document trees from the ground. 0. the confirmation hearing for donald trump's and cream court pick is underway as republicans rush to appoint to any county barry. designs is there on live from a headquarters in doha and teddy navigator also coming up russia says turkey will not be involved in peace talks in the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan as fighting continues despite a cease fire. high ranking cypriot politicians are implicated in a scheme to sell possible rights to criminals we have an exclusive investigation

and extreme weather warning the u.n. says the number of climate related natural disasters has doubled in 20 years and cost the world trillions of dollars. hello thanks for joining us a divided u.s. senate is pressing ahead with confirmation hearings for a supreme court nominee any tony barrett just 3 weeks from the presidential election so republicans are trying to rapidly confirm her and expand the court's conservative majority supreme court positions are lifetime appointments so judges are expected to serve for decades as the 1st hearing gets underway protesters both for and against barrett's confirmation have been chanting outside the courts that see became vacant after the death of liberal justice ruth bader ginsburg her dying wish was for her replacements to be chosen after the president. election of lindsey

graham is the republican chair of the senate judiciary committee and he defended the timing of barrett's nomination though the republican majority senate 4 years ago refused to consider barack obama's nominee in a similar situation in an election year what will happen is that my democratic colleagues will say this is never been done in their right in this regard nobody's i think's ever been confirmed in election year past july the bottom line is justice ginsburg when asked about this several years ago said that her present serves 4 years not 3 there's nothing unconstitutional about this process this is a vacancy this is a tragic loss of a great woman and we're going to feel that they could see with another great woman dianne feinstein as the senior most democrat in the senate judiciary committee she focused on a macone barrett's past statements and ruling suggesting opposition to the

affordable care act signed into law by barack obama and the court is set to hear arguments on the constitutionality off thought law on november 10th that's a week after the election. the stakes are extraordinarily high for the american people both in the short term and for decades to come most importantly health care coverage for millions of americans is at stake with this nomination so over the course of these hearings my colleagues and i will focus on that subject we will examine the consequent if and that's a big if republicans succeed in rushing this nomination through the senate before the next president takes office alan firster is joining us from capitol hill and we do expect to hear from a macone barrett herself sorte lee allen. it

will be a while that they're on break at the moment from lunch they're back in about 30 minutes then there are 7 more senators who have a 10 minute opening statement so that will take is 2 beyond the hour and then at that point in the call me about it will be introduced to the committee among those speaking after the lunch break carla harris who of course is the democratic vice presidential nominee but also an important member of the judiciary committee it think lindsey graham has realized the real politic of the moment as well he understands that democrats are very angry they point to the fact that merrick garland wasn't confirmed 4 years ago when barack obama announced his nomination in the final months of his presidency at that point the republicans say no it's an election year we couldn't possibly do that we've got to let the people have their say and of course this time around they were more than happy to do it their argument is it's a republican president it's a republican senate therefore they have every right to push ahead with this because a president for 4 years there may be questions on whether or not they can continue

to push it through there's going to be a question too about the tone of the democrats' questioning that will happen on tuesday and wednesday that is when we are likely to see. the committee at its most part designed its morse vocal its most vociferously we will hear from all of the senators who sit on the committee it's likely the democrats will steer away from equally by its feet she is a catholic she's very clear that she has made several rulings that people believe are in line with her faith there's no political win in the democrats going that way but what they will do and we had that from dianne feinstein is say look if you vote for me look at our past writings then there is a potential that the affordable health care act also known as obamacare could be at risk when it comes up in court on november the 10th one week after the election because at that point they'll be talking about preexisting conditions of the straight down the law then 23000000 people may well lose their coverage which

includes preexisting conditions the argument that the democrats are making the understand they can't maybe change republican votes in the room but we know that 2 democrats 2 republicans have said that they will not vote for the nomination before the election if the democrats can make a strong enough case to the american people they hope people will pick up their phone call the republican center and say do not vote or you will lose my vote because i will lose my create existing condition so it's not about changing the rules in the room it's about putting public pressure on republicans outside the room to change their bill so that when it goes to the full senate there is the possibility that the republicans might not have enough troops to carry it through the moment the republicans seem to think that they do ok alan so if the democrats are some of them rather are saying that they will stay away from the committee vote next week if that were to happen can then not stop the nomination from going through. it's

