so the top also that moscow was making a series of mistakes in a russian television interview that drew ridicule internationally as well as in russia two men said they were the pair in the security camera images but that they were just tourists who wanted to see the city's famous cathedral but i live in the us though you put a group of students what we're witnessing is an increase in unsubstantiated rhetorical about the source free of fear at the same time the u.k.'s stubbornly avoiding the joint investigation with all for the several times the question arises if they don't want to cooperate does this mean they have something to hide we call upon london once again to start a constructive dialogue in order to get to the truth london dismisses those comments as an effort to deflect attention from its findings and these pictures will doubtless add i mean ition to the assertion that moscow ordered an assassination on british soil will reach alan's al-jazeera moscow all right plenty more ahead on this news hour without a trace

a long wait for iraqi families waiting to hear about the fate of their loved ones detained by government forces. later in sporting events extend their winning streak in the italian league details coming up with andy. so all are still ahead but in the next hour donald trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and his first accuser will appear in front of the u.s. senate judiciary committee there are a rival demonstrations underway in washington right now in support of and against cavanagh and with the political firestorm growing there even trump now says he could change his mind if the evidence is compelling enough castro reports from washington. even as u.s. president donald trump tried to deal with the issue of weapons of mass destruction at the u.n. security council his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh was being accused again

of teenage sexual abuse behavior julie sweat next as kevin and his friends organized alcohol and drug filled parties in the early one nine hundred eighty s. just so they could gang rape girls including her the president of the united states trumka called this yet another example of democratic party dirty tricks why didn't they bring this right at the beginning during the hearing you would have had all the time in the world for the f.b.i. it would have been fine now the f.b.i. as you know did investigate this time as they have five or six other times and they did a very thorough investigation but cavanagh's joining the high court once considered a sure thing has become less certain in the last two weeks and some of that uncertainty is now coming from the president himself julie sweat nick is the third woman by name to accuse kavanagh of teenage sexual abuse never ramirez says cavanagh exposed himself to her while they were first year students at yale and

christine blazin ford says cavanagh try to force himself on her and that she feared he could kill her when they were both in high school the senate judiciary committee is also investigating two other reports that cavanagh abused women last week trump questioned whether blazin ford is telling the truth the results of a polygraph test she took in august suggest that she is but now as laws before prepares to repeat her story before the senate judiciary committee on thursday trump says he will give her testimony a fair hearing in that it could change his support for kavanaugh oh it's possible i'll hear that and i'll say hey i'm changing my mind that is possible. in light of growing anger among u.s. women over the cavanagh case the twelve republican senators all men won't be direct . questioning laws a ford they brought in a woman prosecutor from arizona to do that democrats on the panel and in the chamber at large say the hearing shouldn't even be happening until the f.b.i.

can investigate if our republican colleagues rush to proceed without an investigation it would be a travesty for the honor of the supreme court and the honor of our country where at any rate brett kavanaugh says he's not withdrawing his nomination and that the latest allegations are straight out of the twilight zone but with five weeks to go before congressional elections republicans may have to decide which they want more their preferred man on the supreme court or keeping control of congress heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington for richard goodstein is a democratic political consultant and former advisor to president bill clinton he says time is running out for kavanaugh on the republicans if he that withdraws or is voted down. it seems unlikely that the republicans would have enough time in in

this year before the next congress is sworn in in early january of two thousand and nineteen to have somebody whose name is floated investigated by the f.b.i. have hearings and etc everything that that cabinet has gone through i don't think there's enough time and what the republicans fear is that in these elections coming up in november the united states that control the senate could go into democratic hands right now it's a fifty one forty nine republican majority so if the democrats picked up two to be in the majority of themselves not an easy task because there are many more democrats at risk if they control the senate people like who are ideologues like brett kavanaugh will not be confirmed and either donald trump will have to propose moderates which the republicans throw a fit about or leave a seat on the supreme court vacant maybe for two years and then the fear is of a democrat succeeds donald trump the next person would be able to put in a a justice handpicked by the democrats so that's the that's the fear. dozens of

