because if you believe that they're corrosive to our democracy one obvious solution is to break the law informed opinion look at his don't go anywhere the protesters go anywhere either it's ability of the 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. 'd i can committee right now. u.s. supreme court nominee amy county barrett fans of questions on election issues health care and abortion and her confirmation hearings. going down in jordan this is not a 0 live from doha also coming up cyprus craps it citizenship for investment program after an al-jazeera investigation exposed abuse in the system. saudi arabia

fails to become a member of the u.n. human rights council but rights defenders expressed concern over china and russia's election. the world bank approves $12000000000.00 to help developing countries access code 19 vaccines. president trumps u.s. supreme court nominee says she has made no commitment to the white house on how she'd rule on major cases including election disputes amy county barrett testified before a senate committee on the 2nd day of her confirmation hearings she's been pressed by several democrats about her position on key issues such as health care and abortion is alan fischer thought. on capitol hill it was time for judge jimmy cooney burnet to face questions from senators the chairman of the committee was a new doubt the president picked the right person to fill the vacancy caused. by

the death of ruth bader ginsburg i would say you're one of the greatest pics president truckin may and from the conservative side of the aisle you're one of the most qualified people of your generation if you could be more specific in any way several democrats wanted the judge to make her position clear on controversial issues that may soon come before the supreme court money in politics abortion and the affordable care act again and again the response was the same my personal views don't have anything to do with how i would decide cases and i don't want anybody to be unclear about not willing to make a deal with the committee not with the president not with anyone and independent and she insisted her nomination was not going to her taking any position on cases before the court i have made no commitment to anyone not in the senate not over at the white house about how i would decide any case days before announcing the judges the supreme court nominee president donald trump said he wanted a full court justices to deal with any issues coming out of the election his

comments on possible voter fraud sparking monies a lengthy court battle could follow the judge but it said she considers stepping aside if there was any conflict of interest i certainly hope that all members of the committee have more confidence in my integrity than to think that i would allow myself to be used as a pawn to decide this election for the american people senator cory booker tried to highlight differences between the nominee and the president from his questions she denounced white supremacy and acknowledged there was racial bias in america's judicial system would be hard to imagine a system of criminal justice system as big as ours not having any implicit bias and senator coming the hardest said the nomination was being rushed for political purposes republicans are scrambling to confirm this mommy as fast as possible because they need one more judge on the bench before november 10th to weigh in and strike down the entire. her portable care act the appointment of judges in the

us is very political particularly for the supreme court 88 of judges but it's university colleagues of us took to withdraw her nomination because the presidential election is so close that's not going to happen and should be but before the committee 23 alan fischer i'll just you know on capitol hill a boost of constitutional law attorney he says barrett performed well despite not directly on string 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 as 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 opinions 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. well away from 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 democratic rival joe biden. this election is

a simple choice if by showing you where it is all these other countries when we get ripped off by everybody if we win you win pennsylvania wins in america where it's very simple. for years the shellfish and corrupt political players betrayed the people of pennsylvania you know that had the people of our country and joe biden is out campaigning in the battleground state of florida he's been addressing older voters many of whom back trump in 2016. that's been used to already the entire story in my view don't trump the presidency the fact that he's never been focused on what matters he's never been focused on you his handling of this pandemic has been a radical just like his presidency is bad and it has prevented florida seniors and people all across the country from getting the relief that they need dollars charge hasn't just been willing to not do the work i think is that beyond that i'm not

sure he cares about i mean any real help. and 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 alex 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 be mailed in or dropped off a number that could see voter turnout the highest since 90 no 8 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 step out here and brave the cold air 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. replacement so having these unofficial ballot drop boxes that anybody can go to i mean 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 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 to biden campaigns 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 you're stretched so thin but this is our action is still important not to you 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. cyprus has abolished a lucrative program granting citizenship in return for investments after an al-jazeera exposé the parliamentary speaker who is seen in the undercover video

says he'll abstain from duties until an investigation is completed out his ear expose senior politicians who engage in a plan to help a criminal buy a separate passport 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 it will be. gone there's some progress yet got not usually too far on bush admitted the program which we already see. very unique you go to the top our own imprint the 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 clear instructions to the police

