to make sure that we're no longer entitled to either basic rights or citizenship brunch. al-jazeera explores the history and motives behind the systematic persecution of the ranger in. exile. and how to steer a. high ranking cypriot politicians are implicated in the scheme to sell e.u. passports to criminals we have an exclusive investigation. sami's a this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up 48 hours into a cease fire reports of more shelling in the garden a color bar threatens the shaky truce. rights groups accuse

tanzania's president of behaving like a dictator and clamping down on this and ahead of elections. more than a 1000 migrants in 2 days why spain's canary islands are seeing the biggest surgeon 14 years. 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 the investigative unit released the cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the country's citizen by investment program now as phil reese reports investigation leads to the highest offices 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 a 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 fall 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 be paid what vested states be made most

of it what i think the case apart of a network of enablers that include lawyer and raise protect this song business opportunities probably when you can go to it is even going to be huge potential describes a 2 track application system the official route and another for difficult cases that requires more money you can still get a farcical to what insane option. goes over them we overdid it and. see if you want to do that. and look and see what is in any book in the regulations even our needs and we want. to ask questions asked. why. how how you top the higher the better. our undercover reporters meet property developers and politicians who repeat the same message. we have people taking 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. i don't know politically. crucial i'm going to. have to prepare it's like making sure. when confronted with the evidence all of those involved in ny any wrongdoing. they claim they were aware from the onset that our undercover reporters represented a criminal after our team left as you said he filed a report about them with cypresses and the money laundering unit. phil reese al-jazeera. ever said of reporter david harrison is in there because here and has more on the reaction to al-jazeera investigation. local people are 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 rather from christakis giovanni is the m.p. and the man who founded one of the biggest property development companies cyprus and from to me to salute the president of the parliament 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 treatment and that they did go to the money laundering authorities but only after our reporters have left. they haven't disclosed exactly what they said to the authorities. citing legal confidentiality but we will certainly wait for some some detail on. the presence of the very powerful and influential figure in cypress he's just saying that they were suspicious of the end of contract 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 and. 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 to see him and he let alone the president the parliament is an enormous thing was an element of doubt but he then carried on he 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 spelt out every available opportunity that he was a chinese criminal with a conviction of 7 years for bribery a money laundering. gold is a german greens european free alliance member of the european parliament he joins us on skype from berlin good to have you with us how disturbed by this report. well

this is shocking and the revelations show again that we have a reality of criminal structures in cyprus which an assault on the rule of law and the fight against crime in europe and this needs finally a treaty by relation procedure by the european commission now what do you expect surprise authorities to do now what would you call on them to do well i think that this needs a serious investigation in cyprus but i'm not naive enough to believe that cyprus is alone able to clear up the mess because what is so shocking about these pictures is how natural it seemed so this was not a one case an accident but it seemed structural and therefore it is key that the european union takes over and that this means that the president program and the

investment program have to be ended and for this we have to use the tools of european law of a treaty by our nation procedure this is not just a concern for cyprus right because what's at stake here is an e.u. passport right. this is not only a cyprus problem because we have very similar programs in malta in by the garia in portugal and others and they are basically an open door for criminal money into the european union and this is therefore an assault on our successful model of the social market economy where owners of capital at the same time responsible toward democracy and to the workers and their local authorities and if we let in criminal money this will shape change the way how we want to live together and work together and as you mentioned there are several countries with investment for passport

schemes do you suspect that there are problems that you know cyprus is not alone and has problems perhaps in some of the these other countries too we always knew that cyprus is an extreme case but we have also seen criminals receiving a multis passport we have seen a lot of cases in portugal which has by far the largest program and well we have also some indications from bio garia and montenegro which is not yet an equal member but this is so big problem and has to be tackled everywhere the resident and in. the passport programs as well as the visa programs have no place in the rule of law in europe thank you very much for your thoughts on that thank you. there's been renewed fighting over and over no despite a cease fire coming into effect 48 hours ago armenia is reporting shelling along

the southern part of the so-called line of contacts in the occupied region however civilian areas not been hit as of by john says it's destroyed several military vehicles for breaching the humanitarian cease fire bird smith says in godless armenia he explains why armenians foreign minister is meeting with officials in russia about the conflict. he's in moscow for a show jules meeting with a lot of rove 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 up minutes and he's been complaining as he has before of various airy breaches of the ceasefire but lover of russian's foreign minister he has said clearly we spent a lot of time getting this cease fire agreement together but it's not being

