beyond these interest rate families she sang out how of an emotional message the story of. the voice of palestine on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. 1500 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera hello i'm kemal santa maria welcome to the news. 6 that deadly clashes continue in the going to while russia and turkey argue over how to end the conflict but also in the news thousands of families free to safe areas after days of intense fighting in afghanistan's helmand province israel approves the construction of thousands of new illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank.

and spikes in covert 19 cases across europe and the u.k. have governments scrambling to figure out how do you bring those numbers back down . now time to how much now have all the sports yes atlanta braves they take it to nothing in the national league championship series. so we're starting with a fight over not going to cut about both on the ground and in words between the 2 sides as well as their allies but the media and as about john continue to accuse each other of ceasefire violations but it is russia that is calling for an immediate end to the fighting moscow wants the dispute settled through diplomatic means its defense minister spoke to both sides and urged them to abide by that cease fire which came into force. on saturday the armenian is a russian ally and has a defense pact with moscow but president vladimir putin says that does not apply to

nick on account of our manias prime minister is accusing azerbaijan of not wanting to stop its aggression until it takes over the whole region that it began a step on a state what you mean by zhang didn't keep the ceasefire agreement for even a 2nd and up to now continues attacks in during the creation of the verifying mechanism of ceasefire monogrammed it means that as a budget and continues its policy of occupying the whole nagorno-karabakh azerbaijan is backed by turkey its president says there will be consequences if armenia targets the pipelines in nocona kind of attack. is armenia put their ugly plans to make gas pipelines as of water into practice the response will be very severe for them if we want to resolve this difference of opinion and we want this we must have countries that would suit to the purpose of maintaining peace and of course we see the brother country turkey taking part in this process. so here's the team covering both sides of the conflict and smith. but

we're starting with simco in miniature here in. an update from you on what's been happening on the ground and in. well kamal despite the cease fire the fighting continues for us are very johnnie's them to what we hear from the azerbaijan officials is that they are continuing to fight but as not an offensive way as a defense a way because they say we are being. violated the cease fire they have been firing at us so we are responding to those elements or to those attacks this is what they say and this morning we woke up with a tweet by geo assistant to the president he said that azerbaijan armed forces destroyed ready to launch ballistic missiles of our mania it was in the civilian area it was an aim to area and his army is successful or destroyed those misses so . there is a war ongoing in the battlefield there is

a war ongoing in terms of media in terms of news and propaganda but one thing was in interesting as john present in family have delivered an interview to turkish news out that. in some parts he mentioned that armenia doesn't have a mania has some little reserve left in its central bank and it already has foreign debt and the list that the military equipment and vehicles that they have the stronger it on their minions side and he made a calculation that it's a few $1000000000.00 he said how are they going to sustain the so in a way apparent they both sides believe that both financially and in terms of paris and our military personnel wise this war is kind of stuck and this cease fire could have been a way to benefit for both sides but while asians are still under way but as

compared to the forces fight it's less ok that simple so you soon thank you for that update will now crow toobin and smith standard and go to tsunami of bernard. well yes an admittance from the prime minister of armenia nicole pasha now that there are having difficult times he said that in address to the nation today and he said that we have had many many losses and i mourn them and i take all the victims personally in front of them 532 at least i think armenians soldiers killed in the fighting when the government releases the names releases that dates of birth most of them born between 20012002 just 18 or 19 years old doesn't release the list of killed soldiers but there will be casualties on their side as well as aires the armenians i should say believe that involvement in this fight has

made things is how give the advantage to azerbaijan azerbaijan to spend billions on israeli and jewish weaponry armenia does not have the resources. and that is why it's finding this such a challenge come on ok thank you for that bernard smith. with his report from greece there. just to again remind you about where all this is centered and to put it on the map so you really understand what we're talking about this mountainous region nagorno-karabakh you'll know the name well by now internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan it sits within as you can see the borders but it is ethnically armenian it has been an officially run by armenian forces since the end of a 6 year war back in 1904 if you why did now you've got turkey backing azerbaijan accused of deploying syrian fighters to the region which is something the turkish president has denied and as we mentioned earlier russia with its military defense pact with armenia but putin has said it does not apply to go on

a kind of let's try to make some sense of all of this though mathias i can also is with us a lecturer in security and development at king's college london department of war studies thank you so much for your time. you've got to really concentrate on the story don't you make sure you remember who's with who and who's saying what at the moment let's just start with russia 1st of all russia which has an allegiance but is seeming to play the media here the moment and saying equally to both sides you need to stop this i mean do you think that can be successful. i think it's probably the only way because russia have leverage very strong leverage on armenia and but at the same time it has a strong partnership which has developed over the last 10 years with us there by john so i think it has the possibility to to a certain extend if it can both sides. to the negotiating table.

