Worlds highest daily increase in covert 19 infections and an environmental disaster waiting to happen the un suns they alone over a decaying oil tanker off the coast of western yemen. Im joining with the sports as take on paris and your man for the European Champions League title will be live in lisbon ahead of the big game. Another major rallies expected to get underway shortly in the belorussian capital minsk is the opposition pushes for president aleksander on the question because resignation 2 weeks after he claimed victory in a disputed election a defiant lukashenko has ordered the army into full combat readiness and Security Forces have gathered in central minsk this fight violent crackdown demonstrators have been coming out every day. Since the disputed vote on august the 9th full stop boston is live for us in minsk and this is really been the question all the way through these protests 1000 as to what is the military going to do. Absolutely and this is the 1st time that we actually see signs of military trucks right in the center of minsk parked here behind me at the opposite side of the Independence Square carrying soldiers its not clear how many of them are here but what we do know is that yesterday has announced that he will solve the problem as he mentioned as he called it in the next few days a lot of people of course are worried for another crackdown on the same we saw just after the Election Results was announced and claimed that he had won 80 percent of the vote that it was the riot police who cracked down on the protests but also on random people on the street 7000 people were detained at the time since then police have been merely absent from the street and also know where soldiers were seen last week we had a large rally here of more than 200000 people very peaceful no police at all only some Traffic Police well this is a very different atmosphere today here in minsk just one hour before this rally is supposed to start whilst the rally is gearing up are also hearing that there are efforts being made in other countries outside the border as well apparently in lithuania theres a human chain being formed to the border or by the wrist talk to us about that. Exactly there are plans for a long time such kilometer long human chain from philly is the capital of way now to the border of balad and also the opposition candidate who has claimed that she has won the elections instead of the president. Will be part of this change as as i believe the president of lithuania as well and high ranking officials well this is definitely something that i hear has been really annoyed about he has of course for the last week increased his rhetoric that Foreign Forces are provoking the protests here in the belarus that its not an internal problem but a next problem he showed up at the western border yesterday wearing military clothes also saying that there are nato troop movements so basically all creating some kind of war atmosphere at the border but now he has created the same war kind of atmosphere here right in the middle of minsk so i think you very much indeed i know as the protests get underway we are going to be coming back to you before 9 funds for much the votes and in minsk for us on august your investigation can reveal cyprus has been sending european passports to convicted criminals fugitives and fraudsters a large leak of possible data to our Investigative Unit reveals serious flaws to the on socalled golden pos board scheme and now its generated more than 8000000000. 00 for its government and the 1st of our exclusive reports in the cyprus papers heres deborah davies. To become a citizen of the mediterranean island nation of cyprus costs more than 2. 00 and a half 1000000. 00 among those whove paid that russian businessman at the back of hes already served a prison sentence for extortion and the Chinese Investment tycoon junk who had been jailed for old. The cyprus papers a large data leak obtained by aljazeera revealed it to an all 1000 people from 74 countries who bought a cypriot passport. Cyprus says it checks applicants have a clean criminal record but we found multiple cases of applicants who wanted by police at the time they was sold cypriot citizenship. Was already wanted in ukraine for large scale theft of public funds in june prosecutors displayed the 6000000. 00 they said was offered in bribes to end years of investigation into his energy company. Denies any involvement his cypriot passport allows him to live out of ukraine and he didnt return for questioning. Vietnamese businessmen pham that blue wont be using his cypriot passport any time soon he was already facing trial for bribery when he bought it see how. We found 30 people linked to criminal activity whove bought socalled golden passports allowing them in their wealth to move freely around the e. U. The passport scheme of cyprus is a risk to security in europe these passports are for high value in particular for people from countries which have a record of economic and political criminality passports and citizenship should not be for sale they are not a commodity the cypriot interior minister told us no citizenship was granted in violation of regulations and an independent committee now studies and evaluates previous applications and a new law can strip citizenship from suspected criminals. That should include father and son melech sabet and Mehdi Ebrahimi they wanted in iran for Money Laundering and fraud and facing similar charges in canada but many deny all charges. The cyprus papers suggest theyre among dozens he may have used their golden passports to evade Justice Deborah davis al jazeera loved it so far off as a reporter they organized crime and corruption reporting project and shes joining us live on skype from london good to have you with us i understand that you have worked on similar types of investigations how widespread is this yeah we we a couple years ago we were going to ask roman reporting project we run the code for these 8 was called it was r o y the project long now. Several European Countries running managing the program similar to the stupid ones had to say that. Section 12013. 