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Extreme weather warning the u. N. Says the number of climate related natural disasters has doubled in 20 years and cost the world trillions of dollars. And then school of the bron james and the l. A. Lakers back on top of the boss cable world the lakers have ended their 10 year wait to win the n. B. A. Championship. Hello a divided u. S. Senate is pressing ahead with confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee any kone barretts just 3 weeks from the president ial election so republicans are trying to rapidly confirm her and expand the courts conservative majority the Supreme Court positions are Lifetime Appointments so judges are expected to serve for decades as the 1st hearing gets underway protesters both for and against barretts confirmation have been chanting outside the court in the pouring rain now the seat became vacant of course after the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg her dying wish was for her replacements to be chosen after the president ial election Lindsey Graham is the republican chair of the Senate Judiciary committee and he defended the timing of barretts nomination though the Republican Majority Senate 4 years ago refused to consider Barack Obamas nominee in a similar situation in an Election Year. What will happen is that my democratic colleagues will say this is never been done in their right in this regard nobodys i think theyre being confirmed in Election Year past july the bottom line is Justice Ginsberg when asked about this several years ago said that a present serves 4 years not 3 theres nothing unconstitutional about this process this is a vacancy this tragic loss of a great woman and were going to feel that they could see with another great woman and Dianne Feinstein as the senior most democrat in the Senate Judiciary committee she focused on a macone barretts pos statements and rulings suggesting opposition to the Affordable Care act signed into law by barack obama now the court is set to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the law on november the 10th thats a week after the election the stakes are extraordinarily high for the American People both in the short term and for decades to come most importantly Health Care Coverage for millions of americans is at stake with this nomination so over the course of these hearings my colleagues and i will focus on that subject we will examine the consequence is if and thats a big if republicans succeed in rushing this nomination through the senate before the next president takes office lets get an update from alan fischer his joining us from capitol hill so democrats and republicans making their case as allan just talk us through what weve seen so far what should we be looking out for over the next couple of hours in the next couple of days. Well Lindsey Graham was lamenting the fact that in the past well qualified candidates for the Supreme Court would go through no matter what their Party Affiliations where or where they sat on the political spectrum he said Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed by the full senate by name 36396 votes to 3 and said that even though many republicans realize that her views on some key issues were very much the opposite of that if course referred to the fact that Merrick Garland was nominated by barack obama 4 years ago in the during an Election Year but it was the republicans there and then that said no were not doing this in an Election Year but have pushed through a. Nomination just 16 days since she was formally nominated in that event at on the rose garden of the white house and no it looks as if the vote could well take place before the election 70 thats the plan as far as Lindsey Graham is concerned the democrats well they understand that this vote in the committee could well go along party lines which would be 12 republicans 10 democrats thats if the democrats show up will come in a 2nd but if that is the case it will go through to the full senate no 2 republicans have already said that they wont vote for a nomination in an Election Year and we see the battle lines being drawn as far as the democrats are concerned they understand its unlikely that theyre going to change the opinion of any republicans in the room but what they can do is bring Public Opinion to be the majority of people believe that the Affordable Health care act which protects preexisting conditions should be kept in place the majority also believe that its truly up to the next president to pick who the next Supreme Court justice should be so theyre going to make the case that if you can farm in the Connie Bennett that puts the Affordable Health care act at risk that means preexisting conditions could be at risk and therefore theyre hoping people will call the republican senators and say hold on a 2nd i dont want you casting a vote here if you do that youll lose my vote the. I realize they cant change the view in the room but theyre hoping that Public Opinion side may well convince 2 republican senators to flip if they can do that then they can delay this nomination at least until after the election heres the thing though allan just to pick up on some of what youve been saying democrats have said that they will stay away from the Committee Vote next week so can that then stop the nomination from actually taking place. Interesting point because its also been raised by a couple of people on twitter with me just in the last couple of hours so hear how this works the committee 12 to 10 republicans democrats they can vote and the the the rules of the senate say that there has to be a majority of the senators in the room to vote no senate rules dont always have to be in force but there has to be a majority voting to push it through so 1210 would be enough that means all 12 republican senators have actually got to be in the room when the