circuit hearing he swore me in my investiture and he's cheering me on from his living room right now i also clerked for justice scalia and like many lost i felt like i knew the justice before i ever met him because i had read so many of his colorful accessible opinions more than the style of his writing though it was the content of justice scalia's reasoning that shaped me his judicial philosophy was straightforward. the law as it is written not as she wishes it were sometimes that approach met reaching results that he did not like but as he put it and one of his best known opinions that is what it means to say that we have a government of laws and not of men. justice scalia taught me more than just law he was devoted to his family resolute and his beliefs and fearless of

criticism and as i am barked on my own legal career i resolved to maintain that same perspective there's a tendency in our profession to treat the practice of law as all consuming while losing sight of everything else but that makes for a shallow and unfulfilling life i worked hard as a lawyer and as a professor i owed that to my clients to my students and to myself but i never let the law define my identity or crowd out the rest of my life a similar principle applies to the role of court courts have a vital responsibility to the rule of law which is critical to a free society but courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life the policy decisions and value judgments of government

must be made. the people the public should not expect courts to do so and courts should not try that is the approach that i have strived to follow as a judge on the 7th circuit and every case i have carefully considered the arguments presented by the parties discussed the issues with my colleagues on the court and done my utmost to reach the result required by the law whatever my own preferences might be i try to remain mindful that while my court decides thousands of cases a year each case is the most important one to the litigants involved after all cases are not like statutes which are often named for their authors

cases are named for the parties who stand to gain or lose in the real world often through their liberty or livelihood when i write an opinion resolving a case i read every word from the perspective of the losing party i asked myself how i would view the decision if one of my children was the party that i was ruling against even though i would not like the result but i understand that the decision was fairly reasoned and grounded in law that is the standard that i set for myself in every case and it is the standard that i will follow so long as i am a judge on any court when the president offered me this nomination i was deeply honored but it was not a position i had sought out and i thought carefully before accepting the confirmation process and the work of serving on the court if confirmed requires

sacrifices particularly from my family i chose to accept the nomination because i believed deeply in the rule of law and the place of the supreme court and our nation. i believe americans of all backgrounds deserve an independent supreme court that interprets our constitution and laws as they are written and i believe i can serve my country by playing that role i come before this committee with humility about the responsibility that i have been asked to undertake and with appreciation for those who have come before me i was 9 years old when sandra day o'connor became the 1st woman to sit in this seat she was a model of grace and dignity throughout her distinguished tenure on the court when i was 21 years old and just beginning my career ruth bader ginsburg sat in the seat she told the committee what has become of me could only happen in america

i have been nominated to fill justice ginsburg's seat but no one will ever take her place i will be forever grateful marked and the life she led if confirmed it would be the honor of a lifetime to serve alongside the chief justice and 7 associate justices i admire them all and would consider each a value colleague and i might bring a few new perspectives to the bench as the president noted when he announced my nomination i would be the 1st mother of school age children to serve on the court and i know that it would make senators young and brian happy to know that i would be the 1st justice to join the court from the 7th circuit in 45 years i would be the only sitting justice who didn't attend school at harvard or yale but i am confident that notre dame could hold its own and maybe i could even teach them

a thing or 2 about football as a final note mr chairman i would like to thank the many americans from all walks of life who have reached out with messages of support over the course of my nomination . i believe in the power of prayer and it has been uplifting to hear that so many people are praying for me i look forward to answering the committee's questions over the coming days. and if i am fortunate enough to be confirmed i pledge to faithfully and impartially discharge my duties to the american people as an associate justice of the supreme court thank you thank you very much if you're just joining us on al-jazeera that was judge amy kone barrett she's president trump supreme court nominee and she was sworn in that senate judiciary committee is hearing taking place right now and she delivered her opening statements before the committee saying that she was humbled by the profound responsibility in judge

