you tried hard you've given it your all. within moments of the hearings ending trump said he had picked the right man for the job describing his testimony as powerful honest and riveting even if the senate judiciary committee votes on brett kavanaugh his nomination on friday it won't immediately affect the supreme court it will start its new session on monday with eight justices and a vacancy and christine blahs the forward will learn whether her revelation will have any impact on the confirmation process rosalind horton al-jazeera capitol hill let's look at one lies ahead for kavanaugh starting with the senate judiciary committee committee vote expected in the coming hours republicans hold a eleven to ten majority on the committee at least one republican has publicly said he has reservations about voting yes the confirmation can still proceed to a full senate vote even if it is voted down on friday

a procedural vote will be held on saturday before a final vote happens next week republicans need at least fifty votes for cavanaugh's confirmation to proceed they hold fifty one seats but at least four of their senators are undecided any event of a tie vice president might pence would have the costing votes meaning cavanagh would advance to the supreme court. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has the united states to reverse its decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and funding to the un agency for palestinian refugees the israeli prime minister use his speech at the un general assembly to go after iran more now from a diplomatic at a time space. when the israeli prime minister spoke to the un there was one

thing he hardly talked about the palestinians he instead focused on iran claiming israel had discovered a new nuclear storage facility in tehran he then went told to post about the strength of his relationship with the trumpet ministration so i want to use this opportunity to express israel's appreciation to president trump and ambassador here really for the on wavering support they provided israel the united nations the palestinian president gave his message the moment he took to the podium and put through later to the jerusalem is not for sale. but how to sharpen and the palestinian people's rights are not up for bargaining he went on to express his frustration at the actions of the trumpet ministration.

we waited his peace initiative without most patients but we were shocked by decisions and actions he undertook that completely contradict the role and commitment of the us towards the peace process. it is ironic that the american administration still talks about what they call the deal of the century. the palestinians believe that by his actions it's not just that president trump is not a novice broker he's actively on israel's side and when you listen to the way it's a news conference before he left new york he described the man he's put in charge of peace efforts his own son in law jared kush no it's not hard to see why i think the two state will happen i think we're going to go down the two state road and i'm glad i got it out and jared who is so involved he loves israel he loves israel but he's also going to be very fair with the palestinians you understand it takes two people to be happy to groups of people to be happy everybody is going to be happy and that's why it's so tough the fact he barely mentioned the palestinians i think

shows the confidence of benjamin netanyahu and what's going to come out of the chair of the peace plan which we're being told we revealed in the next four months the palestinians meanwhile already i think believe they're going to have to reject what's in that plan james. at the united nations the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees has received contributions of one hundred eighteen million dollars to help cover funding withdrawn by the u.s. it has historically been the largest contributor to anwar providing around three hundred fifty million dollars a year the fund says it still needs sixty eight million dollars this year and more than five million palestinian refugees rely on its assistance it's very important as a step it's also a symbol and it's a hopefully a last push to be able to close the short form before the end of the year you know it makes the difference between keeping the schools open or having to close them

keeping the clinics open or having to close them and that makes a very big difference for people in the region for decades the u.s. was a key contributor very consistent generous the single largest to do. two hundred that actually enabled us to do a great number of things in terms of human development in the region. so we are very much obliged to all our partners who contributed in organizing this event today sweden japan germany the e.u. and turkey today was an expression of a clear and coherent international stance that must continue. china has accused the u.s. president of trying to damage its reputation after donald trump claimed to china was trying to meddle in the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections he said china's alleged interference is in response to his tough stance on trade patsy cline reports on that giant it was a new and surprising allegation from the us president it didn't go over well in beijing would usually if you don't we advise the united states to stop this