vote is held and that will be on thursday theres a problem there because 2 of them were reported to have covered mike lee is but in the Senate Chamber in the Committee Room in the morning the couple of others have been appearing remotely they say their intention is definitely to be the when they have the vote thom tillis hes a republican as well he was self isolating he says he too will be in the room and thursday essentially the republicans are issuing a call to arms for all republicans on this committee to be there cast their vote and make sure that there are 12 votes a majority vote which pushes it on to the main senate then the senate will consider it and thats where the public the democrats might start doing things like filibustering issuing points of order trying to delay this as much as possible but the reality is that this nomination is almost certainly going to emerge from committee on thursday and head to the full senate for a vote then we Start Talking about separate tactics ok alan thank you very much for the time being. Russias foreign minister has indicated that turkey will not be involved in peace talks over the disputed region of nagornokarabakh the Foreign Ministers of armenia and russia have been meeting in moscow as a base un has proposed its ally turkey be involved in discussions but russias survey lavrov says there will be no changes to the format for peace talks over the region there was more fighting throughout sunday nights with both sides accusing each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire. And funerals have been held in the azerbaijani village of some cure for the victims of sundays attacks on ganja at least 9 people were killed and 34. 00 others wounded by shelling carried out in the early hours of the morning hundreds have been killed across the region since fighting flared up at the end of last month buddhist we reached an important agreement on sense today initiated by president putin but we see that this agreement is not being fully complied with and the fighting is continuing we expect that our contacts with you and as a by johnny neighbors including by our defense ministries will ensure full compliance with the agreements that were reached in the trilateral formant. Which since september 27 the full scale aggression against the people of nagornokarabakh has continued meanwhile a military solution is being openly expressed as a solution to the car about conflict as well as the physical extermination of the people of nagornokarabakh the azari armed forces ignored their obligations to not target civilians the absence of military objectives in the area that i was advised on is attacking proves their motives yet again which is equivalent to war crimes Bernard Smith is in goras armenia he explains why armenia as foreign minister is meeting with officials in russia about the conflicts. Hes in moscow for a show jules meeting with a lot of rove and other representatives from the United States and france this is after a meeting last wednesday attended by the azerbaijani foreign minister in geneva so this was shared jule before that the ceasefire came into effect now the armenian Foreign Ministers arab minutes and hes been complaining as he has before of various airy breaches of the ceasefire but lover of the russians foreign minister he has said clearly we spent a lot of time getting this cease fire agreement together but its not being observed he said and military actions continue but as we think our contacts including with the ministries of defense of both sides will allow us to uphold the agreement we have so clearly confident that hes able to exert enough pressure on azerbaijan and armenia to try and fully enforce this cease fire it has been relatively calm in most armenian most villages and towns in the gorno karabakh except for the town of hundreds now we understand that theres been intense fighting going on in have dropped between azerbaijan and armenia and this is because hundreds in northern are gone or karabakh but it is neither side as far as we understand there has about johnnies have not made any major territorial gain after 2 weeks of fighting apart from maybe a couple of small villages had dropped would be a significant significant gain for azerbaijan if it took control of this nagornokarabakh Ethnic Armenian town and sent him cuz who is then gnarly azerbaijan where funerals have been held for the victims of the attacks on the city of ganja. This is a village and its previous name is a lenin village and its close by again jed the reason why im here and the reason why im standing in front of a graveyard is that the witch dims who were killed. After the attack after a missile hit again just at the center yesterday they were buried right behind me a couple almost half an hour ago it was very crowded here people left already. When you look at the civilians of course the atmosphere is not so bright because everybody is full of emotions almost most of the rage on citizens are angry and they are mourning for their people who lost their lives whether they know these people or not for instance those 2 poor people who were very were a couple they saved their children but they couldnt save their lives so emotions are through the pain that they have been suffering not for the last couple of weeks but for all 30 years when you look at diplomacy when you look at whats being told in baku of course there are talks on the way it has been relatively quiet in terms of official statements so far and we are waiting to see whether azerbaijan foreign minister will also be attending a meeting in moscow today there is no official statement for that now but a group of diplomats present that is all Foreign Diplomatic Missions and back you are invited to ganja and mingus having a sense is that was also hit. The other night came to the scene. In the underdogs proceeds of the deputies and they were given