so you know there is a need for record basin to make sure that the it but to knows exactly how many people have been born into limits the number of people and then there is another you four to do in terms of risk you capacities to forget so using a student were. really really fast and your risk you get best is nice to two to react very quickly with a lot of means because it's i would call the massive rescue operations where we have. both hundreds of people rescued in a few hours to the united states now in the ongoing controversy over donald trump's pick for supreme court judge the woman who's accused of sexual assault has just a few more hours to decide if and how she will testify christine daisy ford says cavanagh assaulted her at a party back in one thousand nine hundred two cavanagh denies this and she's being offered the chance to go before his confirmation hearing our white house correspondent kimberly how could this. after days of surprising restraint u.s.

president donald trump turned on christine blasio forward the woman whose testimony could darrelle his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh we have to fight for him not worry about the other side and by the way women are for that more than anybody would understand on twitter trump question ford story i have no doubt that if the attack on dr ford was as bad as she says charges would have been immediately filed with local law enforcement. for it is a california professor at the center of an explosive allegation against kavanaugh from thirty six years ago she says that while in high school kavanagh sexually assaulted her at a party attempting to remove her bathing suit while holding his hand over her mouth and on behalf of them on friday more than six dozen women some of whom have known cavanagh since high school question ford sexual assault claim backing cavanagh as a person of honor integrity and

a person of strong moral character kind and good natured a good man who is incapable of mistreating anyone but the final say will come from congress he was born for the u.s. supreme court he was born for it. and it's going to happen democrats hope to delay it beyond the november congressional elections republicans are fighting to keep it on track fearing a democratic control of congress would do rail the nomination can really help get al-jazeera the white house updated now with alan fischer who's in washington d.c. this saturday hi alan just for people coming to the story now can you explain. don't afford going before congress if she did has she been invited to you has she said i want to how is the whole thing played out and now as the clock ticked down what could happen. well she's been invited by the senate to present her testimony she has a number of conditions she doesn't want to be in the room she would like brett

kavanaugh to give his evidence to the committee first some people on the committee find that difficult because they can't really question him about allegations they don't know the details about so that might go away and there's also another man by the name of mark judge who is involved in this now he was allegedly the other person in the room when this alleged assault took place she wants the f.b.i. either to speak to him or at least him to be subpoenaed by the committee to sit there under oath and answer questions about this alleged incident and so she would like to go ahead and give her evidence but says she doesn't want to do on monday she doesn't want to fly obviously there are concerns about her safety because there have been death threats made against her and her family since her identity became public and her lawyers are saying look the republicans don't need to push this through an artificial deadlines there is no reason why she has to give an answer by saturday afternoon as requested by the committee chairman that is simply billing

all the chairman wants to get this done he believes that the whole idea of someone claiming assault appeared at the last minute as the committee was moving towards a vote and therefore he would like to get it done but you've got to see all of this kemal through the prism of the midterm elections this is a politicized nomination simply because republicans want to get it done before the midterms because they're concerned it could lose control of the senate and if the democrats win control of the senate then brett kavanaugh isn't going to get confirmed and in fact it will be difficult for donald trump to get anyone who is seen as very right wing or into the supreme court bench if the democrats have their consult and confirm rule in the senate and there's no suggestion alan that the republicans now would look at someone different that they might say ok we've got other potential nominees cavanagh is starting to get a bit toxic we could remove his nomination and try someone else. they absolutely

could do that but donald trump is obviously keen to push forward the brick covenant there are those republicans on the committee who think that with pulling his nomination would be a political defeat it wouldn't look good in the run up to the midterm elections and so all of this plays into that no you'll remember that donald trump had a list of thirty odd names and there are others he could have put forward remember he had a shortlist of three donald trump loves to do or the big reveal will be and people are pointing out that the one thing that brett kavanaugh stands out among his peers is because that he has written on the view that the president can't be impeached while he's in office he's got to continue to do is job for the benefit of the country and then you've got to ask the question why would donald trump be particularly interested in that one other side is that chuck grassley is the

