the drugs and fire board viewfinder latin america driving change and i just see it as. a showcase of the best documentary films from across the network on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm right about this and this is the news our live from doha coming up the next 60 minutes high ranking cypriot politicians are implicated in a scheme to sell you pos boards to criminals we have an exclusive investigation. 48 hours into a cease fire reports of more shelling in the going on threatens the shaky truce

between armenia and azerbaijan. rights groups accused tanzania's president of behaving like a dictator and clamping down on dissent ahead of this month's election. more than a 1000 migrants in 2 days why spain's canary islands are seeing the biggest surge in 14 years. and on time how much with all the sport including the bron james and the l.a. lakers out back on top of the basketball world in late is happy and did their 10 year wait to win the n.b.a. championship. an undercover investigation by al-jazeera has exposed high ranking officials in cyprus expressing a willingness to aid convicted criminals obtain e.u. citizenship in august and the investigative unit released the cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the country's citizen by investment program now as phil

restrict boards the investigation leads to the highest offices of the cypriot state the cyprus investment program allows foreigners to buy a european passport for an investment mostly made in property of 2 and a half $1000000.00 the government insists that applicants need to clean criminal record the holder of a cypriot passport has the right to live and work across the e.u. . our undercover reporters went to cyprus to represent a fictional client who has fled china mr x. is a wealthy businessman who was sentenced in absentia to 7 years in jail for bribery and money laundering and he is seeking a cypriot passport. property agents denise and tony kate help those investing in property to get cypriot passports our undercover reporters tell them about our proposed applicant. china's gone and charging him for all and.

where there are problems it costs more money to achieve these things so what we will do is find out who has to be spoken to who has the pay what vested states very close to be what i think the case a part of a network of enablers that include lawyer and raise protect this song business opportunities. when you can go to it is even going to be a she. describes a 2 track application system the official route and another for difficult cases that requires more money they can still get a faster car to what insane option. goes over them we already didn't. see it for what it would up and up. and look at cities in any book. or regulation or even our news and we want. to ask the police asked. why. how high up the higher the better. our undercover reporters meet property

developers and politicians who repeat the same message. have people take us for a while on. our undercover reporters are finally invited to discuss mr x.'s passport application with the president of the cypriot parliament you can tell it. to her without permission maybe we're here for support but. i don't know politically. to say that i'm going to. have to prepare it's like making. when confronted with the evidence all of those involved deny any wrongdoing. they claim they were aware from the onset that our undercover reporters represented a criminal after our team left but as you said he filed a report about them with cypresses and the money laundering unit. persisted phil

race al-jazeera. ok for more let's cross live to our investigative reporter david harrison in nicosia in august the units release the 7 cypress papers no this is the latest in part of this investigation you've released a trailer. has there been any reaction from cyprus. well there has indeed i mean local people all very busy. denouncing the government and saying things like al-jazeera is doing what the government has been doing but more significantly just in the last hour or so we've had reactions from statements all the from christakis giovanni is the m.p. and the man who founded this one of the biggest property development company cyprus from to me to salute the president of the palm and on the 2nd most powerful man in cyprus now giovanni is saying that he was suspicious that he feels that this is a propaganda assault that there was an element of and truculent and that they did

go to the money laundering authorities but only after reporters had left. they haven't disclosed what they said to the authorities. 'd citing legal confidentiality but we certainly wait for some some detail on not. lower is that he's the president of the public the very powerful and influential figure in cyprus he's just saying that there was suspicious toward the end they seem to conflict themselves slightly because initially they were saying they were suspicious from the beginning now they're saying that suspicions at the end and indeed they did at the last meeting on the cover a reporter had with a lawyer. a pathologist did say that they had a bit of a wobble they were unsure there was no business card they didn't know who this guy was and to get c.n.n. he let alone the president the parliament is an enormous thing in the government of doubt but he then carried on you carried on eating they carried on in contact with us throughout the week they'd done everything they could to tell us how our criminal could obtain an e.u.

