here's how we're covering this story at this hour with 4 correspondents around the world alan fischer is at the white house in washington d.c. . in teheran jamal shales with us here in doha will be with all of you gentlemen shortly starting with our diplomatic editor james bays in new york i don't know james if there's been any reaction from there yes. well as you know the u.n. general assembly is still taking place so leaders' speeches are still being played out by video in the general assembly hall so a lot of ambassadors are around the u.n. today the secretary general is also doing an address in about an hour's time now he hasn't yet put out a statement the secretary general puts out a statement when any world leader or anyone of significance dies and always starts out and secretary general is i've actually though spoken to someone who has spoken to the secretary general since the news of the amir's death and i was told he really is very very sad indeed this is someone he knew well because of course and tony you could tell us the secretary general before this was head of the u.n. r

her seat with a conservative voice democrats say the next president should make that decision alan fischerwith more on villains birds a legacy. we came to leave tributes to pay their respects to mark the passing of a woman who here knew but all the suspected a loss they felt personally even if ruth bader ginsburg's decisions from the supreme court mean not to touch their lives she was physically small but her presence loomed large on the court she was a blunt talking liberal who often challenge her conservative colleagues on the bench born to jewish immigrants in brooklyn new york in 1033 ginsburg was a brilliant student she was one of only one woman to enroll in harvard university law school in 1956 later transferring to columbia university where she graduated at the top of her class the skin's broke told one television interviewer no law firms wanted to hire a married mother i had 3 strikes against me when i was jewish. i was the mother of a 4 year old. but as the sixty's and seventy's launched the women's movement ginsburg found a place in academia then as co-founder of a women's rights

here is alan fischer at the supreme court and the number of people who've come there tonight allan i guess speaks to just how well regarded ruth bader ginsburg was but also how important this political moment is. exactly they started gathering just minutes after the announcement of her death here on the steps of the supreme court they brought candles they brought flowers if i just step aside you can see some of the candles that have been laid out and people are taking pictures the numbers have thinned out quite a bit there was several 100 people here just about an hour ago but as you see it's after midnight no so many people heading home but. they've stood in quiet contemplation for a large part of this evening there was a moment where a trump supporter appeared with a megaphone he started to show that the president should make the appointment to the supreme court as soon as possible but he was joined very quickly by people saying go home and all saw are be for the most part though this has been a very quiet vigil people just standing contemplating what ruth bader ginsburg brought to

alan fischer al-jazeera washington well some of the world's largest banks have allowed trillions of dollars in suspected illicit funds to be transferred according to a report by the international consortium of investigative journalists it names 15 major banks including h.s.b.c. standard chartered and the central bank of the u.a.e. it says they send more than 2000 suspicious activity reports to u.s. authorities over 17 years these are not necessarily proof of wrongdoing but the report says banks allowed money to be moved despite concerns over the origins shares in h.s.b.c. and standard chartered fell to their lowest levels and $998.00 after the report was released both banks say they reformed and invested heavily in their ability to fight financial crime. martini is a policy expert on corrupt money flows transparency international says the investigation reveals serious systemic flaws with the global financial system. if you look at the types of mistakes that are there are things that we have been seeing in the ninety's and we continue to see in 201520162 time in 17 and the line of the banks

let's pick now to alan fischer who is live for us in washington d.c. so alan that the political implications the ramifications really continue over this this now supreme court vacancy. exactly and something that joe biden is going to be talking about he was due to start speaking about no but we've just been told that event has been delayed till half past the hour he is going to make the point that if donald trump gets the supreme court he wants then the affordable health care act and particularly preexisting conditions and the protection of those is very much under threat and the democrats believe that that is a winning argument as they approach the election that they will continue to hammer this idea that although donald trump on the campaign trail has said look we will protect preexisting conditions the reality is a number of republicans have taken court action to try and end the protections for preexisting conditions the department of justice supports them and that is headed for the supreme court a week after the election and there has been disciplin

