a showcase of the best documentary films from across the net on out is iraq. all. this is al-jazeera. this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. a controversial nomination ahead of a divisive election but judge amy kearney barrett just to uphold the values of america's highest court. i believe americans of all backgrounds deserve an independent supreme court. a truce between armenia and azerbaijan is pushed to its limits as russia warns turkey will not have

a place at the negotiating table. when more and more migrants are risking a dangerous new atlantic route from africa to europe via the canary islands. and a planet transformed into an uninhabitable hell a un report says world leaders are failing in their duty to stop climate disaster. we start in the united states where a divided senate is pressing ahead with the confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee amy kearney barrett just 3 weeks before the presidential election she was nominated by president trump and her confirmation would increase the conservative majority in the supreme court alan fisher has been following events on capitol hill in washington d.c. . the goal to have amy quiney bennett on the u.s. supreme court before the presidential election the 1st step the senate judiciary

committee hearing 16 days after her formal nomination from the committee chair a lament that politics plays such a big part in nominations now the bottom line is justice ginsberg when asked about this several years ago said that a president serves 4 years not 3. there's nothing unconstitutional about this process this is a vacancy this occurred 4 years ago republicans refused to even hold hearings for judge merrick garland nominee did to fill a vacancy caused by the death of a conservative justice no hearings in an election year he insisted judge amy corny by its nomination will almost certainly imagine from the committee even if democrats boycott the final vote that will send it to the fill senate for confirmation and that's where the democrats are going to do what they can to stop this going through 2 republican senators have already said they would vote to confirm the democrats are hoping they can use public pressure to flip to others to block a vote in the fool senate and they're using what they see as

a threat to the affordable health care act due to go to the court one week after the election health care coverage for millions of americans is at stake with this nomination republicans finally realized also on the committee the democratic vice presidential nominee kamel harness who insisted the senate should be dealing with more pressing issues than the supreme court. may be crystal clear that rushing a supreme court nominee. is more important than helping and supporting the american people who are suffering from a deadly pandemic at a devastating economic crisis and nothing but the truth so help you god and then it was time to hear from amy cooney bennett herself she said quote can't right every wrong i chose to accept the nomination because i believe 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 so no the lines are drawn for the committee republicans believe they have the votes democrats believe they have public support the next 2 days will be contentious contrary and politically divisive as the supreme court becomes a political battleground in the presidential election alan fischer al-jazeera washington. she had. protests were held as the. 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 suits 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 this article i'm talking to one of the organizers here 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 i see 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 they should be here and people are suffering they should the focus should be on them on people who live in america not a court but what about the confirmation itself. and what about that yes is this not the right person i think we need to make sure that. worry about going to be on the supreme court versus 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 fair she's been very. conservative in all of her rulings so now with this going to make it more conservative i'm concerned about the a.c.l.u. there's millions of people who are on if it is unconstitutional people will not

have coverage. preexisting conditions will not have coverage he says obamacare the health care thing but is there a sense that you've lost this battle there that she will be confirmed well it's not over until it's over it's 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 or when we are standing up for what we believe in and that we are putting people 1st we need to be an example of what needs 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 that 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 because even so there's a bit of frustration with the democrats for the time

a nation to fight on anyway. when i said joining us now via skype from the us political scientist philip rocco author of the books obamacare wars and the trump presidency thanks very much for being with us and i just want to ask you if it will care act that was mentioned that the democrats are going hard on this is as one of their issues during these hearings explain to us why the background as to why the supreme court is involved in in the affordable care act in the fast pace sure so really since the beginning since the law passed in 2010 opponents of the law primarily republicans conservative attorneys general in the states have been engaged in litigation not only trying to sort of formally repeal the law of the courts but also trying to sort of deal agenda make the law in the eyes of the public and really keep democrats on their back you'll spiting the last battle over just preserving this law and so really after case after case there's been numerous supreme court challenges to the law we're in a case now where. even