passport even though we spell it out every. valuable opportunity that he was a chinese criminal with a conviction of 7 years for bribery a money laundering it was explicit on that no stage did they express any reservations at no stage did they do what most people would have done and simply said sorry he's a criminal we can't touch him instead he went on to explain how to do it how to set up a shell company how to use his wife's name to get the possible of all of these devices everything was designed to get a criminal a possible. david talk us through about the kind of responses that you're seeing from the public now you mentioned that there has been a lot of mention on twitter is it the growing and has it been growing also since the original investigation was released back in august as well yes we have a lot of reaction to that and it seems have picked up again now because we released a trailer for this film yesterday and there's already people who are reacting immediately to it there was some people saying oh no here we go again oh i thought

that without it being dealt with because the site was government did announce a crackdown but they have a habit of doing this they did one last year they do the crackdown last year and undercover reporter sent a message to andreas petard just the lawyer and said will it affect our clients attempt to get a passport now this crackdown on the text message came back from the lawyer saying don't worry this is just to make the media back off so this is picked up again on twitter and people are saying things like what we know or we've always suspected our government does this time to think it will be great to see the evidence all of us have been even stronger saying this really needs to be cleaned up it's got to stop all this still is saying it's damaging the reputation of cyprus and like a lot of smaller countries. in particular found in smaller countries they're very sensitive to the image of cyprus abroad and this is clearly not going to help them but we would keep saying to people what's the fail see the evidence make up your own mind. they did certainly clear from the package that we just played that

although at that point nobody appeared to have broken the law there's appeared to be a willingness to do so and that is really going to put a lot of pressure on the government generally isn't that i think that's right i mean the the evidence we would argue is very very powerful any action to be taken of course in the hands of the simple thora seas and the european union of course who have criticised cyprus on its investment program it's possible for investment program on many occasions they've already threatened off this like this but it was to take some infringement actually legal action to sanction against this so yes that this is going to put them under enormous pressure they're already being people suggesting that so lawrence has to resign and should go to so i think we're just going to see the beginning of it now because the film is going out almost as we speak to be available on you tube and it's going out on the al-jazeera website this evening and then people can see for themselves the strength of the evidence we have

and they can draw their own conclusions about what people in their own country doing with this so-called. investment program david harrison and i guess here thank you very much indeed thank you and for more on this investigation watch the cyprus papers under cover at 20 g.m.t. today. there's been renewed fighting over nagorno-karabakh despite a ceasefire coming into effect 48 hours ago armenia is reporting shelling along the southern part of the so-called line of contact in the disputed region however civilian areas have not been hit by john says it's destroyed several military vehicles for breaching the humanitarian cease fire or shortly we're going to cross into bernard smith in gross on media 1st let's go to sin and cos you know who was in somalia in azerbaijan cinema just give us an idea of what azerbaijan has been saying today. while i'm in

town is this a rock this is a village or its previous name is a lenin village and it's close by again to the reason why i'm here and the reason why i'm standing in front of a graveyard is that the wick dims who were killed. after the attack after a missile hit again just city center yesterday they were buried right behind me a couple almost half an hour ago it was very crowded here people left already. when you look at the civilians of course the most fear is not so bright because everybody is full of emotions almost what most of john citizens are angry and they are mourning for they are people who lost their lives whether they know these people or not for instance those poor to poor people who were very were a couple they saved their children but they couldn't save their lives so emotions are through the pain that they have been suffering not for the last couple of weeks

but for all 30 years when you look at diplomacy when you look at what's being talked in baku of course there are talks on the way it has been relatively quiet in terms of official statements so far and we are waiting to see whether azerbaijan foreign minister will also be attending a meeting in moscow today there is no official statement for that now but i. a group of 50 mats presented himself for in diplomatic missions and back you were invited to get and mean get sick of that was also hit. the other night came to the scene. in the us under the auspices of the john deputies and they were given information about the situation we know that the almost 530 azerbaijan n.g.o.s signed a letter an appeal to international bodies including the united nations nato organizational security. organization of european union they are trying to raise

the they were always says they say they have been indiscriminately attacked by iranian forces then they say they want to hear more from the international community it is relatively quiet in terms of attacks yes there are on and off some attacks especially the targeting data go down boy a bad day at the regular places but by the end of the day we are expecting to hear more especially on the diplomacy and politicians side cinema thanks very much indeed that's a sin and cos you know talking to us from china only in the azerbaijan let's cross over to bernard smith who is talking to us from going to see in on media you know the armenian foreign minister spoke to al-jazeera about 24 hours ago he's in moscow now what's he been saying. you know he's in moscow for a shared jewel meeting with a roll of and other representatives from the united states and france this is after