senator who is in charge of this committee he is a republican one of his senior staffers has in the last twenty four hours resigned because of allegations against him of sexual harassment allegations which of course he denies. just finally on how it all playing out in public there is this seen as a nother donald trump related scandal or is this one got a little bit more to it. it seems to be broader this is much more about first of all the partisanship of the senate the importance of the supreme court why is it suddenly become so important it's because of the partisanship of congress that a lot of legislation ends up in the supreme court and it's for the judges then to decide and then there's also the rule of the president selecting from a list provided by an outside body he of course went through it and then there is the question of whether brett kavanaugh was fully vetted by the f.b.i. yes the f.b.i. will have gone through about going check that will of happened with

a number of appointments the break cavanaugh has taken up but there are those who say that there is no reason why the f.b.i. couldn't carry out an investigation no they're not talking about something long term this could probably be wrapped up according to an f.b.i. investigator within two or three days and why is that because there's a very specific timeframe of what alleged to have happened and there are only three people to question and so for all of that they're saying that this could be done very quickly but you can see the polarization in washington d.c. hasn't got any better even though there is a president in the white house so you remember you said that he was going to heal the country quite fresh at helen fisher on twitter if you want to connect with and thank you for that leah can you expand on something for us and we sort of kimberly's report that this is the tweet from donald trump say this surely this was reported basically exactly and once again we're seeing donald trump inspiring this other trending hash tag attached tag why didn't report and women are coming forward

explaining why they didn't report abuse against them when it happened to them but the why i didn't report hashtags started after trump treated this one it was similar to what we saw in kimberly how it's package earlier he said i have no doubt that if the attack on dr ford was as bad as she says charges would have been immediately filed with local law enforcement authorities by either her or her or her loving parent. so i ask that she brings those filings forward so that we can learn the date time and the place he goes on to say the radical left lawyers want the f.b.i. to get involved now why didn't someone call the f.b.i. thirty six years ago well women online are saying that it's not as simple as just reporting something and sharing stories about reporting something and so as a result they're sharing stories about why they did not report their abuse one of the most shocking ones i read was from christian speaker beth moore she said he lived in my house that's why i didn't report and thousands of other messages like

this have been pouring in martha saying because i thought it was normal i thought i was bad teresa saying i didn't know was illegal in marriage i was ashamed and i didn't think anyone would believe me and casey and i'm tired of having to create hashtags to have for women to have their voices heard hash tag why i didn't report hash tag me to hash tag the list goes on and it does this hash tag has been used more than half a million times all over the world it's been most popular in the us in nigeria and bangladesh interesting lee and nuff if you want to read more about this story you don't have to find an article you can literally just search for the hash tag why i didn't report and you can read hundreds of other stories now if you are to tweeting about this the sure to include our own hash tag eugene is great. the most recent edition of insight or thank you was a discussion on this very topic and gets in his guests talked about not just with the trump could protect cavanagh but how the whole controversy might actually sway

voters as allan was telling us in the midterms you can have a watch for yourself inside story is as ever in the show's section at al-jazeera dot com. thanks for getting in touch with us already so many people sending their prayers to folks in tanzania this terrible terrible ferry disaster which has happened there and asking how can justice be achieved in such a case well the president of uganda wants the boats operetta arrested but we have to see what would happen beyond that might be something we can talk about on tomorrow's grid to keep you thoughts coming in the hashtag is a.j. news grid and if you're with us on facebook live right now then we've got the story for you of how newly registered voters a celebrated in the state of texas in the united states that's a major plus but a little later police in the mold leads raid the main campaign office of the opposition candidate mohamed so late we will look at the uphill battle he faces in sunday's presidential poll.

hello again it's good to be back we're here across much of the levant we are seeing sunny skies for most people we did have some clouds passing through tehran as well as pass through baghdad as well most of the activity will be up here towards the caspian though we don't expect back who to see much in terms of rain but you may see a passing shower too over the next two days as we go towards the beginning of the week see the clouds right there out towards the eastern part of the sea for twenty seven degrees tehran you may see some rain on monday with a temperature a few of about thirty one here across the gulf not looking too bad in the high thirty's for most locations around the gulf for doha thirty nine abu dabi thirty nine riyadh is going to be sunny at forty two in the clouds are now pushing out to sea here across most of the coast of amman we're going to see muscat at thirty two as well and thence allow at twenty nine really staying about that as we go through