information about the situation and some more had on the aljazeera news hour including the chinese city of qingdao was put to the test why all lined 1000000 residents have been given just 5 days to check for covert 19 posts here was accusing tanzanias president of behaving like a dictator and sports news back. In familiar hands where there were roughly on and off the say about his latest grand slam success. But 1st an undercover investigation by aljazeera has exposed high ranking officials in cyprus expressing a willingness to aid convicted criminals obtain a us citizenship in august the Investigative Unit released the cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the countrys citizen by Investment Program and now as phil reese reports the investigation leads to the highest offices of the separate states the cyprus Investment Program allows foreigners to buy a european passport for an investment mostly made in property of 2 and a half 1000000. 00 the government insists that applicants need a clean criminal record the holder of a cypriot passport has the right to live and work across the e. U. Our undercover reporters went to cyprus to represent a fictional client who has fled china mr x. Is a wealthy businessman who was sentenced in absentia to 7 years in jail for bribery and Money Laundering and he is seeking a cypriot passport property agents denise and tony kate help those investing in property to get cypriot passports our undercover reporters tell them about how a proposed applicant. Has gone and charged him for robbery and. Where there are problems it costs more money to achieve these things so what we will do is find out who has to be spoken to be paid what states the base thats really what i think the case a part of a network of enable is that include lawyer and race protection is a sound business opportunities. When youre a legal proceeding to go to the beach. Describes a 2 track application system the official route and another for difficult cases that requires more money but they can still get a philosopher to know what insane option. Goes over them you already. See if you want to do that and. Then look at cities in any book in the regulation or even our news and we want. To ask questions asked. Why. How high. The higher limits. Our undercover reporters meet Property Developers and politicians who repeat the same message. Have people take us for a while on. Our undercover reporters are finally invited to discuss mr x. s passport application with the president of the Cypriot Parliament you can tell it. Without permission maybe were here for support. I dont know what he did early closure. Q so theyre going to. Have to prepare its. When confronted with the evidence all of those involved deny any wrongdoing and they claim they were aware from the onset but our undercover reporters represented a criminal after our team left because you said he filed a report about them with cypresses and the Money Laundering unit. Phil reese. Lets now bring in David Harrison he is joining us to negotiate because david we understand now there has been reaction from officials in cyprus to this investigation. 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 aljazeera 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 doesnt 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 doesnt know is that cyprus wasnt 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 when cyprus came into the equation the other thing that was interesting about mr mr so this is a press conference was that for the 1st time we saw signs of a rift between the people exposed in our investigation the launch she was he attended where you met her on the cover of portos was held at the house of christakis giovanni. An m. P. On the founder of the juve on the Property Development group which has a link to go impossible. Mr. Last why he why he attended the lodge why the undercover reporter was invited to this lunch christakis his house and that is to some of us looked a little uncomfortable. On the defensive and almost snapped and said well you have to give only about us the right said David Harrison thank you very much for that update from nicosia well for more on this investigation you can watch the cyprus papers under cover at 20100 hours g. M. T. Thats later on today you Foreign Ministers say theyre ready to sanction by the russian president Alexander Lukashenko the e. U. Are ready sanctions 40 other by the russian officials to step up pressure against the violent crackdown on protesters the move comes after the sankoh held unexpected talks with jailed opposition activists to discuss constitutional reform meanwhile the by the Russian Interior Ministry have reportedly told police they can use lethal weapons against protesters on sunday more than 700 people or arrested as they rallied against the shank over a 9th consecutive day about the rhesus been rocked by months of unrest following a disputed election in august. The british Prime Minister says he wont impose another coronavirus law down but as almost 14000. 00 new daily infections were reported Boris Johnson warned that the weeks and months ahead will be difficult day 3 or 33. 