republicans to delay any confirmation vote until after the election on november 3rd report from alan fischer. the supreme court has suddenly become the dominant election issue in the united states donald trump says he's going to move forward with filling a big can see this week democratic challenger joe biden says with early voting already under way that simply wrong the people of this nation are choosing their future right now as they vote to jam this nomination through the senate is just an exercise in raw political power. no i don't believe the people of this nation will stand for. president trump told a rally in south carolina on saturday he's sending his nomination for consideration to the senate this week it will be a woman a very talented very brave if. you average joe's in yet but we have numerous women on the list that are thought to be 2 leading candidates amy corny but it is an appeals court judge a favorite of conservatives and has been considered for earlier vacancies and there's barbarella go up a lot and move in from florida which would be the more political choice but the whi

whether or not somebody like i can write good like i'm a loser people can't stop reading about him alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the headlines on al-jazeera more a few jews on the greek island of lesbos or agreeing to relocate into tents accommodation hundreds have already been transferred after their camp was destroyed last week by huge fire many had staged protests asking to be moved to the greek mainland stephanie decker is at the new camp. at the most movement certainly that we've seen so far at the moment it's kind of quiet behind history but we have seen families men and women come to this place are coming willingly at the moment i think the reason for this change is that yesterday the greek authorities gave out papers and in various different languages speaking to the refugees telling them that this was the only safe place for them to go it was the only area where they could provide them with shelter with water with food with medicare are at least $24.00 migrants are presumed to have drowned after their boat capsized in the mediterranean the u.n. migration agency says libya's coast

in new york live now to washington and our correspondent alan fischer allan any reaction from the state department yet. no still nothing from the state department although we are expecting a statement from the white house shortly the americans were aware of how well the emmy awards and we got confirmation and that in this statement from the kuwait city when they confirmed that the emir had actually died here in the united states it was an american military hospital plane that flew in from kuwait that he after he had an operation there in july to rochester in minnesota that happens to be the home of the campus of the meal clinic regarded as one of the best hospitals in the world called the mayo clinic to see if they had any statement in the immediately referred me to the kuwaiti government so clearly the emir had been in hospital all this time we had received no update other than the day after the operation where we were told that he in fact was stable the relationship between the united states and kuwait has been complicated in recent years so. only in kuwait itself you will find many p

alan fischer al-jazeera washington well meanwhile one of the rising stars of the democratic party had this message for the republican party leader in the senate to mitch mcconnell we need to tell him that he is playing with fire we need to make sure that this vacancy is protected that our election continues and that the american people have their say. iran's supreme leader is expected to speak shortly a day after the u.s. made a unilateral move to reimpose sanctions against tehran it's a move of the world powers that lacked legal basis ayatollah ali khamenei speech comes ahead of the annual conference of the international atomic energy agency that's about to take place in vienna our correspondent joins us live from tehran what do we think we're going to hear. well this is 40 years since the start of the iran iraq war and usually they are events held down the country military parades usually here in the horizon is that the muslim of the former supreme leader and the founder of the islamic republic ayatollah khomeini but because of the covert $1000.00 pandemic that's not happening this

whether or not somebody like i can write good like i'm a little people can't stop reading about it alan fischer. washington. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has visited california which has been hit by record wildfires he denied a link to climate change insisting scientists are wrong and it will get cooler be his rifle joe biden called him a climate arsonists more than 20 pro-democracy activists are appearing in a hong kong court on charges over a vigil marking the 1989 tenement square massacre among them are media tycoon jimmy lie and joshua wong the annual event was banned for the 1st time in 3 decades. to be the pollen as following the court proceedings in hong kong. the court session has just started it is a pretrial hearing where they will be calling out the names of each of the defendants and weeding out the charges against them the charges are mostly inciting illegal assembly or joining or are going to illegal assembly or joining an illegal gathering now as he said that gathering was not given permission for the 1st time and 31 years but people still s