iraqi men and young boys have disappeared in the last four years and many blame pro-government forces the families of those missing say not enough is being done to help them find out what happened rob matheson reports from baghdad. cradled in the arms of distraught mothers photographs of missing iraqi men and boys their families say they vanished from nineveh province as pro-government forces hunted down eisel flight hose and their supporters and that the men have almost the security forces have taken two of my sons going to a geisha after liberating us from eisel we keep calling on the government for help but it seems there is no hope. in twenty fourteen i saw swept across the western provinces of nineveh and anbar some sonny's opposed to the country's shia dominated government a settler been fighting alongside eisel or simply giving it support the. iraqi troops fought back aided by armed groups many of them

a shia who backed the government i saw fighters were either killed or detained some accused of supporting eisel have vanished. their families are demanding answers and even though no one would say that we keep asking if my sons were forced to sign and confess to something they did not do if they are that we want to bury them if they're alive we need to see them human rights watch says it knows of at least seventy eight cases where men and boys have been what it calls forcibly disappeared international law defines in force detention as they arrest of a person by the state or with the knowledge of the state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the arrest or a refusal to save the person is but it also says the state has a responsibility to investigate allegations of unforced attention and to prosecute those responsible. some of those detained have been released. others like here in anbar province of come home in coffins. oh

my god a conspicuous emal the security forces told us my sons would be released in days now it has been three years i call on the speaker the prime minister the government to find where my sons are. the government in anbar says it set up a committee to investigate but that it's proving hard to find all the missing men are drawn down. so far we have not been able to locate them the central government is still investigating these cases we have a local government want this solved these women say it's bad enough to have lost someone it's even worse not knowing if they were alive or dead rob matheson al jazeera back to. incoming government says it is going to investigate the disappearance of forty three students in the southern city of equality in the option and suspected killings of the students four years ago was one of the worst crisis during the term of outgoing president enrique pena nieto john heilemann

reports from mexico city. flicker of hope for those still campaigning for justice in a case that's outraged many mexicans it's the fourth anniversary of the night that forty three students were kidnapped by police in collusion with a gang they became symbols of the tens of thousands of missing in the country the slow moving and deeply flawed government investigation into the tragedy also became symbolic of the fishermen different worlds of disappeared. the students' parents have never given up their fight for answers now a new government is about to take power there into belief that things could change . it's the first day in four years that we feel hope the first day that the government says yes i'm going to help you yes we'll get to the truth that's why we're content and have our hearts full of hope of the. president elect and his

mother his or her daughter met with the parents made the right noises proposing a new committee to take charge of the case and invite him back international experts say their investigation was blocked oh really. i believe that justice will come and it will strengthen not weaken our institutions when we all know what really happened with the young people ah and when the guilty up punished. those marching to mark the anniversary won't let him forget his promises you know outgoing government's reaction to the tragedy of the students really marked the point where it fell from grace and it never recovered now it's going to be a big task andres manuel lopez obrador once he takes power how it goes with this but also with the more than thirty thousand disappeared in the country and the record levels of violence so many stories echo hilda's she and a husband have given up their former lives to true jails army barracks moved to mass graves and search for their son says he seen as either of them turn or

it's been really difficult it's painful and frustrating we're angry about all the impunity. for her and tens of thousands of others the worst thing is simply the not knowing the hope is that in this case the parents and the country might finally get closer to the truth john homewood how does it a mystery sit in. a un human rights council report is highlighting concerns over cambodia's recent election in which the ruling cambodian people's party won all one hundred twenty five seats before the vote the main opposition party was dissolved and its candidates jailed the year. and special report turned around a smith says this calls into question the genuineness of the vote she says she's particularly concerned by reports that voters were threatened and intimidated after they called for a boycott smith says it was encouraging to see opposition figures like her released

from jail but noted that they remain under judicial supervision special rapporteur is calling on cambodia's government to make concerted efforts to improve human rights and the author of the report spoke to us earlier. my concern leads to the fact that the. constitution and the national law should be a moti party a liberal democracy and the movement is to fight to a one party state i also am concerned a new meaning concerned at the arrests and detentions of a number of political life tears during the lead up to the election notwithstanding the belief that you mentioned in your opening remarks i think there was an atmosphere in which there is a crackdown on civil society and political space in. relation p.d.s. i think it's certainly not an easy place to be a human race defender or to be a journalist at the moment in cambodia so i do think it does impede freedom of

