the saudis and the americans of of totally different view so he it's why it's all b.s. that the americans this by the leverage that we have have very little wiggle room here to try to convince all the parties i believe from the war of words we're expecting a press from the qatari foreign minister three hours from now followed by a presser by the side if it doesn't seem that we're going to see any immediate way out of this bill political crisis any time soon right tasha but i thank you. the german chancellor and the turkish president have agreed to host a four way meeting with the russian and french leaders to tackle the situation in syria's last rebel held stronghold of that summit expected to take place next month but angela merkel and recitative are two on our loggerheads over supporters of turkish businessman in germany president or two on accuses him of masterminding the twenty sixteen failed coup attempt in turkey most of the do it on cut there's a possibility to talk about things we don't agree on and also things we have in

common this visit is so important because we can only resolve our differences if we communicate if we don't communicate we cannot find common ground sometimes it takes a while but i am in favor of such discussions that is why i'm happy president adam one is here to get. expressed to the esteemed show so the turkish economy is built on strong foundations we have taken structural steps to respond to to speculation challenges in the economy we are prepared for any difficulties in our economy just as we are prepared to meet any other challenges in any other respects we feel that the relations between germany and turkey are very important and we want to advance a win win scenario john hall has the latest from berlin. well first and foremost of course this was a state visit by president at the invitation of president frankel to spawn one won

the election back in june but also it was i think quite a difficult meeting between the two leaders who perhaps realized that their countries have more of importance between them than the things which they disagree about but found it quite difficult in their press conference chancellor merkel and president to put to one side or hide their disagreements and so you had chancellor merkel saying that they had a common street. egypt desire for a good relationship but pointing out that in terms of a free open and democratic society the two countries have different perceptions of what that looked like president responded by saying he was looking for a win win relationship between turkey and syria two countries he said that had to respect one another the clear implication we will work together but don't lecture us on democracy on human rights on the judiciary so issues of common importance that both countries wanted to see dealt with they made an announcement on syria they'll be meeting next month bringing in france and russia to help deal with the

situation in syria there is of course the ongoing migration and refugee crisis turkey holding up the floodgates to three and a half million syrian refugees desperate to make it to europe germany very keen to reinforce them deal there's an economic crisis going on it turkey's worst in fifteen years germany its biggest trade partner its banks and businesses deeply exposed and of course no one likes the prospect of two nato members turkey in the united states at loggerheads perhaps germany can help solve that little problem along the way so clearly not the easiest of meetings this an exercise in political expediency to countries that recognize they do have problems but they can perhaps try and solve together sinan organization former turkish diplomat who now serves as a visiting scholar at the think tank carnegie europe he says state visit to germany is a great example of political pragmatism. the fact that these talks are being held at

this level with the state visit by the turkish president is in itself a sign that there is willingness both unburden in ankara sure start a constructive powerful being engaged with it does not necessarily mean that some of the areas of disagreement have been settled far from that as we saw this morning but nonetheless it's a sign that they are ready to talk to each other in a frank amende there at the highest levels of political leadership on both sides there are benefits to be had on the german side. wants to ensure that turkey continues to comply with its commitments under the refugee deal whereas onkar wants to open tain germany support in advance of an expected period of economy hardship so it's important for the turkish government to get germany's backing if

need be going forward. plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including aiming to open a crucial lifeline. to reopen the airport that's coming up also train links between baghdad and restart after. tiger woods makes his ryder cup return but it's. the latest from golf's biggest team tournament. first though some democrats have walked out of the u.s. senate judiciary committee's final debate over brett kavanaugh his confirmation to the supreme court going on right now that committee has been reviewing thursday's testimony from kavanagh and one of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct democrats requested that mark judge the second man that christie. was involved

along with kavanagh to be subpoenaed some of them walked out once it was voted down the republicans hold a narrow eleven to ten majority in the committee jordan has more from washington. usually when a senate committee considers a nomination for a cabinet post or in this case for a judicial post the discussions usually focus on the candidates qualifications on his or her legal thinking as well as on other factors that might make that person a good candidate for the nomination in this case however a brett kavanaugh the republicans and the democrats on the gym to sherry committee are at loggerheads the can arguing over whether or not enough evidence was brought forward to determine whether or not there should be a full blown investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by the nominee when he was a teenager and then when he was a young man the republicans believe that f.b.i.

