a woman who initially came out anonymously to accuse brett kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her thirty six years ago will speak under the full glare of a congressional committee the senate judiciary committee there was an agreement on saturday that the two sides will come together on sunday they are meeting again to hash out some details but it appears that it will happen on thursday now she had wanted this is christine blazin forward she had wanted this to happen on thursday she got back but she also one of the questions to be asked by the senators themselves and she wanted to speak after brett kavanaugh the u.s. supreme court nominee the committee wanted this to happen on wednesday they conceded that point the one of the questions to be asked by a staff counsel that is a woman because all of the republicans on that committee are men and they wanted cavanaugh to go second those may be among the details to be hashed out on sunday but meanwhile there was something of an embarrassment for the republicans on that committee and that is that a young man who had been a spokesman for the republicans on the committee has resigned and that was after it

was discovered that he had been fired from a previous job because of a sexual assault sexual harassment allegation of his own so as we go forward mitch mcconnell the senate leader on the republican side has said that kavanagh will be confirmed mike pence said he also believes the vice president of the united states that kavanagh will be confirmed so this will all go forward on thursday and presumably if the committee has its choice after that they will simply move forward as soon as possible to a vote in the committee and then eventually in the full senate. all right still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back chinese ada arrives in venezuela in the form of a peace are we docked in venezuela waters for a week. soon this replica of the vatican sistine chapel will be open to the public in mexico meet the artist who painted the murals.

from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast or still looking at very cool conditions across central europe as well as windy conditions also share this boundary right here now we've been talking about this for the last couple days but the next one that's coming through right here across parts of northern france will that one as we go from sunday night into monday morning that could potentially bring some severe weather across the area we're talking about good damaging winds as well as the possibility of a tornado pushing across parts of central europe there we'll talk weather in just a moment but rain here on sunday for london as well as paris gusty winds there cooler conditions london only sing about twelve degrees and then the system makes its way very quickly across parts of central europe that is where we're going to be seeing the severe weather then behind it temperatures really drop erland thirteen

degrees and just several days ago you had a high temperature of thirty that is going to be a high temperature right there well as we make our way down here across northern parts of africa tunisia has seen some incredible amounts of flooding over the last day or so here with that area of clouds pushing through the good news is the rain is now beginning to stop but many roads have been cut off because of the flooding across that area so we're going to be watching this very carefully but as we go towards monday things look much better across the region and tunis is going to be partly cloudy with a temperature of here about thirty one degrees. there with sponsored by cat time race. getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human point in the twenty first century and they are look we're war climate change and technological destruction facing realities whatever it is that the fear is not in me it is in the people of uganda hear their story on and talk to al-jazeera.

but you know. some of them they're like. hello again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this voting is underway in the maldives and a presidential election is seen as a test for democracy on the island nation president abdullah i mean is seeking another five year term but he's been repeatedly accused of silencing dissent iran's president is on his way to the united nations general assembly in new york following saturday's attack on a military parade which killed at least twenty five people as enron is accusing the united states of trying to create instability in iran and the u.n.

humanitarian chief says yemen is approaching a tipping point with famine a major threat three quarters of the population that's twenty two million yemenis need some kind of humanitarian assistance because of the war. israel has given people living in a palestinian village seven days to move outs earlier this month israel supreme court approved its demolition to make way for illegal settlements about two hundred people live in the bedouin village of han and ahmad in the occupied west bank israel says the villages should tear down their homes or they'll be demolished after the first. the philippines has temporarily suspended all quarrying operations across the country off the two mining sites were hit by separate landslides within a week rescuers in the city of ny continue to search for possible survivors off to dozens of homes were buried by collapse mountain on thursday fourteen villages remain missing but hopes of finding them alive all fading jimmy duggan has more

from nada we are at the mass we held for some of those who died in the landslide this is right behind the mayor's office in the city of. incivil province. this is the body of nora cop way she died at five am when the landslide struck thursday morning. her husband is still fighting for his life while some of their grandchildren remain missing to this day. these are some of the members of the family are said no fifty year old female a boy. we've spoken to survivors to say they have been encouraging and asking the government to stop worrying operations they were aware of the danger but they had very little choice they did not want to leave the area because they've had that land for generations and now they feel they simply do not have any choice.