expression freedom of assembly in association. all rights germany we just heard has won the rights to host the euro twenty twenty four football championships to be turkey and a vote held by the european games governing body u.a.e. for just a few moments ago it will be the first time germany has hosted the continent's international football tournament as a unified country and west germany stage three of the torment back in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight has been to get a live update on that a little bit later in the program. former president has been buried in his home province after a state funeral was held earlier on thursday in the capital hanoi tranda died on friday from a rare virus when he reports from hanoi. during a brief service in vietnam capital hanoi those closest to the late president in his

private and professional lives said goodbye. family members of trent dyke communist party leaders government officials filled the national. a list. it was also a special moment for those on the outside who still played a big part in the service. to serve the state funeral of the president is a big honor for me and the staff and all vietnamese humbled to witness the funeral . was just sixty one when he died the government said he was the victim of a rare virus you rose to the top of vietnamese politics through a career in the ministry of public security he appeared to bring that background to the presidency as you have a saw a crackdown on dissent this is quite understandable because not only was he in that position. of public security but he had grown up in

this. he also supported closer ties with the united states to u.s. presidents during his brief tenure moving closer to washington was perhaps a deliberate move in response to vietnam's tension with china over territorial disputes in the south china sea the. means that vietnam now has its first female head of state with vice-president dunky nocturne moving up to be acting president the national assembly is due to begin its next session on the twenty second of october and that's when a new president. maybe elected. the late president kwan's last journey was in a long motorcade out of hanoi and to the south he was born and raised in a small community in indian province which is also his final resting place wayne hay al-jazeera hanoi let's get the weather now and his staff looking at the mediterranean this time where we've got some pretty violent weather developing

let's take a look at what's going on them because in the eastern part of europe it's suddenly got very cold so this is what it looked like this morning in hungary you can see the frost there that's developed on the plants clearly it is cold there i'm not lying and the leading edge of that cold air is now here across parts of northern turkey so if the bowl is also seeing some rather cooler conditions than we've got used to it's also a little bit cloudy and rather wet as well and that cool air has also pushed further south across parts of the mediterranean and you can see the thunderstorms that have developed because of that and what's happened is you've got the cold air working across the rather warm sea and as you might remember from your physics classes warm air rises so that will cause the air by the ground to rise and then we get the thunderstorms forming and now we've got something developing within this cluster of thunderstorms you can see this blog here on our forecast map gradually rotating and then we see this sort of closed cell developing now it's very similar

to one her a combined the time it's formed but being in the mediterranean where we don't quite have the right conditions to be a proper hurrican we call leave medications no i didn't make that up but it is a cross between the words mediterranean and hurricane and there's great uncertainty to where this is going but it looks like it's heading northeast it will bring it damaging winds and flooding rains as as well. thanks steph nasty but still ahead on edge is it a handling more than traffic can get a stone's pioneering women get behind the wheel to drive through stigma. a transport find out who's likely to be paired with tiger woods at the ryder cup and he's here with that story. were. i have almost my entire professional life to the bench and then try it against corruption and what i have heard is that we

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again you're watching i just need a reminder of our top stories this hour the israeli and palestinian leaders will go before the united nations general assembly both expected to outline their position on the conflict in the region peace efforts at their lowest point in years. i want to the two suspects in the nerve agent attack in the u.k. has been identified as a russian military officer who received an on off from president vladimir putin investigative group belling katz says these photos prove the man named as the last line of bullshit all of these anatoly. donald trump supremes court nominee brett kavanaugh and his first accuser christine ford will appear in front of the senate judiciary committee a number of women have now accused cavanagh's sexual assault trial now says he could change his mind if the evidence is compelling enough. or roslyn jordan