observed he said and military actions continue but as we think our contacts including with the ministries of defense of both sides will allow us to uphold the agreement we have so clearly confident that he's able to exert enough pressure on azerbaijan and armenia to try and fully enforce the ceasefire it has been relatively calm in most armenian most villages and towns in the gorno karabakh except for the town of hadrons 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 there has about johnnie's 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 azerbaijan if it took control of this nagorno-karabakh ethnic armenian town sinan cross all who is in generally very john where funerals have been held for the victims of the attacks on the city of. this is a village its previous name is a lenin village and it's close by again jed the reason why i'm here and the reason why i'm standing in front of a graveyard is that you also wish them who were killed. after the attack after a missile hits ganja city center yesterday they were buried right behind me a couple almost half an hour ago it was very crowded here people left already and when you look at the civilians of course the atmosphere is not so bright because everybody is full of emotions almost most of us are big chance it is and are angry and they are mourning for their people who lost their lives whether they know these

people or not for instance those put the 2 for people who are very it were a couple they say they're 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 told 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 a group of diplomats present this is all foreign diplomatic missions and back you were invited to ganja and manga to a city that was also hit. the other night came to the scene. in the us under the auspices of 1 a rage on that that is and they were given information about the situation. well

still ahead on al-jazeera. that anybody could be doing. the top kill with 19 expert in the u.s. accuses the trumpet ministration of twisting his words for a campaign video. and basketball fans in los angeles is celebrating the end of a long wait for title success. hello chan home is still mark here on the job because to exist is doing nothing as far as people are concerned this is rather more active cold front yes the behind is slightly code was not really winter yet still largely has now been but it does mean it pepa the rain for a while and then on tuesday we've got showers coming down the flood just a scratching ever was still such a grand home ship further west and that we've got the bottom end of it all started

to grow this is not really what you would call seasonal rays just a bit of a legacy rain that might be significant around sheehan is trying to stretch out towards the northeast of china but it won't do very much i don't think more active is what's happening down south china sea yes another tropical storm which make landfall in vietnam sometime on wednesday further north than the one that's just culture didn't. there so tied up with what is the sinking range that it's the monsoon troughs we station over india for going south when they do that they tend to spin up these tropical storms every now again and here is what it will get no more when strength that will define is more than a tropical depression but it will of course increase the rain flood risk is quite high for under pradesh and on the other side from go a southwards to kara. it was a war that united egypt and syria are against israel but in the heat of the battle

that different agendas soon became apparent as a tele that is being used to avenge to see tonight a 67 when president sadat came to power he told us just give me 10 centimeters of land in the east the 2nd of a 3 part series the israeli population were told that their troops were on the west bank of the series can exploit the 2nd week of the war in october on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching out the 3rd time to recap our headlines and on the cover investigation by al-jazeera has exposed high ranking officials in cyprus

expressing a willingness to aid the convicted criminals to obtain a new citizenship in august the investigative unit released the cyprus papers travailed serious flaws in the country's citizens by investment program. has been more fighting over the disputed region of the god located about overnight i mean here is reporting new shelling along the southern part of the line of contact over civilians have been hit today. as a version says it struck several military vehicles for breaching be humanitarian cease fire. amnesty international is accusing the tanzanian government of cracking down on this and the head of the sponsor general election the rights group says the law is being weaponized to target opposition figures and journalists the main opposition candidate says he doesn't believe the vote will be free or fair his catherine soy i too lisa says he's worried about his safety while

campaigning is also concerned about the independence of the electoral commission that barred him from compay mean for 7 days last week electoral fishel said 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 gunman 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.

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 tons and hand 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. 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 insurance the more the election draws closer the more aggressive the campaigns have become voters like will say we just hope to be able to cast their ballots safely catherine soy al-jazeera or we've contacted the tanzanian government about these allegations but received no response. the canary islands have seen the highest number of migrants arrive in 14 years more than a 1000 people landed in the spanish islands off the coast of west africa over the weekend they're increasingly taking the more dangerous than planned to go should route to reach europe instead of the mediterranean sea nicholas hock is in that car senegal which is a key transit country for west african migrants trying to reach europe. it's mostly young men aged between 18 to 25 who are traveling to the canary islands

now these are not refugees fleeing war most are just fleeing 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 asylum cases being treated in the canaries are from sub-saharan africa are gideon's 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 a former president didn't want to leave power to 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 halted 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 who. 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. has flying to tweet for us president trump misleading after he claimed he was immune to corona virus. free of covert 90 a week after testing positive comes as he gets ready to resume campaigning on monday white house doctor says no longer poses a risk of transmitting the virus stone short of saying if he tested negative. well the top u.s. infectious diseases expert is accusing donald trump's reelection campaign of