a really interesting point if you start to look through senate rules to can what it says is there has to be a quorum has to be a number of people there from the opposition party senate rules can also be ignored but what it's clear is that no nomination can go to the senate floor unless a majority of the members are in paris and so that would mean on this committee where there's 12 republicans and 10 democrats there needs to be 12 republicans in the room voting no why is that important well 2 of them were struck down by cooler didn't recent days tom tillis who's been contributing remotely and mike lee who we're told has got his doctor's approval to go ahead and actually in the room if there were to be many more bricks of corporate particularly among the judiciary committee and they struck down republicans and say they could come and they couldn't vote then there would be a problem that is when it becomes a difficulty of passing that nomination over to the senate for a fool vote but at the moment there's been

a call to arms from the republican leadership they believe that all 12 including those who are participating remotely today and to morrow will be on in the room on thursday for a vote so even if the democrats don't show up it will still go through and will be left to the full senate to vote what happens at the full senate while the democrats are talking about filibusters and point of order and delaying it for as long as possible but lindsey graham the chairman of the judiciary committee is pretty clear he thinks that this nomination will get out of committee with a vote on thursday ok allan fessor thank you very much for that update from capitol hill well sabra townsell was outside the supreme court that's where protests were held as that hearing kicked off a very small but determined group of protesters both for and against the nomination and confirmation of any turnabout here outside the supreme court. those against the interesting and white house. one of the many objections they have to the

proceedings is that no one was required to test before the hearings took place and to one of the organizers but all in love with us. what's at stake for you during this confirmation hearing. right now the focus is on a confirmation hearing when it should be about the american people people in america we need to make sure you have a relief package that includes health care. for people who have lost their jobs that supports businesses that supports child care so your point is that should be here and people. should focus should be on people who live in america not a court but what about the confirmation itself. of. what about just not the right person. should make sure that. i'm going to be on the supreme court versus that thinking about all of the needs of the people and. if you can

look at her record her record has not been very. conservative in all of her rulings so now with this going to make it more conservative i'm concerned about the. people who are on if it is unconstitutional. not have coverage preexisting conditions not have coverage he says obamacare the health care thing but is there a sense if you've lost this battle that she will be. well it's not over until it's over it's not over yet. and we're going to continue to resist and as long as there is resistance you have to define our standing up for what we believe in and that we are putting people 1st example of what route to happen in america people need to be before politics and we need to make sure that people who live in america are taking care of us continue to fight i do very much and there is a sense that perhaps the republicans do have the votes that this nation will go through. but there's also a sense that the democrats didn't fight as hard as the republicans might have if they were in the same position and the various democrats immediately met with

a mccain about for example whereas when president obama nominated his choice for a chief justice of justice rather the republicans even mentioned so there's a bit of frustration with the democrats for the terminations if i don't anywhere. russia's foreign minister has indicated that turkey will not be involved in peace talks over the disputed region of the gorno care about the foreign ministers of armenia and russia have been meeting in moscow while azerbaijan has proposed its ally turkey be involved in discussions but russia surrogate lavrov says there will be no changes to the format for peace talks over the region there was more fighting throughout sunday nights with both sides accusing each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire. when funerals have been held in the azerbaijani village or some care for the victims of sunday's attacks on ganja at least 9 people were killed and 34 others wounded by shelling in the early hours of the morning hundreds have been killed across the region since fighting flared at the end of last month

this is the worst violence between the 2 sides in decades but this is the we reached an important agreement on sense today initiated by president putin but we see that this agreement is not being fully complied with and the fighting is continuing we expect that our contacts with you are now as a by johnny neighbors including by our defense ministries will ensure full compliance with the agreements that were reached in a trilateral format. which since september 27 the full scale aggression against the people of nagorno-karabakh has continued meanwhile a military solution is being openly expressed as a solution to the car but conflict as well as the physical extermination of the people of nagorno-karabakh the azari armed forces ignored their obligations to not target civilians the absence of military objectives in the area that i was advised on is attacking proves their motives yet again which is equivalent to war crimes and undercover investigation by al jazeera has exposed high ranking officials in

cyprus expressing a willingness to aid convicted criminals obtain a us citizenship in august the investigative unit released this cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the country's says a citizen by investment program and now as phil reese reports the investigation leads to the highest offices of the cypriot states the cyprus investment program allows foreigners to buy 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 for all robbery and. whether there are problems it costs more money to achieve these things so what we would do is find out who has to be spoken to be paid what investments need to be my best to give you what i think the case a part of a network of enable is that include lawyer and raise protect this song business opportunities. when you can go to it is going to go. it touches describes a 2 track application system the official route and another for difficult cases that requires more money but they can still get a philosopher to know what insane option. goes over them we've already. seen if you want to do that and. then look at cities in any book in the

