act against you in syria we will act against you in lebanon we will act against you in iraq we will act against you whenever and wherever we must act to defend our state and to defend our people our fossil joining us from west or islam so what is it was it expected terry that benjamin netanyahu would take on iran right from the beginning of his speech. it was really officials were trailing a big surprise revelation in benjamin a speech surprise certainly wasn't that he kicked off on the subject of iran what it was was what he said was a second iranian nuclear site inside tehran of course he made a big speech in major in which he talked about an israeli intelligence operation that had found hundreds of thousands of pieces of material and documents in an

archive in tehran alluding to what was widely seen as a historical iranian nuclear weapons program he now says that they have found this secondary building which houses what he called equipment and materiel nuclear equipment and material no greater detail than that really but saying that iranian officials were now trying to clean it out in advance of any potential inspection and he called on the international atomic energy agency the director agency by name to go in and inspect it as soon as possible so once again he was using this time at the u.n. to really beat the drum on iran both internationally and domestically which is what he's been doing for several years ago now saying that iran is the number one threat not just to israel's security but also to the widest ability of the middle east and so no surprise that that again was the chief subject at least of the initial part

of his speech and what about the latter part of his speech did he respond to anything that our boss had said before him. he certainly did yes he moved on to the issue of the palestinians and the issue of donald trump and his support thanking the u.s. administration just a couple of days ago he mentioned the fact that as far as he was concerned the united states and israel had the best relationship in their history right now thanks to donald trump as for the accusations that are leveled against israel and against the netanyahu administration particularly over the nation state of all the one that you were just talking about with iran he said that this was in no way racist that it was in fact it was a symptom of traditional anti semitism with a new face the kind of accusations of racism that israel was facing in the halls of the united nations and he said that palestinian citizens of israel could vote that

they presided over courts and so on and he also talked about other countries that had a an official language other than the one which is spoken by many of the people in official religion other than that adopted by many of its citizens i think the obvious come back to that that certainly palestinians and prince presumably many of the people used talking about in the u.n. might raise with that is that the situation here is not typical of what is in place in most countries in the world we have a dispossessed palestinian population under occupation in the west bank and many would argue under a good deal of discrimination inside israel and it is that context in which this law was passed downgrading all these threatening to downgrade arab because in terms of its status in the country and saying that only jewish people had the right of

self-determination for the national character of this country and so while he said those no dichotomy between israel being a jewish and democratic state many here would argue the exact opposite all right harry fawcett thank you. plenty more hot on the al-jazeera news hour including a russian colonel is identified as a suspect in the u.k. poisoning case. and the captain's picks for the opening round of golf sprite or kropotkin major we'll have all the details coming up in sports. the first woman to accuse president donald trump supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual abuse was testifying before a committee on capitol hill you're looking at live pictures of christina and she seems to be walking out off that room she was testifying in front of the senate judiciary committee hearing earlier in her evidence christi and was

a ford gave details about the alleged assault here's what she said i was pushed onto the bed and brett got on top of me he began running is hands over my body and into me i yelled hoping that someone downstairs might hear me and i tried to get away from him but this week. brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes he had a hard time because he was very in need. and because i was wearing a one piece bathing suit underneath my clothing. i believe he was going to rape me . i tried to yell for help when i did brett put his hand over my mouth stop me from yelling this is what terrified me the most and this had the most lasting impact on my life. it was hard for me to breathe and i thought that bret was

accidentally going to kill me go to jordan joining us from washington d.c. so it seems that they are on a break now or on a recess just talk us through the morning part and what we've heard. that they're not just taking a break christine glossy forward has just been excused from this this hearing it's going into a forty five minute recess as we speak and she is not expected to come back before the senate judiciary committee for additional questions what was posed to happen in the next forty five minutes will be the return of the supreme court nominee judge wright kavanaugh where he will offer up a defense against these allegations brought by christie was the ford who is a professor of psychology as well as trying to salvage what many year in washington are calling

a nomination in trouble and that's because at least two other women have come forward by name accusing him of sexual improprieties allegations which brett kavanaugh has denied there's a lot of stake than rosena for judge kaplan on i'm sure everybody will be waiting to hear how he defends himself and what he has to say next. certainly there's a lot of stake because being named to the supreme court is perhaps the highest aspiration that a lawyer here in the united states could hope for and certainly given that he had been on short lists of conservative presidents in the past there is was this thought that his confirmation would have been an easy one to attain however after the news of ford's allegations made the front page of the washington post eleven days ago really set off. firestorm here in washington and it really has touched on