president for the good that they're to was here the other the and this call for quarrying operations across the country to be stopped for fifteen days. but many here feel what they want really is a full stoppage of quarrying operations in the area. so this is the. this is the company a family. father mother and children all died in the landslide. their caskets are covered because we were told that some of their body guards have already been dismembered. many of the residents who live in the area also work for the company now they feel the the price they had to flee with. more than one hundred fifty thousand homes in the canadian capital remain without power that's two days after two tornadoes calls widespread damage there the mayor of our tour says it could be days before electricity supplies are fully restored after the city

was left looking more like what he called a war zone the one hundred ninety kilometers per hour tornadoes stormed onto the neighboring province of quebec. a sri lanka's former president has accused the government a mismanaging the economy the rupee has plummeted against the dollar in recent months and inflation is at an all time high in alpha nando's reports from colombo their warden opened a big three in colombo six months ago bringing his savings and experience from working abroad he had big plans but his wife says an unstable economy increasing costs and a sliding rupee have made things very difficult we can't increase our prices each time gas prices increased off live increase because our customers know what price we offer certain items that so each time we come increasing thought as a result we absorb the cost the price increases have been many. huell sugar

even bus. commuters forced to fork out higher fares for the second time in four months. the way i got to doing it it may be a small increase in the fear but when you take the total cost it's a big amount for the money. to make matters worse for the struggling economy the sri lankan rupee has lost almost nine percent of its value against the dollar so far this year and worse is expected. the devaluation has a former president demanding to take over more confidence with them because from. where they are monitoring it is just radio i mean if you want to discuss. you want to. own the first thing is to only look for the operating profit. government ministers or dismissing rajapakse as complaints and say he's former

administration because the problems this from this year's get repayment eighty three percent or good. and of course we would have had to we have had to pay. lawns in order to set a previous visit. but while doing that while doing all this while grappling with my own good of the. we have also managed to bring me who. while the government and opposition trade accusations about schools to blame for the economic problems many sri lankans us struggling to make ends meet among them the war the nurses who are determined to stay afloat and make a go of their business despite the odds. al-jazeera colomba. a

chinese hospital ship has docked in venezuela are doctors on board the peace are will treat people for the next week before continuing an eleven nation tour last month the u.s. sent a hospital ship to neighboring colombia venezuela is experiencing a deepening economic crisis which is led to a shortage of food and medicine. a protest against falling living conditions remain widespread people blocked roads in san cristobal on friday they're angry at petrol shortages in the oil rich nation that we're tired of we've been waiting for days in line for the gas truck to arrive this is a country of gasoline and there's no gasoline cuomo said how do we go to work or produce for our family when we're here stuck and parked in a petrol station waiting to get fuel or the journalist peter dobson is based in venezuela he says people are waiting for reforms. well of the movement there's a series of economic changes being bored into place in the country and people are

generally feeling a little bit stressed because there's a lot of changes in their day to day life and that said people are very patient people are waiting to see and hoping that these economic reforms which the government have boarded how to decide impact and are able to stabilize the economy crisis so the feeling on the ground is is still a bit frustrated a bit a lot of the lot of shopping and changing the date they way that things that done but generally there is patience and generally there is understanding that some of these are quite necessary measures to just sort out the bigger problem it's worth pointing out that the series of measures which the government aborted not just a single measure there's a whole range of measures tax measures and other issues of a board in progress if the let's say so for example this month in september price of petrol prices are going to be increased the new wage comes into effect for public sector workers and so on the pension prices come in so the these are measures which people are getting used to. but it's taken later time obviously to

understand that and get used to them. and this is normal venezuelans are very patient people in this respect it's worth pointing out that the vast majority of venezuelans are very very quickly against the u.s. led sanctions against a country venezuelans generally understand that these sanctions are not helping the economic crisis or tour they're not helping any solution towards the economic problems which the country is facing and therefore any escalation in these sanctions which is what we're expecting to see what we mean the situation's going to get even more difficult here thanks to the white house and their policies a pope francis has paid tribute to lets you ania's who suffered and died during soviet and nazi occupations he is in the country as part of a three country baltic tour it is remembering the knee extermination of a centuries old jewish community there's a lot of pictures that. on saturday the vatican in the chinese government signed

a provisional deal to end the decades old dispute over the appointment of bishops in china as part of the agreement the pope will recognize the legitimacy of seven state to point to bishops china as long insisted they be appointed by the state while the vatican sees it as a papal decision this is not the end of a process it's really the beginning it's also important to remember that while it's come to fruition under pope francis. pope benedict have a letter to chinese catholics in two thousand and seven he was working for the same goal. john paul the second had made legitimate a number of illegitimately ordained bishops so this this is really the work of thirty years and three pontificates the objective of the accord is not political but it's pastoral what that means is that the faithful in in china that they have bishops who are in communion with the pope but at the same time recognized by the chinese authorities for us cable giant comcast has outfit rupert murdoch's fox in

