if you want to help save the world. the confirmation hearing for donald trump's supreme court pick is underway as republicans rush to appoint any berets. from headquarters in doha also coming up. turkey will be involved in peace talks in the fight between armenia and azerbaijan as fighting continues despite a cease fire. high ranking cypriot politicians are implicated in a scheme to sell 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. polo a divided senate u.s. senate is pressing ahead with the confirmation hearings for a supreme court nominee a macone 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 became vacant after the death of liberal justice ruth bader ginsburg her dying wish was for her replacement to be chosen after the presidential election. lindsey graham as the republican chair of

the senate judiciary committee 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 they're being 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 occurred through a tragic loss of a great woman and we're going to fill that vacancy with another great woman diane feinstein is the senior most democrat in the senate judiciary committee she focused on amy kone barrett's past statements on rulings suggesting opposition to the affordable care act signed into law by barack obama and the court is set to hear

arguments on the constitutionality of the law on november the 10th 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 consequence is if and that's a big if republicans succeed in rushing this nomination through the senate before the next president takes office let's bring in alan fessor has joined us from capitol hill so what's the takeaway so far from the hearings. well the battle lines have been drawn as far as the republicans are concerned they are saying that what they are doing is absolutely constitutional the mcwhinnie burnet

is a person who is more than qualified to sit on the supreme court and that the should move to her nomination as quickly as possible as for the democrats or they say that this whole process is being rushed to an election actually underway with voting early voting in 40 states underway at the moment that the republicans in the past have blocked any nominations in an election year and that if you listen to what we call me about it has written in some academic ratings particularly on issues like roe v wade which is the law which essentially ensures that there's abortion available in the united states for the affordable health care that once known as obamacare then those things might be at risk is certainly a point that the democrats hammering the keep coming up with stories from their constituents who've been covered by the affordable healthcare act this preexisting conditions are covered the reason this is so important is that the week after the election on november the 10th the supreme court will hear an action called texas

versus california which could challenge that insurance companies in making sure that preexisting conditions are recognized and covered if the court decides to throw that out millions of americans will lose a lot of the preexisting coverage or it will cost a lot more to do that the democrats are saying that by putting it on the bench gives that a real chance of going through so they are trying to delay this as much as they can but as lindsey graham said recognizing the real politic of this this is probably going to go through the judiciary committee it will be approved by a vote on thursday what we will hear on tuesday and wednesday is questioning of the judge and that is when things are going to get rancorous and probably quite vigorous and very partisan here so allan so to what extent are the democrats going to be looking for ways to drop this process or even stop the

nomination. ok let's split into 2 things is the committee and then there's a full senate and you've got to be passed by the committee before the nomination can go to the full senate and the committee there has to be a majority of people present when they vote no there are 10 or 10 democrats or 12 republicans that means all 12 republicans have to be end of the room if the democrats go ahead with the threat not to sure up that becomes complicated because at least 2 republicans are currently working from home because of a covert crisis one thom tillis with the self isolating ted cruz is doing so out in months of caution what was surprising is that mike lee who was at the event at the white house where any 20 but it was unveiled as a supreme court pick he contract it covered and 10 days later 16 days later he's actually in the hearing room and when he spoke he took off his mask no if for any

reason a number of republican senators suddenly found themselves ill couldn't attend underwent 12 there that would essentially stop the nomination going on to the senate floor let's say it all goes the way that the republicans want and battle lines and it goes to the senate floor what the democrats are trying to do is flip to senator snowe 5347 in the senate that means that the republicans almost certainly got the votes but 2 republicans have said that they're not going to vote for the nomination because it's so close to an election that means the democrats need to flip to senators how did they do that probably not with arguments in the committee room or in the senate floor but through public opinion so they're using the stories of the affordable health care act telling people that they could lose their coverage are doing them to call their senators particularly if the republicans and saying you can't vote against this you can't vote for this to go through rather they may all source then start doing things like points of order and filibustering anything. to