background checks didn't uncover anything toward it even though they say that they found christine was a ford the psychology professor who has accused kavanaugh of trying to rape her when they were teenagers they have even though they said they found her credible they said there were too many inconsistencies in the evidence they have in order to try to do rail of the nomination and so they are pushing ahead with a vote at seventeen thirty g.m.t. in order to push his nomination before the full view west senate democrats on the panel however say not enough evidence has been brought forward to actually analyze the allegations and they say that the republicans are simply trying to push through his nomination for political reasons already senators on the democratic side have walked out to protest what they consider a rush to judgment in this case while republicans are continuing to accuse democrats of trying to orchestrate a political smear campaigns against kavanaugh so that they might get some sort of

benefit in the two thousand and eighteen mid-term congressional elections it's going to be a very contentious business meeting. but it's almost a foregone conclusion that a list something. will find his recommendation to the full u.s. senate iran's foreign minister has denounced the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as allegations against iran at the u.n. general assembly as an obscene charge netanyahu accuse the iranian government of maintaining a nuclear weapons facility in the outskirts of the capital to her on he insisted iran has violated the twenty fifty nuclear deal and has not given up on pursuing its nuclear weapons program he has the reaction from to her on. well in the last few hours something that's been circulating on social media here into iran is a video clip of the foreign minister zarif in new york sitting with an aide and

they joke about how whoever provided the israeli prime minister with this information may have done it as a practical joke to create public embarrassment and that's gives you a sense of exactly how outlandish they think that these allegations are also coming from zarif shortly after the speech at the u.n. by the israeli prime minister foreign minister zarif took to twitter as he often does and said that no arts and crafts show by the israeli leader will hide the fact that he in fact has a secret nuclear program the foreign minister of iran alleges and that in the middle east it's israel that has an atomic arsenal that it should confess to and open up for international inspectors to take a look at now that's coming from the foreign minister in new york from the foreign ministry spokesman here in teheran we heard the first response from behar on kasumi who called the allegations in the speech false and farcical he then pointed to the

international atomic energy agency the u.n. watchdog responsible for all things related to nuclear issues and he said that in the in the years since the twenty fifteen nuclear deal was signed the i.a.e.a. has carried out twelve thorough inspections and each time has given iran a clean bill of health and has said that iran is in compliance with the twenty fifteen nuclear deal so you know the same kind of response from iran to the same kind of allegations we've heard from israel in the past people across rebel held areas of northwest syria have been holding demonstrations demanding the release of thousands of detainees from government prisons opposition activists say up to eighty thousand people have been illegally imprisoned by the government and armed groups protests were held in adelaide province hama and aleppo. voters in the kurdish region of northern iraq are casting their ballots and regional elections the first since

a failed bid for independence this fight frustrated among voters over a loss of economic powers after the secession effort the two major parties are expected to dominate the k.b.p.s. and rivals p u k have 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. now trains stopped travelling between the cities of baghdad and i saw overran much of western iraq in twenty fourteen a year ago the government declared the group defeated and as the link between two cities reopens locals are recognizing the benefits and reports. to shining rails stretchy west from baghdad snaking through the desert for fifty seven kilometers by the other end is the city of accessible once again to rail travelers. flew just today is not like flew in 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 traveling by road is more expensive. basic train tickets for a one way journey cost just under two dollars. there's nothing 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. i mean mars government leader has been stripped off another award for failing to act over violence committed by her military m.p.'s in canada decided unanimously to strip her off on a recent isn't ship a u.n. report accused me and mars military of committing genocide on work crimes against muslims forcing hundreds of thousands to flee across the border to bangladesh last year a liberian court has issued arrest warrants for dozens of former officials of the central bank and the son of the former president ellen johnson sirleaf shipments of new notes worth more than one hundred million dollars went missing after passing