barrett's also saying that the supreme court's to which she is nominated must be independent and must interpret the constitution and laws as they are written let's bring in alan fischer he's joining us from capitol hill so we just heard from judge a macone baron herself and i mean talk us through what has been going on in the past few hours and what's at stake here. well there we had lindsey graham introducing the hearing he is the chairman of the judiciary committee he essentially the reasons why this was being pushed ahead he said it was constitutional there was no reason why the president couldn't nominee a supreme court justice and no reason why the senate couldn't vote to confirm of course democrats have a problem with this because we are just if you weeks away from an election they argue that this is a decision that should be made by the next president pointing to the fight whoever

is elected president whether it's donald trump or do biden pointing to the fact that 4 years ago when there was a vacancy in the court several months before the election the republicans refused to hold any hearings he believes that this will that it will emerge from the committee along party lines that is probably true but it's still got to go to the senate no the democrats say 1st of all the hearing should be taking place carla harris who is the vice presidential nominee also a member of the committee saying in her remarks that there were much more important things to be done not least a covert relief bill and that should have been going through the senate now also we have from numerous members of the committee who are democrats pointing to the fact that the affordable health care act might be under threat should a conservative justice such as equally valid be appointed to the supreme court they are seeing that with a hearing jude the week after the election that given her previous writings she may

well strike don't all of the affordable health care act obamacare is that became known and that would jeopardize people with preexisting conditions why are they taking that particular tack well they know if it goes to the senate then there are 2 republican senators who said they couldn't vote for the nomination at the moment because what in the election season they are hoping that public opinion will sway at least 2 other republican senators perhaps 5 people calling them and that may be enough to postpone the vote for the. time being as well but the republicans have really mush marshaled their forces the battle lines are drawn and they believe they have the votes to push this through before the election as for the judge herself or she stuck to her prepared remarks as you see the 2 most important points she was making was that she understands the law should be interpreted to with was written not the way you would like it to be written if that was said to try and reassure some democrats it's not going to change many votes the other point that she made is

that when she writes her very hard decisions she does so thinking of the people who are now losing side whether they may be appearance or children or mothers and how they will feel and she says she hopes that they see that whatever decision she comes to which they may not agree with is well reasoned this is really just the start of the phony war of people are being relatively nice in the 1st 3 of these hearings which will go through all the way to thursday and the vote to moral senators will get the chance to ask questions of the judge they will do so in 30 minute bus they will go through all 22 members of the committee and then a further 20 minute push so we'll be here late into tuesday probably late into weapons the as well as the question equally by a her. position on the law stands to certain issues and perhaps even her ideological bent all of these will fit in but from what we're hearing from

a number of senators on the committee i think they've already made up their minds how they're going to vote and so thursday to a large degree may well be a formality whether or not democrats turn up that's another issue but it looks as if it is going to be a formality and she will go forward to the senate for a fool confirmation vote ok allan i will let you go for an hour we speak throughout the evening and over the next few days thank you let's bring in cody barlow is the movie editor at the skoda blog and that is the supreme court of the united states walks is joining us from new york thanks very much for your time what's your interpretation of the judge's statement at her confirmation hearing. well judging turnberry there we met last night there everybody and 2nd chance to review it is pretty standard language program here from a nominee piece about how she will interpret the law as written as opposed to the way that she wants her preferences something that she gets from her mentor and

a former justice from the supreme or. then. she also talks about ensuring he hears and when she decides a party not only there she as your correspondent no think about the losing side as a trial grandmother she actually visualized what it would be like for her child her children to be on the losing side of the case that she decided before she makes the final decision in this comfortable position but it's pretty standard operating procedure today is actually one of the more boring days in terms of any confirmation hearing every senator on the land speech the nominee has a plan not to run true for excitement or fireworks today in science room at least for tomorrow or when those so what will you be looking out for then some more or the day after when you say the fireworks are are meant to begin. i didn't run it noted that the fragment really laid out drama data or lack here the democratic

