and it is going to be a conservative leaning so what happens next how a both sides of the house gearing up for the congressional hearings that are going to take place. well in a formal sense what the republicans do is they pair up the nominee with somebody who knows the senate and who can walk him through because it is the u.s. senate that ultimately confirms the nominee and in this case they have named a former senator from arizona republican named john kyl to act as the sherpa to guide him through this senate but more informally there is going to be a massive and expensive battle because the u.s. senate is divided fifty one to forty nine this year in november there is a midterm election that could change the mix often when a president of one party is elected in the next election the other party gain seats and in this case the republicans only have a fifty one to forty nine majority and so this decision really hangs in the balance and groups are taking advantage of that there's going to be

a protest on the supreme court steps tonight even though they don't know who the nominee is going to be a pro-abortion rights group and another liberal group are going to be there protesting liberal groups are good are going to be spending millions of dollars on ads in favor of the democrats were in vulnerable seats and against republicans for red state republican state democratic senators were invited to the white house all of them turned down the appearance tonight so this is definitely going to be a major battle and it's going to be an expensive one but donald trump seems to like those battles and he seems well willing to join john for now thanks very much indeed. well there are four leading contenders for the soon to be vacated supreme court seat as john mentioned first up is brett kavanaugh he began his career as a clog to justice kennedy who is retiring at the end of the month the fifty three year old is a popular choice for conservatives because of his stance on abortion immigration and gun rights then those raymond catholic he's

a fifty one year old sixth circuit appeals court judge and he's seen as supporting originalism that's interpreted the constitution along the lines of its meaning at the time of the next mint forty six year old mother of seven amy connie barrett is viewed as the outside choice she's a former professor of law and a member of the people of praise religious organization and she's a favorite among social conservatives the fourth candidate is thomas hartman a fifty three year old philadelphia appeals court judge he's a conservative former cab driver would be the only supreme court judge not to have attended either of the elite law schools harvard or yale daniel goldberg is the legal director at the alliance for justice which is a progressive judicial advocacy group in joining us now from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for your time sir as we were talking about earlier. justice anthony kennedy who is the one who is retiring he was liberal in a few things but in many other things he was a conservative so by by putting donald trump's pick in place is anything really

going to change on the supreme court. the facts are that the stakes are huge we are talking about long after donald trump leaves the scene his put his pick for the supreme court of the united states will be making decisions regarding what our constitution means what legal protections the american people have for the next thirty forty fifty years and the fact is that every single person on this list the four individuals you just talked about meet certain litmus test the present the united states had made clear that any nominee of his will quote unquote automatically overturn roe v wade he has also made clear that he will nominate someone who will overturn the fordable care act and take away health care from millions of individuals so the stakes are huge for the american people over the next thirty or forty years well the u.s.

senate confirm an individual who will turn back the clock a road critical rights and legal protections that people of relied on for the last century or well they insist that donald trump consult with democrats and come up with a mainstream independent jurist somebody like justice kennedy let me ask you about the time frame on this there is a sense for those of us watching from the side around the rest of the world that if there is once this appointment is made within a matter of days significant changes are going to be made to the legal processes and some of the legislation that exists like rule versus wade as you as you mentioned that's not really the case is a divine to start to correctly it's more going to be a case of an incremental change that's made to certain parts of the legislation. well we just saw this this term about

a month ago the five conservative justices on the supreme court overturned a forty one year old precedent in order to make it more difficult for workers to fight for fair wages and safe working conditions for justices on the supreme court have made it clear their willingness to overturn roe v wade and other critical legal protections that's why who the senate confirms is so critical justice kennedy was called a swing justice for a reason while he certainly had very conservative opinions he was considered independent minded and call and actually determined on a case by case basis important critical rights he issued a landmark decisions when it came to abortion rights and l.g.b. t.q. rights that's why it's so important that the american people recognize that every person on this list is an individual that meets president from witness tests of

overturning roe v wade of taking health care away from millions of americans the stakes could not be higher don't you go burger of your lines for justice thank you so much for your time. but more ahead on the news hour including. leisure tired out one is sworn in again as turkey's president this time with sweeping new powers. the frantic search for survivors as japanese rescue teams battled the clock and weather in their hunt for flood victims and roger federer storms his way into the wimbledon quarter finals moving closer to a ninth title at the all england club. for more schoolboys have been brought to safety from inside a flooded cave in thailand bringing the total number rescued to eight they're said

