being ecofriendly seditions to come back threats to our planet on which is iraq. this is al jazeera. 800 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera on come all santamaria welcome to the news hour spikes in covert 19 cases across europe and in the u.k. have governments scrambling to figure out just how to bring those numbers back down again. also in the news deadly clashes continue in the going to while russia and turkey argue over how to end the conflict thousands of families

for safer areas after days of intense fighting this is afghanistan's helmand province heavy rain triggers flash floods and landslides we bring you the latest from both vietnam and cambodia. so let's begin with the coronavirus pandemic as the number of infections continues to surge again across europe many countries seeing their highest levels in months let's run through some of them germany where the daily number of cases is now at its highest level in 6 months chancellor angela merkel is pushing for states to impose tougher local measures france is declaring a public health state of emergency starting from saturday hospital admissions there are at their highest level since june and the u.k. well it's hit nearly 20000 new corona virus infections in a day which is its 2nd highest number so far england has already introduced

a new 3 t. . lockdown system to try to curb the worsening outbreak now at the moment the city of liverpool and its surrounding areas are under the toughest rules and we've got journo hold there for us at about 7 in the evening hi jonah how are they taking the news there in liverpool. well the pubs and bars that don't serve food here in liverpool were forced to close for midnight last night so after last orders at 10 pm effectively and people poured out onto the streets perhaps predictably and had a massive party and probably won't do much to further the cause of bringing the 2nd wave under control as the government much hope the numbers going up as you say hospital admissions infection rates deaths as well 19724 new infections reported on wednesday 2 and a half 1000 more than the day before that number doubling roughly every week and a half or so 137 deaths reported that's nowhere near the peak of the pandemic here

in england but it's well higher than the sort of low double digits that were reported around a month ago in liverpool as you say under these brand new restrictions the only city in england now currently in the new very high risk category announced by boris johnson a couple of days ago that means no household mixing in any circumstances pubs and bars as i said the dead don't serve food have to close and the health infrastructure here under tremendous strain critical care beds at something like 90 percent capacity at the moment with predictions they will reach full capacity within a week so a pretty grim picture in terms of the headline figures there but remember that behind the headlines there are a lot of people who are deeply affected by what's going on as my report now shows. no more talk of the coming 2nd wave political drinkers it's arrived pubs and bars forced to shut as the city becomes england's 1st to face the highest level of new

restrictions. away from the drunken revelry these are moments when heavily on the lives of many livable is the 1st with its hospitals filling up and critical care beds almost at capacity it won't be the last there's talk of a possible full scale nationwide lockdown for a short period at the end of the month and all the while the hidden toll is being counted the mental health of millions held in the balance people support mechanisms and their coping mechanism is just not there anymore and i think that is something that we are going to see going forward i think the mental health implications from cove it all go to for outlast the actual virus itself i think we're going to be picking up the pieces for this for quite a long time it's just the opposite offer to be able to offer a say facility so these kids from that get some acceptance of exercise and activity what we found in the 14 or even up down

a similar some are members of their cell farm because these had meltdowns at home in your previous life and the previous was down 0 so obviously but the 2nd stampers again no. gyms and leisure centers have shut their doors but this facility continues for now waiting for clarity on the rules. well it helps me with my eyesight. and all the. gal my anger of because everyone has a lot on oil. i don't like the 5 of us because i work to god. but god i want to be there but to the normal. bills that. caroline couldn't walk on her own when she began weekly visits to the kirkland centers inclusive coming to this cave my never done things i can't even dream of doing every night i was busy at home with them all i used to get mom

do absolutely free everything fully you know now i'm healthy moment more at home if this facility is not a lot of a level for these these sort of these young adults it just gave me an influx of mental well being but what happens on the physical attributes as well. so yeah it's about where to get off to. it's good tough hope. how conscience don't feel down and all off. so the voices there of some of the worst affected and fair to say the sorts of voices we don't often get to hear but their anxiety is not misplaced as we pointed out a couple of days ago boris johnson unveiled this new streets here structure for local restrictions intended to bring the 2nd wave under control almost immediately his own chief medical officer undermined the caused by saying it was probably not

