red of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. i can committee right now u.s. supreme court nominee amy county barrett fans of questions on election issues health care and abortion confirmation hearings. daryn jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up cyprus scraps of citizenship for investment program after an 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 selection. and the world bank approves $12000000000.00 to help

developing countries access code 19 votes. president trumps u.s. supreme court nominee says she has made no commitment to the white house on how she would rule on major cases including election disputes any county barack testified before a senate committee on the 2nd day of her confirmation hearing she's been pressed by several democrats about her position on key issues such as health care and abortion and fisher reports. on capitol hill it was time for judge to make money bennett 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 trapped in a mate and from the conservative side of the aisle you're one of the most qualified people. 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 football care act the appointment of judges in the u.s. is very political particularly for the supreme court of judge about university colleagues to withdraw. her nomination because the presidential election is so

close that's not going to happen and should be but before the committee $23.00 alan fischer i'll just read up on capitol hill. for bustamante is a constitutional law attorney he says barrett performs 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 but 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'm 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 when away from washington both candidates have been trading blows on the campaign trail president trump has been holding a rally in the battleground states of pennsylvania using the opportunity to touch democratic rival joe biden. this election is a simple choice if i can win china wins all these other countries when we get ripped off by everybody if we wish you we're trying something new when it's in

america where it's very simple. for years the shellfish and corrupt political class betrayed the people of pennsylvania you know that and the people of our country and joe biden's out campaigning in the battleground state of florida he's been addressing older voters many of whom 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 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 really really any real help but many states are seeing record levels of early voting more than 10000000 people have already mailed in or dropped

off their ballots that's despite the pandemic and president trump's claims that mail in voting leads to fraud at a gallop i reports. 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 coburg 19 pandemic long waits and technical issues in some states early voting is hitting historic numbers for me as a younger person i am relic ready and willing to get out here and brave the cold air the cold that i had to make had i got it counted with 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 near or at the biden campaign's

push to get people voting early seems to be working make a plan to. early and then get involved i know you're busy i know that i know your strike so. but there's 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 will to officially be counted until election day but 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 often al-jazeera exposé the parliamentary speaker who's seen in the undercover video says in abstain from duties until an investigation is completed al-jazeera expose senior politicians who engaged in a plan to help a criminal by

a super passport david harrison reports now from the capitol because. an emergency meeting of the cypriot cabinet was held at the presidential palace following the release of the al-jazeera investigation. of this. york about using the power on those committees to program. the. very. top our own ability to go to. 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 fora and 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 so you tell him. to go. for suck or. a very low quality girly 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 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 protests have been held outside the cypriot 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 with many calling for resignations. also to come here and i was there including fishing for a deal scotland's trawlermen look to briggs it to say their industry. closing ranks columbia's government moves to protect a minister accused of leading a crackdown on protesters more not stay with us. hello is still slightly warmer than average in the levant and iraq is slightly cooler than average around the gulf states but we're talking about a couple of degrees nothing to 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 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 good news there's 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. cut

through the noise get your back up when you're going to be interviewed 3 hours and listen journalist the fact that there are 5 ways tell this story one of the problems that there are just really aren't a lot of people of color who are making the murdoch press run by political of the fact that it worth the risk to find a pretty nervous because you know her work table by the listening post monitors an entire for it's the media on al-jazeera.

welcome back if you come out of our top stories here this hour president trumps u.s. supreme court nominee has faced questions from senators on the 2nd day of confirmation hearing in washington amy county parent has been grilled on health care abortion and the upcoming election. and with just 3 weeks to go until the vote president trump is campaigning in pennsylvania a state in 914 years ago democratic rival joe biden's in the battleground state of florida. and cypresses abolished a citizenship for investment program following an undercover investigation by al-jazeera that shows senior politicians agreeing to help a criminal by a 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 mode 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 but richard johnson is

a professor of political science at george washington university he says g a 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 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 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 bite it hits iterations batter 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 buses bash our us out 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. tens of thousands of people have been displaced in the afghan province of helmand after a weekend of intense fighting. government says they've been locked in battles with the taliban forcing 35000 people to flee hospitals in the area say they've been overwhelmed with the wounded talks to end the country's conflict are still underway between the taliban and the afghan government. develop russian opposition leader svetlana to kind of skier says she

will call for a nationwide strike unless president lukashenko resigns by october the 25th it comes after another day of protests against the president his election victory in august has been widely discredited police say they detained 186 people on monday to 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 kurdistan's parliament is to be asked to vote for a 2nd time on whether to approve such as the new prime minister the president made the decision after politicians and activists challenge the legitimacy of saturday's 1st vote in parliament jumper of was freed from prison by his supporters last week large protests have been held since a disputed election 9 days ago. now the world bank has approved $12000000000.00 in new funding for developing countries to buy covert 19 vaccines the financial help will be used to test and treat people for coronavirus it's all part of