unceasing criticism and slander of china to stop these wrong words and deeds that damage by our will relations and the interests of both countries peoples he is responding to a moment from the un security council they were supposed to be talking about nonproliferation when president donald trump took the occasion to attack china accusing them of trying to interfere in the upcoming congressional elections they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade and we are winning on trade we are winning at every level. we don't want them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election he didn't give any examples and his aides couldn't give any real evidence talking to reporters afterwards many in the u.s. brushed off the new unfounded allegations but analysts warn china probably won't

china has a culture that goes back they can name their own of their emperors going back for five thousand years so they do not think that a president of the united states would say things that are careless worth less so they're going to find a deeper meaning in this than you and i are used to with just kind of donald trump's rant of the moment the president is clearly upset with these ads that china placed in an important newspaper in iowa saying trump was the reason farmers were losing money he recently tweeted china is actually placing propaganda ads in the des moines register and other papers made to look like news that's because we are beating them on trade open markets and the farmers will make a fortune when this is over. the right now u.s. farmers are losing big and growing impatient this trade war is hitting the heart of his base and the president is clearly aware and frustrated that could have

a big impact on the upcoming election particularly in al-jazeera washington. plenty more ahead on this news hour training links between baghdad and for new jury starts after four years. and goals biggest team event the ryder cup is officially underway for the latest install. solar still ahead but first voters in the kurdish region of northern iraq are casting their ballots in regional elections the first since a failed bid for independence despite frustration among voters over a loss of economic powers after the session after the two major parties are expected to dominate the k d p and rivals p u k and shared power for three decades the final results may have an impact in baghdad where a kurd has to be chosen as president under a power sharing deal myanmar's government leader aung sang suu kyi has been

stripped of another award for failing to act of violence committed by her military m.p.'s in canada decided unanimously to strip her of honor to honorary citizenship a u.n. report accused me and mars military of committing genocide and war crimes against revenge of muslims and that forced hundreds of thousands to flee across the border to bangladesh last year india's supremes court has lifted a ban on girls and women of childbearing age entering a historic temple in the southern state of kerala the court ruled that excluding women can't be seen as an essential religious practice females age from ten to fifty had been barred from entering. a temple or some hindu religious figures considered menstruation to be impure. this is the latest socially progressive ruling by india's top court this month on thursday it unanimously struck down a one hundred fifty eight year old law that treated adultery in certain cases as

a criminal offense on september ninth it decriminalized gay sex overturning another law framed in the one nine hundred centuries by british colonialists. let's speak now to corona nandi in new delhi via skype she is a lawyer at the supremes court of india thanks very much for being with us so how significant is this decision. it's incredibly significant and it's good because it's not just about this particular temple you see it's the core to stick in forward if jurisprudence on. fundamental growth a minimum floor the law which religious practice cannot go on and so that is really really important because. this is something that was was not really it has not fully been established in law. so far although there were there were

streams of it even in the triple instant triple q.'s that we had discussed on this channel before where the what was claimed to be sort of religious practice. was something that the sort of clerics were saying that could lead valid regardless of where the agreement was in their fundamental regulated or not so it has some it has much larger implications and let's be clear about it's also across religions because there was a strain of hygiene early in the sort of muslim train of high gear doing that but where muslims and hindus was that in one beer there was a sort of court proceeding on allowing women in and the how do you trust concede at that point so increasing you we are now going to see across religious fears in

india that fundamental rates will be of law and then above that religions are free to order their fares as they will for the gatekeepers of the i mean and you know the political backing about the separate thing. and how and how all this decision being received among indian society because you can change laws with with the stroke of a pen but changing people's mindsets and decades of thinking is it something else isn't it. well obviously i think that there's a back and forth reinforcing effect between progressive laws and societies at the institute of effect of the constitution you will that's why constitutions are all that. and there are so there were sort of there were in the women who wished to worship in somebody might allow all jumped to the you know the restrictions and decided to do sort of the sort of civil disobedience of religious law and that is