going to be enough and now the opposition labor party has joined the government's own scientific advisory group in advocating a brief a 2 week full national lockdown perhaps at the end of the month to coincide with school holidays that would mean a total shutdown it would mean enormous economic pain but possibly with the potential for saving thousands of lives and deferring even worse economic pain later it may well turn out to be the course of the government of course of action the government has to take but it won't do much for the mental health of the country and nor of course for those young people in the gym you saw that jonah hill reporting from liverpool on this news out jonah thank you for that so that's the u.k. we'll be looking at france a little bit later in the program speaking to our correspondent in paris president micron right now discussing the corona virus outbreak and possibly going to outline some new measures that we will bring you an update on that at about half past the

hour. also ahead on this news israel approves the construction of thousands of new illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank. we'll be in nigeria where protests against police brutality are continuing for a 7th straight day. and in sport another eye catching performance by tampa bay as they look to reach out for the world series. a media and azerbaijan now they continue to accuse each other of ceasefire violations and the ongoing conflict over the region of the going to cut about russia is now calling for an end to the fighting and a settlement through diplomatic means but i mean as prime minister says his forces will not back down despite having retreated from some frontline positions reporters from bernard smith. i mean. they'll be

a memorial like this in perhaps every one of the homes of the more than $530.00 armenian men killed since fighting restarted on september the 27th. was a 19 year old conscript sent to the front lines just as fighting with azerbaijan started . we last talked on the phone on the evening of september 26th and he said everything's all right after that we heard nothing on the 27th i wanted to go volunteer where my son was serving but i wasn't allowed then on the 30th i got a call and was told everything is finished there were 9 of them i don't know what happened to the others all the young men ingeborg school yearbook are doing that compulsory military service now like almost every young man in armenia and nagorno-karabakh to my niece up to now i think he will call he will come back i don't know i can't imagine he's not with us anymore i mean as prime minister says

there been some retreats from frontline positions and the situation is what he described as quite difficult for his country. right now the number of our casualties are very high no more. victims armenians adversary azerbaijan now has the open and full support of turkey. president. says 26 years of diplomacy have failed to resolve the conflict and it's time for armenia to return land it took in the 199124. 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 russia has rejected requests from us about john for turkey's involvement in future negotiations on the golan a kind about. the father of how jeff plays

a popular. dead soldiers son was killed on the 1st day of fighting. most of the years about johnny people especially those from places close to the context lines suffer like this we've been through this since 1988 like hundreds of thousands of his aires this family was 1st displaced from armenian territories in earlier conflicts you. know the fighting shouldn't stop there are so many mothers inconsolable like me if you take a lot back see i didn't lose my son on both sides of this conflict the pressure on leaders not to give way is intense. john on wednesday accusations the armenians are trying to attack or oil and gas pipelines the armenians areas are trying to seize nagorno-karabakh and above this angry rhetoric russia is appealing to both sides to observe the humanitarian ceasefire but it seems no one's paying attention

. bernard smith al-jazeera chorus armine well russian president vladimir putin is expressing concern about the alleged presence of syrian fighters in the going to kind of earth this was in a phone call with the turkish president turkey denies those accusations that we discussed all these sorts of ally and external issues with tomatillos southern i'm also a little bit earlier who is a lecturer in security and development at king's college london department of war studies she said russia's trying to keep turkey's influence in mediation efforts to an absolute minimum russia have leverage very strong library on armenia and but at the same time it has a strong partnership which one has developed over the last 10 years with azerbaijan so i think that it has the possibility to to a certain extend course if it can both sides 2 are going to go shaping table.

i mean the big question is you know is russia going to now really thought i'd. provide additional military support and i wouldn't exclude that entirely you know in case prolonged turkey is trying to push it fell into the mediation mechanism on turkey if it is really agitating are not helping at all with a resolution of the conflict in a peaceful manner they've been providing moral political and military support by john so. what we are trying is to become the main sort of peace broker and the russians are very keen to avoid any kind of turkish further involvement really the pressure should be exerted in not only on azerbaijan and armenia but also on turkey to change the language and make sure that you know it's not supporting such a sort of military state which is really a novelty. tens of thousands of afghans have been forced to escape days of heavy