many political divisions not just republican democratic but it's also ignited a renewed focus on the so-called me to move movement in which women have said that they have had to experience sexual harassment and worse by powerful men and that the men were never sanctioned ford that has brought out protesters in support of christine ford there have also been protesters today in support of judge kavanagh saying that they believe that this is simply nothing more than democratic party dirty tricks so when you consider that the midterm congressional elections are a little more than five weeks away this really has put what should have been a routine congressional law nomination process into very high political relief people are said to be watching these hearings all over the country not just here in washington where of course we take an outsized interest in these sorts of matters and what about the president himself because we did see him throw his weight behind

kavanagh certainly in the lead up to this hearing. donald trump's support for rob brett kavanaugh has been extremely robust until the last twenty four hours when he did a while under questioning during a press conference on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly in new york that he wanted to watch christine blonsky ford's testimony that he was willing to have an open mind and under questioning by a report on he did it meant that if he thought she it made a convincing case that brett kavanaugh had done something wrong he would very much consider pulling the nomination that's the first time that we've heard any such thing from the u.s. president i will defer to my colleague kimberly home who is with president trump at the white house today for more analysis on how the ministration is reacting so far to christine was the ford's testimony ok aroused and thank you for giving us that

update on the testimony itself. dozens of iraq a men and young boys have disappeared in the last four years many blame pro-government forces the families of those missing say not enough is being done to investigate what happened and 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 nice old fighters and their supporters and went home most of 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 ice also want to cross the western provinces of nineveh and anbar some sunni'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 don't know what it does either but we keep asking if my sons were forced to sign and confess to something they did not do if they are done 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 a number of problems of come home in coffins. oh. oh my god

a conspicuous 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 and i'm boss says it set up a committee to investigate but that it's proving hard to find all the missing men are ground on top of so far we have not been able to locate them the central government is still investigating these cases we have a local government one this old 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 let's now speak to his family in beirut she is a senior iraq researcher at human rights watch itself thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera can you first talk us through the process in which you conducted this research. i've been documenting cases of enforced

disappearance across iraq for really the last two years and you can't help but come across these families the moment you enter a camp for displaced people those displaced by the fighting or even walking through a neighborhood neighborhood in a town and on bar or in into a like like the city of mosul there are hundreds of families looking for answers now in the report we've launched today these are seventy eight specific cases where we had witnesses usually family members who saw their relatives get detained were able to identify the forces all government forces that did the detaining and after that point whatever the families tried to do to get information about their loved ones failed these as a result have become in force disappearances so what are for or know being made to find those who have disappeared. while

at the local level as was mentioned like in unbar there are efforts usually pushed by families and by local authorities to try and find individuals the fundamental problem in iraq is that at this moment you have numerous security and military forces who are manning checkpoints doing raids of houses in neighborhoods taking people from their homes from these checkpoints without giving any notification of a rest to the family and therefore families simply don't know where to look to find their loved ones so even efforts at the local level aren't aren't really achieving much success because the forces that have picked up their relatives may have moved them to back to may have moved them elsewhere or or may have killed them and so it's incredibly hard to identify and find individuals that are lost in the system that do countries currently involved in iraq's military and security operations.

have an obligation a role to play in finding missing people the obligation of governments like the u.s. u.k. france germany any number of governments that provide significant military and security support both in terms of money in terms of weapons and also in terms of training to units that we have seen implicated in these in force disappearances they have an obligation based on our findings and based on the findings of many others to go to the units that they're supporting and demand answers and make sure that the units they support are not conducting in force disappearances and if they are these governments need to immediately cut all support until they get real evidence that these units are taking the issue seriously and putting an end to this campaign of inforce disappearance all right so we'll leave it there we thank

you very much for joining us from beirut. one of the suspects in the nerve agents attack on a former russian agent in the u.k. may have been a russian colonel decorated by vladimir putin he's one of two men now in russia who are wanted by british authorities for the attempted murder of screwball and his daughter yulia were a challenge reports from moscow investigative group belling katz says these photos prove that one of the suspects he went by the name bashir of is anatoly chip. the photo on the right was released by british police when he was charged alongside alexander petro of with the attempted murder of former russian agent sergei script and his daughter junia britain said that the men most likely used aliases when they travel to souls bre to carry out the attack bearing cats and another online investigative sites the insider say chippy go work for the russian military intelligence agency or g.r.u. he was awarded russia's highest honor in two thousand and fourteen typically

