the speaker of the cyprus parliament dimitris see the us has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal and al-jazeera investigation found senior politicians who were willing to sell separate passports to convicted criminals the government says now abolished the program. hundreds of antigovernment protesters are out on the streets of bangkok openly defying a government ban on public gatherings they are calling for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy the government and calls its emergency measures in the early morning hours to stop months of protests. there's been more violence between taliban fighters and government troops in afghanistan parts of a military base were destroyed after a car bomb exploded it was our province not far from the capital kabul israel has approved the construction of thousands more illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank brings the total number of homes approved to almost 5000 over the past 2 days the palestinian leadership has condemned the move it's the 1st time jewish settler homes have been authorized since israel sus

today for the 1st time since the pandemic started dimitriou traveled to a poor part of town to hold a church service. and while outside drug gangs patrol the streets with automatic weapons inside he prepares for his sermon. here if you end up on the wrong side of the last 3 things can happen you'll be killed you'll go to jail or you end up in a wheelchair that's my message today. he asks people to come forward if they have a friend or family member who is a member of a drug gang it does. and take long until half the room is standing up in front of dimitri oh that's when he starts talking about his previous life of crime. what kind of lie it was that. i had money and power but it night i always had to hide out somewhere because i couldn't even trust my friends. besides the danger posed by rival gangs to me trio was also on the run from the country's military policed but one morning they caught up with him. suddenly i heard a burst of gunfire i fell on the floor and was in shock my bodyguards were running around me at his job. but walk sense then dimitrios has been a paraplegic. he goes

dimitri solar ray said he had provided no services to mr x. and again relied upon the empty money laundering report subsequently made by potential. there is no suggestion that marriott hotels had any knowledge of math is revealed by our investigation. hello the followers of new south wales are quite pleased to know we've reduced the amount of land as in the drought the crops are growing nicely it's a good spring rain in la niña which is almost at the moment suggests it could be a bit too much rain also might get an early season for tropical cyclones in the northwest nothing there yet though quite the opposite is warm and dry broome and perth are both showing temps of over the should be person particular 27 to 29 degrees it's warming up in melbourne and sydney we've got fed chief who are now on shore breeze for just a few afternoon showers that's true of 3 queens well otherwise weather is quite nice adelaide up to about 30 degrees even in new zealand the rains going past north island and then we should see see things improve somewhat but more s

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was able to plant dimitry and dimitry fed it to putin and putin spoke about it, acted about it, talked about it with all of his cabinet members for lack of a better word in the kremlin. the u.s. intelligence community would think of that as an enormous victory. that would be a coupe that we were able to, in one hop, plant information with the president of russia in the kremlin. and that's exactly what has happened with rudy giuliani. my god, i hope it's unwhiting because everything that man does seems to be unwitting, but it's witting that's worse. either way, nicole, the kremlin has a pipeline to the white house. do you remember when john bolton called rudy giuliani a hand grenade? it seems to me that vladimir putin has pulled the pin on that grenade in the form of rudy giuliani and rolled it into the oval office. >> frank figliuzzi, because it is rudy giuliani, and because it is donald trump, there's a taped confession. let me show you rudy giuliani telling jake tapper that there's nothing wrong with taking disinformation, information from russia. and donald trump telling george step

with claims of russian interference in getting any dirtier while to discuss that i'm now joined by dimitri simes was deputy had at the center for a comprehensive european and international studies and the higher school of economics in the ministry it's good to see you're again thank you very much for taking time to talk to us. thank you it's my pleasure hello now the last time we talked you predicted that the 2020 campaign is probably going to be the dirtiest campaign in american history reach to me frankly if you wasn't that hard to predict when all the emmys vera crabby and investigative tools and shrinks used over the last few years do you know besides have anything left up their sleeves to try to defile that home and with well i i think all the arguments all the accusations all the turret that could have. presented them poor against each other during this election scheduled as or has already been made already do not exclude that as something other colder months some other issues asians can. emerge. to tell the truth i don't think that that will be fundamentally decisive of course one o

with claims of russian interference can't get any dirtier while to discuss that i'm now joined by dimitri simes deputy head of the center for comprehensive european and international studies at the high. school of economics in moscow may say it's good to see your again thank you very much for taking time to talk to us thank you it's my pleasure hello now the last time we talked you predicted that the 2020 campaign is probably going to be the dirtiest campaign in american history reach to be frank with you wasn't that hard to predict when all the emmys vera crabby and investigative tools and shrinks used over the last few years do you know besides have anything left up their sleeves to try to defile their home and with well i think all the arguments all the accusations all the dirt that could have. presented them poor against each other during this election scheduled as or has already been made already do not exclude that as something other colder months some other issues asians can. emerge. to tell the truth i don't think that that will be fundamentally decisive of course one of the uniqu