what the point is up there and that of course has reinforced and once. also let's keep in mind that individual rates in constitution. there's a religious majority voting with them on the roads across the word. that courts and constitutions their jobs are to up called individual rate in the case of majority an ism regardless of what the majority thinks however in these cases that i also think that. society is there are these strands of genes and to say there are these winds of june this is only a sort of. you know increase the gust or those winds good to speak of you can only joining us there from new delhi thank you very much. seventy men suspected of planning a major attack in the netherlands are expected to appear before

a judge about four hundred heavily armed police conducted raids in the towns of are on him and with the men aged between twenty one and thirty four were trying to obtain it they say were trying to obtain assault rifles grenades and materials for suicide vests. the united states stock market regulator wants to bar tesla c.e.o. from serving as the head of the electric car maker securities and exchange commission says he committed securities fraud when he tweeted about plans to take the company private last month it is the first fraud case involving the use of social media by the c.e.o. of a public company castro has more from washington. the regulators now suing the federal security and exchange commission says this all started with a tweet in early august musk tweeted to his twenty two million followers that he was considering taking tesla private at a price per share of four hundred twenty dollars federal regulators say there was

never a real basis for musk to make that happen and in fact the way he came up with the four hundred twenty dollars valuation hording to the lawsuit is strange itself it alleges that musk made a general estimate and then round of that number up to four hundred twenty because of the numbers significance to the marijuana culture claiming. that it would amuse his girlfriend well the s.e.c. regulators say this was not amusing at all to the stock to the shareholders who bought more tesla stocks based on this tweet alone only to have lost their money once must retracted the plan of going private and not only was it not funny according to this lawsuit but it was also illegal what it's asking for a judge to do now is remove musk as tesla's see this just illustrates another

step in the continued decline in recent months once viewed as a brainchild of brilliant forward thinker and also a good business person he has now been ridiculed in recent months he accused without providing evidence that a diver involved in the rescue of those boys trapped in a thai cave was a pedophile musk is now being sued for defamation for that instance and he went on live internet stream a few weeks ago smoking marijuana that has all the road investors confidence in his company tesla and because of its tethered reputation to that of its eccentric founder and c.e.o. the future of the company now is also in jeopardy. i want to the world's biggest budget airlines ryan. around two hundred fifty flights disrupted travel plans for forty thousand people across europe the decision is response to strikes by pilots

in cabin crew across western europe in a few moments the weather. in a region known for its dinosaur fossil discoveries there's a booming industry making replicas of these prehistoric giants who wants roam that story. and. james gets ready for. the. from the. to the c.c. never sleeps. had it was something brewing in the mediterranean you may well be aware of this you know this is just a massive kind of moment this clearly is circulation to it it's the irony and see

we're concentrating on what the gene has had the first feel and that feel was a gales northeast of you and all the gathering dust of the cross the bosphorus such that the fairies who were in port yesterday for the greek islands on the greek maine and to be honest the nomi calm as you have blue surface is looking more like the north sea with something rather rougher than what they used to now this wind maximised yes it's slowly on his way back now but you can see gave gust of. carrying coast seventy two carries for. not far from athens b i was nearly one hundred this is one significant wind now since then the last twenty four hours the current has given a close circulation that it's been given the name of medi-cal which means it's wind and rain maybe of the order of a hurricane but it's not quite there yet is just a strong cycle and rain is the thing that ensued this is on the island of crete

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it now. shine a light on your hero with your nomination for the international race award two thousand and eighteen for more information go to war dot com. hello again you're watching i just need a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.n. special envoy for yemen says he's pushing for the warring parties to return to negotiations in an exclusive interview with al jazeera martin griffin says among his other priorities is the reopening of sana'a international airport to commercial access. turkey's president richard type one was greeted by german chancellor angela

merkel in his first state visit to berlin since twenty fourteen relations between the two and it's between turkey and its largest trading partner have been strained in the past few years germany's often criticized turkey's human rights record since the failed coup in twenty sixteen. and a few hours the us senate judiciary committee will vote on the fate of donald trump supreme court nominee on wednesday senators heard testimony for almost nine hours from carbon r. and the woman who accused him of sexual assault when they were teenagers. well the testimonies of the two brought strong reactions earlier we spoke to jeff hauser the executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research he says kavanagh's testimony will be hugely damaging for the republican party i think this was