to be recovering well and hospital for more boys and their football coach remain in the cave and it could still take days to get them out steadfast and has the latest finally they saw daylight after spending weeks deep underground in a flooded gave the second batch of boys emerged much sooner than expected after a dangerous for kilometer journey to novel flooded passages within their lives fully into the hands of cave divers let flown in from all over the world to guide them out the boys are being kept in isolation to make sure they didn't get any infectious diseases inside the cave an agonizing wait for their parents who were allowed to see them but not get niet to them yet. last night once we successfully completed our mission there was another team ready to place the equipment for us immediately we were able to complete our mission earlier than expected by around four or five hours if the weather stays like this and we're able to prepare

ourselves faster we can conduct our operation faster baron's free at the worst when their boys disappeared more than two weeks ago after entering the caves just before it got flooded only to be found nine days later and relative good tell. it was a tough call to make to rescue two boys who console him nor die for this flooded and that will gateway it could only work if the boys wouldn't panic and fully rely on their rescue us for guidance although details of the rescue operation have yet to emerge it's safe to say that this tricky plan has so far been successful authorities say the boys are doing fine despite their ordeal by details about their medical conditions have not been released dramatic disappearance of the football team and their equally dramatic rescue has not only captivated thailand but many worldwide how this brought in from around the globe something the palance of the boys say they will never forget as long as they live step fastened al-jazeera at

the time long cave and not in thailand where the rescued boys are now in hospital in chiang rai scott is there a second day a second rescue mission is successful for more boys pulled from deep inside that cave here in northern thailand and now eight boys are in this hospital over my shoulder they have a special floor that dedicated just to them we know that they're being protected they're isolated that's because there's concern about infectious diseases there's concern about bacteria their immune systems most likely are compromised they're worried about something and pass to them from outsiders but also possibly something they picked up in the caves so right now they're up there they're being cared for but again it's kind of a nice place we know the family members are up there on that same floor but there's no direct contact communication just yet now the third mission is planned for thirty first tuesday and they're hoping that those five other beds on that very special floor will be filled on tuesday night. a crossing into gaza that provides

an economic lifeline to its residents has been shut down by israel the carom abu salim crossing was the only place between gaza and israel where goods could pass humanitarian aid medical supplies and food will still be allowed through but commercial and industrial products will be blocked israel says it's in response to palestinians launching in century cuts into israel might be due to a demolition going to hamas we will immediately use a heavy hand against hamas in the gaza strip in a significant step we will today close it getting along crossing it will be more steps but i will not elaborate hamas has called israel's decision a crime against the palestinian people and has violence to continue protests. blocking. the israeli government's decision to close the only terminal leading to the gaza strip is a war crime against our people it will deepen the humanitarian crisis that the people of gaza live shows how the israeli occupation fails in dealing with peaceful

marches it also shows how when you mean netanyahu is only able to understand the palestinians you may try to crush the palestinian people but we will continue the marjorie's until we achieve our target of breaking the seeds of the gaza strip. are a force that has more from western lucilla. this measure from the israeli government has come as something of a surprise given all the talk there had been in recent weeks and months about trying to improve the situation humanitarian economic situation inside gaza for security reasons that have been the arguments of the israeli army it has been the argument we understand of jason green blatt and jarred cushion of the u.s. envoys who were here recently trying to get some international and israeli support for some sort of restructuring inside gaza economic assistance to try and stave off this security problems and indeed give some traction potentially to donald trump's middle east peace plan yet to be public published instead we have this announcement from the israeli prime minister in which he said he was acting with

a heavy hand against hamas because of the continuing use of kites and balloons carrying incendiary devices burning material over the gazan border and into israel east israeli territory where forests and fields have been burned for many weeks now there have been a good deal of pressure on him to act more firmly from his own coalition partners but this action will also be felt hugely by the two million residents inside gaza the four hundred or so trucks and day that come to carom shallum as it's known in israel. as it's known to the palestinians they bring all sorts of goods humanitarian goods food livestock animal feed medicine will still be allowed through but all industrial commercial goods will be banned the gaza chamber of commerce has told us that that will be catastrophic to the gazan economy there will be millions of dollars worth of goods stranded on the israeli side prices will spike inside gaza already gazan unemployment is running at more than forty percent