this total is in south africa alone and the us is on the verge of recording 200019 deaths well alan fischer joins us live now from outside the white house allan so president trump is off to a high over a campaign rally that's despite the u.s. as you were saying they're closing in 120-0000 deaths from the coded 900 pandemic trump seems to be ignoring this grim milestone. well it's not something he's acknowledged in very many of his news conferences certainly when he left the white house here a couple of hours ago he talked about the pandemic but he framed it in terms of talking about therapeutics and vaccines being well on the way and he suspects and he who says that there will be a vaccine available before november the 3rd a very important date in the united states of course because that is the presidential election in ohio in the last hour he really can agrees dover the whole idea of the pandemic all he would say is that he blamed china for it and he was holding china to account but we know that when asked does he take responsibility for what's happening during the pandemic he has said no

in the senate as soon as possible but democratic opponents say it's too close to the election alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . leaving for a campaign event in ohio president donald trump revealed he to shortlist for the supreme court vacancy and he wants a vote before the election 5 women are being. looked at it very very carefully. by. and we'll make a decision probably saturday but friday or saturday it's been confirmed the body of ruth bader ginsburg will lie in state on capitol hill on friday the 1st woman to be given that on or the capitol hill is also the place where the arguments about her replacement continue. the leader of the republicans in the senate mitch mcconnell says there will be a vote what is telling he said by the end of the year not november the 3rd the date of the presidential election. the fact that the senate will vote on this nomination this year the american people realize that our majority and 26. they're trying to end it further and 28 day because we pledge to work with president trump on the most critical issues facing our country the federal judiciar

election ginsburg was a champion of women's rights and the leader of the court's liberal wing alan fischer looks at her life and her legacy. they started to gather on the steps of the supreme court in washington as news of ruth bader ginsburg's death broke it brought flowers and candles the number swelled people marking a loss they felt personally. ruth bader ginsburg was physically small but her presence loomed large on the court she was a blunt talking liberal who often challenge her conservative colleagues on the bench born to jewish immigrants in brooklyn new york in 1033 ginsburg was a brilliant student she was one of only one woman to enroll in harvard university law school in 1956 later transferring to columbia university where she graduated at the top of her class the skin's book told one television interviewer no law firms wanted to hire a married mother i had 3 strikes against me when i was jewish. and the 4 year old. that is the sixty's and seventy's launched the women's movement ginsburg found a place in academia then as co-founder of a women's rights project for the american c

could use my words against me and you'd be absolutely right and of cool and that's now speak to alan fischer who is following the story in washington and so joe biden taking him his heels in saying the value to replace anyone nominated by the republicans and by president trump but the democrats power in this in this massive seems to be limited finale. and it's tough for joe biden to say listen to the words from 4 years ago and you've got to hold people to those words because 4 years ago or joe biden as vice president to barack obama insisted that the medic garlin nomination deserved a hearing in the senate and also a vote even if it was an election year he talked about the republicans just doing this as a shore of raw political power and that is also a consequence of losing elections the republicans took control of the senate 201420162018 and they won the presidency 4 years ago and when he talks about the constitution he's right the president is allowed to nominate supreme court justices and the senate says that they wall advise and confirm and that's exactly what donald trump is trying to d

let's go live now to alan fischer who is outside the supreme court. people still there paying their respects reaction still coming in and now the president donald trump has tweeted about what he wants to see happen next. exactly you can see the floor tributes that were grown over several hours people started to gather here immediately after the announcement of ruth bader ginsburg's there among those early morning visitors carla harris who of course is the vice presidential pick on the democratic ticket she was here with her husband don't trump has tweeted out in the last couple of hours saying that it's no really incumbent on him to push forward as quickly as he can to unknowns a nominee for the supreme court that's an interesting piece of politics because if you think back 4 years ago one of the reasons that many people voted for don't trump when they said they were holding their nose to cast the ballot in his direction was that he would change the face of the supreme court this gives him the opportunity to go into the election and saying vote for me