00 tier system of local lockdown measures in england including a ban on some households make mixing indoors emergency hospitals have been put on standby in cities with high infection rates. There are those who say that on that logic we should go back into a full National Lockdown of indefinite duration the closing schools and businesses telling people again to stay home as we did in march once again shattering our lives and our society i do not believe that would be the right cause we would not only be depriving our children of their education we would do such damage to our economy as to erode our long term ability to fund the n. H. S. And other crucial Public Services are brought in and joining us from london so how is the Prime Ministers message received all. With a very mixed reception to be honest the Opposition Labor Party leader. Questioned whether the government had actually lost its grip on this coronavirus pandemic in the u. K. Saying that the Prime Minister appeared to be behind the curve and i have say that even some of the Prime Ministers own party his conservative members of parliament were very mixed in their response there are some who prefer a laissez faire kind of approach hands off let people take responsibility for their own actions and there are others even within the conservative party who prefer a much more interventionist approach that said most of the areas that have been impacted by this are Traditional Labor Party areas in particular liverpool which is the one area which has been put in in this top tier this very high tier its here 3 where they essentially base basically is no social mixing indoors or outdoors pubs bars gyms Leisure Centers casinos and betting shops will all be closed restaurants can stay open but only until 10 pm some confusion is whether pubs that serve food will be able to escape the closure order. And that is also banks i have to say about the level of compensation thats being offered many of the pubs and premises and businesses in these areas that are being forced to close are saying that the 2 thirds of salary which is being offered by the government as a compensation for those who are having to be laid off by these closures simply doesnt cover as weve heard from the metropolitan mare and from the regional mass of manchester newcastle and sheffield for example saying people dont have the option of just paying 2 thirds of their rent or 2 thirds of their mortgage or 2 thirds of their bills therefore why should 2 thirds of their salary be seen as an adequate recompense for the government shutting down their business compulsorily d compulsory so theres a lot of wrangling to go on. The government has sorry Boris Johnson set out his pitch to parliament hell try and sell it to the country when he makes a statement a televised press conference to the public tonight all right well thank you for the time being thanks very much. Frances Prime Minister is warning stricter a code 1000 restrictions could be imposed the Health Ministry reports around 43000 infection over the weekend 9 cities including paris i must say have been placed on maximum virus alerts Health Care Workers in china have been told to test all 9000000 residents of an entire city in just 5 days the coastal city of qingdao reported a dozen cases linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients some areas of the city have already been locked down with testing site staying open from Early Morning until late at night the mass testing follows all 11000000 people in the city where the Global Pandemic started being checked in may and sparrow is an assistant professor of Population Health science and policy at i count school of medicine no apologies we were just about to bring our guests in but weve weve lost the connection with her will try a little bit later right after the break coming up in just a moment on the news hour just into poverty inflation and unemployment are affecting millions in pakistan. Millions of children across africa had back to School Following the coronavirus shutdown in sports news this early and go further than just claimed the biggest win of her career son i will have that story on the later. And i was a quiet times a year in the middle east where this think you bracketing cool has really exercised done so yet theres still a few showers to be built on the western side of the saudi mountains or west and yemen and temperature wise is a bit of variation from the average but not extreme in the. For example is 32 degrees a breeze coming off the warm water the gulf make you feel a bit. Excessively so at this sunday youd expect to see 35 a day and its a little on the cool side but in contrast to iraq and the levant its a bit warmer than it should be now this is all happening of course because the actor was going sags and throughout the rift valley and particularly the congo you see the showers really pep up now we saw yesterday theres still some falling in south sudan and its clearly an easy appear to be a concentration the heavy ones are for the south they are congo is always a place which gets a lot of them and doesnt report the valleys or cant report them back to you but i do know you get daily show as in broome the and rwanda this time of the year the forecast pacifically the kigali has got moderate showers one to 3 months a says day in friday and with temps is not very very much in the average thats what you might expect as the rainy season sets in. Frank assessments if american Public Opinion is betrayed by social media platforms tough to. Be cautious and if you believe that there corrosive to our democracy one obvious solution is to break the law informed opinion. Anyway the protesters arent going anywhere either puts a bullet with a revolution. In depth analysis of the days global headlines who is it thats really out there on the street inside story on aljazeera. Building a wall was the promise made in the bid for the white house 0 tolerance approach the southern border became government policy detaining children and separating families the stark reality of picture too much to bear for Many Americans in a country that was built on immigration. Follow the key issues of the us elections on aljazeera. Hello again the top stories on the aljazeera hour divided u. S. Senate is now charging ahead with confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee barretts republicans are trying to rapidly confirm barrett before novembers election and expand the courts conservative majority russias foreign minister has indicated that turkey will not be involved in talks over the disputed region of care about azerbaijan has