regulation even our news and we want. to ask questions asked. like. how high. the higher the better. our undercover reporters meet property developers and politicians who repeat the same message. people take us for. our undercover reporters are finally invited to discuss mr x.'s passport application with the president of the cypriot parliament you can tell it. without permission maybe you were here for support. i don't know what he did. to you so that i didn't. have to prepare its. 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 because you said he filed a report about them with cypresses and the money laundering unit. system phil race al-jazeera still ahead on al-jazeera jobless and hungry in brazil the pandemic leaves millions wondering where their next meal is coming from alan basketball fans in los angeles are celebrating the end of a long wait for title success. hello we can say goodbye to chan home now i see another one but the time because in open water now we look to weather coming off the land and that's a cold front you'll be seeing more and more of those behind it should be when she

weather not yet 9 degrees and then if you follow the tail end of it you still got some development of rain in western china as not much to it but a bit my shirts off and she one of the more obviously is down here one can now that is a tropical storm a woman's in the south china sea which is jus to make landfall in vietnam as you already know vietnam cambodia and laos are already flooded then fine just added to it in fact the rains are spread as far south as cambodia the capital is still flooded this was just taken yesterday it's not particularly deep but it is pretty extensive but i will probably make landfall further north and in viet nam and it might be a little bit stronger than lynn far as well the winds might be something to consider but brady's got to be inevitable and because it is drawing so much of the moisture from the atmosphere that will tend to lessen the showers further south we haven't seen that many in these here recently but as you can see from the forecast borneo is full of these big showers but beyond that if you're in john for example it's

quite dry. but. i'm counting the cost except from the pandemic who will pay to get vaccines to the world's poorest in kastrup zimbabwe strike oil using drilling reports in the 1990 s. and what's behind china's plot to lift 1000000000 people into the middle class. counting the cost on al-jazeera. from the for venice of caracas to the battlefields around also i would job is to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge .

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera a divided u.s. senate is now charging ahead with confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee amy cody barrett republicans are trying to rapidly confirm barrett before november's election and expand the court's conservative majority. russia's foreign minister has indicated that turkey will not be involved in peace talks over the disputed region if i'm going to care about azerbaijan has proposed its ally turkey be involved in discussions armenia and azerbaijan are accusing each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire. an undercover investigation by al jazeera 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. investigative reporter david harrison is the next c.e.o.

and has more on the reaction to al-jazeera as investigation. we had a press conference given by the president of parliament dimitrius a lewis who features in our investigation he decided to attack the messenger claiming that al-jazeera had an interest in doing down cyprus on costing it in a bad light exposing locks regulations and locks the rules and he said that he hints that there was another agenda a wider agenda he also said that up to me see with the dot on the probable into the preston for details of his name and background and if this doesn't tally with that with the material that we have. he also said it was in his interest to he wants to protect cypresses interests he claimed that the timing of all our report the release of our documentary was significant which was seen as a veiled reference to a link with turkey when in fact what mr sillars doesn't know is that cyprus wasn't

even on our radar when we began this investigation the re-investigation began in the u.k. and is only when a former british police officer told us that he had contacts in cyprus who could get an e.u. possible for a criminal from china that we went to cyprus that was when cyprus came into the equation the other thing that was interesting about mr sulu press conference was that for the 1st time we saw signs of a rift between the people exposed in our investigation the lawn she was he attended where you met on the cover of porters was held at the house of christakis giovanni an m.p. and the founder of the giovanni property development group which has a link to golden possibles and mr serious was aust why he why he attended the launch why the undercover reporter was invited to this lunch mr christakis his house and then a service looked a little uncomfortable and went on the defensive and sun almost snapped and said well you have to house do you have any about that. and by the way you can watch

that investigation the cyprus papers under cover tonight a 20100 hours g.m.t. e.u. foreign ministers say they're ready to sanction belorussian president alexander lukashenko the e.u. are ready sanctions for day other by the russian officials to step up pressure against the violent crackdown on protesters the move comes after a look a psycho held on expected talks with jailed opposition activists to discuss constitutional reform meanwhile the belorussian interior ministry has told police they can use lethal weapons against protesters on sunday more than 700 people were arrested as they rallied against the bush and co for a 9th consecutive day by the wrist has been rocked by months of on rest following a disputed election in. britain's prime minister says he won't impose another full coronavirus lockdown what is almost $14000.00 new daily infections were reported boris johnson warned that the weeks and months ahead will be difficult he

announced a 3 tier system of local lockdown measures in england including a ban on some households mixing indoors emergency hospitals have been put on standby in cities with high infection rates. there are those who say that on that logic we should go back into a food the national look down of indefinite duration the closing schools and businesses tell you people again save as we did in march once again shattering our lives and our society i do not believe that would be the right course we would want to live be depriving our children of their education we would do such damage to our economy is to erode our long term ability to fund the n.h.s. and other crucial public services. healthcare workers in china have been told to test all line 1000000 residents of an entire city in just 5 days qingdao reported