remarkably 'd. are thinking on message talking about whatever and that the president what about your act obamacare. or the supreme court one week after election day and senator kerry that 29. democrats are history i'm reference we're talking about or an organ that is covering preexisting condition we're being hurried and you know greater world than our country in particular right now and republicans are pushing back against comment that democrats are making in the raf about the nominees their religious beliefs you didn't know his comments today criticizing her religious beliefs but you're having a. wealthy government questioning tomorrow when it's wednesday it's going to further diving and digging into this nation trying to make their position in american people this is about me or here are this is about action a religious liberty and that would be their messaging that they're very into the election on the records coming out $22.00 days so we heard from lindsey graham

earlier on he opened the session of the senate judiciary committee where he seemed to imply that this is pretty much a done deal so as allen was saying it is this just a formality at this point. i think. everything and it's rank near grand it's great and we didn't just hear that senator graham actually yukari from across the aisle well which are and also going to come right here well this is their position that we're in the republican fold a democratic majority in the senate and this will very likely go through something something i'm right and natural predators and there's actually will burn me on the bench probably more our election day are able. to get it and that's. all right katie barlow thank you for speaking to us from new york thank you

now shihab rattansi was outside the supreme court where protests were held as that hearing kicked off the 1st determined group of protesters both for and against the nomination confirmation that i me tell you about here outside the supreme court's. those against the interesting and white house. one of the many objections they have to the proceedings is that no one was required to have a test before the hearings took place and to one of the organizers. love who's 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 should be here and people. should

focus 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 people and there are you can look at her record her record has not been very. conservative in all of her rulings so now would this kind of 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 she 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 happens we are going to continue to resist and as long as there is resistance we 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 like you very much and there is a sense 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 all the various democrats immediately met with amy carney about for example whereas when president obama nominated his choice for a chief justice of justice rather none of the republicans even met him so there's a bit of frustration with the democrats for the time of nation to fight on anyway. here's what's coming up on the news hour high ranking supreme that politicians are implicated in a scheme to sell a new passports to criminals we have an exclusive investigation the u.k. gets a 3 tier system of lockdown measures as its prime minister warns the next few weeks and months ahead will be difficult it's unsporting back your hands were here what.

to say about it as late as ground success. but 1st russia's foreign minister says turkey will be involved in peace talks over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh foreign ministers of armenia and russia have been meeting in moscow armenia and azerbaijan are accusing each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire which has left casualties on both sides math reports from doris in armenia. when an armenian missile hit the apartment block where i. live there was supposed to be a ceasefire. this was another bridge 9 people died in this attack on sunday john's 2nd largest city here they have no interest in a cease fire. if you let me go to war i'm going i'm going that chanting

turkey is giving azerbaijan its full support and its fight to reassert sovereignty over the ethnic armenian on plate of nagorno-karabakh an adjacent land occupied by all media now these areas president wants turkey to be involved in talks to find a solution to the conflict but russia isn't interested. miss them so they did it but just that it's a new statement confirms the unchangeable nature of the negotiation process and its format. group consists of a fairly large number of states with this but it has delegated the management of the negotiation. process and mediation to the 3 co-chairing states russia the united states and france. but in almost 30 years the minsk group has failed to find a solution to the status of nagorno karabakh. talks with his armenian counterpart following a similar meeting with the as ery foreign minister last week. on monday in caracas

maine town of panic at the air raid sirens were still alerting people to the shelters despite the cease fire the anger here as raw as it is on the other side of the conflict as much as you before jessica is one of them who would be here next to me i would strangle him i would strangle him without a weapon i have lost my husband and now i could lose my grandchild and relatives why 5 armenians were killed on sunday and how drought in the south of the going to kind of back as azeri forces attempt to capture the town about 50 kilometers in that direction is the ethnic armenian town of how dry it now there's been intense fighting going on there as both sides a seemingly trying to cement their positions while moscow increases the pressure on armenia and azerbaijan to fully implement the humanitarian cease fire burn it's an al-jazeera chorus in armenia. and undercover investigation by al-jazeera has exposed a high ranking officials in cyprus expressing