through the country's main ports the missing cash is roughly equivalent to five percent of the country's g.d.p. earlier in the week antigovernment protesters march in the capital chanting bring back our money. argentina as the president has warned the public that meeting the terms of a new international monetary fund loan will be painful the emergency loan aims to help boost the country's ailing finances and this tour is about reports that comes with stringent conditions. those who govern in argentina are desperate to provide some good news and that's why the mayor of. that was proud to show off this new homes for the poor built inside the program impacting every level of government in the country. none of the projects that are underway will be touched by this crisis so you are committed to continue with our transformation of the city and this crisis won't affect it. i didn't you 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 mody so market he will be able to pay its financial obligations that's why the government and the i.m.f. announced the plan to boost its thirty six month financing package for some project of argentina's blood. remains affecting the most vulnerable people in origin do you know during this. in this context i am pleased to see a firm commitment to the expansion of sort of protections under the. law to. be announcement came after a nationwide strike by argentina's most powerful labor 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 with a fresh clean sheet. trying to top the cheapest that it could turn or just a mess and try to get rid of the monitor diet and try to relaunch a program with the objective of reaching two thousand. and a good position. argentinians are familiar 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 scientist. still ahead on the al-jazeera news our iran mosque the billionaire brown child in charge of tesla is accused of fraud and coming up in sport we'll hear from the newly named world footballer the year who admits he's struggling to find his best from this season. howlers been thunder up in the mountains again in the caucasus and significant showers around through azerbaijan the towards north and iran you see them on the satellite picture and significant rainfall north of that's that's just mudslide territory that's quite significant over a hundred millimeters in the last two days of those thunderstorms which could continue but in exactly the same place but in the general area of the sudden the

caspian otherwise of course is generally dry picture of the slowly coming down i would just below the forty mark in baghdad the breeze going south was most of the and she actually on the windies in the eastern side of the middle i think get some sort of facts from the state to see on the coast of lebanon on the wants in beirut at thirty three degrees we could see one or two more showers and they were surprising in saudi yesterday but in the south or in yemen as even a small chance the next day or so of the thunderstorm in qatar other of course this is unlikely but can't be entirely ruled out otherwise a dry picture southern africa showers are returning now day by day in angola they're fairly obvious from the line that takes you dancer the eastern cape and that has produced some pretty good sun storms recently and up in botswana as well in the next year so that title moves out through i think to southern mozambique where again it looks generating rain work ational from that.

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hello again the top stories on the news china's foreign minister is taking to the stage at the u.n. to discuss trade and opening existing market barriers in pointed remarks possibly aimed at the u.s. warned against protectionism saying it will only hurt oneself as comments come amid a deepening trade war between beijing and washington the foreign ministers from the gulf cooperation council have been meeting on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly gathering has been organized by the u.s. . it's the first such meeting that's been held since the blockade of qatar last

year in the u.s. some democrats have walked out of the senate judiciary committee's final debate over brett kavanaugh his confirmation to the supreme court lawmakers have been reviewing thursday's testimony from kavanagh and one of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct so let's look at what could lie ahead for kavanaugh starting with the senate judiciary committee vote which will happen at seventeen thirty g.m.t. that's in two hours time republicans hold a slim eleven to ten majority on that committee one republican who was having reservations has now said he will vote in favor a procedural vote will then be held on saturday before a final vote happens early 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 in the event of a tie vice president mike pence would have the casting vote meaning kavanagh would advance to the supreme court let's speak to dr bart ross. political psychologist

joining us from naples in florida thanks for speaking to us on al jazeera if we just look at the mechanics over what could happen today in about two hours time. the senate judiciary committee will be voting on whether to send brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination to the full senate what do you think will happen well first off nice to be with you and what i think might happen is that he could get he get could get approved he could get confirmed however there are two senators two female senators lisa murkowski from alaska and susan collins from maine who are pro-choice they are pro women's rights and they are now in a very interesting situation because both of them really do not need the republican party so they can be very independent and that would cost cavanaugh the the