believe the. republicans think they've got the votes donald trump says he thinks they've got the votes and he would certainly like to see this done before november the 3rd but it's the next $23.00 days that are going to determine whether or not this vote goes to the senate floor at the moment if you were a betting woman i would suggest that you probably see yes but many a slip between lip and cut as they see so it's not a done deal yet ok allan thank you very much for that update from capitol hill and that is of course senator collins harris speaking right now. on the confirmation hearing that's underway. of course the v.p. of the vice president show a democratic nominee and we do expect a macone barrett to be speaking at some point this hour we understand as soon as she does start speaking we will cross over to that confirmation hearing and bring it to you live right here on al-jazeera well shihab rattansi in all this is going

on inside and she has written she was outside the supreme court where protests were held as that hearing kicked off. a very small but determined group of protesters both for and against the nomination confirmation of i me here outside the supreme court. there's a game to go to make next interesting and white house. one of the many objections they have to the proceedings is that no one was required to have a curve a test before the hearings took place and 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 she knew about people who live 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 there should be hearings and people. should the focus should be on people who live in america not

a court but what about the confirmation itself. and what about just not the right person i think we need to make sure that. we're going to be on the supreme court 1st and that thinking about all of the needs of the people and we need to be fair 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 people not have coverage preexisting conditions will not have coverage she says obamacare the health care thing but is there a sense of you've lost this battle that she will be confirmed. is not over until it's over is not over yet no vote has happened and we're going to continue to resist and as long as there is resistance you have to define who we are 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 taken care. so now we must continue to write thank you very much and the reason it sends that perhaps the republicans do have the votes this confirmation 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 new committee about for example whereas when president obama nominated his choice for a chief justice of justice rather because even mention so there's a bit of frustration with the democrats be determination to fight on anywhere russia's foreign minister has indicated that turkey will not be involved in peace talks over the disputed region of kara bach the foreign ministers of armenia and russia have been meeting in moscow has proposed its ally turkey be involved in discussions but russia. says there will be no changes to the format for peace talks over the region both sides are accusing each other of violating

a humanitarian cease fire armenian officials say $45.00 more of their servicemen were killed on monday. have been held in the azerbaijani village of some care for the victims of sunday's attacks on 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 it's the worst violence between the 2 sides in decades. i believe this to the we reached an important agreement on saturday 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 well i'm sure full compliance with the agreements that were reached in a trilateral format. since september 27th a 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 still ahead on al-jazeera we'll hear who's accusing tanzania's president of behaving like a dictator and basketball fans in los angeles are celebrating the end of the film long wait for a title success. and i was a quiet time the year in the middle east the weather's thinking back in cool hasn't really exercised that sort yet there's still a few showers to be built on the western side of the saudi mountains or west in yemen and temperature wise there's been

a variation from the average but they're not extreme in the extent doha for example is it $32.00 degrees that breeze coming off the warm waters of the gulf well if you feel a bit. excessively so at this time the you'd expect to see 35 by day into the sun but out so it's a little on the cold side but in contrast to iraq and the levant it's a bit warmer than it should be now this is all happening of course because the actor was going sags and throughout the rift valley. a particular congo you see the showers really pep up now we saw yesterday the still some falling in south sudan and scary in ethiopia too close to a concentration the heavy ones off in the south the congo is always a place which gets a lot of them and doesn't report the values or can't report them back to you but i do know you get daily showers in burundi and rwanda this time of year the full cost pacifically the kid golly it's got moderate showers one to 3 whole months a says day in friday and with temps is not varying very much in the average that's what you might expect as the rainy season sets in.

frank assessments if american public opinion polls betrayed by social media platforms after november 1 would be cautious and if you believe that there are corrosive to our democracy one obvious solution is to break not informed opinion just look at his dog anyway the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's ability to get revolution people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines come with it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera.