a willingness to aid convicted criminals obtain citizenship in august the investigative unit released the cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the country's citizen by investment program and now as phil research reports the investigation leads to the highest offices of the separate 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 how a proposed applicant. turner is gone and charging him for all robbery 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 he may close to get it wasn't 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 to the commish. 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 you already. see if you want to get up and up. and look and see what is in any book. or

regulation or even our news feeds and we want. to ask questions you asked. why. how how you. going to. our undercover reporters are finally invited to discuss mr x.'s passport application with the president of the cypriot parliament i mean if you had to go without motion. for support. i don't know politically. to say that i'm going to. have to put it it's like. when confronted with the evidence all of those involved deny any wrongdoing and after our team left the catchiest said he filed a report about them with cypresses and money laundering unix system at a press conference dimitri salukis said he knew all along that our undercover

reporters were criminals who are not is unsupported the report made by potential was still recent al jazeera. says for more on this investigation you can watch a cyprus papers under cover at 20100 hours g.m.t. later today. foreign ministers say they're ready to sanction by the russian president alexander lukashenko you are already saying 40 other brother russian officials to step up pressure against the violent crackdown on protesters the move comes after lucas sankoh held unexpected talks with jailed opposition activists to discuss constitutional reform meanwhile the by the russian interior ministry has told police they can use lethal weapons against protesters on sunday more than 700 people were arrested as they rallied against lucas sankoh for a 9th consecutive day but the roof has been rocked by months off and rest following a disputed election in august. britain's prime minister says he

won't impose another full coronavirus lockdown but as almost $14000.00 new daily infections were reported boris johnson warned that the weeks and months ahead will be difficult the announced a 3 tier system of flow call 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 john hall is joining us from newcastle to tell us more about these new restrictions introduced jonah. well johnson made his announcement earlier in parliament he's just giving a press conference as we speak at the moment giving a little more detail to it he set up a sort of background a backdrop if you like against which these tougher restrictions are being introduced painting a rather somber picture of the covert situation in the country at the moment he talked about coded cases quadrupling in the past 3 weeks he said hospital numbers

were now at the same rate they were on march the 23rd when the original national lockdown was introduced death rates i should add a much lower arrow and of course that's because it takes available better understanding of the way that the disease worked and he pointed out that you know we're on the cusp now of winter whereas we were on the cusp of spring earlier in the year the annual flu season is upon us making matters much much more difficult the prime minister said he worked to balance the interests of public health with the interests of the economy he acted to simplify and standardise the rules of lockdowns across the country to try and lift some of the confusion and uncertainty that the public have felt over ever changing local restrictions he said he took no pleasure in it but not to act now would be unforgivable. parks and bars in northern england are living on borrowed time in liverpool those not serving food will be forced to close from wednesday night the city falling under

the highest risk category of a new 3 tier system of covert 19 restrictions announced by the prime minister in recent months we have worked with local leaders to counter local spikes with targeted restrictions. but this local approach has inevitably produced different sets of rules in different parts of the country that are now complex to understand and to enforce infection rates are soaring in parts of the north and other cities like manchester and leeds and newcastle interior to know they could be next but critics question the science behind bans on the hospitality sector already struggling to survive but we've seen what's happened over the last 4 weeks or school this big gulp sewage and it call and saves i don't think who incidentally with the return of students with 3 to one of the children to school it has yet to be sure and where in this deal there is not available is not being presented where

this alleged sudden increase within hospital is common i think it's very convience i and there are questions about the effectiveness of these measures including travel restrictions and bans on household mixing with evidence that the national test and trace system has failed to trace contacts effectively and to enforce isolation the government has promised to confer more power on local authorities who say they can do the job better here in newcastle there's relief that they've escaped 3 for now but there's also a lingering worry that the rules seem to overlook another big threat the enormous rate of infection among students. universities in the north with the crowded halls of residence have been huge drivers of infection rates are said to be up to 7 times higher than surrounding areas after students were encouraged to return to campus last month there's plenty of blame to go around here and from the university's