looks at why christine the food and other alleged victims often face public backlash. those who know christine bossie ford say she never wanted to go public with her allegation that in one thousand nine hundred two a teenage brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her and that was a forethought during the attack he could kill her cavanaugh the supreme court justice nominee denies the allegation indeed the psychology professor told the washington post she was afraid no one would believe her affair concern especially since the president of the united states has weighed in first on camera as you know just a stabbing or since it is very very tough as a family i think it's a very unfair thing what's going on and then on twitter if the attack on dr ford was as bad as she says charges would have been immediately filed with local law

enforcement authorities according to the justice department only about twenty three percent of sexual assault victims ever go to the police psychology professor jennifer fried says that in response perpetrators routinely attack their accuser's credibility and i think it is a mean reason that women and victims of sexual violence are unwilling to speak about what happened tonight my name is anita after hill fried's research was inspired by the one nine hundred ninety one confirmation hearing of clarence thomas in which anita hill accused him of sexual harassment that's her job i was the chair of the judge's sciri committee at the time but senate rules did not let him stop senators from attacking hill i'm sorry i couldn't have stopped the kind of attacks that came to me but i never attacked my supporters after trump nominated kavanaugh lossie for it sent a call financial letter about the alleged assault to senator dianne feinstein that

has republicans accusing blocky ford of playing politics with kavanagh's future but a law professor says blazin ford has the right to demand justice at those rights are not useful to them if to accuse someone. attempted rape means to be subject to harassment death threats. being plagued by media christine bossy ford and her family are in hiding thanks to death threats the debate about growth cavanaugh's character grows more vigorous no time yet for blogs and forward to decide whether speaking out has been worth it for the country or for herself. rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. or back to vents at the united nations though president trumps comments dominated the security council meeting on wednesday the main focus of the discussion was chemical biological and nuclear weapons it's been at the heart of several tense meetings in recent years

but those discussions have rarely resulted in action my can explains. this is the most exclusive political club in the world the high stakes table in the united nations to get a permanent seat in the game requires a unique buy in nuclear capability the issue under discussion with president trump in the chair the five permanent members were not only allies at the end of the second world war but were also nuclear powers no permanent members have been added since each of these five wields of veto so any resolution one opposes is simply not passed even if there's an absolute majority in the fifteenth seed council what the sometimes means the body is unable to carry out its prime function the maintenance of international peace and security yes or no the veto was used

regularly during the cold war period resulting in heightened instead up decreasing tensions the only unity in the council between the blocks of east and west the us able to rely on the absolute support top its p five allies france and the united kingdom. in recent times have been a flurry of vetoes in the council particularly over issues like syria where the permanent five members have opposing agenda. but there's one sharp difference now a u.s. administration under president trump that can no longer rely on the unquestioning support of old friends i think that trumps isolationism is making even staunch u.s. allies like france and the u.k. start to think about the need to work with china more than needs to prepare. to work without the us on a lot of issues you see a gradual but real drift apart among the western powers here

a possibly unforeseen consequence of the trompe and decision to go it alone the rise of china as a prominent potentially dominant force within the united nations and beyond mike hanna al-jazeera united nations argentina has received the biggest loan package ever from the international monetary fund it's been struggling to repay its debts and the steep interest rates argentina's economy. both are incompetent and something like. a guru. is. strengthening this position and having this thing to go appropriate on the budget. and strong monetary policy focus on reducing. global exchange rate policy we don't know in advance. now what began as

a simple search engine is now a global technology giants but as google celebrates twenty years its power and involvement in our lives has also led to concerns over issues like privacy some say it's a far cry from the company's original motto don't be evil rob reynolds reports from california. this is what google's search page looked like the day it was launched and this is the company's first headquarters with founders larry page and sergey brin twenty years later google's enormous success has given it this huge ever expanding silicon valley headquarters known as the googleplex page and brin are multi-billionaires and google knows a lot about us they know who you are they know a lot about your habits they know what kind of videos he watch they know how many emails he gets they are very large an important part of most people's daily lives

