in the u.s. for a showdown between a supreme court nominee and the woman who's accused him of sexual assault both are expected sestak filing before a senate judiciary committee on thursday christine blasi forward says brett kavanaugh assaulted her at a party in one thousand nine hundred two when they were high school students he denies the allegations the trumpet ministration is continuing to offer strong support for mr cavanaugh. civil rights groups in the u.s. are calling for the removal of police from schools they usually room the school hallways but a new study shows a growing number of attacks the children they are supposed to protect is highly jocasta. these are not the images you would expect from school you know remember a police officer responsible for keeping students safe has put one in a choke hold the reason the boy's friends say was because he turned an orange at a wall when you're in the hallways isn't atmosphere of tension and slight worry and fear the incident in philadelphia in two thousand and sixteen sparked

student protests and demands to remove police from the city's public schools the school district spends thirty million dollars a year on police deploying about three hundred fifty officers across some two hundred campuses the philadelphia student union says that creates a militant environment in feel like oh i have to put on this may i have to make sure. you know. i'm not acting out of character for doing anything that's considered to be you know bad i go in philadelphia's public school district eighty five percent of students are of color and black students are three and a half times more likely to be over arrested or referred to police officers than white students advocates point of that as a sign of the existence of a school to prison pipeline where minorities are criminalized at a young age and then continue. the land behind bars as adults. a spokeswoman for

philadelphia school district declined an interview but said in a statement that the safety of students and staff is top priority meanwhile an alliance of educational justice groups reports that across the u.s. school police have assaulted students at least twenty four times in the past two years we want to public education system that actually is positive and that. and that reflects the best of all of us in our students and black students that we need to have police should not be in the question but in reality the opposite is happening the state of florida recently required all schools to have armed security in response to high school shooting that left seventeen people dead in february how do you keep american schools safe and school shootings if you get rid of all the police officers please don't make us feel safe. police don't protect black and brown students students have

a different vision of what school safety looks like to these students that vision is replacing police with counselors having students work with each other to resolve conflicts and teaching coping skills they say the first step to keeping schools safe is keeping the fear of police brutality out heidi joe castro al-jazeera philadelphia. steve perry is an american educator and founder of capital prep schools in new york and connecticut he joins us live steve perry clearly teachers and police the police are not teachers so what's going on here. was going on is that the teachers and principals have lost control of their schools then oh sure cuts just to an environment of loving support the teachers within the school need to create a space where the students understand they love support and are respected the way in which you do that is not to call cops you have to build a relationship with students if you have a new school you have to put together a lesson plan as that show that you want the best from them so you have higher

expectations of their academic performance and they have the part of the committee in a to you can't just drop in parachute in and then head out as soon as the school days done you have to make sure you're part of the community go into the community show the respect that this community deserves is there an assumption here and who's taking who's making the assumption is the assumption that if your a white school or university student you don't need to be policed but if you come from a minority background you do need to be policed by a policeman or a policewoman. so it's interesting generally speaking i would say yes in fact you would feel you'd be hard pressed to find an elite private school in united states that has police they have troubles to but they don't have police you'd be hard pressed to find many suburban schools that have a large police presence however it florida's a not liar in that they've had a horrible incident recently and florida is a southern state and they also have their issues with law and justice but generally speaking what you find throughout the united states is that students of color are

the ones that are most often policed patted down and have their bags run through every single day and cities in which we have schools the other high schools not our school the other high schools that are in in those communities actually have students waiting to get into school each day sometimes thirty to forty minutes so that they can be patted down every single day ok here's the thing though if the police in american schools are being used as of today. fooling short of the root and branch reform that you're talking about is there a plan b. that would extract those police who have to take a judgment on a day to day basis ideally without being judged mental because of the ethnicity of the students they're working with that makes the children feel as you say they should feel and it also keeps them safe there are no shortcuts the police are not the problem the are rarely going to be the person defense police officers who make bad decisions but the police are not calling themselves and this is these are

teachers and principals calling the police and to restrain children because they have lost control of the children these very same children another academic settings do justified so if those teachers and those principles and those schools can't control the children then they should not be in the positions that they're bred either the children should be freed from the failed school systems within which they're end or the teachers and principals who can do the job need to quit steve perry and westhaven the thank you very much. thank you still ahead here on the news hour for you. you can you can challenge it it's called out. during competition heats up as europe takes on the world on the tennis court. to president trump finding asylum in the us has become harder than ever i am put in place a zero tolerance policy if you are going

a child then we will prosecute you and that child may be separated from you thousands of families escaping violence at home now face separation detention and deportation as the u.s. closes its doors no shelter on now. and monday pointed world on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the work.