alan fischer al-jazeera washington still to come here on this program. we will miss that content the personal contact. a general assembly in like never before world leaders are set to mark 75 years since the creation of the u.n. as a supreme ceremony. and a symbol of loss for victims included 19 in brazil a moralist created in one of the worst affected cities. hello i'm places i think squatting down now across the eastern side of your still plenty of showers just around the out southern parts of france northern areas that's by and polish cool further north this line of cloud this cold front that's going to sink further south which in this was over the next couple days and that will have was quite a change for all of us as we go through the course of the the week shows that continuing then for the remainder of monday across central parts of towards c.s. most of warm sunshine generally most places getting up into the low to mid twenty's a $23.00 celsius there for london in a similar temperature actually as we go on through choose the show is to continue ac

alan fischer. washington. well john hendren joins us live now he's been following this story and so it was that the problem for the democrats is that it's very difficult to do anything to stop this as tight as the timescale might be for the republicans. that's right if this nomination goes forward before the election that the republicans in the senate will have a 53 to 47 majority that means they've got 4 votes to spare and even if they lost a couple the vice president of the united states is allowed to come in and be a tie breaker so it's really important whether they do this before the election or after afterwards there are 6 very vulnerable republicans so the senate could possibly flip to democrats you could have a democratic president and a democratic senate next time around so that who the nominee is depends very heavily on what the timing is and republicans have shown every sign that they are going to push this forward mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader republican held on to the nomination of mer

biden wants senate republicans to delay a confirmation vote until after the presidential election alan fischer reports now from washington d.c. . the supreme court has suddenly become the dominant election issue in the united states donald trump says he's going to move forward with filling a b. can see this week democratic challenger joe biden says with early voting already under way that simply wrong the people of this nation are choosing their future right now as they vote to jam this nomination through the senate is just an exercise in the wrong political power. no i don't believe the people of this nation will stand for. president trump told a rally in south carolina on saturday he's sending his nomination for consideration to the senate this week it will be a woman a very talented very brave if. you average joe's in yet but we have numerous women on the list that are thought to be 2 leading candidates amy connie bennett is an appeals court judge a favorite of conservatives and has been considered for earlier vacancies and there's barbara lee grew up a letter moving from florida which woul

the election that's the position the united states senate must take today so let's go live to alan fischer who's outside the supreme court allan we've seen pictures of the last few hours of people gathering outside the supreme court which is very unusual obviously since the since the passing of a supreme court justice. i think it acknowledges one home port and ruth bader ginsburg's position on the court wars but also a mark of the affection that people here held for her just step away you can see the people that lined up all the way on the steps of the supreme court been here since news of her death just a couple of hours ago many of them lighting candles a lot of people bringing flowers and if we move the camera around you can see that the flags here at the supreme court are flying at half staff no this is been very peaceful process people missing in national anthem in america the brave it's been very quiet given the number of people here except for 15 minutes ago when people arrived carrying megaphones supporters of donald trump and they took up a position at the foot of the steps and st

supreme court all right thank you very much alan fischer in washington. now sudan's government is being urged to prevent more damage and loss of life from flooding half a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes and more than 100 have died experts are warning of more flash floods while the government is trying to stop disease outbreaks in the affected villages mohamed odeh reports now from santa the small letup in the suffering of sudan's flood victims is zinj a town in south western sudan and tired neighborhoods remain completely cut off. the higher shot of the neighborhood is only accessible by canoes of the law mob the law sent his wife and children to a come for the displaced but chose to remain behind to guard his flooded house he's angry of the lack of help. even the response from the government has been very weak for the past 3 years we've been making the government to reinforce the flood defenses but they didn't we went and spoke to everyone from the local authorities to the national government still nothing. that was floods 400 years in s

here's alan fischer outside the supreme court and the fact that people are gathering there for a judge has died allan shows the high regard that she was held in. high regard in which she was held but also politically how important her position on the supreme court was with her passing that of course challenges the democratic minority and they could become an even bigger minority it could be a 63 split on the one person supreme court here in the u.s. they started to gather just after news of her death brought you can see that there are no hundreds of people here on the steps of the supreme court where the very small ruth bader ginsburg loom very large over proceedings here in fact the route in front of the supreme court has no being closed the the flags flying at half staff people have been lighting candles and quietly talking there was a point where supporters a number of them appeared with megaphones in what had been a largely quiet very silent vigil here at the supreme court and started talking very loudly about how donald trump must fill the vacancy as soon as possible he was showed