it's search engine process is three and a half billion requests per day or one point two trillion a year that information is power google uses the information to lucratively target advertising to customers the more they know about you the more the can market you to advertisers a collection of activities in what we do every day. you know one of the rules or the role of government when when a company collects in a mass that much information in the u.s. google like other big tech companies is largely unregulated regarding what they do with the information they collect the idea that these companies will suffer regularly is as laughable and i think it's been shown that as insufficient that may be changing in congressional hearings this week lawmakers discussed a federal internet privacy law to regulate big tech companies behavior the european union has taken a stricter line passing sweeping new online privacy rules and recently levying

heavy multibillion dollar fines on google for anti-competitive practices google's corporate culture appears to be changing earlier this year google quietly dropped its famous motto don't be evil from its corporate code of conduct in april three thousand google employees signed up a to. demanding the company in its partnership with the pentagon called project maven that uses images and artificial intelligence to improve drone strike accuracy on the battlefield google now says it will not with its pentagon contract when it expires in two thousand and nineteen in just two decades google has made itself practically indispensable in the lives of billions of people what it will do with its information power and wealth over the next twenty years is something that should concern each one of them rob reynolds al-jazeera mountain view california let's bring in john biggs in new york he's

a reporter at tech crunch thanks very much for being with us now you know a company has gotten incredibly big when it's become part of the. english language that it gets its own verb you know as in googling this and googling that that's not an entirely reassuring thought though is it well i mean look google is our is our second brain it just kind of hangs out behind us if we need some information we don't consult an encyclopedia we don't go to library more we just google it so for that utility that they get with that we get out of the product it's fairly powerful and just to pick up on. the point that was made there in the in rob reynolds report from the scene at editor in chief who said they have all this information about you they know your you habits what kind of video. he watches all that sort of thing. i mean a lot of us do this without even really thinking about about the information that's

being stored away and being used by by someone else i mean is it is that something is that something that should sit well with people. i don't think so i mean we were talking about the next twenty years of google the first twenty years were about us giving up as much information as possible to get free stuff we got free videos we got to watch movies for free we got to listen to music for free so essentially destroyed multiple industries especially creative industries that didn't have a really big profit margin so how do we walk that back how do we fix that how do we stop posting pictures of our family on facebook or on google or anything else because that basically becomes a surveillance system. anything that older than a week on any one of these social networks anything that you post on google that's older than a week is only stuff that robots are going to want to read in the future to figure out more and more information about us so what can be done about this then i mean

there's talk of more regulation on these tech companies needed. is that going to happen do you think should it happen. i don't think so the interesting about the internet is it routes around damage right and regulation in this case is damage. if google gets regulated somebody's going to pop up underground or anything and create something that's unregulated will there are already a few technologies that could help. technologies like block chain that can ensure custody of the information that we hold and all the pictures that we own all the videos that we take ensure custody and ensure that these things exist and things are real but that's going to take a long time and i don't know if people care enough about their information to actually take that initiative and the if there is any attempt at a sort of government regulation the forces that would would push back against this

like google and other tech companies are not weak are they they've got to they've got lots of money and influence behind them. sure some of these guys have more money than some countries so how are you going to regulate. internet product aside from essentially shutting down the internet in that country it's almost impossible again where we're in a we're in a world where a lot of these companies are bigger than some populations of many big countries. and to manage them is almost impossible so how do we as consumers of these products start to understand what we have done to ourselves and how we can fix that if we all if we all deleted facebook today or if we all deleted our google plus accounts or if we stopped using google at all that would have a really really big effect even more of a fact than a regulation than government regulation good to speak with you john biggs joining us there from new york thanks very much

a while afghanistan is making it progress in some areas on women's rights in others change is coming slow and only a tiny percentage of licensed drivers are women and many of them often face abuse and threats from men who see it as an affront to afghan culture tony abbott the reports from the capital kabul. to cope with driving in kabul you need nerves of steel and a strong heart the afghan capital has some of the most challenging driving conditions anywhere more than half a million vehicles compete for space on narrow roads is difficult for the experienced driver but downright daunting for a learner and even more so if you're a woman you still easy because even though women are allowed to drive by law many men say culturally it is wrong but they are for them again there are lots of men he verbal abuse you they block your car motorcyclists right alongside shouting about things no one helps us other memories i driving school instructors teach them about

road signs and engines and prepare them psychologically for the abuse they will face. the women sometimes say they don't.