twisting his words about the coronavirus pandemic president trump tackled the violence channel leaders. anybody could do it. and to be filed she says the campaign ad has been edited to make him seem to be endorsing the president's handling of the crisis the complete clip of fall choose comments reveals he was actually talking about his team he says in his 50 years of public service he's never publicly endorsed any political candidates the u.s. supreme court nominee any county 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 barack before november's election and expand the court's conservative majority a seat opened up after the death of liberal justice ruth bader ginsburg her dying wish was for her replacement to be chosen after the november vote. people

in pakistan say they're struggling to afford the basics and it's pushing more people into poverty the crow virus has seen a rise in food prices and caused job losses. the reports from islamabad the world bank is warning the next 2 years could be tough. after months of closure because of the corona now why risk their merger and 3 businesses are now resuming air in pakistan despite warnings from the government their lifting of the emergency judge not mean that their country is out of the war the world bank and also been giving it. about the bleak situation that exists and the point 5 percent g.d.p. growth for budget with your fortune delorme pakistan has gone from food insecurity with about 30000000 people will food insecurity to

a situation where 26000000 people are food insecure today in a time span from 2004 to 20181 of the challenges of pakistan is every time he makes gains and then there is a setback do you see the tool natural hazards for example if you look at pakistan in the last 18 months it's been hit by drug floods called even the nurse quick in the north and then locust and then of course so this year we start to see the very close link between economy economic growth. poverty and security the world bank is also warning there are 3rd year engrave around the world already in pakistan or have a impact on the country's economy something that has become a source of criticism particularly for the opposition parties who are now blaming the government for mismanaging the economy they're threatening to large protests

across the country and added pressure on the government to resign the people are already complaining that the prices of essential commodities have shot up by the prices of groceries like wheat rice sugar and even the vegetables have gone up and sometimes it's hard to buy we had high pain in one cons government but unfortunately things have gone from bad to worse than. inflation and unemployment has made our lives miserable i mean in $2.00 to $3.00 a day but i can't afford to buy things for my family due to the high cost of daily commodities the government said it is confident that it will be able to mitigate the effect on the economy the opposition may be hoping to capitalize on the people . who are fed up with driving fuel prices of essential come ordered and the cost of living there for the government will be within the next few months to see whether they're able to deliver on their promise say given the fact that the

country still had many other issues to contend with. india's largest city was plunged into darkness on monday after a major failure of mumbai's electricity grid power cuts stranded train passengers and delayed college exams and in is blamed technical problems so electricity is been restored to many areas of the city. 2 people have been jointly awarded this year's their world prize for economics sciences americans paul milgram and robert wilson been recognized for improving auction theory and the invention of new auction formats the royal swedish academy of sciences described their auction formats as a beautiful example of how basic research can spark inventions and benefit society the l.a. lakers have won the n.b.a. championship for the 1st time since 2010 le bron james led the team to

a $4.00 to $2.00 series victory over the miami heat. and the richardson reports. to get said was about it 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 that it's all believe will feel that not only for myself my teammates what organization for the coaches what the trainers everybody that's here. which is what i respect thank you very much 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 hard time lead the 2nd biggest in n.b.a.

finals history but i. want to show thank you for the 1st time i thought she would sound like such to me feel i appreciate this season has been about so much more than behavior now again days for all the teams players came to talk about racial injustice as basketball thank you dr i just think you should like kids 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 a one i 6 to 93 win for the lake has for the 1st time since bryant's 5th and final title a decade ago the lake has all celebrating again tuesday and it's a 4th championship for james with his 3rd different scene and it will be a championship pleasure thank you so much this historic sunday johnny would be a championship was still deciduous like the matter without going to mark roberts this point there's still

a little rumblings of doubt or you know compare me to you know the history of a game and. has he done it has he done it you know so. having that in my head having never my ma in cinema so why not still have some of the pull of always believed in the broad james. you know he's a greatest he's a great player that's what universe is ever seen and if you think you know you don't know when i called. you to coronavirus no fans have been allowed to witness the lake his latest playoff charge and los angeles is now enjoying its return to the top of the basketball world i am the rich it's an al-jazeera. and let's take you through some of the stories we're following here on al-jazeera now an undercover investigation by al jazeera has exposed high ranking officials in

cyprus expressing a willingness to aid convicted criminals to obtain citizenship.