leadership from the outset to conduct a full torah an in-depth investigation into the possibility of anyone committing criminal offenses 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. we're here for support. of 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 is in their

various who he is or the. other 1st to guess this could be i guess or here's the other demetrius the loomis 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. 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 have 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 is not yours to sell them or just state there's outrage on social media with many calling for resignation. lots more so it's coming on al-jazeera including hopes for a fairer political future people in kurdistan demand an overhaul of the establishment. closing ranks colombia's government moves to protect a minister accused of leading a brutal crackdown on protesters more than stainless. hello is still slightly warmer than average in the levant and iraq and slightly cooler than average around the gulf states but we're talking about

a couple of degrees nothing too fantastic very few showers around even in the mountains of western parts of yemen and saudi will be one or 2 otherwise it's a dry picture and we'll watch for changes in the next few days but the prophecies no rain is moving slowly southeast still over wide expanse from sas sudan down to angola but focusing really on the rift valley d.l.c. and in lake victoria daily the showers build through themselves and you get showers as far west as kigali for example in rwanda by lunchtime which means the whole of africa still has a scotch in the showers but nothing very heavy if you're lucky the rain is heading south malawi wants it being in drought and you see a few showers are picked out here on the satellite picture so from the point of view the good news the some rain in malawi on wednesday the some further west one go there but really if you're talking about maybe a science which is a dry picture having had some significant showers around johannesburg only

a couple days ago it's now dry and cape town's temperature of 20 it's not far from the average but it should be a bit warmer. to he now global community we are our biggest opposition elbow that's the whole crew says the worst possible of looks like the part of the debate issue in each of you can jump into the conversation right away when no topic is off the table you're not afraid of anyone taking power we just call it what. you says 3 targeting richer and the poor getting poorer it's not kill the story the system it's just to look at the system and adapt it to a modern world this street on out is the era. welcome

back a program of our top stories here this hour president trump's u.s. supreme court nominee has faced questions from senators on the 2nd day of the confirmation hearing in washington amy tony barack has been grilled on health care abortion and the upcoming election. and just 3 weeks to go until the vote president trump is campaigning in pennsylvania a state he now only won 4 years ago his democratic rival joe barton's in the battleground state of florida. and cyprus has abolished a citizenship for investment program following an undercover investigation by al-jazeera that shows senior politicians agreeing to help a criminal by the supreme court. 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 the 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 nations but richard chance he's 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 laws always support it to geopolitics and with china as powerful as it is and it 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 at least in 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 the world bank has approved $12000000000.00 in new funding for developing countries to buy coded 19 vaccines financial help be used to test and treat people the coronavirus it's all part of a 160000000000 dollars program to help nations fight the pandemic well the world bank announced the financial package in march at the time several countries were

under strict lock downs its target of a 15 month period to help low and middle income nations deal with health economic and social shocks due to the pandemic more than $100.00 developing countries that are home to 70 percent of the world's population have access to the aid and the world bank has 150000000 people could be pushed into extreme poverty by next year because of the pandemic let's bring in clements he's a professor of infectious diseases at curtin university in perth australia professor great to have you on the program let me start by asking you how significant is this coded fund provided by the world bank and how the bank decide then on which countries get this money because that's really the key issue here isn't it. yes well it's a very positive development so it's something to see now the building blocks think put together for the the financing and distribution of the back saying globally and so this is a critical part of that of that. entire endeavor so the announcement was late for

funding for the for the distribution of the open over bets and gives as you rightly ask how the question then arises how they how are they going to go about distributing the funding in the statement they released they make reference to you know their experience with other taxing critical visitors and also with specialists in the area and then and by extension one assumes that there are going to that atmosphere but the global fund to fight i expect most of the area and other multilateral organizations and so i guess my question would be are they planning on using one of these already established multilateral mechanisms for distributing funding for magic public health programs or are they going to develop a new multilateral mechanism but why are the way what we're going to see is the creation of a multilateral mechanism an unprecedented state and it's an interesting point you make arch about how the scheme will actually work on the ground and should the