00 the separate program but it never raised. Concerns and it was always probably with. The un does that investigation for the 1st time of the strength of number the extent to which. Things ive gone mad and that sent in which its program and its. Owned him to and he escaped to explore by cream nonschool rock the boat people under sentence. And. We heard in the package there that separate interior minister was saying that no citizenship was granted in violation of regulations so whats the loophole that allows this to happen. But the truth is that theres no really you very much legal and. The people just had to go even best 2000000 euros so purchasing a property or investing in our Super Company and you know even the council of europe until Money Laundering agency in atlanta 9000 for thailand i see the problem was inerrantly. Foreigner of all. To Money Laundering and this is also. This is also this comes off so because theyre reinstate and having the temerity. To Money Laundering and the secret program is strictly time to reinstate market so. To answer your question now theres not really i think this investigation is stupid faith as well as a. Cold and that once more to the European Union because in essence that what cyprus is sending is a european passport to. A separate possible without all the set of rights that come out with the european states and that wouldnt be so i knew where investors or i networking to be got from or around the war so i think this is probably the time for the European Union to turn our alarm into some actions if this has being a Legal Process as youve been describing and it has been generating a significant amount of money for cyprus and one would assume other countries which offer gold and passports one with think that these countries are going to be fairly slow to try to change things if it is generating so much cash so what can the European Union do to try to tighten things up. I think this is yes its true what youre saying and or just to put things into context. We can think that substance is trying to 13 when the problem was nonstop sad process raised some 7000000000 euros selling some 4000 passports. And so is for many other countries even in the European Union. I guess it is very much as a journey and as a journey was with you dont still be widely reported on the story because i really think that is up to the European Union to put a stop but on and that that we are is that the European Union has always maintained that citizenship is a matter that is our. Nation our countries but. What i what we can see is that these may be true but then the countries that settling that whole set up brought that is not of the country just of the come to themselves but its as to do with the will of the other 27 come just as are there a member of the bloc of the european bloc. And yet and for instance that last saturday is just the published a revised legislation it was actually promised in the official guess that last week and i mean the government estimate as many many is maintaining that it is strengthening the. Background check Money Laundering jackson will be up but if you read the new revised legislation youll see floor each step and with that thats me a couple of steps backward there are rules made so praised us but its going to be politically exposed to people whereas before they are a person that our and our political position in the last 5 years was not able to live now this time has been reduced to one with. A just because parents consistently so far so goes also with their criminal. Criminal record check because it was required our criminal record from both the country of origin and the country arrest and now is required to clean clean and record just from the country of the permanent residence so our say was the action that they are saying here and has to all of this out of far off a we appreciate it thank you very much indeed thank you. Thank you. Well more findings from the cyprus papers will be revealed throughout the week here and on aljazeera dot com in part 2 of our investigation were going to be looking at how cyber sold passports to politicians and senior officials is seen by the e. U. As high risk for Money Laundering and corruption thats a monday from 10 g. M. T. Here on aljazeera. Company more ahead on the news hour including find out why the u. S. House of representatives gently approved a 25000000000. 00 cash injection for americas Postal Service plus. Im outcome webb in a tea plantation in kenyas highlands more than 60 years ago with his colonialists pulls the local people off this land to make space for it well be speaking to the few that still survive about their fight for justice and in sports with joe things get a little heated inside the basketball bubble that disney world in florida. Iraqs Prime Minister has promised to find those responsible for killing 2 prominent activist during antigovernment protests most of all caught me met Security Leaders in the Southern City of basra where the protesters were attacked on friday Security Forces used live ammunition against demonstrators after they set the local Parliament Building on fire lets go live to dorsetshire body in baghdad i understand the protesters have changed the deadline for the governor abbas are to leave tell us more about that. Yes rob initially the protesters on friday evening had given the officials 72 hours to resign but they changed that