fighting between government troops and taliban fighters aid agencies say house was becoming overwhelmed by the wounded from the battles which began in southern afghanistan on saturday all the fighting in helmand province centers on the regional capital of lashkar gah u.s. airstrikes have supported afghan security forces on the ground but this major taliban offensive coincides with peace talks being held here in qatar the fighting could complicate donald trump's plans to have american soldiers home by christmas or reporter filio is in the capital kabul and says health services are really stretched in the area where the fighting is happening their main trauma hospital in provincial capital. has been operating at full capacity cannot treat more 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 of the telephone lines have been damaged so it's hard to assess what exactly what the exact needs are. ramasamy is the acting humanitarian coordinator for the united nations in afghanistan we spoke to and she says relief agencies have been quick to deploy as the number of displaced people rises. we are hearing from our field teams on the ground is that close to $5000.00 families which is about $35000.00 people out importantly being

displaced and this displaced mentor lead to additional leads from their site for shelter for work and sanitation crude event and also knocking noise a little to be able to return back so this is one of the concern we have because it is going to be a humanitarian action that we all need to converge together and and support we have joint assessment teams already on the ground we have our units to our colleagues giving assistance in terms of dance and their non-food items. is providing wash their facilities as well on the ground we do have partners stationed in the province so we are galvanizing assessments to ensure that we are able to understand what the emerging needs such as being able to provision for those feats on the ground that we need to make sure that services to people continue to be made trained and when such displaced and happen agencies come together and provide

assistance our main reason for being there is to ensure that people are not suffering and they are being assisted in an emergency mode and also looking at what else do they need and and help them go back to their place of origin while israel has approved the construction of thousands of new illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank the 1st time israel has approved the building of settler homes since a normalization deal with the u.a.e. and backroom the settlements are considered illegal under international law all it ever him is reporting now from near ramallah in the occupied west bank is that reaction from the 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 renormalization 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 extension 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 as per 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 they stay has said if trump wins a 2nd term god helps us all the european union's imposing sanctions on 6 russian

individuals over the poisoning of opposition leader alexei navalny the asset freezes and travel bans reportedly target people in the defense ministry and the spy agency valmy is recovering in berlin after being poisoned in siberia in august moscow continues to deny responsibility with our son scott from brussels now to raise a foreign she's the director of the center for russia europe and asia studies nice to have you with us. so what's sanctions like this actually is this almost a bit of window dressing by the european union to make it appear that they're doing something. couldn't it come up i think that there are proportional they're reasonable and they're actually focused on the people who were closely involved with this so they won't be able to travel to europe and their assets could be frozen in addition they're also sanctioning the institute where this compound was created the novacek compound so i think it's an important sign though because it's

very difficult for the 27 even member states to all get together and become same page we saw recently with the attempts to have sanctions on belarus they couldn't get it passed because of one member state cyprus was blocking it so this is a good sign that they were able to come together and have these proportional focus targeted sanctions as a really good point actually agreement across europe is rare isn't it russia's reaction though i mean i suspect well 1st of all that it's still denying it have anything to do with it and 2nd of all i suspect it won't be too concerned by these will attempt to brush them off. of course they've denied it and there have been all sorts of incredible stories that even poisoned himself according to some people back in moscow but i think that. germany and france are together on this say they produce a 500 page report they feel they have enough evidence to really push this through and we've seen it's almost

a 2 handed approach because they've been able to keep the north stream to pipeline which is germany it's in germany's backyard are the negotiation table so on one hand germany is supporting sanctions but on the other they're saying don't touch nordstrom too is anyone else in a position to do anything here i guess i'm standing a little bit beyond your appear but any further pressure on russia over this because when it happened it was obviously a huge story and it still is but it's perhaps been overshadowed by a whole lot of other things now as we forget a man was poisoned here. it's very true i mean the time history things are moving so rapidly these days especially with covered 19 the united states has been silent on this which is quite interesting with the trumpet ministration so the fact that the e.u. actually is you know it since december 200-1000 with the new european commission they've described themselves as geopolitical looking through the world with a jeep through

a geo political lens rather than just an economic lens so i think that they're really taking. the lead on this and yes they're saying they want to send an important message that these poisonings will not be acceptable and that that they won't just sit back so i think that they're trying to flay this issue that even though in a valley was poisoned with in russia leader who is known to germany or help the earlier scriptural attack in in the u.k. took much longer to have sanctions to get our that you member states on the same page so the fact that they were able to do this rather rapidly i think sent a firm message that this is going to take place and yesterday we saw the high representative call russian's foreign minister lavrov to inform him about the situation just while you were talking we were looking at some pictures there on the other side of the screen of being interviewed i just wonder what your thoughts about his future obviously his health is the most important thing but do you think he has still has a political voice the movement that supported him the people that supported him is