the economy has been teetering on the brink of collapse so we're told by numerous analysts over recent weeks and months this could be a decisive measure and one which could further destabilize gaza. dockers president to one has been sworn in for a second time and it has already named his new cabinet he takes office with sweeping new powers after a controversial referendum on the role of the president in a poll last year simcoe see all new reports from the capital on corrupt. with a couple or escorts present projects a prior dawn a rise in his palace. this time as the first president of the nia system of executive government in turkey addressing his international yes he pledges to build a strong country. in the new period turkey will go even further in every area from the economy to big investments basic rights and liberties after becoming stronger

turkey will continue to share the resources it has with its citizens and friends. the new system is seen as the biggest change of governance since the republic was a stablished in one thousand nine hundred twenty three by most of a camera as a founding father of modern turkey. the post of prime minister has been scrapped but a seat is saved for a vice-president the number of ministries has almost been held. we will strengthen turkey in every field including the defense industry and border security will make very big investments in every area from finance to macroeconomic balances in order to become one of the ten largest economies the new cabinet announced by president our john has some surprise names he's appointed the chief of staff who saw a car as defense minister while the interior and foreign ministers keep their seats the energy minister abdullah and son in law has been appointed as finance minister

in the new cabinet president sides on ses his county should work hard to achieve good schools for two thousand and twenty three that's the year but marks more than turkey's centenary but with the newly expanded powers many will be watching if i had gone and his team will bring the country towards the future they promise will lurch tours author terry and isn't as some opponents fear. al-jazeera. still ahead and al-jazeera no longer at war ethiopia and eritrea formally and history that is that killed tens of thousands of people. and you approach to crime fighting as mexico's next president promises honesty for some criminals. and it's three leaders in his many stages at this year's tour de france it is going to be here with all the details it was bored.

how it was to have plenty of heat across much of north america which was east side of the country we had plenty of lively showers as well we've seen the showers rolling through the midwest down towards the southeastern corner of this little circulation just off show us topical still christan pull away we're not too concerned about that but very close to the car a lot of north carolina in particular areas a cloud on my money down the appalachians unitas down into the deep south towards louisiana towards that eastern side of texas for central areas it's generally try to go to hate going up to thirty six and thirty one for los angeles maybe seeing want to see showers down to the fast southwest that's not a bad thing but a bit of wet weather too just north of the border into that western side of canada but for much of western side it's going to be a largely dry and that's the case as we go on through wednesday what a weather just moving through alberta towards the sketch a woman a target can see some clouds and rain here that's draining its way down across the

rockies as well back down towards arizona could see some useful right coming in here showers there down towards the deep south the clear skies for the eastern side of the country and it's eastern parts of canada but it's about across the caribbean at present we have got some showers some longer spells of prime pushing in the greater mountain is looking wrong away as we go through choose day. this is one of the most fired parents of our judicial system what to do with children examining juvenile justice he didn't adult crime he's got to face an adult sons adolescents should not be demanding the rest of their lives for actions that are taken at that period of their lives is just as guilty as suffers the same consequences that's the law exploring the dark side of american justice the system with joe burden on al-jazeera. of opinion and wits

that take that view is no point to make an argument that i have no basis in fact or knowledge and esteem chamber of the banks i live in every important thing an examination of the ideas the thinkers the theorists the elitists a lot of people see them as victories for me to win for them they haven't seen victories for anybody sexual assault continued a new series of head to head coming soon on al jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.k. government's been thrown into crisis by the resignation of two senior ministers

foreign secretary bought a strong and quits less than twenty four hours after david david stepped on this chief brags that negotiator both are unhappy with prime minister terrorism a strategy for leaving the news. the u.s. president is due to announce his pick to replace retiring supreme court justice anthony kennedy donald trump's decision is likely to swing the court to the right which could impact rulings on issues like abortion same sex marriage and gun rights . eight of the twelve school boys have now been rescued from a flooded cave in thailand where they were stranded for more than two weeks for more boys on the football coach still inside the head of the rescue mission says they need three more days to get them all out. let's get more now on the top story in the u.k. ruling party in crisis over bragg's it has been a rocky road for the government of the united kingdom ever since a narrow majority of voters fifty two to forty eight. percent opted to leave the