the beginning of the week and then as you make your way down here towards parts of africa we did see a lot of active weather especially across parts of durban and johannesburg of the last couple days with this stationary boundary across the or you know those clouds right there that will continue here on sunday maybe some windy conditions along the coast could be expected during the twenty five johannes a twenty four but here for cape town well winds are out of the south we're going to be seeing cape town at seventeen degrees with mostly cloudy conditions for you. twenty five years after the signing of al-jazeera world tells a two part story of norway's role in the oslo accords well the salute the government of more wars or its remarkable role in nurturing the support of the secret negotiations and why its promise of peace has been named unfulfilled a strong deciding the terms of the negroes fair shows no way could go strike or go

home the price of oil is low on al-jazeera. under president trump finding asylum in the us has become harder than ever i have put in place a zero tolerance policy if you are mark going a child then we will prosecute you and that child may be separated from you thousands of families escaping violence at home and now face separation detention and deportation as the u.s. closes its doors no shelter announces english class.

they're at a common what's trending as well the latest on our top story the deadly attack in iran. trump will fail just like saddam says iran's rouhani has been quite diligent with his talk and of course talking about u.s. allied countries in the gulf being responsible for today's attack and more there on the election as well that is what is trending this saturday around dot com. and that we're going to look at the movies now vote as they go to the polls on sunday for their presidential election just in the past hour is that trending story

was saying police have raided the main campaign office of an opposition presidential candidate now president has been in office since twenty thirteen he is seeking a second five year term virtually unopposed because his rivals are either in jail or in exile topless as a reporter. it's famous is a holiday islands destination popular with newlyweds on their honeymoon but in the run up to the presidential election in the maldives on sunday there are allegations by the opposition of voter intimidation and security crackdowns we keep saying they are going to be having. but we take part in them believing that our support is so overwhelming that we will be able to overcome that. despite the alleged intimidation opposition challenger ibrahim ali has been campaigning for votes president abdullah yemenis aiming for a second term declared a fifteen day state of emergency this year provoking concerns the country is

sliding towards authoritarianism i would like to call it an undemocratic dictatorship now the current regime president whatever he was doing of course it is like kind of authoritarian. but then whatever he's doing he's doing through you know. like he is changing that amending the constitution. as well his standing in. yemen has boosted the economy using cheap chinese loans for large infrastructure projects such as the chinese maltese friendship bridge opened last month after four years of construction. the apparent reliance on large chinese loans has raised concerns about china's increasing influence as the chinese buy with india for a say in the strategically situated indian ocean archipelago alex topless of his era. moldings is the kind of life most people associate with holidays and beaches

and the like we thought it was important then to go behind that image and tell you about the real maltese trade first of all it is near an important trade route in the indian ocean close to the gulf of aden and the straits of malacca this is where most of the energy supplies from the middle east a transported through it is a chain of islands actually nearly twelve hundred of them the many are uninhabited and a full third of its four hundred twenty eight thousand population lives just in the capital mali that makes it one of the most congested cities in the world the mold leaves is a muslim country citizens are required to adhere to the religion and not surprisingly tourism is the largest industry one hundred five resorts charging and i have heard of four hundred dollars a night however hotel workers earn as little as four hundred dollars a month leah going to pick up on this one for us now we've got a bit of a broader picture of the country which is important right well campaigning has officially ended in the maldives but the effect is still reflected online both competing parties had hundreds of people show up for rallies across the dozens of

islands in the maldives on snap chat normally we see beach videos like what we just saw with the in-between vacation snaps we got a glimpse of rallies in support of the opposition in the capital mali while on other social media platforms we were able to see support for the president's progressive party the maltese now just as electoral campaigning ended we heard news of government raids on opposition headquarters and throughout the week reports on line point at a possible crackdown on dissent we spoke to my neck really are a journalist for channel thirteen in the maldives this is what she had to say. everyone is really excited for this presidential election this year because this is the first time after the new constitution that a president is being elected just by for the first round because there's only two candidates this time the current president abdoulaye are going to talk a little and the morning were democratic party's candidate also a parliamentarian of love hearing he never knew mr graham was suddenly so there's

two candidates in the roots really excited to go toward also. some people like using the election commission that there were previous election however according to the information that we have got and according to the things we have. not the knowledge we have got we believe that the election will be free fair and inclusive and everyone will have the right to call out and what does to let sixty two thousand one hundred thirty five eligible voters this year so i believe that a lot of you will come out and want this time there's a real it's really excited to come out and vote in this election. and this picture perhaps sums up the story in the maldives when it comes to this election you have quite a big government and very little people if you're in the.