a blind option for u.k. broadcast the sky it has twenty three million subscribers and the rights to broadcast premier league football and the entire h.b.o. catalogue that is made sky one of europe's most profitable t.v. companies come cos bid of twenty two dollars sixty cents a share gives sky a value of around forty billion dollars. jackson is a personal and business finance specialist she says the take of it is part of com cost push to go international. comcast. fox they're trying to get the market share back with from all the giants from netflix amazon sake and with the live streaming and so they're noticing there's a big hit in their viewership and their customer base so in order to be able to compete with those they have to move international so this merger with sky is definitely going to help them get back on the playing field they're going to be

able to get the market share and the resources a diff digital services especially with all the money that's being poured into it going into the united states markets within that so it's going to be a win win for the viewership internationally as well as with the united states and set other precedents i'm sure but other major mergers within that so it now allows them to compete with the likes of amazon netflix and apple house take it eighteen years to complete but a little bit of the vatican has made its way to south america mexico city will be opening its own replica of michelangelo's six sistine chapel work to the public this week it's been a labor of love for a retired graphic designer who painted the ceiling of his local church he relied on donations from friends and parishioners to finance the murals here's his story. you know many differences and i say yes my name is miguel francisco i.c.'s i am the

person that painted the replica of the sistine chapel here in mexico it took me eighteen years to finish it and today we are very happy celebrating easter within seconds to stick around. to make a title but i thought it took me to learn to love for years it's going to take me about six or seven but i didn't have any money on a lot longer. i did it so that many people who may never go to rome could have a little piece of european art a little of the renaissance of michelangelo the duke and admired one of the greatest and most beautiful works in the world. because. when you look in the. well you know people did not know what it was so they said how is this possible how come that our paintings of naked people in the church i showed them the pictures and people started to understand because they didn't know what the sistine chapel was. coming from with and as you can see the canvas is a very large they're full of detail i had to divide it into fourteen canvases three

metres by fifty metres. opiate it would be faced with if you could look at cupping is very difficult i mean very difficult because i have to walk in michelangelo's shoes do the same brush strokes so let me say this they said it's crazy are you crazy because really without help without being paid without nothing what are you going to do. it was. i'm very grateful to all the people who helped i would have done half of it on my own it's like you look at it that's the help i received from god i did not send engines with wings but young people who supported me and felt the same way i did. i'm not moved by money i need it but i don't do things to get money it's something inside something bigger than my work because this is a moral commitment i didn't sign any papers like i've said before this is not my work it is the work of god nothing else i'm just his instrument nothing more.

this is all just leave us to get a round up of the top stories voting is taking place in the maldives the the country's third multi party presidential election and it's seen as a test for democracy the president of the way i mean is running for a second term but since taking office he's been accused of silencing dissent and consolidating power iran's president is accusing the united states and some gulf countries of creating instability in his country by their support of ethnic arab groups there is comments come a day after an attack on a military parade which killed at least twenty five people and rouhani has warned the u.s. will regret its aggressiveness the u.n. humanitarian chief says yemen is approaching a tipping point with famine a major threat three quarters of the population that's about twenty two million

yemenis need some kind of humanitarian assistance because of the war israel has given people living in the palestinian village seven days to move out earlier this month israel supremes court approved its demolition to make way for illegal settlements about two hundred people live in the bedouin village of han and in the occupied west bank israel says the people there should tear down their homes or they'll be demolished after october the first chinese hospital ship was docked in venezuela doctors on board at the peace ark will treat people for the next week before continuing an eleven nation tour last month the u.s. sent a hospital ship to neighboring colombia u.s. cable giant comcast has outbid rupert murdoch's fox in a blind auction for sky the u.k. broadcaster has twenty three million subscribers it owns the u.k. rights to broadcast premier league football and the entire h.b.o. catalogue that's made it one of europe's most profitable t.v. companies comcast bid for twenty two dollars sixty cents a share give sky

a value of around forty billion dollars. those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's talk to al-jazeera. just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck city in one thousand nine hundred five. and the government moved. around seventy families who. still live in this camp. the government. is a major town. many people here think the government failed. this week. the biggest trading.

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this week. and this year. the phallus in full of through a special royal title to gain popular support despite accusations that his family had amassed billions of dollars of corruption money doing so have to rule i know nations willing to give and not a chance. to . give me the. money. so.

if you don't leave me obviously one of my sons i did a lot of my life to get back i don't think. you can hear. one of those. stupid world on the. other the only thing i'm very interested in the. united nations and also transparency international have sat that i have to have stolen more from the nation state than any other president has done and asked between fifteen billion to thirty five billion dollars is the estimate what do you say about that. nobody'd up. with a new young maybe i don't know a lot of the. swiss that's very good a lot of the somebody's got to. run the glass.