other than the top stories 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 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. 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 citizen by investment program and now as

phil reese reports the investigation leads the highest offices of the supreme it states the cyprus investment program allows forwardness 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 for. what if 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 wasn't 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 he going to be a she. describes a 2 track application system the official route and another for difficult cases that requires more money or they can still get a faster car to what insane option. goes over them we've already. seen the for what i do with that and the. look in cities in any book in the regulation or even our news he's one. of us but he's asked. like. how high up the higher the better. our undercover reporters meet property

developers and politicians who repeat the same message. 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. without permission maybe we're here for support. i don't know politically. crucial they're going to. have to prepare it's like waiting. when confronted with the evidence all of those involved deny any wrongdoing and. 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. phil reese al-jazeera well for more on this investigation you can watch the cyprus papers

under cover a 20100 hours g.m.t. later today and inhabitable hell for millions of people that's what the planet is becoming due to the lack of action on climate change so according to a strongly worded united nations reports it says in the past 2 decades more than 7000 major natural disasters have been recorded that figure is nearly doubled over the past 20 years the increases are mostly attributed to floods and storms and the u.n. is accusing political and business leaders of willingly sowing the seeds of our own destruction and says industrial nations have failed miserably on reducing greenhouse gas emissions researchers on the biggest mission to the north pole have also released some of their findings they've documented extensive amounts of sea ice melting away they predict there will be ice free arctic summers within the next few decades. we do they just put all this world as $3000.00 we really saw how the

ice is disappearing north of greenland we found broad expenses of open water in an area where they 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 have been the arctic will be ice free in some of within a few decades and the world i just described will no longer exist denis mclean is a spokesman for the un office for disaster risk reduction they're behind this report and he outlines the short term need for a disaster preparedness. we are trying to highlight by publishing this report is the need to strengthen disaster risk over nuns so the government's 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 to most disaster prone parts of the world of course is the most densely populated parts of new orleans see also that asia is also bearing the brunt of the covert 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 and 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 and 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. in your foreign ministers say they're ready to sanction belarusian president alexander lukashenko you are already sanctioned 40 other by the russian officials to step up pressure against the violent crackdown on protesters the move comes after lukashenko held unexpected talks with jailed opposition activists to discuss constitutional reform meanwhile the above aleutian 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 sankoh for a 9th consecutive day rather risk has been rocked by months of unrest following a disputed election in august. amnesty international is accusing the tanzanian

government of cracking down on dissent ahead of this month's general election the rights group is warning that opposition figures and journalists in particular are being targeted the main opposition candidate says he doesn't believe the vote will be free or fair reports. to lisa says he's worried about the safety while campaigning is also concerned about the independence of the electoral commission that barred him from campaigning for 7 days last week electoral fishel said he's conduct while in the comping trail had been polarized leeson 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 have 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 fully he's also outcome painting attracting thousands of people to these rallies that 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 they cannot make front. the projects that we are talking about has done very well in. the issues of governance especially fighting corruption in all fronts leanest wall but

is one of 29000000 tons and hence 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's 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 we have contacted the tanzanian government about these allegations but have received no response. well the canary islands have seen the highest number of migrants arrive in 14 years whether 1000 people landed in the spanish islands off the coast of west africa over the weekend they're increasingly taking the more dangerous atlantic ocean routes to

reach europe instead of the mediterranean sea as strong a murs have captured their 1st glimpse of a distance star being torn apart by a black hole they've been observing the events for the past 6 months from the european southern observatory in chile it confirms theories about what happens when a star is destroyed by a black hole a star's material is ripped into threads in a bright flash before disappearing from space and time. 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 to a series victory over the miami heat and the richardson reports. to get said it 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 fail him not only for myself my teammates what organization for the coaches what the trainers everybody that's here. which is what i respect. are you 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 hard time lead the 2nd biggest in n.b.a. finals history but i. was sure to win the 1st cut she would shine 6 or 6 from the field i appreciate this season has been about so much more than the hey are now a game days for all the teams players came to talk about racial injustice as basketball i. think i should 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 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 see and it will be a championship pleasure thank you for joining this historic sunday johnny would be a chance. but you still see just like 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 had a. cinema so why not still have some of the pull i've always believed in the broad james. you know he's a great he's

a great player that's what universe is ever seen and if you think you know you don't know there was a call to take. you to corona virus no funds have been allowed to witness the lake is all 8 is playoff charge and los angeles is now enjoying its return to the top of the basketball world. and the richardson al-jazeera. all the way down the headlines on al-jazeera a divided u.s. senate is now charging ahead with the confirmation hearings for a supreme court nominee connie barrett's republicans are trying to rapidly confirm her before november's election and expand the court's conservative majority alan fisher has more from capitol hill you can see dianne feinstein is leaving the battleground that they are going to attack this idea of the nomination.