point of view i think they were told we're going to have a world class test untraceable cell a t. we're going to have this we're going to have that and so forth and we actually have those things that we were told would you know in may and june and so forth in the decisions that they made it might have worked out by and like so much to do with covert 19 if only. the prime minister acknowledged that there were different arguments different ideas about how he and the government should proceed now those who say the economy simply can't stand any more restrictions and certainly more jobs are going to be lost now those who say the virus should just be allowed to let rip through society shielding only the most vulnerable and indeed those who say that much more needs to be done much more quickly now will he said this in his view was the sensible way forward and so ahead of us now into the winter possibly for the next 6 months this is what lies ahead 3

categories of risk medium high and very high we should point out that the very high risk category category at this street at this stage attracts nothing like the sort of severe restrictions that came with the national lockdown earlier in the year and there are critics among them some pretty prominent scientists who say the government is once again simply delaying here the inevitable the longer they wait to put in place much more stringent lock down the worse things will get ok down the hall thank you very much for that update from newcastle. coming up on the news hour back to school and the other side of roles nearly 40000000 students in nigeria return to class up to a 6 month coronavirus lockdown. in spore and there's some playing a role for those just praying that they guess when i was her career so i want that story a little later. al

it was a quiet time the year in the middle east the weather's thinking back getting cool has really exorcised us so yet there's still a few showers to be built on the western side of the saudi mountains or west and yemen and temperature wise is a bit of variation from the average but they're not extreme in the extent they're hard for example it's $32.00 degrees a breeze coming off the warm waters of the gulf make you feel a bit. excessively so at this time the you'd expect to see 35 a day in tourism but out so it's a little on the cool 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 in 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 for the south they are congo is always

a place which gets a lot of them and doesn't report the valleys or can't report them back to you but i do know you get daily showers in broome the and rwanda this time of the year the forecast pacifically the kigali has got moderate showers $1.00 to $31.00 stay so stay 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. but. corruption it is they're invisible behind a wall of silence by against corruption the corruption is not something to be told that it. is on the average in. no country his email and let's destroy this wall. thanks in 2020 the free space award encourages the heroes who are fighting against

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supreme court nominee amy kone barrett has delivered remarks to a divided senate at her confirmation hearing she says laws should be interpreted as they are written republicans are trying to rapidly confirm her and expand the court's conservative majority. courts are not. every right and our public life. policy and value judgments of. the political branch elect and accountable to the people. the public should not expect courts to do and courts should not try. russia's foreign minister has indicated that turkey will not be involved in peace talks over the disputed region of. john 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 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. and inhabitable hell for millions of people that's 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 the increases are mostly attributed to floods as well as storms so the u.n. is accusing political and business leaders of willing least. so in 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 and predict there will be ice free arctic summers within the next few decades well denis mclean is a spokesman for the u.n. office for disaster risk reduction they're behind this report lines these short term need for disaster preparedness. we are trying to highlight by publishing this report is the need to strengthen disaster risk over nuns 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 to most disaster prone parts of the world and of course the most densely populated part of the early can 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 in 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. i missed internationals 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 are particular in particular are being targeted the main opposition candidate says who doesn't believe the vote will be free or fair kathryn's or words. to lisa says he's worried about his 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 his conduct while on the comping trail had been polarized leeson recently returned to tons and you're 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 a 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 cattails 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 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. 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 catherine soy al-jazeera the pros which. is the in southern africa director and he explains how the government's actions can be seen as problematic from a human rights perspective. it focuses on an assessment of the human rights situation in the context of elections it reviews and exam mines

the enjoyment of rights by people who seek to participate politically and who seek to associate in keeping with the obligations of tanzania and its domestic laws and its international obligations it's a report that is focusing on ensuring that tanzania comes back to the fold office picton human rights on the economy definitely you know there has been a positive upton in the economy with the president's focus on large scale development projects and emphasizing that focus on development talk about rights respecting. rights respecting corner amusing economy in which. to go to seasons is unknowable and this report demonstrates that to succeed and live for elections and for the well christians of the environment you need to. media civil society political opposition critics. the better because they're

under the hague laws that are coming one after the other to appoint people. to spend much to these creates an environment where instead of having a. where the government seeks to justify its actions creating laws that essentially wrote the basic rights of people and this really needs to stop we have contact. bonds. now they can they are 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 atlantic ocean routes or reach europe instead of the mediterranean sea.