whether or not somebody like i can write good like i'm a loser people can't stop reading about him alan fischer al jazeera washington. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. president donald trump has visited california which has had hit by record wildfires he denied a link to climate change insisting scientists are wrong and it will get cooler his rival joe biden called him a climate arsonist. more than 20 pro-democracy activists are appearing in a hong kong court on charges over a vigil marking the 1989 square massacre on long media tycoon jimmy lie. if you go pauline is following the court proceedings in hong kong. well so far the prosecutors have read the charges out to each one of the defendants in total there are $26.00 but only $24.00 showed up among the 2 that didn't show up one of them is nathan a lot of former legislative council are well known for being parts of joshua wants political group he is known to be in exile in the u.k. the other one that wasn't in court today and once again this was confirmed by the court it's funny john another young activists also part of joshua

generations will remember ruth bader ginsburg as we knew her tireless and resolute champion of justice alan fischer is outside the court in washington. with her passing that of course challenges the democratic minority and they could become an even bigger minority it could be a $63.00 split on the one person supreme court here in the u.s. they started to gather just after news of her death brought you can see that there are no hundreds of people here on the steps of the supreme court where the very small ruth bader ginsburg loom very large over proceedings here in fact the road in front of the supreme court has no being closed the flags flying at half staff people have been lighting candles and quietly talking well here's john markham now senior legal fellow at the heritage foundation who explains how controversial the process of replacing ruth bader ginsburg is likely to be. we have a republican majority in the senate and a republican president that was not the case in 2016 this is of course the end of. first term president obama was finishing up his 2nd term so we knew for a fact that president o

al-jazeera alan fischer looks at ginsburg's legacy. they started to gather on the steps of the supreme court in washington as news of ruth bader ginsburg's death broke it brought flowers and candles the number swelled people marking a loss they felt personally. ruth bader ginsburg was physically small but her presence loomed large on the court she was a blunt talking liberal who often challenge her conservative colleagues on the bench born to jewish immigrants in brooklyn new york in 1033 ginsburg was a brilliant student she was one of only one woman to enroll in harvard university law school in 1956 later transferring to columbia university where she graduated at the top of her class the skin's book told one television interviewer no law firms wanted to hire a married mother i had 3 strikes against me when i was jewish. i was the mother of a 4 year old. but as the sixty's and seventy's launched the women's movement ginsburg found a place in academia then as co-founder of a women's rights project for the american civil liberties union

republicans to delay any confirmation vote until after the election on november 3rd report from alan fischer. the supreme court has suddenly become the dominant election issue in the united states donald trump says he's going to move forward with filling a big can see this week democratic challenger joe biden says with early voting already under way that simply wrong.

alan fischer al-jazeera washington iran's president says the u.s. faces certain defeat after it made a unilateral move to reimpose un sanctions against tehran it's already been rejected by countries that signed the 2015 iran nuclear deal tens of thousands of people have again marched in the belorussian capital on sunday demanding the president's resignation more than 200 were detained have been protests ever since a disputed election in early august. anti-government protests are taking place across egypt demonstrators are calling for an end to military rule security has been heightened of the calls for protests by exiled opposition figure 100 ali he's a former contractor for the egyptian military a sudanese delegation visiting the u.a.e. to discuss taking the country of a u.s. list of state sponsors of terror they'll be meeting with u.s. officials in abu dhabi sudan says the inclusion on the list has hindered its ability to rebuild the economy. so that his government agencies and volunteers are in a race against time to stop outbreaks of disease aft