we always pose for far with the sports thank you so much peter tiger woods will be in action shortly just eighteen holes stand between the american and his first p.g.a. tour title win in five years and fourteen time major champion leads by three strokes into the final round the door championship and atlanta woods reeled off six very nice and his first seven holes as he went five under par for the day it's the best chance of victory since returning to golf after four back surgeries. well simple simple math says you know if i play clean card the guys behind me have to shoot sixty seventy four center extra and towards that helps you know i don't have to shoot sixty three or four and hope i get help you know that's that's

a big difference and. this is a spot i have rather be and certainly for five back wearing mcelroy and world number one justin rose are woods as close as challengers heading into that final round all three will be playing in the upcoming ryder cup when the united states defend their title against europe the event is taking place in france for the first time we wellington's reports. it's a dramatic buy a new showdown the twelve plus golfers in the united states against the best you know what a couple is become a big deal but not in france until now. to those who don't associate france with golf so i can't i'm heavily just outside paris was a surprising choice so why is the top of a big plate here the man in charge of the event is pascal grizel i think that we were the only be the to support the development of the game we are the only country

in europe was increase the number of the young girl in the country and that's why we wanted to have the right to go to break this stupid image of elitist in france. this is their big pops only chance to show the gulf can change its image one hundred of these compact cheaper less time consuming courses including this one a few kilometers from the venue have been built since the bought a cup decision seven years ago but in france the vodka cup is not very well known no i don't think so except within the golf world of course but like on average people won't know what the right if. it's surely new for them i guess. in front. of his not popular we have too many misconceptions i'm going fortunately golf is a wonderful sport but maybe it's a bit expensive. it could make it more democratic. the french public want to have

a french player to cheer but thomason of a part of the winning team in two thousand and four told me it won't affect the atmosphere rather radhika you smile you shout you cry you enjoy it sometimes you win sometimes you lose brings all these emotions to you so i hope to probe the french public will join for a difference to know at the border and then go out to cheer for the team. sixty thousand tickets for each of the three days some time over forty percent of the french public and there will be plenty of support for the resurgent tiger woods in his first one to cup the six years it's not often i get to see the game superstar and the last time i've i played in paris i think it was ninety four ninety four so it's been awhile since i've played in paris but i've been there for a number of times this is going to be. and work week. but also then again it's going to be a very fun work week i'm here the first day is where the nerves will really start

to grip for the world's top golfers because the roar of the cup brings a special calling depression whether or not this turns out to be the only time he's fighting fronts it's certainly promises to be memorable they welling's al-jazeera and the gulf national. everyway champion and josh west says dante wilder is the number one choice for his next fight josh was already planning ahead after his latest successful title defense the enemy in britain knocked out russia's alexander payne that can in round seven at london's wembley stadium to retain his three championship belts it was the first time back and had been stopped in his career. well the best tennis players in europe are taking on a world team at the laver cup in chicago but with john mcenroe in charge of the world team the umpires are also facing a big challenge because you can you could jonesey gets called out because it's although you know it was a good you refuse to be called even please no really really trying that route is

going to. that was mcenroe standing out for his team's nick curious over a dispute line call as the australian struggle of the against roger federer federer kept his cool through though to win this match in straight sets. the mood in the europe count was upbeat going into late singles match between novak djokovic and kevin anderson but it didn't last long south african lost to jock a bitch in the wimbledon final and was clearly determined to get his own back anderson winning two cents to one the world team won the doubles too but they still trail europe seven five heading into the last day of competition. the video system referee was in full effect during the italian syria game between interval and sam doria three goals were disallowed thanks to var including this late effort from sampdoria or a different rule to be offside nothing wrong though with a marcello which is injury time winner for enter one mail a final score. and that's all your sport found me back with more later but for now