so if russia i mean there is the new development today which really certain extent might change their equal asian because. today armenian territory. sort of. so. very awkward position because it might be forced to really come to the aid of armenia they have several agreements of military cooperation lions and also within the framework of their so-called to security treaty organization which not only includes russia but also concrete facts. and other central asian states so if armenia is that time directly then all these other mechanisms sort of keeping. russia russia i mean the big question is you know it's russia going to now really side with armenia and provide additional military support and i wouldn't exclude

that entirely you know in prolonged let's just pause for a 2nd because i want to we talked about the russian side obviously i want to hear from the turkish president to one who has spoken as well it's a several of the same. longer that's you know a lot of you 3 members of minsk the united states russia and france are still putting this off with their stalling tactics just give them the occupied lands let them go to their lands let them do what they want in their own lands but there is an invasion here if there is democracy and human rights in this world and if you have been assigned to solve this problem as 3 members of the minsk group for 30 years what you need to do is not stall what you need to do is finish your negotiations and hand over the lands to their arena. so president just i mean it makes it sound very simple doesn't it just give them the land it's theirs be done with it obviously it's not that simple is that on t. and then i wonder how much of

a hurdle is turkey and in particular president to i'm going to be here. i mean firstly. more complex because the area especially the area of. bin i mean primarily. they are very population was in the minority before the war but it has been expanded way. occupied lands around karbala primarily inhabited by very and they also fled so these are terry creates where you could argue that the armenians definitely occupied the. you know the area in karbala they are primarily inhabited by armenians so i mean it's very hard push for ethnic cleansing the armenians are all going to leave because they actually live there the problem is that their results are there by johnny community from a bar who's been in exile internally now that by john and they have been waiting

now for 30 years to go back to work so he did the very complex because there are ads there by johnnie's or are there varies who also used to live in car bar for example you have a mosque and also the area has a very strong symbolic value for there by john is from. almost literally point of view. and that's why it's a lot more complex. i could. just because we're running out of time and i just want to ask you about this because president when we heard him mention there this other group you've got. russia the u.s. and france i mean he's trying to draw them in and get them to take some responsibility can that really help bring in more apparent mediators and potentially splintering things even further. i think that turkey is trying to push it into the mediation mechanism and turkey is a is really not helping at all with the resolution of the conflict in

a peaceful manner they've been providing moral political and military support by john so. what they are trying is to become the main sort of peace brokers and the russians are very keen to avoid any kind of turkish further involvement there means group that co-chairs of the men's group who have worked very hard throughout the years but they have not been able to impose they have really not wanted to impose effect he meant on the side then tried to put pressure on the sides and they've come up with many many proposals but it was generally both sides which were not ready to compromise also because of their domestic constituencies so i think at the moment i mean they're really where we are the pressure should be exerted not only on either by john i mean yes but also on turkey to change the language and make sure that you know it's not supporting such a sort of military stick which is really

a novelty and there is another actor which we haven't mentioned which is iran iran is a neighbor of the region it has it has another very minority but it has a generally had very good ties with armenia and it is also the transit area out for their refurbishment of armenia from the russians because the georgians have closed the access right so i think iran could. run potentially a moderate in a you know. potentially another place. great to talk to you we really appreciate it thank you thank you. we're on to other news and tens of thousands of afghans have been forced to escape days of heavy fighting between government troops and taliban finds his aid agencies say hospitals are becoming overwhelmed by the wounded from the battles which began in southern afghanistan on saturday the fighting in helmand province is centered on the

regional capital of lush gar. u.s. airstrikes have supported afghan security forces on the ground the major taliban offensive of course coincides with talks being held here in qatar to end america's longest war fighting could complicate donald trump's plans to have american soldiers home by christmas reporter. feeling you can throw food he is in the capital kabul and says health services are stretched in the area where that fighting is happening the main trauma hospital in provincial capital. has been operating at full capacity cannot treat anymore people and the m.s.f. supported another m.s.f. supported hospital in the area has been serving as an overflow facility with over 20 people have been outwitted there in the past 24 hours and among them are even pregnant women and children in terms of the displaced according to the u.n. and local sources $35000.00 people have been forced to flee their homes