a lot of conservative jurists think that the case is sort of wrong we sort of brought forward before the court but the real import is that this case now has implications not only for one provision of the law the individual mandate which is fairly unpopular but has provisions for the rest of the law because of something called severability which is about the relationship between a laws parts and it's whole and so the real stakes are the sort of health care coverage for millions of americans and the shape of a sector that represents 17 percent of gross domestic product so one time the democrats are hoping that some public pressure will sway some senators get them to switch how likely is that in reality. i think it's not especially likely i think that we've seen 2 senators are sort of already saying that they don't want to go ahead with your rings prior to the election but i think if we were going

to see other senators break along these lines we would have already seen it i think essentially republicans can effectively lose 2 more 2 more votes one more comfortably but i don't see those those protests right now having an effect on on those votes now what they might do is send a signal to the court about this or that how how well the public is mobilized on these issues and the sort of political ramifications of making a decision one way or another so might still have an effect in the world even if it doesn't have an effect on these votes and that president trump has tweeted today republicans misstate louvain kay that we haven't provided much better health care to much cost get the word out we always protect preexisting conditions but the impression $1.00 has had recently is that that he has health care plans are not particularly spelled out is that is would that be a fair. description that this is true if you go back to 2017 and look at what

republicans put forward in that session of congress i mean this is something where republicans for years had said we want to repeal 'd. replace it with something better but when it came to actually thinking about what the contents of that would be i'm republicans really had invested a lot in the policy expertise necessary to to draft a piece of legislation that wouldn't really just summarily many people off of the benefits that they receive from you and wipe away the protections for preexisting conditions so i think the you know when it comes to the commiseration the real value of talking about the a.c.f. for them is as long as it's in the sort of symbolic realm talking about obamacare rather than the act. the practical details of why they do just fine but once the details sort of emerge there's not a lot of investment there and that kind of in that kind of expertise and sort o.

sea crafting knowledge just briefly oh the election is 3 weeks ago away the polls are putting biden in the lead a bit does trump still have a path to victory and if they what is it. i mean i think that from both the fundamentals of the election and the economy and presidential approval and polls when they point in the same direction as strongly as these do would suggest a trump path to victory is incredibly slim that you know essentially even in some swing states the turnout he would need in some key suburbs and rural areas i mean it has to be exceptionally strong but of course you know the one thing that polls cannot and models of the election cannot factor in is the fact that we're going to have a major differences in the way that people are voting this election just sizable changes in the ways that people are casting their ballots and i think that

the the real question is to what extent and how many of these ballots are going to be contested by republicans by the president and by others in his party and i think the bets that something where there's just certain things that you know you can model as long as you're making the assumption that everybody's ballot is going to be counted but there are real variables here that are hard to to model out they don't necessarily reflect voters preferences 2 but to reflect the sort of fragility of the electoral process in the united states thank you very much indeed fiance thank you thanks to be here. coming up on i was there at this news hour staying open but only just most of england's bars escaped closure as new virus rules come in that is infections rise how long will that last and it's the world's 3rd largest food producer so how can 10000000 people be going hungry in brazil.

russia's foreign minister says turkey will not be involved in peace talks over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh the foreign ministers of armenia and russia have been meeting in moscow on media and azerbaijan accusing each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire which has left casualties on both sides bennett smith reports from gori 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 ganja on sunday as a 2nd largest city here they have no interest in a ceasefire yet. if you let me go to war mom i'm going i'm going.

to accuse 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 our media now he is very president wants turkey to be involved in talks to find a solution to the conflict but russia isn't interested. joint statement confirms the unchangeable nature of the negotiation process and its format means to say a group consists of a fairly large number of states of this she says delegate these management of the. mediation to 3 sharing states russia 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 azeri foreign minister last week. on monday and paradox

main 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. if one of them would be here next to me i would strangle him i would strangle with as when i have lost my husband and now i could lose my grandchild and relatives lose a son in law could lose a brother. 5 armenians were killed on sunday in handwrote in the south of the going to 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 ceasefire. bernard smith al-jazeera gora's in armenia. nigerian president mohamed do hurry is promising that