a meeting last wednesday attended by the azerbaijani foreign minister in geneva so this was shared jewel before that the ceasefire came into effect now the armenian foreign ministers are minutes and he's been complaining as he has before of various airy breaches of the ceasefire but love role of russian's foreign minister he has said clearly we spent a lot of time getting the cease fire agreement together but it's not being observed he said military actions continue but we think our contacts including with the ministries of defense of both sides will allow us to uphold of the agreement we have so love rob clearly confident that he's able to exert enough pressure on ours by john armenia to try and fully enforce this cease fire it has been relatively calm in most armenian most villages and towns in the gorno karabakh

except for the town of hadron's now we understand that there's been intense fighting going on in have dropped between azerbaijan and armenia and this is because hundreds in northern nagorno-karabakh but it is neither side as far as we understand the johnnies have not made any major territorial gain after 2 weeks of fighting apart from maybe a couple of small villages had dropped would be a significant significant gain for us by john if it took control of this nagorno-karabakh ethnic armenian town so we believe there's a fierce battle going on for control of it and a fierce defense by the armenians as well because as a by john so far doesn't have anything particular to show after 2 weeks of fighting and might need some sort of strategic gain to do. it defends 2 weeks of fighting and deaths on the same from armenia if he loses control of how drugs the nut will be a significant blow for the armenians hence why we believe this intense fight is going

on at the moment that's been his myth bringing us up to date from a gross in armenia bernard thanks very much but more ahead on the news hour including millions of children across africa head back to school following the coronavirus shut down. like. that anybody could be doing. the top cover $1000.00 expert in the u.s. accuses the trumpet ministration of twisting his words for one of its campaign videos. and in sports back in for a 1000000 hands rafael nadal secured his 13th title at the french open. honesty international is accusing the tanzania and government of cracking down on dissent head of this month's general election the rights group says the law is being weaponized to target all position figures and journalists and the main

opposition candidate says he doesn't believe the vote will be free or fair as catherine selling. to lisa says he's worried about his safety while campaigning he's also concerned about the independence of the electoral commission that barred him from campaigning for 7 days last week electoral officials say that his conduct while on the campaign trail had been polarized lisa who recently returned to tanzania from belgium to run for president he left 3 years ago when he was seriously injured after being repeatedly short by an identified gunmen he's told al jazeera he does not believe that the election at the end of the month will be free fair or transparent we are not going to accept stolen election. we accept every election we call millions of people onto the streets. democratic action piece action to defend the integrity of the election to defend

their votes if it comes to. his main competitor president john paul 2 fully he's also outcome painting attracting thousands of people to his rallies. he's been accused by human rights organizations and the opposition of being a dictator and presiding over a government that is intolerant of dissent and has curtailed rights of expression and the media the president has avoided that debate instead focusing on his record on elisei he's on the right truck has done very well in the economy front. the projects that we are talking about he's done very well in. the issues of governance especially fighting corruption in all fronts leanest wall but is one of 29000000 tonnes and hands registered to vote on the 28th of october he

too has been watching political developments and is worried about the possibility of violence at the polls but. i want a leader who is not just promising things he has to deliver i like to see a more transparent election previously the results have been taking too long to come out and that increases. the more the election draws closer the more aggressive the complaints have become voters like will say we just hope to be able to cast their ballots safely katherine solely al-jazeera. that we have contacted the tanzanian government about these allegations but we've received no response that those motion is amnesty international's east and southern africa director and he's joining us on skype from johannesburg it's good to have you with us or what evidence does amnesty have the president is cracking down ahead of the election. thank you very much. since 2016 you know.

campaigning was president. and then selectively applied in terms of enforcement only position groups we have seen a significant shift in the direction of camping down in fee domes is special a freedom of expression freedom of peaceful assembly as well as association that is essential fans to train from. post to present. as the country moves towards election the idea that. these can only get cold consultation meetings only in the constituencies that they belong to as essentially limited the freedom to be. broadly across the country so if it set restrictions to getting political points to 2nd.