isn't a car senegal which is a key transit country for west african migrants trying to reach europe. the journey to europe starts here from the shores of west africa it's almost a week long boat ride to morocco and for morocco the african continent to the european union are separated by just 14 kilometers neurontin border guards say that they've seen migrants using jet skis or kayaks to make it to the canary islands over the weekend almost that isn't migrants have made it to the european union into spain these are not refugees fleeing war but young men are fully economic and political hardship at home many of them algerians or guinea is where they're said to be contested election and whilst the european union has funded countries such as morocco or libya to stem out the flow of migration morocco received almost

a $1000000000.00 since 2014 well that hasn't stopped these young men from taking this dangerous journey you create. great distress to the. people are you serious journeys 1st. and they can freeze. abuse it's pretty sure and. according to researchers there's a 500 percent increase in migrants coming to the shores of the canary islands mostly because of the coronavirus and the economic hardship that has come with that construction has stopped investment has faltered the president of of senegal has asked for debt relief to tackle the economic crisis ahead and that's why so many young men are willing to take this dangerous journey for the hope of a better life abroad. now students across 12 african countries have headed back to classes schools reopened after

a 6 month coronavirus lockdown in nigeria nearly 40000000 have to try to catch up on missed school work but they'll also return to a new set of rules as the government continues to struggle to stop the spread of my dearest reports in the capital. it's a new school term like no other students are returning to an environment governed by you see 2 rules. their temperature is checked washing in sanitising hands is mandatory. in class social distancing is in for just what it's an exciting for them it's also. the heaviest of the family environment but they can divert if i'm going for lending it out to death but it's mixed emotions for parents as a parent i'm actually excited and i'd assume time to have mixed feelings of the security and safety of the children in school if students in private schools like this and

for the better during the coverage maintain disruptions in their access to online teaching internet connectivity and computer technology it's much different from that of public school students private schools a better place to strictly enforce safety protocols like the over crowded poorly funded government schools but government schools like in facilities they make up for an interrupted pay for teachers not for private schools struggling with finances a government pledge to support businesses to peace talks to happen for many. it was difficult most of cause god made who didn't understand if he did not that may be because the person god made saved his lean or i could make experts are calling for government intervention to make up for lost time to begin to invest heavily on

education say paul and of course to develop. and deciding policy is not. nigeria has more than 26000000 students in primary schools and over 10000000 in secondary schools and there are more than 10000000 nigerian children who don't go to school that's nearly a 5th of the world white total experts fear the number could rise because of the current 19 pandemic coming to greece al-jazeera. health care workers in china have been told to test all line 1000000 residents of an entire city in just 5 days the coastal city of qingdao reported a dozen cases linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients last testing at 11000000 people took place in may in rwanda where the pandemic started or a bird rally reports. an ambitious task on an epic scale

health workers in the port city of shin dow are hoping to tame an outbreak of covered 19 by testing the entire population of 9000000 within just 5 days testing centers like this one are open from early morning to late at night across the city and some areas a lockdown qingdao is on china's eastern coast and the beach is a popular with locals and tourists especially during the festival season but some experts are questioning the efficiency of the mass testing i can take if there is a real question in a contagious disease in a pandemic i you can gauge is that what you really want is a test which actually detect you during the period of contagiousness and whether china is doing net or not we can't have a have a long history of lying i covered up at the beginning on sunday a dozen cases of the bars were linked to this chest hospital in qingdao doctors have treated patients confirmed to have contracted covered 19 after returning from