a lot of them with nothing but their clothes we've seen pictures of them trying to load as much as they can and some model bikes and try to escape the fighting now are you in assessment teams are on the air in the try to assess the situation and it's extremely difficult to get information and a lot of the infrastructure the telephone lines have been damaged so it's hard to assess what exactly what the exact needs are. 15 minutes past the hour here is what's coming up lebanon and israel hold in direct talks for the 1st time to discuss a maritime border disputes why now also heavy rain triggers flash floods and landslides but a lot is coming out of vietnam and cambodia sport andy murray still looking to hit top form since his return from surgery the details a little later on. what

israel has approved the construction of thousands of new illegal settlements in the occupied west bank this is the 1st time israel's approved the building of settlements since its normalization deal with the united arab emirates and behind the settlements are considered illegal under international law but will it bring him is near ramallah in the occupied west bank with some reaction from palestinian officials. the spokesperson of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has condemned the israeli move saying that israel is using the silence of the international community and what he called the free normalization deals with israel this is the 1st announcement of its kind after the u.a.e. thawing the agreement with israel to normalize relations and the u.a.e. has said that this agreement has put an exception plans on hold but for palestinians israel is moving forward with building more and more illegal israeli settlements including this one this is the settlement of sogo it's one of the

settlements that's going to be expanded asper the new plan and palestinians are saying that more and more certain moments are being built on palestinians person in ground rendering any future palestinian contiguous future palestinian state almost impossible palestinians are hoping that the democratic candidate will win the us elections and our. palestinian prime minister how much say stay has said if trump wins a 2nd term god helps us all now delegates from israel and lebanon which are technically at war for the 1st time in decades what are called indirect talks about a maritime border dispute are happening in southern lebanon both sides claim parts of the mediterranean sea. where the oil and gas has been discovered the reports from the quarter. away from the media israeli and lebanese negotiators talk about

a decades old maritime border dispute for the 1st time the hostile neighbors are sitting in the same room but are speaking through their un hosts and u.s. mediators they insist this is not about making peace but it's about extending the exploration of potentially gaz a rich waters in the mediterranean the timing appears to be political it's quite peculiar that is happening exactly i am. showing. towards some of the burmese. the deal was announced after u.s. sanctions were imposed on politicians including a close ally to speaker of parliament nabih berri for corruption and financially enabling hezbollah berry is an ally of the iranian backed group which has fought wars with israel in the past and previously opposed the us mediating role in the dispute hezbollah says its attitude toward israel hasn't changed and given that

it's the strongest force in lebanon its approval is needed for talks to go ahead both israel and lebanon and says the negotiations are not about normalization or reconciliation but this is the 1st time the 2 sides discussed a civilian issue since middle east peace talks in 1990 israel and lebanon claim about 860 square kilometers in the mediterranean sea where significant gas fields have been discovered the problem is that. i don't find. what you want at them. best. but amid a reelection campaign the trumpet ministration has politically invested in these talks coming after the u.s. brokered deals between israel and the u.a.e. and. little bit of pressure so the pressure and the u.s.

having some sort of agreement moving forward but obviously the israeli by having more direct engagement with the mother or. even it's limited at this point that's not a full mobilization but but i think at this point it's a win win what's not to get in the that we have in the especially a quick one there is no deadline but in the words of a u.s. diplomat the talks can bring about stability and security along the volatile border deal or not for now these negotiations are serving the interests of all the parties involved. now could a southern lebanon. now a member of the far right golden dawn party in greece has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a rap artist also the head of the party which is deemed a criminal organization was jailed for 13 years golden dawn members entered parliament at the peak of the great financial crisis back in 2012 tapping into the anger against austerity measures they had a fiercely anti immigrant agenda as well so let's talk to john psaropoulos in

athens about this john what does it mean for the future of the party now which you know had that rise what was it 8 years ago now. that's right they entered parliament in 2012 at the height of the greek economic crisis they took 7 percent of the popular vote and they were politically essentially history last year because they didn't make the 3 percent threshold of the popular vote that is required to enter parliament so even though there were. plenty of candidates who could have entered the chamber they simply couldn't take their seats there was no shortage of candidates is what i mean the party is now looking at a very bleak future because not being in parliament it doesn't receive party funding it's lost 19 or 20 salaries m.p. salaries. it has been politically discredited and now it's been criminally