destructions targeting the media which has been victim off suspensions. fines and meant for you to be able to create. media institutions like a t.v. . t.v. a whole being victims of suspension or fines accused. of. and. distributing information the government believes is misleading to how the use should be carried out he says resulted in a climate where media societies the freedom to scrutinize public opinion and inform the public as it is constitutional. and right. then you have a level of frustration targeted it's society groups in particular those

organizations that are involved in human rights which such as the coalition of human rights defenders which brings together $160.00 individuals and organizations to work on promoting human rights. as well as civil society groups that are involved in it action today activities the significant deployment of legislative instruments every cell to the nominees to international that this is effect. of the law of the instrument as i was instrumental ization of the law to achieve a political objective in. the. use and in particular the president to create a climate in which human rights can be respected enjoyed and people enjoy before the law as we heard in catherine's report just a moment ago one of his or at least those who support him believe that the administration has been successful in terms of tanzania's economy and also its governance if people do believe that the administration has actually being doing

a good job does that undermining the public's interest or determination to make sure that the media for example has the freedoms that it has should have in tanzania and that the political opposition has the freedoms to oppose the government. is. meant the human rights situation in the context of elections it reviews. the enjoyment. to participate politically and. in keeping with the. mystique. that is focusing on ensuring that comes back. and human rights on the economy. has been upped and in the. present. development and emphasizing the.

development. rights respecting. musing economy in which. is. this report. before elections and the environment you need. media civil society and. critiques on the bed because there. are. 2 this creates an environment where instead of. 6 to justify its actions. the basic rights of people and this really needs to stop. thank you very much and.

thank you very much for having me. twitter has flagged a tweet by u.s. president donald trump as misleading after he claimed he was immune to corona virus when the chums also declared that he's free of covert 19 a week after testing positive comes as he gets ready to resume campaigning on monday the white house's doctor says trump no longer poses a risk of transmitting the virus but stopped short of saying if he tested negative . the top u.s. infectious diseases expert has accused donald trump's reelection campaign of twisting his words on the coronavirus pandemic president trump titled the environment. leaders. that anybody could do. antony funnell she says the campaign advert has been edited to make him seem to endorse the president's handling of the crisis the complete clip of these comments reveals that he was actually talking about his team he says in his 50 years of

public service he's never publicly endorsed any political candidate the u.s. supreme court nominee amy coney barrett's confirmation hearing is set to get underway later on monday that's despite 2 republicans on the senate judiciary committee having coronavirus republicans are pushing ahead rapidly to confirm barrett before november's election and expand the court's conservative majority a seat opened up after the death of a liberal justice ruth bader ginsburg a dying wish was for her to replacement to be chosen after the november vote 2 people have been jointly awarded this year's nobel prize for economics sciences americans paul milgram and robert wilson have been recognized for improving auction theory and the invention of new option formats are all swedish academy of sciences described their auction formats as a beautiful example of how basic research can spark inventions that benefit society

. the d.v.d. . on our new. house the. one. you. think. i didn't all just. need to be she. finishes the hour in the. auto much as an associate professor of economics at the university of west of england he's joining us on skype from bristol we appreciate your joining us thank you very much indeed. i'm not entirely sure what an auction format is are you in a position to be able to describe it to me simply. i was just thinking i feel sorry for journalists and others who have to try and explain the contribution of this year's winners because it is very technical it's very much about detail so it's to

do with for example do you see the other bidders in the auction do you see what they're betting can you hear them and see them or is it sealed bids and which order are bids placed in so people in 11 different places in the country will know that do not different or different countries different countries have different rules about housing options for example how you bid for the houses and so on so it's about this kind of thing which types of auctions get the best price or the price that best reflects what people think they want to pay for the thing that they're bidding for maximizes revenue for the seller and so on and so forth so it's very technical and in many cases very useful but probably not the kind of thing which generates really exciting headlines like perhaps some other areas of economics but i can understand we heard talk me anderson of the wall swedish academy of sciences saying this was had significant. influence when it comes to say fishing quarters

airport landing slots electricity and the emission allowances so i can understand that from a national perspective that's where it would play and given the fact that we're in the midst of a pandemic though why would it be a surprise to think that the counter that it wasn't one that was focusing on health economics as opposed to this kind of thing. well i think probably what we've seen here is a kind of safe option some of the names that were. suggested before the announcement would have generated more in the way of headlines and discussion you know for example one suggestion was work on migration work on minimum wages work on free trade these are all more politically directly sort of contentious topics i think so i think perhaps this has been chosen because it's a bit safe there i even say it perhaps a bit boring and it's not directly related to the current absolutely overriding

policy question of the pandemic but if they've chosen any particular. economist related to pandemic economics then that could have been seen as endorsing a particular view on policy at the moment i can see that they would not want to do their own if i understand it correctly the economics prize is pretty controversial because it doesn't fit in with alfred nobel's original categories of medicine and physics and chemistry and literature and peace is that the perception of the economics prize changing as the world's economies change. yes as you say technically it's not quite in the same category as the other prizes is awarded by the swedish central bank in memory of alfred nobel i do think that the nature of economics itself is changing if you go back 50 years or so you had almost philosophical debates you know the very high level between people like keynes who wanted more government intervention to control sort of help economies function better and those like hajek or friedman who opposed that the u.n.

