A willingness to aids convicted criminals to tain e. U. Citizenship our Investigative Reporter David Harrison has more now from the casea what theyre saying they said it was the current scheme is being abolished now that of course doesnt mean that may or may not be reborn in another fall that we have to see a wait and see what we do know is that they do have some previous to that in the separate government of weakening and tweaking the treatment to make it stronger tougher to get the regulations only to soften them later so that is really one of the future obviously well be watching that very closely as well as people who have been venting their fury on social media at the corruption that we exposed. The 2nd day of the confirmation hearing for a new u. S. Supreme Court Justice is underway in washington democrats are trying to delay the republican push to get any kone baratz confirms before election day in 3 weeks time. U. S. President donald trump is back with the crowds trying to fire
Supreme Court Nominee i meet tony barrett faces some tough questions from democrats on day 2 of her confirmation hearing the netherlands hits a new record to run a virus cases more than 7000. 00 in a day the Prime Minister is due to speak in the next few hours and an indian Jewelry Company pulls an ad that caused outrage because it shows interfaith marriage. Montana how much now have all the sports. Portugal an event is football star christiane or noddle becomes the latest high profile athlete to test positive for coronavirus. So we begin with the undercover al jazeera investigation which has led cyprus to suspend its controversial citizenship for Investment Program the attorney general is also. To probe into possible criminal offenses following the revelations back in august down to serious Investigative Unit released the cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the citizen by Investment Program expose high ranking officials expressing a willingness to help convicted criminals ob
Think in my opinion is really one of the most important stories of our time. Is not been well told until now. Were going to talk about that today. I got to know carter page professionally as an Investigative Reporter covering story i really was blown away by the facts and when you cover stories where household interest in trying to take them and youre not giving the true picture. We will talk about all of that today. Carter, can we start with you giving little brief background of your education, where you went to school and just very briefly, your job experience and career. Yes thank you so much for doing this today and its great to be with you. So i grew up in Dutchess County new york. If i received the nomination for the u. S. Naval academy. I started of the week after i graduated high school. That was in 1989. So i completed annapolis and was then commissioned in the u. S. Navy and served in the u. S. Na navy. First is an armscontrol officer doing International Arms control negotiat
Course and called on congress to approve a series of Coronavirus Relief measures. The news came in two tweets. The president wrote, the house and senate should immediately approve 25 billion for Airline Payroll support and 1. 35 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program for Small Businesses. The president also wrote, if i am sent to a standalone bill for stimulus checks, 1200, they will go out to our great people immediately. The president s earlier message to hold talks until after the election spooked wall street. The dow ended the day down 375 points. Nasdaq lost 177 and the s p fell to seven. A change in dialogue tonight, what comes next . Reporter it was just this afternoon that the president had sent the first tweet saying negotiations were off until after his reelection. Tonight he did an aboutface and basically said that he is calling on congress to send him a relief bill. President trump turned to his messaging app on tuesday tweeting out his call for congress to pass federa
A new record coronavirus cases more than 7000 in a day and the Prime Minister is due to address the nation and an indian Jewelry Company pulls an ad that caused outrage because it shows interfaith marriage. So we begin with that undercover aljazeera investigation which now has led to cyprus suspending its controversial citizenship for Investment Program the attorney general has also announced a probe into possible criminal offenses following the revelations it goes back to august when aljazeera is Investigative Unit released the cyprus papers that revealed serious flaws in the citizen by Investment Program exposing high ranking officials who were willing to help convicted criminals obtain e. U. Citizenship more now from our Investigative Reporter David Harrison who is in nicosia. Weve had 3 announcements one the abolition of the Investment Program under which people could buy passports if they paid a certain amount of money in which our investigation revealed evidence of that was big b