police officers will be held accountable for misconduct it comes after days of protests against police brutality culminated in offices opening fire on demonstrators in lagos authorities announced that an elite anti robbery unit would be disbanded after members were accused of murder extortion and disappearances the president says more extensive police reforms will follow. millions of students across 12 african countries are back in class a schools reopened after a 6 month coronavirus lockdown in nigeria nearly 40000000 of them will now have to try to catch up on missed school work but they're also returned to a new set of rules as the government continues to struggle to stop the virus spreading rapidly dress reports from the capital of richer. it's a new school term like no other students are returning to an environment governed by new safety rules. their temperature is checked washing in sanitising hands

is mandatory. in class social distancing is influenced but it's an exciting for freedom. of. the heaviest of the family environment but a diverse environment for learning to touch and name to dance and name but it's mixed emotions for parents. as a parent i'm actually excited and i dissent and i have mixed feelings of the security and safety of the children in school if students in private schools like this for a better term in the coverage mean to destructions their access to online teaching internet connectivity and computer technology based it's much different from the act 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 in 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. of cause god couldn't understand if he didn't want to be because. possibly god made. the world i could make experts are calling for government intervention to make up for lost time to begin to invest heavily armed. and of course to develop their. policies now. 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 committee grease i does iraq. britain's prime minister says he won't impose another full coronavirus lockdown but is almost $14000.00 new day infections were reported 1st johnson warned that the weeks and months ahead will be difficult enough a 3 tier system of local lockdown measures in england including a ban on some households mixing indoors gena how reports from newcastle upon tyne. 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 spites 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 of school this big gulp sewage and it call in saves i don't think who incidentally with the retune 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 science 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 for the university's point of view i think they were told we're going to have a world class testing trace facility we're going to have this we're going to have that and so forth and have we actually have those things that we were told would you know may and june and so forth and the decisions that they made might have worked out by like so much to do with covert 19 if only joan

a whole al-jazeera newcastle back in march that 7 months ago the world health organization warned lockdowns only slowed the spread of the corona virus it would not eradicate it officials including at the world health organization of concerned about public fatigue of restrictions that build in strength and breadth as time goes on but some experts think there's a 3 step middle path that can be replicated around the world without the need for repeated not downs individuals would be reminded to keep up the basics of hygiene and physical distance public health systems would focus on tracing cases and tracking outbreaks with better resources and with clear guidelines that are more consistent between different governments dr david nabarro is the special envoy of the world health organization director general on code 19 he says the best way to contain the virus is for population is to remain vigilant. the most important thing

that everybody has to do is to hold this virus a way and that does mean people behaving in a way that restricts the ability of the virus to infect a public health services that enable everyone to know where the virus is and help with getting with local spikes as they build up and then consistency inside countries and between countries so that the world can get moving again and the middle path is our way of trying to help people to understand a little bit more about what we're saying we don't want everyone to be in lockdown for the foreseeable future but we all said think it's very dangerous just to let the virus go where it wants to because we know that that will lead to overloading of health systems and a lot of death that's why we go over the middle path keeping the virus at bay that testing for this virus is not easy it uses a complex test that requires regions that are scarce in some places so it's not

straightforward but it has to be the mainstay of getting ahead of the virus if you don't know where the virus is it's very hard to mount an effective response and having enough testing capacity so if you compare couple spikes quickly and then react very very fast when you've seen them is absolutely central to this we are seeing good testing and tracing in many parts of the world including some places in europe one chinese city is attempting what some health experts can only dream of in the course of just 5 days all 9000000 residents of qingdao will be tested for the corona virus it comes after it saw an outbreak of just a dozen cases or about money 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 you can take if there is a real question in a contagious disease in a pandemic i you can gauge is so what you really want is a test which actually detect you during the period of contagiousness and whether china is doing that or not we can tell they have a long history of lying they covered up at the beginning. on sunday a dozen cases of the virus 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 knocked 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 were mass tested 4 months ago that followed a result of the virus traced to a wholesale food market supplying most of beijing's meat and vegetables and it may almost all of the 11000000 people living in hand 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 with daily numbers drastically reduced just over $85000.00 cases are so far confirmed it's a week since the golden week holiday when millions traveled across the country back inching down results the testing are trickling in authorities will be hoping to stop any spread of the virus quickly. man the al jazeera. but just as are