proposed. Discussions both sides accusing each other of violating a humanitarian fire. Health care workers in china have been told to test all 1000000 residents of an entire city in just 5 days. Reported a dozen cases linked to one hospital treating coronavirus. Lets bring in Annie Sparrow once again shes an assistant professor of Population Health science and policy at the icann school of medicine at mount sinai hospital shes joining us from geneva thanks for being with us on aljazeera so china has done this before in the city if it does have experience what is your reaction to this testing of 9000000 people. Well it does out of about overkill doesnt it 9000000 when there is only 6 or 12 cases in a hospital and the question is really is that informative because china might show that it can is it functional. And is a way to actually really control this or dates does china have another agenda even which is perhaps to chance this new and however they tested but can take in doing it by their socalled Gold Standard b. T. R. And whether the a repetitious and on the one hand given that it is getting colder and people are getting you know inside more and we know that quote that spreads in indo is imported into many places of complicated living my skin like in the u. K. In if he hunts in the u. S. Its many president s have been conservation crabs anyway that you know crabbing and in the case of the pirates well there is a reason to actually try and get control quite quickly by testing but. It does coming back that gun that isnt really the best approach in the city of 9000000 and what are they going to do when he does this type of testing does this type of testing is it successful in helping to keep the overall infection rate low. Well if you have a lot of Community Transmissions are feeling that beautiful right now or you know in in many parts of the question states doing that it just seems that contagion is an extremely great wway but what you what you really want to do is just for contagion now when you have the disease and not this is what comes from at the moment is that a test was just due to ticks pieces of r. N. A. Up your nose they can be positive for a long time but how you can get contagious that is said well question in the contagious disease in a pandemic you can take is so what you really want is a test which at. During the period of contagiousness and whether china is doing that or not we can tell they have a long history of lying they covered up at the beginning they didnt tell us of course that it was spread by. Instead you know they misled the globe by these particulars may be hand spread and you know that given that. Great sprayed treatment to magically. Transmission happens just before you develop symptoms in men the reason a good reason to use to is to try and put the because these could be cant rely on things that people of course and specially when that minimal in place think they know as the season approaches and certainly the symptoms are completely under differentiated from these common cold costs headaches. Morning sickness pretty much you know those symptoms that can be applied to a very raw grandkid illness its. Us from geneva. An inhabitant for millions of people thats what the planet is becoming due to the lack of action on Climate Change thats according to a strongly worded United Nations report it says in the past 2 decades more than 7000 major natural disasters have been recorded and that figure has nearly doubled in the past 20 years the increases are mostly attributed to floods and storms the u. N. Is accusing political and Business Leaders of willingly sowing the seeds of our own destruction and says industrial nations have failed miserably on reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions researchers on the Biggest Mission to the north pole have also released some of their findings what theyve documented is extensive extensive amounts of sea ice melting away and they predict there will be ice free arctic summers within the next few decades lets bring in Dennis Mclean whos a spokesman for the United Nations office for disaster Risk Reduction who are behind this particular report today hes joining us from geneva thanks for speaking to us so pretty a pretty grim reading i would describe this report as i mean talk us through some of the data that you came up with and what stood out for you. Well the 1st thing is to say that tomorrow is International Day for disaster Risk Reduction and what we are trying to highlight by publishing this report is the need to strengthen disaster risk over nuns so that governments un Member States put in Place National strategies for monitoring risk reducing disaster risk would clear vision and confident agencies to to put these strategies into effect because if we dont the future looks very bleak indeed because over the last 20 years weve recorded over 3000 more extreme weather events that happened in the previous 20 years and of course thats just not sustainable if it continues again for the next 20 years to double. And simply the case member un Member States governments are not delivering on the commitments that they made 5 years ago when they adopted a Framework Agreement to Paris Agreement on climate and to send a framework for disaster Risk Reduction which is designed to reduce disaster losses by 2030 but we do see now around the world that we are liz and debacle to eradicate poverty and to bring down disaster losses right so what then what is your methods to governments on how they can better prepare for the looming disaster as you call them clearly in this report you are pointing the finger of governments. Yes i mean in the long term what we need to do is to see progress on reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions so that we avoid catastrophic Climate Change at the moment were on track for a treat point 2 degree rise in Global Temperatures