some yelling in budapest he's an author and a you tuber at the gaggle and here in moscow we have dimitri bobbitt she is a political analyst and an editor at interest me internet media project right gentlemen crossed out roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate it ok i was going to put it past that george we have a supplier we've heard that there are some violations but at this point as we're speaking right now it is still holding and i've been looking at a lot of the reporting this is only a tiny baby step i mean this issue is not going to be resolved that hasn't been resolved for 30 years and i'll be really honest with you i don't see a resolution coming into play what is most important and with these negotiations in moscow with the leadership of armenia and azerbaijan is this at least the 1st step of stop the killing where do we stand george go ahead. i agree that that's a very important 1st step violations of cease fire in the media hours after. the announce of the cease fire that's to be expected on this in any conflict the real question is whe

usual with claims of russian interference can't get any dirtier while to discuss an analogy i invite dimitri simes left deputy head of the center for comprehensive european and international studies of the heart of economics in the ministry it's good to see your again thank you very much for taking time to start out thank you it's my pleasure. now and the last time we talked you predicted that the 2020 contained is probably. going to be the dirtiest campaign in american history reached to be frank with you wasn't that hard to predict given all the vera craddick and investigative tools and shrinks used over the last few years d.c. on the side have anything left up their sleeves to try to defile their opponent with well i think all the arguments all the accusations all the dirt that could have been through.

detailed documentation to lynn it would seem though from the comments coming from kremlin spokesperson dimitri best golf that that information is still yet to make it to moscow to come in you know we do possess their findings of the moment it needs time for such information to be delivered through our diplomatic channels. or germany is said something has to be done following this information coming this detailed packets of information being passed from the o.p.c. w to berlin they've called on russia to provide explanations as to what happened to alexei and of the stefan the german government spokesperson saying that a chemical weapon cannot be used without there being serious consequences. the german government renews its calls on russia to explain what happened in the coming days there will be a frank exchange between the executive council of the o.p.c. w. and the circle of e.u. partners about the next steps any use of chemical weapons is extremely serious and can not come without consequences. law monday the o.p.c. w. it said that it would share information relating to the in the valley case

claims of rational interference in getting any different here well to discuss that i'm now joined by dimitris those left deputy had the central part called perhaps if european and international studies at the higher school of economics in moscow may say it's good to see your again thank you very much for taking time to talk to us thank you it's my pleasure hello now the last time we talked you predicted that the 2020 campaign is probably going to be the dirtiest campaign in american history reached to be frank with you wasn't that hard to predict you will leave your a crabby and investigative tools and shrinks used over the last few years g.c. on the side have anything left up their sleeves to try to defile their opponent with well i think all the arguments all the accusations all the dirt that could have been presumed to poor against each other during these elections because the reservation is already being made already do not exclude that as something other colder months some other issues asians can. emerge. to tell the truth i don't think that that will be fundamentally decisive of course

the speaker of the parliament dimitri series has resigned in the wake of the cash for citizenship scandal now as their investigation found senior politicians were willing to sell separate hospitals to convicted criminals and scheme was run to attract financial investment in exchange for citizenship the government has abolished the program now from nic i can see he has david harrison. who's been another dramatic development in cyprus where the speaker of parliament demitra serious has announced his resignation now as the senators have been hanging on for a couple of days but we seem protests outside parliament on 2 successive nights and his name is the one they were calling for to resign was a serious did not admit any wrongdoing he still maintains his innocence but he was a key figure in al jazeera a documentary which revealed him to be agreeing to help a chinese criminal obtain an e.u. pos port the last couple of days and also seen him being something of an object of ridicule with mean showing him holding now a notorious glass of red wine and winking at the camera there's a saloon wrist

alexei enough sais he plans to sue the kremlin spokesman for accusing him of working with the cia dimitri pesky often a dot bombshell claim after not only gave an interview to a german media accusing lot amir putin of poisoning him r.t. peter all of our reports from berlin. alexina valmy used this interview to the german news magazine beagle to thank the german people and in particular angle america for the help each received german chancellor visited mist in the valley secretly while he was in the shot at a hospital here in berlin in the interview mist in the valley pulls no punches about who he thinks is behind his alleged poisoning he points that finger of blame firmly at russia and directly at president vladimir putin the kremlin has responded to this kremlin spokes person dmitri peskov saying the claims made against me if britain against russia were unacceptable and also accused foreign intelligence services of working with mr novell me i claim that putin is behind the crime and i have no alternative versions of what happened i don't say that to flatter myself but on the basis of fac