reporting we'll talk to you in a bit i'm sure live now to washington and our correspondent there alan fischer alan i mean good relations clearly between the royal household in kuwait city and whoever is sitting u.s. president at least going back to when i think what iraq invaded kuwait 9192. that's right but the relationship is complicated there's been no official reaction yet from either the white house the president or the state department but the americans will be well aware of how we'll the emmy awards that was the american military hospital plane that flew in from kuwait via germany to minnesota in july that was outfitted with a complete medical team an expert medical team landing in minutes you would expect that he went to the meal clinic one of the world's top hospitals no confirmation from the hospital that he was there and since he arrived here in july we know they need an operation the day after he arrived but since then we've had no update on his medical condition we don't even know yet if the amir was still in hospital and was actually in minnesota when he died as i say that relat

alan fischer in washington alan how will the gauge the events in kuwait where you are. well i think they'll see a continuity with the announcement of who may take over as the emir certainly there has been a complicated relationship with the kuwaitis over the last few years there is a great swell of support for the americans a great deal of affection in kuwait which is perhaps unusual in the middle east that now all stems back to 1990 when the 1st president bush put together a global coalition to expel the iraqis after the invasion of kuwait in august 1090 of course that ended up with a very short 3 day war and there was a great deal of celebration the americans as i see regarded with warm affection and there was an axis built up between kuwait and the united states as if that was certainly a part of the hide in the middle east someone they could do business with we know that from david speaker who was the secretary of state around that time when told that the emir was very ill he said that the world will miss his steady and thoughtful hand it sure is the level of respec

alan fischer al-jazeera washington and one of the rising stars of the democratic party had this message for the republican party leader in the senate to mitch mcconnell we need to tell him that he is playing with fire we need to make sure that this vacancy is protected that our election continues and that the american people have their say wildlife officials in botswana think they know what's behind the mysterious deaths of hundreds of elephants they're calling something they're blaming something called psion a bacteria it's a type of banks were found in water at least $330.00 elephants have died over the past year in botswana and all in the same area. is following developments from harare so rather they know what the cause is what are they doing about it. well the elephant in the one with found in the bungle delta was the puppet a popular tourist area and this one is home and one of the largest herds of elephants in southern africa now joining the dry season these animals move from country to country in the region looking for water in officials here in zimbabwe a thing they seeing some

choice should be delayed but they would have little chance of blocking the white house's candidate alan fischer is outside the supreme court.

woodward accuses trump of deliberately playing down the krajina virus pandemic our correspondent alan fischer takes a look back at the controversial books published about the president of the. they've come from insiders outsiders and even family members the record that the history of the moment the character of the man the nature of the administration no modern presidency has driven book sales like donald trump's the 1st year of the term presidency generated around 4500 books in the english language compare that to the obama presidency there were about 800 since then many many more books have been placed on the shelves more than 70 have become bestsellers generating millions of sales for their authors the 1st blockbuster came from journalist michael wolff the president tried to block publication and field others who've served in the administration have written books to give their side of the story. and others have pledged support in print the don't tend to sell as well people want to review plans they want to reinvent a you know confirm their own believe right but it is. political entertainme

alan fischer. washington well john hendren joins us live now and of course we know that president trump and the republicans are going to try to move at breakneck speed to try and get the republican nominee through to replace ruth bader ginsburg but how likely is it that even if they get through confirmation hearings and all of that that it will actually get to a vote before election day. well it would be near record time for them to do that the average amount of time between nomination and actual approval of a supreme court justice is something like $6570.00 days they have less than that ruth bader ginsburg died with 46 days to go but there's really no obstacle between the republicans actually confirming someone except for their own party the divide between the parties in the senate which is the only body that has to confirm this nomination is 53 to 47 so they can afford to lose 4 people and that's because the vice president mike pence can be the tiebreaker in that. but this is it's definitely goin