compared to preindustrial levels at the moment where were at one degree or more. Already c. D. s and the rise in extreme weather events and more than doubled in the last 20 years weve seen a huge increase in the number of storms and were only now beginning to understand the impact of extreme temperatures. And insist that these policies but your own data is showing that suffered the highest number of disasters over the past 20 years and then followed by the americas and then africa. Thats correct asias to most. Parts of the world of course is the most densely populated parts of dora we can see also that asia is also bearing the brunt of the covert 19 pandemic. Asia also has done a very good job in some cool cases of reducing loss of life from disasters i mean i would cite the example of. Where 50 years ago 1000000 people died in the cycle of november 970 recently we had another cycle in a bangladesh of similar magnitude and only 19 people died the difference in those 50 years is that the government has taken action decisively theyve put in place a very effective cycle and Preparedness Program which has significantly reduced the loss of life in the india affected coastal areas because theyve got a very good Early Warning system. Numbers of volunteers disseminating the warnings on the warnings lead to ardea early action people evacuating and. Thats a good model on which to base preparedness and other prepared to spro grahams that need to be put in place to reduce the loss of life life. Floods and storms have been the most frequent disasters over the past 2 decades but looking ahead the warning is that the worst problem is going to be hit waves. Well it will likely be the worst for all of that and certainly be a very significant one because we get were going to get better at measuring as most of the data we have on he is mortality related to as well as comes from western europe and more sophisticated economies but there is no doubt that many many deaths from each was are going on record of the around the world and we need to improve our Data Collection to understand better the d. M. Fact that this is having on the lies of ordinary people especially in low and middle Income Countries but there is no doubt the problem is getting worse. Affective measures have to be put in place to reduce mortality on the other impacts were seeing from heat waves especially when it comes to Food Security that is mclean we thank you very much for speaking to us from. Thank you. Now Amnesty International is accusing the tanzanian government of cracking down on dissent ahead of this months general election the rights group is warning that opposition figures anger on the worst in particular are being targeted the main opposition candidate says he doesnt believe the vote will be free or fair catherine so reports. To lisa says hes worried about his safety while campaigning hes also concerned about the independence of the Electoral Commission that barred him from campaigning for 7 days last week electoral fishel said his conduct while on the campaign trail had been polarized lisa recently returned to tanzania from belgium to run for president he laughed 3 years ago when he was seriously injured after being repeatedly short by an identified gunmen hes told al jazeera he does not believe that the election at the end of the month will be free fair or transparent we are not going to accept stolen elections we are not going to accept every election we call millions of people onto the streets. Democratic action piece action to defend the integrity of the election the fan votes if it comes to that. His main competitor president john paul 2 fully hes also outcome painting attracting thousands of people to these rallies that hes been accused by human rights organizations and the opposition of being a dictator and presiding over a government that is intolerant of dissent and has curtailed rights of expression and the media the president has avoided that debate instead focusing on his record some analysts say hes on the right truck has done very well in the economy front. The projects that we are talking about hes done very well in. The issues of governance especially fighting corruption in all fronts leanest wall but is one of 29000000 tonnes indians registered to vote on the 28th of october he too has been watching Political Developments and hes worried about the possibility of violence at the polls. I want to you know whos not just promising things he has to deliver i like to see a more transparent election previously the results have been take you too long to come out and that increases to ensure yes the more the election draws closer the more aggressive the campaigns have become voters like will put say they just hope to be able to cast their ballots safely catherine soy aljazeera or we did contact the tanzanian government about these allegations but have received no response firefighters in tanzania are struggling to put out a blaze on africas highest mountain official say the fire started of the rusting center for tourists on monk. Located on 2 climbing routes People Living near the mountain joined fire crews as they tried to contain the blaze on sunday night its not known what started the fire by local media says the attitude the altitude excuse me has made it difficult to extinguish it. The Canary Islands have seen the highest number of migrants arrive in 14 years more than 1000 people landed in the Spanish Islands off the coast of west africa over the weekend theyre increasingly taking the more dangerous Atlantic Ocean route to reach europe instead of the mediterranean sea. Because its a car senegal which is a key transit country for west african migrants trying to reach europe. The journey to europe starts here from the shores of west africa its almost a week long boat ride to morocco and for morocco the african continent to the European Union are separated by just 14 kilometers neurontin Border Guards say that theyve seen migrants using jet skis or kayaks to make it to the Canary Islands over the weekend almost a 1000 migrants have made it to the European Union into spain these are not refugees fleeing war but young men are flee economic and political hardship at home many of them algerians or guinea is where theyre said to be a contested election and whilst the European Union has funded countries such as morocco or libya to stem out the flow of migration morocco received almost a 1000000000. 