late on saturday and they said they were at that line is that 48 hours which expires at 13 j m t today on sunday this led to the Prime Minister to go to soon as he returned from the United States this all started because a number of activists have been killed during the past 2 weeks and most of them have been taking place the killings have taken place in the Southern City of basra this is something the local population has said is very very worrying and they want people to be held accountable and the Prime Minister when he landed in basra had a very stern warning for the people responsible for these killings lets listen to what he had to say there is obviously. Would be called but again god willing this is a message to all criminals and killers this is a new government that is working to establish the prerequisites of security it aims to establish security and prevent crime id like to tell everyone who carries a weapon contrary to the government they would skip punishment on the killers will be brought to justice very soon id like to tell the criminals who us in 87. 00 hashem that scene and the young female doctor that your blog will be a title for justice the challenge is big i was in a meeting with the military commanders and i told them that bustle should be secure and we will challenge all. Ok this is all happening of course in the south of the country but to the north east to the north of baghdad were seeing that u. S. Led Coalition Troops are leaving the military base now that is significant talk us through whats going on there. Well this is the 1st time since the u. S. Led invasion here in 2003 that this camp has now gone back to beef in control of iraqi hands that the u. S. Troops that were stationed there about 2000 of them are now on their way out of the officials have handed over a 347000000. 00 facility back to the iraqi officials this is where most of the counterterrorism units were being trained and those fighting i saw in the country have received training not only from u. S. Troops but also from troops from new zealand and australia were also part of the training that was ongoing at this camp this facility is one of the largest ones and this handover is significant because as part of that required members of parliament they want the u. S. Troops leave the country theres about 50 to 100 u. S. Troops still in iraq and with this handover is just another step another step that the iraqi people are closer to gaining control of their country in this military base is a significant step towards achieving that dorsetshire bara talking to us live from baghdad also thank you very much indeed india has now confirmed more than 3000000 cases of corona virus after recording over 70 photos and new infections in a single day the countrys leading the world in the numbers of new cases covered 19 and spreading through rural areas across the country especially in the north india has the 3rd highest number of infections after the United States and brazil it is about 4 on the hundreds more from new delhi. We are seeing the virus move from the really big policy incentives like mumbai is no longer the voice defected spot in maharashtra delhi is no longer you know one of the worst affected cities and we are really seeing it move from places like mumbai delhi chennai to more rural areas and that is the concern as the virus moves from cities that have the best Health Care Infrastructure in the country to parts of the country that have very poor public Health Care Infrastructure now another problem with the numbers is not just that india is the 3rd worst affected country in the world it is that the logical surveys that are being done around the country show that the real number of cases is no many times the confirmed number nonetheless the government when ever they talk about the situation in the country they are always positive we heard from the Health Minister on saturday and he spoke about how he actually said india has the best recovery rate in the world that 75 percent of people who had coronavirus in india have recovered and he said that only 1. 8 percent of people whove had coronavirus have actually died from from the virus the rest currently have it but again the government is often quotes these numbers but the problem with them is that the syria logical survey showed a different picture 2 of the results of these surveys who released over the past week and they showed that one of them in the city of poor may thats in maharashtra that more than 50 percent of population of 6000000 people have antibodies so just in one city alone more than 3000000 people the survey would suggest have had coronavirus so have korea has reported its biggest drives in corona virus infections since march with nearly 400 new cases sundays jump marks the 3rd day theyve crossed 300 most of the new infections come from the densely populated seoul area but the government has banned large scale gatherings and shut nightclubs and churches. In peru at least 13 people have been killed in a stampede during an Illegal Party at a nightclub in the capital lima more than 120. 00 people tried to flee the thomas arrest the bar club as it was raided by police the party violated restrictions imposed to curb the spread of corona virus through his latin americas 2nd worst affected country lebanons now 82nd day of a 2 week partial lockdown after a surge in corona virus infections the Health Minister is warning that hospitals are being overwhelmed by the number of cases lebanons Health Systems under serious strain after 6 hospitals and 20 clinics were damaged by a huge blast in beirut nearly 3 weeks ago Stephanie Decker is joining us live from beirut this is clearly this climb in covert cases is clearly not what beirut needed right now how people coping. It is the