the remanding. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound is another matter when you. use in kind of trails that matter to you. or. cyprus suspends its citizenship for investment program after an al-jazeera investigation explodes exposed flaws of the puce of the system and. hello everyone forget this is al jazeera live from joe also coming up i went through but now they say i'm i could be i feel so our. donald trump back on the campaign trail of already attracting criticism. opposition

leader anwar ibrahim pushes his case for becoming the new prime minister of malaysia. and the sugar plantation in uganda that environmentalist say threatens a protected rain forest of hundreds of its animal species. us president donald trump has been back outs with the crowds to fire up an election campaign that was interrupted by his covert 19 infection trump addressed supporters in the battleground state of florida without a mask a decision is democratic rival joe biden described as reckless al-jazeera and a gallagher reports from miami. after a dramatic 2 weeks that seen president donald trump contract covert 19 and to the walter reed medical center and make an apparent speedy recovery he's now back on the campaign trail his 1st stop central florida where thousands gathered to welcome

him back. following the example of the president many in the crowd didn't wear masks and social distancing was nonexistent as florida governor on dissenters and to the rally he gave high fives to the crowd before touching his face president trump told supporters he's never felt better i went through it now they say i'm amused i can feel i feel so powerful i walk into the idea of i walk in there ought to see everyone in. august the guys in the beautiful women and everybody else yes if you have the fact is any source of the president might change his tone after contract in the virus were quickly dispelled despite rising cases in many states and flu season fast approaching the president says his approach was right all along the cure cannot be worse but if you don't feel good about it if you

want to stay stay relaxed stay but if you want to get out there get out. in ohio democratic candidate and former vice president joe biden talked to auto workers touting his experience in tackling the economic woes faced by many he placed the blame for the 1000 death count now in excess of 210000 squarely with the president they didn't want to panic the american people that's why i said nothing we don't panic america doesn't panic but trump panic is reckless personal conduct sent his diagnosis has been unconscionable longer donald trump as president. more recklessly seems to get. in the coming days president trump will travel to pennsylvania iowa and north carolina all important states in november's election for president trump's supporters this was a triumphant return after a worrying few days for critics yet another example of the president flouting basic

medical guidelines joe biden is leading in the polls here in florida a state trump must win joe biden will be here on tuesday as the election draws ever closer and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida to cyprus now where the government is suspending a controversial citizenship for investment program after an undercover investigation by al jazeera that exposed high ranking officials expressing a willingness to aid convicted criminals to obtain citizenship in august al-jazeera as investigative unit released the cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the citizen by investment program let's go live now to nicosia our investigative reporter david harrison is with us david cypriot government has always denied any wrongdoing what reason that they given for suspending the scheme. well they've given that the reason they're given his longstanding story of abuse

and concern over the investment program it's been an incredibly fast moving morning here we've had 3 announcements warning the abolition of the investment program under which people could buy passports if they paid a certain amount of money in which our investigation revealed evidence of that was being abused the 2nd one was the president of the pollen to me this who was one of the people implicated in the scheme in our investigation he's announced he's stepping down until an investigation launched by the government is complete he'll step down from next week under their demands under 3rd announcement is that christakis giovanni an m.p. you don't position m.p. on the owner of the vani property group who was also exposed. in our documentary is someone who was willing to help a criminal by a passport he's resigned as an m.p. under resigned all his policy roles so what happens next will it be a police involvement in this criminal investigation

well that's certainly not being ruled out at the moment what we do know is that this investigation has been launched the european union has yet to announce the steps that it's going to take if they deem any unnecessary now the scheme has been abolished and tomorrow evening 2 in a sign of how popular how much popular support there is for the decision to abolish the program and for al-jazeera as revelations there's going to be a demonstration protesting against the corruption revealed in our documentary you say the scheme has been abolished the government just to clarify this has it gone completely or is the government just suspended it for the moment. here is what they say they said it was the current scheme is being abolished now that of course doesn't mean that there may not be it may not be reborn in another form that we have to see how we can see what we do know is that they do have some previous that in the cypriot government of weakening and tweaking the scheme to get

stronger toughening up the regulations only to soften them later so that is really one of the future obviously we'll be watching very closely as will the cypriot people who have been venting their fury on social media at the corruption that we exposed david many thanks indeed i was interested harrison reporting live from the case and you can find out more about our investigation on our podcast al-jazeera dot com forward slash podcasts forward slash al-jazeera investigates. opposition leader and why bring him a spoken to the king as he again tries to form a new government says that he's had the parliamentary support to replace prime minister yes seen since last month who denali take charge took charge in march but only with a razor thin majority i would appeal to the good of millicent's to access a. patient's wisdom. and. the

king to death. and decide based on. the experience of the ship and the discretion of his highness. and we must also remember that i mean yes it's lost. its majority. and therefore. it would be appropriate for him to. resign more from our series florence lowy and kuala lumpur. the opposition leader on my brain says that during his meeting with the king he presented the monarch with documents including statutory declarations and. statements by party leaders to show that he's got the support of more than 120 members of parliament 112 is needed for a simple majority now and it's not clear though that on or has been able to

convince the king that he does indeed have support of the majority in parliament shortly after our last press conference the palace issued a statement to say that yes indeed the meeting took place and yes i'm well told the king that he has the support of the majority in parliament but on want to not give a king the king a list of the names of members of parliament who he says support him which would strengthen his claim now on the prime minister's party as osha has also issued a statement to say that on one has once again failed to prove his claim so this is the 1st hurdle for anwar it's not clear that he has been successful then there is a 2nd hurdle the king has the discretion to dissolve parliament which would trigger snap elections if he's advised to do so by the sitting prime minister yes and now it's not clear that this will go down well with malaysians considering that the country is now going through a 3rd wave of corona of the noble coronavirus and this has in part been blamed on state elections held in state now if and what is unsuccessful there is still

another option for him he could propose a motion of no confidence when parliament sits again in november but whether or not that motion of no confidence is accepted is another matter. china has vowed to respond if the u.s. goes ahead with planned arms sales to taiwan the u.s. has been encouraging taiwan to modernize its military to resist threats from china the latest arms sale includes rocket launches missiles advanced sensors for fighter jets china regards taiwan as a breakaway province and hasn't ruled out using force to retake the island. china is firmly against it china is urging the us fully recognize the gravity of arms sales to taiwan abide by the principles enshrined in the 3 joint communique is immediately cancel any arms sales plan to taiwan and stop military contacts related to arm sales to taiwan china will take a legitimate and necessary response to any further arms sales to taiwan. to

training you in beijing explains what china might be planning as its response. now we don't know exactly how beijing plans to hit back judging from previous responses they may impose trade sanctions sanctions on the us in july it imposed sanctions on u.s. weapons company lockheed martin following the u.s. government's decision to approve a $620000000.00 arms sale to taiwan they may also increase military exercises and military drills close to taiwan which is exactly what they have been doing over the past few weeks intensifying land and sea drills close to the taiwan strait including flying chinese planes through taiwan's defense identification zone up until this weekend when taiwan was celebrating its national day nisa very much signals to to to taiwan a warning designed to intimidate taipei but what they didn't isn't likely to do at least at this stage is directly attack taiwan i think they jean has been very very

aware that in the lead up to the u.s. elections the trump administration may be trying to push beijing buttons when it comes to the taiwan issue and beijing's leaders are really reluctant to make any firm moves until they see the results of the u.s. election pending a possible leadership change and a possible change in approach and tauren from washington we're going to weather up take backs here on our syrup that protests. against the controversial war the critics say hard workers. why what happened 528 years ago remains a source of our go to last americans today. another

contrast in east asia weather was are becoming a bit more apparent now as the season changes we've got wintry stuff it really is there to the north and we still got tropical storms going to the south china sea now this is the 1st couple of days ago john which of course is the home of harbin where we'll see the ice festival in a couple of month's time but it's still 7 degrees dobbin the snow has gone further east and to be always for the most part in charge still relatively warm the cloud is thick enough to do so bit of rain in the central west and of course you've got nunc i think are interacting with hard data which by wednesday will be onshore in vietnam rain the main problem not wind is to get a few showers in japan particularly the same area that got hit by the heavy rain from the near typhoon a couple of days ago now further west same reason course those tropical storms in vietnam which is that the monsoon trough going south has just love for depression to come inland in india so in the middle of this part of india flood risk in turn

down across towards go and further south the next 2 days will see particularly heavy rain certain floods probable landslides on area particularly maharastra which is still wet. cyprus a european island opening offering citizenship to those who can afford it in august al-jazeera made global headlines with the cyprus papers confidential documents that reveal a murky passport by investment scheme for his whole point is that. now al-jazeera as investigative unit goes undercover to expose further revelations that go to the heart of the cypriot state and his ear investigations the cyprus papers on the cover. of the.

hello again this is al jazeera as for much of the main news this hour the cyprus government is suspending a controversial citizenship for investment program after an undercover investigation by al-jazeera that exposed high ranking officials expressed a willingness to aid convicted criminals to obtain e.u. citizenship. the laziest opposition leader anwar ibrahim has met the king as he tries to form a new government he says that he has the parliamentary support needed to replace prime minister will he deemed that yes e.u. . and u.s. president donald trump is back with the crowds trying to fire up a campaign that was interrupted by his covert 19 infection trump took to the stage without a mask to rally supporters in florida after the white house doctor confirmed that

he tested negative. for 10000000 americans have already cast their ballots in early voting that's according to the u.s. elections project of the university of florida in the state of georgia there were long lines some ways it up to 4 hours there were reports of some technical issues including glitches that slowed down voting at one site in atlanta in california a criminal investigation is underway after unauthorized ballot boxes began popping up around the state and we can't independently verify these images of what are being called fake drop off boxes but people online have been spotting them near churches and gun shops they look virtually the same as some official boxes the republican party has admitted to placing them in los angeles fresno and orange county's california secretary of state says the boxes are illegal but the party is refusing to remove them scott lucas is a co-founder of america unfiltered

a news analysis site on american politics and foreign policy and he thinks because of these on all the rise boxes there's a real risk that people's votes may not be counted. the sort of thing double transman talking about without any evidence is that democrats supposedly have been doing this for years in fact the reality is there been less than $1200.00 fraudulent ballots to 40 years across all elections the republicans who put out that false charge are actually in danger of carrying out mail fraud ballot fraud because let's be very clear here these boxes according to the california state and the california attorney general are not authorized they are not allowed under california provision for collection ballots and it does mean that ballots might not be delivered properly to the true election authorities the general thing that you hear from republicans such as donald trump is to try to suppress voting to say look don't bother voting with mail in balloting because it's a fraudulent process and then if crump loses the election on november 3rd you try

to take legal action to say well mail in ballot use not legitimate what you have here in california however is that they would like republicans in the state to win office they have a local contest to win so not only do they say well we need bail and palates for our people but they risk what is possible fraud to collect ballots and possibly not distribute them fairly and it's not just happened in california because donald trump who said on the one hand don't allow mail in ballots and we're guess what he told floridians go out and cast your mail in ballots as soon as possible for me both armenia and azerbaijan are accusing each other of violating a ceasefire that came into force on saturday is there a ministry of defense says that its soldiers have been attacked by armenian forces along the line of contact armenia says that azerbaijan has launched what it called a massive attack along the entire length of the from climb both sides are accusing

each other of killing civilians in the flare up over the disputed the go no kind of back region that began last month how does the rest but it spent support stuff and go to us in armenia. when an armenian missile hit the apartment block where an urchin ali had lived there was supposed to be a ceasefire. like 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 you know. if you let me go to war mom 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 means now the is area president wants turkey to be involved in talks to find a solution to the conflict but russia isn't interested. also miss them saving it but there's less in use in the joint statement confirms the unchangeable nature of

the negotiation process and its format minsk o. s. c.e. group consists of a fairly large number of states with us but it has delegated the management of the negotiation process and mediation to the 3 co-chairing states russia the united states and france was but in almost 30 years the minsk group has failed to find a solution to the status of nagorno karabakh sergey lavrov talks with his our meaning counterpart following a similar meeting with the as area 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. 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 go on

a kind of back as azeri forces attempt to capture the town about 50 kilometers in that direction is the ethnic armenian town. how dropped 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 doris in armenia. health care workers in china are testing all 9000000 residents of an entire city for corona virus in just 5 days 3000000 have been checked so far inching down doctors are expected to be finished before the end of the week the mass campaign follows a dozen cases linked to a hospital treating covert 19 patients 6 of them were local transmissions that's the 1st in nearly 2 months in china e.u. countries have agreed to coordinate coronavirus travel restrictions they've agreed

not to restrict people travelling between so-called green states countries will be assigned traffic light colors based on the latest testing numbers until now when the states have a making their own rules creating complicated complicated patchwork of regulations . several islamic organizations in indonesia are throwing their weight behind the empty jobs law protest movement an all new law intended to cover red tape streamline regulations and encourage foreign investment was passed last week but unions say that it will erode workers' rights it's the 2nd week of protests against the measure it's an easy is largest muslim association says it will also challenge the law in course jesica washington. reports from jakarta. this has been the pattern for some days now the protests learned they start peacefully but as the crowd builds later in the day some demonstrators throwing objects at the

police and the police begin to fired tear gas even though there are children in this crowd. it's the 2nd consecutive week of demonstrations here in the intonation capital against legislation which the government says is necessary to attract foreign investment in indonesia and create job opportunities but demonstrators say that the government is trying to roll out the red carpet for investors while stripping away the fundamental rights now this demonstration has attracted islamic organisations workers unions students and on affiliated young people who all have come together to say that the government has unconstitutional way by attempting to quickly and quietly. consider. president jan back off of coke a strong to be the country is legitimate. he's vowed to resign following days of

protests against the results of this month's parliamentary election which many say was rigged to young people a calling for the whole political system to be overhauled. reports from bishkek. just coffee cafe is a popular hangout for students and intellectuals in the cuticles capital bishkek. we meet i had a elma's because she took part in the protests after the october the 4th parliamentary election that one politician cooled the dirtiest in kyrgyzstan's history. our 1st demand was for a rerun of the election that's all we wanted we had huge hopes on the 1st day of protests it's so sad how that day ended i feel like i was used. thousands of people protested in the main square before security forces moved in tear gas and stun grenades hundreds of people were injured and one person was

killed the next morning protests this it taking control of this building where paul and convenes they freed political prisoners from jail later on the central election commission declared the results of the poll nolen void and said the must be a rerun later a man who only days before would be serving a living year jail term for kidnapping was made the country's prime minister in a parliamentary session that many say was unconstitutional and makes a mockery of the rule of law the streets until the calm in the old some sunshine but there's a growing fear that kyrgyzstan's french will democracy which people have worked hard to build into revolutions since independence of the breakup of the soviet union is under threat. every aspect of our life depends on politicians and the decisions of politicians make i think it's the duty of every young adequate person to participate in political movements and express their civil

rights it's very important for this post soviet generation to realise that politics defines our quality of life. not far from the cafe members of the recently established reform party are discussing strategy for the promised rerun of the platinum entry poll reforms set up with money raised in an internet crowdfunding campaign 3 months ago party candidates got around $35000.00 votes in the election which would not have been enough for a seat in parliament and they say the established politicians have been corrupted by local criminal networks and or intimidated by russia under vladimir putin who fears democratic change in the post soviet states if you know the. whole television in. part by russian television and people are brainwashed by it if we. explain their feelings of people. in one

word i have had up so they don't want to see all the faces they don't want to see an old political eye to leaders young killed it is hoped the promised rerun of the election happens and he's clean but they fear the dirty tricks of being played in a strategic game again john strafford al-jazeera bishkek. it's 528 years since the explorer christopher columbus trump tanker off the america's anniversaries been mobbed in chile by fighting between indigenous protesters who are throwing rocks and police firing water cannon demonstrators demanded greater protections for indigenous culture and rights transatlantic voyages by the navigator who was born in genoa and what is now it's really pioneered the european colonization of the americas. environmentalist in uganda say that

a protected rain forest is being destroyed to make way for sugar plantations the bull goma forest reserve is home to hundreds of species of animal including endangered chimpanzees malcolm webb reports. the goma tropical rain forest preserve in western uganda is home to hundreds of species of trees some of them rare. and many animals like these. about 500 endangered jim pansies live here to environmentalist say the forest is being destroyed to make way for sugar plantation. constantino test there in runs a lodge for tourists who come to see the wildlife he says some of the forests protection has been removed by a regular court rulings he campaigned against it it is a very uncommon and probably no worse in the world but the currency of government telling us that in writing and doing a lot of this is

a 3rd. and that's why people have come to reverse that and following the thought but that there are sort of sousa's to exist without an explanation campaigners say part of the forest has been given to a company called holy my sugar sugar says it's using only privately owned grassland next to the forests sustainable development and government. quit that we're going. to use should look a. lot you go and contribute to the tax base of this nation what i maintain a past that is i mean i think the only crime you're committing now is that we i'm a but come 1st. the activists say the site is guarded by ugandan special forces and that suggests powerful politicians are involved. sure.

i'll. be sure. to destroy. the activists also say jolla sugar's owners are hidden and its records have been removed from the public registry so you don't it's not like knowledge investors who are these investors i don't have that many such. chickens might get up in the. villages living around the forest have already cut down some trees to make space to grow sugarcane they hope to sell to the company the environmentally safe nothing is done the rest of the forest will eventually suffer the same fate malcolm webb al-jazeera.