bestowed by president vladimir putin himself the british government has long pointed the finger squarely at russian intelligence saying orders for the attack came from the highest corridors of power we have seen what happens when the natural patrick isn't which is a cornerstone of a healthy society is warped into aggressive nationalism exploiting fear and uncertainty to promote identity politics and belligerent confrontation abroad while breaking rules and undermining institutions and we see this when states like russia flagrantly breach international norms from the seizing of sovereign territory to the reckless use of chemical weapons on the streets of britain by agents of the russian g.r.u. russia denies any involvement president putin says both men named by the u.k. are civilians and not criminals. by publicly calling for the two men known as

bashir of petrov to come forward and saying that the two civilians. in put himself right in the middle of a mess that arguably he should have kept his distance from it reinforced the british argument that the attempted murder and the subsequent alleged cover up by rights of 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 rhetoric about the source free of fear at the same time the u.k.'s stubbornly avoiding the joint investigation with often 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 i mean listen to the assertion that moscow ordered an assassination on british soil really chalons al-jazeera moscow still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour how twenty years of answering questions has made google being number one search engine and video replay technology gets the green light from european football bosses joe will explain all play up and sport a little later. hello there we're expecting to see some more severe weather across the mediterranean over the next few days so thanks to an intense area of low pressure that is with us at the moment it's known as a medicaid and is thrown plenty of cloud with us plenty of heavy rain and very very strong winds as well those winds are likely to be damaging at times for the east

though it's largely fine and dry and the temperatures will be gradually recovering there non-corrosive up to around twenty seven by saturday and elsewhere still hot baghdad up at forty degrees and forcing kuwait will be around thirty nine that's around the coast because it's humid that temperatures will be limited to around thirty eight or thirty nine here in doha we're also hovering around thirty eight degrees again because it's going to stay very humid as we head through friday and saturday for salada there could be a bit more in the way of cloud here as we head through saturday and our temperatures were getting to around twenty nine down towards the southern parts of africa there's a fair amount of cloud with us at the moment particularly along the south coast has also brought us a few outbreaks of rain the be a little bit of cloud coming and going at times during the day on friday and so cape town's temperatures will be struggling just hovering around sixty four woman in durban for friday twenty seven will be zero max but in the cloud gradually rolls across us and the temperatures drop.

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the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour the palestinian president has condemned the u.s. policy on palestine and told the u.n. general assembly that israel is on the way to becoming an apartheid state mahmoud abbas said the trump of ministration has undermined the two state solution on multiple fronts including recognized recognizing drusilla as the capital of israel moving its embassy and slashing palestinian aid money meanwhile benjamin netanyahu

israel's prime minister took to the stage afterwards he accused iran of having multiple secret atomic warehouses close to teheran he insisted iran has violated the twenty fifty nuclear deal has not given up its goal of manufacturing weapons the first woman to accuse supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh for sexual assault is appearing before the senate judiciary committee in washington and christine ford alleges kavanaugh attacked her in the early one nine hundred eighty s. cavanaugh who denies the accusation will give his testimony after ford. on the subject of jerusalem president said the palestinians are clear about what they what land they consider to be their capital len yet they have. peace in a region cannot be real laws without an independent palestinian state with east jerusalem as its capital and with all the whole besides some people try to outsmart

some i say ok your capital is in east jerusalem no i'm sorry this is a manipulation of words this means here which every region surrounding jerusalem knows our capital is east jerusalem and not in east jerusalem please don't try to outsmart us let's cross over to london to speak to al-jazeera see. political analyst. with mahmoud abbas taking the stage at the united nations general assembly earlier today does he do so in a stronger or in a weaker position madeleine considering the somewhat changed political landscape when it comes to palestine israel look when it comes to diplomacy and international law when it comes to united nations and countries recognizing palestine when it comes to support within for example now as we've heard from him the group of seventy seven countries that just elected by this time

to lead the group next year certainly palestine and about us have gained more legitimacy for their program but when you can't when you talk about balance of power when you talk about the facts on the ground when you talk about relations with the united states and the setbacks to our bus his own vision of the peace process that he signed on twenty five years ago in washington then so certainly he is in a much much more weak position so much so that i would argue that the more he's gaining in terms of international legitimacy or recognition to a state the worse things are becoming on the ground so more countries are recognizing palestine but palestine is shrinking because of the illegal israeli settlements when it comes to negotiations. is the issue now just at a stalemate because you have the palestinian president mahmoud abbas saying the

u.s. is no longer a mediator in this process but we know that israel well will never accept anyone but the united states to be a mediator in this process. what to be a bit direct if you will i would argue that the process has been in a stalemate for the last eighteen years since two thousand and the failure of the camp david. attempts at negotiations back a during the clinton administration i think george w. bush and barack obama failed to actually relaunch the so-called peace process and there have been nothing serious since then so in a way things have deteriorated after barack obama's stalemate into what now the palestinians and others are calling an american israeli assault on the. on the peace process and all sorts of agreements have been reached before including