discredited as well even though this was a strictly criminal trial the effect is partly political as golden dawn defense lawyers have often pointed out because it's believed this is the 1st time in europe that a nazi party has been condemned in its entirety and in addition to the party leader that you mentioned the the other 6 most senior m.p.'s also received sentences of 13 years and the remaining 11 of those who were elected in 2012 received sentences of 5 to 7 years including the leaders why the court actually raised the penalty suggested by the prosecutor on the killer of that rap artist not only did the court hand down a sentence of life in prison and 10 years for membership in golden dawn which has

now been deemed a criminal organization but also 8 years for weapons possession and weapons use that was illegal and it's making sure that this man never sees. the late of day again but for the rest of them the sentence is a somewhat more they are towards the higher end of the of the penal code and they are definitely no softer than what the prosecutor recommended but there's been also a sense of deference towards the defense during this trial we've seen repeated delays of decisions there's been a lot of leeway given to the defense to argue its case this court does not want to lose the good reputation that it's one over the past 5 and a half years or very strictly adhered to procedures and correct your prudence and it wants to make sure that these condemnations go through no one will turn around and say golden dawn wasn't really given the chance to speak up for itself

john psaropoulos with that update from athens thank you for the european union is imposing sanctions on sick 6 russian individuals over the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexei no valmy the asset freezes and travel bans reportedly target people in defense ministry and the spy agency valmy is recovering in berlin after being poisoned in siberia in august moscow continues to deny any responsibility nigerians are protesting against police brutality for the 7th consecutive day the latest rallies follow police agreeing to stop using force against demonstrators and these 2 protesters and an officer died during nationwide rallies against in a tory as police squad implicated in extra judicial killings and torture the government has since abolished the special and he robbery squad and it's being replaced by a new swat team our correspondent in address has more now from a future. the protest here in

a job is destruction traffic on coal seam gridlock and major streets in the city and this protest is coming just hours after these particular the police announce the formation of a new truck to community to deal with one crimes in niger to remember in the early days in the past 2 days we've seen how the government has announced that it has scrapped that unit the protesters are calling for which is the special interest. now the youths are not happy with what has been a painful what has been done so far they want on the part of the police. the only government to investigate how the question is. on the street. talking to one of the protesters who is going to tell us tell us why you are scared protesting and protest in today because they have been changing and from sas the federal from federal response i now.

know organizers want to make this more national thing they want to expand not only it sounds protests against police brutality but they also want to see more reforms in the public sector they want to all officials leaders politicians and everybody more accountable to the public in nigeria so this is one of the things that is keeping these protests rolling at least 36 people have died in fighting in vietnam this tropical storm makes landfall the coast has been hit by a series of weather fronts in recent days and yet more rain is expected and reports . entire villages submerged but even before tropical storm don cost trucked this region hundreds of thousands of families in central vietnam were struggling to cope 2 weeks of rain have left communities isolated many can only be reached by boat it is. close to a 1000000 people. by the law and.

none cars expected to drop up to 400 millimeters of rain on north and central vietnam by friday. 200000 homes have already been flooded along with rice fields that people depend on to earn a living that's on top of hardships brought by the coronavirus this. continue to work. because that he. insists already. so so. many people. like me who. in the us also. rescue workers are delivering food and other supplies in the worst affected provinces in thwack been hey province search and rescue teams are looking for survivors following a series of landslides a landslide at a hydro power dam left some workers dead and others missing

a 2nd landslide trapped rescuers trying to reach them with more bad weather to come many are concerned about what will happen in the days ahead and chapelle al jazeera . plenty more ahead few on this news hour the 3rd day of the controversial here in the u.s. supreme court nominee amy carney barrel of a live update on balance the sort of corruption crackdown in mexico with the president abolishing trust funds vulnerable groups reliant on the cash for speaking out and the sport another eye catching performance by tampa bay as they look to reach the world series this. hello welcome to another look at the international forecast sr can literally cool side the chilly side full wrap parts of the middle east over the next couple days i