he filed a report about them with cypresses and money laundering unix system at a press conference dimitri solis said he knew all along that our undercover reporters were criminals who are not is and supported the report made by protect his fil reste al jazeera. for more on this investigation watch the cyprus papers under cover at 20 g.m.t. today. and of course when you can catch up any time with all the news were reporting on on our website the gist of that is al jazeera dot com and you walk watch us live packing on the orange line i can out of here it up com. my. arm out of the top stories on our 0 a divided u.s. senate has begun confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee amy kearney barrett just 3 weeks before the presidential election democrats say the 4 day hearings are being rushed barrett's confirmation would increase the conservative majority in the supreme court she says laws should be interpreted as they are written.

european union called for talks and would wanted to see a process through which problems in this dimitry and would be resolved for a few days after that it took a step in relation to the fence if you're russia and it is moving towards opening that which is contrary to the united nations security council resolutions only known from our perspective we see that turkey to the region is powered in or took on himself does not conceal this fact he has repeatedly the clear that he would like to see the trigger was done. revised in relation to cyprus he does not in or he has stated many times that he considered that he does not recognize that public of cyprus and its right to accept it to exist yet when it comes to these the many 20 and it invokes. part of the 960 agreements to demand to explain or write serve for turkey in the turkish cypriots while at the same time for getting up legations i think at this point i think at this point time. there is certainly what i would see a lot of suspicion. mistrust in the claim it does not it's not positive i understand on the other hand the major powers in

speaker over a contentious cash for passport scheme during an on the cover al-jazeera investigation dimitris disappeared to offer a passport to a convicted criminal syllabuses the light any wrongdoing and this acting president while nicholson this is yet this is in brussels witness continues now on that i have the al-jazeera news hour for you in just under half an hour i hope you'll join me then. the health of humanity is at stake a global pandemic requires a global response. w.h.o. is the guardian of global health delivering life saving tools supplies and training to help the world's most vulnerable people uniting across borders to speed up the development of test treatments and of that seed keeping you up to date with what's happening on the ground in the ward and in the lab now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthier world for you. to everyone. i mean the one. thing that's really. high one of. our i'm good and you're one that's something that's ok i think it will be ok with you just from atlanta and just from distance from her on the show we do other things for if. there

it was interesting that today there was a meeting of a parliamentary committee to be chaired by dimitrisso we're is the speaker of parliament who stepped down from his duties from next monday interesting enough all the m.p.'s and this is across party committee all m.p.'s including m.p.'s from his own ruling party refused to join the meeting that saloon was chairing i think that tells you something about the shift that's happening in cyprus david welcome to you in the team and thank you for that live report david harrison is from the al-jazeera investigative units. in the news ahead we'll look at greece where a court is handed down long sentences for leaders of the far right golden dawn party which is convicted of running a criminal gang. member in nigeria as well where protests against police brutality are going on for a 7th day in a row. hello welcome to another look at the international forecast just look in little italy cool side the chilly side full wrap parts of the middle east over the next couple days i k it's all relative but we'll see temperatures here in doha for example at aro

he filed a report about them with cypresses and money laundering unix system at a press conference dimitri silurians said he knew all along that our undercover reporters were criminals watchers you know who are not is and supported the report made by protectionists was phil reese al jazeera. thousands of volunteers are helping firefighters in tanzania to contain a blaze on the continent's highest mountain official say the fire on mount kilimanjaro started arresting bass hikers strong winds found the fire but have since died down no injuries or deaths have been reported. researchers on the world's biggest mission to the north pole say they have proof of a dying arctic ocean an ice breaker carrying $300.00 scientists on a year long trip to study the region has returned to its home port in germany the mission's leader says they witnessed global warming when they walked on thin and brittle ice in the north pole they warn if the trend continues they'll be ice free summers and they are safe within the next few decades. the headlines here u.s. president donald trump has resumed campaigning after