a dozen cases linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients all 11000000 people and where the global pandemic initially started were tested in may. brazil is the world's 3rd largest food producer but new data has revealed that more than 10000000 brazilians are going hungry and as the coronavirus bandai plunges more people into poverty that number is set to rise want to reports. there's no shortage of healthy food in this bustling street market in rio de janeiro a covert 1000 pandemic may have crippled brazil's economy but it still produces enough to feed one 6th of the earth's population something president shade balsam model made a point of reminding world leaders at this year's u.n. general assembly. up is that despite the international crisis brazil's agricultural production never stops and we produce enough to feed 1000000000 people. yet more

than $10000000.00 brazilians experience of year food insecurity according to government data just released by the brazilian institute of geography and statistics and that was before the coronavirus pandemic now the situation is worse than you living in poverty has always been a problem in brazil but the poor were invisible the pandemic is showing hungers truth ace and i cloud used to organize tourism events in austria she returned to brazil for short his it but ended up staying to work is a volunteer in a soup kitchen most of these people in this line lost their jobs to the recession and the pandemic like power mutambara who left his small town to look for work in rio de janeiro i don't live in. the corona virus left me stranded here and homeless

but at least i'm getting fed and can use the public bathroom to bathe 3 times a week. according to unicef survey during the 1st months of the pandemic the number of hungry in brazil rose dramatically. well ringback one in every 5 brazilians went hungry or admitted not having enough money to buy food the population as a whole lost about half of its income but families with children and adolescents suffered a bigger loss of 63 percent brazil is still the world's 3rd largest producer of food. last year brazilians exported $32000000000.00 worth of agricultural products to $180.00 countries but experts are warning the government that the country will be back on the united nations hunger map it's a place brazil had left 6 years ago. and on inhabitable hell for millions of people dots what the planet is becoming due

to the lack of action on climate change according to a strongly worded united nations report it says in the past 2 decades more than 7000 major natural disasters have been recorded that figure has nearly doubled in the past 20 years being traces are mostly attributed to floods and storms and the u.n. is also accusing political and business leaders of willingly sowing the seeds of our own destruction it says industrial nations have failed miserably on reducing greenhouse gas emissions researchers on the biggest missions of the north pole have also released some of their findings what they've documented is extensive amounts of sea ice melting away they predict there will be ice free arctic summers within the next few decades. we do have a just but all this world is threatened we really saw how the ice is disappearing north of greenland we found broad expenses of open water in an area where the

should normally be thick ice parts of it multi-year ice and even at the pole the ice is completely mounted and full of holes it was very evident you could see it all around you didn't need measuring instruments the ice is dying if we keep going as we are in the arctic will be ice free in some of within a few decades and the world i just described will no longer exist says dennis mclean is a spokesman for the u.n. office for disaster risk reduction there behind this report and he outlines the short term mood for disaster preparedness. we are trying to highlight by publishing this report is the need to strengthen disaster risk of or nun's so that governments un member states put in place national strategies for managing risk reducing disaster risk would clear vision and competent agencies to to put these strategies into effect because if we don't the future looks very bleak indeed asia's the most disaster prone part of the world of course is the most densely

populated part of the war and we can see also that asia is also bearing the brunt of the covered 19 pandemic. asia also has done a very good job in some cases of reducing loss of life from disasters i mean i would cite the example of bangladesh where 50 years ago 1000000 people died in the cycle of november 970 recently we had another cycle in a bangladesh of similar magnitude and only 19 people died the difference in those 50 years is that the government has taken action decisively they've put in place a very effective cycle on preparedness programme which has significantly reduced the loss of life in the india affected coastal areas because they've got a very good early warning system huge numbers of volunteers disseminating the warnings on the warnings lead to ardea early action people evacuating a good time and that's

a good model on which to base it on damage preparedness and other prepared to spro grahams that need to be put in place to reduce the loss of life astronomers have captured their 1st glimpse of a distant star being torn apart by a black hole so they've been observing the event for the past 6 months from the european southern observatory and chalet it confirms theories about what happens when a star is destroyed by a black hole a star as material is wrecked into threads in a bright flash before disappearing from space and time. my. fellow the headlines on al-jazeera a divided u.s. senate is now charging ahead with confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee amy kone barrett's republicans are trying to rapidly confirm her before november's election and expand the country's conservative majority alan fisher has.