k it's all relative but we'll see temperatures here in doha for example at around $34.00 celsius a pleasant $34.00 we're into the mid thirty's there full kuwait time for baghdad warm enough pleasantly warm there just around the levant $2627.00 there for jerusalem i'd also for beirut and similar values as we go on into friday when they just say we don't know how we're going to struggle we can call it that to get above 30 degrees celsius 5 inch rifle the most pop has a sunshine to a jewel truth be told we'll see some showers there as per usual across the central parts of africa it sink in the way further south was. pushing across into weber and they saying some heavier rains some heavy rain there up towards lake victoria heavy downpours just around the without even millau we could see some much needed rainfall over the next couple of days central paso times neighbor their own show brace could catch some very heavy showers possibility of some localized flooding coming in here and heavy showers too into a good part of angola now to the south of that it is generated dry will see

temperatures getting up to around 22 celsius in capetown a 20 their full quota this with showers moving their way into the madagascar. move. this is the news from al-jazeera these are the top stories russia urging armenia and azerbaijan just settled into going to kind of a conflict through diplomatic means a media and azerbaijan of accuse each other of attacks on civilians ever since russia brokered a cease fire holds. today israeli governments approved the construction of thousands of new illegal settlement homes in the occupied west bank the 1st go

ahead since the united arab emirates and behind normalize their relations with israel. tens of thousands of afghans have been forced to escape 4 days of fighting between taliban and government forces aid agencies say hospitals are becoming overwhelmed by the wounded in helmand province the fighting comes despite peace talks between the taliban and the afghan government going on here in doha a summer binge of aids when speaking to a government representatives who is here for the talks the attacks in helmand come on sources claim that they are defending their positions the queues the government are sending reinforcements and expanding their territory this is something that we've heard back and forth in the last few weeks as negotiations have been taking place here in the qatari capital doha to discuss more about the future of these negotiations with we have with us mr another now the senior adviser to president assad danny and also a member of the negotiations team mr now very now that the violence seems to be

escalating rather than going down are you going to walk off the table what is next for the afghan peace talks. well this level of violence is completely unacceptable to increase the level of attacks on cities and on civilian population and to destroy public infrastructure is completely unacceptable and our people of reached to do their last bits of tolerance we are here committed to continue. the peace discussion to find a peaceful solution to this war that our people are so much fed up of and we need to stop it. however if this level continues and everything creases it will be hard for us to continue our primary task here is to find a peaceful solution our brave national defense and security forces are fighting and

doing the job of protecting our people and defending our constitution but if people lose confidence on the process of talking and fighting then the pressure on the team of negotiation of islamic republic of oneness on will increase and people will question why you continue talking to the group who continue inflicting harm to civilian population to the public infrastructure and continue submitting to the path of violence and war now nearly 5 will war then for weeks now you've been in talks that various levels with the taliban things do not seem to be moving forward seem to be stuck is that a timeline that you're working on not the one that the united states would like you do pose to follow but your own timeline how long will it take and what is at stake here well for us there is a significant sense of urgency to this logic republic of one stance negotiation

team and coming from all public also too. end this war as soon as possible and that's why the sense of urgency makes us to continue engaging in the sky and continue finding solutions and pursuing to explore. shared future that that's required for both of us to find however we don't want to rush things or rushing things may not get us to get to a sustainable peace and therefore they need to be a balance to strike between the 2 however as the public pressure mounts on us when the violence increases when more innocent lives on lost then it will make us to reassess we have to consult back and to decide how we handle so that the situation what so far we have than is to look at the issues at hand properly and in detail and to take careful note of every element of the discussions we have have at

our complex process and we want to gave it enough time so that we can get the end result a sustainable peace that the people deserve with another thank you very much for speaking to us and there you have been the view from the her as the government delegation continues to engage with the taliban that have been meeting in the last 48 to 72 i was multiple times with the taliban contact delegation and as we've been hearing from both sides saying that they're willing to engage with each other this is a conflict that has been in the making for nearly 2 decades and solving it is not going to be easy or quick. now further protests against government corruption in cyprus are about to take place almost public anger following an al-jazeera expose of senior politicians willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the honest government has since abolished the lucrative business of granting citizenship in return for investments the parliamentary speaker who is seen in

a video says he will stop working until an investigation is complete david harrison from our investigative unit joining us from outside the parliament in nicosia those protests to happen there clearly a lot of reaction to your investigation. yes a growing sense of anger here and you can see behind me the demonstrators are starting to arrive for the protest is already of us debated 250 and they're still coming in they're very angry about the whole thing that al-jazeera revealed the level of corruption that that's what they see it as being and in particular a lot of anger directed towards one man and that man is due beaches salukis who is the 2nd most powerful man in cyprus he's the speaker of the parliament and he featured in our documentary offering to help a criminal by european union posthumous the public are angry but also in a highly significant development m.p.'s are also expressing their anger at those appalling entry committee meeting due to take place today. was heading he was due