that still strong. i mean this is not the 1st attempt on his life you know his. damage from a previous acid attack on him so the fact that he continues i think you know obviously novacek really took a huge toll on his life he was in an induced coma for one month in germany and so he's learning to walk again and it's very very difficult for him it seems unsure if he will be allowed to return to russia putin might just prefer that he stays out of the country so it remains to be seen if he will even be allowed to return to russia his ass attempt been seized and his apartment has been taken away for investigation for supposedly corrupt corruption issues so this is maybe how the russian state is deciding to deal with not only but it remains to be seen if you'll stay in germany or he says he really does want to go back to russia fascinating stuff isn't it to reason with us from brussels thank you really appreciate it and

thanks. for to stan's president has confirmed that of the new prime minister his supporters rallied in the capital bishkek pushing for his appointment freed from prison last week during protests against the disputed election result 9 days ago. more protests against government corruption are taking place in cyprus this is after the al-jazeera exposé of senior politicians willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the government sour bollixed its investment the citizenship scheme. david harrison is outside the parliament to nicosia with more on the protests. chanting they want resignations they're sick of corruption they want their country back and we've seen some amazing things there later on when i was talking to a local t.v. company doing an interview and what i looked up there about 40 people around filming and praising al-jazeera and this is an amazing turn around when we 1st

arrived here and we did a trailer for all film that was sort of conspiracy theories being put around oh what's our designers agenda all they're picking on cyprus and then the film came out and there's just been this incredible turnaround everybody seems to think the evidence presented is for miserably strong and they've got on board and they're full of praise for al-jazeera value i think some of them are saying things like it's galvanized them it's galvanized into action they want to clean a cypress they want these people out they want to solicit demitra silver is the president of parliament who stepped down from his duties but hasn't actually resigned they want him to go they want a clean out and they say it's given them new hope that cyprus can actually become a better place what i've been impressed by is just the passion and there's a sense of catharsis here people have been waiting for this opportunity for years and little did we know that our investigation would be the thing that would trigger it is from a show where at least 36 people have died to flooding in vietnam as tropical storm

makes landfall the coast has been hit by a series of weather fronts in recent days and there is yet more rain expected and chapelle has more entire villages submerged but even before tropical storm don cost trucked this region hundreds of thousands of families in central vietnam struggling to cope 2 weeks of rain have left communities isolated many can only be reached by boat. close to a 1000000 people. and. and. none cause 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 these.

continue to work. because that he. insists already supper. with. many people. like me who. in the us also. rescue workers are delivering food and other supplies in the worst affected provinces in twat then 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 . still ahead on this news hour the 3rd day of a controversial hearing for u.s. supreme court nominee i mean tony ballots will get up there on mt. i'm andrew symonds in the scottish fishing port of peterhead i'll be assessing the mood here

over fishing rights the main obstacle to host bret's in trade talks with the e.u. . time in sport and the marriage still looking to the top form since his return from surgery details on that it's on a bit later. but . hello welcome to another look at the international forecast istook in little italy cool side the chilly side full rap 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 handful. baghdad warm enough pleasantly warm that just around the levant $2627.00 therefore jerusalem idle so for beirut and similar values as we go on into friday when they just say we die how we're going to struggle we can call it that to get above 30

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oh. they're on the news on here at al-jazeera these are the top stories russia is urging armenia and azerbaijan to settle down are going to cut about the conflict through diplomatic means i mean you're not about john of accused each other of attacks on civilians ever since russia brokered a cease fire on saturday. the u.k. is recorded nearly 20000 new coronavirus cases in a day britain 2nd highest number of daily infections so far earlier england introduced a new 3 tier system of lockdown to curb its worsening outbreak and france has announced a nighttime curfew for paris and other major cities as it struggles to contain itself right it'll start on saturday last for at least a month as well public health state of emergency is also open.

