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90. the high cost of war families mourn loved ones while on the diplomatic front a cease fire between a surprise on and on media. that hunky against argentina's government protesters angry about the worsening economic crisis handling of the pandemic and you dish over for. so u.s. president on a trump has just walked out on stage in florida in his 1st rally since being infected with covert 19 this is a see right now in sanford in florida his speech comes after the white house doctor confirmed he had tested negative but it is. his plans for

a new supremes court judge that is dominating the policy in american politics republicans have begun pushing ahead with their plans to confirm any a macone barrett as a replacement for ruth bader ginsburg who died last month alone fisher has been following events on capitol hill in washington d.c. . the goal to have him equally bonneton 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 no the bottom line is justice ginsberg when asked about this several years ago said that a present 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

but it's 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 won't 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 healthcare act 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 hardass who insisted the senate should be dealing with more pressing issues than the supreme court said. crystal clear that rushing us across. is more important than helping and supporting the. people who are suffering from

a deadly pandemic and a devastating economic crisis and nothing but the truth so help you god and then it was time to hear from amy cooney but it herself she said courts can't write every wrong i chose to accept the nomination because i believe deeply in the rule of law and the place of the supreme court in 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 well it's great now to the 3 i got a guy who said the following the events in miami and he is funny got his doctor's

note his negative test and he's hitting the road. yeah i mean this is perfect timing for president donald trump who really loves these rallies he loves to make contact with his base as he was boarding air force one without a mask on incidentally that's when we got word from the white house physician that he had tested negative joe biden the vice president and his rival in this race is saying that his behavior is reckless but i think people will be watching president shops beaches tonight very closely to see if his attitude has changed since he himself contracted kobe 98 in may this incredible speedy recovery i don't think we're going to see anything different make i think we're going to hear him talking about how people should just get on with their own lives how he is a warrior he got through this but this is essential trump he's going to hit 4 states including florida over the next few days will go into north carolina iowa pennsylvania all essential battleground states but on monday night right now he's

on stage in central florida that is a key part of the biggest battleground state in this country that's where there are lots of swing voters and independent voters and don't want to make no mistake cannot get another 4 years in the white house without winning this state and certainly what about joe biden he's in another key state in the. yeah he's in toledo ohio where he's been basically talking about his economic plan to auto workers in a state that trump took a silly back in 2016 but which in which joe biden is doing pretty well at the moment as he has across the entire nation if the polls are to be believed he's been talking about his experience during the economic crisis of 20062007 incidentally saying that president trump's behavior getting back on the campaign trail is device if an irresponsible words we've heard many times before here in this state which is always seen as a litmus test for the entire election joe biden is leading president trump by just

a razor thin margin that's why this state is so important joe biden in fact will be here on choose day showing once again just how important florida is and how much both these candidates need to win here in the sunshine state oregon and thanks very much david i've got a reporting there from miami let's take this on for that we can speak to aaron cohen who's the director of debate at the university of michigan joins us live by skype from. air and 1st up so these rallies these is preaching to the converted his name who does he need to sway with these appearances yes as you mentioned these rallies generally are with his base people that are predisposed to vote for him likely voted for him in 2016 but in order to win reelection he's going to need to reach out further than that to moderate independent voters maybe people that voted for barack obama in 20082012 were disaffected voted for president dropped in 2016

but then went democratic in 2018 the president's done a great job with his base but it's only between 30 and 40 percent and he needs that additional 5 to 10 percent of independents and moderates needs to get his message a little bit further. it's funny to see if you look at him campaigning right now and then the crowd behind me can see that some have got. some have and that's certainly not any social distancing going on you wonder what will that appeal to the scene is to the working class mums to a not yet convinced probably not the seniors and that's part of the reason joe biden has a lead in florida now is because seniors are skeptical how seriously president trump is treating crowd of iris and what his plan is going forward in terms of you know masks and contact tracing and even vaccine arrest of you should then and they're the most vulnerable in so yes a signal like this is not positive and a seniors are a big part of the voting constituency in florida and so it doesn't send the right

message and seniors could determine this election if not florida but other states are crucial because they're such dependable voters so what then the trump campaign team's tactics behind these appearances behind these rallies. well i think for one thing they want to make up for lost time he's been off the campaign trail for 12 days and this is the most important time right now there's only about 3 weeks until the election so they have to get him out there these all these campaign rallies they also registered new voters and get voters activated and so i think a big part of it is trying to get people that maybe didn't even vote for him in 2016 but are interested in the message coming to the rally with friends to get them to sign up and vote they need an even larger turnout of his base supporters white voters those without a college degree that are typically considered his base even more to turn out and register to vote that did in 2016 for him to have any chance of winning reelection aaron appreciate that thanks very much indeed aaron cole the speaking to us from our thank you and he found. government rallies are being held across