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general assembly of the united nations because it was so many nationalities. just different places but it's one that gives us and gives us the ability to identify people when the other side of the world but we can understand what it's like to have a different perspective and i think that is a strength for al-jazeera. iran's revolutionary guard unfit guessable vengeance over the attack on a military parade as accusations fly around the world. again peter will be here in doha you are watching on to zero also coming up a long long wait to vote in the maldives polling was extended for several hours in

an election many are questioning. the brakes if it continues now the u.k.'s main opposition labor party says the prime minister should go to the polls with a general election. and the call to get police of us schools a report says there's bias and brutality against some groups. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley is rejecting iran's finger pointing at washington over a deadly parade attack she says iranian leaders should look closer to home the iranian president hassan rouhani is clear who he blames the revolutionary guard is vowing revenge for the attack on that military parade the fallout is reporting worldwide diplomats have been summoned by iranian officials after twenty five people were killed when a gunman opened fire in the southern city of. iran's foreign minister summoned the emma roxy shanshu to fair following a tweet by a prominent iraqi political scientist which said the attack was quote not an act of

terrorism envoys from the u.k. the netherlands and even denmark of also being called into the foreign ministry in tehran their governments accused of harboring opposition groups to gulf countries are being blamed for backing the group which carried out the attack senior iranian military officers are pointing fingers at saudi arabia while the president says the u.s. . is intent on creating instability while before leaving for the united nations general assembly in new york mr rouhani accused u.s. backed gulf arab states of providing financial and military support for anti government ethnic arab groups the united nations kuwait and qatar all condemning the attack is in basra he joins us live now from tehran in amongst the claim and counterclaim zain has the government in tehran presented as yet any evidence. well peter the people we've spoken to have said that there is material evidence to

point to the fact that these organizations do get for backing. public statements for instance made by the united states in support of a separatist group known as the m e k they'll point to evidence that they have that many of the people that they've arrested and interrogated were say that they have been trained in for instance the united arab emirates or saudi arabia and now the government is especially the security services are very secretive and we don't have for instance any sort of public display of video evidence or anything of that nature but the government is convinced that these groups have long been backed by foreign entities and in the same breath that they blamed. the group that carried out this attack they also blamed who they feel are responsible for supporting separate two screw ups including them and like them and so the iranian government

really putting out a very strong verbal assault in defense of of their claim that this attack wasn't just a singular entity even though initial reports from members of this group said that they were solely responsible without any aid from any sort of foreign entity and so when president hassan rouhani goes to the united nations general assembly in new york he no doubt will be taking this message and this attack here in tehran just a day before his departure will no doubt color the mission in the message of the iranian delegation. what's the chance that when he gets to new york say that it has a conversation with nikki haley the starting point for the iranians might be look we want to talk about grievances we want to talk about the impact of these deaths one hundred fifty hundred forty five kilometers from the border with iraq but they won't hear what they may be need to hear from nikki haley because she's saying look you've got to look closer to home. well wouldn't that be

a wonderful thing for ronnie and americans to sit down and discuss regional and national security together but i can tell you that what we've been hearing from iranian officials over and over again is that at least publicly perhaps not through back channels perhaps that's a different sort of conversation but at least publicly it is very unlikely that any iranian official will sit down with a member of the trump administration there's a great deal of there's a huge trust deficit especially since the united states pulled out since donald trump pulled the united states out of the nuclear deal in sort of iranian officials have really no faith in any american official from the from the white house of president tried donald trump to have any sort of meaningful discussion about issues in the region and in so far as looking closer to home certainly iran does have issues with separatist groups but again many of the iranian officials and analysts and observers we speak to point to very open public support especially among