and right now the french president a man you're micron is giving a live television interview about the cobra 1000 outbreak about some of these new measures which are being announced and we're going to talk them through with natasha but correspondent and paris this sounds like pretty tough stuff doesn't it . yes the french president emanuel macron has used this rather rare television interview to address the coronavirus crisis in france he said there is a real sense of urgency used or rather grave tone and he set out new measures including this curfew he said a curfew is going to be put in place in paris and 8 other major cities it will start on saturday we're looking at a nighttime curfew from 9 o'clock in the evening through to 6 o'clock in the morning and what that means is in that time of course all restaurants in amal's and

theaters will have to shut in most of the cities that have ready been put on high alert because of the deteriorating health situation bars that already been shut pools in gyms already shut indeed as well but now it means everything shuts after 10 o'clock at night but people will still be able to go to work if they need to go to work there will be exceptions of course if there are medical emergencies but otherwise people must be off the street now the french president said he knows this may seem like a rather drastic measure to some but he said it is vital because of the situation in france we saw unless now we could go for example nearly 27 new cases of current virus infections in just 24 hours we've seen those numbers rise daily and i'm out on my cross said that although he realizes this is going to be a real blow real economic blow to many sections of society of course the restaurants the bars the cinemas and that kind of thing he said look the french government will try to support those industries as much as possible but we need to

get through this this was basically his message that french people together need to bear more responsibility be more careful to protect the most vulnerable. or what's a public health emergency officially been declared on saturday what does that mean . well the reason the french government has declared this public health emergency it's in a way it's a it's a it's a sort of legal umbrella it allows them the government to put in place some of these new restrictions including a curfew which is a sort of restriction that takes you know certain legal action to be taken behind it in order for it to go to go ahead so that's why the government has had to declare this a public health emergency it also allows more funds to be released for things like testing and support for hospitals and it's interesting to see the french president actually speak on television this evening because up until now pretty much since july he has left the communication on the covert crisis very much up to his prime

minister jacques has stakes on his health minister on leave iraq but it was seen that the virus is spreading so rapidly in france the situation is deteriorating perhaps so fast it's clear that the french president felt that he in a way needed to get more of a handle on the situation step forward and take front stage when it comes to battling this as he put it a 2nd wave in france thanks for those updates that sometimes in paris with the latest news on coronavirus restrictions there. well let's go to the u.s. day 3 of the u.s. confirmation hearings for donald trump's pick for the supreme court judge amy kearney barrett again facing tough questions from senate committee members questioned by both republicans and democrats the democrats pushing the key issues like health care abortion and election disputes here is alan fischer on capitol hill he was the job of keeping an eye on this and taking us through and what has

come out of day 3. well it's been interesting at the moment they're on a break because they've had some audio problems just as democratic senator richard blumenthal was due to start his 2nd round of questioning just sort of mind on day one senator had 30 minutes on day to day of 20 will be an optional round of 10 minutes once everyone's gone through this process so you're talking about more than 18 hours of questioning for him equally but it has been a few interesting exchanges a lot of grown was covered on tuesday but i think of the ones that will really stick out will be heard exchange with senator patrick leahy she was asked look is anyone above the law and she said no no one's above the law and he then followed up with a question about whether or not donald trump could pardon themselves now this is all 'd come about because there are people who suggest that donald trump if you loses the election in november could face criminal charges because of his conduct in office is something that he has threatened his opponents many times with and

this time they are saying look there are things that he's done that we really need to look into people have been suggesting in the been rumors on the internet on twitter of all places that donald trump might even self part and so she was asked is that possible how to answer well we can't decide that you've got to look at the law you've got to go through the process and then make a decision because nothing has been litigated about this before the whole idea of president self pardoning came around in the 1970 s. when it was suggested that richard nixon might do that he actually got a pardon from the man who succeeded him in office gerald ford the other. interesting exchange was when it came to talking about the affordable care act again dick durbin democratic senator from illinois was hammering away questions on that issue wanting any economy but to see whether or not she would vote to keep preexisting conditions that's because there's a big court case coming up at some point one week after the election in fact which