argentina they cuse president to fernando's of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic and for the worsening economic situation there also protesting a controversial judiciary reform bill they believe protects the political elite tereza bay was at the protest in argentina as capital. works 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 a side is in 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 involves many members in the cabinet of precedents out of that members including the vice president former president cristina fernandez de kirchner among other things what we've seen in the past months is that back in march when i didn't you know was one

of the 1st countries in the region to impose the strictly on down to the prevent the spread of covert 19 and that the prime minister 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 president and vice president cristina fernandez de kirchner when the government tried to explore a private business people here see that as a threat they're afraid that argentina who turned it into business will. still ahead here on al-jazeera the chinese city of qingdao is put to the test why all 9000000 residents have been given just 5 days to check for cope with 19. 1000002 children in nigeria and kenya heading back to school following the coronavirus shutdown.

hello no more to talk about hurricanes but the remaining cloud is that stuff there and it will produce some significant rain that was incoming cloud over washington d.c. from the same system which is that classified as a low but is rain on its way out to the atlantic seaboard in the next 24 hours or so there is a fairly active cold front zipping through the midwest in through counters well so behind it you might think cold weather but not really is just an active front so it will produce some thunderstorms it will leave toronto in the sunshine minneapolis 70 degrees there's more rain coming into washington wyoming possibly idaho in the next day or so further south it remains dry facts for almost all the states recently affected by significant weather you've got a couple of fine looking days with temperatures where they should be doesn't 34 lanter at 28 it's also prairie states and the upper midwest against the rain but

even here temperatures are much affected with all the action there is rather best for the south so the gulf of mexico in the calibrated discussion the showers developing getting quite widely over this part of central america of the next day or so but generally speaking we're talking about showers not prolonged persistent rain even mexico is looking relatively dry. frank assessments if american public opinion is betrayed by social media platforms after november what would be good because cautious and if you believe that there horowitz into our democracy one obvious solution is to break up informed opinions look at checkers don't go anywhere the protesters are going anywhere either it's a bullet with a revolution. in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's

really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera. you're watching a reminder the top stories and confirmation hearings in the u.s. senator begun for the u.s. supreme court nominee amy kearney barret democrats did not want the debate to begin until after the election a confirmation would expand the court's conservative majority. u.s. president donald trump has resumed campaigning after being forced to suspend all events after testing positive for covert 19 taking the stage just hours after the white house doctor confirmed that he tested negative for the virus. argentinians

are protesting in the capital against the government they're unhappy with the handling of the coronavirus pandemic worsening the economic crisis and controversial judicial reforms. 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 announced by john accuse each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire which has left coastal tos on both sides but as smith reports now from doris in armenia. when an armenian missile hit the apartment block where an urchin live there was supposed to be a ceasefire. this was another brick 9 people died in this attack on ganja on sunday azerbaijan's 2nd largest city here they have no interest in a ceasefire. if you let me go to war mom i'm going i'm going there 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 armenia 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 they learned that there's this and used the joint statement confirms that unchangeable nature of the negotiation process and its format minsk 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 is there a foreign minister last week. on monday in karabakh 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 is not used to the war 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 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. now that health care workers in china have been asked to test 9000000 residents of an entire city qingdao reported a dozen cases linked to

a hospital where coronavirus patients are being treated. as this report. an ambitious task on an epic scale health workers in the port city of xing 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 a period of contagiousness and when the chinese do not or not we can't have 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 4 immediately tested it's not the 1st test seen on this scale in china 700 kilometers north of beijing more than 7000000 of the capital's 22000000 people were massed 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 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 a 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 durables mandy al-jazeera millions of students across africa are heading back to class out of the pandemic delayed start schools that at least 12 countries are reopening following a lockdown that's lasted more than 6 months universities are also expected to open but some lecturers are warning they won't be going back to work unless they get a pay rise like where visited a school in kenya's capital of nairobi. schools in kenya reopened for the 1st time in 7 months but with some precautions in place children here have to wash their hands frequently was so. meant to be wearing masks only 3 groups of resume those that are due to city. let's take

