To the uns highest human rights body. And amid warnings of more weather disasters every year but talk to a scientist whos just returned from the arctic with a wealth of data that will help predict Climate Change in the decades ahead. I will begin in cyprus where the government has scrapped its lucrative passports for Investment Scheme following an aljazeera expose the president of the parliament is also stepping down our Investigative Unit found senior politicians willing to help a foreign criminal by a cypriot passport and access to e. U. Citizenship are Investigative Reporter David Harrison reports from nicosia. An emergency meeting of the cypriot cabinet was held at the president ial palace following the release of the aljazeera investigation. Of the some. Bar on bush program. But if you go to the ball room. As a flurry of developments followed the cyprus attorney general said he was launching a full investigation into the evidence gathered by aljazeera. What has been published in t
Supreme Court Nominee is being questioned on the 2nd day of her come from ation hearing in washington d. C. Amy kearney barras has been facing inquiries on major issues including abortion from a panel of senate is u. S. Vice president ial candidate come on horaces one of the senate is questioning the supreme Court Nominee she focused on the issue of health care a Democratic Campaign is basically opposed to an appointment before novembers election. Cyprus has suspended a lucrative program granting citizenship in turn for investments often aljazeera expose and theyve been protests outside the Cypriot Parliament against government corruption. Well crowds shouted cyprus is not yours to sell and demanded a more just state as also outrage on social media with many calling for resignations the Golden Passport Program has netted billions of euros over several years an independent committee has been set up to investigate thousands of applications that were made since 2007. Saudi arabia has fail
A probe into possible criminal offenses after the revelations. Donald trumps nominee for the u. S. Supreme court has faced questions on healthcare and abortion from a panel of senators Amy Kearney Barrett is appearing for the 2nd of 4 days of confirmation hearings in washington d. C. She said the president had not sought her views on any case challenging the result of next months election democrats have criticized the unusual speed of the hearings with time running out before the poll yet even a number of questions from republican senators who have talked about her background talked about her family the fact that she has 2 adopted children this is a family of 7. And also i think theyve tried to drill down on what she thinks about key issues democrats have tried that particularly on issues that are really cultural touchstones here in the United States that could well come before the court in the next few months youre talking about it would make months next few years youre talking about
Supreme court has faced questions on health care and abortion from a panel of senators Amy Kearney Barrett is appearing for the 2nd of 4 days of confirmation hearings in washington d. C. She said the president had not sort of views on any case challenging the result of next months election democrats who criticize the unusual speed of the hearings with time running out before the poll would you commit to reach you shall put them in a dispute the rises our quarterly president ial election. Senator leahy i want to begin by making 2 very important points and they have to do with the a. C. S. And with any election dispute that may or may not arise. I have had no conversation with the president or any of his staff on how i might rule in that case it would be a gross violation of Judicial Independence for me to make any such commitment or for me to be asked about that case and how i would rule and i also think it would be a complete violation of the end of the judiciary for anyone to put a ju
Thank you for being here today welcome to the staged Vice President for clientt heidi sommer. Good afternoon everyone. I name is ryan i am coauthor and host of politico playbook deep dive podcast. In addition to this being a public conversation for you all this is our first alive taping of the deep dive podcast. Thank you for joining us for that. If you want to know more about that podcast there is a qr code in your program so please check that out. Welcome, thank you for doing this. Clicks thank you for having me. Will set the stage for our conversation. We are headed into a rematch between former President Trump and president joe biden. The politics of healthcare will campaign. Whoever wins this election healthcare policy will surely be central to the next white house. You are President Trumps campaign mager. House and you are in charge of somecy aspects of healthcare policy. The enormous amount of work in this political cycle on healthcare strategizing politics. Cannot think of a be