wanted more free market policies and this kind of thing where as we see the very opposite end of the spectrum within a today's announcement a very technical narrowly focused you know paul in that particular piece of policy rather than the sort of big philosophical argument. in my own view is that actually this approach of highlighting individuals and sort of putting them on a pedestal is probably not a very healthy thing particularly for a discipline like economics which is very hierarchical very competitive very dominated by white men in the us and europe and so on so he's not representative of the world so i think economics itself has internal problems and i'm not sure that this sort of elevation of individuals is particularly healthy really good to get your thoughts on this job michel we appreciate it thank you very much all right thank you it's time for the weather here's rob and i were down in southeast asia

again and if you look at this secret you'll see we have got an existence in a moment not one not 2 but 3 tropical storms. it's going to carry our mother for a couple of weeks i think very warm south china sea lion in years in effect and recipient of the rain has been viet-nam along with parts of laos and cambodia such so it got extensive flooding it really is extensive this is way province just north of town and so half meter meter very extensively this is just one part of vietnam bear in mind it's also i think banana palms so with this on the ground you really want much more that's was topped up by lin for the last 5 days it had over a meter of rain said this yes they had 900 millimeters so it had at least $100.00 millimeters probably more than that on top let's start there and the story fairly obvious to the average 6 fifties or well exceed that this is quite a bad season but one car could be even worse the only good point is it's going further north than one car itself will be a proper tropical storm with winds of 85 kilometers for

a wave out of for me it is this is where it goes across heinen island says part of china that it carries on towards the coast of vietnam q. to make landfall slightly weaker on wednesday side if the north but core still pretty potentially devastating. you want to know does it i remind of our top stories this hour an undercover investigation biologist syria has exposed high ranking officials in cyprus expressing a willingness to aid convicted criminals to obtain e.u. citizenship in august the investigative unit released the cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the country's citizen by investment program. has been more fighting over the disputed region of narrow overnight media is reporting new shelling along the southern part of the line of contact however civilian areas have not been hit by john says it struck several military vehicles for breaching the

humanitarian cease fire. human rights activists are accusing tanzania's government of press accusing political opponents in the run up to this month's general election honesty international says the law is being weaponized to crackdown on opposition figures and journalists. the canary islands have seen the highest number of migrants arrive in 14 years more than 1000 people landed in the spanish islands off the coast of west africa over the weekend they're increasingly taking the more dangerous atlantico ocean route to reach europe instead of the mediterranean sea well it's cost lives to nicholas hike in dakar senegal it's a key transit country for west african migrants trying to reach europe and make who is using this. well it's mostly young men aged between 18 to 25 who are travelling. to the canary islands now these are not

refugees fleeing the war most are just playing instability in their home country or economic hardship simply put poverty i spoke to one u.n. official who told me that 30 percent of a sign. i'm cases being treated and the canaries are from sub-saharan africa are good aeons and as you know there's an election coming up in guinea it's a country that's been rocked by political instability a few years ago we've seen the same trend of gambians fleeing their country when. the former president didn't want to leave power that the economic hardship and what i'm alluding to is the coronavirus itself while these countries senegal guinea gambia mali were less affected by the virus itself they were badly affected by the economic fallout of the virus which means that in countries such as senegal constructions have salted construction workers don't have work and that has led to

the government. giving handouts and aid to communities that are not accustomed to such handout and that's pushing a lot of young men to take that dangerous journey to go to europe to the shores of europe. the the the authorities in the canaries on the end and a research group called the information migration institute says that there's a 500 percent increase of migrants headed towards the canary islands rob. why are the migrants choosing to come this way there are many different the have in the past at least been several different routes that they could have taken but this seems to be a key one. the route through the sahara desert and then on to libya to cross the mediterranean sea but it seems that the bilateral negotiations and relationship between the european union in some of these border countries such as libya and morocco has had the effect. of an