but at the gaps or than the. number that made a lot of them i don't. want to do. and they don't have very open on the issue that my dad had. corruption with debbie benn so. maybe it's about your bessie that knew that. a young young young man did at that minute and said i. got up. twenty years ago one thousand indonesians are estimated to have died during the riots that destroyed shopping malls and homes in the capital jakarta at least eighteen ethnic chinese women were raped the bloodshed began after the asian

financial crisis caused the currency and the stock market to crash the unrest asking me to twenty all just shot for students at the university military and political leaders sad so has to have lost his grip and abandoned him politically isolated to step down on may twenty first one thousand nine hundred eighty. four. was thank you very much of one of the doubt i've see on the bike the number on my leg so i am what i'm going to be several that must be at it and that i am. up in the. but. i don't need to and i did i just had a fancy to see william bringing up a body. but some of the. time that we. and i'm among them better than you that we have but that's to me that's not a real. class. home. to the

needy. some of them in the military been the when the that was going to be what am i this well but i said. but when we go back to maine one thousand nine hundred eight and your father was forced to step down do you remember what was the situation right then and what were you feeling. it's a get out my money. schemata yes that we keep that going to. be the best but let's made it the pond. and i put the bee but i'm not going to. get any and women get asked. to go up and i'm like i don't to begin libby. may be because he has put the money that he got up there that didn't look very. good dialogue. in the mission of the. c.d.c.

. when i see that i'm among. that. i'm going to begin. then. i could get equipment and. so you're saying this whole thing was organized august rated so who is behind it so that they're. what i think a lot of help. so i bet i know here young. men that i you know i did a lot but i mean after all of that and i. think. that. you have to. they have been accusations against former general bull has actually been a presidential candidate in two thousand and fourteen that he was behind a finance is that true. but i looked up and i've.

given it up when. i got on line and up on that he said he said. but no idea. do that do that and i did that we did that but we did. what then. and did the. and i did ninety eight exactly twenty years ago thousands of people students took to the street all asking for the resignation of your father don't you think i really wanted him to go yeah i don't know your very own if that's the stuff that for the masses what about motive but we didn't want all of this idea and we came up. the masses. going like a. solar wind up and every part repressive about it but i'll. give up on all of. them up and then when we win europe we see that as i was caught

up in the bad it up on with a house. following so i have to say resignation times of thousands of students demanded justice for they sat where human rights violations and widespread corruption more than one million indonesians died during mass killings during his rule in the one nine hundred sixty s. thousands of us were jailed without any legal process. despite the demands for justice and the return of the billions he and his children were accused of stealing from the state the former strongman was never brought to court the united nations and transparency international the clear so have to have stolen more state assets any other world leader known after so hostis down in two thousand and eight supreme court judge's order to his family to repay nearly four hundred million dollars that money taken from state companies was transferred to private suharto foundations

register a scholarship profiled us the money has yet to be returned. if the government for example would establish a team to go look for all this money for all these billions of dollars what would you say. yeah i see that i'm going to know how to but that's not saying that i must have but i didn't want to do that but i thought what the it was the money issue politically and was we put them in the block and then there is the verdict against the foundations to still have to foundations and you are ordered to pay back four hundred million u.s. dollars by the supreme court in two thousand and fifteen until now no money has been returned. there but i've never believed it but. yes and the beat up on the mayor. so i mean nobody. is going to do you want to be said. you know double number yes and it's also the.

on the message. that he but i don't not that one hundred that it will mean that we're going to have everybody. else that i'm sort of debris coming up on this one. than that but i think that my understanding that i am the interest i think that young man with i guess to the level being the. most about the meet the ideal. among young women that it's a long time that especially. now that the bible you know if. i get. to that doesn't mean maybe it will be happening. in the past twenty years has become one of most vibrant democracy with regular elections down to the lowest level of government even if speech vocal protest on the street.

or why didn't the gap between rich and poor has become the main focus of the opposition parties including those you form work parties. to join coming that the young in and mumbai cricket and my son that any young kid that's a bit over two thousand. pharmacy we can be better. than. the tongue and we get to seven and i had. i don't think i've been set on the technique you can. read about it because you know when you see. in a moment to economically and then. you tell a no let me read a it and then play it. by going

don't you think too many people are still traumatized by the presidency and the policies of president to hostile and they won't vote for your party got i don't know i don't want to be and i was and i don't. see that in order but i don't invent. it is. my when i go into it i'm only to discover what exactly do people miss from the time so fast and so hard to come. up with this and i said no it is more the end economy you know but then we'll be back. again. how did i go but i knew that would be the jungle but many indonesians would say that the reforms have given them more freedoms this democracy there are elections now do you really think they want to give that up give us the what about it that. would be more pressing both slept i wouldn't.

do that then i'd only begin to make money. on the major.