let's go live to washington alan fischer is there for us on this the sunday morning t.v. talk shows digest the week in politics where are we now. well very much where we were 24 hours ago people are digging in republicans are saying we're going to go ahead with a vote the democrats are saying absolutely not this should be delayed there is a problem for the white house donald trump has said he wants to put a nomination forward within the next week or so but on average since 1975 it takes around 60 days for someone to be nominated how does the process work or the nomination is made it goes to the senate the senate colleagues all sorts of background checks there's normally a committee hearing even if the committee votes nor it still goes to the full senate with the recommendation that the nomination be rejected that very rarely happens and so then the senate the full senate makes the vote here's an added problem for donald trump and the white house not only has susan collins a republican senator from maine said that she doesn't think there should be a vote she's been joined

reported he paid just $750.00 in federal taxes in 2016 and none at all in 10 of the previous 15 years alan fischer joins us now from the white house or alan accusations from both sides just hours before the debate. it's still all about trying to grab a little bit of advantage joe biden doing that by releasing his tax returns or not doing donald trump to do the same the trump campaign well people close to the trump campaign claiming that joe biden had refused to do a scan with the independent 3rd party to make sure he wasn't wearing any elec 20 earpieces that has been picked up on far right conspiracy sites the biden campaign not honoring that with any sort of commitment the biden campaign in return leaking a suggestion that donald trump asked the moderator chris wallace of fox during tonight's debate not to mention the number of people who died because of corbett in the united states the trump campaign emphatically saying that that is not the case this is all about trying to throw the other person off their game the phony war before the actual debate kicks off and then when it comes to the debate

relied on by other gulf states a role here appear to welcome and one that's will be missed we have alan fischer in washington d.c. a diplomatic it is a james bays at the u.n. in new york 1st let's bring in and hear from again jamal jamal we now know the crown prince will be sworn in at 11 am local time tomorrow big shoes to fill there's a lot of responsibility comes with that particular position. indeed i mean not just as head of states but the head of state has been responsible for ensuring stability in the region it's a very unstable time for the head of state for a country that chose to play the role of a mediator to try to essentially put a stop at a lot of the divisions that were taking place or basically that's something that will not be lost on should know are phenomenal but then again this new amir has been working closely with the late shift. he was appointed or apparent quite surprisingly back in 2006 when it was expected that the late i mean there would have picked somebody from the other strand of the ruling family so he isn't somebody who is a stranger to the way in which quite has

reaction to the death of the amir our diplomatic editor james bays is live for us in new york alan fischer will join us from washington jamal el sol will come back to us here in doha and i said big well give us the latest out of tehran joining us on the line from moscow is paul had been mohammed. can toss ambassador to moscow mr ambassador welcome to al-jazeera english your reaction at this time. we're all deeply saddened for the great loss of his son and shiksa but we mourn today a great leader one who have dedicated his life to the services of these people and the just causes of the arab and muslim world design that shakes up not just an ordinary leader but one who has led his country through many trials in turbulent times under his leadership kuwait has witnessed great progress and we today was his last. feel. 6 and join our brethren's in kuwait. in this very sad moment and we will we want to understand as well that he stood firm in the gulf conflict and tried and endlessly to resolve it and stood by all the just causes in the region his humanitarian efforts as we heard the secretary ge

following the developments here the death of the emir of kuwait we move to washington now here's alan fischer at the white house perhaps i suspect is not reaction yet as such from the u.s. alan but maybe you can take us through the importance of the the kuwaiti u.s. relationship under 6 of us. certainly nothing official from either the state department or from the white house yet but the americans would have been fully aware just how critically ill of the emir was it was a u.s. air force plane a hospital plane that flew from kuwait to minnesota back in july for treatment no never been confirmed where he was being treated but of course minnesota is home to the mayo clinic one of the world's top hospitals and we believe he stayed there until his death that has still yet to be confirmed certainly that all the ship the united states has with kuwait is complicated on the ground in kuwait the united states is very popular which is largely on usual in the middle east given all the conflicts there over the last 20 years but of course it was the united states under the 1st president bush that rode to

political power he wants senate republicans to delay a confirmation of vote until after november 3rd alan fischer reports. the supreme court has suddenly become the dominant election issue in the united states donald trump says he's going to move forward with filling a big can see this week democratic challenger joe biden says with early voting already underway that's simply wrong the people of this nature.