uptick patrol or patrolling it and stopping those migration flows i mean in morocco itself you know that you have the militia area 'd which is the border fence that separates. a well there's been a reinforcement of moroccan authorities there in fact the e.u. has poured large sums of money over since 2014 to a $1000000000.00 that was poured into morocco to try to stem out both migration and try to simulate those migrants in morocco but that hasn't stopped people from taking this dangerous journey from the coast here in senegal it's it's a week's. boat ride to the coast of rocco and from morocco the european union is just 14 kilometers away and this summer we saw the moroccan coast guard stop some of these migrants using jet skis kayak to cross over to the

canaries island $5000.00 people have made that crossing this year alone $250.00 have died and it seems that unless there is more done in the region here of senegal guinea and gambia then they will be continuing to be used by migrant smugglers and human traffickers rob thanks very much indeed that's nicholas reporting for us from dakar i want to talk to julia she's a senior analyst at the open society european policy institute she's joining us on skype from rome but we appreciate you giving us your time thank you it does seem though some of the countries where these migrants normally. if you like on their journey across across water are beginning to tighten their borders libya. as nic said it just seems the people traffickers and the migrants themselves are able to find another route. yes well that's been

a constant since migration from sub-saharan africa to europe again decades ago the minute you try to close 100 other routes open up or reopen as the case of the canary islands shows this was a very very much used in the $82000.00 that were shut down off intensified showing on the part of the spanish authorities and now it's rio so it just goes to show as as your correspondent was pointing out that people who are seeking a better life are going to find ways to reach safety to seek to seek aki iconic opportunities whatever the border violence and restrictions that they encounter and we're seeing that now it's a new and morocco but we're also seeing it if you look at the nationalities arriving and i think the biggest group actually algerians and not sub-saharan migrants and of course we know the turmoil in a cherry going on but the fact is that the route from algeria to side didn't it it has just been closed by the italians and so now the algerians appointing toward

spain so that's another route as well it just goes to show it's quite you can't close borders forcefully and what people will find other ways one of the interesting things that i find a knicks when i was talking to nick there was the fact that he was saying that many of these migrants are essentially economic migrants so they're fleeing what they perceive to be government oppression in their own countries or indeed seeing the impact of the coronavirus on the economy there has long been a suggestion that of course you have to deal with this in the country where the people come from rather than trying to deal with it as they arrive in europe but that is a very difficult difficult thing to deal with it's not that they're fleeing conflict it's that they're seeing a completely different set of circumstances i would imagine that is more difficult to take action against. it is an them european idea of checking the development funding of countries in the hope that michael's will stop arriving is of course short sighted and doesn't actually work the other point that i think tags onto what

your correspondent was saying was that a lot of the sub-saharan africans now arriving in the canary islands actually not being directly from senegal mali and getting and so on as people who had settled in morocco who had their jobs have been there in some cases for many many years have permits to where i can live there and what's happening is that and then they can do succession of caracas pushing those people out as well so there's 2 different kinds of migrants arriving and of course you need to stabilize both morocco and sub-saharan countries if you want more people to have viable economic prospects that but a simple solution of just you know giving countries who are development funding isn't going to work they need trade opportunities they need a lot more than just a few 100000000 euro and development funding and as your correspondent was pointing out several billions in border monitoring or fencing and so on how much strain do you think this is going to put on the canary islands which has already been receiving migrants over the last few months. well

a lot of strain and they are ready as i said had a an experience of this kind in the ne to thousands and the population of canary islands and was very very welcoming things are very different now there's an economic crisis in spain as well so the population might not be so welcoming as it was then. so my hope is that this will also help to boost the spanish government's opposition to the european union's plans for a migration act which essentially put the burden on countries like spain and greece and italy to basically lock people up and return as many of them as possible i think the spanish government's going to take a long hard look at the canary islands and conclude that what is on the table in brussels is not something that they want to take up turning the gun a senior analyst of the open society european policy institute we appreciate your time and thank you very much indeed thank you millions of students in 12 countries across africa are heading back to class the schools reopen following

a locked on this loss of more than 6 months and universities are also expected to open their doors despite the corona virus outbreak some lecturers are warning they won't be going back to work unless they get a pay raise welcome web went to visit a school in the kenyan capital nairobi. schools in kenya has reopened for the 1st time in 7 months but with some precautions in place children here have to wash their hands frequently with soap and i meant to be wearing my only 3 groups of resumes those that are due to city exams let's take a look inside this classroom these primary age children haven't been in class since march but children's rights organizations say this isn't simply about learning these children come from kipp era it's one of nairobi's most densely populated and poorest slums and the children's welfare organizations say if they're not at school