coalition the speaker of the cypriot parliament dimitris syria lewis is resigning in the wake of a cash for passport scandal now does the investigation found senior politicians who were willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the government has now abolished the program. the european union and the u.k. of impose sanctions on 6 russian officials close to president vladimir putin in response to the poisoning of russian opposition the that actually never ending the kremlin is promising retaliatory measures in the van these are recovering in berlin after being poisoned in siberia in august moscow has denied any responsibility. israel has approved the construction of thousands more illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank that brings the total number of homes approved to almost 5000 for the past 2 days the palestinian leadership has condemned the move it's the 1st time jewish settler homes have been authorized since israel suspended plans to an indian land as part of a deal with the united arab emirates hundreds of anti-government protesters out on the streets of bang

dimitri holds the 2nd highest office of state in cyprus billy tells him about the applicant. true disappears the mood there was a lot of people on the cumberland across just off stage so she was over the ocean she was really up well clerks are in china you know so you got some cheap to buy the clothes i want to straighten this out just so she wanted what could be a career to home home here how can you bother me and see couples who can you're going to do something it's like yes we'll want to work in the not much as you think so if we are having a good piece of the rest of my single life that i don't have i don't follow the crowd speed sometimes i want to share his family you could have. gotten the better of it now it's a selfless service with a new classroom with you know like a. for you it's not a civil disobedience but the films luckily school buses and you know that's commuting just to help you get you just for there and have fun and situations i got to push the standards casein you poor father or my father like i don't really know what happened as he considers the options

dimitri holds the 2nd highest office of state in cyprus billy tells him about the applicant. true disappears the mood there was a lot of people in the complex approaching stop stage so she was over the ocean she was really up well clerks are in china you know so you got some cheap to buy the clothes i want to straighten this out just so she wanted what could be a career to home home here how can you have to bother spending 6 couldn't sleep in your city going to do summer it's like yes we'll want to work in the not much as you think so if we are having a good piece of the rest of my single life i don't think i'm full of pride skin sometimes i want to share his family you could have. gotten the other again well it's a selfless service with a new classroom with you know like a. for you it's not a civil disobedience but the film's luckily school buses. that community. to help you get interested in their. own situations i got them to push the standards seen your poor father or mother like the original child as he considers the options the president of the cypriot parliament office

cypriot harlem and has resigned in the wake of a cash for passports scandal exposed by al jazeera dimitris stood down after our investigation found senior politicians were willing to sell e.u. citizenship to convicted criminals those are the top stories and fair game continues next i'll have the news hour for you now under half an hour see that. the election of the 45th president of the united states raised ethical and potentially legal questions. the possibility to undermine basic democratic principles has significantly increased. there will be no lies we will honor the american people with it truth and nothing else. the headquarters of a firm little known to the general public called s.c.l. group strategic communication laboratories is located in the heart of london. in these offices of data scientists compiled and analyzed terabytes of personal information. their objective was to determine what motivates human behavior in order to influence a. they specialize in psyops. which is. a military term psychological operations it's a whole discipline it's an academic subject it can be used in

he filed a report about them with cypresses and money laundering unix system at a press conference dimitri salukis said he knew all along that our undercover reporters were criminals who are not is unsupported the report made by potential was still recent al jazeera. says for more on this investigation you can watch a cyprus papers under cover at 20100 hours g.m.t. later today. foreign ministers say they're ready to sanction by the russian president alexander lukashenko you are already saying 40 other brother russian officials to step up pressure against the violent crackdown on protesters the move comes after lucas sankoh held unexpected talks with jailed opposition activists to discuss constitutional reform meanwhile the by the russian interior ministry has told police they can use lethal weapons against protesters on sunday more than 700 people were arrested as they rallied against lucas sankoh for a 9th consecutive day but the roof has been rocked by months off and rest following a disputed election in august. britain's prime minister says he won't impose another full coronavirus lockd

as for you some other news now the speaker of the cyprus parliament dimitris c lewis has resigned in the wake of a cash for passports scandal and i'll just hear investigation find senior politicians who were willing to sell cypriot passports can fix it criminals the scheme was run to attract financial investment into the country in exchange for citizenship for the government has no abolished that program let's cross live there it's in there to see where we can join david harrison i beg your pardon david harrison has filed an update from the casino with. yes well there's been another dramatic development in cyprus where the speaker of parliament demitra serious has announced his resignation now as the senators have been hanging on for a couple of days but we've seen protests outside parliament on 2 successive nights and his name is the one they were calling for to resign was a serious did not admit any wrongdoing he still maintains his innocence but he was a key figure in al jazeera a documentary which revealed him to be agreeing to help a chinese criminal obtain an e.u. passport the