overseas the hospital is not down an all star for immediately tested it's not the 1st test seen on this scale in china 700 kilometers north in beijing more than 7000000 of the capital's 22000000 people who are mass tested 4 months ago that followed the result of the virus traced to a wholesale food market supplying most of beijing's meat and vegetables more than 1200 flights were canceled railway services would use and schools closed and they may almost all of the 11000000 people living in were tested within just 10 days the city where the virus 1st emerged in december was locked down for 3 months and its health system stretched to the limit. but the chinese government's aggressive push to trace and suppress the virus seems to have paid off the day the numbers drastically reduced just so that $85000.00 cases a so far. back inching down results the testing are trickling in it's

a week since the golden week holiday when millions travel across the country authorities will be hoping to stop any spread of the virus quickly. man the al jazeera well this here is nobel prize for economics sciences goes to 2 americans. are honored for improving auction theriot inventing new auction formats world swedish academy of sciences described the formats as a beautiful example of how basic research can spark inventions that benefit society . coming up on the news hour the sports news basketball fans in los angeles are celebrating the end of a long wait for title success. color

sports those who. thank you very much the l.a. lakers have won the n.b.a. championship but for the 1st time since 2010 the bron james led the team to a full to save his victory over the miami heat and they were to send reports. to get 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 thank you very much. john james jr 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 you in the 1st time how. she would sound like such from a field 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. drug dealers 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 to like his all celebrating again tuesday as a 4th championship for james with his 3rd different saying that it would be a championship pleasure thank you for sharing this story do you want to be a champion. you still seem to like the matter without going to this point there's still a little gremlin 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 having it in my mind sanna myself why not still have some i've always believed in the broad james. you know he's a greatest he's the greatest player that's what universe has ever seen and if you think you know you don't know it was called

a. future coronavirus no funds have been allowed to witness the lakers only his playoff charge los angeles is now enjoying its return to the top of the basketball world. and the richardson al-jazeera. is already setting his sights on a record breaking 21st grand slam title and has got his hands on the french open trophy for 13th at a time sunday's when that was his 20th major victory and drew him level with the korea set by roger federer this 9 year old said there has been out injured for most of the season but a host to be back for next year's australian open. after. all the rivalry that we had together amazing to be equal on that great number 20 but we still playing so i hope to. will have brought her back on the door and to keep having would buy those of course i would. will not be going for the

next 10 years but let's see what's going on when we finish our careers where we just keep having fun keep enjoying time keep trying i was i would just. well the man fronting a plan to reduce the size of the english premier league says the idea is in the best interests of the game english football league chairman rick perry believes the project will see more money going to lower league teams the american owners of liverpool and manchester united have come up with a list of possible reforms project big picture as it's being called it would see the premier league cut from 20 to 18 clubs $325000000.00 rescue fund will be given to lower league teams that to help them through cope with 19 the no divisions that will also receive a quarter of the money from all future t.v. deals and return the top line clubs that want special voting rights in the future at the moment 14 of the premier league's 20 clubs have to vote in favor of any

reforms or the major hurdle faced by the backers of the plan is the premier league itself they claim the plan could have a damaging impact on the whole game this is a big close exercising current leadership with responsibility so they will because of the plan that people don't like reductions regime will be controversial but as i said if you know in terms of the totality of the looking us to be in charge of it we haven't seen anything like this for a very very long time it's reset it's all over the premier league frankly could have done this at any time over the last 25 years. and south korea's kim missy younger has won the 1st major title of her career kim's closing round of $63.00 in pennsylvania gave her a 5 stroke victory at the women's p.g.a. championship one more major is left to play for on the women's tour this year the

u.s. open is coming up in texas in december. and that's as well for me we'll have more later on a lot tougher than also our thanks very much for watching but why for now. we are going home to both lima when modern mankind origine. many moons ago mankind migrated from the majestic mind a coyote to begin the journey of the modern human across the world and f. a dust settles everyone is welcome back home to both land.

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go to the heart of the cypriot state just. investigations the cyprus papers on the cover. investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on. a controversial nomination ahead of a divisive election but judge amy kearney barrett pledges to uphold the values of america's highest court i believe americans of all backgrounds deserve an independent supreme court. and our intended this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. at the. course of the crossfire

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