out of the streets in what is our is to rally against the government's handling of the pandemic as can our tutor's about who's in argentina's capital city as we see protests like this over the past few months to raise a lot of people were turned to the streets. well told we're here right in front of the precedents precedents and there's hundreds of people that have gathered here and a similar situation is happening in other parts of the city and the center of one outside is another part of the country as well and it comes out with discontent mostly among the middle class not only on the handling of the pandemic but also on the economic situation in the country of accusations of corruption that involved many members in the cabinet of precedents a lot of the man this including the vice president former president cristina fernandez the kershner among other things what we've seen in the past months is

that back in march when argentina was one of the 1st countries in the region to impose a strict lockdown to the prevent the spread of covert 19 of the premise enjoyed around a 70 percent approval rating that has changed mostly since the government has tried to pass for example a reform of the judiciary that has polarized society once again when the government has tried to remove the 3 judges that are involved in the trials of former presidents and vice president cristina fernandez de kirchner when the government tried to explode create a private business people here see that as a threat they're afraid that argentina will turn into business way less that's what they are telling us argentina right now is going through an enormous economic crisis in the country that he's seeing that foreign reserves in the central bank almost out disappearing of the amount of infections the corona virus infections has spiraled around $800000.00 people have already confirmed infected and the country the currency is losing value of that argentina is currently trying. restructuring

polling data i mean international monetary fund felt 50 waiting here is extremely complicated most analysts say that only with consensus with an economic plan the country can come out of a kerry crisis but honestly what we're seeing here is what's known as a crack i'd like to be at the parent of an anti parent if on the streets and finding them center is extremely difficult at this point tears of a thank you very much indeed. still to come when i was there this news our high ranking cypriot politicians are implicated in a scheme to sell passports to criminals we have an exclusive investigation. our lack of water is causing ecological and economic chaos across 4 nations on the banks of one of america's longest rivers.

marching slowly eastwards this massive cloud it's an active cold front has been said for the warmth of the adriatic and the mediterranean takes its rain through northern greece through bug area remain here and up through through slovakia and towards poland now the potential rainfall is briefly flash for tertiary and i think that's going to be a big problem the backwash wind is quite a cold one so vienna represents that on tuesday windy day only 9 degrees on the average should be 15 you get back on that to that from wednesday and you done tonight again on 30 so that bit up and down at the moment this cold air tucked in here in fact all of central western europe is going to feel the effects that slowly warming maybe 14 degrees and then there was a cold wind on top of it. now that's all happening of the land in your trade is quite quite not all of north africa is where we've seen a few shells recently in southern nigeria and then the forecast in west africa dar

was fairly wet couple days ago as well but it looks likes a drawing period that i want to get to wednesday is precious little left because the rain is frankly through the south this rift valley rain d.-r. congress sometimes going down towards zimbabwe over the next day or so zimbabwe and south africa dry. my name this year it is a place where this is called think they'll hold. thing you know once you've made you know you all ends up with money and nigeria is resilient and it's just for a surprising managerial thing is yes to every normal. mind nigeria. on al-jazeera.

news as it breaks the high stakes battle to confirm any current beric now to the republican controlled senate. with details covering governments across europe wrestling with a worsening health emergency and on going economic crisis and feel as generalism from around the world today student protest is akeem to during the whole of the previous issues for structural for little change. a reminder of the top stories your knowledge is there a divided senate is pressing ahead with the confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee amy kearney barrett just 3 weeks before the presidential election democrats

say the 4 day hearings are being rushed. russia's foreign minister says turkey will not be involved in peace talks over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh azerbaijan had proposed that it's allowed to take part of the discussions armenia and azerbaijan are accusing each other of violating a humanitarian cease fire. and health care workers in china have been told to test all 9000000 residents of change hour in just 5 days the city has reported a dozen new cases to a hospital treating covert 900 patients. brazil is the world's 3rd largest food producer but new research shows more than 10000000 brazilians are going hungry and situation is getting worse as the economic crisis spot by the current of our spending make punches more people into poverty want to chaotic reports from rio de janeiro. there's no shortage of healthy food in this