a disaster for the republican party i think that kavanagh's testimony was completely divisive whereas dr baazi is ford's was i think everyone both men and women democrats and republicans all believe she came across as an honest person whereas kavanagh i think really only spoke to both not only just the republican audience but just a subset of republicans men and i think that republican women independents who are both men and women and democrats are all going to be pretty appalled by any sort of continuing republican support for judge kavanagh's nomination even if it narrowly passes or if it narrowly fails either way i think the republicans have the associated themselves with abusive behavior and disrespect towards women in a way that is going to be ultimately very damaging to their party sidney powell a former federal prosecutor in dallas texas had a very different reaction to today's proceedings. even if she had reported what she

claimed at the time no prosecutor would have prosecuted anybody for it there were no clothes removed she in fact i find it difficult to even describe it as a sexual assault if you take the names out of it and think of it as if a fifteen year old girl and a seventeen year old boy who'd had a beer or two or at a party it really didn't amount to any more than a fumble the attempt to make out and that's what teenagers tend to go to parties to do i think americans are outraged over the way they saw the democrats behaved throughout this whole process and i think it will have an effect on the midterms i expect the conservative base to be energized by what they saw today i don't know anyone that wasn't appalled by the whole spectacle and yes the supreme court will be fun judge kavanaugh will serve brilliantly he is a brilliant man and obviously today a very caring man he has been tremendously hurt by this but at the same time his

little girls are even praying for ms ford and you know everybody understands i think that miss ford something did happen to her somewhere but it wasn't at the hands of brett kavanaugh and none of her story jobs with even with common sense. our trains start running between the cities of baghdad and for new joe when i saw overran much of western iraq in twenty fourteen a year ago the government declared the group defeated and the right rail link between the two cities has been reestablished rob matheson reports. to shining real stretchy west from baghdad snaking through the desert for fifty seven kilometers by the other end is the city of fallujah accessible once again to rail travelers. flew just today is not like falutin the past the railroad is a sign of life getting back to normal after getting rid of. these wheel tracks were

closed when i saw fighters swept through the west of iraq in two thousand and fourteen. when iraqi railways reopens the bag that the for lucia line we didn't think of the economic benefit this is a message of peace to the people of illusion after the dark days when eisel used to rule those parts. after the defeat of isobel have been roads that have been open between baghdad but the path of the security checks and that journey can take anything up to several hours but this train doesn't stop for checkpoints. the journey between baghdad and fallujah takes just fifty five minutes by railway and the high cost of fuel means traveling by road is more expensive. basic train tickets for a one way journey cost just under two dollars. there's nothing about going by the train is much easier we avoid traffic jams many checkpoints across the highway or

even deadly car accidents it's also much cheaper than road transport. when the train arrives in fallujah fifty seven kilometers may not seem far. but this reopen track is a milestone for iraq's railways rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. a top people have been charged with negligent homicide of a portugal's worst ever wildfires they took place in the central region in june twenty six seventeen and killed sixty four people among those charged are local councillors commanders of the civil protection agency and executives of a company responsible for road maintenance. or the government of assam in north eastern india has passed a law making it a crime to accuse someone of being a witch murders of so-called which is our problem across parts of the country andrew thomas has been to done more to meet the woman who's led the campaign for

change today she runs a shop but ten years ago and jolly has young's husband supported as a young mother and her child but when he got cancer and died and she rebuffed those who wanted to take his place she was accused of being a cannibalistic which a group of people beat her she nearly died one of those that the men shouted she's been eating humans hold her down beat out for the beat to be mercilessly i keep thinking about that dee it was the worst of my late and. no one has ever been punished for the attack and she had wasn't the first twenty years ago drunk men accused daily rubber of poisoning her husband one swung an axe others stripped her naked and chased her down the street. it's a two thousand and six people said put domi rubber and put a spell on her sick neighbor she says dozens of villages attacked her with sticks