the very simple idea that while palestinians israelis reach agreements and they reach seven of them. about what to do in the west bank gaza is jerusalem us on so forth there were five issues left to the so-called final status and this is. the future of east jerusalem the refugees the illegal settlements the borders and the security and president trump unilaterally basically destroyed the entire basis of the peace process by claiming he has the last word on the final status issues recognizing is jerusalem or the jerusalem as capital of the capital of israel and certainly considering the settlements as no obstacle to peace basically to be doing the question of refugees and maintaining the issues of security and borders in the hands of israel so you could say that the entire peace process and the basis of it which are already quite shaky are now completely dissipated so when the trumpet

ministration removes critical issues for the palestinians removes them off the table as trump says then what will be presented in this deal of the century that now we're hearing might be revealed in two or three months. i think that's a very important question and i think this is the thing that i think we will be watching on gravel two three months from now when the trump administration presents its deal of the century we will find out that it's going to be full of symbolic. cliche a track being of sovereignty of independence of a state wide in reality it lacks all of the above meaning the united system is our might might i would i would i would predict recognize palestine as a state even even propose a cent ambassadors there but this state will lack contiguity it will sovereignty

it will lack independence and certainly it will lack it capital which is east jerusalem and there will be no solution to the millions of refugees who have been out there for the last fifty to seventy years depending on which war we're talking about so they would be symbolic gestures towards the palestinians but israelis will maintain control of all of palestine. thank you for than an analysis now what began as a simple search engine is now a global technology giant with an annual turnover bigger than the g.d.p. of many countries but as google celebrates its twentieth birthday its power and involvement in our lives has also led to concerns over privacy charlotte ballasts looks back at the rise of google on its twentieth birthday. let's start in menlo park california where google was born on september the twenty seventh one thousand

nine hundred ninety eight working out of susan we're just now the c.e.o. of you tube so brin and larry page launched a search engine unlike any other the stanford graduate students decide to list search results based on how many other pages were linked to it not keywords you get the most relevant results at the top google also provides you with a really fast efficient interface what we really measure is how long does it take from when you have information needed until google satisfied the need for you twenty years on and google is now of the simple search will scour one point nine billion websites to produce ranks list of results google's offerings expanded in two thousand and four as the company went public and debuted riva lucian i's in wave mail the next year came google maps the year after it bought you tube and in the last decade google released its file storage service called google drive smart phone cell driving cars and advance speak is billions of people now use google

products every day most through search engine in two thousand and twelve google reach one point two trillion searches for the year but that's where the data stops google now just says searches are in the trillions and with ever ties in the main source of revenue the money follows the page to use google's profit school to one hundred ten billion dollars last year while alpha bit its parent company has a market valuation of eight hundred twenty billion dollars let's speak to the high lead in long beach california via skype as a campaigner with the advocacy group demand progress thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera how has google changed in the past twenty years. yes well early on in google's into the sea they had this internal model don't be evil but what we've seen throughout the years they've grown into a defacto tech monopoly that that model has space and severe mission creep and that has some significant role impacts for people or what do you mean when you talk

about real world impact. so it's been recently discovered that who continues to track users location data that even after they disable that and you're on their phones or other mobile devices. google says that that is that is used to help optimize advertising for their users but when it comes to corporate surveillance that's really just hop skip and jump away from government surveillance and governments like the united states western business records you know companies tech companies data tech companies like google will be handed over that data so that surveillance really becomes the corporate surveillance really becomes the foundation the bedrock of government surveillance and what does this all mean then for a consumer protection and for those who are concerned about their privacy. yes so there's a number of ways to get involved. you could we invite people to man progress stop

work at work and paint updates really google has a local presence but a lot of these sites tend to have a local was recently google has all highlighted test programs birdlike and self driving delivery robots in san francisco those upright robots have hundreds of cameras that are portable haitian data the neighborhoods around them and the people who move through them and run out the back and who are proposing a will smart city and you know so all the news neighborhood in downtown toronto alone and this is my co-host of privacy problems and a host of privacy concerns not just for residents who live there but anybody who is digitally connected to those people so we would invite people to you know follow us and made progress that we're also to get involved with the local level with your local governments on the state level around issues of privacy around how much the government has the ability to regulate what we can collect what we can flag and

what it's like that all right we thank you very much for speaking to us from california.