members of this white house for separatist groups that are acting against the interests of iran and so the likely conversation we can only assume will will end in yet another stalemate if it even happens ok zain many thanks. the polls are closing in the mold eaves in a presidential election widely seen as a test for democracy not to be extended for an extra three hours after long queues formed outside polling centers many opponents of the current president are in exile and the european union decided not to send election observers and it's got topless as the story. it was all smiles as president abdullah i mean and his main rival ibrahim mohammad sali cost the balance and something's pulled. eumenes critics accuse him of acting as a strongman imprisoning exalting political rivals the election lucking transparency there's no credible election observers in maldives at the moment because all the

democracy democratic countries as well the. european union decided that the government had not been obliging that the government had not been doing requesting what they have requested to do the right of the elections that is to. free the party does. by supreme court of february first but none of these things happened so they decided that they would not observe this election and give any credibility to this election and those critics questioning because of the election would be free and fair so they were proved right on saturday the eve of the poll security police raided the headquarters of the main opposition the mole deep democratic party this latest crackdown to start with the only viable alternative to president putin progressive party doesn't sign is a position supporters they say the election was a referendum over the multis continues to slide towards authoritarianism and even

the believe undismayed had been forced to come here i did not mean that as you can't think that they would look good to have anything below here because they want to me because i want to change they found my niche because they believe that maybe they didn't see me it's not me and said look at me look you voters in the capital mali queue to cause the ballot so i'm cautiously optimistic that change is still possible i'm just going to take this my nights and i'm going to vote and i'm hoping that we have a free and fair election. there are only a quarter million registered voters in the mold to use your position say the big to read prison. and his reelection for another five years is a foregone conclusion. alex the top lists are. well in last hour i spoke with the former president mohamed nasheed the maltese first democratically elected leader and he says he is confident the opposition candidate will defeat

president i mean i think the president is going to go through this process i do not think that he is going to win this evening voting is very. overwhelming we have an exit poll. and we are doing over sixty so this is very good and even if the president. it will be enough. majority i think i believe that we are going to get through tonight. if the president. would. request the international community. not to accept the results instantly to have a look at it to see what. and to see also what's been announced the polling booths can be ready to different results. jeff recently more heat is

the deputy permanent representative in geneva for the multitudes who disputes the exit poll cited by the former president mohamed nasheed and accuses him of using sensationalism to gonna support and there's a host of accusations that was made by your former guest the former president and what we saw from those. descriptions was an incredibly sensational thread rick that has no basis in the reality on the ground he talked about exit polls we don't have exit polls in the maldives we don't have any independent polls in the maltese we know for a fact that there's been a massive amount of support for the government as well and the fact that he's coming out now and saying that oh if we win it's a free and fair election but if the government win then it must be corruption this is the fallacy that the president is not going to lose he has created so much infrastructure projects provided so much for the people the mahdi have brought them out of poverty more so than any other president in the history of our nation you

have people who are committed and dedicated to this president as well and of course the only way that the opposition can fight this is by using that and fishless rhetoric that you heard that does not have a basis in reality that's the only way that they can galvanize people to come to their support. to europe britain's main opposition labor party is pushing for a general election today as talks hit a stalemate labor party leader jeremy corbyn is sounding of the views of labor party members at the annual conference in the city of liverpool e.u. leaders rejected prime minister series of plans at a summit in salzburg three days ago she says talks of reached an impasse with just six months to go before breaks it is supposed to happen this government doesn't seem very strong it is looking into directions at the same time the one hundred trade deal with the usa in the other hand some kind of relationship with europe and we could well be looking towards a general election and you know what we're ready for our preference would be for a general election and we can and negotiate our future relationships with europe

but let's see what comes out of conference post to you live to paul brennan who's in liverpool with the labor party conference is taking place paul good afternoon. pols not listening to us never mind we'll try to go back to poll if we can in the next few minutes still to come on al-jazeera is like telling struggling to survive with no let up in the war yemenis are forced to take extreme measures just to stay alive. hello again it's good to have you back all this hour we are going to start here across the philippines because we are watching more rain coming in over the next few days unfortunately you had a very nice stretch of drier conditions but because there is a typhoon out in the pacific.