confirmation so i would look at them very carefully if this goes forward but from my point of view here i think that they should go for an f.b.i. investigation to take a look at these allegations that's what president bush did many years ago president george bush forty one and that's what the american bar association is saying now let's look at these allegations and let's investigate but this seems to be an attempt to ram this through yeah and on that issue of the f.b.i. there seems to be division on whether there should be an f.b.i. investigation or not going forward but what we saw happen just a short time ago is that there was a motion that was put forward on whether marc a judge should be brought in as a potential key witness that was defeated what do you make of that. well again i think that this is really a push to get this person confirmed no matter what because really if you take a look at this and that's beyond the investigation might actually help kavanaugh if

there's no real corroborative evidence and it's hard to get that kind of evidence but the senate on the republican side doesn't want to take a chance they want this guy on they're going to push forward and i think the optics are very bad for the republican party this is as psychologists say a conflict situation that's a lose lose conflict because if he is confirmed it's going to be an outrage and if he if he goes forward without an f.b.i. investigation that's even worse so there's no win here i think for the republican party except to get their man on the court could this all impact the november congressional elections no matter which way the vote goes today what sort of impact will it have on the elections. well that's a great question because i think that no matter which way it goes it energizes the democratic base all the groups all the women's groups all of the activists in this

country are going to be outraged and cavanaugh is really not a very attractive candidate to most people his polling is not that good so i really think that what's going to happen here is that it's going to energize the democratic base and i think the republicans may get their man but they're going to probably have a very very difficult time in november in the election all right dr bart ross a great to speak with you thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera. the united nations human rights council has voted to extend an inquiry into crimes in yemen the approval overrides objections from saudi arabia and yemen's government who were recently criticized by the council investigating alleged rights violations as bernard smith reports it comes as the un envoy to yemen pushes for a new talks between the warring parties and says the country's main airport outside could reopen soon. five times over the past few years these families have been

forced to travel hundreds of kilometers across the deserts of northern yemen to escape the fighting like another twenty two million people in this country they need humanitarian assistance out of that and we're stuck between the rain in the sun and we others before us we have nothing and until now no organization has given us anything. with almost the entire population on its knees the un is pushing again to get the warring parties to talks it's going to be within weeks i don't think we can allow it to be delayed until kind of over the horizon because the problem with that is and i've been reassured this week between people here in new york that people lose the narrative of peace and once you lose the opportunity to talk about a settlement the narrative of war becomes dominance and that's what we must try to get away from for now war still dominates the narrative these are recent strikes by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition on what it says are who the fight is in her data province near

a crucial port. the conflict began with a twenty fourteen takeover of the capital sanaa by the booth is an iranian backed group that toppled the internationally recognized government saudi u.a.e. coalition joined in to support the government for the past year it's imposed an almost total and see blockade the un is trying again to loosen those restrictions i want to make an announcement about the opening of sana airport if i can finalize that i want to make announcements about how we can get prisoners released both sides we made a lot of progress since geneva reopening the airport will allow thousands of people to get medical treatment overseas and increase the flow of aid coming in talks between the who sees and the yemeni government was supposed to start three weeks ago but the yemenis never turned up the u.n. special envoy says he's convinced the who things are ready to meet but even if they go see asians do get going. says he doesn't expect to get

a cease fire head of them so for now there's no letup in sight strikes and fighting . bernard smith al-jazeera djibouti well yemen and other conflicts around the world habit and focus at the u.n. general assembly and our diplomatic editor james bass is joining us from the u.n. headquarters in new york to discuss that james durian we've had world leaders here in new york it's friday they've been here all week we've heard all the talking all the speeches but what actually has been achieved particularly on key issues like syria and yemen moments ago walking past me here was the u.n. special envoy for syria stefan de mistura who's trying to build a constitutional committee to try and build eventually some sort of peace deal for syria asked him how he how it was going he said it's very very hard work let's get more details on on some of the issues that we go on behind the scenes joining me