european union in the twenty sixteen referendum the following month to resume a became prime minister replacing david cameron who resigned in the wake of the leave result in march of twenty seventeen after a contentious debate britain's parliament empowered me to trigger article fifty of the e.u. treaty that lays out the process of leaving within a two year window now in june last year to these a may try to strengthen our hand in the present negotiations with snap elections she thought she'd easily win but the gamble backfired and conservatives lost the majority leaving them relying on a party from northern ireland to govern now as the departure deadline approaches many sticking points remain not least of which is britain's membership of the customs union and the e.u. single market and what's going to happen with the u.k. and border. well going foreign secretary boris johnson was leading a campaign and the neve campaign bonamy phillips takes a look back at his colorful political career. even his enemies and these days there

are many would concede that boris as everyone knows him is unique for years he defied the laws of political gravity playing the clown didn't hurt him it helped him to win election then reelection his mare of london a conservative in a labor city many said a future prime minister was yet. but then this will be advocating but leave boris johnson surprise many colleagues by campaigning to leave the e.u. he arguably did more than anyone to ensure a victory for. the battle for brics it was ugly it left scars many cannot forgive boris johnson for using a full statistics and his enemies say for exploiting divisions in british society what do they know the impact of the immigration places hospital waiting lists. when david cameron resigned after the break to vote boris hope to become prime minister

but his colleagues deserted him and he had to settle for foreign secretary he struggled against the perception that he was a diminished man representing a diminished country one thai people would love but not when he's foreign secretary not when he has a serious job to do and that's where i think been the clown playing the joke always . it just doesn't work anymore because politics is a serious business when you've got one of the big posts in a cabinet for he just doesn't like you can hack it anymore and i think he knows that he can see that he's losing control he's been written off many many times before not least due to his personal scandals remember he was sacked by michael howard for lying over an affair and everyone forgets that the amazing thing about boris is the sort of test. is that he has these terrible things often self-inflicted this one is. and he always comes back so i would never write

a more. ambitious clever boris will still dream of making it to the very top piece now a divisive figure both loved and loathed within his party and the country as a whole to be phillip's al-jazeera london the japanese prime minister has cancelled an upcoming foreign trip as the number of people killed in floods and landslides increases to at least one hundred twenty six eighty others are still missing after records torrential rains inundated many areas in the southwest region bright reports. this was the first day. india's father could return to see what's left of his house and possessions he abandoned it with his wife and young children in the middle of the night a stall waters inundated his neighborhood. we were told to evacuate so that's what we did we talk nothing little sick cept what we had on. he showed us how the waters quickly rose to the upper floor of his house his father can't remember rains like

it. was because i've never experienced anything like this he is not a city that is prone to disasters this part of could actually key city was one of the worst affected areas here as elsewhere the river simply couldn't handle the incredible surge of water and it broke its banks in three places inundating thousands of homes and sadly claiming lives with the break in the weather and waters receding emergency teams have stepped up their efforts to look for the missing the rising death toll has already made this one of the most lethal storms japan has experienced in decades at its height a broad swathe of western and southern japan were affected stretching emergency teams to the limit many people couldn't escape the unprecedented rainfall in time and had to be rescued thousands of people remain displaced wondering when they can

go home along the banks of the river in karate pumps work around the clock to bring down water levels in the coming days for the cold water family rebuilding their lives will take a lot longer. and it's hard to express my feelings in words tatsuya tells us and he hopes he'll never have to again rob mcbride al-jazeera akiyama prefecture japan. six civilians including four children have been killed in an air strike but aside the emirates a coalition in yemen that happened near ties in the southwest of the country coalition air support is being used to back yemeni government troops who are trying to defeat the rebels. syrian government forces have surrounded a rebel held parts of that our city with the help rising against president bashar al assad began seven years ago the scenes comes just three days after russia brokered cease fire but rebels say russia hasn't made good on one of the key

promises of the truce and a halt of reports from beirut. most of that are provinces now under government control tens of thousands of displaced people have returned to their villages they left makeshift camps close to the border with jordan after a ceasefire deal between the rebels and the russian military which has been negotiating on behalf of damascus but there are tens of thousands of others who are still camped out along the border with the israeli occupied golan heights some of them are wanted by the syrian authorities for engaging in opposition activities it is risky for them to return without international guarantees. the people here are really shocked from what's been happening lately we can't believe how rebels have been handing over territory to the government with no real guarantees the russians for example guaranteed government forces would leave for towns under the cease fire deal those troops have been left and people can go back they fear arrest and executions and now some of them are under siege the rebel