00 since 2014 well that hasnt stopped these young men from taking this dangerous journey you create. Great distress to the. People their ears journey to a person. They can freeze. Abuse its pretty sure and. According to researchers theres a 500 percent increase in migrants coming to the shores of the Canary Islands mostly because of the coronavirus and the Economic Hardship that has come with that construction has stopped investment has faltered. The president of senegal has asked for debt relief to tackle the economic crisis and thats why so many young men are willing to take this dangerous journey for the hope of a better life abroad well millions of students in 12 countries across africa are heading back to class schools reopened following a lockdown thats lasted more than 6 months universities are also expected to open their doors despite their coronavirus outbreak some lecturers are warning they wont be going back to work unless they get a pay rise malcolm webb went to visit a school in the kenyan capital nairobi for schools in kenya reopened for the 1st time in 7 months but with some precautions in place children here have to wash their hands frequently was so. I mean to be wearing. Only 3 groups of resume those that are due to city. Just take a look inside this classroom these primary age children havent been in class since march but childrens rights organizations say this isnt simply about learning so these children come from capirossi its one of nairobis most densely populated and poorest slums and the childrens welfare organizations say if theyre not to school theyre much greater risk of being sent to work all kinds of abuse and during the lockdown 1700000 kenyans have lost their jobs so that means that some children probably wont be coming back to school the school if their parents are no longer to position to afford uniforms lunches and so on now scientists are estimating that can years coronavirus pandemic already peaked in late july and that more than a 3rd of the population has already had it not means well on the way to herd immunity i will say that only one in 5 people who had the virus actually had any symptoms at. Less than 800 people have died here and its not really understood why this is based on very low levels of testing there was a lot of skepticism about the Government Data on the covert 19 response within which corruption scandals allegations of millions of dollars worth of funding being stolen but nonetheless if the scientist data was right it would suggest that kenya is over the worst of the pandemic and more School Children in other groups may be able to resume their education soon. People in pakistan say theyre struggling to afford the basics and thats pushing more people into poverty the coronavirus seen a rise in prices and caused many job losses and reports from islamabad the world bank is warning the next 2 years could be tough. After months of closure because of the coronal why rates are merge and the businesses are now resuming air in pakistan despite warnings from the government there lifting of the emergency judge not mean that their country is out of the war the world bank and also been giving it. About the bleak situation that exists and that you know point 5 percent g. D. P. Growth for budget which youre fortunate delorme pakistan has gone from a Food Insecurity with about 30000000 people who are food insecure to a situation where 26000000 people are Food Insecurity today in a time span from 2004 to 20181 of the challenges of pakistan is every time it makes gains and then there is a setback do you either tool Natural Hazards for example if you look at pakistan in the last 18 months its been hit by drought floods called even the north quick in the north and then locust and then of course so this year we start to see the very close link between Economy Economic growth. Poverty and security awarded banket also warning their very 3rd year in grave around the word already gone or have a impact on the countrys economy something that has become a sort of criticism particularly for the opposition parties who are now blaming the government formation managing the economy their creation and grew large broadcast across the country and out pressure on the government to resign the people are already complaining that the prices of a central commodities have shot up by the prices of groceries like wheat rice sugar and even the vegetables have gone up and sometimes its hard to buy we had hope in him on khans government but unfortunately things have gone from bad to worse than. Inflation and unemployment has made our lives miserable im adding 2. 00 to 3. 00 a day but i cant afford to buy things for my family due to the high cost of daily commodities the government said it is going for a decade will be able to mitigate the effect on the economy the opposition may be hoping to capitalize on the people. Who are fed up with degrading fuel price of essential come order and the cost of living there for the government will be within the next few months to see whether theyre able to deliver on their promise. Given the fact that the country still had many other issues to contend with. Facebook is updating its hate speech policy its a ban any content that denies or distorts the holocausts its the latest move this social media platform has taken against misinformation last week it banned the counselling. To a movement which promotes conspiracy theories against democrats facebooks long been criticized for not cracking down on hate speech and misinformation. This years nobel prize for Economics Sciences goes through to americans paulo graham and Robert Wilson were honored for improving auction theory and inventing new auction formats role Swedish Academy of sciences described the formats as a beautiful example of how basic research can spark inventions that benefit society. 