Between armenia and azerbaijan. Rights groups accused tanzanias president of behaving like a dictator and clamping down on dissent ahead of this months election. More than a 1000 migrants in 2 days why Spains Canary islands are seeing the biggest surge in 14 years. And on time how much with all the sport including the bron james and the l. A. Lakers out back on top of the basketball world in late is happy and did their 10 year wait to win the n. B. A. Championship. An undercover investigation by aljazeera has exposed high ranking officials in cyprus expressing a willingness to aid convicted criminals obtain e. U. Citizenship in august and the Investigative Unit released the cyprus papers which revealed serious flaws in the countrys citizen by Investment Program now as phil restrict boards the investigation leads to the highest offices of the cypriot state 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 to 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 our proposed applicant. Chinas gone and charging him for all 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 who has the pay what vested states very close to be what i think the case a part of a network of enablers that include lawyer and raise protect this song business opportunities. When you can go to it is even going to be a she. Describes a 2 track application system the official route and another for difficult cases that requires more money they can still get a faster car to what insane option. Goes over them we already didnt. See it for what it would up and up. And look at cities in any book. Or regulation or even our news and we want. To ask the police asked. Why. How high up the higher the better. 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. To her without permission maybe were here for support but. I dont know politically. To say that im going to. Have to prepare its like making. When confronted with the evidence all of those involved deny any wrongdoing. They claim they were aware from the onset that our undercover reporters represented a criminal after our team left but as you said he filed a report about them with cypresses and the Money Laundering unit. Persisted phil race aljazeera. Ok for more lets cross live to our Investigative ReporterDavid Harrison in nicosia in august the units release the 7 cypress papers no this is the latest in part of this investigation youve released a trailer. Has there been any reaction from cyprus. Well there has indeed i mean local people all very busy. Denouncing the government and saying things like aljazeera is doing what the government has been doing but more significantly just in the last hour or so weve had reactions from statements all the from Christakis Giovanni is the m. P. And the man who founded this one of the biggest Property DevelopmentCompany Cyprus from to me to salute the president of the palm and on the 2nd most powerful man in cyprus now giovanni is saying that he was suspicious that he feels that this is a propaganda assault that there was an element of and truculent and that they did go to the Money Laundering authorities but only after reporters had left. They havent disclosed what they said to the authorities. d citing legal confidentiality but we certainly wait for some some detail on not. Lower is that hes the president of the public the very powerful and influential figure in cyprus hes just saying that there was suspicious toward the end they seem to conflict themselves slightly because initially they were saying they were suspicious from the beginning now theyre saying that suspicions at the end and indeed they did at the last meeting on the cover a reporter had with a lawyer. A pathologist did say that they had a bit of a wobble they were unsure there was no Business Card they didnt know who this guy was and to get c. N. N. He let alone the president the parliament is an enormous thing in the government of doubt but he then carried on you carried on eating they carried on in contact with us throughout the week theyd done everything they could to tell us how our criminal could obtain an e. U. Passport even though we spell it out every. Valuable opportunity that he was a chinese criminal with a conviction of 7 years for bribery a Money Laundering it was explicit on that no stage did they express any reservations at no stage did they do what most people would have done and simply said sorry hes a criminal we cant touch him instead he went on to explain how to do it how to set up a Shell Company how to use his wifes name to get the possible of all of these devices everything was designed to get a criminal a possible. David talk us through about the kind of responses that youre seeing from the public now you mentioned that there has been a lot of mention on twitter is it the growing and has it been growing also since the original investigation was released back in august as well yes we have a lot of reaction to that and it seems have picked up again now because we released a trailer for this film yesterday and theres already people who are reacting immediately to it there was some people saying oh no here we go again oh i thought that without it being dealt with because the site was government did announce a crackdown but they have a habit of doing this they did one last year they do the crackdown last year and undercover reporter sent a message to andreas petard just the lawyer and said will it affect our clients attempt to get a passport now this crackdown on the text message came back from the lawyer saying dont worry this is just to make the media back off so this is picked up again on twitter and people are saying things like what we know or weve always suspected our government does this time to think it will be great to see the evidence all of us have been Even Stronger saying this really needs to be cleaned up its got to stop all this still is saying its damaging the reputation of cyprus and like a lot of smaller countries. In particular found in smaller countries theyre very sensitive to the image of cyprus abroad and this is clearly not going to help them but we would keep saying to people whats the fail see the evidence make up your own mind. They did certainly clear from the package that we just played that although at that point nobody appeared to have broken the law theres appeared to be a willingness to do so and that is really going to put a lot of pressure on the government generally isnt that i think thats right i mean the the evidence we would argue is very very powerful any action to be taken of course in the hands of the simple thora seas and the European Union of course who have criticised cyprus on its Investment Program its possible for Investment Program on many occasions theyve already threatened off this like this but it was to take some infringement actually legal action to sanction against this so yes that this is going to put them under enormous pressure theyre already being people suggesting that so lawrence has to resign and should go to so i think were just going to see the beginning of it now because the film is going out almost as we speak to be available on you tube and its going out on the aljazeera website this evening and then people can see for themselves the strength of the evidence we have and they can draw their own conclusions about what people in their own country doing with this socalled. Investment program David Harrison and i guess here thank you very much indeed thank you and for more on this investigation watch the