unemployment and health care issues he believes makes donald trump more vulnerable in november election alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. now with corona virus infections in the u.k. rising and rising sharply the government has advised people to work from home but says schools will remain open the prime minister johnson is holding an emergency cabinet meeting and will address the house of commons and the nation later today england's chief medical officer says there's a risk of 50000 and factions a day by the middle of next month. demonstrations against police brutality in colombia once again turned violent officers fired tear gas to disperse the crowds anger has been building after the death of a man in custody in bogota 11 days ago. explains. another round of protests in colombia's capital. on monday security forces deployed tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who had gathered at. the plaza where demonstrators say it's the police that they're protesting against. we're marching against police brutality because it's necessary to reform columbus police it is militarized police that are n

alan fischer al-jazeera washington iran's president says the u.s. faces certain defeat after it made a unilateral move to reimpose u.n. sanctions against tehran washington triggered a so-called snapback of the measures lifted in the 2015 nuclear deal but the european countries that signed the agreement say the trumpet ministrations move has no legal basis and has been rejected by every other permanent member of the un security council has a big report from terra. sanctions or no sanctions an unprecedented division at the united nations is seen as a diplomatic victory by iran iran's president seemingly mocking the recent us defeats at the security council. in the game today we can say the u.s. policy of mix member less cool and legal pressure against the iranian nation has turned into mex member isolation for the united states. but if the u.s. stops iranian vessels to enforce sanctions this was a warning from iran got all recover what if the u.s. wants to use resolution 199 to inspect raney and ships based on international laws is considered piracy a

unemployment and health care issues he believes makes donald trump more vulnerable in of embers election alan fischer al jazeera at the white house some news from sri lanka now where a draft amendment bill that would give the president extra powers has been tabled in parliament if it becomes law it will allow president got to buy a rajapakse up to dissolve parliament and give him full immunity from prosecution and often and is with us now from colombo they'll take us through a bit more of this draft if you would. so what this document that's been tabled in parliament the building you see behind me this morning is basically the amendment to the constitution that the gautama rajapaksa government is bringing they had campaigned to bring these changes to the constitution they talked about a new constitution and essentially what this draft entails is strengthening the hand of the presidency sri lanka had a very powerful executive presidency it was somewhat diluted by the previous government who brought in amendments in favor of strengthening parliament but now with this draft amendment what the new govern

whether or not somebody like i can write good like i'm a loser people can't stop reading about alan fischer i'll just you know washington . this is all it is even these at the top stories the united out about minutes and behind have officially signed a deal in washington to normalize ties with israel it's been described as a betrayal by the palestinians a president donald trump says a drop or since the dawn of a new middle east and he's predicting more countries will follow the mood the moment was marked with an elaborate ceremony at the white house. together these agreements will serve as the foundation for a comprehensive peace accords the entire region something which nobody thought was possible certainly not in this day and age maybe in many decades from now but one founded on shared interests mutual respect and friendship to our honored guest for . israel the united arab emirates and bahrain congratulations on this outstanding achievement congratulations. the u.s. city of louisville paid briana taylor's family $12000000.00 for her death during a police raid on her apartment the 26 year

has been insisting without evidence that more postal votes will lead to white spread fraud as alan fischer reports. after the president appeared to our 2 supporters in north carolina to break the law and vote twice the defense from the podium of the white house briefing room the president does not condone on lawful voting by the president's been very clear about this some once again not surprised the media taking the president out of context president's trying to enfranchise americans which is exactly what he's been saying he wants every american to have a vote the president himself tried helping with the cleanup he posted a series of tweets where he told voters to go to their polling places after sending in their 1000000 ballots to make sure their vote had been counted the contriver see erupted during a presidential campaign visit to north carolina he said people wanted about election fraud should vote twice let him send it in and let him go vote and if this isn't as good as they say it is then obviously there will be able to vote if it isn't job related they'll be able to vote so that's