world bank perhaps work along with other key players like the world health organization who could help decide which vaccines are safe and offer the best value for money. and saluted a will have to get up and ship with contacts that is just the international bank it is a. developing distributing a credible respect st so one would expect that kind acts and the world bank and other multilateral organizations were working on a ship to link all those things together the production the distribution the financing and and the financing of all of that i would go back saying so i'm none of these organizations can operate in isolation they don't need to work together and are to do no less than ask you i mean do we know what policing mechanisms will be in place to ensure that the funds are indeed used for buying and distributing the vaccine because there has to be some sort of benchmark against accountability good governance to avoid things like corruption absolutely and you know he can look

to other examples of multilateral i mean organizations mechanisms or. public health programs for example the global fund to fight aids tuberculosis and malaria and them it isn't a is there is countries have to make up locations to. get assessed not in terms of their need not be in terms of epidemiological requirements but also in terms of their ability to handle large amounts of funding and the probity or that's required to do that so i think that that will be mechanisms set up to ensure our ability yeah which is that just a final quick point too because we push for time what sort of message then does this send to the drug companies who are making these vaccines who may be worried that developing countries might not be able to pay for them in the 1st place. well i think it's a very positive message because. i think it reassures them around the potential market for their accents so that the financing there is essential in the entire

process of development and distribution i think it's a very positive development that's already out of the way the funding will i mean are. provided not for a 1000000000 people closer and maybe more or less than that so far but it's a very positive step in the right direction professor great to get your thoughts thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera thank you you're welcome. now koga sounds parliament has to be asked to vote for a 2nd time on whether to approve as the new prime minister the president made the decision after politicians and activists challenge the legitimacy of south day's 1st vote in parliament shopper a was freed from prison by his supporters last week large protests have been held since a disputed election 9 days ago young people have joined calls to reform the political system in kurdistan out to save us charles reports from the capital bishkek. we just coffee cafe is a popular hangout for students artists and intellectuals in the cutest caption. we

meet any day elmer's because she took part in the protests after the october 4th parliamentary election that one politician cooled the dirtiest in kyrgyzstan's history. of 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 is taking control of this building where parliament convenes they freed political prisoners from jail. later on the central election commission declared the results of the poll nolen void and said there must be a rerun later a man who only days before would be serving a 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 the kyrgyzstan's french of 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 our 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 café members of the recently established reform party are discussing strategy for the promised rerun of the parliamentary 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 it as you know the. whole television and. by by russian television and people are brainwashed by youth he. explained their feelings of people. in one word it's i've had up. so they don't want to see old faces very old their careers young hope the promised rerun of the election happens and he's clean. but they feel the dirty tricks are being played in a strategic game again. the

belorussian opposition leader to kind of scalia says she will call for a nationwide strike on this president lukashenko resigns by the 25th that comes after another day of protest against the president whose election victory in august has been widely discredited police say they detained a 186 people on monday kind of skier who went into exile in lithuania after the election has called for an end to police violence and the release of political prisoners. colombia's defense minister has survived a no confidence vote mr your has been criticized for police brutality and massacres carried out by armed groups. reports now from the capital. controversial defense minister catulus home. survived a motion of censoring colombia'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 $24.00 in favor but the pressure is mounting against an administration the growing sectors of society see as less than democratic. the government inflicted security forces with the doctrine of the internal enemy which say that everybody who think differently is an enemy the youth is an enemy the students farmers indigenous journalists all enemies and under this doctrine they are spying and threatening people these are symptoms of an increasingly authoritarian regime under scrutiny were the actions of security forces in recent protests against police brutality the left 13 civilians dead in 48 hours they followed another violent crackdown at the end of last year. to preen court had ordered the minister to formally apologize for the violence something he

avoided doing until the debate well the fending his 10 months in office. here over totalitarian drift or an attempt to create a dictatorship or a soft dictatorship of actions that affect 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 where 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 the minister will be at all but. what we can assume from now on is a minister. in approach which will you know increase the mistrust there

is in the street from groups and from. 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 new violent clashes with the police i listen to them. and a quick reminder you can catch up with all the news on our web site there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com. top a quick check of the top stories here president trump's u.s. supreme court nominee has faced questions from senators on the 2nd day of confirmation hearing in washington d.c. a macone barrett was grilled on the health care portion of the upcoming election but she declined to say whether she would recuse herself from any cases relating to next month's presidential vote.