bustling street market in rio de janeiro the cove in 1000 pandemic may have crippled brazil's economy but it still produces enough to feed one 6th of the earth's population something president on nat'l made a point of reminding world leaders at this year's u.n. general assembly. despite the international crisis brazil's agricultural production never stops and we produce enough to feed 1000000000 people. yet more than 10000000 brazilians experience of their 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 simply to live in poverty has always been a problem in brazil but the poor were invisible the pandemic is showing how truth ace and i cloud used to organize tourism events in austria she returned to brazil

for a short visit but ended up staying to work as a volunteer in a soup kitchen most of these people in this line lost their jobs to the recession and the pandemic like follow me down by who left his small town to look for work in rio de janeiro i didn't know the coronavirus left me stranded here and homeless but at least i'm getting fed i 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. 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 much of it is sold abroad last year brazilians exported $32000000000.00

worth of agricultural products to $180.00 countries but experts are warning the government that the country nice be back on the united nations hunger it's a place brazil had left 6 years ago monica all just 0 rio de janeiro. in the past few minutes the white house doctor has confirmed a president trump has tested negative for coronavirus it comes as he's about to go back on stage in the florida city of orlando for his 1st election rally since his diagnosis he made an appearance although not an official campaign event at the white house on saturday his own tweets in which he claims he could now be immune from the virus have been flagged by twitter as misleading and gallacher joins us now from miami so i only presume to quite

a lot of analysis of this it is information coming from the doctor. you know i mean this is a doctor that many people don't trust someone who by his own admission says that he says things that make the president happy but we have to take this at face value president contract of covert 19 on october the 2nd he's now back on the road holding his 1st rally in a little less than 2 hours so i think people will be paying attention to what he says to his supporters this is prime trump territory he loves these rallies he's not going to get anyone that disagrees with him but people will be watching closely as to what he says about his handling of covert 19 and his own experience with it he said at one point in the last few days that it was a gift from god and that people should just get on with their own lives so i should expect that we will hear that kind of rhetoric from the president and of course he's here in florida because he must win this state if he has any hopes to become the president again to renew his 4 years this is

a very big the biggest battleground state with 29 electoral college votes so i think people have been lining up there since 5 o'clock on monday morning so obviously a great deal of enthusiasm from his base and his supporters to go and see him and he will be hitting another 3 states in the next 4 days all battleground states but here in florida his lead with joe biden is ebbing away but only very slightly remember he only just won this state by a very thin margin in 2016 so he must win florida if he wants to carry on being the president for the next 4 years and again i thank you very much indeed. water levels in one of the longest rivers in south america have dropped to their lowest point in half a century activists say deforestation and wildfires have led to months of extreme drought along the paranoia river which flows through 4 countries and as victoria gave me a report it's having a severe economic as well as ecological impact. people in paraguay rely on

this river for their livelihoods seeing both disappearing before that eyes the 2700 kilometer long power acquire rivers starts in brazil flows through bolivia and paraguayan then into argentina activists say the destruction of brazil's amazon rain forest is having a direct impact on river levels imperiled why. the destruction of the amazon jungle apos decades has accelerated greatly it's caused destruction of the amazon produces a high percentage of the moisture we receive in the class a basin the amazon rain forest in brazil is shrinking by the day activists blame president jaya both sonar if it easing environmental restrictions which allows illegal logging and mining but the main culprits the cattle ranchers who set fires to clear the land for pasture as a result neighboring paraguayan has suffered months of extreme drought that's had

a devastating effect on its economy 85 percent of power wise foreign trade is transported along the river called vessel traffic has slowed causing prices of imported goods to increase. the governments of paraguayan and brazil say water has been released from a hydroelectric dam to raise river levels environmentalist say much more needs to be done look i just what needs to be done is the enforcement of social and environmental safeguards the laws that protect the environment the laws that protect people. at the same time also battling wildfires congress has declared a national emergency. on the river ship it is say the water level is decreasing by 3 or 4 centimeters a day they've lost $250000000.00 in trade and counting victoria gate and be al-jazeera. earth is fast becoming an uninhabitable hell for millions of people with little real progress to stop climate change according to a new u.n.