cyprus papers under cover at 20 g. M. T. Today. Theres been renewed fighting over nagornokarabakh despite a ceasefire coming into effect 48 hours ago armenia is reporting shelling along the southern part of the socalled line of contact in the disputed region however civilian areas have not been hit by john says its destroyed several military vehicles for breaching the humanitarian cease fire or shortly were going to cross into Bernard Smith in gross on media 1st lets go to sin and cos you know who was in somalia in azerbaijan cinema just give us an idea of what azerbaijan has been saying today. While im in town is this a rock this is a village or its previous name is a lenin village and its close by again to the reason why im here and the reason why im standing in front of a graveyard is that the wick dims who were killed. After the attack after a missile hit again just city 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 most fear is not so bright because everybody is full of emotions almost what most of john citizens are angry and they are mourning for they are people who lost their lives whether they know these people or not for instance those poor to 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 talked 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 i. A group of 50 mats presented himself for in Diplomatic Missions and back you were invited to get and mean get sick of that was also hit. The other night came to the scene. In the us under the auspices of the john deputies and they were given information about the situation we know that the almost 530 azerbaijan n. G. O. S signed a letter an appeal to International Bodies including the United Nations nato organizational security. Organization of European Union they are trying to raise the they were always says they say they have been indiscriminately attacked by Iranian Forces then they say they want to hear more from the International Community it is relatively quiet in terms of attacks yes there are on and off some attacks especially the targeting data go down boy a bad day at the regular places but by the end of the day we are expecting to hear more especially on the diplomacy and politicians side cinema thanks very much indeed thats a sin and cos you know talking to us from china only in the azerbaijan lets cross over to Bernard Smith who is talking to us from going to see in on media you know the armenian foreign minister spoke to aljazeera about 24 hours ago hes in moscow now whats he been saying. You know hes in moscow for a shared jewel meeting with a roll of 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 jewel before that the ceasefire came into effect now the armenian Foreign Ministers are minutes and hes been complaining as he has before of various airy breaches of the ceasefire but love role of russians foreign minister he has said clearly we spent a lot of time getting the cease fire agreement together but its not being observed he said military actions continue but we think our contacts including with the ministries of defense of both sides will allow us to uphold of the agreement we have so love rob clearly confident that hes able to exert enough pressure on ours by john 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 hadrons now we understand that theres been intense fighting going on in have dropped between azerbaijan and armenia and this is because hundreds in northern nagornokarabakh but it is neither side as far as we understand the 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 us by john if it took control of this nagornokarabakh Ethnic Armenian town so we believe theres a fierce battle going on for control of it and a fierce defense by the armenians as well because as a by john so far doesnt have anything particular to show after 2 weeks of fighting and might need some sort of strategic gain to do. It defends 2 weeks of fighting and deaths on the same from armenia if he loses control of how drugs the nut will be a significant blow for the armenians hence why we believe this intense fight is going on at the moment thats been his myth bringing us up to date from a gross in armenia bernard thanks very much but more ahead on the news hour including millions of children across africa head back to School Following the coronavirus shut down. Like. That anybody could be doing. The top cover 1000. 00 expert in the u. S. Accuses the trumpet ministration of twisting his words for one of its campaign videos. And in sports back in for a 1000000 hands rafael nadal secured his 13th title at the french open. Honesty international is accusing the tanzania and government of cracking down on dissent head of this months general election the Rights Group Says the law is being weaponized to target all position figures and journalists and the main opposition candidate says he doesnt believe the vote will be free or fair as catherine selling. 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 Officials Say that his conduct while on the campaign trail had been polarized lisa who recently returned to tanzania from belgium to run for president he left 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 election. We accept every election we call millions of people onto the streets. Democratic action piece action to defend the integrity of the election to defend their votes if it comes to. His main competitor president john paul 2 fully hes also outcome painting attracting thousands of people to his rallies. 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 on elisei 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 and hands registered to vote on the 28th of october he too has been watching Political Developments and is worried about the possibility of violence at the polls but. I want a leader who is not just promising things he has to deliver i like to see a more transparent election previously the results have been taking too long to come out and that increases. The more the election draws closer the more aggressive the complaints have become voters like will say we just hope to be able to cast their ballots safely katherine solely aljazeera. That we have contacted the tanzanian government about these allegations but weve received no response that those motion is amnesty internationals east and Southern Africa director and hes joining us on skype from johannesburg its good to have you with us or what evidence does amnesty have the president is cracking down ahead of the election. Thank you very much. Since 2016 you know. Campaigning was president. And then selectively applied in terms of enforcement only position groups we have seen a significant shift in the direction of camping down in fee domes is special a freedom of expression freedom of Peaceful Assembly as well as association that is essential fans to train from. Post to present. As the country moves towards election the idea that. These can only get cold consultation meetings only in the constituencies that they belong to as essentially limited the freedom to be. Broadly across the country so if it set restrictions to getting political points to 2nd. Destructions targeting the media which has been victim off suspensions. Fines and meant for you to be able to create. Media institutions like a t. V. T. V. A whole being victims of suspension or fines accused. Of. And. Distributing information the government believes is misleading to how the use should be carried out he says resulted in a climate where media societies the freedom to scrutinize Public Opinion