to cherry's and all the m.p.'s including members of his own party refused to take part with me now is there any through who is a member of parliament for the opposition. party. how i just ask you what should this dissoluteness do now. sign me can't they can you. well you got this he's in a situation. that people are asking for says of his nation and i think the reality. is here at the least to resign if he doesn't resign what message will that send. it to me say that it's. well founded in cyprus that some people. long. that no matter how louts we shout and how demanding we are.

just east to take measures nothing is done and i think that this is. a this is meant. by mr sulu hasn't resigned and he's offered to step down from his duties but not until next week now the president is away this week is in brussels what does that mean mr subversives role is. now he's the acting president of the republic of cyprus is it constitutional. normally. that. we have to deal with and mr c. goodis is doing nothing at least to save face not for himself for the republic of cyprus. i just ask you about the passport scheme now it was announced

yesterday that the scheme was being abolished but we know that in the past the government has tweaked and changed the possible scheme and then they diluted some of the regulation they've loosened some of the regulations a bit later or you worried that when the government reviews its investment policy that we may see a return of the passport scheme in a different guy. 2 comments 1st the government made changes to the skin only when the pressure. was forced on they didn't volunteer they didn't do it. on their own volition that's one and the 2nd is that even though the legislation that's changed that are still got us in. control checks in. now it's how does your costs questions concern yes. i am concerned. perhaps.

that scheme. with another name. but. you must understand that it's a very powerful lobby is pushing. for this scheme to stop you have a thank you very much indeed that contribution well it's clear from what you can see by me and from what you've heard from the. approach that the ramifications are investigation and the scenes of ostensible corruption have a long way to go to fight house and from the al jazeera investigative unit is in nicosia on the news i thank you david a coronavirus update for you now with infections surging across europe to their highest levels yet germany 1st of all with the daily number of new cases is now at its highest in 6 months the chancellor angela merkel is pushing for states to impose tougher local measures england enforcing a new 3 tier system of restrictions the liverpool regions the only area to be under

the toughest rules but there are others expected to follow. france is also to unveil some new measures on wednesday as it struggles to control a 2nd wave there are reports a curfew could be imposed in paris and russia has recorded its highest number of daily infections over 14000 cases you've also got. the czech republic and poland reporting new highs everyone is out basically we're going to focus on france the natasha butler in paris on the soaring number of infections there. soon after moving to paris in september these british students fell sick with coronavirus they began having symptoms after attending university events and welcome parties every station to standing by wearing masks but it sometimes that doesn't stop if you're in a crowded place and you haven't stopped going to electricity very tired in between needy half the students in a year were infected for some recovery has been slow i mean i was covered before

but even i just want to get a ged or other for me and now i'm a lot more like conscious of it. you coded infections are rising rapidly in paris particularly among the young in the past couple of weeks queues outside the board trees like this one in the city have been getting longer and more paris health officials say is the one in 5 tests is coming back positive france's government has placed the city on maximum alert bars gyms and pools a shot people are urged to work from home and afford public transport luckily there is a reality of a 2nd wave and showing implore people clearly that we must mobilize each and every one to face this 2nd wave before we can also afford to let a set do. despite the restrictions paris is intensive care beds continue to fill with covert patients hospital officials warn they are near capacity the problem

says this epidemiology just is that the government is taking the wrong approach relying on restrictive measures rather than whites protesting solution would be to assign to test message really the population and that can be done both using p.c.r. test with group just doing what you put in one tube those samples from 20 or 30 people. also with the test so that's what's. and in the countries where the virus has been contained the french president is expected to discuss testing and announce more strict sions in a rare t.v. interview on wednesday for months emmanuel michael has urged people to live with the virus but as the country battles a 2nd wave some hope he'll use his address to inject a sense of gravity into an increasingly urgent situation tasha butler al jazeera paris. it is right now day 3 of the u.s.