now is the president of the international committee of the red cross peter mara thank you very much for joining us here on out zero everyone is talking what is actually getting done on the key issues and let's turn to probably the most urgent one which is yemen how bad is eat. well the situation in yemen is in fact a very dire situation and what the opportunity this week is that you'll bring a lot of factors together and you can eventually shape at least some minimal consensus on what has to be done in the days and weeks to come i think there is an emerging consensus that more imports have to go into yemen they're more humanitarians have to be able to operate on the ground there is a sense that needs painstaking negotiations on the ground as well between the very fragmented armed groups and i think you can drum up and rally some of the political

influencers or are behind those armed groups on the ground and that's basically what we also try to do with some of the u.n. agencies we had a situation where those seemed to be an imminent offensive on the data and then we had the effort at talks in geneva which never really started because the hutus didn't make it to geneva there is now a feeling that perhaps that offensive might be back on on who date or what would that mean from a humanitarian point of view well we certainly hope that the military calculation will be the same as the humanitarian calculations that such an offensive. really would represent a major humanitarian challenge for a lot of people and that we certainly hope that the military plan those would still back off of such an offense if we have taken that position for quite some time the

u.n. obviously have some resources there you are the largest humanitarian player after them could you cope if there was an offensive on who data in terms of the immediate effects of population being displaced and the effects of there being potentially a famine. well of course you would never can cope with such emergencies look at the present situation without enough and see if we have difficulties coping with the situation where the humanitarian situation in yemen this is particularly dire in terms of import regime which is difficult to bring the necessary things into yemen it's difficult to distribute because of the security situation of the fragmented situation we just can't cope on top of it with a major additional disaster which an offensive on how data was ripped what represent and therefore i think it is important to give diplomatic efforts a chance and to bring the parties to the table talk reate the conditions under

which we can do the minimal humanitarian work which which is necessary in the present conditions given the enormity of the situation in yemen it is quite amazing really visible tenuously there is another calamity going on on going now longer than the second world war the situation in syria the dangers the flashpoint in yemen the flashpoint in syria you have a deal there between the turks and the russians but there's still talk about trying to remove various groups from midlevel you still worried about the situation and we are definitely worried about the situation because it's one of those context where we see an intrinsic weighing from civilians into militaries and militaries into the civilian population and this is a very difficult context in which to act i.c.r.c. itself at the present moment has no access into into a this is

a situation which is basically supported by and by turkey and by imports from turkey and out of the province itself so most likely this is a very dire situation but we haven't even measured yet the full extent of your many terror. an aspect while the military and political aspect obviously very difficult everybody here this week is waiting for to see whether the steel will materialize in de confliction on the ground and eventually in creation of for humanitarian space in which we can operate. president of the i.c.r.c. thank you for joining us on al-jazeera and it's worth telling you that on both those issues we may get some interesting comments because on among the speeches to come in the next few hours we have the saudi foreign minister a key member of the coalition involved in yemen if there's an offensive in who data

saudi arabia will be involved and of course with regards to the situation in syria that deal on it was done by russia and turkey we're going to hear from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov soon as well all right james bay is thank you india's supreme court has lifted a ban on girls and women of childbearing age entering a historic temple in the southern state of carola the court ruled that excluding women can't be seen as an essential religious practice females aged from ten to fifty had been barred from entering the sub or ramallah temple as some hindu religious figure is considered menstruation to be impure. well this is the latest in a number of socially progressive rulings in india this month on thursday the court unanimously struck down a hundred fifty eight year old law that treated old old adultery in certain cases as a criminal offense and on the ninth of september it decriminalized gay sex overturning and other law framed in the nineteenth century by british colonialists late august

the supreme court narrowly repealed the triple talaq law well under which muslim men could and simply dissolve their marriage by saying to law or divorce three times karen i don't see it as a lawyer it india supreme court she says the decision is incredibly important for women of all religions it's not just about this particular temple you see it's the core to stick would it jurisprudence on meet some demanded rates a minimum funeral the law which religious practice scandal ghoul it's been about it's also cross religions because there was of the shrine of hygiene early in the student muslim friend of my dear doing that but when muslims and hindus visit in bali. there was a sort of course proceeding allowing women in and the how do you trust concede at