20 up on the news hour in a moment they sports there is a basketball fans in los angeles are celebrating the end of a long wait for a title success details coming up. Hello again time for the sports as with some thank you very much during one of the l. A. Lakers have won the n. B. A. Championship for the 1st time since 2010 the bron james led the team to a full 2 series victory over the miami heat i do its a report. Gets it after its. A white for a title win and 3 months of play inside a bio security bubble the end game had finally arrived for the l. A. Lakers. Bron james leading the team to the championship just as he promised to do when he joined the like has in 2018 for me to be a part of such a historical franchise is that its all believe will feel that not only for myself my teammates one organization but a coach as one of trainers everybody thats here. Which is what i respect thank you very much thanks john james to the miami hated kept the series alive with a win in game 5 but this time outs james and the lakers were on a different level this is a mazy nastily they built up a 28 point hof time lead the 2nd biggest in n. B. A. Finals history but i. Want to show thank you in the 1st cut she would sound like such trauma feel thank you for sharing this season has been about so much more than behavior now again days for all the teams of players is going to talk about Racial Injustice as basketball thanks draw i just think i should like kids have also been dealing with the death of franchise legend kobe bryant this season they said would be played in his memory game 6 finished in a one i 6 to 93 win for the lake has for the 1st time since bryants 5th and final title a decade ago like his all celebrating again tuesday and the 4th championship for james with his 3rd different scene it would be a championship pleasure thank you so much this historic sunday johnny to be a championship was still deciduous like the matter without going to mark roberts this point theres still a little rumblings of doubt or you know compare me to you know the history of a game and. Has he done it has he done it you know so. I mean that im i hate having to. Say to myself why not still have some ive always believed in the broad james. You know hes a greatest hes a great player thats what universe is ever seen and if you think you know you dont know when he was called a. Future coronavirus no funds have been allowed to witness the lakers only it is playoff charge and los angeles is now enjoying its return to the top of the basketball world. And the richardson aljazeera. Is already setting his sights on a record breaking 21st grand slam title and has got his hands on the french open trophy for 13th at a time sundays when that was his 20th major victory and drew him level with the korea set by Roger Federer says 9 year old said there has been out injured for most of the season but a host to be back for next years australian open. After. All the rivalry that we had together amazing to be equal on that great number 20 but we still playing so i hope to. Go on to have brought her back on the door and to keep having would buy those of course i would carry. Will not be going for the next 10 years but lets see whats going on when we finish our careers where we just keep having fun keep enjoying time keep trying hours i would just. Well the man fronting a plan to reduce the size of the English Premier League says the idea is in the best interests of the game and his Football League chairman rick perry believes the project will see more money going to Lower League Teams the american owners of liverpool and Manchester United have come up with a list of possible reforms project big picture as its being called it would see the premier league cut from 20 to 18 clubs 325000000. 00 rescue fund will be given to Lower League Teams that to help them through covert 19 the no divisions that will also receive a quarter of the money from all future t. V. Deals and return the top line clubs that want special Voting Rights in the future at the moment 14 of the premier leagues 20 clubs have to vote in favor of any reforms on the major hurdle of face to a by the backers of the plan is the premier league itself they claim the plan could have a damaging impact on the whole game this is a big close exercising current leadership with responsibility so they will because of the plan that people dont like reductions regime will be controversial but as i said if you know in terms of the totality of looking after the in charge of it we havent seen anything like this for a very very long time its reset its all over the premier league frankly could have done this at any time over the last 25 years. And south koreas kim missy younger has won the 1st major title of her career kims closing round of 63. 00 in pennsylvania gave her a 5 stroke victory at the womens p. G. A. Championship one more major is left to play for on the womens tour this year the u. S. Open is coming up in texas in december. And that says well they will have a mall for you later on but for now i hand you back to derry son i thank you very much well see you later thanks for watching the news hour on aljazeera back in just a moment well cross live to the u. S. Well bring you the latest from the confirmation hearing for any Conan Barrett so coming up in just a moment say that. 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