confirmation hearings for donald trump's supreme court judge pick this woman any county barret again facing questions from the senate committee members so far she's been pressed by democrats on key issues like health care abortion and election disputes and we'll talk to alan fischer on capitol hill about this right now allan looks like it is senator ted cruz who is questioning amy. so far today. well an interesting start from ted cruz he said that he thinks that she is going to be nominated by the committee that the attacks that the democrats have been waiting for the last 2 days have changed in tone in the except that it is well qualified to be on the supreme court and instead what he said the committee was hearing was a series of attacks on donald trump assuming he said that the democratic senators are not going to vote for donald trump come november the 3rd i think that's

a pretty safe bet been a couple of other interesting exchanges one with patrick leahy use the democratic senator from vermont asked if we could about whether or not the president was above the law and she said obviously not no one was above the law he then asked the president self pardon no this is come up because there are a number of people suggesting that if he loses the election in november donald trump could face several legal actions some of them in criminal court as well if any wrongdoing is this covered and they go back to the time when richard nixon was phone guilty of wrongdoing and at that point back in the seventy's there were discussions of whether or not he could self part and he was eventually pardoned by gerald ford the man who succeeded him in the presidency. asked look don't trump essentially pardon himself her answer was. we can't say that because nothing has been legislated would need to look at the legal preserve. when we need to look at legal arguments that have to be

a whole process that we go through before we could decide that then there was a very interesting exchange with dick durbin who is a democratic senator from illinois he was asking about the affordable health care act. obamacare as it's known here in the united states you'll understand that it's a big deal because the supreme court is going to decide in a case on that one week after the election and it could mean that some people lose coverage for preexisting conditions when i see someone talking around 23000000 if you believe the democratic figures and there's nothing to dispute them she was quick to point out because she has written in the past about the unconstitutionality of some of the decisions reached in previous cases that have gone to the supreme court she said look you seem to assume i have some sort of bias against the the affordable care act immediately against that that is simply not the case when she was giving her readings she was doing as an academic as

a commentator not as a judge and that has been a theme that judge but it has repeated throughout the 2 days of hearings that she will judge the cases on the merits look at the constitution look at the law and then decide she's already had been hours of hearings on tuesday she's done almost 3 hours they're about to break for lunch here and there's probably another 5 still to go this is a grueling ordeal for any judge but as you've heard from ted cruz in the last 20 minutes he thinks this is no a done deal ok alan fischer with the latest on the supreme court hearings in washington. kurdistan's president has confirmed. as the new prime minister his supporters rallied in the capital bishkek pushing for his appointment to a part of was freed from prison last week during protests against the disputed election result which is now 9 days ago. now plans in mexico to abolish more than 100 trust funds are being fiercely resisted by activists they say vulnerable people

cultural projects the arts they all depend on these funds for funding but the ruling party says the trusts are riddled with corruption and the government should control them john heilemann has that story from mexico city. but he had to do a search had already been told her brother was too should a murdered look was left was to look for his remains but she got death threats even for doing that is she and her children had to flee her native state sonora she was helped by one of mexico's public trust funds for victims of the violence who relocated her to this apartment here in a 2nd if that. if they take me out of these refuge then i don't know if tomorrow i will be alive or not i don't know where i would sleep if not just me but thousands who are in these protection program that. they're worried because president under his manuel lopez obrador more in a party has just had a bill approved by congress to abolish more than 100 public trust funds the

president says the redo by corruption and he wants the government to administer the money directly he's promised no beneficiaries will lose their funding see the. exports people depend on the trust funds they'll keep receiving support if an art does it depends on them for the grant so they won't have a problem and the only thing we're going to do is revise how that money's being spent there will be control will quickly see the funds are being well apart. but look is obrador actually indicated months back that he wants to use. trust fund money to his national economic plan he's also just said that some of the funds will be used to cope with that since many in science some protection programs fear they'll lose out the bill only needs to pass here at the met concern and that's why these people are gathered outside scientists filmmakers artifice journalists and victims of the violence many of them depend on the money that the specially for

them and protect it within these funds and they worry that if but this appears they're going to be left in limbo. there's another concern to one of the funds is specifically for natural disaster response if that disappears it will be a big deal in a country plagued by earthquakes and hurricanes. but the president does have a point the majority of trust funds do like transparency and accountability according to a study by funda a budget analysis institution that doesn't necessarily mean they should all be scrapped suddenly self yet or is above the normal unfortunately it's become a question of trust funds are good or they're bag without analyzing each one of course in some cases they have serious problems of transparency and in others it would be a really good idea to see how they can be made more efficient and flexible. being reformed when necessary then instead of scratching a whole scheme that many rely on for their work and research and some light money

at today's need just to keep them safe john homan al-jazeera mexico city. sports news coming up with santa in spain never saw it coming the latest on the nation's lake in just a. all