report it says more than 7000 major natural disasters have been recorded in the past 20 years nearly double the number recorded in the 2 decades before that that i warning comes as the insurance firm swiss re says one in 5 countries face the collapse of the ecosystems because of destructive human activity and a more immediate evidence of german research vessel returned to port on monday after a year long mission to the north pole scientists on board say the data collected helps to prove the arctic ice cap is melting will nichols's the head of environmental risk at the global risk analysis company maple crafter joins us so over skype from new york thanks very much for being with us so you say you deal in in risk what what what is the the big risk that comes out of these various warnings that we've seen today. what i think they're all really interconnected i think you can think of environmental risk is a sort of mesh of joining these kind of things obviously you've mentioned threats

about water stress of course that's for a huge impact to go to infrastructure to industry you mention biodiversity loss as well which is something that's really coming out of the agenda of investors who recognize it as kind of an aspect they need to start crossing into in their investments because underpinning all of this is climate change which is driving both distress i'm contributing to buy those 2 dogs and why do you think there's been so little progress or least according to the un there's been little progress to stop climate change why do you think that is. there's a number of reasons i mean we do have. plans in place if there's a paris agreement which has been put in place to try to address global emissions i think there's a kind of lack of. maybe political will i think which has been further complicated by demick of course which really sucks and sucks up resources that could otherwise

be going to war it's a mitigation or indeed a resilience for some of these this increase in natural disasters that we've seen over the last 20 years you mentioned the political climate is there any sign that that's actually changing at all because all these warnings have been coming as you mentioned for a number of years now. sure yeah i mean it's difficult to say i can imagine scientists not be very frustrated that they've been banging on the door about these kind of issues for what that case now and it's starting to move the needle perhaps and you know we've seen these leaps forward in terms of things like ours agreement there's the potential for a similar. agreement around biodiversity next year. but it's difficult to really say that we've made a huge amount of progress when you look at global emissions you know despite the pandemic despite the you know increase in renewable energy technologies despite the hours agreement really haven't got anywhere near the safe level that we need to

address the worst aspects of climate change come about that they are the warning about countries facing the collapse of the ecosystems because of destructive human activity the sort of one in 5 countries that seems like a of a scary kind of statement what does it actually mean. well i guess underpinning economies are all these natural services so things like pollinators are a great example of mangrove swamps to protect coastlines from from flooding and once those things start to get eroded and they can happen very quickly which i think is what the report is speaking about in terms of close to collapse those things once they go very quickly they can have huge economic impacts given the amount of industries and the amount of infrastructure the amount of commercial activity that depends on those kind of biological services so once they go there are probably difficult to replace on imagine how you feel it must be to try and pollinate plants without bees it's too difficult so these are the kind of impacts

that very difficult to address well nicole thank you very much indeed for joining us. now facebook is updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the holocaust is the latest move the social media platform has taken against misinformation last week it banned accounts linked to the cuban on movement which promotes conspiracy theories against democrat facebook has long been criticized for not cracking down on hate speech and misinformation an undercover investigation by al-jazeera has exposed high ranking officials in cyprus expressing a willingness to aid convicted criminals obtain e.u. citizenship in august the investigative unit released a cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the country's citizen by investment program now as phyllis reports the investigation leads to the highest offices of

the cypriot state the cyprus investment program allows foreigners to buy a european passport for an investment mostly made in property of 2 and a half $1000000.00 the government insists that applicants need a clean criminal record the holder of a subpoena 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

will do is find out who has to be spoken to be paid what vested states the may that's to give you what i think the case a part of a network of enablers that include lawyer and raise protect this song business opportunities globally when you can go to it is going to be the mission. describes a 2 track application system the official route and another for difficult cases that requires more money they can still get a philosopher to know what insane option. goes over them you already. see if from what i do that and that. and look and see what is in any book the regulation even our news feeds and we want. to ask questions you asked. why. how high. the higher limits. are undercover reporters are finally invited to discuss mr x.'s passport application with the president of the cypriot parliament

you kowtow. to the motion we're here for support. i don't know what he did with cloture. to say i'm going to. have to put it it's like this. when confronted with the evidence all of those involved deny any wrongdoing here 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 soloists said he knew all along that our undercover reporters were criminals who were not easy and supported the report made by protect his fil reste al-jazeera. still to come on out of there there's news out. we are not what whatsapp reap the election. and opposition leader explains why he

fears this month's poll won't be free and fair.