there are much greater risk of being sent to work all kinds of abuse and during the lockdown 1700000 kenyans have lost their jobs so that means that some children probably won't be coming back to school the tool use their parents are no longer in a position to afford uniforms lunches and so on now scientists are estimating that 10 years coronavirus pandemic already peaked in late july and that more than a 3rd of the old urban populations already had it means well on the way to herd immunity idol say that only one in 5 people who had the virus actually had any symptoms until less than 800 people have died here now it's not really understood why this is based on very low levels of testing a lot of skepticism about the government's data and the covert 19 response. to corruption scandals allegations of millions of dollars worth of funding being

stolen but nonetheless it's the scientific data is right it would suggest that kenya is over the worst of the pandemic and more schoolchildren in other yo groups may be able to resume their education soon. india's largest city was plunged into darkness on monday after a major failure of mumbai's electricity grid the power cut stranded train passengers and delayed college exams engineers blamed technical problems and say alec tricity has since been restored to many areas of the city flash flooding interventional rain have damaged at least 100000 homes in vietnam the stormy weather killed at least 18 people coast ships to sink and forced only 50000 people to seek shelter weather experts are warning that another storm is heading in from the south china sea. water levels in one of the longest rivers in south america have dropped to their lowest point in off a century activists

a devoted station and wildfires have led to months of extreme drought which we're getting reports. people imperiled why rely on this river for their livelihoods seeing both disappearing before that eyes the 2700 kilometer long paraguayan river starts in brazil flows through bolivia and paraguayan then into argentina activists say the destruction of brazil's amazon rain forest is having a direct impact on river levels imperiled why. the destruction of the amazon jungle in past decades has accelerated greatly it's caused destruction of the amazon produces a high percentage of the moisture we receive in the plaza basin the amazon rain forest in brazil is shrinking by the day activists blame president jaya both in our effect easing environmental restrictions which allows illegal logging and mining but the main culprits the cattle ranchers who set fires to clear the land for

pasture as a result neighboring paraguayan has suffered months of extreme drought that's had a devastating effect on its economy 85 percent of paraguayans foreign trade is transported along the river vessel traffic has slowed causing prices of imported goods to increase. the governments of paraguayan and brazil say water has been released from a hydroelectric dam to raise river levels environmentalist say much more needs to be done look i just what needs to be done is the enforcement of social and environmental safeguards the laws that protect the environment the laws that protect people. at the same time also battling wildfires congress has declared a national emergency. on the river ship and say the water level is decreasing by 3 or 4 centimeters a day they've lost $250000000.00 in trade and counting victoria gating be al-jazeera. researchers on the world's biggest mission to the north pole say they

have proof of a dying arctic ocean an ice breaker carrying $300.00 scientists and a year long trip to study the region as return to its home port in germany the mission's leaders say they witnessed global warming when they walked on thin and brittle ice in the north pole they warned of the trend continues there will be ice free arctic summers within the next few decades. anti-government demonstrators in belarus are keeping the pressure on president alexander lukashenko to step down the protested in the capital for the 10th consecutive sunday despite a crackdown by police alexander bios reports. bleeding from tear gas and stun grenades similar scenes of chaos and panic across the capital scores of people detained in the most violent police crackdown seen in weeks several 1000 protesters dodge police who used water cannon and stun grenades

tackled and beaten with batons by masked officers others seen injured and dazed on the ground. more than 13000 people have been detained in weeks of protests they say the presidential election in early august was rigged they're risking it all to demand president alexander lukashenko resignation people want change and yes of course the weather might strange things you know as we approach the winter but at the moment i see still a lot of mobilization and the fact that a lot of opposition think is have been even detained or pushed out of the country hasn't significant impacted the the mobilization on the ground people are still coming out to protest by the fact that these protests and fact simply leave the less. and unexpected meeting held by lucas and go with opposition activists in a prison led to many doubting the strength of his position of state media says he

discussed constitutional reform with his political rivals. you know half of you here are lawyers and perfectly understand that the constitution can't be written in the streets and i'm trying to convince both your supporters and society at large that we must have a broader view towards these problems. but beyond those prison walls the deadlock continues with military vehicles and armed police still dominating the streets and protesters vowing to continue until they see real democratic change. alexandra byers al jazeera. and still ahead on al-jazeera in sport basketball fans of the saga is a celebration of the end of a long wait for title success. board