could make preexisting condition coverage disappear and that would impact 23000000 americans she said very clearly look you're suggesting that i have some sort of animists towards the affordable care act because should written about cases in the past when she said that part of it was perhaps unconstitutional. and she said that's simply not the case and she will judge each case in its merit ted cruz republican senator from texas he thinks that this is a done deal he said that he's seeing from the questioning that people are not questioning whether or not equally bad it is qualified to sit on the supreme court they're concentrating more on political attacks on donald trump i see the hearings underway there's a couple of democratic senators have already said that they are not going to vote for the nomination but at this stage the republicans think at doesn't really matter and they've got this going out of committee on thursday in the bag that's alan fischer on capitol hill keeping an eye on the senate judiciary committee thank you

alan always pleased to welcome melanie sloan to al-jazeera former counsel for the house judiciary committee a former federal prosecutor partner with some of strategies now joining us on skype from virginia beach allen 2nd us through some of the details i guess of what we've heard from the senate has her questioning amy county about what have you made of her. initially yesterday i must say i thought she came across very well prepared and very straight down the line but it was also raised to me the fact that she didn't necessarily answer any questions. no she didn't answer any questions and she is following a tradition of supreme court justice nominees who never really answer any questions really this is just a question of whether they can get through these grueling hearings and not say anything that changes the dynamics that it was interesting she had a pad in front of her yesterday which she had absolutely no notes and that's because she has nothing to say at all she's trying to do is manage to get through

this unscathed and she's she's doing that really nothing that happens in news hearings is going to matter is going to impact her confirmation one or any other but is she negating the democrats' argument there the democrats are questioning her on the on the hot button issues of roe v wade abortion of guns of all these sorts of things and she is just playing as i say straight down the line in saying i'll deal with it when i say it when i say both sides then i can make a decision maybe she's actually playing it really smartly. i mean she is in fact playing it smartly and there's no question that she is but for views on abortion however are for example well known one of the senators there lindsey graham even praised her during the hearing for being unabashedly pro-life and that and she has signed her name to a letter in the past questioning the validity of roe so clearly having any coming barrett on the on the bench will is is strongly likely to lead to

a reversal of roe versus wade and a democrats particularly want to make that clear especially going into an election so that women particularly but people around the country are aware that that is one of the things that is on the ballot in november is whether with there will be in rights another thing where any county there really blew the question yesterday was when she seemed not to know that voter intimidation is illegal she didn't want to answer a question about whether it was illegal and there's a federal statute making it illegal and this suggests you didn't want to say it's illegal because president trump has basically been trying to intimidate voters and has been talking about how he wants to have people at polls including our white supremacy is encourage them to go to the polls and intimidate voters and economy barrett doesn't want to get on the wrong side of trump by saying voter intimidation is a problem. at in a situation where the democrats know they're going to lose essentially we know this will be confirmed by the senate republicans are they do you think

a scoring any points on any day that we've seen so far have they made any inroads anywhere. well i think they raise concerns among the american public that he can we will get on for an essentially reverse the cia and obamacare and that would lead as we've heard many democrats say over and over and over to medical care being canceled for medical insurance coverage being canceled for millions of people including the problem of not being able to get coverage when you have preexisting conditions so democrats are trying to portray any committee barrett as it's sending us back to a more dangerous time and republicans really are trying to show her as just a modern suburban mom who is brilliant and you know they really showcased her family and her number of kids and they're trying to do this in order to attract these suburban women particularly republican suburban women who they've been losing

in droves and who are not likely to vote for donald trump in this election and they're thinking that by putting her on the court they are hoping that they can bring some of those women back to ols melanie sloan great to talk to you about this as we keep an eye on the confirmation hearing of any company barrett. now while we were speaking to melanie some very interesting breaking news coming through from the united states from the u.s. treasury department's website which says the u.s. is sanctioning the chief executive of hong kong carrie lamb a statement from their own website saying this lamb and 9 other individuals have been sanctioned under donald trump's executive order. on the hong kong so this i guess relates to. the idea of hong kong special status which was under threat because of the increasingly closer ties to beijing the security law which we didn't brought into place and the u.s.