the loop or. it will all. e.u. foreign ministers have agreed to impose sanctions against by the russian president alexander knew. the e.u. already sanctioned 40 other than the russian officials to step up pressure against the violent crackdown on protesters the move comes after shanker held unexpected talks with jailed opposition activists to discuss constitutional reform and

a rooster has been rocked by months of on rest on a disputed presidential election in august. well those protests have continued in minsk for the 10th day with pension as the latest targets are brought police demonstration was against mass detentions at another protest on sunday when more than 700 people were arrested in local media footage a lot of police were seen using pepper spray and stun grenades against the protesting pensioners and a rooster faced months of arrest following a disputed election in a list. the canary islands have seen the highest number of migrants arrive in 14 years more than a 1000 people landed in the spanish islands off the coast of west africa over the weekend local politicians of osman bridge for help saying the canary islands do not have enough resources migrants are increasingly taking the dangerous atlantico route to reach europe instead of traveling by the mediterranean sea where they face heightened security nicholas haq is in dakar senegal which is

a key transit country the 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 moroccan border guards say that they've seen migrants using jet skis or kayaks to make it to the canary islands over the weekend almost a 1000 migrants have made it to the european union into spain these are not refugees fleeing war but young men that are flee economic and political hardship at home many of them algerian guineans where they're said to be a contested election and was 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 to create 3 year of great distress to the families of people who take their ears journeys a purse and freak out and they can freeze iran's men abuse it's pretty sure and some also die on the reef according to researchers there's a 500 percent increase in migrants coming to the shores of the canary islands mostly because of the corona virus 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 and that's why so many young men are willing to take this dangerous journey for the hope of a better life abroad amnesty international is accusing the tanzanian government of cracking down on dissent ahead of this month's general election the rights group

says the law is being weaponized to target opposition figures and journalists and the main opposition candidate says he doesn't believe the vote will be free or fair his conference or. 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 fish will save his conduct while on the campaign trail had been poller writing lisa recently returned to tanzania from belgium to run for president he laughed 3 years ago when he was seriously injured after being repeatedly short by an identified gunmen he's told al jazeera he does not believe that the election at the end of the month will be free fair or transparent we are not going to accept stolen elections we are not going to accept the elections we call millions of people onto the

streets who attack mass democratic action peaceful action. integrity of the election defend their votes if it comes to. his main competitor president john. he's also outcome painting attracting thousands of people to his rallies. he's been accused by human rights organizations and the opposition of being a dictator and presiding over a government that is intolerant of dissent and has 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 the economy front. the projects that we are talking about he's done very well in. the issues of governance especially fighting corruption in all fronts leanest wall but is one of 29000000 tons and 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 but. 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 they just hope to be able to cast their ballots safely catherine soy al-jazeera and we've contacted the tanzanian government about these allegations but have received no response so far. 2 americans responsible for improving the way auctions are held have been awarded this year's nobel prize for economics sciences paul milgram and robert wilson's research underlies much of today's economy from the way google sells advertising to

the way telecoms companies acquire airwaves the royal swedish academy of sciences described their auction formats as a beautiful example of how basic research can spark inventions that benefit society . astronomers have captured their 1st glimpse of a distant star being torn apart by a black hole they've been observing the event 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 and the material is ripped into threads in a bright flash before disappearing completely from space and time and before we do that if it so you can catch up with our web site the dresser that is there dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the live like on. that's it from a our intel if this news out of the back in a moment with more news like sorting.

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the people with the truth and nothing else discovered. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera. 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. i'm going to tell you this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. a truce between armenia and azerbaijan is pushed to its limits.