that point so increasing you are now going to see across religious india that fundamental rights will be of law and then above that religions are free to order their affairs as they will in the united states stock market regulator wants to bar tesla c.e.o. a lawn must from serving as the head of the electric car maker the securities and exchange commission says he committed securities fraud when he tweeted about plans to take the company private last month it's the first fraud case involving the use of social media by the c.e.o. of a public company and. has more from washington d.c. . the regulator is 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 a 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 a 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. the future of the company now is also in jeopardy. our sports. historic run for this. story coming up in a moment. time

for the sports news here is joe thank you very much terry in europe have staged a stunning comeback in the off to me matches of the ryder cup the home team won all four points to take a five three lead over the united states the u.s. were dominant in the opening four ball matches at france's a gold national force the team is aiming to secure the title on european soil for the first time in twenty five years there was no winning return for tiger woods though haye and partner patch three were beaten by francesco molinari and tommy fleetwood who play is having to adapt to the unique atmosphere this event produces

. the first tee shot was not like anything i've been involved in before it was like a feeling of a football game you know back in the states an n.f.l. football game and i'm in the middle of the field and i have to hit a tee shot you have to make it all swing with all that type of journal and so it was it was incredible even though the crowd is no european growth to run european soil just to be in that atmosphere is it's a lecture well it's a quick reminder of the ryder cup for us there are twenty eight matches played over the three days each worth one point if matches the tide the teams get half a point age for ball and for some matches take place over the first two days in the four bowls each player has one bowl and the lowest score wins the hole for that team the fall so much as what you've just finished also featured two man teams but there's only one ball in play for each side with teammates taking alternative shots

on sunday players go head to head in the singles defending champions usa need fourteen points to retain the trophy team europe have to get fourteen on the hoff to win it back. germany beat turkey in the race to host the next european football championships in twenty twenty four but the controversy surrounding former german international mesut ozil continues as zero has turkish ancestry quit the german team after their disappointing world cup campaign after accusing senior figures in the german football federation of racism germany's head coach came close says he's yet to speak to since his decision and was snubbed by his former player on a visit to his club also earlier this week given television. we were there for three to four hours and it goes without saying that i would like the opportunity to speak to him as it might before i want to do that with all my heart but he wasn't dangerous all the german players at arsenal were there we chatted and ate together but message wasn't there and we have to accept for the time being that he doesn't

want to speak to us premier league leaders liverpool take on chelsea on saturday it's the team's second meeting in four days after chelsea beat liverpool in the league cup i don't see what effect in the mood of the defeat of course immediately of the game and the mood is not good but then you have two days in this case to. find back on track and that's all i would say worked so far we go to chelsea and try again. nearly named world player of the year look a moderate should mit's he's struggling to find his best form this season the real madrid star is getting ready to take on city rivals atletico in the spanish league margaret says he's still recovering from the physical and emotional exertion of leading croatia to their first world cup final. i was not dizzy to start again. after all this emotion of moments you you were like drained completely

and. i needed to get back to my. better level now is day i feel better and better for when i won championship leader lewis hamilton a set the pace in friday practice ahead of the russian grand prix how wilson was quickest during the second session in sochi as the sadie's top the time sheets with valtteri bottas second fastest title rivals bus to vettel struggled both the german spun his ferrari and finished fifth he trails hamilton by forty points with six races. le bron james is set to make his l.a. lakers debut in an exhibition game with the denver nuggets le bron has only made six preseason appearances in the last three years but says it's important to play some minutes with his new team. you know for. myself as a basketball player myself this person should be or so to walk alongside of me oh

well that's what it takes a lot of our young guys to be as great as they can be. a passable the shots be great shots and the guys are a good argument so. you know all of our favorite anybody in the it's just just. in major league baseball the colorado rockies won the seventh game in a row with just three games left in the regular season david dollar travel story and gerardo parra all scored high runs to lead colorado to a five three win over the philadelphia phillies the victory extends their lead over the l.a. dodgers to one full game in the national league west division the phillies slumped to their eighth loss in a row that changed their job. now chinese tennis number one wang chih yang historic run they will hand open came to an emotional and on friday the twenty six year old who became the first home player to make the quarter finals of this event was forced to retire with a thaw injury in her semifinal against estonia is and it comes of age comes of age