a 100 $60000000000.00 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 it staggered over 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 developing countries that are home to 70 percent of the world's population have access to the aid and the world bank has warned a 150000000 people could be pushed into extreme poverty by next year because of the pandemic well archie clements is a professor of infectious diseases that curtin university in perth australia he says international groups who have to work together to ensure vaccines are widely available it's a very positive development so it's something to see now the building blocks think that together for the financing distribution of that same global it will have to work with. just the international bank it isn't what is developing in distributing

credible respects ain't so one would expect. the world bank and other multilateral organizations will work. to link all of those things together the production the distribution the financing and and the financing of oh god that's 8 so i'm none of these organizations can operate in isolation they don't need to work together you can look to other examples of multilateral funny organizations of funding mechanisms for global public health programs for example the global fund to fight aids tuberculosis and malaria and the mechanism they is there is that countries have to make up locations to the global fund and they get assessed not in terms of their need not only in terms of epidemiological requirements but also in terms of their ability to enable large amounts of funding and the probity that's required to do that so i think it will be met isn't set up to ensure every billet

it. when all the united states 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 read infected with the virus the 25 year old required hospital treatment after his lungs deteriorated during the 2nd infection it's one of just a few unknown cases of reinfection globally. investigators in the u.s. a paramilitary group that plotted to kidnap the governor of michigan also consider the ducting virginia's governor the group of 5 men spoke about targeting ralph northam during coronavirus lockdowns the revelation came as a federal court reviewing evidence presented by the f.b.i. over the group to be held until trial. the portuguese footballer christian or now though has tested positive for cope with 19 countries football federation says he is well and showing no symptoms but ronaldo is now in corinth scene and will miss portugal's match against sweden in lisbon on wednesday the rest of the portuguese

squad have been given the all clear after tests now last ditch talks are taking place between u.k. and european negotiators in an effort to avoid a no deal briggs it the main sticking point is fishing rights france's leading resistance to any move that would reduce access to british waters by its fisherman andrew symonds reports now from peterhead in scotland the u.k.'s most productive fishing port. fishermen in scotland say they found the going to tough for too long on shore the scots may have voted to remain in the e.u. but out at sea they're looking at brics it is their savior in peterhead the port was once filled with fishing boats it's different now 60 percent of the fleet was lost after the u.k. joined what was then known as the european community in 1973 skipper brian buchan whose fish the north sea for 4 decades remembers the bad times vividly after europe's common fishing policy gave fishing rights to other countries now he

believes it's all about to change it's good to be an old 10 times element such what we did say and when it should be a free for all fisherman in the u.k. government look across the north sea to a new agreement with norway which is not an e.u. member as a model and how they think it should be with the e.u. negotiations every year with the u.k. as an independent coastal states a mutually agreed exchange of quotas and access to each other's waters we have some of the best fisheries in the world in u.k. waters and for 40 years we've been giving those fish away the majority of those special caught by other nations we shouldn't be doing that but like most wrecks of related issues the fishing sector is complicated seafood processing companies could lose access to e.u. markets and heart of all u.k. fish production is exported to the you does the people in the and the e.u.

wanted of course they do it's where the boy in the 1st bush of people of the market . politicians can make all the body of the work but what it's a boat is the people wanting the fish to be the plate brace for that there's a mood of great expectations here although with a realisation that some concessions are likely to be made but there are red lines and if they're broken or blurred they'll be uproar and shouts of betrayal aimed at the u.k. government planning i think this is the u.k. prime minister boris johnson here at peterhead fish market a year ago making one of many promises to regain full control of fishing in british waters and his breakfast negotiators still seem to be abiding by that pledge if the e.u. doesn't do a u. turn that could be a no deal breaks it and all the uncertainty that could bring andrew simmons al-jazeera peterhead scotland protesters in the thai capital bangkok are out on the

streets again calling for reform of the political system including the role of the monarchy there demanding the prime minister's resignation calls for a royal reform sensitive in thailand with criticism of the monarchy punishable by severe prison terms on tuesday police in bangkok arrested $21.00 testor. colombia's defense minister has survived a no confidence motion carlos almost 3 or has been criticized for police brutality and massacres carried out by armed groups. reports now from the capital bogota. controversial defense minister. survived a motion of censoring colombia's lower house on tuesday. as the government 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 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 quartette 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. here were to

tell a tyrian 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. 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 some protest 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. now peru has opened the ancient ruins of much of picchu for one japanese tourist who's been stranded in the country due to coronavirus restrictions the site was opened specially for jessie to an ira he bought a ticket to the ruins in march but before he could visit he was placed under lockdown nearby the site is due to reopen to the rest of the public next month. we heard all the hunger in the. corridor of. the. head of the park so that he could be set before returning home because the plan is for him to return to his country now mexico's preparing for its annual day of the dead under coronavirus restrictions instead of the usual celebrations the

people of mexico city a marking the day with decorative displays the day of the dead is a prehistoric tradition where it's believed that once a year the dead return from the underworld families use the event to remember loved ones and to celebrate life all the news of course on our web site there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera tens of thousands of people have been displaced in the afghan province of helmand after a weekend of intense fighting. the afghan government says that been locked in battles with the taliban forcing 35000 people to flee hospitals in the area say they've been overwhelmed with the wounded talks to end the country's conflict are still underway between the taliban and the afghan government.