he filed a report about them with cypresses and money laundering unix system at a press conference dimitri solis said he knew all along that our undercover reporters were criminals who are not is and supported the report made by potential filreis al jazeera. as well as bring in our investigative reporter david harrison and he joins us on the line from nicosia david the cypriot government since i was denied any wrongdoing in with this scheme so what we said are they given for suspending it. actually didn't hear that i'm just saying that the cypriot governments what reason do they given for suspending their scheme. yes well the reason given they gave me is being told by a pi controller see the phrase they use is so the decision was based on what they call a long standing weaknesses and abuse of the of the provisions of the scheme this is the scheme has come under fire in the european union and of course you have the revelations the cyprus papers in august and this on the cover documentaries exposé is the coup de gras for the system i think they realize the evidence is very very compelling an

and the speaker of the cyprus parliament dimitris salukis has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal and al-jazeera investigation found senior politicians who were willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the scheme was run to attract financial investments in exchange for e.u. citizenship the government has now abolished the program for more on this let's bring in david harrison and nicosia david of course you were parts of that investigative team that led to that expos sabir seen a dramatic fall from grace for the parliamentary speaker is he said any more about his decision to stand down. yes you know how is it. you said that he was stepping down not just as the speaker of parliament but also as an m.p. it's a complete step down he had been hanging on the claim that in his statement that the reason you hadn't resigned because you thought it would be taken out of that mission of guilt. no wrongdoing is now turning to his mind that he's decided that because people are exploiting the taking political advantage of him hanging on him . because he feels he be misun

exactly according to our research we found that specific networks with dimitri the company zani have been supporting these groups and we've also seen that some of the support which channel through the head of the military in the province of north kivu in eastern congo so we're talking about. we naming a few offices that i'll pray to that and we naming specific regiments that went to gloried in the syria and all the involved in military operations over the last few years against a number of on groups east using the domes and d.c. awful cities. as a force on the frontline against. groups and what sort of abuses have you on covered what it comes to sort of the impact this is having on civilians. you don't and has been responsible for the camp ness of using the as we talking about said dozens of killings are we talking about countless rights and acts of sexual violence we've got even in cases of sexual slavery we're talking about severe of the teams i'm told. we're talking about the recruitment of china so if this is so many abuses carried out this. group actually controlled. the biggest

yes in fact we had a press conference given by the president of parliament dimitris so this who features in our investigation he decided to attack the messenger claiming that al-jazeera had an interest in doing down cyprus on costing it in a bad light exposing lax regulations and lax laws and he said that he hints that there was another agenda a wider agenda he also said that at the meeting with the on the problem reports on the preston for details of his name and his background and if this doesn't tally with that with the material that we have. he also said it was in his interest to he wants to protect cypresses interests he claimed that the timing of all our report the response documentary was significant which was seen as a veiled reference to a link with turkey when in fact what mr sillars doesn't know is that cyprus wasn't even on our radar when we began this investigation the investigation began in the u.k. and is only when a former british police officer told us that he had contacts in cyprus you could get an e.u. passport for a criminal from china that we went to cyprus that was

he filed a report about them with cypresses and money laundering unix system at a press conference dimitri soloists said he knew all along that our undercover reporters were criminals who were not easy and supported the report made by protect his fil reste al-jazeera. still to come on out of there there's news out. we are not what whatsapp reap the election. and opposition leader explains why he fears this month's poll won't be free and fair. the loop or. it will all. e.u. foreign ministers have agreed to impose sanctions against by the russian president alexander knew. the e.u. already sanctioned 40 other than the russian officials to step up pressure against the violent crackdown on protesters the move comes after shanker held unexpected talks with jailed opposition activists to discuss constitutional reform and a rooster has been rocked by months of on rest on a disputed presidential election in august. well those protests have continued in minsk for the 10th day with pension as the latest targets are brought police demonstration was against mass detentions at another protest on sunday

cypriot parliament has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal exposed by al jazeera dimitri said laura says the parcher comes after our investigation found senior politicians were willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the scheme was run to attract financial investment in exchange for citizenship the government now abolished the program in the wake of the reporting allows there is david harrison is an eco sienna has more now on the political fallout yes well there's been another dramatic development in cyprus where the speaker of parliament demitra serious has announced his resignation now as the suitors have been hanging on for a couple of days but we've seen protests outside parliament on 2 successive nights on his name was the one they were calling for to resign was a serious did not admit any wrongdoing he still maintains his innocence but he was a key figure in al jazeera a documentary which revealed him to be agreeing to help a chinese criminal obtain an e.u. pos course the last couple of days and also seen him being something of an object of ridicule