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. since the regional blockade on qatar the leaders of germany and turkey meet again agreeing to host a four way meeting to discuss the situation in syria. a u.s. senate panel vote on donald trump's supreme court nominee. who's facing allegations of sexual assault. hello china's foreign minister has taken to the stage at the u.n. to discuss trade telling the world that beijing is open for business and pointed remarks aimed at the u.s. warned against protectionism saying it will only hurt oneself his comments come at a time that a trade war between beijing and washington has been deepening into a tit for tat tariff. true. protectionism

will only hurt one self and unilateral moves will bring damage to all regarding trade frictions china stands for a proper settlement based on rules and consensus through dialogue and consultation on an equal footing china will not be blackmailed or yield to pressure. on to say that china is committed to international cooperation. we must act on rules and order state to state relations must be based on credibility not willful revocation of commitments and international cooperation should be guided by rules not impulse practicing multilateralism is first and foremost about holding the un charter observing international law and basic norms governing international relations and honoring international agreements reached through negotiations let's be. joining us from the u.n. headquarters in new york how much of what he had to say was directly aimed at the u.s. trains. well he didn't in the comments on trade mention the

u.s. but that is the chinese way you have to somewhat read into their comments and for a chinese speaker at something like this i think the comments from the state councilor and foreign minister wang ye were pretty strong talking about countries that might blackmail china and china would not agree to that saying that trade was not a zero sum game of course he didn't respond to the most explosive allegation that we had on choose day from president trump who talked about how unfair china was being on trade and then added that he believed that china was trying to undermine the forthcoming mid-term elections that are taking place in the united states in november president trump was asked further about that as a news conference and didn't give any more details whatsoever and it's worth saying that for now that claim comes just from the president it hasn't been backed up by

the u.s. intelligence community remember when there was hacking in the election in two hundred sixteen in the presidential election and that was going to be done by russia it was that that allegation came from all the us intelligence agencies we haven't had anything similar on this allegation and speaking of russia we expect the foreign minister to take to the podium soon what do we expect there. yes sir will be speaking to the general assembly representing russia because vladimir putin only comes here to new york once every five years i think watch closely for what he says on some of the key issues in the middle east look for example of what he says about the israel palestine conflict but most importantly perhaps syria and that agreement between turkey and russia. there's a key bit of that agreement that no one quite understands which is that the fight as we used to call them who are there in need are supposed to leave how is that

going to happen that's not at all clear will we get any more details and then of course the other contentious thing that happened at the beginning of this week was russia saying that it was going to give a new s. three hundred missile system a much more sophisticated system to assad's government in damascus that is caused real concern i think from the u.s. from turkey from israel we may hear more from mr lavrov in his speech if we don't straight afterwards he's going to the news conference room here in the u.n. and i'm sure us reporters will try and ask about it all right thank you well still in new york the foreign minister of qatar has met with his counterparts from the four nations blockading his country on the sidelines of the general assembly this is the first time such a meeting has been held since the u.a.e. and saudi arabia egypt and bahrain all diplomatic and economic ties with in june last year the meeting was arranged and attended by the u.s.

secretary of state might pump a zero. has more. the u.s. is scrambling to put together a regional alliance to contain what it sees as a growing iranian influence in the region if you listen to the recent statements made by president trump his national security adviser john bolton and secretary state mike pompei of the basically accusing iran of being the world's leading sponsor of terrorism and they're saying that the iran must stop its activities it must stop interfering into the affairs of. countries in the region however the key u.s. allies in the region remain divided embroiled in the worst diplomatic crisis the g.c.c. has ever seen the start of foreign minister days ago made some stating blue marks about qatar cues in qatar of the sponsoring extremism and saying that saudi arabia is willing to wait for as long as it takes twelve fifteen fifty years unless qatar meets all the demands that were made by the blockade in countries saudi arabia