controlled part of the divided city of daraa is surrounded by government troops a few thousand people are trapped inside among them fighters their family members and members of the opposition rebel commander say the russian military is violating the cease fire deal by failing to provide safe passage to those who don't want to reconcile with the state they were supposed to be bussed to the opposition held areas and the norse that evacuation may now happen on tuesday. government forces are already in control of more than seventy percent of our province either through military force or surrender deals the opposition was in a difficult position the rebels didn't get any support from their regional international allies they were divided and they faced what they described as a scorched earth policy the government and its allies are close to regaining complete control of the province where the uprising against president bashar assad's rule began over seven years ago they have taken most of the areas along the

jordanian border except for the yarmouk valley under the control of the eisel affiliate armed group charlotte and they consolidated control over the last strip of the main highway to the syrian capital damascus their target is not just that are they also want rebel areas in the neighboring province of connector they have the upper hand and the government is on the road to a final victory in the south side of. beirut at least twelve fishermen have been killed and a dozen more are missing after fighting between troops from uganda and the democratic republic of congo it happened on lake i'd word which is shared by the two countries the congolese accuse ugandan forces of encroaching on their territory and ugandan authorities say that the r.c. isn't doing enough to stamp out rebel activity near the border. longtime regional rivals ethiopia and eritrea say they are no longer at war after their leaders signed a declaration of peace and friendship the decision to restore diplomatic relations

came during a landmark visit by ethiopia's new leader abi ahmed to eritrea priyanka gupta reports. with smiles at had chicks if your p.s. prime minister left eritrea and their decades long military standoff behind him at the abbott's visit was high on symbolism but also led to the most significant steps yet to its peace between the two longtime regional rivals at the covered you don't know where you are now the chances and the opportunities were there for us and we were hoping to use them but they were locked away from us for the past twenty five years for twenty five years is not a short time the last we incurred in the past twenty five years cannot be recovered but today we feel like we have not lost anything we fail as if what we've lost has been regained three science or forty. the wall that was built between our people against their will for the last twenty years needs to be demolished the war that

took the lives of thousands of waited many years and cost us dearly financially and finally become war without. abuja took the first steps weeks ago by surprise and controversial decision to accept the terms of a peace deal they signed of the year two thousand that ended a two year conflict over their shared border. and now the two leaders have decided to take it a step further by opening that border and reestablishing their embassies physio in flights and developing ports. but the forestall to peace has some sobering reminder there are a number of disputed territories along the border and territories will move both directions. and there are going to be communities like resists being. transferred to another national jurisdiction or divided by the new order so the implementation is something that's going to have to be and. the border dispute

has taken a toll atreus isolated regime and its focus on the conflict that it has seen thousands of people flee the country. diskeeper banditry military conscription. via wants to put landlocked a few back on track as one of africa's spots to score economies with access to eritrea threats the ports but for many it's a coming together of the better force that have raised hopes for peace in the horn of africa. al-jazeera so sudanese rebels have rejected a new peace deal that the government says had been agreed to by both sides the opposition party says a power sharing agreement was discussed but no formal deal was reached that would have allowed the rebel leader rick macho to be reinstated as vice president but the group statement says the proposal ignores radical reforms needed in south sudan and

used to face hopes for an end to the nearly five years of a war the son of former south african president jacob zuma has been released on bail he was arrested on corruption charges linked to his father's time in office thirty four year old to do design is zuma is alleged to have tried to bribe a former deputy finance minister in two hundred fifteen on behalf of the indian born gupta family the gutters eric used to benefiting from favorable government contracts and mining deals during president zuma as presidency to design a zone as case has been postponed until next year. india's supreme court has upheld the death penalty for three men who brutally gang raped and killed a woman on a new delhi bus in two thousand and twelve the man had made an appeal for a reduced sentence jyoti singh was twenty three year old medical student when she was attacked and died from her injuries the case sparked protests against the sex crimes across india. the european union has asked

a court in me in ma to drop charges against two jailed waters' journalists the pair pleaded not guilty to the charges of obtaining secret state documents telling the judge they had followed rules of journalistic ethics if found guilty they could face up to fourteen years in jail and then within me in ma investigating reports of the deaths of ten muslim men. the drug administration has told a federal judge monday that the government will not meet tuesday's deadline for reuniting migrant children with their parents that initial order request that one hundred two migrant children under the age of five i return to their families separated at the us mexico border by tuesday the split was part of a white house crackdown on illegal immigration but the american civil liberties union who pushed for the judicial order says less than half of the toddlers will be successfully reunited a federal court is due to decide on whether the dead.