screaming today you will die bloodied she was forced onto a bus to another state she had to pay her attackers to letter come home. in rural parts of india accusations of witchcraft are common since the year two thousand two thousand people accused of sorcery most of them women have been killed. once branded a witch ourself a robber has led mating year campaign against such superstition addressing groups across the state of assembly to sort fact from fiction i tell them don't believe in superstitions if you or your family is able go see doctors and nurses don't go to a witch doctors that's superstition it's a sin don't kill people for superstitions you're not killing witches you're killing women. in july but finally paid off when india's president approved a new law it outlaws spreading rumors of sorcery that lead to violence murder or suicide possibly it was

a victory but the job's not done. and you already one thing that afterwards and beliefs need to change too so these presentations continue people in the to be persuaded that believing which brought only spell trouble andrew thomas al-jazeera a more state india. a president maurice you're madly has warned argentinians that meeting the terms of the new international monetary fund loan will be painful the emergency loan aims to shore up the country's finances as traceable reports it comes with tough conditions. those who govern in argentina are desperate to provide some good news and that's why the mayor of went on order. that was proud to show off this new homes for the poor. built inside of austerity program impacting every level of government in the country. none of the projects that are underway will be touched by this crisis we are committed to continue with our transformation

of the city and this crisis won't affect it. i didn't know struggling with a financial crisis that has steered memories of two thousand and one when the country defaulted on its sovereign debt it pushed millions of people into poverty. the government wants to make sure investors know the administration of mode will be able to pay its financial obligations that's why the government. announced the plan to boost its thirty six month financing package. of argentina. remains affecting the most. urgent you know during the. in this context i am pleased to see a firm commitment to the expansion of so of protections under the. strength of its you must. be announcement came after

a nationwide strike by argentina's most powerfully were unions thousands took to the streets to protest the austerity measures announced by the government. many argentinians blame the i.m.f. for forcing policies in the country which in the end hurt the working class is a mixture of self-inflicted mistakes. and sings with her heritage. but. i think that the objectives of government most is to start fresh clean sheet and. trying to top the cheapest that it could or just. and trying to get rid of the monitor that and try to relaunch a program with the objective of reaching two thousand. and a good position. argentinians arthur million with what an economic crisis looks like and even though the government is doing its best to prevent the situation from

getting worse many are wondering whether it will be enough to prevent the past from repeating itself. as a seed when a site is. a town with prehistoric fossils should be able to capitalize on the world's fascination with dinosaur gong in china the world's capital of dinosaur replicas has been doing that for years but now a very modern trade war has some manufacturers worried score highly reports. by. as you approach is going on the main highway is just one problem it's pretty evident what this area is no. it's home to one of the largest dinosaur fossil discoveries in the world the dust formation fascination for donna. source put the city on the map drawing in millions of visitors each year but its ancient history was also the spark for a home grown industry about eighty percent of the world's large dinosaur replicas are made in just gone among the first of twenty five companies to start making

replicas of some of the earth's first inhabitants was founded by gucci home he was born and raised here. to go home is a dinosaur time that's been very interested in dinosaurs since i was a kid and i majored in you like trolling engineering so i wanted more people know more about to go through our replicants that's why i started this business but the business of manufacturing in distributing these prehistoric animal replicas of all shapes and sizes is facing a very contemporary issue tariffs imposed by the united states. now has to pay ten percent tariff on his dinosaurs going to america and then on january first it goes up to twenty five percent can you know where they're warm and you can time you know this will definitely have been neck to fact our x. bourse where we're trying to talk to our customers in the states and i try to

reduce costs we're trying everything to ease the pressure brought on by the trade or. he says this is one of the biggest challenges he has.