bihari in egypt and the u.a.e. the qatari foreign minister he told her that part i could wait forever. but the middle east started to get i.s.n. did you see a relation with with the us plus egypt and jordan the meeting was productive somehow was what is your reaction to the speeches they produced our deployment and when he said that his country is willing to wait fifteen twenty fifty years and it's one for the family and that's hard to house to solve the problem is i don't believe from no actually no one would know what what would be the future of the country is even so we cannot predict from now until five or ten or fifteen years or fifty years but that can wait also part of it but we have to address the challenges in our region first before we talk we talk about just working like this diplomacy miscommunications meaning is engagement and this is. a palestinian child is among three killed by israeli fire in confrontations along the gaza border the

palestinian health ministry says another hundred eighteen people have been injured in the protests this friday more than one hundred ninety people have been killed since the wave of protests began six months ago palestinians are demanding an end to the blockade by israel and egypt and are demanding their right to return to ancestral lands. the german chancellor and turkish president have agreed to host the four way meeting with the russian and french leaders to tackle the situation in syria last rebel held stronghold of the summit is expected to take place next month but angela merkel and reza tyburn are at loggerheads over supporters of the turkish businessman and germany president on accuses him of masterminding the twenty sixteen failed coup attempt in turkey. there's a possibility to talk about things we don't agree on and also things we have in common this visit is so important because we can only resolve our differences if we

communicate if we don't communicate we cannot find common ground sometimes it takes a while but i am in favor of such discussions that is why i'm happy president is here. expressed the steam's chancellor so that the economy is built on strong foundations we have taken structural steps to respond to the speculation challenges in the economy we are prepared for any difficulties in our economy just as we are prepared to meet any other challenges in the other respects we feel that the relations between germany and turkey are very important and we want to advance a win win scenario at. the latest from berlin. well first and foremost of course this was a state visit by president to one at the invitation of president frankel to stand on one the election back in june but also it was i think quite a difficult meeting between two leaders who perhaps realized that their countries

have more of importance between them than the things which they disagree about but found it quite difficult in their press conference chancellor merkel and president the one to put to one side or hide their disagreements and so you had chancellor merkel saying that they had a common strategic desire for a good relationship but pointing out that in terms of a free open and democratic society the two countries had different perceptions of what that looked like president responded by saying he was looking for a win win relationship between turkey and syria two countries he said that had to respect one another the clear implication we will work together but don't lecture us on the democracy on human rights on the judiciary so issues of common importance both countries wanted to see dealt with they made an announcement on syria they'll be meeting next month bringing in france and russia to help deal with the situation

in syria there is of course the ongoing migration and refugee crisis turkey holding up the floodgates to three and a half million syrian refugees desperate to make it to europe germany very keen to reinforce that deal there's an economic crisis going on it turkey's worst in fifteen years germany its biggest trade partner its banks and businesses deeply exposed and of course no one likes the prospect of two nato members turkey in the united states at loggerheads perhaps germany can help solve that little problem along the way so clearly not the easiest of meetings this an exercise in political expediency to countries that recognize they do have problems but they can perhaps try and hold together some democrats have walked out of the u.s. senate judiciary committees final debate. brett kavanaugh as confirmation to the supreme court the committee has been reviewing thursday's testimony from kavanagh and one of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct democrats were crossed that mark judged

a second man to christine basi ford alleged was involved along with kavanagh a subpoena and some of them walked out once it was voted down for publicans holder narrow eleven to ten majority in the committee also in jordan has more from washington. usually when a senate committee considers a nomination for a cabinet post or in this case for a judicial post the discussions usually focus on the candidates qualifications on his or her legal thinking as well as on other factors that might make that person a good candidate for the nomination in this case however brett kavanaugh the republicans and the democrats on the gym to sherry committee are at loggerheads can arguing over whether or not enough evidence was brought forward to determine whether or not there should be a full blown investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by the nominee when he was a teenager and then when he was a young man the republicans believe the f.b.i.

background checks didn't uncover anything toward it even though.