young's in downlow out in the west who are going to north block in the center and john in the south to try and intimidate me out tanks to protest us out rigging our tents thousands of people arriving at a new refugee camp on the greek island of lands what's of describe the conditions there is awful they were displaced almost 2 weeks ago after the maria camp burned down many refugees didn't want to be relocated and demanded they be taken to the greek mainland instead here's stephanie decker with more from that new camp. we've been watching some of the people being able to happen even able to leave the camp today in the morning they were allowed to leave then we're being told that at some point there was an order to close the gates are now being allowed to leave again so it's very much a fluid situation but we've seen some of the managed to get mattresses and wheeling them back in you know the garbage cans that have wheels and wheeling them back into the tent because the tents at the moment are just basically

a sand bottom yes they're being handed those thin blankets so it's a very basic infrastructure when it comes to this count and of course there was a lot of pressure to get people off the streets had been sleeping on the streets for 10 days off to the firebird morry account so i think it's a work in progress certainly the refugees and migrants we've been speaking to saying the conditions are terrible particularly lack of running water showers sanitation you know the toilets are terrible we've seen videos of that so i think it's taking some time to get on its feet as various n.g.o.s in there are helping the greek government the army that is running this count but of course you're talking a 1000 thousands of people my 1000 people that came into this capital very short period of time so that is the situation at the moment i think interesting me tomorrow the asylum process is going to restart the paperwork processing that had been put on hold since that fire that's been a very lengthy process this is why a lot of these people have been here for over a year and i think it just in the 3rd thing it forward europe is going to be

debating their my good policies many people will tell you that moria and this now is a symbol of the failure of europe's migration policies of allowing these people to fester so long and these kinds of terrible conditions for more protests calling for the resignation of israel's prime minister for 13 weeks in a row now thousands of covered in front of benjamin netanyahu official residence in west jerusalem demonstrators accuse him of corruption mishandling the pandemic and thousands of last jolts his hard force now in west jerusalem. well the thing about this weekend's protests is that this is the 1st weekend since the imposition on friday afternoon of the 2nd coronavirus lockdown nationwide and so political protest is exempted from those restrictions but nonetheless there was some questioning and some concern among some quarters within the protest movement as to whether to continue or not usually these protests are on

a saturday night this time they're happening on sunday because this is now the end of the 2 day jewish new year holiday and so they've come out the police had tried to caps you lot areas within the protest site people are supposed to gather in capsules of 20 or fewer outdoors the numbers certainly aren't as big as what we've seen in recent weeks or a few 1000 bit more spread out than usual but certainly they don't seem to be observing those capsules off areas and there was one unexpected incident where the a car speeding towards that group of protesters and slammed on the brakes at the last minute the driver of that car was dragged up by police and arrested not clear if that was a deliberate act or not but there has been that arrest monument dedicated to those who died from corona virus has been unveiled in brazil the architect of the infinity memorial said she wanted to provide families with

a symbol for their loss brazil of course the country with the 2nd highest death rate in the world's monica united reports from rio de janeiro. she said they 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 metre long monument weighing almost 2000 kilos is the 1st of its kind in brazil. 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 graded on the medal but as you can see there is 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 lisa santos says she has been working in 7 teri's for the last 10 years but never witnessed so much pain she decided to create a memorial to help families move on. a similar 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 this sculpture in the shape of waves is meant to show us that life goes on that's why i called it infinity. the pandemic also seems without end

claiming thousands of lives every day in brazil but she said he says the memorial is a chance for people to stand together in difficult times and to honor and remember those they've lost money i'll just sirrah rio de janeiro it is time for hollows reopened its gates to visit is despite nationwide coronavirus cases soaring and closed for 6 months now but it will be allowing a maximum of $5000.00 visitors each day india has the 2nd highest number of covered 1000 cases worldwide reporting around 100000 new infections and over a 1000 deaths every day the united nations turns 75 this year ya know general assembly was meant to be especially big but what is usually a packed event with world leaders from all over the world will look much different this tuesday because of course a coronavirus diplomatic editor joins by his reports from a subdued u.n.

headquarters in new york. the un is marking its 75th birthday but there's 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 joint countless face to face meetings but this year the normally bustling corridors are empty will do several virtual meetings with as of states in different areas that

are very relevant for us but we will miss that contact the personal contact that i believe is very important for the promise it to be think when we look at the ambassador christophe hoy's good is one of germany's most senior diplomats he was charles slow 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 1st chill 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 to you know to 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 that the lack of world leaders at this year's 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 armored convoys on the city's streets jamesburg al-jazeera at the united nations. this is al jazeera these are the headlines 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 quite an exercise in raw political power he wants senate republicans to delay any confirmation vote until after the election on november 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. and soon mcconnell have created don't go there and pull your constitutional duty your conscience let the people speak and the headlines in antigovernment protests taking place across egypt the demonstrators want president . to step down security was heightened after the calls came from protests the call came for protests by the exiled opposition figure mohamed alley he is a former contractor for the egyptian military. to 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 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. sudan's government aid agencies and volunteers are in a race against time to stop outbreaks of disease off the record breaking floods

they now feel the spread of waterborne illnesses more than a $120.00 people have died in 100000 homes of a damaged or destroyed iran's president says the u.s. faces certain defeat after it made a unilateral move to reimpose un sanctions against tehran it's already been rejected by the countries that signed the 2050 nuclear deal. tens of thousands of people have again marched in the russian capital on sunday demanding the president's resignation more than 200 of them were detained. and an ivory coast opposition leader is calling for nationwide civil disobedience to protest against president allison what are his quest for a 3rd term former president on record but he is also running in the october 31st election those are the headlines one o one a thailand's cannabis revolution is next on counting the cost an aging population soaring debts and recession. new prime minister fix the economy famine.

as the pandemic wipes out a decade of economic growth plus pakistan's asia's best performing stock market is counting the cost. for decades drug kingpins made millions trafficking heroin opium and cannabis through thailand. in response to thailand's long became top. its prisons are bursting at the seams. but there's the. coliseum. even government ministers are extolling the virtues of cannabis we have seen that yet.