. the all. the time from the biggest sports on a thank you very much. baseball and the atlanta braves have taken it to the nothing lead and the national league championship series. just now one win away from place

in the wall series so how might a cripple. there's no trip to the atlanta braves they're on course were a 1st trip to the world series since 1999. to. take down the los angeles dodgers on tuesday to go to nothing off but the national league championship series ended this retired patrick duffy to me here nancy. but having taken a 70 lead in arlington texas atlanta almost threw away what was looking like an easy win. they allowed the dodgers back into the game and saw the early dwindle to just one run. in v.n. those they managed to hang on mock melancholy getting a.g. put to ground out to end the game final school 7 braves being relieved.

i don't feel good with a big lead i mean that because these guys are too powerful and when it's good to have that's a good and did all he knew and they all are now. tampa bay and now just one win away from reaching the world series kevin q my eyes set the tone for them early on in game 3 gets used and with his efforts in the fields kevin chad myers page one back. there carson for the rays going on to be the astros $52.00 so it's got. a 1st of a championship for the franchise might just be on but it will. be. so hell malik al-jazeera argentina have made it to in some 2 in south american call it science for the 2022 world cup in qatar on tuesday they beat believe the 21 brazil will also winners in a mob putting a massive the fullness of the p.s.u.

forward scored a hat trick to help his side beat through 4 to brazil top the group ahead of argentina on goal difference spain's national football team has suffered their 1st defeat at for nearly 2 years louis and the kids men were stunned in the u.s. nations the by ukraine who were coming off a 71 thrashing up by france last week spaniards losing this one by a goal to nil they still have a set to at the top of the league a group for. you know minute here i think we deserved to win but it was the typical match where you dominate the encounter and you need to create chances to school we need to improve in that and also in the fact of the counterattacks it is impossible to avoid all of them and today they scored that goal in one of those situations the final result it doesn't lie to me but i am still having the same trust in my team we prepared well the whole week we knew it

would not be an easy game we are a bit sad but we must continue because we are still leading our group we depend on ourselves and we want to finish as leaders. save germany with the 60th minutes equaliser in their game against switzerland the teams playing on a $33.00 draw terminus 2nd behind spain in their group 3 time grand slam champion andy murray is still looking to hit top for most of his comeback he's been knocked out in the 1st round of the endo event in cologne is called to us beating in straight sets 6464 all by fernando verdasco lara is currently ranked 115th in the world he had played at the french open for the 1st time in 3 years following a return to the quarter after battling his problems fought on world champion and olympic medalist yes it too has been suspended by japan's swimming federation after having an extra marital affair the governing body of ruled that the athlete

had failed to live up to the federation standards for sportsmanlike conduct last month a sitter had stepped down from his position as the captain of japan's swimming team for the tokyo olympics to admitting to the affair the 26 year old is only suspended through the end of the year which means he still is a bull for the rescheduled games in 2021 and finally the other bit of history has been made in rumania. first on the ground inside the soul mine that has been pulled off by local dive across the oval beach here and also. brianna the 2 of them dived 120 meters in this one of the world's oldest sold mines. that's it for me strode and thank you for that sanna and that is the news hour back

in a couple minutes more news on the way. to he now global community we are our biggest conversation elbow but the how crazy is that what response that looks like be part of the debate you can jump into the conversation when no topic is off the table you're not afraid of anyone think we just. use these 3 targeting richer and the poor getting poorer it's not kill destroy the system it's just to look at the system and. this street on out is

there it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with eventual capacity for 4000 covered 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone saw. in an exclusive documentary series al-jazeera reveals the full story of a war that changed the face of the middle east this is not of war to defeat israel this is a war to open the way for the promise of the final episode of a 3 part series explores the impending threat of 2 global superpowers i don't cover

as why the our business really conflict continues to this day the war in october the battle and beyond on al-jazeera. 6 the clashes continue in the going to kind of russia and turkey argue over how to win them. over again i'm kemal santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera thousands of families referred to safe areas after days of intense fighting in afghanistan's helmand province israel approved the construction of thousands of new illegal settlements in the occupied west bank. and heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides.