now. i can committee right now. u.s. supreme court nominee amy county barrett fends off questions on election issues health care and abortion in her confirmation hearings. hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up cyprus traps it citizenship for investment program from al jazeera investigation exposed abuse in the system. saudi arabia fails to become a member of the un human rights council but rights defenders expressed concern over china and russia's election. closing ranks colombia's government moves to protect

a minister used to be leading a brutal crackdown on protesters. abortion a bomb a care guns and gay marriage just some of the topics which featured on day 2 of the confirmation hearing of president trump's u.s. supreme court nominee amy county barrett republican and democratic senators took turns grilling her on key topics which have become central to the debate surrounding her appointment the senate could vote by the end of the month on whether to confirm barrett just ahead of the u.s. poll one of them the 3rd but she declined to say whether she would recuse herself from any cases relating to next month's presidential election. my colleagues have asked you today whether you would recuse yourself from cases on the affordable care act you did not directly answer their questions and instead you described the process by which that would work or happen and so my question is isn't

it true then at the end of that process regardless of that process that it would be for ultimately would make the decision about whether or not you should recuse yourself that is true and i can't have you elicit a commitment from me about how i would make that decision in advance that would be wrong al-jazeera alan fischer has more now from washington d.c. . a theme was running throughout all of iniquity ballots responses when asked about cases that could well go to the supreme court she simply said that she wasn't going to prejudge anything that may come across her desk she used the words of ruth bader ginsburg during her nomination hearing saying that there could be no hints forecasts or previews what was interesting is she was asked several times whether or not she would recuse herself if she was involved in decisions about the affordable care act or even with the election you remember that donald trump said he wanted 9 justices because the election might become contentious and might have

to be decided by the supreme court like it was in 2000 she said she would consider all aspects of the case but she wouldn't give a guarantee she would recuse herself she did say though that she wouldn't be used as a pawn to settle the election she said she'd integrity and she hoped that the committee would accept that as far as other key issues the affordable care act she of course has written pieces for journals and criticized previous decisions that were made by courts which would suggest that she is very much against the affordable care act that's important because the supreme court will decide the case the week after the election which could have major implications for the many many millions of people across america who have preexisting conditions but again she said she was an originalist so she would wait until she saw what case was brought before the court she would then look at the constitution she would look at the law and she would make a decision based on that not how she felt things should be interpreted not how she felt the situation should develop but according to the constitution and according

to the law equally but it will be back before the committee for a 2nd day of questioning the 3rd day of hearings on wednesday what bruce tell valis a constitutional law attorney he says barrett performed well despite not directly answering many of the questions. i don't know that it's a vase and i think it's professional i think it's very clear you don't really want to judge offering their personal opinions the judges are supposed to follow the law follow the constitution follow the statutes what they feel personally as separate and distinct from what they do professionally as a judge oftentimes as an attorney i take cases with clients that i'm not exactly fonda personally i may not like them but i represent them to the best of my ability i think the public should expect a judge to be neutral fair and enforce the law as it's written she did a very good job with that i think that the senators know that they know she's not going to ask any questions and the irony is ruth bader ginsburg established that

template it used to be many many years ago the senators when asked the questions about policy issues or make this into a policy grandstanding again what were long sense past that now everyone knows the justices the smart ones are going to say i can't answer your question i am not going to give you a personal opinion i'm not here to offer my personal opinion so i wouldn't say that she was a base of i would say that she did what was expected of her and she's telling you not so intimately not so secretly but her judicial philosophy is which is she will follow the law as written when away from that hearing in washington both candidates have been trading blows on the campaign trail president trump has been holding a rally in the battleground state of pennsylvania using the opportunity to attack his democratic rival joe biden. this election is a simple choice if i can win the wins all these other countries when we get ripped off by everybody if we win you win pennsylvania wins and america wins very simple.

for years the selfish and corrupt political class betrayed the people of pennsylvania you know that and to people of our country. i'm joe biden is out campaigning in the battleground state of florida and he's been addressing older thought as many of whom back trump and 20 sixteenth's that's been used to already the entire story of my view of donald trump's presidency the fact that he's never been focused on what matters he's never been focused on you he's handling of this pandemic has been a radek just like his presidency is back and it has prevented florida seniors and people all across the country from getting the relief that they need donald trump hasn't just been willing to not do the work i think it's that beyond that i'm not sure he cares about delivering any real hope. well many states are seeing record levels of early voting more than 10000000 people have already mailed in or dropped

off their ballots in the middle of the pandemic that's despite president trump's claims that mail in voting leads to fraud is on the got to go. on the 1st day of early voting in georgia people lined up for hours to cast their ballots in some counties voters reported waiting more than 10 hours but it isn't just in person voting that shattering records across the country as people make their voices heard more than 10 and a half 1000000 ballots have already been mailed in or dropped off a number that could see voter turnout the highest since 1908 despite fears over the cove of 19 pandemic long waits and technical issues in some states early voting is hitting historic numbers for me as a younger person i am really ready and willing to stand out here and brave the cold and the cold that i had to make sure that i got it down it was so much at stake and president trumps unfounded claims that mail in voting could lead to massive fraud there are problems the republican party in california installed dozens of their own

ballot drop off boxes virtually indistinguishable from boxes sanctioned by the state officials call them unofficial and illegal and have insisted they be removed those official ballot drop boxes go through a number of steps that are required in law and regulations for installation for security for placement so having these unofficial ballot drop boxes that anybody can go to on main and and not meeting all those requirements is just not appropriate according to the u.s. election assistance commission the popularity of 1000000 votes has been growing for years but this year it may play into the hands of democratic presidential nominee joe biden here in florida the number of early votes reveals a potentially worrying statistic for president donald trump the number of democratic voters who have cast their ballots early tops republicans by more than 350000 this is a state. the president must win many republican voters don't trust mail in voting so those numbers will change is election day draws nearer the biden campaign's push

to get people voting early seems to be working make a plan to vote early and then get involved i know you're busy i know that i know your strike so. but this action is still important not to do every single thing we can florida is the 1st state to begin sorting its mail in ballots but like other states votes won't officially be counted until election day for now only the computers know the results of what will be a historic presidential election and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida now cyprus has abolished a lucrative program granting citizenship in return for investments often al-jazeera exposé the parliamentary speaker who seen in the undercover video says he'll abstain from duties until an investigation is completed al-jazeera expose senior politicians who are engaged in a plan to help a criminal by

a supreme court david harrison reports now from the capital nicosia. an emergency meeting of the cypriot cabinet was held at the presidential palace following the release of the al-jazeera investigation. of this brutal scene you're going to use a bar on those in the program we already see. if you go to the top our own ability to google as a flurry of developments followed the cyprus attorney general said he was launching a full investigation into the evidence gathered by al-jazeera. what has been published in the last few hours by the al jazeera news network is causing outrage anger and concern among the people i have given player instructions to the police leadership from the outset to conduct a full fora and in-depth investigation into the possibility of anyone committing criminal offenses the undercover reporters from al-jazeera as investigative unit

posed as representatives of a fictional client 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 our reporters were led through a network of enablers ended with a meeting with demetrius salukis president of a cypriot parliament. tell. for succors. a very little politically torture. when confronted with the evidence so the rest tonight wrongdoing and claim that he was suspicious of our undercover reporters from the start. who are not easy in their various who are easy or d. n a 1st to guess this could be i guess or here's the other demetrius a louis has since announced that he'll be stepping down from his duties until the

investigation is complete opposition member of parliament christakis giovanni was also implicated in the documentary is not is. what shocked looks today in a statement he announced he is resigning from his post as member of parliament and from all his positions in the opposition party. for years there have been suspicions in the european union that the cyprus investment program was a lying criminals to enter europe with the proceeds of their crimes the revelations of our investigation has shaken the political leadership of this country after years of failed attempts to tighten the rules the scheme will now be abolished and it seems the attorney general's investigation will examine the full extent of the wrongdoing david harrison al-jazeera cyprus and have been protests outside the supreme parliament against government corruption following the al-jazeera

investigation crowd shouted cyprus is not yours to sell and demanded a more just state there's outrage on social media but many calling for resignations . lots more still to come here and al-jazeera including displaced and devastated the human cost of the conflict of undergone a karabakh. strict new measures in the netherlands after a record number of corona virus cases are reported more in the states. color as the rain the remains of the hurricane that was dealt to disappears off the landtag seaboard this active cold front is coming in afterwards well there is a color front it's not really change in temperature much it will bring a bit of rain but there is cold air creeping in the game behind look at this calgary's max is

a nice 3 degrees settles at 15 this is all blue but there has been snow in british columbia and there's more to come mostly we're talking rain in the midwest and they don't teria and everything to the south is quite quiet action is for the heat warning on the coast of california los angeles up to about $36.00 degrees but nothing more significant than that that's the picture that for the next couple of days there's not much action in the caribbean from the point of view show that there are some beefy ones around if you go as far south as palomar costa rica home duress and beyond and even parts of south mexico where we have had the potential for developing hurricanes in the eastern pacific but that seems to dissipate in the last few days. in south america with the change of seasons quite warm in good parts of chile santiago northwards and in paraguay and the potential for significant rain is exist was probably to be realized in northern argentina was amused as in west in brazil.

in the deprived villages of northern argentina there's one man with a solution to every problem. for engineer a self-proclaimed inventor fernando and he's crossed a 94 to 7 ford truck no job and just too small for village to far in his latest mission he constructs a much needed refrigerator the drums and fire board if you find a latin america driving change on al-jazeera. coupe.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour president trump's u.s. supreme court nominee has faced questions from senators on the 2nd day of confirmation hearing in washington in the county barrett has been grilled on health care option and the upcoming presidential election and just 3 weeks to go until that vote president trump is campaigning in pennsylvania a state in narrowly won 4 years ago democratic rival joe biden is in the battleground state of florida. and cypresses abolished a citizenship for investment program following an undercover investigation found a 0 it shows that senior politicians agreeing to help a criminal by a separate possible. saudi arabia has failed to win reelection to the united nations human rights council the attempt had faced criticism due to allegations of state involvement in the murder of a saudi journalist. turkey says he was killed within the saudi consulate in istanbul 2 years ago china and russia did win seats on the body despite widespread criticism of both countries james bays has more now from u.n.

headquarters in new york. coming forth and not getting a seat was saudi arabia and i think that shows the way that saudi arabia's reputation with regard to human rights has been seriously dented in recent years since may have been someone has been infected effectively in charge of the country the detention of fellow members the royal family in the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh the long running war in yemen and 2 years ago the murder in a saudi consulate of jamal khashoggi clearly have affected how other members of the united nations view saudi arabia and they've decided it should be on the human rights council human rights groups say the whole process needs looking at you shouldn't have these uncontested slates there should be plenty of countries running in each of the regional groups so that all of the countries of the united nations have a proper choice they focus in particular on russia and china which are both going

to be on the human rights council they talk about the situation in hong kong they talk about the plight of the week is with regard to china with regard to russia you have the war in syria the bombing of hospitals that's taken place in syria you have the ongoing situation in ukraine and you have the recent poisoning of the russian opposition leader alexina valmy all black marks with regard to human rights regarding russia but they will serve on the human rights council but richard johnson is a professor of political science at george washington university he says geo political considerations drive decision making at the u.n. . this resonates with the principle that international law is always supportive to geopolitics and with china as powerful as it is and at the head for example of the asia infrastructure an investment bank with its economic political and military power. it's really going to stand out opposed

their 5 regions within that hold slate candidate elections 'd and in the majority of cases it leads to this cycle their only asia pacific region was contested which included saudi arabia and china by the way. so what this shows is the geo political mind of considerations matter and that's the case with russia as well i think russia which basically lost its bid. in terms of election to the human rights council in 2016 because of its support for boss a pressure on assad in syria really wants very much to attain and influence that is much more coveted because of the united states self-imposed removal by trying to pump

a 0 in 2018. now deaths and injuries continue to rise as armenia and azerbaijan and forces battle each other over the disputed nagorno-karabakh region that's despite the russian brokered cease fire which came into force on saturday nagorno-karabakh is officially part of azerbaijan but controlled by ethnic armenians and then called syria has more and there's every city of men get your vote for. gore soon armenia is the closest town to now go knock out over and hosts thousands of people displaced by fighting with us are big john many are right here with all of their clothes on their back young volunteers sort donation boxes to help provide their basic needs. they do shifts some of the volunteers students but we have school children as well they come in early in the morning and they do not want to leave we urge them to have some rest but they keep staying and work constantly on the other side of the conflict children and their families

forced from their homes and tartars city in azerbaijan take shelter in a school in the town of marjah local aid agencies or for help in refugee centers including supplying baby food and diapers. many of these officers have been displaced at least once before during the war in the early ninety's then armenian forces occupied 7 cities and i was already john close to knock on a car of our albums a lot of moms are you providing food medicine and everything but we must go back to our homes this is how it has to be a rather eat a piece of onion and bread but in my home. a ceasefire which came into force on sunday has been violated from the 1st hour it started both sides accuse each other of operating fire the cease fire acreage in moscow last week was supposed to allow the handover of bodies of soldiers as well as prisoners of war supervised by the international committee of the red cross that hasn't happened we are in continuous

discussions with them proposing passing proposals back and forth. operational and largest tical agreements need to be agreed on in place and the safety of our teams guaranteed for such an operation to take place the are however not involved in the political negotiations. azerbaijan's corso our turkey says in addition to ceasefire the international community should urge armenian forces to withdraw from what it calls our very jobs occupied territories based on the un and e.u. resul issues turkey has announced its full support for azerbaijan both diplomatically and militarily i mean yes prime minister nicolas question yet said i want to tarry in crisis can only be prevented if the international community officially recognizes the right of nagorno-karabakh people to self-determination and the point of recognizing its independence question here and also south that the

turkish forces are in the south coca says in order to continue the policy of what he calls the genocide of their many and people he also accused her of carefree quitting syrian mysteries to fight for his her big jump. on the capital back you have repeat that the night that then there has been no response from the leadership in un korea so why did the interview held in both capitals is that push any honest trying to gain international support by involving trickett directly in this conflict so you know al-jazeera may get or as our bridges. no kurdistan's parliament will be asked to vote for a 2nd time on whether to approve of as the new prime minister the president made the decision after politicians and activists challenge the legitimacy of saturday's 1st vote in parliament part of was freed from prison by his supporters last week have been mass protests since a disputed election 9 days ago the belorussian opposition leader sweat lodge

a kind of skier says she will call for a nationwide strike unless the president alexander lukashenko resigns by a sober 25th it comes after another day of protests against the president whose election victory in august has been widely discredited. police say they detained a 186 people on monday to kind of skye who went into exile in lithuania after the election has called for an end to police violence and the release of political prisoners. now the world bank has approved $12000000000.00 in new funding for developing countries to buy coded $900.00 vaccines so part of a $160000000000.00 program to help nations fight the coronavirus pandemic the financial help will be used to test and treat people. bars and restaurants are being shot in the netherlands after a regular daily rise in cope with 19 cases the government's ban the sale of alcohol after 8 pm and masks have been made compulsory in indoor spaces nearly 7 $1400.00

new infections were announced on tuesday the country now has one of the highest infection rates per capita worldwide. you know today we're introducing new tough measures we're going to partial lockdown it's a hard message in the new rules are going to hurt but it's the only way because the facts don't lie we have to be stricter on ourselves and strict on our behavior in any case not enough people knew the law and sticking to the rules when there are too many people who disregard the rules. and the united states has reported more than 40000 new infections on monday daily case numbers of risen in 33 states as the country sees a surge in hospital admissions doctors say a man in nevada has been reinfected with the virus the otherwise healthy 25 year old required hospital treatment after his lungs deteriorated during the 2nd infection it's one of just a few known cases of reinfection globally. investigators in the us

a paramilitary group who are plotting to kidnap the governor of michigan also considered abducting virginia's governor a group of 5 men spoke about targeting ralph northam over coronavirus lockdowns revelation came as a federal court reviewing evidence presented by the f.b.i. or the group to be held until trial. colombia's defense minister has survived a no confidence motion holmes 3 your has been criticized for police brutality and massacres carried out by armed groups the supreme court has ordered him to apologize for police excesses during last year's demonstrations. controversial defense minister catalyst to survive the motion of censoring columbia's lower house on tuesday. as the government coalition closed ranks around one of the most visible politicians in the administration and the probable right wing candidate for the 2022 presidential elections in the end the vote was

136 against to $24.00 in favor but the pressure is mounting against an administration the growing sectors of society see as less than democratic. the government security forces with the doctrine of the internal enemy would say that everybody who think differently is an enemy the youth is an enemy the students farmers indigenous all enemies and under this doctrine they are spying and threatening people these are symptoms of an increasingly authoritarian regime under scrutiny where the actions of security forces in recent protests against police brutality 13 civilians dead in 48 hours they followed another violent crackdown at the end of last year. to preen court order to minister to formally apologize for the violence something he avoided doing until the debate well the family in his 10

months in office. terry and drift or an attempt to create a dictatorship or a soft dictatorship of. the democratic structure well with all due respect that is not true. the minister is also being questioned for the worsening security in rural areas. criminal groups have killed hundreds of human rights activists and committed at least $67.00 mass killings since the beginning of the year because most analysts believe that with the government holding majorities in both houses the minister will not change course i don't think there will be at all but. what we can assume from now on is a. hard line approach which will you know increase the mistrust there is from groups and from some groups the next step will be

a 2nd debate and vote of no confidence in the senate on october 22nd which will come a day after a national strike which many fear could dream you violent clashes with the police alison that i'm just. now peru has opened the ancient ruins that much of picchu one japanese tourist has been stranded in the country due to coronavirus restrictions the site was opened especially for jesse tucker yana he bought a ticket to the ruins in march but before he could visit he was placed under lockdown in a nearby town. thank you when you heard all the hunger. rotting meat. so not a bonus the japanese citizen and turned with the head of the park so that he could visit before returning home because the plan is for him to return to his country mexico is preparing for its annual day of the dead under coronavirus restrictions

instead of the usual celebrations residents of mexico city are marking the day with decorative displays the day of the dead is a priest hispanic tradition where it's believed that once a year the dead return from the underground underworld families use the event to remember loved ones and celebrate life. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera president trump's u.s. supreme court nominee has faced questions from senators on the 2nd day of confirmation hearing in washington d.c. amy county barrett has been grilled on health care abortion and the upcoming election but she declined to say whether should recuse herself from any cases relating to next month's presidential election my colleagues have asked you today whether you would recuse yourself from cases on the affordable care act you did not directly answer their questions and instead you describe.