is view that hong kong was no longer. jews or have those those rights as a as a as a special territory now carry lamb the chief executive of hong kong we've seen in front of cameras so many times and 9 other individuals are going to be sanctioned by the u.s. treasury no further details at the moment going to keep looking into that and bring you some more in it as soon as we get it. right now we'll look to israel and lebanon delegates from both sides which remember these are 2 countries technically at war have met for the 1st time in decades what are called indirect talks about their maritime border disputes are happening in southern lebanon both sides claim parts of the mediterranean way oil and gas has been discovered then i heard a report from the kuta. 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. when us. toward some of them used. to simply mean that. 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 discuss 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 a problem. i don't find is. what you want and the. 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. have been 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 at 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. southern lebanon. 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 the head of the party which is not deemed a criminal organization was also jailed for 13 years golden dawn members entered parliament at the peak of the great financial crisis and 2012 they tapped into anger against austerity measures and had a fiercely anti immigrant agenda. well brags that through the eyes of a fisherman they are the favorite british meal of fish and chips of course at the

center of the main sticking point to avoid a no deal breaks and negotiate is a fail to reach agreement before a summer so you need as on thursday french fishermen are leading the resistance to any deal that means reduced access to british waters and for simmons has more from britain britain's busiest fishing seaport peterhead in scotland 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 bricks 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 barker who's fished 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 able to have. a lot of clutch

what we do 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 of how they think it should be with the e.u. negotiations every year with the u.k. as an independent coastal state 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 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 e.u. does the people in the and the e.u. wanted of course they do outweigh the boy in the 1st place a people of the market politicians can make all the body of the work but what it's

about is the people wanting the fish to pay up to pay the plate brace for that there's a mood of great expectations here although within it's a realisation that some concessions are likely to be made but the raw 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 borrows 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 breck's it and all the uncertainty that could bring andrew simmons al-jazeera peterhead scotland. still ahead on this news all your sports news in spain well they never saw it coming the latest from the nation's lake in just a moment.

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band-aid we know this because you know work a full life here are monitoring the media the listening post on al-jazeera. time for a look at who spoke what's on. thank you very much to start with baseball and the atlanta braves have taken a 2 nothing lead in the national league championship series they're just one win away from a place in the world series so reports. he does not treat the atlanta braves they're on course for a 1st trip to the world series since 1999 because did

i take down the los angeles dodgers on tuesday to go to nothing up in the national league championship series ended the seed to turn a blind double tonight here nancy. by having taken a 70 lead in arlington texas atlanta almost threw away what was looking like an easy win so. i they allowed the dodgers back into the game and saw the lead dwindled to just one run i think was. in v.n. though they managed to hang on mark melancholia getting a.j. point to ground out to end the game final score 87 braves behind the braves hangover i don't feel good i'm 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 then all you know when they all are now. tampa bay and now just one win

away from reaching the world series kevin kim i set the tone for them early on in game 3 gets used and with his efforts in the fields kevin cheer meyer plays one back. to their car sharing the rays going on to be the astros $52.00 for god's paycheck a 1st ever championship for the franchise might just be on top of it once was set to expire cats so he'll malik al-jazeera. argentina have my. to ins from 2 in south american call it fine for the 2022 world cup in qatar on tuesday they'd be bolivia 21 brazil were also winners in a mob putting a massive perform as 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 lewis and the kids men were stunned in the us nations

the by ukraine who were coming off a 71 thrashing by france last week spaniards losing this one by a goal to nil they still have a sit at the top of a group for. the most 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 counter attacks 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 minute equalizer in their game against switzerland the teams playing on a 33 draw germany is 2nd behind spain in their group 3 time grand slam champion

andy murray is still looking to hit top form a since his comeback he's been knocked out in the 1st round of the endo event in cologne is called was beating in straight sets 6464 all by fernando verdasco 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 court after battling 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 ruled that the athlete had failed to live up to the federation standards force won't smell like conduct last month as it will have to step down from his position as the captain of japan's swimming team for the tokyo olympics off admitting to the affair the 26 year old is only suspended through the end of the year which means he's still illegible for the

rescheduled games in 2021 and finally the other bit of history has been made in rumania. a 1st on the ground dive inside a soul mine and has been pulled off by local diver cos of to know what will be key and australia's brianna if the 2 of them dived 120 metres in this elina one of the world's oldest sold mines. and that's why it's well for me we'll have more later on. ok sunny thank you for that that brings you to the end of this news often the team here in doha thanks for joining us so ongoing coverage of the day's stories including day 3 of the senate judicial hearing which is going on into the confirmation of judge amy carney about that still going on in washington right now barbara starr and the team in london will have more on that and the rest of the

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