a look inside this classroom these primary age children haven't been in class since march but children's rights organizations say this isn't simply about learning so these children come from could be a it's one of nairobi's most densely populated and poorest slums and the children's welfare organizations say if they're not at school they're much greater risk of being sent to work all kinds of abuse and during the lockdown 1700000 kenyans have lost their jobs so that means that some children probably won't be coming back to school the tool if their parents are no longer in a position to afford uniforms lunches and so on now scientists are estimating that kenya's coronavirus pandemic already peaked in late july and that more than a 3rd of the population has already had it now means well on the way to herd immunity i will say that only one in 5 people who had the virus actually had any

symptoms until less than 800 people have died here and i was not really understood why this is based on very low levels of testing there was a lot of skepticism about the government data and code 19 response which were corruption scandals allegations of millions of dollars worth of funding being stolen but nonetheless if the scientists data is right it would suggest that kenya is over the worst of the pandemic and more schoolchildren in other yo groups may be able to resume their education soon. coronavirus could be here to stay it's been the warning from. health experts for months but as we near a year since the 1st cases we've seen how we remain vigilant health officials including those at the world health organization are concerned that covert $9000.00 restrictions are creating public fatigue experts think there's a 3 step middle path that can be replicated around the world without the need for

repeated lock downs where individuals are reminded to keep up the basics of hygiene in physical distance public health systems focus on tracing cases and tracking outbreaks with better resources and clearer guidelines that are more consistent between different governments go to david nabarro is the special envoy of the world health organization director general on covert 19 and he says the best way to contain the virus is to follow its strict health and safety. the most important thing that everybody has to do is to hold this virus. and that does mean people behaving in a way that restricts the ability of the virus to infect them 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 also 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 that you can pick up the 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. 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 units released the cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the country's citizen buy investment program now as phil reese 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 cypriot passport has the right to live and work across the e.u. our undercover reporters went to cyprus to represent a fictional client who has fled china mr x. is a wealthy businessman who was sentenced in absentia to 7 years in jail for bribery and money laundering and he is seeking

a cypriot passport property agents denise and tony kate help those investing in property to get cypriot passports our undercover reporters tell them about our proposed applicant. china's gone and charging him for robbery. 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 investments need to be my best to give you what i think the case apart of a network of enablers that include lawyer and raise protect is a song business i have cities who believe when you can go to it is going to go to your community. 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 want all of it and. see if from what i do that and. then look at cities in any book in the

regulation even our news feeds and we want. to ask questions you asked. why. how high. the higher the better. our undercover reporters are finally invited to discuss mr x.'s passport application with the president of the cypriot parliament you tell him. to go without motion. for support. i don't know what he did with cloture. to say i'm going to be. here if you. have to prepare it's like. when confronted with the evidence all of those involved deny any wrongdoing up here and after our team left the catchiest said he filed a report about them with cypresses and money laundering you know this is

a system at a press conference demetrius alluring said he knew all along that our undercover reporters were criminals watchers you know who are not is unsupported the report made by potential is. filreis al-jazeera. to americans responsible for improving the way auctions are held have been awarded this year's nobel prize for economics sciences for milgram and robert wilson's research underlies much of today's economy from the way google sells advertising to the way telecoms companies acquire waves the role swedish academy of sciences described the format is a beautiful example of how basic research can spark inventions benefit society. facebook is up daisy is 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 a movement which promotes conspiracy theories against democrats facebook has long been criticized for not cracking down on the speech and misinformation. earth is

fast becoming and uninhabitable health for millions of people with little real progress to stop climate change a new u.n. report says the number of natural disasters has nearly doubled in the last 2 decades floods and storms account for around 80 percent of the increases the u.n. says lead is not doing enough to save the planet and research is on the world's biggest mission to the north pole say they've proof of a dying arctic ocean an ice breaker carrying $300.00 scientists on a year long trip to study the region and returned to its home port in germany the mission's leader says they witnessed global warming when they walked on thin and brittle ice in the north pole they warn that if the trend continues there will be ice free arctic summers within the next few decades. we do they just bought this world is threatened we really saw how the ice is disappearing north of greenland we found broad expanses of open water in an area where the should

normally be thick ice parts of it multi-year ice and even at the poles the ice is completely mounted and full of holes it was very evident you could see it all around you didn't need measuring instruments the ice is dying if we keep going as we have in the arctic will be ice free in some other than a few decades and the world i just described will no longer exist. so this is our desert these are the top stories and confirmation hearings in the u.s. senate have begun for supreme court nominee amy kearney back democrats didn't want the debate to begin until after the election a confirmation would expand the court's conservative majority but courts are not designed to solve every problem are right every wrong in our public life the policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches

elected by and accountable to the people the public should not expect courts to do so and.