. type of sport here saga thank you very much to a rob well the l.a. lakers have won the n.b.a. championship for the 1st time since 2010 the bron james that led the team to fall to series victory over the by me hate and it was and has. to get after a 10 year wait for a title win and 3 months of play inside a bio security bubble the end game had finally arrived for the l.a. lakers. bron james leading the team to the championship just as he promised to do when he joined the like has in 2018 for me to be a part of such a historical franchise is a it's unbelievable feeling not only for myself my teammates for the organization

for the coaches for the trainers everybody that's here. which is what i respect. very make a point blank shot james to the miami hated kept the series alive with a win in game 5 but this time out james and the lakers were on a different level this is a mazy nastily they built up a 28 point hof time lead the 2nd biggest in n.b.a. finals history. has shown him the 1st time. she mentioned 6 or 6 chima feel. the pressure this season has been about so much more than behavior now again days for although it seems the players is keen to talk about racial injustice as basketball. games try to fish or like yours have also been dealing with the death of franchise legend kobe bryant this season they said. would be played in his memory game 6 finished in 810-6293 win for the lake is for

the 1st time since bryant's 5th and final title a decade ago the lakers are celebrating again just as a 4th championship for james with his 3rd different. championship. i'm not sure if this is going to really be a championship a thing still a surgical strike on the matter without going to this point there's still a little remnants of doubt. you know compare me to you know the history of gaming. has he done it has he done it you know so. having that in my head haven't entered my mind cinema so why not still have some i've always believed in the broad james. you know is the greatest but he's the greatest player the best will universe has ever seen and if you think you know you don't know what it was called a. future coronavirus no fans have been allowed to witness the lakers only to

playoff charge los angeles is now enjoying its return to the top of the basketball world. and the rich it's an al-jazeera. well the nation's leading counter between the world and european champions it didn't quite live up to its billing well france versus portugal finished and nil nil draw the match it was a repeat of your 26 team final at the same venue in paris when portugal upset the host to win the title this result leaves a both teams level 7 points in the nation's league group all in the move to the top of their group with a 21 win over the world's top ranked team belgium chelsea may's amount to score in the 2nd half when a london's wembley stadium. we're not going to face a more complicated game defensively i think your face different sorts of challenge you know counter attack speed power but they've got

a bit of everything in their ranks and an enduring and they've got such a special player so. yeah i just think for us it was. a brilliant test. rafael nadal has called roger federer has a record of 20 grand slam titles and i'll beat world number one novak djokovic in straight sets to bring the french open is the 13th time to spend here that has won this title. for a great tournament for. me couple of time ago. was for me that starts part of the game. i want to say huge congratulations. on your team and your family of course. what you're doing on these core design believable not just this court threw out your entire career

you've been a great champion and today you know why you. have experienced it in my own skin. why lewis hamilton produced a record equalling performance of his own hamilton equalled michael schumacher. formula one victories by winning. in germany up to 9 to 10 when also extended his lead in this season's walk championship. seen his dominance for so long i don't think anyone and specially made him imagine that i would be. anywhere near my records so it's an incredible honor and to take some time to get used to going to see it as i came into the pit lane and when i realised that id could add even if you did it. south korea's kim jong un has won the 1st major title of her career kim's the closing round of 63 in kosovo gave her a 5 stroke victory at the women's p.g.a. championship. and that's it for me rob so thank you very

much indeed it's good to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories are some things very much indeed for being with you bill. he began with war and declared it just here i got shot i fall down i felt like i was that a documentary filmmaker once granted unconditional assigner contrasts his experiences with those seeking refuge today and intimate you know of the consequences of the policies of detainment is really unnecessary all this misery they cannot absorb

this number that people have to suffer in this way it is unacceptable refugees tail on to 0 frank assessments if american public opinion is betrayed by social media platforms after november what will be there with the cultures if you believe that there are corrosive to our democracy one obvious solution is to break the law informed opinions look at checkers don't go anywhere the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's ability of the revolution. in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound is another matter when you call. the news and current affairs that matter to you. the oppression of an ethnic minority and me and mine goes back many decades the intention was to make sure that rangers we're no longer entitled to either

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